skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have half a million I can liquidate, because I bought instead of rented. Many friends said it was a 'bad investment', but when the money gets spent either way, even a bad investment is better than none. It has never been easier to buy a home that you can afford thanks to loan programs and historically low rates, although now rising...

But yeah, even though in many ways a home is a liability, it has equity you can leverage. In many countries, homeownership conveys other perks. In the usa, homeownership is also a strong sign of being a 'good neighbor' as you have skin in the game, while renters see little reward or penalty for being poor neighbors.

There are of course shades of grey and other factors, but in general, the modern marketing to milennials that homeownership is futile or worthless is partly its own downfall.
It’s an outlier, but not really an extreme one: I don’t think my school differs significantly from the several dozen that are present in gentrified neighborhoods across the state.
My favorite open source hardware project: https://www.otherpower.com
I like to think of less complex life forms like fish as being entirely interrupt-driven state machines. Cats are much more complex machines, capable of running long-term latent processes, and capable of abstract thinking. How else can I explain how my old cat found so much enjoyment in pushing things off tables? The only reasonable explanation is schadenfreude.
UFOs are real. But that doesn't mean aliens are. More than likely a foreign country has invented advanced technology and is keeping it secret. The sightings all happened near the coast, right where you'd expect advanced recconissance aircraft to be.
What about "I can afford to pay for the privilege because my father worked his butt off and made lots and lots of money" is that still ok?
So goes the saying - you don't own a cat, a cat owns you...
Most financial growth comes from home ownership/equity. The debt from student loans has also skyrocketed in line with tuition rate increases since around that time. Those to factors probably account for all of the difference. Starting off deeper in debt with debt that doesn't lead to equity gains for most people.
This is an odd accusation. How else are they supposed to implement access control? It's more of a front door than a back door. It's like being shocked that Facebook servers have access to your private albums. Where else are they supposed to keep that data?
You can get an open-source version and run it on your own hardware if you really want it.

Some examples are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19806081
1) Assembly and repair are completely different tasks.

2) You're paying for repair in different country with different wages.

3) Economies of scale. How many identical phones with identical problems are you bringing in to be repaired using identical steps? One million or just one?
Why would someone making $2400/monthly after taxes rent a $1500/mo apartment on their own? I'm not sure they'd even qualify because most landlords require at least 2-2.5x gross income. Renting a room with other housemates, or splitting rent on a 1-bedroom with a partner/SO is probably a better idea in that situation.
I wouldn't say all consumer loans, but probably student loans... given that they are prevented from bankruptcy dismissal.
> Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone?

The typical argument of people without any aesthetic taste: it's inane, it doesn't matter, etc. I, for one, find it perfectly reasonable to complain about such a thing.

Would you buy a suit with a giant drawing of a penis on its back? It's inane to complain about it, right? Well, some people actually care about the appearance and design of things.

I say this as a Linux user and "FOSS zealot". Linux distributions have many design quirks and, let's face it, usability deficiencies. I use Linux despite that fact, because I prefer dealing with those deficiencies instead of dealing with the user-hostily of Microsoft and Apple, but if someone complains about the deficiencies of Linux I don't go around calling them inane.
Holy moly, that looks gorgeous.
The cities are all extremely friendly to developers (our "affordable housing" is $1700/mo for a 1-bdrm and developers are only required to build a small fraction of "affordable" units). I'm not sure how familiar you are with the area, but it doesn't seem like anybody is holding back on new development except for some weak and failing anti-gentrification efforts. Another significant factor in our local economy is a massive amount of money laundering, perhaps billions of dollars worth. It's been washed in real estate -- and laundry is one place where supply and demand break down: losses are acceptable.

What we're seeing is a huge demand for apartments, at rates that property owners can't afford, given the massively inflated value (hence tax). And homeowners (the upper-middle class), sensibly, don't want to see the market crash. So they don't actually want the government to act: new homeowners fear losing half of their investment. It's a vexatious problem all around
When you’re going nearly the speed of light?
I suspect your strong negative reaction to expectation of privacy is because you’re mixing up expectation of privacy with right to privacy, which are two different legal concepts. I think what you’re proposing is right to privacy laws rather than expectation of privacy. Laws establishing right to privacy already exist as a declaration of what domains society deems privacy necessary in. Expectation of privacy is there as a legal test to help make determinations in cases where the right to privacy hasn’t been already established.

We can and do already vote on it, and laws establishing the right to privacy online already exist and more are in the process of being established, since historically speaking online domains have only just barely been invented.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy#Privacy_law...

For example, you already have no right to privacy from being photographed while outside in public in the US. You already do have an established right to privacy in your bedroom. Neither of those cases is subject to expectation of privacy tests, because the right to privacy has already been determined.

Personally it seems quite useful for expectation of privacy to always exist as a way to help sort out domains that have not yet been covered by law, and it would be silly to think that we understand all the future permutations and implications of online privacy mixed with big data well enough to cover it legally today.

Facebook’s defense here is using “expectation of privacy” in a subversive and sneaky way. The problem is Facebook has both kinds of data, public and private. It’s wrong to suggest that people don’t have an expectation of privacy for their hidden profile data just because they’re using social media. It’s probably right to suggest that anything I post publicly can’t be considered private, even if people want that. But that’s complicated when you data-mine all public data at once and draw potentially private implications using AI. It looks like their defense is about to be tested in court, so hopefully the court will see through Facebook’s defense. One of the outcomes of Facebook using “expectation of privacy” as their defense is that whatever happens here in court starts to become the law by precedent.
Did you ever get a negative answer? (=Yes, there are.)
It looks as if there is an inexorable decline in religiosity.
People, when asked, believe and attend church.If you count the people who pass through the doors of churches, the numbers are declining towards zero as the older people die.
I was raised as a catholic(I am a male), by age 8 I had been bothered by clerics making sexual approaches. One parent(mother) thought I lied to skip going, my father believed me and I never went again, soon seeing it as apredatory scam to procure boys for clerics to molest. I am 80 now.
As time went the truth came out, and almost all Canadians rejected the church - now churches are abandoned in many places. Quebec - the strongest catholic province has seen the largest decreases, being unable to recruit many Canadian males into the priesthood. They even air drop black male priests from Haiti(where French is also spoken) into white
parishes - attendance zoomed towards zero at close to light speed - faster?.
Good riddance, I say.
I haven't been banned from HN before, but I'm not surprised that some of my comments resemble ones from those you have banned.

Help me understand, please: what about that comment makes it a flamewar comment? I was attempting to engage him in serious discussion, and he offered voluminous nonsense in return. Is it verboten to point that out? Where did I cross your line?

By the way, I recently exchanged a few comments with you about HN's political bias, and you asked for examples. This submission's comments, and the flagging of my comment, is a good example of what I was talking about. There is a clear bias in that comments espousing a certain view are downvoted and flagged, even without violating the guidelines.

It seems clear that you quickly respond to comments which are flagged, even those flagged by the person being responded to. If I may ask, since I haven't seen this question asked or answered before: do you also police downvotes and flags? i.e. when people downvote, kill, and flag comments that do not deserve to be, do you correct it?

It doesn't appear so to me, and that creates an additional avenue for bias to be expressed: since only users with certain karma scores can vouch for wrongly flagged comments, it's easy for users with high scores to wrongly flag comments from users whose scores do not allow them to protest.
And Haskell is just a shitty version of a language with real dependent types. Seriously, language flaming is dumb.
Can you send a screenshot what you see/inspected to my mail?

marvin@bubblin.io

Edit: I understand the issue now. Thanks!
The comment makes sense, but the US isn't best example. Although last century the US was somewhat dominated by one identity (which is now waning and leaving room for others to grow) it has always been multi-ethnic and multi-religious.

A better example would be European nations like Hungary, which have reinforced their national identities in the face of the recent migrant crisis.
What does any of what you just typed out have to do with the original comment about someone who drives for GrubHub for supplemental income and feel that they prefer to be an independent contractor as opposed to an employee?

You are completely derailing the conversation with common discussions that have been had tens of thousands of times all over the internet. The information exists in excessive quantities for anyone to find.

Wouldn't it be better use of time to go find a discussion specifically about what you are talking about? There is a reason no one is upvoting stories about this stuff here. I imagine most people here don't find it as interesting because we've read this exact stuff so many times.
> the android ecosystem is so diverse its hard to write any comprehensive review about it

That in and of itself is the basis for a meta-review. The OP says this, in fact:

> I suppose this is really my fault for not spending enough time, not doing enough research, not reading enough forums to buy the correct phone. Maybe some people are just too stupid to deserve a good phone.

and this is one of the reasons why I can't bring myself to buy an Android phone. There's not enough hours in the day to do adequate research, and then, as other comments here note, the experience even changes pretty rapidly as e.g. Google's focus shifts away from the Pixel 2 when they release the Pixel 3!
My biggest grievance with android and smart phones in general is their pathetically short support period. I have a stack of phones which are perfectly functional hardware but no longer updated. If you wait for the price of a newly released phone to come down to the knee in the price curve, you've waited too long because that phone will only be supported for about one more year. This angers me greatly and I have a strong emotional aversion to even the idea of buying a new smartphone. I may even cut off my nose to spite my face in this regard and buy a dumb phone.
Jensen polynomials for the Riemann zeta function and other sequences
Yup. So shoukd we should worry about our ability to fight it, rather than what 'causes' it, outside agressive carcenogens?
the way i put it is that relativity imposes no limit on how soon you can get from point A to B; it only limits how soon anyone else can do it.
> Yet all across space, from black holes to our near-Earth environment, particles are, in fact, being accelerated to incredible speeds, some even reaching 99.9% the speed of light.

Or that, but with a dozen more 9s in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
Nor are they apparently as talkative, even when idle

* https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-c...

* https://i.imgur.com/sy9VZO1.png (image from report)
You’re just badly arguing details while ignoring the actual point here.

What was the point? Two sensors (in this case alpha vanes) can fail at the same time and in the same way on an Airbus:

https://avherald.com/h?article=47d74074
Person: You know why I'm upset?! Because I think you patronize people and their
viewpoints.

Pinker: Well, son, let me you tell me about this study that suggests a reason
why you feel that way.
Hilary Clinton was quoted as saying a marriage is always between a man and a woman and did not support gay marriage until like 2013.

Supposedly liberal California overturned the courts ruling on this issue with prop 8 in 2008.

I think Republicans, being conservatives, definitely took longer to move on this issue than Democrats, but I think this is an area where the country as a whole shifted a lot over the recent past.
> This thinking can be used to start real wars then, we know

> X has illegal weapons, trust us we have proof but we can't

> show it, sure years later after lots of deaths and bilions

> spent on war you find that it was all propaganda.

That's not what I was talking about. What I discussing is security, you always need to assume the worst to build good defenses and information leakage only serves to help those who aim to break your security.

Going to war is another thing altogether. Having overly good defenses have little consequence (beyond primary resources such as time and money). The consequence of fighting a war without good reason can be extremely bad in every sense. That's why wars need to have consequences for those who incorrectly start them.
The halo drive concept is interesting. It uses a beam of light to extract gravity energy from a black hole and use to to maintain acceleration of your ship.

Almost no fuel needed because its really just a kind of extreme gravity assist that we’ve been doing since what, the 1970s?

https://youtu.be/rFqL9CkNxXw
Disclaimer:

I don't think the reddit organization is responsible for this
I do think the guy needs help.

I think this is the WWI of our generation to realize how much computer technology can be a bad thing. We've had dark patterns influence behavior and the health of people. We've had strategies that are designed to hook unsuspecting people and we're seeing some serious repercussions out of it.

Not sure what to suggest to do here. But I do find it concerning.
Alexa or Similarweb: Which Is More Reliable for Traffic Stats?
MCAS only exists to paper over a small handling deficiency.

Per the article MCAS was originally intended to handle uncommon edge cases but was extended to cover additional (low speed) deficiencies. This expanded scope is what made MCAS as problematic as it is because it did away with the second input (accelerometer) and expanded the authority dramatically (from something like 0.6 degrees to 2.4 degrees of stabilizer movement).
Cachengo – Smart storage that is just smarter
I'd suggest instead that an understanding of underlying mechanisms is required.

Moore's law is predicated on the physical density of transistors on silicon. Constant linear die advances, driven largely by CAD and silicon modelling tools, themselves computationally bounded, deliver square-factor density improvements, to the limits of materials physics.

Wright's law concerns process improvements, on already physically-bounded products, such as aircraft. Pilot, payload, fuel, and airframe limitations bound the reduction in scale, absent quantum leaps in capabilities: nuclear warheads reduce city-flattening missions from bomber fleets to single aircraft, automation and remote control eliminate pilots, "smart" weapons reduce payload sizes as well.

But otherwise, the bounding space is the domain complexity itself: components and interactions, with functional limits ad interactions. Understanding of these comes incrementally, and tends to be dominated by institutional rather than computational information processing, cf Boeing's massive blunders in the 737-Max design.

This process doesn't lend itself to the exonential capacity-doubling of Moore's law, but rather a cost-reduction function that asymptotically approaches a lower bound.

(Red line in this plot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/US...)

Also: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/04/chart-of-the-day-w...

A related phenomenon is auto safety improvements, expressed as deaths per million passenger miles, plotted from 1915-2015. There is no massive jump as one might expect with the introduction of safety belts (as they were called) in the 1950s, crash-test standards in the 1970s, airbags in the 1990s, or ABS and auto-steer in the 2010s, but rather a strongly consistent halving about every 20 years. With one exception; the halving period was ten years, in the first decade of data.
I'm wondering if this really is a relex of Turkish, or could be considered some creole of Turkish and an independent whistling language. Turkish isn't tonal, so the phonology is fundamentally different, which makes me (naively) guess given enough time languages will diverge grammatically.
There’s a big difference between a system which must work and a system which must not go wrong. For example, the fly by wire system in an Airbus must work. A failed sensor must not disable the system. Thus, you need at least triple redundancy to keep functioning in the event of a failure.

Fly-by-wire Boeings still only have two alpha vanes. Go ahead, take a look at the next 777 or 787 you come across.
Why Have Road Fatalities Declined? (2011)
I don't agree with most of these points, nor do I find the tone of the author to be particularly productive, as they are effectively swinging bladed weapons around while blindfolded.

They propose a number of personal beliefs about what constitutes competency, whereas I will contend that there is no "silver bullet" by which a non-programmer (or XYZ profession) may assess the competency of the potential hire.

I could write a different article on programmers who seek to undermine existing code in order to get a green field project out of it.
While I can completely comprehend what may lie behind a total rewrite (and have plowed through some rather thick ones) I would be wary of hiring such a rigidly ideological person who suggested "throwing it all away and doing it over" as this person is likely somewhat obtuse in their own way.

Human factors also matter.
Less bad, but still doesn't clear the "rational" bar for me—why does what your father did have anything to do with where you should live?

(If anything, since you don't have any choice in which father you get and since an ineffective or even missing father affects your life in lots of ways, there's an argument that people without hard-working, diligent fathers should have extra support from society to make up for it. But it would be better to just address the root causes of why not having great parents puts you at a disadvantage in life.)
what's app was great. only required 30 engineers to operate at scale. what a feat. erlang, freebsd, and deep technical expertise.
"Connection refused"
Not going to go anywhere - unless they can demonstrate where apple is 1st hand selling info then apple is just going to point to one of the many data breaches they've had and say 'hackers did it'.
> there are no regulations on this

Of course there are. FAR limits, zoning rules, all manner of review processes inhibiting construction, et cetera.
It's not the equivalent, but it is the consequence of a chain of incremental changes, each of which is not sufficient to subvert safety margins, but together they change the paradigm.

As to bad faith, yes, I'm sure there was some of that, but generally decisions like these don't look like bad faith to the people making them. It's easy to get swamped by technical details.
The UI of my thermostat is a simple dial showing the heat/cool setpoints and the current temperature. It is completely dumb and that's the way I like it, because its only job is to keep my house at a constant temperature.

Others are often surprised that I work in tech, yet everything else about me has been described as "luddist" --- but that's because I know about the "dark side" of all these new "smart" things.
Given laptops are interacted with directly, a compromise is more likely to be noticed and prevention more likely to be in place.
Phone battery life creates a constraint on the phone's ability to perform constant surveillance. An assistant that plugs into the wall lacks this constraint.

To me, this is a big difference.
* Move to a city that isn't so expensive
* cut the car in favor of a transit pass and save the difference
* get a roommate or partner to split costs with
* Night/online schooling
* self-driven training
* get into a trade/craft job
When did the dispassionate defense of reason become an 'asshole' trait? Is ignoring emotion not the right way to consider anything logically? While his bedside manner leaves a bit to be desired, it does at least try to move the debate foreward. While I am no defender of the 'rockstar jerk', we can not judge the merits of an idea principally on the attitude of the author.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-01/trump-...

(Post currently points to Yahoo.)
I think you are forgetting that with rental properties, the customers are typically the landlords not the tenants. And we know from history that landlords will often install things that their tenants would much rather they didn't.

Airbnb hosts are a very large segment of smart home early adopters.
> Do I trust apple more than google or facebook? Yes.

Why?

They also have cloud services.
Choice quotes:

> SHOP LOCAL!The Local Tempe

Until We Shut That Shit Down

Along with the transportation woes we plan on inflicting on your community, we will also be building a massive health food store caddy corner from a local farmer’s market, certainly giving them a run for their money and more than likely shutting them down. Premium residents will enjoy balcony views of the dirt lot that used to be a small business....

And at $15 per hour, you and 6 co-workers might meet the income limitations we ask for our modest (but intimate) west facing first floor studio size accommodations, with breathtaking vistas of the railroad tracks and a newly remodeled Chili’s!
I would bet that reselling a camera was treated as a corner case and the ticket was probably sitting on the backlog somewhere.
I don't have a source off hand, but I've heard that the average lifespan of a Japanese house is 30-40 years. Sure, there are some historic houses and estates that have lasted for much longer than that, sometimes even centuries. They're built with the intent that a couple will raise a family in them and so there's not much reason for houses to last longer than that. Energy costs are also some of the highest in the world so getting the latest insulation technology and other efficiencies is important.
> anyone is using voice for priveliged operations

I remember when people started broadcasting to Siri for people who had their headphones plugged in.
Seems like anything else is just a roundabout way with additional layers of beaurocracy of doing universal basic income.