skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in university-run student residence and in student-oriented rentals. The amount of wasted space was unbelievable considering everybody spent the vast majority of their time on campus. We didn't need an 86sqft living room, it just filled up with garbage. I couldn't find an apartment with just bedrooms, a tiny kitchen and a bathroom.

What I really wanted was one of these tiny apartments [0]. Build a whole apartment of these near campus, students only sleep at home anyway, and sometimes not even that. My univeristy is building a new residence and it has the same 3-5 bedrooms to a giant apartment with a living room.

I wonder what's the main barrier to building a lot of tiny single student apartments. Is it the municipal regulations, are they not economical or did research show that students actually want living rooms?

EDIT: Just look at the size of these living rooms. I've been in so many of these apartments and they're almost always full of boxes and trash.

- http://www.rez-one.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MG_6020.jpg

- http://www.rez-one.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MG_5991.jpg

- https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/sites/ca.housing/files/uploads/...

- https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/sites/ca.housing/files/styles/i...

- https://uwaterloo.ca/housing/sites/ca.housing/files/styles/i...

- https://static.wixstatic.com/media/29eef9_c0378e178fda4f0b84...

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYVJbupG3Xg
On Creating vs. Consuming
> International law specifically allows poor countries to manufacture their own medicines, bypassing patents that might otherwise apply.

> Of course, the rice here was not patented -- according to the article, it was just a trade secret.

This seems to have little to do with my question, which was:

> > I can see personally defending both types of theft, and I agree that they are probably morally equivalent (all else being equal); but I'm not sure that one can make a blanket declaration that people generally do defend Indian patent theft. Do you have references?

Did you perhaps intend to reply to my parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20788203)?
Life belts?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-belts/s?k=Life+belts

Belts for life??
Meet-ups and local user groups are great sources of talent. They are frequent if you’re located in a tech hub
I went to UT Austin and for me the solution to this problem was:

- buy a cheap, 10-year old car

- live in a pretty decent apartment about 20 miles from campus

- get up at 4:30 AM, drive to campus before rush hour, and do my work in the library

- pack "hiking food" (trail mix, etc.) in my backpack and eat for real at night

It worked out well and my living space was much cheaper and nicer than what was available near campus. Audiobooks for the commute were a plus.
And yet people still complain how about their 250K+ salaries can’t afford them a home....
for the dev, can you add a feature to skip to the end of the sponsored segment
austin is the california of texas
- UIUC is in the middle of nowhere.

- CMU is in Pittsburgh which isn't really a tech hotbed.

- University of Michigan is an Ann Arbor which is basically just a college town.

- University of Wisconsin is in Madison which isn't a hot area either.

All are great CS schools.
I don't think that is very meaningful? First link is Austin rents today relative to to 1995, and second link is SF rents today relative to 2000. Both have gone up a ton relative to where they were, but one of them started out a lot lower than the other...
Good point. As you suggest, the definition may or may not be "OK" but it certainly doesn't get into anything around how DevOps might be different from or go beyond agile. For a NYT audience, that's a pretty decent quick definition.
Freedom Isn't Free: What would it take to set software free? (2018)
> Google will now require developers to use resettable identifiers to keep track of users. That way, if these digital fingerprints are ever compromised, or if you want to wipe your digital slate clean, there's a mechanism to do that.

Does this mean device fingerprinting will no longer be allowed?
We originally set out to see whether we could use conditional generation to sort of adjust the behavior of these neural generative dialogue systems. Much of the original idea was about sort of "planning" our response to improve the quality and diversity of neural generation.

As we studied though, we became more aware of how much nuance there was in each of these methods, especially when we started having humans chat with the models. In the end, the paper ended up being more of a thorough analysis into what behaviors are more preferred in dialogue agents. For example, we found that you should spend about ~60-70% of your turns asking questions to maximize engagement: enough to convey interest in your partner without coming off as super nosy.
UIUC relies heavily on international students who have no idea its in a cornfield before they attend. On top of that, they have a theory focus.
I do not see why experimentation is impossible if we are in a position where there literally is no alternative other than doing 'experiments' except refusing to address the results and change tactics except under extreme political pressure. Things like 'we believe if taxes are lowered on businesses, it will result in them hiring more workers', after it has been tried for 30 years and has resoundingly shown to be a collassal untruth, actively destroying the middle class and leading to tremendous instability even among those who do remain employed, at least if we could say it was an experiment and we were uncertain of the outcome, we could say 'well that didn't work let's try something different' instead of it being a political battle fueled by people just trying to trick others into thinking that reality is different from what it is.

In a situation that affects so many people, it may seem unwise to do experiments and try things where we can not say with certainty what effects they might have, though we admit they may be substantial. The ethics are very dim on that front. But the alternative has to be considered. We do not have 'generally accepted treatment' to turn to and rely on. We only have other experiments, albeit while not calling them experiments and not treating them as if their outcomes are in doubt, simply forging ahead with blinders on. I can't imagine an argument that would justify that as more ethical than earnestly doing experiments.
You are welcome. Here's how to format comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
ISO C says that any local variables that are not declared volatile whose values are mutated after the context is saved with setjmp then have indeterminate values when the context is restored with longjmp. So yes, that interacts with optimization. Any variable that is cached in a register may revert to its old value when that register is restored blindly from jmp_buf.
...and surprisingly easy!
How the PlusToken Scam Absconded with over 1 Percent of the Bitcoin Supply
Fortunately, 99% of developers, like 99% of drivers, are better than average.
that‘s a nice theory.

what actually happens is, when you borrow money, they put the numbers into your account and the negative on their balance sheet. that‘s the basic process of money-creation in a fiat system. out of thin air. debt-based on top so that nobody ever gets away.

but yeah, everybody likes to believe that the amount of money in the system represents goods and services.
Dunno if appointing geniuses will work.

It seems to me that part of the problem is that the different parties involved have different needs and resources.

. Homeowners would like to not have their homes burn. They are on 30 yearish investment horizons but buy insurance a year at a time. They are a minority of homeowners in the state.

. Insurance companies want to make a profit but have little to do with forest management. Their only knob is your bill or a cancellation. They are in the position of a health insurance companies who can cancel a sick person's insurance at any time.

. The state .gov is only loosely related to the people, these are not elected officials running the show after all. The urban areas are in charge in any case, just keep the water flowing and the occasional state park for weekends.

. No doubt it's an interesting challenge to the feds, but the occasional town burning down is just a statistic.

. PG&E is not in the fire suppression business whenever possible, keeps costs down, went bankrupt anyway.

It's all at cross purposes.
> Honestly, it’s not just universities... everyone should consider if they really need to be in a large city. While there are some drawbacks (childcare), generally my quality of life is higher and the cost of living is affordable.

On the flip side, I cant drive so my quality if life has been shit on smaller cities and suburban areas.
Yeeeeah, There's That ColdFusion Thing
You mention the RAM and hard drive, but it irks me more my keyboard is not replaceable. It's the most used moving component of the entire unit. It's exposed and susceptible to damage the easiest. I've hated every MacBook Pro since the release of the unibody. My favorite was the PowerBook 12 and 17.

I've had a MacBook/PowerBook Pro (and Thinkpad) since Titanium and the First MacBook Pro and if it wasn't for the fact of macOS and the convenience of being in the Apple ecosystem with their iPhone, TV, HomePod(s), Watch, Music, and iCloud I would be back on Linux (I actually came from FreeBSD on my Thinkpad). I'm currently using a 2017 and 2018 MacBook Pro. The 2017 would be great except the keyboard (and of course the soldered RAM/HDD) is absolutely trash. The 2018 is much better, but nothing like a Thinkpad. I also miss the Trackpoint, but the Apple Trackpad is good.

I miss my Thinkpad (+ BSD) bad, but being an iOS / web developer and entrenched in the Apple ecosystem (which I honestly like the convenience) I feel stuck and hard to even get a secondary machine. I even leave a fully maxed out P53 and P1 (I can't decide which one I want) in my Lenovo cart ready to buy at a given moment.
Doubt if this has much to do with not needing a use v/s the ethical problems attached to it + synthetic options being more viable and cheaper
> Dairy consumption was associated with lower risk of mortality and major cardiovascular disease events in a diverse multinational cohort

I am personally very pleased to read that, notwithstanding the need to not base anything on a single study.
On another level I present you the new Spanish submarine, first too heavy and now too long and obviously too late and too expensive : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-80_Plus-class_submarine#Hist...
So as a high earner, what would be a rational thing to do?

German savings rate is about 10%, let’s assume it’s 20% for a high earner.

If she decides to stop saving, she can reduce her workload to 80%. This is generally easier than it might look like[1].

Because of progressive taxes, she will still earn about 85% of her income, so she can still save 5%, but rather outside of Europe with its faltering economy. Especially when more high earners decide to work less and live more.

Luckily few people act rationally.

[1] https://www.globaladvocaten.com/blog/labour-law-parttime-wor...
Well, you can see how they are locking it down with containers sandboxing from an IO talk, by making use of gVisor and a Rust based containers.

"Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlh8LX4kQI
Apple Just Gave 1.4B iPad, iPhone Users a Reason to Leave
That's amazing. Do you have any hobbies?
Pittsburg is a city.

U Wisc and U Mich aren't top schools.
Because you need to provide something different. "Pure" competition doesn't exists, all companies and products are different
NASA didn't do that out of the goodness of their hearts though. Pound-for-pound (which, to orbit is pretty pricey), SpaceX was cheaper.

Blue Origin, a different space corporation, was not even in consideration, but if they had something competitive, NASA would have considered their bid as well. (Tbc, Blue Origin isn't shooting for that market at all, so this is in no way a dig at them.)
Without going in to too much detail, how much would need to change about conventional, deployed VP9/H.264 + WebRTC systems to perform like your system? It seems to me that the vast majority of what these systems do is not in the way of your goals, so I kinda wonder why it's billed as something completely separate rather than something incremental.

AFAIK codecs exposing rate control functionality to applications is not new, and most of WebRTC is functionally equivalent to any protocol of its sort; so before I go reading your paper it'd be nice to know the reasoning behind the seeming ground-up approach.
Trees in aggregate kind of do this already. Plant enough trees in an area and you change the local climate.
I'm not sure I agree with any of those points. As someone who went to school in a cornfield, I had no trouble landing an internship in NYC. My school also had its own on-campus engineering internships. The faculty was also quite good, since it was a teaching school, as opposed to a research institute.

If I look at some of the top CS programs, some are in hot tech areas, but others are almost responsible for local jobs directly. Specifically, UIUC is in the middle of nowhere. I'm not sure there would be a lot of innovative technology development in Pittsburgh without CMU either.

Finally, I'm going to school for a masters online, and it definitely seems like one path forward. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything learning remotely.
I find twitter to be a great way to find people interested in a specific area or technology. Use hashtag searches or lists to find potential hires. I haven’t used this but I can see myself doing it if I needed to hire today
I just don’t see why there needs to be a UCMJ arrangement or extensions. Just make and maintain regular civilian laws and enforce them.
Between machines, but not devices. I can't copy something on my boss' iPad and paste it into KDE.
I can and do, but sometimes it is nice to be served, and also not know how much half-and-half you are using to make thai iced teas.
This, except I don't use docker. Store files in Windows file system. I put a link between that location (/mnt/c/users/username/foo) and unix home. Open up Ubuntu app, navigate to the directory (~/foo), type 'code .' And a VS code server starts there and opens Code in Windows. Any extensions to Code need to be installed in WSL (there is an option under the extensions menu).
Google is really doubling down on privacy right on the heels of repeated scandals. Wonder if i will last longer than customer's memory of said scandals before they go back to the business model that brings them the money.
Rsync isn't talking about the demographic time bomb. What they mean is: Consumers having children directly causes higher consumer spending, because the child needs food, clothes, shoes, transport, education, medical care, furniture, holidays, sport, childcare and suchlike. And less directly they might want more bedrooms, a safer neighbourhood, a safer car, a stay-at-home parent, and so on.

USDA figures [1] put the costs of having a child at 12% to 24% of household income (for richer and poorer families respectively) while some UK estimates [2] have put it as high as 38%

Of course a childless couple can build savings like crazy, if they've got as much income as their peers who are parents, but their outgoings are that much lower!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_raising_a_child#Dual-P...
[2] https://www.lv.com/about-us/press/cost-of-a-child-2016
You got it. I was lucky to start when it was affordable. The residence fees this year are completely insane. $1000/mo for a single dorm room and even more for a room in a 3-4 bedroom apt. Off-campus housing isn't much better.
> Why on earth would you run a balanced budget while getting paid for borrowing?

You still need to pay the money back after you invested it. If those investments don't make a profit, you're in trouble. I mean, they could park it in ... maybe bonds? Oh wait.. ;)

There also no telling what the future brings. Borrowing to the limit while times are good leaves you no room when times are bad. A recession is on the horizon, it sounds foolish to shoot your powder before it hits.
As a UofM grad and still an Ann Arbor resident, Ann Arbor has significant housing supply issues and a city council elected to effectively keep it that way.

That said, there’s definitely more the university and others could do despite the opposition, and it’s getting more attention. Even as a student splitting a house with 6-8 other people, I was paying at least $800/month. Ann Arbor is not the easiest place to be a commuter into, so students have very few options.
Yes, that's a great response for one of the models to have. :)
please reach out to Sridhar @ Svayam Labs sridhar@svayamlabs.com. They have a good team and did a the work for us. Thanks Raj
Trump wants project seeking links between mental health and violent behavior
> France is the single country with the highest saturated fat intake in Europe

Oh interesting, do you have a source on that please ?
> But the dramatic rise in rents also coincides with national developers starting to eye the areas around public universities as a growth market. Real estate companies bulldoze aging buildings to put up the kinds of amenity-rich, luxury apartments that might appeal to upper-middle-class parents looking for a safe, comfortable place for their student to live but which students from lower-income families such as Martinez’s couldn’t possibly afford.

This fundamentally misunderstands how the market works. Consider the counter-factual: had the developers not come in and redeveloped aging structures into modern buildings, those old structures would be just as expensive as the new ones due to a shortage. Yet another piece that demonizes people who actually build homes while not considering what happens when we _dont_ build homes. Just look at SF for what the reality of not building looks like.
How is it even humanly possible to listen to a 1000 recordings a shift?
UTAustin has just joined Georgia Tech and UIUC in offering online MS degrees in CS for $8-22k. Undergrad is still problem though.

UIUC despite being in a cornfield area is the largest supplier of swengs in Silicon Valley. Even early-to-midsize Microsoft was mainly populated by UIUC grads and some well-known companies like YouTube, Tesla, AMD, Oracle etc. have their roots there.
> The GP means “it’s impossible to build an n-branch case which captures the lexical scope where the time taken to choose a branch doesn’t depend (modulo processor caches) on the number of branches.

But the array-of-closures implementation satisfies that requirement! reikonomusha's objection to that proposal is that even though the time for one branch is constant, there is a setup time dependent on the number of branches. This is true. The essence of my reply is that it is, however, unlikely to matter much in practice, because the whole thing still runs in amortized constant time [0] per jump.

If you're doing something that's really so performance-sensitive that amortized constant time per operation isn't good enough for you, then you're probably going to have to work in C or assembler, because any higher-level language — even C++ — will have constructs with linear setup times (consider 'make-array' in CL, or 'std::vector' in C++).

> It’s also obvious you can do this in C (with the extension that lets you make jump tables)

Complaining that CL is deficient because a nonstandard extension exists in some other language that allows you to do something, or that you can do it in assembler, seems like a rather weak criticism. Besides, this seems to me more like a quality-of-implementation issue: as reikonomusha mentioned, it's entirely possible for a CL compiler to compile 'case' into a jump table, given reasonable constraints on the case values. I don't know which ones do this, if any, but it seems like the kind of thing the SBCL maintainers could be persuaded to do if someone had a clear need for it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/200384/constant-amortize...
Except SIGFPE.
So how come Lucchese boots are still so expensive?
Using Autoencoder to convert colored images (RGB) to grayscale
>An account at a bank that lends and kicks some back to you may be the most productive allocation in some circumstances but overwhelmingly it isn't.

At least it's better than putting money in an index ETF, because bankers making loans do actually contribute to the capital allocation process in a meaningful way.
The article comments on that: high-end leather still has plenty of demand.

What doesn't have demand is the secondary tier of leather. Basically, "let's bond this shitty leather with plastic" doesn't have any takers anymore.
This is all you really need to read from Stacey:

"Based on our present understanding, D-T tokamak fusion reactors project a cost-of-electricity that is about 50% larger than the projected cost-of-electricity from advanced light-water reactors in the middle of the next century."

We all know what happened to the projected cost of fission reactors -- the projections turned out to be hopelessly optimistic, because of complexity and loss of experience. Fusion would face these problems in even worse form (indeed, ITER's cost ballooned 4x or more past the initial projections.)

The experience with fission has enabled us to calibrate the optimism bias in these projections, with damning results.

Simply being competitive with fission is no longer good enough for fusion to succeed. It has to be significantly better than fission.
It's unfortunate that acknowledgements such as funding sources are not included.
250k/yr is about enough to buy a median-priced home in San Francisco

https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...
Quality of life also increases if you work 80% as you now have 20% more free time.
After a 40 year gap, I've started to re-learn assembly language programming via via https://embedded.fm/blog/ese101.

Also, last spring I took the basic Electronics 101 class at our local community college (http://www.ccsf.edu/en/educational-programs/school-and-depar...) -- Ohms law, intro to RC time constants, transformers, etc. It was just one night a week, so not a huge time commitment (2.5 credit units). This semester: active analog circuits!

Not sure it's made me any better at my Python/SQL day job, but perhaps more methodical.
Yep. This is one of the reasons the current (and past) burning of the Amazon (and other forests) is such a problem. Forests like that create their own climatic systems, and strongly influence the weather on a local or regional level depending on their size. It's kind of like a bigger version of the effect you get when urban areas are "greened".
UPitt is in Pittsburgh as well, a top 70 university, not just CMU.

Which online master are you doing?
> Germans have accepted lower wages for general full-employment and job security even in times of recession.

They haven't really, they ended up giving up more and more job-security, with stagnating wages, to keep the sham of "full employment" going. Something that's been especially affecting West Germany since reunification, where previously wages were extremely high.

But contrary to popular belief, even in Germany the labor markets were quite "liberalized" over these last couple of decades [0].

Nowadays plenty of low/middle-class Germans having to work two part-time jobs and still receiving government assistance, or unemployed people getting "loaned out" by the Arbeitsagentur to private companies as cheap 1€ labor force [1].

With programs like those, it's not very difficult to make your employment statistics look amazing: On paper barely anybody is actually unemployed because in reality most of them are "hidden away" in pointless training programs or straight up subsidizing the labor costs of private companies.

[0] https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.56768...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_opportunities_with_add...