skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of this is due to building codes. For example, in California, solar photovoltaic is now required on new buildings.
you are correct; people just get rightly alarmed that it took off with high school students. their marketing is pretty typical in that it’s aimed at young people but i’ve never seen anything particularly nefarious.
Streaming pre-recorded video (e.g. movies) over the radio is wildly inefficient considering flash memory costs peanuts. The primary reason it's done is because we're in desperate need of copyright reform (streaming is being used by the video industry as a form of DRM.)
Well HN knows a thing or two about the latter ;)

It’s because I write better software in a team setting when I apply the techniques and philosophies of Fowler & Co. The biggest complexity in software is people. Coordinating them, navigating egos, and leveraging their experience levels. It’s a hard problem and the place where I see the most consistent system problems.

IMO Fowler is just providing accessible common sense strategies for dealing with that complexity.
Fascinating. Is there a command for getting processes for example or do you need to use ps?
I just picked the first guide google gave me [1]
I'm too lazy. :)

I did read through it though to make sure it didn't do anything bad, however there is a risk that whatever list you download might be malicious some day.

https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html
Doreen, I've always found your contributions to be both insightful and refreshing, especially in a monoculture like HN. As someone who comes from a similar background, I have a deep respect for your willingness to openly talk about your experiences despite the prejudice and discrimination you face because of it.

Please keep submitting your work. The increasing reality for many working people is that they are one or a few misfortunate events away from losing their livelihood. While many HN have believe that they won't ever have to face that fate, their friends, family and neighbors increasingly will.
Massive fraud indictment charges 80 defendants
Funny how people even on a tech website seems to be stuck at "640 KB is enough for everyone".

When technology gets a lot cheaper, a lot more powerful, a lot less power consuming, the magic of the market creates completely new categories of use that unlock new demand at consumers.

Right now your phone has a sim-card. There might be one in your tablet or your car too. But there is not one in your TV or the lights in your bathroom. But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option.

5G is a step on the way.
Every time I left a company it was because of the pay and promotion structure and not because of my coworkers or direct bosses.

Right now I am considering leaving because the deadlines get squeezed more and more. This also comes from way up management and not from anyone I interact with directly.
I mean a similar film. I can't imagine it to go down easily.
I don't know what the correct answer is, but I've known people who gave their ATM card to a relative so the relative could get cash. I think this used to be more common but is potentially risking legal trouble these days.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when cereal box offers would say "Tape four quarters to a piece of cardboard and mail that in with your request as payment for this offer."
You only need about 70 Kbit/second to use 22 GB in a month. Would you be happy with a wireless plan that only gave you 70 Kbit/second? Probably not.

For the large number of people, probably a majority, who in most months don't hit their caps their two main annoyances with wireless performance are poor signal and things taking too long.
The ATT guy said 5g will solve bike deaths by having your bike talk to the stop light and other cars, but with machine learning!

Reminds me of all the garbage that went around in the transition from AMPS to digital. I had a co-worker tell me her phone was better than mine because mine was only Edge, but hers was PCS!

The AT&T guy should have put an "e" in front of it to tap the nostalgia for 90's marketing nonsense.

eMachines, eBike, etailor, etc...

People will love 5G because it's one more G than 4G. And then AT&T can call it's version 6Ge.
I would be interested in a list of the tools you use daily and your list of research publications that prove that those specific tools improve productivity, reliability, or whatever metric you have named in selecting them.
Anyone else unable to load the app after install? I’m on a VPN so maybe that’s the problem. Kinda desirable attribute to be able to access from less personally identifiable network locations.
Indeed. This gets at the root of the problem. Housing can't be both affordable and a great investment at the same time. The latter requires high (and increasing) asset value which eventually precludes the former being increasingly affordable.

The problem with housing is a lot deeper rooted than basic Econ 101 supply & demand models can address.
I would rather not have to have my terminal go down the route that the web did. Next thing you know, we'll be installing TTY adblockers to block fingerprinting using the terminal window size…
salts in vaping have less ‘hit’ (tingling sensation in the throat) and higher but slower absorption efficiency. i actually prefer freebase because it gives more feedback about the level of nicotine i’m taking in instead of accidentally pushing my blood pressure up noticeably five minutes later
> In my country, which (thankfully) lacks America's "at-will" employment contract

I'm sorry, is that not obviously criticism? My parser must be busted again.
It's now the lead story on the Drudge Report. So it'll be chattered about for a while, whether we like it or not.

The oddities of space law are perfectly suited to Saturday morning banter. This case turns out to be extraordinarily mundane, the more you read about it. (Astronaut McClain says she was just checking to make sure that child-expense bills were being paid on time, and didn't do anything more. She's cooperating with the "investigation.")

But that doesn't stop swarms of casually curious people from giving the headline a look.
By too little medicine I mean to imply people with untreated or mistreated mental illness.
I'm genuinely curious what the stats backed world views you hold are.
Middle eastern men hit on women a lot since refugees are overwhelmingly male, meaning that you have a lot of guaranteed bachelors among them who gets desperate.

> men made up nearly three-fourths (73%) of Europe’s asylum seekers in 2015.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/number-of-refu...
Marriage and family laws predate Darwin and have nothing to do with "Darwinism". They are products of, in anything, human social psychology.
Yes this is where the "Art" that I described also comes into play. We have no theory that can predict the output of a human brain therefore we can't theoretically derive what requirements a customer will want or change over a span of time.

However...

There is something sort of new from the academic side that could potentially be a theory that can deal with problem you describe.

At a high level the theory looks almost like a formal language for "design" and "abstraction." It's called category theory. It's new-ish so it doesn't yet solve the problem you describe but I see the outlines of it within the framework of the theory.
I still don't know what I just read. Random opinions/feelings regarding a historic event?

What's next? How one feels about vanilla icecream? I don't understand the human race sometimes, I have to admit :)
Olin Shivers was by far the best professor I had in college. Amazing communicator complemented by a great sense of humor
I would argue that it was less free.

But more to the point: rationing is stupid, since you are strictly better of taxing the good you want to limit, and if necessary spend some of the tax in direct payments to those with the least income. The free market will take care of pricing the use of the taxed commodity correctly and the poor will be better of.
There are definitely a lot of ideas and research behind them that are just waiting for more accessible low-latency internet connections. Robotic surgery was an interesting one for me, as the latency was a tremendous bottleneck for remote applications.
> But there is not one in your TV or the lights in your bathroom. But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option.

For stationary objects like TVs and lights we already have wifi, and a range of simpler low-power options used by IoT basestations. What does 5G bring to the table here?
> drawing a wire to connect a button to a light

How are you getting power to the light?
Nothing is safe from government pressure. But, at least with local closed source we know it's going to just be our government pressure. Otherwise, it could be any actor, which may be less friendly towards us.
I am not a Trump fan for the obvious long list of reasons. But the man has a point.

Top down, dictatorial action does have its advantages specially against China. definitely unexpected and surprising, which is an asset in the international game of thrones.
Interesting that your third link says they now have partial support for SEH (__try). That was a very big missing Windowsism for a long time.

I guess they never did C++/CX either, but that was a bit of a misadventure on MS's part and I don't see anybody pushing it anymore. (Maybe I just haven't been paying attention to those circles lately.) It's funny how many of the ambitious WinRT era initiatives accomplish buy-in at a rate outpaced by the diminishing relevance of the platform.
So, taking what I stated (with the clarification of “too little”) as your argument, what exactly are you proposing as avenues towards home-havingness?
Gladness you don't have it is criticism you're trying to hide behind semantics.

You and I seem to have different ideas of an employment social contract (or non-existence of one). Unless you're interested to dig into that difference, I don't think we have anywhere else to go with this thread.
Totally agree with this, and I'll take it one step further - if they trusted you and were on friendly terms, they probably would have already told you or asked you for help on what is going wrong, long before they quit.
Ah yes, that would be Karl Popper's concept of Falsifiability of a hypothesis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

That's what we are debating here: is this claim that use of UML is always markedly better when modelling any problem domain is true as observed through a sufficient number of data points?

I'm poking holes in that hypothesis because there's always n + 1 conceivable use case where the opposite is true. And I'm basing myself on set theory and computational algebra.

The crux is 'sufficient' because all use cases that could be moddeled with UML being equal, prove to me that there is a finite amount of use cases. Hard answer: you can't.

Moreover, there is no way you can prove to me that each and any use case is solvable with UML in an efficient way without actually solving said use case.

Check Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox. Perfectly applicable to this question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_G...
wow, this is the first i’ve heard of that for vapes. any recommended reading?
> But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option.

But it won't be cheap for the consumer. At best, our data plans will stay the same price. But more likely they'll rise and, well, I just don't think people give a crap enough about having a sim card in their TV to pay the extra. Maybe if you make SF money, but most people don't.

I think, too, people are starting to get teched out. Just a little for now, but it's happening.
> pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges of manipulating the precious metals markets for nine years.

> Christian Trunz, 34, of London

Started off pretty early...
TBH, any advertising free spaces left in the world probably ought to be considered sacred, as they are getting fewer and fewer every day.
Is Russia’s Doomsday Missile Fake News?
Your point on vocab is so spot on. Simply identifying something as a pattern and naming it is tremendously valuable. Doing it in a way that's packageable and shareable with others is not easy at all.
> ...the developed worlds should do as New Zealand...

The NZ foreign buyer ban is incredibly weak. For one it’s only on existing homes. Foreigners can still buy land and buy newly built homes with the land under them. There are also plenty of ways around it buying through third parties, etc. On top of this NZ has failed to introduce a capital gains tax on houses. House prices there are some of the most expensive in the world.
The person you're replying to said that it hasn't been operating well since FDR, so they agree with you that.

It sounds like something is wrong with lending if someone is willing to lend to them based on inflated asset prices!
Selective request blocking has huge security implications. In many ways it's a similar attack surface to arbitrarily rewriting the content. (Imagine making some charges to your credit card, then blocking the request that lists card charges on your bank's website.)
I spent a couple of months last year researching Liubo and constructing/play-testing a crude recreation. Of course, we don't even know what a full game set looks like, much less how it was played. But the result was a decent game, and I like to think there's enough overlap between board game enthusiasts and history nerds that someone could crank a few of these out on Kickstarter.
tempered glass covers are a godsend
I think the main reason people start using Uber isn’t that it’s cheaper than a taxi, it’s that they want a ride and there are no taxis around. I can’t catch a taxi at my house (which is like two miles from downtown Oakland, not the middle of nowhere) but I can get an Uber there easily.
One site actually had a paid subscription without ads that was not advertised much, they emailed the link to me and I subscribed ($10 a year).

A couple others I have been given donation links where I can set up what payment I think it's worth as a one off or recurring. Sometimes they have a patron without me finding it.

I ad-block all of them anyway so even if they don't "turn off" the ads I am not seeing them.
When behavior becomes so common that it is normalized. A common phenom of corporate culture, see the Boeing 737 Max thread for a good discussion of this pervasive issue with corporations/capitalism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552054
Well some of his followers certainly thought that.
That's precisely what it was for! In the era just before said games which would attempt to calibrate their delay loops against the realtime clock, games were only expected to run on a single speed of CPU and used hard coded delay loops to achieve their desired speeds. When someone got a new computer that ran twice as fast, the game ran twice as fast too. So as a stopgap, they gave you a button which underclocked your fancy new 386SX from 20MHz to 12MHz or whatever.

(In looking up the clock speeds since it's been that long, I also learned that some 386 chips had bodgy 32-bit multiply logic and were sold as "16 bit", and due to the weird way humans assign value, apparently these are now valuable collectibles! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386#Early_problems)
I know it may sound harsh, but have you tried thinking about it rather than looking for a dismissal or deflection? Of course the media edits stuffs, editting is literally taking a cut of things, there are a hundred million threads buried underneath editting all the time, that's why we should always seek to dig a little more. This though is indeed a large story, climate change is being felt all over the world, bolsonaro's behavior(infantile at times, bordering insane others) and direct attacks(both verbal and as official policy) on science, environmental, indigenous concerns, the fires, the data, images, its all there. It's only been 6 months and this is indeed an international crisis, 3.5 years of this ahead and it could close the coffin on trying to manage the climate problem, if you forgot,according to science we're already missing the mark pretty bad. Try to dismiss it whatever, we could be setting up for hell on earth. Its too easy to freestyle justifications adhoc, too bad it's not actual rationality. This is not left/right dialectic, it is insanity.
Does that matter?
Evidence found of low slip quakes impeding progression of large destructive ones
I was wondering as well. Unless it's a super active breed (e.g. border collie), the dog ought to be able to handle missing an evening walk (and even then, if they are well trained, they can handle it now and then). Dogs have a strict hierarchy, and the demanding, destructive behavior mentioned by the GP suggests the dog thinks he's pack leader and his owner is his subordinate. If so, destructive behavior when missing a walk won't be the only problem in the long run.

We train and board semi-professionally. We've got two huskies we try to walk twice a day in addition to training and play time. The dogs learn to yield to humans and to deal with their own emotions (e.g. boredom). We have two huskies we try to walk twice a day in addition to training and play time, but if we miss a walk, they wouldn't dream of acting out. They can 'ask' us for things, but if we say no, that's it.
Cars ARE housing, hence the urgency to have them. When everything else falls through, you live out of your car, and move it on when the police bang on the window.
And on the materialist side we have similar quackery with phrenology, bogus medicines, Darwinian evolution, and the like. There is quackery everywhere. The fact that one can concoct a false explanation within either materialism or dualism means such an example doesn't help determine which paradigm is better.

The important question is whether one paradigm allows us to explain reality better than the other, and dualism does this very well. There is no materialistic explanation for consciousness, free will, abstract thought or mathematics. Instead, those who follow materialism strictly end up denying such things, and we end up with incoherent and inaccurate theories about the world.
What copyright reform do you think we need for this?
I think in many ways it's too late at this point. Keep the conversation casual and if it happens to veer into productive territory in terms of figuring out motivations then fine, but I wouldn't be asking probing questions unprompted.
> In a microservice architecture, failure handling is easy

I'm not sure I would agree with this - it's still incredibly hard to be able to make the rest of your architecture do something useful when a significant part of it goes away. Multiply the possibility of one of your important services going down by the number of important services you have...
It's the same kind of people that describe themselves as "full stack" because they made JavaScript in the browser talk to JavaScript on the server, the latter running in some kind of heroku auto-container magic.
The robots are coming for your job, too
What city is this and what are their justifications for the ban?
I think it’s ok for people to quit. It’s just a job.

If they want to talk to me about why, then I’m open to that, otherwise it is their business.
I worry in particular about the towers being in close proximity to schools and housing developments.
Sounds nice but the devil is in the details. Land value tax would be determined arbitrarily not by the market. It’s sounds great if you ignore the problem of actually assessing unimproved land value.

Of course we know “value” is just the amount of money someone traded for something, so Georgism can’t be implemented practically.

When you stop thinking about how awesome LVT is and think about how to calculate it, the whole theory falls apart.
Keynes, 1930: "To those who sweat for their daily bread leisure is a longed-for sweet -- until they get it,"

Later adding: "man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem -- how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well."
Frequency of use doesn’t equate to importance.

Example: checking 100 phone notifications about spam email is probably less important to society than a radio alert about a tornado warning.
The case of the University of Illinois is particularly compelling, though you could make the same case for any number of other institutions with a similar track record of minting, and immediately losing, talent: Purdue, Bloomington, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo, even MIT and Harvard.

Students graduating with technical, programming, maths, and/or engineering knowledge leave not only the univerisity and its immediate surroundings, but the state. Marc Andreeson as an example from U of I is a classic: he co-invented the graphical browser ... and immediately departed for California. (Apparently annoying a fair fraction of U of I faculty and students in the process.) Chicago certainly can't hold that talent.

And I don't think it's just the weather, though it's not only the winters that suck, most of the summer's not so hot, or rather, far too hot, and humid, as well. It's hard to think when your brain's a puddle on the floor.

High taxes, at least for housing, may be a red herring, as that actually helps keep housing affordable. Dysfunctional government, gridlock traffic, an actively anti-intellectual and often racist general population, sprawl, and the rest, don't help. There are scattered locations of focused intellectual activity, but not concentrated enough, and/or in the wrong disciplines, to leverage off one another.

And most of the region lacks the easy recreational escapes of the SF Bay Area -- you're not minutes from a bayside trail, or the bay itself, or beaches, hills, or mountains. Or a couple hours' drive from snow and alpine hiking. There are some opportunities, but they're far less immediately accessible, attractive, and rewarding.

NB: New York City does clearly appeal to many and draw much talent, though most of that has been in FinTech. Which I'd criticise, though compared to what Silicon Valley's produced over the past decade, I'm afraid it's a case of arguing for lesser evils. Front plates don't seem to deter people from California. And taxes, generally, pay for government services and infrastructure which supports and encourages economic development, so long as waste, misspending, and incurred institutional obligations are reasonable.

Places to register residency on retirement (SD) and places to work ... have a different attractions and qualifications, that's not really a legitimate comparison.

Smaller or mountain states might mount a challenge. I've been impressed with Colorado (who wouldn't be) and Boise, though that's a long way from nowhere.

So was San Francisco, once.
Might as well just ask the question: What is Life?
And then realize that scale of space or time is irrelevant.

A galaxy could be thinking like a brain, except thoughts travel light years, are mainly dictated by GR (Light and Gravity), and take eons to actually occur.

I think it's clear that the only meaningful nature of scale in time and space for life is just the one we artificially put on it, because of our conscious experience.

LOTR and other fantasy explore this with the idea of trees having much wisdom having lived so long.
"This command barely outputs any text; if we display a sponsorship message here it'll get noticed - great idea! Can't believe no one thought of this before."

"The city park has tons of grass, but no one is having their cattle eat it. Missed opportunity! I'm bringing my herd over to get some sweet public grazing in."