skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeless people are rare in most of SF, but super common in the middle of downtown (Market St area). So if you live/work near Market St (especially near Tenderloin), you'll feel like homeless people are everywhere. If you don't, you probably won't

I saw comments (perhaps yours?) along these lines on the last HN post about San Francisco I read. This doesn't jive with my experiences in San Francisco at all. In fact a couple weeks ago I took the 38R to the outer richmond and was just shocked both by the number of vacant storefronts along Geary and the number of homeless folks around.

I felt super safe in SF. Even in the Tenderloin, I never felt unsafe or heard of any of my friends being mugged or anything. Stolen bikes, yes. There are parts in and around the Tenderloin that feel very sketch, even if they're safe. You can find neighborhoods like that in most any big city. The difference in SF is that they're in the middle of downtown

I've never had a problem in the Tenderloin and I've plenty of opportunity to, but Turk & Taylor definitely earned its reputation. It's a dirty and poor neighborhood but the junkies generally put me less on edge than the folks with more outward facing psychiatric issues like you find in Potrero.

Public transportation isn't anywhere near as good as NYC, but you can get most anywhere on a bus and/or muni (metro/subway). Where I lived most recently (Haight Ashbury area), I thought public transportation was pretty convenient. I took ubers to get to my office in Dogpatch though

New Yorkers will happily kvetch about their public transit (last time I was there I ended up talking with these women on the subway who were grousing about having to transfer or walk a few blocks because late night service was upended by construction/maintenance). And, quite frankly, you'll have trouble getting to the outer reaches (especially outer Queens + Brooklyn) on a bus/taxi/subway car.

The Haight is incredibly well served by buses and streetcars, but the Dogpatch is not. The metro past embarcadero is a shit show (by design).
I don't know if I'd ever actually sign up for Redneck Bank, but I definitely would never have heard of All America Bank without it. Maybe that's their play here.
My tagline for my website is "Rantings of a Redneck Techno-barbarian". I've been hoping there was juice here again; glad to have a confirmation.
Kirkland brand vodka is indeed a gem in the rough. I just wish there was a brand of "white label products", where every single item is consistently good, because the range of quality when it comes to each individual item within a "white label" is still pretty high. Though I realize that at this point, it would become a brand of its own.
Windows is actually pretty good about doing incremental present, only writing the composited regions that have actually changed. But macOS is bad at this, so people have to fake it in ugly ways to reduce power consumption. It's especially bad when all you want to do is blink a cursor.

Whether apps make use of these capabilities are another question. It's pretty easy to get lazy and blat out the whole window every time, when you know the GPU can handle the pixel bandwidth, and things like imgui explicitly make this tradeoff to keep logic simple.
OK, this is actually quite impressive. Geeky beyond belief, and the question is how deep would you care to go ... emulating a x86 which is running your app emulating an x86 ... Still impressed.
I’ve been waiting for someone to implement this:

https://www.xkcd.com/993/

Too bad they folded before establishing a brand identity.
> brandlessness is the brand, logo or not

So like all of the other "-less" things being pushed recently, it actually means "thing is hidden and we pretend it's not there", not "without the thing".
According to the fine print, you need to keep a balance of $10,000 to get that 2.25% rate. There have been points in my life when I've had that much money in the bank, but this is not one of them.
Google search already faces that problem. Is that unsafe too?
I would love the same thing and have often dreamed of starting such a company. And you're totally right about muji - do you know what its full name means in japanese? Something like "No logo high quality"! And I do believe it was started with that ethos properly in mind. Another one that comes to mind is, believe it or not, IKEA. IKEA used to be very good, and pretty expensive.

But I think that all such high-minded projects, especially once the founder becomes less involved, become subject to the "optimisation" of capitalism. The next CEO after the founder steps down might not be quite so high-minded, and the process known as "quality fade" begins.
I've used asciidoctor with it's diagram plugin (https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/) internally on memos/draft documentation, which that gives us an ability to actually just check in the asciidoc with diagram source into git. Then we use merge requests for a real review process. Then, I just usually just export to pdf or word for broader sharing among the masses. (Amazing how this usually gets far more attention than Confluence, etc)

Main benefit is that most of these kinds of CLI diagram tools have much longer lives than any GUI-based diagram software I've used.

But even just having a separate "diagram source" file where you just check in an image is still nice. Then you don't have to bother with wondering who has access to the tools, etc.
That's what that phrase means, people saying "hand over your phone" or "leave the door unlocked" or "livestream your life" completely missed the point, which doesn't even resonate with what the article was referring to.

The articles talked about trading privacy for convenience and comfort. All the "counter arguments" people listed have nothing to do with those two.
> The tech industry is large enough that if you're good enough to work at Amazon, you probably have options.

> I've been rejected at Google and Facebook

These two statements are not contradicting each other...
> Keep that in mind: when you hear "progressive" it might not be progress for you.

You're missing the point. While it's debatable whether the theory of progressivism is working out for the homelessness, I hope we can agree that the execution has been horrible. Progressives have controlled the local government there for some time now, and since they've done so, things have grown worse. The situation hasn't been much better in Seattle, Chicago, or Detroit. Progressives like to point fingers to blame others for the problems, but there's a very real possibility that, yes, they really are in actuality regressive for everyone, homeless included.
Looking back through Derek Lowe's posts, I don't think he considered the amyloid hypothesis dead until around 2016 or so.

The study was started in December 2012, according the clinicaltrials.gov posting. At that time, you had the first round of amyloid blockers that didn't work, but you were in the midst of the hail-mary round of "maybe it works if you catch it early/in this group of people/etc." tests. Indeed, this is one of those studies.
Perhaps it could be used to improve autocomplete keyboards. The more words it can predict in advance the fewer keystrokes/taps are needed to convey thoughts
We find that deep learning has limitations, and isn't going to get us to AGI.

Rust erodes C's share of programming to some degree, but remains smaller than C by the end of the decade.

Surveillance technology becomes ubiquitous. In any city, you don't have privacy outside your own home.

True self-driving cars are (still) just around the corner.

A breakthrough in EUV sources helps lithography, but we're still only at 3 nm (nominal) feature size. Clock speed does not exceed 10 GHz.

That's mostly a list of what we think is the current trend that, in my view, won't continue. I'm less clear on what new things will show up.
Reading your posts makes it clear you have a self astern problem
Yeah from the Singapore numbers, 45 cases and 7 in critical care. I don't recall seeing those sort of numbers with flu.

edit - googling a bit the % going into critical care seems to be about 0.2% for flu vs the above about 15% for coronavirus.
Am I the only one who can smell these pages as I look at them?
It's 200k, plus bonuses, plus RSU appreciation, plus savings from having a lot of needs taken care of (transportation, food, laundry, etc). A lot of them also made a bunch during their internships and got bigger signing bonuses than I did (I only graduated with around ~$40k through a handful of internships and college jobs)
This is such a tired old meme that conflates bad architecture with current professional standards. Bad architecture of anything has existed since forever but some bad apples don't spoil the barrel. Page render should occur within the first 300ms and page load should be complete in a second.
In some ways they are - they're just a little box of memory with an address.
Surely the three most common elements (by any measure) are hydrogen, helium and lithium?
Having used react and modern web components to build webpages. I will agree with the first comment which says what is made so hard by react/redux can be easily done if the pages were rendered on server and delivered to client with progressive smaller bits of JavaScript for dynamic interaction.

If state management is so critical to running a react app than I feel Elm/ClojureScript is a better choice than react to build web apps. But I doubt they will be as popular given network effect.

Now everyone went on a bandwagon that react/angular/SPA/progressive apps is the only future and plain HTML/CSS/JS mix on server side with specific language templates is dead. I am sure we will again go full circle back as you can see now with SSR (server side rendering) is considered as a norm for performant react or angular apps. SSR combined with complexity of react/redux unnecessarily makes everything complicated (worse than even complex). Instead of doing HTML templates in nicer language on server side now people are forced with half baked solution on client side like JSX or angular templates etc.

A developer not just need to learn intricacies of HTML/CSS/JS, but then API's of framework like react, combine it with state management framework, combine it with client side templates, combine it with build tools like gulp, webpack, combine it with NPM, Yarn, combine it with babel compiler, combine it with many testing frameworks. The whole eco-system is very complicated (not just complex).

This is one of the reason for emergence of compiler based web application development language and frameworks like Svelte, Elm, ClojureScript, PureScripts. They will still be not popular because there is a network effect of jobs available. So inferior tools for user interface like react/angular will continue to thrive.
I recall the G1 had cut and paste functionality that iPhones lacked for many new releases to come.
Everything after your first two sentences is off-topic. If the comments on all articles about Amazon devolve into general complaints about Amazon, there will never be quality discussion.
Clean tech 'won't solve warming in time'
> and writes delightfully

If you're right handed.

Fountain pens simply don't work for lefties, without writing in a completely unnatural way.
I cannot speak for the entire range of AmazonBasics offerings, but that definitely doesn't seem like the case of just copying. Afaik AmazonBasics monitor arms specifically are just rebadged Ergotech arms that are actually still manufactured by Ergotech.

P.S. sidenote, can totally recommend their monitor arms.
Go home, baby!
Mr. Rogers was a Presbyterian minister. His ministry field was literally his TV program. It was flowing out of his Christianity.

I'm not sure to what degree you can be like him without that foundation.
Yeah, exactly. If leftpad and bukkit taught us anything, it’s that contributor licensing agreements are really necessary. Otherwise you’re building your entire edifice on sand.
You could frame the right of privacy in different terms such as encryption is a type of munition to protect your information from a tyrannical government. This closely matches the typical argument people use for second amendment rights.

There are also other ways to frame the premise:

If you have nothing to say, then why do you need the freedom of speech?

If you have nothing to defend, then why do you need the right to bear arms?
Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
Perhaps, but my goal is to make ~$250k a year as fast as possible. To do so at my current company would take at least 3 years and 2 promotions, whereas even James Damore was making $400k+ 4 years into his tenure. I can't get offers at trading firms, so I'm kinda SOL overall.
Is this like the bank version of a MVNO?
Ahh I wish this were as easy in North America.
Why do you care whether HN thinks your comp is impressive?

Money is a tool. Once basic material needs are met, tying personal self-worth to a numeric value is not a recipe for happiness, and chasing other people's expectations of what you should be earning is even worse.

I would say you probably do have options, if you choose to go for them.
you are complaining about three shows out of the literally hundreds if not thousands of episodes of TV shows that it has.

And probably knowing the demographics of HN, you wouldn’t be that interested in Greys Anatomy.
Sitting bolt upright on a conventional bike consumes a lot more energy than being on the drops. It's one of a handful of topics to bring up when a newbie starts talking about how they can't keep up because they're not in shape. Yes, that is true, and we also have much better technique than you do, which we can work on right now, if you like...

Somehow this guy got aerobars to work on a unicycle, which they don't talk about. I had to stop and search for an image to see how the hell those work.

They're taking a load off his core and letting him use many more muscle groups.
Fiat Chrysler to Deploy Self-Driving RoboTaxi in China
A much older and more successful version of this is No Name in Canada, which is for the house brand versions of products from the grocery giant Loblaws.

https://www.google.com/search?q=no+name+products+canada&clie...

Loblaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loblaws
As a side note the company is rather interesting, it's basically like an Incorporated team.
But ICCCM!
So—no, you can't say that it is non-infectious to humans.
Of course, the app didn't actually "go" anywhere. Minimizing it just tells the windowing system to stop drawing it. But humans aren't used to thinking about things that pop in and out of existence, so it's easier to understand the application as a physical thing that goes somewhere when hidden.
This literally is No Name in Canada, but with yellow labels.
That depends on the failure. Plus what recovery methods, redundancy, and backups they have. However, even at current prices verasign should have no problem paying decent engineers. Especially considering the number of registrations.

However, the distributed nature dns does protect against a lot blunders unless they persist for long enough for caches to invalidate.

The largest concern would be bad backups of registration records. However, last I checked ICANN requires tld operators to keep backups and also submit those backups daily to ICANN. Plus other things so if the company/org goes belly up for some reason ICANN can manage it till they find someone else.
It's basically rife in any organisation with more than ~2K+ total employees, regardless of private or public sector. The only that changes is the scope of how much funds & talent get wasted.
even if you have very very generous welfare (and I agree that this should exist) - it would not ever fix the inequality of outcome.

I just don't see how those who can perform literally 10x more productively than others will settle for less than an absolute top prize, and with technology being such a great amplifier - winner take all dynamics seems to be so inherent - I am not even sure what can be done?
Don't be carried away by their rhetoric.
There's an explicit company policy about game development that is separate from their open source policy. It, among other things, prevents you from working on a game project with anyone else.
I know it is a chore, but since it seems to be unwelcome in your top level comment, do you mind posting the links here? I actually am interested in checking them out, and I bet I am not the only one.
Cool username!

1) Sure! I don't think that really changes my points though.
2) That's only true if the rate correlates with panic, and if the Chinese government knows that would be the effect. They may be sacrificing panic, over a higher case fatality rate, in order to retain an illusion of competence in identifying and addressing the outbreak. I don't think it'd be out of character for an authoritarian government to care about appearances in that sort of way.
> AT&T eventually took control of EO, which it bought in mid-1993, and GO, which it purchased outright in early 1994. These acquisitions created a confusing corporate structure.

Yeah, AT&T was on a buying binge at that time. I got hired there in late '93 and started in '94. In addition to GO, they also bought NCR and a few other things, I think. All of it fell apart within about 2-4 years when they spun off Lucent and NCR into separate companies. It was pretty much a mess!
Farewell, R-42 Subway Cars
Umm I guess you could ignore the comment then. Part of what I like about HN is the tangential discussion and the personal experience that commenters share.
> Technically, you can now send a fax from the beach — but who’s doing that in the year 2020?

I would bet good money that quite a few people do that today, via services like HelloFax.
Search inside for the 'Game Development Policy', it's separate from the intellectual property commitment. Reasoning is likely from Amazon Games Studios? I think there may be a concern that someone at Amazon might make the next flappy bird or Minecraft and Amazon couldn't capitalize on it.
The invention there was more standardization than the actual box. Cargo boxes have existed as long as people have had cargo.
(2016) This article is super old and almost everyone in the Go community knows about all the drama around the author of this project.
> and the company pivoted to selling CBD

Wait, what?

Could anyone imagine that going well, rather than meaning "countdown to 'what an incredible journey'"?
I got a pair of the G1s the first day they were for sale at T-mobile. One of the most used features of them was the bar code scanner and hangouts. Free messaging (many of the less expensive plans had limited SMS) that was automatically mirrored on your browser (through gmail) was somewhat novel at the time.

Used the hell out of those things, I was REALLY impressed with their physical robustness. My partner dropped their phone ... and ran over it with a bike. There was a tire print across the keyboard AND screen, without no harm done.
100MM SV salaries

100MM SV office

50MM La Croix

25MM Standing desks

25MM Scooters
Downvoters are aggressive here yes. It's a shame, though your question isn't particularly pertinent to this article.

Kind of a double-edged sword that keeps the discussion on target.
> 3. Elon Musk and his Tunnel Boring Machine

We've had these for ages and Elon has not made any advances in tunneling technology despite hundreds of millions of dollars and however-many years invested.

> 4. Elon Musk and his Flamethrower

Elon Musk and his $500 roofing torch.

> Elon Musk and his Self Driving Car

Elon Musk and his moving goalposts...

Of course, there is also "Elon Musk and his Cult of Personality", which is how he can slap a brand-name on a roofing torch and get people to run around calling it a "flamethrower", and how he can get away with calling a system that still requires human supervision "feature-complete full self driving".

This also contributes to his being able to get away with publicly calling an international hero a pedophile, just because they had the gall to question "Elon Musk and his Cave Rescue Submarine".

I give Elon a lot of respect for what he has done with 1 and 2, but I think his visions would be better served by less hero-worship and more serious people holding him to account.
The number I heard (which was years ago) was that 18-24 months was closer to the truth. But yeah, not long either way.
The picture of the empty shelves is quite misleading. I haven't had any trouble buying necessities (and even non-necessities).
Can you spot any meds? http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/11/c_138772235.htm or even basic intensive care stuff like IV fluid bags or oxygen tanks? And this is official Chinese propaganda photo story.

There is no medicine in temporary hospitals. They arent treating anyone, just isolating, monitoring, feeding and waiting for one of two possible outcomes.

Lopinavir, ritonavir and remdesivir are reserved for party officials, even doctors in China dont get those. There are telephone recordings circulating on Wechat of well connected people turned away from hospitals with directors telling them there is nothing they can do.
Illich, Conviviality, and Computational Kingdoms
This sort of order of magnitude estimation is essentially a Fermi question [1]. Anyone interested in these might also check out problems from the high school Science Olympiad event of the same name. Here is a page which links to some past tests: [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

[2] https://www.sciencenc.com/resources/high-school/fermi-questi...
My whole point - the one I've been trying to make in every comment in this thread - is that if you want to talk about "FP" as a whole (or "OOP" as a whole), you have to explicitly define it. Relying on intuition or culture is not enough.

Like, I use what I think of as FP features much more than I do what I think of as OOP features. In languages commonly thought of as multi-paradigm, say python, I have lots of higher-order functions, and lots of functions which are just compositions of others (I don't write point-free style though). I try hard to avoid implementation inheritance ("OOP inheritance") if possible. I know people who do the exact opposite thing in python.

But if I write down the definition of "FP" for me and you write down your definition, I 99% guarantee you they'll be different in a substantive way.

So I agree with many of the points you make in the links about how composition works in (what you think of as) FP vs OOP. But I view that as claims about individual design patterns or language features (and very big, fundamental design patterns / language features), not as things called "FP" and "OOP".
>not a recipe for happiness

And certainly not a recipe for morality
Why did you decide to replace Joplin?
I live in New York and the majority of my friends do not have washing machine in their home. In fact, it’s a luxury to have one. In contrast, I’m originally from Ukraine where not having a washing machine is weird to say the least. There are many things that would make me call US a 2nd world country, so I’m having a hard time understanding which countries are 1st world countries.
Oooh, interesting. So, people who know: I get the impression that we're moving to a "business that has an app front end" model rather than the app itself being the business. So isn't it "better" to use a cross platform toolkit?
“Should” being the key part of your comment: it’s quite rare in practice. Most SPAs are lucky to have page render in 2-3 seconds, or fully loaded in 10 - and my experience is using the latest iPhone in a major metro area around 10 ms from most major CDNs.