skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a reasonably large amount of knowledge on this topic. I took a break after the dot com bubble burst through structural / construction engineering[0] before returning and my brother has been and continues to be in charge of some mega projects for EllisDon.

It is certainly worse in America, but it's not great in Canada either. The issue is this: There is no incentive alignment at multiple levels of these projects.

For example, I've worked with a couple great unions[1] but overall unions slow things down. There have been times where I've been reprimanded for lending a utility knife to open a pallet to a unionized worker.

It's too adversarial here and it really does slow things down. I've seen countless work-arounds to the rules just so employers can pay people that work harder more. For example, only valued employees are offered snow plowing work in the winter when construction is slow, but these tactics don't scale.

Then, on the other side, we do not pay our public servants enough and nor do we have high enough standards for their work. There are good public servants, to be true, but that's essentially random chance. It isn't because we've intentionally created a culture of achievement or excellence in our public works departments.

In both cases firing someone is too difficult. I'm not saying it should be easy, but I've known people that show up for work at 10:30am and leave, no joke, at 2:00pm. It's completely ridiculous.

Then there is the issue of building for the first time versus expanding or maintaining. First time construction is much easier. Standards are lower, there is less stuff in the way, everyone in the city is excited for the new thing so people make sacrifices. A new subway or sports stadium brings in business to the surrounding area, so part of the cost can be pushed on to local property owners in the area. Thirty years later when the soffit is cracked because subsurface water wasn't as expected there is none of that stuff. Just some angry commuters and shop owners wondering why it is taking so long.

I'm starting to think that capital projects, especially subterranean ones, are inherently worse than smaller alternatives. They're so expensive to maintain and once they're in there is no going back. I'd rather have lots of bike lanes or streetcars than subways. We could build a lot of bike lanes for the same cost of a subway, and even have them covered so snow and rain wouldn't be annoyances.

[0] I worked on lots of stuff for the TTC, including subway stations, and some stuff for the City of Toronto.

[1] Electrical worker union IBEW Local 353 was especially great because they pushed their employees to work hard. In exchange, they were able to negotiate default conditions like nine-hour, four-day work weeks. It fostered a sense of pride in their trade and work.
A lot of middle-class jobs come from enabling these rent-seekers. Not sure if that counts as 'burden'...
Why does this happen? I thought US was famous for favoring small government and zealous for tax dollars to be well spent.
Thank you! We had no idea about Stream, yes the logo does look very similar haha
Why are unions even permitted on public infrastructure projects? All municipal projects that I have heard about in recent years had extensive work rules, safety, "living wage" requirements, etc. as conditions of the bid.
I use and recommend strontium
https://github.com/StrontiumJS/Framework
Don't get me wrong, it's great that you found a way to reduce the work stress in your life! But ... I genuinely cannot tell whether the guy posting on Hacker News that he "dropped out of society" is being serious or tongue-in-cheek.

If paying society's currency for all the solar panels and the batteries and the gas and the generator and the refrigerator and the laptops and the deeded property and all the other stuff that society created is dropping out of society, I wonder what it is like to be a member of society.
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, the Third-Person Shooter That History Forgot
It is lost on me.

What do high construction costs have to do with HN?
> When, in a separate unlikely event, the blastocyst divided into two – creating twins – more of the cells with genetic material from one sperm (which had an X chromosome) ended up in one embryo, while the other had a greater proportion of cells formed by the other, Y chromosome bearing sperm. This is why one fetus developed female characteristics and the other male

Rather than the male embryo having more Y-chromosome bearing cells overall, I think it's more likely that the male embryo developed that way because the cells that became the gonads -- as opposed to the majority of all cells -- had Ys. Sexual development isn't done by majority vote.
Calculated risk.. they knew exactly who they were working with and what their backgrounds were.

They needed the tech.

Now the HT/neutrino guys have done the post acquisition integration and now are free to move on to their next venture.
And I would rate the Belbin test higher and I do not score at all on completer finisher role.
If you need a hotel in Tokyo you can get a good deal on these love hotels compared to big name hotels. You do not need to go there for sex. They are available on hotels.com and bookings.com and such.

The rooms are good size (in Tokyo hotel rooms tend to be small), you get a very luxurious bath room and bath utilities, you can order a tons of food through TV and of course you get some free condoms.

Do not expect amazing lobby, though. Entrances are more hole-in-a-wall style.

Locals seem to have a cultural taboo with these hotels, but as a Western traveler it is a pleasant and fun experience.
Not just when doing something non-obvious, but also when not doing something that might normally be expected.

“We don’t need to synchronize here because <some invariant>” and whatnot.

Basically, whenever a casual observer might think there’s a bug, either because you’re doing something unexpected or not doing something expected.
Fair enough, but I suspect most people are not under control of their working schedule. Also, most are supposed to work for at least 8 hours a day. Planning for 15+ minutes break every hour, that means a total of 2+ hours break in addition to the 8 hours work. Add the daily commute, and you easily end at 11-12 hours for "business". So I guess this approach makes only sense, if you can afford to do real work for 6 hours, and spend the rest for breaks.
I am not am anti-vaccine person by any definition, as I have had plenty of vaccinations in my life.

However, I recently had to do a risk assessment for myself for Japanese Encephalitis, which is a $400-800 vaccine that only has a few years of effective dosage at best, and has a mortality rate of 16,000 per year out of 4 billion exposed.

If there's any chance that the vaccine has some type of chemical or substance that would cause an adverse effect in me, even if it was free, I would take my chances without the vaccine.

Similarly, I haven't received a tetanus shot in decades, despite really wanting to. I simply don't have the money because I don't have insurance, but I feel the risks of the vaccine are worth the benefit of not having tetanus.
I don't know Go, but that probably depends on your goals. To quote myself from elsewhere:

> Efficiency in the BEAM is mainly in service of its primary goal of fault-tolerance. If one process crashes unexpectedly, the others should continue. By the same logic, if one process is CPU-intensive or IO-blocked, the others should keep making progress smoothly. And if processes are good for isolating errors and performance issues, they should be cheap enough that we can run a lot of them at once. Those assumptions are baked into how the BEAM manages processes.

If raw speed is your only goal, the BEAM probably isn't the best choice. If consistent speed and stability matter, it may be.

More on this at https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/07/18/all-for-reliability-ref...
It's a ripoff because the price to quality ratio of the luxury brands are much higher than the budget brands which provide the same functionality and style as the luxury brands the only difference being there is no logo stamped on the side.

EDIT: regarding the top comment of this thread, I see and agree with the argument that if you are aware and able to get a cheaper option, then you are not being "ripped off" but just making a bad financial decision of your own accord.
Unfortunately, I've found this isn't always true, but I see your point.
I use Ting as my primary phone provider the pricing is great if you're a light user. Their international roaming rates when traveling to first-world or major cities is usually about double the local US rates which is very fair.
Do you have an unlocked international cell phone with a dual sim? This can be useful because then you can buy a second data-only sim if it works out to be cheaper which it often does.
we use geekbot: https://geekbot.com/
I'm not sure any anti-vaccers are saying, "if only there were more data."
The lock-in, while bad, only affects the development of new models. These devices exist so that you can avoid the cloud for inference.
Apple’s Hollywood venture marred by ‘intrusive’ execs, including Tim Cook
Autism doesn't actually manifest until about eighteen months into a child's life because it takes that long for the brain subsystems involved to be wired up in more or less their final configuration.

Funnily enough, that's about the same time frame as when the kid receives their first vaccinations.

To the nonscientific mind, correlation=causation a lot of the time. Add to that the increased difficulty in caring for an autistic child, the belief that autistic people are "soulless" or somehow not capable of empathy, the desire of parents for their children to live a "normal" life, and the significant subset of parents who view their children as lifestyle accessories rather than independent people and so are embarrassed by a child with special needs, and you have enough fear and dread that things might've been different had I made the choice not to vaccinate to kick off a worldwide movement.
I hate to respond with just 'this' but this is the correct response.

The problems we've had are all because we can't get consensus to auto-format, but then someone gets frustrated because they can't understand the code they're reading after someone committed mortal indentation sins, so then they auto-format and bam, history is worthless again.
The servers running robot Jibo, which raised –$76M, are being shut down forever
Even if it did, I'd rather be autistic than dead
I agree not everything needs to be built for massive scale. I didn't mention anything about scale in my comment.
I wonder how much more budget and time we are going to waste re-proving this.

It’s a matter of faith, further studies will never make people change their minds.
From the article:

As Mr. Conley began bringing friends south to test the experience, he imagined that his resort’s core demographic would be 45 to 60. But after announcing a public opening last fall, he was surprised to field interest from people in their 30s. In the nine Modern Elder sessions he’s hosted to date, the oldest participant was 74, the youngest was 30, and the average has been 52.

“People feel irrelevant younger, especially in places like Silicon Valley,” Mr. Conley said.
She's quite talented.
That must be with a small motor (500W or less). I can't find a decent ebike with a 750W+ motor for under $1200.
> I thought 99% of the wealth belonged to 1% of the population or something crazy.

If you're talking about taxing wealth, that's a very different thing from taxing income. I was thinking of income.

The tax foundation summary of tax year 2016 [1] gives a good overview of the breakdown of income and federal income tax. The top 1 percent of earners had about 20 percent of reported income, and paid about 37 percent of income taxes received. But the income split point for the top 1 percent is only about $480K per year. Most of those people are not billionaires or even close to it. The share of income taxes paid by billionaires is much smaller.

The issue with trying to tax wealth, instead of income, is that you can only tax it once and spend it once, and then it's gone. So unless you have some really obvious one-time expense that that wealth can buy you and that will benefit everyone enough to make it worthwhile to pay the political cost, it's just not feasible.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
Let’s try an analogy: most small loudspeakers are unable to get good volume without distorting the sound. You have a choice between playing music that sounds as intended but at a very soft volume, or to crank up the volume and make it sound like a noisy buzzsaw. This is analogous to the choice between type that looks like it is supposed to but a blurry mess, or type that looks sharp but has crazy pants distorted letter shapes.

Arguably there’s a place for each of these approaches. If you have an extremely low resolution screen, or underpowered speaker, it makes sense to accept the distortion to be able to use the screen/speaker at all. But if you have fairly good speakers or a high resolution screen it just doesn’t, because the volume is loud enough as it is, and the blur is actually pretty sharp.
I don't see what's wrong with "evolved". The antivax meme evolves like an insidious virus -- mutating to become subtler, and more virulent, with time.
Just for balance, Boaz is in my top 5 CS professors. For more advanced theory topics you need more of a guide as the field is pretty wide and deep; he is great at that. I am not sure how to reconcile my learning experience with yours but I have fond memories of Boaz's lectures.
I do that, too. But I didn't always have to, and I shouldn't have to, that's my point.
Yea, I agree. Step 3 is not a trivial setup for early-stage startups. Glad to see devtools companies trying to tackle this.

At the company I worked at, we built something similar using Heroku free dynos :) So that you can tag a PR and it automatically created a staging app using free Heroku dyno, it even came with a free database. The setup works but also quite spotty.
Google Launches I.MX8M Dev Board with Edge TPU AI Chip
To some degree; your best bet is LSP integration but so far things have been a little flakier than I like because my environment is strange. But given the architecture of their extensibility model I'm extremely optimistic.
I think GNU Guix offers what you are after.

I maintain my own build farm and tried comparing my results against the official CI server:

$ guix challenge --substitute-urls="https://ci.guix.info"
14,224 store items were analyzed:
- 4,972 (35.0%) were identical
- 265 (1.9%) differed
- 8,987 (63.2%) were inconclusive

Of the 5237 build artifacts that were available on the substitute server, only 265 (5%) differed.

All of these items can be (and have been) built entirely from source, starting with Guix' initial "binary seeds", on (probably) different hardware and kernel compared to the CI system.
It's like Minecraft with Lego characters
inability to predict the time and effort needed
In terms of raw performance, Go will be faster. However, the differentiator here is that the BEAM gives you the guarantees and tools to write highly concurrent applications with a sane mental model, fault-tolerance, and isolated processes. As a sibling said, it's fairly easy cluster applications. Additionally, if something truly needs to be ran in another language for performance, you can write a NIF in Rust or something and execute it from Elixir.
That's a fair point. I probably overemphasized the word practical in my original comment. I didn't mean immediately practical. (I assume you meant "doesn't" in your comment.) And I do agree that even ideas or systems which perform poorly could be imminently useful. But I personally find looking at measurements helpful to give me some sense as to whether or not the approach being proposed is suitable for solving problems I care about.
What? He had superstitious pigeons??
I know his daughter killed her self so apparently the skinner box wasn’t as seamless as planned..
Me personally, I'm more of a Larry Tesler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler) kind of guy:

> [Tesler's] career forms a link from the pioneering work of Doug Engelbart, Stu Card and Tim Mott, to the emergence of a dominant design for the PC, as described by Bill Atkinson, Cordell Ratzlaff and Paul Bradley.

When he was at Apple, Larry Tesler had a license plate saying “NO MODES.”

(from http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/LarryTesler)
Computer Modern is very thin. I personally prefer Computer Concrete, in a similar vein, because it is simpler and easier to read on low-DPI displays. Although I’m not sure about this, it feels as though Computer Modern was designed to take into account a bit of bleed, which is why it looks better as a high-resolution inkjet print.

Regardless of which font you use, TeX will produce a much higher quality document (esp. math) than Word, at the expense of an upfront time investment in learning to use it.
Two words: Larry. Ellison.
I would argue that some of your "solutions" to these "common mistakes" are just as bad as the initial mistakes themselves.

Whiteboarding:
Why would you replace a whiteboard with a pen and paper? Many programmers have hardly touched a pen and paper in years. They live and die by their keyboards and monitors. Would you take a master carpenter's tools away and then judge them on their ability to build something using nothing but a spoon? Maybe we should give people a real world problem (not a trick problem), and let them solve it using their tools of choice?

Staged Collaboration:
"Design your interview question to be missing important details. This will give candidates the opportunity to discover the need for these details when they get to them and ask for them at that time. If the candidate never asks questions, great! You just identified a serious red flag you would have been hard pressed to find otherwise."

When someone is in an interview under pressure, they are often very nervous. They are being judged on how quickly they can solve a problem, and you (as the test giver) are the authority in the room. Focus tends to narrow under stress. This means many people will simply take your questions at face value. But it sounds like you are essentially penalizing them for not being cynical enough, and you are penalizing them for not understanding that your trick questions are trick questions. That doesn't really seem fair. It sounds like a good way to weed out timid candidates (and potentially lose out on a very talented engineer), though.

Conversational Relationships: I agree with this

Open-Ended Discovery: I agree with this
Too bad people aren't more afraid of smoking, which does have serious health consequences.
Sorry - I think there's perhaps a disconnect in how I use English v others.

I was referring to the cola companies having problems.
I have not seen a strong correlation either way. It's all a game of generalisations and tradeoffs.
Given that this appears likely to cause the death of one or both twins (on the assumption, not true here, that there's no such thing as prophylactic surgery to remove precancerous gonads), it doesn't seem like the rarity really requires an explanation. Contra what the article says, these twins are not in good health.

If you're asking "what is the mechanism that makes sure this doesn't happen?", as opposed to "why doesn't this happen more?", that's a better question and I don't know the answer.
I think you meant "doesn't have to be immediately practical".
Reporting illegal activity is not nice? I'm sorry you got caught. Defeating captcha and bypassing IP block from Google servers would fall under CFAA, which they nailed 3taps for.

Yeah, we know you are not a lawyer and neither am I, but writing I ANAL, doesn't really exempt you from the law...im sure it doesn't take a lawyer to realize this.

see 3taps vs Craigslist and the CFAA ruling. Public data is fine, its just when you break their captcha and bypass their IP ban, it becomes an issue. Which you've pretty much admitted in your reddit thread.

You can try defending yourself in court against the world's best legal team. Any capitulation now is better than losing your entire life savings over in the subsequent legal defense fees alone.

edit: whats the matter? run out of alt-nicks? LMAO. dude you make it way too obvious. inactive accounts suddenly converging on this particular thread using the same argument over and over to censor my comments...not even bothering to change writing styles...
The way I use vim is predomenantly as a plugin to give modal editing powers to my editor of choice (Sublime, Atom, VSCode, etc.) I would love to be able to try out Kakoune in that way. Do any such plugins exist?
I don't consider myself anti-vax (my children and I are fully vaccinated) but I do question things and I prefer to make my own decisions regarding what is best for my family.

What are the risks of a particular vaccine?
What are the risks to my child if they get the disease?

The answers to those vary per vaccine and could result in some parents deciding to not vaccinate their children for one or more vaccines.
> It's on section "Pooling", on page 7 of the pdf

Ah, I see; I was misunderstanding which part of the study you were referring to.
Some of us are still using Plan 9. I'm glad to see the connection between Plan 9 namespaces and containers mentioned, most people have missed that step in following the evolutionary pathway from unix chroot through BSD jails to Linux containerization. There is actually a semi-secret modern Plan 9 container-like service platform, but the Plan 9 community doesn't usually try to publicize/commercialize its work so almost nobody knows about it.
Any chance you can pass along that Mennonite builder info and/or provide some pictures of the finished product (but before you did anything to it)? Just curious, as I'm always looking at alternative living arrangements.
Do you know the model? And is it monochrome or color?
Desktop apps for Windows and Mac. No Linux.
Browser app doesn't support Firefox.

Hmm... pass
From the screenshots, apparently they decided that what's really missing from modal editors was Clippy!?

Oh, wait: https://github.com/gbigwood/Clippo
Typically repair is done by the municipality, and quality varies quite a bit for mostly opaque reasons. New construction is done by private contractors, and quality is determined mostly by the inspection agency. Whatever they let the contractor get away with, the contractor will do.
Example of an new upcoming cobalt mine (USA, Idaho): https://www.ecobalt.com

Historical cobalt price charts: http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/cobalt/all/
I have seen at least one child who got serious fever after taking polio vaccine and permanently lost some cognitive function, doctors dismissed the idea that polio vaccine might have caused it intentionally but that tale is told throughout the village even though the kid is now 18 years old. Most of the anti-vax parents have such anecdotal evidence only and it influences their mind lot more.
Another example is the reddit admins shutting down any subreddit that allows for discussion about digital rights managment. One prime example of this is r/printsf. If you try to discuss how to get your Amazon purchased ebook in a format that can be used with text to speech the local mods of the sub will ban you. This is because if they allow it the reddit admins will ban the sub.

It isn't all direct reddit admin/corporate action. They put the onus on the subs to do their dirty work and enforce the corporate rules to protect their income and interests.
Maybe. Adding a delay could further mask that.
My understanding (I'm a doctor but NOT an expert in this area) is that it usually is a long, difficult journey to the egg, and the chance of many getting there at exactly the same time is low. When a spermatozoan buries into the egg a reaction is caused which prevents other sperm from being able to penetrate.

An expert may be able to clarify, but I think this is the gist of it.
Vacuum Tubes Improved in a Moore's Law Kind of Way