skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a mathematician who works with many engineers and computer scientists, I wanted to expand on one of the points under the “Getting a Job” section. While it is certainly true that a mathematics education provides a great background for understanding other STEM fields, I would caution math Ph.D students who expect these jobs to be open to them because of their STEM connection: the onus is completely on you to bridge the gap between what you do and the field you want to work in. While it may be true that someone will hire you for your critical thinking skills (though I will personally say that I have never seen this happen), it is more likely that your deep specialization in a tangentially connected field (coupled with not being involved in the culture/conferences of the community you wish to enter) will be an impediment to entering a new field: you expect to be paid like a Ph.D., but will potentially require years of training to get up to speed.

As an example, I remember the advice of “just go into data science” being handed out like candy to students interested in industry around the time I was in grad school (10 years ago). To be sure, there was a period where a STEM background + interest could get you in the door, but that time is over. These days you are competing with many equally brilliant students who have taken multiple courses and done research in this area, and it is highly unlikely that an employer will take a chance retraining an e.g. algebraic geometer with no precious data science experience to suit their needs.

All this to say, if you have an interest in another area, you must know the players and their work in that area while simultaneously knowing your area in math. It is not easy by any means, you are essentially signing up for twice as much work learning your field and theirs, but the rewards are great - as a connector between two fields, you have precious expertise that is very employable across a broad range of industries (my first job out of grad school was essentially providing advice on research programs helping connect different STEM communities to government funding agencies, but I was able to use my connections from that job to get back into research).
Zoom has been the crappiest most widely used software of this decade.
Are there any canonical examples / cities you can point us to where this approach is being taken successfully?
> transfer taxes, plus inspection costs, appraisal costs, title insurance costs, and loan origination costs

Those other costs should be driven to a much lower floor as well. The majority could be automated, and likely are in the process of being (e.g. loan origination costs).

Essentially the only fundamental cost should be inspection: which is ultimately the buyer (and their lender) offloading systems assessment onto a third party. Who, if you read the fine print for inspectors and case law, is generally not legally liable if they miss something.

> some major issue

The solution to property maintenance seems surmountable. Require it for dense, neighbor-impacting scenarios (HOA, etc), and fund it via loans against the underlying asset (HELOC or home equity loans).

I'm sympathetic to your point, but I don't think it takes primacy over enabling individuals to own their own home.
Okay, let me reframe: there is only one part of the FBI that is involved in policy, and it’s the part that is involved in setting policy for the FBI. That’s management and the chain of command runs up through the POTUS. The actual policy of which laws are written can be lobbied for by the institution, same as anyone else (and people complain about corporate lobbyists all the time so you know there’s competition), but it does not make laws.
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Demand is a slope, not a point. Price increases left shift demand, prices decreases right shift demand. This is because more people are willing to buy a good at a cheaper price than a more expensive one.

In this context demand is the total desire of the market to consume that good at all, represented by a slope that has an inverse relationship with the price axis.
The leaving your family part goes both ways.

Most young professionals have to leave their friends and family behind to move to the big city for their career and then live a miserable life away from the people that made their life meaningful. This is my perspective.
In practice, was communism less alienating than capitalism? I doubt it.
I agree! That's why I take issue with calling X or Y human rights. It misleads the average person person into thinking that there is actually is such a thing as a human right, rather than the term just meaning "thing we really like".

With that being said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that assertions about human rights by organizations such as the UN be internally consistent. The UN claims that human rights are universal. Human rights such as to food, shelter, medicine, etc. fail this universality. To provide them requires taking resources from others and reallocating them. Therefore, they are conditional upon the ability of a society to reallocate these resources. Therefore, they cannot be human rights, and assertions to the contrary should be identified as being politically motivated.
Funny as stainless/high carbon steel with butter is perfectly 'non stick' and way healthier. The war on fats caused substantial damage to the health and environment
I feel it is more unethical to have single family homes, restrictive zoning, and other things that prevent providing housing on limited land.
Dinosaur here. The VAX architecture had call stack as well as exception handling essentially implemented in silicon: there was a place for an exception handler in each call frame (at least that's how the kernel implemented it for VMS).

It would go up the stack looking for a handler, call it, and then return to executing code where the exception was thrown; or at least that was an option. (Some page faults were handled this way.)

I've looked for this in a language implementation ever since, in vain. Why isn't "I fixed it, try again" ever an option?

(And I consider myself a C programmer, not a C++ programmer, although I acknowledge that most C compilers these days are really C++ compilers.)
Efficient simulation through linear algebra
I feel like just when we start to realize we're destroying things with our chemical creations - before things can get fixed the conversation evolves to salving all of climate change.

Can't we just finish stopping the C8/CFC/Pesticide/whatever before we try to stop everything all at once with some nebulous, all-inclusive climate change plan that mostly causes people to only focus on oil use?
Having a layer of middle management that has never done the job of the workers 'below' him/her, is bad faith by design.

It is important to discuss, because many youngsters read these forums and don't know the ways of the world yet.
Usually if something is being eroded you check what chemicals the erosion releases. If you cook on a pan and you don't analyze the contents of the fumes you are totally responsible
I want to use your question as a jumping off point to talk out some thoughts I've been having in this area.

> When was [housing as a human right] ever the case?

North and South America before the coming of the Europeans.

Let's start in the far North. Here's the classic scene from "Nanook of the North" where Nanook builds an igloo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0G3IZA6OI
It takes two hours to make an overnight shelter, and a day or two to make a semi-permanent dwelling.

In the desert people built homes using earthen bricks (adobe) or dug into the sides of cliffs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_dwellings_of_Pueblo_pe...

In between there were tipis and lodges of all kinds,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan

The point is that in every part of the land the materials and methods to build a new home were freely available and widely known.

There were no homeless people, no economic destitution.

- - - -

Then for a long time there was the colonization phase, where anyone who wanted to could grab some land and start farming, provided they were willing to fight the Native Americans, and weren't imported as slaves.

> The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders

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

There were also abundant natural resources (and here I would cite the usual: flocks of birds so thick they eclipsed the sun and turned day into night; rivers so swollen with fish you could walk across them without wetting your boots; herds of bison so vast they took more than a day to pass by; etc.)

- - - -

Eventually the frontier closed:

> Virgin farmland was increasingly hard to find after 1890—although the railroads advertised some in eastern Montana. Bicha shows that nearly 600,000 American farmers sought cheap land by moving to the Prairie frontier of the Canadian West from 1897 to 1914. However, about two-thirds of them grew disillusioned and returned to the U.S.[11][314] The Homestead Acts and proliferation of railroads are often credited as being important factors in shrinking the frontier, by efficiently bringing in settlers and required infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier#End_of_the_f...

- - - -

I feel like there is still a lot of open, unused land that could be made into homesteads, but the political and economic realities have shifted.
Our rulers typically solve the lawsuits thing by limiting liability through statute. They did it with tobacco and they did it with vaccines
Just for completeness, the Greens are in a coalition with social democrats(SPD), liberals(FDP) (names are labels, not political directions). The chancellor is from social democrats(SPD).
Left wing in Europe often has lots of Soviet sympathisers among their ranks. Basically USA=Bad, Russia=Good still lives on somehow.

I don't know anything about the situation in Germany in particular though, but I wouldn't be surprised if they saw integration with Russia as a good thing rather than a bad thing.
The world uses 60 TWh of electricity daily. About twice that in terms of total energy use. Even just one hour of energy storage is a massive undertaking. Estimates to reach a 100% renewable grid call for 3 weeks of storage: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...

No solution we have can deliver even remotely close to that amount of storage. Sure, you can build giant flywheels or pulleys or what have you. But can you build them at the required scale? What is the rate at which you can build them?

> Sure, you're gonna select the one that you can finance, maintain and find the space for

My point is that this is way, way harder than you seem to think.
I think that with one kid and a partner its doable. With two kids my free time shrunk to 22:00 - midnight which might not be enough
You can't really own property anyway. You can only rent it from the city/state. Try not paying that rent and see what happens to your "ownership".
Really?

No sanctions? No finland minister asking to ban russian tourists from schengen?

Really?

Ok.. turn the ac then!
Not German, but I suspect memories of Fukushima and Chernobyl could be weighing on the minds of some. Perhaps this is an irrational concern but people are not necessarily rational - particularly when randomly polled on topics they know little about.
No news adds benefits. It was designed and refined to trigger your outrage and voyeurism. Unless it's hyper local news (that mostly doesn't exist anymore) it's junk and will make your life worse.
Because real estate works somewhat similar to ponzi scheme because of low liquidity and lag in the transaction settlement. Everyone wants higher return one over the other on each sale and it ends up in speculation loop.

The price rises without new increase in the supply, because you would not lock-in to a particular house on just your first visit. So, each of these visits from each person constitutes each time to total demand. And demand gets a bit inflated. Speculative nature of real estate on top of that, encourages the sellers to hoard with higher prices (like a synthetic monopoly mindset).

Even if one buyer locks into a higher price, the effective market rate goes up because every seller in that area expects much higher price than that.

Price based on Supply and Demand only work properly in a Open Market with High Liquidity.
Indeed it is early, and a fine quote.

Here's to hoping better becomes a more dominant norm!

My take on this is simple: Live and work as example. This is powerful advocacy.

Doing that does improve our corner of the world and it can be catchy. Sometimes others will go seeking and sometimes they come to us.

While that door is open, people are receptive and sharing the good ideas can have an impact. Pushing on this stuff rarely works, and it is often painful. But, when they ask, "how" or "why" in such a context, being able to speak from a solid basis often gets the idea through and into their more serious consideration.

Thanks for your efforts. I got a lot of good out of that book. I myself was seeking when I bought a copy while on business travel. The advocacy idea I put here comes from my thoughts on how to apply the ideas I found in the book.

And wow! Who knew we would be having this discussion so many years later. I appreciate you and it is nice to be able to tell you directly.
Is that right? Almost 50% of the world’s uranium comes from Khazakstan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
I'm not sure these are necessarily limited to east Asia (minus the apple dragons at the end). This reminds me -- entirely orthogonal -- of the big deal made about the fact that pyramids were constructed on disconnected continents. Seems to me it boils down to geometry and physics -- there are only so many ways to heap stuff. Same with the veggies. These are just the natural permutations for the most part.

As for techniques, my favorite is cutting a minimal slice off of round items (think onions) to use as a flat stable bottom before attempting thin slicing.
I understand what you’re saying. I see the data. That’s why I clarified my statement with —- if ‘resource parity’.

I think the data, while true, doesn’t do a great job of illustrating culture, tradition, education policy, and industrial policy.

That’s just my interpretation though. Like I said, knowing what I know about India and China in conjunction with their large populations, and their potential for increased growth and resource development, I don’t feel like it’s anything you should be spilling tea over. I would be more concerned if the US had a drop in total yearly publications rather than being overtaken.
Tractor beam.
We have literal, open and proud Sodomists, who drink gallons of piss, text their 100 butt-buddies monkeypox pics, and drive global viral pandemics. The concern is warranted.

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/155081845583793766...
There's still plenty of professionally produced documentaries. There are a zillion videos on Youtube which talk about how stuff is made. Plenty of videos telling you how to make your own stuff. There's subreddits directly or indirectly dedicated to this. There's also quite a bit of how-stuff-is-made on TikTok too.

Speaking of the latter, there's one related phenomenon on TikTok which I never see talked about, but is quite interesting / educational. Some production workers set up a TikTok live feed at work so you can see their part of how things are made or shipped. I've seen factory workers in Vietnam, farmers from all over the world, loggers, construction workers, and too many craftsmen to count. Once had insomnia and ended up watching a 5 AM livestream of a sawmill worker methodically turning various sized tree trunks into uniform planks. That was oddly relaxing and fascinating.
Has microplastics been proven unsafe?
Then: "we needed to make something that kicked ass."

Now: "we need to outspend on marketing and advertising and out-execute on in-game monetization."
Walking between any of the popular neighborhoods in Tokyo, I’m surprised you managed that.

Even if you are walking on a large road, you can basically always jump to a smaller parallel road to arrive back in wonderland.
I tried a full time job and moonlighting, exhausted, in the end I left the job and did contracting for a few years, just too hard to handle both in parallel.

I then tried the 9-5 plus startup game after work, it's less stressing on the workload side(I can manage my startup time unlike the moonlighting where clients sometimes have deadlines), but the even bigger hassle now is interrupts from kids, it's impossible to stay focused when I'm at home due to that.

I respect anyone that has a few kids while having a 9-5 while somehow can take a startup off the ground.

For those who devoted to career without kids or even marriage, we're in a different world, and there is not much for apple to apple comparison.
Nah GP actually has a good radical/reductionist approach by jumping straight to anarchies.
You can't just list big events and compare them with what is happening today. Having grown up in the USSR, it is rather different for me when I watch the United States democracy coming to an end. It is absolutely not the same.

But then again, if you are a native-born, I can see how it's easy to have no idea about what is happening or where this is going.
I get your point, and I should have said "you did a prejudice there" instead of "you did a casual racism", because the OP's opinion did not express systemic oppression or a belief that (in this case) 'Asians' are inferior as a whole to other ethnicities.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to correct myself.

That said, both the original post and several comments, including this comment's parent, are equally prejudicial: attributing qualities to large groups of people based on location or ethnicity and solely relying on anecdotal evidence as opposed to controlled and peer-reviewed study.

Case in point: are there any studies to back up the claim that 'Asian' folks raised in Western countries are more privacy conscious than their 'natively raised' counterparts?
Interesting: this sounds like BPA-free plastics -- a lot of these have BPB and BPS which animal and cell-line studies have found just as concerning, but hey you can slap a "BPA-free" sticker on them!
Creating such huge distortions in a market always results in unintended consequences, usually counterproductive to the goal of them. For example, rent control makes for less units available to rent.
The text of the CLA in question for companies

"You agree that all Contributions to the Project made by You or by Your designated employees shall be submitted and licensed to the project under AL-2.0. You agree that You shall be bound by the terms of AL-2.0 for all Contributions made by You and Your employees. Your designated employees who are authorized to make Contributions shall be those identified by Your CLA Manager(s). You agree to identify Your initial CLA Manager(s) below and thereafter maintain current lists of employees eligible to make Contributions by providing updated lists to Moonray@dreamworks.com."

And for individuals

"Thank you for your interest in the MoonRay open source project (“Project”), which has selected the Apache License Version 2.0 (“AL-2.0”) for its inbound contributions. The terms You, Contributor, and Contribution are used here as defined in AL-2.0. The Project is required to have a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file that binds each Contributor. You agree that all Contributions to the Project made by You shall be submitted and licensed to the project under AL-2.0 and that You shall be bound by the terms of AL-2.0 for all Contributions made by You. Please complete this form, sign, and email a PDF file to MoonRay@dreamworks.com."

Seems fairly harmless.
Oils are bad for your arteries even if you don't burn them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4WD8Bm7s_I
While not nearly as harrowing a journey nor the commitment as watching the film described in this article, reading this article in its entirety was surprisingly riveting and oddly fulfilling.
> Sellers themselves would be incentivized to make their house in good condition to sell it at a profit

Many sellers don't want to do this.

Consider someone who inherits their parents house, 1000 miles away. The house needs renovation.

You want them to uproot their lives or find a "service provider" (1000 miles away) instead of just doing an "as is" sale to someone who will do the renovation and sell it.

Sellers want out. There's no social benefit to making that more difficult.
Spending several hours building some really elegant code that performs exceptionally well, only to find your manager shrugs his shoulders and says meh when you show what it can do.

The next day you spend 10 minutes moving a few buttons around on a simple dialog and you get an 'atta boy' from your manager as if you solved a real problem.
>would society be better off if we were much more conservative about demonstrating the long-term safety of new substances before scaling up their use?

How?
Why limit it to substances? Social media is unsafe
What point in time were we only using safe substances so we can use that list of substances as the baseline and then somehow only allow new substances to be used when their long term safety has been demonstrated somehow?
Then by extension, homeless people have the most personal freedom of anyone.

What kind of ridiculous argument is this?
Millions upon millions. Roughly every server that has ever been sold. We're not only talking about consumer Windows here.

That said, I'm skeptical of OP's idea that this makes a difference for how Microsoft offers ISOs. I don't really think it does; Microsoft OSes all have activation and they freely offer ISOs. macOS's lack of activation is attributable to the fact that they license the OS with the hardware, but I don't think it's a relevant detail for Microsoft's ISO downloads. I'd tend to think some minor speedbumps in the download process are just because Microsoft would prefer people to use their fancy Media Creation Tool instead of downloading an ISO. The Media Creation Tool replaces both the ISO download and Rufus; it's much easier to use and I can see why Microsoft would direct users to it.
Even extra virgin olive oil is at best neutral or likely still bad for arterial function. You don't have to burn oils for them to have negative effects on your body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4WD8Bm7s_I
One could, if "one" were an intellectual who thought himself qualified to question everything, because reasons.

Someone wants a pedometer, and magically, or not so magically, one appears on a shelf near them, or on their doorstep.
Second this! Went there sking some years back, one of the most remarkable and amazing places I have been.
Resort of Gudauri offers amazing skiing, with the possible do some short hikes to do some world class offpist runs.
Transitioned to other side of the country to Mestia, equal amazing skiing but even more amazing place.