skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over-use of resources is actually a direct consequence of the consolidated global corporate power (from planned obsolescence through destroyed local markets/industry(with all its micro and regional economic and social consequences) .. just so global corporation A can ship products that were originally manufactured and consumed/sold locally - at a huge human and environmental cost - across the planet and make profits. Not because a product is cheaper for the consumer, nor because its better, this is solely the consequence of various coercive techniques (military, economical). Patents(yes, Watt actually postponed the onset of the industrial revolution at least 2 decades .. one example out of many), licenses and concessions(both meant as economic terms), etc et

Too complicated topic for this kind of discussion but that's one huge misconception/piece of economic propaganda you cited there that had to be addressed

The other one - even more potent and dangerous - is the notion that global problems need global governments(or, more precisely a consolidated global power). This is actually a two-part-question, a) Why is our current civilization unable to solve global problems(education, healthcare, social welfare, environmental damage) - which is a complicated topic on its own; b) how can a decentralized global society with a mostly local scope solve global issues.

This is a special question of sorts because if you answer the a) part you will with high certainty arrive at an answer to the b) question too. (and no, centralization of power is not the answer)
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"Hundreds of high-paying jobs and millions in tax revenue"

... is trivial in the scheme of San Francisco things, which has a population of 800,000+ and an annual general fund revenue of 2.7 billion.
Probably because San Francisco had a strong reputation for things not related to tech, and then tech arrived. Silicon Valley being SF is relatively new.
First step is to reduce public spending and fight corruption, just very basic steps will bring significant improvement.

Then, welcome foreign and local investment: privatize most of the industries that were nationalized and are now idle, and fix labor laws a little, this also include liberalization of currency, enforce property laws so private companies feel safe investing in the long term.

When can this happen? As of today no sooner than 2019 when the next presidential elections will take place. Unless a coup is on the table but I don't see that happening.
WAS dangerous at night? I have a friend who had his head stomped on by a group of roving thugs and spent weeks in the hospital. When I visited a year ago, one guy wouldn't leave me alone asking for money and when I told him to get lost, he tried to call over his buddies from the other corner to come attack me.
>Corrections have been made to its latitude and longitude four times over the past 50 years, the Times reports. The last adjustment there, in 1994, was about 656 feet.

>The next adjustment is said to be due by the end of this year, on the order of 4.9 feet.

I don't understand. It moved 4.9 ft since 1994, but was moving more quickly before then? The NYTimes article doesn't seem to clarify this either. Were pre-1994 commercially available maps not based on satellite readings of lat/long?
Why do you think the city should hold the needs of the wealthy few more important than the needs of its other citizens?
That's the one I was going to recommend
The job ad on the bottom mentions the following:

> These are excellent opportunities for men who have two to six years experience with [some computer]. We prefer college graduates but will carefully consider all applicants.

Uh, graduates with work experience? Am I missing something or is that a contradiction?
I find the part about "trying to shoehorn ride-sharing entrepreneurs into “employee” status" particularly rich.

Anyone who takes Uber in SF has met a fair number of these 'entrepreneurs'. They look an awful lot like low-wage employees trying to make ends meet, and extending them basic protections that reflect the reality of their job is not clipping their entrepreneurial wings.
Google Contributor looks neat, and probably something I'll try out...but, I don't see any indication that privacy will be respected with their plan. Seems like I still need an ad blocker and a privacy-respecting web browser.

It's unfortunate that something like Contributor can't be done in a peer-to-peer fashion. It requires a huge player with a visible impact on their entire web to be able to "sell" a different sort of web experience. That's actually kinda scary; it reminds me how much power Google has. While I have vaguely positive feelings about Google (and use gmail, Android, etc.), it's not great that one entity owns such a big chunk of the web.

I already have a couple of subscriptions to services that provide music. I don't know if I'll switch to Red; might try it out at some point. I should read up on it; I do watch a lot of tech videos and such on YouTube, and if Red actually supports the people who make them, that'd be great.
The homeless in SF are almost all mentally ill, not working people who were displaced by high rents. In fact, a lot of them come to SF from elsewhere, where they were already homeless, because SF is simply more tolerant of homeless people than any other city in the area.
> I really hope that San Francisco is able to keep its roots and what make it a great city to innovate and live.

What roots are these? The Irish used to run the avenues, and now the Sunset is predominantly Chinese. Like I mentioned before, the Mission used to be german-irish, then it turned latino, and now there are a lot of techies there. Portola used to have mostly white and black residents, now there are a lot of Chinese people there.

Change happens. You have to constantly re-invent yourself.
That's true, but it's still basically a cryptocurrency, with some out-there applications (that are not really that reliable, yet).

But yeah you are right.
That is the process, yes, but it's not really that lengthy. You can usually just add the first pin and then copy/paste the rest in the row really quickly.
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Saturday and Sunday posts always come with certain randomness,

even the comments tend to be less serious during the weekends.
SF's cultural capital is ebbing away. Money is not people. Copious tech wealth is not saving anyone's life and it certainly isn't adding any flavor. The city was fine before computers. Wealth is setting up a home for wealth in SF. A city should be comprised of people, not just expensive new buildings.

Kill yourselves.
Even if we relax hardware requirements, e.g. assume a Xeon+Titan X hardware, it is still a question if a viable conversational agent that uses deep learning to generate conversations and adapt to surroundings can be developed around it. Maybe it is possible to use DL to extract some meaning vector (or textual description) that is later used by conventional NLP chatbot to converse with user.
I wonder if the quality will be good enough.

Also we don't know if the company will really develop their product to fruition, they may simply develop a good (but not viable as a product) demo and be acqui-hired by one of big players.
> especially when people choose to make their calls on speakerphone for some reason

You make it sound so mysterious. Speaking for myself, I do it for long conversations because it's actually painful to keep the phone held to my ear for that long.
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Indeed, after the first dotcom crash I knew people who were able to negotiate rent reductions and this was otherwise not an uncommon story to hear at parties.
Farming is a small percentage of California's GDP -- less than 5%, if I remember correctly. California would be just fine without it.
Yes, a ruler on the footprint page would be great.
Because young technology professionals are dull(er than the average demographic), and communities with too many of them are boring and soulless.

Source: am young technology professional.
Few THOUSANDS? Ouch, this should really hurt. :(
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The Mission is still dangerous at night, for people who don't look like techies, and you still have to hopscotch over human feces.

The downside of the technology boom is that it's turning a living city into a bedroom community for high-income people. And the city has not been able to harness any of this wealth to fix the old problems that plagued it.

The best thing to happen to SF urban planning, and I say this without hyperbole, was the Loma Prieta earthquake. Otherwise the city seems paralyzed and incapable of action.
Unacceptable. Proper formatting is a prerequisite. It's not about being elitist - it's about readability and efficient communication. The equations in these "theses" are so badly formatted I would have taken off marks if an undergrad gave me something similar.

It's fine if you have a handful of equations in your text. But for a PhD in maths? Unacceptable.
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Venezuela doesn't have a 2nd amendment, but the lack of guns is certainly not the reason, if anything is the excess of guns in the street, what people in America don't understand is that the government will always be better armed than the population, Syria is a good example.

What keeps totalitarian governments is will to power, how much os the government willing to risk against the population. Owning a gun is not the same as being willing to die.
It's not an article. It's an editorial written by a lobbyist.
Please provide evidence that the people living on the streets in SF, were the same people who occupied residences SF and were displaced.

I genuinely would like to see that.
Yeah, I saw the word "nigger" show up in the diagram, so I went and had a look. In "The Rats in the Walls" the author has a cat called "Nigger-man", but that was a proper name so I removed it (I removed all proper names).

Also, I think you're spot on with adjectivitis. It explains exactly what I don't like about his stories.
Easy answer to the clickbaity title: because the well-being of a city's residents takes priority over corporate interests. The bit about forcing ride-sharing providers to actually treat who effectively is their employee like, you know, an employee is particularly rich.

The whole article just reads like an ode to corporatism; a whiny one too.
actually it is you who did it.
I did some experimentation last night as well. I suspected a lot of the cost came from the unmapping the files and the required invalidations and TLB shootdowns required to do so.

I made rg simply not munmap files when it was done with them (I made this drop do nothing: https://github.com/danburkert/memmap-rs/blob/master/src/unix...)

Searching for PM_RESUME in the Linux source gave me these results:

--no-mmap: ~400ms
--mmap (with munmap): ~750ms
--mmap (without munmap): ~550ms

So eliding munmap made a big difference, but it was still not enough to beat out reading the files. perf shows that the mmap syscall itself is just too expensive (this is --mmap (with munmap)):

Children Self Command Shared Object Symbol
- 81.88% 0.00% rg rg [.] __rust_try
- __rust_try
- 50.57% std::panicking::try::call::ha112cda315d6c57d
- 47.73% rg::Worker::search_mmap::h5179a76c63e344d0
- 23.91% __GI___munmap
6.08% smp_call_function_many
3.14% rwsem_spin_on_owner
1.86% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
0.94% osq_lock
0.67% native_write_msr_safe
0.52% unmap_page_range
+ 21.41% _$LT$rg..search_buffer..BufferSearcher$LT$$u27$a$C$$u20$W$GT$$GT$::run::hd0f8b2830716be0c
0.80% memchr
- 17.99% __mmap64
5.20% rwsem_down_write_failed
1.96% rwsem_spin_on_owner
0.77% osq_lock
0.59% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
+ 6.79% 0x1080d
1.72% __GI___libc_close
1.27% __memcpy_sse2_unaligned
0.98% __fxstat64
0.56% __GI___ioctl
I didn't realize he was considered an existentialist, actually. I thought he was considered more of a godfather type figure, like Iggy Pop and punk music. Thanks for the comment, enjoyed reading through Kierkegaard's Wikipedia page.
10 years? More like 30 :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Maestro
TIL careers define peoples of personality "shine".

/s

Sounds like you're dull - stop making generalizations without facts.
the latest i7 doesn't hold a candle to the GPU in my $40 graphics card

I think I understand your point (unless you meant iPhone 7?), but interestingly, recent Intel processors have impressively powerful graphics processors built in: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/c5/9a.... So if you were using full capacity of that i7, I think it would beat your graphics card handily. The issue is that practically no one is writing code to use the full capabilities of these modern CPU's. A friend did a write up here:
http://lemire.me/blog/2016/09/19/the-rise-of-dark-circuits/

Even without the built-in GPU, I'd bet that the right software running on that i7 would blow away that $40 graphic card. I think problem is that we don't really have the right tools for writing low level multi-core software. Image rotation parallelizes and vectorizes really well, the x64 side of those processors have excellent vector capabilities, but it still requires hand coding to get top performance.

if I want to build a Kubernetes cluster, I can throw Raspberry Pi's at the problem

A thought experiment: how fast a cluster could you make from a few dozen iPhone 7's connected wirelessly? The processors are surprisingly fast, and I think they support 802.11ac at gigabit plus speeds. Could you possibly do distributed computing on an ad-hoc network of iPhones that happen to be nearby? An app with a sandboxed work queue that accepts local connections? There's lots of reasons it makes no practical sense, but it would be quite a demo.
"You can sign up for a 10-day free trial of SnapEDA premium. During the trial period, you can cancel any time in your Account Settings. After the trial ends, you will be charged $297 ($99/month, billed quarterly)."

This stinks of dark patterns and maximizing the amount you can hit people who forget to cancel for before they notice. It's rather unlikely that someone would actually want to pay quarterly at the higher monthly rate.
I'm a professional hardware engineer, and doing this kind of work is something I do frequently and begrudgingly. Having this kind of service available will be a huge help. Some thoughts:

- Who writes the style guide? How do you make aesthetic decisions?

- Will you support multiple symbol styles? Would it be possible to upload stylesheets or specially annotated schematics and then regenerate already-extant parts in that style?

- Is there any intention of making the file writers open-source? Altium, in particular, has a stupid and annoying file format and it would be a gift to the community to be able to write good PcbLib and SchLib files. It would make it easy for me to write a linting and style-casting tool.

- Is there any chance of bringing down the latency, possibly with the application of more money? My rule of thumb is that it's worth spending about a hundred dollars to save myself an hour. A typical smallish library part takes me about five or ten minutes if I have to do both schematic and footprint, so waiting a day isn't really attractive at any price. But if I could throw money at you to get a result turbospeed, that'd be worthwhile.
> The mission was originally german-irish, and then became latino. Now a lot of young technology professionals live there, cause, you know, cities evolve.

This is absolutely correct. My family has lived in the SF area since the 1930s. My grandfather saw it evolve through many stages: working class German-Irish Catholic city, military city during WWII with a huge influx of soldiers from all over the country, center of counterculture in the 1960s, influx of gay culture, dot-com boom, second tech boom...

All of those changes happened in one person's lifetime. Before then, there were other huge changes -- the gold rush, the influx of Chinese immigrants as well as the German and Irish working class that comprised much of the population in the early 20th century, the great earthquake and fire.

Every time the city changed, the people who were already there were pretty unhappy about it.
> Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering?

This is a perfect phrasing of my feelings about all postmodern literature. I tried so hard to get into Pynchon but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was the butt of an elaborate practical joke.
> For instance http://vanilla-js.com/ [...]

<rant> I wish employers would take this serious during interviews, every time I say that I know vanilla JavaScript they cringe as if knowing the core features of a language instead of a popular framework was a bad thing. I understand that SPA grew to become a standard among JavaScript developers but it really doesn't provides much innovation so to me learning a framework is like incentivizing the proliferation of these type of projects. JavaScript developers are obsessed with JSON and want to JSONify everything, the only thing that I like about modern frameworks is MVVM but most of the other things are just over-complicated solutions.
Some of your point are consequences not causes. For example: the reason Venezuela is using the US imports as dilutants for its heavy oil is because bad management of the industry, it wasn't always like that, you can say the same about the debt, Venezuela is not screwed because of the debt, it has debt because it's screwed.
Google says it may be as low as 2% in fact.
Somehow sad that Cuvier still have streets named in his honor. Especially one bordering a very large university.

About academism, I wonder if it's not a question of "lifecycle". America institutions were younger than European ones. I often felt a strong academism in Europe research (more symbolic, abstract and terse) compared to USA (be it in CS or even Math such as linear algebra).
Yes! I love typography and try to start the design of my personal projects with font choice and positioning. I'm a developer, though, so I can never match two fonts well. This site is fantastic.
And that was started by a rise in grain prices thanks to crap harvests.

If anything, Facebook and Twitter kept a lid on things. Only when the governments cut the national net connections did things really hit the fan.

This likely because now people had to actually go out and talk to their neighbors to figure out what was happening, and thus were more easily pulled along.
Being priced out of an area doesn't make you homeless; it makes you move to a cheaper area.

Homeless people move to SF (and California in general) because it's relatively rich and temperate and tolerates homeless people crowding thoroughfares and shitting on the streets.
The homeless in SF are not all mentally ill. They are people who are in precarious housing situations to begin with.

A lot of the homelessness in SF is not visible. You see the ranting person in the street off their meds, but not the families who are in and out of shelters.

https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran...
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An advantage of text is that you can broadcast not to multiple people. My friends have a Whatsapp group where we coordinate or ask general questions.

Also you can send audio recordings in a text message. I think I once read on hn that in some crazy asian country that is the main method of communication: they don't text, they don't call, they send each other voice mails.
Interestingly, I worked at a Telco from 2011-2015, granted, a rural one in North America.

In all honesty, without a shadow of a lie, the master strategy of the VP of Technology was to get a fax line into every home and business....... in 2015.

Oh yes, they really can be that clueless.
This is eerily close to the old joke of how economists "know the price of everything and the value of nothing".

For this author, the purpose of SF's regulations seem to be in the realm ok the "unknown unknown". He doesn't even acknowledge the possibility of defining quality of life by anything other than GDP.
When it comes to what I'd actually do with say a few million dollars, I have to admit the answer is very likely "well...nothing really."

I could run some benevolent organization but I have to admit that if it was truly benevolent and important, I could start it tomorrow and accrue a donation base to fund it. Lack of a windfall isn't a great excuse for inaction.
Wooh. That [HOPAC API](http://hopac.github.io/Hopac/Hopac.html) is ginormous! How can anyone seriously code with that?
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I thought Sartre considered himself an existentialist and Camus was an absurdist.
I had this same problem with Pynchon. Try David Foster Wallace, much more approachable.
As one young technology professional to another, get a hobby unrelated to tech and you too can start being interesting to people outside of tech.
I'm a musician, and when I'm studying a certain artist (or decade) for a gig in a given week I'll get some obnoxious Discover playlists. A week or two of "normal" listening for me will reset it, but I agree it'd be nice to reset it more directly.

IIRC other articles have mentioned that the Discover algorithm takes into account skips within 30 seconds; not sure how much impact that has though.
Except for the vast swathes of the Central Valley that would be left destitute.
I'm surprised this is a retail business. Doing this in conjunction with Digi-Key, Mouser, or Hamilton/Avnet would seem to make more sense. They already distribute the data sheets for the parts they sell. Also, it would be far cheaper to make footprints if you did them in bulk, working your way though long catalogs of similar parts.

Maybe the retail thing is to get some credibility so they can deal with the major distributors.
Now do it with multiple 1.2MB 5.25" drives if you can find a system with a BIOS old enough to support the hardware, yet new enough to run a modern kernel.
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Not sure what the author is on about.

In the B2B world at least, phone remains customers' preferred way to get more info prior to a sale and to get support afterwards. The same for B2C - at least on the support end of things, and provided you can readily talk to a human.

Also, analog phone calls are dead. But voice conversations are here to stay IMHO. There are plenty of "non-phone" alternatives to do those, e.g. Skype or using /call in Slack to sort out in 3-5 min what would take 15+ min to sort out in writing using texts or chats. Voice is just faster.
this is gratuitously negative and against HN policies and you should not write comments like this here (especially using the word scam). a neutral phrasing might be "I believe that the D-Wave guys do not themselves believe in their innovations, and are perpetrating what would otherwise be considered scams."

Please bear in mind that Google as well as NASA have bought D-Wave computers. Whether the effect is real or not, they do not exactly transfer money to scammers, and are not easy, unsophisticated "marks" (targets of scammers.)

"Hey Google, it's your cousin!" is not how these sales take place. Use of a word like scam is inappropriate, especially given that sales have been made, and the ordered equipment has been delivered and is being used. (By people who run Google and who send things to space.)

Please be a bit more judicious in your phrasing.
There's no contradiction; it's just not an entry-level job. (Someone could get work experience then a degree, or a degree then work experience, or both simultaneously.)