skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the aggregate standards and quality of life are much improved over 20, 40, or 60 years ago, but I don't share your satisfaction with the status quo. I would prefer we made some changes that enabled the poor to be housed and receive more than emergency room reactive access to health care. No man is an island, and a devotion to meritocracy can blind you to the reality that the accomplishments attributed to merit and hard work are often simply correlated to the ZIP code where you spent your childhood.

In a nation with as much wealth as we enjoy, it is shameful how we relegate our neighbors to defecating on sidewalks, living in tents with no heat or plumbing, and raving in the streets due to lack of mental health care.
If someone really showed it to you then you would understand it. In school you're just taught the algorithm.
Higher tax rates, but fairer than California. Your neighbor isn't paying lower taxes than you just because they bought 10 years ago when the property was cheaper.
Some others articles which may not have a paywall:

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/11/30/schwab-is-the...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Charles-Schwab-...

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/11/25/sch...

https://riabiz.com/a/2019/11/28/schwabs-headquarters-shift-t...
I didn’t think pedestrians bought trucks at all.
It needs a companion "Hit the Low Notes" game for those of us for whom the warm up note is at the top of our range. All I could get was the warm up note and one past that.
Would you pay 2x so you could know they had fields and beach balls? Or 1x for industrial cow-cubicles? Be honest now..
Yeah, I also noticed that "graph-easy" seems to not handle ranks as expected. Also, the common box is strange
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Closer to 1%.
I'd say that if you're not a tech company there is no reason to pay the premium cost of being in SF.
Square is still in SF.....for now.

Stripe left/is leaving.
A lot of comments in these threads talking about the "maximum price increases" as 10%/year.

There aren't any maximum price increases. .org can increase to $5000/name/year, or $50,000.
why the down votes - karma inflation. Too many people have received enough karma to downvote nowadays, especially people that jump the shark too early.
Although these tax systems likely poll well, all tax systems are just transfer functions. Any tax system which results in significantly reduced taxes for the >1% raises my suspicions. If you couples this system with an inheritance tax of 100% for greater than $10M, I’m interested.
Zero until the house is sold.
That’s not just part of the problem. That’s the single largest factor of the problem.

Unfortunately it won’t be changed until the State is at the brink of financial collapse. At that point I can see a “millionaires reassessment” suddenly being very popular.
Why not? Billions in assets. Automated investment and market prediction projects. Extremely well built Web UI- you can tell they're hiring industry UI/UX people by the interface they are beta-ing- upgrade in functionality but major downgrade in usability.
I know I'm trying.
The whole point of the article is that it shouldn't be embarrassing. The current dark energy theory is just currently the best explanation for observed phenomena (or was, I'm not sure what you're referring to). Even if it's wrong, the Nobel is still deserved even just for making that observation, because it encourages others to pursue science.
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> given the weaponising of offence by the left.

Is this left versus right thing? I note that the quote you provide comes from a centre left source.
AI and blockchains are a fad, and nanotech is, at the moment, a marketing fad as stated.

Although, the frustration with blockchain technology is more along the lines of "this probably is wrong in principle" rather than "this is probably hundreds of years away" as in the case of AI and nanotech.
I really would love this if it would use more characters (UTF-8?) to create more beautiful diagrams:

Instead of this:

+ - - - +
' HELLO '
+ - - - +

Do this:

┌───────┐
│ HELLO │
└───────┘

There are so many characters available for this, that it would be possible to draw totally awesome diagrams in just text:

https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_box.asp
The traffic in Texas is significantly better than SF and LA.
My parents live in a suburb that is 25 miles from the Houston and it takes 45 minutes to get to downtown during commute hours. My girlfriend has an equivalent commute in the Bay which takes around 75-90 minutes during commute hours.

The public transit is terrible in Texas so I expect it will be worse than the Bay in a decade or two if they refuse to build up transit, but for now it's a lot better. Texas has a lot more space so they've addressed traffic issues by building much wider highways and also multiple rings of highways. Obviously that's an unsustainable solution in the long term but for the time being, my Texas friends have way better commutes than what I see my co-workers deal with in the bay.

We shouldn't really be criticizing other states when California is definitely not the model for transit and traffic either. LA is a nightmare and SF is getting close to one as more and more tech companies move away from transit centers and force employees to drive.
Of course. Why wouldn't they? They'd be completely pointless if they didn't apply to individuals.
Apparently they were founded in SF in 1971. I wasn't around back then, but presumably it was not the complicated expensive mess that the area is today, so there was no particular reason not to be in SF.
Every jury trial has a legally trained (hopefully) judge to assist the jury with the legal aspects of the case.

Jury trials also have jury selection processes that allow lawyers from both sides to eliminate any poorly qualified jurors.
Companies won’t skip out on Austin. They would be missing out on top tier talent from UT and surrounding schools.

Reason why Schwab is moving to Dallas (specifically Westlake) is because this is determined to be the next financial district (a majority of financial companies have satellite corporate offices in this specific area)

FYI: Schwab has had an existence in the 512 for some years now and in the recent years expanded/consolidated to a new office
I believe the full reasoning is that (1) if property owners paid property taxes on the full market value of their property, then (2) they would lobby for (or at least cease opposition against) upzoning for density, and (3) more dense housing would be legalized and built.
Don't professional games generally have a faster pace? If so, that might be a factor.
Unless you want to support older Windows. I guess that EOL date for Win7 is fast approaching.

OTOH it isn't really hard to simulate the same with win32 named pipes.
Nonsense. At least 30% of the chat I do on Slack is "water cooler talk" of one sort or another. Music, games, city happenings, a smattering of politics, random Internet cuteness, the all-important channel devoted to mechanical keyboards, etc. etc. Haven't started up a channel on D&D podcasts yet but it's probably not far behind. ;-)
Looks cool. I'm currently fooling around with Eleventy (similar to Jekyll but for JS) and was thinking about including Stimulus and Turbolinks, similar to this stack here: https://github.com/scottwater/eleventy-origin

How would Project X fit into that? Could it replace Stimulus and Turbolinks?
The other suggestions are all very good. I’ll work on them when I get a chance.

About the first, I think the focus page is already very minimal. Not sure what can be moved out.
It got you banned from publishers except when you had a ton of reputation already, so no much changed really...
In the same way that "the earth doesn't orbit the sun" is true, yeah it's just a reference frame change.
No, I'm saying that they are 2 different things, which seems to both end up in the "math" bucket.

Both have their applicability, but knowing one doesn't imply knowing the other.

Each one also has a proper age group to start teaching it. Little kids have great memory but limited reasoning skills. That changes when they are older, so at that point you should switch from calculations to math. Dropping calculations for math is just as stupid as dropping math because you think calculations are enough.
While California taxes are high, this doesn't seem to be the main reason that building more housing is difficult? For that you can blame zoning restrictions and political opposition.
Nobody cares that its a power law, its the particular constants that lead to the incredible disparity no?
Criminal law is literally a set of statutes.

Small claims court (the name varies depending on the state, but we're talking about 'Judge Judy' type courts here) is for the quick resolution of minor disputes. In most states, the formal rules of evidence don't apply.

And, in nearly all the states, one can appeal de novo the court's judgment to a 'real' court.

My state recently implemented a requirement that these lower court judges have law degrees. The quality of the court ha suffered... instead of a retired businessperson who has an interest in his community, we end up with incompetent lawyers who can't make a living in private practice. Or, worse, some person straight out of lawschool with zero legal or life experience.
I also find this idea appealing. Reading the end of Gehttoside was an eye opener where the author describes how getting on SSDI (argued as being a limited form of basic income) for being unemployable (disabled) due to their history gang banging gave some former gangsters enough financial breathing room that they could break the cycle of relying on crime to get by. Sounds a little Polyanna-ish but it does have the ring of truth.

What are your thoughts on the counter-arguments that basic income will lead to a dystopian future where an underclass just sullenly gets by as dependents of the state. Plenty of scifi speculative descriptions of this future are a bit scary, but are they just scare-mongering?
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Kratom is not an opioid.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/kratom-fear-worthy-folia...
Old news and not very insightful. For a deeper look, Fred Turner is the one to read: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37...
Am I the only one who thinks nobody is talking about the elephant in the room ? i.e. the cause and effect. Fintech companies like Robinhood have popularized the concept of (a) zero fee trading and (b) better UI/UX and just better service/offering on highly scalable platforms that allow them to introduce new products/services, which are virtually impossible for legacy providers like Schwab.
Seems like that is the single most important cause of Schwab and TDAmeritrade merger. Much like ~15 years ago when "Internet" based trading companies forced the traditional "phone calling" brokers to either merge with Internet upstarts or go out of business. Schwab survived the first wave of disruption as it aggressively embraced into Internet based trading. There was a wave of consolidation with other purely online trading companies e.g. Datek, Scottrade etc. merged into what is now TDAmeritrade.

Seems like the traditionals haven't been able to survive the second wave of disruption. This is what is prompting the merger i.e. if you can't grow like the fintechs then cut costs using merger cost synergies. A side effect of this is move from extremely high cost locales to lower cost ones. It's PR couched in terms like "Any additional real estate decisions will be made as part of the integration process, over time."

Good for San Fran and the bay area, it seems. Some prime corporate space being vacated should take a little pressure off real-estate prices (I hope).
No, it sounds like they're aiming for $50M/year.
I think the implication is that while, even as younger members of that society are figuring out what the root of the problem is, that the departments supposed to be helping with this are too fearful of saying so, for fear (real or otherwise) of being labeled racist/prejudiced.
The Bay Area's problem isn't absolute tax rates. It's that taxes aren't calculated on current property value, but on original sale price. This keeps effective tax rates low if you bought earlier. It also discourages redevelopment, rezoning, or anything else that would bring more supply into the market.
> They are actively trying to make it difficult use Twitter like that.

Not true. Twitter switched to a default "we'll sort tweets for you" a year or two back, with a switch box to temporarily change it back to chronological sorting (this is similar to the Facebook feed). After outcry, they changed it so that it sticks with whichever sorting method you choose.
How much you pay for something can affect your opinion. SF does have a pretty high "where is the mobey going?!" factor.
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Long story shorter:

1. Started working on a startup with another person many years ago

2. I was the only developer, developed a winning prototype, V1 codebase, design, testing... .the usual you need

3. The agreement has always been that once a company is established, I will get my share

4. We made an agreement that the IP we've created is licensed at a fixed ratio, regardless of past, present and future effort (against my will, and we broke the friendship at this point)

5. We lost a major deal

6. I proposed some more options what we could do, but he was not responsive to it. Eventually we lost touch

7. Two years later he's co-funding a company with another dev. never told me anything

8. On his web page, he claims the new company's story goes back to when I worked with him, even refers to some wins we had at the time

9. I was never compensated for months of the work I did. I'm pissed. I never exited. He didn't as well. The deal had no timeframe. Kicker: the deal was verbal only (but I can prove it was in place)

10. He claims the company doesn't use any of my IP

11. we are talking about a person who thought parsing xml was magic. There is no way he could have started from scratch without embedding my ideas and concepts.

12. Obviously I don't have access to their code, so I know shit.

How screwed am I? How do I get back what's mine? Is anything mine at all?

Thanks for listening
Huh? I think you're mis-reading something. Your assertion is true only for houses that haven't changed hands since 1978. In most cases, the buyer of a house is assessed taxes on the market value of the house at the time of sale, and further increases are limited from there.
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I don't see a bright present:

"The poverty rate, when adjusted for the cost of living, is the worst in the nation"

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-california-housing-c...
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Do consultants know (or care) what workers think of them?
No it shouldn't. Every state has elected judge positions, and they only require being able to win an election. In my home state of PA a local magistrate was caught by the FBI trying to fix cases of people who appealed her judgments, was removed from the bench for 6 months, and still ran for reelection unopposed. The people we let get elected to judicial positions is scary.
It sounds like they'll be keeping a sizable amount of staff in SF still. SF has a gross receipts tax on certain companies with HQ's in the city. As such auditors will want to ensure this isn't just a tax avoidance gimmick. By pairing this move with an acquisition Charles Schwab has a stronger defense against such an accusation.
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Existing homeowners don't care about new housing because their property taxes don't rise due to a constricted supply. If they did, I'd bet you those zoning laws would change pretty darned quickly.
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Aren’t taxes highly regressive in Texas with sky high property taxes which exempt rich people ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCfdMg5c29o
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>I'd see us quickly value their lives less if there were billions of people with Downs Syndrome, but currently they aren't a problem so it is fine.

Oh you mean like many of those who are homeless, who also happen to have mental health issues, yet we don't provide shelter, health care or food for?
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Some of these complaints didn’t really pick up in earnest until after 2015, even though the underlying issues have not meaningfully changed in severity since then. In fact, rents in SF are lower today than at their peak in 2015. Homelessness is up, though the city has gotten slightly better at provisioning shelter and is slowly writing conservatorship legislation.

Of course someone will bring up the infamous up-and-to-the-right poop maps, but that seems primarily to be a case of response bias as 311 rolled out an app with increasing adoption.
I completely agree. I went this route with my recent project and it was very refreshing.
thank you for this illuminating timeline, in the fog of all their PR it makes everything quite clear as to their true intentions.
Cheers to that. I suspect that you may still be particularly fond of Zyxel modems too :)
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Good luck with that.

But it does bring up an interesting legal question as to the copyrightability of 3D scans. original 3D models should be protected by copyright, but what about scans of existing objects? Does that really count as a creative work? Especially scans of old objects like this.
Turkey had its own FidoNet-style network called HitNet (with the prefix "8:" instead of "1:") back in the 90’s. It had about 400 active users nationwide. I had even written an offline mail reader software compatible with QWK and BlueWave: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine
DFW Traffic isn't that bad - noticeably better than Seattle - where I last lived before moving here.
Companies locate their headquarters solely on where their CEO wants to live.
That reasoning works just as well for human labor, we could always spend more to help the poor but we don't. At some point idealism hits reality and you have to make a trade-off. And at least I think it is better to give them 1x than 0x. And if some laws comes in saying that meat needs to cost 2x to give them decent conditions then I'd still buy meat. We even already have many such laws, so I'm not sure why people say that we don't care.
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At YC, groups meet every other week to discuss company goals and progress, learn from each other's experiences, and get guidance from their mentors. This system helps founders realize and adjust their goals and plans for what comes next, and helps enforce those goals by adding some amount of accountability.

Have you used a similar system for your personal life or career?

Do you have any experience forming small groups of friends or colleagues to regularly discuss goals?

What systems/tools do you use to help you achieve your goals?
That's a different topic altogether.
So if we want to tax illiquid assets and wealth instead of income, why stop at houses? Why not tax equity held in companies? Why don’t we tax employees based on the amount and value of equity they have in a company? Every time there is a new round of funding that increases the value of equity, impose a higher tax.
When will the people of SF learn you cannot tax yourself to prosperity
Your "teams" violate standard best practice employed virtually everywhere I've worked and every open source project I've worked on.
Here's Jordan in 2014 talking about OCaml: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7766315
Strong agree, the future of quantum computing is photonics.
>Out of curiosity, what are some of these concepts that you have stumbled upon that you would put in this category (preferably at least somewhat related to building AI or new technology in general)? I am sure there are some but it would be interesting to see specific examples.

Visual recognition. Voice recognition. Language Recognition. Self driving. Music Composition. We have failed in all these areas to use modularization to simplify these problems into something we can model as a theoretical whole. We turn to neural nets not to "understand" the problem but to build systems that can solve the problem while bypassing understanding.

>I simply haven't seen anything that would indicate that it would be impossible to understand consciousness in the same practical mannter as the way we understand for example cars now

If we have that level of understanding then we should be able to modularize the problem into smaller units of complexity so that a team of people can build the solution component by component. So far for the examples I listed above we don't have that level of understanding. We could employ the same techniques used for language recognition to understand the human brain... by building a neural net.... but that kind of defeats the point right? The neural net may simulate consciousness but it doesn't exactly let you (or a team of people) understand it...

Also for your comment on the black box nature of neural nets....

I think we can both agree that the high level understanding or "insights" we gain are at best very high level. The logic of "visual recognition" is not understood by humans. We can only reproduce such logic as a blackbox. A neural net.

These "visualizations" or high level descriptions of machine learning algorithms aren't a form of true understanding... It's just a summary of a class of problems. For example voice recognition and visual recognition are two very different problems but they are both "visualized" and modeled in the exact same way. You can probably also model consciousness as a problem that consists of a multi-dimensional set of points where you need to find the best fit curve. This does not mean you understand it.

You can also probably peer into these artificial neural nets and see what components are doing what similar to how we can peer into a human brain and see which parts of a brain light up when you give it stimuli. Again, it doesn't mean you have true understanding.

This is not to discount the entire field of neurology as a whole. Clearly there are bit and pieces we can understand. I am saying the ultimate goal of understanding consciousness may be fruitless. It's a very meta concept and possibly as a result it's also very hard for you as a consciousness yourself to write the exact definition of consciousness or pinpoint exactly what it is.
I think it has to do with religion.
Looking now at my thesis, I agree that I don't explicitly argue theoretically for why multilayer networks will (under suitable conditions) converge to Gaussian processes. However, it follows (at some level of rigour) pretty directly from the fact (which I do note) that if a single-hidden layer has multiple outputs, the functions computed by these outputs will be independent (in the prior) as the number of hidden units goes to infinity. So if you add another hidden layer, the functions computed by the units in this layer will be independent (they're like outputs of the previous layer), and the argument for why the outputs from this layer form a GP goes through as before. I'm not sure why I didn't explicitly note this. It's implicitly assumed in my discussion of how the covariance function for networks with step function hidden units changes as you add more layers.
Asterisk: Texas has no state income tax, but has a higher property tax rate.
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Dallas is actually very liberal, it's a blue city, totally blue,