skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and why America has a political class unwilling to do something like socialize healthcare (even at a regional level)

I don't see how that's a correct statement. Half of Americans are in some form of government, socialized, healthcare system. Socialized healthcare is not only common in America (a quarter of the population is on fully socialized programs just in Medicaid/CHIP/etc), it's quite popular with about 2/3 of the population and the majority of politicians. The US spends about $650 billion just on the Medicaid + CHIP programs. Republicans hardly dare to go anywhere near Medicaid or Medicare these days. 30-40 years ago, the exact opposite was the case, Republicans (the traditional opposition party to socialized healthcare) frequently, commonly argued against nearly all forms of government healthcare. In the Reagan era, it was routine for prominent Republican politicians to call for privatized alternatives to Medicare. Today they won't dare go near that for fear of voter retribution. The most likely outcome over the next 10-15 years, is Medicaid will see continued expansion up the lower economic tiers and will cover 1/3 of the population on traditional socialized healthcare. Within probably 20 to 30 years, it'll only be the top 1/4 that will still be in the mostly private system. Socialized healthcare is taking over the US by default and necessity, its popularity will only increase by the year with the bottom 2/3 of the economic ladder.
Does this work typecheck matrix operations?
There's a reason why those houses are cheap. Commuting from the Inland Empire to Los Angeles is miserable. It's an hour if there's no traffic, which of course is never the case in Southern California.
New York City got its modern street plan in 1810.

The only cities "designed for cars" are probably Phoenix, Tucson, and greater LA, every other American city saw its establishment and principal growth when walking, cycling, and horse riding was the norm.
Sorry if I was unclear I was typing in a hurry before takeoff. Yes you can use B footage, etc. What you won’t get is access to embedding in units, you’ll get called on last if at all to ask questions and you won’t get interviews or other access if you don’t play ball. All combined it puts you at a big disadvantage compared to those who tow the line.
Amen to that. I read a blog post somewhere (sorry, lost the reference) about a writer (non-programmer, mind you) who switched to Emacs for Org-Mode.

Another extension that's great for writing/note taking is Deft [1]. Give it a directory (optional recursing) of .md, .txt, .org, etc. files, and it will let you filter through them instantly. I've been using this for a few years now and it's still my primary digital note-taking system.

[1]: https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
Or it might be called "weak" by others. I'm not an American, but I agree with him.

You say that one is "free to say what you want", but then immediately describe a case of a person literally saying what's on their mind and getting jailed for that. You're welcome to argue in favor of such censorship, but whether it does or does not have a valid reason, it's still censorship - and so not free by definition.

Oh, and the scenario that you describe is impossible in US. It is perfectly legal to start a private club that discriminates in membership, even against otherwise protected classes, and to advertise it as such. It only becomes illegal when you offer a public service.
Ok, now explain how to handle the situation where a user that has been grandfathered into a new set of features and kept paying the original price is at a tier limit and they downgrade halfway through the period they have currently already paid for.

Downgrading would put them over a tier limit, so they can't be automatically downgraded unless they first delete enough stuff to be within the next tier limit down. Then I suppose they need to get a credit on their account or a refund etc. But do they get new pricing or are they still grandfathered or what?

Not to mention if they are a South African customer their invoice needs to display the VAT subtotal in Rand and Stripe etc don't cater to that. That's on you.

This stuff becomes kinda nasty when the edge cases stack up and there isn't anything in the market that handles it all beautifully.

That'd make all our lives a lot easier. SaaS billing still sucks.

It's good to see some discussion on how to handle some of this stuff. Information is really thin on the ground.
You joke, but I'm convinced our police and government know even less about technology than in Australia where they tried to ban encryption.
> You're missing the point, people from middle class housing wont be able to move into luxury housing, most people don't have the means to do so.

By the time they move into it, it won't be "luxury housing". Changes in supply change prices. :)

And again, this is literally how the housing market has historically worked; it's not wild speculation to suggest it can continue to work.

> Building expensive homes raises the prices of everything around them so now most homes in a place like Boulder are out of reach.

Prices in a market are not set by production costs.
Ha Ha! ;_;
It’s the right thing because airbnb distorts house prices (among other factors too). In some cases pricing locals out of the market in place of tourists. Which is why those rules are often in place.
Do you honestly believe that an American traveling to Iran, Turkey, Cuba or Venezuela doesn't face magnitudes more scrutiny from their "political police"?

Thousands travel daily between Taiwan and the mainland.
Plane tilts down due to erroneous inputs.

Pilot solution:

A) turn off autopilot

B) learn how to play MCAS override, current high score 6 minutes.

Plane maker solution: Get rid of MCAS and deal with the fallout that will broadcast, and stop trying to ONLY blame pilots.
These “freedom” and “liberties” discussions have been fascinating to read.
What's the good faith scenario in this case? Even hypothetically? The CEO isn't aware of how the system (he is in charge of) works?
Because this isn't a good hustle. By not disclosing this nonsense on their listing, they're putting the customers in extremely awkward spots. If you list it and someone else consents to it (and adjusts their mental pricing model accordingly), that's fine; not disclosing it is a huge asshole move, not a "good hustle".
And who decides where the money should be appropriated? There are plenty of other existing avenues for political action in setting economic policy. The money supply should never become one of those, for what I would think are entirely obvious reasons.
I agree with your point overall, but you say Texas has "high sales tax" and California has "moderate sales tax", but Texas' sales tax rate is 6.25% and California is 7.25%. Comparing rates with local additions, Los Angeles is 9.5%, San Francisco is 8.5%, Dallas/Houston/Auston is 8.25%,
How do you know if they're terrorist propaganda, once they're blocked?

IIRC the Australian ISPs refused to even release the list of the websites that they block - what we have is just things that are known not to work.

What happened to checks and balances in a democratic society? Why is the private industry acting on its own on behalf of the government? Where's the oversight?
Rusty Navy: The Bay Area's 'Mothball Fleet' Enters a New Era (2017)
The problem is that we have a class of intelligentsia such as the author of this piece who thinks she knows better how the rest should live. It is a typical elitist attitude.

300k is not an expensive house. It is 6x 50k/year salary, which is the current not really even stretching for mortgage. In NYC 5k square feet house would cost ~4M if it is in Brooklyn or Queens and it would be much worse than McMansion but I'm sure the OP would be thinking it is wonderful because it is located in NYC.
This is great work. It does a great job bridging the gap between the true but l overly simple supply and demand arguments with the complex dynamics of housing markets.

Bravo to the author!!
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I've been really enjoying Blurt app http://Blurt.app

Here's a behind the scenes look into how I've used Blurt to help me create a writing habit (50+ day streak ongoing!) https://blurt.app/@awaxman11/creating-a-writing-habit/5c60ed...

The founder is running the business openly.Here are his Feb '19 results: https://twitter.com/corey_gwin/status/1109565231510900736
Thank you, very well said! I'm also disappointed with the response on HN as supposedly free governments cut off entire chunks of the Internet. Any concern about this is met with "but if we don't kill the Internet then the Nazis will win!"

I'm most horrified by people's defense of the government getting really good at arresting people for "trolling"[1]

[1]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...
I hope you have a long and healthy future. But if the staffing work is draining to you, how will this free you for "work that matters?"

It seems like the changes you're proposing are (1) cutting your own spending, and (2) publicizing your charity goals. But neither (1) nor (2) alters your work or gives money to your clients. Are you hoping (2) will bring you clients you admire, because they like your charitable goals?

It could work, in the sense that NYC IT staffing had better spin off >$75k/per employee in profit. But it doesn't seem to optimize for gains to charities or your personal pleasure.
I'm personally not a fan of casting aside a tool as something never to be used (especially as a matter of principle).

I personally do not use debuggers, but I can see why they might be used, especially to step through someone else's convoluted code.
prop 13 is worse. Social security and Medicare have gotten to where we have obvious structural problems we need to resolve long term, but they at least were founded in hopes of fairness. Prop 13 was theft generational theft from day 1.
There's an ff ligature on the page that got hyphenated for me. ("differences" under section 1)
A solution more accurate than sorting before adding is to place your numbers into a priority queue and repeatedly add the smallest two numbers and re-insert the result into the queue. This helps handle the case where you have many similarly valued numbers and your running sum becomes large enough relative to your numbers to cause the same rounding errors.
Put your money down. Which account is "state funded astro turfing" in this thread?

Else I'd go with you're just being plain old racist. Occam's razor, highly complex accounts, which you won't name, to fool HN or your biases coming through.
Drones Can Track Critically Endangered Birds That Scatter over Vast Distances
Maybe true, but for whatever reason they haven't been used much on the web, and I think the lack of hyphenation has proved itself to be preferable.

Sure, you can practice and learn to get used to it (the first half of my life there was no web, so I certainly did), but why should you have to? YOU CaN gEt usED To tHIS as wELl, wiTh somE PRActICE.

I'd like to see a study that actually measures reading speed and comprehension with and without.

Here's a good example of a place where having right justification was important for aesthetics, but they still chose not to hyphenate (presumably because it is just ugly):
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...
Yes, the law is the law.
So long as you can ensure that discussing what is and isn't hate speech is never classified as hate speech itself.
Not likely. When the first crash happened Boeing try to shift the blame to Lion Air citing lack of maintenance and what not.
> For example, having sex is completely natural

Entire societies and cultures have been built around the idea that sex is unnatural and requires special rituals and public approval to be had, and even then you're not supposed to actually enjoy it.
I would not rule out nuclear catastrophe just yet. The technology has only been available for 75 years. So far most of the weapons have been in the hands of nations with stable command and control structures. That may not be the case in the next few decades.
> - Types have a runtime impact.

Do you mind expanding on this, and what could be done differently?
People lost their lives terribly, that much can be understood without watching it. What more do you really gain by watching the video? Do you have some morbid curiosity that you need to satisfy? Do you think we should disregard the feelings of the survivors or those who lost someone close? How do you think they feel about the video being shared? How would you? Do you think they deserve respect and solidarity? If so, how does sharing the video contribute to that?
AI-Powered Voice Bots Flooded China’s Telemarketing Industry
For your second example, I don't think that violates freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the freedom to voice an opinion without fear of retaliation. Forcing others to listen to your speech seems tantamount to slavery.

I think that your first example is also not a violation, as it is not an opinion. I think that this example reveals a more potent problem: what do we classify as opinion? As to that, I have no answer; I am no philosopher.

As for the morality of restricting others' right to free speech, it is definitely a difficult problem. Morally I think that you have no right to silence others because you disagree with their opinion. There is some nuance here; if HN deletes a post advertising viagra I don't think this is silencing someone. Similarly, deleting a post containing the results of a football game to a programming forum is also not silencing someone. There is an aspect of relevancy at play. If you choose to operate a general purpose forum, morally you are pretty limited in what it is acceptable to silence.

These are just my off-the-cuff thoughts. I might be missing something obvious here; it seems like a confounding problem.
I see the same age my Startup all the time.

It is go go go all the time. Except, it is not a plane.
No they haven't.

What they're doing is preventing the spread of radicalization to vulnerable demographics. They're breaking up the ability of alt-right groups to try and rally around it.

You don't get to shoot a bunch of people and have your manifesto spread far and wide. You get forgotten. And your manifesto gets banned. Because who cares what you had to say - it's irrelevant.

As to the video: go extract release forms from the families of the victims in it if you want to see to see it. See if they're okay with the last terrified moments of their loved ones being distributed as and broadcast worldwide, and the government okaying the sharing of that. It would be illegal to go to a hospital and film people dying in bed without permission - and it would exact significant criminal and financial penalties if you did so. This is worse.
I used Airbnb for years, but after a lot of strange experiences like this I was just tired of it. It was just constantly so much grief. And some of Airbnb's policies and customer support was just plain useless or outright hostile.

At one point I realized that if I just stayed in Marriott-branded hotels all the time, I could get platinum status. Now I have it, and I'm much happier with Marriott than I ever was with Airbnb. They give me lots of extra care and free stuff because of my status with the chain. If anything at all doesn't meet my expectation, I just ask them and they always fix it.
Sounds like there is just a shortage of high density housing.
But that’s wrong.
An other reason might be that almost all animals seek to control their peers' access to mates.

Humans have developed elaborate bullshit to achieve basically that. Monogamy, possession, shame.
"Having made the opposite move for a big tech job, the headwinds here against upward mobility are really striking."

CA (at least the Bay Area) incentivizes a very different sort of upward mobility: striking it rich through owning equity in a business doing fundamental innovation in its area.

If you're hoping to steadily build wealth by working for a big tech company, staying in CA long-term, and saving your money, you're playing the wrong game. (And I say this as someone who came to CA to work at a big tech company, has been here a decade, and married a local.) There are three basic paths to wealth in Silicon Valley:

1. Found a company outside of the valley. Do all the initial work in a low-CoL area, get customers and traction there, and then move to Silicon Valley for fundraising and scaling. Enjoy your equity appreciation, and cash out a billionaire.

2. Move here in your 20s. Get on a rocketship - a company that is likely to go public in the next 5 years. Stick it out for 5-ish years, enjoy your equity appreciation, and cash out a millionaire. Move to some other low-CoL area to buy a house and retire.

3. Get a time machine. Buy a house 15 years ago. Enjoy your equity appreciation as successive waves of #1 and #2 bid up housing prices. Cash out now, and move to some other low-CoL area to retire.

If you're moving here hoping to work for one company the rest of your life, save up, and eventually own a home, you're in for a rude shock. Most of the housing stock is taken up by #3, and #1 and #2 will be able to bid up the rest far higher than any ordinary worker can afford without using a perilously high proportion of their salary. If there's a market downturn or shift in the tech industry, you get laid off, your employer's stock takes a hit, and you're screwed because many lenders count stock compensation as part of your income for deciding how much mortgage to give you. And housing prices in Silicon Valley are heavily correlated to the fortunes of the tech industry, so if there's ever a permanent downturn, this place will be the next Detroit.
As many report have already mentioned: the MCAS is not in the manuals.
Can this be run in real time in VSCode? How hard would it be to write a vim plugin for this? I haven't done any vim scripting in a while - is it possible nowadays to run a process asynchronously, so that you could essentially run this tool on every keystroke?
The head line should actually read, “Hotels are so bad, airbnb guests put up with lying and sneaking”
Role of a dedicated product hat is diminishing as your customer value delivery chain becomes more efficient, assuming the engineering and founders are in tune with the market signals and can react fast. The role of product in a startup with founders makes more impactful, assuming you are not blind to outside forces.
I think this is great! Static typing is such a blessing. This one looks very high quality. Static typing helps me read code and helps the compiler do static analysis. What's not to like?
SF/SV are actually incredibly well-suited for biking.

Beyond the weather, Caltrain is unusually bike-friendly rail, with ~100 bike racks per train (on multiple special bike cars per train). Palo Alto boasts an 87 'bike score' (higher than Minneapolis or Portland) and a network of bike boulevards that discourage through car traffic. San Francisco is investing heavily in rearranging streets for protected bike lanes, and there are plenty of SF city dwellers without cars.
But the model of economic growth China pursued in the last couple of decades is export driven. This assessment is from 2011:

Much of China’s remarkable growth between 1978 and 2000 can be explained by the reform. But the more recent and faster growth in the last decade has been mainly driven by exports.

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/02/27/chinas-export-led-g...
Or New York or Connecticut or Colorado... or probably a myriad of other places that I've heard the phrase used.
Man that's not worth the paper it's written on then....

How is the NZ government related though...

This is ISPs just deciding to block sites.
New Non-Lethal Restraint Tool for Law Enforcement
https://shelterforce.org/2019/02/19/why-voters-havent-been-b... has a detailed examination of what happens after supply in one sub-market (say, mid-priced townhouses) increases.

While I don’t agree with all of it, he brings up a key metric: “cross-price elasticity of demand” between sub-markets.
> and the manifesto is a mess right wing islamophobia

Except it's not - it's a mess of a "third position" white ethnonationalism.

And I know it because I could read it.
Seems like a good sized development place could just sue AirBNB and probably win if it wasn’t doing enough to keep people from subrenting where it’s not allowed.
>Also, why are people allowed to loudly proclaim "white people are evil" loudly, and broadly, without issues

Because, this far, your point is pure whataboutism decrying an issue that doesn’t exist.

Come back with this argument when someone walks into a church/mosque and mows down dozens of people. Comparing a few trolls crying on twitter that “white people are evil” to Charleston or Christchurch is asinine
Integer multiplication in time O(n log n) [pdf]
Ah, for some reason I just assumed that YouTube Premium didn't work with Firefox, which is what I use now, and you had to have the native Android App. I think the problem I had the last time I tried this had to do with the fact that I had a YouTube creator account, and Red wouldn't work with it.

Anyway, now I'm putting my money where my mouth is and am happily watching ad free YouTube content (which I love dearly) on my TV. Totally worth it.
I can read it just fine from here (Telstra 4G)
2.7 million Chinese tourists visited Taiwan in 2017, mostly as individuals.
100% agreed. I've used Airbnb several times now, and any time I'm in any kind of shared housing environment (e.g. an apartment), I've felt this. At this point, I solely use it for renting entire houses, and that's been fairly fraught with difficulty. (E.g. the last house I was in trying to scam me out of $15k for plumbing damage myself and my guests couldn't have possibly caused.)
How do we stop the roads from allowing those vile creatures to walk on them?

There are many possible solutions, but each of them invites a further question: "is it worth it?"
It was during taxi for takeoff: https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/the-world-pulls-th...
If someone wants to watch it, regardless of the intent, they should be allowed to. Disrespect should not be illegal. That's silly.
It’s crazy to me that Airbnb is this massive company that derives most of their revenue from illegal services. What other multi-billion dollar co is remotely comparable?

Agree last thing I want to deal with is this feeling I’m not supposed to be there when I enter a random condo complex in a new city.
Photos of the Vessel are all over NY Post, Gothamist, etc.
... which you can pretty easily fast forward through.
Put the apartment buildings above ground, and RV parks underground with fresh air pumped in and fiber-optic lighting carrying natural light down from the surface. Have elevators going from below ground, and from the apartments, to ground-level retail complexes and terrestrial activities.

Then have underground hyperloop tunnels to connect the RV parks, so that you can go to sleep in your home and move it from city to city, and pop up above ground to enjoy local tourism.
>Sorry, you'll have to explain more.

Like all things, Architecture is a rabbit hole. Every decision has a knock on effect.

The floor plate depth is directly related to the amount of light and heat required. The ceiling heights need to be taller to allow ventilation (not feeling too stuffy). The windows need to be taller to let enough light and heat in, the taller the windows the more structure required between them to function (without steel of course). The unobstructed open area of the floor plate is limited to around 6m because you are using timber or stone arches to support the upper floor or roof.

And sure, you can paste on a façade and use modern structure and servicing to get you halfway there, but then all of a sudden, the proportions of you Neoclassical, revivalist building are all out of whack. The inside of your building (arguably the part that matters to the inhabitants) still looks like a modern office, with a paper thin layer of stone stuck to the front obscuring your view. That, to be honest, is how we got McMansions.