skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stigmatization of poverty is an Anglo-American tradition going back at least as far as the 1536 English Poor Laws.[1] Among it's intellectual benefits is a convenient absence of necessary inconvenience upon the wealthy.

Stigmatization of poverty is not the only tradition at play in America. San Francisco's namesake advocated poverty and homelessness. The city was literally established by homeless men who lived in poverty.

The "affordable housing" problem limits solutions to those meeting some criterion for "economically deserving." It precludes pursuit of universal shelter security free of relative political disability. Affordable housing allows eviction from public housing when a family member is criminally charged. Affordable housing allows assistance disqualification for past drug offenses fully paid. Affordable housing is premised on scarcity not abundance.

At the macro-economic scale affordable housing has the delusional premise that there's a housing market that exists in an independent way. The delusion that there's a housing market that can reach equilibrium. Housing is not just one among many alternatives for achieving returns on real-estate investment.

It's one of the worst because conversion of real-estate to housing is sticky. Conversion of housing to more productive commercial, industrial, and agricultural uses ranges from hard (rental trailer parks) to near impossible (multiple single family fee simple lots). Politically, housing houses voters. Economically, homeowners have an incentive to hold out during aggregation.

Real-estate investment is primarily a vehicle for preserving wealth. It's long term. Cashing out is only rational when the returns are high. Cashing out into housing only makes sense when the cash value of the housing at time of delivery exceeds the potential long term value of other uses minus the increased risk from liquidating a perpetual real property title into goods, chattels, and/or financial instruments.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_laws
Hi everyone!

Tabiverse is a procedurally generated universe in your browser tabs. Every time you open a new tab, you are teleported to a procedural planet. You are also able to share your planet coordinates with your friends so that they can explore the same planets. Currently, three types of celestial object are in the Tabiverse: planets, stars, and asteroids. We are adding stars, black holes, space anomalies, and moons very soon. I also want to explore a way to integrate browser bookmarks, shortcuts, and widgets into this eventually so your browser home page can be fun and productive. Let me know what you think :)

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Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabiverse-a-univer...

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I have. It's very comparable to BART now, where it works like commuter rail except in downtown. But you still need to drive to a station or take a bus that doesn't run on time.
What is the difference between a bypass highway and a ring road?
Why do you want more users? Are you wanting to build your own recognition in the UX space?

I hope I don't sound snarky. I just want to better understand your thoughts and motives.
Thanks for clarifying. My research there is a couple years old, but before posting I did some spot checking on CF-hosted domains and did see several using 1:1 certificates. They were all financial institutions, so I figured that there was a way to get Cloudflare to not lump them in with the unwashed masses. I did also still see domains secured by certs for dozens of domains.

I'm not sure I understand the 2nd caveat that you list. If Cloudflare issues a cert for a dozen different domains, there's one private key, right? Anyone with that private key could decrypt traffic going to any endpoint secured by that certificate?
Simply put, even if all the environmental / lobbying / no-car-at-the-destination issues were resolved, the distances of California (and population densities) would still make it economically challenging to have HSR a slam dunk compared to flying.

HSR breaks even with flying at about _200-300 miles_ journey. That is, if the planned journey is within that range, for similar pricing, people will choose 50-50 rail over flying (in aggregate, in Europe, Asia). New York to Washington/Boston distances. Greater than that, flying has the advantage. (People will incrementally choose flying the longer the distance). This takes into account typical traffic, getting to the airport, check-in, all that stuff.

San Francisco to Los Angeles is 380 miles. Add to that the destination rental car issues, etc. And we haven't even talked pricing yet.

Even if you got that all out of the way, flying is still often better than rail. Even on Tokyo-Osaka route, one of the pinnacles of HSR, there are almost comparable flights serving the route as shinkansen.

I know we all wish for high speed rail as a demonstration of our technological prowess. But in recent years even I've soured on it for California, given how incompetent we seem to be on top of rail's structural disadvantage in the state. The money would bring far more benefits if spent elsewhere to solve our traffic, commute, suburban issues.
machine learning and web dev are miles apart. if you dont have a quant background stick to web dev
> It’s certainly a good reason to pause and question whether to dive into an 8 cups/day routine.

You say this, like 8 cups/day is a bad thing? Care to elaborate on that?
Why do pigeons bob their heads?
Being pretty young and just getting used to making estimates, this was a wonderful read!

Having to guess how long a project will take is still very scary for me. Is there any way to get over the fear of others disagreing? I always feel like I'm about to embarrass myself by either estimating to high or to low...
libertarians seem to embrace universal basic income, which is puzzling. instead, UBI should be viewed as an absolute affront to liberty and freedom, as it's designed to shackle everyone, rich and poor, to government largess (libertarian plank issue, not a personal opinion).

further, it's an insidious wealth concentration mechanism aimed at removing both the motivation and means for upward mobility.

the better policy is to equalize capital and labor power in the economy. we've had 50 years of granting capital great favor, and those experiments have only led to corruption, unfairness, and growing poverty and homelessness.
It really is not different, and people of the time certainly made the same exact arguments against most of the inventions on your list. Whether it's caused by a cotton loom or an immigrant, there is something about having to learn how to do a new job that really sets people the wrong way.

The only difference is that we are getting closer to the same asymptote we have been approaching for centuries now, where human labor is less about supplying material property and more about providing human service. Sure, it is possible that within the next few decades all but the most highly skilled and educated workers will be displaced into a continuously growing service industry. A decent chunk of people are not cut out for making a living on human interaction, so this is where a base UBI makes a lot of sense. It does not, however, imply that the labor force as a whole will not have any work to do.
That is the official Unix philosophy, but a glance at just about any man page will suggest that it's never been followed.
Bad Error Pages (By Apple)
The Boeing people that I work with are not allowed to travel.
I have coffee and cocoa every day, and I'm only slightly smarter than a rock.
I've taken a crack at a more accurate and neutral title. If anyone suggests a better one, we can change it again.
California has 10 times as many lawyers as Taiwan.

http://www.twba.org.tw/en/Report.htm

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
Still none of that makes it a software failure.

We're also straining the definition of "failure" here as it relates to software. Software doesn't really fail in the way considered in the realm of traditional functional-safety. It doesn't wear out like a cable or a capacitor. But, I digress.
Ask HN: Has anyone been experimenting with NIR for productivity?
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042018

Subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042852

After a subthread blew up about a month ago my brother and I have been going back and forth on whether or not to pick up a NIR light and give it a shot.

I'm curious specifically about concentration times (I go for maybe a minute before my concentration breaks) and perceived efficacy.

Has anyone tried using NIR for performance hacking? What was your experience?
I think this is the letter in question:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...
MBAs ruining everything again, this is so familiar it ain't even funny. Putting business guys at the top is one of the biggest mistakes in companies, even if we concede that they are needed they should have very limited power not the control of the company like today's CEOs.
I think local public transport might be just a lot more efficient than longer-distance HSR. So if there isn't even a basic solution for the local transport, it seems odd to start with HSR. That impression is mostly based on comparison to Germany though.
"Some dinamic comments" is easy to see you are not understanding all it does here, the comments are more than 100 per image, replies are hidden until clicked, the points of each comment update in (almost) real time, the comments are posted using Ajax to never lost the scroll position, same than all the other interaction such as upvoting, downvoting and report, like everything is over Ajax it needs to keep track of url history itself, all this needs to work on IE10 and other shady browsers (due being one the most popular sites). They don't have much control over some of the assets because they are from the advertiser and have little say what's going on there if they want to win money. Is one of the top 20 sites visited in the United States and I seriously don't think being slightly faster would help much or maybe at all.

And most important than all that: All the assets are properly cached, so despite bothering thousands of engineers for most people the load nuisances only happen once or at most a few times.
Come on. Even highschool kids know that AWS exists, that doesn't make you "senior". How did you go from "Knowing an ecosystem well on a senior level won’t happen in a few weeks." to an example of someone reinventing the wheel? That's absolutely an example of non-senior behavior. But I was talking about e.g. someone that doesn't know Spring, or Angular - it seemed to me you were saying "can't hire a non-Spring-expert as senior if we're using Spring and he doesn't know it".
For a brief while I tried using Comic Sans in my IDE. I did that because it was made to be super readable. It was in fact super readable, but I just couldn't get over the lack of mono spacing.

Then I switched to FiraCode and it's been great.

I still use Comic Sans in all of my chat programs though (IMessage, Slack, IRC, etc.) I actually really enjoy it.
> economically challenging to have HSR a slam dunk compared to flying.

Ever priced out a runway extension project? Know how much that costs? You have no idea.
WeWork value plunges to $8B as it hemorrhages cash
It's still grasping at straws. The idea is to connect SF and LA, which are much larger than Taipei and Kaohsiung. In-between stops are a bonus.
HSR failed in California largely because building effective mass transit is a secondary goal. If you look at the route, and how the process unfolded, the focus was mostly on who was going to get paid, and helping out political friends. In the US, large transit projects are mostly about pork barrel politics and spending, and if something actually usable comes out of it, then that was a great but secondary effect. If you look at how other countries build transit, politics is more subdued and the goal is to actually build a functional system. Republicans block most transit projects as it is antithetical to their political views, and the Democrats uses it as a social spending policy and political handouts largely ignoring the needs of an actual transit system.

Basically, US politics just doesn't care to build things properly because the incentives are totally off.

Vox has a pretty good breakdown: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/15/18224717/c...
My workhorse early 2011 15” mbp finally died earlier this year. For its final 12-15 months I had been looking for a good replacement, as the various mbp issues (primarily the keyboard) had prevented me from replacing it with a new mbp.

Eventually I pulled the trigger on a “big” chromebook, the Lenovo Yoga C630, with an i5-U processor and 8Gb of ram, as a trial period device (I had toyed around with a couple sub-$300 chromebooks before), and then the mbp died (pink screen, boot-loops), and I’ve been using the chromebook ever since. It’s pretty good, and steadily improving - at this point, it runs ChromeOS, android apps, and containerized linux simultaneously. My only regret about the thing is that I accidentally got the model without the backlit keyboard.

As a device, it’s a little larger than I would like, but it pays for that with a quite nice screen (I have the FHD version; the 4K display model gives up too much battery life for my taste). I still occasionally look at the Dell XPS13 or the Thinkpad X1 in stores, but it’s hard for me to justify spending 4* what the C630 cost me for either of those devices, especially since the XPS13 seems to have some hardware quality problems and the Thinkpad loses the portability that I would like from the XPS13.

I had hopes for the Pixelbook Go, but they were quickly dashed by the leaks then killed by the launch - it’s expensive and underpowered for a chromebook — costs more for less oomph than the chromebook I already have. I also had hopes for a new mbp with a new (old, really) keyboard, but that just doesn’t seem likely, so I’m not holding my breath.
We need a standard.
I’m familiar with programs that at scale that have been demonstrated to predict certain negative health/behavior patterns.

From a medical point of view, you can assume a 10-20% probability of a negative outcome. If you layer on other factors or behaviors in the persons life, the probability of a bad outcome approaches 90%.

Problem is, you need deeply intrusive data at scale. What are the consequences of a organization with Google/Facebook capability who also is your AI doctor? It’s easy to foresee complications.
It's sad when these packagers/bottlers like Coca-Cola used glass there was a great recycle program built into it. Very sad that this faded away as they changed to plastic.
I read the abstract, skimmed the intro and skipped to the conclusions. It's hard not to see the parallels to large scale computer networks-- individual signal strengths varying wildly, but larger patterns being much more stable. Still no clear insight into the physical level of storage, but that may be because it's looking more like always-on RAM and less like disk (as an overused & possibly inaccurate analogy).

The 'spark of consciousness', as always, remains elusive. But if this opens up a new area of research, we might be getting closer.
Calling Ruby "unremarkable" is a significant understatement, I think. For my money nothing in common usage approaches the same kinds of metaprogramming and solving-a-category-of-problems-at-once nature of a really comfortable and dynamic Lisp as does Ruby. (Clojure isn't in common use.)

I get that that's not what you want, you want somebody to close tickets, but that's not Ruby's fault. And most of the people I know still working in Ruby are at a level where that kind of grunt work just isn't worth their time; most others have, of course, moved on.
Libet’s "preceding activity" is simply an example of branch prediction at work.
Sorry for all the buzzwords....It was 6 AM PST and coffee hadn't kicked in yet.

Interestingly the de-buzzwording of the argument makes sense for the actual thing called "gig economy" too. It could just as well be called the "human rental business".
It's generally not a good idea to buy a 1st gen Apple product. IMO it would be better to wait at least to a 2nd gen of the redesigned MBPs.
Your story should be more than a comment on HN. Write a blog about it. How was the first week ? What subject did you have to learn and were the hardest ? etc i think people here probably have hundreds of question.
New trailer for SUPERVERSE game released
> their rent, transport, and other associated costs will go up by exactly $1000 over a relatively quick time frame

But wouldn't this be more efficient than subsidy programs? There is the idea that the needy will have the flexibility be able to obtain what they need most, rather than rely on programs that do not necessarily provide what they need most or in a way that they can't properly take advantage of.
https://youtu.be/_WgrfEaAM4Y?t=1206
Anyone know this font/theme name? Looks solid to me.
Edit distance allows for insertion, deletion and substitution. Some allow custom cost for substitution (e.g. characters closer together on a keyboard have lower substitution cost than other; for typo normalization). What I describe in my comment is to use the cosine similarity between learned character embeddings as substitution costs.
Your initial scenario is still flawed: "middle eng management were actual engineers." The problem is elevating management above other roles. At that point the course has been set.
Yeah, even the greediest executive knows that killing your passengers leads to the opposite of profit, as Boeing is surely proof of right now.
His assertion is wrong, by the way, only some programmers are contributing to job losses in other domains. I expect that many of us are just building products.

Perhaps that's their way of making themselves feel better, when they say that everyone's doing it.
I love the idea, but it feels like just an idea at this point. I'd rather read about them releasing their 'compile-time' analyzer and revealing their measurements for how much startup time it saves.

In our codebase, we have pretty strict developer-enforced rules about not doing I/O at the module level, usually through the use of simple "Lazy" wrappers for module-level objects. I'd be curious to know what other approaches people have taken with Python here.
It slows you down :)

The vacuum part was an emphasis on requiring a counterpart to change momentum.

In an atmosphere you could flap your wings, or use electric fans, and argue what it means to ride a swing, but it would be besides the point, as in an atmosphere there is no need for propellant-less engines from the article.
OP probably means that very few highway goes through cities in Europe, whereas you have big highway junctions in cities. (Eg Boston Big Dig.)
You've described the quintessential problem with private property and capitalism.
Boeing expresses regret over ex-pilot's messages on 737 MAX software
I'm hoping that maybe Flakes[1] will help ease the issue/pull request situation by letting some of the namespaces move out of the main repository.

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49
I think it's good to write down your guess for your own future reference in improving your own guesses, and at some point you'll be good enough to do this and not get burned (as a contractor, I'm assuming).

I have been doing this a while and am not good enough to avoid getting burned without building in a 3-4x buffer. Sometimes I end up finishing a project in 10% of the expected time, but at least it's not over 100%?

I don't think that's very healthy for anyone involved though, it's better if for projects I can't estimate well we just do hourly so that I'm incentiviced to spend lots of time making it great and they're incentivized to give me more work in updating the spec without needing to renegotiate anything.

But yeah, I'd say yes estimate and do it in writing but keep it to yourself until you're actually good at it. It takes practice, but honest logs of your past projects will elucidate over time. Like how whenever my biologist coworkers would plan an 8 hour project, 11 hours in I'm just like... how did you not plan for cleanup and prep?

Some things are just not obvious right away, but can become clear in retrospectives that inform future estimates.
If the dev doesn't use a hundred different javascript frameworks what on earth are they going to put on their CV!
Some very vocal, very opinionated people are on a crusade to remove the idea that man with woman, or woman with man, is the default configuration for sex.

They actively downvote any comments that suggest that M-F is "normal" all over the internet, from Reddit to StackOverflow. I would say it's been happening for a while but the past few months have been very extreme.
As a stagehand, I've spent an inordinate amount of time on fireproofing, worrying about fire, as well as working with fire officials to make sure the risks are minimized as much as possible. Oh and also cleaning up after one fire, which destroyed a major-market local news studio and pushed Regis and Kelly out of their studio. It's no joke.
> If you don't have insurance in Germany you'll have to pay for that yourself as well. That's rare, but it happens especially with the precariously self-employed.

The difference is GKV being the default, and opting out of that kind of hard. You have to earn €5,062+ per month, for a start [0]. And the step is intentionally hard to reverse. I consider that a decent compromise. At that point people have to actively shoot them self in the foot, and I've little pity for those.

If you didn't opt out, thus are still under the GKV, the system will cover emergency services. Even if you haven't payed (yet).

[0] https://www.bundesaerztekammer.de/weitere-sprachen/english/h...
Yes, exactly, that’s the point I was trying to get at.
I use a XPS 13 as well, KUbuntu with i3 as the window manager. Works great and the newest XPS I believe fixed the camera placement.
The oldschool pc font list
Aka the caveman bias. Caves preserve the organic material relatively well. But cave-dwelling people must have been an outlier, it's just that most evidence of plains or forest dwelling folks has been recycled

In the same vein, it makes you wonder if there were primitive hunter-gatherer civilizations among the dinosaurs before the asteroid struck.