skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your comment about women entering the workforce (note that I said ironically). It's another good example of an arms race. The equilibrium with just men working was unstable. As soon as some women start to work, the cost of property in particular starts to rise, then other women are forced to work to afford a mortgage.

(Property is often the constrained resource in the system, which means it captures most of the value from any beneficial change in the economy - e.g. SV startups are ways for geeks to work hard transferring money from VCs to landlords).

However, liberation of women from the home is a goal in itself, and part of the long run solution. When women are emancipated, legally and socially, with access to contraception and education, in a society with a base level of utilities and appliances in the home (or village), and just enough of a welfare system to ensure that children are not seen as a pension policy, then progress can be made towards the sunlit uplands.
Demographic moderation.

The West, NE Asia and China are already past their peaks. India, Africa, Middle East and SE Asia are growing very rapidly. Countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines and Vietnam are all bigger than the largest European country (Germany). Turkey will overtake Germany soon. The first 3 in the list are bigger than Russia.

If half of India's population went to Europe, they would become the majority in every country, and India would still be the second largest country in the world. Nigeria is predicted (UN) to pass the US in 2050 and have 733m people in 2100.
Add me to the list of interested parties. :-)
The example is pretty ridiculous but yeah, ownership unencumbered by a landlord or HOA is immensely freeing.

Want to run a machine shop in the garage? Go ahead! Want to change your own oil in your car? Nobody is stopping you. Don’t like the fact that anyone can simply walk in your front door on a whim and “inspect” things in your own home? Ownership provides all of those things and a lot more.
The readme mentions support for Organizations, so I'm guessing that's what you are after (haven't used it myself)
Elements of Information Theory (2e), Cover. Section 6.4. I also suggest following the authors suggested reading at the end of the section.

Also there is a difference between having information and having perfect information. English can’t guarantee perfect information of arbitrary statements with 2/3 loss.
By support I mean, continue to moderate their website for them. Answer questions for them. Ask questions of them.

Continue to give them time and help them create the product they are going to sell to someone else and keep all the money for themselves.

And also support by voicing concerns. Showing them what their user base wants when they clearly don't care what their user base wants, only what they want in their wallet.
New Orleans lost more than half of it's population after Hurricane Katrina. So yes, people are moving.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Ordinary techies and devs who come for answers and aren't invested in the culture and politics of SE because they may not know much about it.
Also 10 consecutive months of drab, gray skies and constant rain.
because she has 46k Twitter followers and the company fears Twitter above all else
Ask HN: What is the best way to wrap C++ for Python in 2019
There seem to be MANY ways to to this: cython, swig, using Python.h directly, etc.

What is the easiest way to get a nice C++/Python development workflow going?
The Effective Tech Lead Is a 100x Engineer (2018)
Not everyone lives in luxury buildings.
Of course, I forgot NY has no public transport.
> If it isn’t profitable to be a landlord; why would anyone be a landlord?

Yes, yes, go on! You are so close!

> I’d rather live in a really bad tiny house than a government project.

You know there are successful government housing areas, right? That are well maintained, below market rate, and generally liked by their residents. Even in the United States, where the government has historically done everything they can to undermine public housing there are still places where they are doing well.

Not all public housing is giant projects either. There's plenty of smaller housing that's government owned.

Yes, when the policy makers decide to neglect the housing units, particularly the large mega-projects, there are problems. There's a long history of trying to crack down on the poor for being poor. Making sure they are as poor as they seem, double and triple checking lest they get slightly more than minimum in social services.

Other models:

* Community Land Trust -- A group of people gets together and buys lots and sells them (or manages them) for less than market rate with the rider that anyone you sell the lot to must also be sold for less than market rate. [1] They typically serve those who make less money, and are often single family homes.

* Housing Coop/Cohousing -- A group of people invests in building a community on a larger plot of land, often with smaller individual units but a larger community space. Because the cohousing group owns the entire plot, they have much more control over making the lots affordable. [2]

[1] In Seattle: http://www.homesteadclt.org/
[2] Near Seattle: http://winslowcohousing.org/
Yes? Why not? I mean, if it no longer makes sense financially for you to be there and you don't like it anymore, moving somewhere else seems like a great idea to me.
There are some videos on Youtube that shows the easter egg.

Worth it if you're a MP fan.
"Beware of words. The moment you look away, they will take on a life of their own; they will dazzle, mesmerize, terrorize, lead you astray from the reality they represent, lead you to believe they are real. The world you see is not the kingdom seen by children, but a fragmented world, broken into a thousand pieces by the word. It is as if each ocean wave were seen to be distinct and separate from the body of the ocean."
Here's a guide from a few years ago that explains in detail how to follow the strategy. I don't bother with the really esoteric tweaks because the 95% solution is to identify keywords, write good content, and spread it around the internet.

https://medium.com/startup-grind/seo-is-not-hard-a-step-by-s...
Just curious, by saying specialized forums did you mean the sub stack exchanges? Like dba or gamedev, or something else?
This reminds me of the time when stack exchange updated their terms of service to include an arbitration clause. The community was in uproar over this decision, yet the clause stands to this day.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309746/a-new-2018-u...

Stack overflow's terms of service is pretty terrible, receiving the worst rank in terms of user hostility on TOS;DR.

https://tosdr.org/#stackoverflow
Just don't accidentally buy a Hachi-Go
Prop 13 means that property taxes on residences in California cannot increase more than 2% per year. It also mandates that reassessment cannot happen unless ownership changes hands or significant construction is done (such as tearing down the house and building something else).

Basically, the longer you own a house in California, the lower your effective property taxes are.

But your main point is correct: A more productive use of the land would be for grandma to sell her home to a developer who would then build apartments. Reassessing property taxes every few years is a great way to encourage such developments. Again, the end result isn't to take someone's home. It's to tax them commensurate with the value of the land (a scare resource in cities). If they don't think the taxes are worth it, they can sell their land (usually for millions of dollars) and move to a place where land isn't as expensive.
Stack Exchange started a lot of other sites on the side.

Some of them are about religions, and that brings on politics. Since religion and politics are intertwined.

https://christianity.stackexchange.com

https://islam.stackexchange.com

https://judaism.stackexchange.com

https://buddhism.stackexchange.com

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com

https://hinduism.stackexchange.com
I understand your intention is positive, and I enjoyed the nuance of your post.

As a member of the 'entire LGBTQ+ community', we're not monolithic, or even close to it. SO is the first mainstream website (at least in the circles I run in) that has even attempted this kind of thing.

I'm willing to cut them a little slack as they navigate a topic which has been incredibly fraught.
It's the same helicopter.
There's tons of videos on youtube of people excitedly moving into their tiny house or converted bus or whatever. They usually seem to be 200-500 sq ft affairs on 5-10 acres of land, so they aren't exactly solving the housing problem. There's a few in tiny apartments in cities to be fair.

Anecdotally, most of these folks seem to move out of their tiny place in about a year or two because they're simply tired of not being able to do crazy things like stand up or stretch their arms out.

I remember one series of increasingly distressing videos where a guy was financially tied up in some tiny property, got married, then started having kids. By the time they were finally able to unload the property on somebody else they had an infant sleeping in a closet and the husband was sleeping in a tent so their older daughter could sleep inside with their mother.

I'm really not sure what problem the "Tiny House Movement" is trying to solve even if some of the solutions are kind of interesting. The variety of small living accommodations in Asian Cities seems far more interesting to me to be honest, because they're solving real problems of affordability, shelter and so on.

Some of the tiniest places seem to be relatively shame-free dorm-like affairs in South Korea and Japan intended for people studying for various exams, but also used by a fair number of semi-permanent residents who lack the means to stay elsewhere. These places are cheap, maybe around $300-400 per month, but have tradeoffs like shared washrooms and kitchens.

1 - https://youtu.be/kBPyN3LE65g

2 - https://youtu.be/0YWRPWDqzVg

3 - https://youtu.be/979a8b0lP2M

4 - https://youtu.be/q0zZfpe2v1g

There's also the flip-side, various levels of poverty (like #1 above) result in sometimes intense living conditions:

5 - https://youtu.be/hLrFyjGZ9NU

6 - https://youtu.be/wN4pgYzuRb4

7 - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhIQjyBrmwI
I focus on the "long tail" because as a side-hustle entrepreneur you will never rank on the very popular keywords. You must monetize a lot of lesser-searched keywords, which in aggregate equal one very popular one, and you don't have to defend it obsessively.
Please, many people consider that term offensive.

The politically correct wording is now "The day they completely photoshopped Disk Utility is the day I started looking to move off macOS."
Don't feel bad for me and your supposition is wrong. Your assumptions for my reaction are also wrong.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec03/tech/full_papers/...
It's a catch 22. Nobody walks, so the social expectation is that the environment must accommodate driving, so the zoning and the laws reflect that, but the resulting environment is hostile to walking, so nobody walks.

There was an America before cars where walking was the norm, and then it was mostly systematically destroyed and is gone outside of a few metropolitan areas.
> That argument boils down to "I'd rather let poor people be homeless than allow less than middle class housing to exist at all."

No, it really doesn't. My argument boils down to "poisoned/expired milk is never worth it, even if it would help reduce the price of milk".

> I spent nearly six years homeless. I got off the street by moving into an SRO.

I'm glad you found something that's better than nothing. I totally get how an SRO helped you out, and that you want to maintain that step for others. That's a good and admirable thing. But this is not an argument for SROs. It's an argument for more real apartments.

If you had not managed to land an SRO, but had instead found a coleman tent, and it had helped you out, should we provide free camping tents to the homeless? That's not a solution, it's a band-aid. SROs are obviously much much nicer than this, but ultimately are just a much nicer band-aid.

---

We don't need to create "shittier" housing to get homeless people off the street. We don't need to revert back to tenements. The solution to homelessness is housing -- real housing -- the kind that meets all relevant local regulations. We can do this just as easily as SROs, for nearly the same price, there's zero reason not to build real housing for everyone. Including those with low income. Including those with no income.

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If your complaint is that no one is doing this housing (or not doing it properly), then I agree with you 100%. I personally believe housing is a fundamental human right, and that the government should be compelled to provide free housing to all citizens, automatically, by right of law. It should be systematically impossible for any citizen to ever be "homeless". (In the same way that's systematically impossible for a child to be "uneducated", since a public K-12 education is guaranteed for free to all citizens. In the same way that it's systemically impossible for almost any citizen to be "emergency-less", anyone can call 911 almost anywhere in the US, and be automatically connected to local emergency services, even if their cell phone isn't paid up, even if their provider is roaming, even if they borrowed it from a friend, even if they have no income at all, and so on)
Based on GP's link: Controversy over gender pronouns
Hmm, what if a malicious program modifies your PATH (or creates a bash alias) so that whatever command you use before you enter your master password is now replaced with a backdoored one?
Rule of Three (Computer Programming)
One of the people quoted in the article was incensed that a public employee would make around $41K per year. He’s a public employee making about $45K per year. There’s a definite “pull up the drawbridge” mentality in effect there.
TLDR; It is 16X more expensive than in 1904 to build a mile of subway adjusting for inflation. It costs $4B for each mile now!! This should be extremely surprising as we generally expect tech to improve and become cheaper over time. It is being speculated that cost rises as we lose all knowledge of how to do this efficiently because of huge gaps instead of doing continuous construction. This is why we need Elon Musk and Boring Company.
It’s not a luxury in the US, it’s a fact of life. Most people here grew up with backyard BBQs, air conditioning, refrigeration, and personal automobiles. Telling Americans we should downgrade our lifestyle to be more like Europeans is ridiculous.
Wikipedia’s ‘Longest-Running Hoax’ About Fake Warsaw Death Camp Revealed
I'm not sure what you mean. Obviously UMD cannot support native es6 modules since they're syntactical invalid for non-es6 applications.
This is the last straw for me. The ads were also out of control.

Real documentation is better anyway!
> then she likely cannot even afford the taxes on the property anymore and would be forced to leave.

So you're saying she can't afford it. She can't afford to support the city that she now finds herself the beneficiary of? Perhaps because not enough people are paying property taxes? If there was more housing to go around, there would be more people to share that responsibilty.

If she sells she'll be well compensated. She can move somewhere more affordable and have plenty of money left over to give her kids.
why they focus on products that 0.0001% of the people can use?
Moderator got fired for wanting to not use pronouns at all, because they though preferred pronouns were confusing to non-native English speakers instead of preferred pronouns.
Curious for you and others who've done similar things -- had you considered sharing a place with roommates at the time?

I too have gone through such a phase after college, 12-14 years ago. I worked in the Sacramento area, I was single and had little belongings. The smallest/cheapest places I lived in were 1) living in the living room of my friend's 1-bedroom apartment, for $300/mo (he was paying $800/mo before I joined, so I shared 3/8 of it, and it wasn't like he was even using the living room at all before I moved in), and later 2) living in the living room of an apartment with random housemates (found on FB, at my college town Davis) for $250/mo. (Not counting the times when I had been somewhat homeless for a couple of months and stayed in a different friend's apartment every week with a sleeping bag, sleeping on their room's floor, when I was working a very low pay job)

Of course finding similarly priced apartments is impossible (even in 2006~07), I honestly doubt I would even be able to find a 150 sq ft apartment for that price. I would however gladly take living with roommates/housemates -- especially over a 150 sq ft apartment to myself -- considering the toll on mental health etc. like you said. I actually quite enjoyed my living conditions at the time (taking over the living room at my friend's place and random housemates' place). Even with random housemates, it's nice to have someone to say hi to when they walk in and out (inevitably walking past where I'd be sleeping or using my computer, when they walk to the front door).
What do you mean 'rewrite unlink'? As far as i know, none of the standard POSIX/C file-manipulation functions, including unlink(2), have ever supported NUL bytes embedded in file names. Path arguments to those functions are all NUL-terminated strings, as are exec*() process arguments, so it would be impossible to manipulate or reference those files using any of the standard APIs or command-line tools.

I can't think of how macOS could have previously supported NUL bytes in file names without those files existing in a separate universe that can only be interacted with by software that uses some proprietary Apple API. And if that's really how it worked, i feel like that was the real mistake all along...?
I hate this article. It’s an important issue - the IRS not having the resources to review complex tax returns - but it’s hard to read past the authors efforts to build outrage around unfairness and actually understand it.

He claims throughout the article that the IRS focuses disproportionately on poor families over the wealthy, but the first f$&@ing sentence says that the IRS audits the working poor at the same rate as the wealthy. You can argue that that’s not good policy, but it’s literally the definition of proportionate. The sub-head and the first sentence literally say opposite things.

I’m so frustrated with the article because I feel like the focus on “disproportionate enforcement” (which the article itself says isn’t happening) distracts from the very real and outrageous problem.

Sorry for the rant
Ask HN: Tracking a Business Process?
How do you track business processes, measure their performance, report on KPIs or maybe even do some predictive analytics in order to get ahead of a problem? Think tracking an order fulfillment process like Amazon or doordash would with all their sub-processes such as payment, packaging, shipping etc.

I have used AMPs like AppDynamics or DynaTrace but they are too low level to map to relevant business events and none of them handle asynchronicity well.

I have also tried Elastic and Splunk but they are difficult to define a multi step sequence to track.

I have also thought of solutions such as Heap analytics but most of these tools are focused on conversion optimization.

I'm trying to find an off the shelf tool to hand to our operations team where they can define their own metrics and track each customers order events.
> Well, off to delete my Stack Overflow account

Don't delete your account -- that's a half-measure.

Never use the sites again. Not even the Google / DuckDuckGo SERP clips or some CopyLeft derivative.
Google is finishing up building a large facility in Seattle. With Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft here, too, there are plenty of tech jobs.
yea these pronouns affect like 0.01% of people but go ahead and worry about them instead of everyone else and youll ruin every community

when are people gonna figure out that you cant make everyone happy and the people who whine about pronouns wont ever stop

nice downvotes lol, cant handle the truth?
Because trans people exist, and this isn't really up for debate, it's accepted by all mainstream medical and psychological associations and is demonstrated in practice by the lived experiences of millions of trans people.
Right? Like, just accept people and call them what they ask to be called? Why make a big deal out of someone who prefers they or xe or he or she or whatever?
oo that is a cool trick! but it doesn't work if you're looking for an account that doesn't match the current URL (like if you created the account on the mobile app)
Still, think of the expense. Plus you need at least second for backup. And probably a whole bunch of them in production to handle many users. Think about the web in 1997, before "scalability" was even a word.
Certificated is a word but it’s a British word and what would they know about English?
I have to agree: Voice your concerns and then vote with your feet.

That said, I am confused as to why a letter representing a group of people adept at concise and clear communication would have no real goals or structure.
Maybe if you fly first class. Coach is far less comfortable than a car seat.
This is a shockingly unempathetic way to view the situation. These people have poured lots of their time into making SO work, and they deserve to be heard. There's no way anybody could build this service without volunteers. These things don't just spring up from the ground on their own, and as someone who uses the SE properties for personal and professional reasons, I hope these moderators can find some sort of satisfactory resolution.
Maybe a fuel issue. Perhaps Uber is paying the helicopter company extra to compensate for the increase fuel burned from its customer's heavier luggage. That's one way to set yourself apart in the market.
AI paints laser dot on people, tracks motion, goes pew-pew-pew
> The installer as designed was able to download code and execute it

No, it was able to download code and ask a Samsung app store system app to install it. This doesn't work on non-Samsung Android devices, and the exact same confused deputy problem can exist on iOS.
IMO the real issue here is not pronouns per se but rather it is SO's behavior in response (firing, ghosting, inconsistency).
The additional revenue from this stream is a drop in the bucket to Uber. I could be off here, but this seems like they will likely use these type of things just as advertisements and branding.
This comment nicely explains the concept of the "veil of money": viewing economic activity in terms of real products and services instead of money can clarify what's actually happening in the economy.
That is helpful, but still far from a couple paragraphs. Nobody owes me anything on this, but I am not taking the energy to parse through this and then SO's responses and then reread TFA to get an actual factual sequence of events here, which ultimately ended in someone losing their moderation status on a Q&A website. This probably comes off as really callous but honestly, Watergate or the Bay of Pigs or (more close to home) Stallman's resignation can be explained in a couple of sentences.