skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the argument for it?

Here are some counter arguments:

- having children means you will likely receive support in your older age that childless couples won't, how will you account for that?

- having children gives you purpose, realization and satisfaction and forcibly links you with younger generations, which childless people must try to find in other places (making it easier for the childless to be depressed, become disconnected from modern technology and society, etc)

- there's the ecological argument of course: as we increased in numbers the number of species has decreased, pollution, carbon output, destruction of habitats, etc has increased, it rather seems that having children should be taxed to account for these externalities (but arguably that's already done so through the additional costs associated with it)

And last but not least: it is very unlikely that you were forced to have children. As an adult you made a decision knowing fully well what it carries with it (and if you didn't know there's no excuse in the Internet age to not have been able to research it). You are fully responsible for the decision and it seems unfair to me that now after having committed to it, you want to change the game rules so it goes against those that have decided different from you.
> Okay, you might be thinking, but so what? Happy singles are no tragedy. Childlessness is no sin. There is no ethical duty to marry and mate until one’s fertility has exceeded the replacement rate. What’s the matter with a childless city?

It’s relatively recently that anyone would take these assertions as a given.
'Take back control of your health cover'

Trump tweets are clickbait and generate outrage. You just need an targeted to people in that mood. And probably a much better return per click than selling ads targeted to people who have been searching for health cover, because they are already in the comparison stage or are no longer in the market, where as the clickbait ad targeted at people pissed off at the government gets to make some first impressions.
My German wife waited 7 years for her GC.
Comparison should include the Apple Newton.
It would be neat if there was a (high quality) $50k kit homeowners could buy and assemble themselves, almost like IKEA furniture.

There was a New England company that sold complete kits for small houses with pier and beam foundations, designed to be constructed by two fit adults, including the fasteners! I think they went out of business in the 2000's.

EDIT: I just found another company doing almost the same thing: https://www.shelterkit.com/gallery.html
From South Korea to Malaysia, ‘smart cities’ turn to ghost towns
So this is Uber but for backyards?

Any moment now someone is going to come up with Uber, but for toilets. I can see it: it'll be called something like Petey Potty, the app will let you connect with Potty Providers and you'll get to use their toilet for a fee. The company will have an ostensible plan of making money by taking a cut off the Potty User fee, and charging a standard fee to Potty Providers. It will be wildly popular in dense urban areas and business districts where it's hard to find a public toilet and around kebab places and it will be hailed as a lifesaver for individuals with Krohn's disease who need to be able to access a toilet with very little warning. There will be an article in Wired and an outraged article in The Guardian (there will be outrage, no questions). The company will lose money for the first ten years of its existence, then it will be sold to Uber, probably, or possibly Yelp.

Oh and- there will be a review system on the app. With five little smiling turds rather than stars.
Is a tweet with a dozen likes newsworthy? Are four?
You would usually pin an intermediate, so for Let's Encrypt that would be Let's Encrypt Authority X3 (it might also make sense to pin Let's Encrypt Authority X4 as a backup)

And er, no, the overlap between operators of public Certificate Authorities and national ISPs is very small. There are only 57 root CAs trusted by Mozilla.
Please don't make me structure logs
Ironically this is the exact opposite advice I would give, as someone 3 years out of undergrad with lots of SWE and non-SWE (PM, consultant, banker) friends.

If a college student told me "I want to optimize for a career where I don't feel like a commodity, have lots of bargaining power (high wages, short hours, easy to switch jobs), and can easily start a business or consult on my own if I desire," I'd tell them: study computer science. SWEs I know at the big tech companies are being paid the same as my banker friends for half the hours (or less). The consultants and PMs are working longer hours for half the money and way less job security.

By definition if you're selling your labor on the job market you're being a commodity. I can't predict the future, but for now at least being a SWE seems the best way for a recent graduate to win some bargaining power back.
I've mostly been exposed to the claim that design patterns are irrelevant in Common Lisp, not all dynamic languages.

Smalltalk is single inheritance, single dispatch, so it's going to need some of those patterns. I suspect that Visitor will have some considerable boiler-plate in it, compared to how it disappears in CLOS. (The boiler plate, that is, not the pattern overall; the concept of visitation is still there, just not in so many lines of code.)

Anyway, are those examples really the best Smalltalk solutions, or are they just there to show how the patterns look in Smalltalk?

For instance, the ability of an object to change type (or appear to do that somehow) will blow off those patterns that deal with simulating an object changing type as it changes state, like the State pattern.

Smalltalk has something called become which isn't exactly the same thing as Lisp's change-class, but it sounds like a reasonable facsimile thereof which could obviate the State pattern. Like if we have a widget that changes from an idle to a running state, we could just have a variable iw that is of type idle_widget, and then say "iw: become rw", where rw is a running_widget constructed from the properties in iw.

Does the book, by chance, have State done up in Smalltalk without mentioning the become operator?
You need a Go compiler to compile Go, so yes.
It also has a life as a business solution:

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-glass-enterprise-edition-2-...
I grew up in suburbs, and couldn't go anywhere without a car, so I was very bored and watched a lot of television (though I read a lot of books, too).

Currently raising two kids in an urban center, and I'm excited for them to have way more opportunities than I had.
All the companies doing this seem to be small/unsuccessful/brand new. Maybe there's some fundamental problem with the business or maybe no one has nailed it yet?
It's relatively recently that slavery was outlawed.

Recency has little to do with it.
He wouldn't qualify if he'd been here illegally. Probably he came without a visa and applied for asylum (basically anybody in Congo who's not a warlord surely is in danger of life and limb), was granted asylum and then got leave to remain via GC. Which sounds reasonable.
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
This is a great question. What I really tried to emphasize in the article
is that math is not a formal language. Since its just you and coworkers, write out the parts you need as you need them, and ignore details. After all, its an exercise to help you think.

If I needed uppercase I would just say:

`up(s)` is a function that maps a string s to its uppercase string

Writing that down, you and I already have a pretty good idea of how it works, or its included in our libraries, and we can figure out the details when writing the code.

This is of course assuming `uppercase` is a minor part of another algorithm. If it was the subject of discussion I might describe it like this:

Let `u(c)` be a function that maps a characters to its uppercase character. In ASCII `u(c) = c + K` where K is some offset.

To capitalize an entire string we need to apply that function to each character.

Let `up(s)` = (u(c_1), u(c_2), ... u(c_n))
where the string s = (c_1, c_2, ... c_n)

Perhaps that helps, but I don't think it addresses your question directly. I think you need some experience reading math to know how to describe problems, but I don't think you need to know fancy math. A knowledge of functions, sets, tuples, logic, summations, etc, will get most of what you need.

I highly recommend that book I linked in the article: "Introduction to Graph Theory" By: Trudeau
The contract then binds the acquirer. The more problematic aspect is committing them to buy out the rental on sale of their house.
It wasn’t my co working space/I wasn’t working there and I suspect it would have been buried in the t&cs.

I was in wework in sydney at the time and re read our t&cs, my reading was that they could probably do the same but it wasn’t explicit, and if they were they were being sloppy about it (ie they knew my headcount because we had to get passes each time, but there wasn’t a strong program of engagement to find out what each business did, just get on with your work).

This other space I reference actually had people in regular contact with the businesses habiting the space, in order to connect with industry, government grants and other programs etc, so it actually bridged the space a bit more between a coworking space and incubator (without being any specific program)
GC can do that, for a loose definition of when they’re inaccessible (it will do it when, but not as soon as)

Reference counting almost gives you as soon as, but it has trouble handling circular references. That is fixable, but not, AFAIK, in a way that’s both reasonably performance, frees resources as soon as they become unreachable, and isn’t too restricting.
> Museums, zoos, aquariums

I don't know about you, but those are things I'd go to at most once a year so taking the train/driving downtown for those rare events wasn't a big deal for me growing up.

> free events for kids, concerts just for babies,

more details?

> parks

My friends and I used to play basketball, american football, and ultimate frisbee all the time growing up. Now I live downtown and the parks I walk past never have enough free space to play those kind of sports. Not to mention the walking parks and playgrounds in the suburbs are usually way bigger and less crowded.

> swimming pools

Suburbs have these too and one of my friends growing up even had their own backyard pool where we would play sharks and minnows, use the pool basketball hoop to play 21, or use the diving board. Playing the former 2 are much harder in a packed city pool then a suburban pool due to crowds, let alone a private backyard one.

> little league, soccer league, skate parks,

Had all these in the suburbs when i grew up and again, those require a lot of space which is in short supply in the city so there's almost always more available options to do these in the suburbs.
It's perhaps the other way around. VC returns are so good that they can make lots of mistakes.
Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments
I wonder, does it also get a parody exception, like you do for copyright?
We get a spectacular view of what would have happened had Satoshi tried to create Bitcoin through official channels.
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> the author's purported "wording"

I missed the part where whether the author used words and, if so, which words they were was a matter of controversy.
-mm? hmm!
Seattle has an innovative project called the Block project which puts a tiny home into a volunteer's back yard.

Candidates are homeless individuals who have been working with social workers for at least 6 months and are a good fit with the "landlord" which is the homeowner of the hosting site.

The Individual pays minimal rent to cover utilities (hopefully subsidized via the government and facilitated by social workers). The lease is for 5 years with the goal of helping the individual get back on their feet to a traditional housing situation. The project is from the Facing Homelessness organization. They have placed 4 or 5 individuals at this point.

[1] http://the-block-project.org/home

[2] https://www.facinghomelessness.org/index.html
> It's not actually a sum, it's an inclusive union

Right, whoops. My bad!

> In any case, Java does not have any of those, and this is what makes checked exceptions impractical to work with

Absolutely. I was approaching it from the standpoint of "what would I change about Java's type system to make checked exceptions usable?".

> Rust has sum types but I don't think it has either inclusive unions or never types.

Rust is working on stabilizing a true never type[0], and until then you can emulate it with an empty enum.[1] There is also a RFC for unions, but that doesn't seem to have gone anywere.[2]

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57012

[1]: Such as https://crates.io/crates/void which also provides helpers for safely coercing `Void` `Result`s

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1154
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14507597
This reminds me of this little gem (pdf):

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
I’m just surprised to see the assertion in print. I’m not that old, and I don’t think you would’ve seen it stated so matter of factly when I was a kid.
But it's not misleading, the ad isn't going over well.

People do not like it, not because of it's content but because of it's context.
Oracle has the exact same thing, they just call it "Named users" or "NUP's" rather than "CAL".

https://www.peakindicators.com/blog/oracle-licensing-nups-pe...
A few hundred years wouldn't evolve a species out of the ability to use language. Language isn't cultural. If you take a dozen babies from different cultures/language communities, and cut off their tongues, and if their caregivers never speak to them, they will still find a way to use a pidgin language among themselves, because human language is innate.
Exactly. My family moved from an American city core to a Japanese city core specifically because we don’t want to live in our cars but American cities aren’t suited for children. Japanese cities are dense and walkable but wonderful places for families and children.
You could give small rural areas a boost by using some sort of formula based on percent Average annual income in the largest metro area in 150mile radius. But the idea is largely good and too fair to implement by any lobbying group
Roadway with sound tracks and method of forming the tracks (1951)
Yup come back to do a Show HN when the bugs are ironed out. Best of luck.
Really cool article. I'm left with just one question:

Why are the 16-bit RAW values so limited in their dynamic range? Wouldn't sensor manufacturers want to have their pixels able to return values that range the whole way from 0x0000 to 0xffff?
What if an Amazon company started putting together such kits? Perhaps there would be a way this could be done for small margins, sort of as a no-loss-leader to generate more Amazon customers?
You're forgetting the power a discontent population can have on government. In case all browsers took a stance against cooperating with silent MITM, this would be a great pressure on powerful entities not to do it. Governments can get away with suppressing people's online experience for a while, but if they have subpar experience and basic websites won't function properly due to dated browsers, the pressure on governments to get modern browsers may increase.
Have you seen Urinetown? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown
Birthrates are also declining outside of cities at similar rates [1]. It may be a little more apparent in expensive cities because childless people tend to not like suburbs and choose density if they can afford it, but I don't think cities are the root cause.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/19/us-fertilit...
I am not sure if the stories are accurate, but if they are this is exactly the kind of anti-trust activity that Microsoft was prosecuted for (under US law). This is extending market power (monopoly) from one area to another (search and ads to video streaming). I know it looks like some of the startups broke some 'rules' like porn or pedophilia, but really YouTube breaks the same rules and uses the same (flagging/review) technique used in some of the startups. It's hard to start anything web related without a good Google index. Google has 93% market share in search [http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share]
On Reddit when news came out that SF was building 1.2 million dollar ten-year toilets, at least one fellow offered his home toilet up for $100k / year. I suspect we may be closer to your reality than you think.

I think what’s interesting is that we’ve overbiased in our direction on standards and lots of people are better served by poorer standards for lower prices.

It’s sort of like outlawing the 7/11 in some place (or the dollar store like some cities are doing) in order to get people to eat healthy. But sometimes people can’t eat any better than what they can afford at the 7/11.
It ultimately seems to depend on collective discipline to avoid the quickest options.
Is this an episode of black mirror or real life?
It hasn’t been that bad for me. I give them an updated user count and tell them what else I’m using once per year and they give me a bill. They’ve never pushed back on anything. We start with a conference call, I send over a spreadsheet and that’s it. They have software I can run on my network, but they have always let me give them the numbers from my asset tracking system. Frankly, they’re one of the easiest software vendors I deal with.
Correct. You would be expected to merge it into any CSP headers used by your app, either using (in your Apache scenario) If/Else and Header modify or by modifying your application where appropriate.

While XFO is simpler to overwrite on a global basis, it’s imprecise and doesn’t permit “allow certain sites to frame, deny all others” and is likely to become fully unsupported whenever any CSP policy is defined, given its deprecated status. Taking the XFO way out will only help you short-term at best.
There is no moral obligation for everyone to have children, but for the species to continue, someone has to and that means most people. I wouldn't use that to determine whether you should, only that human nature naturally moves us to have children and the few who choose not to marry can legitimately say they have not done so for the sake of a higher purpose, thus making it a sacrifice. Refusing to have children because it would take time away from indulging in vacuous consumerist pastimes is not a sacrifice, just a sign of developmental immaturity. Quite an accusation since I do not think all of our ancestors were the most mature of people.

Part of the reason we have a difficult time seeing this is because of contraception. We've essentially divorced the procreative end of sexual intercourse from the pleasure. But the pleasure is an incentive to procreate and bond, not an end in itself. Even bonding vis-a-vis marriage versus non-martial friendship is ordered toward procreation. We've unmoored sex from its purposes and engage in little more than mutual masturbation.
It’s still rare, that’s why Domo and Theranos have so much controversy. ‘Unicorns’ themselves aren’t even that common.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704187604576288...

Fairness aside, the question of if it works seems reasonably well-studied. Among other things it can really decrease the disruption to someone's professional life from becoming a parent, which is something that leads a lot of people to delay or avoid doing so.
The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) explicitly limits itself to interstate commerce. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/9/1

It was passed in 1925, long before the seminal cases of National Labor Relations Board v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937) and Wickard v. Filburn (1942) expanded Federal powers under the Commerce Clause. But note that the expanded powers were a consequence of the effect of the Necessary & Proper Clause; they didn't expand the definition of "interstate commerce", per se.

It took an extremely activist Supreme Court, more than half a century later, that deliberately misread the text, intent, and purpose of the FAA, not to mention upend significant case precedent, to apply the FAA to all commercial transactions. They did it over more than a decade with a clearly incremental strategy. Most recently, they applied it to all employment agreements except for the railroad and maritime exclusions in the FAA, which is so perverted--because those exclusions are patent evidence that the FAA was intended to be limited to interstate commerce--that it boggles the mind such judges could even consider themselves conservative (small 'c'). Frankly it almost seems like they're doing it out of spite; that is, taking 1940s era liberal expansion of Commerce Clause powers to pursue a politically Conservative (big 'C') agenda.
As a Canadian, I take exception with the claim that "If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere." Even our most conservative governments won't stray anywhere close to the level Trump has in the degeneration of multiculturalism. We've got a hell of a long ways to go with our treatment of our First Nations brothers and sisters, but come on. Don't pretend like America is the last defender of multiracial democracy, because it damn well is not.
this.

anything that restricts or impedes what you can do with a home is a liability, not an asset. Up in SF, even partially tenant-occupied homes typically sell for a sizable discount.

(also doubt that ~10k/year is going to make waves in the target market -- Bay Area homeowners with a back yard big enough to make this viable.)
Huh, I've always heard "intermittent reinforcement" used to mean this, rather than just any not-every-time reinforcement. Thanks!
Oh, that I have too little insight in. I could speculate that going either way. Would be very interesting to know for sure!
You can stop leasing whenever you want to, buy the company that spent a five digit sum of money on that thing in your backyard will want to get then money back first, which is unsurprising.
Probably one of two things, one of which I believe is a mistaken correlation:

* High-rises block more of the sky, making it not seems as worthwhile to go outside.

* Mental detachment from the local area.

The second one is what I've only in the past year or so realized myself. I used to live on the 3rd floor of a 3-floor building, and my apartment had a front and back entrance. The front entrance went to inside stairs out to the front of the building, but the back entrance when straight outside to a wooden porch, then had wooden steps down to ground level. Where I am now, only on the 5th floor of 24, there's only one entrance, to a hallway where I take the elevator to go down and outside.

At my old place, I regularly went outside to do whatever on a whim. Nowadays, it's a really rare thing. And while there is a low-rise/high-rise correlation, I think it's the patio and the stairs, vs the hallway and the elevator that actually caused it. Having so much more distance between inside and outside creates an emotional distance where you don't even think about the outside, let alone decide whether or not to bother.

I've yet to live in one, but I'm thinking if the high-rises have balconies, it would create the same effect as that patio did for me.
The parent was claiming the Pi was designed with thermal throttling in mind so that no cooling solution was needed. I disagree based on my experience (I’ve owned at least one of every model B Pi since launch as well as three revisions of the Zero).
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