skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion that new construction being 'high-end' won't improve the market on the low-end is erroneous in markets where the spread of rent budgets of people forms smooth, continuous gradient. But the Bay Area is not such a market -- nor are places where significant cash infusions such as very high pay at the high-end or subsidies like military housing allowances to people of middle incomes will distort the field upwards. Then there's Prop 13, which disincentivizes the sale of legacy homes, removing many residents and homes in the middle of the income/rent spread from the liquidity of the market.

Developers want to build units that are 'high-end' because it's the best way to recoup their costs. Urban construction is expensive and many projects are made possible by a combination of loans, private equity funding, and government subsidies. The increase of supply in high-end apartments creates competitive pressure on older units, places with less amenities, places with dated design, and places in inferior locations. Since housing sorting resembles an auction, people with the highest rent budgets have the most options. Landlords of less ideal places will see some tenants filter out and replaced. Eventually, the replacements stop coming, because all people of higher rent budgets have already moved to more desirable places. Instead of letting apartments sit empty, the landlord might lower the rent while still staying within the profitability threshold.

This doesn't work every time. If people of high rent budgets never stop coming, they never have to lower prices: there's an undersupply on the high-end too. This is clearly the case in the Bay and other desirable areas of California.
It’s analogous in that the problems associated with its use don’t disappear if only you stop using it.
"Just for a recent example, see Amazon HQ2."

That's a good example actually. It's hard to understand that NYC was offering subsidies to Amazon. NYC doesn't really need more people or more companies.
This, and Inadequate Equilibria have been a useful way of viewing societies problems. They've also raised red flags on things that I think are definitely Good.

Notably, both of these talk about problems in science, and how it's "easy" to solve...if you have a Science God to issue the Science Decree.

And then we start overthrowing the evil Science God Elsevier in favor of a more decentralized science publishing. This is a huge victory for good over evil, but it takes the form of replacing the evil Science God with Moloch.

Centralization enables despotism. Decentralization enables Moloch. Coordination problems are a real issue we need to address; preferably without abusive consolidation of power.
You are hitting the nail on the head with the latter part of your comment. The issue is licensing and content rights which is a huge mess to do without pissing off rights holders. They are all terrified someone might look at their content without paying, and make customers jump through huge hoops to pay for it.

I wish I would just pirate ebooks and audiobooks because that is the simplest and lowest effort way to see the content. It would work on all my devices and I would not have to worry about signing in or swapping apps to find which service has that book I want to read this month only.
I'm really curious about the pros and cons here. Neither way seems obviously better than the other. Why is concentration worse than distribution? Why is distribution better?
>Belief in free speech as a principle assumes that good and right arguments will win out every day in an open public forum.

This is demonstrably not the case. Just look at the chans.
I think matz1's position is quite clear: there is no absolute right or wrong, and the only thing that makes "gas the kikes" unacceptable is that the majority of humans find it unacceptable and are willing to go to war to stop it from happening. If we weren't, it wouldn't be unacceptable any more.

It's almost a Poe's Law of moral relativism in general, but there's the additional step of "and therefore, I will not have opinions on right and wrong and will let others do as they please, because who am I to have moral opinions about others"—but that in itself is a moral opinion about others.
The whole dogpatch to India Basin and hunters point areas could be upzoned massively to accommodate a few hundred thousand new residents very easily. Lay down a good street grid, have a plan to eventually put the third street light rail underground or overhead to give massive transit capacity and have a complete free for all of new high rise (20+ stories) apartments there. You could do this without touching any zoning anywhere else in the city. Yet we can’t even do this. Similar “win-win” options exist all over the Bay Area that don’t get done, and you begin to realize the real reason is preserving property values. All new housing is bad. Thus there is no negotiation with existing vested interests. They’ll run the city into the ground until the state forces their hand in some way.
Ok so what you want is subsidized luxury apartments. Because the quality of the apartment doesnt seem like its going down under your model.
"freedom not to work" is not a freedom it's a threat.
I assume trees are good at trapping the energy from sunlight + combining it with c02 and water to produce carbon, oxygen and more water.

So planting trees in deserts with somewhat decent access to underground water tables should help cool the planet and create a great renewable resource right?
Yes, and yet people still do that voluntarily. Because it beats staying in their home countries. It provides them with the means to adapt to the new place of living, and then move to a better job. Without this step on the ladder, they would live much more miserable lives.
So who gets "physically violent" against who when Reddit bans some subs?

Or do you mean to say that isn't censorship?
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Sorry if I was unclear. My point is that gig workers in the US and other people of transient employment status do not generally consider themselves to have access to healthcare, even though they technically do through the accumulation of unpayable debt.
Homeless people are not undeserving of things based o their actions, fascists are.
Could you not apply the same logic to any occupation?

I get out of bed, head to an office and build software on the orders of those who pay me, I get summoned to meetings at their behest, I work long hours, only stopping to go to the toilet, I too get home and collapse into bed to repeat the next day.
It’s just an absurd situation that health care is tied to employment in the first place. If you get sick and can’t work, you just become a burden on society that’s not accounted for anywhere — but society still has to pay for anyway.

And we wonder why our healthcare costs are so high...
Nobody whips Uber drivers or
forces them to drive Uber.
This really doesn't relate too much, but I've realized over time that I'm essentially in love with one of my best friends (of the opposite gender).

We've been friends for 10 years, and just spending time around her makes me feel so relaxed and satisfied with life, it's a unique feeling to someone like me who hasn't been in much of a relationship so far in my life.

I'm able to maintain a good friendship despite this, and I guess I just treat it as some weird thing. I'm super grateful for the friendship we have, and it's amazing that these feelings persist even though I now only see her a couple of times a year.

I think part of me hoped we'd end up dating at some point, but I find that highly unlikely to work given certain circumstances. Either way, I remain grateful for what I have, and hope to find someone else that I'm able to relate to emotionally in the same way.
So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2018)
Flint, MI is well known for this.

The intention was undoubtedly to say that Japan's abandonment rate has gotten so high that it's comparable to a disaster stricken city.
...in three or four metropolitan areas. Image search for "japan population density": When oil is super expensive and public transportation is well-developed, property scarcity around public transit centers is the choke point.
'Justice' Is Our 2018 Word of the Year
Wikipedia [1] also mentions that: "Most early Greeks did not even consider 1 to be a number, so they could not consider its primality". Both articles (scientific american & wikipedia) refer to the same paper [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number

[2]:https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.h...
Saudi Arabia sends message to subjects by terrorizing people.
Well I was approaching it from the point of view that you verify the image is correct and then you guarantee you'll always use that image and not some other version given that tags are mutable.
Largest fleet of Tesla police patrol vehicles start in Switzerland
This kind of perspective is pretty much the standard perspective of the European left. Saying these things is almost like saying nothing, because it's what you expect.
> I feel like you're disregarding the concept of the "marketplace of ideas".

I’m not disregarding it at all. I’m directly confronting it, and calling it both naïve and insufficient as a strategy for improving society.

Bad actors have weaponized our elevation of “the marketplace of ideas” to an ends rather than a means, and so it’s both necessary and appropriate to recontextualize it, and where it makes sense to call forth.
Yes, because it divides the communities and smaller communities are easier to extinguish, like cancer cells.
No, man from Mars sees somebody who is poor.
In 1995 I showed my co-workers in Japan the listing for my Grandma's house: a beautiful house on a double corner lot for $20k in rural Saskatchewan Canada. They were dumb founded. That a similar situation would occur in Japan twenty four years later seems unbelievable.
Just because Americans are having fewer children does not excuse them from the fact that they consume far more than other people. Americans are told constantly that global warming is false, with even President Trump claiming it is a "Chinese hoax."

Furthermore, America is relatively sparsely populated not because of a moral belief that having fewer kids is better for the environment but merely because that is the stage of demographic transition it is in due to its economic development. In addition, it was very sparsely populated before the arrival of European colonizers.

In addition, even if we look at the cumulative figure, America has historically been the number 1 contributor to global warming[1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
I think the best way it was explained to me was say that both exist as sets of numbers, which for now we will call Set_1 and Set_2.

Set_1 includes 1, Set_2 does not.

We have two possibilities for naming.

Option A:
Set_1: Primes.
Set_2: Primes except for 1.

Option B:
Set_1: Primes and 1.
Set_2: Primes.

You can then show the differences in the properties that make having Set_2 have the default name an easier to use convention than letting Set_1 have the default name. But at the core is the understanding that this is an arbitrary distinction done just for ease of use. Had we called Set_1 the Primes, or if ever someone became Galactic Emperor for a day and made the change, then Set_2 would get a new name for ease of use and we would just use it instead.

There are many other sets that are really close as well, which have their own properties.

Side note, SET_1 is listed on oeis https://oeis.org/A008578 and still includes 1. It is called "Prime numbers at the beginning of the 20th century".
Oh no. I meant kicking FB out altogether. Anyway, we already have a form of social credit in the West. It’s called your credit score, and you can’t buy a house without being a good boy.
As a small business owner it's a huge pain to hire employees. Payroll, taxes, health care, retirement, PTO, etc. add so much complexity that the only real solution is to hire a payroll agency to do that for you.

With a contractor, or a gig, you can define a single project price or hourly rate, sign a short contract and get down to work.
What is induced?

California has been growing at a rate slower than other states. When it comes to domestic migration, it exports more people to other states than it accepts.

When it comes to international migration, net migration is less than births minus deaths, and that's with a low birth rate.

In the early 1960s, California had a population of 15 million and built 250k-300k homes per year. Currently California has a population of 40 million and build 80k homes per year.

After the next census, California is expected to lose representation in the House because most other states are growing faster than California.

California has had a major major change in population and building styles since 1980, but policy decisions are still made under the assumption that we are living with the 1960s numbers for building and population.
Bringing up "survivorship bias" every single time this topic comes up goes far, far beyond just talking about the possibility of failure. It's a self defeating mantra people use to justify their inaction.

And even if it is "survivorship bias" and for every 1 example of someone that succeeds there are 1 million examples of people who have failed, the cost of failure is so low that you should try anyway. It costs you nothing and you have potentially everything to gain.

Ever hear about the story of the two wolves? You're feeding the wrong wolf.
It's possible for different countries to adopt the same policy for different reasons. Many countries get around diversity issues by not having diversity.
Yes, and not just in CA.
With an "a" the word can be a source of pride and community for black Americans, which is why it's used so commonly in black music. Non-black Americans are not commonly accepted into this community, so when non-black Americans say the word it's considered very rude.

With an "er" on the end, it's almost always a racist term.

Either way you spell it, it's pretty much only acceptable for black Americans to say it.
That’s the price of the seeds though. The cost of finding the land, digging holes, planting seeds and watering them to sustainable growth would be much higher.

Honestly if HN knows any charities focused on tree planting, let me know. Happy to donate 1k-ish if it puts 10k trees to our family’s name.
The comparison is very biased. Various claims are not true or provided without context.
You could always track employee productivity with traditional statistical methods and they have been doing it for years. Just because we have super fancy regression analysis with ML doesn't mean humans will loose their rights. Linear regression is just as dangerous for our rights.
Cities are popular because they are relatively efficient. You can build more towns and suburbs but they will be underserved because of the many pipelines a state has to manage that cities will receive priority for — road maintenance, DMVs, shipping hubs. If you live in a town and need any of these, you might have to travel a long way just to get your needs met.
> and far more flexible

They’re both very flexible, just different.

For example, GPUs are better at vectorized condition code. CPUs were mostly fixed with AVX512 but these instructions are too new, only available on some servers.

Sure, there’re algorithms which don’t work on GPUs. A stream cipher would be very slow because requires single-thread performance, also GPUs don’t have AES hardware. A compiler is borderline impossible because inherently scalar and requires dynamic memory. Also GPUs don’t do double-precision math particularly fast.

Still, I think many users who need high-performance computing can utilize GPUs. They’re trickier to program, but this might be fixable with tools/languages, we have been programming classic computers for ~70 years, GPGPUs for just 12.
True all of the above. Live in a rural city.
I like free speech, for the most part, but if it means I can't boot somebody from my house when they are being an asshole, then I am 100% against it.

I think most people's idea of free speech doesn't align with what you are saying.
> I'm disgusted really, at arguments... that attempt to insinuate that most people are rational

See - this is where we fundamentally disagree. I don't think that "most" lower-income people are exploited, drooling idiots who get taken for a ride by corporations, the rich, or whatever villain you want to point to.

I do believe most people rationally make decisions, even if you disagree with those decisions. Banning people from living their own lives and making their own decisions, for good or bad, is simply immoral.
I have looked into table inheritance, and came to the same conclusion as you.

Later I learned that table inheritance wasn't meant to be used for polymorphism, but rather to solve performance problems. I guess that sharded tables now fill that niche in a better way.
He should be happy that (3/2)^12 is so close to 2^7 that it works at all.

Just as I'm happy that 2^10 is close enough to 10^3 that the whole kB/KB/kiB issue rarely matters much.
I've always thought of 1 as the definition of what a prime number is. Therefore, because it's generally bad practice to define a thing in terms of itself, 1 shouldn't be categorized as a prime number. Instead, it's like the Aristotilian Ideal of prime made linear.
When I was working on a project that involved ICD codes, one thing that kept cropping up in my mind was even how consistently the codes would be used.

I other fields of endeavor, when I see such voluminous, nuanced classification codes, the real result is that it becomes confusing as to 1) what code any given subject should be classified as, 2) the people doing the classification cannot know all the codes available and therefore will classify to something close that they know... even if a closer code exists, 3) there can be general disagreement on what any given code means and where dividing lines sit between similar codes, and 4) in medical offices, where several codes may be available and could reasonably apply, I've seen choices made based on the financial differences between the codes where they existed (not to mention that all the previous problems in coding a condition for the practitioner is also a problem for those deciding how codes may/may not be covered or paid for).

Given all that, it seems to me any coding system like this, which apparently fails to account for the limits of human judgement and usage patterns, will ultimately fail. Naturally, I assume that the goal in constructing such a system is the collection of nuanced data, but expect the result to be a muddle of that data as the system is misused.

And based on the medical offices I have worked with over the years, there is nothing about the medical profession that will mitigate those issues.
You are unsurprisingly incorrect on the history. I say unsurprising, because history is a humanities study, and HN is home to many who are effectively humanities-illiterate, and who tend to mistake a well-rounded education with their own abilities to operate and occasionally build technology.

Agitation for women's rights, including suffrage, first appeared formally in the US east in the 1840s. Suffrage was radicalism of a historic part with abolitionism, a radicalism over which a giant and entirely justified civil war would be fought and won by the emancipators in twenty or so years. Emancipation is the central theme of radical left thought, and here is no exception; while capitalism and imperialism went effectively unexamined theoretically until Marx in about the same decade, there is no left radical idea before or after that fails to hew to emancipatory ideals in the US.

Speaking of failure, it appears as if you've failed to "observe the real world" of historic occurrence, and have done so in pursuit of an ideology -- a weak, vacuous, change-nothing, injustice-friendly centrist ideology. I suggest you heed your own advice.

To review: left radical ideas become mainstream and improve the society when they do. The chief opponent of this mainstreaming is not the radical right, but rather the enormous, cowardly middle, whose political emptiness has always been the greatest friend and enabler to those who enslave us.
Old units in many places are frequently renovated and re-sold to upper-middle class and wealthy tenants. The end result is an erosion of housing stock for average and low-income residents.
It can be a freedom for some people.

People raising kids might love to work a couple days a week a couple months of the year (to match the school schedule).

Many of them would never consider a 9-5 FTE job.
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I flew small airplanes for fun, nothing close to a fighter jet but I'll try to answer.

> can't it be all automated

No. Some of it certainly could, notably gear related like engine checks as in your car. And yes current systems are not very flexible, the strong bias towards "tried and trusted" does slow down the arrival of fancy electronics.

But checklists also include confirming you have weather information, making sure your surroundings are clear of danger, that your fly plan is defined...
This is more about checking the human component and can't be automated.

> how come do pilots trust a system that has these layers of manual security checks with their lives

This is the best we came up with so far.
Manual checks also give you a sense of control.
"Race" is a pre-scientific term. It means whatever people want it to mean. Language is funny that way.
> Move the story to California. A three bedroom home in the San Francisco Bay Area, covered by Proposition 13, purchased by ordinary working people with good financial habits, around the 1970 time frame, and a working late-thirties, early forties person with some savings and good financial habits, cannot afford to take the home under almost any circumstances due to property taxes (cost of ownership) and competition for financing (loans not available in practice due to terms).

California actually has ways to inherit not only the home of your parents and grandparents, but also their tax rate.
No, depends on your morality. If you thought murder was not wrong than it make sense to respect and follow Ted Bundy but if you thought that murder is wrong, its more sense for you to do the opposite.
that’s the point of the gig economy, the big corps that run the world. don’t want to have to pay worker protections. pension contribution, sick pay. pain holiday, it cuts down on their bottom line. better if everyone is a contractor they can get rid off.
Society is nothing more than the aggregate form of its constituent parts, i.e. all of us. It’s not separate from us, it is us, and we all have an obligation to act to improve it. Censorship is a tool, just like free speech or liberty or law or justice or rhetoric or tradition, that we have to wield to those ethical ends.
IMO the perfect fifth interval sounds boring. Equal temperament fifths at 2^(7/12) = ~1.4983 are close enough (and actually amazingly close to 3/2) to be recognized as a fifth, and they offer a nice chorus/unison effect that many synthesizers even have a specific knob for. Slight error in close ratios gives beautiful movement in complex chords, otherwise you'd be hearing a repeating waveform with a period of lcm(1, ratio_1, ratio_2, ...). Well-designed temperaments don't try to use nice fractions. Most of them don't use fractions at all, and this sounds nice because slight dissonance sounds beautiful. See http://huygens-fokker.org/scala/, the state-of-the-art tool for creating 12-tone temperaments, as well as xenharmonic and microtonal tunings with non-12-tones.
What you describe is a bootstrap problem: not meeting the prerequisites to get the process of getting better started. It's not an isolated case, think of all the "too poor to start saving" or "too busy to rethink priorities" problems.