skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This stuff is overblown on multiple levels. First, to paraphrase Churchill, peer review is the worst form of paper evaluation, except for all the others. We routinely accept papers whose conclusions are wrong, but if the result matters then the error is eventually detected."

The journals didn't just accept papers whose conclusions were wrong. It's not like there was a math mistake hidden on page 5. The entire paper was abject nonsense.

Imagine you're designing a process to select rigorous papers out of a stack. Surely you'd want the top of your funnel, the first round of filtering, to weed out manufactured nonsense. The accusation isn't that these journals didn't check the math carefully enough, or whether the paper replicated. It's that they straight up couldn't tell they were being trolled.

I don't mean you or Savage specifically, but when I read the defenses against this hoax, I feel like I'm watching mental gymnastics of epic proportions. The most prestigious journals didn't fall for it; the paper didn't technically get published; peer review isn't supposed to be perfect. This shouldn't have been remotely possible! All of these papers should've been tossed straight into the bin. If you sent the physics equivalent of a feminist rewrite of Mein Kampf to a low-tier physics journal, what are the odds they'd respond with "suggestions for improvement"?

"Publication is one particular path to reach a community of readers but it doesn’t make your ideas matter."

Finally, it's also weird to hear people now claim that publications don't matter all that much. Why even have peer review then? Would these publications themselves accept a description of themselves as "not having value"?
we once wanted to eat there when the place was new. the staff was so unfriendly (we were there 5 minutes prior to opening) that we decided that we'd never eat there.
if they were as snobby with other people I'm not surprised they went out of business.
we eat out a lot/ have friends who eat out a lot and I never heard anyone rave about that place.
if I were a cook I'd try to work at the place that everybody wants to eat at OR the place that pays the best. if you're neither it's just bad luck.
We can create black holes here in earth? I’d love to read more about that if you have any starting points
cultural relevance
This argument is silly. If restaurants are harder to run, the average quality of the place goes down. The existence of high quality restaurants does not refute the possibility of the average going down.
I hope this gets mirrored somewhere else, because I don't trust GitHub to not cave in to legal demands despite RE being legal regardless of EULA in parts of the world, and the extra attention this gets may otherwise kill it.
I have a feeling some of these non-profits that are mentioned will take a crack at creating a centralized index. But, it sounds like it'll be a borderline impossibility to make it accurate and useful.

To me, the argument that people can "shop around" for healthcare is just peculiar. For elective / non emergency scenarios, I get it. Dentists, for example, are more likely to face pricing pressure, given that dental work tends to be non-emergency. However emergency care, which is where insurance really matters, is by definition an emergency. If you cut off a finger, you don't call ten hospitals to find out who will stitch it on the cheapest. You head to the nearest hospital so you don't lose your finger!

I'm generally quite sympathetic to Hayekian economics, but the model doesn't strike me as universal (which doesn't make it flawed, just not some grand unified theory). Behavioral economics change during time sensitive & life threatening situations in a way that "throw the rulebook out the window", so to speak.
Ask HN: Can a lone developer with no funding start a successful business?
What examples are there of lone developers who have bootstrapped a successful startup?

What niches would be better suited for lone devs with no funding?

What strategies could be used to succeed in a niche that is already filled with competitors?

I know it's vague and may be hard to respond to but I figured it would make for a good discussion.
Still, even the best strcmp is going to involve some byte checking unless the string is exactly divisible into large words.

Wouldn't the efficiency between the two methods mainly depend on the relative odds of non-keywords occurring?
Will try looks ok loads fast enough, expect a feedback - thx - africasiaeuro - our main site down - running most repositories on Google cloud - africasiaeurohome.appspot.com -
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I've known several people who have started their own restaurant - let me confirm that the hours required are more than any other job or startup I've ever seen. I am 100%, never, ever, going to start a restaurant.
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I was sitting in a meeting a while ago, and someone said something about being physically present in the office for an engineering process, and it just really struck me that I honestly didn't even consider that relevant, let alone valuable.

At least in tech, anywhere that can hold a stable SSH session open is a workplace, as far as I am concerned.
Mensho Tokyo is a ramen place I frequent regularly in SF and that has abolished tips. Every time I go, it's a pleasant surprise and I leave feeling happy about it. I can't recall right now if the prices on the menu are inclusive of the automatic service charge or not… but that's kind of the point. All I'm left with is a positive impression that this place is better than the norm. What I remember is at the end of the meal, I am told by staff that a tip isn't necessary, that it's already included in the service. Compare this to the way many people handle this: they include a mandatory service charge, or worse, a "healthy SF tax," all the while still happily soliciting further tips. It feels like a money-grab.

At the end of the day, it's all about execution, and unless you're able to fully commit to abolishing tips, don't bother trying.

The "healthy SF" 4% mandate is especially egregious. It's simply a common way for restaurants to falsely advertise prices. When I see it, I'm left with a strongly negative impression, and I tip significantly less as a result.
If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don't waste time inventing
labor-saving machines.
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren't interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don't go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it.

While you're probably not this extremely content (maybe one std dev outside the norm, not several -- do you ever have dinner parties with guests at your place or a friend's place?), not everyone can live in such a manner, or even consider it. It's what I thought of when reading your comment, though.
He lost me in his very first premise with there being "more ways for things to be good than there are for it to be bad". Is this true of governments? Animal welfare? Chess positions? Making things good takes effort to make them a certain way; bad finds its own path when you fail.
Because it's about where the customers are, not the workers. SF's demographics favor these restaurants well (high income, low percentage of people with children).

If you want to count gaps, the entire East Bay has a single Michellin Star restaurant; South Bay has 3 (4 if you are willing to count Palo Alto in the South bay)
Humans do similar though. You know a chair when you see it, but you wouldm't easily come up with the perfect definition of a chair.
This has no bearing on the parent comment
> How would a restaurant be in any way analogous to a yacht?

The GP meant that it's a business people get into because it's their passion, and it is a lot of people's passion when compared against the market for it. I'd say a comparison against "glamourous" creative industries like acting and journalism is more apt -- good profit to the ones people remember the names of, and cutthroat for the 90% fighting over the rest of the market.

> Restaurants have always been run on razor thin margins, but the piece makes a compelling case that it's tipped beyond that.

Maybe it's an echo-chamber thing, but a large fraction of my friends in SF rarely/never cook dinner. Almost none bring their lunch to work. We don't have a shortage of places to buy prepared food.

The cost of eating out will probably scale closely with the cost of running a restaurant. Demand is solid (though not entirely inelastic.) Profits will always be thinner than in other industries.

Lower rents would help, but there would probably also be negative second-order effects of lower meal prices. And positive third-order effects of increased demand because of price elasticity...
Here is another good article written by Shaohua's close friend Coly Li (who is the main bcache maintainer), a lot more details on the contributions (elegant code, performance patches, etc.) he has made to the Linux kernel, as well as how he helped many new contributors to step up and become core contributors for difference subsystems. Amazing.

R.I.P.

https://media.weibo.cn/article?id=2309404323330038621366
I think the right (though not necessarily the most likely) solution to the problems you allude to is more powerful local governments able to monitor the goods coming into/out-of their jurisdiction, a sort of return to the more decentralized political structure of the feudal era.

In this sort of arrangement, a jurisdiction's authorities could require shipments to be bonded, with forfeiture of the bond if it is found to contain a restricted substance. This would result in policing happening at the edges, by those providing the bonds, and likely relying on trust networks to assess the risk that a package originator is a terrorist.

Such a world would have a lot more trade friction than an idealized world govermment that centralized control of the movement of goods to prevent malevolent behaviour while allowing free trade of benign goods, at least in the earlier stages where localized solutions are not well-developed/efficient, but it would mean a far lower chance of a significant fraction of the world coming under the tyranny of a single malevolent government.

An all-powerful central govermment will always pose a far greater threat to the advancement of society than chaos IMHO.
You don't need an special script to see the dead coments. Just go to your profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=a11595 and enable "showdead" in both of your accounts. For example I see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895559

Personal attacks (like your whole third paragraph) against the moderator will make normal users flag this post until it is killed by the flags.

I actually like the HN interface. It works even when your internet collection is very bad. (The problem is that with a very bad connection you can continue using HN, but it's almost imposible to visit the links.)
Maybe something like Adrian Tchaikovsky's "The Expert Systems Brother" touches on what you mean? It explores what a back-to-basics society with hidden tech keeping it afloat might look like.
This seems like a great opportunity for a company to invest serious time and money into creating a better-centralized database which will allow people to decipher and compare prices. It sounds like a highly-complicated task, but if someone can pull it off, that would be huge.
Wow, that sucks! So, have you move on from that company?
Is that worth it in terms of life/work balance?
While I don't agree with you I understand your line of thinking. But I think you are underestimating how good it is for the city even if people keep speculating. It will be net more money into the city off property taxes, many of them will be taxed at a higher rate as they are investment properties and not primary residence.

At some point it will when out and prices will stableize. Part problem in SF the type of thinking and hate on devlopers has turned a small problem into a huge problem.

That being said I would love to know what you suggest as a alternative of increasing supply.
"Reverse engineering" seems a bit pointless when Google has open sourced the code for Google Earth Enterprise:

https://github.com/google/earthenterprise

(Update: The client was not open sourced, just the server.)

However, this doesn't give you carte blanche to use Google's own imagery:

https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html
The author spends the first half of the article talking about how they did everything right.

And they spend the second half talking about how they were sabotaged by a high cost of living, incompetent government, and most of all greedy consumers who didn't appreciate their product.
Yes they do. But are there not far fewer home owners than renters?

Somewhere some one renting a apartment with a nice view voted down a building changing their view.
> I agree with a lot of his points about the value of remote work, but the biggest one is that the labor pool is much much larger.

That's clearly an advantage for the employer, but not necessarily for the employees who live in globally-more-expensive places. Taken to the obvious conclusion, remote developers in India can do the same remote work for a lot less money than remote workers in the US can afford to.

I know it sounds crass and protectionist, but US workers cannot afford globalization despite the increase in profits for employers.
I think it largely has to do with decades of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as news. Listen to Rush Limbaugh every day for a few years, and you start to believe him.

Some older people become isolated from real-world social groups and get sucked into worrying about whatever radio or facebook feeds them. Which these days includes a lot of scary stories about universities coddling the next generation.

These graphs all turn markedly during/after the 2016 election, when political discussion and dueling tribalist/ideological messaging has dominated media, a great deal of money and effort has gone into targeting online communities, etc.
From what I've seen, GitHub will only respond to a DMCA request for takedown, and Google very rarely files those (I think I saw one in the GitHub DMCA notice repo for an entire internal published source repo once, could be misremembering). Google doesn't usually fight with lawyers instead of tech (e.g. making scraping more difficult).

Not saying you shouldn't fork or fear, but GitHub and Google are generally good actors compared to others.
Interestingly the field that talks most about epistemology and different epistemologies, is philosophy, which I'm pretty sure is part of the "grievance studies" bloc the authors wish to push a narrative about. It is absolutely the field you'd go into if you wanted to dissect and examine different epistemologies.

> post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical theory and deconstruction

I've worked in the pre-eminent enemy-of-the-right organisation in Australia, GetUp. I also am/was a postgrad philosopher. I can confidently say I've not heard a single left-wing activist talk about any of those 4 areas in my time working at that organisation, or, truly, in any other activist context.

Additionally, to read these four areas and to then claim that they form the basis of "identity politics" demonstrates a fundamental misreading. Perhaps this misreading is a motivated one.
Vinbero: The modular server
Possibly cultural but the Dark Forest (second book) is definitely worth the read whatever your experience with the first book. It is quite remarkable the breadth of the ideas that were explored.
No. Sales of the iPhone are down in China.

Sales of adjunct devices and services are up.

They have said that is where there is room for growth, and it is growing.
From Wikipedia:

"Early data suggest some only engage in cell division once every hundred years. In August 2013 researchers reported evidence of endoliths in the ocean floor, perhaps millions of years old and reproducing only once every 10,000 years.[13] Most of their energy is spent repairing cell damage caused by cosmic rays or racemization, and very little is available for reproduction or growth. It is thought that they weather long ice ages in this fashion, emerging when the temperature in the area warms."

Incredible!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolith
The solution will be automated labor (robotic line cooks, dishwashers, etc), and labor will no longer be an unmanageable variable at this point.
Fsharp is a much better language for scripting than swift will ever be. F# with the pipe operator used judiciously makes reading it a joy.
…the next sentence: "Let’s take this as a given for now; towards the end of this message I explore the consequences of relaxing this assumption."
Since 28nm, successive nodes cost more per transistor, instead of cheapening exponentially as they had formerly. Strictly speaking, this is one of the Moores-related laws, falling under the "etc" of my comment.

tl;dr the performance bumps cost more.
phd is a degree, you dont learn it. But if you are asking can you do computer science research without pursuing a phd. Well the answer depends on variety of factors.
Only criminal law and there's no reason to think that standard should be applied in all situations beyond criminal law. The criminal standard is so high because the consequence of guilt is so high (including incarceration or even death) and because it's applied by the State.
You're quibbling.

Everything following the word "provided" in GPLv3 limits user freedoms.

Maybe you should care less about being "right" and more about understanding your interlocutors. In this instance you haven't achieved either goal.
The 1:1 ratio of $ to societal value is something I will always fundamentally disagree with, not least because we don’t live in an economic model: life is messy, chaotic, complicated, and there’s a sizable group of the educated population that would argue it can’t be precisely and accurately quantified.

Economics is a tool we can use to improve our society in equitable ways, not some omniscient diety we have to worship blindly.

And that’s still my belief after studying economics, too.
What you're saying does not contradict what the parent said, though. Running a restaurant is a hard slog anywhere. Prices have been going up, people have been eating out less. Seems like these trends are merely a bit exaggerated in SF.
Ah, that's fair. I guess I'd say it's still a big advantage for an employee, because the number of firms that are available for remote work is most likely larger than the number of firms in any one locality (especially if you limit commute time). Maybe not the Bay area, I have never lived there. The pool is large for both companies and employees.

But the biggest advantage to employees I'd say would be the lack of commute. Even with a quick commute (15 min) you are gaining 2.5 hours a week. That is a huge amount of time that employees are not compensated for.
Kite Hill has great cream cheese as well.
Writing into comments in code that I happen to be working on at the moment.
Can be done, although high LOD takes a while and the current implementation might eat up all memory. You can run it in parallel though. Shard by octants :)
> gross mischaracterization of these philosophical bents

Could you please explain? I don't think I misrepresented anything, but I'm open to correction. I'm no expert either, but I have explored these ideas and I feel like I gave fair summary.

> but it's not the whole truth

True, it was a summary of what I felt were the relevant points.

> misinformation

I don't think what I said is even particularly controversial, least of all misinformation. It's just not well known. Most of what I said is explicitly stated by the people who hold those beliefs.
Automatic aggregation can always be manipulated by advertising, no matter how its served up. Filtering is essential.
From my recent experience TGV's are not that cheap any more.
Which round down to 13" and 15" respectively, which is my point.

12.9" is awkward, 12" more wrong than right, I'd call it the 13" iPad if I had to pick one, but it's branded as 12.9".
Few years ago it was revealed USPS was photographing all senders and recipient addresses on all mail in order to 'backtrack' packages in order to aid in investigations.

https://www.offthegridnews.com/privacy/vast-postal-surveilla...
We need to defend science. It's the best thing we have. This includes rejecting a discipline which purports to be a science, but actually isn't.

The problem that social science has is that all the senior people in academic positions got there by doing studies which are probably wrong. They cannot admit this because it makes their role untenable. The solution described in this post is to basically say 'Hey, we are ALL wrong', somehow normalising the fact that a lot of baloney has been published. We should not accept and certainly not encourage this behaviour. If social science wants to take up the mantle of doing good scientific work, then they need to sort out the huge methodological flaws in how they do things, and stop publicising and promulgating unconfirmed and biased results. It isn't like they are volunteers, they get paid, they make money from books, even win Nobel prizes for their work. Other scientists quietly get on with doing proper work, which is why we have things like vaccines and the internet and modern computing. We certainly do not have any of these things because someone decided they needed more intellectual humility.
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Which is funny. Because I think 5 well places high rise apartments would level the entire playing field.

You want to place the buildings right in front of the most expensive ones today. Blocking whatever view they have.

This would instantly cut the value of those places in half or more.

Which for the left should be a huge win. Sticking it to rich people and providing more affordable housing for the normies and probably good set of the super poor.

New buildings wils have to allocate 12% or so of their units to low income housing. Think apartments rental units mixed with ownable ones. Or just all rent.
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more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02...
> Millions of people know this [...]

That's a pretty big number, would be curious if based on anything more than a guess.
Should the consequences of harming test subjects be any lower?

I can make a solid case for a less oppressive IRB regime and criminal sanctions for those who harm their test subjects.
For every renter, there's an owner that they rent from. That owner has the same incentives as other owners, plus the incentive of having the rent keep going up.

Renters outnumber owners, and could in theory outvote them. But I don't think they will. Renters have a different mind-set from owners. Owners are in for the long(er) haul; renters can leave at the end of the lease if they choose. So owners tend to care more about politics and the future of the city, and therefore vote in higher numbers. Or so I suspect, with exactly zero evidence to back it up.
I like the seperation of concerns, do you have an example of conflating these that leads to issues?