skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Single-request connections.

What does that mean? You keep qualifying "connections." It's a connection. It holds onto it's connection for X period of time. An HTTP request is just a single-request connection, which is NOT what this article is discussing.
That's a bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
...And in addition to being philanthropic, the wealthy don't put their money under a mattress. They invest in companies - everything from startups to large, conservative companies. Will we really be better off if the government decides how to put more money to work? Doubtful.
https://kraken.io/ - online image optimiser
Yes, you're right. I see how you could interpret that as philanthropy.
> For the first time, this article shares the secret about how to create the trendiest web designs in the world

I don't like how clickbait-y the article started
That's the thing. You can always hack something in C to prove there is a better way for a specific task. In the past I did things like that just for fun. But in the real world it does not work like that. You buy into things as a whole, accepting their pros and cons as a whole. If you need to hack - change your tools.
Constitutional amendments are ratified using largely the same rules that favor small states. Small states are not about to ratify amendments that would reduce their own political power.

Changing federal statutes is easier than changing the Constitution, so if there were a way to get to e.g. a 1000-member House that might make a difference. Someone would have to be asleep at the switch for that to pass, however. Besides, there are only seven single-representative states, some of which would get two representatives if the size of the House were doubled, so this would have a limited electoral effect anyway. Californians who really worry about this should be talking about secession.
They mentioned a 3rd embryo not being viable as it only contained sperm DNA. How the DNA was divided up was probably fairly arbitrary.
> But a system of philanthropy is inherently biased

More importantly, philanthropy suffers from the tragedy of the commons. It's in everyone's interest to act selfishly, and those who do not are put at a disadvantage and will be outcompeted.
It was mostly using ansible actually. The integrations are pretty good, better than what you can get with Terraform or CloudFormation.
Facebook uses BitTorrent for binary and artifact distribution within their DCs
Actually Windows 7 was better than Windows 10. Technically W10 is superior (different scaling % per display, because every display will have a different DPI) but in practice, on W7 you had the same scaling everywhere (less ideal), but also crisp text everywhere. In W10 you have different scaling but the display with the lowest scaling factor will have blurry text everywhere...
Is it not also a democracy?
DHS CISA Chief urging security pros to help local election officials
Isn't this just as much another fashion trap?

Many things from underwear, glasses, clothes to paper tissues are branded fashion items.

None of these items are expensive to make, we just don't buy the cheapest.. probably you can find cheap glasses somewhere online, if not there's probably a business opportunity in that :)

Question: do people want to buy cheap glasses, clothes, underwear? Or do they want to buy branded Kleenex tissues?
"I am a resolute defender of human rights, but the world is the world."

And when the US government decides to tell Google to flip on "dragonfly" locally then what? Anyone who would be against that sort of thing will be long gone following this kind of reasoning.
I've just always found myself frustrated by the sense that beyond looking into my eyes for signs of disease, the actual act of making a prescription could be done by anyone with an afternoon of training; yet I have to make an appointment and drop 100-200$ for something that is, on occasion, less effort than getting an order correct at chipotle.
> By 30 it's entirely possible making minimum wage to attend college

It may be, barely, depending on the state you live in[1]. But presumably no one would argue that it would be a lot easier if your family had the means to help you...

1: https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/Minimum-Wage-Work-Alo...
More accurately, it exploits natural market forces.
Uhm... I think you misunderstood me. Ideally cynically meant ‘never’ and “at least tempered by democratic representatives” was the most neutral but compact phrase I could come up with to describe what apparently happens when averaged across the parliamentary democracies of the world.

As for taxation not being voluntary, I never said it is. Nor should it be. Which billionaire would take on the cause of fixing potholes?
I'm french, and live in France, near Paris.

In France, there is only (AFAIK) _one_ love hotel (inspired by the japanese ones).

It's pretty small and the rooms are not big at all, but okayish (I only visited once).

What's interesting is the history of its creation: from what I've read, it was pretty hard to get the authorizations (which explains why there are not any others). Basically, this is the old B.S. about prostitution. Which is total hogwash because they check your ID when you go in, so it would be impossible for an escort to use it with more than a couple customers (and regular hotels are frequently used for escorting anyway so what's the difference?).

Personally, I think that love hotels are a great thing, much better than a regular hotel, and MANY people would benefit from those. Especially people in alternative sexualities (like myself) for whom finding a place to have sex is often a serious problem: going to one partner's home is often seen as a risk for security & anonymity.

BTW, there has also been recently (one year ago), the opening of a "sex doll brothel" in Paris, and they were also checked by the police... Seriously, a freaking SEX DOLL hotel! It's crazy how anything related to sex in any way creates so much problems.
I've often wondered if there is any reason at all to allow companies to own/buy/merge other companies. I have not found one.
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This is great advice and I really appreciate it.

I work on a piece of fitness equipment. At the moment, our entire UI is built with TypeScript + React and it's been great: predictable, flexible, easy, and sooo fast to build and deploy. When we were still figuring out how to define our core product, this was crucial (especially the development speed) because I was working as a solo developer, responsible for quite a few environments, apps, aspects of the product, etc,... Now that things are more well-defined and we have actual customers, I'm thinking less about how many deploys I can do in a week and more about performance, stability, and the experience of using the product. As long as we're stuck in the browser, I worry about some of the compromises we'll have to make in all of those areas. We already have some C++ in the stack, so it wouldn't be _completely_ alien, though I'm sure it would still be _mostly_ alien.

All that said, this is still a long way off. I can still go a long way with what we've got and I have far too many concerns that matter more to the product than this. I'm really just starting to think through options so I'm well-informed when the day comes that this does matter enough to actually start planning a change.

Again, I really appreciate the advice!
Indeed, residential/commercial construction costs are actually relatively low historically speaking.

(The land that you build it on is another matter.)
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It has some precedent. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Three-fifths,_or...
You can see it in the data:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

We're in a market in which housing prices have been soaring for a very long time, but for most of this we've been building less housing than even the 90's (and starts have actually FALLEN recently).

There's something broken in the market. Material costs are part of it, but government regulation is certainly part of it as well.
I'll would like to watch you running around and trying out everything when integration tests fails and you don't know which part of the code base caused the failure, while I just run all the specs and figure out the exact unit of code that is causing the problem.
"kraken docker uber" brings up the homepage as a first hit.
We’re Losing the History of the App Store
Sounds like a great way to retain the most mediocre members of staff.
Ahh, I see. They're 78% identical in paternal DNA because the same set of paternal DNA got into both embryos, not because two sperm were exceptionally similar.

This is underplayed by the terminology "semi-identical twins, with the same maternal DNA but different paternal DNA". They are significantly more identical than that. I bet twins actually matching that description wouldn't have the developmental problems these have apparently already manifested.

I wonder if the boy might have any symptoms of Klinefelter syndrome? (On the assumption that the two sperm were an X and a Y.)
That conclusion might be a bit strong. It might not have been expensive to you, but many in India probably do not have your income level?
The median annual income level in India is under 2000 USD.
In 1995, Luxottica purchased LensCrafters’ parent company, U.S. Shoe Corp., for $1.4 billion. The goal wasn’t to get into the shoe business. It was to take control of LensCrafters’ hundreds of stores nationwide.

Dahan said things went downhill for him after that. Luxottica increasingly emphasized its own frames over those of outside suppliers, he said, and Custom Optical’s sales plunged. Dahan was forced to close his business in 2001.

Funny that Microsoft was under the gun for antitrust violations while this was happening apparently unabated.
Funny that the article doesn't once mention unions as a factor that drives up cost. It's almost as if attacks on unions for making public works slow and expensive are disingenuous.
> Russian disinformation campaign

If you're concerned about the pocket change Russia spent on US election ads, you must be apoplectic over the massive amount of US campaign donations and media ownership by Israeli citizens. I assume you are not just using Russia to delegitimize your political opposition, and are genuinely concerned about foreign interference in US politics, so what do you propose we do about the Jewish problem?
Late 30s? You're not old, kiddo. :-)

Joking aside, as others have mentioned, you'll need to differentiate yourself, and for each person, that's different. For me, I found that I took really well to Docker and using Python to talk to APIs and AWS. I then started showing the world how well I knew those things by building a series of open source projects which leverage that technology. And--this is the fun part--each project was an iteration that built upon some of the things which I learned in the last project. For example, I built these over the course of several months:

- https://github.com/dmuth/splunk-network-health-check (Uses Docker and Splunk to graph your network quality)

- https://github.com/dmuth/twitter-sentiment-analysis (Uses Docker, Splunk, and AWS to graph Twitter sentiment)

- https://github.com/dmuth/splunk-lab (Uses Docker and Splunk to stand up a generic log ingestion platform which is highly configurable)

So maybe Splunk isn't your thing and Twitter isn't your thing. Maybe you're more a fan of ELK and the Facebook API. That's fine. The trick is to carve out some kind of interesting problem to solve, solve it, and publish your results upon GitHub. Don't worry if others have solved this before, it's more about YOU solving it, and showing the world that you can solve it. Then take it into an interview and show it off--people will LOVE that, especially if you have a README with really slick looking screenshots (presentation matters).

My email is my username AT my username DOT org. Feel free to hit me up if you'd like to chat further, OP. (Or anyone else in a similar position)
The OP mentioned his giving to his community on a voluntary basis. That sounded like an operative description of philanthropy so I used that term.
I worked at a sunglass hut part time during college. The _vast_ majority of sunglasses I sold were for fashion, not function. People weren't paying $250 for the lens, they are paying $240 for the style and 'real' D&G logo and $10 for the lens. In my time there I would say the only brands you should buy for performance are Maui-Jim (great lens / polarization) or Oakley (impact safety), everything else is junk lens put into fashion frames, including Ray-Ban, though their glass lens were at least passable. EDIT - I mean amongst the brands they carried, I'm sure there are other good lens manufacturers out there.

What I'm mostly saying is that I don't see this as rent seeking, it's just people willing to spend large amounts of money for fashion.
I don't see a problem with metaphorical overstatement (e.g. "he was bleeding all over the floor"), especially in casual usage. The real problem would be if they insisted on claiming it's "literally exponential" ... except, of course, everyone insists on breaking that API too, because they're too lazy to come up with a good intensifier.

As for the example you've cited, I think you're strawmanning it -- it's claiming that the problem grows exponentially, which could be true, or close enough, if the missing pixel required you to add custom behavior for all possible combinations of a parameter's value that you didn't even have to worry about before.
> Politicians in the United States do not have an incentives to control costs.

Do any other politicians have systemic incentive to control costs? If so, how?
I consider my vision important enough to get a human opinion on it. Even if a machine can do it correctly 99% of the time, having someone experienced there to confirm the choices is worth it.
Everything is worth what people are ready to pay
60% is a common supermajority threshold. For example, it’s what the Senate requires to invoke cloture.
I think you missed something in the parent comment. Bazel can skip compiling an output file if the hashes for its source code files + BUILD files have an artifact in the remote (or local) cache. This requires reproducible builds or else you could introduce build errors when your build environment changes.
dmidecode says Precision 5520, Version: A00.

I have the TB16 also.
Is that because people park their motor-vehicles there?
Being in favor of net neutrality != being in favor of net neutrality regulations
Do you think making candidates jump through additional hoops to even file an initial application increases the quality of said candidates?

I would wager people who are busy and/or desirable will simply refuse to and you will be left competing for the rest of the talent pool.
>prices are set by what the market is willing to pay

Land is not a normal good so it does not work that way even in theory. A simple example: Flint MI has falling demand and rising prices.

In addition, land is used both for speculation and retirement savings, further inflating the price beyond just being a place to live.

>Anything else is not sustainable

Correct. An ever growing percentage of wealth will go to land owners and rent seeking rather than productive enterprise. The price of doing business in the Bay Area (and similar cities) will drive out industry until there is nothing but the top most classes and their house cleaners, gardeners, waiters and store clerks. A situation perfectly satisfactory for land vendors.

It has happen countless times in the past but apparently were not going to let facts interfere with economic theory.

>God forbid anyone make a profit?

For producing something profit is great. For an exorbitant toll both in the path of job seekers, it is a net harm.
If it's possible to live in a system where the rich aren't properly taxed, the rich will choose to live in that system. Thus no one can live in a system that does tax them fairly, because the system that tries to does not have any rich people to tax.
The biggest cost in any metro area is land. There are few empty lots left to build on, and those go for a premium. Not going to give any specific listing publicity, but "$350,000 USD for 0.047 acres empty lot" is common in the residential parts of Atlanta. We recently paid $25M for 8 acres with abandoned warehouses on them, to build condos on. We're still looking at $100k land costs per condo.

Go out two counties and a 1.5 hour commute, and land is only $5k/acre. Plenty of $200k starter homes in that area. No one wants to move out there though.

Disclaimer - I work in the residential construction business
> So gee, other than the fact that they're (probably) both sterile, they're well and healthy. How reassuring.

I'm sure it is reassuring for their parents and loved ones. Why the sarcasm?
are prescription lenses not priced along the lines of the fashion lines?
It pays for leasing storefronts.
I think it boils down to "let's look at all of the problems we have for citizens in our nation".

People in debt who can't afford to feed their families/pay their mortgages, homeless people, sick people.

Ok. How do we solve these problems? Money.

Who has money? Ultra rich. How much money do they really need? You've got somebody buying a $100m superyacht and somebody who can't afford to eat living within the same nation.

I'm not saying I agree with this method of thinking 100%, but I think it's where the "we should tax the ultrawealthy" mindset comes from. Where else are we going to get the money? By the government pulling it out of a hat? That's bad for everybody. The ultrawealthy giving up some of their millions isn't super noticeable for them. On top of that, if 1 billionaire gets taxed at 75%, how many impoverished people does it stand to help?
> Because of the odd combination of DNA picked up from the two sperm, doctors have been concerned that the twins might be vulnerable to cancer of the reproductive organs.

Why does 'different DNA' automatically assume cancer?
No I get those comments because linux users are driven by an ideology and wants to defend it.

The thing is, even among all those comments authors, I know all of them are only talking at best about "that times where it worked for them". They all lived the problems I'm talking about, and are filtering.

Taking arch for example. 3 years ago, I was at a friend's flat. He was using arch because "it just works, never have a problem". And of course, when we set for watching a video, it didn't work. "Codec problem. Just a quick fix he had to do later. Usually it works fine.".

I do training all the time. Half of my job is training people, so I see many laptops with many OSs. I always see the same issues.

It feels like a recurring joke in a TV show.
it does have room for some pain if you end up not liking any of the frames in their agreement. i ended up passing because of this.
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I would be really curious to get an answer on these, for the company you had the executive role:

- Was it basically an acqui-hire?

- How much was it sold for?

- How much was raised totally?

- How much was the cumulative compensation package above the stock price given to key employees such as yourself?

Thanks
https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/whats-up-with-construction-co...

Real construction costs are 50% higher than they were in the 1950s, according to our analysis.
I don't even know what 'ripped off' means? Does it mean if you chose to buy their product you'll have to pay more than you'd happen to like to pay for it? There no oracle that can give us one true price, and anything above that is a 'rip off.'
It refers to a flat tax on income and wages, which matter little to the wealthy. Capital gains are where the real money lies, and they're so hard to define that you can't call "no loopholes" on them.
I think you'd be surprised just how many markets like this exist where there is a ton of slack in the system and profits are high.

In terms of the impact on middle class, I think most of these markets tend to command a relatively small part of a household budget.
Discussed directly in TFA:

"Others remind us that the United States is a democratic republic, not a direct democracy, and that the Constitution was designed to modulate the extremes of majority rule. Majorities sometimes want things — like bans on books, or crackdowns on minorities — that they should not be given.

This is true. It is also true that a thoughtful process of democratic deliberation and compromise can yield better policy outcomes than merely following the majority’s will. But these considerations hardly describe our current situation. The invocation of constitutional principle has become an increasingly lame and embarrassing excuse. The framers of the Constitution, having experienced a popular revolution, were hardly recommending that the will of the majority be ignored. The Constitution sought to fine-tune majoritarian democracy, not to silence it."
Japan is clean from end to end, though. I’ve driven all day across the countryside many times and never seen much more than neatly-stacked supply storage in terms of clutter. Outside of Tokyo and Osaka, the other big cities like Nagoya are clean as a whistle, with every street swept clear every morning and all trash carefully monitored by a cadre of obaasan volunteers. This is the situation in every corner of Japan that I’ve ever seen. It’s truly “bottom-up” clean, which is remarkable and special.
One of the great things about Cities: Skylines is the whole mod community. Its amazing some of the stuff they have added to the game. Plus, the developer continues to add amazing add-ons themselves.
I'll settle for journalists with an understanding of high school stats.
It is just the frames, the lenses cost additional.
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Why are they calling it "explosive"?

"Explode" means "burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, excessive internal pressure, or other process", whereas according to the article "these packages only appear to be designed to start a very small fire - the one that went off just melted part of its own plastic envelope..."

The correct term is "incendiary". But this seems so small as to practically put it in "prank" territory - since they only go off when opened, there's not much risk of it starting a uncontrolled fire unless someone happens to open it next to an open container of gasoline.
On my desktop computer with a single thread, Ruby can handle about 2000/conn/s. I'm just going to check a single thread with a similar C++ implementation.
yes, thanks for adding a more probing analysis.

the web is still great, so i wouldn't like to see it thrown out yet, but maybe something better (built on gnu/linux?) can supercede it eventually.

open source hardware like arduino and raspberry pi is now near the point of being powerful, cheap, energy-efficient, connected, small and plentiful enough that maybe it begins to undergird trustable computing devices for wider consumption.

google is completely untrustworthy and while apple is better, it's not without its trustworthiness compromises. with mobile, there's really no 3rd choice unfortunately (waiting to see how the purism device turns out).
I've been to Osaka & Singapore. I would consider Osaka to be much cleaner than Singapore.
I feel bad you're being downvoted because what you're proposing is one of the structural changes that could potentially help remedy the situation (though I'd probably put Gerrymandering first).
Indeed, the author even wrote another article explicitly refuting the anti-union argument.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/01/08/meme-weeding-u...
The Hartz 4 reform is unpopular in Germany, because it created a rampant low-wage sector coupled with exploitative temp work. Hartz 4 is nothing but dehumanziation, authorized by the government. Meanwhile the so-called elite bluntly enrich itself. This can only be a puzzle for people, who profit from the system.
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