skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paywall, can't even see what they're saying because a subscription offer masks most of text.

But I did see some claims about a lower cost. If the cost is lower, why do we need the government to "do something"?

I haven't seen it in the article but the usual statist routine is to claim that if the government first "invests" in something (we are somehow too stupid to recognize these opportunities and avoid the overhead of government), it will somehow pay back for itself in only X years.

First, it usually doesn't. We just end up with more debt (and more expensive energy too.)

Second, it certainly won't pay back for the people who got taxed to pay for it. Has the government ever taxed less anyone who paid for some spending with an above-zero ROI? So it simply is a call for more violence (increased taxation or forcing taxpayers to take on ever more debt) and statism/socialism (ever-increasing role of the state).

Does anyone here not wonder why Tesla investors prefer to invest in Tesla rather in those green schemas that are guaranteed to provide a 100% ROI in just 5 years? Or why is Musk running a struggling, loss-making Tesla when he could easily save the world and make a profit by simply "going 100% green"? Or why despite being (supposedly) smarter about long-term investing, no government employee ever got rich investing unless it happened thanks to corruption, insider trading or regulatory influence?
In practice, it's often more. A swing radius of several nautical miles is fairly normal.

My knowledge is rusty, but, IIRC, for a shallow water mooring buoy you assume a radius of about half the water's depth. I'm not sure if there's a similar rule of thumb for deep water buoys.
The decision of the Mayor back in 2012 to attract a bunch of Tech companies to the city that wanted growth the LEAST, is highly questionable. It's just such a contradiction of what the locals wanted. And, now we're paying the price, litteraly.

In SF, I used to think the answer was to build more housing, lots more. But, after hearing from sooooo many NIMBYs and so much extreme angst against any kind of growth, I've come to realize that SF doesn't deserve tech companies or any companies for that matter. It's time to accept what the locals want and start acting like it. Remove the incentives for companies in SF and start applying disentives.

Tech needs a new home, a new city, perhaps one that hasn't been built yet. Perhaps one where innovation will be welcomed instead of stifled. One, where inclusiveness is all encompassing (and applies to housing) and not just a catchphrase used to be politically correct. One that isn't covered in poop. A city where enough housing supply can be built for everyone.
There's a lot of people here stating that notes help them retain material. Maybe that works for some people, but it doesn't work for me.

I find myself more likely to forget things when I write them down, especially in a meeting/lecture/discussion. Maybe it's just because my hand just doesn't go fast enough to get the information down on the page, or maybe I can't concentrate on thinking at the same time I write.
What made San Francisco what it is today?

It's not the soft-on-crime District Attorney who cleared out the prisons by releasing criminals back onto the street.

Not the soft-on-crime SFPD, who barely enforces the law because what's the point? The DA won't prosecute anyway.

Not the fact that the hippies grew up and moved to Marin, and marijuana and mushrooms have been replaced with fentanyl and methamphetamine.

It's certainly not the bustling drug market that operates in 24 hours a day without police interference in the Tenderloin around Hyde and Golden Gate, making the city a go-to destination for drug addicts from across the region.

It's not the hundreds of millions of dollars the city hands out each year to homelessness advocacy groups that have no accountability and deliver no results.

It's not the entrenched NIMBYs who fight housing development tooth and nail.

It's the tech bros.
Inequality and Human Rights
Would it though?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3x3SqeSdrAE?rel=0&autoplay=1&a...

Wish theme parks had rides like this.
> There's an obscure blog by a guy who talks about the three or so stages of popular trends, and how three groups of people interact to eventually ruin any nice thing. If anyone knows that I'm talking about I'd appreciate a link!

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, by Ellen Ullman

An autobiography of a developer, and an author, looking back at her life. Narrated by the author. Might not be for everyone, but I really liked it.
Local iteration is most important to me, but serverless is a great example too, as are CLIs (slow CLIs have recently become my pet peeve).

The nice thing about Go is it performs well in each of these use cases by ensuring nothing in its tool chain is slow, or produces slow code.

Slow is in the eye of the beholder I suppose, but I guess I’m using it here to mean within an order of magnitude of its peers.
Golang has typed nil pointers (that is, a nil *CustomError is not equal to a nil error and so on) and it is probably the single thing that has bitten me the most in go.
The vilification of the “tech bro” is really such a tragedy (I know, preaching to the choir here). We’re just people, trying to make a living for ourselves, and doing the things we enjoy. Our culture is no better than anyone else’s. But neither is that of those lived in the Bay Area for the previous decades. Why should we be denied the life we were meant to live because they were here first and they don’t have room for us? There’s plenty of room for everyone to coexist, if we make it.
Honest question: are tech bros bros who upped their tech game or nerds who got bro game?
That's what creative agency do. Create storytelling and meaning of what and why they do something the hard way. It's why there is still some company (e.g. Colossal Media) that hand-paint advertising on the building wall and not just easily print it on vinyl. It gives meaning to their creation - also differentiate them from the others.

In practical sense, yes, you can do it really fast, easy and cheap with any 3D software nowadays in just 2 days(but where's the fun in that?:) IMO, easily created things are also easily forgettable.

Another example is Apple and some of their recent desktop/iPhone wallpaper. It seems like CG, but those are real piece of art, made by hand, and photographed. Google's Material design concept, with real light and shadow, comes to mind too.
Seems overkill?, yes, but it did has story behind it and not cheaply made in 2 hours with Adobe illustrator.
The nonsense, abstract and intangibility part of it is what differentiate the brand. You will never see utilitarian brand like Amazon do something like this.
Putting everything on other people's properties, renting stuff that you'll use long term, and yes, as kbutler said, disclosing everything in public by default.

Those are not technologies, but I doubt it was exactly the tech that the last generations were complaining about. Anyway, there is one piece of tech: the all hearing helpers we get on telephones and alexa style devices.
>>narccisistic hubris

That's funny, because as member of the tech community myself, I can unequivocally state that if there is one group that can be defined by the narcissistic hubris of its most prominent and influential members, it's techies.

I mean, we're talking about people whose idea of "disruption" is bending and breaking all kinds of rules and laws. AirBnB, Uber, Theranos, Facebook, Google, you name it... they're all led by people who think they are better than others, know more than others.

THAT is the real reason there's a backlash against us.
Not to mention the fact that this system is monitoring the traction of all 4 wheels constantly and would detect the slip in milliseconds, transferring power to other wheels. It would be fine.

They probably already have a bunch of lubricant on that lot in order to reduce wear on the tires.
Given how poorly San Francisco is run and how corrupt its politics are, I don't think anyone outside of San Francisco would want that.
The asymmetry in mortality risk might lead to different strategies used by human drivers vs ai.
Is an aluminium can trash? Or is it highly recyclable material? That’s largely a decision of the consumer, not the manufacturer.
At least we're not getting evicted.

To me the evictions dwarf every other concern. It's a result that's straightforwardly inhumane, and I don't think any reasonable person would disagree.

Personally, I'm inclined to blame NIMBY San Francisco homeowners for this, but of course they would blame me and other "tech bros" for moving here. In the meantime, those hardest hit, low-income renters, are a member of neither bickering party.
True, but the upsides would massively offset the downsides.
Well no, it's not the same. I love when films use scale models to create effects, and I agree that sometimes they are better. But in this case they used a piece of glass with a projector behind it to recreate one of the simplest company logos, which could've been done in photoshop and after effects for half the time (and probably a 10th of the budget).

But yes, I love the Star Wars and LOTR (Wetaworks) stuff.
Scrolling down on web pages in the 90s made of tiny repeating textures and watching the renderer struggle to keep up with painting has instilled a deep fear of using extremely small images in tiling. What an icky feeling to find out your desktop may have some off-the-charts polygon count for its plain black background.
Democracy (and variants) is obviously in conflict with "long enough time scale", as in anything highly motivating the electorate will choose to compel a legislative alternative to free market outcomes. The not so subtle difference between a legislated outcome and a free market one, is the former is the sovereign, and near as I can tell not a single country's founding ideas/documents specify an economic system.
It's more so for the creative process. In my experience result is always better, more detailed when it has to go through progess and is built up. Rarely artist has "final image" in his mind when they start.

Sure, you could recreate this in GCI but it would be way harder to come up with the design in the first place.

I would also consider, any GCI artist could recreate this in 3D, but few could create it from scratch. If we consider that there was an good artist hired to do this piece, then it will be up to artist to choose his/her medium and you are critizing choice of artist or saying artist how to do his creative process and it is not about real vs GCI anymore.

Creating stuff from scratch is really really hard, it is always better to combine and build on things. The final product will look more original, detailed and overall better.

Art is messy, not optimized process.
I guess I’m jumping to conclusions but it seems like a lot of lessons have been learnt since JVMs and .NET came onto the scene, and that WASM runtimes and the future languages that target them will prioritise speed at every stage.
On top of that, there's the deadman's switch on the console that stops the car if the driver releases it. Would definitely pay to ride in something like this.
Tech bros are not the nerds and geeks of years past, suddenly rich. That was the dot.com boom.

These are sons of the elite who used to mainline to investment banking on Wall Street, or maybe a MBB shop — they follow the money.

There are plenty of nerds coming here, and they make a bit more money if they snag a FAANG job, but VCs and bros make sure they don’t get too big a slice of the startup pie.
> The decision of the Mayor back in 2012 to attract a bunch of Tech companies to the city

Do you mean the tax break for companies in the mid-market area, aka the Twitter tax break? There's definitely some tech around there, but I think SoMa has a lot more. The big ones, Google, Facebook, and Salesforce, aren't there.
Yeah, I'll never work for a company[1] where service teams are free to choose any language; 2 or 3 options at most is fine, but more than that is a hard no. I'll have to read/work on that code sooner or later, and I have no time to be dealing with a hodgepodge of languages

1. In the 10-5000 employee range: tech giants are a different beast when it comes to team accountability.
I would agree if something is noticeably handmade. For instance paintings on the sides of buildings, or street art, or hand animated logos etc. But I think 99% of people assume from looking at the desktop image that is was created digitally. There is no point in "creating the story" if you have to stumble across an obscure behind the scenes video to find out about it.
> This 95% Green solution is going to be a lot cheaper and more reliable than a 100% Green solution.

Right now our energy is roughly 5-10% green. Arguing whether green energy should eventually be 95% or 100% is purely pedantic at this point. There is approximately 95% of common ground between green energy purists and pragmatists. Lets get in line.
Any suggestions for an alternative way to search the papers?
I'll give an example of the Scala type system: let's define combining 2 integers as adding them together, then combining 2 lists of integers will give a new list where an element is the result of combining of 2 elements in the given 2 lists. Now we can make it a bit more generic: if a type A has a method combine, then 2 lists of elements of type A can be combined together to give a new list of which each element is from combining 2 elements in the 2 given lists.

How do you implement it in Go? It can be done in Java with generics, but if I make the problem a little bit more generic, a little bit more complicated, then I don't think Java can do it.
I have combined PTO, vacation and sick leave, and like keeping a healthy balance.
Not to mention that you’d still be able to use Jekyll yourself for as long as you’d like, it being locally installable and open source.
Conversely, my partner credits me with being the motivating factor in applying for grad school. I don't recall doing anything, but it was apparently a comment I'd made along the lines of, "I think you'd do really well in grad school and should consider applying." They got accepted into multiple programs and ultimately selected one they really like and feel sets them up well for industry.

I guess I'm saying experience varies.
The economy is already massively skewed against low income people; they’re already “gouged” in a dozen other ways. The solution for that is UBI, not giving up on the environment.
But that's the thing- there isn't plenty of room, both in terms of affordable housing, and in actual housing (SF is 49 sq. miles hemmed in by the sea). And as our industry gets more entrenched, we are creating that which is directly in contravention of one of our craft's most important axioms: a monoculture.
It’s an epithet conjured up by journalists plugging in to the angst created by city policies and cast onto a ready and easy target.
> Is it something to do with writing being much slower, therefore you have to think about it more while recording it?

I am not of any importance as a person, but my hypothesis is exactly this. For most of the HN audience, I expect that typing is well within the 70-100wpm range if not more, and at that rate, it becomes much faster to get something out of one's mind and into a system that it doesn't take time to "buffer" and linger.

I somehow personally doubt that actually forming the words on paper is enough to create memories, but I suppose anything is possible given how humans have evolved so far.
Cool, sounds like we're very likeminded about this stuff! (I'm the author)

By E&M shield, is that for electromagnetic stuff? Interesting, hadn't considered that. While I suspect that the effect of EMF is negligible, it also makes sense to me to limit it where possible - who knows what might be discovered in the future.

I also live in walkable distance of a trailhead and have hiked to spots to spots to work. More on this in some upcoming posts, I have some unconventional approaches to this that have been highly effective so far. The hiking time isn't wasted at all, I think! Very mentally clearing.

Great idea about the walking time and encouraging walking meetings, will consider how to encourage that at work.
Extensive discussion 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386
Sorry, I have to (insert lol emoji) a little. While I totally understand your point, GMunk is an insane artist, especially his artwork over the last 1.5 decades. Things move exponentially faster each year. I think large enterprise budgets (and approval processes) affect the creative output, especially when hiring someone like GMunk for a spot (esp in the corporate product space). He already favors a darker style than I can see a Windows campaign favoring. It’s definitely interesting when details of a process like this come out.
"Tech bro" describes a few people at the top (think Adam Neumann or Travis Kalanick) known for their bad behavior but unfortunately is used by the media to paint the rest of the men in tech with the same negative light.

The irony is that these people don't have a strong technical role -- they are mostly founders and executives. It's the people working under them with less influence who are doing all the hands-on tech work.
Greed, meet envy
I also do that. I don't even keep notes because the act of writing is so powerful on helping me retain the information. So I really don't relate to all the note systems and note management. I can take any random printer paper, do my notes, and throw it out. This gives me the full use I will ever get because I have never in my entire life wanted to go back to my notes.
But “techies” mostly aren’t the CEO-types who try to do all this disruption. They’re mostly developers who like to get paid to do semi-interesting work. The messianic stuff is largely confined to a small, loud group, I think.
Thanks for the answer! My friend’s response:

> Let’s take this comment at face value and say Linux rng throughput is 180MB/sec: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/ednj0x/comment/fbjr...

> Let’s take one of the more moderate types of AWS instances and suppose our max network speed is 10gbps = 1250MB/sec.

> Supposing we have an application that does not need to do any slow operations like reading from a database and is only performing very simple operations in memory (like, let’s say, generating a symmetric key), we see that the Linux rng is roughly an order of magnitude slower than our network throughout.
That’s not “techies” those are VCs and some founders.
>There’s an obscure blog by a guy who talks about the three or so stages of popular trends

Is this what you’re referring too? “Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths”?

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

By this formulation, it’s hard to argue that “tech” as a subculture hasn’t been overrun by sociopaths. Just compare the tech heroes of yesteryear (thinking the 70s/80s) with those of today.
Class properties are already part of the language
Silicon Valley could at least consolidate. I used to live on the border of Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The sales tax was different depending on which side of Homestead Rd I was on.

What was the fucking point of that? Were the culture and values of Sunnyvale really that antithetical to those of Cupertino?

It would be really nice if one of these parking lot hamlets actually did act differently and zone themselves to be super dense but when I left councilors were still mostly arguing about public WiFi and paying millions to water those plants in the road dividers all summer long.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. You can cherry pick good and bad actors in any industry. This ignores all of the dedication poured into open source and support in frequently thankless roles - have you ever noticed how dry and professional OSS support forums like github and stackoverflow tend to be? To the point where people feel the environment is offensive (though I disagree). All of the positive contributions to control systems that link the globe and drive our factories and machines. Brilliant, completely free GPU based mathematics libraries in multiple languages - do you have any idea how far these technologies are driving the future? Tech is the foundation of the future. Maybe not now but it is inevitable, if we don't destroy ourselves, the live of the average person will undoubtedly become more and more computerized.

Also, what technology do you think is enabling clean tech? We simulate everything on the back of a subset of the tech industry.
I find the same experience and my guess would be the amount of engagement. A good typist can type while having a conversation. Writing demands more focus and coordination and gives more feedback.
And did you compare that to how long it takes to approve reviews to other businesses? Paying and nonpaying?

Right now you don’t even have proper N=1.
Personally, I see writing as a symbolic form of “doing”: the disintegrating and reintegrating information. It’s one way to learn and remember.

At work, I find note taking to be almost useless for me personally, even though I feel like I’m learning new things each day. Although, I’ve noticed a quirk - whenever I learn something that surprises me, I feel the urge to share it out loud to my coworkers. I feel like that might take the place of writing it down?

Sometimes I feel guilty (?) about the fact that I don’t write as much any more. But, on reflection, I might have just replaced writing with orating...

Running with that idea, maybe oral conversation is an underrated ruminative method: with its great space for nuance and emphasis, and its tight feedback loop between speaker and listener. The only limits are working memory and persistence; if you’re dealing with too many interacting concepts, and your original point doesn’t stick, it’s usually gone forever. Although, maybe those are very useful filters :)
You’re prioritising truth over social cohesion. I like truth but without social cohesion, no amount of truth matters.
This. If you can't design a well segmented monolith, you can't design a well segmented system of microservices either. The microservices will just be buggier and much harder to fix after the fact.
> Pretty sure microgrids would make this problem better not worse.

They can't make it better, since they have to have same transmission capacity and be more complex than existing grids. And who's going to maintain it? When there are problems maintaining simpler existing grids already.

> And I really wonder, if every country in the world used nuclear power as it's primary power source, if there would still be a human-habitable world today.

What the problem with that? Nuclear is pretty well spread over the world already, and it's not like there are any problems with habitability.

If anything, it's coal that makes places barely habitable.
Both the costs and time are due to:

- the number of intermediaries in the chain: the bank to which the money is going usually doesn't have an account with the bank that sent the money, so effectively the transfer is split up into multiple transfers between banks

- foreign exchange volatility: when sending money abroad, the bank gives you a firm quote now for the rate at which they will convert one currency to another; they reduce the chance they will lose money by charging you a rate worse than the current mid-market rate.

- operating costs: banks have to run processes for AML, KYC, CS etc.

- risk/fraud costs: provisions for actual losses from internal/external fraud

To your later questions:

- many companies have tackled this issue and aim to make it cheaper and/or faster: Moneygram, Western Union, OFX, HiFX, CurrencyFair, TransferWise, ...

Which is the cheapest service for the currency pair in which you're interested? How much do they charge?
I propose you reconsider what "green" means.
Null is also the absence of a value altogether.