skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem is wage(with benefits) inequity with the UAW people consuming a total package cost of $65 or so per hour with a large pirtion made up of benefits and pensions and vacations, while the MacDonalds people get $15 plus?? Yet these people do jobs of similar complexity. The MacDonalds guys have to buy the cars the UAW guy makes - but they can not or can only by used ones. The UAW guys can buy all the burgers they want and have $$ left over. There is not such a wide disparity in Germany. In the USA the UAW and Management are bitter enemies, in Germany they have board seats - the UAW refuses these seats, they want a hostile basis, they do not want German style wage committees. These committees often ask for a smaller raise because too big a raise hurts the copmany and makes them pull too far ahead of the lower workers. Economies work best when all the workers can buy the products of each other. It is not surprise that German is the dynamo of europe. France is like a UAW paradise, workers versus management. You can not lay people off in France, so wheh you get more orders there are now new workers hired - you get longer delivery times. France is the drugged hippy of europe. The others, Greece, Spain, Italy etc fill in the middle and a few are at the bottom. All badly managed with greedy unions, except Germany. They vote socialist or communist, yet their socialist workers or communist workers run their countries into deep debt - but not Germany. Think about it.
Is XJ really that bad now? When I visited in 2006, it was pretty tame with the exception of the area immediately near the border. It doesn’t even require a travel permit/full time tour guide like Tibet does.
I thought it was pretty but gratuitously sad. Got fed up and didn't finish the list.

Artists and philosophers both, I think, sometimes mistake sadness for import.
An absolutely free market does.

Housing is NOT anything like that kind of market.

Building permits, zoning, NIMBY, various minimums (aside from taxes, thanks Rs for focusing so strongly on less taxes rather than greater value for money...).

Make building the desired type of housing easy; incentivize it until market conditions have been corrected... We're several decades behind at this point, so a huge boom is required to correct prices.
wtf are you talking about?

This literally does not happen in normal operation (because train stations security or police aided by social workers will direct people to homeless shelters, or make them leave if they refuse homeless shelters), and only happened a few times during the height of the refugee crisis in the big cities with new arrivals coming in at a rate where the refugee and homeless shelters in those major arrival cities were overloaded and bureaucracy was too slow to process and re-distribute these arrivals quick enough to avoid some camping in train stations.

The wikipedia article explicitly states:

> This is a list of countries (not all 195) by the homeless population present on any given night. Different countries often use different definitions of homelessness, making direct comparisons of numbers complicated.[3]

For Germany it further states:
>*Includes around 350000 refugees in temporary housing or awaiting asylum.

Temporary housing might be shit, but it's still better than living in a cardboard box on skid row. Unless your government provided temporary housing is a literal cage, of course, but we don't have those here.

In Germany "homeless" includes all people who do not have a permanent residence, i.e. people living on the streets but also people who e.g. temporarily live with relatives or friends, e.g. because they have a hard time finding an affordable place in the overcrowded big cities.

PS: I was "homeless" for about a year in Germany. I was looking for a new place after uni, couldn't find one due to overcrowding in the city I was looking in, and stayed in my parents' house during that time, just like I did in my youth. I had a better life incl more privacy there than I previously had with some roommate arrangements. But I was technically homeless under the definition they use for the stats.
Yes, seniority staffs the place with aged slackers.
Japan/South Korea would be your choice, though expensive.
I would also investigate Terraform if the Ansible path appeals to you.
The housing problem has always been the biggest problem for mankind and the most basic problem for mankind.
It's not really fair to count pre-1.0, it's only been 4-5 years
I've been using Void Linux[0] for a few years now. It's philosophically aimed at being a minimal distro for power users.

Design choices:

* Rolling release

* Custom package manager: XBPS with binary package repository. It's pretty darn good IMHO.

* Minimal init process: runit

* LibreSSL (vs OpenSSL)

* User can choose standard library: Glibc or musl

* Prefer dash over bash in system scripts

You get the drift. The biggest change to a user is probably the use of XBPS as a package manager. The repository of pre-compiled binaries is pretty extensive, and the package definition scripts are dead simple. The entire collection of package definitions is in a repo on GitHub, so sharing your package definitions is also quite painless.

Their IRC channel on freenode (#voidlinux) is also pretty active with lots of knowledgeable and helpful people.

[0]:https://voidlinux.org/
Do you have a proposed alternative way of preventing spam? Neural networks basically mean that any traditional captcha too hard for a bot is also too hard for a human.
The solution is to build more housing. Look at all the restrictions in NYC, Boston, LA, SF -- the costs are high because people want to live there and the government refuses to allow people to build.

In the cases where someone can make it through the years long process to get a building approved, the only thing that makes financial sense to build is luxury apartments.

If you want more inexpensive apartments the key is to build more of them.
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> Like a lot of economic critique, rent control criticism is driven from cultural allegiance to landlords and the rentier class, rather than good faith.

What a bizarre claim. There's plenty of "good faith" criticism of rent control.

People think different things. You're allowed to advocate rent control. But assuming bad faith because "I am right" or "my opponents are in the thrall of the rentier class" is just astonishing.
You might wish to get into the pottery business. Uranium glazes give striking oranges and reds. If you are into decorative glass, uranium salts give beautiful yellow and green shades. And it's fluorescent!
Uranium isn’t all that radioactive, though.
Thanks for responding. To be honest, I'm a little underwhelmed by the list which mostly relies on likeness-to-Trump as an indictment, as opposed to focusing on the reasoning.

The reasons themselves are a bit flimsy: Too erratic on Twitter, acting in his own self interest, over-promising things... I've forgiven people for a lot more than that.

Number 7 isn't even a reason not to like him, it's just your frustration that people _do_ like him.
OP mentioned affordable not top speed.

Fiber optical connexion cost +- 30 euros and "unlimitted" 4G LTE mobile data plan cost +- 20 euros(including roaming). It's a lot more affordable than what AT&T or Comcast offer...
That is reverse propaganda if you believe it. And you probably have no idea about both countries mentioned here.
>"Western traders, including those from the United States, had long sought a variety of Chinese products (including furniture, silk and tea), but found there were few products that China wanted from the West. American trade with China began as early as 1784, relying on North American exports such as furs, sandalwood, and ginseng, but American interest in Chinese products soon outstripped the Chinese appetite for these American exports. The British had already discovered a great market in southern China for smuggled opium, and American traders soon also turned to opium to supplement their exports to China. Beyond the health problems related to opium addiction, the increasing opium trade with the Western powers meant that for the first time, China imported more goods than it exported."

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dwe/82011.htm

The US promoted the "Open Door" policy towards Chine, i.e. whatever traders of other nations could do, the US traders could also do.
The California bill is hardly a win for renters. How many renters who do not currently have rent control have their rents go up on average of 8% a year? I have lived in SF since 2012 in non rent controlled units and have never experienced that.

The only units I’ve seen that have rent increases that are greater than 10% are the new luxury high rises, which will continue to be exempt. The only landlords I really see this impacting are the corporate landlords like Avalon that manage older rentals and squeeze rentals as much as they can.
> Most people don't understand the risks and how badly mass surveillance done by Google / Facebook / etc can be abused.

This is totally dodging the issue.

Would they pay instead of allowing that collection?

Given the choice of "pay for this service", "stop using this service", "give up your data", even with a full understanding of the risks and the extent of this data, the general public has shown time and time again they will take the last option.

People do not like to pay for things.

I see way too many arguments about privacy that doesn't seem to grasp that the core of today's tech industry is built around this fact.

People will pay 5$ for 50 cents of coffee beans and enough sugar to drown a fly a day, but they will never pay 5$ a month to access nearly the entirety of mankind's collective knowledge at their fingertips in milliseconds in the form of a search index spending millions of dollars a year to index it all.
This sounds like Chick-fil-A's use case where they decided to put a k8s cluster in each restaurant.
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-...
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...

If you have a single node not a cluster in each location then k8s buys you a lot less. Some people still advocate single-node k8s "clusters" for benefits like rolling deployment.
This is the only way to really do Mun lander tourism for career mode. I keep a fuel tanker and a lander in lunar orbit and my tourist can flies there, docks, and tourists with Mun surface on their itinerary go down while the Mun. Orbit only ones stay in the tourist can.

Also good for science. I usually use two Rockomax orange tubes worth of fuel getting data from each biome. I only use disposable landers for initial science gathering missions until I get docking ports.
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I'd be very interested in if you find something specific. Do you have any details regarding the AWS contacts because i'd like to see if i can generalize it for the RHEL6 case and maybe feed it back into engineering.

wmealing @ redhat dawt com.
> I'm betting they didn't do better than Porsche

One of the Teslas broke down on track so that could be part of the problem:

https://insideevs.com/news/371885/video-broke-down-tesla-mod...
Tell that to people living in NY public housing...

"Imagine paying rent for a home with rats, cockroaches, lead paint and mold. That’s what far too many of the estimated 600,000 residents of New York City public housing are doing, even after a lead paint scandal led to an investigation by federal prosecutors." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/opinion/new-yorks-public-...
But you’re not replying to the post! Pointing to the plight of people in the Texas colonias tells you literally nothing about the point made in the post you’re replying to. If it was talking about people at the bottom 3% you’d have a point.

As to your changing the goal posts by talking about healthcare. There is nothing “perverse and dishonest” about measuring which country is the “richest” based on capacity for consumption. The vast majority of Americans, even at the 20th percentile, will never go bankrupt due to medical bills. But they will all get to enjoy much higher consumption (bigger houses, more cars, more TVs) than the average European. (And maybe, just maybe, Americans aren’t irrational and simply prefer the trade off they have made.)

Now, you may personally value the security of not having the possibility of crippling medical debt over the potential for higher consumption. I probably would too! But it’s not so obviously the only correct way to view things that it would be “perverse” and “objectively dishonest” to measure which country is the “richest” in a way that doesn’t place dispositive value on that security. Put differently, you’re simply defining “being rich” as “being secure.” That’s not the only way to define it.
What’s the energy usage of a popular GitHub repo?

Fortnite? Minecraft? AirBnB? Google? Android? iOS?

If it’s trivial, what are the numbers and what’s your confidence in them?
I feel reluctant to apologise to Putin's russia for anything much, it grates.

We are at the point where there is a very much more plausible theory than the one that was used to throw accusations around suggesting that a little more circumspection was indeed, required. Somebody should be accountable for that lack of circumspection. Was it incompetence? Inexperience? Stupidity? Something more nefarious? (eg pointing and shouting enemy action for any and all the reasons people do this). Worth finding out and acting on. We'd probably prefer people be competant dealing with these sorts of accusations as a risk mitigation strategy alone.
Those were non-consensual, so yes, I'm on board with not allowing them.
It was, as you might guess, a series of very long discussions over several years:

Initial RFC: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/09153...

RFC 2: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-September/1047...

RFC 3: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112142.h...

Update: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-October/126991...

OpenBSD objection subthread: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.h...
Senate fails to pass bill that would eliminate per-country caps on green cards
Most markets take awhile to sort out the proper price. The proper price is not based on any one commodity, it can be seen as an optimization problem. As the price goes down certain other industries can move in, and then the price will stabalize or even begin to increase again. This is how neighborhoods go from expensive -> cheaper -> gentrification -> expensive.
> Now imagine you aren’t flipping coins. Imagine you are all running a model on a competition test set. Instead of wondering if your coin is magic, you instead are hoping that your model is the best one, about to earn you $25,000.

> Of course, you can’t submit more than one model. That would be cheating. One of the models could perform well, the equivalent of getting 8 heads with a fair coin, just by chance.

> Good thing there is a rule against it submitting multiple models, or any one of the other 99 participants and their 99 models could win, just by being lucky

I wonder what the author must think of Poker tournaments. Even assuming there is luck involved, unless all of the models are equally bad (which would be surprising) teams that produce better models should win much more than their fair share, where fair share is 1/N when N is the total number of submissions.

But lets say that the author is correct that ML competitions are mostly luck. That is a testable hypothesis - in particular, we would expect little to no correlation between the credentials of the competitors and their ranking in the competition. Is that actually the case? Do unknown individuals who just started doing Machine Learning win on their first Kaggle submission? If the author's hypothesis is correct, one would expect that to happen fairly often, and one would expect that even highly expert competitors should win approximately (only) their fair share.
Why does the housing need to be public?
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The housing problem is because CA et al fight new construction.

This does far more to hurt renters than anything else:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-housing-bill-co...
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That’s absurd. Chelsea Manning is in prison of her own volition and can walk out any time she wants to by testifying.
I was only really commenting on the manipulative wording used, not energy policy.

I'm in more or less complete agreement with what you've written here as it pertains to the past.

However, once renewables become practical for even a subset of energy production, from a national security perspective they are an absolute clear winner, because:

1) Unlike fossil fuels, solar panels and wind turbines can be imported from rivals without impacting energy independence. If the imports are cut off, the existing assets still continue to produce power. The equivalent of an OPEC has zero influence because the best they can do is force you to change your long term planning.

2) Displacing fossil fuel consumption means your domestic reserves last for longer, and can mean the difference between having energy independence or not (obviously today in the States, that's not an issue).

3) Global warming is going to create a lot of instability and that's bad for domestic security. Unlike smaller nations, the US actually has a singular impact in global emissions, but even setting this aside, contributing to the economy of scale of the global market brings the price down for everyone and shortens the transition.

A world powered by renewables is a lot safer and more stable than what we have today, and it's one that concentrates power more tightly in the hands of diversified, advanced economies without giving leverage to regimes that just happen to be sitting on reserves.
The housing shortage is not a shortage overall. It is a shortage in areas where people want to live.
I agree -- but we need public housing. The market does not build affordable housing.

Libertarians have this idea that the housing market is restricted by government regulation and just needs to be freed in order to flourish. In actuality, the only reason there is any affordable or low-income housing in the U.S. is because of government money (Section 8, LIHTC, public housing, etc). Homelessness is a totally solvable problem, and any place that has solved it knows the solution: build enough homes for people to live in, through state-funded programs!
Not a bad day, just a pet peeve: I find the "Japanese is so exotic and mysterious and different" trope in general and Pico Iyer's writing about the topic in particular insufferable. I mean, if you're going to pontificate about Japanese literature on the world stage, is it really too much to ask that you read some of it?

Languages are complicated, translation between two languages is even more complicated. Does Japanese have "weird" features compared to English? Sure, adjectives having past and conditional tenses still does my head in. But claiming that omou has 29 radically different meanings is wrong, and using this to draw the conclusion that "Speech is dangerous in Japan" is just silly.
Which cities are these? It's (I think) pretty well known that housing prices are a little sticky. Even if the market reacts to changes in supply and demand, nobody wise says it reacts instantly. But, I think there's also a chance you've been misled as to exactly how much oversupply there is.
Gather round kids. There was once a day where processing payments online was something that you signed up for with a fax machine, or a merchant processing salesperson. You might even walk into a bank to get a merchant account, then they would sell you an online gateway for $20-99/month plus transaction fees. If you were lucky, it was Authorize.net, not some 5th party proprietary garbage with a ColdFusion SDK. Not to say Authorize.net was any fun at all to work with, but at least there was a Ruby Gem for it that mostly worked. Payment processing was hard. PCI audits sucked. Millions of full credit cards were stored in MySQL, unencrypted because it was left to the developer to engineer security. REST API? Hah. Hope you know SOAP and XML, and you're using the correct schema version.

Stripe made untold pain and suffering disappear. Congrats to them for getting rewarded for doing so- they have unlocked billions worth of economic value by making that process easier.

PS. Here's a fun little quote from the Authorize.net docs today, 2019-09-19:

The Authorize.Net API, which is not based on REST, offers JSON support through a translation of JSON elements to XML elements. While JSON does not typically require a set order to the elements in an object, XML requires strict ordering. Developers using the Authorize.Net API should force the ordering of elements to match this API Reference.

Do you know how to force a JSON object's elements to be specifically ordered? I don't.
A "mere 4kWh of additional power" is 67% additional power.
This can easily be reversed. What exactly is being measured as growth if it does not result in more stuff being consumed and produced?

Growth measures aren't usually linked to soft outcomes (eg, happiness, moral fulfilment, access to basic needs, etc) because they are too hard to measure. Growth measures aren't linked to stuff produced (thesis of article).

We're measuring something. Probably some sort of technological advancement. Does it make sense to call it growth? If resources Energy per capita is dropping; I would call that contraction rather than growth. I like having access to stuff.
Yes, when you make programs target only the poor it breeds resentment and makes them vulnerable to conservative attack. Thus they get defunded, look like crap, and people can point to them and say they suck. Making them universal creates a mass constituency like social security and Medicare that is protective.
The problem is the old airbnb that you describe would probably cap at a few billion $ market cap. The one with investor-landlords optimizing everything and squeezing out every last bit of profit gets airbnb closer to that juicy $35B exit that their investors are looking for.
That’s not even half that equipment needed to reach cryogenic temperatures. What you linked appears to be the experimental setup that will get placed in some sort of cold chamber.

On an unrelated note: room temperature quantum chips would likely be more energy efficient as the coolers that go that cold aren’t particularly efficient.

Source: I used to work for a cryogenics companies.
Blaming each other who is sexist for wearing certain clothes or saying certain word is a distraction skillfully used to make people busy and not pay attention to what the leaders are doing.
I used to think those books were great before I got my first job at FAANG. Literally the only thing that matters is moving fast. Technical debt is just the price of scaling and beating the competition. Code quality is really not important at all as long as the product works and is bug free.

So I’ve become extremely nihilistic about software development. It isn’t that I don’t think the properties of clean code and software craftsmanship aren’t worth it, it’s that companies and the engineers who build them from startups don’t care and are focused on keeping their doors open. Long term health is a very secondary concern.

I’ve done my fair share of preaching that we should refactor and start focusing on quality during code reviews and it’s basically just shouted down with “don’t fix what isn’t broken” and YAGNI.
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