skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s one of the reasons that no one can stay on top forever. Neither companies nor countries. Too many entrenched interests get too much power and then it’s over.

Instead of talking past each other (“millennials can’t afford houses!” Vs “boomers were counting on their house for retirement”) we should focus on long term planning with gradual changes that people can plan for.

Unfortunately in a huge democracy it’s very hard to stick to any long term plan like that.
Of course it matters. If the parent comment had said, "it's the loss of foobar that comes from having no control...", would you know what their argument is? Or that foobar exists? Or that foobar should be respected? Or that you lose foobar when you're seen on the toilet?

It's not possible to understand the parent comment without knowing what dignity is.

> Otherwise your argument becomes "I don't understand what these things are or why people care about them, and therefore perhaps they don't matter."

What argument? I literally said, "I'm not arguing, I'm just not sure what you mean." I was just asking for clarification. I haven't denied anything in the parent comment.
As the other poster already mentioned, I would posit the exact opposite.
I’ve used gethuman.com as a free service for this for almost a decade now.
I've really enjoyed my UE Boom. It's totally waterproof and shockproof, great sound, battery life is good - it's been just about perfect for me.
Latter should be serious problem but Netflix improves both.
Indian firms unite to explore alternative app store to fight Google's monopoly
Reminds me of project GREAT:

http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/

I wish my dad threw us in the back of the minivan with three atomic clocks and drove us up a mountain just the prove general relativity.

http://leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
Do you have a link (or links) that corroborates this?
I'm on firefox, and the scrolling is jarringly jittery and rough, making it feel like something is broken. Ignoring the lack of useful information, even the aesthetics are broken.
People should have basic economic literacy to go with this.

They should understand that profit-motivated investment is responsible for the vast majority of the capital that makes up industry.

They should understand that money, and its ability to relay information on scarcity through prices, is how large numbers of disparate actors in highly complex economies are able to coordinate so effectively.
> Some people aren't really hurt but like to erase your message by depicting your expression as hurtful.

I hear this fear a lot, and have never seen any evidence of it whatsoever. Not saying it doesn't exist - just that I haven't experienced it. The only people who've ever mentioned to me that my word-choices were harmful did so with an intention to educate and reduce-harm-to-themselves-or-others, not to undermine or silence me.
Yeah. ULID will work. It's just that there's a lot of small annoyances and quirks, and no real advantages. If you've already adopted it, it's probably not worth changing, but I can't think why you'd select it given a choice for greenfield development.
Prime and battery usage on Linux laptops: sometimes it's not what it seems to be
The pricing page is now updated to be more accurate: https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/pricing/
Is this still maintained?

I use the ipython shell and find it to be the same general experience.
Yes but Apple has one of each google has multiple of each.
Most states top up funding for poorer districts from state funds. Federal funding then comes in on top to pay for programs that directly target poor students. I think the issue is similar to college funding: There’s money, but it’s not reaching the instructional budget.

https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
Given the sheer size of Berkshire’s holdings, that sounds less like a bet and more like a hedge.
> but it has always literally been Rule #1 in this civil society.

It literally has not; first, because it wasn’t even a rule that bound the states until after the 14th Amendment, and second, because even federally the 1st Amendment wasn't in place from day one of the Constitutional order, being ratified 3 years after the Constitution; the First Congress under the Constitution was not bound by it at all, since it was ratified during the term of the Second Congress.
The job posting lists it as something preferred but not a hard requirement.
>Epic can already demonstrate financial harm due to the 30% fee that Apple has been collecting

Not to the consumer.
Do you feel the same with an iPad? I do with my phone but I think it has more to do with your utility of it. The iTunes app may not look proper in your computer. Android may simply suit you better. Do you find yourself trying to make it work like Android?
Search for the video "Test Patterns". There's several different resolutions and framerates some with HDR too. That should help you figure out what you're getting.
Kubernetes is popular in data centres but just take a look at how much CPU a fresh install of microk8s uses with nothing running on it (I often see ~4%). The various monitoring systems & addons can only make it worse. It puzzles me why optimising such things isn't more of a priority given that in the cloud resources cost money, not to mention the environmental unfriendliness..
Ironically hard to google, hah. "Golang" is a bit naff, and doesn't seem to pick up everything, at least last time I was deep in Go-land
> Demonizing porn as a medium only pushes it into a moral grey zone which benefits harmful entities because there's less public awareness of their actions.

ObNitpick: I think porn is a genre rather than a medium.
Right Tim Cook is the former CEO. According to an authoritative source the current CEO is Tim Apple.
Once worked with a network guy who always specced out EIGRP as a requirement to ensure he always got Cisco routers.
Windows XP 64 bit edition was based on Server 2003, as it was released after it. You can even say it was 64 bit, client edition of server 2003.

Windows XP service packs were based on, well, Windows XP. Because that's what service packs were. Lot s of new features have been developed for SP2 (and possibly some backporting from 2003 happened, too) but XP is still XP.
Are you used to iPhone? Would you try to make it work like the iPhone way?
> Land is expensive due to artificial scarcity created wholly by regulation.

This is a bit of a strawman. I suggest you broaden your perspective and don't only rely on narrow US anecdotes in order to try to explain global phenomena.

I live in Asia where there are essentially, especially from a Western perspective, zero regulations. (I've never seen a house with a smoke detector, for instance.) And land is still expensive. In a country where the per-capita GDP is under $3,000 a year, the houses in my neighborhood still cost over $500,000 and most of that is the value of land (parts & labor for building a house of that size are only about $150,000). And the city I live in has a population over 13,000,000.

"Building up" doesn't happen magically. It takes investors willing to put up tens to hundreds of millions of dollars for an uncertain payoff many years in the future. That kind capital simply isn't trivially available here.

The road to my house is wide enough for a single car -- and it is in quite poor condition. The roads flood every year (up to about half a meter) during the monsoon and "flooding" means sewers are backed up so it isn't pristine water we're talking about.

All of that infrastructure needs to be improved to increase density by "building up". In a developing country, those things are in the condition they are because the local city has an insufficient tax base to fix things in the short term. Again, it doesn't happen magically, easily, or instantly.

What's more, there are constraints to "build up". Every house in my area is already four stories tall. Because of the high water table, there's no such things as "foundations", so every house is built on top of dozens of steel piles driven 20 meters into the ground. Construction of new houses regularly causes damage to adjacent houses, due to the unstable land. Construction here is primarily of brick, which has height limits due to weight. You can use other materials but then you have additional costs of needing to import materials and not having workers with experience in it.

Sure, it is possible to take all those four story houses and turn them into eight story houses. It just takes an extra level of complexity of architecture and construction.
With the D-Wave flavor of quantum computers, it is like solving every issue using a traveling salesman algorithm. It can be done, but you aren't using a general purpose quantum computer to do so.
Yes, that's what I said, if you "read further down" in my comment (see the word "because"). My concern is whether the representative will actually hold.
With the GLAMOR rendering layer, xterm has GPU acceleration. And if you enable the speed hack it's as fast as any terminal emulator. But compared to limping along at 300 or even 9600 baud, all our terminals are plenty fast, so I prefer accuracy over speed.
> Which is all dealing with retained, mutable data. Period.

Only if you choose to model your system that way. You can push the same paradigm all the way through: immutable events, and pure functions that transform an event and a previous (immutable) state into a new state.
I don't think you are quite following this. The company isnt aiming to limit its own ability to achieve its political goals, it's limiting the ability of employees to promote political views while acting officially as employees.

Also I have never in my lifetime of working with many libertarian programmers heard anyone aggressively push their libertarian views in a way aimed at changing a companies internal politics. Also never heard a conservative or even really a traditional Democrat do this.

This is almost strictly a leftist thing.
disaster.radio seems like a good step in this direction:

https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio
Not only that, but they spam the Fossil forum with request to make Fossil more like Git, even if they don't personally use Fossil, because they seem to be unable to accept the fact that Fossil exists and drh has making the decisions that he thought best for the software.
One of the most important questions in philosophy is "compared to what?"

It's easy to say, "that isn't perfect" or proselytize some utopian vision of a world without murder, theft, discrimination, or whatever. But without a solid understanding of where civilization was (a basis of comparison) people will have no idea what civilization is or where it is going.

I could go on but for now, absolutely fantastic article.
I mean, it's not really not libertarian. It's not a particularly partisan stance at all, more of a business direction.
Look at the race of the people who are unbanked, and tell me then that it isn't relevant
Could you say it's a feeling of powerlessness?

Could we perhaps group together embarrassment, loss of dignity and shame and summarize the point as follows?

"Invasions of privacy cause psychological harm."
Data binding needs to be added to the JS standard. I am all for "separation of concerns" but I think we need to admit that HTML/CSS/JS has become a de facto tightly coupled standard of modern applications. I don't like it. I would much rather use JavaFX or somethjng else, but Web apps are here to stay. And like it or not, having to import external libraries to do something as simple as data binding is unacceptable.

JavaFX bindings are a joy to work with and everything "just works". You have FXML for Mark up, you have controllers for logic, and you have the freedom to create your own beans or database classes or use Spring or whatever you want to do. JavaFX is arguably an external library, but since it is packaged with Java I would say it is closer to being part of the standard library (certainly more so than React is part of JS).

There needs to be a dead simple way to tie the properties of a Web component to a JSON object. That's all it would need for now. I could develop some great small-medium Web apps without a single line of external JS with that alone. No more event triggers followed by queries followed by DOM manipulation. I just want to update a JSON object, and have that immediately reflected on the UI, for both built in and custom components.
I like this VPN gateway approach. It feels rock solid.
> they propose tearing it down, because they don’t see the use of it.

Speaking for just myself, it isn't as if I don't know the various points outline in the basics. It is that my current thinking is that the extractive-value paradigm of the industrial processes has done far more harm than good. Both people and land have been turned into resources by which value is extracted and capitalized. This has lead to a wide-spread devastation in our ecology, in our communities, and our human potential. It's a process that is moving towards degeneration, and we see many of those effects -- from growing equality gaps, to the radicalization of angry young people, and so forth.

Although I feel an antipathy towards all of this (in the sense of watching a dumpster fire), I have encountered some work that does not involving burning anything down (literally or metaphorically). It does require a change in paradigm and epistemology.

The work I am referring to comes from Carol Sandford. I'm still learning it and slowly applying them in my life. She has been at it for over 40 years now, and have worked with Fortune 500 companies ... though I don't know how much of a transformative effect she has. Nothing that made the news in a big way.

But take the idea of having to use synthetic fertilizers and pest control. There are better ways, but they eat at the profit margin if you were only to maximize on profit, yield, and market value. If the goal, however, is towards the well-being of the community and the land in which things are farmed, then there are many methods with which we can accomplish that while still feeding people without requiring a huge amount of labor. But it comes from a different way of seeing the world.
Another option was voiced here on HN: colleges should hire a certain percentage from every school.

Before the ink dries out on this law, there will be a queue of Chinese students to every ghetto school in the town.
Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact (2013)
Yes, that’s a feature in many receivers. My older Chromecast turns on the receiver, sets the receiver input, and turns on the TV. I’m guessing this new one would work perfectly fine, too.
Maybe it's just me but it doesn't quite look like what I remember 327X terminals looking...
I'm aware anecdotes don't hold up to data, but I'd like to share mine.

I attended a charter STEM higher school which I toured in its first year of operation and entered as a first year during its second year of operation where there weren't yet any students in the 12th grade. A lot of the students who were part of the first batch and even the second batch were formerly homeschooled and were involved at hearings to provide arguments for why the school should get its charter. I myself was coming from a gap year as I saw that I wasn't learning anything beneficial by continuing my education at my district's middle school. Maybe it's because it was specifically a STEM school, but nobody was any worse because they were homeschooled. I'd argue that's why students were more driven to pursue their projects.

Tangent that I edited out:
As the school's reputation grew and began intaking more students from traditional backgrounds, I must admit that many alumni feel like the quality of the students went down. It seems like those weird home schooled kids who were weird enough to pursue their interests were the key to building the school's reputation, and that kids who had gone to traditional schools where disrespectful behavior existed were bringing that behavior with them. At my high school every teacher, even if they were phds, was referred to by their first names. We had no detention, as we didn't have any bad actors. We were trusted to spend 20% of our school hours collaborating on moonshot projects and went out to restaurants and businesses everyday during our hour long lunch breaks to learn to behave with our community. I took for granted my 4 years there as I didn't realize how unique of an experience it is to be part of a school startup.
It's probably not all that useful for that, to be honest. People building this are setting their clocks to sometime 2003 because something in the process is timebombed (including the resulting build). SP3 was 2008. Support officially ended 2014. Patches for wannacry snuck out in 2017 & 2019.

So if people want to take this tree as a base to start releasing unofficial patches, they have 16 years of work to catch-up on just to reach parity.
That we don't have this sort of control over our finances (or need to opt in to some special feature one bank might have) is one of our society's most ridiculous failings of the regular joe.

I shouldn't have to "cancel my gym membership". I just stop giving them money and my keycard stops letting me in. I shouldn't have to remain eternally vigilant with my credit card statements lest someone keeps pulling money from it, that simply shouldn't even be something that is possible.

So bizarre. This kind of one-way certainty is what I like about cash and thus Bitcoin. For example, it's kind of win-win that more shady websites (file lockers, mega.nz, porn, etc.) tend to use Bitcoin because it's also a weight off your shoulders.
The glquake binary from id runs on 64 bit Windows 10. Microsoft has done a admirable job of maintaining compatibility.
Pdf of EOP from the author's site if you want to judge for yourself: http://elementsofprogramming.com/eop.pdf

I think the book is great. For example in chapter 3, it explains how you can write an exponentiation algorithm for numbers and then reuse the same code for implementing matrix exponentiation. Why does this work? Because numbers and matrices have similar algebraic structure! Identifying useful reusable structure is exactly what generic programming is about.

I think abstract algebra is highly underutilized in programming and this book is a reasonable intro to the topic if you're a C++ developer (though there are much better resources if you switch to functional programming languages).
So it is more efficient at exploring the solution territory of traveling salesman type problems than classical computers?
I’m not sure it’s about the money 100% here. I think my main point is what happens if wealthy people who can afford to take very good care of their kids have to mix with everyone else? Can we get their values and ethics imbued? You can be assured they wouldn’t let the place rot.

My question is: are the upper middle class which are statistically very liberal willing to agree to send their kids to the same schools as the kids they claim to fight for?

I think not but if so I do think our society would be better as they’d make sure the schools are good.
Land for housing is expensive because land is a repository for wealth and housing is among the least profitable uses to which land can be put over the long term. Good urban land generates better long-term returns from commercial uses. Good rural land produces better long-term returns from agricultural uses.

By "long-term," I mean inter-generational. Land doesn't ever really go to zero. And the problem with selling land is that the seller has to do put the proceeds in a similar repository of wealth, i.e. roll over the proceeds into a different piece of land. Absent a change in investment philosophy, the seller is in exactly the same situation as before despite having taken all the risks that come from liquidating their wealth repository into cash.

Empty land is a solution to the problem of having too much money. That makes it hard to think about based on ordinary experience.
Areas of Intellectual Property You Should Focus on Now
I love the "life according to Quino" strip
According to the numbers above a bitcoin transaction is currently 591715 times as expensive (in kwh) as a visa transaction.

If a transaction costs half as much power every 4 years that's only 193 years until it's cheaper than visa[0]! Truly the financial instrument of the (distant) future!

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2+%3D+%281005%2F%2...
These guys have some good videos on Boring Company tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGG1nWzP-Oc&list=PLDn5j59RTW...

The summary: the hard part of tunnels and people was what to do with exhaust gases. That's solved with electric cars. The tunnels will probably pay for themselves or at least break even.

In 5-10 years, its likely that most major freeway projects will have a very difficult time getting funding as tunnels will be cheaper to build and much much much cheaper to maintain than roadways. And existing investments in tollroads or bonds for roads will be selling for pennies on the dollar.

The cost per mile may even get as low as $100k/mile. At that price point, individuals could be drilling their own private tunnels.

As a comparison against tunnel prices now, when Google Fiber tried to lay fiber optic cable in San Francisco a few years ago using shallow trenches and not full tunnels, the full cost was estimated to be in the $100's of millions for the backbone and low billions including all house hookups. https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/5...

And San Francisco is a tiny city: 7 miles by 7 miles. Once the Boring Company gets prices down to $1mil/mile, you could make the same Fiber backbone with 3 tunnels N-S and 3 tunnels E-W for 6x7 = $42million - a little more than 1/10th the quoted cost.

More comparisons: the Alaska Way Viaduct project (SR 99) in Washington State cost >$3billion and was only 2 miles long and took 12 years. The cost was $1bil/mile - so Boring Company will be 1000 times cheaper. https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/viaduct/budget

The San Francisco BART extension cost $3bil/mile!! https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/18/17464616/bay-area-subway-tra...
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/44/cb/a344cb9e1ab0271102fc...
You don’t have to, it’s completely optional.
> I fail to grasp why databinding hasn't made it into a web standard yet.

I agree! And this is something we plan to address in a future version of https://braid.news!

One problem with standardizing this now is that we don't have a standard for "data that changes." Braid is adding that to HTTP so that you can subscribe to a changing URL. Once that works, we just need a standard way to bind a UI widget to the URL.
I've seen people comparing Quino to Calvin & Hobbes and Gary Larson's Farside. Quino is very different from both.

I prefer his non-Mafalda work. In there he his a lot more visual than those American authors. He is almost non-verbal.

Also, I find his "magic realism" to be more in tune with the classic Latin American writers of his age (Borges, Marquez, Cortazar). I say it because, unlike Larson's absurdity and Calvin's dreams, his fantasies are still strongly tied to reality, they're a comment about reality, not just imaginary for the sake of it. He is the far opposite of escapism.
The public version lets you do this. Just a week at a time.
More specifically, just to elaborate on your point, it purports to solve certain “quadratic unconstrained binary optimization” (QUBO) problems [1]. It’s not a “programmable computer” in the traditional sense we think. It’s more “tune a bunch of knobs and press ‘go’.”

Quantum computers made by Rigetti, Google, and IBM are all programmable with some manner of programming language, and not coincidentally, the number of qubits is two orders of magnitude fewer.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_unconstrained_bina...
Anyone catch the price? Or is this one of those "contact sales" products...
I think this may be referring to Force.com UDD model [PDF]

http://www.developerforce.com/media/ForcedotcomBookLibrary/F...
What about Japan ? I read somewhere that they have manageable housing costs even in Tokyo. If true, how did they achieve it ?
AMT / DPZ 50/50 split