skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sears, Macy's, and JC Penney as anchor tenants. All are now closed.

Hey coincidentally my local mall has the same! Except our Macy's is kinda open.
Organized societies with high levels of trust backed by effective bureaucracies from a tradition of discipline and rigor are actually good at solving things, who would have known.

Whenever Libertarians claim that governments don't work, I point them to the success stories of the German state.

The issues generally never lie with private vs public initiatives (although the incentive structures count), but rather with effective vs ineffective institutions.
Most empty malls are in places where economic demand, including demand for land, is very low. Investing money to make efficient use of something that cheap is unlikely to be a profitable move.
Another Olympic discipline could be programming...
Thx for plug. Indeed it would be a good book for any highschooler interested in more advanced topics.

> I'm surprised it's expensive now.

Yeah amazon pricing is weird. My intent is for the book to be sold ~$30, but if I tell this price to amazon they start selling it for $20 after discounting, and then readers buy it less because they think it is not a complete book, but just some sort of summary notes. Nowadays I set the price to $40 so that after amazon discount the price will end up around $30, but today it is expensive indeed... I might have to bump it down to $35 at some point.
Bulldoze and subdivide would be more sensible I'd think.
I find this sort of funny in an “everything old is new again” sort of way. There are some up—and-coming areas around downton LA that we’re partially covered high streets (somewhat mall-like) that are having their second and third floors turned into apartments the thing is, that’s what they used to be.

It strikes me that we should consider the mall as more of an aberration which is finally fading away.
> Invariably, media coverage of the issue starts talking about universal healthcare.

So you're saying I won't find a single media article about the black/white mortality gap that doesn't mention universal healthcare?

I'm nitpicking here, but you're complaining about journalists bringing their own agenda to the table while yourself giving in to the temptation to hyperbole. Surprise: It's really hard (and often dull as dishwater) to write the kind of utterly deracinated just-the-facts prose you wish the media would produce.
I prefer never going outside and getting everything delivered, but that also naturally privileges the suburbs because door delivery is so nice vs. dealing with mail rooms or meeting couriers downstairs. D:
So many founders whom i know personally have flashed through my eyes while reading this ! :D

This needed to be said! :)
Detailed Hacks to Keep Your PC/Smartphone Alive
Massachusetts City Legalizes Polygamy
Strong encryption is another tool of the rich and powerful to help evade public oversight and scrutiny. Unpopular thought here, cuz, well, most people commenting here are the top wealthy 5-10%, the rich and powerful. It would be a cognitive dissonance to blieve otherwise.
I do think they are on any company that is not majority-owned by someone that cares.

Morality and integrity are acceptable in large companies so long as they can bring some benefit. Otherwise they somehow always seem to find a way to justify doing even the most immorally-seeming stuff (like exploiting workers in third-world-country mines, selling weapons to dictators and so on).

What's more important: why wouldn't it be like this? Why would a top-level exec leave money on the table for moral reasons? How would they sell that to their stakeholders?
I'd be ok with Olympic chess.
The first thing I think of is that case of acacias killing antelope: https://jstor.org/stable/24997007
> Boxing for example

Boxing isn’t a good example because it’s a combat sport which means there is far more training than competing.

When I played football the ratio was close to 1:1 - games played to hours trained and something like 150-200:1 for when I was boxing.
It’s pretty disappointing how cynical everyone is on here. I signed up for the free tier. They have some interesting people on their board of advisors. I don’t agree with them all but that’s the point.
Full Stack Engineering Lead Job
Better question: how many elephants are born every day?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/african-...
You literally can't play fortnite without a license from epic or epic's servers. You can play soccer with a ball and a field, no FIFA involved.
Does Counter-Strike count? People still play Counter-Strike 1.6, although maybe the solution is merely to have an eSports olympics instead.
A Command Line Interface to the Google Ads Query Language (GAQL)
Gravitas: WHO quietly changes Coronavirus timeline
>Regardless, this goes against the author's point, because in each case 'work' needs to be done to reverse the entropy of a local system (e.g. scattered nuts) at the expense of the larger system (squirrel heat emitted into the universe)

I submit to you that you did not get the point the article is trying to make because it was exactly this. When considering the animal expending work as the system, it's entropy doesn't decrease because it isn't a closed system. You can then retort that the 2nd law concerns a larger closed system, but you can keep playing that game until the 2nd law essentially becomes a tautology, and becomes useless in understanding the system at hand.

I don't know if the author made this point explicitly (he hinted at it at the end), but one needs to actually know the details of the system under consideration, and very general laws can bring some level of context but will be limited in terms of the actual relevant or useful insight one can glean.
When the rules stay the same, it pushes people to improve their performance within the rules (or, sometimes, unfortunately, outside of the rules). When the rules are constantly changing, the focus shifts from the competitors to the game itself and the corporation promoting it.
No, the problem is that the same data can be used at least as easily to discriminate, and people who care about that don't like it.

Do you really want to build a race database?

Do you want Airbnb making determinations about the intention of your actions based on a secret race database?

The timing isn't accidental; they even state as much in the announcement. This is driven by current events. I wonder if anyone would give a pass to 23andme if they started oversharing DNA data "to battle covid."
Also a Toys R'Us in the immediate vicinity. The complex has traded hands a couple of times in the past few years at a significant devaluation each time. The next mall over isn't much better (K-Mart among other things). There are some reasonably affluent rural/exurban communities in the area but the three nearby small cities are fairly rundown old mill towns.
Data Engineering Lead Job
Refactoring code is a continuum, from "let's do nothing" (0%) to let's rewrite the whole damn thing" (100%). There's a whole spectrum in between.

While I'm a "never say never" kind of guy, I do think many well-intentioned engineers make a leap to the 100% solution too easily. There are lots of other tools in the toolbox that can de-risk the process, like becoming more service oriented, implementing facade patterns, etc., which all in some way or another work towards a "rewrite" usually without ever rewriting everything.

Sometimes you get the benefits of the 100% solution with 25% of the work, and without most of the risk. "Yeah, that part of the codebase is old and crufty, but we never have to touch it because it Just Works and there's no point in rewriting it."
Izmir bergama paşaköy satılık oturulabilir durumda betonarme 2 katlı 2 ayrı eEV
To me, the alarms sound way before that. You can change the tune of your idea if you need to persuade people, while at the same time being honest about it.

What I don't like about Hancock is that he uses Gobekli Tepe as a prop: we don't know the whole story/history about it, but he will gladfully use it to support his claims, without actually producing evidence that furthers our knowledge on what Gobekli was!

I can surely entertain the idea of lost civilizations, but that doesn't imply I validate the dishonest handling of unknowns as "evidence".

This is what pseudoscience and con men do to appear respectable.
The Gateway Program (CIA) [pdf]
Does the following mean that one can map/train to runtimes that give proper results based on the underlying data _results_?

"A representative example is semantic parsing over databases, where a natural language question (e.g., “Which country has the highest GDP?”) is mapped to a program executable over database (DB) tables."

Could it be thought of in the same fashion as Resolvers in GraphQL integrated into BERT?
I'm still surprised it was so politicized on places like Twitter. Colbert, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, and others all roasted him for it and called the drug dangerous[0]. Meanwhile some center-left leaning places like the Hill were actually defending trump for it[1].

Drugs should not be politicized. The right should not have been so blindly faithful in HCQ, and the left should not have been so pessimistic about it. I'm sure both sides have done this in the past and I'm sure both sides will do it again in the future - but we need to work on this, because wanting a drug to be ineffective for political reasons is dangerous for society.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSK_IKm4eM

[1]: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/491665-if-only-hydrox...
To see how the real second wave looks like, look at Israel. The problem with the US is that this is the _beginning_ of the second wave.
The point is people are talking about revolutions and other destructive world collapse nonsense over a decease that’s slightly more risky than seasonal flu.
I'm going to do something deeply shameful, and link to a Daily Mail article on the subject. It's weirdly... pretty good. It has some of the better photographs that I've seen of the site, and an angle on the story which is perhaps somewhat fantastical, but is evocative enough to be worth pondering:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-m...
Corn on the Cob
"Why the next economist article should include name of an author or at least pseudonym" So I can know who writes this bs.
> But upscale shopping malls in elte cities were actually doing pretty well prior to the current situation.

I believe that is called "Retail Therapy" but it only works if you have money to burn.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-why-behind-the-b...

As we've seen, most people don't have money to burn, as "most american's have no savings":

https://www.axios.com/americans-emergency-savings-coronaviru...

or...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/41-percent-of-americans-woul...

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2020/03/27/nearly-50-of-amer...
We animate them from nothing
Esport has a physical component where every millisecond and mouse/keyboard action can decide the game. Chess doesn't, except maybe blitz.
Isn't CS like 20 years old and still the most popular e-sport shooter?
I didn't get one either.
Very convenient moving of the goal posts in your definitions here.
https://www.gaia.com/article/turkish-archaeologists-find-sit...
Turkish Archaeologists Find Site Much Older Than Göbekli Tepe
The mall always struck me as a horrible place because unlike a town square, it's only a public space to those who are there to spend money.
This is like saying you’re afraid to speak because some people won’t like what you have to say.
I'm intriged.

> the current state of knowledge is

Do you mean specifically to this site or to the profession in general?
> “ In this case, at it's face, to see a statement that Airbnb is collecting data to investigate if their platform is being used for discrimination - and then reach the conclusion that the most logical reason that Airbnb is collecting data is not because they want to know if their platform is being used to discriminate, but that instead it's just a ruse; they don't care and really just want to collect facial data in order to look like they care about discrimination to gain some side benefit.”

This is a good model of most human behavior though. Creating elaborate systems of social norms then covertly coordinating on how to evade them or politically argue about how some group gets punished for violating them, while another group gets to violate the norms but reap benefits.

The economist Robin Hanson has developed a pretty comprehensive social science body of theory under the name “homo hypocritus” for this and uses it to explain a lot of behaviors (see just four examples below).

It’s totally reasonable to disagree with Hanson’s theory, but I think you are going way too far to treat it almost like paranoia or conspiracy theories or something.

In fact I think given the way corporate scandals, dark patterns, rampant privacy violations, etc. are so egregiously common and often go unpunished, it should be the norm to assume harmful intent from corporations unless proven otherwise. Classic studies like Moral Mazes would seem to confirm this.

Examples

- https://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/13/robin-hanson/who-car...

- http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/08/inequality-is-about-gr...

- http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/showcare.pdf

- https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/robin-hanson-on-lyin...
> Bad idea

Why? The source code forms the authoritative rules of the game, and the Four Freedoms¹ apply to those in all Olympic sports, right?

1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
That's how every substack works, unfortunately.
I agree with you this is a weak example.

Either PG was spouting an empty tautology, "these women [who aren't hackers] aren't hackers", or he was using "these" as a demonstrative article when speaking about the women YC sees to make a more general point about women and technology.

You can agree or disagree with whether his roasting was justified, but he wasn't roasted for something he "didn't say" imho.
There is still a fair amount of luck in the Olympics. For example, in the winter Olympics, snow conditions are only somewhat in the control of the organisers and can have a huge impact on someone's performance. All you can do, as an athlete, is train in a variety of conditions to try to be ready
This post is unrelated to my comment and shouldn't be a reply here. You should post it as a top level comment about your feelings towards airbnb's policy.
I've always wanted Japanese style dodge ball (with inner and outer courts) to be an Olympic sport.
I'm not asking about the stakes in that sense. Your claim is only interesting to the extent you can demonstrate a logical basis to believe it to be valid. Can you provide your reasoning?

edit: Ok, I see you are the one with polemic blog post. I see that you seem to think it is "just a cold" because it is a coronavirus.

It seems you are making a categorization error. Like saying because there are garden snakes, having a cobra in your house is no big deal--just a snake!

Why would the waves of death never come? So far more people have died than WWII. The deaths lag new infections, and new infections have spiked. I see you are interested in other folks admitting they are wrong--will you?
This feels like a pretty empty comment. How come y’all don’t shit on this?
You should check out Kepler.gl. It's an open source geospatial visualization app designed to be used without any programming.
https://kepler.gl/
Please, any game except Fortnite or any of the DoTA variants. The last thing the Olympics needs is to be infiltrated by a half million 12 years older throwing hard Rs.
Age of Empires 2 is still strong after 20 years
To say that these terms are racist, one must start with a racist point of view.
Consider it a good thing - you’re pruning your list.
What's the most important insight in this essay that HN does not line up well with? [1] When I look at his key points [2], the ones that HN seems to line up well with are:

The place that was founded on open access had too much openness. They had no way of saying, “No, that’s not the kind of free speech we meant.”

Technical and social issues are deeply intertwined. There’s no way to completely separate them. Having good software isn’t enough.

Constitutions are a necessary component of large, long-lived, heterogeneous groups.

There is always an informal piece of the Constitution. The informal part is the sense of “how we do it around here.”

Handles the user can invest in. A way for there to be members in good standing, some way in which good works get recognized. The penalty for switching doesn’t have to be total, but if I change my handle, I have to lose some kind of reputation or some kind of context.

Here are points we line up with, but not as much. Note how the first one overlaps with the last one above—that's because HN straddles this issue somewhat [3]:

I need to associate who’s saying something to me now with previous conversations. Weak pseudonymity doesn’t work well.

You need some barriers to participation, however small. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities.

I found only one main point where HN differs significantly:

You have to find a way to spare the group from scale. The dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration isn’t supportable at any large scale. Less is different—small groups of people can engage in kinds of interaction that large groups can’t.

You might think HN fits this description too, because we've never tried to juice it for growth, and it's a medium-sized forum by contemporary standards. However, when Shirky says small he means "larger than a dozen but smaller than a few hundred". He recommends finding ways to factor larger groups into smaller ones so that richer interactions can happen. This is something we explicitly do not do. As HN has millions of readers and tens of thousands of commenters, it's humongous by the standard he was writing about.

This is the non-siloed property of HN [4]. It's probably the single most influential aspects of the site's design, and it has many counterintuitive consequences, which I've been writing about lately [5].

[1] I asked this in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208054

[2] Several of these quotes are spliced from multiple passages.

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716395 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
Which is why making things opt-out by default and forcing an explicit, voluntary opt-in is a key part of GDPR.
You should read the article then because his point is that things aren't closed systems to begin with.
+1, me too.
I never in my twenty years of computing have thought of those words in terms of race until today.

Race is being dragged into everything now and I hate it.
I think that’s not seeing the forest for the trees. There’s nothing special about Fortnite. It’s in fashion and it will pass out of fashion.

When auto racing, chess, or any other number of long-lived competitive not-primarily-physical activities are in the Olympics then we can start thinking about video games. And then we ought to think about the games which have lasted a long time as competitive activities on their own while consistently bringing in new blood. Fortnite is a flash in the pan compared to, say, CounterStrike. I think, maybe 50 years from now, after some very physical VR game takes the world by storm in the next couple of decades and demonstrates staying power, we’ll have a serious contender.

We JUST got skateboarding...
Clickbait, neeexxxxttttt.
No pretrained models, though, unfortunately.
The real waste of space is generally the ocean of parking that dwarfs the mall itself.
Ask HN: HN Invaded by Mass Media?
Right now of the top six stories on:
bloomberg.com
economist.com
facebook.com

Why are these on HN? Bloomberg seems omnipresent and todays top story "The Dying Mall's New Lease on Life: Apartments". This seems like spam and since Bloomberg is behind a paywall (after a couple of reads) why is this at the top?

Can someone explain this to me?
On Social States
Emacs is definitely ugly and antiquated. It has terrible curb appeal. But unlike any "pretty" software I've ever used, if one sticks with Emacs long enough, sweating bullets to learn its odd ways of doing things and customizing it, there comes a point where you suddenly realize it's reading your mind. After that, it's impossible to imagine getting work done on computers without Emacs.
What about Puppet?
I found this series of blog posts to be one of the most insightful explorations of our current trends towards identity politics - across the entirety of the political spectrum - that I've seen in a long while.
> It seems like one problem with rust is that it is a single threaded compiler.

That could be a symptom but is not the root cause.Is just that the syntax/features choices (as choiced!) are hostile to fast performance.

Even going parallel, I bet a pascal compiler will beat it overly, because you can give rockets to turtles but are still turtles...
There were masters and slaves thousands of years before it existed here in America. To claim the terms are only referencing slavery in America is rather short sighted.
I've personally found that once I'm comfortable with something, I don't care for the freedom for something else. If I have a car I like, I don't care for the freedom to get another car. Freedom is really only useful to those for whom the status quo is unbearable, in one way or another.

How much we push for a free society is a measure of empathy for fellow citizens who haven't "made it", and it's healthy long-term planning in a world where the only constant is change and where the status quo stops working for all of us at one point or another.

It's easy to succumb to comfort and think freedom isn't worth it, which is probably why wealthier societies populated with generations that have only known peace begin to rot from the inside out and why civilization ebbs and flows in cycles (bad times -> strong people -> good times -> weak people).
I absolutely agree that "left alone and given sufficient space" would be better. But that would involve some pretty serious limits on land development (whether it be for mining, forestry, housing, recreation) - or actually, a lot of land that has already been developed would likely need to be undeveloped.
Except that slavery is not historically tied to one race only and frankly, it's a bit racist to imply that it is.
Why not eating fries or hot dogs? Even spectators could be doing mini competitions during breaks. Pure fun.
Tl'dr the list of words to be replaced:

>Whitelist becomes allowlist.

>Blacklist becomes denylist.

>Master/slave becomes leader/follower, primary/replica or primary/standby.

>Grandfathered becomes legacy status.

>Gendered pronouns (for example "guys") become folks, people, you all, y'all.

>Gendered pronouns (for example "he" or "his") become they or their.

>Man hours becomes person hours or engineer hours.

>Sanity check becomes quick check, confidence check or coherence check.

>Dummy value becomes placeholder value or sample value.
Imagine you park on the street and don't pay for it. Now imagine I open a restaurant next door. Diners park on the street. All of a sudden you can't mooch off of public land to store your private property! Time to go shout at your planners about traffic and parking!