skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost by definition, people prefer to live in dense areas.

In terms of prescriptive advice, high-density housing reduces urban sprawl. If you can convince a third of suburbia to change to denser housing, commute times for everyone would be cut in half. Vast swaths of land could also return to farmland or nature preserves.

So even people who personally prefer to live "just outside the city" should advocate for denser housing. When the city builds up, everything moves towards the center.

I just measured the distance from city centre to the countryside for two cities of about equal size:

Hamburg (Pop 1.5 mil): 8mi

Houston (Pop 1.8 mil): 22mi

(I chose these because LA and Chicago have coastal layouts which aren't comparable. They also connect directly to other urban areas which for the purposes of this exercise should be considered as "farmland". Or you could add their respective populations which would further amplify the difference)
Sigh. Yeah. Last year I was kludging some optical hand-and-stylus tracking above laptop, keyboard as multitouch surface, and head-tracked screen-and-HMD 3D desktop, sort of laptop-nextgen for my own use... but didn't find a community left to motivate sharing or demos. :/ Thanks for your comment.
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Depends on the country. Here your notice time would be 1 month, so you can't just start "trying out" another full-time job during a holiday.

Edit: mistake in duration
> "What Ricardo proved mathematically, is that if one country has simply a comparative advantage (not even an absolute one), it still is in everyone’s best interest to embrace specialization and free trade. [...] It is quite bizarre to see modern day politicians throw caution to the wind and ignore these fundamental tenants of economic science."

Good old mathematical proof with spherical cows in a frictionless vacuum. Should be complemented with some empiricism. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...: "none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules."
A New Journal for Constantinean Techies
> uber is a marketplace for transferring illiquid wealth assets from drivers to uber itself, along with a fraction of the revenues from each ride

The same could be said of the taxi medallion system. Low-income drivers with illiquid value for their time, with most of the value going to medallion owners, car owners and dispatchers.
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What you're saying makes some sense, but I think you're wrong. I have never nor am I ever likely to read the spec sheet of different shoes to determine which to buy. I don't know what I'd learn by looking at that anyway, I know basically nothing about shoes except how they look and what they feel like on my feet.

I could change that, educate myself about shoe materials and construction, but I choose not to for one simple reason: I can educate myself about literally anything and everything, and I've noticed in my life that where ever I look, there is practically infinite depth and detail, and so I have very carefully choose what to spend my time learning about. Shoes aren't it.

Instead I use heuristics -- I have the finely honed taste in branding and advertising that all westerners have, I can infer from the storefront and typefaces and colors on the box what range of quality a given pair of shoes is. From there I have a manageable selection of like 10 types of shoes I can look at, and from there 3 that I like the look of that I can try on. Occasionally I get burned--shoes that my branding intuitions say should be adequate quality for the price turn out to be shitty. But mostly I get this right and end up with shoes that I like.

A shoe expert has a whole different process, I'm sure. They are in the know about the latest construction trends and who is using them, and know how to source them.

Similarly, when you and I buy a computer we can meaningfully distinguish the details of the hardware we're considering, so we do. But most people can't. They have to use branding heuristics. And you know what? I think they are mostly fine. If someone who knows nothing about computers buys a Dell to check their email because they seem basic and reliable, they are going to do fine for the most part.

And for Apple, "people can change the world" isn't the real message. The real message is the thousands of microscopic heuristics that fire when a product brands using high concepts and slick design. They add up to basically "this is a product I am paying extra for, it will be better than most other things on the market but not exactly value for money, and the support on it will be extra good." Which is a heuristic that basically holds for Apple products (although, recently...?)

So actually when I put a personality on my company I am choosing something for my customers that I actually would choose. I'm building in the heuristics they need to make a decision without being an expert in the domain. And because I'm both not an asshole and don't want to deal with a bunch of anger customers, I am going to try to make those heuristics accurate.
"The urbanites" are 80% of America. "I personally don't want it" is actually a pretty vacuous criticism of a proposal that most people should do something.
The main link support the "Russia" cyber-attack gives me a 404. Who is upvoting this stuff?
Hololens 2 and the 'Internet of Holograms'
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Thanks for clarifying, didn't know it was so instant.
> everyone

Learn what the word "everyone" means before you use it.

You stupid boring little shit.
Are you referring to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlA9UxGvSg
You can send GDPR request anywhere they communicate with customers. Even via Facebook. They have to respond in 30 days. It's their business to route the message where it belongs/can be processed. You don't have to hunt for their DPO. Keep the screenshots/records of your attempts at communication.
Yes of course! It'll happen once there are more companies on the site. For now, Ctrl + F works great on the homepage :P
Docker-Luarocks 0.5.0 Released
This is the AWS Cloud Development Kit. It is still under very active development, so keep that in mind as a caveat, but it provides a much higher level, much more simple and intuitive way to define cloud infrastructure as code in your favorite languages: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk

For context I've been able to take thousands of lines of CloudFormation YAML and replace it with around 500 lines of much clearer and easier to read JavaScript. And that 500 lines automatically builds five Lambda functions, builds, pushes, and launches two Docker images that run in AWS Fargate, configures an API Gateway and a CloudFront distribution.

CDK is really a game changer in terms of allowing developers to take an idea and turn it into infrastructure as code extremely quickly and properly (CDK automatically generates many best practices like minimal IAM roles, minimal security group settings, etc)
how lively is the prolog market ? do they accept semi noobs ? (read more than half of Bratko book)
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I always use the pool table analogy. You’ll never win a game of pool by having better ideas, unless you have the execution to back them up. Meanwhile, the guy with a solid execution of a really basic strategy is nigh unbeatable.
This analogy somewhat fails given that buildings and equipment are a generally fixed cost/asset, whereas compute power, storeage, etc. are probably more of marginal costs for a technology company such as Lyft. It would suggest they also contract out most of their technology development as well.
It looks like LittlevGL has been around for a couple years, so it might be tough to switch now.

https://github.com/littlevgl/lvgl/graphs/code-frequency
>This is the New American Home for 2018. It’s a sprawling monstrosity of more than 10,690 feet (the lot encompasses 65,340 square feet).

No, this is an exaggeration for the sake of a highly slanted opinion piece. The average size of a new house in the US is about 2500 sq ft if I remember correctly.

>Does anyone need 10,000 square feet to live in?

Does anyone want to put up with petulant condo associations/HOA squabbles? Besides, if someone wants to pay housekeeping to clean it or spend half their week cleaning that's their business.

>Enter the Green New Deal

oh so this is just a thinly disguised anti-rich opinion piece
Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%
It’s general consensus but here’s an article for example that suggests less than 20,000 Europe orders and hundreds in China. Of course we won’t know for sure until Q1 earnings but it’s a safe bet

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4239396-tesla-weak-model-3-...
> If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for

Lyft is IPOing at a higher valuation than Twitter, but Facebook went public at a valuation of $100B and raised $16B. FB's IPO was 5x bigger than Lyft's.
Timing in the Shadow of the Event Loop
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This seems to break down who owns what: https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33...

The single largest holder of government debt is the Social Security Trust Fund.
> You're talking about the HOA as if they are a third party. Isn't the HOA just the group of condo owners?

No, in the same way that a corporation is not just the group of stockholders; it's a distinct legal entity operationally controlled by it's own management (either employees or a contracted management firm), who is accountable to a board, who is normally accountable by election to the condo owners. Owners, or groups of owners, suing HOAs are just like shareholders suing corporations, it's not an uncommon thing.

Also, lots of HOAs are actually structured to be effectively controlled by the original developer until certain time and/or unit sales triggers move them out of a privileged role, and may have rules set in place during that time that place high procedural bars on changes that would provide effective control to the actual homeowners even if the homeowners have nominal control.

HOAs are a hotbed of principal-agent problems.
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Are you looking at page 192?
Logan Green(1) 1,180,329
John Zimmer(11) 1,180,329
Ben Horowitz(5) 15,040,924

So the last line is 15million common stock held by A16Z
The joke that resonates most with me is: "Emacs can do anything - it's easily one of the most configuration programs ever created, and is practically its own operating system. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with a decent text editor"

In all seriousness, I don't think anyone really takes these things to heart anymore. I picked up Vi because it was on all the systems that I use. Once I began to learn it, i moved to Vim, as most people do. Later, Neovim got to the point that it was a drop-in replacement for me, seemed to be a more viable path for long-term growth given its focus on refactoring the core codebase and explicitly dropping legacy support for some features to that end, and early focus on speed through concurrency.

I'll grouse with emacs users a bit, but honestly... I can't open Vi on someone else's machine and immediately be useful, either. There isn't a huge difference in learning curve for me between "Vi configured by someone else" and "Emacs".
I had exactly the opposite experience, the founder/CEO was a former airline pilot. As a pilot you learn to make decisions quickly with the data at hand, because delay can be fatal. Best CEO I've worked for, but unfortunately he wanted to retire and sold the company.
> Microsoft wouldn't exist without Bill Gates, but that doesn't mean he's entitled to any and all benefit derived therein to divide up between his employees.

More people have become millionaires by being Microsoft employees than by any other mechanism. Via stock options, Microsoft very much shared the gains with their employees.
On the off-chance you're somehow unaware and are running Debian: with Devuan it's almost just a repository change and an "apt-get dist-upgrade" away (depending on which release you are upgrading from a few manual actions, which are documented, might be required).
As long as the new dream home has thick walls and soundproof ceilings...

But I'm not gonna bet too heavily on builders caring about those features.
Interesting, sounds like a water to water heat pump (takes heat from sewage and pumps it into district heating). Just to dig into your example a bit: It kind of depends on what the return temperature is of the 90C heating fluid is. Based on the refrigerant and COP of 3 (18/6), its probably around 50C. If they were able to find a use for the process fluid so that it returned at 20C, they would probably have a COP closer to 5. You can still build 'relatively' efficient heat pumps for hydronic heating, but they would be significantly more efficient if we did a better job dumping all of the heat from the water (which would require a larger, more effective heat exchanger).

Edit: I guess what I'm trying to say is that most of the radiator technology we use (like the in room part of the heating system) was designed with combustion-based heating in mind. Combustion based heating sort-of works just as well if the return water is 50C or 20C, but you would get a substantial boost in heat pump hydronic heating performance if you were to redesign heat exchangers to get as much temperature out of the fluid as possible. This is an optimization problem: as you increase the size of the heat exchanger, it gets more expense, but improves performance. There is an optimum in there somewhere...
Driver churn isn’t important if driverless cars are on the way.
Works for me (in the UK)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacki...

Edit: I see what you mean. This is the source after fixing the link: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Nakasone...
Even with weak demand they’ll still deliver a lot of cars. The question is if it’s enough.
Indeed, particularly in light of how much criticism these gentlemen cast at the useless, counterproductive front lawns of America's suburbia.
Absolutely. Next thing we know they stop selling books only and turn themselves into a cloud-services giant :|
At this point isn't it cost-effective for Lyft to just build its own infrastructure?
I've known people with the same conversational style as this bot, and they are absolute hell to talk to unless you decide to gamify it and play with finding the least objectionable thing they could find fault with.
Executive body is wrong place for the idea guys.
HOAs are not restricted to condos. Many newer SFHs are governed by
neighborhood HOAs also, and they are famous for putting onerous restrictions on residents.

Also, not all condo HOAs are a mess like you describe. I'm part of a 3 unit HOA on subdivided infill lot. It's dense, but no shared walls or structures. The low HOA fee covers the shared insurance policy and nothing more. Within my exclusive use area I'm free to do anything reasonable with landscaping, etc. Only structural changes to my unit require HOA approval

The dysfunction of some HOAs is more a function of the misplaced priorities of the members, as in the example you gave, not with the idea of shared ownership itself.
Yes. My longstanding business partner thinks of himself as an "idea guy", but I don't think of him that way.

He does come up with most of the ideas we execute -- but he bases them on his knowledge of the market and what would sell, and he takes care of all of the non-technical aspects of execution: business, marketing, management, etc.

In other words, he puts as much effort into execution as I do, and that's why I don't consider him an idea guy. He's much more valuable than that.
This. Home separation is important for quality of life.
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