skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest complaints with the Leaf are obstructions in the horizontal field of view. The A Pillars are literally A shaped triangles that are just massive obstructions and the large side mirrors protrude upward and outward further obstructing my forward view. The center rear view mirror always manages to be obstructing my view of signs or traffic lights, especially when cresting hills, and I find myself bobbing and weaving to look around it.

In the Leaf I have the seat all the way back and bottomed out as low as it goes. At that position I can see forward just fine though at some traffic lights I do have to lean forward and lookup. However at that position my shoulder is still forward of the B pillar so when look left I have an obstructed over the shoulder view. Looking right isn't much better as the rear passenger window tapers upward so I can only see up and out, not down.

If the A pillars were narrow and not triangular, the side mirrors smaller and lower, and the rear windows didn't taper up but were just horizontal then it wouldn't bother me so much. As it stands, I just find myself bobbing and weaving a lot like I'm trying to find something I dropped under the kitchen table trying to look around a dozen chair legs.

Contrast that with the Model 3 where I also have the seat mostly back and bottomed out. The low hood and high ceiling give great elevation view and the narrower A pillars and smaller lower side mirrors offer much less obstruction. That combined with the glass roof gives a very open air feel to the car.

In the Model 3 my shoulder sits behind the B pillar so when I look left the pillar is in the middle of my FOV so my left eye can look out the rear driver side window. This is how it was in the last 3 Accords I owned and my partner's Corolla. When I look right out the passenger side the low window line that's mostly horizontal affords excellent visibility out the rear passenger window over my shoulder.

In the Leaf I'm occasionally surprised by cars, something I've not experienced with any other car or even truck that I've driven.
Take a walk down market street.. by city hall. Disgusting and yet why is it so bad and in your face and not like that in say new york city? Doesn't NYC put the homeless up in hotels.. have a voucher program or something?

San Fran doesn't care how terrible their city looks to tourists nor care for its people like NYC does? I don't get it ... uber super tech rich living in the most expensive houses in the US with human feces outside on their pavements or around the corner.

Whatever San Fran is doing and methodology it's following it doesnt seem to be working out for itself!
They've been having problems for nearly 4 decades.
And yet, I had to call / email dozens of time to get a hold of WeLive leasing agent to rent a ~$4,000 month studio apartment
Not a useful link. All I get is a big pop-div saying I have to pay $49 to see the chart.
> A very instructive exercise for anyone who is or intends to be a software developer is to write some sort of interpreter and/or compiler.

Another exercise, perhaps less demanding in this regard, is to explore using Free Monads[0] to implement an EDSL[1] for a problem domain. Of course, the approachability of this varies based on the person involved.

> For instance, and amusingly enough written in golang, one of the most respected recent books on this topic is `Writing an Interpreter in Go` and its sequel `Writing a Compiler in Go`.

Queue obligatory reference to "the dragon book":

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools[2]

0 - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2427...

1 - https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-embedded-domain-specific-la...

2 - https://suif.stanford.edu/dragonbook/
Healthcare? Housing?
Also see:

https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pig_War
Comparing an index (inflation) with individual parts of the index in order to claim that people are worse off is dumb.

If you want to know if people are better off, look at real income. It's very clearly increasing over the last few decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein

The techniques aren’t secret. You can buy books about them on amazon. It’s like memorizing the Iliad, Odyssey or the Koran, completely doable for a human of normal intelligence but a lot of work.
https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/blob/master/...

Yeah I thought the same, found this in the repo though.
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Interestingly enough, the collective net worth of the Chinese leadership is higher than the US leadership by at least an order of magnitude.

> The richest 70 members of China’s legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president and his Cabinet, and the nine Supreme Court justices.

> The net worth of the 70 richest delegates in China’s National People’s Congress, which opens its annual session on March 5, rose to 565.8 billion yuan ($89.8 billion) in 2011, a gain of $11.5 billion from 2010, according to figures from the Hurun Report, which tracks the country’s wealthy. That compares to the $7.5 billion net worth of all 660 top officials in the three branches of the U.S. government.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-02-26/china-s-b...

So, if anything, wealthy Chinese people exert an even greater degree of control over the political process than wealthy Americans do over theirs.
It doesn't work like that- the geometric design of high speed rail and interstate highways are significantly different. The same is true for heavy rail vs high speed rail. You need much larger curves, and much smaller gradients for high speed rail.

Also clear space requirements for interstates would likely be infringed, which is one of the biggest factors of safety.

A more workable approach would be to reclaim abandoned rail ROW, and purchased additionally required ROW to extend curve length, where required. However much of this ROW has already been reclaimed by landowners and built upon.
If they cared about children they'd be putting money and effort into the education system instead of surveillance. Napkin math - It costs the feds roughly $1000 per child per year for school, and the NSA about $250,000 per employee per year. BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN we could be spying on!
> It was communism, or a reasonably well enough attempted recreation of the original dogma to be effectively called communism

Assertion is not an argument. It clearly abandoned core principles of Marxist Communism, which it claimed to be, in order to bypass the necessity of first having a developed capitalist economy in which broad proletarian class-consciousness developed. And, whether or not one might argue that Marxist Communism itself has authoritarian elements, the vanguardista adaptations made by Lenin were necessarily radically more authoritarian.

Was the USSR’s political system something that fits in some category useful for any purpose with earlier things called “Communism”, or even later ones that aren't it's direct descendants? Maybe. But it was at least as far from Marxist Communism as the modern mixed economy that replaced the system Marx called “capitalism” throughout the developed West is, and other than propaganda utility it's hard to see what real value associating it with some broader “Communism” in opposition to the modern mixed economy has.
Maybe showing my age, but I'm incapable of reading the phrase "If you want something visual" without hearing it in Tim Curry's fruity Sloane Square tones.
The plan is for the startup to make money eventually or for one of my side projects to turn into a business. If my entire income was replaced then I would focus on making the side projects into real businesses if possible. But that is a small amount but much more than $500.
This opinion piece provides no context to bits like "The “unsheltered” count continues to rise—up 17%, to 8,011, in 2019 from 2017—and San Francisco continues to wonder why." Or the 17 needle deposits that apparently teach all the children of a 900K-person city that drug use is the norm.

In fact, San Francisco has grown by 100K people in the last 10 years, and construction hasn't kept up. Costs have risen incredibly, while incomes of longstanding citizens in many cases have not.

This is simply a right-wing hit piece on the leftist movements against the war on drugs, gentrification, housing cost inflation, and mass incarceration.

You can't claim the city is wrong about lack of public spending unless you discuss the spending, and the challenges, realistically and with context.
Amid a global shortage of tech talent, what can Singapore and its companies do?
Yep, Ronald is extremely nice and helpful!
This is an excellent libc for embedded systems. I am looking to add it to a self hosted tcc (Bellard's C compiler) on ARM Cortex-M systems.
I empathize, and it's not always great. In response to "how can people put up with this?", I'm not sure what we can do. Meaning, I'm not sure there's an action I could take to improve things.

Also, not saying it isn't bad, and not saying we shouldn't do something (anything) to make things better, but you probably walked down one of the worst stretches (depending on which part of market street you went down).
I live in San Francisco and I don’t see how it could be worse. I’ve lived everywhere in the world and I’ve never seen such disparity. It’s depressing honestly. Every day I walk on market street to get to my bus and in 15 minutes I see 15 homeless people. They are always crazy, like they’re going to die, some will try to grab me as I walk passed them sometimes. It’s fucking depressing.
> People get suspended for clap backs at Nazis. And the Nazis keep on Nazi-ing and no one seems to care.

OK I'll stop right there. Whoever he is thinking of is not a Nazi and it's a despicable horrific lie to say they are a Nazi. The author is a despicable person and whatever he has to say after these insane claims is useless.

edit: Anonymously flagged! Hilarious. Defend your position that these people are actually Nazis. You can't because it's obviously an absurd, inane, and mentally deficient position with no substance whatsoever, and also highly insulting to actual Holocaust victims. Not surprising because those shouting Nazi the loudest always prove to have social media records of extreme anti-semitism. Insulting the Holocaust is par for the course of the modern Nazi accuser. Again I implore, prove your claims this or that persons you accuse are actually Nazis. You can't because the accusation is insulting, racist, ignorant, demagoguery. Contemporary Nazi accusations are absurd, insulting, outrageous, offensive.
My "truth" is not your "truth" is not someone else's "truth". None of us is wise enough to tell someone else that their truth is wrong, so expecting someone to write software that is would be asking a bit much.

Filtering out opinions the majority doesn't want to pay to hear is simpler and more lucrative anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health

It is estimated that 20–25% of homeless people, compared with 6% of the non-homeless, have severe mental illness.

Others estimate that up to one-third of the homeless suffer from mental illness.
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Well, then definitely try the Kurobe Gorge mountain railway! It's a originally industrial railway in a deep valley that was used for dam construction. On the hour long journey it goes through none less than 42 tunnels & the view (when not underground :) ) is breathtaking. :)
You know, I really agree with a lot of this. It's maybe not an unreasonable argument to make that maybe OO-heavy or Akka-ish Scala might be a better investment for a lot of people, considering the weight and momentum of the communities maintaining these, and these expressiveness of the language in these domains.

But I think if we're only talking about pure FP, or at least something close to very pure, I think you're still getting a better deal than Haskell, even in spite of all those quite legitimate downsides you mentioned. My own personal biases mean that I will always prefer pure FP to anything else (I personally didn't love Akka and Play when I used them briefly), but that's an argument for another day.
Wow, surprising to see the DC numbers but I always felt the downtown area was much cleaner than SF.
If that were the case Fidel Castro would have gotten it.
You are aware that just because you think something, doesn't mean it can't be any other way and that your view is obvious to everyone, right?
If it goes in the bank, it gets invested. If it’s spent frivolously, it goes to someone who was able to provide value to you. It isn’t “wasted” in either case.
I hope you've looked up your local wiretapping laws...
A relevant statistic I found interesting: SF had 10x the number of feces complaints as the entirety of NYC in 2017[1]. Having lived in both places, that’s a larger difference than I would have expected, although I do encounter it far more often in SF than I ever did in NYC.

https://www.realtyhop.com/blog/doo-doo-the-new-urban-crisis/...
I've been living in San Francisco for 7 years and it just feels lawless.

I've been kicked while riding my bike, I've had people come up and start screaming obscenities at me, I've been followed for multiple blocks by someone yelling at me, I've been threatened, I've witnessed people shooting up heroin and smoking crack in broad daylight dozens of times, I've seen a man pee himself in his wheelchair. The list goes on and on. Sure, you're going to see more intense concentrations of this stuff in the Mission and the Tenderloin, but, damn.

The sidewalks and streets are disgusting. The city just doesn't seem like it's actually governed. All the city supervisors seem to care about is blocking new housing because that's what their constituents want.

You see enough of this stuff and you just start to try and ignore it. But it eats at me. Seeing people every day enduring levels of despair that are completely depraved hurts the soul.
Perhaps that might happen in hundreds of years but in our lifetimes there won't be robots that can do trail maintenance in rugged terrain, or babysit small children, or paint an original mural on a public wall. So I'll never support wasting tax money on UBI. Bring on a public jobs program, like those we had during the Great Depression.
Hello knzhou,

I think what you describe is a very interesting experience.

I'm not an American, but I lived there for many years as a young adult, and I now live in Australia.

One thing both our countries have in common is that we both lock children in cages - refugee children - and we pay private contractors to do it in out of the way places - and extraordinary lengths are taken to avoid public oversight.

Terrible things happen in both countries, and overseas on behalf of both countries.

Currently a prominent former Australian solider appears to be under investigation for kicking civilians of a cliff (to their death) in Afghanistan because it was inconvenient to keep them prisoner. I say _appears_ because there is a lot of secrecy around the case.

Being challenged on the the ugliest truths about our nation or group is difficult, and it is rarely done in a way that is an example of elevated standard of generous and noble behaviour the speaker suggests we should be held to - If there is a European country that is an example unbroken principled dignified conduct I would be delighted to learn of it's existence.

That said, the anger at the hypocrisy of the person challenging us, is probably best separated from the shame we feel at the truth about the darkest sides of our nations.

Everything that is good and true about the United States and Australia as immigrant nations that allowed people fleeing poverty and war a new and better life, is not invalidated by, nor does it invalidate the reality that both nations were built on a genocide of the original inhabitants, that slavery and oppression were used to build the foundation of the wealth we now enjoy.

I think we are a better kind of patriot, when we see the horrors of our own countries and do no look away or excuse them, and we are even better when we work to fix the parts of our nations that are broken.

I've always felt the phrase 'my country, right or wrong', is a more noble statement if is taken to mean I take responsibility 'right or wrong' rather than the double speak interpretation of "right even when it's wrong".
If you are anything like me, then probably both of us are guilty of not being patriotic enough, of enjoying the privileges and wealth our nations provide and taking too little responsibility for helping steer its course.
Exactly. Big money is scared of sanders/Warren. They will continue to escalate until the election.
These are the kinds of things Steve Ballmer's USAFacts should have, but it doesn’t.
It's interesting watching movies from the 70s and 80s depicting New York. It looks like present day San Francisco or Baltimore, and not at all like modern New York.
Ask HN: Anyone having GPS accuracy issues with latest iOS
I have noticed today that it’s pinning my location on Apple Maps, Google Maps and other apps at least a mile away.
Can confirm. I lived in NYC for 4 years, only saw poop like once or twice. Visited SF for one week, saw poop about 5 times.
Americans have been carefully propagandized to believe that governments can't do anything right

Then the people decide to give the government a chance, pass a proposition asking for rail, and then the government completely screws it up. Terrible route, corrupt, massively over budget, graft, and effectively cancelled after a decade of waste and work. So now even progressive people in progressive California are thinking the government can't so anything right, not because of propaganda, but because they see the failure.
And 10 blocks away, where I have lived for 10 years, I see none of what you describe. The city is funny like that. Sad fact is, the homeless are incredibly concentrated around areas with lots of tourism and public visibility, because when you're homeless, you want to be around other people because you have _nothing_.
Many businesses like encryption but not end-to-end encryption because they need to monitor their employees' communications. For some businesses (financial firms) this is a regulatory requirement, which is why they were against TLS 1.3.

(I'm not saying they're right, but to say that end-to-end encryption is always pro-business is naive.)
Implied consent passed in California in 1998.
The problem is Americas version of left is "I will do nothing to help you but I won't intervene if you do drugs on the street" and their version of the right is "I will do nothing at all to help you but you will be punished for any rule breaking"
It is pretty practical when you go to the airport.
Sorry, we don't currently have internship positions available.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumps-war-on-the-home...

This podcast has a pretty good discussion and explaination on the different causes of homelessness. The distinction between "working homeless" in cities where housing costs are skyrocketing and people with medical issues or addiction was interesting to hear talked through with nuance.
Here is another discussion on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836336

It is true, there is a tool that was developed to basically plant evidence on a compromised machine. So the idea here being that the hired hackers would compromise the machine and then the government client would tell the hackers to put CP, incriminating evidence or other stuff on the machine before the police raided the house/building. The computers would be seized and then it would be used as evidence to prosecute the target.

It is real.

Also if you are interested, dark net diaries did an episode on this group called "hacking team".

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/38/
Still, go say that on TV. I'm not even sure I'm safe writing it here.

FWIW, I applaud your willingness to make such a statement. (And no, this is not sarcasm!) Self-censorship is a horrible thing, and I feel like I die inside a little bit every time I catch myself doing it. But more and more these days it begins to feel like even hinting at a willingness to engage in "thought-crime" is exceedingly dangerous. I mean, shit, a woman got passed on for a job because she had a picture of herself in a bikini on her Instagram. Imagine if a prospective employer find a comment online which could even remotely be twisted into saying that some child deaths are a sacrifice that may be inevitable in order to protect an abstract principle like Freedom, or "Free Speech". Zoinks!
Sorry, I'm not too knowledgeable of the math part of the distribution. Usually, we would want some set of points from the surface of the object that maximizes the distance between each point and its nearest neighbors. Then, the points would be distributed with uniform density across the surface.

In my previous paper, I've shown that moving the points around on the surface of an object does lead to imperceptible but effective adversarial attacks, as you've observed.
> For some reason people really want this to be a bad idea and I’m not sure why.

We just voted on a library levy renewal in Seattle and the (comparatively very small) part of the levy that would pay to remove library fines was basically all anyone talked about. A small chunk of the talking points centered around whether fines should be a deterrent or if they have a purpose. But the majority? Boiled down to some variant of "people will get away with stealing library books" / "what if homeless people get free books and aren't punished for not being like the rest of us and returning books?"

I come down on "library fines are not beneficial to what libraries are supposed to do," for what it's worth, and voted yes on the levy in large part so that fines would be done away with.
Wealth inequality and lack of housing. Where's my prize?
Political Operatives Faked Millions of Comments Against Net Nuetrality
levels.fyi is currently showing $466k median offer total comp for L6 (staff SWE) at google. Who is paying $395k-$420k to IC hires without FAANG style interviews? The only other companies paying that to IC hires that I know of are in the financial industry and that interview process is even worse.
I'd never considered this as Right vs. Left, but I definitely perceive it as a category of article where New York Media likes to highlight San Francisco's failings.

These are really meant to be feel good pieces for the readers by triggering a sense of superiority. I say this as a native San Franciscan who moved to NYC and plans to stay here.

Some of these articles are less grim, for example this piece on Silicon Valley sock fashion was definitely read by many New Yorkers as reinforcing the idea that we have real style here (i.e. making socks your fashion calling card is like watching a little kid play dress up).
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley...

Equally ridiculous to me was the NYT covering a San Francisco high school debating what to do with a mural. Where is the impact to a New York reader? Zero.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/san-francisco-murals.h...

Theoretically, the WSJ and NYT are national papers, but they do really have New York readers as their base. So for that reason, I never pay any attention to their take on anything bay area related.
There are plenty of rich foreigners who would be happy to buy US housing.
For local backups, Time Machine on macOS. Very easy to use recovery features, everything integrated into the OS.
Maybe an encompassing description of "cite" is "to publicly recognize"
You're legally allowed to wear all black clothing walking beside the road at night. That doesn't make it a good idea.