skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this has anything to do with crime in Chicago. By 2005, Uky Village, Wicker Park, Logan Square and Lincoln Square had been completely gentrified, so much so that we considered moving there with our kids. The fundamental dynamics of Chicago – the yuppy near-north and near-west side neighborhoods, the middle class northwest and bungalow belts, and the tragic, redlined west and south sides, has changed since I was a kid in Beverly.

What you would have said about crime in Chicago in 1998 remains true today, with one possible change being that the 1990s gang crackdowns atomized the gangs and amplified the violence.
You aren’t supposed to tell people that! Also it rains and is dreary all winter there.
Is it the case that you are coming at this from a point of view that is opposed to progressive liberalism in general? That would have been helpful to mention up front, because the article you cite is actually arguing from the view of Sanders' proposal being insufficiently progressive. It seems disingenuous to me to cite it without clarifying that your own reasons for opposing the proposal are completely different.
My understanding is that there are two types of suicides: premeditated ones, and spur-of-the-moment ones.

Putting up fences next to train tracks won't do much for the former, but I suspect it will reduce the frequency of the latter (which it did, in this case).
> Now when it comes to investors sweeping up houses and renting them - yeah, that could be a long term problem.

"Fix & Rent" is where the market is headed, for two reasons:

1. the market for single-family fix-and-flip projects is compressing, meaning the profit margin is getting slimmer.

2. the data points to younger people preferring to rent. my own opinion is that it points to them not being able to afford to buy, but regardless: house rentals is a big market, much bigger than many expected.

my take is that the main drawback is that within a certain price range this is bound to drive prices up, making it harder for normal people to purchase a home. and nearly impossible for normal people to find a deal.
It's more like: He got much better results with Y than well-established practices (that many people disagreed were best) X, so we packaged it into a product.

It may be still be a marketing lie, but it's not something to dismiss automatically, mostly because a lot of people disagreed the practice was "best" all the time.
I'm looking to move to Bodrum from NYC for many of these same reasons :-) Turkey has a lot of potential to be a remote work hub.
This is your brain on Data Structures [video]
LYAH is a good overview of the basics of the language, but it provides little in terms of motivation and exercises. Then again, I learned haskell in it, and it's now my main (non-work) programming language, so it is possible to learn it for great good.
Personal autonomy comes in degrees and taking such a simplistic view of things provides you a faulty understanding of the world we live in.
They seem to be orthogonal, if we still just had magstripes then it would be super easy to clone your card and make transactions using it because there's no second factor needed. At least the criminals now have to be organised.

The response to the fraudulent transaction would surely be the same as that's either the bank's call or/legislative.
I'm deciding between doing this and the Kaggle SQL summer camp. How does it compare?

https://www.kaggle.com/sql-summer-camp
That's actually pretty awesome, but the ChargePoint chargers are only "Level 2". They're great for charging where you've stopped for a few hours or more, but it would be a nightmare to try and do any kind of road trip with them at any time except overnight.

Tesla has what they call "Destination chargers" which are a similar speed/level, and I don't know of any counts of them off the top of my head, but they probably outnumber the Superchargers by 3-to-1 (as a complete guess based on how many show up around me on the map).

If we're comparing DC fast charging to DC fast charging, neither of those really count, and if you're on a road trip, neither Destination chargers nor chargepoint chargers are a realistic option unless you are stopping for several hours.
The method is very ridiculous, why this paper can be see there?
I remember being so confused when someone told me these would be the best years of my life, I was like "this is it?"
Yes depends where you are; where I am, there are still some people in the branches who know how to do their job.
Startup Life: Three Months In
Global Semiconductor Sales Plunge 24% from Peak, Deepest $ Plunge Ever
I would never expect (or demand) a cluster designed for educational purposes out of sub $100 nodes to be fast.

In fact, being slow can be considered a feature in this scenario.
Stories at Scale
So do you want to publish a paper on the ranking of shootings in various countries?Why not consider Chinese cultural customs?Biased investigation,unacceptable!!! Thank you.
>traffic expands to meet the available road space

I'm sure this is in many cases true, but there is a danger in mistaking the metrics for the goals here. If people drive less, it makes the numbers look better, but people staying at home saying "it's impossible to get anywhere this time of day" is hardly the mark of an effective transportation system.
Actually you can still haggle at the tesla store for in stock models. Otherwise you pay MSRP.
And a brief search suggests India has something between an extremely high and the highest rate of youth suicide in the world...
Sales Questions for Discovery
Wow. Try to opt out of their data tracking, an option they're required to add.

"This may take up to a few minutes to process"

They make you wait at this long ass loading screen while they "process" your request not to have cookies.

Here's the outline for people who don't want to wait minutes to read an article. https://outline.com/TZSBv4
I know there's always the discussion when a new design comes around and everyone complains but I actually thought the old one looked way better and unique. The new one feels like a generic startup landing page.
I agree. Message me if you need more info or just want to talk (email in my profile)
Meaningless researches based on ridiculous method. Articles should be conducted without any bias and discrimination, if not, then it's all nonsense.
It wasn't the entire system. It was some of the rules. They were rules which weren't very accurate, were leading to lots of unhappy real customers, and not catching many fraudsters.

For example, the rules stopped large numbers of women who had bank accounts or their passports in maiden names from transferring money to themselves. Revolut would see an incoming payment from supposedly the same person, but with a different name, and lock the whole account down until documents could be provided proving why that happened.

That means if you top up your Revolut account on saturday to buy some McDonalds, you are now going to be locked out of all financial services for probably 1+ week while you get official documents proving the name change. A marriage certificate isn't enough. If your salary is paid into Revolut, you might default on loan payments, loose your house/car, etc.

All that to stop only the stupidest of money launderers. Smart money launderers know to use business accounts where the name of the account holder isn't checked by any bank.
I had to move 5 hours south to get a job. Funny thing, that means living in the most expensive city of the State. The alternative was basically eternal welfare, like the rest of the north of the state
Essentially, the thing that runs a local web UI to configure/manage other UniFi devices.
Split, Croatia. Weather is equivalent, smaller city, lots of foreigners, and a growing IT industry. For a foreigner it's also very easy to just come and live in Croatia, they give staying permits to anyone who comes to just live and spend money (not work) but after you find work, getting an EU blue card is a piece of cake.
The validity problem of this research method is so obvious that I am surprised that it should appear in Science.
Researchers say there are many small police booths in Japan. But the funny thing is that China learned police model from Japan. So there are also many small police booths in China. For this reason, researchers are investigating China instead of Japan in the hope that China will appear at the bottom.
In addition, the Chinese jumped directly from writing letters to sending text messages, then Wechat (an app like Line), skipping e-mail. It's like Chinese people jumping from using bank cards to mobile payments, skipping credit cards. So Chinese people use e-mail and credit cards only occasionally. Why do researchers selectively ignore Chinese customs and culture?
Maybe you can also do a research that defines "people have to take off his/her shoes when he/she enter a room" as "not free" and then excludes Japan for "cultural reasons", so that China will become the "least free" country. Does that sound great?
Shame on you.
Well your first mistake was leaving work.
And this is why everyone my age jokes about eating the rich.

(Ha ha, only serious!)
My son is a junior now in a very competitive high school, and they had to do away with valedictorian/salutatorian because the difference between that and, say, just top 5% would be a 99.6 vs a 99.4 in one class in the 10th grade. It was so stressful for these kids, like it even fucking matters long term.
If your rate of churn is low. It’s fairly easy to get a server with excess memory, especially if you’ve pushed state out of your services, such that having a kv sidecar isn’t that onerous. But then you get cache invalidation issues you have to find a solution for.
I generalized from plastic to pollution in general in how reducing improves lives.

I'm not sure why so many people interpret suggestions on acting in one area as exclusive of others. I expect that people/voters acting on their values will lead others to follow.

Regarding carbon offsets, I've seen no evidence they reduce emissions and believe they increase them by motivating people to fly more.

Taxing carbon emissions as well as extraction, I think would help. I think individual behavior changes will contribute to them passing, so I promote individual reduction to help promote them (I've learned I have to clarify not only individual reduction every time to avoid misinterpretation).
A few weeks ago they canceled my Paypal payment subscription due to "technical reasons" and now it seems like only credit card payments are available anymore.

This is a little scary because credit cards are not that common here in Europe and having such sudden changes it not confidence-building.

Luckily, I use my own domain and if Fastmail turns too unreliable, I can just switch to an other provider and point my DNS entries over to them.
In 1998 I learned a lot on my own as well. I love the fact that today there are better resources when I need to learn new topics.
Yeah, I totally get the sentiment. It's absolutely valid and reasonable. But at some point we have to get to a place where newcomers to the system start getting a 'better deal' then the people came before them.

That's good news! That means the system is improving!
I think it goes to show how starved most American's are for public space. I'm all for the Beltline and looking forward to it being completed in my own neighborhood, but you could also look at it and see it as a simple sidewalk. People come from far and wide to enjoy this amazing sidewalk where you can stroll and patronize businesses without cars harrying you. Imagine being able to walk with your children without the constant fear that you will all be run over at any moment!

I love the Beltline and all that it's doing for my little corner of Atlanta, but I can't help but feel bittersweet about it. One of the major negatives besides gentrification is that it does increase car traffic. The neighborhoods are becoming denser and the new folks are still bringing their cars. Lots of people drive in from far lung suburbs to enjoy the Beltline and that creates more traffic too. Hopefully the model will be reproduced in more places.
Greed and the basic human desire for making income will make this very difficult. Wholesalers as they exist in the market already make it difficult as it is. There are so many bad ones.

Even if there were a service that was "for the people" and bought homes for cash, the property would still have to be fixed up. If the buyer was OK with a fixer up property AS IS it is hard for the Investor to sit on that financing, they can't wait for 30 years to get paid. They'd have to sell the note - and who is going to buy it? Certainly not Fannie/Freddie depending on how "bad" the place is according to their standards. It's just not economically viable to have all that money in play even if the interest rate is higher.
"Huh? I'm not allowed to hope for future improvements"

Of course you can.
My tongue was very much in cheek :)

...but still, it was announced today, savour the moment :P
Provocative title but fundamentally the paper is "what if we just run the application on redis and skip the app server." Its not like no one has tried sticky sessions before.

It seems like the paper is simply arguing we should bang our heads against this yet again without a solid reason why we would succeed this time. Sharding/routing wasn't the only problem with sticky sessions.
>Yes, every single item on every single line is tracked. Nothing (can) get sold without being in the system.

Worker: "Steve from Acme Co. needs a doohickey with a widget today but we don't have a SKU for that"

Boss: "Corporate takes 2 days to issue SKUs so just mark it as a doohickey and charge him 10% more for the widget"

Or maybe the customer has to go somewhere else because their turn around time can't be met.

>Doubters abound. Even now a decade later, folks meet this story with disbelief and doubt.

Because it's not our first time at the rodeo. If massive IT projects were this easy we'd all be doing it like that. They're generally not. Steam rolling the end user may have worked this time but other times it's ground the business to a halt because those individual plant level differences were there for a reason.
> You still don't know what happens when start1 is greater than end1?

That's DateRange's responsibility, it's not a concern for getOverlap. By the time you get as far as getOverlap you already have a valid DateRange. Small, reusable, compositional pieces.

> What happens when they have no overlap? What does overlap return if it doesn't return null?

It can't "return null", we're talking about using a decent type system here. The types should express what kind of failures are possible, so perhaps getOverlap returns a maybe, or an either where the left hand side is some structured "reason" value that expresses what went wrong.

> What happens if start1 and end1 are in local vs UTC time?

You get a compilation error because that distinction is part of the type.

> What happens if range1 and range 2 are in local vs UTC time?

You get a compilation error because that distinction is part of the type.

> When you get overlapRange.Duration. Days is this days in 24 hr increments or days by date?

That's Duration's responsibility, not getOverlap's; again, small, reusable, compositional pieces. You shouldn't ever be calling overlapRange.duration.days (obvious law of demeter violation); rather you should be calling something that can do the right thing with overlapRange.duration (e.g. display it, compare whether it's longer than some limit).

But to answer the question: check its type, that will tell you. Any value that you actually pass around and use in business logic should have a type that tells you what kind of thing it is; primitives should only ever be used within the very lowest level functions.
I have a Pi running Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Node Red, and some custom scripts. It uses a parts bin 2.5" laptop hard drive (via a USB to SATA cable) as the sole boot and storage medium. You can set most Pis to boot from USB and totally avoid touching SD cards.

It was easy to configure and sped up the Pi quite a bit. No reliability issues in about a year of use.

Boot from USB instructions are at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry....
That service was worse than anything else because it failed to provide the crucial "availability" property. And in the end he gave the keys to the government anyways. So he failed on every count.
Fastmail doesn't have enough competition. They have mail, contacts, calendaring, and lots of focus on UI/UX.

That last part costs but it makes a huge difference. I've used GMail, Outlook (including web), Yahoo, Fastmail, desktop clients, and more. I found myself using Fastmail more efficiently than the others. I was faster at email.

That UX/UI isn't a commodity. I wish it was.
Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries
Shame on you, Science.
It never occurred to me that people expect new houses to be built for young people trying to get their first home. When I think of a young person buying their first home, I think of buying a 20+ year old home. New homes are for relatively wealthy people, usually people upgrading for the second or third time.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fintech-bankings-frozen-custom...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/revoluts-clumsy-automated-fint...

Two widely read posts I wrote on ZDNet in January
Even a little before dotcoms, there was a perception in the Pacific Northwest, of Californians moving in and driving up prices, and there were the jokes: "It rains all the time! Always gray! And slugs everywhere! We have to check inside our shoes before we put them on!"
It's strange that a rich area can't take care of this problem. E.g. supporting the homeless some way, cleaning them up and helping them to find some job and housing.
The linguistic diversity in NC is really fun if you're into that sort of thing. Hoi toider is quite unique, but after having traveled and met folks from more parts of the state, it's obvious that there is no single "southern" or "north carolina" accent in general. Appalachian, piedmont, and eastern accents all have noticeable differences - and hoi toider is very unique, but I don't meet many people with that one. Now that so much of the state revolves around cities with high influxes of out-of-staters (Charlotte and Raleigh), accents are less noticeable even for people born and raised there. But differences are definitely still there, just far more subtle.

One thing I noticed from looking at the data for the accent quiz, is that North Carolinians are far more likely to NOT say soda/pop/coke in actual conversation. We just use "drink" for everything. I attribute that to the fact that sweet tea still seems to be the most popular beverage. It was the only place on the map where I saw that particular quirk.
different countries have their own culture, how to remove the difference to ensure the result. I don't believe at all. it can be delivered in SCIENCE. is it science?
> The new laws only change anything for end-to-end encrypted services where the servers never see the plaintext.

That doesn’t sound like a small thing. “Nobody can read your private data, not even us” is a big selling point these days. Sounds like Australian companies can no longer do that, putting them at a disadvantage.

And let’s not forget there’s no such thing as “a backdoor for law enforcement”. A backdoor is a backdoor, and it will be exploited by malicious actors. And they’re mandatory? Black hats everywhere must be getting dehydrated from salivating so much.
Notice that lavabit reopened again in 2017, and is now even open for new customers. I will try it, but I'm a bit scared of the likelihood that it will be closed again. Changing your email address is no small hassle, and I am already pretty happy with my fastmail one.
That's a lot of capital to keep locked up in an investment that doesn't pay off until one or more generations later.
I wonder if the real solution to the indirection is better tooling.

If I can't easily see the contents of is_foolike, should I stop writing my code like this or should the editor be showing me these details more easily?

The real problem: it takes me too much time to see what's inside the function.
Can you do a full write-up about this tool?

Looks really interesting to easily layer a graphQL API on top of a Rails app with a few serverless functions...
Check out hass.io
What if we don't speak any language other than English? Is it difficult to live and work there as such?
Of all the monopolies in the world conspiring against the interest of the general public ICANN is probably one of the ones most able to be usurped.

People only use DNS through public facing DNS servers. You can run your own if you want, whenever you want (and many routers are already doing just that, creating .local domains etc with dnsmasq). Practically anyone can operate as a naming system and you don't even need to hard break with ICANNs canonicity - you can still delegate to full ICANN compliant DNS providers if you want, but you can also go against their name policy where you want too if you are operating the name server.

Fixing DNS is probably one of the easiest "sea change" movements possible - many devices get their DNS delegated, so rather than convincing every grandmother to change their phones DNS server they often just need to change the DHCP provisioned DNS servers.

Of course, being "one of the easiest" doesn't make it actually easy. You need to convince a critical mass of DNS provisioning routers, devices, etc to stop respecting ICANN as the naming authority and pretty much every large corporation that would have a stake in this has already sunk cost with the ICANN / registrar mafia to get theirs. At this point, the monopoly often benefits them by shutting out competition through exploitative pricing and name restrictions.

The only practical way to ever get that critical mass is through automatic changeover systems. Updates to routers, phones, computers, etc that replace their priority DNS servers. Good, uh, luck with that, especially if the replacement you are pushing is going to be incompatible with (some) ICANN registered domains.

But anyone can run their own DNS server. And they can advertise whatever names they want. They don't have to listen to ICANN, but a replacement needs to gain enough adoption to displace ICANN's authority, which like with many monoculture monopolist services (Twitter, Facebook, Blink, etc) is extraordinarily difficult even in one of the easiest instances of it to fix.
Can you stream from a local media source, e.g. SMB share?
Indeed. Not to mention, even if your own email isn't compromised, if you send email to someone else who's is, it's irrelevant.

Email shouldn't be used for things that are particularly private to begin with.
They have a UK bank license now, so deposits are covered up to EUR 100k

They're only covered against bankruptcy though - if someone steals your phone and drains your account, you're SOL.
In my opinion, civil asset forfeiture sucks and should be illegal.
I'm working on turning it into a IR emitter to control some stuff that I have that lack remotes. I have another I've loaded snips onto an will be experimenting with soon - I'm currently using a PlayStation eye for the experimentation, but will have to get a better microphone/speaker. I wish I could hack a dot/echo/etc. and use their microphone/speaker, but meh, I'll take what I can get.

Also, the IR pi will probably drive some ambient light as well.
In the path month two people have taken heroin leaning against the window of my cubicle. Homeless people are closer to me than the co-worker in the next cube, and I don't even notice them now unless they make a lot of noise. It's a mirrored window so I can see out but they can't see in.

I used to do a lot of work with homeless charities, and I often wonder if I would be a better person if I worked from home. Maybe I would have retained some of my sensitivity to these issues, or maybe that concern for the human condition fades with age, and I'd just be the same asshole but working in my pajamas.