skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised by how many differences there are in new houses (or other dwellings) that were built off of the same blueprints. These are usually small things but if you live in one of the homes, it is noticeable.
I lived in a midrise condo and was the first person to move into the building so I had pretty run of the entire building for a few weeks. All of the units in any given stack of units were meant to be identical but they weren't. Sometimes a cabinet over where the fridge was to go would be missing or maybe the protective lens over the light fixture in the shower ceiling. Walls that met at a non 90 degree angle sometimes had a sharp corner, other times a smooth one, and some other times a beveled corner. Most of these difference were too small to have been customizations. They were from different work crews interpreting things differently. They were from the materials on hand being slightly different between days when the interior of different units were worked on.
In my last house the neighbor across the street had the same floor plan as us but once again, lots of minor difference of little consequence but noticeable. Most were obviously from the differences in materials on site and the quirks of individual workers.
1. Sorry for the confusing grammar. In that sentence, the golf house is the location at which the gala for the football team is held. Not a resource for the school. (E.g., because the gold house is owned by a country club whose members are the parents of many of the football players.)

2. Band, sports teams, and other extra curricular are:

a) often not de facto optional (the poorest districts in the country will scrape together the money for a football team), and

b) actually serve an important social + educational function. There’s lots of data correlating long-term life outcomes with participation in after-school extra-curricular activities.

3. These districts also both directly and indirectly subsidize their educational offerings with charitable donations.
> I thought of efficiency as an unalloyed good

This sort of efficiency is efficient in the way an uninsulated wall is efficient at moving heat from inside to outside in the winter.

I think most people could agree that inefficient heat transfer is good in the case of houses in the winter.

Similarly, ineffeciencies can be very good for markets to help them achieve a critical mass and viability.
Why does it need to go away? I never said this. MS will use Wine.
The Grand Design (2010)
People with money can buy houses, is there much interest in serving the rest of the population? There is already way more empty houses than homeless, so the problem is not is not having enough housing. No force strong enough to solve housing crisis is sees housing situation as a crisis, having affordable housing — that would be a threat.
"[T]he founder of modern information geometry,
defined information geometry in the preface of his latest textbook [2] as follows: 'Information geometry
is a method of exploring the world of information by means of modern geometry.' In short, information
geometry geometrically investigates information sciences."

Holy circular definitions, Batman!
Not to be an apologist for crappy pharma behavior, but some of the accusations don't seem that egregious.

"An internal slide presented to the company’s drug pricing advisory board showed that the increase would yield $24 million in new net sales."

What kind of company doesn't run revenue estimates for price increases? If you suggest a price increase, the first thing a CEO will ask is "how much extra revenue is that?"

"Teva only spent $689 million on Copaxone-related research since 1987 — just 2% of the roughly $34 billion it took in net revenue for the drug over the last two decades"

Usually drug sales today, pay for other R&D programs. What was Teva's total R&D spending across their entire portfolio over that time? My rough estimate is >$10B or >1/3 of what they made on Revlimid.[1]

"Teva launched a new, more potent version of copaxone as part of what they dubbed a coordinated “generic defense strategy.” The strategy, according to internal powerpoints, included contracting with middlemen to block generics’ market access and aggressive campaigns to lobby both doctors and patients to stay on the more expensive version of the drug."

Teva created a new version of Copaxone that could be injected 3 times a week versus 7 times. Sure, incremental improvement, but it's really up to physicians to decide if it's right for their patients. Apparently they do. And "contracting with middlemen to block generics" is just shorthand for "we'll give you a discount so our product is more attractive than the generic". Isn't price competition good?

I'm not defending Teva's behavior here (yes, they have done shitty things), or the price of their drugs (yes, MS drugs are way too expensive). I'm just saying if you want to impose price controls on drugs, then just do it. Be upfront. Pass a bill that says "your drugs must be priced under $xx,xxx dollars".

This looks like a campaign to shit on a company for pretty typical company things, like forecasting out revenue from a price increase and selectively pulling statistics to paint a situation in the worst possible light that has no bearing on how things actually work.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/272544/expenditure-on-re...
I recently made a video about the soul-destroying nature of hold music! Link is here, if you're in the mood for a poor attempt at humor: https://twitter.com/tavinathanson/status/1300643251356016641
That could be tested rather simple, I think. Clean every (fluff) filter until it shines like new. Then wash 10 brand new t-shirts and dry them, repeat a few times. Check the filters, the more fluff, less shirt. Change procedure according to your needs/results.
This is more of a sales pitch for their company than anything else, and is mostly misleading or just plain wrong.

Talking about the housing crisis, the cost of the physical building is wayyy down in the list of concerns behind land value, zoning, permits and lots more.
Regional codes make sense. Florida houses don't need to be ready for earthquakes, California houses don't need to be ready for Cat 5 Hurricanes (although more cat 5 or 6 in the walls would be nice).

Federal permitting sounds like a nightmare too. If you need a variance, it would take an act of congress.
YouTube Red was rebranded to YouTube Premium a while ago.
I remember watching a video recently where someone was arguing for us to go back to timber and beam construction because it was substantially simpler than the stick-constructions we are doing now.

Basically a lot of people agree that stick construction is a shit show, but nobody agrees how to fix it.

It always has amazed me how hard it is to run an ethernet cable in a finished house, let alone a water line or a drain. And waterproofing a bathroom the way we assemble them is essentially a joke. Which puts me in a third category of people wanting something different.
Making money is quite a valuable skill.
...then someone could clean up all of the swearing in the comments in the 9x source.

I'd like all past and current Windows OSes to be open-source. I'd also like macOS and iOS to be open-source. Eventually, all source may be leaked anyway, so they could just do it.
Yes, you're describing "Moral hazard". That concept is lost on too many.
No you’re totally wrong here. From Kimberle Crenshaw herself (Pioneer of critical race theory) there is a difference between a “Black person” and a “person who happens to be black”. It’s important to understand what this means and how it guides this philosophy and the activism we now see in the workplace.

This is all intentional. “People/Person of color“ is an entirely different thing. You need to understand the hierarchy here and why it’s important to concepts like intersectionality and thus social justice.

You should read the actual work and come to understand they mean what they say and the “language game” being played isn’t really a game as critical theory understands the power of language quite well and is ready, willing, and able to indoctrinate useful idiots to propagate it.

It’s all in their literature. I’ve read it.
Sure, but if you configure your database for, lets say, 4 hours of in-memory, and you have a network outage of 12 hours (this is not uncommon on mine sites), you lose 8h of data and cannot put it in to your "master store".
In fact, that site has a link to a full PDF copy of the book reviewed in this article, Elements of Programming: http://elementsofprogramming.com
The bigger cost is land, yes, but let's not become confused into thinking high land prices are due to natural scarcity. Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation. Usually propped up by the older generations that already have their pieces of land.

Sure, dense urban areas have some scarcity, though almost all could build up.

But as I look around me in this southern california suburb, surrounded by 2,500 sq foot homes on 1/4 acre built 25 years ago that go for $800k, I can see endless empty land in all directions.

But you can't get a permit to build on any of it, because any requests to permit it are met with an army of residents near retirement that have lived at the edge of their means their entire life and so their only retirement plan is to sell their overpriced home and move to Texas.
It usually happens in families with one stay-at-home parent.

It turns out all RRR (reading/'riting/'rithmetics) and sciences can be squeezed into one or two days of intensive learning.

Having five free days a week is pretty awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 Enjoy!
> All from one. Single. Tweet.

Well yes, but you usually either need (a) tens of thousands of pre-existing Twitter followers or (b) a huge amount of luck that some celebrity that you @ed retweets you.
His kind has nannies.
Most Androids don't have those physical buttons anymore; they are a full pane of glass, like iPhone X +.
seems buzzwordy
>Its non-fungibility makes it real property

I think the alternative theory is the term was Latin real as in royal. The idea being the land is still owned by nobility.

The extension now being you don’t ever fully “own” your land. If you disagree, stop paying taxes and see what happens
Cryptographic Systems for Protecting Privacy (MIT 6.893, Fall 2020)
Klipsch R-120SW
Logitech has been in the home entertainment space for a long, long time (with their Harmony remotes, which did need software to make them work). In 2015 I'd certainly have placed more trust in a Logitech device in that space than an Nvidia one.
I know HN skews toward California but surely this doesn’t generalize across all geographic areas
> playing the national anthem before a sporting event is an extremely political action to begin with

no that's not a political action, because the intent of the song is not to display some political message, but to display a sign of respect to the nation that has enabled the game to exist.

Is it a political action if the happy birthday song is played at McDonalds for a birthday party? It only becomes political when an action has intent behind it to display a message that furthers a political agenda.

The kneeling at a football game is political, because those people who kneel knows that their kneeling is going to be seen by millions, and thus they can leverage their visibility (due to their position as players or at least is on camera). Therefore, it's highly political - they want to send a message out there to as many people as they could that they support a particular cause (and implicitly want an outsider that also happen to be watching the game to also support). Would you declare that it's OK for the same group of people to perform a nazi salute under the same circumstances? If you're OK with that, then I would be OK with "political" actions in my football game.

The problem in this discussion here is that many are unable to separate their own political leaning with the general idea of political expression in non-political settings (such as a football game or place of business). I keep hearing that apolitical stance is not possible - but then if there are politiking that they do not like, then it's not allowed (aka, if a company "forced" their employees to engage in white-nationalist politics).

That's why I take the stance of apolitical neutrality in public places where politics isn't expected (e.g., in a place of business).
> spike of crash reports from some ancient version of Android

Quasi-related question: app installs/updates have been very very consistently SIGBUSing system_server with BUS_ADRALN on my ancient Galaxy Note 3 for about a year, but downgrading the Play Store app to the factory version (5.5.12 :D) makes the problem go away completely.

I've tentatively considered writing something up for issuetracker.google.com, but besides tons of logcats I'm not sure what info to provide, and I also wonder if the info would be considered useful due to the age of the device. Any advice on whether/how to proceed would be appreciated!
Top public high schools are often better than private high schools. The public school can offer a greater variety of classes and extracurricular activities because they have more students. Private high schools have a much narrower view so are not a great fit for everyone.
You won’t for long. Read this from the paper of record. Life comes at you fast.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/black-african-american...
Speaking of human-readable, I really like ssh's "randomart" visualizations of ssh fingerprints.[1][2][3]

They're much easier for humans to differentiate than the usual long string of hex characters (even 26 characters is too long to reliably compare when a single mismatched character might make all the difference).

Examples of randomart:

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
The key fingerprint is:
05:1e:1e:c1:ac:b9:d1:1c:6a:60:ce:0f:77:6c:78:47 you@i
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| o=. |
| o o++E |
| + . Ooo. |
| + O B.. |
| = *S. |
| o |
| |
| |
| |
+-----------------+

Generating public/private dsa key pair.
The key fingerprint is:
b6:dd:b7:1f:bc:25:31:d3:12:f4:92:1c:0b:93:5f:4b you@i
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ DSA 1024]----+
| o.o |
| .= E.|
| .B.o|
| .= |
| S = .|
| . o . .= |
| . . . oo.|
| . o+|
| .o.|
+-----------------+

[1] - http://www.dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf

[2] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh.1.html

[3] - https://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-prod...
> Its peak valuation in the private market hit $20bn five years ago, before falling back on concerns that the company should be valued more like a consultancy than a software company.

It is really interesting to see how the valuation of a company dropped by almost 50% to 11.7bn based mainly on its categorization with (to my knowledge) no change in function. Really shows the comparative nature of finance, or perhaps just fervor over tech companies.
It's certainly possible. Amazon, at least, has such a system.
I was homeschooled until grade 8. You get to spend a lot more time exploring your interests as a kid that way. I have absolutely no regrets about it.
The reason that steam still drives turbines (as opposed to having the salt drive them directly) is that it’s hard to engineer blade materials that will withstand temperatures much higher than superheated steam.
It's not quite that granular. I was more responding to the idea that there can't be a source of truth for these activities.

We actually have several e-commerce companies using our platform (with decently high volume). In practice we tend to see events like 'completed order' 'shipped order' 'product added to cart' 'order delivered'. I.e. they're all very discrete differentiated steps in the process.

There's a bit of an art between when to make a new activity and when to add it as metadata on an existing one. A completed order will more likely have 'discount code' as a feature than 'discount code applied' as an activity for example.

Your order completed event could have total amount along with tax, shipping, etc costs that add up to the total. It depends on the analyses you want to generate.

We do see things like an order submitted event with the total, num products purchased, discount code on it, and a separate 'purchased product' event with individual product price, sku, etc. Once can do things like MRR and another could let you identify best selling skus or product categories.

Happy to chat more offline if you want to dive into the specifics for your use case. We love digging into what sorts of analysis someone wants to do and figuring out which activities make sense https://calendly.com/ahmed-narrator/30min-1
I agree with your concerns, but my motivation would be slightly different. The brightest kids. They will be running this country in twenty years. They will be designing bridges, doing surgeries and writing our laws. We want to invest in them.
Because of HDMI-CEC. The dongle can control things on the TV via this technology. This product specifically has a remote that I believe only interacts via HDMI-CEC.

I don't know if it's possible for the HDMI-CEC to pass through a receiver to the TV itself for this purpose.
Wow really good points. And if anyone is willing to literally rethink and reinvent the wheel, Musk is bold/crazy enough to take on the giants with their patents that stifle innovation.

A lot of this isn’t even changing the tire itself, but the economics surrounding it.
I really wish HTML5 supported the image loading style where a very low-res image is encoded in base64 with a heavy blur, and then the real image is loaded later and then replaced. That's the default in Gatsby (and its clones), and it truly does feel quite nice. You have a huge (0.25MB, 1080p, never cached due to bad ETAG generation) JPEG that takes at minimum 1.6 seconds to download, and keeps showing the browser loading animation while it's active, while the image is loaded in vertical chunks at a time. Firefox puts a turtle next to that asset to show that it takes a while to download.

> much more lightweight and loads and renders much faster

Were you hosting it on the same host you're currently using? The downside with server-side templating is that you can't use a cheap global CDN like GitHub Pages or Netlify, which will be faster than your own servers in pretty much every case. The few extra KBs of JS (compressed) is likely offset by the latency of physical distance.
Levittown is interesting because all of the houses were cookie cutter copies of each other when built but if you go look at it now, the houses vary a great deal. Some of the difference are cosmetic, such as different paint colors. But there are bigger differences in who added on a large front porch, a great room, extra bedrooms, or expanded out the kitchen to double the space. Add in differences in landscaping and it's not quite the poster child for bland tract housing that it once was.
Or when you want to pause said movie because you're getting a call, which prevents you from pausing the movie. Happens to me all the time while Chromecasting.
Have you seen any news or media about their city schools? Practically jails but more rowdy.
I was surprised how easy it was to switch to kitty from xterm. I just copied my colors in, configured cursor/foreground/background/text settings, bam done. Dropped a star on the Github and I'm gonna use this from now on!
I'm not even complaining about hold times, if I can just get directly to being on hold, and especially if they give me a time estimate that is anywhere in the correct ballpark, that's the best case scenario.

I'm talking about how they bury the human agent help option, you often have to sit through and pay attention to minutes of different options to find the right path. E.g. "if you want to check your account balance, press 1. To pay a bill, press 2". Who are these absolute psychopaths that are calling the support line to check their bank balance or pay bills, instead of using the app/web site like a human being?

The only explanation for this is 1. There really are tons of people confusedly calling the help line for things they could trivially do online, and the automated options actually do handle this load or 2. The help options confuse people so much that they give up and just keep paying for the thing because it's too difficult to cancel, or to handle whatever their issue is.

I'm sure there's some of both, but I suspect there's a lot more of 2 going on and it has been increasing over time in recent years. More and more businesses have learned from the gym model that if you make interacting with their accounts difficult enough then people just won't be able to churn.
There's a conversation about quality versus quantity to be had but neither side wants to admit the other has reason to exist.
Right, but the difference is that you can only send your kids to a top public school if you live in the right district (barring irregular exceptions like charter schools). You can send your kid to any private school you want within driving distance of your home, if you can afford it.
I'm using lit-element for a project it's much more usable than writing components from scratch. The growth of complexity on the client side is really quite staggering and thanks to browser stagnation I doubt it will get better any time soon. A platform that should be low code is really maximum over code!
Not anymore apparently! Trump just calls up directly whoever he feels like venting to. Woodward mentioned once Trump randomly called his house phone while he was working on the lawn or something and his wife had to go get him while the president waited on the line.
Other examples:

- "master"/"slave" terminology in databases and such; most recently, even the "master" branch in source trees was deemed impious, and GitHub will be renaming it by default to "main" on new repos starting tomorrow

- there was a recent case where the author of RuboCop (a linter for Ruby, a pun on RoboCop) faced a lot of pressure to rename it because, I guess, cops are now considered verboten (!?): https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-dram...

- adding codes of conduct to all public-facing projects, most of which are taken directly from the Contributor Covenant (a safely orthodox choice); this isn't a naming thing, but is pushed for in a similar way by similar people
That’s not been my experience. A strong statement like that needs to be backed up by data not an anecdote though. Can you share a study showing private schools are less academically rigorous than public schools and/or give easier As?
The problem there is choice of private school. There are private schools dedicated to providing those services.
The hybrid public/private market in higher education is a good warning of the perils of such a system. Many of the pathological incentives for voters, legislatures, and institutions that lead to horribly expensive higher ed would also exist in the "Student Education Account" scheme you propose.

If we go this route, I promise you'll be seeing "I can't retire because I spent $100K on my kid's K12 schooling" in 20 years.

Also -- and I admit this is personal preference -- I don't want my tax dollars redistributed to the local branch of the Catholic or Mormon church. Which is absolutely what would happen.
My wife and I homeschool our two daughters. It’s been a huge blessing.

AMA.
There may have been some political angles being played, too. But who are we to judge.