skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(one of) the other layers is that its only purpose is to inflate real estate values of luxury apartments that already were built only to be sold to the criminally-wealthy international investor class that uses luxury US real estate as a form of international banking/money laundering, while masquerading in the press as a "community" and the Vessel itself as a "public space," when in reality it is anything but.

The comparison to the Eiffel Tower is to say at least that structure has a restaurant and a shop at the top, so there's a reason to go up there.

The author does not seem to have special hate for elevators, only that an elevator for a sixteen-floor staircase that doesn't actually have anything at the top further reinforces the cynicism behind the design, which is in fact the major thrust of the article.
I've never seen it called "a receptacle for Godzilla's egg", so I thought I'd contribute that here.
Germany the country, or private german banks?
https://www.thorn.org/ (non-profit) is working hard to provide tooling to law enforcement to address the issues you mention, and posts on HN's Who's Hiring threads (front end engineers) [1].

I don't know if they accept volunteers for code contributions, but I hope they consider it if they already don't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281914
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The phrase "criminally wealthy" used by the author is a dog whistle for class supremacy, a destructive ideology that we need to be talking about a lot more.

It's about as helpful an ideology as white supremacy, just with different variables: instead of wanting to destroy other people along racial boundaries, the class supremacist wants to destroy people who aren't members of the sanctioned economic class.

Fuck class supremacy. Let's collectively ignore this kind of hateful screed so we can focus on reducing suffering for all, not just for members of some arbitrary group.
From the article "The company has only used the Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters twice since it opened two years ago."

Something is in decline at Apple.
Agreed. Brutalist also didn’t age well, partly because upkeep was poor. I’d expect the same of this pinecone.
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>The parent poster wrote "poor people who have nothing more to hate on rich people about than that they have money", which sounds like well-founded animus to me.

Let me make sure I understand, because I fear we may be talking past each other.

Are you suggesting that the simple fact that one has more money than you is sufficient to justify animus?

(I'm happy to discuss the rest of your post once we clear up this particular point; it seems fundamental.)
I mean, that's kind of the Baffler's entire shtick. That style of hyperbolic acerbic criticism is very popular in many online publications. Sometimes people enjoy having a good punching bag.
why, in the would, would i need JavaScript to tell people I don't use cookies?!

Why not just a note at the bottom of the page with no banner that needs to be closed. It's frustrating enough that I have to do it on the cookie sites, why in the world would you make me do it on a non-cookie site.
That the bonds are tax-free is a choice by the municipal issuer (because it’s to their advantage to do so). They could issue commercial taxable bonds, but why would they? It would only increase their borrowing costs.
Looks like a Lappset to me. That does not help much, they are selling in at least 50 countries https://www.lappset.com/Contact-us
But you can't separate the cause from the issue. It's like seeing some people admiring a trophy and saying "so what, I could make one myself in a few hours".

The trophy is a symbol for something more, and so is having hundreds of millions of dollars.
Whatever can be said about the Soviet Bloc architecture, those projects were always either utilitarian or served some propaganda purpose, and a staircase to nowhere would be neither.

That said, I dislike the tone of the article.
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um. no. it.... no.

That.... no.

It may help you avoid logging in to a page again, but it will _not_ help load/pull the page faster. In fact, it will load it slower, because now there's more data to download, read, and process.
The author is: "Kate Wagner is the creator of the viral blog McMansionHell, which roasts the world’s ugliest houses from top to bottom, all while teaching about architecture and design."

Judging by http://mcmansionhell.com/101 she has strong opinions which are not immediately understandable, to me, anyway. (It seems like she would believe most of the parts of Europe I've seen and all those houses in the US that have been lived in and built on for decades to be architectural shitshows. But I can't confirm that.)
It need not be perfect, we're all one modest car accident away from a life on the streets.
> it’s very proletariat.

I think you have your terminology backwards here, I figure you meant bourgeoisie
>> In particular, sorting doesn't help if you sum up a large number of similarly small values.

Elaborating based entirely on my reading of the wikipedia article:

Kahan summation manually allots some extra bits to calculate with. You get extra precision because you computed with more bits of precision. Conceptually, you can do the same thing with integers:

Imagine I'm adding up a bunch of unsigned bytes. Ordinary addition will give me the lowest 8 bits of the sum, which is pretty much worthless. But in the analogue of Kahan summation, I can do better: I allocate 16 bits to hold my running result, and compute an accurate sum of, say, 0x02B7. Then I zero the low-order bits until the high-order bits fit in a byte: the sum after precision loss is 0x02B4. Then I report the sum: it's 0xAD (= 0x02B4 >> 2) with a left shift of 2. This is much better than the ordinary result of 0xB7.

(In that example, I needed to return an extra value, the left shift of 2. But floating-point numbers already include an indication of their order of magnitude, which integers don't, so in Kahan summation the extra return value is not necessary.)

So the quick answer to "why is Kahan summation more accurate" is that it's more accurate because you used more accuracy. Sort-and-add doesn't give you any more precision than usual, but it will lower your accumulated error.

The root issue that both these strategies attempt to mitigate is that when you add a large value to a small value, you end up losing precision from the small value. Sort-and-add will address that problem as to any two elements of the input -- if you have a list of values of which some are very large and some are very small, sort-and-add will sum up all of the small numbers into one large number before adding that sum to another large number. This reduces the number of times you would add a large number to a small number, compared to summing the input in a random order.

Kahan summation means you do all your addition at a higher level of precision. As such, it also addresses the (large+small) problem that occurs when an element of the input is small in comparison to the sum of all the input values, as opposed to being small in comparison to the maximum individual input value.

If your input consists of a medium amount of small numbers and a few large numbers, such that the sum of the input is well approximated by each of the large numbers within the input, sort-and-add should work fine.

If your input contains a large amount of small numbers, sort-and-add will fail: by the time your running sum has become large compared to each element of the input, every further addition will suffer from loss of precision -- you are adding a small number (the next input element) to a large one (the running sum).

If your input contains many large numbers, sort-and-add will fail for exactly the same reason it fails on many small numbers: each element individually is small compared to the total.
Still hoping for the ARM Macbook insteal of Netflix made by Apple.
It seems lately that there's been a lot of hate for YouTube, with it's demonetizations and copy right strikes.

I can see them basically poaching top YouTube talent and telling them, we'll pay for your show, just it has to be on our platform.
One of the big advantages of having a good welfare state is that (apart from lower inequality and dignity for all) people just worry less!
See also the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Statue of Liberty.
This is not it, but is pretty close (just found by google images on: "playground swings aluminum square posts").

[0] https://www.eibe.net/en/swing-kondor-51007201100.html?c=5010...
Billions of dollars? If it only takes 140 man-years that implies more than $14 million per man-year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower. In Japan, with really small containers:

”Each capsule measures 2.5 m (8.2 ft) by 4.0 m (13.1 ft) with a 1.3 metre diameter window at one end and functions as a small living or office space. Capsules can be connected and combined to create larger spaces. Each capsule is connected to one of the two main shafts only by four high-tension bolts and is designed to be replaceable.”

It also hasn’t been that successful:

”Although the capsules were designed with mass production in mind, none of the units has been replaced since the original construction.”

I have seen drawings of futuristic ideas where entire apartments are flown into high-rise buildings, but building those isn’t economical at the moment, and that’s an understatement.

I also doubt we would build them if we could. If we had free energy and safe cheap flying, I suspect urban sprawl would increase tremendously, as you wouldn’t even need a road leading to your home. Cosmequently, people would move their homes to currently unreachable beaches, into the wilderness, etc.
“100% occupancy, no expenses to find tenants“

You very much need to find an owner or tenant when you move out. Further, someone needed to pay to find you when you move in. Move every 3-5 years and home ownership is really expensive.
Kinda a dark point, but defintely a counter example to why unemployment may not always be the best index/stat to look at.

However, I think there are probably better counter poonts than such an extreme.
Has any rich person ever actually said that? Have many rich people said that: "I hate the poor"? They might act like it, sure, but actually said that...? And the actions are more about contempt than hatred. Contempt tends to go down, and hatred up, on the social scale.

I'm trying to think of actual instances...

Beggars should be abolished: it is irritating to give to them and it is irritating not to. --Nietzsche.

an old person without money is pathetic --Anon. from "Bookends" album, Simon and Garfunkel.

Maybe you travel in different circles? I sure don't love the poor, but I used to be really poor, so I feel I have the right.
How does the effectiveness of tracking down individual cases in this way compare to e.g. improving the eoconomic incentives overall? Commercial child abuse is mostly a result of deprived economic circumstances, in which people see more benefit in selling their children rather than giving them the best future possible, if I'm not mistaken.

I don't intend to spoil the enthusiasm here, but wouldn't supporting welfare hence be a more effective measure than investing in fancy tech? That latter only increases the deterrants which seem hard to increase any further to begin with.
Not severe, but every so often I am reminded of the big picture of life. So many industries, economies, societies, nations, etc, have been upended throughout, leaving large numbers of well-meaning relatively prepared people in ruin.

I'm happy that the money is flowing into tech. But on the same token, maaaaybe it's a bubble? My brain won't dismiss that thought.

I think the fundamental lesson is that we can't take anything for granted, and the stability of the tech industry is just one of those things. Nothing guarantees the USD (my currency) won't plummet, the housing market won't implode, another financial crisis caused by psychopathic bankers won't happen, or ISIS won't nuke NYC.

It's part of "growing up", too. When you're young and have a decent set of middle class parents, you see the world as being very reliable and rigid. Thing are they way they are and you can depend on them. The grown ups take care of stuff, they practically make magic happen.

As you age, you see strong things now that didn't exist before, and weak things now that were strong before. You keep seeing the world as more fluid. And you learn about all the crap that's hit other people and you know, deep down, you weren't born specially exempt from it. The people who "take care of these things"? They're your peers. They can't work magic. And if they understand their job as well as you understand yours, things start to feel uncomfortably like a house of cards.

But hey, Netflix has a new season of $popularShow. That and a refreshing beverage sound like a good way to spend the evening.
NYC has failed to cultivate and maintain public spaces. Its' parks sucks, its subway is dirty and old, it has tons of poor and homeless people. I'm certainly comparing to other cities (like London or HongKong) for its size and importance.

Hong Kong has much nicer public spaces. This means the public go to these public spaces and people socialize. That's not possible in NYC. Because the city public shared space is a piece of junk. People avoid it and segregate in select clubs/bars/restaurant. That means they don't go alone but with friends. So NYC is very circle based.

As the city public services gets shittier, the city becomes more like Paris and so are the people: Rude. The massive inflow of tourists doesn't help either. The article is just symptom: It just shows how frustrated Yankees are.

The city needs more spaces like the Hudson Yards. Spaces that integrate with the subway. Enable easy transfer, offer nice sitting areas, and let people socialize.
> I get told a lot that I do good work and I'm a good communicator. But they never follow-up to give me future contract work.

> Like I have been told I do great work but they never want to re-engage for more work. Not in six months, not in two or four years.

That is strong signal of some problem to me. Either your niche is screwed or you have some issue they don't want to tell you about.
Did you ask them enough feedback about your performance during your work time?

Maybe you need to be more proactive?

Be proactive with pay and role. Foremost it is unusual to get any pay rise or promotion as contractor, you should explicitly ask for it before renewal, but you need to also have confidence you have grounds to do it.

Be proactive with discovering the company and people there. During your work term if you smell the project dries out you should proactively seek what else you can work on there - this is often easiest way to jump into a new competence.

Be proactive with asking guys from past companies how is the stuff going and that you are available to help them with it if there is any need.

You are remote, right, but can you arrange frequent on-site visits to show up and gain human trust which you can later turn into Slack chit-chat?

> I already have built several personal projects online, as a result of the boredom of unemployment. So that's already an ongoing process.

Be proactive! Certifications, trainings. Don't become unemployment victim, say you run planned self-development time now.

> I started going to meetups more, though not always easy to go to the downtown ones due to parking and time constraints. But I'm going to a few of the ones I can.

Be proactive! Give presentation, share some knowledge, experience, how-to. Politely tell on your contact slide that you are currently available for hire.

Be proactive with job channels too. Improve your LinkedIn profile, buy month of Pro package for exposure. Reach out to local recruiters and agencies - they have vast networks for sure. They will tell you how to improve your CV and pitch to get foot into the door.

And finally if your niche doesn't serve you, find a new one.
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863988
Microsoft now owns 7 of the world's top websites
China is not a colony. It no longer has any masters to serve. Even then it took decades for it to shake off all of the geopolitical interference from would-be overlords including Japan and various European powers.

Meanwhile minorities in the US are systematically denied any opportunity to escape their situation. Everything is rigged against them.

It's hard to pull yourself up with your own bootstraps when there's a boot crushing down on your neck and a hand in both pockets to steal whatever you might scrape together.
What's the case for using clojurescript these days in a company compared to JS 2019? the project has almost no contributors, no one working full time on it, the closure library they use its from 2016, the friction to interop with JS is still too high and too much of a hassle, they never embraced npm because they didn't want to listen to their users like typescript, etc..
Look, you're free to move to Liberia if you don't like it, too.

If you want a taste of what a post-apocalyptic world looks like, start packing.
Economic incentives aren't going to encourage someone to not sell their child for deplorable purposes; if you don't emotionally care for your child, money isn't going to make you care. On the other hand, if you can use a non-profit to pay terrible/uncaring/abusive parents to hand over their children voluntarily (surrendering parental rights) and to get sterilized to prevent the harm of any more children, that is a cause I would write checks to all day long.

Disclaimer: I am a parent, and have fostered neglected children.
absolutely, and the scary thing is that

> I’m just one giant disaster away from this kind of thing.

this is true for the vast majority of Americans, given that somewhere between 60-70% have less than $1000 in savings

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...
That you even ask that question shows how segregated we’ve become.

By the way, I also grew up poor - as in, growing up in the US with an outhouse poor. And, now I’m rich. And, yes, I hear that all the time.
My commute on BART and Caltrain in the Bay Area touched 4 counties and dozens of cities. The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area now officially spans five state-level entities: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Yet our political structures don’t recognize this new regionalism.
> the current political climate is to demagogue any large corporation which does not bend to their will or more politely, contribute properly to the interest of the politicians and their supporters.

Corporations have been exercising massive influence over politics worldwide, orchestrating & supporting coups, stealing natural resources, bribing, doctoring data etc. for centuries, but now there's like 3 newly elected congress people not taking PAC money and talking about this a tiny bit and suddenly we should feel bad for the poor multinationals?

Spare me.
>denying the legitimacy of computer-generated proofs protects their livelihood/careers.

While this might be an issue, the bigger problem is that there are no interesting new theorems that were obtained in this way yet.

What is true is that there is still serious prejudice against theorems verified by reducing to a finite (yet large) number of concrete cases, which are then verified by an algorithm. This is the case even after the whole brouhaha over and resolution of the 4 colors theorem by Hales.
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Is the documentation up to date? Attempting to run:

(replete.http/get "http://replete-repl.org")

from

http://replete-repl.org/replete-namespaces.html

I get a "warning: no such name space" (on android).

Also, seems there's no selecting/copying text from the repl output, which is a bit annoying...
The transition from 1.2 to 1.3 was rough for a lot of people. It represented a shift from the Rails-y "Phoenix is your application" school of thought, to instead pushing people toward separating all of their business logic and persistence concerns into a different layer than the web framework.

This was of course always possible in frameworks like Rails, but it wasn't necessarily encouraged by the framework, and required a lot of effort to truly achieve in practice. This change left a lot of people feeling unsure of how to structure and architect their apps, and with a lot of libraries in flux as best practises were still being fleshed out.

Overall it's been a positive progression in my opinion, and I think that as the ecosystem continues to embrace lessons from domain-driven design and patterns like utilizing Phoenix PubSub as a message queue, we're going to be seeing a lot of really high quality and extensible libraries showing up.

It's an exciting time to be a professional Elixir developer :)
"Kate Wagner holds a master's degree in audio science with a specialty in architectural acoustics from Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMansion_Hell)

The author is not poor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824472
Has been and continues to be.

Perhaps the only thing over-shadowing that is the treatment of indigenous people in the New World.
Ask HN: How do you teach/introduce programming to your kids
This is probably too broad a question, but here are the things I have looked into and my initial reaction.

1. Scratch: Kids have gone through that - I am looking for something where code is written in a text editor.

2. Pico-8: This is Lua. I wish the editor was not pixelated and I am not sure if the 32K limit is a problem.

3. Python: Python for kids books, pygames: After the initial tiny programs, the next step seems too complicated for me to explain. pygames is a bit behind (was difficult to get it working).

4. Flutter: They start with class, async/await. Code (since it builds a UI) is too nested / hard to read.

What has worked for me somewhat

1. codecombat.com: At least they like this / stick with it (but too much time it spent in understanding/working on game specific API and its quirks).

2. teaching python on my own letting them download sample data files from kaggle.com and asking them to find avg age of a basketball player. Code is simple, fits in two pages, and does something meaningful. Although, I wish there were more there. Right now, I have to think of challenging but reasonable problems from that dataset.

Any feedback on the paid online courses out there? tynker.com ? udemy?

Thanks
Also risk of kidney stones.
Because people got sick and tired of left wing extremism. People get called "nazis" without no reason just because different opinions. So there is time to right wing extremism because we are too stupid to find something in-between, we always have to go to the limit.
This article is a criticism of capital, which is what The Baffler does.

The fact that comments here are pearl clutching over "tone" or "author's apparent empty life" is kind of amusing to watch. Partly because HN commenters and hackers would presumably agree with the article's criticism of something like IP-selfie ownership for the sole purpose of advertising and inflating value of nearby condos. But I think most folks here are triggered by the whiff of marxist tone.

Hudson yards is a project by real estate developers targeting other speculators, so it's not as bad as say gentrifying incumbent locals, or it's not necessarily about the opportunity cost of having a green park there instead.

It's just a fish-bowl example of how capital can work in its own world and feel so out of touch with the rest of the city. If you've ever walked around new CBD's in China in the 00's, you'd often find similar high rises flanked with empty luxury stores and it was just really obvious what the point of it was. Only there, there's no false pretense of high art or design, just money.
Maybe not, it's a very slow growing cancer, so they say.
8 if you include artificial base pairs (P, Z, B, S)