skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere is perfect, but I definitely think California is uniquely bad for the US.

My pet theory is that small units govern themselves nest, and I'd support splitting California into as many smaller states as possible.

Of course, a state where building a 4 story housing building takes on average math.inf will not get it together to dissolve itself in anyone's lifetime.

So I guess things will just continue on this track.
No offense, but your thinking here is actually a bigger part of the problem.

There is nothing fundamentally unsustainable about suburbs, single family homes, low density, or cars. 50% of the USA is totally uninhabited, and it is possible today to build a totally off-grid and sustainable single family home / suburb in the majority of it.

You can even capture carbon in concrete. Don't prescribe solutions just because you prefer them, set incentives and goals to favor the right outcomes and let people decide and optimize how to do it.

Your urban utopia is my hellscape, and my suburban utopia is yours. The good news is, this is America, and we can both live here. Good fences make good neighbors.

P.S. most of the $2 trillion real estate market in the Bay Area where I have lived for 12 years exists precisely because our politicians DON'T promote further development, sustainable or otherwise. Most of what's here is decaying, old, unsustainable, whether it is high or low density, and nobody can afford to improve it because all the tradespeople got priced out and left years ago.
things are not that easy sir. take climate change. they are crooks on both sides. al gore got a lot of money out of those shamanic statement that world would end by 2018. gretta same. people push their agenda. everything is politic even green activist
Same thing happened with me twice.

Long time ago I setup workflowy.com to send me emails of daily changes; gmail filter to mark as read, apply label, archive & forward to Trello board. So twice I forgot the password, asked password reset link; & it is not coming to my inbox; because that filter was auto reading & archiving it.
Abdicated, or otherwise printed it prohibited from doing that job by changing cultural norms
It's almost as though progressivism and throwing money at problems doesn't really work that well.
> Why should he feel obligated to raise someone else's kids if he doesn't want to?

Well of course he wouldn’t have to. But they aren’t just “someone else’s” kids...they are the kids of the person he supposedly loves, part and parcel of her personality. He might not have even fallen in love with the person she was before having kids, for all anyone knows.

Seems strange to think of them as somehow separate from her.
The older you are, the more chances you have had to accumulate.

Sometimes you are able to keep what you receive, sometimes you quickly lose what you receive. The more often you are tough with yourself, the more you manage to hang on to.

There's a lot depending on luck and life-choices. Think of the old game "Snakes and Ladders".

For me: Over 70, about 8-10 million.

A small note: Health and happiness are worth more than money. But having money is very handy, and gives you more options.
I would propose The most fundamental issue US needs to solve for inequality in the US is....whether US can continue to allow corporations to reap the benefits of a strong democracy coupled with the most vibrant economy, while at the same time, bankrupt the communities by continuing to ship jobs overseas and avoid paying any sort of taxes back to the communities where they make a profit.

There are only two parties in the US right now. And one is for globalization. And the other is for stronger US labor unions, as mentioned in the article.
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Yes, it's important to remember that the Gini coefficients of Florida (leans red) and California (blue) are 46th and 47th most unequal in the country respectively (0.485 and 0.490). Texas (red) isn't much better, at 39th with a Gini of 0.480. Inequality isn't a liberal/conservative, blue/red, or California-specific issue: it's a U.S. issue.
No, it has extra options. It defaults to 2xDPI by default but you can choose a different resolution if you want.

I often switch from 2x to higher resolution when I need more workspace.

You can see how it works here: https://www.imore.com/how-change-display-settings-your-mac
There's still cooperation in the party, and while the Democratic Party is a husk of its former principled self, the GOP has exploded into flames.
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AFAIK there’s no clean downgrade procedure. You have to create a bootable Mojave image, back up, wipe your hard drive, and clean install Mojave
Previous years, the response has been a bit off, but the 2019 season the Powers That Be have been ready!

Perhaps because these fires are closer to the big city power centers, but I'm sure also "practice makes perfect"!
His conclusion reveals the intentions pretty clearly.

> Google Cloud’s recent Open Source partnerships are interesting. I look at that list of companies and it’s not obvious to me that they’re going to offer better operational excellence than Google’s, but maybe I’m wrong. It’s an interesting and probably useful experiment.

This is true spirit of Amazon i.e partners are competition to be killed.

> At the end of the day I’m not that worried. Most of us who’ve open-sourced stuff love the creative process for its own sake; touching and improving other engineers’ lives. The skillset evidenced by having done so will probably help you get really good jobs.

Wow I am just amazed at the callousness of this suggestion. So he wants developers to create good software out of love and free of cost and then toil for his company while he mint the customers. At least he is transparent about his intentions.
Congratulations! Your personal values are presently inline with corporate values.

The world's largest moderators have you in mind when they're removing content. That must be great for you, because your experience is tailored for your personal satisfaction. And if you ever do happen upon something that offends you, you can report it and rest assured that corporate america will take care of it for you.

Now imagine you have a deeply held belief, and suddenly, it's been canceled. Your content has been banned, even though you made some well-received things. What do you do? Where do you go? Maybe you just give up on that belief, replace it with the new corporate belief, and move on.

But some years tick by, and now you find that all of your old beliefs have been canceled. Have you assimilated and given up contact with people that talk about canceled ideas and share canceled content? That's what you should have done. That's why our corporate monoculture is so harmonious. This is a wonderful thing... right?

If you're not ok with that, then maybe you need to get onboard with platforms that allow alternative opinions, because you might need one some day.
That's an interesting theory. It is indeed exponentially worse then. Binary search is O(log N), and linear search is O(N).

If you let M=log N, then binary search is O(M) and linear search is O(e^(log N)) = O(e^M). So viewed that way, it's O(M) vs. O(e^M), an exponential relationship.

But the blog would still not be 100% right because it adds a qualifier. It says "grows exponentiality with the size of the dataset".
I looks like the new bosses were pushing sports on the journalists. I don’t see how that implies losing integrity. Not caring about integrity would be things like fabrication, omission, taking one side of the issue, etc. Focusing on one section of news doesn’t compromise integrity.
For bonus points, you can also sign your Git commits.
Discovering what true masculinity means and how to fulfill it is going to be key for men today to keep their sanity and hope. And that begins with courage and a sincere search for the truth, and it continues with the courage to stand up for the truth in the face of threats and injustices.
Ask HN: The most conflict situation you faced at work?
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yet they seem pervasive still.
Californian originally from Lincoln, NE. Moving home is looking more and more enticing with each passing year...
That theory (with a different group of people) has been a favorite of racists for at least two centuries. Yet, somehow, it never really materialises.

In your specific case, it is bound to fail because the children of religious parents are rather likely to leave religion. The various kinds of injustice children experience at the hand of religious organisations helps in that regard.

If you don't believe me, just think back in time: religious people have always had more children. And yet, religion has a been declining for a long time.

Among the most reproduction-happy have been groups like the Amish. But they haven't taken over the US, have they?
Does an obscure TLD really stop you from checking out a site? This is a bit worrying, as it's increasingly expensive to get a ".com" that matches your product...
I am not buying this, in the narrow definition, politics is relevant to politicians and elections.
Shell is just a private company, so is fair game.

Secondly, suppose you could not advertise about shell so what? You can advertise for Greenpeace and related causes.
Maybe drone fire surveillance and rapid response.
I just mentioned in another thread that The most fundamental issue US needs to solve for inequality in the US is....whether US can continue to allow corporations to reap the benefits of a strong democracy coupled with the most vibrant economy, while at the same time, bankrupt the communities by continuing to ship jobs overseas and avoid paying any sort of taxes back to the communities where they make a profit.

There are only two parties in the US right now. And one is for globalization. And the other is for stronger US labor unions.
It seems that the superhuman EPM was more than just a feeling, because human players were able to correctly identify DeepMind's AI from its actions:

After 50 games, however, DeepMind hit a snag. Some players had noticed that three user accounts on the Battle.net gaming platform had played the exact same number of StarCraft II games over a similar time frame — the three accounts that AlphaStar was secretly using. When watching replays of these matches, players noticed that the account owner was performing actions that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a human. In response, DeepMind began using a number of tricks to keep the trial blind and stop players spotting AlphaStar, such as switching accounts regularly.

From the Nature article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03298-6
that frog only exists within proverbs! real frogs jump out!
At least on the fire front, Washington doesn't have the desert-forest interface or lack of rain that CA does. On most other fronts we have the same problems as other states, writ large. Hard to compare given how diverse (demographically, geographically, etc.) we are.
lmfao Michigan is pretty bottom of the list when it comes to the states of the USA.
How about weirdos like me and other infoproduct indies? We intend to express a genuinely valuable opinion in a useful way and try to convince you to consider buying our stuff.
Then why did Dropbox shove a Python2 v Python3 commend in the middle of a "happy retirement" blog post?

No really, what was the relevance of that comment? A task from a decade ago, with maintenance reaching end of life in two months, and they're off-topic boasting about "already starting" it. What, they think it's early and applause-worthy? They're trying to show that even Guido had to deal with it? Or that even with Guido they couldn't complete it quickly? "Here are some words about Python to make the PR representative look hip and with it"?

Nothing about that interjection reflects particularly well on Dropbox - it's far off the tone of the rest of the post, they would have been better off not mentioning it at all.
How I got rich on the other hand
We have rules against slander, defamation, libel, blackmail and leaking secrets, technically they are speech.

Yet we usually manage to distinguish them. I don't think this is an intractable problem.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic in characterizing those actions as 'just wanting to be helpful', but until I was a bit more world weary, i would have expected what your professor did in that story to be grounds for instant firing and utterly unacceptable (and would have expected everyone else to share my opinion), as it strikes at the very core of the integrity of an education system.
Isn’t that still a string?
Famine? Switching to freelance farming in rural Indiana could be your meal ticket!
My grandfather and father-in-law have both got dementia in 2 years after their retirement. My Father even got heart disease after retirement.

I have long believed not working or not being active both physically and mentally is harmful to one's health.

Keep yourself occupied in some way or the other. Human mind and body needs some engagement to work well. Too much of rest is as harmful as fatigue.
The game market is extremely small compared to other markets.

Sony just announced their quarterly numbers. The PS4 just crossed the 100 million unit threshold over its entire lifetime. Apple sells that many phones in two quarters.
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I believe Bill Gates' assertion that "90% of software hasn't been written" is more true every day.

There are so many "workgroup" size (1-10 users) apps that simply don't get written with today's tool stack.
Yup! And it's simple enough to do this automatically by just putting this in your gitconfig:

[user]
signingkey = <your GPG fingerprint here>
[commit]
gpgsign = true
Most of these would be posted by competitors :)
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And where would the information about parallel universes be contained?
Likewise, I always see these statements and they come across very disingenuous.
It’s almost as if treating an entire group of the population as if they are an single homogenous entity is a bad thing.
Why not just use the free hubspot plan, and you get pipelines with that as well as email integration etc.
> Switch your carrier to Google Fi

Now no one can socially engineer access to your account -- including you yourself, in case you're locked out :-)
Erm, there is something fundental discovered in thermodynamics that we call entropy. Energy only flows in one direction and time as well.
I'm not talking-down either one. They're both great tools for their purpose. I've used Access a ton.

I guess I'm talking about a cultural difference. It's been my experience that Access devs know when a problem is mismatched for Access (and move to storing data in SQL Server, etc). FileMaker devs seem to press on even when it's clear that the platform isn't capable of supporting their needs.

As one anecdote (of several): I support an instance of a FileMaker application w/ several 500MB+ "FMP" files, each of which take _hours_ to "integrity check" when the "FileMaker Server" process crashes unexpectedly. We talked to the dev about putting at least some of the data into an RDBMS (MSSQL, Postgres, etc) and they scoffed at the idea. It simply didn't occur to their mind that the platform might not be a good fit for the purpose.
> Some of the code was very specifically marked as "not for C++", because modern Fortran (2003 at the time) was better for some specific number-based things.

Was that a you-can't-do-that-in-c++ thing or slightly-faster-in-fortan thing? I'm always skeptical about the latter guiding major maintainability decisions on often-specious performance benefit claims.
Does anyone know a simulation of the solar system corrected for delta-v?

It would be neat to see visually how the planets compare. Like a 3D rendering, or a screensaver.

You'd need to morph distance such that if a point takes less energy to travel to from earth, it appears either closer or larger.

Bonus points if it accounts for time dilation somehow.
In a 2C world its very unlikely, in a 4C world its highly likely. So the question is, and always has been, where will we stop? The BAU trendline is ~4.5C by 2100. At which point everything from philidelphia to oakland will be desert.
Media.net, taboola, infolinks, just to name a few...
> A solar shade would buy time on the global warming problem while also creating a much bigger problem.

It had been pointed out that the main reason for warming, advanced level of CO2, leads to bigger agricultural growth, so here we have to opposite trends.

We'd prefer of course to have the shield controllable, and shadow only a small (like, 10%) fraction of solar energy. More, the shield likely won't be ready all at once, so we can have early indication for how it works being partially deployed.
I agree. Professional life is much easier in this regard. I don't mean "working the system" is a negative -- you need to be aware of and able to work effectively in your environment.

Our training in K-12 in my experience was that most academic collaboration was cheating. It's difficult to unlearn that. My kids go to a private school, it's very different -- they are intensely collaborative in elementary school.
Lol. Lived there during middle/high school when my dad worked at UCONN. A good place to grow up for sure. Winter was cold though!
Man haven't heard "PMEL" in years - Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory if I remember correctly?
A ghost is going round in circles, rattling the chains in her head.
POSIX shmem is a bit more portable, and flock definitely will do the job. Futex is a linuxism.
> I still think there is a killing to made on a modern day Access "Done Right". DB, Gui framework and printable report generator all in one sharing the same language front to back, top to bottom.

I don't know what the actual market [that will pay money] is for it, but I can certainly say I've never seen anything quite like it.

In high school, I worked as a sysadmin/misc. programmer for a company whose whole business was software built on top of Access. I was the weird Linux person who ended up having to do a lot of stuff in Access (97).

It had its issues. It was not perfect. But the simplicity with which you could bind a visual tool and query designer to an ODBC/SQL backend--I think--goes unmatched 'til this day.

There are many things I cram in a spreadsheet these days that would be way more flexible if they were instead built on a quick and dirty Access DB.

If there are equivalent tools out there, please, let me know.
Western idaho is projected to become a perfect oceanic climate over the next 20 years. Its near large growing regions which will get longer seasons.
Very useful. Also much better than the twitter thread!
> P.S. most of the $2 trillion real estate market in the Bay Area where I have lived for 12 years exists precisely because our politicians DON'T promote further development, sustainable or otherwise. Most of what's here is decaying, old, unsustainable, whether it is high or low density, and nobody can afford to improve it because all the tradespeople got priced out and left years ago.

While I think the rest of your response is orthogonal (albeit valid), I think this is the heart of the matter relevant to the article. Californian infrastructure is aging and politicians have only made it more difficult over time to build new anything, whether that's power, water, internet, transport, or housing infrastructure. I just wish I knew what the solution was.
A simple Python CLI file browser
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Agreed. It's some weird gatekeeping to care about the TLD.

There is nothing special about com that solves spam.
Choose. What you happen to be feeling at the moment can control you, or not. See e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=discipline+is+freedom
At the risk of splitting hairs: even Monero leaves a globally readable audit trail. It's just designed to be much harder / impossible to track. But no one needs even a warrant to start analyzing.

Random criminals are well advised not to trust their own judgement about crypto claims, nor their own prowess in operations security.

Keep in mind that eg lots of bitcoin exchanges have been hacked without any flaw in bitcoin itself. It's probably even easier to accidentally leak information, even if the underlying coin you are using doesn't.
Simple to use command line utility to search for files and directories with matching names and/or content defined by strings or regex patterns.

All linux utils that do that require anal effort, comes with obscene syntax and demand obscure combination of multiple things to accomplish single task.

I always wanted to write my own one on python but never found time.
At least be consistent with the despicable point you are making!

How does flipping burgers qualify you to have a say in how to run a country?

Take away votes from the uneducated, the criminal, the insane, people with low IQ, and the tax dodging millionaires.
That sounds awful.

Do you have a sense of how much of this was due to how Twitter is designed as a medium vs due to the culture formed by the people who tend to use it?

I know both of these factors feed each other, but I ask because I’ve noticed several Twitter design decisions that seem to lead to angry mobs. Short tweets mean low-context, sorting feeds by engagement encourages piling on, and the rapid feedback loop is perfect for amplifying righteous anger.
What fundamental problems? Compared to the majority of human civilisations and most of human history the US is a utopia. It isn't perfect, but the people claiming they are 'trying to to fix fundamental problems' are potentially more of a threat than the problems themselves.

But predicting the end of times is fun and I'll throw in a take. The US as a nation is fabulously wealthy. That obscures the importance of wealth creation and people are distracted from it as a goal. The US political and social narrative is clearly shifting to focus more on wealth/power distribution than wealth creation. There are good reasons for that but it is a lot less fun that the 60s/70s/80s/90s where ultra-rapid wealth creation was the order of the day.

If big policies are adopted or persisted in that destroy wealth, and I cite things like the endless wars & associated loss of liberties or the response to to '08 financial crisis, then the situation will deteriorate.
I don’t think there are actually two parties but more like two factions of the same party. One is a little more right leaning maybe but neither is willing or has the courage to address inequality.
True, we seem to want everything but aren't willing to pay for it.

This situation is similar to the country going to war. Where the political leaders are the ones that must convince the population that we must act or lose the war and our way of life. It really does come down to leadership.