skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't respond with another swipe. That just makes this place worse.

Your comment would be fine without the last sentence.
Paraphrasing Cory Doctorow, "be worried about the person who only reads one book." [1]

Your life changes when you read many books from many authors.

[1] https://YouTu.be/Fvhb4WqJ7pg
Previous articles I read on the topic said the majority of standard transmissions sold were in economy cars. If you're stretching to buy a new car $1000 counts.
I could not agree more, very well said. Also interesting that you mentioned the Great Leap Forward; I've found that very few people today actually know that this happened or just how incredibly high the death toll was. It was one of the greatest human tragedies of the 20th century and nobody even knows it happened!
100 years ago, NYC already had 20-story buildings. Cities built longer ago tend to sprawl LESS because most people got around most of the time on foot.

Most of LA (by square mileage) was built up since the 1950s (later than the Empire State Building). There’s no reason except political will that it couldn’t have been built in clusters of 2-4 story multi-family units within walking distance of transit.
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There can never be a good answer to such questions.
>> because your margins are his opportunity

Funny that you say this in a pejorative sense on Hacker News, a bastion of venture capital.

"Margins = opportunity" is just an observation of economic reality. Not some strip mining concept that he invented.
"Seventy-two new “fast radio bursts” from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away"

Wait, what? I thought space is big. Really big. This mysterious distant galaxy is practically in our backyard.
NYC shelters nearly 95% of it's homeless population. SF only manages to shelter about 11% of it's homeless population (about the worst rate in the country). Thus there are more homeless people on SF's streets despite a much smaller total homeless population than NYC (and NYC is of course also a much more populous city).
lol yeah.

Other articles say 3 billion light-years, slightly further than 3 billion miles haha.
When I bought my current phone (an iPhone 5) I paid $700 and half-jokingly told the sales clerk that would be the last phone I ever bought. That might not end up being literally true, but I just blew this year's new toy budget on a banjo instead, so I guess I can wait a little longer.
If I have this right, the moral of your story is that small businesses will die and amazon-sized corporations are for the global good.
That may fix prices, but doesn't fix the problem of giving a wide swath of a nation's population the opportunity to attend college.
This article is bunk. It makes unbased extrapolation from small-volume migration to a mass migration which has completely different set of problems. ObXKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/605/
Should be 3 billion light years according to other articles.
Kafka only guarantees a total order within a given partition, not across them.
This is selection bias of two kinds.

First, you are going to a known location which increases the concentration of one type of homeless person in space.

Second, you are looking at a particular point in time, which will increase your odds of seeing chronic homeless people versus people who have had a brush with homelessness.

Mental illness and drug addiction are absolutely a big part of the chronic homeless problem. Either as a cause (schizophrenic people are more likely to wind up homeless) or as a negative feedback loop (extended extreme stress can made addictive escapes more tempting, and can cause a psychotic break).

However drug use and mental illness are not the main things determining whether temporary homelessness becomes chronic homelessness. And programs that attempt to solve that should look very different than ones which try to help the chronic homeless.
Apple seems to be pushing real hard towards its OS upgrades. I imagine staying put on iOS 10 would involve a bunch of challenges including effort and time. Can't find a lot of resources to follow online either.

In stark contrast is my Moto X2, after 2 years of heavy daily use before my current phone, and one screen replacement is still chugging along pretty well on its archaic version of Android.

The argument that iPhones have superior hardware and build quality resulting in longer usage is negated by this constant push for upgrades. I think I know where I am headed for my next phone.
Ever so slightly.
­>A lot of people think that mass transit is for the poor

That's because it is. I had to take the metro in Montréal to get to work this week, hadn't taken it in months because I usually bike, it's such a shitty experience. It smells bad, it's hot, it's filled with tired people that don't feel like going to work (you feel it in the air), beggars harass you, it's slow (it can take 3x as much time as riding a bike to get where you want to) and it's operating past maximum capacity during rush hour. I haven't even gotten started on when service is interrupted and you show up over an hour late to work or class. Anybody who can afford a bit more for reliability and comfort will spend it without looking back.
Suggesting that the only way enforce human rights is through armed conflict or cold war is the way to win elections in the United States.
It’s what people were getting their panties in a wad over.
How an Interview Became Free Consulting
How do you explain the election results then?
Dozens of Native American women have disappeared in Montana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIaUH6PIvo

Seemingly some issues with the casing, though I know there are plenty of other videos that show a Nexus 6P not bending.
extended exposure to public investment markets tends to do that over time. As investor power grows over a company, all concerns aside from increasing shareholder value slowly die.
My claim is not about what makes sense. My claim is about actual reality. People in general care more when powerful employees resign. It would be a huge deal if Sundar resigned over this, or Page. It is not a big deal that this rank and file research scientist resigned. I could propose a few hypotheses as to why, but I'm guessing you're capable of coming up with your own.
Serious albeit philosophical question: Why not more? Why not $160B?
> *Presently human drivers cause an awful number of deaths with cars. ... would drunk drivers ...

Sober drivers crash a lot of cars too. Are all traffic situations NP-complete?
Show HN: LIT Ave. – A social network with important key values
> it's a few hours from Vegas

Many would consider proximity to Vegas as a downside
It's also the country that lifted 3-500 million people out of poverty in the last 30 years. And haven't invaded anybody in the last 60-70.

Just to provide a little balance. I'm worried about Xi's direction too, but overall we could do a lot worse as far as major powers to share the globe with.

You're 100% right about the market protectionism stuff, though.

(sidenote, the implication that Great Leap Forward was intentional is a little disrespectful, IMO -- that's not how it happened).
Yes you can if you scrutinise it at 4cm and have good eyes but for everyday use at normal distances, you can't.
Hey HN,
I'm Dave Kandarp of LIT Ave. (https://LITAve.com)

I'm building out a new kind of social network at LIT Ave. - a network that focuses heavily on being "social" and providing that connectedness of friends and family, which some other networks seem to be losing.
In short, LIT Ave. is a location based messaging app for friends and people nearby.

But, there are also some really important key values I wanted to bake into my product:

1. Network has to be appreciative of others - even if you don't know them!
- This has always been huge for me - if I'm able to appreciate someone, it's a big win, because it makes everyone involved feel great, which leads to creating value and positive environment!
If I'm at a sandwich place, and even if I don't know who they are, but if they make a great sandwich, I should be able to appreciate them! A simple thumbs-up text-post at this location could help them when people nearby see that post.

2. Bite-sized conversations with friends, family, your neighbors and people nearby.
- Comments are a great way to communicate, "Loving" the posts is great a way to show emotion, but what brings people closer?
After feedback from early adopters and much thinking and experimenting, I decided to build something called video-responses - these are 10s video-clips you create on the posts to carry out small conversations.

3. Be able to answer questions like where am I hanging out, what's new with me, and what am I up to?
- Going back to the sandwich place example, if I post something at that location, I want my friends to know it's a good place to check it out in case they're also in mood for a sandwich. :)
Being able to share what I'm up to and what's new with me through not only photo and video, but also text (anonymous or non-anonymous) creates value - with LIT Ave., I wanted to build out a comprehensive app that focused on these key values!

Today, after a few months of work, LIT Ave. is available for download.
It's a very new product, and much work still lies ahead as I continue to experiment and make the product better. LIT Ave. will continue to evolve - into something that will have even more value offered, not only by connectedness, but also at locations you create new posts.

I'd love for you to give it a try - I'd love to hear your feedback, ideas, and suggestions.

You can download iOS app at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lit-ave/id1414091249?ls=1&mt...
and Android app at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.litave.lit...

Thank you!
Dave Kandarp.
Adding to the list of reasons not to do business in China: protectionism, cronyism, poor IP enforcement, restrictions on foreign media and communication companies, forced technology transfer from foreign firms as a condition of doing business in China, threats to forcibly annex a peaceful neighboring democracy, seizure of territory in the South China Sea and refusal to abide by the findings of an international legal tribunal, mass imprisonment of Uighur men, imprisonment of citizens advocating for human rights and political freedoms, creation of "Black Mirror"-like social monitoring systems ....

However, I do not think creating reciprocal restrictions on Chinese firms doing business in the West is helpful. Chinese companies with operations or staff in other countries will, over time, bring back values and practices that in the future may support the growth of rights in China while eroding the power of the Xi dictatorship.
> And why should a private company act on behalf of the interests of the US Govt.?

Because when you don't, they make your existence difficult, to varying degrees?
By that logic, we should be putting all the money we're putting into driverless cars into getting more people to travel by bus, rail and air, all of which are a much much better than marginal improvement in terms of deaths per person-mile.
They bought Magento too. Adobe must have a thing for the letter 'm'
If you factored algebraic expressions in high school, and you agree that the "re" prefix generally can be added to a verb, then it's already part of your lexicon.

The process of code refactoring, especially extracting common code into a method, is very similar to the process of simplifying algebraic expressions. So it's not just a grammar argument; the two words really do represent related concepts.
You are not presenting a scenario in which one family gains and the other stays the same, you're presenting one in which one family makes more money (gain) while the other makes the same amount of money but is less able to find affordable housing (loss).

It's not strictly zero-sum because the gains and losses may not exactly offset each other, but one agent's gains still come at the expense of another.
>every criticism of a woman is a criticism because she’s a woman

K.
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I think the things people notice most are fast fingerprint recognition for unlock, app launch times particularly the camera, and visual effects and post-processing in photography. Face unlock on the X also takes a lot of horsepower.

It will be interesting to see how noticeable the performance improvements fit older models in OSX 12 will be. My 6s is very noticeably faster than my wife’s 6+ so I’m hoping hers gets a bit of a speed bump.
Can we have a section of HN dedicated to Rust, FPGAs, the JVM, SSDs, programming language verification, business models, tales of milliseconds at the 99.9th percentile, JITting, RISC-V, GPUs, neural network architectures, causality in machine learning, CRISPR, Bitcoin, databases, libraries, cloud computing?

You know, technical stuff.
Even Japan's trains don't run 24 hours. Deadheading is expensive.
I would if it was the last phone I ever needed. It had full service unless you were a mile underground. A battery life that made Jesus jealous.

I like the future idea that phones become such a throw away item you can buy them from vending machines with instant service.
If you have no idea how prevalent mental illness is in homeless people, and also its role as the single most important contributing cause, then you are commenting from a position of ignorance. Instead of devoting effort to virtue signaling you'd do better if you educated yourself on the problem.
Floating-point determinism in the mobile game Osmos
Multi-provider VPN Client Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Don't tell people how to spend their money. Need isn't an issue here, people who have $1000 can spend it on whatever they want whether or not they "need" it.

$1000 is a lot for a phone, but for a device people use so often is it too much? I'm not so sure.

The more relevant question isn't whether or not a $1000 phone is "worth the cost" (or "needed"), but whether or not the overall prices of Apple's phone lineups make sense. Given their sales figures over the years it's hard to say that they are overcharging for their phones, even now.
Hmmm, weird idea here, but maybe that's the answer then?

If self driving cars are terrible at coping with the chaos humans grit their teeth and deal with, maybe software for engineering cooperative bumper-to-bumper traffic jams involving clogs of slow-moving self driving cars, that reduce the road speeds to constant 20 MPH (the /constant/ part being important), and eliminate chaotic lane changing to near zero for the group, is one way to bootstrap self driving cars.

In other words, low-performance self driving cars might work fine, and since people can lounge about, and disengage from the guidance and navigation tasks, why not go slower?

Then, add swarming to the mix, such that cars going to the same place, all travel slowly in a single group.

It's against the law to obstruct traffic, or violate minimum speed requirements, so certain laws would need to change. For example, zero emission vehicles can idle indefinitely, and software-controlled vehicles can interface with an external control network, approved to operate in such ways, with points of contact at operations centers for resolving problems, technical or otherwise.

So change laws to permit idle electric vehicles (in more places and controlled, desginated places, not just anywhere), and permit large slow moving groups to occupy certain corridors, at certain times, when jammed traffic is a known quantity, that driverless systems aren't the cause of. Driverless networks can cut into a slice of the jam, and possibly improve outcomes for members only at first, and eventually boost efficiency within the jammed system by augmenting flow through expert participation.
That's totally unproven, the technology doesn't even exist yet and we're still assuming we know what it will look like. In their current state self driving cars would kill far more people than humans if all cars used self driving 100% of the time, and no one knows if we will ever move past that.
I often see sticklers for the "official" Apple terminology fighting losing battles on forums and comment sections trying to tell everyone to pronounce it "iPhone Ten" rather than "iPhone eX".

Also, I think Apple prefers it to be called "iPhone" rather than "the iPhone". Who knows.
> Can anyone go to these free colleges in Europe? One of the problems in the US is that we assume that anyone should be able to go to college, so you have a bunch of non-selective schools that allow 50-90% of applicants to matriculate as long as they're able to pay. As I understand the European systems, there are high-stakes tests that determine who gets to go to these colleges. Is that incorrect?

That is correct. The US has one of the highest rates of higher education (of European countries, only Luxembourg has a higher percentage of working-age adults with a university degree).

They're also heavily stratified by race, though this is something which isn't discussed much in Europe (because talking about race is somewhere between taboo and outright illegal[0]). In the US, by contrast, there's much less of a racial divide in rates at which higher degrees are awarded.

[0] several countries have prohibited collection of meaningful data on race and ethnicity for public universities
Also:
"One advantage Facebook has is that we have a principle that you must use your real identity. This means we have a clear notion of what's an authentic account."

Followed by:
"Fake accounts are one of the primary vehicles for spreading misinformation -- especially politically-motivated misinformation and propaganda. "

It's not hard to create a fake Facebook account.
I'd wager a relatively small percentage of drivers account for a relatively large percentage of deaths. Reckless driving, not driving as conditions permit, intoxicated drivers probably account for the vast majority of road fatalities, either directly or indirectly.

I don't believe a computer will ever be as good a driver as I am in my lifetime in terms of my personal safety, except for when I'm really old and possibly can't see well.
That has always been the impression I got, but I kind of dismissed it as being a thing of a past that you only read about in old psychology textbooks. It is kind of baffling that this persist in the 21st century.
My recollection: when I took a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU, the number of homeless in San Francisco was similar to the number in New York in spite of it being a much smaller city.

The most current stats I have indicate that California has about 25 percent of the nation's homeless:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-...?
The POPART paper actually shows that Montezuma's Revenge is one of the games in the standard set of Atari games they tested, and yup, their AI was no good at it.
Wow, this seems really exciting. This could be huge!

Narrator: It wasn't.
Blame first the absent maternity/ paternity leave in the US. Then we can discuss the rest of the arguments.
That's not on Google - as the article states, Google offered multiple other officials, but that was declined, they wanted Page or nothing and so got nothing.
I can't read this paywall article, but here are some similar counterpoints to hype, starting in 2016. They are from people actually working on self-driving technology or executives/investors close to it. (I'm interested in any earlier "expectation setting", having heard a lot of this at Google.)

March 2016:

Chris Urmson: How quickly can we get this into people's hands? If you read the papers, you see maybe it's three years, maybe it's thirty years. And I am here to tell you that honestly, it's a bit of both.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...

https://mondaynote.com/autonomous-cars-the-level-5-fallacy-2...

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April 2017:

It will be 25 years before self-driving cars take off in America, says early Uber investor Bill Gurley

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/bill-gurley-uber-investor-se...

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October 2017:

https://medium.com/self-driven/a-decade-after-darpa-our-view...

Those who think fully self-driving vehicles will be ubiquitous on city streets months from now or even in a few years are not well connected to the state of the art or committed to the safe deployment of the technology. For those of us who have been working on the technology for a long time, we’re going to tell you the issue is still really hard, as the systems are as complex as ever.
Digital government is not working
Maybe the people peacefully living in tents outside of town should instead start being more visible and getting in people’s faces, if that’s what it takes to be a priority.
This[0] is a great video talking about problems with lots of studies in biology-adjacent fields including, but not limited to, psychology and nutrition.

[0] John Ioannidis: "Reproducible Research: True or False?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYzY9I78CI
I don't think mathematics has a replication crises.
Yes, exactly. The point is that in a warm climate there may not be more homeless people, just more visible homeless people.

NYC now shelters most of its homeless mainly because state law requires it. We’re spending a ridiculous amount of money putting homeless people up in hotel rooms because the process to get new shelters built is stalled and we can’t even build enough market-rate housing to account for population growth, let alone affordable housing.
Vancouver, BC has been operating a driverless train system for its rapid transit since 1986.
Do you really think opera mobile was comparable to mobile safari?

Yes, I remember getjar.com but that's not comparable to the app store. Pretending they're analogous is facetious at best.
There’s always a lot of intellectual signalling at play no matter what type of intellectual pursuit is being discussed. It doesn’t mean people are insincere.

Conversely, when people criticize groups that focus on a shared intellectual pleasure, that criticism too is often just more signalling, especially if there is something to be gained by undercutting the value of the intellectual pursuit in question.

Some people are prolific readers and they read things like Infinite Jest and get pleasure from discussing its obscurities.

Then some other people don’t want intellectual merit to be associated with the workload of reading a heavy book they may not particularly like, so they invent some story about how Infinite Jest readers are arrogant.

You could say the same thing about so many things: prolific open source software contribution, prolific consumption of obscure music or music that was lost to history, prolific love of a cult TV show, prolific focus on niche cooking techniques or recipes.

I think any comments that try to apply the negative stereotype to the whole group are just unproductive.

But it will always be this signalling arms race between showing value through obscure intellectual pursuit vs. undercutting that so as to avoid needing to expend the effort while still getting credit for being intellectual.
I am using Centask (also the developer) https://www.centask.com/ which attempts to fully merge Gmail Inbox with a flexible hierarchical todo list
If you believe someone is trolling, the correct response is to flag their comment, not to pour gasoline on the thread.
There's a lot of variety in people's physical size and shape. Smaller women have smaller pockets.
or in this case a 1/10th of a pawn.
Norway has a similar program. Students have a stipend that doesn't need repaid: It is just enough to live a very frugal life (and in some cases, not quite enough). I'm pretty sure repayment is dependent on what you earn afterwards.

And as a bonus, if someone is willing to live and work up north for some years (5 or 10, I can't remember), you won't have to repay the loans.
Almost 'all modern computers' affected by cold boot attack, researchers warn
Driverless trains are not a problem to begin with. If you have a train and it carries hundreds of people [or trainload of cargo], it is economically irrelevant whether it has a human operator or not. So it is safer to have a human there just in case.
That's correct. Version 1 of the iPhone also didn't have MMS and was EDGE only.
Just curious, why not?