skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How the heck can they deliver so many flats?

> ...

> I guess what works for Japan won’t work for European Union as folks from Germany, the UK or France can buy Greek, Bulgarian or Polish flats easily...

This confuses me. Af first, you are impressed by the fast rate of construction in Japan and affordable prices in Tokyo. From there, it seems reasonable to speculate that if Poland increased residential construction to be more in line with that of Japan (proportional to population), Poland might also see a reduction in prices.

But you instead immediately jump to the conclusion that it wouldn't work because Poland is in Europe. Japan's system works well enough with a population of 125 million. Any particular reason it couldn't scale to support the 500 million in Europe?

If foreigners are eager to buy up Polish housing, this is only a problem if Polish housing is scarce. If instead, Poland increases construction until it has a surplus of housing, housing becomes just another export that can be sold at a profit, injecting money into the Polish economy.

So why wouldn't it be in Poland's interest to follow the Japanese model?
“Here we are in a great economy and yet most working people have no money saved,” Caitlin Vega, legislative director for the California Labor Federation, told me.

This quote from the article resounds heavily with me.
Twitter takes down Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
If we're getting into company-specific bans, I'd much rather be using the one that banned Palantir than one that bans FAANG, and the one that banned Palantir resulted in a massive backlash.
I believe the airplane is aerodynamically stable even at high alpha.

That would put you at odds with Boeing's test pilots.
The $160 tariff is a tax on Apple basically. There is no way they will pass that on to consumers with current products. You may see an increase in new products but that will only work if the financing product they offer remains attractive. Basically few people can afford a $1k iPhone in cash so they need to pay for it over time. Does $1k matter vs $1200? Not specifically no.
Strong disagree. I was at Microsoft post-conviction, and nobody wanted to put anything in writing.
lol, some guy called Phil wrote in the comments:

If you hand carve a blade, you still have to get energy from eating food to power the human. So calling it "zero" energy used is bad accounting/ misleading.

Someone called whateveryoneisthinking wrote:

shut up Phil

All comments are moderated...
You don’t need to determine which is correct. MCAS is not a safety critical system and can just shut down if the sensors disagree.
Maybe it's more a moral issue than a tactile one and he finds forced surveillance to be unethical.
Ya but isn’t it optional?
Presumably the AoA sensors are not required for that system to function.
There's apparently quite a bit of difference between the single-subject conferences and the regional, general conferences. The latter are primarily about funding the regional groups, while the former are only partially about funding the groups (yeah, I'm still bitter about ICDCS '98).
Imagine how you would feel towards a teenager who complained he or she couldn't run for president. Age doesn't necessitate wisdom, but wow are they positively correlated.
It's not that hey won't last exactly, but more that regulations have improved since the mid 90's and revised in 2004, so newer buildings are considered to be safer.

It's actually something people talk about when looking at renting a new apartment.
Replace karma with money, karma whoring as marketing / selling and reddit as IRL and this post would still be 100% spot on!
I had no problem getting ESTA approved without mentioning any social media accounts within an hour!
Eventually, artificial intelligence.

Maybe not in the near future, but as technology progresses and every manufacturer strives to optimize their designs with the latest features, it will become an unsourmountable task to oversee every aspect of it (efficiently). I'm not talking about actively designing, but rather for warning/flagging for potential error. In very complex enterprises like global transport or building skyscrappers there is a lot to learn from experience and little human time, but it might be very cost-efective to train all-observing self-learning AI to look over everyone's shoulder, and warn you about using the right type of bolts, or how the coming heavy rains in Guatemala might affect your supply chain.

It's not that far-fetched when you realize it doesn't need to really understand anything, just be very good at playing word association and micromanaging.
In this case (Breakthrough Starshot), the core of the probe weighs grams. It would never make it to the ground.
I primarily just use i3, but I used to be a KDE guy. I used it for a while again just recently and I have to say, it's gotten really good. They've made it clean and tidy, while still being powerful and customizable.
As far as I can tell, you wouldn't need VC funding for that anyway. A thermostat, as far as I can tell, is really a set of relays that are toggled by a circuit board connected to a thermometer. A quick search on the topic brings up a lot of successful attempts at making thermostats with Raspberry Pis. It doesn't seem like advanced hardware by any stretch of the imagination.

Prototyping should be very easy. I'm sure that a Pi Zero would suffice, along with a board with relays connected to GPIO as well as a thermometer circuit, and an LCD screen. The production product could use a custom built stripped-down ARM board with integrated components, and probably be made for cheap. I'd pay $150 for a dumb thermostat that has a nice LCD screen. Even better if it's hackable(i.e. I can install my own software on it).
Yes, but Civil Rights were overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and opposed by Democrats. (Just slightly outside my living memory.)

Once the tide turns (on almost any issue) both parties are pretty similar. It went that way with Civil Rights (when LBJ embraced it) and seems to be that way with gay issues today. Just this week President Trump tweeted a pro-gay message.

I think this one is over. There's not a big difference in what the parties are offering, as far as I can tell. It's not a big platform issue for either side.
Because a UBI is cash, the accounting is a little weird. If you pay $10k "more" in taxes but then receive a $12k UBI, has this cost you money?

Outside of some nominal administrative cost in cutting the checks it doesn't "cost" anything on net, it just moves money around. Of course, the above-median person paying $14k in taxes but only receiving $12k back has lost $2k on a personal level, and that's really the cost to be calculated -- the reduction in incentive caused by the tax.

But if you use the model where the UBI replaces existing social assistance programs, marginal tax rates wouldn't be that different than they are now, and the marginal rates on lower income people would be lower when you account for the marginal losses they currently suffer to phase outs of existing means-tested benefits.
Once the hook is in, it never releases. You see this state behavior everywhere authorianism creeps in. Never, ever, believe benign excuses as:

"It is just a back-up to screen for radicalized applicants."

"We're simply trying to better comply with voting laws."

"It is merely that my taxes are under audit."

Just wait until you go into a domestic train, subway, bus station, or shopping mall and police demand to check your phone. Tolerate a penny; tolerate a dollar.
I’m all for strong encryption, but I want to point out that user experience with strong encryption also leads to customer dissatisfaction (from what I have heard). It seems to me most companies give themselves a golden key in part so they can solve user issues. Most people aren’t demanding strong encryption but they do want easy app setup. I mostly avoid those devices because they aren’t from privacy focused companies. If I do webcams I’d put them on an isolated WiFi network and use a VPN to view data remotely, but that’s not something any normal consumer wants to do.
Epiphanies and knowledge are different things.
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A home is an investment, and depending on the market, it may make more sense to rent and invest the rest in an index.
This is interesting to me because Google has the power to greatly influence public opinion.

For me, it's not the business monopoly, it's the influence monopoly. And that's very much worth regulating.
I'd like to read more about arms control negotiation, do you have a book suggestion?
I would suggest to tag this content as video.
The Fuller Brush Man (2016)
Ask HN: How often are you frustrated with flaky tests?
Are you looking for better tooling to debug/catch/auto retry flaky tests? What kind of tooling do you already have, and what alternatives have you looked for?

Is there some tool/service you wish existed?
Things I've learned about elections
>Growing up in poverty and experiencing traumatic events like a bad accident or sexual assault can impact brain development and behavior in children and young adults.

It's literally the first line.
What is everyone’s favorite translation of Meditations? I bought a cheap copy and the translation is unsurprisingly hard to read and distracts from the text’s content.
I'm a recent i3 convert (been using it full time for the better part of a year now). It's one of those little changes that really brought me a lot of satisfaction.

This is on my primary desktop (with a 4k display). I recommend it to anyone who's in a rut with their workflow (learn about all the mods, i3-gaps, etc.) - it takes about a day to properly customize and get used to, time well spent.
How do investigations like these work (logistically)? Google is a massive, multinational, multi-industry, R&D/Software/Hardware/Logistics/Cloud/SaaS/Ads/everything platform. Google is also one of the very few who can actually say they are hiring only "the best" engineers (*by Google standards for Google's use case).

How would an entity run an investigation or audit against Google?

If I, or I'm assuming anyone who doesn't work in Google, was asked to come in and develop a fundamental understanding of how everything works within Google's software/infrastructure it would likely take me a long time to do that and I'd likely need a lot of help from real Googlers. They are, of course, the best of the best and I'm just some random SWE.

I'm assuming their business side is as complicated as their software must be and I'm assuming their legal/business/executive team is as smart as their engineers. How practical is it for an outside party to claim that they actually understand what is happening within Google? How many people does that take? How long does that take? Does Google need to provide support staff for these people to aid them in understanding Google's internal business structure?

Also, for audits like this is "understanding what is happening within $company" a factor? If a company is so big that it can't see what it's stepping on (crushing in an noncompetitive way) does it get a pass?
Compassion in Technology: My first year as an engineer at Chick-fil-A
That's nice and awsome.
I don't think they have any more influence than media conglomerates like Comcast, who owns NBC, and who effectively turned the attention from net neutrality to hatred of Facebook, Amazon, and Google. It is rather ridiculous to argue that Google, who provides free services, is any more of a monopoly than broadband ISPs.
As a student of WW2, there's no indication that Ike was not serious about what he said in that quote.

In fact, he was offered and declined a presidential ticket immed. after WW2 to command NATO in Korea. So he wasn't politically-motivated.

One thing you could possibly fault Ike for is that when he criticized the military-industrial complex (MIC), he pulled his punches: he wanted to add Congress (a la MICC) but realized that doing so would make them feel defensive and reduce his support.

The reason Ike talked about the wastefulness of war was that the entire industrial outputs of the USA, Europe and Japan for almost a decade were wasted.
I think the Gregory Hays translation is the most readable and "modern."
Testimonials alone aren't a good enough marketing tool, and certainly an anonymous testimonial won't be good enough then. There's no secret to marketing, just talk to your users and potential users and ask them what they want to see to commit to using your product, and if they say they want to see testimonials, then you know to focus on testimonials. Although, if you can demonstrate that you are solving their problems, and you are at this early enough stage that you can spend time on each customer, you likely won't need testimonials, and of course if you don't have any then you need to focus on getting customers that you can get without needing testimonials. But there definitely isn't some sort of ruleset like "if you get two testimonials then you unlock 3 million ARR" - you understand your customers better than anyone and need to play to their specific needs.

In terms of how to go about getting testimonials, ask your customers if they are willing to write testimonials or reviews with their name on it or allow you to use their name on your website, and if they say yes and write a good one, put it on your website. The mechanism genuinely isn't more complicated than that, you just need consent from everyone.

Good luck and congrats on having a big brand as your client!
Proofs Are Programs: 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing [pdf]
For a few years I've wondered about the viability of a "source-available" license with a lot of user-friendly terms (like being able to distribute modified versions which anyone else can use as long as they themselves have a license for the original work, etc...) and a built-in GPL/BSD/etc... conversion after N years.

IMHO, the maximalist position of the RMS camp, while rightfully paranoid about the dangers of fully proprietary software, isn't the optimal solution. Yes, certain kinds of open source projects have been extremely successful, but a lot of this has been driven by corporate interests (i.e., people working on open source projects as a part of their work) and the software that gets built reflects and reinforces these interests.

I'd be happy to pay to have the latest version of some really useful software that respects my rights in lots of other ways (e.g., more control over and access to my data in the app, and be able to tinker/adapt it as I see fit, with full source), particularly if the alternative is that this software doesn't exist. If feels like, at least in some software domains, that the alternative are either (1) user hostile proprietary software or (2) nowhere close to the proprietary alternative in terms of features and robustness.

Obviously that's not the case for stuff like databases and operating system kernels, but that's what it often feels like out of these back-end type packages.
the FSF have been saying that for longer than the OSI has existed. people mocked them for saying that they were idealistic and unreasonable.
"GOFAI" is a buzzword used by people who don't know how to make auditable systems, so they declare auditable systems "old fashioned" so-as to excuse themselves from learning them.
Here is a similar point to Hume's, that the mind's function is not to seek abstract ideals, but to optimize for pleasure. This sounds, to me, the same as saying humans are ultimately guided by passions, not by reason.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/
"The function of the human mind — that part of the soul that is located in our chest — is not to seek higher things, but to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. That is its entire objective; the risk (a substantial one) is that it may miscalculate, since it is subject to false beliefs and errors in cognitive processes."
I think there’s a fundamental human drive to regret - evolutionarily, it makes sense that we’d be optimized to know exactly how we would do better in a bad situation we recently faced.

But in the modern world, this isn’t a matter or life or death, and it affects our mental health significantly. I always think of Stoicism as a sort of patch to override this bug - the you can’t change what you can’t change, whatever happens, happens.
This is from DeepMind. They rarely release source code at the time that the paper is submitted/published. They often release source code later on. While not ideal it seems like a billion times better than the situation where they don't publish at all. I don't think any of their results are fake so if nothing else it's a signal that says "this is possible to do in a way roughly described within".
This is odly novel, in a silly way
Right, and the religious viewpoint would say no one is superior, regardless of specific environments and whether some group is more adapted or not, since all have the image of God in them.
It's on Github[1], fork your own translation! :)

[1] https://github.com/marvindanig/meditations

Disclosure: I'm the developer behind it.
Singling out a generation: That's identity politics.
The meme comes from the fact that according to the technical definition of aerodynamic stability, the MAX has pitch instability at high AoA.

FAA certification regulations appear to be willing to accept minor deviance in regard to them so long as they can be convinced there are sufficient technological controls in place to manage the instability.

This is the danger of self-certification by the way. The company signs off that everything is fine, and the regulator is blissfully unaware they've been rused until after people have already died.
That is a really nice ad hominem attack you have there.
Please don't use the (awesome) CC licenses for software -

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
Its kindof jarring how the article is written like a series of marketing bullet points. Where is the discussion of possible atmospheric effects or other explanations?
Aurelius is the most approachable, but I find Epictetus more rewarding. Check out A. A. Long on Epictetus to get more deeply into what Epictetus was all about. Stoicism is like a missing manual for how to live a fulfilled life regardless of your station.
You are assuming humans are just inefficient computers, which is a big assumption. The human mind might, in fact, be inherently superior to computational mechanisms, and capable of doing things in finite time that a computer would require infinite computation to perform. Thus, if centralized humans cannot run things, then much less so can computers.

The debate between capitalism and communism is ultimately one of about the true nature of the human mind: is it a machine or a halting oracle?
Prey (novel)
>I want a desktop environment like GNOME but with more control over window management and more keyboard control.

So... KDE?
For context, most internet ad spending is very poorly measured, and is money 'thrown into the system' with very little direct oversight in terms of ROI on part of the advertiser.

Either they can't measure the real ROI (brand advertising) or it's hard to, or they are kind of lazy.

When big companies spend on ads, they often 'allocate' and the money just gets spent.

The efficiency of those ads is going to be very low.

The world of actionable ads is narrow. Google search ads are generally very specific and actionable, and are fairly well measurable. FB ads similarly (if you want them to be). In those contexts, the 'targeting' will definitely pop out at you and will make or break a campaign, so long as the advertiser is watching the numbers.

A lot of what one would think of as 'actually targeted advertising' gets lost in a wash of arbitrary ad spend.
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https://qiita.com/joshua-v-ruiz-boxing-live/items/956b050b3ca0a2bcceaa

https://qiita.com/joshua-v-ruiz-boxing-live/items/95eb7c55b1a961f39635

https://qiita.com/joshua-v-ruiz-boxing-live/items/d279ec26202a4ee0d1e9
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https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/ppv-anthony-joshua-vs-andy-ruiz-jr-fight-live-stream-on-reddit-21

https://www.wifabcooperative.com/forum/equipment-discussion/total-sportek-joshua-v-ruiz-live-stream

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You read the whole section on KDE right?
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Holy cow, I was just describing this passage to my wife yesterday; Tolkien the philologist, writing something of himself into the story.

A scholar and apparently a very careful, deliberate thinker, Tolkien was no ass. But wow I bet he was locked in a room full of them from time to time.
Wouldn't it make more sense to break up broadband ISP monopolies first? Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. cannot do business without ISPs. Plus, you can always choose to just not use Google.

And no, I don't think the justice department can or will "do both". It's clear this admin is anti-net neutrality, catering to Comcast's whims.
I am curious why you think Google, given its spurious record with privacy, security and labor, that it would have the best engineers? Not to mention engineers in the valley often lambast Google for sun setting every decent platform that engineers care about.
They just have to ask through secret letters... they don't need to try any hacks...
Freely available arxiv preprint:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06323
Completely agree. You also run into strength issues at the layer interfaces if they’re not aligned properly in relation to your parts stresses. Fibers do nothing to help this since they don’t cross layers.
Political discussions on a venture capitalist news aggregator probably isn’t popular with the moderators, it may even disturb their sense of intellectual curiosity. Step lightly.
There's a few replies to this already but I see a missing piece. We're traumatized as a generation. And our social networks have taken damage we're just beginning to understand.

Previously, survivors of wars were fairly small populations. Our great- and great-great-grandfathers were in that war. Not a few, but a major fraction. Not just in one country, but in many.

The world had never seen that sort of trauma before. It shook our cultures to their foundations, as male role models either disappeared altogether or came back with PTSD and no support structures.

It's all very different, of course. But I grok the analogy.
I've never understood why macOS has never included the functionality of, say, Divvy or chunkwm. I'd like to easily be able to tile my desktop via a keyboard command. Also, I've never quite understood what macOS people have against snapping the edges of windows to each other or the edge of the screen. Sometimes I want to divide the workspace into 3 or 4 windows and maximise my use of screen real estate. It's trivial to do this on a Linux distro (i3, awesome, dwm, ratpoison, etc.) but you have to do some tweaking on macOS, why?

[EDIT: best explanation of why I've heard: it's because the macOS design philosophy is that Apple knows best what size a window is supposed to be, while Linux and BSD are aligned with user-centric custom settings]
This could put off anyone who thinks they could be acquired by such companies from using your software as well. How can anyone know who is going to make it onto the blacklist for the next version etc. Seems quite the can of worms.
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