skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm certainly not. YouTube isn't anything like a conventional market:

* Consumers do not pay money for each transaction of content they consume. Instead, they pay with their attention. But that doesn't work like a currency because their goal is not to minimize the attention they spend. It's burning a hole in their pocket and they want to give their time to YouTube.

* YouTube spends next to no money on each unit of product they deliver. After they show a user a video, they still have it.

So looking at this as any kind of supply and demand situation is going to just completely muddle the economics. The supply is nearly infinite and the "demand" is hard to even define.
> Have been considering what it would take to get zoning laws preventing tiny homes changed in less popular locales.

Statewide legislation is probably the way to go. Doing it city by city is a huge slog, and I don't think anything's likely to happen nationwide for a while (but who knows).

Network with like-minded people:

* YIMBY groups in your area

* Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/
Why is this is not copyright infringement?
>The thing is, the USA has subsidized everyone elses health care systems. All major health care innovations were invented here. So when your drug prices are cheap, its because your country has access to free USA drug innovation.

Sorry, what?

My country doesn't have any "free access" to drug innovation, it pays mucho dinero to buy drugs, and American companies hold and enforce all kinds of patents on them.

It's also not some "one way" innovation street. Tons of medical/drug innovation, especially all the major "low hanging fruits" (which make up for most of modern health benefits) up to the mid-20th century came from outside the USA.

And that's not counting all the major European etc drug companies GlaxoSmithKline (British), La Roche (Swiss), Novartis (Swiss), Sanofi-Aventis (French), Bayer (German), Boehringer Ingelheim (German), etc.

Of the top 5 grossing drug companies, only 1 is American (#1 Pfizer). And the revenues of #1 are close to the revenues of #2 and #3, (45 vs 40 and 38 billion) so it's not like some great disparity where Pfizer takes all.

Not to mention that a lot of "USA innovations" were created by immigrants, whose country of origin paid for their raising, education, etc, even up to their undergraduate degree, and then they went to the USA and innovated as researchers...

Slow down with the chauvinism...
> put water into cans

People need to stop buying packaged water. Municipal water in developed countries is always cleaner than bottled water. There are very low standards for bottled water where as city water in the US, EU, Japan et. al. are tested constantly (in some cities; up to 400 times per month at various sites and sections).

Bottled water is at 1000% markup compared city/water fountains. It is also almost always tap water. It's a plight on the world in plastic/oil waste and people need to stop buying it. Putting it in cans will not make it better, and countries without clean water need heavily to invest in better domestic clean water infrastructure. It should be the highest priority of ever low income country to provide this most basic need to its people.

The documentaries Blue Gold and Tapped go into the issues with the private and bottled water industries.
Yeah, we have a sizeable server-side Dart project for crawling and processing websites and documents.

I also know a few companies using it for full-stack language in web and server apps.

The people I know are not vocal, I guess they are tired arguing with the doomsayers and rather focus on their tasks.
> - Glyphosate-tolerant modifications leading to higher pesticide usage

That might be true, but Glyphosate is less toxic than the alternatives, so the overall effect is positive:

> On balance, herbicide-resistant GM crops are less damaging to the environment than conventional crops grown at industrial scale. A study by PG Economics, a consulting firm in Dorchester, UK, found that the introduction of herbicide-tolerant cotton saved 15.5 million kilograms of herbicide between 1996 and 2011, a 6.1% reduction from what would have been used on conventional cotton. And GM crop technology delivered an 8.9% improvement to the environmental impact quotient — a measure that considers factors such as pesticide toxicity to wildlife — says Graham Brookes, co-director of PG Economics and a co-author of the industry-funded study, which many scientists consider to be among the field’s most extensive and authoritative assessments of environmental impacts.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hard-look-at-3-...
Skyscrapers are only getting bigger. And while "walkability" and "going outside" are really important so too is density and density can breed innovation.

It's why weird companies with funny CEOs might try things that a serviced office corporation might not and might build an environment that's better for us all.

It would be rare I admit.
Pinterest is huge in the Architecture and Design community as a place to organize project inspiration and ideas.
freedom dividend really is a more accurate and marketable term
Every group believes in something dumb. People often hide disagreements to fit in.
mRNA Vaccines – A New Era in Vaccinology
Does this mean customers don't need to pay fees when they pay in USDC in coinbase commerce? Who pays the gas fees in that case?
Our children will fight for single-payer credit monitoring.
> I feel like there is a line to be drawn somewhere around the points where you start referring to yourself as a "YouTuber" and where other people regularly describe you as one.

This seems pretty subjective, difficult to measure, and impractical to enforce.
> That's not really UEFI though per se. Having an oracle in SMM is one option, but sticking them in the Management Engine/PSP or an expanded TPM are other options.

It's UEFI code that's linked into a separate module. But it's the same code architecture (and largely the same code), just running in a different CPU mode.

> And SMM is way older that UEFI. We'll almost certainly still have SMM after UEFI is gone.

There are experiments at hardware vendors to get rid of SMM. While that will take approximately as long as the age-old attempts to retire legacy PC components (such as the RTC), it's not universally loved by vendors anymore.
Right, I mean, aside from Roche, Novartis, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Teva, Takeda, Merck, NovoNordisk, the synthesis of antibiotics and vaccines and modern surgery, what have the non-Americans ever contributed?!?!?!?!!!!!!

> All major health care innovations were invented here

To quote Rage Against the Machine: whoever told you that is your enemy
I can't help but think that a lot of Flat Earthers exist just to troll other Flat Earthers and Round Earthers.
> you can easily write programs that edit themselves

Hah! I can do that too:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# script.py
# Copyright 2019 pgcj_poster

print('Hello World')
with open('script.py', 'w') as f:
f.write(f.read().replace('Hello World', 'Goodbye World'))

Clearly Lisp is of no use in 2019.
How This Airport Security Officer Is Building a Profitable Travel Search Engine
I often wonder if there's a sort of bad feedback loop that prevents this from happening.

It's increasingly becoming too expensive to employ people who aren't on top of their game.

Employing to train is very difficult, because people just can't live on lower wages - in some cases it's explicitly illegal.

In the UK this is primarily due to rent, in the US it seems to be a combination of rent and healthcare.

Rent is obviously addressable with political will. I don't know enough about the US healthcare situation.

People push for increases in the minimum wage, when really it seems as if the issue is that housing costs are skyrocketing and that effect filters through into everything else (a "high cost of living" area is usually just a high rent area).
Our grandchildren will live in caves and eek out a living from the family farm. But at least they will have solar power.
> Even before the core group moved on, mobile engineers were generally not interested in learning C++, so finding people to train was a big issue

Yeah, I probably wouldn't be super interested in mastering the arcane details of one company's bespoke stack; that knowledge would be really difficult to leverage elsewhere. Most places that need mobile engineers won't care about the bespoke C++ stuff, and most places that want people to write C++ wouldn't know what to do with someone who wrote C++ for a mobile app.
is being a genetic dead end really all that smart though?
The headline is misleading - nobody is unionizing.

A German union is maybe going to sue Google, on behalf of some youtubers, based on European laws, that's all.
Congrats on launching, and good luck with your startup. Personally I am much more old fashion - I stubbornly don't want a CRM to remind me of keeping in touch. I want to have my own mind to tell me...
Sure it does - CreateWindowEx, for example, is a kernel function implemented by win32k.sys. See: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsui_team/2012/11/05/troubl...
This line clearly demonstrates they did not think too deeply about modern firm organization.
I came here to say the same :) And yes, i insist - it can become a huge unforseen and brutal clusterfuck to manage containers :)
The stats do back you up on this point. Women make about 80% of purchasing decisions in the US [0].

[0] https://health.oliverwyman.com/2019/01/women-in-healthcare-m...
Hi @vcoelho! Thanks for your message. Yes I put a limitation to 5 for now because my search box is really an MVP one, really sorry for that issue. In the next version of the app, I should be able to do a better filter method! Best. Théo.
It's funny that they have a hard time hiring experienced senior C++ devs even though the language has been around so long. Presumably it would have been easier to find someone really good at something newer like, say, Vue.
Don’t forget https://zapier.com
User generated content is acquired 100% for free, but Google has costs to store/distribute that content. Google's expenses aren't trivial, but they also aren't paying creators whose content is the only reason anyone ever goes to youube.com

Imagine netflix telling movie/TV studios that they can let them stream their content for free because it's costing them money to store and distribute those works after all...
Is it known whether clothing generates a large fraction of microplastics? If so, switching to cotton and other non-synthetic materials might make a difference.
Right after their sleezeball CEO and all their VCs cash out, leaving small time investors holding the garbage at the end.
Yes, f can be any function at all here, and indeed this allows for the sort of more complicated things you mention, and indeed this is where a lot of the difficulty lies. Duffin and Schaeffer, for whom the conjecture is named, had already proved it subject to a restriction on f that kinda-sorta requires it not to vary too wildly.

(One other bit of precision that I glossed over: the conjecture is actually about approximations p/q for which p and q have no common factor and that genuinely makes a difference here.)
Since people were asking for citations, here's a couple, but they seem to contradict your assertion:

"US Pharmaceutical Innovation in an International Context," the American Journal of Public Health. "We explored whether the United States is responsible for the development of a disproportionate share of the New Molecular Entities (NMEs) produced worldwide. [...] The United States was responsible for the development of 43.7% of the NMEs. The United Kingdom, Switzerland, and a few other countries innovated proportionally more than their contribution to GDP or prescription drug spending, whereas Japan, South Korea, and a few other countries innovated less. Conclusion: Higher prescription drug spending in the United States does not disproportionately privilege domestic innovation, and many countries with drug price regulation were significant contributors to pharmaceutical innovation."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866602/

"Global Drug Discovery: Europe is Ahead," Health Affairs Vol. 28 Supplement 1. "It is widely believed that the United States has eclipsed Europe in pharmaceutical research productivity. Some leading analysts claim that although fewer drugs have been discovered worldwide over the past decade, most are therapeutically important. Yet a comprehensive data set of all new chemical entities approved between 1982 and 2003 shows that the United States never overtook Europe in research productivity, and that Europe in fact is pulling ahead of U.S. productivity. Other large studies show that most new drugs add few if any clinical benefits over previously discovered drugs."

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.28.5....

The argument that the US "subsidizes" the rest of the world's health care is something that US pharmaceutical companies would very much like us to believe, but the evidence for it appears to be pretty shaky.
> the US spends more per capita on public healthcare than any other country in the world,

When you're developing most of the world's medical innovations, it should not be a surprise that we are the top spenders. For example, treatments like Car T-Cell therapy aren't cheap to develop or administer. Over time, those innovations will diffuse and they will become more available to less well off Americans and will become available to those outside America once cheap enough.
Ask HN: What should disillusioned founder do to help people?
I've been working solo on a startup for a few years. It's an educational software startup, and some people really like the product, but not enough to sustain the company long-term. I think it could be turned into something bigger and more impactful, but I'm not sure I personally have what it takes to get it there. In short, I may be wasting my time.

I want to do something worthwhile, and I can't stop thinking about the number of people in jail for no reason, the number of people in jail for bad reasons, climate change and our failure to deal with it, the increasing overtness of our leaders' racism and the racism of their policies, the failure of local land use policy and how that seems to affect nearly every other issue, etc...

I have some reasonably good technical skills (math/engineering/data science), and some decent business/people skills too, but not a 10x-er or whatever you want to call it.

What's the most impactful thing I could do? Work for FAANG and donate a lot of my salary? Volunteer on weekends? I donate what I can right now, and with a regular job I could donate more. I applied to work for Warren's campaign, but probably will not hear back. I'm at a loss, and am feeling quite useless.
> Effectively the investor gets a bigger principal than was actually loaned.

This difference between the amount loaned and the amount paid back over the life of the loan is commonly referred to as "interest".

It really feels like they're just playing semantic games here. Any proper comparison of APRs would include both components. A true "negative interest rate mortgage" would be one where the bank pays you to borrow money, with the total amount borrowed being greater than the total amount paid back to the bank.
I've felt that way about other Quanta articles, but this one seems substantially worse than usual to me.
I initially had a similar thought, but I don't think that applies here.

With Electron, you don't write a cross-platform base and then write all the platform-specific goo on top of it. You just write your app using web technologies, press the build button, and ship it on all the platforms you want to support.

Since web technologies are popular, you don't end up with the same issues hiring and training developers like you do when you need to teach a new hire about your bespoke cross-platform mobile solution.

With Electron, essentially your users pay for all of this by being forced to adopt a resource-hungry platform, while the development team gets a mostly-free pass.
No longer true; he transferred them to a fund owned by the company:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/wework-ark-fund-to-buy-co...
We can dismiss it as not particularly useful but it does contribute to human knowledge.

Most of us contribute much less to the body of human knowledge.
The part on recruiters is very so so. $15K in fees,in a place like SF,where devs don't come cheap, is peanuts. Meeting tens of candidates means a lot of time spent not doing something else, something more important,so the cost doesn't become lower. There are some crappy recruiters out there, however a good one would not just get a good candidate but also save a lot of time.
A few REP’s pay that price each year.... and they go out of business.

The price is a reflection of the scarcity of generation and transmission capacity when its 101°F at 90% humidity and the entire state has the A/C on full blast.

If you were plugged in with ERCOT as a generator (guessing you don’t have the millions to build one), and you were the last to get told to start up, and you were close to the source of the need, you most certainly could earn that much. That’s what “peaker plants” are. You’ve probably heard about how bad they pollute.

Oh, and that price might only last for 15 minutes.

If you’re generating electricity “behind the meter” (from solar panels) they usually agree to some nominal price but chances are if it’s that hot your system is using your panels to augment your grid usage.
Going from something like 30fps to 60fps, interpolation works decently well in many cases, because there's already so much information encoded in the 30fps. And some 15fps can work too.

But with 5fps, each frame can be so radically different, I think interpolation is generally just not possible. You can generate something smooth, but it will be so far away from whatever an animator would actually have inserted, that it will seem more strange/surreal than natural, and thus achieve the opposite effect as intended.

E.g. see [1] which shows animation at 15/30/60fps... you can see that even with the 15, it's hard to imagine an algorithm that would port well to 60. (Use the period on your keyboard to advance frame-by-frame.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMreLeVD6o
You might be joking, but I think that really is what we need, globally. An example could be - I should go to the supermarket, and just not be able to buy anything outside of a tight range of 'sustainability per nutrition'. Not rice and beans, but ridiculous offenders like say, fruit with air miles could be right out.

The idea that it'd be somehow terrible for this to happen baffles me.

Why couldn't it be more like WWI/WWII but without the explicit killing involved?

We are at war, and we need a war effort.
Startups That Became Tech Giants via Ruby on Rails
Thank you for sharing this, great read!
An efficient market prevents any sort of death spiral. The objective of a tariff, just like the objective of regulation, is to encourage/discourage a certain practice but that doesn't mean there aren't ways around them if they become overly burdensome. For example, when environmental regulations become too burdensome, outsource the job to a place where those regulations aren't present. This is why environmental laws can easily put American companies at an extreme disadvantage and should be carefully considered. A lot of the higher costs you are worried about are self-inflicted because of all the ridiculous overhead required to run a business now a days.
I think there's an irritation at Pinterest clogging up search engine results, which may lead to some antipathy towards it on HN.
Egypt is far away from the Amazon. Yet it's highly misleading (not reasonable) to say "no part of the planet is free from the impacts of Tutankhamun's thirst".

Individual atoms of light elements will very often travel around the world on decade-long timescales, regardless of whether they are dangerous or benign.
Many large market makers issue these instruments.

They are not traded OTC and thus would not face liquidity problems like the OTC instruments people couldn't offload during the GFC (specifically like those guys in the Big Short).

As far as what the instruments actually are: they are puts on broader market REITs/ETFs as well as localized ones. We cannot name the specific instruments as we do not want their prices being bid up.

Hope this clarifies and of course happy to answer any more questions you may have!
This made me think: I've found it hard enough to share code effectively on the backend, even when we're all using the same language and frameworks.

And people think it'll be easy to share code when you're targeting two completely different platforms with completely different frameworks in completely different languages?
One alternative: The Elm Architecture [0] is more like Model-View-Update than MVC. Examples aplenty [1].

[0] https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

[1] https://elm-lang.org/examples
The difference is that the wealth from cost-cutting (automation/outsourcing) isn't shared with the middle class, but instead goes to the capital holders.

If you look at the rise of the middle class in America it was from new service businesses flourishing, where skilled laborers could gain wealth. As the wealth gap grows, debt encumbers more young families, and the middle class shrinks, there is less disposable income to spend on services.
People don’t do many things that are easy. Barring unusual health issues, your body makes it really easy to regularly get enough sleep and has several mechanisms to push you in that direction. Yet, most Americans don’t get enough sleep regularly.
I wonder if that is a symptom of C++ having many recent revisions, thereby influencing, misleadingly, the definition of "experienced".
I have always wondered if the "deep state" is just effectively a synonym for the US Constitution. Everyone working in the government has sworn an oath to the Constitution, not to Trump. Any perception of coordinated efforts unaligned with Trump could just be effects due to the masses in the government operating according to the Constitution.

Especially if you observe inertia and radical changes by the White House ending up moderated. That's by design and it's in the Constitution... and it's called "checks and balances".
Yeah, that's why the unemployment rate is SF is probably so low too. Who can afford to hang out there without a job for more than two seconds?
So an academic doesn't like reusing industrial machinery for living in. Does he also hate rowhomes? Tokyo apartments? College dorm rooms? A Manhattan studio? There are many places in the world where you get a drab, rectangular living space, with less room than a shipping container, yet people are thankful for it.

Shipping containers may be the answer to what I consider a plague on the average American: minimum-sized homes. You can't live in a tiny home in America, because all homes are regulated to be a minimum size, rooted to a concrete slab, with a bevy of other regulations. So you have to choose between throwing your money away on renting, or buying an overpriced, unnecessarily large home.

A shipping container is small, incredibly strong, and unlikely to fly away under strong winds. They're also modular, which makes them adaptable. And they can be stacked, creating multiple floors without any extra engineering. You could easily expand your home's footprint whenever you could afford it!

For people who just want affordable housing, they're kind of amazing. Who cares if they don't look pretty? Build a facade! We did it in the 1950's with formstone, when people thought brick looked cheap and ugly. Maybe the editor can slap some fake bricks on the outside of the container and call it retro-modern.