skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Health is an extremely complicated one, but it seems like it's a classic 3rd payer problem with the added bonus that government regulation limits the profit of health insurance companies to be a fixed percentage of their revenue, so even they want prices to increase. So consumers don't care, and even when they do they can't get an all in price, and even the ones paying have an incentive to let costs rise.

One reason housing is getting more expensive is that more of the population is moving towards cities and out of rural areas. That migration has a positive correlation with housing costs. In addition the typical things used to reduce pricing, automation and offshoring, have had little impact in the construction industry due to the complexity and local nature of the work. I had seen a study previously which showed this for the US but can't find it, in it's place here is a similar study done in China (https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...)

Finally, education in the broad sense is now cheaper than ever if you include public libraries and online courses, but I suspect you meant University degrees. University costs have soared, more people than ever need a degree to do even entry level work, and student loan debt is not dischargeable through bankruptcy. New York Federal Reserve did a study that showed an increase in credit was followed by an increase in university prices (https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...)
Yeah, one of my favorite things is to pull something from a domain that has parallels in another. What appears like magic is just having a broader exposure to various concepts and domains.
You're thinking of the luxury bus services, whose name I forgot, even though I knew the founder. I believe that was SF-only.
I only wish the mating connectors had an alignment pins, those are a pain to solder accurately when placed manually.
Weird, I just realized I never use the right shift key.
SF public transit is pretty disfunctional and Chariot was trying to offer an alternative.

- Timeliness - Busses and trains reliability are a joke compared to developed countries

- Cleanliness - Due to an unmitigated homeless problem, the busses and trains operate as "day shelters"

- Organization - There are dozens of different transit operators for what is one major metro region. Schedules are poorly synced, and even with a unified payment card you still have to buy different passes for multiple agencies

- Reliability - The union bullies the city around, and there is no accountability.
As a by-side casual observer, if the military continue to get funded while civilian departments continue furlough for months if not years, would that creates some weird social dynamics?
I think it is meaningful distinction in this context. The responsibility for the inclusion of these apps lies solely on the OEMs and carriers. If there's beef to had then it has to be laid at the feet of the OEMs and carriers.
Why did you work unpaid for 2.5 years?
The expansive scope of systemd is what people like about it. daemontools, s6, OpenRC, and SMF are much more limited in scope; upstart is also somewhat limited though it tries to do some of the same things. (SMF also doesn't exist on Linux, and I've spent a lot of time working with both upstart and systemd professionally and my conclusion is that systemd genuinely has a better design and is genuinely more robust, although there are plenty of smart people who like upstart, I'll admit.)

Again, I'm just speaking to my professional experience here and saying that the argument "Nobody wants systemd" is incorrect. People want systemd. People want what systemd does. Maybe they're wrong, but that's a separate argument.
Where I work, Chariot is used as a Park n Ride type solution. We have 4 routes where you can hop on and get taken to work. I'm guessing other companies can have different configurations.
I suspect it's already negative for a number of degrees but there isn't enough data to prove that yet.
4chan hasn't really changed much, /pol/ (where most of the right-wing memery and conspiracy posts are) was always awful; it was created years ago to keep those kinds of posts away from other boards.
Female Economists Push Their Field Toward a #MeToo Reckoning
Ask HN: Do you consider back-end work more “serious” than front-end work?
I was on the phone with a engineering recruiter from one of the tech giants, and they kind of indirectly belittled my work experience with a comment along the lines of "we consider back-end work to be more serious than front-end work" after asking what kind of salary I would expect and pointing to my mostly front-end experience as a reason to compensate me less.

What's your take on this? This recruiter's attitude aside, do you consider front-end experience "less serious"?
I wonder if you'd be able to use the same code that https://getcrankshaft.com/ is using to replace Android Auto.
Coming soon:

GitHub now reminds you what commits you made on this day last year.
I see a lot of ignorant comments here placing the blame solely on the US (despite the fact that sanctions didn't take place until 2015 and things were already really bad considering Chavez died in 2013 and Maduro is still struggling to get a grip on the country since then.

I visited Venezuela and my wife is from there and the truth is that the country relied on Oil to create a wonderful society where the was incredible poverty and excess wealth with many people in the Urban areas being "alright" in the middle but unaware of the plight that many people suffered. Chavez was a charismatic former military man that had already failed to perform a coup when he rose to power. He appealed to the poor and the soldiers unlike the ruling government and used this to rise to the top. Afterwards he just played his cards right making sure the poor and the military got their (tiny) share while he and his cronies became millionaires. The complete devastation of the economy lies squarely in the fact that they ran their national oil company to the ground and have nothing of value since every wealthy business owner fled or shut down during the last decade.

The fact that Maduro is still in power is a complete mystery to me but I am guessing he is still greasing the right palms but another Coup is coming soon, I can only hope that things improve
Not true unless you mean only blog posts.

And to be fair it's the best documented platform for web development I have worked with. Have you looked at documentations of random npm packages lately? No, fun.
Retail is a bunch of individual stories. BBBY killed it over the holidays; Macy's did not. Better to take retail company by company at this point.
In a first, astronomers witness the birth of black hole or neutron star
We actually had Marat come to the Go meetup in Atlanta when he was finishing up his PHD at GT. He had done some preliminary work on SIMD. It was a small meetup ( I think only ~6-7 in attendance) and went over many folks heads, since a lot of people were focused on breaking up Ruby monoliths into Go. SIMD would have been nice, but really we were still reveling in the benefits of getting the hell out of ruby for high-throughput networked services. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MYg8PyhEf0oIvZ9YU2pa...
From the article, "It was a “phantom reference” that had been created merely to illustrate Elsevier’s desired reference format." and "nearly 90% of the citations were for conference proceedings papers, and nearly two-thirds of these appeared in Procedia conference volumes, which are published by Elsevier."

Thus, it is unlikely to be due to predatory publishing.
I was both unschooled and unschooled my middle schooler through homeschooling.

There's something very powerful about developing "undirected learning."

Maria Montessori's fundamental insight was the way to develop a child's ability to learn was by providing a rich learning environment - books and projects. Montessori toys are a great place to start.

Youtube for Kids is actually a great resource in this regard - lots of easy projects where kids can experience various natural phenomenon.

We are headed towards a project-based, self-directed world when it comes to work. Your instincts are dead on. I founded a company to help college students develop these skills and you can see some of that at: https://useed.net/spotlight

I'd encourage you to check out a few other resources:

The Teenage Liberation Handbook (John Holt)
Most Likely to Succeed (and anything by Tom Wagner)

There is a fear that if our children are not lockstep chasing the next learning objective, they will fall behind.

This is unfounded. Children who learn to take ownership over their learning experience rapidly surpass those who never do.

My favorite practical teacher on this is A.J. Juliani:

ajjuliani.com

There are schools that provide this experience and co-op groups if you homeschool.

Schools that emphasize self-directed, project-based learning are generally great choices. Waldorf is another model worth looking into.

Today's Montessori schools are much more structured than they were at their founding. They are a good balance, but unschooling provides a unique opportunity for your kids:

For them to see themselves as the agents of their own education.

Once a student sees themselves as the driver of their learning, they have a distinct advantage in any educational environment.

Feel free to connect with me directly about it if you'd like!
Can I not simply wire it up to all the other bloody stupid status displaying apps that pervade my life?

Set phone to DND. Set auto responder on email client(s). Set away status on various desktop apps. Set away on various web apps. Set away on work mobile (cell) apps. Go home.

Actually I don't bother with any of that. I don't answer the phone or any apps when I'm not "there" or can't be arsed or am busy. It's what people have done for millennia.
That's my first question too. I wonder if there will be some good deals on the vans.
This doesn't change anything for the people who are purposely scheduled for under 30 hours weeks so they aren't considered full-time.

The problem isn't with the ACA, it's with employers who are willing to save a buck by disadvantaging their employees.
Out with the lies
A Good Jewish Boy’s Guide to Sex and Marriage. And Sex
I don't understand why that's necessarily such a bad thing. Should we be worried that other countries have more strength in this area than we do? Plenty of other countries are not the top in this category and they seem to get along just fine. I'm talking specifically about weaponry, not really defense infrastructure/innovation generally, which at least has some chance of outer application
Once you send a scammer hundreds of dollars, how do you get them back? You don't. You're pointing out a problem that exists with the current monetary system.

One use case of bitcoin, that is very similar to emails actually is being able to transfer value 24/7 rather than 9-5 on weekdays.
Game Boy development was interesting in that you were always coding with battery in mind. You couldn't simply "NOP" your way through something, you had to "HALT". So your game loop was always "halt and wait for interrupt, do action, halt again".

Allegedly, if you didn't do this, Nintendo would reject your game outright.
I remember having a lot of problems with their Android BSP for it. It came along with some pretty questionable patches to the framework, but I never had any issues with the actual Linux kernel.
They are joined to an AD domain.
> There's nothing systemd-specific here.

Well, except journald itself.
There's nothing stopping you from putting "quirky bits of art and creativity" on a Git-host+static-site-generator site. Given that most of the Git-host web-apps have editing interfaces, there's not even a barrier to entry.

IMHO, it's mostly just that "you can freely host a static website on the same services programmers use to freely host source code" isn't a well-known thing outside of the programming community. GitHub/GitLab/etc. should do some outreach at the digital-art/interactive-media departments of universities.
Now I just need a Winamp plugin that changes my status to tell everyone what song I'm currently listening to, and I'll feel like I'm back in the 90s. :)
New memristor better mimics synapses
Controllers/gamepads. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8BAEcWSEs4-KQp1ULVnaQ/fea...
Its just kids dancing around some of them dressed up like adults with heavy makeup. Nothing id really consider NSFW.

I don't really "get' it either.
It's true for me too. While I love ruby for its beauty and elegance, I love Sequel even more. I find Sequel to be the most powerful and most flexible tool to make RDB queries.
He replied that it's just some high pressure air cylinders and thrusters. Same composite overwrap tank technology that are in a Falcon 9 helium tanks.

You could probably add water to make the thrust higher, to make a bottle rocket...
I just read the book "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure".

About 1/3 of the book is how kids these days are being taught values that are pretty much the exact opposite of what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches and how that leads to more anxiety.

Instead of learning: "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" and to not assume someone's intentions, they are being taught to be on the lookout for microaggressions and to report them.

Instead of being taught to critically question the feelings they have, they are taught that if they feel something, it must be true.
Just wanted to say — I’ve been using Autumn for about a week and it may just be the perfect window manager. And I’ve tried them all.

BST
Hammerspoon
Moom
Flexiglass
Layouts
Alfred Div
MaxSnap
Spectacle
Magnet
SizeWell
Etc etc

All of them. So thank you for the hard work.

And I can’t tell you how delighted I was to find THIS point of view from you out in the wild. Agreed entirely.
Michael Phelps: 'It’s OK to Not Be OK'
It was Freescale. NXP has been trying to make their docs harder to get. I was in the process of writing a BSP for their Sabre boards during the acquisition, and they went as far as deleting previously free resources off their site and asking me to pay for a support contract to get them back.

NXP's stance is probably what made others shy away from the chips.
See also https://catskull.net/gameboy-boot-screen-logo.html
Will they provide end to end encrypted chat next?
> in-browser Javascript can't do SSH, presumably because it lacks the right security code.

This makes it sound like you don't exactly have any idea what you're doing, which is worrying for a provider of an ssh client.

Javascript is turing complete so there is no reason in-browser javascript couldn't fully implement the ssh protocol, you "just" might have to write or port the appropriate crypto routines to javascript. And of course, you'd need a http/websocket based tcp proxy since you won't be able to do a raw tcp connection to port 22 in a browser.

(Although I'd be extremely wary of using any non-standard ssh client / crypto library implementation - who knows what timing attacks and side channel info leaks might lurk in a less-vetted implementation than openssh)
> Why does it strike you as wildly implausible that different groups of people might differ in their (average) levels of creativity, and that the differences might be partly heritable (a better word than inherent when referring to average differences)?

Yes, I can admit to the very low possibility that such a difference could exist, but indeed I would call it "wildly implausible." Here are some example reasons why:

Nobody can even define creativity in any formal way, so any impartial analysis seems impossible. It's a "know it if I see it" issue.

Certainly people from all "racial" backgrounds exhibit plenty of creativity ("know it if I see it"). Indeed, if you want to extend this to cultural practices, plenty of folks from (somewhat) "rote" school backgrounds have been quite creative, won various international awards, etc.

Alleged biomarkers of cognitive issues are notoriously uninformative. For example Han people tend to have more white matter in their brain and some people in China consider that a sign of superior intellect. But it's more likely a side effect of the writing system as it is perhaps part of the visual pattern recognition process. But such beliefs are little different from 19th/20th century European/American phrenology which also produced whatever results the "scientist" wanted.

Most sex and race differences get drowned out by cultural factors and fashions which themselves change over time.
Olimex are migrating to KiCad for their latest designs. Those are of comparable complexity to the SOM they are using.
Procedia isn't a fake journal. There is no science bashing in the linked-to article. This isn't about fake journal spam. It's about people who accidentally leave an example citation in their citation list.
No one is intended to take a "Arms Control Persons of the Year" seriously as an objective ranking. It's about raising awareness and driving the discussion.
> In Michigan, for example, we have a rampant urban housing crisis too -- and zero percent of that is caused by any undersupply of housing.

Wait, what? What is the crisis and what is the cause?
I guess we aren't much alike. I've always been a skinny guy, its hard for me to eat a lot. Without cheeses, I have a tough time packing on weight. Thats why I like shakes, its much easier to down a shake than eat a meal. But I'll concede that solid foods are probably better for gut health.

Rice and pea protein tends to be extremely gritty due to the husks, so I am not a big fan of it. These peanut shakes are lifesavers for me, although its probably a tenuous plan to rely on a single product to maintain veganism? :-/

Micro nutrients aren't a huge deal if you take quality supps like Life Extensions Mix. Greens+ Wild Berries is also a great complete nutrient supp.

Id also recommend eating a few tablespoons of bee pollen granules. They actually have a surprisingly high amount of protein and micronutrients.

I have logos for a startup I was working on called Roylent, which would basically be a protein shake made purely from bee products, bee pollen, honey, propolis, and royal jelly.

Unfortunately I never completed it but I do think it could be a good product for vegans that are ok with non-lethal products that work with animals rather than against them. Bees are awesome. :-)
Can you explain what makes it so good compared to using a combination of the tools it says it replaces? What if you like some of the tools it has and not others?
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley a land of fakeness and pretension?
I’d like to start by saying that HN has been a great source of contrarian views with many mercilessly cutting through marketing and PR. This is also why I decided to ask my question here.

I’ve been working in the Bay Area for over a year as a software engineer at a tech startup that just got acquired. Before arriving at the West Coast from Eastern Europe I’ve spent 3 years (of my time during university) reading about companies, VCs and products coming out of the Valley. It’s fair to say I had some understanding of the work culture and the mindset prevalent here. Or so I thought.

In general I’m impressed with the tech and know-how of some businesses.
My coworkers are brilliant, humble and understanding and it’s been pleasure. I can’t say the same for the majority of my interactions with others in the startup scene though. I’ve found a number of them to be pretentious, in-your-face, self-promoting and bragging. I feel like many businesses promise unattainable financial targets. Lots of folks exhibiting Dunning-Kruger effect and survivorship bias. Many are unaware of the importance of luck, be it upbringing, timing or other external factors and think they deserve all the credit for their achievements. I’m not sure they’re trying to fool themselves or me.

Is Silicon Valley a land of fakeness and pretension? I don’t know if I was just unlucky meeting the wrong people, or if it’s because the Valley has been attracting this kind of personality in the recent years (a bit like during the dotcom bubble)? Maybe it’s just a culture shock for a European who thinks overpromising and bragging is just tacky?
relative to their tax base and populations
Wait do they? I wasn't aware that UE4 supported C#.
And subsequently loosing everyone's investment when the mine's head engineer gets thrown out of an helicopter
I would be careful. As a young child I was allowed to self-direct many aspects of my education (Montessori schools, permissive parents, etc.), and as a consequence I immaturely neglected many "boring" activities like learning math facts and spelling. Especially in math, shaky foundations have plagued me ever since, and I still have deficits in that area, which I very much regret.

The problem with letting children self-direct themselves to a high degree is that they're immature and ignorant. The world is a much more complicated place than it was hundreds or thousands of years ago, and many of the skills and activities they need to master are essentially invisible to them, so they need a lot of guidance and some external motivation to gain them. For instance, they might end up finding a lot of joy in advanced math, but they're going to have to slog through some hard stuff to get there. If they don't, many opportunities will be closed to them.
A lot of the history of transit-disrupting startups in the SF Bay Area can be attributed to how truly bad public transit in the SF Bay Area is. I understood Uber a lot more after trying to hail a taxi in SF. (Same with Boring Company and LA traffic.)

A real disruptive solution for humanity - but a hard one to monetize - would be to figure out why cities with good public transit / shared transit infrastructure managed to build them (off the top of my head, Tokyo, NYC-of-the-past, parts of China, Chicago, etc.) and figure out how to replicate it elsewhere.
Plain-text file markdown note taking with Nextcloud integration
Seattle subsidizes a similar program, including providing the vans ('vanpool'). I know this has been going for around 10 years, and I'm somewhat sure it's much older than that.

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-opt...
I know some people are very critical. I'm a big transit enthusiast but I still see how some work routes are long to walk, but not well served via transit, i.e. NoPa to Brannan St (Airbnb, Pinterest). Friends that were faced with trickier public transit options didn't seem enticed by Chariot. They seem to settle on biking/scootering, long walk, or choosing to take rideshare everyday.
Ive been thinking a lot about this too. Im a consultant and booked on one project after another with no downtime so any professional development is done on my own time and my own dime. Would love to some training or build in time to spend on projects.
I think you are thinking of Leap[1], one that offered "luxury" buses, barista made coffee on bus etc.

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/leap-suspension-shows-regulato...
If this were to continue for several months, I would assume that most of the employees would quit those departments, which would probably be catastrophic, both socially and economically.
> "porn teens" returns plenty of results, and I doubt that they are all teens who are legally old enough.

Because they hire people who are 18 or 19 who look younger.

While I can't dig up an article about it, there was a guy in Florida who was brought to trial on child pornography charges. Some "expert" insisted the girl couldn't possibly be 18. The woman had to fly over and testify that she was 18 at the time.