skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key quotes for me:

> Dr. Woolf said one of the findings showed that the excess deaths were highly concentrated geographically, with fully a third of them in just four states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana.

> “What’s not lost on us is what is going on in those states,” he said. “The history of when this health trend started happens to coincide with when these economic shifts began — the loss of manufacturing jobs and closure of steel mills and auto plants.”

> The increased deaths from drug overdoses reflected increased rates of addiction to opioids. But they have also risen because of changes in the drug supply in the East and Midwest. Over the last decade, the synthetic drug known as fentanyl has been mixed into heroin — or in some places has replaced it. That has made the drug supply more deadly, since it is difficult for users to know the dose they are taking.

> Life expectancy in the coastal metro areas — both east and west — has improved at roughly the same rate as in Canada.

These together point to me to local crises: people in hard times due to economic shifts turning to drugs, etc, as an outlet.

There are many ways to improve the lot of these people, but being blind to the cause does not help them. Also let’s be clear about the scale of the problem:

> While the total number of excess deaths — meaning the number of deaths that would not have happened if the mortality rate had continued to improve — is small, at 33,000

For context, total overdose deaths are ~70,000/year.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html
"Controlling for time, China should have received 112 claims since it's accession, almost 3x more"

In 2005, in roughly the middle of the timeframe, the US economy was almost 6 times the size of China's.

Maybe you could expand on why you don't think claims should scale with the size of the economy, since you seemed to ignore the suggestion of normalizing for that.
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Another point - a version of "do things that don't scale", sign up your first 100 customers door-to-door

I'm guessing this advice shouldn't be taken completely literally, but rather, the point is that one shouldn't fear signing up your first 100 customers in an unscalable, high-touch way. In fact, he seems to argue that by doing it this way you are more likely to get real, raw, and candid feedback from those users
Many people who own houses don't want the value/price of their homes to go up, because that means property taxes will go up.
First, the "snake-head on a goose-neck" manipulator that usually mounts on Spot will have a pair of electroshock probes added, as a non-lethal means of incapacitating a suspect at touch range.

Then they will add a 20ga shotgun that shoots a single beanbag or netting cartridge.

Then, after that, they will use the lethal firearms.
Writing a biography of a company that doesn’t have a product is a bit trite.

When you ship a product, then years later you talk about the history. Right now it like a near live stream of just how old-school “computery” their new company is.

I actually hope they are successful. I would love it if they execute on all the bullshit they are hyping — but I am doubtful because I have seen this pattern over and over: people talk about changing the world before they actually do — never do.
I think his point is that, for example, a flat 2% yearly GDP growth is a yearly increase in absolute growth due to compounding, and most economists absolutely do believe that's possible somewhat indefinitely (with significant historical basis for that belief).
Yeah, I think it’s silly when people complain about developers not building affordable housing.

Nobody expects car manufacturers to build new run-down clunkers they sell for $200... they build new cars and people who can’t afford them generally buy cheap used ones!
I am a very extroverted person and require social interaction to not become depressed. My job is a little different in that I'm customer-facing and have to travel to customer sites from time to time. I also have a family (wife and 2 young daughters), and I enjoy the opportunity to interact with them throughout the day. I have a separate area of the house that is mine, and they know not to disturb me while I'm working (which is often, but on my own schedule). To clarify: Wife is a SAHM. I also work for a Bay Area startup, which has perks in terms of flexible schedule and unlimited PTO.
Would you be open to hiring remote candidates from countries other than US, who can work in US timezone (nightowls) ?
Look at the numbers of downvotes of the parent. I believe things will get worse before they get better.
> Kids can do far more today than in the Commodore 64 era.

Kids can do far more but they're not instantly warped into a fully programmable environment. You enter the following:

POKE 53281,8

And you're immediately changing stuff like the background color, something you also saw happening in turbo loaders or those quick color cycling screens before a game started. You get the feeling that it's possible to achieve anything yourself.

It's pretty empowering and a lot of kids knew these kind of "secrets" and some basic BASIC.

Nowadays it's actually easier to do a lot of things with autocompleting IDE's and Stack Overflow but you're not exposed to it so directly.
> Tolkien was never able to definitively pin down the origin and nature of his orcs to his own satisfaction

I think I heard it was because of the Christian roots of his LotR writings: are orcs fully evil and impossible to redeem (which would go against Christian belief on salvation and some of the themes of the LotR) or could they be redeemed, which would be against how they are portrayed in the books.
Hmmmm, we should also ban bicycles and sidewalks! /s
"No drug is going to fix your social anxiety."

But access to afforable medicine will definitely fix a big chunk of my anxiety about not being able to afford medicine!

"I bet its lung and diabetes issues."

It's really hard to take care of diabetes in america, due to the costs of adequate insulin and related medical purchases such as bloodwork and glucose testing devices.
Fair, but also consider: If the rules are confusing and the proper meaning can be conveyed without following them anyway... maybe it's not worth remembering the minutiae?
Why do companies need outside investment? You present this as if it is self-evident.

The reason companies need investors today is that all of the wealth is hoarded by a select few that need to be entreated like feudal lords to get any land, machinery, IP, tools, etc. If the wealth were fairly distributed, a group of regular people would be enough to pool the necessary resources.
Save the sob story for another time. SFPD has said a number of times that most car thefts are due to criminal gangs.
Furthermore, you could probably provide a number of free lunches for the cost of the surveillance tech and laptops for every student.
Oh no, I bet it's gonna be a C# flavored Rust. None of Rust's terse syntax and functional influence. It's going to be full-blown Java-style OOP with plenty of Wnd handles to be thrown around. Yikes, I certainly hope I am not right.
I don’t think your progressive Californian would disagree at all that that story is a shock to the conscience, or that California must change to stop that from happening.

We’d disagree a lot about what the biggest problem in the story is, though.
I suppose I'm conflating school shootings with mass shootings which is what most people worry about, a la Columbine or Parkland. The figures in your link are mostly gang violence, which is a completely separate although valid issue.

We do absolutely have higher rates of targeted gang violence than other countries, which after controlling for factors like density and poverty is highly correlated to young urban male demographics that aren't as prevalent in other developed nations. There is no single policy that can solve the numerous social and systemic failures that generate this problem, but due to the nature of these vendettas they would assuredly be carried out with knives and shanks in the absence of guns.
This is exactly my rationale. The fact that you have to explain that the company that bought you is not shady is writing on the wall, even if you have a good explanation. For the record, I think the explanation is pretty decent. But PIA is a commodity product from a technical perspective. It's the trust and reputation that's not the commodity, and being bought by a shady company (even if it's "formerly shady") you discard this right away.

I bought PIA because it had stellar reputation back in 2015 or so. Now it went from stellar reputation to "just another VPN provider". Mullvad appears to be prime candidate now, they're not based in the US if that means something to you, and they even have Wireguard to play with. Let's go.
the fad of tiny homes shows what can be done with a limit amount of space and we must always be aware of one fact.

our bias as to what we would accept is not what others would accept. let alone what qualifies as a micro apartment, is the size the same world wide or even nation wide?

We already have a market that is effectively subsidized/funded by government and that is why we have the problem we do have. Government does not have to serve the market, it only has to serve the particular housing program put in place and no more.
True, but was any hardware prototyping or design actually happening in that garage? Or were they just using the garage to write blog posts and record a podcast?
Fairly well, although I need to manually format it. VSCode's syntax highlight for rust doesn't do anything fancy for tags and attributes, but literals and block expressions are highlighted correctly.
JS async/await is also just syntactic sugar on top of Promises (which are basically just futures with the ability to write as well).
More power to you! Everyone should find his own preferences and strengths and lean into them, imo.
But the real question is: who are they? I've never heard about them, I don't understand all this hype here
I'm sure the 'crime' will be put under a different part of the law. I.e. Attacking a public official's property.

They have different laws for them. Wouldn't change a thing.
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> definitely blame tech for loading an entire industry into a metro area

Supply and demand gonna supply and demand. It's weird to "blame tech" for existing and injecting a massive amount of jobs into our economy; there's no metro region that could have handled that growth without the same effect on price, and there is no singular entity responsible for concentrating tech into a single city instead of distributed more evenly.

Maybe Houston could have come close to handling it without massive price increases, but I'm guessing Houston is too spread out to enjoy strong network effects, and probably would have become gridlocked with traffic to boot.

New York could have "handled" it, from a raw housing & transit perspective, but the region is already pricy and all of Manhattan (which has the best access to jobs and transit across the metropolitan region) has long since gentrified, so I don't know if that really counts.

(Of course, part of the reason no region could have handled it is precisely because of how Americans approach zoning and growth. Like our politics, our cities and neighborhoods seem to be static until there's an absolutely overwhelming force against the status quo, and even then sometimes that's not enough to change anything)
"If things are actually the way some of you are describing them, it sounds like SF particularly is about to collapse completely."

It's all very sensationalist - all of it.

There are very small grains of truth (about needles and homeless and feces and car break-ins) that are spun out of all proportion.

As a resident of the SFBA and somebody that spends a fair amount of time in, and all over, the city, I can confirm all of it[1] ... but at the same time, SF is quite nice overall and I repeatedly have complete, multi-day interactions in the city with zero dysfunction.

[1] I have been the victim of one car break-in, I have had run-ins with people using the tenderloin as a toilet, etc.
> It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jessie and Bryan are.

I always find this funny. Why would everyone know who they are? There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone.
"What’s interesting and, anyway should be concerning, is that for almost every conceivable applied measure we seem to be getting at best constant returns. But that’s really bad because we see exponentially increasing inputs and constant return outputs."

Ironically, in terms of innovation, the yearly output of companies such as Facebook and Stripe has seemed somewhat constant, despite those companies getting many orders of magnitude bigger!

Maybe MZ and PC should investigate this issue at their own companies, and perhaps even begin to fix it. After that, they'll be better able to look at fixing innovation in the world at large.
The police don't arrest people when they know the DA is going to drop the charges immediately and their superiors are going to ask why they are wasting their time.

This is entirely driven by the political atmosphere there where the DA would rather "its not really a crime" narrative than to prosecute and possibly face criticism from the progressive populace.
> It's a complete non-issue.

It is an issue as someone who doesn't write Go code often but occasionally reads/debugs it. At least for the first couple of times I've come across it made me scratch my head for a couple of hours, because I didn't see what the issue was it being 'hidden' in the comments. Which is fine. It just isn't in line with the general premise of Go's language design, so I wasn't even expecting it. So in a sense you are right!
Solar’s energy density is surprisingly high. To average 1GW of solar at 30% capacity factor = 3.4GW @ 220w/m^2 = 0.076% of San Bernardino county. Put all of the states electricity generation as solar in that one county and your at ~2% land area. Even that’s not going to have any effect on dust storms.

EROI is a function of price in that you need to pay for more than just energy when building something, interest payments for example. If your infrastructure costs X$ to build it must use far less than X$ worth of energy. And, if you’re building the cheapest energy source possible it must therefore have a high EROI.
Log-adjusted, rents were growing faster in the 80s than anytime after dot-com: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUURA422SEHA
Most Quantum Monte Carlo work on Fermionic systems deals with a number of particles on the order of 10^2. The numerical work suggest even such a small number can superconduct and we have seen experimentally that there are superconducting nano-particles that can be very small indeed. I don’t recall off the top of my head how many atoms are in the smallest ones we’ve seen though.

As far as pen-and-paper theoretical work goes though, something like 10^2 atoms is actually more difficult than 10^23 of them because 10^23 is basically infinite for our purposes so there are all sorts of useful limits one can take. When you consider something like 10^2 atoms, many useful approximations go out the window. You can no longer ignore the physics at the edge of the material since everything is very close to the edge, you can’t make assumptions about homogeneity, statistical arguments about the aggregate behaviour of electrons become unreliable, etc.
Yes, but if you actually address the root cause then you can't use shootings as an excuse for mass surveillance.
What "risk" did bill gates take when he retired with a 40 billion dollar fortune?
My point was that in my personal experience, both my wife, recovering from a C-section, and my mom, recovering from reconstructive surgery on her arm where they broke and plated her forearm back together, found that pain was perfectly manageable and had fewer side effects with standard pain medications.

This suggests to me that opioids are not needed nearly so often as they are prescribed, even if they are warranted in certain situations.
They are not hard to remember, and they add value.

Gee it's almost like stating an opinion as though it were a fact is free, and anyone can do it, and it means nothing, and so is a pointless waste of time, which says something about the worth of the insights of whoever does it.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but neither would I call it "historical fiction." Armed populaces have fought back against their governments repeatedly throughout history. In any event, I'm one of the guys who would rather go down shooting than in a gas chamber. And, yes, that kind of liberty comes at a price.
There's nothing guerrilla about most of it.
Cellulosic biomass may not have the hydrogen necessary to break down into methane reliably, but that doesn't mean it can't be used. It can be burned directly or turned into pellet fuel quite easily.
Patrick should take some oratory lessons. As a CEO it is important to be able to speak slowly, be brief and on the point.
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What's up with this new trend of writing long-ish form crap on Twitter?
What tools do you use to create/test features?
We are going through a lot of R scripts to create features before we classify them and it is as anyone with data science experience knows, it is a time-consuming exercise.
We work with tabulated data and usually create futures around counts of events, dates, hours, ranks, etc.
I am wondering what tools, scripts, libraries do you use to go through this process?
Years ago, they had what were called "SRO" (Single-Room Occupancy) apartments. These often had shared baths or showers on each floor.

These all went away by the late 60s in New York. They wouldn't be legal now. For one thing, buildings, or floors, were restricted to either men or women. And they didn't allow children, or more than one person/room. But they allowed people just getting started--working clearing tables, or washing dishes, etc--to be able to live near where they worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
People don't join criminal gangs because they life a nice life of luxury.

It's the capitalist system which forces the "losers" to join a gang.
Exactly. They make their real money as a pretext to issue petty citations to people they wouldn't have otherwise stopped. Actual drunks are just the pretext. Sure they'd be happy to catch a few but they're the bonus not the goal.
The quality of construction of new homes in Oakland is run of the mill new apartments. The same buildings in style and quality rent for $1,500/mo in Riverside, CA.
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Depends on the kind of product. Some products take time and money to make. Others take far less.
I'd guess Chief Product Officer?
> Why does a pod need a kitchen and bathroom?

Basic human dignity? Being forced to share an intimate thing such as a bathroom with strangers or depending on strangers not eating your food/trashing your stuff or not being able to feed yourself because another person is cooking a 5-rounds-meal is not something that should be acceptable in a developed nation.
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They can, of course.

At any given time, any given American can likely be prosecuted for a misdemeanor.

The question you are asking is, why are these people prosecuted only after every misdemeanor crime which is prosecuted, and additionally only after those misdemeanor crimes which counterfactually would be prosecuted before this one if more misdemeanor crimes were prosecuted?

The answer is complex.
I think it's much more practical to simply ban fine print contracts that are not negotiated in favor of standard regulations that apply to everyone. You can't expect businesses to foresee everything that will go wrong, but you can force them to shoulder the risk of the unknown.