skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wonder about these pot calling kettle black statistics. This is normal in the US too. Over 11% of US residential property sits unrented and unused.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/id/41355854
To make sure I understand, you're willing to endure an innovation-stifling technology monoculture in the U.S. in order to defend against a hypothetical Chinese threat?
“The CO2 given off to produce the electricity that powers such vehicles also needs to be factored in”.

They seem to be assuming that electricity production is always going to be based off of burning fossil fuels. Also, the whole argument reeks of reductio ad absurdum.
I'd be curious. Is there a correlation between rising living costs (comprised mostly of housing costs) and lower birth rates?

Japan is a social laboratory for the west and we see similar phenomena in the west these days.
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>Disclaimer because you’ll undoubtably go through my comment history

I have never understood why this is considered to be bad form.

Going through someone's comment history often provides useful context and is often one of the quickest ways to try and find out if they are discussing something in bad faith or not.

Plus it can often just be interesting.

To try and assert that it is impolite for people to read what you have chosen to post on a public forum, purely because it happens to be from a previous discussion, is to attempt to enforce a social stigma on base curiosity.

Luckily it has about as much sway as farting into a thunderstorm, but why try it in the first place?

Nobody would take an author seriously if they tried to insist that people reviewing their new book aren't allowed to read the old ones and I feel the same logic applies here.
feedback about what surprised you in the rankings will be greatly welcome. it's the most comprehensive rankings that exist, I would love to answer questions about the rankings algorithm.
Calling the evidence that education(post high school) improves intelligence scant would be generous.
What if gigs aren't a stop-gap, but the way our economy and society is failing people?

This has been going on for decades---I can remember complaints about UPS, etc., delivery employees being replaced by contractors, and I've worked for places with the infamous 19.5hr/wk schedule.
In my experience this kind of argument is usually given by people who don’t understand what does it mean to be poor. Poverty incapacitates the rational mind; economic reason is replaced by survival instinct. There was a paper not that long ago that said that people are only rational when they’re concentrating on the decision at hand. If you live paycheck to paycheck and have to make decisions like food or medicine daily, your mental reserves are depleted.

Whether Uber drivers are this poor is an open question; I’d wager some are.
No.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve#History
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Niggard has no etymological, denotational, or connotational connection to a racial slur. It’s a little astounding to me that it’s a bad word now that people are afraid to even type because it sounds sorta like one until you get the whole word out.
To make this work you have to randomize people to the exercise and no exercise groups. How to do good science is pretty well known.
You can also dial emergency contacts without unlocking the phone. They are accessible from the medical ID page on iOS, I assume Android has similar.
When does an apple become an orange?

You are presupposing the two categories are on the same spectrum.
If the anti vaxx bullshit were LITERALLY NOT ALLOWED, i for one would be SO MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN IT and about 200000x more likely to become a crazy anti vaxxer.

Banning “fat people hate” makes hating fat people seem totally radical, fringe, and thus badass.
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And just like it did in the early 1900s, the government will again adapt with new regulations that take the gig economy into account.
Wait, you are unironically suggesting people on HN are being brainwashed while defending FB?

Poe's law is too strong on this one!
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That is what advocacy is for.

I stopped using it based on advocacy by others.

You can too.
If you read the article you'd realize they're still late compared to western nuclear technology. It's great that they invest a lot in the technology but that's both wrong and premature to award them any achievement.
I'd also add that people who have long commutes aren't represented in the city they work in, although they have a voice at the state level.
I understand that we can't validate by time. But we can go fetch revocation lists.
Still that is only greenhouse gasses and not full environmental impact. Renewables take up a lot of space.
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>1. The device doesn't have a battery, so when it boots it thinks the time is Jan 1, 1970. X.509 wasn't even invented at that point so there are no valid certificates for that date.

Defaulting to date of manufacture instead of unix timestamp 0 would get you closer, although it's still not a solution.

You could also periodically store time in a non volatile memory, to be loaded on boot.
Well the concept of free speech I mentioned wasn't 'anyone can say anything anywhere with no consequences', since that's something practically no one wants for obvious reasons.

Obviously you should be allowed to boot people from your house for being an asshole. And many businesses should probably also have the same right.

But there's also the ambiguities that mean it should be as simple as 'private property overrides everything else'. Some companies are utilities, and can't dictate whether someone can use their service based on personal views (electricity companies, water companies, telephone networks, etc). Sometimes someone's role means they can't be that selective about what they hear, like how a judge found it was unconstitutional for Trump to block people on Twitter. And there are issues about either public vs private property (like for company towns) or instances where a company is so large and has such a huge share of the market (like a monopoly) that you could argue whether they should be able to pick and choose what they like.
Wasn't there a study that demonstrated that most males would imagine a person always being male first - unless the opposite would be proven?
I don't think I've seen this viewpoint anywhere else, but Langrange multipliers in the calculus of variations are a well known thing, and the connection between Lagrange multipliers and the Legendre transform is a well known thing, so I'm sure you can find it in a book somewhere.

I've not read any book on the calculus of variations, but I think that the book by Gelfand and Fomin is the standard book. Maybe that is suitable?

By the way, you can motivate the Legendre transform / Langrange multipliers like this. Suppose we want to minimise f(x) subject to g(x) = 0. We can add the constraint g(x) = 0 to the objective function by defining Q(x) = 0 if g(x) = 0 and Q(x) = infinite otherwise. Then the problem is min f(x) + Q(x). This seems like the kind of thing that doesn't help, but now write Q(x) = max_p (p g(x)). You can see that this is indeed the same as the previous definition of Q. So we can write that problem as min_x max_p f(x) + p g(x). This is a bit silly, and the usual way to explain Lagrange multipliers is probably better, but you may find it amusing.
Sure we’re ahead. But we’ve stopped trying, and diverted our resources to dead end technology.
> Let's not conflate hateful views with 'toxic' views.

Is this a terminological distinction you just made up? In the usage I'm familiar neither "hateful" nor "toxic" is a term of art.
Maybe not but Facebook could be looked at as a resource to fulfill or strengthen a basic human need: human connection (like electricity can fulfill or strengthen climate control so we can survive harsher weather).
I've often wondered the same thing. What if the entire universe is finite, but something like 1^(enormously large number) times larger than the observable universe? We could be this tiny speck of a backwater that's completely unrepresentative of the overall universe. The Big Bang itself could have been a minuscule local disturbance that took place in some small part of the overall universe which is trillions of times older.
This is an instance of Jevon's paradox. The more housing you build to meet housing need of people then even more people will come in creating even larger demand for housing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
It's probably got less to do with PayPal purposely stealing from their customers, and more to do with PayPal's software freezing accounts of innocent people, and PayPal not being willing to allocate the resources necessary to prevent this theft.
> This is HN, where it is presumed that people who absolutely have the willpower to exert personal responsibility instead convince themselves that they don't, so that they can play the victim.

If there's somewhere humans don't do that, sign me up. Not that I'd probably pass the entrance test but my failure would be enlightening.
I am of the opinion anybody can learn to program, but there is not an infinite demand for developers. In fact, more probably already exist than necessary. Any jobs that can't be filled are probably more the result of hiring inefficiencies than anything else.

Also, software development as a discipline is filled with highly (and formally) educated people. A lot of the non-traditional (non-computer science) developers at least come from a math/science/engineering background. Even if you have the skills, these people will not allow their ranks to be sullied by the "unwashed masses" who didn't "work as hard" as they did. (Quotations to indicate these are not my personal thoughts, but I am not quoting a specific source).
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Universal health care would drastically improve the situation by removing a big percentage of the competitive advantage of gig companies.

More generally, regulation is needed that removes all financial incentives to prefer gig workers and contractors over full time employees. This would be good for both gig workers (better benefits), and full time workers (less wage pressure from competition from workers with unsustainable compensation).
> https://www.commentarymagazine.com/issues/ which is clearly coming from a very ideological place.

"Hate Crime Hoaxes and Why They Happen"

"Kavanaugh and the Assault on Men"

Yikes.
Of course. It’s amazing to me that we often look for already existing solutions to most of our problem in life and work, except when it comes to relationships. Most times others have already experienced what we are struggling with and have found good ways of making it work. This is why I nerd out about this stuff so much: there is a whole world of custom made relationships out there and some have books, studies, opinion pieces, etc.
You seem to be making some assumptions: (1) Users that went inactive on Reddit went somewhere else, and (2) Users that didn't go inactive didn't go anywhere else. I don't think either of these assumptions are true.

The fact is, we don't have a way to track users between platforms.
Likewise murderer or white supermacis can say the same thing, that they don't care what you think, your morality is wrong and you don't deserve a seat at society's table
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>with some success

How do you measure it?
No way they do ... "indeed.com" has no backing of those numbers.
Nice article, especially how it explains just how you can use said semantic elements for more readable source code.

And yeah, there's no reason not to use semantic HTML now, or to create sites/apps infected with divitis. Things like article, aside, footer, header, nav, section, etc have been supported in almost all browsers for years now, and main has pretty much unanimous support too. Unless you're designing for IE 8 (in which case your app probably won't work anyway), there's no reason to use so many divs.
This reminds me of Evidence Based Scheduling: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
I used to think that.
Until I met my true love.
Hope you get to experience it some day.
23+ years of embarrassingly romantic, lustful, sacrificial, unconditional straight-out-of-a-Shakespearean-sonnet divine true love.

There is such a thing. Rare. But it does exist.
IDA 7.0 is free for non-commercial use, so I think Dolphin developers could've used it.
We're building a very high-level component library ( EditableCard, FormModal, etc. ) at work with Ant Design and mobx. It helps us build our most common UIs very quickly, with very little lines of code, and improvements in one place are then deployed everywhere (like better error handling).

It's still very early / immature but I'd love to hear people's biggest confusions or gripes with it as it exists now:

https://mighty-justice.github.io/fields-ant/
Is there any gig economy app that simply creates a marketplace (like Craigslist)? This seems like it would be far preferable, because otherwise you're just asking people to be an employee without any employee protection.

In a marketplace system, these people aren't employees; they're owners of their own business.
That’s fair i did remove that context. The latter half is a valid point.
How is the cost of failure low? If you decide to go in business for yourself and it doesn’t make any money for 3 years, and you are just making non west coast salaries, you’re still potentially out of half a million dollars or more in total comp.

And any money that you invested in your company.

If you are talking about starting a business on the side and working full time, that means you are sacrificing some combination of time with your family, exercise, and time that you could be putting in getting ahead at your current job or acquiring skills that would help you get a better paying job.

It doesn’t make sense statistically to take on “one million times the risk” unless the upside is much higher. These days, a CS Major can spend a year learning “leetCode” and study “Cracking the Code” and easily get a job at a FAANG making a quarter million - not that I would personally want to.
> The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections

An economy is an inanimate object; it can't #{active_verb} something. This may sound nitpicky, but: language carries meaning; language influences perception; and, in this case, language ascribes blame.

Insofar as Ameirica is concerned, the contractors working for gig apps, like Uber or Postmates, have chosen not to exercise their rights to worker protections. Even as contractors, giggers have a legal right to unionize, collectively bargain, and form a cartel to demand better compensation. These people have chosen not to.

That's not to say organizing is "easy" -- especially when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck -- it's not. But, to the degree that contractors are upset enough to act, organizing is feasible and achievable.[1] Self-organization is the free-market solution to a person feeling exploited or trampled upon by his boss. No government intervention is required.

Given that the right to exercise collective bargaining is a choice, and afaik the majority of giggers do not collectively bargain, the rational conclusion is that these gig contractors aren't upset enough about the terms of their gig to take action.

[1] https://drivers-united.org/
As it happens, pianos are deliberately tuned slightly flat in the bass and slightly sharp in the treble, to compensate for the inharmonicity of vibrating strings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning
Subsidized daycare can boost the economy: more people having kids, and more people on the workforce.

(Quebec/Canada has a mix of semi-state-owned daycare, which are great, but few, and subsidized private daycare, which aren't as good, but usually not that bad)
Reminds me of what I hear over and over and over about the "crisis" shortage of truck drivers in America, and because of this "crisis" they just have to spend billions developing automated trucks that will put millions of current drivers out of work.

It's simple economics - if there truly is a shortage of drivers, offer a higher salary. Yes, it really is that simple.

There's no shortage of drivers - or of people who would become drivers. There's a shortage of people who will accept a low-ball wage, whereas with an autonomous truck you don't have to deal with inconvenient things like salary, health insurance, union dues, etc.
> too easy to access. Hard to control who gets in and what they say.

I don't really get that for an org that runs their own IRC servers. Requiring external registration, rate limiting, content filtering, ... all are available options. Just because the majority(?) of IRC networks allows access freely doesn't mean you have to. I'm not sure what other systems would add in this regard an IRC server can't do.
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The fanaticism is in employers hunting for ways not to pay for any time not directly coupled to revenue. With gig work, this is tracked down to the millisecond.
Hi,

I work at Mambu and our clients are predominantly Startups - https://www.mambu.com/clients Feel free to drop me an email at alexey.lapusta@mambu.com

Although we do not provide payment services to businesses, rather a SaaS platform for Financial Institutions (e.g. WireCard may use Mambu as their Core Banking when providing banking services to their customers).
I'm amazed that outside a wartime situation that flying a plane like that with a known equipment failure (of that nature especially) was allowed. And if it wasn't allowed, I'm surprised it didn't end up in a grounding of the pilot.
Not if they’re not well-off in a country that has Free Basics. Hard to say no to free when not just your friends and family, but pretty much your culture, uses Facebook as it’s the de facto standard.
Blaming the victims.Call it what it is what it has all way been, people with advantages taking advantage of people and then blaming them for being them. Nothing new.
This week Microsoft became the third company to be worth over a trillion US dollars. I don't think it's in decline.
Doesent take entire chain into account. Also keep in mind wind and solar needs backup powers thats often coal. Nuclear is by far the grenest.
The sad part is really the social ostracism. Other factors can be fixed or bypassed, but culture is always the hardest bit.
An economy is an inanimate object; it can't #{active_verb} something. This may sound nitpicky, but: language carries meaning; language influences perception; and, in this case, language ascribes blame.

Fine: the gig business model is undermining.
I was very surprised reading because I thought it sounded _somewhat_ reasonable when she was describing the problem. However her solution is very drastic. I don think we have any precedent for knowing how the market would respond to such heavy handed regulation. I would have to agree she is out of touch there.
The problem is that the usefulness of primes comes from the ability to break down a number into a unique set of primes, and including 1 as a prime defeats that usefulness. While your understanding of primes is an elegant idea, in sciences, usefulness trumps elegance.

From a programmer's point of view, a similar thing happens with Lisp. Lisp is a very elegant language due to its minimal structure, but not a very useful one with respect to how often it is used.
That's not tying up wealth, it's tying up money, and I don't see how that is even one of the many problems with the situation in e.g. SF.
For primary residences you could also do things like defer payment on the increases until sale, so no one is forced out of their home but the people who have huge capital gains do not also get a tax break. Rental property shouldn't need a special break though, if there's a housing shortage and prices are up it's very likely that rents are up too.
Nice read. I often notice something similar during software development. It's simple stuff like "I have to do a full rebuild or it won't work" or "I have to build twice" etc pp. I cannot understand how others can simply ignore what could indicate a fundamental problem.

It's fucking terrifying.
It's funny to see the incentives at play. The rent control mechanisms are a hidden redistribution channel from money collected by income taxes straight to pockets of landlords.

Ie. gov gives rent subsidies of $100 to poor. Landlords react by rising rent prices by $100 because od this new 'disposable income'. The poor don't feel any difference, only the working population which gets squeezed.

The money flows from workers and businesses through the poor straight to rentiers.
I never understood the concept of developing love. I can understand falling in. Love is something you notice you already always have had.

But I don't actually need to understand your experience to accept that that's how it happens for you.

For me, there's two big parts:

1) I can tell. Both who you are, and how I am reacting to that, very quickly, very deeply. Consistently, this applies even to the parts of each of us that are revealed later on; tritely (and topically for HN) I also find this is true about software libraries and SaaS products: If it starts easy, it pretty much stays easy, and if it starts hard, it pretty much stays hard. Note that unfamiliarity != hard.

2) I can adjust. I don't change who I am to match someone else, but, my preferences DO change to match THEM. It's actually one of my favorite feelings, and every relationship I've ever been in I've noticed when their scent started to be my preference. Along with this, many little things are fungible, or at least, are only ever momentary irritation.

But, I do actually understand developing love. I definitely also feel that, I see those moments where a little thing they do becomes deeply enjoyable and meaningful, that feeling of a little bit deeper of a connection forming. I know that feeling. I also know this initial recognition.
It has neither a decompiler nor PowerPC support.
So the first states to grant women's suffrage were?

And this was a result somehow of political radicalism?

This is your own example BTW that you have gone on and on about "women's suffrage".

You think somehow I didn't sit in many humanities classes and thus am not "educated" after run down I gave you in last post? Cmmon my friend.

You could lose the hostile revolution tone. It isn't actually cool outside of a few college campuses, and truth be told, it isn't really cool there either.

Thread is getting too skinny so you can have last post. I'll read it but am out.
A significant percentage of people are not financially stable enough to buy a home and pay a monthly mortgage on time for 15-30 years. But they are able to rent.
> government effectively shutdown the option to IPO for all but the largest companies with Sarbanes Oxley

Can you elaborate on that, or provide a link to someoene else who can? It seems like a bit of a stretch TBH, but I'm willing to consider reasoned arguments.
Ha, Rick and Morty, best show ever ;-)
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"a form", yes. But it is a very superficial similarity. As long as you have enough money and as along as you pay people on time, no one will care about what else you do with your life.

The social credit score in China is based on state-sponsored gamification and the latest psychological insights. This takes things to a completely different level.
It's undermining labor unions and ever-meddling State.