skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Organizations that live on indefinitely- governments, universities, churches- don't give up land almost as a rule. One or two hundred years from now, they might really need this or that plot, and it could be nearly impossible to acquire then.

One easy to appreciate example are universities & other schools holding (& sometimes leasing) land adjacent to them. If they didn't, in the distant future if they need to expand, some scalper or holdout could cause large problems.
I would assume there are things you also haven't been exposed to that would help you reach your goals faster and be more fulfilling than what you currently do.

I wouldn't use the word ignorant for that, but I also wouldn't argue about whether the definition would apply.
Most of the old homes are actually not worth living in. Construction is so terrible you are practically living outside in terms of insulation. Earthquake hazards with huge shingle roofs unlike anything in US. Even newer construction that’s not even 10 years old is still shit compared to US standards. There is a lot that can be said about why but it would take up a full essay.
I’d highly recommend you start laying the ground work for this to become your reality. It may take six to twelve months, but some simple repetition around proposing this as an option may turn out well for you!

When I work with managers who need to create change, I remind them that it took years for institutional baggage to grow. It’s reasonable to assume that it will take at minimum months to unravel.
Would they be out of work otherwise? I saw no lack of deliveries or taxis ten or twenty years ago.

Delivery drivers have been moved from secure employment to the gig economy and enforced self-employment. Uber drivers would previously have been taxi or private hire drivers.

The problem comes when, after a few months, many realise that the gig role they took simply doesn't pay. Or pays significantly less than minimum wage without rights and benefits that everyone else in the economy takes for granted.

For the most part it's simply a way of larger companies outsourcing part of their labour costs to the state (via top-up benefits).
> There are newbies posting every single day asking why "a.b.c" crashed in Swift.

That is fair. And totally show why optionals are the right thing. Because obj-c and others NOT have it the world suck MUCH more. That is why nulls are the billon dollar MISTAKE with capital letters.

The solution is to more and more languages, libraries and frameworks embrace the idea of algebraic types, not just declare "interfacing with old codebases with this huge MISTAKE is not nice, so why bother??".

What rust make nice is declare stuff as UNSAFE. I wish this was the case with swift and obj-c so make clear to everyone that you have entered the realm of nasty things and must be more careful...
The most impressive outdoor installations we saw during Milan Design Week 2019
I get the same treatment (and I am also not in the EU), but I have to say: apart from this specific link not working, their "European Union Experience" seems so much more uncluttered than all the other news sites out there!

It seems to be just news articles without all the bullshit. (It redirected me to https://eu.usatoday.com/, so maybe U.S. viewers can also experience it.)

It's even better than lite.cnn.io and thin.npr.org, because it is not all text but also has some pictures to the articles, which I want to see.
Ah I think you're right looks like I misread it haha.
How far should people be expected to commute from these less diserable locations to their place of employment?

Localities with an abundance of cheap housing tend to have significantly higher unemployment rates[1],

[1] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/employment-rese...
My take is that gig economies are a band aid solution over the fact that a large fraction of the workforce needs to retrain itself in tech. I'm optimistic about universal basic income to help people get started but let's be real tech is gonna be a huge pie and I find comments like there's no way a truck driver can learn how to program extremely cynical. Relative to a 1,000 years ago any human today is a technological genius so we shouldn't underestimate humans.
There has been a lot of progress. Lots of hurdles were overcome. If you put the chance of success st 5% if we invest another 50 billion, we should do it. In the long run, it will ensure our future.
I can produce hundreds of posts from a chosen narrative and filtered or manufactured truths before you can construct a well sourced and thought out counter argument. Good ideas don't naturally win, for the simple reason that the energy cost is asymmetrical, and people's rationality is dependant on access to facts, which further adds energy cost to the good idea side. Bad ideas only need to spread, not worry about facts or reasoning.
Where do your tax dollars go? Detailed U.S. budget breakdown for FY19
To be honest I wasn't surprised when it was revealed they done this. The phone system is SIGINT-Enabled and always was from the outset. What did surprise me was how they went after the weak crypto and weak ciphersuites used to secure webpages. Matt Green goes into this in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKncw6mIMJQ
Warren goes a bit incoherent when she writes that Amazon buying Whole Foods is a big anti-competitive problem...
Interesting read. I'm an engineer and had considered 1 to be prime.

I guess you can say that 1 is just an absolute unit.
Scope creep - (1) doesn't need to include "prosecutors and policians", those can come later. In fact, keeping immunity up for those two for the first decade or two means they're in a much safer position to call out the police force without having to fear legal reprisal over having (inadvertantly, or intentionally) collaborated with them.

Dismantle it in stages, because trying to do it all on one go is a recipe for failure.
Correct. The city council is elected by residents of the city, and land owners have a strong financial incentive to elect representatives who will limit housing. (The shortage drives-up their property values)

You might think that renters living in the city would eventually outweigh the landowners and elect council members in favor of new housing, but instead SF passed a rent control measure which prevents the current renters from feeling the sting of the housing shortage so they aren't strongly incentivized to vote for more housing either.
"Toxic" means "I may have common ground with this person but I can't tell because this private square keeps giving megaphones to trolls who are drowning both of us out."

The article, GaTech, and HN seem to be skirting around that issue.
Easy Earnings
easy earnings every day
https://coincircle.com/l/kXwv7ITMDM
any benchmarks?
Odd that a website like this isn't maintained by the government itself.
Reddit has always been an echo chamber. Remember RON PAUL 2008? You’re just mad that it’s a different kind of echo chamber now.
I do!

One of my favorite is "Don't Fidget with Widgets, Draw!" (https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-91-6.pdf) It's modern enough to be understandable, and while it's referencing Ezd (a Scheme drawing system) it greatly influenced Tk (which is still used in all kinds of heavy-hitting EDA software).

That one's only been around for 28 years though (well, the paper was published in 1991, so code was before that...) but let's go further:

The drawing system(s) that greatly influenced Ezd came largely from Xerox PARC, such as ALTO:
https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code...

There's code in there for a vector drawing program (in 1980!), as well as interacting widgets. Let's go back further...

Finally, we have to mention the Mother of All Demos, in 1968:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Which if you haven't watched MOAD before, give it a spin. It will still blow your mind, but the interactive graphical drawing mechanisms will be recognizable.

Also, this "paint the screen every time" method is how a tremendous number of people who cut their teeth on DOS did things on the screen. DOS release date: 1981. So you don't have to have been an academic (which I am NOT) to have tried these techniques while solving practical problems.

As far as books:
Computer Graphics
Principles and Practice in C (later editions use C#/C++/etc. - the ideas are the same)

The 1995/96 one talks about retained mode graphics directly. That book has been standard in "intro computer graphics" courses for as long as it's been out. So at least 20+ years it's been the "start here" book.

So yea, this stuff has been around for a while...
I feel sorry for everyone on Facebook. They are using a service where the owner originally thought that anyone who trusted him with their data was, in his own words, 'a dumb fuck'. And really the only thing that has changed since that became public knowledge, given the lack of concern the users show for this statement, is that now he knows that they are.
How can you state that rent seeking is a negative on society? How is it not just optimal capital allocation?
Read the article, it's not just the US, South Africa too. And I know it was the same in France and many European countries to prevent low skilled immigrants from getting jobs. My point is, worker protections almost by definition prevent low skilled workers from getting jobs because they impose additional costs that low skilled workers are the first to pay by losing job opportunities. In the economy, any additional cost has to be paid by someone eventually, guess who that usually is.
Yes, but we have 4,000 cities in the US, yet only something like 1 first class tech hub and two second class tech hubs.

If we veer into market theory for a moment, it's better for everyone if there are many cities that are competitive places for technology companies.
That's going to happen to areas no matter what. There is very little you can do about that.

What we can do is increase housing supply so that prices of all homes are lower.
I assume they meant to say it creates no radioactive byproducts.

Article seems to have been very poorly edited.
Since the site mentions "An Introduction to Statistical Learning":

The first book on statistical learning by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, which is absolutely terrific, is freely available for download:

The Elements of Statistical Learning

http://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/
The Disposable DVD That Failed (Thankfully) [video]
It very much is. All it can take is a single comment by someone on a popular sub to have someone click their profile to read more, stumbling upon more of the same affirming content.
The gig economy is exactly what the world needs: flexible, fungible work that provides opportunities to people who might not otherwise be able to get full-time jobs. College students, mothers, elderly, etc. Anyone who needs tremendous flexibility in their schedules.

This is a great thing and I’m not sure what all the hate is about.
How does ownership of apartments work in California?

In the UK, owning a flat is decidedly inferior to owning a house. In large blocks you will almost always have a leasehold, which almost always means being subject to a whole host of onerous conditions from the actual building's owner.

Share of freehold arrangements exist in smaller properties like old converted houses. But that only increases density slightly, and these sorts of places aren't really built any more; new developments are usually huge tower blocks or little houses.

I'm looking at buying a place soon and will be going for a small freehold house simply because that's the only way to actually own property in the UK as far as I can tell. I've wasted far too much time on attempting to negotiate sane leasehold conditions.
That is higher risk and many, many people cannot accept it. They are in no position to lose everything on your dumb startup idea.
I wouldn't say these are level-up but rather some introductory material that covers the basics.

Swapping Introduction to Statistical Learning for Elements of Statistical Learning is a good step-up if you don't need as much hand-holding (it's essentially the same book, by the same author just more thorough). Then, adding Bishop's ML book is a good idea. Although also introductory, it covers a lot more topics (some kernel methods and probabilistic stuff) and in a more disciplined way.

Also, while not that popular in the deep learning hype era, Vapnik's Nature of Statistical Learning is a great read.
As someone who participated in several and moderated one “toxic” subreddit, I can say that yes, it did work, on Reddit and elsewhere. I lost my discovery engine for like minded sociopaths and the knowledge sharing community that we had.
This isn't a quantitative opinion, but here's how I think about it. Generally hate springs from some kind of problem or ideological bent in a person's life, but those problems and bents are initially undirected and latent. Eventually, someone comes up with a story that speaks to these impulses and describes why a particular group is the cause of their ills, despite ahistoricism or any kind of grounded logical argument (some groups can be actual problems such as slave masters or a literal invading army).

The inchoate pain these latent hate group members feel could be resolved in another way by accurately portraying the source of their problem, and giving them a realistic way of solving it. However, often in our society, we don't provide these things. Therefore, they remain susceptible.

When a hater that tells a powerful narrative gets together with others, this becomes dangerous. The group now validates their beliefs and it becomes self-reinforcing and actionable.

Deplatforming prevents hate groups from getting new recruits by making these stories and groups harder to access. It also is a message to the more marginal members that what they are doing is shunned and they should think hard about what they are doing. Essentially, the idea is prevent these small scale problems from turning into a social movement that would be highly destructive.

Is it a bandaid? Yes. We have to work much harder on our social and economic problems to make sure everyone is included in society and can live a decent life. That would remove much of the impetus for joining hate groups.
Machine Learning Nonlocal Correlations
It's also why most people won't use one - it'll turn into a cesspit of prejudice and hate.
Is programmatic access available to the database?

EDIT: Actually, if you do a search without providing input, it will apparently return the entire dataset and a download button will appear at the top right. Total csv size is 3.8 MB.
This fake bar reminds me of a fake address bar that Google displays in an AMP viewer and efforts it takes to be able to replace URLs in an address bar instead of just letting the user visit the target site.
For ridesharing apps, at least, it seems clear that the gig economy has grown the total market and hence the number of workers needed to serve this market. Before Uber entered New York there were ~500k cab trips per day: now, yellow cabs only serve 250k trips but 700k trips are performed by ridesharers [1]. The negative effect on employment is about 3x smaller than the positive one.

[1] https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/nyc-taxi-ridehailing-u...
Lists like this are awesome, but I can’t help but think we need some sort of lists tool that lets people create them, others vote on them reddit style, leave comments, rate each item, etc. almost like a subreddit type thing per list, maybe without the temporal decay component of the algorithm.

Then we could have “10 best intro to machine learning resources” as a living breathing list.
I did see that after I posted last night. It looks like they are now an extension.

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-patient-animal.html
I like the nod to Coinbase. For me there needs to be more emphasis on paying with cryptocurrency as a legitimate form of payment. All these gatekeepers listed here can freeze your money at any time and you have to wade through paperwork and boring calls to support-desks to get your money back. With cryptocurrency the trust is already built with smart-contracts and there is no middleman to decide whether payments are released or not.
MobileSafari has an interesting feature that your idea reminded me of: it tries to detect when a site using the Fullscreen API presents an iOS keyboard-lookalike through the location and frequency of your taps on that side of the screen. I’ve gotten the warning when doing something else and was impressed they thought of it.
Not really odd if you know about the power of the police unions.
Designing Email Clients – Steven Sinofsky (Twitter)
Concentration begetting more concentration combined with an unwillingness (don't underestimate SV's ability to dig in its heels) to develop leads to a real estate black hole for dollars, where an ever increasing portion of wealth is diverted to the competition for a place to live.
Hah, NO! I'm getting a kick out of people rediscovering this stuff too, with changed names, and thinking they're on the forefront!

It's hilarious; like AI found a whole new crop of people, but ones that aren't serious enough to do the background reading.
Two women led a protest against Google. Is Google retaliating against them?
Paypal alternatives for mostly _american_ startups.
And Mass grows faster than surface (which seems relevant for irradiation) , so probably larger animals might be less affected.
The point with taxes is they are denominated in dollars or similar so if you conduct your US business in French Franks or Bitcoins or whatever, converting each transaction to dollars on the return would be a pain in the arse which is why most businesses don't do that. Paying isn't a problem - send Franks or whatever to your accountant and they'll sort it.
you pay for open source through adopting the risk of running it, the cost of hosting it, and the time to understand how to maintain and use it.
The whole conversation is a bit abstract at this point, so maybe it wasn't clear: the "cesspool" I'm referring to are virulent racists.

If you believe that either (a) arguments against such people less clear and rational than the racists' arguments, or (b) such people are actually in the majority, then I believe we disagree on things so fundamental we can't have a constructive debate about Reddit's policies.
Part time employment is very different from 'unpredictable hours with no certainty and poor workers' rights' which is what much of the gig economy actually is.

Part time employment with flexible working hours is a good thing, but that's not a benefit that the gig economy delivers, in fact quite the opposite.

An unregulated wage economy suppresses wages to the point that workers must work ever increasing hours to make a living wage. If that stops being the case, there will be someone willing to work a little longer for a little less. This feeds into a cycle where wages are suppressed right down to the point where to make a living wage you actually have to be working all the time.

Far from gaining control to "set your own hours" you actually get pressured into more and more hours.

Contrast to regulated industries where you are either salaried, or supply is restricted so that workers can genuinely earn and set their own schedules without feeling like they'll lose out by taking any breaks.

Describing the gig economy as some kind of workers' nirvana is just deceptive and wrong.
Get in shape. I have problems that come from sitting in front of a computer screen too much, like stiff shoulders. Also aerobic exercise. Gets the blood moving. Of course, things like adjustable standing desk and properly adjusted seating that doesn't let me slouch is also important.
Reminds me of The Riddler...
You do realize that I/O is two thirds of "input, processing, output": what computers do?

What app do you use that takes no input? Or produces no output? Let alone both?
To save some bytes i like to use <i>. It makes any text italic, but that can be fixed with some styling.
>But I don't think we live in that world.

We might not, but denying the possibility only guarantees we move further away from it.
> Using Mergers to Limit Competition.

The problem isn't with tech giants doing M&A, it's that the government effectively shutdown the option to IPO for all but the largest companies with Sarbanes Oxley. Remove that excessive regulation and startups will have a choice other than to sell to FB when they come knocking.
Either that or they work in art, fashion or entertainment.
I found the build up to this through flavors of disk IO in parts 1 and 2 to be very useful to me. Basic stuff but because I had not done system programming since my college days it was a good refresher (and eye-opener).
Maybe dumb, but... Why not just make ntpd actually check certificate revocation? Easier than fixing everything that uses HTTPS, and seems to fix it?
>I imagine they get a pretty low amount of EU traffic, and so went for the least effort path to deal with GDPR.

But they haven't actually dealt with it. This is a common misunderstanding among websites that do this.

EU citizens are not required to identify themselves to you preemptively for GDPR to apply. If I connect to their website via a US VPN and they start tracking me without asking my consent assuming I'm from the US, that's a violation of GDPR.

So, in reality, there are two cases here:

1. They do not operate under EU jurisdiction, and thus might as well not have bothered making the EU specific page since the EU has no leverage over them any more than china can force them to take down articles that paint the chinese government in a negative light.

2. They do operate under EU jurisdiction, in which case their EU specific website is not in and of itself enough to handle their GDPR liability. Regardless on your opinion on VPNs, they must still for example nominate a specific data protection officer if they fall under EU jurisdiction.

I suspect that at least some of the websites with EU specific experiences know that the EU experience legally speaking doesn't achieve anything and are attempting to use them as a protest movement disguised as a self-righteous compliance effort. A whole bunch of other websites then didn't do their homework and are blindly hopping on the bandwagon.

The funny thing is the whole thing is backfiring, since a common reaction is "the EU experience is really nice I wish it was like this for americans as well".
So now to cross-check who’s now working in another state.
Property taxes: even if you own your land, you don't actually own it.
> What are you going to do, set up a central government agency that tells citizens where they can and can't live?

I didn't see api suggest government intervention. I imagine at some point, if FAANG doesn't adjust the wages for their direct, local employees or start to contribute more to supporting service sectors then they'll be forced to decentralize.

I see no insurmountable reasons preventing Google spreading to Wichita, Akron or Chatanooga, the employees just need to start demanding better living conditions. That said, it seems like younger folks want to live in environments more like Tokyo than Des Moines.
AIUI, you can use the shim to boot end-user-enrolled code, even if it's not signed by the MS key, but it will only do so pursuant to direct user interaction. So the shim effectively replicates the standard SB model, where the end-user has the option to disable it or not in the BIOS, but it's enabled by default.
That's what it should be, and what proponents say it is.

But the reality is that established fulltime jobs are being supplied by "the gig economy" creating a class of worker who previously would work full time but now work similar jobs doing mostly similar hours but without the protection they previously had.

If full time jobs are being replaced by ZH contracts to fill the same role, it's not workers' who benefit, it's companies.