skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, the notion that every city should become 'Dubai' is ridiculous.

They don't have to become Dubai. Vienna would probably suffice.

> NYC has already 'verticalized' ... and they are one of the example 'problem cities' - and they still have extreme inequality and 'housing problems'.

Much of NYC's housing would be illegal to build today because of zoning regulations. It's absolutely a part of the problem.

> So when SF crams in 5 million more folks, will they have 'solved the problem'?

SF proper doesn't really need to get 5 million more people, probably. The bay area as a whole does. SF could stand to receive some of that, sure.

> Or will they be just like NYC?

NYC is substantially cheaper as a metro than the bay area despite having a much larger population. Going from bay area affordability to NYC affordability would be a huge win, believe it or not.

> Why haven't Chicago, NY or Hong Kong, with all their 'amazing density' solved this ostensible problem?

Don't know much about Chicago or HK, but NYC still has zoning problems, absolutely. They've gotten more conservative over time.

Now look at Tokyo, which is much more free form with zoning, and -- surprise surprise -- WAY cheaper than SF or NYC, despite being an even larger metro area than either.

> So first, is the notion, hinted above, that 'more density' in no way implies a solution to the problem - because there's nary any limit to how many people might want to come into the city.

And yet, even with 40 million people, Tokyo has done an alright job. I mean, it's still fairly expensive, but nowhere near as bad as the most comparable US cities.

> There's quite a lot of space, there's no reason that even working class folk can't live a decent standard of living.

Who says you can't have density and standard of living? Vienna is one of the most livable cities in the world, and it's far denser than almost all of the bay area. It's probably denser than SF too, despite the stats saying otherwise (Vienna city limits include a lot of green space around the edge that's basically just forest/farms).
I wonder if it's because embalming is a product you can sell someone with a large profit margin because the market price of body embalming is murky at best.
One-Click Cremation
So so evil! What we really need is a total government takeover of private, legally gotten wealth, a la wealth-tax plans of Warren and AOC. Because AOC and Warren know how to spend someone else's money just right enough to stay in power for eternity.
Mainonewill roll out broadband infrastructure across Lagos
- Infant mortality in the Mississippi River delta is higher than in some third world countries.

- Roughly 1.5 million US households are living in 'extreme poverty' by global standards, meaning <$2 per day at ppp before government aid.

- Hookworm is still a relatively common problem in parts of Alabama, because sanitation is nonexistent; sewage is piped from homes but dumped untreated nearby. Outside the US, it's viewed as an "underserved tropical disease" which only goes untreated in the absence of functioning medical systems.

- The UN Human Rights Commission sent a special reporter to the US to study extreme poverty, who concluded that on many metrics like youth poverty rates the US is more comparable to developing or underdeveloped nations than other first world countries: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

This isn't just "we could help poor people more" or "things are less nice than in Canada". Significant portions of the US, mostly in the rural Southeast and West, are literally impoverished at the same rates as mid-rank third world countries.
You can go pretty small: https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2012.21
This is something that I suspect could never be won. Female voices perpetuate the stereotype of a servile woman. Male voices perpetuate the stereotype of a man being more authoritative. A Gender neutral voice will have people queuing up to claim it's not neutral enough, with a long list of specific sounding edge cases arguing that it falls into either of those camps.

FWIW In my language (British) Siri is male by default, as it is apparently in Arabic, Dutch and French also.
He was joking. He probably got startled.
It's not at all unusual to have runs of stories. Stories are not independent things. Stories are the public face of a background process (investigative reporting) that surfaces many interrelated aspects of an issue. Waiting for all the pieces to fall into place is waterfall development, you'd never ship. Writing many stories as the facts become known/interpretable is agile. Stories build over time.
Not sure if I agree. This is how I parsed it:

humans have become less active → our intelligence has suffered as well
I use pass for my password manager which links to my yubikey that has my gpg key on it. My yubikey has touch enabled which means that even if someone got access to my machine with my yubikey on it and asked me to tap they would only get that single password. As far as TOTP is concerned it's the same thing. The TOTP section of my yubikey has it's password and also requires a tap
It's actually kind of cool to watch the animation, the tool maybe can help teach people how to code in a much faster time-lapse way. I personally don't know how to code in Swift but I think I learned a lot just watching the animation and the different snippets. Maybe you can livestream your Metacode app on Twitch for a learning channel.
That's along the lines of hypotheses like lung cancer being the common cause behind smoking and yellowed fingertips.
How about JavaScript and '==' versus '==='?

Or going back and forth between languages that use '==' and JavaScript?

Let's say over all of history there have been a million C/C++ programmers, and each of them has made that mistake ~5 times, in total.

And let's be generous and say that 95% of the time it was found before it got anywhere near production.

That is still 250,000 bugs introduced.

Not to mention how much time is spent tracking down the bug once it has been in the code base for awhile. If it goes unnoticed for a couple of weeks debugging becomes non-linearly harder.
Mobile Developed by 18yrold
Hey everyone thought I point out that a 18 year old designed and developed the worlds first mobile app that lets you find recording studios near you (in any city).. Its called Stugo, the person who made is Yan Gorshtenin, he has been making apps and startups since he was 14!
Are we surprised?

We are effectively in another gilded age. The wealthy are acting much like they did in the last one. Tech is an irrelevance here.
The problem is wealthy people, not just wealthy liberals.
Zoning is half the battle, but municipal boundaries are equally absurd. Many town boundaries are still where they were 50 years ago, but the economic reality has moved past them. For example, a meaningless line between the nonexistent "places" of "San Francisco" and "Brisbane" constrains the development of Hunter's Point.

As it is, if one municipality upzones alone, they see an increase in demand and the neighboring municipalities see a decrease in demand. As a result, whoever blinks first loses. So Palo Alto wants San Francisco to upzone and San Francisco wants Palo Alto to upzone.

This problem is systemic: it particularly affects suburbs that were originally created by segregation, most famously contributing to Detroit's budget crisis.

In ancient times, cities were autonomous units, defended by local armies. The idea of a "suburb" financially independent of the main city was unthinkable; the city was the state. The modern US has created a system of social organization with entities called "cities" and "towns" which are really nothing of the sort; they are more like electoral fiefdoms, chartered by whit of the state government usually back in the time when we were still killing Indians and promoting racial hierarchies. And these "towns" have given rise to their own mythology, with a call to defend "our community" (usually from annexation) which is neither ours nor a community, but a haphazardly sown legal artifice whose primary effect in reality is moving tax money around and putting up signs.

This whole charade has got to end sometime. But what would that look like? And how can it be squared with our love of bottom-up governance, which, via English common law, has always been a part of America?
Cemeteries aren’t for the dead, they’re for the living.
Where Trump went wrong in the US-China trade war
I haven't watched The Big Bang Theory regularly in a long time but I always enjoy it when I catch it in re-runs. A lot of people claim to hate it because it makes fun of "nerd stereotypes". I never found it insulting, though. Exaggerated, sure, but it's a sitcom, it's supposed to be exaggerated. A lot of the fun of the show is the characters "taking the piss out of each other" [1]. Not everyone will like that kind of humor but it's pretty common in sitcoms and a lot of people seem to enjoy it.

It seems to be common for people who dislike BBT to complain that it ridicules nerds as a class. I don't think that's right at all. Does anyone think that "Scrubs"[2] ridiculed doctors and other healthcare professionals as a general class?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series)
The design is too custom for me. E.g. the custom font looks out of place on iOS. The custom navigation controls too.
I think it's a fine idea, but qualifying for protection and the exclusivity terms are maybe out of touch with reality.

Software patents in particular shouldn't get 20 years. That made sense in general in the 19th century; it's an eternity today for software. Similarly, the extra exclusivity opportunities drugmakers have (mashups, etc) may be too friendly now.
> Because it's anti-democratic?

Good thing the US is a federal republic
In general, why treat dead bodies any more specially than any other piece of organic matter? Use them for compost, eat them, make clothing out of the skin, etc. What's the problem? We do it to animals, and humans are just another kind of animal.
Not directly re passing hashmaps but related:

He writes how keyword parameters helped evolve the code. Today we might say “anti-fragile”.

> Rtml even depended heavily on keyword parameters, which up to that time I had always considered one of the more dubious features of Common Lisp. Because of the way Web-based software gets released, you have to design the software so that it's easy to change. And Rtml itself had to be easy to change, just like any other part of the software. Most of the operators in Rtml were designed to take keyword parameters, and what a help that turned out to be. If I wanted to add another dimension to the behavior of one of the operators, I could just add a new keyword parameter, and everyone's existing templates would continue to work. A few of the Rtml operators didn't take keyword parameters, because I didn't think I'd ever need to change them, and almost every one I ended up kicking myself about later. If I could go back and start over from scratch, one of the things I'd change would be that I'd make every Rtml operator take keyword parameters.
Just read it, awesome book, I pass DR. Brackmanns office in San Diego almost every day. Didn't find out till after I finished the book and looked him up. Wild, thanks for the recommendation!
This was a fun read, but my guess is you could accomplish the same outcome (finding out it has nothing to do with the preparation process) merely by offering someone at Domino's a $20 bill to spill the details.
Cool story bruh. Especially the part where you basically let a known criminal go without notifying law enforcement that later lead to said criminal raping and killing a 13yo girl.

I can't get over how casually he dropped that fact as if it had nothing to do with him.
Even Carl Friedrich Gauss made some small errors in factoring of (14033378718^2 + 1)!
> The more you build the more people will come.

Sure, but demand is not infinite.

> When can you consider a city to be full?

No such thing.

> Are you ok with raising a family in a 400 sq. feet condo like people do in Asia? Because if you increase density that's going to be a new standard for American cities.

I'd rather that be an option than only having slightly larger apartments that are unaffordable, like the bay area currently does.

I think Vienna is a better model, though. Dense and highly livable. I live in Munich right now, which is similar. It's a great place for families.

> The problem is the high concentration of IT businesses in a small region of space. And the solution is to spread it to other cities across US.

Wrong. Ecosystem effects are a natural phenomenon. There's a reason you tend to get clusters for industries: they're more effective that way. Forcibly spreading out the economic success also means reducing the economic success in total. A much better option is just letting people come. The bay area isn't dense at all right now anyway.
Nice work!

For casuals it'd be nice to have a few preset scenarios, like MarsOne, some space agency proposals, The Martian, etc.

Also maybe a tool-tip to explain what a "Kilopower" is. Some RTG?
I recall that it's hard to compare infant mortality due to reporting differences.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/3/editorial-th...
Speaking of Mars, here's a way to send your name there:

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/orion-first...
They're heavily caricatured. There seems to be the implication that this is just how engineers / nerds are. Sometimes, sure, plenty of those people exist. However, in my experience, it's not that widespread. It's way more common for engineers / nerds to be way more socially adjusted, and well rounded. Making a show where the characters embody the worst stereotypical traits of their subjects causes distortion to the point of becoming unrealistic. In my experience only around 1 in 5 or fewer would even begin to approach these extremes; however if you watched the show you'd expect the numbers to be stacked in the other direction.
I guess I led with the wrong thing. Mainly pointing out that they are not, in the strictest sense anyway, "directly quoted from Jesus" (and it kinda boggles my mind that he wouldn't have the foresight to write things down clearly to help keep things clear and consistent, which would not even have been unprecedented at the time)
No. You can be extremely frugal while stupid as hell.
Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs
Project will end when it discovers it has reinvented HyperCard.
Because it's a bullshit article claiming all American cities are shit when really it's just San Francisco and the liberal elite that are fucking up their own cities. New York as well. The rest of us are doing just fine actually.
What's more surprising is how eagerly the petite bourgeois (most of the people on this board) eat this shit up. If I have to hear another moron defend the "philanthropy" (tax-evasion) of Gates/Zuckerberg I'm going to lose it.
AppleScript (and COBOL before it) was my first thought, too. Gruber calls the problem it exemplifies the "English-likeness monster" (https://daringfireball.net/2005/09/english-likeness_monster).
Looks like a nice app. I do suggest updating the privacy policy. As far as I can tell - this is not Sudoku Extreme.
Jessica Mitford book "The American Way of Death" from 1963 is describe here
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/death/fond-farewells
She documented the undertakers bumping up the prices as you describe (to put it mildly).

I don't however know if the undertaker lobby has since managed to get embalmment mandatory / carteling with the graveyards
https://statsbomb.com/
Seattle makes history with electric garbage truck
And yet attackers routinely make it onto “secure” networks and stay ahead of attack signature databases.

Other layers might save you, you hope, sometimes. It is still irresponsible. Most actively developed and diligently patched software is bad enough; after EOL it is beyond the pale.

The cost needs to be properly internalized so that getting owned really is more expensive than migrating legacy; today I’d have to agree with you that it isn’t.
A couple easy solutions.

1. Hire a female exec to be the liason to handle all 1:1 w/ women.
2. Record everything to ensure there can be no reporting as long as you're truly not being a dick.
3. Bring a woman into the room, and be open that you're wanting to be a safe space for women, then have an anonymous 'suggestion' tool where they can give feedback on how you behaved, and have the same tool have a spot where people could single out others for 'improvement', and the message will ONLY be read by that individual so as not to incite fear of retaliation - but sometimes people say things off the cuff and aren't aware it offends others.

I'm on the 'spectrum' and filtering is sometimes hard for us. If someone says woah buddy that's offensive, I feel shitty for a day or two about it and I don't do it again. I appreciate when people bring things to my attention where I can change/become better - even if it feels uncomfortable for a bit.
It's also a representative democracy.
Pretty sure I first saw this highly-relevant diagram on HN: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2dwmvx/handy_dandy_v...
Maybe spotify downloaded a data breach and ran it against their db to force better password practices?
My user/default password plaintext combo from when I was 15 was leaked in some EA hack a long time ago. That caused such a headache that I stopped using the same thing everywhere except free services. This initially included spotify. Then I upgraded to premium, and about a month later someone was trying to kick me out of my account (listening from their device) and kept playing weird music. Now everything has its own password. EVERYTHING.
Infant mortality overall is higher than in numerous third-world countries, not just in the Mississippi delta.
Another advantage:

- Compared with a repository pattern or typical fat-fingered ORM, separating command and query models in code can make it easier to let the data store / search engine do the things it has been optimised to do well on the query end (joins, views, etc), rather than over-fetching data and doing too much of the translation in code.
Official Tor Browser App Released for Android
Only a Subset of features of natural langage introduce ambiguities, equivocations, etc.
It is perfectly doable to force one and only one meaning per keyword (just like do programming keywords already (if, while, etc), removing the ability to use coreferences, etc
I would love to see a great constrained English, formal without the readability and expressivity loss of formal symbolic grammars / formal maths
So I didn't read the article but 25 years ago I was part of a group of 100 15-17 year olds in the US recruited by Liverpool to see if we were good enough to go over seas to their academy to finish up school. So I've been following them ever since.

What I remember reading in their 2nd game against Barcelona is the data team told the coaches about how Barcelona was slow to setup for set pieces mostly corner kicks. The ball boys are all academy players and the coaches told the ball boys on corner kicks to get the ball to the Liverpool player as quickly as possible.

I believe it went as far as them having more ball boys then usually to just have 4 of them sit with a ball in each corner.
Thanks for the feedback! The app does let you change the font (right now it's locked behind the IAP but I can include the iOS default San Fransisco font in the free in an update). Do you think I should make it the default font?
We already have had a government takeover of private, legally gotten wealth in the form of Republican tax legislation that continues the transfer of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the top 0.1% of families through relaxation of corporate tax rates.

Edit: Censored parts of my comment that dang would probably call unsubstantive
Thanks!

I didn't know about "gclid=...", and "fbid=..." in URLS. After reading your post, I found an extension to remove them:

https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper

With easily installable packages available for Chromium and Firefox:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/utm-tracking-...
Good comment on type of pain. It’s important to realize that there is going to be some discomfort. Another thing is that the more a person lifts the less sore they get. The most sore I get now is when I come back from a 1-2 week vacation. My strength is always great, but that DOMS is rough.
It's not just for home use. China is also exporting their surveillance and social credit technology to Venezuela, Cuba, NK, and even Australia. Those white crowd control vehicles used by Maduro forces to run over dozens of protestors a few weeks ago? Another tailor-made export.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-syste...
...Until the minority becomes the majority.
Hopefully when that happens everyone gets along. Maybe when we're all one mixed up race :)
Its a bit irritating, but empathizing with someone that might ask that...I'm not sure what the problem is? I would know exactly what they meant.
Far Left Publication Insists We Need To Seize The Means Of Production
I wasn't making an argument, just repeating the author's summary that was requested.
And when they want to put it in your (literal) back yard, your property is foreclosed by the city, often for a tiny fraction of the actual market value of your property. Once that occurs - you have two choices - you take it or you put up a lot of money and fight it in the court systems.

In the grand scheme of things, screwing over one person (or one family) could be considered to be OK, given the benefit to the city as a whole. But, having gone through this with my parents in a stupidly small town (40k), I can understand why anybody doesn't want it in their back yard.

And ultimately, they're the tax payers and voters for that city. What they want is valued more than what outsiders want for their city.
A federal republic is a type of representative democracy, so you're correct.
Fuck off, communist scum.
It's a mistake to limit your own understanding the universe to what can be measured by science, while surrounded by perceivable phenomena that science can't explain.

It's at the very least arrogant to reject wholesale the common experience of millions of practitioners over thousands of years. Yoga is not dogmatic. Try it and see for yourself.

As for my specific claim, science has neither proven nor disproven the perception of prana, though you might consider that it has been described in many unconnected sources across the written record of history.
I am kind of OK with that. C# is Microsoft's language, Java is Oracle's, Swift is Apple's, Rust is Mozilla's.
How about #5 The rise of analytics in sports?
A new social platform with 0 fake news by using trusted news sources only
Refactoring means retaining the exact behavior, by definition.

Of course, many refactorings will make it easier to apply performance optimizations later.
Was macOS saying "service battery"?
Hack Premium in-app purchase is only for the dark theme?

Ed: the privacy policy sure is a bit too scary for me. But good luck!
Let them figure that out. Let’s not hold the climate hostage because a few people are going to lose their jobs, otherwise we are no better than companies pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute
It didn't have a laugh track. They used laughter from the live audience. They did edit that to do things like take out people with really weird laughs, and they often used the laughs from a different take than the one that made it into the final edit because no matter how funny a joke was on the first take, it will not seem very funny on the 10th take.
Amazon gamifies its warehouse work: Like “Tetris, but with real boxes”