skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that is sleazy as anything “growth hacking” from Amazon.

If you bought product X and some months or years later “Sam” posts a question on Amazon that isn’t answered, Amazon will send you an email with a subject line that is a variation of “Sam has a question for you about Product X, can you help?” and the body would be something along the lines of “Dear foo, Sam wants to know if <insert question regarding Product X here>? Click here to respond to Sam and help her out!”

In that context, you can easily see why people reply with such otherwise useless “answers.” When someone personally asks you a question you don’t know the answer to, responding with “sorry, I bought it for my husband as a gift and I don’t know,” is not just perfectly valid, it’s also the polite thing to do. But that answer is posted to the website in the genera Q&A as of you had viewed the question and then instead of passing on a question you had no answer for, you chose to reply with a useless answer.
Starship alone (the orbiter) is 50m. The truss of the ISS is 109m[1] long. While massive, Starship will still be dwarfed by the station (other than planned habitable volume or individual modules/elements).

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures
I think he's right, games overdo it. I look at high resolution photographs of battlefields today and everything is covered in dust. Floors? Dust. Walls? Dust. Soldiers? Dust. Corpses? Dust. What happens when a grenade is set off in an empty room, nothing? Nah, it shakes plaster off the walls and covers everything with more dust. And if it's not dust, it's mud or some other sort if grime. Meanwhile what does the game Battlefield show? A bunch of immaculately clean surfaces with crystal clear reflections. Where is the dust? Where is the grime? It's missing, because those do not showcase RTX...
The question is: would they want to?

Unless it was very well paid, this job is far from enticing. Trying to keep a doubly incontinent geriatric patient from smelling for decades is an arduous and depressive job with no perspective of improvement. Geriatry as a subset of medicine is struggling to find new recruits, because as far as prognosis of the patients goes, it is the single worst branch of healthcare.

There are people with wherewithal to do this for decades, but this pool of willing is going to be overwhelmed.
https://w3techs.com/technologies

“We include only the top 10 million websites (top 1 million before June 2013) in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers”.

So, affiliate sites with shallow content – and probably low traffic – aren't included.
Recurring reviews seem a minor feature in an existing platform that is focused on durable products.

Why are you focusing on recurring reviews instead of doing a “Show HN” about the platform itself?
Compare the density of SF to the one on NYC. It clearly has helped more people.
But with housing that argument only works because there is a scarcity to housing and a fixed entry point. People want to live near London/SF/NYC for work and maybe because they like cities but the minimum for a place there is like 5-10x salary (or worse...)

How would that apply to the stock market? I suppose BRK.A has never split and now AMZN is getting a little large if you can't buy fractional shares a la RobinHood so then I guess the only parallel would be if we saw some huge stepwise increase followed by a market wide plateau (but no drop). This would cement people's positions of the invested before/after pandemic I suppose
I think it’s always been that way on HN—it could just be arbitrary, not a deliberate choice. I have noticed around here that if you indicate you might use someone’s identity or history as a signal of quality, you’ll get a lot of “argument by authority” backlash. (Except in the cases of someone who built the thing you’re talking about, and tptacek. :) )
> this guy could have gotten a PhD in the amount of time it took him to get one bachelor's

If he graduated with minimal debt and was able to get a good paying job, I'm not seeing the societal waste.
The military also spends a lot of time turning jet fuel into electricity, because the former is energy-dense, easy to store, easy to transport. And they need electricity in lots of places without a grid.

Where would the reverse be useful? Somehow you have unlimited electricity but no fuel, and you have time and space to run a chemical refinery? (And isn't carbon capture from the atmosphere likely to require farm-scale infrastructure anyway?)
> But I really find the credit markets illuminate a lot, and I find a lot of traders and investors to ignore that. "Bonds are boring", so they think. They are a leading indicator in stock in a variety of ways.

You hit the nail on the head. Bond behavior changes systematic incentives in a variety of first order and second order ways. It's inevitable that it gets somehow refactored back into stock behavior as a second order effect.

I guess the billion dollar word there is "somehow."
See my other reply. It’s not fair to even say the user is making a mistake; it’s Amazon purposely manipulating users into thinking they’re being personally asked a question to game their way into getting more answers.
Man, reading Electric Sheep was the best. I really feel blessed to have been born 50 years ago, today in fact. Living through rise of personal computer, birth of internet, and the explosion on electronic and online art engendered by both.
The current Covid-19 vaccine seems a crucial example of how important model validity can be. The mod-mRNA vaccines can apparently be created in a matter of hours and validated on animal subjects within days/weeks, yet it has taken us almost a year with extensive testing to be sure it will work and be safe. And even that is considered a record breaking time.

It cannot be overstated how big an advancement in medical science it would be if we could show that all such vaccines are safe and (probably) effective.
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Cam_board: Turn web cam into a black/white board
I think it's very plain that holding a minimum wage job implies a tenuous ability to house and feed oneself in much of the country. It is not a complex thesis.

I'm glad you were able to get by on the cheap in an unspecified midwestern city, but that doesn't change the picture for tens of millions of other people
I’m referring to cities that are currently not walkable due to huge lots with big box stores and hundreds of parking spaces and 6+ lane road crossings.
Here's a nice summary of some of the more popular preludes.

https://guide.aelve.com/haskell/alternative-preludes-zr69k1h...
I thought the US govt actively BOUGHT these types of cracks and hacks and used tools that used them.

How do police departments crack open phones?

Does this mean they are breaking the law by buying these exploits?
What we think we want to be and do and the randomness of life are strange.

We reject fashion, or certain types of work, or various things in order to find something else or define ourselves, but it's not really clear if we ever really understood those things or that by doing so we learn / go anywhere.

It reminds me of what Roger Ebert said of the film "Reality Bites" (sticking to the 1990s vibe):

"the deep-seated prejudices of the movie, which are that anyone who shoots documentary video footage of friends is a genius; anyone who is pushing 30 and has a good job has sold out; and anyone who is simultaneously unemployed and hostile is a reservoir of truth."
I'm surprised how limited the options for 75% keyboards are. I'd think it'd attract a lot of people who went down to TKL.
Absolutely cheap labour is a major component of the central valley's success. Also being able to run multiple seasons worth of crops.

That the rich and naturally irrigated soils of the midwest and northeast are basically only used for animal feed agriculture now is a real shame from an economic diversification and health POV but also from an environmental perspective. Giant swathes of topsoil are depleted every year, and fertilizer and pesticide runoff pollutes entire drainage basins of these regions.

Cash crop agriculture like this is highly capital intensive, so squeezes out smaller operators, and does very little to support the surrounding towns.
Все о маникюре, педикюре, ногтях и дизайне ногтей
PaSh: Light-Touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing
The trend in the last 10 years has been away from dynamic linking and toward static linking; Rust, Go, Nim and Zig all have static linking as the default.
To me, the biggest problem with reviews is that the reviewers don't know how to review products. People run speed tests on Wifi routers, and don't notice that the buffering that improves speed test scores kills interactive latency. Consumer reports apparently reviews dishwasher detergent without following the dishwasher manufacturer's recommendation to put detergent in the "pre wash" cup. That's the biggest problem I have with reviews; not shill reviews, but people trying to do a good job and flat-out failing.
True but that was only really for the msata version. m.2 has about half a dozen keys as of now. Like USB-C it tries to cram too many mutually incompatible electrical interfaces into one plug.
That is not at all what your link nor the studies it references says

it talks about a Community based "gift" economies that are not scalable and work only with limited numbers of close knit people in a single cultural homogenized community
Project: Making a Sound Card Oscilloscope
Good lord, $3K for this?

These companies give two craps about security.
That is great news. Haskell toolchain could use some help. I wonder if they'll work on the documentation and error messaging too. I think people are scared off when they realize that some of the libraries have no docs and you just have to read the type signatures.
Game of Thrones video game tycoon dies in suspected poisoning
Lisp user and general author of unpopular opinions, here.

There's certain amount of "eye rolling" that greets these "I wrote a Lisp interpreter" articles, because 1. Lisp interpreters are incredibly simple and uninteresting, and 2. Lisp compilers have been around for more than 60 years now http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/rle_lisp/LISP_I_Programmers_Man....

It would be more interesting if you wrote a Lisp compiler in C++ which included a REPL, or even compiled Lisp to C++.

Also, a Lisp user would never write code like this:

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Lastly, seeing Lisp interpreters still being blabbed about perpetuates the untrue meme that Lisp is inherently slow, or ugh interpreted. Which is sad.
I would also add:

3. We massively overproduce grains in the average year because falling short one year is really, really bad.

Since we're going to have too much grain most years, we might as well feed the excess to livestock and turn it into meat. In bad years we can reduce the amount of livestock to keep the available grain constant.

The same goes for ethanol.

Efficiency is the often the enemy of security, and food security is very, very important.
I want to agree with this but the article proves that good faith cannot be relied upon and that is endemic to both corporations and the state. A stronger hand might be needed.

We need to impress upon corporations to look at the long term condequences and any executive looking to keep living the good life to prioritize environmental/social matters with a high level of awareness and scrutiny before any machinations relating to increasing topline growth (figuring things like this out is why C-Suite execs get paid more than the presidents of most states)

To that we need a harsh route and I reckon the need for high profits will apply enough pressure for proper investment in R&D and allows new entrants to get a piece of the pie. Raising the bar will never stop progress -if it did we'd still be boarding some suspect aeroplanes amd driving ridiculous death traps we might call cars.
The credibility and trustworthiness of our users is our biggest asset, so we are very careful with monetizing it too quickly. But we are definitely thinking about monetization and have a few ideas in mind:

- A Buy For Life badge/widget that companies could integrate on their website and pay us a fee.

- Providing anonymized product data for market research. I.e where do most leather boots break first? What are the stress points of kitchen knives? etc.

- And the most obvious one: affilate links
Go back and double check! kingosticks replied to you with exactly this link.
Coal isn't becoming meaningfully more expensive. Coal costs ~$30/tonne. It's why it's been so difficult to replace.
Small CI written in 1k lines of Haskell
Why I decided to quit my job and go full time on my side business
Right, I understand that property improvements aren’t considered in LVT, and are naturally incentivized through the application of the tax. I’m just speculating if specific development-adverse markets could use both LVT, and credits against LVT to really get the pro-development ball rolling.

Based on the one prior attempt at LVT in the U.S., landowners don’t seem to understand its intent:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-short-life-of-pennsyl...
Boston apartments has dropped about 20% at the upper end.
It has been done several times, at least.

http://www.hanno.jp/gotom/Cint.html

https://github.com/root-project/cling

https://www.softintegration.com

You can argue whether some of those are strictly interpreters, versus just a REPL hooked up to a compiler (as in the case of Cling). But they do exist.
For some it's a practical, not emotional. If your job is in the city, and does not allow working remotely, the choices are either commute an hour by car each way, commute for roughly as long via public transportation, or live closer to work.

Hopefully with Covid forcing more sane remote work policies across the board, fewer people are forced to live somewhere they don't want to.
You can actually buy USB number pads, and put them wherever is comfortable if you need to do lots of data entry.
You cannot run aircraft on electricity; liquid fuel is the only option. The military is keenly interested in being able to refuel aircraft in situations where liquid fuel shipments might be denied or unavailable for some reason.
It seems the average Big Mac meal is $6 these days. It provides approximately 1,000 calories, and the average person needs approximately 2,000 per day, so we'll assume you'll need to order two. That puts the food costs at $12 per person.

The average cost to install a kitchen is around $60,000. If we assume a rate of return of 5%, that is $3,000 per year right there that the money needs to provide to justify it being invested in a kitchen and not invested elsewhere. That covers more than half of the individual restaurant cost right there and leaves only about $4 for everything else. Does $4 even begin to cover the time it would take you to make your own Big Mac meal (I agree that it isn't fair to compare with lobster) at home once, let alone twice? While the average home has 2.5 people, not just one person, we've only just scratched the cost of having a kitchen. We still have ingredients to pay for, the opportunity cost of occupying the land, electricity/gas, taxes, repairs and maintenance, etc. You're blowing your $30 budget in pretty short order. Okay, if you are one of those TV families with 14 kids, then perhaps you can gain some economies of scale at home.

Yes, if you've already invested heavily in having your own kitchen, then you can become more price competitive with a professional kitchen. Though that is true of a lot of things. After you've invested heavily in having your own silicon fab, you're going to laugh at how much Intel is charging for their chips as well. The means of production comes with a cost, though. And while it may be a sunk cost for most, it should not be ignored on that basis.

The real world is complicated, though.

1. If you're buying a used home, as most people do, they rarely come with silicon fabs but virtually always come with a kitchen, leaving you little choice in whether or not you want to invest in one. If land is cheap, it usually doesn't make sense to divest yourself from owning a kitchen. However, if land is expensive, then the calculus changes. When land is expensive, the land occupied by a kitchen can be put to more productive use that outweighs the investment you have already made.

2. Because most people are invested in home kitchens already, restaurants aren't optimized for providing food you want to eat on a regular basis. Eating a Big Mac twice a day, every day isn't sustainable. But at the other end, non-fast food restaurants focus on providing entertainment. Your kitchen can compete with them as your kitchen doesn't have to be entertaining. To be fair with them, we would have to include the cost of having a living room, TV, Netflix account, etc.
It sounds like GP understands that point and is positing a "what if the value of certain new improvements were taxed at a negative rate?" (rather than a zero rate)
There are some places you can go to college while working a part time minimum wage job during the school year and full time in the summer and graduate with only a few thousand dollars of debt while paying all your expenses.

Just because an expensive new car is very expensive does not mean that a vehicle is out of reach of everyone who can't afford an expensive new vehicle.

The market will only adjust wages if people are behaving rationally. Staying in a very expensive place with low wages breaks the market because it isn't rational behavior.
Apartment List did an interesting analysis examining how rent dropped this year as vacancy rates increased

https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/vacancies_and_rents_2...
You need to do this anyway, current infrastructure does not last forever. Electric lines, gas lines, optic cables, sewage systems, everything has a lifespan and at the end of the lifespan you either exchange it or risk cascading failures. At that moment, adding capacity for new construction is not a huge extra cost, especially if the density is high enough.

BTW, utility tunnel is a thing, and places like SF can probably afford some, to prevent disruptions to the surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_tunnel

We have about 90 km of utility tunnels in Prague, with a plan to expand the network to 120 km. Really helps in the historic centre.
Fresh Off IPO, Upstart CEO Shares Why the Startup Isn’t a Typical Success Story
I like this advice, because it's not dictating what "correct side" is, and it doesn't define "rich" as in "wealthy", so you can take this advice a little bit how you want to take it.
I don't think this is true anymore. From the TIOBE top 10 (that hallowed source of truth), I count only three languages whose main implementation is written in C (Python, PHP, R). Extending to top 20 only adds two more (Perl and Ruby). All of those are interpreters. Most compilers seem to be implemented in the language they are compiling. It appears that C++ is the most popular implementation language, although C is number two - but neither constitute a majority.
I am reminded of Fortran 77. In Fortran 77, the first character of a record to be printed out determined vertical spacing as follows:

Blank One line
0 Two lines
1 To first line of next page
+ No advance
https://github.com/kanaka/mal
Well, maybe if the Anglos didn't gorge themselves on sweets this wouldn't be a problem.
The supply and demand based solution to price gouging is to make the government guarantee access to the good at the desired price.

Price gouging laws themselves don't solve the problem.

If anything, the government can pretend that the problem has been solved and block any potential resolution. They can make the problem far worse.

I'll say it over and over again. If you want to fix the economics then you must fix physical reality.

Why does the government guarantee work? Because it will be the government's responsibility to fix the problem. If the government created laws that caused the problem then it will be forced to change those laws.

The classic price gouging example is the mask shortage where people will constantly say that manufacturers can't expand their supply fast enough so price gouging is inevitable and the duct tape fix is the only way to solve the problem. If you introduce a government price guarantee the government will be forced to buy existing masks off the private market and sell them for a lower price. Effectively subsidizing the manufacturers of the mask. The manufacturer can charge an increasing amount of money for the masks until it becomes profitable to expand production capacity immediately. What if greedy manufacturers gouge the government? The obligation to provide masks doesn't disappear because of a little greed. In fact, the government can just buy the manufacturers and build its own factories and completely remove the need for uncompetitive mask manufacturers. If anything, there is now immense pressure for private industry to stay relevant by offering prices lower than what the government is guaranteeing.
I'm afraid I don't get the connection between non-strict semantics and dynamic linking at all. As far as I know they are completely orthogonal. I didn't follow your reasoning. Could you expand?
The article is using CAPE yield as a measure. Basically, showing that CAPE yield are maintaining at a solid 3.8%.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cape-ratio.asp
Don't forget the fertilizer used on the grass, it's typically made from natural gas.
You seem to be speaking about a theoretical water system, or one that relies on an aquifer that can be considered infinitely capacious, and which recharges from its own wastewater, but that's not the situation in which the SFPUC finds itself. It has one source and it relies on rain and snow falling in one single particular place. Therefore SFPUC has to treat its supply as limited in a way that an aquifer system that's effectively a closed loop doesn't need to worry about. SF's wastewater does not recharge its water supply in any predictable way.
I see no reason why we can't do both. We obviously need better drugs for the diseases we haven't yet cured, and we need cheaper drugs for the diseases we've already cured. The two are related yet distinct problems.

Incidentally, Scannell wrote one of the best teardowns of how drug pricing actually works: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/13/four-r...
Can you explain to me what you think is happening in your Telegraph link?

In particular, why you think this is "the NHS", and not some specific services in one part of the country, and also why these patients can't make use of private healthcare instead.
What? rent control drives up rent like minimum wage drives wages down. There is some serious dissonance to the real world here.
Kids don't care about internal inconsistencies. Frankly, neither do many adults (see: practically all Marvel movies)

The show is pretty educational - kids learn about sharing, professions, sing songs about the universe, go on crazy adventures, etc. Mr. Rogers was great in a time when the word was much slower, but now a kids show in 2020 needs lots of pizazz to keep a child's attention.

(I can't believe I'm debating Bubble Guppies on HN)
It wasn't a personal waste, but it was an inefficient allocation of our overall resources. There are a lot of kids who don't care about college at all but don't have to work through it either. In an ideal world, the people who would work the hardest in college would get the free rides, because not only do they benefit from it the most, we all benefit from them the most.