skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of reasoning is the basis for my belief that the way we conduct our society is fundamentally flawed. It is trivial to introduce new technology, and it's very difficult to remove it. This is evident with things like cigarettes or pesticides or oil. This leads me to believe that at any time we're only one piece of technology from catastrophe and even if we realize the mistake it will take decades for us to stop using the technology that has led to catastrophe. Combine this with the fact that the amount of technology that we create and introduce is only increasing perhaps exponentially. We are in very dangerous territory but we don't realize it... and even if we realize it we can't do anything about it in the time frames needed to deal with it.

A society designed for longevity does not behave this way. Instead it follows an approach of punctuated equilibrium where it accumulates technology and robustly tests it in small pilot projects that are highly monitored and contained. Then after maybe a 1000 or 10,000 years when technology has matured it introduced a set of well tested technology into the system whose effects are very well understood. In this way a society designed for longevity goes through epochs and evolution... rather than extinction in short order.

It's also much easier living in such a society because change is very gradual so having to retrain or learn new things in a lifetime is not necessary.
My quote was from a document prepared by a CPA. I agree with what you said - you need to check, but in most cases, someone in the Bay Area making the typical pay can write off a loss from a startup over a period of a few year. Your milage might vary.
Rent control is great for people who will never own. It helps keep housing costs fixed, which is really the only reason to buy.
>Does the traditional facade somehow prevent smaller offices?

Well, yes. Light, servicing, ventilation. A modern floor plate is up to 40m usable depth. A historic floor plate 8-10m usable depth, and only half of that with a window.

>Neo-classicists

Read some history from wikipedia..

>The term "Neoclassical" was not invented until the mid-19th century, and at the time the style was described by such terms as "the true style", "reformed" and "revival"; what was regarded as being revived varying considerably.

The point was, this is just about people, as they always did, preferring the historicity, the status, the symbols of earlier times (and lets be honest, wealth). It has always been the same argument. Which traditional style are you going to pick? the cave or the tree house?
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That is true is some cases, but not for everyone.
Love my AirPods, but if they can't even get a battery replacement that's a huge downside.

As for disposal, like any electronic apple will at the minimum help recycle them for you (as will others like best buy)

We definitely have new problems like k cups but our electronics tend to be much smaller than those of old. More people are Marie Kondoing too. Just think of all the waste we are avoiding just by virtue of digital games, music, books,and movies.

There's still hope to be had, though we need to REDUCE across the board.
The problem with censoring and banning the information outright (in the case of NZ) is that it gives power to the manifesto. So much of what Jacinda Ardern said after the shooting was about denying the person a platform:

"We, in New Zealand, will give him nothing. Not even his name."

"He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety, and that is why you will never hear me mention his name."

And yet by the ISPs banning sites and with the New Zealand government classifying the manifesto as objectionable, they've done just that. They've told the people that the manifesto and the video are notorious by their decisions around it. They've put it on a pedestal and said, "this here holds power, and we should be scared of those who consume it".
The question isn't whether what he did was "hate speech", but whether the definition of "hate speech" that can be utilized for this purpose makes any sense in a free society.
> I don't believe this was ever the case in a major US city.

This is completely inaccurate. Americans loved bikes at the start of the 20th century too. Cars didn't exist, or were unreliable, or incredibly expensive.

E.g., https://www.vox.com/2015/6/30/8861327/bike-lanes-history
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I'm curious what cities that was in. Because honestly I can't think of a condo or apartment building I've seen that didn't prohibit short-term rentals unless it was specifically in a vacation destination, like a beach town, or if it was in those "hotel/residence" places that are already full of transient guests anyway, where if it was a short term rental you had to rent through the hotel.
Yes I agree. I would not have been so down-voted so much if I had said the use of templates in the std:: libraries and some others, not all, is fantastic. But, the use of templates to make generic code when it does not need to be leads to the same functionality as specialised classes with longer compile times and obfuscation.
Is it really the right thing?
I was not previously aware of the origin of the ubiquitous frosted light bulb. Thanks.

> The public felt that the glare from clear transparent incandescent lamps gave off a harshness that was unwanted by most people. Another side effect was that they made it hard to see objects in immediate vicinity of the lamp. They desired a lamp that had a softer light with no glare.

The first half of the 20th century was spent figuring out how to use artificial lights safely and effectively. In the last decade we've forgotten almost everything our predecessors figured out.

For example, my father had some great hanging lights over his kitchen stove. These provided just enough light to get around the kitchen - if you wanted more light, you could turn on the other lights.

His wife redecorated and replaced the red-colored globes with clear globes. Now there is no diffusion effect, and visitors without baseball hats get the 'ice picks to the eyes' ("glare") effect from direct exposure to the filaments.

They also installed terrible 3000K LED bulbs in their new fixtures. I switched them out for proper incandescents, so I don't get headaches when I visit. The only LED bulbs I find to be acceptable are some of the 2700K bulbs. If the 3000k bulbs are shielded by a lamp shade they're tolerable, but still slightly too blue.

Old street lights were fine. LED streetlights put out more more lumens per watt, but the quality is terrible. My brother's neighborhood has been LED-ified, and now has a terrible night experience. My city has mostly orange low pressure sodium [LPS] [0] lights still, but the state highway department is gradually switching out their LPS lights for "fake white" LEDs.

Flagstaff has Lowell Observatory (astronomers). They have wonderful night lighting. A few business flaunt Flagstaff's dark sky ordinances with non-shielded floodlights, but most of the city lights and businesses' lights are a pleasant orange (or yellow), and only over-stimulate my eyes when I look directly at them.

The "lighting resource center" has information about good lighting practices: https://www.lrc.rpi.edu/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp#Low-pressure...
Cars do just fine in snowy places. I don’t see a reason why bikes shouldn’t.

Stability, slippage, being exposed to freezing cold and wet, the lack of an engine assist, no heat, two fewer wheels, and did I mention cold?

Just throw in the same effort that you do to keep car lanes open, and you’ll be fine.

Open for a car and open for a bike are different. You can drive through some snow, slush and ice, but I hate biking on ice and slush. In addition to the safety factor, it a miserable experience. It’s also not unheard of for roads to get too bad for cars, never mind bikes.

All in all I’m sort of disappointed that the reaction to raising obvious drawbacks is weapons-grade denial. Trying to sell people on a less safe, less comfortable, less reliable, means of transportation by throwing infrastructure projects at it is a problem, and why so many people are sick and tired of bike evangelists. Never mind the fact that a lot of people have disabilities that prevent that kind of hard work, have families and long commutes (please don’t throw another infrastructure project at that), are too old or infirm to bike through a Colorado summer, never mind winter, and so on.

It’s really a form of quiet elitism dressed up as environmentalism and social consciousness at worst, and a lack of understanding of just how huge the US is at best. Bikes probably do make more sense if a majority of your population lives in one or two cities, otherwise it just doesn’t.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/europe/poland-europ...
The site is up, but it seems archiving URLs isn't working.

I get stuck with a message saying it's in a queue.
Ask HN: Which Skill's Make a Full-Stack Developer?
I'm building the Full Stack Developer Job Board (https://fullstackjob.com) and would like to know, which skill's are needed to be a Full-Stack Developer ? I don't ask about which languages or frameworks, but eg:
- Backend, Frontend, Devops, DBA
Something missing for you ? To much ?
I am currently reading Why We Sleep as well, and Matthew Walker's research on the topic is really interesting to consider within the larger constellation of approaches to Alzheimer's—particularly in context of the dietary/metabolic angle.

The neural maintenance that occurs during sleep, the body's circadian mechanisms and quality of diet all seem to be highly complementary and ultimately point towards a more holistic and fundamental understanding of the disease (or brain physiology in general). It's been demonstrated pretty comprehensively that quality of diet and timing of eating have a profound effect on how well the body functions as a whole, so the sleep component seems to be an important thread in tying all of these approaches together.
Not just this 18 year old you referenced:
https://gizmodo.com/18-year-old-arrested-in-new-zealand-for-...

But also these people:

22 year old:
https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/zealand-man-22-arrested-alleg...

44 yo male:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...

This woman was arrested for hateful commentary (not distributing the video, just comments):
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=12214654&ref=t...
I've stayed at quite a lot of Airbnb over 4 years of traveling and every time this happened I reported it to Airbnb and they were usually quick to help me get into another place. The service got worse as the years went on, though.

I basically said I didn't feel comfortable being stalked by hotel / lux apartment lobby staff every time I entered and left the building. Some buildings were worse than others.
We're not talking about people trying to live in Ginza here. We're talking about a ww2 era and under developed city where housing culture has failed to develop to meet the needs of the city.

This is a failure of city planning and should not be excused or ignored as if this fialure was inevitable.
Yeah, it was incredibly uncalled for on my part, terrible way to think.
I think many PC strategy games has excellent music: Age Of Empires, Home World, Sins of the Solar Empire, Total War and Civilization over its many iterations. I do find the music from these games have a different texture than music from other games.

For example: This song based upon the Epitaph of Siekelos, which plays if you play the Greeks in civ 5: https://youtu.be/YEKRE2uamyg

I think Civ 5 music was recorded with a real orchestra.

Even sometimes poetry; From Silent Hunter 4;
https://youtu.be/8FrTuZxpD0k
But in California, major transit extensions take a decade or more to complete and cost tens of billions of dollars. It would be hard to build enough housing to make a serious effect on prices: it's probably five times harder to build enough transit to have a serious effect on prices.
"How do you fight global warming when what is currently the most powerful political party in the world (it hurts me to type that ) refuses to acknowledge that anything needs to (or can) be done about it?"

By becoming more politically active.

If more people would organize, these clowns could be voted out of office.
With respect to their semi-auto ban, I think the most questionable part of it was where the executive unilaterally banned them via Order in Council, so as to not wait for the legislative process (which is still ongoing). I'm frankly amazed that any modern democracy grants its executive an authority to outright promulgate binding legislation like that.
Every time I’ve looked at an AirBnb the prices are the same or higher than a hotel or real bnb unless you compromise on location or sketch factor.
it's not all bad but doing generic types is annoying because you have to do

from typing import TypeVar
T = TypeVar('T')

in every module where you want to parametrize a type.
(not sure how that works with 3.6+'s unevaluated annotations. that's what my linter thinks)

also callable types are really ugly... this:

Callable[[Foo, Bar], Baz]

vs something like `(Foo, Bar) -> Baz` is just yuck

putting constraints on a type is pretty ugly too iirc, i think it looks something like

F = TypeVar(bound=Foo)
def bar(a: F, b: F) -> F: ...

hacking type annotations into the language's existing syntax is hard :(
Ask HN: For someone who has done a lot of microcontroller development, but never worked with FPGA's, does this look like a good platform for me to get my feet wet? I'm not sure I need FPGA for anything, but it would be interesting to at least learn the basics.
Yes. Cautiously.
Actually, no: https://designbump.com/when-these-chimpanzees-saw-their-stra... or https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36924808

Sorry about the blogspam link. I have seen more reputable articles about chimpanzees with alopecia, but my search skills are failing me now. The gist always seems to be that hairless chimpanzees (there have been several in zoos) aren't treated differently by others.
PEP484 and the current state of typings in Python:

- Imports everywhere. Even basic types (list, dict, set) have to be imported

- Basic types don't share the same casing as the actual types they represent (Set vs set, Dict vs dict, List vs list)

- Awful support for enums.

- Syntax is generally ugly. Typescript got everything right; it's intuitive, clear, and scales pretty well even for complex types. I'd be happy if they just copied typescript syntax.

- Types have a runtime impact.
That obviously doesn’t count, as there really isn’t anything YouTube can do about that.
Fool me once... I’m certainly not going to fly Boeing anymore
The way California works, housing is an economical loss for local governments while jobs are a profit center.

This in itself fully explains the absurd California job/housing situation. If we changed those laws, it would solve itself just through the greed/invisible hand of local government.
I think important is, and that depends a bit about the role, that a full-stack dev can do everything needed in his role, related to development. So he can do some DB migration, if needed, he can do deployment without the need of a sysadmin.
But a good Full Stack Dev has also to be specialist in eg Backend or Frontend. Just knowing a bit from everything after assisting 20 Udemy videos is not the point :-)
Now that we have type hints and statically typing in Python, I hope to see an open source Python compiler, that improves performance and produces single file binaries.
Hate speech, is protected speech in my mind, no matter how abhorrent. The founding fathers of the USA had a reason for the 1st amendment. You milage may vary in your location, but at the end of the day, censorship of speech is very very slipper slope. This type of speech needs to be countered by education and by people standing up and saying "we will not listen", not a bureaucrat. Allowing the government to censor what you do not like is an aberration of personal responsibility.
You're not likely to hear from people who are not in broad agreement right now for this exact reason - they'd be tarred and feathered by the supermajority in favor.
>Common misconception that this is directed by the government [...] The Office of Film and Literature classification reviews and classified media material in NZ, similar to how the MPAA does for films in the USA.

But the Office of Film and Literature Classification is literally a government agency, according to Wikipedia. Maybe it's staffed by bureaucrats rather than elected officials, but it's still government censorship. MPAA, on the other hand, is a trade association, and compliance with its ratings is purely voluntary.

>It must meet the definitions under the law that the office operators under. [...] It is checked by the ability of the judicial branch to evaluate these cases against the definition in the law.

I wouldn't count on this, given how vague the the law is, and how useless constitution is (see comment elsewhere in this thread).

>And the law can be changed by the citizens electing new representation and giving mandate for that to be done.

That's a final backstop, but if there's active government censorship going on, how can the results of the subsequent election be trusted?
I must take issue with two of your points:

2) The State Dept. approved some requests for security upgrades, and denied others. If they had approved everything, would it have stopped the attacks? There's no way to know. Placing blame on Hillary or Obama specifically is problematic at best.

3) Before the revolution in 1979 the Iranian govt signed an arms contract with the US and paid money into a US account. Then the revolution happened and the equipment was never delivered. The cash flown over was just them getting their money back out of that account, with 30+ years of interest.

The rest I either know nothing about, or are too general to get into here.

For what it's worth, I'm not just an Obama apologist. I also think a lot of stuff he did was problematic, especially the unaccountable drone campaigns, and especially Anwar Al-Alwaki and his son, which should have been considered a major scandal.
I would like to understand the code for the project. What approach would help?
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is one of the worst organizations you could cite. They're infamous for being just a front for Rick Perry's ambitions and as such are one of the groups directly responsible for the decreasing quality of Texas's higher education system. (Higher education in Texas is much worse than that of California.)

There's no denying that California has a problem with K-12 education due to Prop 13. But I grew up and was educated in Texas, and I can say the government of Texas has always been significantly more dysfunctional than the government of California. The "Texas Miracle" thing during GWB's campaign was obviously an attempt to take credit for the fact that the oil industry attracted the kind of people who care about education, not because of anything related to the government. In fact, attempting to recreate the "Texas Miracle" nationwide led to the disastrous No Child Left Behind law.

I more-likely-than-not won't end up having kids, but if I did, I would want them educated here, not in Texas. The government of Texas plays games with education to score political points in a way that the government of California does not. Besides, I question how sustainable Texas education is going to be without an income tax, and income tax is the third rail of Texas politics.
Just because there is law doesn't mean it can't be bent.
This is down to practice. Most people who spent a few years reading books and newspapers stop noticing the hyphenation at all.
I own a house in San Bruno and I'd support more development. The benefits of higher housing prices for owners are massively overstated: I wouldn't realize any gain until I moved out of the area, which I probably won't do for decades if ever.

In the mean time, the housing market just makes more painful for me to move.

I don't want the value of my house to crash down to 10% of it's present cost, but I'd be fine with no appreciation for a couple of decades, or a moderate drop in value.
That will likely be examined somewhat further by the Inspector General's report which hasn't yet been released but promises to be the real bombshell.
Then ought not we ask, are we contented with a selective reading and understanding of all those that have preceded us, especially those of small repute and those that had insignificant impact on that history?

And following from that, the factors that contributed to that insignificance in the first place - things like scant media exposure, lack of coverage by mainstream outlets being just two of a whole slew of other factors we may never fully capture or fully grasp.

I guess in the end we are posed with the question, are we okay with that "process of loss and compression."
Not a good year this for Boeing, there has been major crashes of the 707 and 767 in the last 2 months, apart from the 737 Max loss.(Though 707 crash was due to lt landing in wrong airport by mistake, where the runway was not long enough, so it crashed into a wall).
The one blessed by Guido, you mean.
> "But most important of all: don't just add cycle paths to your main car roads. You wouldn't add a sidewalk and crosswalk to an interstate, would you? Create the main cycle routes on secondary streets, and make them unattractive for cars."

I was actually thinking about this recently. Where I bike in the Boston area many of the bike lanes are on the busiest roads where buses and trucks drive on too. I often take side streets that don't have bike lanes but fell safer. However, I don't think it's that easy to use mainly side streets, it really depends on the city street design.
Hope customers don’t have cookies scoped to *.example.com
Great, please show me the act of parliament done in the light of day that made this illegal? The video SHOULD NOT BE WATCHED. It stand for everything I as a human abhor. However it is slippy slope, that leads to no good end.
I grew up with a C64 and a big part of the charm, for me, was the sound chip and the noises/music it made. I can understand why that chip has such a cult following.

Back then, when we had nowhere near the fidelity in graphics that we have today, these basic sound chips were used to add a lot of character to those early games.

Today you have high profile composers like Hans Zimmer doing work for video games and everything in a AAA title is generally very well produced, but I still find myself firing up some of the oldies every now and then. Nostalgia, I guess.
Your examples are decent. I think for Senior Engineers it is hard to target a specific set of advice, a blog is a good format for short and general advice. Hopefully, as a Senior Engineer your lessons are more nuanced and short, general advice is probably not as useful to you anymore. I recommend Senior Engineers do three types of reading:

1. Read business/marketing blogs about your industry. This will help you know what to build and help you contextualixe user studies, etc.

2. Read really technical stuff and get good at what you’ll be doing 1 year from now (see #1 for how to know what you’ll be working on).

3. Read stuff completely out of your field. For our chosen profession I would recommend literature, etc, but anything that engages your mind and interest that has nothing to do with Software will do.
Interesting that https://www.archive.is/ is on the list. I find that a little hard to believe, but perhaps there were popular links to it being shared.