skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do real educated people who are not politicians even care about geopolitical issues like that? Everybody knows PRC government theoretically (they don't go there to actually enforce their laws anyway) considers Taiwan a part of PRC. Every educated person in PRC knows they can't just buy a ticket and travel to Taiwan easily. Everybody knows Taiwan is de-facto independent. So why does it even matter to anybody how is it labelled on a map?

I also doubt many would know and care about Tiananmen Square if the PRC government wouldn't be making such an epic performance out of the attempts to hide it. It sounds like every single person in China has to know about it to know they should never talk about it. It almost feels like they are intentionally drawing so much attention to it just to hide something else they actually don't speak about and nobody notices.
Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent’
The average emergency fund can be wiped out quickly by a bad bout of illness.
Great article that adds a lot to a nuanced and controversial topic.

I'm surprised they don't consider time as a dimension of market segmentation, i.e. what is "luxury" today might become "standard" or even "basic" as time progresses. Even things that you'd think would stay static over time don't -- houses are larger today than they used to be, and I could very much imagine people standing around 100 years ago talking about only "the rich with their luxury running water" can afford to live in a certain area.

I think long-term the solution really is just to build, and build, and build. Over time, if builders consistently add supply to the top of the market, it will gradually slide downmarket as it ages and its amenities become more standard. I think the biggest problem is that in California, the normal process of adding luxury units has been paused for 20 years due to anti-developer sentiment, and they're trying to make up for it now, at all once.

I'm reminded of a saying: the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, but the second-best time is today.

Another thing, and I wasn't even going to mention it, but any Bay Area real estate developer will tell you [0], it's very difficult adding supply to the middle of the market here because things are just so damn expensive. Affordability is not and never was the priority. It's 500K to build a middle-market affordable unit before the developer makes a cent of profit. For that, thank buy-local regulations, environmental legislation like CEQA, organized labor, huge "developer impact fees", extremely long wait times (years) for permits to get approval, and now "inclusionary housing" requirements that force developers to cross-subsidize below-market rate housing by jacking up the prices of the market-rate units. It's madness.

[0] I'm married to an architect working in the Bay Area.
How would you handle locations where cars are turning right and cyclists are riding straight?
They'll be around alright, but they're probably going to be so busy scraping subsistence outside the gates of the withering elite to spend much time on forgiveness.
Tell that to John Kerry! Transitions teams do this every single time, as an absolute necessity.

It would be asinine to hand over the reigns of power as a cold start.

The Logan Act nonsense is a perfect example of the media’s abject failure.

Then when Kerry went to Iran to actively controvene and usurp Trump’s policies — where was the media citing the Logan act then?
My review of a Salvation Army shelter I stayed in
https://goo.gl/maps/TpjnpVLgQPp

There are good programs but man, it's become fucking business.
Collusion is a euphemism, my point was noone was indicted for coordinating with the campaign, and noone was indicted in the campaign other than for tax fraud and processing crimes.

If you can point out who exactly you think coordinated with Trump that'd be great.
You're kidding? Clojurescript ecosystem is so more matured and production-ready than any of other alternatives.

Clojurists emphasize simplicity and pragmatism. Why most popular front-end cljs wrappers are for React? Because it simply makes sense. It just works. If for any reason it stops making sense they'd quietly adopt something else.

Do you really enjoy chasing the hype and rebuilding your app every few months? Have you caught up with all the syntactic features added in ES/TS in the past few years? All developers in the team as well? Or are they still fighting if it is okay to use implicit returns or they are pure evil? Should you use rambda or lodash, what about immutable.js? Don't even let me start on webpack and the plugins.

People often falsely claim that Clojure codebases are not scalable because they haven't seen codebases built by large teams. The truth is - Clojure and Clojurescript are so practical that it doesn't require to have a huge team to build something really impressive and it definitely doesn't require to have a large team to maintain it.

Why do you think Clojure and F# coming as the most payed programming languages in most surveys for the past few years? If I had to choose either to have a team of 5-6 JS/TS devs and pay them 100K each, or to have 3 Clojure(script) devs and pay them 200K each - I'd rather do the latter, because ROI in that case is much, much higher.
Maybe relevant http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Microsoft, Facebook, and Google all have their own Python type checkers now.

* https://github.com/google/pytype

* https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check
I always try to blend in when visiting an areea, wether staying in an airbnb, my camp trailer, or a hotel or any other accommodations. It seems like the right thing to do as a community guest, and is the best way for me to sample the local culture and learn from it.

I did stay in one airbnb that had a sign in the lobby about no airbnbs, but I did not know if that was a legal rule or if the unit I was staying in was grandfathered in or what the situation was, and I did not know the local language well enough to ask. I would probably not stay there again.
On Fire TV you can use the web version of Youtube in the browser (Silk or Firefox) and it works pretty well as it's formatted for the larger screen. I'm not sure if this doesn't apply to Fire Stick.
Politics is so heavily polarized that 'I assume they will assume'.

I would hope on a forum such as HN people wouldn't make assumptions ... but I think we all have an assumptive instinct on some level.

Intersectional issues (race/gender/class), some things about China, obviously religion - they're all so loaded it's hard to have a discussion.

Finally, even though I have very nuanced views of Trump, and don't think he's 'all bad' - and my own politics are utterly not on the American spectrum ... I just don't want to be associated with him frankly.
Two things: if there is a limited supply of luxury housing, the rich will buy mid-market housing (or low-end) and often renovate to make it luxury. Very common in SF. That means more competition for the lower/middle of the market.

And second, the luxury housing today will be middle of the market in a couple decades.
Also of note is the Australian Bill of Rights.

Here's a link to a PDF of it:
I just installed it. It gives red squiggly lines under variables that haven't been assigned (typos) and for incorrect methods on variables it can type-deduce. This is without me adding any typing-hints to the script I'm working on.

Only issue I see immediately is it does not use the default sys.path that the vs-code-configured python interpreter uses, so it cannot resolve some of the packages I'm using.

But overall, very nice.
> Increased housing in high cost locations DOES NOT decrease prices. This is a complete fallacy.

[citation needed]
Nice try, Elon.
That's what really amazes me. Especially since AoA vanes are known to be troublesome.[1] In most aircraft they just trigger the stall warning horn and stick shaker; they don't directly affect aircraft control.

[1] https://mooneyspace.com/topic/19801-stall-warningaoa-failure...
I think the combination of best in the field being in academia, enough but not too much drive for results and a bit of nonconformity is the key. Also good funding not driving the best out of education system.

For instance, in Poland (and Russia too), education is grossly underfunded so the volume and drive are low, while South Korea has a bit too much conformity in their system, producing great engineers but not as great basic research.
Almost every Airbnb I've stayed in has felt a bit like this--like I'm not really supposed to be there--and it's a reason I tend to stay in hotels.

I appreciate the premise of staying in a city a bit more like a local and having a kitchen, but I'm at a loss for how people get over how it always feels a bit sketchy and anxiety around the inconsistent process.
> but you can't grab a megaphone, head down to the mall, and encourage other people to hate the same people that you do

Your example is a misdirection. What you describe is being a public nuisance in a public area, not free speech. I don't want to be subjected to nasty, racist rhetoric in a public space, just as I don't want to be harangued to repent of my sins and "Let Jesus into my life" in the same place. But I support the right of people to be able to express these views in a published form, or in closed spaces such as on a talking tour or in a church. In both cases audiences are seeking to be exposed to these views and are actively going to a place to find them, not having them pushed on them as they go about their ordinary lives.
From reading the front page, I'm not sure I understand what it is.

Is it something that is middle-ware for existing credit card(s) that handles subscriptions/cancellations? Or is it a 'virtual' card itself? If the latter, I don't see what payment options/systems it works through (Visa, Mastercard, etc).

There is no reference to a legal entity behind it on any of the page, and no reference to privacy or how personal and financial data is handled, so I will not be touching the 'sign up' button.

For the use-case it seems to be focusing on:

Cancel subscriptions and get refunds, plus some money-back scheme. These are 'nice-to-have' features of a payment product.

But core features, at least to me, not addressed on the landing page are: "Where can I use it?" "How reliable is it?" "How safe is it?" "What are the fees [if no fees, why no fees]?" "How's my data handled?" Only then do "What are the bonus features?" start to be a differentiator.
I think about this all the time. Where are my kids going to live and work after they graduate college? Certainly not near me.
Years ago I argued the cost of living in NYC was significantly lower than living in the Bay Area and that gap has only widened. For one, prices haven't really risen in NYC in several years (renting or buying) and in some cases have declined. For another, you can typically avoid owning at least one car in most parts of the city.
Your (a) is untrue.

For one, borders are difficult for migrants to cross: trains and coaches near borders are often checked for migrants, some borders are under police surveillance (like between France/Italy), etc.

Second, Dublin agreements force migrants to apply for asylum in the first EU country that they give their fingerprints in (ie the one where they have their first encounter with police). Most migrants have fingerprints in Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, ie the countries on the outskirts of Europe. So migrants can’t just walk to the country of their choice and claim asylum, as they will be “deported”, as a rule, to a country they explicitly don’t want to be in (Italy had high acceptance rates until recently but can offer no work, Hungary is known for extreme racism and violence against migrants, etc.)

Your (b) is on point though. Italy has been asking for a fairer distribution of migrants among the Member States for some time, but the most powerful Member States like their South/Eastern European moat a lot
What Skills Do You Need to Learn to Become a Data Engineer?
It doesn't recommend - it just lists this as a possibility. There's a big difference.
Yeah, for some reason this is the sort of situation I think of whenever I hear calls to "fix" our infrastructure so it's more like the Dutch.
Almost all screens are far too wide for a single column of text. Most publishers with long-form text currently opt for a fixed maximum width.

Considering the magazine standard is and has long been columns, it's not implausible to consider this a result of the limitations of HTML and CSS. Until fairly recently (and I'm not sure about support across all browsers even today), multi-column layouts were almost impossible, at least without all sorts of crutches and JS.

Or maybe multi-column layout was/is a crutch for printed media, where a 5:32 ratio would be rather impractical to handle on a moving subway?

Either way, the standard of about 60-character column widths is almost definitely the most ergonomical. And at that width hyphenation is quite useful.
The peninsula is a car-choked hellscape however on a population-weighted basis I guess it is a little better. Many more people live in the walkable places than in the others.
> body text on the web is in a wide column and left-justified, since screens are wider rather than taller (unlike books and newspapers).

This is an effect of artificial technical limitations in the rendering software which was initially designed by computer programmers without much consideration for the capabilities or preferences of human readers – not an effect of screen dimensions. A newspaper page is much wider than the great majority of screens.

Text laid out in one-screen-tall columns with horizontal scrolling is actually dramatically more pleasant to read. If you have a Mac, you can try for yourself, http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/

This is especially true on a multitouch display like an iPad or the like, where swiping to the side is easy and natural.

For a phone display which only fits one column, a continuous vertical scroll might be better, but then you definitely also want good paragraph composition.
random search:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6820769/Teen-accuse...

>The accused teenage Facebook poster appeared in Christchurch District Court on Monday and was granted an interim name suppression order, but he was denied bail by Judge Stephen O'Driscoll.

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/18/14/49/christchurch-shoot...
I think I missed something - my startup needs backend devs, not frontend.
How they get over? Saving a bunch of $ helps.
If you are working to get published try Discover by Submittable (YC12):

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We list many opportunities from literary journals and other orgs for free. You can get the app for $5 which has a couple small extras like push notifications when your submission is accepted. Our newsletter is high-quality and free as well.
Ask HN: What's your favorite lock free data structure?
> For example, whenever people talk about increasing road building to alleviate traffic these days on places like Reddit, they are immediately lectured to about how more roads just cause induced demand and they don't actually cause traffic to go down.

People misunderstand how that works.

If you have a road which is excessively congested, the congestion suppresses demand. Nobody wants to sit in traffic for two hours, so people stay home or make use of flexible hours to commute at what would otherwise be less convenient times etc.

If you add capacity to the road then the congestion gets better, but not by as much as you would have expected if you looked at the existing traffic, because the fact that it got better caused some of the congestion-suppressed demand to return, which made it less better. So the net result is that it got a little better when you expected it to get a lot better.

But that doesn't mean you can't fix it by adding supply, it just means you need enough supply to satisfy the whole demand, including the demand that was suppressed by the high congestion (or in the housing case by the high prices).

Of course, in the road case there are also alternative ways to satisfy demand, like building more housing so that people can live closer to where they work and don't have to drive as many miles.
Is mypy not open source? Why not collaborate? Mypy performance improvements are something that would be welcomed.
It makes a lot of sense when you consider user adoption as an important metric. Familiarity will trump redesigns most of the time.
Flogging a dead horse
That comic is on the programming/IDE-side of Emacs though, which isn't what I'm talking about here. Quite seriously, Emacs is really excellent for non-program writing too, which is mainly what I use it for.
> 20 % of its market value vaporized after the aducanumab

You're missing a few words here. Was it "the aducanumab trial failed"?
I pre-render my pages with puppeteer on build, and then hydrate with the js bundles. Everyone gets the faster experience of an HTML page (not just crawlers), while the full js loads async.

Example in my profile.
What were you watching, they were completely silent on the emails, even though a lot of them were really salacious.
They reiterated they were illegally obtained and wouldn't show them, or press anyone who wouldn't comment on them, but then they displayed leaks during the Trump Administration almost everyday...

The Hollywood access tape was covered for weeks, and it's not exactly political. We've all said things in private that would make us look bad if they were recorded and displayed to the world. He apologized for it.
Having no SSL in a trial will probably make customers worry about the products security and the competence of the devs.
Keynote is fantastic. But it’s not an internet service.
How would this work? You cannot know the exact flow of text on each and every platform, so you would end up just manually specifying every possible hyphenation. That would seem to be a lot of work to create something that's almost definitely going to contain far more errors than a somewhat complete dictionary that ships with the browser.
IIRC from these conversations in the past, Texas solves this problem by allowing delinquent property taxes to accrue as a lien against the property rather than seizing/evicting the owner. Seniors and those on low incomes can continue to live in their houses without paying full property taxes, but they can’t sell it or leave it to their heirs without settling up first.

This seems like a better way to address the problem without creating the havoc that prop 13 has in the CA housing market.
Huh. When this was initially posted it had a weird and commercially restrictive license, but it looks like that's been reverted, possibly after (polite) discussion on /r/rust. It's MPL 2 now.

https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic/issues/52#issuecomme...
Yes. I have no idea what OP assumed by "the brain lights up."
At 100x the traffic the business would be at 5 million dollars a year in spend, and would exceed the standard pricing model of Heroku. The business can then

1) Negotiate with Heroku for an enterprise contract
2) Consider migrating to a more cost effective platform
3) Dedicate time home-growing a solution.

Part of the reason Heroku charges so much is because their customers are typically small, but they'd likely rather find a price that keeps you on their platform vs. home-growing a solution.
Let's not ignore the fact that Amsterdam is almost completely flat.
Because the US doesn't have a housing shortage nationally. The vacant houses and the jobs are in different places. If you want a cheap foreclosed house in San Bernardino, CA, here's a list.[1] That's in Southern California, not too far from LA. It's not Cleveland or Detroit. Developers overbuilt in the last boom.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/san-bernardino-ca/foreclosures/
If they censor in this way then they are not a real internet service and should not call that (nor should they be given the enough IPv4 address ranges like ISPs; so, maybe they will run out if they are not a real ISP!) (unless perhaps you can get rid of the censorships by disabling NAT which you would freely be allowed to do, maybe). Real internet connect through proper protocol routing to the address based only on the packet header, and not the port number or payload (unless the packet is directed to the ISP's servers anyways), for the purpose only to routing to the correct destination and to receive the correct reply (if the payload is incorrect, they should send it anyways; that is not for the ISP to consider unless the packet is directed at their own servers) (however, if the header is incorrect (including specifying addresses that are impossible, but not only if they are merely censored), then they can block it; note I mean the IP header, and not the TCP or UDP header, which is at the other level than the routing, so they should not tamper with). (For example, if the packet specifies 127.0.0.1 as the source or destination address, then they are allowed to block it; and if you do such thing too much, they can even warn you to correct your computer.)
What you might call 'weak' might be called 'sensible' by others. At the same time, not everyone peddling the 'constitutional' stuff actually knows what it contains or how it applies. Imagine other countries copying the slavery-like rules for jailed persons...

At the same time: freedom of speech goes about as far as what it causes; you are free to say what you want, but nobody has to give you a soap box or audience. That is the same thing that is basically happening in NZ. If you think the colour of your skin is better than the colour of someone else's skin, that's your issue and the internet/press/media etc aren't going to provide you with a platform. And if you try to do it anyway, you will get a reaction. (i.e. jail)

In the US, even with your constitution, you have similar situations. If you want to start a clan of people who dislike other people and try to have club meeting and put those in the newspaper or on TV, you will also get a reaction (jail, fines etc.).
Betrayed by the Android UI [slides]
A320 wing is quite a bit higher than the 737.
Yes. (Tim Daly, Axiom Lead Developer)
Ask HN: Have there been any serious studies on how to increase intelligence?
Intelligence as measured by IQ.
Science has always had the problem of the establishment fighting new theories/insights. Max Planck once said:

> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Science has been able to deal with this problem for a long time.
What are they asking for it? (I was paywalled) (and didn’t have time to incognito)
Still an unnecessary cognitive load.
OMG OMG File I/O and http. Next step libraries?! So exciting!!!
You can however disable the MCAS and it is apparently well documented in the pilot training material. When the trimming wheel acts strangely this is a sign that something may be going wrong and this is part of what pilots need to know when flying this aircraft.

Now whether or not such information is widely known among all pilots is another matter altogether.
Raging horesh#%%#^^. China is built on thievery and finally after decades of escalating theft US is looking like we’re being more aggressive, maybe. The chinese theft has reached levels of being clear acts of war and its time to treat it as such. The hacking and corporate spy rates have escalated 3x in the last 3 years. Most arent aware how serious it is. As chinese leave for the US they are coached to thieve, and when they bring back good data they are paid to start a company.
Microsoft, please make one for Ruby! C# vet and lover of VS and VS Code, now working on a legacy Ruby/Rails code base and hating a new life of lifecycle callbacks, fat controllers, fat models, magic methods, and un-upgradeable gems. Ugh.
I think concordance of homosexuality in identical twins is something like 30%, which is... incredibly low. The argument that it's innate isn't on strong ground at all.
Love what you guys are doing, we’re doing something similar via the trash can, we should chat!!! Brandon[at]GarbiCan.com