skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1-3% does not pass the sniff test. Way too high.

A quick search gives the number 0.6% according to a 2016 study.
That's pretty bullshit if you consider their USP is cheap tunneling. Then they should be just building cheap tunneling then trying to build custom public transit that allow only for electric cars with compatible self driving systems.
>>>* Drug issues

>>>* Pockets of STD's spikes that happen every few years

These seem like "those who live in glass houses should not throw bricks" positions to me. [1][2][3] And if you look at the STI maps by region, it's the poor Southeast states with the highest disease rates, not the Flyover Country interior (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, etc...)

[1]https://alt1053.radio.com/blogs/kcbs-radio/san-francisco-has...

[2]https://www.sfaf.org/resource-library/hiv-hep-c-statistics/

[3]https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
Yes, GAAP accounting considers the payment for building the road as purchasing an asset. Cash account goes down, road assets go up.

The depreciation expense for using the road accrues to whoever/whatever it is being used for.

If you allocate roads exclusively for buses, buses need to cover the cost of maintaining the road.

Today buses can’t even cover the cost of running the buses.
I really like this sentiment, because it's absolutely true.

As I wrote elsewhere: If someone isn't willing to write constructive feedback/criticism and they're reaching for the low-hanging fruit of insults and disparaging remarks, nothing they've written is worth reading. Ignore it and move on. Learn from it if you have to, but it isn't worth any further mental effort--much less going so far as to let it knock the wind out of your sails and stop posting!
All things are not the same thing. We are not talking about using the wrong pronouns, or deadnaming, intentionally or otherwise. We are talking about somebody who expressed a preference to favor "writing in a gender-neutral way" (her words) over using specifically "them" and "they" for (ostensibly) a linguistic reason having nothing to do with the identity of people who prefer those pronouns for themselves.

It's irresponsible to trot out this sort of vague common-sense rhetoric (most of which I agree with, of course) to justify inventing an offense, or blowing something small way out of proportion, and on that basis piling on in public social media to paint the accused with the brush of transphobia or racism or whatever it may be.
> there is currently no actual use-case for more bandwidth on mobile devices.

Well I typically only use ~1GB or so per month, but I want my webpages and RSS feeds to load at the fastest speed my device supports.
If nothing else, we should be thanking China for exposing the bullshit "end of history" promises of neoliberalism and globalization: namely, that more free trade and laissez-faire capitalism will automatically lead to democracy spreading everywhere.

Actually, no: companies are pure amoral profit-seekers, and so if the most important market in the world demands these companies fall in line, then they do, freedom and Western values be damned. Womp womp.
For a different anecdote about Florida, I grew up in Tampa. When I left in 2002, it was because finding tech jobs there that weren't based around Windows networking or AS/400s was... difficult. The market for Unix web developers wasn't entirely non-existent, but when the company I was at laid me off, the best I could do was a three-month contract.

When I did have a full-time job, it was to a company in a business park. Nobody had a 3-minute commute there. I don't know if anyone who works in an office anywhere in Tampa Bay has a 3-minute commute. My mom lives in a genuinely rural part of Florida, and if I lived there, I'd either be working remotely -- giving me a zero minute commute, I guess -- or I'd be lucky if my commute was under an hour each way, because the chances of finding a tech job anywhere within a twenty-mile radius are pretty much zero.
There are no screenshots of the UI on the homepage. Adding them would be helpful.
Incentives matter and that is a really dangerous incentive.
I don’t buy the whole “it doesn’t matter because it is the government”-thing. In the two bigger european cities I lived in service quality and government efficiency were usually very interesting voter topics. And local governments who didn’t manage to increase or at least uphold service quality would usually end up losing in the future.

So the thing that doesn’t seem to work in the US is the “hold them accountable”-part. Maybe public transport quality just isn’t an issue the typical US voter considers their business?
> "The US has over 300 cities with a population of more than 100,000 people"

I hate being pedantic, but the US doesn't have 100 cities with 100k+ people, but I do get your overall point

edit: oops was wrong, somehow I was thinking 300 even though I read and typed 100. My mistake
Barbri isn't free, but it's much cheaper than law school. You don't need school to learn the law, you just need to borrow and buy some books.
I’m surprised no one has made a building with units compatible to the size of Japanese apartments in Osaka. Tiny rooms, sure, but with their own one-unit bathroom/shower and a sink and stove.

Don’t need much more than that. I lived in one for about 450 usd... I paid extra for the small balcony.

But I guess most people in san fransisco would not want to live in such “cramped” spaces. Either that, or more likely there isn’t anyone willing to build such a place.
> it's very well-regarded in the modular synth community

Maybe. All but one of the modular synth guys I know are hardware purists. They look down on VCV and even semi-modular synths like the Behringer Neutron. You'd think some of these modular guys were in a cult, heh. (I've always just seen modular synths as just another tool.)
The whole discussion is built on a fantasy socialist utopia where the robots do all the work and we just issue everyone a paycheck to not work. Socialists have been singing this song since the beginning of socialism. It will never work because it doesn't match with human nature. Some kind of work must be found, and people will demand differential outcomes based on that work. People will destroy the robots before they let this socialist u/dys-topia come to fruition.
Governments are not profit-driven in many other countries with outstanding transit.

Why is America so bad compared to them?
Comedy = tradegy + time.

You can absolutely make jokes about even the worst things in history; it all depends on how you approach the subject.
FSF and GNU (After Stallman's Departure from FSF)
Thanks. Is there any code to look at? (Couldn't easily find anything relevant on that repo…) I didn't mention it earlier, but I'm collecting a list of alternative TeX implementations[1] so if there's even (say) a dozen lines of WEB that have been converted to Rust, I'd be very eager to take a look and compare — it would be illuminating.

[1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/507846

Edit: To answer my own question. The relevant source (corresponding to the main part of xetex.web) is here: https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/blob/2580c55/engine/src...
I've posted a comparison of some example code first from the official xetex.web listing, and then from the “Rust” code here: https://gist.github.com/shreevatsa/627399d0150e66d211a264bc0...

You can draw your own conclusions from comparing the code samples, but to point out a few obvious differences:

• What has the symbolic name “fi_or_else” in the WEB code has become the magic number “108” in the Rust code. (This is because the author of this project decided to have their Rust code start from the autogenerated C code which has already lost this symbolic information.)

• What is simply “if tracing_ifs>0” in the WEB code is 29 lines of Rust code, involving a magic offset into eqtb.

• The comments from the original are gone.

• Something like “cur_if:=subtype(p);” becomes “cur_if = (*mem.offset(p as isize)).b16.s0 as small_number;”.

I wonder how maintainable such Rust code will be. These problems are not insurmountable and the code can always be cleaned up later I guess… my point is simply that at the moment it is not idiomatic Rust code, for instance.
City growth cannot be endless. Everything has an end. It is the same thing for Paris. With the "Grand Paris", we try to build new subways, but it is tremendously expensive.
i don't think it's trolling. it's just a different opinion. may not agree but i do appreciate individual expression.
They've got compensated in visibility. I don't know any moderator with less than 20k points to date.

And the more points you have, the upper you stay in the ranks and you can always embed their badge in your website.

So, yes, they don't earn money, but they receive visibility
OK but you can do all that in your native language also. It's called grammar and rhetoric, part of the language arts, taught in schools worldwide.
The "meritocratic" system is as big a fraud and every bit as bad (if not worse) than the inheritance system.
VPS:

- https://bytemark.co.uk (VPS, colo and leased physical by competent & responsive folks (in Manchester IIRC))

- https://linode.com (more than just Linux)

- https://pair.com (24/7 phone support in North America, has FreeBSD offerings too, been in business a long time)

Bonus: And physical servers: https://unixsurplus.com
Cars pay their own way (and then some). But it’s not merely through fuel taxes.

It also includes sales taxes, excise taxes, registration fees, and tolls.

From yesterday;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21166297
Yeah, it kills me when they say they are "people who have invested a lot in the network". Sorry, kids, but investors get stock. Employees get paid. And only non-profits have volunteers.

Stack Exchange describes themselves as a "a hyper-growth enterprise software company" [1]. I have no idea why anybody's giving them free labor. I'll happily volunteer for Wikipedia. But until somebody sets up a non-profit Q&A site, there's no way I'm contributing content.

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overf...
There's a difference between a who and a what.

Also consider: you can ask a PRC official what they think, and you'll get a response. Try to do the same thing to a pile of money? Crickets.
"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?" --Stalin

Today the Vatican is still a state. The Catholic church remains influential. The USSR has fallen and the Soviet system has been discredited.

The above article would not have been written if the CCP's objections were an effective way to silence western critics. It would not be unreasonable to expect a truly powerful entity to be unconcerned with criticisms from a basketball team's GM.

History will tell all.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Any idea if there is something that supports animated gifs?
Not to mention the people in China are pretty nationalistic and are on the side of the government when it comes to the situation in HK, so the response from the people in China and the CBA is not surprising.
Its seem common for China shills on HN to use words like "misunderstand" and "misinform" and then continue to go into a random blabbing of opinion.
It doesn't have anything to do with promoting sport, which is why the guy tweeted on his personal account.
So basically volunteer, but if you want to change things you should just leave? SO gets the spoils of labor and you get a high quality knowledge base.
Tokyo, London, Singapore all also have lower costs and plenty of skyscrapers
I don't think the neighbors want apartments either. That would instantly crater the desirability of the neighborhood. This matters both for the people concerned about finances and for the people who just want to live their lives in peace.

You can't just move a really old person without increasing the risk of death. She would lose her connections to church and family. She would lose the familiarity of her home, both inside and out. This would likely cause depression and might even cause confusion.

If we're going to be coveting land, what about the park? The land value of Golden Gate Park is immense. People wanting a park can go visit one where the land isn't as expensive.
Here’s a pretty comprehensive answer on the topic from the original UMAP author: https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap/issues/25

Clustering the output of UMAP is also given a nice tutorial in the docs: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/clustering.html

Basically, the answer is yes you can do this, but verify and analyze the output to ensure it makes sense (e.g. coloring points by known features/labels). For example, if you have a small number of points in the dataset (<1000), UMAP tends to display a dense cluster that is quite separated from the remaining data. However, this apparent cluster is spurious and contains noisy data points that UMAP couldn’t “figure out what to do with” (they are similar in their dissimilarity to the other data).
We need Bay Area salaries everywhere in the world and we will happy I guess
Moral relativism is bullshit buddy
South Park: Band in China (S23e02)
What does this visibility mean? Can it be converted to cash somehow?
After doing a quick research this Answers seems to be a Yes.

Challenges
1)Do you have the right Monetization Model?
2)Do you have the right channel partners to reach customers?
3)Have you gained critical mass in one city. Probably where you stay or targeted city?
Yes, I believe that's what the GP is saying.
That's completely valid but there's a world of difference between 300 sq feet and 500-600 sq feet per person. The McMansion is rediculious but that doesn't mean that the opposite extreme isn't also crazy.

Admittedly, my family of three lives in 1800 sq feet and we probably have at least 200 sq feet that only gets used a handful of days a year. I wouldn't want to go smaller than about 1300 sq feet for our family though.
If only there was a way to decide on what local governments should do based on certain topics. In most cities where public transport is in the hands of the local government, the direction things should take is decided by voting and governments that fuck up public transport, are voted out. This is how it works on a city level in many european cities at least.
They invested time and effort with the goal (presumably) of building/maintaining the community. You may think that is a poor decision on their part; but it is still an investment, and they are still volunteers.
Fun, if a bit rough, parody of that too. https://youtu.be/kC0uMKXsVM4

When I was travelling in the U.S. a few weeks ago, I was able to buy a month's unlimited data and North American calling and SMS on some random MVNO from some random phone shop in middle of nowhere NY, including a new SIM and activation, for less than one pays for a month with a cap here in Ontario.

Even the corrupt, cronyistic telecom arrangements in the U.S.† are dramatically better than those in Canada.

† Not that the U.S. is particularly bad for this, by world standards.
the free & freemium web have an arbitration gap and it will get worse before it gets better

stackexchange works because questions can get answered with relatively little money changing hands (AWS & advertisers mainly), but that means employees can't offer due process on disputes without erasing the company's margins.

these companies can't offer centralized due process to everyone because it would open them to being DDOS'd by competitors / trolls. Maybe justice can be crowdsourced in the same way as javascript questions by identifying neutral people in the stackexchange network, but that would be a huge experiment and open SO/SE to community backlash when it went badly.
> you cannot reset your forgotten private SSH key.

You can though. If you lose your private SSH key, you regenerate it, and the server admin resets your public key. Zero data loss.

I think the better analogy would have have been a disk encryption key. But note that consumer facing encryption tech (Mac, Windows) generally doesn't stick to "user forgot key = user lost data".

> So, it's a feature. You may not want this feature, though.

Yeah, I must agree I do not want this.

I understand it is more secure but it is also more user hostile.

I'll take the risk of a compromised admin (assuming strong password and TFA of course) over "sorry you lost all your data."

Data integrity is just as much a part of security as data privacy.
It’s not an unjust or regressive tax scheme to charge more for greater service. This is incorrectly repurposing the language of taxation to the reality of transit fares.

It is certainly correct that having fixed fares across time and distance is a government subsidy which arguably may even effectively target poor riders.

The lack of a subsidy is fundamentally not the same as a tax.

But when a subsidy distorts the market to the point where it causes inefficiencies in the market, those inefficiencies can undermine the value or effectiveness of the subsidy, sometimes altogether.

I.e. lack of peek pricing causing massive ridership spikes at specific hours overloading the system and making it break down.

A theoretically better system might be one with a fixed monthly fare credit for low income riders, while also having peek pricing. This shifts demand to keep the system running more smoothly while also making transit more affordable for lower income riders.

But then, why not ask the question, if we’re giving money to low income riders, why give rebates only to low income people who ride the train? Why have a low income subsidy specifically for subway ridership versus any of a dozen other things people fundamentally need. Why micromanage to that level?
> Ours just did. We only laugh because we don't believe them, not because it's a problem.

Yeah, to be believable it would need to be a explicit promise to significantly and permanently reduce the revenue of BCE Inc. - and that kind of promise would have BCE shareholders in an uproar.

As far as I can tell, they don't seem too concerned.
@Doreen: I will speak for Max here and say that we are both on your side.

The kind of political change that would allow SROs to be built where people want them is the same kind of political change that would allow more housing construction generally, it’s the same change that would remove parking minimums and floor space carve outs and kitchen appliance requirements.

So, if we can get that kind of political change and make sure good housing is affordably available to everyone, why compromise and build SROs?
https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/wuhan-china

In USD really. Unsurprisingly, people living in a large city in China are not dirt poor as you would expect.
That does sound pretty cultish. I kind of get how VCV takes some of the fun out of modular for them. There's definitely something fun about playing with physical hardware and connecting it together. It's also a way to do something technical that doesn't involve computers. Another angle is that if VCV rack does a good job at emulation, it kind of highlights the foolishness of spending thousands on hardware. That being said, I might be biased. I actually own a Behringer Neutron :O
I switched from LastPass today, and already liking it a bit more. Not as slow and doesn't slow down on forms, for one!
It doesn't mean you shouldn't, either. There's nuance to every situation, particularly when we're discussing the means by which some people quite literally survive, vs. luxury or leisure goods and services.
You work as an unpaid content author for ycombinator.
Not a lawyer, in any country, but I assume chinese law is whatever the government feel likes at that time. Can't imagine their law is like anything in the west.
"I don't know what's going on here and I don't intend to learn, but everybody upset about it should just go do something else" is never a useful take.
We need to evacuate HK... Give all freedom fighters there the option for asylum and citizenship in any Western country.
Now replace “victim” too
Well, at least it's true to their name. You are literally above/over.
No, you should not be able to live anywhere you want. That would only be true if all places were equally desirable. They aren’t.

I can’t live in Monte Carlo, for example, even though it looks quite lovely. And I accept that, because that’s how reality works.
Show HN: Newsletter made for engineers still waiting for that move to Senior
Ideas are worth nothing. You can always express your ideas without disclosing IPR. Imagine you're publishing your startup website? Does it disclose your IPR? Likely no
Mathematically we can be reasonably certain it works, but afaik it’s not formally proven that, say, there isn’t an efficient algorithm for prime factorization. It just seems unlikely that the U.S. government would know of one that nobody else has managed to figure out.

Plus, flawed implementations can open up side channels; this seems like an endorsement of Facebook’s implementation in that sense.
Is the implication that the LGBTQ+ community found it _more_ offensive to use e.g. "they" than "he" or "she"?

I'm so confused. Wouldn't "they" (the gender neutral version) be _more_ inclusive? Is there some other alternative that's even better that I haven't considered? I hope I'm not offending anyone by asking this. Just trying to make sure I understand.
Sounds like they gave value but got none to me..."visibility" ain't worth shit. How much SO got in the bank? What's the ratio of visibility to dollars here? I've never seen an SO badge anywhere and never mentioned in any resume.
I grew up in a tract of suburban houses which typically had two 9x10 bedrooms plus a larger bedroom. Two twin beds could be stacked in one of those rooms. These totally-not-exploited people shared the rest of the 1300 sq. ft. house. So I think that small bedrooms in one place do not equate to small bedrooms in another place.

I respect the folks who try out tiny houses. It’s hard for me to picture them having a happy time or if they do maybe when they accurately document their experiences I will have a better idea of what I really need, which might still be a 2500 sq. ft. McMansion, but maybe not.
"Doug and I spent several hours brainstorming out-of-the-box ways to add more value to the empty office experience in Pragli."

Why not talk to your customers and ask them what they want, then spend your time building features they need? Is the empty office experience an actual problem or is it more that people are busy and don't want to use your tool. Gaming them into spending time in your product does not seem like a win.

My mistake in the past with my own startups was to spend time building features that I thought would solve problems that my customer has instead of building things they really need. This sounds exactly like one of those cases.

"Press stunt: Hire a street performer at Caltrain"

Really? You think that is how your unicorn will succeed?
From what I can tell, they wanted a refund and contacted the app developer instead of contacting Apple.

The app developer can’t issue refunds when a purchase is made through the App Store. For instance, if you buy a video from Udemy directly, they will give you a refund if you ask. If you buy through the App Store, they tell you to contact Apple.