skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking GP’s example of a $180k townhouse vs. a $1.8M McMansion, will these costs really be significantly more than an order of magnitude more expensive for the latter, and therefore significantly higher as a percentage of property value? My intuition is that the opposite would be true, i.e., that the difference would typically be less than a factor of 10.
Sometimes I try to think back on what my last watched VHS or heard CD was. I'm sure it was something exceedingly dumb from blockbuster.
I watched two people get it side by side... It felt like I was watching them catch a cold. It is only anecdotal but it feels like it was a virus or something catching.
>This service will combine stories from newspapers, websites, and magazines into a new tab in the Apple News app on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

>Apple plans to charge about $10 a month.

Is it just me, or is there no way this could possibly be worth it? Hacker News and Reddit already combine stories from newspapers and websites, and they do it for free. I have a hard time believing that a managed source selected from a few business partners could possibly be as valuable as a crowd-driven scan across the entire internet.
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The grid currently has almost zero storage. Saying we should build several times as much storage seems to suggest we need a lot of storage. But, it’s relative to a very small baseline. 1 hour of storage would be a vast increase, but it’s 1/10th the cost of 10 hours of storage. So, you need an accurate estimate to work from.

Further, the ideal amount of storage is heavily influenced by price and cost of production. The grid is a huge complex system and simple models don’t provide good answers.
Brilliant and the only thing left, short of another iPhone reinvention miracle (not likely for a while.) Many of us have 10 year old PCs that do 100% of the things we need, smartphones are going that way too. So milk the ecosystem.
No you should short the companies that can't hack it in a DTC world. Netflix isn't a good a target for that. Both Netflix and Apple's service will grow for a long time to come.
> The cynic in me says it's because many
> of them are cheap generics that have
> little financial upside for large
> pharmaceuticals.

The patent is for problem + solution. You can patent many solutions for one problem and also a solution for many problems.

If they prove, say, that vitamin C stops Alzheimer's then they can patent it for that usage.

You see this a lot in cancer treatment and it makes a lot of sense. In a proper functioning system (i.e. not the USA±) it's a pretty decent solution.

± Seriously, the system there is designed so all in theory competing components are incentivized to work against consumer interests. Same thing with the housing market pushing house prices (5% interest on 500k is more $ then 5% on 200k, house sellers/older owners think they're rich but only benefit when they sell and downsize; only winners are lenders and real estate investors).
Aesthetics, the graspable ingenuity of the engine formed of mere gears and a spring. The artesanal dimension of the mechanical engine... That is attractive.

Besides, no batteries to change, ever, so a mechanical watch is zombie apocalypse proof too, and more environmentally friendly.

As for accuracy, yes, there are better sources of timing than mechanical or quartz crystal clocks. If one wanted achievable timing accuracy on the go, a GPS timing radio controlled clock would be the one to use. But would it be practical? Would it look nice? How much battery would it consume? And the most important question: would you need that kind of microsecond level accuracy?
As someone who frequently researches obscure and obsolete topics (but in a different subject area), I very much appreciate the efforts of people like her. Especially for older topics, Google is often silent, archive.org has little, but going to a physical library will yield much better results.

I wonder if the Internet Archive would be interested... but then again, it usually takes donations and doesn't purchase material.

Just about every fight was available online

...but is it really? That's the good thing with specialist collections like this: they're very thorough.
China has been doing central planning for more than two thousands of years. Japan and Korea copied the system.
Hacker News and Reddit don't license content from the WSJ, which is why every story has some guy in the comments with a link to outline.com that pirates the article.
Overcoming our nature, in which life is famously solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, is sort of the defining feature of humanity. The sum of everything that is not nature is referred to as "culture". It includes democracy, Shakespeare, The Simpsons, and SpaceX.

The "naturalistic fallacy" is therefore a fallacy because it proofs too much: "nature" doesn't want us to go to the moon; it doesn't want us to vaccinate; it sees absolutely no point in rewriting a browser in Rust.
...or maybe the reason Greece does not have enough money is because rich Greek don't pay their taxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece#Lagarde_l...
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Is killing natural?
Is masturbation natural?
Is stealing natural?
Is talking natural?
Is writing natural?
Is a phone/computer/tablet natural?

It doesn't make one bit of difference whether its "natural" or not. Its like manufacturers putting "natural" on yogurt.

Everything is "natural" or not, because someone decides.

I came across someone that didn't think sodium bicarbonate was natural, when in fact its found dissolved in many mineral springs.

Calcium carbonate? That can't be natural.. Its just chalk.

Magnesium chloride.. Its just a magnesium rich salt evaporated from the dead sea.
Not all homeless people are alike. The left only seems to see victims and the right only sees cheaters looking for a free ride.

The truth IMO is a continuous distribution between those two extremes. And as long as the proposed solutions only target one tail or another, no progress will be made because of the other tail being ignored. This should be a solvable problem in my opinion we are a rich country and we can afford to feed and shelter everyone.
IIRC It includes access to paywalled articles, at a substantial discount to buying a subscription to each paywall separately.
Because the truck carried flour and margarine, I was hoping the legend was going to be something about the fire started by the crash making a multi-ton sponge cake in the tunnel... Never mind...
Well, i guess the usual hatred wouldnt be there - if it were not so usefull for females to enforce contract upholding.
This pushed the third sex into church processions, where they can be threatened by the "evil hetero-men" and at the same time reassured of protection "by believers".
Dont believe me? Watch the topics in your relations that come up repeatetly. I bet you, there is a check-loop, where you will be tested for reproducable emotions regarding queers.
And of course controllability, by adhering to some other dogma. This happening subconciously, doesent make it evil. It just is. And that is the point where one has to be proud, how far we got away from that cruel, old time reality, with those chains in the head. Unfortunatly, the moment the economy dips, the old behaviour patterns rise again. Suddenly calls for "morality" get loud, as if some upper-class orgy or some harmless queer procession was to blame for all the dip in surplus. But if you step back from the social machinery it makes sense.
Basically the request for monks, priest, whatever to be drafted to the first judical caste.
Oh, how i want to be free..
>>because we should, by default, let consenting adults do what they want together

>Why? This strikes me as a very shallow moral principle.

that is a circular argument as morals are the behaviors that society allows consenting adults to engage in.

Wrt. [un]naturality based arguments - there is nothing natural about humans using smartphones, flying in airplanes, etc. yet billions of people shamelessly engage in those unnatural activities everyday. We're way past natural... Why are we so hellbent about whether it is natural or unnatural of how some people enjoy each other company?
'There are quite a few economists who are skeptical about the ROI from all of these investments'.

Yes but the BRI is not designed solely for economic gain, but to lay the basis of a new Sino-centric order.

The closest comparison is with the Marshall plan. The US spent huge sums to rebuild Western Europe, countries that by the 1970s began to undercut the US economy. But it was essential to the post-war US order, the defeat of Soviet Union, and other long-range strategic goals.
It must never be seen as a choice. The answer to all those questions can easily be yes. Society regularly denies people the ability to do things that they feel should be their choice, and it is considered acceptable in some cases that the only recourse for those people should just be to make another choice. The power of choice invites judgement. The homosexual community has a strong distaste for bisexuals because their existence undermines the argument that no one chooses to be homosexual.

Your friend should not repeat that argument in a debate again.
Um huh? How could ransomware break computers? Perhaps their data is gone but formatting and reinstalling Windows isn't feasible?
But for how long? More and more people are blocking ads and more and more sites are putting up paywalls.
> The company would collect these monthly fees, then divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games

Sounds terrible for short indie games and good for long grindy games.

That's not a future I want for my gaming. Not that I am an apple customer in the first place but hopefully this won't affect what is delivered on the other platforms.
I think this may be the case for many brain-related illnesses. My son is severely autistic and through schools etc I know a lot of autistic children and adults. They are all very different but still labelled as "autistic spectrum".

I think there are many causes with many similar symptoms, which is why no-one has discovered a common cause.
That depends on whether you think Netflix has successfully transitioned into a network. They release a huge amount of original content now. If I had any apple devices, I would be more likely to drop HBONOW or Hulu than Netflix, and since I pay for all three I'm sort of the target audience (except for the whole no iPhone/iPad thing, which is also probably something they should think about).
The Alzheimer's Association's 2018 annual report[0] estimates total healthcare expenditures at $277 billion per year in 2018 alone. That's in addition to the $232 billion cost of ~18.4 billion hours of care by family and unpaid caregivers which itself excludes the immediate expenditures associated with that care, the effects of decline in mental and physical health of the caregivers themselves, changes in workplace participation resulting from providing said caregiving, etc. Or the myriad of other costs, many of which are indirect. Even miniscule increases in R&D funding for Alzheimer's could lead to a truly massive ROI for society.

0. https://www.alz.org/media/HomeOffice/Facts%20and%20Figures/f...
Guessing they're not competent enough to purge their email systems of the original malware attachments nor have procedures sufficient to keep new computers from being re-encrypted.

New email domain means old emails aren't accessible.
> I am always so torn when people make the argument that homosexuality is natural and therefore okay.

I always thought that the argument was just for the sake of proving that this natural/unnatural thing is worthless. Homosexuality is natural and nonetheless someone opposes it on the grounds that it's not. Illnesses are natural but nobody is opposed to curing people.

Anyway, it's the old observation that conservatives tend to confuse the is with the ought to be- in other words, to argue that because something is natural or common then it is morally justified and should be enforced.

I've noticed what could be an exactly opposite tendency in liberals though, and I think it's interesting: confusing the ought to be with the is. It's not used as an argument, but it seems to inform some reasoning. For example:

(these are just some examples and I'm thinking out loud, so please don't crucify me)

- there shouldn't be any racial or sexual discriminations -> there are no differences whatsoever between ethnic groups and genders;

- gay couples should be allowed to raise children -> there is absolutely no difference between a heterosexual family and a homosexual family;

- there shouldn't be rich and poors -> money can be removed from society and everybody will be equal;

Etc.
In an ORM, the returned objects from even raw SQL is still ORM objects (database-aware objects). I prefer keeping the business logic layer distinct from the data access layer, so I prefer for the return objects to be pure business objects. Maybe I'm being too anal and forcing a distinction where there doesn't need one?
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While my experience doesn’t match up with that, if it were true the fact that these “overlays” are both required and fragile is most definitely an issue with the design of Swift.
Doubt you'd get real data on suicides from China. Everything is perfect there.
We really don't need a rust comment on every c++ submission.
About 16 KM outside Boston, I get 150/25 w/ a 40 ms ping on and iPhone X with intel modem on ATT LTE.
Here is one database on homelessness in the U.S.:

https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/

At least with this database, homelessness appears to have decreased over the last ten years.

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Posting this because it isn't clear whether the "changing face of homelessness" is such that current methods for calculating homelessness are problematic or not.
I’m about to start investing. May I please pick your brain a little bit?
This. And home design. Our architect and wedding-related vendors (florists, chair rentals, etc) effectively required us to use Pinterest.
We hate the constant reminder that we're two missed paychecks away from joining them. So get'em outta here!
Ah my bad. Thanks for that correction
> If they prove, say, that vitamin C stops Alzheimer's then they can patent it for that usage.

Here is an article discussing this approach:

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/248/248fs30

I call them "use patents" but I am not sure if that is an official term or just a colloquialism.
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Thanks. There's something funny about a publication subtitled "democracy dies in darkness" fading to black.
Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
It does but not the post or the times so pretty bad deal for us news.
if Apple combines Music, News and TV subscriptions into one payment that's competitive with sum of those subscriptions it's huge! I would probably drop Spotify and get Apple Music if I can save me money and give me more access to content. Uh, if it works with their Family Sharing plans it would be golden!
Hmm, yeah, but I think more than just not using a query building api, I prefer pure result objects. Even when dropping to SQL, the result objects are still database-aware objects. I prefer distinct layers between the business domain layer and the data access layer. Having a data access layer return pure business objects allows for this decoupling, but maybe I'm being to strict and forcing a distinction where there doesn't need to be one?
Well technically it takes less time and tesources to develop a short indie game vs a long game, so it’s reasonable that they will get more money. Also If a long game is boring nobody will play it longer than it’s worth
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I disagree; steering basic science needs more than money to do it, and is different from finding low cost solutions. BG also has some spectacular, costly failures like in education
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> This should be a solvable problem in my opinion we are a rich country and we can afford to feed and shelter everyone.

The problem is figuring out what to do about the homeless people who refuse to accept shelter and other forms of government assistance.

What are you going to do, arrest them? That's been tried in San Francisco and it went badly. If you force them to move they will set up camp somewhere else, so that doesn't really solve anything.

A few years ago in San Jose there was a very large tent encampment called "The Jungle" with over 1000 people in it, and many of them were there by choice. They preferred the independence of living in the camp versus living in a shelter. In the camp they were free to own pets, smoke, consume alcohol, and do a bunch of other stuff that is not allowed in shelters but that most of us do in our homes on a regular basis.
FWIW KOMO is now owned by Sinclair, and is increasingly rabidly right-wing. What to do about the homeless situation in Seattle is a big topic of discussion currently; we had an attempt to tax big companies to get some money to deal with this get shouted down by all the folks in Amazon's pockets.
Yeah, basically.

Patent trolling is a red herring - just a form of economic specialization. Selling your patents to a troll or hiring an attorney to enforce them for you are just different labels for the same transaction.

It's just that, in software anyway, many more things are patentable than ought to be. And arguably the whole concept behind patent law has proved unnecessary necessary in our field - "good" actors deduplicate efforts and share mutually beneficial IP via the open source community.

Someone in software using the patent system at all is probably acting in bad faith, or else building a moat to defend themselves from bad-faith actors.
Yeah, of course. We sold out the last vestiges of small-town America but are not socially prepared for a world where the entire economy is focused around a select few cities.
Looking at the lineup they will be killing it in the Fox news demographics which is also heavily skewed towards apple devices anyways.
>... but is it really?

It might be, and it probably won’t be in 5 years whenever some copyright troll purchases the license and locks it away. Then 25 years from now someone will come across this article and wish, in vain, that someone had saved this collection.

I don’t have any interest in boxing, but there’s a special place in my heart for amateur archivists. It makes me sad to think this work will eventually be lost to history because of shortsightedness.

Would love for the Internet Archive to digitize and hold on to them.
Look to Carnot vs photoelectric efficiency, modulo fabrication costs, maintenance, and operating life.

Carnot efficiency is dictated by the hot-cold side temperature delta. For internal combustion engines, 20-45% is fairly typical. In electrical generation, thermal energy is generally reckoned at 3x electrical generation.

PV efficiency has a maximum of 37% for single-layer PV, up to a theortical maximum slightly north of 80% for an "infinite" layer cell. (Additional layers provide a diminishing return.) In practice, 40-50% is a likely maximum achievable, and at reasonable costs, 20% is frequently assumed.

Additional considerations are capacity factor, spacing factor, panel angle, and inverter losses.

And PV has a practical effective lifetime of about 20 years, due to numerous degradation mechanisms.

See:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28cvgv/calcula...

Thermal materials such as this are likely best suited to thermal capture and direct-heating systems, as low-grade space or water (pre)heating.
A lot of my friends and family are ready to give up their Netflix subs. We've seen most of what interests us. Apple on the other hand has unlimited supplies of money and more power to make deals with content providers.
Assuming people actually care that their news comes from NYT and WaPo. I’m not sure that’s the case outside of the chattering classes.
Thanks for that, didn't know.
I'm not sanguine on their future, but I'll wish them luck.

Text based media is not like movies, music, or video games. Especially when that text is at once fungible and quickly expiring.
The modern emphasis on individualism is understandable as a reaction to the collectivism of the past. But as usual, we over-corrected. So now we're entering a period of reaction against individualism. We'll almost certainly over-correct again, but it won't be as severe. "Progress" is not a straight line, it's an attenuated wave.
Thanks for reporting the the typo. On Arduino Uno the Hello World example including the SPI ethernet driver consumes around 20kb of ROM and 1kb of RAM. On anything more recent the framework memory overhead will not be a problem. There is no dynamic memory allocations and it does not use the String class.
This should be a subreddit. Reddit is pretty good for these things, they have a big, global audience and a great comment system for such things.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/ works great.
I continue to wonder why they don't have or push iPhone as a Services ( The iPhone Upgrade Programme ) and continue to rely on mostly Carriers for Financing.

By offering iPhone up to a 4 years terms and bundled with AppleCare+ Thief and Loss and iCloud Backup. With Optional Apple Music, Apple News Magazine, Apple TV and Apple Game. All paid via an Apple Branded Credit Card within Apple Pay backed by Goldman Sachs.

You could have the iPhone Services starting at ~$35/Month even for an iPhone XS Max. If you add up all the other "Services" pack. That is roughly $75/month for the Full Apple Experience.

~$40 to even $100 a month is affordable to a lot of people. And my guess this could be part of the reason why Apple has been pushing the prices of iPhone.

There is another advantage to Apple, this strategy requires huge cash flow and can not be easily copied by its competitor. Apple would be effectively trading its immediate return of cash from selling product for long term customer lock in.
2007 doesn't have to happen again. It's possible to both make houses affordable for people with lower income and not give irresponsible amounts of debt to people who cannot afford it. It just requires smaller, more affordable houses to be built. I don't know why, exactly, but as a general trend the sizes of houses have just been going [up, up, up](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.census.gov/const/C2...) (PDF)! Consider that the [mean, median] square footages of new houses built in the US had gone from [1660, 1525] in 1973 to [2392, 2169] by 2010. Maybe the reason people can't afford to buy houses is that no one wants to build affordable houses.
> Sounds terrible for short indie games and good for long grindy games.

What would be a good system to determine a fair amount between games when a user is paying a fixed amount per month for all games?

You could ask for ratings (e.g. overall, originality) but these will be a lot more nuanced than time spent. You could ask users what split between games they think is fair (feels like a lot to ask especially if you're playing a lot of games).
As far as I know the Eclipse Che GWT client is replaced by Eclipe Theia in the upcoming version 7 which is currently in beta. But I think both will still be independent projects.
Oh, they remove stuff. See "Deprecating Vestigial Library Parts in C++17" [1].

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p017...
>The homosexual community has a strong distaste for bisexuals because their existence undermines the argument that no one chooses to be homosexual.

No they don't, and no it doesn't. Bisexuals aren't people who "choose" to be gay one minute and "choose" to be straight the next. Rather, they are attracted to both genders, just as homosexuals are attracted to the same gender, and heterosexuals are attracted to the opposite gender.