skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I eat very little meat, but I'm not optimistic about convincing everyone else.

Also, we already know regular red meat causes cancer and other issues, so the health bar is not high.
It'll be interesting. Leaf have a not good rep vs battery life. Probably because of poor thermal management and a smaller (more highly stressed) battery pack. And short range.

But interesting to see what happens with the Leaf Plus over the next couple of years. (200 mile range more power).
So I read the Jesse Ausubel essay that apparently inspired this, and while I'm tempted to dismiss it all as utter unsupported horseshit, that would be unsupported as well. The most I can say that is defensible is that I'm suspicious of it, and here are some random thoughts about reasons why, in no particular order:

It could be clearer throughout, whether he's talking per capita or overall.

Data is selective and ignores resource utilization shifts. Example: In the 1940s crop acreage decoupled from crop yield, he says. Great! Instead it coupled to petroleum and energy, he doesn't say. American farms today are in the business of converting fossil fuels to food. For example, the 1940s are when when cheap internal-combustion tractors started being mass-produced, thanks to all that spare manufacturing capacity left over after the war. There's also a graph where he looks at "every input" into growing corn, even down to the phosphates, while scrupulously avoiding any talk of fuel or energy.

A resource shift of a different kind: efficiency gains in chicken production are due mostly to inhumane factory farm conditions. (Ones to which pork & beef are less amenable, hence chicken outdoes them.)

Wood is no longer used for railroad ties, because we use concrete. Which has its own problems! The point in most of this kind of example is that we stop using A because B comes along to fill the void. Nobody uses paper anymore, but they sure use a lot more lithium than they used to. And so on.

Finally, and speaking of stepping in to fill the void: ctrl-F - "China" - 1 match. The single mention is to refer to it as a developing country, not to acknowledge it as the present-day location of much of the USA's manufacturing.
I'd like to chime in on 9nGQluzmnq3M's side here -- I had exactly the same reaction for exactly the same reason. It does Japan's complex culture a complete disservice to wrap it up in a neat package of "exotic" and "ineffable." You wouldn't accept an analysis of fine wine, a new medication, or graphics cards from someone who didn't bother to learn about them, so why is an analysis of an entire culture from an equally ignorant standpoint acceptable?

Is it acceptable because "being an outsider" gives him a more "objective" viewpoint? So, his ignorance gives birth to wisdom?

Or is it acceptable because Japan has a history of being labeled "ineffable" and "exotic," meaning that nobody not Japanese can ever understand Japanese culture, so anyone can say whatever they want?

Anyone who starts claiming that there's a connection between "numbers of meanings [e.g. ways to translate a word into ANOTHER language]" and culture immediately starts setting off alarms in my head, but the Language Log sums that up much better than I ever could: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1088
Glad to hear. I’m two thirds of the way through and it’s so interesting.
I'm more than happy to pay my fair share in taxes. Honestly, I think they should scale much more quickly with income.

The real estate stuff isn't even my main job, it's a side business. I'm a full time software engineer.
>but to protect existing residents from being priced out.

Why is this something we should encourage/subsidize?
... and nobody will go to jail for this
You're absolutely right that what most politically engaged people want is to preserve the status quo. So they will use increased social control over housing production the same way they're using existing social control over housing production: to minimize it. Existing NIMBY communities won't allow significant new housing. They're certainly not going to initiate and pay for it. The housing shortage is exactly the same thing as these people getting what they want, neighborhoods and communities that look and feel the same over time, excluding however many former/would-be residents they need to exclude for that to happen.

De-commodified housing gives a community more control over who gets to be a resident, but there's no reason it would lead to a change in how many. Expensive cities already have the levers for that.
And a shell can't be a real language? https://scsh.net/
First use by Scott Fahlman, CMU professor.
I’m still stuck on the Chick-fil-A part. Haha.
Loved my GSX.
I totally agree. You should definitely be able to A/B test features, for instance, but if that's the point where the business is, you can run focus groups and do similar studies without running up against these regulations. My point is just that the business may need to succeed to some level before these regulations really become an issue. An analogous situation may be a small business being burdened by complex tax laws, but not until they acquire sufficiently sophisticated internal structure and revenue streams.

My point is that this can be factored into the growth of the company, rather than seen strictly as a barrier to entry, as suggested by the comment above. Are there really fresh startups that really need to worry about this kind of data gathering out of the gate? I'm imagining they're going to be spending a lot more time engineering features and interfacing with important clients to get data to improve their product directly. I often see business/marketing folks wanting user data for what amounts to very premature optimization.
Yes, very true, but if we're still unsure it may be worth testing them more, while if we've proven they don't work we can abandon them.
So no Schrodinger's Cat? The cat is the observer!

Sounds natural and obvious, so why haven't I heard this solution to Schrodinger's Cat many times before? Why is Schrodinger's Cat still considered a problem worth discussing ?
Because we make lots of policies that make housing hard to build in the first place.
Well, that does happen implicitly, except the full statement is "Sorry, we are full to our limit of low income residents." They eventually get replaced by richer residents.
It’s not that different from New York City which is technically 8.6 million, but people over a much larger area commute to the city center which has real impact on housing costs. Thus the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.3 million) and other such approximations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

It really comes down to transit not where lines are drawn on a map.
If you don't think you need a better solution then you have to admit you need a better argument; it seems like a lot of voters disagree with you.
Because our policies are currently aligned to make houses a good investment, which means they can never be affordable
what?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/business/economy/californ...
There is a reason why a little known company called Adyen is a $25b company on its own. Despite being less developer friendly they have contracts with way more big money enterprise firms...your Facebooks and Googles and Ubers of the world.

Stripe might be great for small companies or regional ones but there are many reasons why they haven’t won over high volume global enterprise cos yet.
France pays less for healthcare than the US and gets more. A lot more.

To pick a statistic, their maternal mortality rate is 1/3 of the US.

Because the US is a wealthier country overall it can waste more money and receive worse results. That isn't an argument in favor the US healthcare system.

Also, do you realize that the graph you are citing isn't tracking the cost of US healthcare to a US citizen, it is literally saying Americans spend 5% of their personal income on health insurance. It is not counting the taxes they already pay, the cost to their employers, etc.
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I am 100% okay with HN doing whatsoever they'd like with posts I've made that I haven't deleted. I know they have them. I personally wrote them here with my own two hands.

I am 100% not okay with HN doing anything at all with my location information. Why would they have that information in the first place? Why would they keep it?

The discussions I frequent are more of a gray area; I favor Maciej Ceglowski's Six Fixes a lot: https://idlewords.com/six_fixes.htm

But all of this is irrelevant to the thread you're replying to, because my user id is anonymous.
The sun always shines - somewhere in the world.

Is the problem of solar power at night more of an issue with transmission?
I wish there was a requirement of building 'x' homes before you can build 'y' and rinse & repeat. Need incentives or people just build the best contract deal.
Traditional Knowledge is a real thing, separate from the "noble savage" stereotype.
more than 11% of all rental apartments in New York City — sit either empty or scarcely occupied, even as many New Yorkers struggle to find an apartment they can afford.” One reason for the growing vacancy rates, as the article states, is the city’s high rent, which has risen twice as fast as inflation.
Have you seen any of the studies where psychedelics are able to resolve conditions like anxiety and depression that are resistant to other treatments? When a person goes through that kind of epiphany, it may sound insipid in words -- and thus not blow you away or sound like mundane "insights" -- but insights don't always have to be verbalizable. "Life is miraculous" sounds pretty obvious, but there are certainly times where it's more "in your face" than others.
But you and I are, right?
Agreed, the book is hit or miss in this regard. My take on actionable guidance ..

Step 1: choose a metric that makes sense.

Step 2: set a target for the metric.

Step 3: iterate until you hit the target.

So for "good, clear documentation" the right metric might be "other people using the documentation to do things and/or demonstrate they've learned something."

The target might be set a quiz or asking people to use the documentation to do something, and get a 80% passing rate.

The truly pragmatic thing is to not insist on getting anything right thr first time, to measure by outcomes not outputs, and especially to value the input of other people and be empathetic to your users, fellow developers, bosses and yes, even yourself (no failures, just data...)
> People will pay 5$ for 50 cents of coffee beans and enough sugar to drown a fly a day, but they will never pay 5$ a month to access nearly the entirety of mankind's collective knowledge at their fingertips in milliseconds

I pay a lot more than $5/month for Internet service.
Cheap, market-rate housing does exist in every city. It may not be where you want to live, but it exists. The issue is transportation, not subsidized housing that locks low-income people in an apartment they can't really afford.

Every city in the USA builds less housing than 20 ago, adjusted for population, etc. The primary reason is wealthy HIMBYs, lawsuits, laws, mandated affordable housing requirements, etc. In DC most new buildings require huge payments to the affordable housing fund, which in turn jack up middle class rents. Nonsense.
It's possible to try to support that, but you can never be sure.

For example, imagine that LLVM has a known bug with some pass, and it has a workaround somewhere else that disables generating IR that would hit that bug. A different version of LLVM may fix that bug, and remove the workaround - but then optimizing bitcode from another version could be vulnerable.

Another example is undefined behavior in LLVM IR. It may be handled differently in different versions, and it's hard to know what might happen from mixing them.

In general, LLVM is heavily tested - on each revision. I'm not aware of any large-scale project that tests all LLVM versions on LLVM IR from all other versions. That's untested. I'd be afraid to rely on that.

I don't know what Apple does with user-supplied bitcode, but if I were them I'd be recompiling old bitcode with the old LLVM that matches it, or something else (like subset the bitcode to remove undefined behavior, etc.).
Cities in the United States have no mechanism to prevent nonresidents from moving in. If nonresidents want to move in and capacity is not expanding it will drive up prices and result in economic pressures on the poorest residents until they vacate enough space to reach an equilibrium. A city can control how many people get to live there, or it can work to ensure that all current residents can continue to live there, but the Takings Clause of the Constitution essentially prevents doing both. Saying "sorry, we are full" (like San Francisco) amounts to telling a large portion of your poorest residents to get out (like San Francisco). People are generally pretty bad at putting two and two together and realizing that their misfortune is the result of poor capacity planning by their city government, but they still tend to get angry and angry people tend to vote out whoever is currently running their city, so pissing off a large swath of residents is rarely a good strategy.
There will be no incentive to be a good landlord when it legally can't net you more money than being a bad one. NYC made a law that banned landlords from doing more than some percentage worth of capital improvements. The result is nobody improves anything, and the buildings and living quality just gets worse for everybody.
It was years ago when Salt was still Orange.
Houses are very affordable these days. If you have decent credit and closing costs, the FHA will guarantee your loan. I bought my first house in 2012 paying only $6,000. It can be done.
Here's the episode about rent control on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/

If you don't know the podcast (or the books) I highly recommend those.
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Sure, if your only goal is the most efficient allocation of scarce resources.

However, 'supply and demand' doesn't care at all about fairness. Richer people will get more of the desired resource than poor people. Poor people might be priced out of the market entirely.

The 'free market' might end up with entire communities being forced to move to a cheaper area because their current location is highly desirable to wealthier people.

In a free market, this might be determined to be a fine outcome: people willing (and able) to pay more for that area get to live there.

Citizens might not think this is an ideal outcome. They might, with valid reasons, feel that poorer, existing, residents should be allowed to stay where they are, even if wealthier people from other areas want to move there.

I am not saying one side is right and the other is wrong, I am saying a free market only solves the efficient use of resources part of the equation, not the other parts.
> But you and I are, right?

No. I must pay market rate or live elsewhere.

Please don't be a hypocritical progressive.
The bottled water market has exactly 0 things in common with the housing market.

Every city is growing and adding more people than new housing construction. Thus rents go up. Hm, wonder what the solution would be? If a landlord has a unit open for 2 months maybe they would drop the rent? Crazy idea.
> it seems like a lot of voters disagree with you.

I don't know man, appealing to the authority of the collective wisdom of the voters seems like a pretty shaky foundation on which to base an argument these days.
Sonarr & Radarr + torrent client and come kind of front end for users to request content are the typical go-tos for Freenas + Plex setups.
Just to be clear, I'm not an US citizen, I've never been in the US nor plan to go there anytime soon and have no reasons to defend their government interests. So why do I think that arrest was part of a plot to gain a pawn to be used in exchange of something wrt the economic war between US and China? Because the weapon motivation is utter ridiculous! I can buy knives, steel balls, nunchakus, shurikens and swords any day from Chinese eShops, but apparently a bag of plastic balls (airsoft pellets are nothing more than small plastic balls) represents some national security issue for them.
Seriously folks, am I supposed to believe that the same people who identified, followed and arrested a former US military pilot are so dumb to think a bag of plastic balls represent a national security issue?
I'm not either defending the US nor bashing China here, just pointing the obvious as this happens everywhere: powers make the laws then bend them according to their needs. It's common people who is getting screwed, everywhere and everytime. That's just how power works: the Chinese govt will leverage that capture to gain something from Trump, Trump will lower the tariffs to get the poor ex pilot back home and that's it; corporations which outsourced to China will cheer Trump for helping their business and people will do the same for bringing back the hero home. Seen a million times.
GDPR protects EU residents (even abroad) when a business sells to them (or when a website targets them). At the point of sale, in order to figure out whether or not GDPR applies, a business needs to figure out whether or not someone is an EU citizen.

You have a couple of choices with a law like this:

1. Just comply with GDPR anyway. That's honestly the easiest choice, especially if you're already privacy conscious. But you're lucking out, because GDPR is a relatively mild law and comes with a bunch of exceptions that make it easy to comply with. It's not a good long-term strategy to say, "I'll just comply with every country, and that way I'll never need to figure out who my customers are."

If you're not interested in complying with GDPR, then you have to stop selling to EU citizens.

2. At the point of sale, you can use something like billing information to try and figure out where your customer lives and block them if they're an EU citizen. This is unacceptable to someone who wants universal anonymity for citizens, because it requires billing information to be tied to identity/location. You're basically guaranteeing that you can't ever move to a payment system that doesn't provide that information.

Maybe you can skip billing information, and use some kind of government ID number instead. But no matter what, you need some way to tie the thing giving you money to the person who legally has a citizenship in a country.

3. If you don't want to verify, you can just ask the person if they're European and block them if they say 'yes.' This is probably the compromise that would make anonymity-advocates happiest, because it doesn't require any extra data to be collected and customers can lie. But that's also the problem -- customers can lie.

In the US, the most direct analogy here is COPPA. COPPA is a set of privacy restrictions for what information can be collected about children under the age of 13. There are traditional ways you can fall foul of COPPA (some sites are just obviously targeting children). But for the most part, the US went with option 3 -- you ask people their age before they sign up for your site, and you block them if they're under 13.

Again, option 3 is great for people who love anonymity. But it takes all the teeth out of COPPA, because children just lie and use the services anyway, and then their privacy gets violated. And the company winks and very coyly says, "Oh, we had no idea 10 year olds were signing up for Facebook. It's not our fault."

If you wanted a COPPA that did more to restrict data collection, you would probably prefer something like option 2 -- where we collect enough information about children so that they can't fake their age, and use that to block access. Except doing that reliably would require either building a national identity database or collecting other data that would itself be considered by some people to be a violation of privacy.
Because pricing people out of their homes is an extreme inconvenience, and also expensive - finding a new place takes time, moving in costs time and money.

And that's assuming that if they can't find housing sufficiently nearby, they may also need to find a new job, lose friends, have a harder time staying in touch with family, etc.
I’ve spent a lot of time there - agreed.
This article ignores the political dynamics. Pro-supply policies like zoning reform are much more popular when bundled with anti-displacement measures, which address people's anxiety about them.

A mild level of rent control such as the new California law is not nearly as damaging to supply as policies like strict height limits. Knowing that rent control isn't fully optimal, I'd still gladly trade one for the other.
It really isn't. You pretend like rent control laws force everyone to raise rent every year double the rate of inflation. That isn't the case, and if they did they'd price themselves out of the market. Rents are competitive in Oregon, and I imagine they'll get even more competitive.

The biggest hassle with rental property, as you are well aware I am sure, isn't the government -- it's shitty tenants.
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I'n thinking that the content-provider obviously would set the price, I would decide whether to click if it is 25 or fifty cents.

I don'think it would be more exhausting than being in a bar and putting coins into the jukebox.

Automatic funding sounds interesting, was it explained in the article somewhere? Or is the point that we should use 100 million to develop a working automatic funding algorithm since no such thing exists yet?
Everytime talking about this, I do think living in China is a more affordable option, I have a plan(coperation perk) which offer me 20GB data, but after that it will be throttled to 100KB/s, which cost me 10 rmb/mon.
Landlords in SF hate rent control. The allowable increases don’t even cover inflation as far as I can tell. Any place where landlords will pay tenants $$$$$ to move out (at best) or burn their place down and keep it empty until they can rebuild as condos (at worst) is not a place where they like rent control. I benefit from rent control but it also locks me into an apartment. I’d love to move but it would cost 2-3x to get something equivalent which is market rate, let alone actually get a better place. We really need to build more housing and decent infrastructure like other world class cities.
> High housing costs are always, without fail, a regulatory problem.

True, I would have built a 10,000 square foot single famly home with a massive yard in manhattan facing central park but those damn regulations are making it too expensive /s
I've integrated 8+ payments APIs over my career. IMO, Stripe's "secret sauce" is the quality of the API and the documentation. It's so compelling that I repeatedly choose Stripe over other payments systems that offer network effects like PayPal and Amazon.

I sometimes get asked by customers if we take PayPal. I tell them truthfully "no, it's just too much trouble".

It doesn't seem like "better developer experience" is much of a moat, but based on how bad the competition is - year after year - it sure seems to be. I wonder what other services could be "disrupted" the same way.
Whoever you are, seriously, I love you for this commentary. Thank you.

> Set yourself free, and cast off the 24/7 toxic work culture of SV that's keen on producing useless shit for problems no one has. Don't let yourself be consumed by the entropy emamanting from startup land. You don't have much time on Earth. Don't give it to unworthy efforts and assholes.

I’m glad that someone said it!
Because it's a workaround, and shows just how far apart the legacy tech is from a modern experience.