skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of any intrinsic benefit to a high priced house other than housing being a leveraged investment, but that is clearly a double edged sword. In my opinion. this is the heart of the issue.

I want to be clear that there might be many great personal reasons (@raldi has some listed above) to be in favor of more housing stock. However, in the context of the assertion of the original article that voters just don't understand econ 101 supply and demand my feeling is that the majority of homeowners (who are disproportionately voters) understand econ 101 supply and demand perfectly well and that the article does a disservice suggesting that they don't.

If I own a highly priced, highly leveraged and, highly demanded investment (such as a house in the bay area), what is my (per the original article) clear as day "econ 101" motivation to help increase supply and thereby reduce the value of this investment? In the context of the original article there is simply no econ 101 incentive for me as a voter to support policies that devalue my investment.

Remember, as a highly leveraged investment, a drop in price of just 5% could easily wipe out my entire investment while doing almost nothing to make housing fundamentally more affordable to others. I want to reiterate, there could be many great non-economic motivators for a current homeowner in a high demand market to support more housing. These motivations just fall outside the context of the original article about the unwillingness of voters to understand econ 101 supply and demand.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I got a refund for the price of canceled airbnb. But I had to get two hotels rooms, same day over NYE. Which was an extra few thousand on top of the canceled amount. This is the contention, where someone no phone told me an amount but then in the end I only got $85.
Agreed. While I liked the premise, I thought the execution and 'humor' was very weak.
Overclocking brings up another example - a lot of AMD CPUs have extra cores that can be unlocked. They're manufactured as the higher-end chips, then just have cores disabled. Sometimes due to defects, but often they work just fine.
> Some 6,464 deaths involved children between 5 to 14 years of age, amounting to 340 deaths annually on average. A further 32,478 children between 15 to 18 years old died, or 2,050 per year on average between 1999 and 2017.

> Of these children, 61 percent were killed in an assault involving a firearm, while 32 percent died by suicide. A further 5 percent died in an accident. The death was undetermined in 2 percent of cases.

It seems misleading to me to include suicide counts in a headline that says “shot dead”.

Removing suicides, this comes out to 1625 per year. Approximately 900,000 people in total die in the US per year.

What they are describing as an epidemic is in reality 340 deaths per year of under-14s.

For reference, approximately 450 people per year die of acetaminophen (tylenol) poisoning in the US.
And if the "Last Week Tonight" (John Oliver) episode is any indication, nuclear waste disposal is not a job the US has been handling well.
The society we live in. Damn it, we just can’t agree on such no-brainers
24% of US population is children.

.3% are police officers.

.4% are active duty military.
To join the other repliers crapping on you, what about the other homeless kids who aren't chess champions?

A greater country wouldn't even have homeless kids, because they'd be taking care of them regardless of whether they have talent or not, because they're human beings, goddamnit.
Do you really need to buy real estate in Zurich? You can work in Zurich and buy real estate in Prague.

Btw it's a 35 min train ride from Zurich to a German town with a supermarket that has German prices. There are people going there with cars (40 min drive) and bringing back stuff for friends.
No it isn't? The substantive portions of the software aren't written in Python. Python is a thin interface to the actual library. Users of the library who need to rapidly prototype can leverage the library using its Python frontend, but the authors of the library did not write the library in Python.
Oh, nice.

From PyPy's Twitter feed:

"unicode-utf8 just got merged! Unicode strings are now internally represented as utf-8 in PyPy, with an optional extra index data structure to make indexing O(1). We'll write a blog post about it eventually."

Python strings are random access indexable. UTF-8 has variable length characters, so it is not directly randomly accessable. So the Python 3 representation inflates them to 1, 2 or 4 bytes per character, depending on the longest character in the string.

In practice, most strings are not random accessed. Most subscripts are +-1 from a previous subscript. So most actions can be optimized into uses of "advance one UTF-8 char" or "back up one UTF-8 char". Hard cases require generating an index array of the entire string. That takes a full string scan. Apparently that's what PyPy is doing.

This raises the cost of functions like "find()", which search the string for something and return an integer which is a position in the string suitable for random access use. I'd once suggested that "find", etc. return an opaque object which was really a byte index into the string. If you used that in a subscript, the right thing would happen. If you converted it to an integer, the index array would have to be computed. Is PyPy doing that, or does the use of "find" force index generation?
When writing a developer guide, especially to something as fundamental as "threads in Node.js", it pays to:

1) Make as few assumptions as possible regarding what the reader knows or has experience with

2) Make code samples as complete and "copy-and-pastable" as possible.

You're assuming that all developers reading this guide will effortlessly translate that TS code to JS.

Using TS creates a possible barrier to understanding, which I'm sure isn't the intent of someone publishing such a guide. Better to simply write some comments or augment the prose in the guide.
UUCP is one of those good things that many early ISP providers overlooked, You had companies with an e-mail server that would dial up to the internet to send and receive e-mail and would get a dynamic IP address. This would be no problem for UUCP, but since many newcomers to the internet didn't know it they would use some clunky dynamic DNS system instead. Also if the connection dropped there was no 'resume' feature if this happened during the sending or receiving of a large e-mail, so it would have to start sending or receiving that e-mail all over again.
TIFF is just a container. Doesnt say about encoding or compression (like AVI).

That you find web using hardcore old style JPEGs when they've been replaced by better formats long ago also doesn't mean that JPEG is really suitable way to store or share photos - especially when your display is good hi-dpi stuff. Also - do you find GIFs technologically OK for sharing animations today when there is stuff like h.265...?
You must be a former blockbuster executive. Innovation isn't coming out with the next big thing, it's doing something a little better each day based on what you learned yesterday.
These are statistics quoted to support an unstated but easily assumed conclusion instead of a search for truth.

Very few people actually care about finding optimums and cause and effect relationships. Publishing compelling results or results that support emotionally derived positions isn't helpful.
That's an interesting point. I actually talked to a lawyer at my company 6 months ago about contributing to FOSS and their answer was that my work may be owned by my company if I did the work on my own time outside of working hours and therefore wouldn't be mine to put under a free license in the first place. The lawyer declined to comment on what cases my work on a project may be owned by the company or not and said to fill out a conflict on interest form if I decided to work on a project.
I’ve been using Kubernetes for a while (1,5y). And I can’t say I’m very impressed. For anything simple it works fairly well. But as soon you get outside the “normal” workflow it gets downright hard. Certain areas are opaque AF and if things doesn’t work it almost impossible to find out why. And if it’s impossible to fix something fast if there’s something burning.
I think that, there’s an irony to k8s, it’s supposed to fix the “hard problems” of clusters. But it really only fixes the easy part of them, and obscures the rest.
Probably costs them a pretty penny every day they are there.
This begs the question as to why Tesla doesn't have a setting for 8 car lengths. I thought it might be car length but the car length average seems to be 204 inches which is 1.35 seconds. In any case, this 7 car lengths is for TACC rather than human decision.
>> Perceived lower prices is good for Amazon.com.

Exactly. For Amazon.
You mean, visually? or conceptually?

Visually is more complex, you need to build a UI.

But the concept, that can be done with a DSL, combining the concatenate/stack/tacit programming paradigms. How much nice, depend in what you want...
Not to mention all the other kids out there who don’t play chess but could make amazing contributions to society if they had access to the education they needed.
If you have two cars, she should really be more supportive of your interests and preferences.
They say

> The good news for Fortinet customers is FortiOS 6.2 fully supports TLS 1.3 for effective and high-performance MITM inspection.

and in contrast

> The latest version of FortiOS 6.0 not only fully supports TLS 1.2 MITM, but it also does not break TLS 1.3 when it has to negotiate down to TLS 1.2.

[ The "break TLS 1.3" they're talking about is the phenomenon I described in a cousin post in this thread, several of their competitors screwed up here ]

So that suggests that in Fortinet's case products running their 6.2 release (it's unclear to me if this is merely in Beta or actually a finished product) will actually do TLS 1.3. It's sad that they feel they can boast about the earlier 6.0 product actually working correctly (compatibility with TLS 1.3 by downgrading to TLS 1.2 is literally how everything would work if you just correctly implemented the specification, yet) when it was released in 2018, many years after the TLS 1.2 specification was finalised and in wide use.

Still you know "Better late than never".
What, signing a modified contract? Both parties are free to negotiate.
Why would we remove suicide? If these children didn't have access to guns the majority of these CHILDREN would still be alive today. Everyone deserve the chance to make foolish mistakes as a child.
386DX: The World’s First Cyberpunk Band
A foreign multimillionaire. Those are worth less, especially if their state owes the US some favors (or doesn't like him in the first place).

That said, sure, having $50M to return points to him being complicit -if not the mastermind- on this. Especially since I don't think we're explicitly told he was multimillionaire to begin with, just a businessman, which can even mean a guy that sells lemonade at a street corner (as long as he owns the stand).

But, and this is what I wanted to point out, returning $50M, doesn't make it entirely implausible.

This boils down to the question: can a multimillionaire ever be successfully framed for something?

I say, why not?
I tried it several months ago and some basic things still don't work, most notably text can neither be selected via keyboard nor mouse and rightclick doesn't work either. The scroll bar doesn't work. I got a "panic: runtime error: index out of range" during some interaction with the fyne_demo.

It was similar when I tried it the last time. I reported the bugs and most got resolved quickly by the maintainer, but in the current state I wouldn't recommend it for anything serious.

Sadly, there aren't many well-maintained GUI libraries for Go. And even less that don't have dependencies on something like GTK or that don't use HTML and a web view.

I wish the author best of luck with this project, I'll check it out again in half a year or so.
> Broad generalizations about nations are rarely accurate.

Agreed. But I was trying, by giving a counterexample, to respond to an even broader generalization: that "door buttons in elevators don't do anything". And I did say "usually".
Scroll further down the github page, there’s a full app demo/mockup screenshot.
After reading Solzhenitsyn, I was surprised to learn that these famous words are actually taken out of context.

The full idea is something like this: There are no "purely good" people, the best we can see is part-good-part-evil, and thus improving the world requires an internal battle, but... people can actually become "purely evil", and the usual path is through ideology, when you simply decide that anything you do serves a goal that justifies the means, and then you feel free to become a cartoonish villain as long as you follow the ideology.
I am building Primer. :)

https://www.primerlabs.io

You can checkout the documentation part for images/gifs to learn how it works.

Bit late on schedule, but working hard to release soon.

Made a video about the same explaining the interface.

https://youtu.be/acTdwGV0s9I

P.S. The landing page is a horrible experience on mobile. My bad.
Approximately 35% of the gun deaths are black male youth being shot — which indicates the statistic is likely skewed heavily by gang violence. (Using their numbers: 86% of 41%.)

It seems disingenuous to portray this as an epidemic of “school children” being shot, when the reality is we’re witnessing the effects of gangs fighting, utilizing their child soldiers — and more broadly, a cultural failure in American inner cities.

I can’t seem to find their data, but I’d wager 50% of those deaths are gang related, and from a handful of metro areas.

We don’t have a gun problem: we have an urban culture problem.
I grew up playing video games, and now I'm a graphics programmer. I learned to program because I wanted to make games. Trust me, it slaps.
They were merged into Firemonkeys Studio, and are still a going concern (their last three games - Real Racing 3, The Sims Freeplay, and Need for Speed: No Limits - are still getting updates).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firemonkeys_Studios
1) is absolutely correct. This is also how solar sails work in proposed interplanetary spacecraft designs.

For more details, I can recommend this video from Because Science: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-q2edmiGk (hope I got the right one, didn't watch it because I'm on mobile)
Before computer era, one of use case is librarians. They just want to store metadata into the computer for them to easier to search. Without any computer, they also get the job done. But with a computer, it's more productive for them in their job.
Can you elaborate? How does e.g. Qt, GTK, Cocoa, UWP etc look „cartoonish“ in comparison?
Actually, __FUNCTION__ won't work as it only expands to the name of the function, not any templates or arguments.

It's actually a pretty clever way to automagically deduce not only names of variables but also of enums :). Too bad it's most likely not maintainable in the long run as compilers probably change what their __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ (or equivalent) macros expand to in new versions.
Microsoft Edge Chromium-Based Edition Leaked
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17527702

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296502
How do you trigger autophagy?
Have you tried bitvise?
Great point. This is also the reason we can't pass meaningful taxes on the wealthy - including cap gains. Because everyone in the US believes they'll one day be a millionaire.
Hey look it's the coast guy :)
A youth killed by a gang isn't any less dead.

Gangs don't check your membership card before killing you.

Even we grant your bizarre dismissal of black lives that don't matter, you've still got 50% left.
> The employee has to tell the employer about any patentable idea, even if not in the general field of his employment, and even if having occurred after hours.

Just imagine the complete breakdown if a group of employees actually tried to go through with that: every wacky idea, from self-lacing shoes ("seem something similar in a movie") to bipedal gigawatt wind turbines that walk off to windier locations in a lull ("stomp, stomp, stomp! awesome!"). If they have to tell, some poor soul must be obliged to listen!
Perhaps the message should be "please use an adblocker with a better blocklist"
I haven't got much experience with Lisp, but I can imagine that, similarly to Python's significant indentation, it's a shallow weirdness that can be overcome easily after a little while. In both cases a little help from the editor will probably be needed.
Misleading title.

More accurately - Mueller did not conclude that the Trump Campaign conspired with Russia.

That’s a big difference to concluding that Trump didn’t conspire with Russia.

Further, the report also does NOT exonerate Trump of obstructing justice.

And of course this all comes from Attorney General Barr’s own commentary, as the report itself hasn’t been seen by journalists yet.
Redox OS 0.5.0
Some of the people I combined in my example are SRE/ops like me (though as of recently I'm now more manager than IC); some are product people, some oversee a bunch of different engineering teams, and I'm including both ICs and executives and many different ages in this amalgam... lots of productive people are bursty. It's chiefly the young single typical-lifestyle neurotypical software application developer that isn't.

There are better ways to protect the employee, though: the legalese can omit time of day / day of week / place of work / equipment used as conditions of IP assignment. My current employer does this. (No it's not based in the US, but it is a startup funded by both US and home-country VCs).

Of course, the employer does own stuff created within the course of employment. Not a problem in any of the plausible future successful or failed exit scenarios.

Last thought: many good people in tech, very much able to do the jobs you ask of them, have ADHD, or kids, or athletic hobbies, or other reasons to do a bursty workday. Sometimes people seemingly outside these categories may turn out to be in them (e.g. new parents). Being incompatible with such workers makes it harder to hire and keep the talent tech companies need to succeed. (Sometimes it's illegal too, but that's a separate conversation.)
We were talking about the existence of gender based 90/10 skews.

As to femle programmers in the 1950’s, do you really think that is comparable?
That’s still more than the combined 1,144 on-duty police officers and military personnel cited in the article. So even if you don’t count suicide by gun as a death by gun violence (which is debatable), it still wouldn’t invalidate the headline.
"I instantly discard any language with a Lisp-like syntax. I just cannot work with it."

I feel the opposite. I avoid any language without a Lisp-like syntax, since its absence is a serious handicap which unnecessarily complicates code and makes it less readable.

I also much prefer the Lisp idiom of using meaningful function and variable names, vs the one-letter names and crypitic operators that are so common in Haskell, OCaml, and SML.
Some years ago I worked at a technology-oriented summer camp where I personally taught several bright young children to program. Minecraft mods were an incredibly popular project and a big driver of interest for many of the kids. Many of my counselor colleagues got into programming themselves modding Warcraft III and other games of that era. The absolute conversion rate may be low because the playerbase is so huge, but I think something like Minecraft is definitely the first (or zero-th) step in the journey of a lot of kids these days who become interested in technology and will later develop into the next generation of programmers & technologists.
Facets / Visualizations for machine learning datasets
I am the creator and lead developer of Redox OS. Let me know if you have any questions about this release!
> most strings are not random accessed

But they do expose the buffer interface which requires uniform size
Or if he wasn't picked up (or should I say, editorialized) by the New York Times? Or if how we treat our "refugees" that are homeless vs. our own citizens who are also homeless wasn't a highly-politicized issue du jour?

GoFundMe isn't a social safety net. Overly wealthy donors dolling out six-figure handouts and spare prime-Manhattan bedrooms as pocket change at their own discretion to this kid isn't scalable either.

We shouldn't treat one-off's like this that tug at our heart strings as social progress. Just take a walk down Market Street and realize that there is still a mountainous amount of work to be done.

And it can be done. In modern, developed countries like South Korea, there is not a single homeless person. Come on, America!

I am very privileged; I didn't have to become a state chess champion against all odds in order to have basic shelter.
It's too ridiculous a topic to even seriously discuss though. The holocaust, invading Europe, the gestapo, gulags... It's not the same as the current US President. Like, do you seriously think there is merit in comparing Hitler to Trump? Do you think you would bother breaking down Hitler vs Obama?
I was playing with SilkJS at some point. Not sure if it was there earlier than node but the earliest archive is from 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120108050201/http://silkjs.org...

Funny now there's zero references to it on the internet. I had really liked it back then. It was fully synchronous and had support for threading. Cool stuff:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615124030/http://silkjs.net...

Edit: Repository seems to be alive! https://github.com/mschwartz/SilkJS/
Fasting has been suggested (shown?) to induce autophagy after you've been doing it for several days.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Consult a doctor or nutritionist before changing your diet.
I've never understood this argument - is a dead black youth gang member less of a loss of life than some other person?

> We don’t have a gun problem: we have an urban culture problem.

It can be, and is, both.
A sysadmin maybe. A user hardly.

Especially a 2019 user, 20+ years removed from the systems, decisions, and rationales, behind POSIX.

Just try to get someone (even a seasoned Linux user) to use a POSIX-only userland (as opposed to GNU), as see how fast they'll be pulling their hair out...
The author switched to kotlin from clojure, kotlin's interop with java is leagues ahead of clojure.
The takeaway from this story for me is the amazing loyalty of the family. To turn down scholarships at other 'better' schools and stick with the one that gave Tani free membership to the chess club and where the teacher that taught him how to play works.

Plus the fact that they are donating the entire GoFundMe (which I donated a tiny amount to last week) to helping other kids from Africa to migrate to the US. That is 'paying it forward' in spades.
If you shoot yourself and die, you were not shot? I am pretty sure the hole in your head would argue otherwise.