skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of this is addressed by elderly parents selling their homes (which helps the housing crisis...) and moving in with their adult children? It's uncomfortable but frees up enormous amount of capital, and radically reduces costs of maintenance, food and even cable/internet/entertainment.

Back of the envelope: 50M people doing this at $300k average home value and $20k annual maintenance/taxes/insurance over 20 years of lifespan, and costs drop to food and healthcare. Seems like a no brainer.

(yes obviously this depends on people having had kids and not borrowed heavily against their house...)

What am I missing?
Where do you draw the line though? I mean sure, you can ban ads promoting a political party or candidate - that's simple.

But what about e.g. "awareness" campaigns about e.g. refugees?
What about ads pretending to promote products to the LGBT community but targeted to be presented to conservatives / right-leaning people so that their bigotry will only increase?

You can affect people's political affiliations and their voting behaviour in really insidious ways. I wouldn't be surprised if agents are active on HN that operate with that in mind.
For page views & engagement. The same reason YouTube has been promoting anti-vacination, flat earth, and extremism videos to passive users.
I hope not. It's an essay.
Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
"The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world." - https://mobile.twitter.com/julianpopov/status/11856641961780...
You're supposed to report your online shopping when you do your taxes here every year.
In Europe they largely don’t try to square the circle, aside from maybe exempting necessities like food. They offer efficient, high quality welfare services to low income people in return for those taxes. (Of course, low income people get much more in services than they pay in VAT.)
That was in the book "Better". They found surgical tubing at a nearby market (not a plumbing store, presumably some sort of medical resale), and sterilized it with a steam autoclave before implanting it in a patient suffering from ... some form of meningitis, I believe?
Ditch That Laptop (Maybe)
Good points. These same challenges abound in other similar contexts [eg Storybook vs Sketch / Figma plugins for React component design and dev... or way way back in the day (late 1990s), WYSIWYG HTML editors (Dreamweaver was amazingly good at balancing usable generated markup with decent GUI controls, esp. compared to M$ FrontPage)...

The designer:developer handoff remains a tricky challenge. The best solution (tho hardest to reach) is to find that rarest of breeds: the FE engineer w/ strong design skills or highly technical designer, one person who can competently design and prototype and code, all in the target paradigm. At the other extreme (sadly common, even in late 2019) is the chasm represented by a non-technical visual designer producing pixel-perfect [ie, print-oriented] mockups and layouts in Photoshop, paired with the web developer who's tasked with translating these raster inputs into responsive, interactive experiences. So few organizations are equipped to bridge that gap with anything like the requisite skillsets, workflows and tools.

Bret Victor brilliantly highlighted this problem (the lack of immediate connection for a creator between their tools and their creations) -- and a stunning demonstration of what solutions could look like -- in his remarkable presentation way back in 2012. Absolutely required viewing for the uninitiated.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/04/bret-victors-inventing-on-...
That's interesting because the US has seen this kind of behavior in the past where moneyed interests simply paid the cops not to enforce the law or paid judges or others in positions of authority to look the other way. It's bribery, though, isn't it? That's not a market based solution, it is a form of corruption. We appear to be living through another Gilded Age where super wealthy individuals can run roughshod over the rest of the population by simply out spending the competition. This is, for example, why the Clintons have never been prosecuted.
Same thing happened with cars. Nobody knows how to work on them anymore because they became easier to use and more reliable.
The problem is that management always hates the accurate number.

The "always" part isn't true in my experience. In fact, it's not even mostly true for me. Maybe I've just been lucky.
> This headline is everywhere, made to rile up folk for.... what?

People love having a strawman to tear down (or occasionally build up). They just don't know they love it. The news makes money off engagement so that's what they optimize for and outrage click-bait is very good at doing that job.
Ask HN: Are there good papers/books that cover soft skills side of software?
I agree with this - I think the way to think about it is not to think of the self driving car as a car at all, but rather a train / bus replacement. It takes the work out of covering the long distances, but you have to solve the last mile problem yourself with walking, taxis, local buses, whatever. The game changer is that you get this whilst being able to pick your own schedule, and none of the other downsides of shared public transport which are numerous.
It's called Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Canada. There was confusion when it was first implemented over what was or wasn't taxed. For example a muffin wouldn't be taxed but that same muffin if heated would be taxed.

My province was really raking it in. We paid a 10% provincial ("state") tax and then the GST on top of that tax. Yes a tax on a tax.
Just in time for Halloween promo, how timely.
this is also a good point. Help from those close is also important and is may not exist, bad blood, nervousness, etc.
When it comes to Unix, history and the present are one and the same. We have been locked into the same model, the same OS, for decades now. Unix is being developed through small, incremental changes on top of a base that is massively out of date in 2019.

We appreciate history far too much. Unix is holding computing back, and it needs to go. It served its purpose, but it's done. It represent very few of the things that are important to computers in 2019, and it actively hinders many of them.

Unix needs be respectfully let to go into retirement, and new things given a chance to replace it finally.
Sadly, Buran only launched once. That flight was unmanned, and it completed two orbits before successfully landing.

And that was in 1988!
There is a game called ultimate admiral:dreadnoughts which seems to be very similar gameplay wise but has better graphics and seems to be more accessible.

https://www.dreadnoughts.ultimateadmiral.com/

Have not tried it yet due to the game being in development.

It is in early access which i tend to avoid but it looks quite ok so far.
> 15-20 years is also my personal expectation for when we will start seeing truly autonomous self-driving vehicles.

Came here to say the same things. Woz is awesome, but not a Spring Chicken. I'm 42, and I tell my 13 son I expect him to see it in his lifetime. If I get it when I'm old and can't drive anymore, I'll be really happy. And if the industry beats expectations, all the better!
Here's a positive one: smart phones with maps have helped bring about the EV revolution.

I got an EV recently and quickly noted how annoying to near impossible finding chargers would be without an app.
They need to move their servers to The Cloud. I'm sure it will happen after this.
Re: files in the plain, the server application is bundled with a daemon that allows you to access files locally as a read-only FUSE mount, e.g.:

seaf-fuse.sh start /mnt/seafile

I find it pretty handy when running a web server on the same host: drop files into a folder on my local machine, and they show up in the web root in seconds!
They only need 50% if they are willing to introduce legislation to remove or amend the fixed term parliament act. But presumably they believe it is harder to get such a majority or they want to keep the act alive.
is this what greta thunberg means by "fantasy of eternal economic growth"?
Ask HN: What's the worst project you have worked on?
Having been in IT for over 20 years I have spent my time in the trenches as a developer and as a PM. Because everyone loves a train wreck I'd like to hear from the community about a project that they have either managed or worked on that went off the rails.

I am keeping this very general so as not to offend anyone. A client asked me to manage the migration of a low traffic web site that tracked historical sites from Heroku to what could be loosely described as a content management system. The existing site was a RoR, albeit it was on version 1 or 2, none the less it worked very well. I was even able to find the original developer because he left great comments in the code which included his contact information. He offered to rebuild the site using the latest version of RoR and add some additional functionality that the client wanted for a very reasonable price. If I recall correctly it would have been under $10k US.

My client refused and instead opted to spend 9x that trying to shoehorn this web site into a Swiss Army Knife of a system that was not designed to do anyone thing well. The developer of the system just kept adding functionality to it because in his words, "why should we do it in X when I can do it in my system". After spending untold hours and money on this project the web site was never migrated and the developer still pushes his snowflake as the cure all for any new initiatives.
> My understanding is that, in reality, people pay 0% in the USA if they order from a different state.

That used to be the case, but online retailers now must collect sales tax for any state that demands it [0]. Many states have complicated rules on the matter, for details consult an attorney.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair%2C_Inc.
"Command lien interface" - a modality of interaction in which the empowered party (lienor) exerts control over someone with valuable property (lienee) via commands backed by a ephemeral interface that does not need to exist at compile time (lien), but is practical for eliminating bugs that arise from causality in economic systems.
It can be zero sum game short term (<1 months) but medium term (6 months) it's definitely not zero sum game. Pool of applicants that can be firemen includes all able-bodied males (and potentially female) 18-50 which is 10 million pool in California alone. Good pay will attract out of state candidates too. I would expect training to take less than 6 months or so. Considering fires happen every year, California can have as many firemen as it wants (and willing to pay for) by the time next summer fire season starts.
I think the point is that there are externalities of me building a tinder-box house; namely, the costs of the fire-fighting and potentially burning down the homes of my neighbors. One of the keys to privatization is each would be responsible for the damage his house burning down could cause to others. Thus, if I want insurance, my company may give me a huge discount for building a house of concrete. It would also likely provide my fire-fighting, as it's cheaper than paying for a whole new house.
Let's have this new, wonderful thing or set of things up and running before we retire what we've got, eh?
the useragent is far from being the only metric used by panopticlick
That should eliminate all the income from the VAT and then some, so the firefighters are still dropping your calls.

$ 1000/adultmonth = $ 12 000 / adultyear. -> requires $120 000 of disposable income spent per adult. Very few people spend $120 000 of VATable (A family making $300 000, a good income, doesn't spend anywhere near $120 000)
You are missing who will be buying those homes (?)
Should the public pay for the fire protection of extravagant villas built in the forest? Of should those be mandatorily left to burn to satisfy some perverse feeling of class revenge?
"Sure, I had a C64 when I got 8 years old and my first PC with 11, but until I got my PC I knew basically nobody in any age group that had a computer."

Wild. Where did you grow up?

I ask because I was born in 1970, and by the time I got a computer (a TRS-80 Color Computer 2; 16K of RAM, baby!) in about 1982, I was far from the first kid I knew to have one (though I definitely was on the leading edge). I wrote all my high school papers on it, and by the time I graduated in 1988 I'd say at least half the papers being turned in had those tell-tale rough edges from tractor-feed paper run through dot-matrix printers. By then, several friends had moved up from CoCo/C64/Apple II style machines to PCs (or, in one case, an early Mac).

My family was firmly middle/upper-middle class, but we were in a very poor state (Mississippi).

Now, most of these were household computers, shared by everyone in the house, but still: the upshot was "lots of PC penetration in homes in south Mississippi by 1988."
In a very real way, that's not true.

Facebook's adoption is so high that even if you and I choose not to use it—choose to take every measure available to us to avoid personal interaction with anything Facebook does—we cannot avoid its effects, because of the millions of people around us who do not take that choice.

Facebook can, without any exaggeration or doubt, influence elections in multiple countries. Treating Zuckerberg like he's the CEO of, say, Dropbox just doesn't fly anymore.
New report highlights shortcomings of Colorado electronic records retention
You’re right that VAT is regressive and the middle class would bear the brunt of it, but I encourage you to consider other ways to address the issue. “Cutting spending“ is almost always code for “cutting spending on stuff the middle class and poor need,” which only pits workers against workers. Rather than die in a circular firing squad, how else could the shortfall be explained? Look into stagnant wages, wealth inequality, and ask where all the productivity gains of the computing revolution have gone.
Which no one does, so it’s irrelevant.
Or are themselves harvesting data for blackmailing drug dealers.
% of time spent on refactoring is completely objective. Whether that results in quality is another matter, but it's a dial that a product manager has control over that (usually) has direct impact on the quality of the end product.
Almost 70 and festively plump....
Is that still relevant though (or rather, is the cost / benefit ratio of ABI stability still worth it ?). My laptop from last year is able to bootstrap and build a full yocto system from gcc to the kernel to glibc to X11 to Qt5 in ~15 hours.
Works fine for me! Both regular FF and FF Preview on Android 10.
The author of the web serial Worm did this for a particularly brutal encounter in Arc 8, rolling die for pretty much every character (there were at least 40 involved), even rolling for the main character. Those that failed straight up died. It really added a sense of scale, legitimate risk and downright bleakness to the encounter.
I would really like to see a system where people pay on their ultimate currency of time - it’s something I have occasionally pondered where young fit and healthy people donate their time to help the elderly in order to gain ‘credits’ for when they are older to receive benefits or benefit in some way for when they are sick or require elderly assistance.
I use the same laptop for job and personal work/usage, so I use an app called Workspaces (https://www.apptorium.com/workspaces) that let me setup group of apps/websites/commands that I can launch with a few clicks or using url-schemes.
Folks doing stuff like stealing bikes aren't just stealing from bourgeoise Facebook people.

One of the reasons that regressive policing, etc happen is that "the proletariat" in the community are also sick of having their shit stolen. The (legit) complaints come later.
Stress can do a lot to your body like causing ulcers and you to lose your hair by the fistful.
Paypal works fine in India, no issues here.
Not sure about Pakistan.

May be you get the payments via wire-transfer, that works almost always.
Personal autonomous vehicles make sense for anyone who will do the majority of their daily travel in an autonomous vehicle. If you can take transit for most daily trips the vehicle is for things like getting a load of lumber that transit can never serve - these are rare enough that renting (at $100/day) is a better deal for most people.

If it is a daily trip, there isn't that much opportunity for car reuse. Rush hour is call an hour for a reason: most people travel at about the same time. Those who are traveling in a different part of the day tend to have different patterns such that they would need a different car (it needs car seats for the kids...)

If you have a luxury car, shared might make sense because you don't care about upkeep costs. However if you are cost conscience a 3 year old car that you keep for ~10 years is well known to be the cheapest way to go. These economics won't change: people who want a luxury car will demand the shared car be fairly new and well maintained. People who want the cheapest will still buy their own because they can guarantee the cheaper ride.

Don't overlook the advantage of knowing your golf clubs are in the trunk waiting just in case you can take an afternoon off for a round. Shared cars won't give you this, if anything like it is for you.
The 'housing crisis' could go either way. It could be 2008 all over again, someday: the elderly need to sell their houses when every other house is in foreclosure, and their retirement funds have lost over half their value.
Ask HN: Why isn't open source hardware more popular?
Long-form Question: Why isn't open source hardware more popular in consumer markets?

Motivation: I've thought for a while about creating an open-source hardware venture, but I'm not sure I fully understand why the market isn't more popular than it currently is.

Considerations:

* Form factor/style? It's no secret that many consumers consider their devices as part of their fashion statement.

* Cost? Open source hardware is typically quite a bit more expensive, probably owing to lower numbers of runs and less automation?

* Capability? Maybe closed-sourced solutions are more polished out-of-the-box?

* After market support? Perhaps people feel left in the dark once they get their product without some dedicated support team? I guess your average consumer may not be happy about submitting a correctly formatted ticket to some Git interface for example.

* Availability? A lot of open source hardware ventures appear to do short runs in order to ensure they sell out the majority of their stock.

All replies are greatly appreciated :)
But they do, in a way, by using those increased revenues to fund a comprehensive social safety net. If you just add VAT in the US, yeah it would be a disaster.
It only took two generations for the boomers to run a global empire into the ground. Now the kids are turning into nazis and communists.
that'd be nice but I don't think that there is one so I don't think that he is doing what he is claiming.
this?

sieve :: Integral a => a -> [a]
sieve l =
sieve' [2..l] []
where
sieve' (p:ns) ps =
sieve' (filter (\x -> rem x p /= 0) ns) (p : ps)
sieve' [] ps =
reverse ps
I didn't see any indication of this being the case for Dr. May, but people are often confused about this when non-professors teach college/university-level courses. In this case they typically have another title such as "lecturer", "instructor", or "fellow". This became a minor issue during the 2008 Presidential campaign with Obama's claim of being a "Constitutional law professor"; he did not hold a professorship and his formal title was "senior lecturer".
Price wasn't the main driver, either. Dealer network mattered a LOT.

Lots of kids who grew up away from larger cities ended up with computers from Radio Shack, because they were EVERYWHERE, while Apple or Commodore dealers were harder to find.

But I'm still curious, because I don't remember: How did (e.g.) Apple II pricing compare to equivalent-ish, contemporaneous models from Commodore or Tandy?
But that's exactly my point: people contradict each other. Some Leave campaigners said that the UK would leave the common market, some said it would stay in the common market. The current PM said at the time that the UK will “still have access to the single market”[0]. Many other current hard-line Brexiteers said similar things at the time.

Even Nigel Farage has argued for something similar to Norway or Switzerland (known as the "soft Brexit")[1].

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson...

[1] https://quotebrexit.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/leave-campaigne...
Here is a proper news article for those who can do without a dozen pages of drivel about the CEO's hairdo, flying lessons, and underwear shopping: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/fbi_raids_cybersecu...
I think it's important to note that most western countries have gone through a neoliberal regime of tax cuts since ~1970. For example the corporate tax in Sweden was 52% in 1980 (albeit with generous deductions for various kinds of investments).
I think ultimately a succesful strategy is understanding who you are what makes you tick and adopting ways to use your positive attributes to drive your goals and minimize letting your negative attributes get in the way (maybe with the adoption of changing your enviornment as the article talks about). I have found this to be much more potent than trying to alter yourself in some way you aren't, i think every person after a certain age is more or less molded into what they are (core parts of your personality), to fight against this i think is a losing battle for most people.
Donald John Trump
EVERY single post which associates Trump's tax cuts have been downvoted significantly.

Tell me again that YCombinator isn't basically a right-wing troll site?
Yes, but the point is you can forget the check in python but not in Elm.
Indeed. Private consumption per capita wasn't so great in the Third Reich.

The Great Depression in the US was only great because of some really stupid policy decisions. So some other countries avoiding the worst of that Depression doesn't mean they had Great policy, just that they were slightly less stupid in that regard.
I loved that about SC2. Its so long ago though that I don’t remember if I learned about the constraint from a FAQ or on my own. But given how mad people were about a similar constraint in Fallout, I can’t recall the last time a big adventure game had a world-ending condition dependent on the passage of time.
This trick seems to be so well known I'm surprised that spammers aren't just stripping the prefix off of gmail email addresses.
exactly.

but it's not the only mistake made: pensions are easily affordable as a society, but not for individuals.

the idea to link pensions to financial markets was the first and huge mistake.
camel code: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=45213

This was the first artistic use of code I had ever stumbled upon (not including LOGO programs).
Check out a recent quarterly update from the Shardus Association at Capital Factory in Dallas, TX! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2pQZwcUgNw
Maybe iOS 13 should pay attention (single-track loops often stutter at the end).
I guess the question is, if people lived to 200, would that mean a 50 year old's approach to new information would be the same as that of a today's 50 year old, or that of a today's 25 year old.

Basically are we just keeping old people alive longer or are people growing old slower.
For instance: https://epsg.io/

And some open-source Cesium-based solutions