skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood this argument. Japan is one of the most different places relative to everywhere else. That you can't find a more familiar example almost becomes a counter argument. There is something about housing markets that makes people feel like their city is somehow unique and if they could just fix their local problem everything would be great. While pretty much every in demand major city in the world is having the same problems.
My third smartphone was an android, and unfortunately Android is a 'death by thousands cuts' type of experience....

I remember, even when their Dev APi and kits came out, the API was convoluted, unnecessary complex, and also a 'death by thousands cuts' type of experience.
IOS development is much better, (the pain point on iOS has always been the signing/cert and test distribution experience, but working with XCOde and iOS Simulators is still a much better experience).

Since then I turned into iOS and never looked back.

I think the reason is that google keeps hiring people that know how to implement Radix sort in top of their heads, and balance a Graph under 2 mins, but really know nothing about UX/UI and overall user experience.
Good (native) client work is just not part of their DNA. Youtube, Maps and Gmail being an exception. While Music and all their myriad of chat/social apps being a failure.

I don't think there is going to be a change in the company unless they start fresh with new priorities, user experience before Academic Experimental mental exercises that their APIs tend to become.

Perhaps Fuschia OS is that change.....
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological warfare. If one is already heading there, either take it in the opposite direction, or simply don't reply. This community is about curiosity, and scorched earth doesn't interest or benefit anybody.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, please don't use the 'whataboutism' label in arguments here. It falls under the guideline that asks people not to call names in arguments. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> Google sees 4% across their entire revenue

This is important. Its cost effective for _Google_ to pay big bucks for engineering labor since their network is used so widely. Its not cost effective for WSJ to do so.
Do you not consider yourself a liberal? You’re proposing a socialist redistribution of land, which is far to the left of any major political party.

(I’m pointing out an inconsistency in your political labeling, not commenting on your suggestion.)
The KrispNet audio sounds similar to overly compressed audio filled with artifacts. The ffmpeg interpolated audio sounds better to me.

Not a bad idea though and will probably be a thing with proper refinement.
Illegal dumping happens because enforcement is low and it's easier than the alternatives. It doesn't require alternatives not existing.

And in this case, the reason you'd illegally dump is because it's free, whereas commercial trash collection and composting services aren't (which is generally true in most cities).
Even before you mix in
build-friendly government policies, Japan has had decades long population decline and extremely difficult immigration process.

This is literally the opposite of the major US cities which have seen the most housing inflation. Nothing is built and everybody is moving in.
College debt is one of the reasons that decided to leave the U.S. After I saw the injustice of the federal gov't bailing out morally corrupt banks and Wall St. institutions circa 2008 while leaving me to hang by my college debt, I said enough. One of the best decisions I ever made. Gave me perspective, gave me freedom. The U.S. is giant penal colony.
You seemed to be arguing that Apple was at risk of losing its developers for iPad if it didn't make it suitable as a development platform. That's not plausible.

You seem to be responding to a higher-level comment saying "developers are not the target audience" with "but it's not suitable for developers", which... yeah?
People procrastinate in different ways and for different reasons
I thought I was doing something wrong. But if you read the r/pixel thread I linked above, many other users have the same unboxing experience. I will try to fill in a bug somewhere.

It seems like Google needs to focus on providing a more coherent experience on all devices. Not focusing on just released ones. I understand the Android ecosystem is more complex than the iOS one. But still, the Pixel lineup is quite small.
Find the right pond and it's great.
If you’ve never seen it download an update, then either it is downloading, installing, and rebooting into them them in the background without you noticing at all (impressive) or it’s not receiving security updates (very scary).
Do you mind explaining how is it related to the article? I'm genuinely interested.
> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.”

So I can't run a service for it on VPS at a hosting provider, because I can not share the source to the backup system, hypervisor and load-balancer they use? Are firmware-blobs in my kernel-drivers ok? That seems extremely open and far-reaching, to the point that one could argue that it clearly is intended to forbid offerings as a service, even if it pretends not to.

EDIT: after looking up details about the "comical debate" (quote article), that indeed appears to have been one of the arguments. Not surprising the article badmouths the OSI, but doesn't actually engage with or even dare mention their arguments.
My uncle’s dog grabbed me by the foot and put me on the ground when I was three. The whole incident was over in about two seconds. I wasn’t physically hurt. But I was afraid of dogs for years afterward.

I think the “defect” part is that the panic and anxiety remains even in the face of a vast amount of new information and change. It makes a lot of sense for three-year-old me to fear that dog and be at least cautious of other dogs. It didn’t make any sense for teenage me to be afraid of obviously friendly, familiar dogs who I’ve seen interact with family or friends countless times.
They'll raise prices (which will drop demand) and fire drivers (which will increase waiting time, and hence drop demand).
Long, aligned strands of carbon fiber add rigidity. Chopped up, small bits at random angles does not.

3D printed "carbon fiber" PLA (which is small chopped up bits like you said) actually does not a lot to increase the strength of the plastic. Parts just break around the individual CF bits.

IMO, it's primarily a marketing gimmick. And it chews up your hotend very quickly during extrusion compared to normal PLA, because the material is so abrasive.

If you want stronger prints, you're better off printing in ABS or nylon.
The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s' Most Decadent College
I ran into this recently with vacuum tube diodes. There's a cloud of electrons surrounding the heated ground-plate. The source plate is at high voltage. Increasing the voltage on the grid attracts electrons, which stream from the ground and fly towards the "source." And I'm calling it "source" because the stream of electrons flowing from ground to source is a positive current from source to ground. Thanks, Ben
Accelerating Gradient Boosting Machine
Strange, Wolfram is very fond of claiming credit for inventions that originated before he was born.

But I don't doubt he has staff writing for him. His is a brand name.
From my reading of SSPL v1, it would seem extremely difficult to use in concert with other free software; it requires you to distribute all software[0] you're using to run your service under the SSPL. The trouble is, you can't do that if you're using any other software in your environment that's licensed under another copyleft license such as the GPL. Does this apply all the way down to the Linux kernel? Who knows!

SSPL v2 appears to be an attempt to correct this[1], by explicitly excluding system components and allowing other FSF/OSI approved licenses if you're unable to release something under the SSPL yourself. But note that not even MongoDB, the project that the SSPL came from, is using v2 at the moment.

The GPL and AGPL have been around longer and have much more of a community behind them, and both versions of the SSPL are incompatible with them. At least for the time being, I'm inclined to stick with the AGPL for network services, because I like having access to all the GPL/AGPL code out there. Maybe someday I'll take a look at SSPL v2; I wouldn't touch SSPL v1 with a 10-foot pole.

[0] "all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software"
[1] http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o...
You need algorithms that can learn complex tasks and also reason under uncertainty. Not just uncertainty of sensor inputs but also uncertainty of state. The goal of all of these video games is to develop the algorithms over a wide range of difficulty. So algorithms that have memory, learn / plan and are reasonably robust etc...
You simply need to follow the site guidelines when posting to HN. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment upthread broke at least these two:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It destroys intellectual curiosity, which the site exists for."
I believe this is partly a cultural artifact of Japan being earthquake prone. The severity and frequency of earthquakes used to make it difficult to build housing that would last.
Hypothetically speaking in a world where vehicles are autonomous (no human supervision)and/or electric would Uber be profitable?
Watching this video turned on my Alexa when he started talking to Alexa.

Feels like a kind of SQL Injection ("voice injection attack"?) .
pg has in the past explicitly endorsed the idea that votes should, to some extent, reflect agreement/disagreement, but he's making a mistake. He has also correctly said the votes should answer the question "do we want more of this on HN?" since that's functionally what they are used for. If anything, we should err on the side of upvoting thoughtful things we disagree with, rather than agree with, since we learn more from that.
as the article points out, there is significant net migration to Tokyo both from the country itself and from abroad, which makes the situation indeed comparable. I seriously wonder if people here even bother to at least skim the article.

In fact Tokyo has grown significantly faster than New York or Los Angeles over the last fifteen years. (population up by about 1.2 million compared to 500k respectively).
Although Uber touts their casual drivers, I'm sure that a huge % of the rides are actually served by very serious drivers working roughly full time.
And what is a unit of work? Is it the CPU time of the app? Good luck defining it.
What do you mean by “50% of principle”?
“Asbestos” is a plural, though (in Greek and in Latin—where the word originates—by declension.) The fact that English bungled the receive doesn’t mean that the algorithm is wrong. I would expect a sufficiently-intelligent pluralizing algorithm (something like GPT trained on individual grapheme sequences) would pluralize asbestos too (in absence of direct evidence of its pluralization; and maybe even then.)
Yes, you need a trusted path to go from physical reality to the token on the blockchain. But blockchains let you shrink that path down to a small number of operations that can be closely scrutinized. (This is how blockchains are similar to cryptography, where the goal is to secure a large amount of data by keeping a small amount of data secret.)

As far as how to build that trust goes, what you're talking about is similar to the certificate signing problem. There are at least two ways to do this — a hierarchy trusted by everyone (akin to PKI) and a decentralized web of trust. Blockchains let you do either or both of those things since entities can sign off on the provenance on the blockchain. You can also have multiple entities sign off on it, similar to GPG keys.
Open source has been about protecting open software going forward.
London now has more renters than owner-occupiers, so the answer is, most of London's inhabitants want property prices to decrease. This would make their rent more affordable and give them a better shot at transitioning from renter to owner (which is a goal of many).
The fact that you are stating something so easily disprovable, and that I'm getting down voted speaks volumes on the state of social acceptance of age discrimination.

I'll quote from the wikipedia:

"In the United States, a person must be aged 35 or over to be President or Vice President. To be a Senator, a person must be aged 30 or over. To be a Representative, a person must be aged 25 or older. This is specified in the U.S. Constitution. Most states in the U.S. also have age requirements for the offices of Governor, State Senator, and State Representative"

Also, let's be clear. Generally a Senator or Congressman has a long history of local public office before being a Senator or Congressman.

Young people are locked out of those offices until AT LEAST 30. That means, they start running for some small office in their mid 30s, to end in higher office at a much older age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_U...
Did you pay it off or was leaving the country a form of abandoning your debt responsibility?

Don't get me wrong. I think it's insane to have an education system this dysfunctional. I think some people get institutionalized and just kind of see college debt as how the universe works.
Most (if not all?) of the transit in Tokyo is private. When you build densely enough, transit becomes highly profitable on its own, and someone will do it.
There are so many technical and non-technical problems with this, I don't even know where to start.

What's a hash of the work? Lyrics? Original score sheet (if there is any)? Any combination of the two? The first studio recording? Some songs may list a dozen collaborators, how's that attribution gonna work?

What's a hash? A hash of the resulting wav? mp3? flac? alac? any combination of the above? hashes of individual instrument tracks?

At which point does a song stop being derivative and becomes an original song (or music in general, see "Dies Irae" for example [1] or even Star Wars [2]). Who and how keeps track of attributions when lyrics are written by one person (or people), music by another, and performed by dozens of different performers over the years? How are collections tracked and attributed (an opera is a collection of musical performances viewed as a single work)?

These are just some of the problems people that try to track and attribute music face today. And they are not going to be magically solved by a "publicly auditable, immutable data store".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_irae#Musical_quotations

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/arts/music/star-wars-soun...
I would pay good money for a cat POV livestream.
> London and the west also have different cultural values

That’s the article’s point. Housing shortages are a political choice.
I don't blame him in the slightest. I was already aware by then that Russians are taught bullshit from different personal experience. One point though, he went to school after the fall of the Soviet Union, not before.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067793 and marked it off-topic.
Would you not need three sensors? With only two, wouldn’t it be difficult to determine which is correct?
Very few people use many of the concrete facts they learn in college in the normal life. If a college education can be defended from a standpoint of practical usefulness, it must be because it teaches some generalized/abstract "how to think" rather than the specific facts. And if so, that should age much better.
When you say you 'see the other side of it' that suggests that you think the status quo is inevitable. But wasn't tuition much cheaper when you were an undergraduate?
In a less exotic location, Houston proves the same.
The average age of U.S. nuns is 74 (2012)
I somehow doubt this headline means that "A long-lost vessel from the 1800s was found by accident, when it became NOAA-tested equipment".
This is where infrastructure level legislation comes in. They should be required to provide the full originator information all the way to the people who receive the call, they should block known spammers, they should block other networks that do not do this, and they should be fined heavily if they do not. Otherwise the phone system will become a relic.
That the appification of taxis was innovative is irrelevant. The article very clearly makes the case that the appification is not a competitive advantage Uber actually has, because all their competitors now have apps as well.

Having an app that people prefer at the present cannot justify Ubers insane valuation. There is nothing Uber is doing with their app that their competitors can't.
How to Tell If a Programmer Is Competent or Not
This is the money quote for me:

"I shut myself up in my room. The further I removed myself from the people I knew in the real world, the further I descended into the minds of people I’ve never interacted with and would never meet again."

It seems the author isn't even aware of how awful this is, since later he admits he's still a karma whore. I am thankful that I recognized what an abysmal facsimile of an actual life this sort of thing is when it was only Usenet. I had a similar addiction for a little less than a year in the mid-90s. It seriously damaged my marriage, and more than I realized at the time, in hindsight.

Real relationships with actual, real people that you can see and touch and talk to are essential for a healthy life. If this statement causes a negative reaction, please ask yourself why. It needs your immediate attention.
The way this is achieved is by making sure that there is never a housing shortage, by building enough to keep the prices low.

It's never an investment because prices never appreciate, so no-one would even try to invest in it.
I fundamentally believe programs like MIT OCW and MOOCs are the way of the future. The problem with MOOCs is that they lack focus and quality control.

For example, School Yourself is the single best math program I've ever discovered on the internet: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-algebra-schoolyourse...

Compare that to the Calc1 course from MIT on EdX as well. The algebra course engages you, helps you think through problems, and offers a customized learning path with a virtual tutor. The MIT course is just lecture and reading materials, it's not interactive, and it doesn't help you to discover the topics on your own in the same way that School Yourself does.

I desperately want to see a focused study program from an entity like EdX that takes a person from algebra to discrete mathematics using the model of School Yourself. I also want to see a similar course path for physics and chemistry.

Being a liberal arts major I wouldn't be where I am in technology today if it wasn't for friends, IRC, and places like EdX. I was willing to literally sift through hundreds of hours of content to get here though. Not everyone has that kind of time or interest, we need to make it easier for everyone to learn.

If we can just have a single platform that really focuses on bringing value to the individual and giving them a strong base to work from piece by piece, then we would have so many more mathematicians, physicists, engineers, programmers, etc.., all without crushing student debt. Imagine the innovation that we could realize!
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. Those are always the same: boring and leading to worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The FAA needs to grow a pair and declare this type certification and all other certifications older than ~30 years EOLed. That doesn't mean you can't continue operating those planes, it just means you can't retrofit some changes onto a deeply legacy model and still call it the same type.
> And if 1000 is not a big enough number to make you think twice, then make it 10,000. Or 100,000. (The number of homeless in the U.S. is considerably larger than that BTW.)

You're comparing the entire US homeless population to one person. The actual ratio is less than one in five hundred.
I think it's not quite as vigorous in opposition as that. The argument is more that housing shortages are a result of how we in the west regulate construction and housing leasing to under supply.

I'm not a Londoner, but my american city of about 1 million people has more than 60 different residential zonings. My home can be a single family home, a day care, or a coffee shop with up to 2 employees who reside off the property itself.
Additionally, the house is in a historic district and no changes to the exterior may be made that are visible from the alley or street can be made with out approval by the city via application and subsequent public forum.

I can see how this would strangle growth of housing supply as the place grows.
Could you please not post ideological rants here? and also, please don't use uppercase for emphasis. Both of these things are covered by the site guidelines. If you'd review them and follow them, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On the other hand, there are virtually zero homeless people in Japan (certainly outside Tokyo) while they are seemingly everywhere in every Western city...so perhaps the quality of the bathroom accommodations aren’t really the point. I think you’re closer when you talk about cultural attitudes to “home”, but I’m not referring to some hokey ancient wisdom of the Far East.

The fact is that it’s perfectly fine, even normal, to live in a “one room” in Japan. No one is going to shame you for it.

I actually think some one-room apartments are super cozy, and feel like nice dorms.

If you consider sento/public baths, you’ve got your shared public resources.
in my day job i work on my company's android team (and ios) so I am pretty familiar with a lot of android devices. I've never been a samsung or moto fan but I've had positive experiences with LG and the Pixel devices. Outside of the Pixel, I doubt google cares too much
It is a fun way to mess with your friends who use speaker phone to talk to you while at home.
I'm glad we both agree.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done.
The web ran just fine before the surveillance economy took it over.
This needs to change-pronto
Do you have any evidence to back this up?

My sources say that this is a long held artifact of the shinto belief system and culture. This is a clumsy way to state this but they essentially that houses accumulate spirits over time and become “haunted”. Old dwellings are valued less because they are “dirtied” or “burdened” with an accumulated cruft of spiritual... somethingness. Haunting here isn’t a literal translation but it’s the best I can do in a short time. It’s kind of how Marie Kondos whole schitck is about treating your things as if they have “personness” or “the quality and dignity of being actively present and deserving of respect”.