skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primarily not a silver bullet in this case because it takes like 6 months and it’s a pretty involved submission. A VC firm just writes you a check. I have personal experience with this. The issue comes down to speed and decision making. The government can’t ever let a single person be responsible for something like this, so there is a lot of CYA.
The biggest non-financial red flag for me was the glass office walls. None of WeWork’s non-corporate customers are doing anything remotely sensitive or important. During a downturn, these people will decide to go back to free Starbucks to hang out.
You can literally google "hong kong protest demands"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/asia/hong-kong-airport-protes...

>As the protest movement is leaderless, not everyone has the same goals in mind. But in general, five main demands have emerged: withdraw the bill, for leader Carrie Lam to step down, an inquiry into police brutality, for those who have been arrested to be released, and greater democratic freedoms.
>Last I checked he's getting crushed in polls by almost every major dem candidate

Last time I checked too, but it's been a few years since I checked...
>Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated

Is this HN satire?
The nearly instant downvote really just serves to vindicate my point here.
No, that would be precisely the problem!

We don't want websites to be written for compatibility with a single browser engine. That means developers are writing to Chrome's quirks, not to actual web standards. Over the long term, that gives Google complete control over how the web is run.

There are currently between 3 and 2.5 browser engines that matter, depending on how you count webkit vs blink. I'd really rather that not fall down to only 2 on desktop.
In more rural areas, you can still build your own home without a huge amount of paperwork and certification. As someone else mentioned, if your funding hasn't got strings attached you're even more free. Of course there's always the "forgiveness is easier than permission," factor too, but that only works if you're "somebody" to the authorities you hope to be forgiving you.

I built my house from 2003 to 2005 in rural TN with only a couple of permits needed (electrician, one for the well, one for the septic system) and no special laws about what contractors i could employ. This was self-funded, self labor, etc etc as much as possible; and probably about the most benign location for the effort in the entire USA.
Interesting concept, but flawed. I've been reading through your concerns page, and it is very opinionated :-) Which is not bad per se, but I think in your case you just refuse to attack certain problems with Superbooks that are obvious.

"Strong layout" is just another name for fixed page layout. There is even no real difference to PDFs. PDFs work great for certain kinds of digital books like scientific books. BUT, I can only read them on my iPad Pro as on smaller screens PDFs don't work for me. Now, how does a Superbook address this? It doesn't. If its fixed layout is pleasant to read on my iPad Pro, then for sure it is not pleasant to read on my iPhone XS Max.

I agree that current e-books are not the answer yet. I would like something with the power of PDF fixed layout, but also reflowable. Something that can be created with a modern reimagining of Latex. That would be a Superbooks, in my opinion ;-)
I’ve heard more than one person on the greedy in say “I find candidate X detestable as a person but I knew I had a better chance at tax cuts.”
Reading any of "The Classics" is much more than entertainment, it is living another life with a depth you'll never achieve on you own. Very worth one's time to push mature ideas and contemplation into your head.
Whether or not this person hates America is debatable. Regardless, if we just ignored everyone we disagreed with I don’t think we’d make much progress in general. In fact, ignoring people who disagree with you seems to be a huge problem in the country right now.

Edit: the post I originally replied to said “this person hates America. Ignore.”

Just to give some context on my comment.
This is quite a stretch. Can you provide sources for any of your claims?
In most places, except the obvious exceptions, the government can also create new land for construction.
You'd think it would be an easy sell that unethically mined crystals harbor "bad" energy, not "good". But I guess nobody involved in sales & distribution actually cares about anybody's well being.
I think that aligns with their third point on motivation.
Possibly a construction engineer designed this kit.

These kits have been around a long time, I’ve been in one that has been standing for some time, I didn’t notice mildew issues (I’m guessing there is some type of ridge vent at the peak) temperatures were ok. It was in the Bay Area and plenty of apartments there aren’t insulated, so the yurt wasn’t much different.

This is an expensive build, Idk if wiring the yurt for electricity is worth it. If you keep it as all one room, a single lamp and spot to charge a laptop or phone pretty much covers it. Propane to heat water for a short hot outdoor shower, and cooking outside.

One thing to consider is if you are the type of person to make it really remote, maybe you’ll find that as cool as a mile hike in is to your yurt, you will occasionally want to hang out there without the hike.
> No, it's not a lie.

Care to provide example of "that images are fine"?

> Words like "willing" and "voluntary"

Maybe look at the other words around those words for context.

> This is a normalisation of...

This is the infantilisation of language. Certain word "normalize" something, therefore adults are no longer allowed to be subjected to them. Language policing at its finest.

> using this misinterpretation of the word

Says who? Many people would assume the same. Should that be ignored because the legal definition, only fully understood by lawyers, differs? In terms of Minsky's reputation, it matters more what regular people think it means, than what definitions exist in law.

The common misconception wrt what "sexual assault" implies is often utilised by malicious publications and prosecutions - maybe it's time to clean up the language.
“दाम भन्दा नाम ठुलो अनी नाम भन्दा काम नै ठुलो”: श्वेता खड्का – Rajmarga
> Too complex.

Disagree. It might not come across so great in written form but I watched this person give a presentation on this model and it was one of the best I’d ever seen. Probably the most logical way to explain a complex system. And then he rolled out the library he had written that could generate these diagrams automagically from Spring code... mind blown.
If the object part is influencing the relational part, either the ORM designer hasn't provided sufficient 'mapper' features or you haven't found them yet.

I agree that most ORMs are shit, and if you want to make specific complaints, I'll probably agree with most of them.

But if the choice of ORM is forcing you to design your database to its limitations, you should really be asking yourself whether it's time to switch to a different ORM.
Those 2/3 are already paying for the other 1/3. A hospital must treat anyone who shows up whether or not they can pay. The difference is made up via increased costs for those who can pay via insurance or tax payer funded hospitals.
I had this sad realisation with the last Iain M Banks book I read - Hydrogen Sonata. It was a good book, but I felt like I'd seen its skeleton at least three or four times before.
I honestly don't know what the answer is.

I've resorted to moving way out. I'm probably going to buy a house somewhere I can work remote from.

I'm not paying 300K+ for a small home near a city with jobs, sorry, it's just not happening. Whether I can afford it or not is irrelevant, the value just isn't there other than as a proxy for "this now allows me to get higher paying jobs in the city and... continue the cycle?"

I think this is something that really needs to be addressed from a climate perspective as well.

It is cheaper, dramatically so, for me to live way out, buy a car, and use it for everything. I use an electric car, and I chuck a load of the savings into offsetting, and I'm pretty sure I'm negative.

But a far better model would be if people just stopped the rent seeking bullshit and let me build close to town.
You get it it backwards. Denmark is facing deflation, not inflation.

Inflation in Denmark august 2019 - july 2019 was -0.39%. That is, the value of money is increasing.
Solar across ANY area has intermittency issues. It's not true for nuclear at all. The capacity factor of solar is 20-30, the capacity factor of nuclear is almost 100. They are not even in close competition.

Wind and solar is currently less than 1% of the worlds energy and not expected to be more than 3-4% in 2040.

There is no realistic version I know of (and believe me I have looked) where solar or wind become the base of societies energy needs.

No one is talking about 100% nuclear. But currently nuclear already cover much more of our energy needs than wind and solar.
I think I agree but the question seems to be how do we lower the barriers smartly while still keeping the intent of the rules and regulations? Add to it our own bias to put more emphasis on the regulations that concretely prevent us from doing what we want now, rather than those that abstractly benefit us and its easy to point to them being the problem.

It's like the "one mans trash is another mans treasure" cliche, something that you see as an impediment I see as a social good. Finding the right balance is tricky and unfortunately in a polarized political environment it's easy for people to fall into the far sides of the argument.
Also had colleagues from Vietnam and China who attended the foundation year. It was clear to me they couldn’t read/write English to a high school level. They still got in
> talent (n.)

> late 13c., "inclination, disposition, will, desire," from Old French talent (12c.), from Medieval Latin talenta, plural of talentum "inclination, leaning, will, desire" (11c.), in classical Latin "balance, weight; sum of money," from Greek talanton "a balance, pair of scales," hence "weight, definite weight, anything weighed," and in later times sum of money," from PIE *tele- "to lift, support, weigh," "with derivatives referring to measured weights and thence money and payment" [Watkins]; see extol.

So, no. But it's a neat folk etymology even if it isn't quite true.
The medical bankruptcy thing is a misleading narrative: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/263...

> A study published in the journal Health Affairs reviewed Justice Department data and discovered that among Americans who cited medical debt as a
contributing factor in their bankruptcy filing, only 12 to 13 percent of their total debts were medical.

Also the studies that are invoked for that proposition don’t distinguish between bankruptcies due to medical bills and bankruptcies resulting from reduced income due to health issues.
In Maine, the recommended footing depth is 4 feet.
there is no correct single number to use
You're only experiencing a limited fraction of your life, due to total blindness of your time and place in the human journey. Literature enables one to identify where they are in the sea of humanity in time. You're simply adrift, refusing to use aid to see and learn what others before you have said about where you are, in the ageless language of introspection essays.
Anecdotally from the kids and their friends, it's pretty similar in UK universities with the overseas higher paying students. Now there's £9k UK tuition fees universities are far more focused on the money than the education.

Oh well, it's a step on their journey to old and cynical adult.
ESP32, gigadevices, some nuvotons

Correction, gigadevices are still at 55
Just wait until the next economic crash. Every central bank on the planet is more less out of the fire power they had in 2008 to put a bottom to the market. And most major countries now have extremely right wing or tin pot dictators. We're going to see it get nasty. And most indications are saying that it will happen in October.

What worries me most is that Trump will just refuse to leave office if he loses the next general election. We found out this week that he was talking to the Ukrainian president to get dirt on Joe Biden (holy shit Batman!). And we also know that odds are he'll be prosecuted for all of his crimes when he leaves office - maybe he just won't.

Dark times.
I stopped reading when figure one showed only two data points on a chart without zero based y-axis. It portrays a divergence that -looks- like a multi factor difference, but is only a 20% at most divergence. This coupled without historical comparison for normal variance and the repeated use of excited adjectives, makes for an alarmist article.
Even if wages are comparable, are other costs of employment, such as unemployment insurance, healthcare, pay roll tax comparable?

And even if they are comparable now, its true that it no longer matters. The work moved to China because of low wages, and its going to stay there now because all of the labor force and supply chain infrastructure are much better developed. You are quite right those things no longer exist in the US, they have atrophied.
The x-client-data header is also sent by Chromium.
If people who are wealthier are older they are getting social security and Medicare. Everyone is getting roads to drive on, police, and other government services. They probably are still sending their kids to public schools and moved into the “good neighborhoods” to get into better schools.
On my university, copying eachother's assignment was so common a student/teaching assistent was talking about how he had 'reprimanded' one of his students for plagiarism while he was copying my solution to our own homework problem. It's corruption all the way down.
You won't disenfranchise anyone, because the investment will more than pay for itself. That's the point.

It's just another form of seed funding for ambitious start-ups.

And $30bn/yr is absolutely trivial compared to the opportunity costs of an economy geared more to financialisation and regressive wealth extraction than to productive engineering and invention.
By the way: this wasn't meant to be offensive or a discussion on other beliefs. I'm trying to get a sense of how many people here think 'deeper.' In the god framework, you eliminate causality, since you put attribution to a God who simply avoids all sense of creation and you avoid the sense of causality since you transfer it to being created by this ever lasting presence and he/she simply exists and creates all that is. The other side: In our current scientific framework, we say that we have the mathematical laws, and since they're really complicated, we say that we exist within a universe which embodies all probability lines leading to us - including ones which coincide with an accidental existence. I don't believe that either one of those are true, so I'm trying to write a piece which shows what I think - but prior to doing that, I'd like to get a sense from the HN crowd: what do you think?
Personally, I find that when I run into a problem while programming and ask myself "is this library being stupid or am I?" it's rather useful to remember that "both" is always a possibility.

Of course, it's the internet, so dry british cynicism and condescension aren't as trivially distinguishable as one might hope. Sorry my tone didn't come across correctly.
iSH is a x86 emulator running on an ARM phone. It’s crazy.

A nice proof of concept, but I don’t think it’s the right path for a serious tool.
Some solutions are ready to go on a technical level but are struggling to gain enough social traction to be implemented; We should absolutely be pressuring the political sphere to move those projects forward.

There’s no guarantee that they’re even in the catchment area of the ideal solution, however, so we should be continuing to look for better ideas in parallel with implementing the best ones we have at the moment— there’s always the possibility that a Norman Borlaug will come along with a better solution than the common wisdom.
There are cultural interest that they have that supersede any economic interest. I’ll leave it to the reader to make their own inference.
SQLAlchemy is pretty close. Been quite a few years since I've had a chance to get drunk with the authors and compare notes though, so I'm not going to try and get into details because I'm pretty much guaranteed to get some of them wrong.
Phase 1's are really not that hard to get, and the process is not nearly as stifling as you are alluding too. Most people without prior funding or reputation don't just get instant money from VCs. Convincing them to give you money can take a decent amount of time too. Especially if you are trying to do something actually out of the box not just something like "Its like UBER but for ..." Just speculating, but I would bet if you are a just starting out and are not well connected getting a phase 1 would be easier than getting VC funding.

Another major plus is that SBIR's don't have to be the next google. You can get funded for a product with fairly mild potential. VCs only seem to care about the 100x investment.
Sometimes it's a substance-free scammy marketing exercise.
Will do -- thank you!
Call me cynical but I believe that this will not happen since the people in power are going to get hurt by such a correction. They will try their damned best to prevent it happening. The Swedish central bank (Riksbanken) has also stated as much, and the current policy is very much based on this.
Show HN: I made an artsy protest website
> and yet the post-2009 economic expansion is the longest ever, and this is in spite of all the anxieties over tariffs and trade wards and the fed raising rates.

The economic expansion outside in the Eurozone is already over and that's despite interests rates going lower and lower. The Fed is done raising rates and it's exactly because the markets absolutely tanked in 2018 with the prospect of rising interest rates.

> There are tons of examples on Reddit of people in their 20s and 30s with homes and investments.

Why don't you look at a statistic instead of Reddit?

> Rather than a wealth transfer ,which suggests a zero sum game, more wealth is being created. Low rates makes it easier to get a mortgage and compound wealth by owning a home.

Rising prices do not equal an increase in wealth. If you pay double the price for the same home at a low interest rate, that's still a huge markup. If the prices fall, you will lose big time. The expectation is that prices can't fall because interest rates will not be allowed to rise. However, CPI inflation can still catch up to asset price inflation, it just hasn't happened yet.
> Yes I did

No. Not that I can find

> an innocent idea

A random ill thought out idea, that I believe I politely stated doesn't work in reality, or as I pointed out operate in the parameters of reality.

> without suggesting a better one

Why would I have a suggestion for an invented non problem

> giving a single valid reason

Again, not my issue you didn't read

On the topic of unproductive contestation, I think you have ironically become the thing you sought to destroy. So we will leave this here
Would be nice to offer runtime enable/disable. Out of curiosity, I wrote a little benchmark and submitted as a PR: https://github.com/sharkdp/dbg-macro/pull/57

The key idea is that modern CPUs dynamically branch-predict-away if-statements that are rarely/never invoked, such as a dynamically disabled dbg() call.

With the performance difference magnified 10x by loop unrolling, this is what I'm seeing on my Mac laptop:

830000000 iterations in 3 secs = 2.76667e+08 iters/sec (compiled-out).
840000000 iterations in 3 secs = 2.8e+08 iters/sec (dynamically disabled).

And this is the worst case, where the whole program does nothing but call dbg() - real world programs contain lots of other real work, drowning the minute difference in performance, i.e. in a real program I doubt you'd see even 0.1% total performance difference, littering it with dynamic dbg() statements.

p.s. my C/C++ is pretty rusty - feedback welcome, but pls be kind.
https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/inflation-cpi says 0.5% inflation with steady increase in the money supply ( https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/money-supply-m2 ). Do you have a better source?
Regular people have ended up in debt just to live, and can carry a surprising amount. If we build a society where everyone carries debt, often ongoing, it's hardly surprising just bunging another few thousand or tens of thousands surprise medical debt at them may break them. Even if it turns out to be just a proportion of total.

Your link makes no mention of mortgage or home loans. If they are included in the debts at bankruptcy, it's not in the least surprising that medical debt is "only" 12%.
One place talent is not is in the screening process of VC. Attempting to raise money for a new venture is like returning to high school and being confronted by the popular kids demanding to know why you should be allowed into their club. I expected professionalism, and primarily saw immature 1%'ers so transparent in their shallowness, it turned raising funding into a surreal experience leaving bile in my throat.
Clearly they weren't Maori. They could learn a lot from them.
American “economic refugees” are increasingly retiring abroad
Hard to say, but I saved like hell and then looked for houses no bank would ever lend on, and no landlord would want. Got a dumpy old architecturally protected house on three acres an hour from the city (by train) for €68k. Of course it's a huge pain in the ass (thatcher started yesterday) but I had almost no buying competition.
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Often, getting a prototype is the costly part.

I do like your idea. And I'm not some starry eyed millennial or whatever. I'm a crusty gen-Xer who has seen what our parents and peers have wrought and can't help but think we need to do something drastically different.
I consider the likelihood that the NSA made a security audit of OpenSSL very high. And given the horror stories that we heard from people trying to fix it, heartbleed is probably not the only thing they found.
> When people borrow money for a house, they only consider the monthly payments for the mortgage and not the absolute amount of money they are borrowing.

Yep exactly.

The same thing happens with cars too. The salesman does everything in their power to focus only on the monthly payment amount instead of what you're really paying total in the end.

It's way worse for houses because you can end up in a situation where if you make non-optimal choices with mortgages you can be paying off your mortgage for multiple generations on a low end house. Interest is crazy, but unfortunately most people don't pay enough attention to it or their debt (which makes sense since you need to go out of your way to really learn about it).
bboygravity: I agree with everything you just said except that deflation is bad for the economy in general. It doesn't have to be. The Guilded Age (Belle Epoque in Europe), 1871-1914 had several percentages of deflation each year and this was a period where a massive number of people went from being poor farmers to middle class city dwellers and the period saw a massive growth in productivity.

Deflation will destabilize the economy if there is massive borrowing, and since most Western government owe about 100 % of GDP, they will prevent deflation for the very reasons you describe. But the middle class should embrace deflation and so should the general economy as it encourages savings which encourages investments which is where the growth in productivity comes from.
Negative interest rates indicate deflation. In deflation, cash is king - people are willing to hold cash rather than make investments or buy stuff. This generally reduces economic activity and also makes it difficult for governments to stimulate by reducing rates.

(In an inflationary environment, the wise thing is to put your cash into hard assets, since it will be worth less in the future. Deflation in the opposite.)