skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting. UC employees aren't classified as state employees, they are employed by the regents. CSU employees are state employees.
No, I think HN would rather see TSMC offer higher salaries and that the worlds largest authoritarian gov't not advance its agenda for tech dominance.
Just don't use AdSense. Starting a business depending on AdSense money is a bad idea to begin with, even if you have a good account. It can just randomly be banned and you will never know why.
in a hilarious turn of events (to me at least), I was one of the primary developers of the event mpm.
The demo on the site also uses the wii store music or some recognizable version of it.
What's the connection between redlining (discriminatory housing policies) and demand for single family homes?
Very cool visual design. Reminds me of Nototo.app because it also relies on visual cues for information organisation. It works wonders for intuitive information recall.

HN discussion of Nototo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087780
I think it's different for everyone, and I think finding what piece is preventing you from moving forward is important. For some people, they just _want to want_ something, rather than actually wanting it. Identifying that you don't actually want something can help you move forward. Whether that means building the skill of "cultivating the ability to do things you don't want to do", or just abandoning a task in favor of doing things you actually want - either is usually fine. Most people just stop at "I am unable to move forward with this thing because I am an unmotivated person."
Corporations may become as great a threat to personal freedom and liberty than the government. Perhaps we need a consumer Bill of Rights that guarantees their basic freedoms, acknowledging the power akin to a "company town" that large companies can wield in our private and political lives.
Now I want a list of podcasts that opted in before they walked it back, just so I know whose version of "journalistic integrity" is a complete sham.
I think this is a particularly (North) American take on townhouses. In the UK, the majority of houses are terraced. Your ownership rights are exactly the same as with a detached house. Most have their own garden; you can build a shed or a shop in the back if you have room. You extend and modify as you like (within reason and planning consents). There is no HOA; you are entirely responsible for the bit of roof over your house and your yard/garden. The only shared responsibility is the shared wall, but that is made of brick and likely won't have any problems longer than you are alive.
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> Firefox even lost most of its identity by discontinuing XUL (for good reasons, I know) and updating its UI to look more like Chrome.

Firefox lost most of its identity by updating its UI to look more like Old Opera. And it has been copying Opera since it was called Phoenix.

This is also the reason I use Firefox. It is the browser that more closely resembles Old Opera.
Thank you for making this it's cool and is basically the exact way that I use Keynotes on Mac to organize ideas (only better because of adding videos and other content)
We're not talking about defaults. We're talking about laws that prohibit people from choosing to live in a duplex. There are vanishingly few places in the USA where the law forbids you from building a detached single-family home if that's your preference.
This is why I said "not widely available", rather than "utterly impossible". If I buy something from Home Depot or IKEA in the US, and want it delivered, I generally have to arrange it myself, which generally involves finding someone on Craigslist or something. My understanding is that in Europe, it is available by default. Or in NYC, there were always people hanging around the parking lot to help with deliveries. This is not the case in most of the US.
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Your first sentence is exactly what I was speaking to.

As for the rest, I'm not much of a gambler.

Alphabet's current policies on data collection are typically opt-out, so I didn't hold out much hope when I largely saw a lot of hand-waving surrounding data policies until the project was pressed by the public about it. That cost me a lot of confidence the project.

And I come from the place of following the project eagerly at the start. Even looked for jobs with them at one point.
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And Greyhound depicts a relatively calm series of engagements, compared to what actually happened. Consider the U.S.S. Borie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Borie_(DD-215)

which rammed (!) a U-Boat in high seas, was repeatedly picked up by waves and dropped on top of the surfaced U-boat, whereupon a small arms engagement broke out (!) until the U-boat attempted to disengage and was damaged by the Borie's main guns. Both ships sinking, the Borie attempted to rescue the German submariners until a torpedo from another nearby submarine caused them to reconsider. The Borie then promptly sank from seams opened by being repeatedly bounced off the top of a submarine and most of the crew were rescued.
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It's difficult, because git's exposition of it's data structures enables you to use it in ways that would not otherwise be possible.

I think git is more of a power-tool than people sometimes want it to be. It's more like vi than it is like MS Word, but it's ubiquity makes people wish it had an MS-word mode.

So, I think that it's hard to fault git's developers for where it is today. It's a faithful implementation of it's mission.

FWIW, I have never used a tool with better documentation than git in 2020 (it hasn't always had good --help documentation, but it absolutely does today).
In cases I have in mind, it looked futile until it did not.

In the situation you described, you don't know what happened. So a good guess of your feelings would be confusion, I see no reason to force "feeling lucky" or "blaming yourself" or "feeling wronged" or any other emotion you don't actually feel.

I don't understand this prescribing what people should feel and I think it does more harm then good. People do feel, they also think and the two interacts. It is much more important to understand what your feelings actually are and how they are influencing you, rather then analyse what theoretical person should feel or try to force yourself to feel the things you dont.
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To be fair, Abel did not know (or care) about semigroups.
I think it means "there are no employees in school, fire, health, police services to resist reform" in a tone somewhere around "condescending."
> If I don't refill the water tank, people don't drink enough water

Huh? What's wrong with water from the tap?
> I don't understand why this keeping getting called out, like it is an unusual burden to be responsible.

They are being forced to plan for the next 75 years now. in 2006 They were given 10 years to have the money needed for all pensions up to 75 years in the future. That is an unreasonable burden because no company does that. No company is planning 75 years from now on anything.

> In my humble opinion I think that all government pensions should be funded

No one is saying Pensions should stop being funded or paid out.

> because it is not fair for us to artificially lower costs now and expect everyone's children and grandchildren in the future to somehow pay for this generation's unfunded promises.

They are not artificially lowering costs, they were making a decent profit without this burden at the current price point. They were more then capable of meeting their obligations including pensions due now, and still making a decent profit. Nothing was being pushed off to future generations.
For those looking at rolling their own, see https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre-d3/wiki#demos and http://viz-js.com/ both based on http://graphviz.org/
If you go to IKEA in LA, do they deliver? What about Home Depot? In my experience, most of the time they don't, but I think in Europe it's different.
It's not the only one. There are similar analyses of office working spaces.
We’ve never thought that way about flu’s.
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I think there's a new paperback printing under way. Happily, it's not the end of the world acquiring them piecemeal, as each volume tells a coherent story and takes some time to read through!
Agriculture isn't the best example. Agriculture provides for people's livehood. It's the actual industry that national security depends upon. Which is why so many countries subsidize agriculture, it's not a economical decision at all in any regard.
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I had no idea it had been part of the cabinet! Wow, thank you for posting that and the link.

> If the post office’s bank account is empty, I don’t believe it can get a loan, sell bonds, or borrow money in any other way.

Is it close to being empty? I guess I just assumed there was at least a few year runway, enough to get through the pandemic and election, but maybe there's not.

When so many other things are being bailed out by stimulus packages, I just find it odd that the USPS wouldn't be. Again, the urgency confuses me.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for people that are afraid to stay isolated? Why force everyone to change their lives to keep them safe?
Yup! https://twitter.com/othermaciej/status/1293268688762572800
Of course temporal and spatial locality are important.
You know, what's funny is that we'll never be sure if that's the case[0]. What guarantee is there that the median socialist voter wouldn't vote for more work for everyone because they want fancier tvs, or more dazzling musical spectacles, or fancier video games, bigger homes, etc? What if society doesn't democratically vote for idleness and quality of life / tranquility?

[0] I mean unless there's a real and successful socialist revolution.
Research institutions generally have lower salary then industry. That doesn't mean it's not a good place to go.
Hey all, author here. I've been working on this neat feature of this robot observability platform and had the chance to write down a perspective of this challenge I see in the realm of robot fleets. I thought some folks here might be interested in this topic and one solution i'm trying to make a reality for how to tackle it. Would love to know what other people are thinking about in the realm of costs and robots.
That trick only works if you have lots of money. And lots of space.

Do you apply it to other things too, like garbage bags? Or olive oil? What about hand soap?

All of a sudden you're spending 2x normal for a while. Not a lot of people can do that.
In my experience, dishwashers use more water, not less. Growing up, we used a dishwasher regularly, and the process looked like this:

a) remove all bits of food with regular washing, stack next to sink

b) transfer from next to sink to dishwasher

c) (after running dishwasher) wipe off hard water residue from all glass dishes

d) put away dishes

When I moved out on my own, I discovered the joy of a simple wooden dish rack next to your sink:

a) remove all bits of food (and oil) with regular washing, stack next to sink

And the above is all one has to do! The dishes dry naturally, and putting them back into the cabinet is optional. Notice almost identical step a). How am I supposed to believe dishwashers save water? We used twice the water simply to get rid of oil! After my partner got tired of wiping hard-water residue, we abandoned our dishwasher and never looked back.
xml and json are different beasts

A json parser can probably be implemented in an afternoon. But a conformant xml parser can take months.

There are some weird things in xml, for example, this is correct xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE abc[<?abc >]]<abc><abc/>]>>?>]><?x?><a/><?x <(x)>>?>

And for external entities, you need an http client in the xml parser, although it is probably better to not support that part of the standard.
Are we allowed to talk about both? The idea that SFH is the preferred default is one of the drivers of those laws. It is part of the ideology of SFH, and deconstructing it will help deconstruct the implementation of that ideology in things like laws.
I tried Amethyst but found the API had quite rough edges in practise, and there was too much boilerplate for my taste. I certainly had the feeling they did certain things in certain ways not because it was the best solution, but because they didn't find a better way.

This was a while ago so it might not be fair as things probably improved since then and one should definitely give it a try as well.

That being said the whole bevy way of doing things looks very well considered indeed — maybe both projects can profit from each others existence?
On the pluggability topic, please also make it pluggable with chatbots like Dialogflow (just like Kommunicate does it)

Massive value add.

You can generate a lot of dealflow from upwork and Fiverr.
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> My fear is that people may end up killing the city in favor of single-family homes and making owning a car mandatory. That cities that I love like New York, London, Tokyo or Shanghai may disappear and become an endless shapeless blob of single-family homes without identity were people looks suspiciously to anyone that "do not belong to the neighborhood". It would be a loss to humanity to get rid of the creativity, the openness, the heterogeneity of the city. People has gathered in cities as long as civilization has existed. Cities are civilization.

In what universe is anyone proposing tearing down the buildings in NY, London, Tokyo, or Shanghai and replacing them with SFH? I've seen some articles about new mega-rich construction in London with homes going deep underground, but largely replacing existing townhomes and the like, not lowering density. There are just very few people who would spend enough money to buy up a bunch of units and turn them into a handful of houses...

The only push for active change is the opposite direction: people who want to change the cities with abundant single family homes.
PP is counterproductive enough in person. Doing it over Zoom seems like a
sadistic corporate (and corporal) punishment. Divide up the work like a
normal dev team, and program in solitude as G-- intended.
To the East, a primary source argument was protection of The West against Communism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078304
Saying something should be run by the government because it's important seems like backwards logic to me. Should the government manage the production and distribution of food as well? Should all housing be government housing projects? Basic food and shelter are far more important than internet access.
And the other way round? How do you make your business known if you cannot buy the top search result position?
... and "rules" for programming.
Aside from the time/effort spent, manual washing also uses 5x more water on average than a dishwasher. And I'd rather not clean the rest of my house with dirty dish water.
I would restate that as a more general advantage, possibly only when operating at China's immense scale: relative cognitive freedom in creating solutions due to a broader pool of options. Because the sum total of available regulatory, fiscal, environmental and other resources necessarily exceed that of private actors, courses of action that would be untenable in other systems or require difficult and expensive public-private-partnerships are certainly feasible. This is why, for example, the 'super app' did not emerge in a western economy and China is one of the only countries improving its forest cover.
When people say worry about the data structures, what do they mean?
Can you explain your point, the point is unclear. They're also live in other cities as well..?
Did they even hang bears?
USPS actually ends up being a net-earner for the US Government. It's actually one of the few branches that has no allocated budget and has enough of an internal surplus that it's actually been able to afford to innovate. However, that shifted in 2006 when it was burdened with pre-paying for retiree health benefits. If anything - we need some deregulation around the post office to allow it to remain profitable, it's currently shackled by the government in what actions it can take and the 10billion in funding offered by the executive branch comes with some really heavy strings attached that'd actually further restrict what it can do to retain fiscal independence.

I think it's also important to take stock in just how well USPS works - if you compare it to CanadaPost the differences are astonishing, USPS has managed to keep the unions happy while also keeping costs relatively low - I'm sure a lot of passionate people poured their lives into threading the needle on how to keep everything running smoothly, it's quite the success case.
Copying a file is really hard to implement

Lots of things can go wrong when writing a file: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/
If some people are willing to live in those kinds of houses, it will decrease the cost of living in the kinds of houses you personally want to live in. This is an allocation problem, not a production problem. If you want or need those things, then building alternatives for people who don't will free up space for people who do want those things. This isn't a zero-sum game.
Rumors of huge payoffs would be cheap to start. I can't speak to the situation in Taiwan, but in the US it's dismal.

The rumors I heard from disgruntled relatives and postdocs I met in nanofab class prevented me from going down that path despite the strong allure and good match to my interests and skills.

My current job is nowhere near as interesting, but it pays me with actual money, and though that decision felt overwhelmingly cynical when I initially jumped ship, a quick survey of the others in my cohort who didn't jump ship leaves me with few regrets. They work a multiple harder than I do, on things a large multiple more important than I do, and they get paid a fraction what I do.

As a reward for taking the high road, they are likely to lose their jobs as the United States continues shipping semiconductor manufacturing and engineering abroad.
Amazon Music is the latest streaming service to become a podcast catcher. Apple and Google both stream podcasts, while Spotify’s podcasting arm has exclusive deals with figures like Joe Rogan and Kim Kardashian West.

Unlike the other platforms mentioned, Apple doesn’t “stream podcasts”. Apple indexes submitted RSS feeds. When you subscribe to a podcast, the player polls your server directly to update the RSS feed. When you play a podcast, it is streamed directly from your server. You can add any RSS feed directly into the player and play it. Apple isn’t involved.

The difference is extremely important. The other services force you to go through their platform. In fact, Apple has provided a freely accessible API to its podcast directory that anyone can use without asking Apple’s permission.
I would argue a second gauntlet only makes matters worse not better for "arrogance".
White Vinegar / Water also replaces Windex! I didn't want to believe it because I thought we needed the blue stuff in the spray bottle. The product. But we were out and push came to shove we tried it. I was wrong. It works.
My neighbor works in a factory and was able to do some work from home during covid.
That makes sense. There's an extra benefit to having company even if the goal of the activity is not to socialize itself. Just their mere presence feels good.

I was thinking the other day that I found it easier to dive deep into my side projects when I have the contrast of social outlets. If I just have my side projects, the balance is out of whack. It doesn't feel as meaningful as an outlet if it's the main thing. It's no longer this fun thing to do to give myself time away from others. All time is time away from others now.
The 2% is a guideline and is meant to be reached in 2024 (!), but it‘s no obligation. Don‘t believe everything Trump spits out. The US has a huge military interest to station troops in Europe and most people in Germany would like them to withdraw their nuclear bombs.
Disagree. I believe what they are after is "tech independence" not tech dominance. They are afraid America will cut them off.

Honestly, it's probably a very interesting opportunity for hardware engineers. It's not super often that an entirely new fab, architecture, and industry are set up from scratch. It might be a way to get out from under various legacy assumptions and try something new.
Google would probably be happy if their ads ran only on sites that had only the site's own content. It wouldn't be surprising if Google de-monetized all sites that allow random users to submit comments.
I would love for someone to give examples of how snapshot / storyshot testing actually helped. Always seemed like the dollar-store version of screenshot diffing, with extra baggage kept around the source tree, added maintenance, and seemingly worthless tests.

(No, `expect(<MyComponent />).toMatchSnapshot()` is not a good test).
What? Blatantly stealing corporate secrets by spying or in some cases walking in and stealing hardware is ok now in case of competition?

What about enslaving uighurs and making money off of them and then using that money to buy real estate in other countries and pricing the locals out of the housing market?
> It was like a switch being flipped. Nothing like this happened even at the height of the lockdown. I also sent in a ballot application which is now a week late compared to when I sent it in last year.

Wow. Imagine the service not hiccuping much at all during the initial lockdown and confusion around the country at the start of the pandemic and now all of a sudden losing service.

I guess I'm trying to get at that bone and small gov't crowd and ask if this is really the fight to fight right now, if decreasing the size of the USPS is the most urgent fight that we should have as Americans. Because I do believe there are many people who want it to be private, but I want people who are supporting it to say why they believe it's urgent that this specific thing happens now, amidst all other challenges we currently face.
> Even Microsoft - with countless more resources and motivation - failed to make traction in mobile.

Microsoft made a new OS where they needed developers to target their platform. Too few did, and the platform failed.

Mozilla tried to bypass this chicken-and-the-egg problem by being able to leverage PWAs which “everyone” is making anyway these days. It wasn’t a too crazy bet that it might have worked.

In a similar vein the Pinephone is trying something similar these days: not asking developers to target it, but instead leverage existing app eco-systems (Linux and web).

I don't expect a runaway mainstream success here, but I do wish them luck.
Bullsh*t. You know they have a team somewhere that was preparing for the situation where they lost this case. They have a Plan B. They're just playing chicken with us right now.

This statement is part of Dara's week-long media blitz to scare everyone into letting Uber be its own regulator. Check out the NYTimes op-ed he wrote.

They will not shut down. They will blink.
That's because the business model just doesn't work, it requires ridiculous scale and the ability to exploit workers to function - that is why Uber is so aggressive with this and even more reason to shut it down.
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Be the best, get some seed customers and get them to do your grass roots advertising?
Sometimes storing in UTC is simply not correct. For example a shop opening time. The shop opens 10am local time, whether DST or not. Their opening time is 10am local time all year but their UTC opening time actually changes depending on the time of year!