skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented on this elsewhere, but my general reaction is that it's an interesting change regardless.

I think there's a very plausible argument that Applebee's range restaurants are very labor-intensive without adding substantial value, and so they naturally get shut out of any market where labor is expensive. The "cheap hot meal" role is filled by fast food, while the "place to sit and chat" role is filled by everything from pubs (order at the counter, high margin alcohol) to dedicated desert places (order at counter, often cheap nonperishable ingredients).

But granting that it's not something to 'solve', it's still newsworthy. There are ~3M waitstaff jobs in the US, and despite tipped minimum wage it's often pretty well paid, with nonstandard hours that can help part-time students, households with two working parents, etc. If our biggest cities are no longer compatible with common forms of work, that's worth discussing and looking at the secondary impact of.
> Probably explains Fortans continued hold on numerical computing

indeed! a sizeable part of numpy is written in fortran
Firefox can.
(Possible spoilers, but not really)

But they also stretch out an elementary particle to gargantuan proportions in order to write out a circuit board on the surface, so I don't know if its really a bastion of hard science fiction. It's closer to fantasy about sciencey stuff.
> Highly recommended for fans of hard sci-fi.

Only if they are willing to believe that entanglement enables superluminal communication and that protons can be "unfolded" to macroscopic branes.
In Germany "House of Cards" was shown first on Sky and only months later available on Netflix ...
A good place to start combatting inequality is the education system. It's a long-term bet, but improving our schools, the information they give students, and the skills they prepare them with for life will vastly improve their chances of success.

The "obedient worker" model of education is obsolete. Kids should be given more freedom to explore (a la the Montessori Method). They're inherently creative and we should nurture that, not stifle it. Curricula based on practical work that teaches high-level concepts like organization, perseverance, and patience would do wonders. Add in basic finance skills and boy howdy.

Give a kid context and I'd bet they'd shine. "Okay kids, we're going to learn mathematics by learning how to design a space shuttle." That is easily a full semester/year long project that could touch on a TON of different topics. Kids wouldn't be left out because different jobs in designing the space shuttle could be assigned, each touching on core concepts (e.g., "hold a successful meeting with five other students to decide what happens if an engine fails").
The benefit is the VM can precisely match production, and every project you work on can have a different VM with a different set of software.
That's where Elon's tunnels are undeniably the better 3D alternative.
People are using Javascript or python for real production. How those are general purpose and Julia is not?
Moving a house with horses, San Francisco, 1908 [image]
even windows have better UI. on a Mac you can't even alt-tab between two terminal windows. ridiculous.
You should research what the predatory loans were during the crisis. Your assumptions are incorrect, especially during the years leading up to 2008/2009.

Banks would get people who undoubtably didn't deserve loans, would handwave over the details and then send people on their way with $1M loans and the borrowers would later fail. I have a friend who worked at Washington Mutual at the time, and she would routinely reject loan applications, and her manager would overrule her. The manager was making $30,000/month in commissions from loan origination, and he didn't give a fuck who was getting the loans because he was being paid and they were getting packaged up and sold to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.

Meanwhile, people would be getting loans that they couldn't afford, but could make payments because of the 0% interest loans that were actually increasing the principal. But they didn't realize this because the lenders didn't explain all the details to them. It's predatory to take advantage of the fact that most regular people don't have a higher-level understanding of mortgages, and by filling their heads with ideas that it doesn't matter anyway because they will sell the house in a year for a profit.

The lenders didn't care because they were incentivized to originate loans even if they knew the borrowers couldn't ultimately afford them. The thought at the time was "the house price will increase in 2 years anyway, so even if you get a $800k loan on a $1M house, you can sell it in 1 year for $1.2M, and then use the $200,000 profit for a downpayment on a real home."
> "giving people the opportunity of breaking the cycle of poverty"

By borrowing beyond their ability to repay? That's gambling at best or just debt slavery at worst.
I don't think the goal is to build an "equal" society, which god knows will never work because people are just so different. I think the ideal goal is to build a society which even the lowest members of society have their basic needs met, a meal, a roof, health care.
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Amazing, good for you!
The issue is 1 will mean different things. That should be a bigger issue than anything else. When you are doing math

1 + 1 = 2 always means two. When you are getting the 1 column we are getting the second column. This while makes sense when doing certain lower level programming this makes no sense with functional or higher level programming.
> anything remotely worth watching on there costs extra.

Sorry, I just meant to refer to Prime free shipping. That was super ambiguous of me.
Go Firefox go.
Google's Flutter now fully supported on Bitrise
FF Quantum runs quite well on a 1GB system. You can go even lower than that, but you'll be hitting swap.
There's this thing that transforms between plane and car: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/ainmf2/from_car_to_pl...

It's kinda funny-looking, but at least it seems like equal attention was paid to the plane and car functions, rather than just making a plane that is theoretically road-worthy.

(Not sure how it's supposed to get better mileage in the air than on the ground, though.)
Show HN: Git Butler – IFTTT for GitHub pull request and issue workflows
You clearly can because some countries do much better than others. The trick is to avoid throwing out the baby with the bath water.
I too was thinking this, does this mean a future acquisition is not out of the question? Frankly, I find a Google owned Twitter to be a terrifying prospect. Not that Jack is doing a great job there...but I'd much rather they be owned by multiple companies in a partnership than by one company. Twitter, imo, is far far more powerful than Facebook in driving world events given the leadership and journalists on the platform.
Typically it means someone has an advantage over the other (usually an information advantage) that they use to extract a more favorable outcome for themselves than they would have gotten in a fair market.

In the mortgage market specifically they are loans that are initiated by someone who is planning to offload them ASAP and doesn't care if the borrower has any capability to pay. They may outright lie to the borrower about the situation in order to close the deal. Then they lie to the investors about the quality of the loan in order to offload them as quickly as possible for a large profit.
> 10 year old machine with 1GB RAM is perfect

No, a machine with 1GB RAM is not perfect. If you are a frontend developer coding in node. And if you are not, you might need a browser for Stack Overflow; and you might need Docker or vagrant for virtualization.

And, you may also want an Electron-based editor, such as Atom or VS Code.

Even 4GB is hardly ideal. 8GB is probably where it starts getting comfortable.
I think the article is not in disagreement with you - probably the headline was drafted to generate clicks, but the substance of the article is different in tone. Mostly the article points out that the transportation system is complex, and building capacity is a necessary but not sufficient step.

IMHO, the congestion that we see now in LA freeways - much worse than in, say, the 1990s - will provide a slow incentive toward re-orientation of business and homes along transit lines.
The problem is that the target (that seems like an appropriate word) finds the matchmaker interesting, not you. That may get you a date. It also may leave the other person rather disappointed when they meet you and find out that you aren't the same in person as they thought you were online.
Ask HN: Data scientists, how do you organize and store your data files?
No, it won't work.

You get inequality even in money-less societies. E.g. most people use Instagram not for money, but they still compete, and feel good/bad due to inequality - they compete for likes, followers, photo quality, ... - in other words, status.

It's deep in the human psyche. I don't think we can escape it.
FTA:

>I also understand that government is bloated and there are many places where we could cut spending

The problem with this critique (the right-wing rallying cry since at least Reagan) is that no one ever wants to cut any particular program (which Fred acknowledges later in his charter school story). The right in the US, for example, bemoans government spending every year, then doesn't cut any spending, raises military spending, and then cuts taxes. Again, Fred acknowledges this, but doesn't take the next step of doing the unpopular, hard work of deciding where we can size down. I'd like to hear exactly what spending Fred thinks we should cut, otherwise this position is pretty empty.

> If we were to force it to go through the same technological revolution that the private sector is going through, we would see massive efficiencies

Again, this is what the Republican party has been saying for 30 years, but has been unable to deliver. We can say we want "more efficient government" until the cows come home, but there is something in the system that is preventing us from doing so. What is that thing? Let's talk about that. Otherwise, this post is just a rehash of Republican talking points and slogans, without any real proposals.
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We can do it on .org as well! Just need to reach out to us via email to enable it (as well as the instructions, as it requires a manual API call rather than a UI Button.) And, as Involans also mentioned, we are merging the two together.

support@travis-ci.com And we'll set you right up with debug mode. :)
I agree with the author but how exactly do we fund a basic income type system for the masses without raising taxes on someone or some entity?
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Is it really the same cops though? I saw no mention of Colorado police being against users encrypting their phones. The FBI were the ones who were particularly upset that they couldn't decrypt Apple traffic[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
With Freesat in the mix in the UK, the only other things Sky has going for it are:

a) Sky Atlantic showing new HBO shows 1 day after HBO (no HBO in UK)

b) a slightly more polished EPG and recorder than the freesat/linux equivalents though that gap seems to be reducing.
paperpile is sweet I just wish they would let iOS users add a paper to their database
There's a ton of prisoner's dilemma-inspired research into this that has many types of answers to this question. Not perfect answers (perfect equality is not attainable), but interesting options still.

For example, as soon as you have a system that allows for punishing each other, then people turn out to be willing to punish cheaters even at their own expense. And the addition of that to group dynamics tends to make it self-stabilizing.

If many in the group can chip in to gravely punish a cheater at a small cost to themselves, the group can become quite stable and egalitarian. But I can also see how that can be stifling and oppressive-by-majority (think small-minded villages).
In an ideal world, school kids would be taught how power law networks work - how they result from preferential attachment. Then they'd be able to connect the pieces and see that popularity and capitalism are the same and produce the same inequalities. Inequality is not about money.
No. He says

Times of change are times of change. And we can’t change some things but not everything... And that’s where we are. We are not willing to move away from the things of the past to get the things of the future. So our elected officials decide to try to give us both and we struggle with how to pay for it all.
WeChat App in China tells you if somebody behind on debt payments is nearby
Subprime loans are not lending to people who can't repay. It's lending to people who don't have the credit history or have a poor history and giving them a chance to borrow money. If they can't afford the loan they shouldn't be getting it in the first place.
Maybe the real way of progressing is not by building bigger accelerators with the same technology (and of course a LHC successor would need several new evolutionary developments), but finding out ways of producing higher energy collisions without resorting to accelerating particles in a tube.

We're not even sure if there's anything in those higher energy ranges, there are certainly knowledge gaps, but maybe a bigger collider is not the answer. At least not until we have some other hints and new theoretical ideas.
> Python's indentation for blocks isn't holding up to the test of time.

Citation needed. Python popularity seems to be only growing up and in all kinds of industries. Hard to find somewhere where python hasn't touched yet.

Also, as you mentioned, is pretty standard to have some sort of flake8 as part of your CI and it would certainly detect problems with bad identation that would cause code issues.

If the basic flake8 tests pass then should certainly have some unit / integration tests as part of your merge request...

Now a days there are even things like black [https://github.com/ambv/black] that does auto formatting just like gofmt.
I call this the Demostenes' performance hack.
>For a roughly $610,000 home loan, a mortgage company let her verify her earnings with 12 months of bank statements and letters from clients.

It clearly says she took out a 610k home loan which means it was still 600k. It’s likely she has a good bit of equity.

What kind of nursing student gets paid under the table by clients?

Still it’s pretty insane and I feel bad for her in 5 years.

>Ms. Hering, who is 30 years old, received a loan at a rate of just over 6% for the first five years; it adjusts after that.

With the Fed signaling they are raising rates she’s in for a shocker in 5 years.
As a European I'm not really surprised, but it's not exactly the same thing. It's not like the ground level is considered "the 0th floor" and thus we use 0-based indexing.

In most European countries the ground floor is not considered the same thing as the others. As Wikipedia puts it: "In most of Europe, the "first floor" is the first level above ground level".

We consider and count as floors the "layers" above the ground level. In french for example, the ground level is called "rez-de-chaussée" and the floors above it "XX étage". The ground level is not an "étage" (in American terms, the "ground level" is not considered a floor, and is not counted among the floors).

For this reason, apart from elevator labels nobody calls the ground level "the 0th floor" when speaking/writing.

And even in elevators, O is just used as a convenient way to convey the ground level (since the buttons don't fit much) -- and not everywhere. In many elevators it gets it own designation (e.g. G or GRD or some other national variety).

It's "the ground level" (with different names per country) + "N floors".

A multi-floor building with ground floor + 3 floors can even named "3rd-storey building" in some countries (and the ground level is just taken as granted) -- e.g. une maison à deux étages in the UK --> 3 story building in the US.
One problem I'm stumbling into is that multiple projects and experiments require the same source data, which may be several gigabytes in size. While it would be nice to have each project folder be self-contained, this isn't practical due to limits on hard disk size. Unfortunately my work place doesn't have S3, etc., and probably even if it did, keeping multiple copies would be costly.

I imagine this is a common problem. I'd love a solution that allows me to maintain metadata/comments about the dataset: who created it, when it was created, and what it contains (at a high level). It'd also contain a link to the full dataset which I could copy into Jupyter notebooks. Maybe there's a better solution that eludes me right now. A related issue is version control of large datasets, which I'm aware is a difficult problem getting worked on. But for now, maintaining a library of datasets is the task at hand.
I think the thought process on this is that you have control over this, but don't have control with AdGuard DNS.
> provide classes and methods which assist in building the state machine definition

Now you shift the complexity to a language which is potentially bloated and less suitable to express domain level concepts in a concise way. We've see a lot of OO-architectures which try to recover flexibility by providing complex meta-level mechanisms. For a state-machine one would implement kind of an interpreter over an OO-data model - or a code generator from that oo-model -> greenspunning.

> It was something which could be done better by simply making proper use of the idioms and capabilities of our host platform, and ignoring the syntax entirely

For Lisp this would be natural. One can easily hide an implementation behind a domain-level descriptive representation of the problem. The distance between both is very small. It's actually what I would try to approach: working on a descriptive level with domain concepts and hiding the implementation.

> Creating an entirely new language just to slim things down a bit is rarely appropriate for a single project.

That depends on the 'single project' and its size. Larger applications usually contain a multitude of such tailored notations and machineries to implement them.

> The caveat here of course is that, with Lisp, there's no difference between macros and API

The API consists of exported and documented macros.

> Layering things is an important part of how we think and sticking to common concepts in a given layer are a useful tradeoff.

Sure. If you look at the Common Lisp Object System, it was originally an extension to Common Lisp to implement an object system with classes, functions, methods, inheritance, etc.

The original implementation was in several layers:

The lowest level was a layer of objects. CLOS implemented in terms of itself. Like the definition of a class for classes. It's a bit unusual, since it is an implementation in itself.

The next layer was a layer of extensible functions and classes. Like creating classes by calling functions.

The developer layer is a level of macros where, for example, classes are specified via macros. The macros assemble the necessary language constructs - like how to descriptively define classes in a convenient notation.

The layers are documented and the lower layers are collections of protocols over classes and functions.

This layered language approach in Lisp is described in the book 'The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol', short AMOP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot...
A singleton guarantees that one-and-only-one instance of that type/thing is instantiated.

One can create as many global variables of that type/thing as one wants. Whether one refers to the same, singular instance everywhere is not something a global variable guarantees.

One may use a global variable to implement a singleton, but they aren't the same at all.
This reminds me of a quote by the historian Will Durant.

"Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies."
> I wouldn't be surprised if I jumped ship to Disney later this year

Oh, man, if Disney really makes their entire catalog available for a reasonable price, I'm definitely going to pay for that. All of Star Wars, all of MCU, all of Pixar, not to mention Disney's own stuff and apparently 21st Centry Fox movies. That's enormous.

But most streamers are just too fragmented to care.

What they should do is have one universal streaming service on which content owners can offer their own content on their own terms, rather than those of Netflix.
Big time news agencies usually have a desk somewhere that's covered in radios from the city's police, fire, ems, etc.

This is true.

that were bought from the agencies respective vendor with proper permission from the city.

This is false.

There are rare occasions when a government agency will lend a radio to a news agency as a courtesy, but this is exceedingly rare and IME only happens in small places.

Source: I spent too many years listening to scanners for big time news agencies, and the grumbling of police agencies that knew we were listening in on them.
I mean, if it's a "flying car" without wheels, and therefore needs either a landing pad or landing strip, then how is it a "car" and not either a "plane", "drone", or "helicopter" instead?
Assuming she and her siblings have a good relationship, if she were ever in a position where she might default then her family would help her. The pay out here was not purely transactional between strangers.
I've lived in LA for 3 years and voted to support Measure M. My take on this is that by increasing the capacity for public transit, we'll be able to support a continuously growing city. One of the ticket items that got me to support Measure M is funding for the Sepulveda Transit Pass, which will build a train route from Sherman Oaks to UCLA and down to Culver City and ultimately connect to the Purple Line.

The problem with the graph is that it doesn't factor in population growth, which seems to have grown from 3.2 million to 6.9 million from 1970 to 10 million 2013. If you calculated the miles travelled in transit per year, you'll interpret many folks in LA benefit from the Measures.

As a result, I believe the article is disingenuous by attacking a successful measures by relying on poorly interpreted data.
Not entirely because if the lender can bundle these bad mortgages together and sell them it's not really their problem if the borrower can't pay because they've already extracted a lot of value from the loan by selling it. Being able to sell the debt off to another party removes a lot of the issues a lender faces with bad loans.

Now in theory they still want to make all good loans but actually evaluating all the loans in a package is hard to impossible. This can incentivize lenders fudging the numbers on loans because a few bad loans failing is fine (so long as lenders as a whole aren't systematically issuing bad loans of course).
Looking at Fertility in R
There's a point where bending over backwards for "world views" crosses the line. Where that might be is hard to say, but Im going to venture that advocating (mass) murder is definitely on the wrong side of things.

There is such a thing as a wrong opinion.
Anybody who drives benefits from public transit, by the fact that it keeps cars off the roads.
How is sway for a daily driver?
The trick is to make the military finance your science project by finding a military justification for it.
The julia DSL for this is closer to what you want: "M_ij = A_ik * B_kj" reads

@einsum M[i,j] := A[i,k] * B[k,j]

Or faster with @tensor from https://github.com/Jutho/TensorOperations.jl & the same notation. I'm not aware of any attempt to distinguish co-vectors; you can have g = Diagonal([-1,1,1,1]) and insert A[i,k]g[k,k′]B[k′,j] and this is handled efficiently.