skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation.

Growing up in Switzerland (with expensive land and housing prices), this is quite an insular point of view. Land is expensive in Switzerland at least in part due to:
- an excess of (unregulated) mountains
- regulations not allowing all agricultural land to be converted to housing (WWII is close enough in memory that it is remembered that Switzerland was not self-sufficient in food, and that this is a major problem when all your borders are controlled by a single alliance)
> Critical thinking is a lot harder than just saying, "Don't believe other people."

Indeed, and I didn't write that the Santa Claus myth is sufficient on this behalf, but that it may help.

Are you rejecting anything but a perfect (simple and exhaustive) way to teach critical thinking? I never crossed one, and doubt it exists for any complex philosophical asset. Refusing any other way exposes to the 'perfect solution fallacy'.

> if you sabotage the process by openly betraying them in a huge way early on.

I doubt kids learning that Santa Claus is a myth feel betrayed, and never perceived it (I was born in 1967 and have a daughter).

The SC myth is well-built because when discovering its nature a kid understands that the lie is innocuous and even pleasant (gifts, gatherings...), and therefore not really a 'betraying'. He can then proceed to other conclusions about intents, the way he forms his own beliefs...

I'm not fond of the SC myth nor do I practice it, however I try to be objective (this is part of critical thinking!).
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Really really interesting.

The Model 147 is 900sqft and cost $872 for materials, estimated at $1,530 with labor.[0] Adjusting for inflation from 1914 to 2020, that is about $22,000 for materials and 40K with labor.

Looking at 1913 US national labor statistics, the average baker in 1913 San Francisco worked 54 hrs/wk and made $0.46 per hour for an annual wage of $1,291[1] (or 33K in 2020 dollars)

The median baker in 2020 California makes 36.5K/yr [2]. The cost of new housing construction is $220/sqft[3], or 200K for the same size house.

http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/images/1908-1914/1913_014...

https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/union-scale-wages-hours-...

https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/Occupations/oc...

http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/Hard_Construction_C...
Despite 2 years of preview, this GA launch looks like the most half-baked I've seen from AWS.

No SSD Store? Only available in US regions? Pricing page does not have the usual per-region dropdown and instead says "he pricing in Europe (Ireland) Region will be 13.1% more than the price below."

edit: also just noticed the Go SDK is uniquely split into 2 packages for some reason "service/timestream-query" and "service/timestream-write".
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> One of the most important questions in philosophy is "compared to what?"

Important compared to what? It's easy to say that any changes to the world will be imperfect and will have murder, theft, and discrimination, but without a solid understanding of why civilizations have always changed and will continue to change, you'll find yourself in an ideological position that's always being left behind by history.
What a coincidence. I began exploring OpenCL recently, but I haven't tried CUDA or Vulkan Compute yet. Would someone whose tried them mind sharing how they compare?
The unfinished Chinese civil war
Airlines are hours away from cutting more than 30k jobs
Really interesting.

What would be really cool is AI technology that answers calls from unknown numbers and figures out if that is a legitimate call. If so, it alerts you, if not, it can be told to try to keep the spammer on the line for 10 minutes or so by having a conversation with them.
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You did not have to put senior in quotes, we all know it was sarcastic as "jack of all trade" means 0.1Xer with no expertise on any subject
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The chemistry, history, or anything teachers wouldn't get the 2500 stipend or the industry experience bump (even if they were a professional chemist for 20 years!), so would only make $60,000 after 30 years of teaching (at which point they would max out the ladder)

0 years experience, 45,000. 30 years experience, 60,000 (in my district) Do you have a phd? You get +$2000 a year.

The head football coach makes $100,000+. The band director makes $100,000+.
But Google does not even operate in China, they bailed out.
Those better ways I mentioned do not require a government body, or use of tax externalities.

A lot of the exciting things in permaculture are coming from people putting things into practice first and then lobbying for those results. Permaculture has a lot of design principles and practices that can be deployed in a decentralized way. They do not require collective action or policy-making at a large scale. Ordinary people can make enough impact in their local ecology and community, and they can do it in a way that makes sense for their locality that may not make sense elsewhere.

Furthermore, using Carol Sandford's method of deconstructing a frame, "requiring a government body" like you are talking about are:

1. The paradigm of behavioralism (rewards and incentives)

2. The idea that change requires heroic effort (something outside of you, such as the government, to make large scale changes)

3. Regulating these actions are a type of"Do Less Harm" or perhaps "Do More Good" paradigms. Those are reactions to "Value Extraction", and they don't really work, not enough to solve the fundamental problems of Value Extraction.
I'm sure Teslas with built-in starlink connection are in the works.
Perhaps. But "now" doesn't mean the current state of the world unless there were 100 years of automobiles already behind us. So this is a pretty difficult counterfactual to imagine
I would agree with your argument, but I've clicked through a bunch of 'B' schools and - to my surprise - they're funded at exactly same level.

Also [3]. Apparently Gates Foundation lives in some parallel universe.

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/381745/education-expendi...
If you could save up to tens of watts by merely tripling your development costs, why wouldn’t you?
I agree its hard to imagine. Thinking about places and times with fewer cars, it's not generally safer per mile traveled. Riding a horse is actually pretty dangerous. Riding a bike can be pretty dangerous too, but a lot of that danger is from cars.
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Agreed. It should be required reading for anybody making heavy use of UUIDs.
which flavor of Forth should I look at if I don't want to deal with the historical page sizes? (not sure of the nomenclature since I last looked at Forth)
> If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding

That's actually one of the things I value most about the school systems here in semi-rural Iowa.

Nobody is Silicon Valley "affluent", but there are no private schools, so the kids from well-off families are in the same classes as the poor kids.

In most of the bigger suburbs / cities, there are multiple schools that you go to based on where you live. It basically means the schools are income-segregated, which seems like a great disservice to everyone in my opinion.

Most of the kids I met in college who went to those "good schools" had vastly overinflated opinions of themselves.

Never met many kids from the "bad schools" because they were too poorly run for the kids to make it to college anyway.
The modern ones are slightly asymmetrical, and give the water a spiral/swirl. Probably less bend internally also. And maybe teflon-like "anti-stick" coating.
Here’s the full lost of banned words at twitter and other woke companies / opensource projects.
https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656?s=...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/realestate/master-bedroom... ‘Master bedroom’ is racist now.
The one place most people will experience or witness violence at least once in their life is in a school. No one mentions all the people who feel safe at home, but suffer abuse and ostracization or ignored by teachers at school.

"Socialization", its like arguing people need food and then giving them dog food.

Given most modern school schedules, lack of recess, and lunch breaks being barely enough time to eat, I heard even what socialization does take place is being diminished.

School isn't the only and definitely not the best option for socialization.

At least in home school, they mostly learn socialization by and with adults, excluding extracurricular activities and co-ops.
> The head football coach makes $100,000+

I'm waiting for the day when schools will start opening "adult education programs" with seven-digit scholarships to beef up their football teams.
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It is feasible to start learning in theory and to some practical level you can advance using a terminal and other host machines, such as temporary VMs in the cloud.
To learn deeper techinal skills it still seems to me better to have the actual physical hardware devices (laptops/mobiles/network components!) if you are serious about it, or apply for an entry level role in a company/study at a university where a device lab can be accessed and harnessed to deep-dive into details.

Otherwise, for the price of a new iPad pro, one could buy 2-3 used laptops with different architecture/OS (Linux, win, Mac os, just to name the well-known). I'd start with Kali Linux at least on one of them, similar pattern with mobile devices, and networking components, the more diverse, the better.

note: that's my personal view from a different generation (a few bits older) and I'm really curious about what everyone else thinks about this topic.
Thank you for asking this really good question to start thinking clear.
This is a great example of how complicated the world is and how many things are invisible when they’re working well. The same force that makes people want to restart existing projects from scratch also makes them want to redesign society from the ground up, but inevitably the old ways are battle tested and have their flaws for a reason.

Thinkers like Karl Popper have pushed for incremental approaches to improving society, rather than the utopia ideas that are usually promoted. Farm yields are boring, but they’ve impacted the world more than pretty much anything else, maybe even more than the internet.
Now google wants to listen to your calls...great..wonder if there ever will be a privacy boundary with these companies.
The rich do it all the time.
Agreed. I don't have all the numbers worked out but rough calculations show that it is doable and even profitable within an order of magnitude or so.

Once the proof of a city to city test tunnel is completed, probably this one early next year: https://www.teslarati.com/boring-company-secret-tunnel-adela..., then the basic business model of the tunnels can be tested.

After that, it may be time to work out the details of building an ultra dense city on super cheap land and try to reduce the costs of construction and maintenance of city infrastructure: water treatment etc.

The selling point of a $200k condo with access to pools, gyms, etc with all the basic stores like dry cleaners, grocery store, restaurants a short walk away in your town/city AND a 10-25min tunnel ride to the big city may be hugely attractive for many people. Plus if you want to go ATVing or cherry picking or horseback riding or camping, you can take a 10min trip from your town right into the countryside because you will be there already, in the countryside.

If an average restaurant worker or entry level school teacher works in San Francisco right now, they may earn say $60k-$90k and pay 33% taxes - max $30k. Factor in rent at $30k (1bedroom is $2500/mn), and basic living expenses of $15k and that person is saving max $15k/year. The average condo in San Francisco is $1.2mil. So it would take around 8 years to save for 10% down payment or 16 years to save for a 20% down payment.

Contrast that with a condo for $200k a 20min commute away. You would have a 20% down payment in 3 years.

It takes longer than 20mins to drive across the city without traffic right now. During busy times it can 60 minutes to drive from the Golden Gate bridge to SOMA. You can literally walk faster than cars in San Francisco.
I would safely say that it does not solve TSP faster than the best TSP code available - Concorde.

More info here, and note there is an iOS app too (Concorde TSP on the App Store) that you can play with that solves TSP to optimality: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde.html
The company just extended a massive bonus and exercise extension to any employee that thinks they can get a better job. This is basically an invitation for the most talented people to exit the building ASAP even if they agree strongly with the Founders’ politics. This isn’t genius: it’s a mass layoff.
Terrible news :(

A few months ago I made a twitter bot with Mafalda comic every two hours (in Spanish). Maybe someone will find it of interest. https://twitter.com/mafalda_bot
I blame the mbas
> the vast majority do not

This varies greatly by district, and even school within a district. I'm a high school teacher, and I know something like 45% of our students live with their grandparents or other elderly guardians; and that's not counting those who have parents or others at home who are high-risk. It's a ridiculously high number. We're also in a high poverty area (20%+ poverty rate) which happens to be extremely rural. Meaning that internet companies just don't service some parts of the county, and the only access kids can get is satellite internet, if at all.

Granted, I'll admit it's highly different for high school as opposed to elementary school, but there's so much variation between districts there's never going to be a good one-size-fits-all plan.

Also, I had a student last year who lives with his mom, who is considered high risk, and was debating on whether he should come back. He didn't want to, as he didn't feel it was safe, but he was on an accelerated track and the only way he could stay on that accelerated pathway was by coming in person. Sometimes kids just can't make the best choice for their future while also making the best choice for their family due to other circumstances.
I'm torn.

On the one hand, whatever HN is doing with the forum clearly works, in terms of fostering polite, rational discussion.

On the other, if the outside world goes further to pot, we may regret having missed opportunities to address that.

Maybe a compromise would be to have a new feature on HN: when a user posts a political item, the comment section could be disabled, but someone (the user? the mods? all users?) could add links to appropriate (for the story) third party discussion forums?

This feature would allow, for example, leftwing HN users to follow one "discuss off-site" link and make Trump Nazi comparisons, and rightwing users to follow another "discuss off-site" link where they can roll their eyes at Nazi comparisons.

If the feature had preset "groups", and the same third party forums popped up often enough, it could work out well. Someone could create a browser extension where the user chooses a persistent group, and the extension loads any political post off the appropriate forum, restyling it to look like the user is still on HN.
> the way world drug companies make up for low profitability in those markets is in gouging in the US where it's a free-for-all and one should grab for as much as one can get.

It's much simpler. They don't "make up" for anything, they just grab as much as they can get, everywhere. It just happens that in the US they can get more, and as the amoral, self-interested entities they are, they don't leave any money on the table.

No major company will say "Our profits are up in market A, so we should reduce profit in market B to compensate."
How often is death the issue? Surely it's mostly corporate apps where they just don't see the install base to do it right?
My point is mostly that even if you do open everything up, that won't convince everyone to start going out and spending again. After seeing what's happening around mandatory masks ("muh freedoms!"), I don't trust my fellow members of the society to do the right thing. At this point I don't care if you open up or not, I can hunker down a few more months, & I expect I'm not the only one thinking along those lines. The only problem to me is that when you open up, you are forcing people to choose between losing their job or potentially getting sick.
> It's bad for everyone for people to be on hold.

Then it wouldn't exist. But it does so that means you're wrong, follow the chain of logic backwards and you'll find out where.

Is it bad for you? Yup, wastes your time, annoying, etc..

Is it bad for them? No, it wastes customer's time, which deters further calls that are wasteful. This increases website visits so users can do basic things like check their recent bill, update payment info, things that shouldn't waste an agents time.

So with that being said, it's actually a good idea for companies to not make the phone support experience better for customers.
I think that is fundamentally at odds with how the satellites have been deployed, isn't it? These aren't at high geosync orbits. The satellites aren't in a stationary location relative to a point on the earth, so I don't think you'd be able to limit the coverage to specific geographic locations.
> I vote both hands for AP programs in poor schools.

Everyone I have ever met who took AP classes in high school treated them as "get college credit without having to actually learn anything." They seem like a joke to me.
They should get on Zocdoc (shameless plug - I work there). Not having to wait on hold with a doctor's office is one of our main selling points for patients.
I was home schooled all the way through high school. I often say my mom taught me to read and books taught me everything. I was a voracious reader of fiction and real books as a kid. Taught myself to program at 14. Taught myself enough to write an accounting program for my lawn care business from scratch to QBasic. I did graduate from a school-for-home-schoolers that the parents organized and got accepted to every college I applied to, choosing to go to the Georgia Institute of Technology for both a BS and MS. I had a fantastic experience. It wasn't until while at GA Tech that I first even heard a glimpse of this home schoolers are weird and mis-educated line.

Anyway, looking back I am sure that the outcome is based on what the student puts into it. My experience may not be common, but I do personally know many people from my homeschooler groups who have gone on to be very successful adults, engineers, parents, and more.
Google's product team is just clueless, yet I am sure they are 'laser focus' on the metrics.

It is laughable yet sad.
Counter example, on the mozilla-mobile/fenix and mozilla-mobile/android-components repositories we received dozens and dozens of great PRs last year. Hacktoberfest is something we always look forward to.
It's a shame this is being downvoted because that was the first thing I thought when I read this.

Just as people rail against many pieces of industrialization without understanding the details of how they are used or where it came from, it's astonishing to me how many people I know with college degrees that could not give the simplest definition of what a bank is besides the place they deposit their money, basic details about how a government could finance a policy it has made into law, what a central bank is or what a stock or bond is. But many of they seem to hold incredibly strong opinions about how problematic these things are none the less.

Literally yesterday, I had a friend tell me hedge funds are bad, their explanation being: "no one should own 6 yachts". I asked them if they could give to me any definition at all of what a hedge fund was and they had to admit that no they couldn't. To them, a hedge fund is the category of businesses where people with 6 yachts work.

And the thing is there are plenty of reasons to dislike specific hedge funds and banks, although as a concept they are beneficial and necessary, but people have such strong opinions about those things being bad without having the most basic conceptions of what they are and it really makes them worse citizens in terms of their ability to advocate for better policy.
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By the same token you can live in the right district "if you can afford it".
I know of two:

* https://millionshort.com/
* https://wiby.me/
D-Wave doesn't make a general purpose quantum computer. The sense of that statement is that it cannot run Shor's algorithm, though it can factor integers, for example.
> A lot of programmers, in contrast, couldn't care less.

You really think the problem is the programmers?

Here's a homework assignment for you: approach the product managers in any given software company and pitch a new development practice, which will improve UX through superior performance, reduce AWS bills, and save the planet, all for the small cost of doubling all product release timelines. Then come back here and report their response.

Just try not to take it personally when they laugh you out of the room.
Not gonna lie, when I saw this headline, I thought it was Google announcing they are killing another product
Replying to parent as the child is too deep(?):

> Places where single family homes exist rarely even have the option for high density housing and, in the US at least, never have the public infrastructure to support it.

Berkeley is on the list of US highest density cities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...) and has a lot of single-family homes (definitely most by area by a large margin, and there are no high-rises in Berkeley...). The lots are small of course .

And it has, for the US, reasonable public transportation.
I vaguely recall trying to write fixed point math functions using sdcc for a gameboy homebrew project a long time ago. I’d compile and run via an emulator. Good times!
Unfortunately what often happens is orgs take on a life of their own. They won't be happy with "mission accomplished, let's disband now" Nope, they will redefine what they are supposed to do in order to keep giving the members either purpose or salaries.
I've always seen these attempts at "being apolitical" to be roundabout ways of discriminating against people who have left-leaning political beliefs. Despite claiming to be apolitical and neutral these kinds of places always seem to cater more to conservatives, neoliberals and white supremacists.
capital isn't the scoreboard of unalloyed goodness, and concentrated capital is bad because it's precision and accuracy at sniffing out the best allocation of resources is poor (loses the independence and diversity of information needed to find the best options). moreover, price signals have been distorted to represent only the interests of (concentrated) capital holders, because everything we collectively value isn't completely or even adequately represented in price. how we price isn't necessarily how we value.