skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One major factor is simply that housing is too expensive. Yes, an employee at the $15 salad place is probably making more than minimum wage, but it's still not enough to comfortably afford the high rents in the city.

SF has, and has had for awhile, some of the most restrictive construction and zoning laws in the country, and as a result demand has far outstripped supply. A decent number of people in SF become homeless for the most obvious reason that they just can't afford housing.
Hudson Yards is way more than a standard tax break bonanza. Tax-free City and state authority bonds were issued to finance it.

The Amazon deal was all about NYS politics and the changes in leadership in the state legislature.
I mean, I'm not a big fan of Hudson Yards...

...but this piece doesn't seem to make any coherent argument. Nowhere does she explain why she dislikes it aesthetically.

She simply seems to dislike that it was designed to be Instagrammable (is that so bad for art/sculpture which is inherently visual?), has some bizarre thoughts on climbing staircases (she's against climbing the Eiffel Tower as well, does she hate exercise?) and using elevators, and was unhappy with an attempted policy on photo usage that has now been changed.

Feels like fake outrage to me.
Did you watch the video? Removing access to drugs and providing them with I assume subsidized medication that is used to treat addiction.
Huawei CFO was carrying an iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air when she was arrested
> Side jab... hasn't posted on HN

Side side jab hasn't done an essay (one of the reasons I thought he was stepping down from YC somewhat) in quite some time.

Also this tweet is a good reason why on those essays he would always have someone read what he says first there are always 'thanks to so and so' for reading the essay.

Obviously there is some implied advice when PG says something. Look at how everyone is giving their 2 cents on a simple tweet.
Right. My point is that less health conscious people would have un-diagnosed cancer. This would make it appear that more health conscious people (higher omega-3) have higher rates of cancer than baseline.
No doubt it won't be long till you can box with a robot who fights in the style of any boxer for whom enough video footage is available to train from.
Quality is still an issue for streaming. Anyone who's ever compared a blu-ray to what Netflix offers knows it's night and day, especially for grainy old films. Netflix so-called "1080p" frequently has compression artifacts, and banding (most visible in dark shots). There's also disturbing aliasing (most visible in logos and on-screen fonts, causing jagged edges) which is more reminiscent of DVD-era MPEG-2 encoding than modern codecs. I'm constantly put off anytime I find a title on Netflix the minute I compare to it bluray screencaps (good resources are blu-ray.com or caps-a-holic) and notice the glaring contrast in quality.

And this is only for the titles Netflix offers in HD: there are many, probably due to licensing issues, which are offered only in SD resolution (which can be confirmed during playback vie the web player debugger). Netflix originals, while seemingly having the most consistent quality, still suffer from poor encoding issues I've noticed, which makes me think most of all that this is aggressive bandwidth management if even their own titles aren't given a proper encoding treatment.

And then for 4k playback on PC, it's required you have not only a compatible browser or app (4k playback in Firefox will not work), but also a recent CPU that supports hardware DRM - just awful. The future of streaming is bleak if you ask me, albeit convenient for the average consumer. And I guess that's the real demographic.
Youtube has lots of unboxing videos. Maybe one could just play these backwards, and then the robot/cyborg will learn how to properly box stuff instead of unboxing it. Google's ML division could do it very easily since they basically own the video archive already.
I certainly can't compare myself to this kid in terms of achievement, but I got heavily into physics around 15-16 after an intense psychedelic experience made me start to obsess over the idea of figuring out "what the universe is made of" (to which studying and researching physics seemed to be the most optimistic approach of getting any solid answers).

[This lead me down a path to getting my undergrad physics degree a few years later, but I eventually shifted my focus to CS and am now a software engineer, partially because my obsession faded over time and because I realized that a tenure track in physics wasn't really the kind of life or career I had originally envisioned.]

What motivated me is probably not at all similar to what is going on with this kid, but I just wanted to offer it as an anecdote to how a teenager might become fascinated with physics, since you asked.
> no matter what social position you may have happened to find yourself in

People don't "find themselves" in a social position. It isn't like they wandered into the wrong part of town. People suffering poverty are angry about wealth because it represents something withheld from them by an opaque and unfair system (how opaque and how unfair is the only thing under debate). Rich people who think poverty is a moral failing are afraid of losing what they have and in need of a feeling of intrinsic superiority because their greatest anxiety is that they don't deserve what they have.
Discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19229433
An important feature is maintaining your social network after a fallout with your admin.

I don't want no one to tell me what to do and to prevent that I've got to prevent people from having leverage with me.
Not sure why that would keep you away. By your definition a huge percentage of the population is successful.
> Everyone in this story

All two of them.. It's like they're related or something... And also; not really.
I'd highly recommend trying out Next.js. Once you've got the framework-specific concepts, it's quite refreshing to base an app on. There are plenty of "escape hatches" to customize webpack, babel, server-side API, etc.

That said, I don't use it much anymore - I rolled (and continue to use) my own SSR, adding features as I needed them: taking care of async server-side actions like fetching data; rendering the app; passing initial state to client; dynamic chunk-splitting of routes; a way to export all app routes to static files..

There are many moving parts and "tricks" I had to discover - like, how to bundle client/server bundles with webpack (chunk-split on client, all bundled together on server), creating script tags on server to fetch route-specific chunks faster on initial page load..

So, unless you're into understanding and building/customizing every feature, your time might be better spent letting Next.js provide all that as a foundation. It's well-organized and documented, so I think it would be valuable for teams working together also.
The article is hilariously wasteful with words as that thing is of land.

Calling it a giant waste paper basket is wonderfully apt.
Creating Personas for User Experience Research
But closurescript is just an implementation of closure (the language)? So isn't it both?

This wasn't clear to me before or after I looked at the page.
My observation is the most suicide discussion has greatly reduced suicide to the point that there isn't a discussion.

On Quora I once explained to a perplexed Chinese poster that our culture aims to avoid suicide and views it as a non-option, as she didn't understand why the other people were ignoring her obvious easier solution to what she considered undesirable failure.

"Suicide is to be prevented" doesn't address different cultures, and it barely addresses what people go through in the west, because people don't talk about it and don't want to. Lots of people want to talk you out of it and explain how it affects other people, nobody addresses the underlying issue or dead-ends people run into.

I would say the counterproductive nature of this messaging is - by definition - making it clearer that suicide is a viable option. So if we want to actually prevent suicide, we have to go deeper and give people purpose if their underlying issue can't be addressed.
The Unraveling of AT&T, Part 2
Samsung is a world leader in display tech, memory tech and probably many other things. Slow and sluggish, you say? :)
Read books with ideas you can apply, and use the ideas in practice. Don't read books that you cannot directly apply to something, that's consuming input without producing output. (I quite enjoy reading, and happily read books that I cannot apply, but this is not "efficient"...)

Value extracted, and even the best way to extract value from a book, will be heavily context dependent. E.g, here's a wildly contrived example: If you are trapped in a hut in a snowstorm you may be able to extract considerable value from a trashy novel or physics textbook in your backpack by tearing it apart to use as kindling.
Show HN: How to Find a Job as a Software Developer in Switzerland – Guide
I mean presumably if someone has done a similar startup before you, you should be expected to know about what they did and understand why it worked or didn't work, and you should have some theory about what you're doing differently or what has changed in the world to make your startup viable now. And presumably you should treat your current competitors similarly.

When pg is saying that thinking about competition is a waste of time, he's not saying you should ignore the competition, only that you shouldn't sit there stressing out about it rather than working on your own startup.
Nope.

> on entertainment around the world. The international theatrical box office grew to $41.1 billion (spending in the US and Canada grew to $11.9 billion), while home entertainment hit $55.7 billion internationally.
I'm not sure how this contradicts, or even has anything to do with the parent post. It seems like you're reading excessively far into a turn-of-phrase.
Today, same browser, no wall. Impossible to tell what Medium is up to.
> Las Vegas was apparently giving free bus tickets to the homeless to come to Oregon, because our homeless services are top-tier.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

If you send someone half way across the country, it will be difficult to return. They also mention Key West contractually bans anyone who returns from using their homeless services.
My last plan with AT&T I think was 10 or 15GB/month with rollover, which I had accumulated something like 30GB of data saved up over the last year.

Then one day I got a text saying I had used all my data for the month, and I thought this was quite strange.

I logged in to see the usage, and AT&T gives you an itemized bill showing data usage almost minute by minute — I think the resolution is 5 minutes intervals.

Lo and behold they claimed I used 22GB in one 5 minute interval at some random point during the afternoon that day.

I called about a half dozen times to complain and try to get it adjusted. The agents would say crazy things like, “well were you watching a video?”, or “did you download a large email attachment?”

It didn’t matter that the iPhone they said did the download showed totally normal data usage stats on the phone itself. It didn’t even matter that moving that much data in 5 minutes was technically impossible. Even when I finally got an agent to admit it must be an error and that it would be impossible to move 22GB in 5 minutes, they said they would escalate the issue and then nothing ever happened.

I never got those rollover data bytes back, and ultimately had to switch to an unlimited plan to protect from the fake overages.

So I do worry about massive theoretical maximum throughout resulting in obscene charges with no way for the customer to prove the data transfer never happened.
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords Without Any Encryption
For those curious, Replete relies on the ability of ClojureScript to self-host, and thus essentially carry its compiler with it.

Replete iOS was one of the first applications of self-hosted ClojureScript (around 2015, the first time we could evaluate ClojureScript forms directly on iOS, no JVM in sight).

Just recently Replete was ported to Android, via some amazing work of Roman Liutikov.

It is all open source, for those interested in how it works: https://github.com/replete-repl/
This reminds me of David Hahn, the so-called Radioactive Boy Scout.[1][2][3]

[1] - https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957768

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
> People genuinely believing and insisting that car can drive itself. The result is the only driver fatalities while autonomously driving were in a Tesla.

This is hilariously false. Do you really want to prove this? Go on the teslamotorsclub.com forums or teslamotors subreddit and ask actual owners if they think the car can “drive itself”.

Link the post and I will PayPal you $1,000 if you’re right. Because at this point you’re just going around in circles.
Where there is a will there is a way
(I'm not an expert) Isn't this evidence correlated to the presence of beta-amyloid in the brain and the increased time required to clean them with herpes?
As far as I read it, the evidence that beta-amyloid are a cause and not the consequence of Alz is not there.
Also, I think that making such a statement for institutions needs solids theory, because it could effect a major part of population
"Create and operate a National AI infrastructure" "National AI Research Centers" "National AI Laboratories" It's all about getting Government money.

Ed Feigenbaum was writing stuff like that in the 1980s.
He was calling for a national AI lab, headed by him, to fight off the threat from Japan. See his book, "The Fifth Generation".[1] This was all for "expert systems", which didn't do much and led to the "AI Winter".

This time around, we don't need that, because machine learning already has profitable applications. Finding applications outside adtech, Big Brother, and finance might be useful.

Remember the "BRAIN initiative" from 2013 or so?[2] Whatever happened with that?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative
Alan Kay once remarked “I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug's ideas."
Yeah, I totally agree. But on the other hand, if Fireman Rick's job is to put out the occasional small wildfire, and one day a small controllable fire starts but Fireman Rick says not "not my problem, I'm gonna stay home and play video games" and then that fire burns down half the state, there's a sense in which the fireman is to blame by choosing to abandon his job.

Or to give it more of a HN spin: if Rick's job was to run a website, but hackers broke in and stole all the plaintext passwords, it could be construed as partially Rick's fault for negligently storing the passwords in plaintext, even though the hackers were the ones directly responsible for the hack.
Bare Drive makes a bad Wiki because there’s too much friction to freely browse and discover information in Drive. Linking between documents in Drive is also super annoying compared to more wiki-like systems like Notion or Quip, which have autocomplete, or even MediaWiki, where page URLs are predictable.
> Unless the dashboard tells me why the Tesla website and marketing (not to mention its CEO) make all the false/misleading claims I don’t think we need to talk about anything else.

Honest question. Do you have a short position on the stock?
Gym membership to 24hour fitness. I have another $20/mo membership for Planet Fitness, for its massage chairs and in case I am in a state like Arizona without 24, but 24 is everywhere in California. 2 years for $650 at Costco. That's 2000+ options nationwide. Do a workout, go for a swim at 24 and chill in a massage chair at PF while my equipment recharges. :)

Eat? Wherever. I have plenty of money.
> nothing more to hate on rich people about than that they have money

That's not the case here, she is criticizing them for more than just having money.
I’m not ok with the alternative of banning scientists studying my tweets as long as i chose to make them public
How VR might break America's opioid dependency
I'd imagine so, given that's what hosting services like AWS are (along with the related software).
Have you tried turning your levity module off and on again?
Terraform does not automatically rollback in the face of errors. Instead, your Terraform state file has been partially updated with any resources that successfully completed.

do you know who can rollback and leaves your infra in a consistent state? can you guess?
+1 - feels like a once great product company is now taking its strategy cues from market analysts.
It's hard to use it after using Netflix or similar...the amount of commercials is just over the top. Even skipping them with DVR/FF is highly irritating.
Yeah, ClojureScript is really a dialect of Clojure.

They have hugely different applications, but at a certain level, they look like the same language.
I think articles like this are hilarious because they act like written down proofs are a gold standard of unassailable logic. Of course they aren't - what constitutes proof to one person (or in one age) may or may not constitute proof to others. Look at Mochizuki's work - someone so convinced they are right, and yet no one else can understand it:

https://www.nature.com/news/the-biggest-mystery-in-mathemati...

Another good example: Euler's proofs in his day would be failed in even a basic real analysis class now.

Having known many many pure mathematicians, I believe that they don't want to use computers for the simple reason that many of them don't know how to, and thus denying the legitimacy of computer-generated (or assisted) proofs protects their livelihood/careers.
But if I am not an iOS device owner, what incentive do I have to use Apple's services? Currently I see none.
> If you send someone half way across the country, it will be difficult to return.

Nevada is actually very close to Oregon, and transportation to LV is quite cheap.
But still relevant, no?

You could say that the “hard problem” mentioned has been removed by those abstractions.
Half of the homeless people in that Seattle video someone linked above should have had a roof over their heads provided by the State, either some mental-health institution or an elderly care house.

I've heard of way too many US ok-ish jobs that don't provide adequate health-insurance (just to give an example). Maybe I'm a little paranoid but I'd have constant nightmares thinking that a couple of days of hospitalization for a benign medical intervention could set me tens of thousands of dollars in debt (or worse).
> It’s hard to discuss these things when both sides don’t have all the facts.
Just as a basic background for what happens, please try this: sit in a recent Tesla, engage autopilot, and read what it says on the screen.

My point exactly. Yet he seem to have pretty stong and absolute (albeit skewed) opinions. A true armchair quarterback.
spirituality flip religion. Both schemes to coerce people
The way we read the article 13 is that platforms have to offer tools to identify copyrighted work, but also the rights holders have to register the work for them to be identified.

That would imply that one database with an obvious way for rights holders to register their content should be the right way to go.

But we will not know up until an EU country actually writes the law.
I don’t know, writing silly projects in QBasic with VGA mode graphics and sound from the beeper definitely felt like fusion to me...
Actually China, the biggest exporter, exports for less than 20% of its GDP. Nearly all of the major countries depend more on their exports except Japan and the USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
That turn of phrase is the key indicator in the original comment. It means they think of poverty and wealth as unrelated phenomena. Generally it is our most casual statements that say the most about our underlying assumptions.
Your distinction between TFIDF as simply computed vs embeddings as learned is odd and artificial. Both are computations from data, but TFIDF has an understandable closed form and word embeddings do not.
As for machine learning, it has to do with improvement and doesn't even necessarily need data.
How about some "studies" to figure out the components of a well-balanced diet?

* macros

* what's out (well, this is easy actually)

* what's in
> Nowhere does she explain why she dislikes it aesthetically.

That's because her criticism does not seem to be primarily aesthetic. There's more to architecture than aesthetics.
People conceive of ways to gain control of people's actions and funds = religion, pure and simple. The god concept is part of the control web
If you are interested in the nature/nurture debate, I encourage you to read up on the Polgar sisters, whose father set out to prove that genius is made, not born. All three sisters went from nothing to excelling at chess, though only one of them, Judit, went on to continue playing it as an adult and became the strongest female chess player of all time.[1][2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

[2] - https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1990/06/13/09440007.h09.h...
When I was homeless in San Francisco and applying for services, they made sure to mention I could get a one way bus ticket to pretty much anywhere I wanted to go.
It is relevant to the parent post because there's legitimate reason for the poor to have animus against the rich, and not vice versa. The parent post is attempting to treat "poor" and "rich" as something like rival sports teams that are on equal footing, because that's required to criticize the poor mad at the rich in the same way you'd criticize the rich mad at the poor.
Sure, and many rich do say, “I hate the poor.” The difference is that the rich are actually able to fuck over the poor. And, they often blatantly do so.
> It’s not a “walled” service like iMessage or FaceTime is.

Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be open source… eventually: https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti...

Any time now.
Using avian's example of a list of numbers of similar magnitude, sorting the numbers will not really be any better than just summing them directly, but Kahan summation will do better.
As Real "buffering ..." Networks found to their chagrin.
It would be fun if the EU enforced something like the browser ballot screen, giving users choice of content provider on Apple devices.

It also makes sense from an environmental perspective: why have two different devices when you can view all content on one.
Literally signed up for Robinhood for this. I think Zoom is a potentially transformative/disruptive product - at our organization it is essentially enabling us to become more and more remote, with all the benefits that brings, and no downsides. I would honestly use whatever tool they rolled out - email client, chat/slack competitor, whatever. Their products just work.
Fortran. Ok, maybe not as widely used :)
What EU Block things
Fair but the article does address this albeit briefly:

"Still, it is unlikely that the high levels of these fatty acids found in the highest quartile would be the result of diet alone. Adults are advised to eat two portions of fish a week, one of them oily, as part of a healthy balanced diet."

You are right that the study doesn't explicitly say fish oil supplements directly caused the high levels of fish oil which were observed in these patients with prostate cancer.

Dailymail at it again :).