skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had 4 different solar companies come and look at the roof, including Tesla. Being on the side of a mountain covered in large trees makes it hard. I have 2 quotes for a generator attached to the propane tank. One of these will be sorted by end of the year. I have paid over 6k per year every year or the last 5 for tree trimming and brush clearing on the property. Oh and my wife and I donate to the charities around fire prevention and relief every year. I really find a level of unpleasantness in your post that is had to explain. Your judgement of the “tech elite” is jaded. There are ass hats in every subculture not just the well off. Fundamentally we need to fix the problem as if effects everyone. A large number of of my friends and co-works were effected by this also. The fact that we can write a check for a generator does not make the fact it caught us any less valid. The targeting of the tech community is unfair. The fact that PGE had what 564m in profits in Q3 2018 and 1.6b in 2016 and our government gives them this monopoly is the issue. There are more votes in CA from people that cannot buy a generator to fix their issue then there are from those that can, so why do you call us out? Is it our responsibility to fix everything because we happen to have been successful?
Deadspin writers quit en masse over ‘stick to sports’ memo
Some bank/cards let you download statements in csv. Plain text ledger app does the rest.
> But developers often don't appreciate the importance of presentation (and other) details in reports for managers. Your reference to "a minimalist UI" is telling.

We're talking access here, at best it's ugly and at worst you've got a gaudy background image(1) and a color scheme that would give the disability compliance officer a stroke. Throwing in bootstrap or a more minimal css framework is a huge step up in terms of presentation.

> Even though Access and Excel can be buggy, unstable, and annoying, it doesn't make much sense to use anything else if you are automating a report that was previously assembled by hand in Excel, and needs to match precisely.

I'm thinking of scenarios a bit more complex than that. Access apps generally have a few data input screens, multiple users, etc. Not complicated but not as simple as reports.

I'll admit that I do run away from anything to do with reports, but usually that's because they've installed some "easy to use, no developers required" reporting system that the non-developers can't use and makes life 10 times harder for the developers. If I can just write sql to shove data into an html table or excel template (where we can have the best of both worlds) I'm more than happy too.

1. I actually think of some of these old access programs when I look at windows new built in mail app, who the hell adds a background image?
> Subjecting people to the degrading and hateful ideas that target them for the sake of the well-being of the people spewing it is not an equitable proposition.

Is that really true on the internet? "Subjecting people" makes it sound so extreme. In reality, all you had to do was hide a few subreddits and you'll never see them again. They were already removed from the frontpage well before any casual user would encounter them.

So by "subjecting people", I don't think you honestly mean subjecting the community to those people. I think you mean that you want to shame the service provider into de-platforming them because you disagree with their views.

You weren't going to see their content on reddit anyway, except due to reddit outrage about how that content was ever allowed on their service.

You'd only find a lot of the things that were banned if you knew where to look.

> You can go to voat and debate white supremacists tho.

I didn't interact with them when I was on Reddit, and I don't care to now. But at least they were in a space where they were frequently challenged by people who did feel like debating them. If you don't want to interact with them, you're free to ignore them. That's why I think it's such a small ask and net good to not de-platform unpopular opinions.
After reading tzs' comment, I'm convinced.
Agreed. I wasn't contesting that point at all, just elaborating.

Most of the time for most people, the risk of arbitrarily long pauses from malloc/free is only a theoretical concern. Pauses from your typical GC are a practical concern more often.

Reference counting lies in the middle. If you drop the last reference to a big part of your object graph, it can take an arbitrarily long time to clean up as well.

You can bound it by either being careful how you construct (and deconstruct) your object graph at application level; or you can go for a more sophisticated real-time variant of reference counting.

Google has lots of hits for 'real time reference counting'.
I'm getting a 404, maybe someone accidentally released it?
One of reddit's most common in-jokes is the moderation team on /r/the_donald banning literally anyone who wasn't pro-Trump while allowing white supremacist posts on their subreddit.

So they were doing that anyway.
It's all about ping time, man!
Fun article, but I would be curious if that has changed after 15 years from the date of the article.
What's a can of worms!

Who decides what's "political" and what it's not?

Wait for it..... the shit show has just begun!
Underground power lines
They aren't thought crimes, but they are views that will get you ostracized... and they should.

The rule is fairly simple, and does not require a list; if you believe that someone should have a different set of rules and expectations just because of a characteristic outside or their control, that is not acceptable.
NC is affordable.
> The problem with degrees of truth is that they aren't composable into an argument. I can chain together a handful of things that are 99% true and arrive at an absurd conclusion because the 1% is the interesting bit.

For a general view:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Probabilistic_logic

Bayesian side:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_priori_probability

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bayesian_inference (Bayesian Updating)
Why would you do that though? The underlying database technology is not really one of the problems access has.
Yes, absolutely. John T. Gatto, John C. Holt, and Alfie Kohn all have very interesting commentary on this issue which is worth the time to engage with and ponder.
I think GP is talking about a James Holden or an It Takes A Village Scenario. Where one child or group of children has a larger pool of guardians looking out for them. Doesn’t even have to be that exotic. My aunt’s neighborhood took it in turns to take all the kids one day a week, so the other parents had a few days for their own stuff and appointments.
No, the solution is returning to the natural regular burns that are part of the ecosystem in California. Zero tolerance fire-fighting is the main issue at hand, as it builds up kindling to infernos.
It's definitely better here in WA in many ways. We left CA last summer after 15 years, and I would never go back.

That said, I've heard that the biggest issue in this state is old infrastructure and buildings that would basically disintegrate in the next big earthquake. Seismic retrofitting wasn't a thing here until pretty recently.

I've been reading a book about the Cascadia fault that is fascinating and terrifying:

https://www.amazon.com/Full-Rip-9-0-Earthquake-Pacific-North...
Cultural practices that exist within specific local minima.
Well the 404 page for the story link loaded pretty quickly. ;-)

There really isn't anything wrong with sidebar ads served from the same domain. Simple image/text/html, loads almost instantly, cacheable, etc.. Bonus is that ads can be based on web page content and you don't need to track your users.
How Elon Musk Saved Tesla from Bankruptcy
Hi! I'm working on a project called Retool (https://retool.com), and it's basically Access, in the cloud. We connect to any sort of cloud database / API, and let you build UIs quickly. It's good for building forms that write back to APIs, tables that read data from databases, etc.

I'd really appreciate HN's feedback on this -- if anybody has thoughts -- I'd love to hear them! I'm also david@ if you'd rather email me anything. Thanks!
I think that the gp is using "work" to mean one specific job or at least only the work one does in their career, while you're using it to mean all work.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive views. I think it's possible to do meaningful and impactful work outside of your job and career, like volunteering or running a side business as a passion project or even creating artwork, and I can imagine that kind of work being the kind of thing you never retire from.
As the other sibling replies point out, your assumptions about how free education works in France and Europe are wrongly based on what appears to e an American experience tainted by a libertarian view.

With experience in both US and French universities, the only point I can agree with is "skin in the game." To me, the French students didn't seem to value the university experience as much because the cost wasn't explicit to them. Certainly, they were aware of the social contract whereby they worked hard and crammed for entrance exams, and then they would have high taxes in life and lower salaries than in liberal economies (the European term for US/UK freer markets). But in the everyday work I felt they didn't appreciate the effort and structure that they were benefitting from.

At the time I wondered if some symbolic 1000 Euro annual fee would make it more explicit. But if it were need based, it would just be another invisible subsidy to poorer students and just as invisible to richer students whose parents would pay it. And otherwise, it would just take away from the poorer students' housing and food budget, so I don't know the answer. It seemed to be more of a perception that needed adjusting, perhaps with a different attitude given by professors and administrators.
IF either of these candidates win the next election, FAANG won't have to give any more money. It will be taken from them.
From Rain Man -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/quotes/qt0192567
I wouldn't block ads if they were only static images loaded from a web server, with the only click/impression tracking being web server log scraping. No JS, cross-site tracking, malware.

Bonus points for being SVGs and thereby saving my bandwidth and looking nice across all resolutions.
I find it strange that the occupations you mentioned (nurses, teachers, caretakers) are lowely paid. Let's take nursing as an example. I keep hearing there is a shortage of nurses, and if that is so, shouldn't nursing salaries skyrocket? It's basic economics. A shortage of supply in a particular industry coupled with increasing demand should result in higher salaries. In fact, I've seen a similar phenomenon in a number of other industries (caretaking is one of them), where there is not an adequate supply of labor yet salaries are still low. Few people seem to raise this point, and I would love to know what is going on.
Although hiding AlphaStar's identity was part of the experiment, it also seems a bit sneaky to try to hide the smoking gun of impossible actions.
>Or look at how the EU is trade sanctioning Switzerland due to a dispute over Swiss internal working regulations.

The Swiss aren't in the EU.
What does that have to do with anything? There are millions of people raising families and working with a lower cost of living to do so.
As I understand it the owners told them to focus on sports not politics, and these "journalists" refused. It sounds to me that a site dedicated to sports, should focus on sports.
Then you're clearly misinformed. We're basically like Brooklyn but cheaper.
Curious but why do you qualify HN as semi social?
I checked that this article wasn't posted on 1 April.
> Why, despite that fact, are no mass murders committed with machine guns?

Because it’s cheaper and easier to get and use a bump stock?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting
Would you not call the health care situation a fundamental problem? A large portion of society is at constant risk of financial ruin if they have a serious illness, a lot of of people stay in their jobs mainly to keep their insurance which reduces entrepreneurial activity and a lot of people can’t afford any health care. I would call that a problem that other countries already have solved.

I don’t like it when people are told how good they have it compared to other countries or people in the past. It sounds very condescending. This line is also never used to tell wealthy executives or shareholders how good they have it and they should maybe stop trying to concentrate wealth on themselves. Only the little guy gets to hear this.
Nurse salaries are pretty good I think, around 46k to 79k a year I see on averages.

Home care / care takers / medical assistants are super low though.
TikTok also bans political advertising.

Are there any other companies?
> The problem with degrees of truth is that they aren't composable into an argument.

To me, this seems like less a problem with degrees of truth, and more a problem with faith in simplistic arguments.
Hey badrabbit, you mean the UI for the landing page, right? I agree that it will be likely appreciated by a limited target audience. I'll do a re-over of the UI and make alternate landing pages, and I want to ask your advice on them.

Also, you said, present to others. That sounds good to me.
Do you have an email address I can reach you at? If it's no trouble for you, please reach me at the address on the landing page or you can add your email to this form:

https://forms.gle/3JjphZdDSrHDJoxJA
This is what I'm thinking. Like an advertising carpet bomb that drowns out dissent and sows confusion.
It’s been up for 2 days, and was removed sometime today.

Here’s the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191031023005/https://web.dev/f...
We just learned that political speech isn't trouthful
PortMiami high-speed rail will connect cruise passengers to Orlando
There are lots of astrology enthusiasts that would care much more about mostest closest than travel path. Also things like “lining up”. You can check with my Aunt Karen.
I guess that’s true in many ways. But I wonder how much is preaching to the choir across the board here as the dynamic is following people you mainly don’t know.

Meanwhile the ad spend can be reserved for networks full of more middle-of-the-road people. I guess that’s the big battle ground. And I wonder if republicans can direct more ad spend there now that Twitter is off limits. I guess I’m wondering if Twitter was a necessary drain on their resources they don’t have to worry about now?
Well, Google has figured out how to make it really hard to make a link farm that gets your web page to the top of the listings.

Very similar problem. I would expect that they would keep track of who is doing the flagging and whether their flagging is consistent with other flaggers, and various other tests for "naturalness" and lack of bias and so on. Then weight things appropriately.
My main reason for blocking them is that they disrupt me using a website. I'm fine with ads being on top of a page, or in a sidebar, as long as they don't cause any interference.

More than often, they cause the page to jump down, or hide content, that's when I block them.

Of course, because of some websites doing this, I actively block ads on all websites.
Not exactly a simulation but it is a nice illustration, I think.

https://xkcd.com/681/
> The idea that the measure of. A person is their job is a relatively new idea, really back to the industrial revolution.

Only in the sense that specialized “jobs” are a product of the industrial revolution. But the idea that people are defined by their work goes back basically to the dawn of time. Many English last names come from peoples’ trades (Smith, Miller, etc.). In hunter gatherer societies, rituals for adolescent males often revolve around hunting and war. Men who couldn’t do those things were a burden on their community, unless they fit some other social niche (spiritual leader, etc.).
This is communist/capitalist propaganda.
Provide some sources about Atlanta not adding housing fast enough I’d love to read it. A recent AJC points out lower interest rates helping out especially in the sub $300k range. This range was the most affordable for first time home buyers. The article points out recent buyer who got a 4 bedroom house in Snellville for $210k.[1] To your point wages haven’t grown as fast as housing costs. Atlanta is also right behind SF in median wage growth.[2]

There’s only one time in the past 30 years where housing prices dropped and people lost money. It wasn’t because of NIMBYism.

[1] https://www.ajc.com/business/real-estate/atlanta-pending-hom...

[2] https://www.ajc.com/business/atlanta-wages-but-not-fast-hous...
So do you support vouchers, which let the rich and poor alike avoid public schools?
What it has to do with the topic is that you need money to support a family. Moving to a lower cost of living area does not mean you can support them on nothing, so does not solve the problem we were talking about.
A lot of places sell em, look up “DJ Stems” to get the idea.
Rose colored glasses. "The old" internet still exists, it's only that there are many orders of magnitude more content available online today than in the old era. The idea that corporate dominance and filtering is hiding content is false, in fact, the opposite is true, today's search engines are better than ever before at finding whatever you're looking for, what has changed is that search habits have become much more directed towards specific tasks rather than used for leisurely "browsing" the web.
"the one-party-against-another politics that make democracy work"

Where have you seen this happening in practice?

A political science professor first showed me 25 years ago something I still see in US national politics: a "winner-take-all" voting system that creates a polarizing dynamic, typically resulting in a roughly 51:49 split -- with the potential for radically different outcomes hinging on tiny pockets of voters.

Also, both parties are institutionally corrupted by the dominance of money (cf Lessig on "Fix Congress First", highlighting campaign finance as a fundamental threat to democracy).

But only one of the parties is exhibiting blatant, explicit, direct opposition to the principles of democracy (eg voter suppression, rule of law, etc) from the highest level on down.

The degree to which state politics are tied to the characteristics of the national party makes it difficult for powerful governors or even mayors to deviate from party lines.

Don't get me wrong; the idea of a free marketplace of ideas and the positive value of principled opposition are things I'm sure we'd agree on. But that's not what we have. Wish I knew how to fix it.
That is probably mostly just age, you can't say that an elderly person that retired is declining due to no job when they'd decline due to age 80% as much. There is obviously a sweet spot here, retire in the the 50s and play music all day is my goal.
>> But for all I can tell at this moment in history I am the only physicist who has at least come up with an idea for what to do.

What, in the whole world? That sounds a bit messianic, if I may.
> You can have a normal thread where someone will casually drop the N word or other slur and it will just sit there, maybe not even acknowledged but also not downvoted or deleted. That alone is enough to turn people off immediately. They need that sense of retributive justice for a wrong they see in the universe.

Choosing not to hang out with people who casually use the N-word makes me vindictive?
100% this. Phishing is incredibly common, really difficult for even sophisticated users to detect when done well, and the best password manager isn't going to help you. A security key will all but guarantee that this isn't an issue and is a pretty good UX too.
Just remember that most people aren’t great at their jobs. It’s fine to be average or below average— most people are.

That’s how I deal with it at least. Do enough to not get fired. Make mistakes sometimes. Whatever, not the end of the world.
This is something that is on my radar. I am making a "SAAS admin" system for businesses but during my market research, a few people have told me that they would like something like it for themselves as well.

I am just not sure what would be a good solution. I could scan your email for known entities or through a browser extension take a look at which sites you go to. Both would be much more problematic in terms of privacy than I would be comfortable with.

I suppose another model would be to only keep track of stuff that you manually enter but I doubt that would add enough value for anyone to care?
SerivceNow’s partners are godawful at implementation. Thanks to them I have decent job security unraveling the dog shit they left.
If the Christians are bullying the athiests, and the agnostic does nothing, then yes, they are implicitly supporting the actions taking place in their vicinity. If they're just all sitting around doing nothing, the implicit support is of them sitting around doing nothing.
The first part of the response is to the parent comment, not the article.

That said, intelligent legislation to encourage all types of housing and development (with externalities like carbon priced in as taxes, not government prescribed solutions to mitigate them) would go a long way to bringing back affordability.

The solution in the interim is to vote with your dollars and feet, if you can. And really think about it if your answer is "I can't". Most of the time, that's not really true.

I'm leaving next month. Bye California and your awful policies that literally burn us to death at worst, and make us poorer and stingier zero-sum competitors at best. And for those of you who say "don't let the door hit your ass on the way out" ... check in with me in 10 years and let's compare stories! <3
Yes, the founding fathers were trying to protect freedom of religion, which is exactly what you just described. Do you have a problem with that?
I think this kind of response muddies the issue. Refusing political ads by political parties or promoting political parties is a clean way to define things, and it sounds like this is what Twitter has done.

You can argue that any other advertising is still political (e.g. retail ads promoting a ‘capitalist agenda’).
I heard the term somewhere, and when I read an article praising science that read suspiciously like the religious tracts that were forced upon me as a kid, I was done
Ah, well I guess semi is the wrong word here? I guess I mean HN has a group of people in general that have a shared background. I would guess that a large % of people on HN have some sort of STEM background, which doesn’t match to the reddit community. I do not see many people on /r/the_donald with a STEM background arguing against climate change.
I wish it was this easy to connect sqlite
Verify Phone Numbers on the Web with the SMS Receiver API
A lot of these problems are solved by making student loans dischargeable and subject to market forces. Nothing like someone with monetary incentive to sort out who has a positive ROI on education.

As a side effect it would almost certainly make American universities much leaner than the zero-risk loan-glutted monstrosities they are now, which also means more people could afford to go without a loan.
Easiest way is to restore from the last time machine backup before the “upgrade”.
I’m quite sure that a16z folks are smart, and perhaps the hyping-up does achieve an intended purpose. What bugs me is the non-stop need to feed narratives which dum-down and embellish reality.
As someone living in the exurbs of Detroit, this is something I've been familiar with for a few years. It's mostly common in the more rural areas, but it does creep into suburbia from time to time. See also: "brodozer"