skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the major drivers of this new age in BuzzFeed has been driven by Ze Frank[0] of all people. He ushered in an era of "viral" content before that was even a thing. I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of how he has helped transform them into more of a original content company.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_Frank
I have a minor github repo for doing embedded image processing. At least half the people who reach out to me about of are from China, which surprised me.
I’ve heard housing should ideally not cost more than 1/3 of your income to live comfortably. That would mean you’d have to make 72k after taxes a year to afford such a mortgage.

I think it is crazy that two high earning people would be spending possibly 50% or more of what they make on housing.
54% of the population supported the Maduro government in the election.[1] If you think Trump is taking the "correct action," you're against democracy at this point.

[1] https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-election-resu...
The runup in real estate prices is fundamentally driven by the huge amounts of money printing by the Fed earlier this decade. The Bay Area has just been the canary in the coal mine on this because the strong job growth and self-injurious housing policies caused the price pressures to show up earlier than elsewhere, but it will become an undeniably nationwide phenomenon soon enough.

High real estate prices & rents are the price we're all paying for keeping JPMorgan & Goldman Sachs solvent during the financial crisis.
Looks like it's failing to process some standard tex commands (e.g. \textup) as well as some user defined macros. See the many display errors in https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1710.07406/

Of course, it goes without saying that I want this.
No, I mean documented, actual evidence either presented as-is, or at least reviewed first hand by a neutral, trusted third party. Not some kooky WaPo bullshit.
The Self-Styled Martyr of Silicon Valley: The Odd Tale of Ellen Pao
My wife and I lived in the Bay Area for a year. It was great - beautiful weather (San Mateo), incredible farmers market, and we met some really cool people.

I'm glad we did it, but I'm also glad that I moved back to Ohio now.

Beyond having my extended family around here, it just feels like a better place to raise a family and be part of a community, whereas SF seemed more geared towards single or childless folks who were very focused on their carriers.

The Bay Area is also incredibly expensive. After moving back, I went to a movie with a friend, asked for two tickets, then tried to correct the attendant because the price was so low that I thought she must have rung me up for a single ticket. That's just one example, but nearly everything costs more in SF.

Oh, and our house in Ohio cost slightly less than my current annual salary - I had an apartment and the mortgage overlapping for a couple of months here, and even paying both was less than what my rent was in San Mateo.
And how a body becomes non-conscious the moment the brain is removed.
I submitted this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534480

Thanks for introducing me to her essays.
Please lay out your plan in more detail.

I just want to see the logic of this. You think I can put downward pressure on property prices by insisting on a remote job?

I don't think hiring companies take joy in making your life difficult. They would hire more remote workers if they felt it could work. I prefer working remotely but find it much harder to manage.
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FANG will offer > 100k in RSUs over 4 years. And some people are getting 100k+ sign on bonuses.

FANG companies often pay 200k+ / year total comp. Getting 100k of capital between 2 people in the bay area is doable.
Something to keep in mind is that by default writes go through the page cache. By the time I/O is initiated for a write(2), the application process can have exited.
Yeah, those far-right yahoos aren't anything like the people from Montana that I have known.
Are we part of the universe? Check.
Are we conscious? Check? (probably yes).
Does that make the universe transitively conscious? Partially at least, I suppose, yes it does.
As far as the universe as a whole being conscious: Latency is problem, but when you're the universe I imagine you've got a lot of time on your hands.
So,

1. a room and a person in it are separate

2. nothing is separate from the universe

Therefore, there are two things that are not separate from the universe but separate from each other.
From the same place where value of a roulette game comes from: from belief, hope, faith and opportunistic gambling of people that have enough coins to place them on many different numbers hoping to get some cash before the house. When you bet some coins on a number in roulette, you get no ownership and you'll get no dividends from the casino - but you may end up with some cash when the wheel stops.
One problem with key commands is that there's a lot of keyboard layouts. The same key can generate different letters depending on the keyboard. So when building an editor, do you listen to keys or whatever comes out after the key press(es) !?
Probably not the same thing as most don't die when they hit the window
Reminds me of What is it like to be a Bat?

https://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
If you're living in Kansas on a SFBA salary, you're living the dream. Kudos to you. Unfortunately, most new college graduates aren't going to get those kind of opportunities.

If someone really wants to emulate your lifestyle, they would be best served working in SFBA for the first 5-10 years of their career, so as to build out their resume. Once you're more established and have an impressive resume, it's so much easier to find lucrative remote gigs.
The world's population is greater today, with a significantly higher proportion of scientists (and highly educated people in general), far easier access to the world's information and 75 years or so of further scientific research.
And in the case of Boston many/most of the tech jobs still aren’t in the city itself although that’s shifted a fair bit. That’s a big difference between cities. In the Bay Area it’s hard to get away from very high prices. 45 to 60 minutes out of Boston in many directions and you’re into relatively reasonably priced housing.
MasterCard Announces Blockchain B2B Payments Despite Rejection of Bitcoin
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This is a superb idea! Still not working on some of the papers I read, but hopefully it will soon.

I would love to see a bookmarklet that lets me hop from an arxiv page straight to Arxiv Vanity.

Also, the manicure emoji for the favicon was a great choice!
Also: Posteo.de
That's not a very compelling example.
"Only you can read your emails" -- surely, the party receiving the email can read it too, and guess what, they are using gmail.
Toronto region's response to Amazon HQ2 RFP [pdf]
Looks great!
Would be even better if the references are urls to other papers.
I think the company is a bit bigger than one person by now.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Octopuses are an interesting argument against this view. Octopuses do not directly control their own arms. And their arms even have reflex reactions completely independent of their brain. In other words, it may be that nature itself discovered centralization is a pretty bad idea beyond a certain scale.
Nothing a good old-fashion blood-letting couldn't fix.
No, these aren't insane. However, they are much lower than reality.
Clearly they are not from Berkeley.
PDF is the only format that will preserve the typographical details that are important in many technical papers; it also avoids the relatively bad rendering created by the browsers.

PDF is usually bad, of course, on small screens, unless the publisher makes special versions.
Is there a reason for relying on pandocfilters instead of on Panflute [1]?

I would think that panflute would allow for more readable code, which helps whendealing with all the corner cases and rough edges of latex.

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/panflute
Maybe you should ask your self why are you thinking about sex while looking at underage girl?

Perhaps because that was the intent of the designer? What, you think that ads featuring bikini-clad women holding a Harley-Davidson muffler are because chicks in skimpy clothes really know their motorcycle exhaust systems?

I make no claim to know the mind of the designer, but to immediately write off the possibility is näive, IMO.
NodeChef provides a great platform for developers who don't want to wrangle with the complexities of server-side infrastructure or using multiple services to host an app. By Integrating both the database and the app server into a single cloud service, developers are able to effortlessly host their applications.
You can be like me and live cheaply. I lived in a coop for my 1st year in the bay rea (1.5k/month total). Then I rented in a 2 bed 2 bath with 3 ppl. Once I had a girlfriend rent became 50% off.

Basically I've never personally paid more than 2k/month in rent in the bay area.
mostly true, but in which other language can you call async functions which you expect to be synchronous?
Transparent glass doesn't kill them so it doesn't exert any evolutionary pressure.
> Why include the elected representatives?

It shows you're serious. Most people complain to blow off steam. This is what customer service handles. If you want something done at the corporate policy level, e.g. to have policy changed or have a decision made per policy reversed, you attack at higher levels.

The traditional form of leverage is legal. Have a lawyer pen a letter gets you out of customer service. It is as effective as it is expensive. Next best is a regulator (you can think of these as narrowly-scoped, publicly-funded lawyers). Unfortunately, nobody regulates Google.

So your final threat is getting a lawmaker pissed off with you. This is less about passing legislation (it's hard to pass legislation; everyone knows that) than creating an official, reliably-corroborated paper trail which could go public, causing PR damage, and/or damage relationships the company may want to lean on in the future.

More practically, I don't want to sit around writing and responding to letters. Having someone else do the back and forth with me Cc'd is more pleasant.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact a lawyer.
In my experience, it seems like people who don't have much hands on experience are leading the show, and don't realize the value in well designed, clean code in minimizing bugs and and decreasing development and maintenance cost in the future.
As a recent grad myself, this is the only comment that rings true for me. Anecdotal for sure, but most people that I went to grad school with and stayed in the bay are doing fine, even at mid-size companies. You can find someplace to live (especially with a significant other) that enables a moderate amount of saving / investing with a little frugality; however, there's a lot of luck and privilege that plays into being a successful young engineer in the bay, and in no way do I want to downplay the seriousness of these issues for other groups.

Lots of people stay here despite the costs because of the positive externalities that come with living in the bay. There are many alternatives to a highway commute (bike in the city, Caltrain, work from home) that many new grads are able to take advantage of. There's easy access to nature, culture, and for a lot of people, an extended network of family and friends that probably wouldn't be so welcoming in other places that don't have the same strains on housing.

I expect that many will move away for opportunities elsewhere before ultimately returning, but that seems to be a desire for exploration rather than dissatisfaction with quality of life. Certainly, few of the people I know are itching to leave the city for even low-density suburban living, and that's a preference that just can't be squared with many of the commenters here that rave about living on their 3 acres of land for $200k in the middle of nowhere while working remotely.

There are a lot of problems in the bay (and even more in the city) that I hope we can address, but making it out to be unlivable for young engineers (again, a very privileged class) is ridiculous. Are there better places to raise kids? Yes. Are there cheaper places to live? Yes. Are there other urban areas that provide some of the same benefits? Yes. Do I want to live anywhere else? Not right now.
I would argue that the room (or the space enclosed by it) _does_ become capable of satisfying certain definitions of consciousness.
I've always said (as a joke) that all game developers must have bad eyesight and dirty glasses.

Everything is blurry, you can't see far, you get dirt over your vision and there are glares and lens-flares all over.

What's worst is that this is done on purpose and on almost all the games. They must think that this is what real life look like.
Housing is not experiencing rampant inflation when you look at the nation as a whole. We have one currency so the Fed has to try to strike a balance that works for everyone.
The problem isn't that a $1 million home is insane (or not). Or, even a $2000/month mortgage. Yes, a well compensated professional can afford those numbers.

The problem in the Bay, and increasingly in other popular areas, is there are few options for less. Especially in places like the south bay, where it isn't really urban - it's a giant suburb that lacks dense, affordable housing options.

An average employee shouldn't have to live hours away from their job. Or spend 50% of their income on housing.
I believe apfs (apple's new filesystem), btrfs, and zfs all checksum metadata and will attempt to correct it.
Why do you need this indirect theory when much simpler numbers like the disparity between increase of population and lack of increase in housing units are available?
After interest deductions on mortgage & property taxes a 1 mil home is ~4000$/month in `rent`. Yes you'd be paying more than 4k but you'd also be taking home more money as well.
I agree, it was (and still is) incredibly fascinating, especially now that I get to look at it from very close. In writing this compatibility layer I am indeed being inspired a library with a similar intent, maybe with a more modern approach. We'll see!
> I utterly despise hipsters, I'm a very proud neoliberal globalist Jew, and I'm an establishment Democrat that despises the Bernie wing), so that's making it hard to find a place that's exactly like what I want. I'm looking for a conservative, sprawling suburb that isn't riddled with hipsters and is located in a blue state. I also insist on a place where AC is universal, and for food-related reasons, I want to live somewhere there's a lot of Asian people.

You're describing Westchester or Long Island, down to a T.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Finding Meaning
"If expansion (or contraction) of spacetime can occur faster than the speed of light, then it could theoretically enact causality faster too right?"

Well, if you're looking to claim that the universe used to be conscious prior to inflation, at which point it was torn to pieces in every direction possible simultaneously, sure. Probably not what you were fishing for, though.

"Not that any of this is particularly likely, but since we don't understand the core mechanisms of consciousness very well, it seems possible they could be operating on levels of physics that we also don't understand yet."

Well, if the universe is operating in that manner, it would have to be doing so with some rather tight bounds on it to ensure that we never ever have to take those things into consideration when plotting the behavior of a system. I would tend to say this falls into the "raises more questions than it answers" bucket, myself.

If consciousness is a complicated phenomenon that only manifests in some sort of very small way in certain interactions, then A: what are those interactions? and B: by what mechanism is the universe even discovering those interactions? It's not hard to imagine a universe that has physics just like ours, except that a particular combination of 10 to the 11th atoms of carbon in a very precise linked order will spontaneously emit very large quantities of blue light. But without a clue as to what that may be, how is anything in the universe ever supposed to find that pattern of atoms? That is, if this is how consciousness works and there is some sort of very ill-defined, handwavey "field" associated with it, by what mechanism did anything in the universe discover how to interact with it?

These are not necessarily forever unanswerable questions, but right now, they would in many ways be bigger questions than the question they are putatively being offered as the answer to.
The real estate to purchase right now is vacation homes 8 hours drive from the metropolitan areas.
So I still won't be able to see my kids awake because of a 1.5 hour commute each way, but I'll be able to read the newspaper on the way to work? No thanks.
The president of the U.S. undermining the results of a free and fair Latin American election is not "progress". That's par for course since at least 1904.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
Sounds like you are agreeing then with gumby.
San Bruno, pretty much SF territory. My family owned and lived in Fremont, and my brother's commute often hovered around 60+ minutes on BART.
Is there a universe outside of our consciousness? This cannot be proven, so if it is to be believed, it must be a matter of faith.

Consciousness is the only thing we can be certain of.
I've jumped between a few cities actually. I'll call out the things I wish I would have known:

* winter isn't that bad if you have a heated garage at work and at least an insulated garage (if unheated) at home

* winter is that bad if you park outside

* the downtowns of most major rust belt cities are shockingly cosmopolitan with brunch joints, breweries, and art galleries

* the art scenes are shockingly good because the costs are pretty low

* the airfare can be kind of expensive

* the spring and fall are very, very nice

* the cities are generally managed poorly but the first / second ring suburbs (esp. the wealthier / more conservative ones) are really, really nice places to live

I think Paul Graham made this point, but it's good to live in areas that used to be rich. St. Paul MN, Columbus OH, and Erie PA fit the bill - the old mansions and old town neighborhoods can be really really nice and shockingly affordable if you're used to coast prices. There's less ethnic food generally available but there is pretty authentic stuff in the immigrant neighborhoods and the prices are authentic too.

The biggest 'quality of life' thing is the ease of getting around the low storage costs. In California, it seemed like people could really only have one or two hobbies - in the midwest it's not uncommon for folks to more than half of these items: kayaks, bicycles, motorcycles, boats, fishing rods, tents, cameras, skis/snowboards, hammocks, golf clubs etc. Having winter makes it easier to get outdoors during the warm months, and if you have kids, the schools in the richer areas tend to be very good.

The downsides are the roads can be pretty bad (esp. in Illinois and Michigan), winter can be brutal, the salt can make car ownership expensive, car ownership is critical unless you make it otherwise, and it can be tough to find intellectual engagement.
One of the things that I came across when writing my own janky pdf/latex->html converter for lecture notes[0] is that Pandoc doesn't handle references and subfigures correctly, even with pandoc-crossref and pandoc-citeproc enabled. I had to write a little python module[1] that used regex to extract those and then handle them on my own separately... This is definitely something you should look at.

[0] https://dmaitre.phyip3.dur.ac.uk/NPP/notes/
[1] https://github.com/JBorrow/latex-pandoc-preprocessor
Sure, but you usually have to press a bunch of keys in just the right sequence to do the equivalent with the keyboard.

Some things are quicker to do with the mouse and some things are quicker to do using keyboard shortcuts. I don't understand why people take such absolutist positions on this.

My arm doesn't get tired from moving a few inches to grab the mouse.
That's circular economy at the purest level. More and more I think we need to degrow. It's not a question of starting the green economy. That should had happen years before now. We were informed by environmentalist about the limits of growth. Now we need to act fast on reducing unnecessary consumption and also unethical/unsustainable productivity.
You're really citing results from an authoritarian regime known for scrubbing numbers and propaganda as evidence of popular support?
> I like wild grass

And that is the problem. You're not the only one. Yes, if we turned the San Francisco Bay area into a clone of Manhattan or Hong Kong or Tokyo we could accommodate a lot more people. But a lot of people would not consider that a good outcome. People who like that kind of lifestyle can have it in any of the dozens of dense cities on the planet.

The SFBay area is desirable precisely because it is not (yet) dense. People move here because they like yards and redwood trees and vineyards and hiking trails. Manifestly there are more people who want these things than there is space to accommodate all of them. That is the problem.
It was a humorous observation, that apparently wasn't well received. My apologies.
This essay made some excellent points yet structurally undermined its work by being unfocused.

E.g. It used O'Reilly's own metaphors as jumping off points to make deeper observations. Yet on water the reviewer rambles instead of making the point. And on O'Reilly's poor Alderaan metaphor -- well that's just a stupid metaphor not worth the discussion.

On the other hand, some of the excellent points:
- The gold rush was in many ways a disaster that we still are paying for, and reflects a "strip mining" mentality that has been repeated, such as: highly polluted land on the Peninsula thanks to chip production (you can't drink the groundwater in any of the industrially-zoned land in the city of Santa Clara, for example); the destructive style of farm production in the Central Valley (brought from Oklahoma by people who had destroyed their previous environment with the same system), and now strip-mining of middle class economies.
- The fact that the narrative arc of the "high tech revolution" has followed the self-narrative arc of US baby boomers
- The decades long privatization of the "common weal" has made it brittle, failed to serve the people it was originally designed for, and has broken up the social sense of common purpose.

I like Tim, have known him since he started with the Nutshell books, and think this essay is a bit of a hatchet job. But there's a lot of meat hidden in there too.
I place blame on the location of the tech hubs in the Bay Area. Not one mega-company, save Tesla, has setup shop in East Bay. There is affordable housing across the water, and new construction as well. Facebook has mitigated this somewhat buy purchasing Sun Microsystem's campus right next to the bridge.

Also, note that SF isn't the fastest growing housing market anymore, it's Seattle (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-no...). Seattle didn't feel as much housing-pressure with Microsoft due to the remote location of its campus in Redmond/Bellevue. That's changing with Amazon; the sales giant is located in prime real estate, just like the tech companies on the peninsula.
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Unlike Capitalism, where you never run out of other people's money.