skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this idea of sensors when I did this. But I can sample down the screenshot of the game and feed the pixels to the neural network. The result should be similar
The hardware is the hard part, though I expect things to change over the next decade. Image devices will become better and cheap, blood and microbiome sensing will improve.

The barrier is getting the input data for software, ML / AI is not perfect, health rules and FDA.
Talk to your doctor first. If you'll enjoy it you can try but never let it stress you.
> Nevod matches MULTIPLE patterns against document in ONE PASS.

Any non-backtracking regex implementation will do the same.

> So, at a RULE DECK of 1000 patterns, we got 300 times improvement comparing to RegExp.

There is no generic "regex." There are many implementations of regex. So which regex implementation are you comparing it with?
Did you miss the rest of the sentence that ended with "for a total newbie"?
The visa office made a typo in my email address when setting the appointment, and when I didn't show up, they sent me another email asking if I wanted to reschedule, and when I didn't reply to that, they closed my case.

As I was under a bridging visa that meant I was now there illegally.

When I contacted them to find out what the hold up was, they told me what happened and that I was now there illegally and needed to leave immediately, so I did.

After the mistake was found out the visa office were apologetic and offered to give me a visa again, and the criminal case against me for overstaying was dropped.

But it was such a disruption to my life I no longer have interest.
What is your point? When Hofstadter was 35, he had spent his adult life studying a subject which culminated in the publication of a book about it. He wasn't passively throwing words on pages to get anything published, he was publishing his life's work.

You seem to be trying to argue that -- because he continued to live afterward, he somehow didn't spend his entire life on the book. But that's not what was being asserted -- only that he had spent "his life" up to the time of the work's publication on the work. And it's not even relevant if it were meant as you seem to be assuming, because Hofstadter has continued to study the very same subject ever since. He's also published more books on the very same matter in the following years. It was his life's work then, and it continues to be today.
I think you're kind of cherry-picking examples here. My gloss of the OP's point was "be skeptical of books by journalists on technically complex subjects in which they have no direct expertise". e.g. it's common for journalists who have never worked in a scientific field to write popular science books.

A book about investigative journalism by investigative journalists is rather different.
You might want to rename your programming language - when I saw this on the Show HN listing, I thought it was the educational programming language Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu / https://github.com/jmoenig/Snap.
To play devil's advocate... Airbnb is a much better alternative (for landlords) vs leasing out and that's why it's wildy successful in Toronto.

Landlords often find themselves in a costly and exasperating battle dealing with a shitty tenant.

Once a shitty tenant moves in, it can be several months of legal battles to remove them... and the landlord is out-of-pocket thousands of dollars.

Airbnb does away with most of this risk.

Update: www.airbnbhell.com demonstrates, it has it's own risks!
That was a good read. Thanks for pointing it out.
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A bug in Adobe Premiere causes damage to the speakers on MacBook Pro computers
Interesting, I always heard the nice parts of DC are about as expensive as Seattle, and the traffic is even worse. I've known a few people to take software gigs for government contractors in that area, but none of them stayed around very long - said the salaries were not great and that they weren't getting any of the perks of tech culture that are common elsewhere (no casual dress code, were micro-managed, lots of lazy coworkers). I imagine it was just the specific body shops that hired them that were the problem though.
I think "too few houses" is the solution to "too many people". There's always somewhere else to go where there's "too many houses".
Ironically, the low-income community opposes high paying jobs coming to the neighborhood.
That's a good point, but it's worth noting that Marx wrote Capital with the help of Engel's patronage. Journalism was not his livelihood, ultimately. And it was before the wide-ranging, academic professionalisation of the twentieth century. Had Karl Marx been born today, he would almost certainly have become an academic.
Sometimes I just have to laugh / cringe reading HN.

The detailed analysis of how this woman who wants to hold on to a piece of sentimental property is actually mistaken, is destroying the neighborhood, is willfully naive for not exploiting her position to make as much money as possible, etc, etc is predictable but tiring.

Fears about about "cash being the sole nexus between human beings" seem pretty realized on HN. It's as if no one - or at the very least the VC crowd - accepts that anyone could be doing anything _other_ than living their life in pursuit of profit.

And if they are, they're ignorant, naive - even selfish - for not aligning their intent with a profit motive.
$1500!? The place I was in was $2.2k for all of that on Dexter.

Now I pay $2.6k...so
Thread-local variables make it thread-safe, but still not re-entrant. That's ok, if you don't need more than one state per thread.
because nearly all heavy industry has moved out of manhattan. maybe amusing is not the right word- there is no english word for the feeling of nostalgia you get when looking at an incongruous historical artifact of high quality.
Google is building out some infrastructure around their Mountain View housing project, i.e. affordable housing available to the public, some parks, footpaths, bridges, etc, but definitely nothing like Rockefeller.

It's fairly incomprehensible to me - these companies are working with a truly staggering amount of money, do they think they've found the upper limit of "Bay Area Coolness Factor?" Imagine if they eradicated the draw of Austin or New York or Portland by pushing for such a good Caltrain system that living in Mountain View was functionally equivalent to living in San Francisco because the trains were so fast and ran all night... or even further south or east, stretching transit out to areas where one might actually be able to afford a house.
If you pursue corruption, you are corrupt. If you pursue cronyism, you are a crony.

Capitalism is an economic system where voluntary transactions and commonly accessible markets are essential. Let's not muddle terminology to get in political digs.

You seem to be complaining most about when capitalism ends or fails, not capitalism itself.
> The US does not have full employment.

* Citation needed.

Here's the Fed saying we are:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-kaplan/feds-kapla...
TV and newspaper only supported very granular targeting and the world didn't end despite that. You can still target based on context assuming the embedding site provides that information ahead of time.
Sounds abput right other than 30lbs being 'heavy' for an escooter. The author just seems lazy in every possible way, rather than anything wrong with ebikes. And I love hating on these.
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The mother was a lawyer who went as far as signing up for a developer account and filing a radar. They could (and did) jump through hoops to try to report it.
I find it very peculiar that you use "we" when talking about the USA country from 84 years ago, is it just me?
Answering my own question: the American Society for Indexers has a list. https://www.asindexing.org/about-indexing/indexes-and-indexe...
nice

i knew it
You don’t have a right to live wherever you want. This is economics at work (housing costs increase until reaching equilibrium with supply, with supply being constrained by geographic or governance limitations).
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That's Justin sun in action.
I’m implying this journalist had the luck of right resources at the right time for the right subject and proceeded in a manner to seek the truth rather than to simply want to bring Theranos down.

W/re economics. We have the likes of Fukuyama and Krugman who have influence on Americans with regards to economics but who are often taken as oracles, rather than accepting they are economics thinkers who can be wrong.
Total extinction of human civilization? I disagree. Total extinction of Japanese civilization. Absolutely.
I think a lot of the confusion around Japan's culture often stems from the fact that from the outside, to casual observers, they seem so culturally integrated with the rest of the world; yet don't seem to have assimilated many (if any) of its social norms.

The reality is, Japan is a net cultural exporter, and seems to have gone out of its way to prevent contaminating its social identity with foreign imports. Needless to say, the country has been heavily influenced by the brands it's imported, and the processes of technological/financial exchange abroad. But the nation itself has broadly kept its interactions with the outside world professional, or one-sided.

Attempting to measure the nation (honestly most east-asian nations) with the metrics of progress we would we would use for more culturally integrated countries will always be confounding. They represent a parallel civilization that refuses to be subsumed by western thought in the way many less geographically defensible/isolated and technologically developed societies inevitably have been.

As a result, their social development will never quite adhere to the broad trends that more westernized societies seem destined to follow.
How is blood lab technology not a technically complex subject? Are you saying Carreyrou had direct expertise with it, or that _Bad Blood_ is an untrustworthy account?
Are you saying that Zurich is a champion of affordable housing? Why is Zurich a model we should look to when trying to fix zoning?

I'm not knocking their transit. I'm sure it's great. But you can have good transit, zoning, and affordable housing. See Berlin.

And, yes, Berlin has it's problems, and I'm sure somewhere else is doing things even better. I'm just curious why Zurich is a model we should look to.
Unfortunately, all of the programming jobs here are either in publishing (low pay) or government contracting (bureaucratic headaches).

And while the cost of living is less than NYC and SF, it ain't exactly cheap either.

Amazon's decision to come to Crystal City makes sense to me because there are a bunch of young college grads and no competition from the other FAANG companies.

If you're a young, ambitious, programmer trying to decide where to start your career though, I'd suggest going to SF/SV, NYC, Seattle, or Boston because those places provide more options.
If I were king, all ads would have to be black text on white background, containing ONLY the name of the product/service, its description and advertised merits. The description would have to consist of well-defined and falsifiable statements only.
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> Regulation has probably added 20 years to the average life.

The huge increases in life expectancy happened in the 19th century, not the 20th. There hasn't been much increase since the advent of heavy regulation.
Yeah that's true. And having a small apartment makes that problematic as well.

I like this Umberto Eco anecdote: https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/. Having a lot of unread books around is a good reminder of how much there is to read, learn, and experience. And it makes reading instead of turning to Netflix an easier decision.
In case it happens again :-): https://www.amazon.com/Toilet-Flange-Repair-Kit-Flanges/dp/B...
"We want jobs"

"But we don't want clean, high paying high-tech information worker jobs!"

Nobody is suggesting the HQ2 NYC move it out of the goodness of anyone's heart, and massive tax incentives are probably questionable.

But 'jobs' are the ultimate path to some kind of opportunity for people, and the best tool against 'inequality' because it enables a much more fair distribution of surpluses than arbitrary distribution.

This 'anti Amazon NYC' thing is making the classical socialist look really, really bad.

If there are thoughtful changes to the program, great.

But otherwise, this is effectively as good as it is going to get.
Krugman won a Nobel prize in economics. Like him or not, you can't use him as an example of a "journalist" writing about a technical subject with which they have no expertise.

My argument isn't "all books are good". That would be a stupid argument. My argument is that these rules suck.
They also paid some (undisclosed) amount of cash to the family.
I generally agree with the reasons why we have arrived at what we have now but I'd like to point out that the alternatives do not seem _better_ necessarily, or at least not clearly so for most people.

Current business model: provide "free" online services that are payed for by providing targeted advertising which relies on collection of data about users and building interest models. Advantage: almost 0 barrier of entry for users (all they need is a compatible browser and good enough network). We can probably conclude that most people like such an advantage. The main disadvantage is all the data collection/aggregation, it's unclear how the large population feels about this (in our tech bubble it's easy to think everyone feels strongly against it).

Alternative proposal: pay some subscription somewhere to get access to the online services. Advantage: no need for ads and behavior tracking. Disadvantage: much larger barrier of entry. Now you need a credit card or some other online payment mechanism, your real name/address/zip code will be associated with the payment mechanism, somewhere there are systems/computers that will have enough information to associate your real identity with all the online services you have used (there are technical means to anonymize this association but I don't see political will to force involved companies to do such things, think what will happen in such a situation with something like a Equifax data breach).

The larger access barrier for the alternative isn't just "convenience", think about younger people or people from all over the world in different economic and political contexts where having access to some sort of electronic payment is hard or impossible when right now all they need is a browser and Internet (the latter could of course also be an issue for many people but I'd argue is a much lower entry barrier than having access to a universally recognized online payment mechanism).
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I’ve been using Dexcom for about 6 months, and it’s taught me that the situation was utterly hopeless without it. I’ve figured out a few patterns like the huge nighttime sugar spike with fatty dinners, but overall I have unpredictable reactions to food and even moderate activity. Like you, I have usually spikes in the morning without eating, but sometimes dips.

The CGM has allowed me to be more like a reaction machine. Going up? Injection. Heading close to to low? A few sips of juice. I can be more aggressive with my dosing know I can see those lows coming. It’s a huge cognitive load off, and has taking my control from poor to excellent.

But yeah, those night time alarms, huh? I’ll close the loop when it’s all done with my phone.
I did this too! Sometimes I use the fact that stackoverflow allows you to post an answer at the same time as the question, and sometimes I just close the tab.

The best part is running into the same problem years later and finding your old answer when searching.
Interesting article considering Toronto's housing market is rolling over in a bad way.

In fact the average detached house in the jewel of the GTA is changing hands for 12% less than in the Spring of last year and a crispy 25.6% under what it commanded the previous year.

https://www.greaterfool.ca/2019/02/06/nowhere-to-hide/
well for one you also need to blacklist the aliases, ex. guerillaclick+sdf@gmail.com, and i suspect sysadmins start showing more hesitation when you need to start pattern matching (risk of false positives and additional overhead)
I see comments bringing up comparisons between Amazon and other NYC employers who are not asking for- or getting a tax break. But I think that comparison doesn't mean much on its own...

The deal with Amazon is independent of what decisions other companies make. Other companies may have different circumstances - with respect to financials (e.g. profit margins), growth prospects, etc. Or maybe they are just bad at negotiating. But either way, all the government has to do is evaluate the incremental tradeoffs associated with making _this_ deal - is it a net benefit or not? And both parties (NY or Amazon) can make their evaluations and accept or decline accordingly.

Most negotiations take place with imperfect information and involve complex assessments of the risks and tradeoffs of accepting/declining any deal. In this case, the projected 9:1 ROI on the subsidies was too good to pass up and public leaders made a decision that is probably correct.

I think the general public understanding of these subsidies is also very limited, and the vocal minorities that have ruled the airwaves on this issue have painted a false picture of how the subsidies are structured.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-and-mayor-de...

First, note that $1.2B of the $1.7B of state benefits in this deal are from the _existing_ Excelsior program. Numerous other employers are eligible to apply. See details of program at https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program

Many other companies have utilized this program. Take a look at this subsidy tracker: https://projects.propublica.org/subsidies/programs/excelsior...

Note that other parts of the Amazon HQ2 deal in NY are also pre-existing:

> Under pre-existing as-of-right programs authorized by law, Amazon is eligible for a partial property tax abatement through ICAP and an annual credit of $3,000 for twelve years per eligible employee under REAP, a program available to all companies to encourage job growth outside of Manhattan. REAP benefits for Amazon's 10-year expansion are projected at $897 million through 2038, and ICAP will abate approximately $386 million.

Chances are, Google and Facebook and others are also going to take advantage of all these generally-available programs. As far as I can tell, the $505M capital grant from the state is the only Amazon-specific part of the deal.
> Which makes me think, where do we draw the line in terms of web page size?

We look at the business case. TVS' website would be a disaster if it was targeted at the general public, with millions of hits each day. But it's not. His work on Spotify however does have to be optimized for that audience.

His personal site however can be whatever. It's showcased on industry sites like awwwards.com and the like, and those sites are all form, no function. In this environment, Pretty = useful, because it makes his work more noticeable, which is good for getting consulting work.
See where I wrote 'in my own experience'. The reasoning I gave, in any case, holds entirely independently of how encompassing my reading is. And to be quite honest, with the caveats above, I would hazard that I read far more nonfiction than most, i.e. I am not speaking from a position of unusual ignorance, as you seem to be implying.
That actually makes me wonder. Suppose you input your first draft question into a program: is there way to create a simple AI that could "debug" the question itself. I'm thinking of the first five to ten minutes of when someone sits down to pair with you and tries to grok the problem / nature of the ask. Maybe a sentence that doesn't look right based on the usage of nouns and other parts of speech compared to good questions?
Unfortunately no.

Edit: Emily gave a talk on it at the IGDA Summit, but unfortunately it's only available to members.
I really do not understand how people still have trouble with this. We've had years and years to get used to these plugs.

The 'top' of every USB-A plug I've ever seen is smooth, while the 'bottom' has a seam down the middle. And you can tell the receptacle's orientation from a glance just as easily, but you don't have to because the 'top' side of the plug should face the 'top' of the device it is plugging into in almost every consumer device I've used.

Top of plug = top of device. Easy. It seems more like a cheesy running joke that people just go along with at this point.

(Wow, of all the things to become a touchy subject...what am I doing with my life, typing stuff like this out? This isn't helping anyone. Please ignore my pedantic bullshit.)
For me it feels like death by a thousand paper cuts. $10 to spotify, $10 to neflix (or whatever they charge now), $10 to some other streaming service, etc.
Economics also dictates if that more people want to live in a place, more housing will be built. But intervention by law to prevent housing or slow it alters this.
Sometimes I wish HN had gold. Thanks for the chuckle.
that is really awesome. thanks for sharing!
We’re either in an affordability crisis or a housing crash. Either way, AirBnB must be the one to blame.
One case is with Zenith and an employee Charles Vermot. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/charles-vermot-the-man-who...
I mean they don't have to do anything at all so I don't view it as cynical. You can't help everyone in the world.
I have no idea who you are or what expertise you have; I'm responding to your own statement that you're unaware of these journalist-authors because you don't read much nonfiction.
I think when he actually go into production and jumps through all the regulatory hopes, it's probably not going to be that affordable any more.
"which publishes more than 400,000 papers each year."

Wow, I had no idea so many research papers were published by Elsevier alone.

Does that mean that most research goes unread? How does that affect researches and science in general?
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For higher drug costs, see "Regulation and Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Peltzman, which shows through statistics that the 1962 FDA regulations have resulted in a large increase in drug costs with no net increase in safety. (While more bad drugs have been blocked, this is counterbalanced by good drugs taking much longer to be approved. Unknown is what drugs were never developed because of the much increased cost of the regulations.)
That seam is nearly invisible in the dark.
Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and / or other disadvantage.
Related submission about the ike jime method mentioned in the article here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19085530
The other half of #1 is keep going. You have to do it every day. You have to do it for a long time. As long as you keep going, you'll naturally grow. Your mind won't stand for doing the same thing every day.

If anyone needs help getting started or keeping going, that's exactly what my project Functional helps with:

https://howfunctional.com/try/read-X-for-10-min
Been wanting file size info in the file explorer in github for years now, it would make it so much easier to find out where to look first when exploring repos for the first time.