skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because shipping containers are structurally weak once cut into, are often contaminated in ways which defy (cheap) cleaning, are expensive compared to alternatives, and represent the least good choice, of the least-worse choices being explored.

That said, they can and have been successfully repurposed and used, and can be used, e.g. as they were in Christchurch as a pop-up town centre after the earthquake. In this case they simply represented an architectural choice for "demountable" structures, and very probably were curated, selected as clean strong instances.

Architecture is called "the school of the built environment" for some contexts. I think this is a good neologism because it encompasses the "environment" word which really does have force here: What kind of environment for people are we trying to build, suggesting containers for emergency housing? What kind of environmental hazards do we encounter, and what other choices did we have?

If you happen to be homeless next to a huge supply of containers and have windows, sinks, showers, toilets, PVC plumbing, steel framing, staircases, fire alarms, interior lining sheetrock, wood, plywood, electric cables, switches, emergency stuff, leak repair kit: sure they're a really good choice of initial fabric to work with. (most of what you have, can be used to make a house from scratch, without the container)
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LyX. LyX is the best editor I've ever enjoyed using, and achieves this same goal.
TLDR: 6909, or 230, or 2197, or 832, or 2508. It depends how you measure.

Or maybe 1 if you want to sell a book about how humans are, like, all the same on the inside bruh.
This. Obviously Coke is superior but 'Retric is on point with this. You can agree to disagree and move on with your lives. Sometimes Pepsi is all you have. Accept it. Spend energy on more productive things.
lettergram is also a guy who believe he pays over 60% in taxes, which is something that is damned near impossible to do even if you're trying to, so take him seriously at your own risk.
Is this the same sky news that calls Covid the China Virus and employs known racists and xenophobes to prop up one side of the Australian political landscape?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-n...
You are discounting the fact that 8 billion people are connected (nth-removed at worse) to the largest communication network ever. There are legitimately only large mobs at this point.

We’re fundamentally struggling with scale and there’s no two ways about it.
Great write up and congrats on the results. I think one of my takeaways from this is also how well rounded Clickhouse is. That fact that it is also so performant against timeseries datasets + databases is very surprising.
I apologize for using your comment in an attempt to narrate a more pejorative point about individuals and brands using service and experience and price to passively class separate. Not that I have a problem targeting a market, just with not being forthright about it.
The numbers get even starker if you look at large tech companies, as opposed to companies across the entire F500. And large tech companies have the best security teams in the world. They've rejected DNSSEC. I'd remove it from your score; it's not a reflection of anything in the real world.
Tether is the counterexample of what she/he said. Tether is not algorithmic, it's backed by fiat.
I've heard random uber drivers on the other side of the world talk about Dogecoin so you might want to include crypto in your list of why less people need to work now.
Could this be invoked directly from the bash CLI as a sort of fully featured pipe based syntax layer? Curious for your thoughts here
You don't have to ignore these things. You can acknowledge that they are real and affect you personally, but keep your identity and opinions separate from that. It's the difference between "immigrants tend to have a hard time" vs "white people are trash", or giving preferential treatment to your fellow countryman at work because "it's us against the world".
The simplest example of something that "can travel faster than light" without transmitting information faster than light is rapidly moving the little dot a laser pointer makes. The dot itself can apparently travel across a surface faster than lightspeed (300,000 km/s), but the dot can't cause faster than light information transfer between the targets it flicks between. You could have the dot rapidly blinking a Morse code message, for example, then shine the dot at Alice and then flick the dot over to Bob, and this would let you send a message to both Alice and Bob, but not send a message from Alice to Bob faster than light.
I have worked retail, and almost been physically pushed out the door at the point that my manager was risking a subordinate going over X hours. They are held accountable for it.
I really like the reasoning here, but a word of warning: It’s a lonely road and in some cases a life threatening one.

While I’m center-left, I've found it extremely important to be a social gadfly as I’ve become older.

Challenge the assumptions and things we hold sacred, because there are often disturbing contradictions and conclusions lurking; and we don’t really know much at all.

As the author implied, there isn’t a way to punch a hole through the emotional investment.

It brings out the absolute worst in otherwise extremely intelligent people. Absolutely visceral reactions.
That can’t be right. That would mean someone who drives a car every day would have a 5.4% chance of death yearly.
Another word I often see riddled in our code base is "Obviously". It might be obvious to the original author ... but not the reader.
Your historical summary leaves out quite a bit of actual information in order to simplify and provide a one-sided explanation. Too bad I won't fall for arguing about your soundbites.
They sunk Chinese fishing boats before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Yan_Yuan_Yu_010
Algorithms will never replace middle management. I don't care how much code is thrown at it. Part of management is having faith in your leadership. If your leader is the CEO and all Caps and no in-between, it'd be utter chaos between departments. Expecting code to help out for a payroll issue that is clearly wrong but the HR algorithm thinks is right will not only incur legal liabilities, but no confidence in employees. People sometimes stay because they like their coworkers and have a good boss. Lead people with basically skynet and suddenly faith in the system plummets unless it's flawless from the start.
I disagree. Those things seem big when you first discover them -- there's really nice feeling that comes with finding them out. "Ohhh, I'm X, so that explains why I have preference Y". But some people try too hard, to hang onto the euphoria that came with that discovery. They identify with that experience, and center their lives around it, and group together with others who do the same. They are often threatened by others who identify in the same way, but have a very different experience or who choose not to wrap their lives around it. I think that's what's getting called out in this essay.
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A schedule like that is EXACTLY about enslaving workers.

They disallow consecutive days off so that no employees are going to have a situation where they feel comfortable leaving town on a trip, so that they will always be around the store. They screw with employee hours so that employees are unable to hold a comparable second job.
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Nuts and bolts of how the division was organized during its most rapid growth period.
Agreed. Same thing with "Smart".
> Yes, that is the point; to ensure that militias independent of the national government have force parity with the professional military.

But what about the professional militaries of the state governments? (Which still exist on paper in every state, and in practice too in 22 of them; the "state defense forces"). The 2nd Amendment's intention was certainly not to give militias force parity with the professional militaries of the state governments. The point was to reserve the regulation of militias, and civilian weapon ownership more generally, to the states, not to put them beyond government regulation altogether. The very phrase with which the 2nd Amendment began, "A well regulated Militia", presumed the continuing power of the state governments to regulate militias, and hence also regulate (and even restrict) private firearms ownership.

> (Although strictly speaking I'm talking about the underlying human right that it enforces, not the second amendment per se.

I don't think the 2nd Amendment was ever intended to enforce a universal human right. That's reading back into it something in which you believe but in which the authors of the text itself by and large did not.

There is no evidence that the majority of its authors and ratifiers shared your belief in a universal human right to gun ownership; very many of them had no problem with state and local laws limiting gun ownership, and the original intention of the text they enacted was solely to keep the federal government out of the matter.
Their moderation really is impressively fast.

On Roblox you can build things either from assets such as meshes, sounds, images, scripts or “models” that can consist of all of those, say a model of a dog that could contain the 3D mesh, but also the sound of it barking and the script to make it move around.

Using such models creators can easily add impressive interactive elements to their games, but it’s hard to know exactly what is in a complex model. Sometimes they contain little trojans that instead of displaying a dog just take over the screen and say “you’ve been hacked” or display endless dialog boxes.

But the more annoying thing they can do is hide inappropriate assets inside. I was team building a level with someone, and they added a model that had an ocean with a battleship on top of it. What they didn’t know, until exploring the included ocean some more, was that under the sea in that model there was also a penis.

This immediately triggered the moderation magic, and they lost their entire account, even though the level hadn’t even been published yet. It was enough to just momentarily have an inappropriate asset in the editor to trigger the ban.
I remember the first time I received on-the-job grocery training when I put myself through college working the night shift at the grocery store.

It was 3 weeks before I graduated from college. I had to drive to another town and sit through 3 hours of presentations on how to do the basic things that I had been training other employees to do for years.
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what the actual...disgraceful. Over a mask dispute?
This isn't really the same thing that Walmart is doing at all, they are scheduling people so they never get more than 32 hours a week, not scheduling them based on need for 1.5 hours/week.

There's room for a class of contractors that do small number of hours for many different employers, either many within a quarter or many throughout the year.

One practical alternative would be universal health care.

Within our current system of insanely bad group negotiation for rates, establishing a house cleaning union that could negotiate as a class would probably be the second best alternative.

The third alternative is the Obamacare one, which is to pay your employees at a rate high enough so they can buy their own subsidized insurance on the health exchanges.
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I tried Blitz ~a year ago. The developers were very friendly and were quick to address an issue I posted on GH.

But I eventually (after ~3 days) switched away. Blitz does what it says it does well, but when you get to that level of abstraction it feels like you lack control of your project. I assume that this level of abstraction would coincide well with newer or less confident developers.
The much more famous one probably being Liberman single-handedly killing the idea of the government directly providing insurance even if it is in fair competition, and then with Scott Brown briefly being elected in MA (which had Romney-care anyway and the ACA barely impacted most of us) everyone assumed it was a referendum on the ACA and was too scared to push any further.

It was very distressing watching the news spin it all as being about the ACA when it was definitely much more about his opponent since everyone here already had something analogous to the ACA. But that's how spin works I guess, it's certainly even worse now.
Or attracting the userbase they need
I am a fan of the Coffee Can Portfolio.

The idea of a Coffee Can is simple: You try to find the best stocks you can and let them sit for years. You incur no costs with such a portfolio, and it is simple to manage.

I share mine here:
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> How does the employer benefit from this?

The workers can't do things like go to school or do anything productive, so they're stuck at that job for a much longer time than if they could better their circumstance.
As for cash, the “cut” that is taken is via inflation. Governments print money increasing the total supply of currency and decreasing the purchasing power of your cash. It’s also called currency debasement and has a history almost as old as currency itself.
It was coined "the dismal science" for a reason.
Tempt doesn't have the connotation that you believe it to have. When you tempt you entice, regardless of whether the person you are tempting considers acting on your enticement.
I actually verified the sources myself when somebody replied to the false comments.
I've only visited the US twice, so most of what I know about the US low-wage labour market is from here or the media. From my understanding, it's a toxic place for employees and I'd never want to work in it:

* No job security - if your boss decides they want to fire you, you are SOL figuring out how to pay this month's rent

* No healthcare

* No paid time off - not that the standard 2 weeks for higher wage earners is much better

* Having to deal with abuse from management and customers with no recourse

* Scheduling hours so you effectively have no free time outside work

* The legal minimum wage, being expected to be propped up by tips, so you can actually survive

* The only incentive to work better is from the fear that what you do have could be taken away at any moment

When I was younger I worked a grocery store and it had none of these issues. There were full time employees there who were pretty happy (the wage was low, but you could live a meager life without struggling). Is it really a suprise that it's hard to find employees if you treat then like they are worthless?
The US Constitution is about guaranteeing rights using laws.
> weird outlier

That's what, despite its flaws, makes the US special.
Years ago, I read Michael Crichton's autobiography "Travels". In that book there is one particular part that, for whatever reason, cemented itself in my memory. He recounts how his father shared a lesson with him regarding the word "Obviously", and it was something along the lines of "If you say it's obvious, but it isn't, then you will offend someone. If it is obvious, then it's superfluous. The word 'obvious' never needs to be used"

I've applied this ever since then and almost never use the word anymore. There are some rare times I find it's useful though, for example if you want to reassure someone that they come across the way they intend to, or in some positive manner: "Obviously you care a lot"
> Queer, non-binary, autistic is a small fraction of your identity.

I don't even know how to take this seriously. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you want to clarify, as it seems like you don't want to minimize the big stuff, but... this feels like that.

- - -

Edit: it’s entirely possible people who don’t identify with these just don’t understand how huge they are for people who do. Which is part of what I found so offputting in the article’s examples.

It’s also possible I really substantively don’t understand what is “identity” to you or anyone else who thinks these are small or not aspects of identity.

If that’s the case, I’m having trouble filling in the blanks. Name? Family lineage? Job title? Work history? Relationship status?
This blog is again hard to read.
ACLU is to Civil Liberties as MTV is to Music.
I believe that is the point?
> we find causal evidence that when scientific articles are added as references to Wikipedia, those articles accrue more academic citations.

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. In university I quickly learned that the best assignment hack was to harvest Wikipedia references.
Free speech was guaranteed by the US Constitution in a time where the US was a poor backwater still relying on subsistence farming.
When I advise people to write simpler code I do mean "not clever." Nor do I mean "insightful." In fact, please make it so obvious that in reading it I don't gain/need/curse/applaud any insights.

Make it simple enough that a brand new completely green junior member of the team immediately understands it on first reading.

And if you can't make the code completely obvious (e.g. the sorting example), just add a comment. A simple one.

None of this is about the creator's cleverness or deep understanding or speed or what tooling can do. It's not about the creator or the machine at all. Simple code is about clarity for all the people who will read and (hopefully not) debug it later.
I never said it was ok to censor, merely that it didn't qualify to "lots of".
You’d never mistake the kitchen counter for the kitchen table, yet each meets your description equally well.
I yearn for pre-internet days :-)
If "preprocessor" means anything at all, it means a program that alters incoming text according to textual rules, without analyzing language semantics. The C preprocessor operates strictly on text patterns. Likewise Ratfor. Likewise m4.

Otherwise every compiler is a preprocessor, and the word is meaningless. Making words meaningless could be a way to make yourself feel important, but it does not advance understanding.

Since Cfront, up until LLVM, almost all new-language compilers emitted C code. They were not preprocessors. Compilers that emit LLVM IR are also not preprocessors.
Easy: because people know they're getting a bad deal.
I've had a blog post rolling around in the back of my head for years regarding how "obviously" is the absolute worst word to use in any kind of technical context. And then go through some of the most egregious things labeled as obvious in various peer reviewed research or blog posts.
Wow I could not agree with more with you. I think I'm finally improving my writing skills as well !

Also, I find it hilarious that you have an entire website dedicated to make your point. I would give a +2 for that ;)
Do not use adverbs in technical writing period
>You're correct, this is America. You can work hard and build something. America is intentionally setup NOT to give you anything, but to make as many opportunities as possible open to you. That's why people brave deserts to come here.

I don’t follow the jump from that to “people must work in a grueling fashion just to survive unless they’re lucky”. That is inhumane, and what makes America’s form of capitalism especially sinister. Have some damn compassion.
Argentina already has a Chinese base. Peronism was way worse than covid for the country.
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QubeOS does what you are describing but it's obviously not as polished as a commercial product would be from microsoft. I believe chromeOS runs browser instances within their own vms and has pretty good security.
> This is not an advice to hide the key elements of your identity. Instead, it's an advice to concentrate on them, and protect them with the energy you saved by not wasting it on petty issues.

It led with two aspects that people almost universally identify deeply with, both of which are matters of life and death (politics by the subject matter involved and sometimes affiliation, religion even more times by affiliation) and whole moral constructs for life and afterlife. Those are not petty, they're just easily dismissed by people who can address or dismiss them casually.
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50% of the questions on Stack Overflow are probably because the documentation was not great in the first place. I am surprised how much configuration/installation time I spend on there.
"transitions to a post-scarcity economy" (emphasis mine)

There are no post-scarcity economies currently in existence, but with increasing automation such a thing may become possible in the future, and the transition may take a long time. There's no physical reason why homes must remain scarce forever, for example. That said, I don't think what paulpauper describes sounds like post-scarcity, as it's just about money; I think of things more like Iain M Banks's Culture.
I can't think of any large organizations containing only people who are financially secure, which seems like basically a prerequisite.
I used to do dishes, drive thru, kitchen, and floors at a Chic-Fil-A for well under $10 an hour in 2003-2005. I now make well over 100k.

Person you're replying to is the definition of a techie in his or her own bubble.
Christopher Hitchens take on identity, an excerpt taken from this [1] comment:

> Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying "The Personal Is Political". It began as a sort of reaction to defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that year. I knew in my bones that a truly Bad Idea had entered the discourse. Nor was I wrong. People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they 'felt', not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for. It became the replication in even less interesting form of the narcissism of the small difference, because each identity group begat its sub-groups and "specificities". This tendency has often been satirised—the overweight caucus of the Cherokee transgender disabled lesbian faction demands a hearing on its needs—but never satirised enough. You have to have seen it really happen. From a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being reactionary; the Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated this to all but the most dense and boring and selfish, but then, it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance. Anyway, what you swiftly realise if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighbourhood or environment, and travel beyond it, is, first, that we have a huge surplus of people who wouldn't change anything about the way they were born, or the group they were born into, but second that "humanity" (and the idea of change) is best represented by those who have the wit not to think, or should I say feel, in this way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27242532
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> because of the assumption that anyone using Linux already knows more than the average user.

Or approximately as much as the assumer.