skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that’s not a solution for balancing the concerns of the two competitions. The new regs are going to bring F1 closer to being a spec series than it’s ever been before.

The budget cap is just a little over the current Haas budget. Personally I don’t find the prospect of watching a race with 10 Haas level teams in it to be a particularly compelling idea. I’m also not that excited about the idea of constructor innovation being limited to what you can achieve with a Haas budget.

The budget cap is probably the bluntest tool available for addressing constructor performance balancing. For example, the current chassis rules make aero incredibly complex to design (which is expensive), and makes close racing impossible (because of all the dirty air). They would have been better off simplifying those rules (and maybe bringing back ground effect). Look at how well Racing Point performed last weekend, they nearly got a podium. The only significant change they made was copying the Mercedes 2019 aero kit.
Fans pay themselves to consume content from the creator?
When I legally changed my name in 2014, I had to fax my name change paperwork to a ton of different institutions. Fax or snail mail were the only methods they would accept.
Many students at Harvard interact quite a bit with professors.
Couldn't the `TouchableOpacity` component somehow be overwritten by the Heap HOC?
Ah, that probably explains why Seattle isn't in there.

I just expected to see a list of cities with the fastest rising prices, but its probably a list of cities that still have some capacity to go up.
Related: I made https://j-s-n.github.io/WebBS/index.html#splash which is designed to look like an MSDOS era GUI application
I have moved the problem of styling to the browsers, like NAVI in my case. The browser is the only part that understands the limitation of the device and knows how to best render each widget so it makes sense for it to handle all the styling instead of having styling intertwined with the data itself like HTML does. CSS doesnt solve the problem of mixed data and styling either, it just hides it better.

The lack of styling I do understand can make it feel as if your site lacks personality when all sites look kinda the same so I see your point here. I might later allow some minor themeing, like say allowing you to select a color scheme, with the understanding that this might be ignored by the user. I will have to think about this more. What you will never get to decide are things lika margins and paddings and things like that.

I don't think you can compare Markdown with ALFI like that exactly. Markdown will generate HTML in the end and it is the resulting HTML that you need to compare with because that is what the browsers understands. Also, Markdown only solves the trivial cases and that is why it can be kept simple and readable but how do you for instance create a three column layout in Markdown with an image in the middle column? I don't know, maybe there are extensions for that these days too.

It would be interesting to have a Markdown to ALFI generator, but I suspect that when you are used to reading ALFI code you might find it to be a bit overkill because even though I am a bit biased of course I do think ALFI is pretty readable.

Also, there is no intentional OOP or funcional aspects, I did not quite understand what you wanted to convey there.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! The number 1, 2, 3 and 4 problems the Bay Area specifically (and CA generally) faces are an undersupply of housing.

Fixing this problem will be huge steps towards addressing homelessness, gentrification, desegregating schools, and general wealth inequality.

If there is a focus on high density housing near public transit, then this will also have a positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions
I took classes at community college both during high school and after I graduated from college. You can learn a lot of practical skills at community college that higher education looks down on. I learned to weld at Harvard through the physics lab and didn't realize how much I sucked at it until relearning it from a community college instructor. The person who taught me at community college was far more qualified.
Explored further in book, The Diamond Age
And why do we care whether the Fed is profitable?
I would argue that the PC is (or will be) a longer lived platform, with homogenized interfaces that let it stay in the game far better than the C64 could dream of. My budget 8 year old PC - which initially had the cheapest CPU I could possibly buy for the socket - is able to handle itself admirably well, even on newest generation games because of how far progressive PC upgrades can carry things these days. Meanwhile, I'm confident there is likely a complete chasm in what could be accomplished on a C64 with peripherals vs a cheap 386 PC Clone released just 8 years later (or an 1990 Amiga, or a Mac for that matter). And even a Mac of comparable price from the same era as my own PC would have been a shelf piece far earlier than this PC will be.

PCIe slots can carry you pretty darn far, and if you can use a Genesis cartridge, you can upgrade a PCI slot. For instance, on mine I added: USB 3.2, an NVMe slot, and a new graphics card. If I wanted to, I could throw in a faster network card. I could easily use the latest generation graphics cards without issue. I can play a game with at least 60fps in 4K. The only thing that really limits you is the CPU socket and the memory. Even then, after a few years you can throw in the highest end (or near highest end) server CPU for dirt cheap and some better and larger sticks RAM for not so bad a price either.
There are a number of reasons to keep people around who aren't providing sufficient utility to a business (from the high-level business's notion of utility).

1. Fiefdoms. A manager is valued by the number of direct reports and charts they can direct upwards. As long as they aren't losing money, the business doesn't usually seek out perfect efficiency.

2. Historical. A position that had value 10, 20, 30 years ago continues to be filled (or is still filled by the same person or people) because "It's how we've always done it." No one with sufficient clout has stepped in to evaluate the situation and remove people.

3. Deliberate bullshitters. Ever seen a job done manually that you know a computer could do faster, more reliably, and with better accuracy? These people know the job isn't useful, or as useful as it should be, but they inhibit the improvement processes that should happen and retain their positions for a long time. They often make themselves important by inserting themselves into other critical business processes.

4. Regulatory. Does anyone really know what "QA" does? (Qualifier: Not testing, a specific person holding the QA title sitting over software and/or engineering) IME, this person usually just checks boxes when final qualification testing is done on critical systems, but few of the QAs I've known have actually brought value to the organization in this role. Most are there because the business knows they need it to meet legal or industry standards.

Markets aren't perfectly efficient, and a belief in their perfect efficiency isn't going to make it so.
Small side note: I was about to make an irritated post complaining that the article is giving a misleading description of an ETF purchase.[1] That is, Fed buys $1 billion of a broad-based corporated bond ETF, 0.8% of which is Walmart bonds, and it gets reported as "Fed buys $8 million of Walmart bonds". Which articles have done before.

However, after some digging, it looks like it's not simply some indirect purchase via ETF, judging from articles like this one:

https://hardnoxandfriends.com/2020/06/29/federal-reserve-to-...

>To avoid criticism that it might favor a specific industry, the Fed said two weeks ago that it would seek to mimic a broad market index approach and purchase bonds from a wide range of companies. ...

>The Fed said Sunday that it made its first bond buys from 86 companies last week. Those companies include Nike, broadcaster Fox Corp. ...

>The central bank is also purchasing pools of bonds in exchange-traded funds, which operate similarly to mutual funds. The Fed currently owns $6.8 billion of bond ETFs.

So this is on top of the previous ETF purchases.

[1] which, for the record, is still worrying! Just not as bad as if they bought the corporate bonds directly, which they seem to be doing now.
People owning their homes?
Sorry but I just don't buy it. I cannot see how it's possible to persuade a smart person to do something incredibly stupid and diametrically opposed to their own interests. I really do believe that only stupid people can be quite so.... uhhh, stupid.
International students may need to leave US if universities switch to online
I don’t understand what is going on with the graph they present at all. What is the cyan line? What are the bubbles with percentage changes in them? Why is there a “+18%” bubble right after the huge dip in the cyan line past the “Covid market shock” label?

I think the bubbles are maybe “revenue increase per month” but what the hell is the cyan line?

LABEL YOUR GRAPHS PEOPLE
There's tension between leading a place and a people. If you lead a place, it seems only good that investment goes up, housing prices increase, wealthier people live here, more tax dollars, and so on. If you lead a people, specifically the people who lived in the city when you assumed leadership, then gentrification can clearly be a bad thing - e.g. "Now our people can't afford to live here."
Google, Facebook, Twitter halt govt data requests after Hong Kong security law
Nicotine also has nootropic properties
There's a great episode of the podcast "Reply All" which digs into some of these questions: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/
Apparently manila folders are sheets of stiff paper folded in half. They look like folder icon in windows or other OSes. I have never seen one in real life. :-)
Posts like this showcase how malleable Linux really is without getting overly complicated to follow.

Really a nice quick read.
Ideally, use one email marketing system. For example, Mailchimp lets us know exactly which customers have unsubscribed from certain types of emails for a selected list.
I no longer live in SF, but I found it funny seeing the dissonance of people new to the Bay Area who moved there for a high paying tech startup and then talk about how bad gentrification was while being blind to the fact they were doing exactly what they were saying was wrong.

Not an exact conversation, but along the lines of what I've run into:

Rob: "It's terrible what's happening to these communities. The Mission used to be a haven for artists. Now those people are moving out and it's losing its history"

Mayk: "dude, didn't you just move here 2 years ago and have a $2,500 studio in the Mission?"

Rob: "Yeah, but it's not like any of those people could have afforded it anyway, so I'm not taking it away from somebody else or anything".

SF is a boiling melting pot of many different communities and cultures, and it's interesting to see which cultures people ascribe to while also being part of others that run counter to what ideals they say they believe.
Abusing linear regression to make a point
It doesn't, and why would it? Gentrification is by definition a good thing - making the area nicer, more modern and more prosperous. All these things require investment.

People are confusing gentrification with displacement, which are two separate concepts. Gentrification simply means improvement.
I would like to add that rent controls increase all types of pollution; they increase average commuting distance, because the rent controls make it expensive to move closer to work (decreasing mobility).
> From a distance it sounds ridiculous

Because it is ridiculous. There is nothing you could say that would make that sound legitimate to an otherwise intelligent, cautious person.
Even the thrust reverser works
https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1280159343384518656?s=...

> A few other things stand out:

> Spain has 297K official cases -- so this represents about 8X that count (population 47M X 5.0%)

> Spain with 28,400 deaths -- so if we assume 5% seroprevalence....

> Gives us an Infection Fatality Rate of 1.2% in Spain
Well, if you ask the mathematicians then f(x) = 1/x isn't defined on the real numbers, it's defined on the non-zero real numbers. It always returns a real number but it's domain has a different type.

This places the burden on the person using the function to prove that x isn't 0, but that's the price you have to pay to have a proper multiplicative inverse.
And this is how you piss off a bunch of 18-23 year olds who may have had foreign friends impacted by this. Maybe this gets the youth vote out?
You may be interested in reading the president's thoughtful policy proposal here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12802099460853391...
That's still a vastly different question than "should the government own all of Walmart's debt," as the previous spelling was inferring.
Why Easy-to-Use Apps Are Complex to Build
Rethinking Churchill (Part II)
So first year students can live on campus in the fall semester but not attend classes in person.

I understand all classes having an online option, but am surprised they aren't mixed modality so the students on campus can be in person.

Is it more difficult/expensive to make a classroom safe than the rest of the campus? Or professors have pushed back on mixed modality (due to health and/or logistics concerns)? Or something else?
Are any universities even offering in person classes? I doubt it. This seems designed/intended to chase away immigrants.
Show HN: Monitoring a Website: OhDear
Dark infra is an amazing reference for the ReasonML and OCaml community, I really hope they'll succeed
Underground armoured vaults and massive cap units help minimise energy containment failure risk.

Illustrated here in a 1 MW Beacon power system:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=eCtlfj4kMJs

Not all vendor systems incorporate these features, e.g.:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=767y5ViGurA
Wow, your peers must have been very impressed that you got an A in those rigorous classes
Jordan Pier's vintage electronics repair YouTube channel deleted
Psychology aside, I find it really difficult to understand how someone rationalizes to themselves the idea that some government official calling them wants gift cards to pay their fine, or restitution, or any other legitimate payment. I mean, I wish I could pay my taxes in gift cards---you can often buy them at a discount!

Maybe they convince themselves that the supposed law enforcement officer is actually asking for a bribe?
The examples go beyond the abstract issue of whether or not software is an apolitical tool. According to the linked article, Autodesk has been greenwashing for marketing while profiting off of the coal industry. The argument here is not whether software should be apolitical, but whether Autodesk specifically should cease greenwashing if it's not going to take actions that are in line with its marketing materials around the environment. The other layer, of course, is the specific pressure to restrict access to Autodesk tools to the coal industry, which is a trickier and more political question regardless of how important.
I think this is a matter of quite a lot of debate with no simple answer, but I would suggest you're misrepresenting the causality. The series of events usually looks more like:

Round 1. More people want to live there -> prices increase -> original residents start being forced out -> receiving investment -> Round 2. Even more people want to live there.

Gentrification is only really happening in Round 2+ of this cycle. A lot of people think if they oppose new buildings they cut off gentrification at the source, and maybe it's possible to slow down some occurrences of gentrification this way. But it ignores the factors that put this process in motion in the first place in Round 1 of my example - that new people wanted to live there before the area received any investment. Which is either the result of these people moving from nearby neighborhoods that they may have been priced out of, or the result of overall growth attracting people from far outside the region.

So it's really a lose-lose situation - if you don't build new housing, newcomers need somewhere to live and will end up forcing out existing residents somewhere. If you build some new housing, that's when people take notice and start calling it gentrification, and it may even create a flywheel effect that accelerates the gentrification. (But in a place like San Francisco, I don't really even see this flywheel effect anyway. Nobody is moving here because of the pretty new condos that are going up, people decide to move to the city first and decide later whether that means living in a new condo or an old walkup with charm).

The only way out of it is to build enough new housing to overcome the shortage. If the people being forced out could just move down the street into a new apartment, it wouldn't be such a big deal that they are forced out of that particular unit. As it is now, these people are often locked in and barely hanging on, maybe they've known the landlord for 30 years and are getting a break, or they have a low rent control price and wouldn't be able to afford the market rate price anymore. These things are obviously good in some ways, but it means a lot of people are in very precarious situations. In the long term, as we're seeing, this is clearly not a good situation to be in. And in the short term, we need protections for these people while the equilibrium is fixed, such as having subsidized housing available for them to move to, paying them housing stipends, or paying them out when they are evicted to help cover their costs of moving and finding a new place to live.
I work in automotive repairs and i can assure you that all makes are in a fast race to the bottom. Is the conditions they created by brainwashing the consumers over a long time now they have to figure out what is the next “bankruptcy-saving” innovation all while keeping the price point, they choose to go the consumer electronics way but with >$30K “gadgets” so no wonder why you can call yourself lucky if your shiny machine lasts more than 5 years.
While this is not untrue on its face, the bulk of the blame should go to initiating banks, who became more willing to make untenable loans because they could package and securitize the loans and sell them off to investors, avoiding the consequences of their own actions.
I'm so fascinated by lights out "autofac" manufacturing. Instead of amazon warehouses along I-90 let's just have "autofac" clusters that can make most anything.
You need to distinguish between burn-in and image retention. Are you seeing burn-in or just image retention?

Burn-in: When you have an image that stays even long after you've switched (e.g., the news channel logo is permanently stuck in the corner).

Image retention: When a static image is briefly retained when you switch the image to a mostly-even color (e.g., a logo stays after you switch to a mostly-gray background, but fades over a period of minutes/hours).

I've seen image retention on my 55EG9100 (even older than another post's 'burned in' C6), but I've never seen burn-in. And I played lots and lots of video games that has static HUDs.

Ostensibly the newer OLED panels have even less image retention problems than the older ones. I've never noticed even image retention on my newer C8 OLED.
You need to crush the nimbys and build a home for every person who moves in (or family, etc. you get the idea).
There is nothing ironic about it. I was aggressive, but made my point: His comment did not address any substance, or state is own beliefs.

My content is my criticism of his tone. There was little substance in his comment in the first place - that's the point.
> Polio had historic mortality rates around 5% in children, would you want your children to catch polio?

No, nor would I want my children (or anyone) to get covid. This is a separate question from whether the current lockdown measures increase life expectancy and if so, whether they’re worth it.

> There are other health risks besides death to consider.

Yes, there are. Again, a reasonable person might think the probability of those occurring is either (1) low enough to begin with or (2) not much decreased by the lockdown, that the negative effects of the lockdown outweigh it. Do you have any non-anecdotal discussion of (1) how common permanent disability from Covid is, and (2) how many severe covid cases are prevented by lockdowns?

> Half of the US seems to think this is just a GLOBAL conspiracy to hurt Donald Trump

Nobody in this thread said that covid is not serious or that it is a conspiracy, or anything about Trump, so this is a complete non sequitur. Certainly, there are people in the US who believe that covid is a global conspiracy to hurt Trump, which is absurd, but it’s an obvious fallacy to argue like “some people make absurd arguments for proposition P, therefore P is wrong”.
> Freshman-only seems to me more realistic although disheartening to hear as a rising senior.

I think that most schools will do most everything they can to ensure that the senior class still has a senior spring.
There's the big gap between what's done and what should be done. As you say, software has been politicized, "From governments embargo'ing the sale of strong encryption to companies EULA'ing their products to stop them from being used to design nuclear weapons" it's not being treated as a tool but it should be, these restrictions that you mention are nonsensical and should stop.

If someone really, really wants to treat their software as political and restrict how their software can be used, that's their right, I don't like it but that's permissible - however, if someone (like Autodesk in this example) wants to treat their software as an apolitical tool that's free to use for any purpose, good or bad, by all people, good or bad, then that is also their right, absolutely morally permissible and to my mind morally preferrable to trying to politicize the tool and trying to limit its use.
> This seems designed/intended to chase away immigrants.

No, it's designed to chase away non-immigrant student visa holders.

But it's part of a broader set of policies designed to make the US hostile to foreigners, whether current visa holders, non-immigrants visa applicants, or immigrant visa applicants.
I'm making two points here, and it's worth separating out.

First is pure utilization. App drivers get paid while on the road and while idle, store drivers get paid hourly while on the clock and usually have some useful work to do. The average pay of road & idle time has to be worth the driver's while, and the store driver has more valuable work they can do, so the economics make more sense.

Second is the largely tip-driven pay differential while on the road vs in the store. 3 deliveries an hour at my store, more at places that trade off service times for throughput. Average of $3-4 per run, with a tendency for higher tips for customers further from the store. (Funny example: there was this one house at the exact furthest corner of the store's delivery area. They were extremely nice and tipped like $7. These facts are not coincidental.) But this basically becomes a cross subsidy of in-store work by tips, and there was a decent chunk of tension between drivers and management over this. Usually it took the form of "do your assigned side work and then you can go home", and since doing dishes was the "bad" pay of the shift, this disincentivized malingering too.

As far as I can tell for non-tipping countries, drivers tend to use employer-provided vehicles and fuel, so it turns into a more straightforward hourly job and loses a good chunk of the piece-work and quality incentives.