skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.[1] Most commodities are raw materials, basic resources, agricultural, or mining products, such as iron ore, sugar, or grains like rice and wheat. Commodities can also be mass-produced unspecialized products such as chemicals and computer memory.

>The price of a commodity good is typically determined as a function of its market as a whole: well-established physical commodities have actively traded spot and derivative markets. The wide availability of commodities typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price. [0]

If anything, housing is not enough of a commodity. Each site effectively has a bespoke regulatory framework that has to be discovered as expensively as possible, through a series of planning meetings. Each project requires an extremely high-touch political consensus process. Each building is expected to be unique-but-not-too-unique for its context, of-the-present-moment without altering historical character. As a practical matter, it's really expensive and take a long time and many iterations to arrive at a design that everyone agrees meets those criteria. Watch an SF Planning meeting video sometime. Most of the multifamily projects discussed on any given day are continuations. The curation process yields a great-looking museum, but we pay for the delay and uncertainty it creates in the price of admission.

Houses should be less like houses and more like soybeans: cheap, abundant, with many highly competitive producers and a price that floats just barely above the cost of production. Producers should be responding quickly and effectively to changes in demand, just as in the commodities markets. Commodities are the things we're most likely to have enough of for everyone!

Housing has effectively one producer, the San Francisco planning commission, and if it doesn't feel like meeting demand this year, everyone else has to just live with that. (There is no reason to think it would feel like meeting demand for social housing. Shadows, traffic impacts, neighborhood character changes, etc. are the same either way). Commodification would be an incredible improvement!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
I'm not sure even that would overcome the hyperoptimization capital trap advantage big industrial farms enjoy.

I'm still pretty shallow in my understanding of the Ag industry, but the last research I'd done showed that process optimization gaps driven by capital access disparity, and an increasing encroachment of vertically integrating distribution businesses were the major drivers of small farms out of the market.

The wage hits through access to capital to pay workers will also hit smaller operations harder in the sense the smaller you are the fewer people feel safe investing in you.

It'd be nice if it would sort itself in favor of the little guy, but I'm just not seeing it.
It doesn't. It escapes from outside the event horizon. The event horizon is the dark area in the middle.
I give a damn ;-)
I came to make this exact comment.
Glad I got out of doing device repair while I still could.
It’s interesting they talk about it as something different than a loan. It’s just a loan with good terms, right?

It seems good to have a flexible pay-back schedule, no late fees, and something that adapts to my situation in case I lose my job.

But the bigger picture is that this kind of thing is allowing tuition to increase. We don’t really need better ways to finance ballooning tuitions as much as we need to figure out how to reduce tuitions and get university funding for people who can’t afford it even with income sharing agreements.
Why not do consulting/contract work instead? I quit my job (ironically at a startup) and took a massive pay _raise_. I worked from home while I was consulting. For some reason people find it much easier to part with cash if you're not a permanent employee. :-) I was making _more_ money than I ever did at FANG, by quite a margin, even accounting for taxes, health insurance and PTO (lack thereof).
I've heard similar from people I know in healthcare. Healthcare has bought into the six-sigma consultants hard and "the gemba" is being taken along for the ride in something that very much appears to be the antithesis of lean.

I'm not sure what can really be done about that though. It isn't my industry so my understanding of the problem is pretty peripheral.
Watch out for latency issues if you use Sonos and perhaps other wireless speaker systems.

I used ethernet over power myself for several years when I rented a house, and it worked well for me. Recently, a friend was having wifi trouble (old house, thick plaster faraday cage walls). I suggested ethernet over power, and it worked great with one exception:

They have Sonos speakers, and Sonos just would not work with it. They apparently are very sensitive to latency. The ping times were roughly 50ms (from memory) between the 2 ethernet over power adapters.. I guess Sonos takes synchronization quite seriously.
I get your point about the potential benefits of targeted advertising, and in an ideal world it's true. Of course in that same ideal world we wouldn't have sleazy non-targeted advertising either. I just see so much abuse of tracking and targeting that the damage far outweighs the benefits.
Amazon in most contexts refers to the company and not the river or the rainforest.

When speaking of the river people are far more likely to use "Amazonas" than "Amazon".
Off-topic but I love the design of this blog article. Everyone is copying Medium these days so it's refreshing to see a smaller-typed and denser design for once.
Most people do not take several vacations a year that require long drives.
Chargers are usually right near an exit.
Not having a model in stock one month after announcing it is not a huge deal though. Time to delivery of a Chevrolet Bolt in Canada was over 6 months after launch :/
yep, teams has a lot of potential, but there's a lot of rough edges. for example until recently copy-and-paste didn't work. i was just thinking of moving from teams to slack. hopefully this is good news
But then it's not the school's fault.
The theoretical throughput is lower, but I found the real-world performance for network filesystem access specifically was wildly superior. Never determined exactly why- latency? dropped packets? but 10-20mbps powerline links mopped the floor with 200mbps wifi links, even with only a two foot airgap.

(These weren't label-advertised speeds, these were the negotiated links)
BeOS GUI applications also had problems with fork()
It’s not just 0-100. Driving an EV is just more fun. (IMO of course).
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Khashoggi children have received houses, and monthly payments as compensation
Last I tried enabling that FF just started freezing randomly after, WebGL was still much slower than Chrome's and had artifacts, YouTube still didn't play 1080p smoothly. It just didn't work and reading the issue tracker they have no proper plans to fix all the acceleration issues under Linux either.
> not a fan of the date format and lack of flexibility in picking repeating schedules.

I haven't used repeaters that much, but I was under the impression that they were very, very flexible. At least much more flexible than a typical todo app. What don't you like about them?

For reference, here's some documentation about them:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html

https://orgmode.org/manual/Timestamps.html#Timestamps

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Time...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Se...
Google challenges AWS with open-source support
How the f* does this even help at all when Google reCaptcha already "ghost-blocks" bad ips as well?
Yes, we should stick with IE6 on all machines, no need for any other browsers
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Did Marissa Mayer have any accomplishments at either Google or Yahoo? It looks like she just /was/ there, but she didn't make any significant decisions which can be undoubtedly attributed to her.
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I think everyone would have appreciated a correction of his math instead of just pointing out how he was wrong.
"This often translated to slow decision-making by committee and lack of commitment to strategic direction. Instead of being straightforward and advocating directly for what they wanted, employees were encouraged to try to gain consensus through politicking and endless rounds of meetings." -

That sounds like hell to me.
I expect that several people can.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html

% dnsqr a ai.uwaterloo.ca.
1 ai.uwaterloo.ca:
74 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 1 ai.uwaterloo.ca
answer: ai.uwaterloo.ca 286 CNAME wms-redir1.uwaterloo.ca
answer: wms-redir1.uwaterloo.ca 286 A 129.97.128.216
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% fetch -v -o /dev/null http://ai.uwaterloo.ca./ 2>&1|head -n 6
looking up ai.uwaterloo.ca.
connecting to ai.uwaterloo.ca.:80
requesting http://ai.uwaterloo.ca./
301 redirect to https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-group/
looking up uwaterloo.ca
connecting to uwaterloo.ca:443
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The problem with 5 Whys? Taking it too literally, and then using this as basis for an argument criticizing the whole concept.

To be fair, the idea of multiple root causes (and the difficulty 5 whys has in uncovering multiple causes) is important. But that's not grounds for total dismissal. Because the value of 5 whys isn't "ask why 5 times and you arrive at the root cause", but rather "Don't stop at the first answer you find". Since rather a lot of people stop at the first cause they see rather a lot of the time, it's a valuable approach.
You can't have a loan at high APR and then not have it be dischargeable. It's either a special type, but at low interest, or alternatively, high interest but normal.

I like the way this girl did it. Great deal and she was smart about it.
> That guideline is based on the evidence of what happens when people don't follow it. That's the opposite of arbitrary.

I didn’t mean to imply that the rule was arbitrarily selected, merely that your application of it was arbitrary — that it, at the sole discretion of a small group of people, without guiding rules, and without systematic review for p, eg, bias.

Force, such as bans, applied in an arbitrary manner is inherently tyrannical — and your appeals to civility a rote recitation of a millennia old justification for tyranny. Tyrants are never merely enforcing their biases on others — it’s always for the greater purpose!

Having been a member of this community for a while, my reply would be that flame war groupthink is better than this groupthink: flame wars can occasionally change minds and show the diversity of extant opinions — while your groupthink preserving censorship distorts people’s view of the diversity of opinions while leading to no more changed minds, and is therefore strictly worse.
>>I have confidence humanity will solve the disposal issue soon enough

Hubris my man. Pure hubris. I'm not saying it's not possible, but when there are strong financial interests tied to NOT doing exactly that, it doesn't feel like something I'd say I'm confident in.

Also "soon enough" to undo all the damage that things like the Pacific Garbage Patch have done to the environment? Soon enough to remove all the mercury in food chain? There's literal things dying because of this. I think the hand wringing is justified. You can make it a value prop (we save X human lives because of products packaged in this manner, so fuck these bees) but there's still actual consequences to our planetary roommates.
>I am getting fed up with Google trying to steer how the web should be. Already changed to Firefox.

Here is a reply from Mozilla representative in that very thread:

"I would be very happy to push in this direction, limited by the amount of breakage and user-pushback we can expect."

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2019Apr...
Awesome answer!
> Better yet, offer restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted Stock Units are a company’s promise to give you shares of the company’s stock

Do startups commonly offer RSUs? I suppose my follow-up is whether it's easy to do, using Carta or something similar.
More like "another attempt at getting quickly shadowbanned"
When I hear people talk about all the expense and trouble they have getting prescription glasses made for them, I'm so glad I just use contact lenses. I have no idea why people subject themselves to so much trouble, all so they can have a clunky, obsolete device that's been around for centuries sitting on their nose.
Well, a loan ends after you pay back the principal, this only seems to end after a certain period of time, even if you end up in a great job and having to pay back 3x or 4x the loan.

Whether this is still worth it depends heavily on whether this shows up on your credit reports...
real shocker. so your average kid gets $250 a month in support from their parents and it makes the front page?
So, the internal domain names leak to Mozilla unless I disable this totally?
No way they'll make it easier to sell. That's not solving a problem for the business. They need to keep the carrot dangling.
Design patterns in modern JavaScript development
It doesn't sound like they just snapped a picture. The one guy says they used "supercomputers" for 6 months to get the image.

Sunspots look black relative to the rest of the sun but are actually very bright. Could this be the same thing? How did they set the black level? Is there a description of the procedure somewhere?

EDIT:

Found the paper describing the data processing:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0c57
Yeah, like any normal customer would do. /s
The glass-metal weld itself might be perfectly fine!

The glass portion, however, could crack depending on its size/geometry and the temperature change.

The article doesn't make clear exactly what kind of manufacturing operation they're intending. I suspect this is a technology to replace glue/epoxy in certain scenarios where one joins metal and glass.
It absolutely is.

Trademarks can be enforced only in a specific context e.g. I can use "amazon" as a name for my cat or a restaurant but not an online marketplace.

Giving a whole TLD to a brand name is like giving an infinitely broad context to trademark.
You can't. That is what distinguishes you from a VC. Actually, you can. Serially. Plenty of people work for a startup through its early stage. A year here, a year there. That's diversification.
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From memory -

SLO, CA: Madonna Inn

Atascadero, CA: Denny's parking lot, across the street from a sandwich shop, 5 minute walk from more

Gilroy, CA: spitting distance of in-n-out, more in the same lot

San Jose, CA: big shopping center with BJ's, Chili's, panda express, etc

Someplace on the 5 between Kettleman city and LA: Subway parking lot

This is literally just from memory of the ones where I've been. Perhaps it's worse in other parts of the country?
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> And your Merc E won't get better with time.

Have you priced a classic Mercedes E-class lately? Allow me to help. https://www.classicdriver.com/en/cars/mercedes-benz/ponton-1...
Custom TLDs are specifically non regional, according to ICANN rules. (I looked into buying my state as a TLD and then reselling domains. No go.)
and honestly. You'll be 60% competent within a week or two. There's a long tail of language features and idioms, but that basics get you so far in python.

I'd contrast this with say Java, my other mainstay and Scala which I'm picking up in pieces right now. Java is quite explicit and has quite a bit less built-in so you don't feel very capable or productive for quite a bit longer. Scala has so many syntactic variants and features that the volume of stuff I have to learn is relatively vast. Every third block of code I read uses a new unheard of language feature or concept. ... and I have some functional programming background.
An Advertiser ID is the best method, especially because it can be looked up by multiple companies and is user controlled.

Unlike what people seem to think, adtech has been designed from the start for anonymity. The persistent ID is needed primarily for ad frequency and conversion tracking. Eventually identity is revealed when someone fills out a form or buys something but that's not necessary at the top of the funnel.
Would ‘Medicare for All’ Save Billions or Cost Billions?
You accelerate really fast in a straight line every time you pull out from a stop sign or red light. In fact if you are adhering to speed limits, accelerating really fast is the only way to save travel time.
Interesting that Switzerland has $57k per capita income vs $54k in the USA, but the model 3 is probably 2x the cost of the US best selling car.

I assume the variance in Switzerland income is allot smaller than the US, thus more residents can afford the car.
Let's scale this up huge, let everyone take part, and have all of society invest in education and reap the rewards. We can call it "public education" and even capture the public externalities of having a well-educated population!
I'm not a super big fan of Org timestamps for dates, either. Flexibility is OK.

But I wish we had something like Remind [1] where you can define events based on e.g. Easter dates, skip recurring events if they fall into a holiday or move them according to a rule.

In particular, I hate I have to change all bank holidays every year. Remind got this right. There's some added complexity, though.

A nice thing about Org is the pragmatic way it deals with recurring events. You clone them and adjust at will, manually. So you can deal with really odd ways of re-scheduling meetings.

[1] https://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/Remind
I don't really see how MS teams is a "high quality product". We have been forced to move from Slack To Microsoft teams in the past month. And I'm already missing it. Even though that Slack's threads were a mess, at least they always appeared in chronological order. Now in teams I miss a lot of messages because the way it reorder them when someone respond to an old thread.

TBH the feature I miss the most, is reacting to a certain message with emojis! It added liveliness to the whole chat.
The $35k Model 3 was "announced" in 2016, over two years ago, with $1000 pre-order deposits taken at that time. https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/31/tesla-unveils-its-35-000... There were promises about how this car would arrive in 2017 back then.

> The $35,000 (before federal tax credits) Model 3 sedan made its world debut at an event in Los Angeles. On stage, Elon Musk announced that the car will have at least 215 miles of range, 0-60 in under six seconds, and every single one will have Supercharging as a standard feature.

The $35k Model 3 hit Tesla's webpage with "2-to-4-weeks of delivery" in late Febuary. Its April, and no one has this car yet.

https://electrek.co/2019/02/28/tesla-model-3-standard-batter...

> Tesla says that deliveries are starting within the next 2 to 4 weeks depending on the configuration in the US.

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If you trick a bunch of people to come and try to buy a product that DOES NOT EXIST YET, and then convince them to buy something else when they enter the store... that's called a "Bait and Switch". Its literally an illegal sales tactic. Tesla isn't doing it to the point where it is illegal, but it is still clearly scummy behavior and toes the line.

People are coming to the Tesla stores looking for the $35k model, and are immediately being upsold to buy $40k or $45k vehicles instead. The 35k model is the bait, the $40k to $45k models are the switch.
while you are changing lenses, what do you wear?

Most eyeglass facilities also would not touch used frames, given the potential for frames pre-existing damage and wear, and how that creates liabilities for the lab while installing new lenses.
The "com" is from "commercial," which is maybe more distinct in contrast with other types of entities: "org" or "edu". Of course, that use has largely been diluted today, but it does have an inherent meaning.
The temperature is actually inversely proportional to black hole mass and the power that is radiated away even falls like the square of the mass. (A rough but illustrative derivation can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#A_crude_anal... )
Many years ago, I worked at Amazon, and at the time they LOVED "5 Why" analysis. I had to write a couple of them. The second and final one I wrote came back from my manager, who told me that it was unacceptable for my "5 Whys" to blame something outside our team's control when the most immediate cause was a bug written by our team, and I needed to come up with a different ultimate cause. This was really frustrating, but it was easy enough to completely change the cause without being dishonest. "5 Why" style analysis is really easy to steer toward whatever you want to blame.
Another commenter pointed to the similar implications for new iPhone models.

Unless iFixit et al releases an affordable home glass-to-aluminum welding solution, I think Apple may win the cat-and-mouse 3rd party repair game for now.

Sad, really.
That is too bad. What distro are you on? What version of mesa are you using?
The real man at fault here, of course, was the bartender that served the driver his last drink. Isn't it obvious? /s
The two main ways ads have of tracking users are:

* Cookies: ads ask the browser to store something, later they can ask what the stored value is.

* Fingerprinting: ads collect enough information about the browser that they can distinguish it from other users' browsers.

While cookies aren't ideal, I think an ad industry that uses them is a lot better than one that uses fingerprinting. The key differences are user control and visibility. If you clear your browsing history, or close an incognito tab, your cookies are gone but your fingerprint is unchanged. Similarly, you can see who's setting cookies but you have no idea who is trying to fingerprint you.
Are there statistics that compare open admissions and selective schools?

(If performance at an identifiable subset of schools is better, then it's more that spending resources on the other schools is questionable than it is that higher education is in a crisis)
Who cares! Obviously Givero...
I can't fully understand the nature of this condition. Can you visualize faces? I assume you can't, but I guess you will be able to, say, describe someone's face without having him/her standing right in front of you, am I right?
A lot of smaller/early stage/seed startups actually do this. It's a restricted stock grant. And for the people saying they don't do it because of taxation on an illiquid asset, this is why 83(b)'s exist. They let you pay the full tax on a stock grant at time of the grant, not time of vesting.

You get a 409A valuation to establish the Fair Market Value of your stock. That valuation isn't based on the same criteria that investors use, it is much more rigorous and based on income, cash in the bank, etc. You could very well have a company raise money at at $10MM cap and be "worth" less than $1MM. If you grant someone stock at that price, their taxable income will be negligible - usually only a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, and then they don't have a giant tax bill at the end.

You still have to pay capital gains, but that only applies when you sell the stock, so you have the money to pay it.
Cool, so it gets better the same way your 15 year old laptop gets better?
That was meant as a sarcasm and I was pretty sure anybody who hates electron would get it. Sadly, no.