skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for commenting. Since it's such a short video, would you mind quoting one sentence from the video which is incorrect, e.g. did the doctor from India describe a particular event which did not take place?

In the USA, the New York Supreme Court ruled that an elderly patient was allowed to take Ivermectin, against the wishes of the hospital where she was being treated. After winning her court case, Ivermectin was administered and she made a rapid recovery, https://www.mountainhomemag.com/2021/05/01/356270/the-drug-t....

Let's assume that her case is an outlier, can we agree that it is a remarkably positive, happy, outlier? Are such cases worthy of scientific study, to understand the therapeutic mechanisms involved, if only to inform the design of new therapeutics? Merck, holder of the Ivermectin patent that expired in 1996, is now developing a new, patented drug for early treatment of Covid.
Sounds like Hacker News readers cannot power a light bulb with a wire and a battery either.
Walk it off. /s
I lazily Googled and disproved you in five seconds:

> San Francisco and the East Bay should see 7,872 new apartments open in 2021, an increase of 36% from the previous year. It's the highest number of apartments — 13,497 units — added to the region in the last five years.

Surprised?
In my professional SRE experience, you are an outlier. I analyze canaries on a regular basis for bugs. Like, the only thing lazier than fuzzing is using your customers to fuzz.

One category of bug I file coming out of that is NullPointerExceptions. NPEs are always a bug, and they come with a stack trace and messages about which variable was null. Yet only about 10 percent of the bugs I've filed came back fixed. Often months later. The rest are either still open or closed without fixing in an effort to purge the backlog of old bugs.
Iraq and Afghanistan until recently. And we send billions to Israel which is a straight up apartheid state. That's not even getting into the millions of minorities in the world's largest prison population. We also killed a significant portion of the vietnamese population, in the millions. Also, you should look into the decades of CIA interventions in dozens of latin American countries.
All Inflation requires is a copy of the printers used in Zimbabwe and 90s Brazil. Come to think of it, it looks like we took them and added capacity.
I wonder how much the moving of jobs outside has contributed to this. The few documentaries I saw had interviews with homeless, and the general theme was that they couldn’t land a job.
>So he was an ass to work with

I am starting to wonder if this is a tech thing. Because if you talk to people in many other industry, you will have a high chances of seeing / meeting one.

And there are plenty of people who worked with him have no problem what so ever. And all of them are ones that are willing to stand up for themselves and talk back to Steve.

I mean, by the age of late 30 one should realise most of the work we have today are really really shit. This may not be apparent in tech. But it is commonly the case everywhere else. Trying to push for higher quality and inertia will absolutely drive a person insane.
The south fork of the Chicago river was called bubbly creek. Because cow carcasses dumped there by the slaughter houses caused bubble to form — 50 years later!
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Handful of interesting/data-driven organizations in the Bay Area dispel exactly this. It was eye opening to me to attend some of their public events where they run through their data.
If one of your top complaints about the homeless is that they poop (an unavoidable bodily function you might be familiar with), then I'm not sure I trust your judgment about policy matters.
I mean, they're just following the same pattern that every other social media company has with their API: make it very open to help capture user share, then gradually scale it back to shut down abuse and facilitate monetization.
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I used to love chapters in Canada as somewhere you could go to sit and browse books casually in comfy chairs, and just loiter. I spent a ton on books back then. Now those chairs and tables are almost entirely gone. It doesn’t make sense, they can’t compete on convenience or selection, so why toss out the in-person shopping experience advantage?
More of a magnet than a dumping ground, it’s not like the homeless were sent to California. Local incentives are more likely to blame.
Depends on the Linux; Alpine is pretty close to that, Ubuntu isn't.
The current design is made to compete with small cargo planes to remote small landlocked cities like many in Alaska with no roads.

To be able to compete with trucks they would need a significantly bigger airship as efficiency scales with size.
interesting, i migrated from authenticator, but did it 1 at a time. Check out andOTP, another great open source alternative, maybe it has these features.
You can’t compare absolute numbers. Why do you insist on that?
Do you think world population was always the same? Really?
Well, California is literally a single party state
I can appreciate that I learned the term idompotency from working with Ansible, but I think they failed to really make it a feature of the language- it could have been a stronger default, explicit, like Unsafe in Rust. As it stands, writing idempotent Ansible takes as much discipline and intentionality as any other language, and can prevent integrating roles that other's have written without such discipline. There is value in it, but not in respect to idempotentcy as any sort of inherent principal (at least outside of the std lib, which is ofc pretty great abt it).
Of course it is.

Does no one remember when other states were paying for bus fares to California to get the homeless out of their state?

Does no one remember states paying to fly the homeless to Hawaii?

The above might sound ridiculous, but what sounds cheaper? Solving California’s massive homeless problem or simply getting the homeless out of the state on the next plane or bus?
For ages now, I've thought we should unify TERM and termios. There should be an ioctl for retrieving a terminal description from a tty, out of band. Everything else is a hack.
No, there is a weight limit. There is no practical size advantage compared to using cheaper lead weights.
No. My self-hosted instance is about as fast as using Google directly. Maybe a half a second slower, but barely noticeable if it is. I can't even tell.
We can’t solve mental illness with more quarter million dollar condos. I don’t know why this is still being peddled.
California is a honey pot for homeless people, that is not a national problem but a local reality.
> For existing homeowners this isn't a crisis, it's a free paper money bonanza. Just by living in their houses home "owners" (most are heavily leveraged) "earn" 100k in paper money year in year out - magic!

Is this appreciation consistent with the rest of the country, or areas with comparable quality of life? If you only have one home, real estate appreciation only makes you money if it’s higher for your house relative to other houses you’d actually want to live in, since if you sell your house and buy another house of comparable quality that’s also appreciated to a similar degree, you wouldn’t come out ahead.

So yeah, that starter house you bought for $300k 25 years ago that’s worth over a million now? Unless you’re willing to move to a much lower cost of living part of the country, you could sell that house and buy…another million dollar starter house.
Does the password strategy really just truncate passwords over 64 characters? I don't use them often but since text passwords typically have low number of significant bits per character I have always assumed that the input string was hashed to a fixed length password that would increase in quality until the randomness of the text approached random bytes. My current secure passphrase is a paragraph that I have memorized from a book, about 250 characters, but I only type it a couple of times per month. Disappointing if 190 or so characters of this typing is indeed wasted effort and that at least 8 bytes or more (1-3 bits per character) of entropy is wasted per password because text doesn't use all 8 bits.
yep, you need to gain access to his LAN first
You will soon be able to buy-now-pay-later for an Amazon Kindle
I called this forced trust. It's a major source of dissonance for me.

Effectively we have they choice of iphone, Android or complete Luddite.
> what I'm trying to say is that Big Tech is a big place, and if you find yourself somewhere with bad culture don't take that to mean there aren't other places you would like.

Tell that to an H1B holder.

You're not wrong to point out that we can't generalize from a single data point, but you're wrong to bring your positive experience as if there is an equivalence between the two. They don't have the same weighing; we are not trying to have a 50:50 split between bad and good experiences. Even a single workplace-driven mental health incident is too many. And unlike other workplace related injuries, mental health injuries are elusive to tracking.

One hard metric would be the percentage of FAANG employees that are lost to suicide each year. It would be morbid but telling if some companies have an overrepresentation (I have my doubts but won't voice it here).
You said: "I think you'd be quite alarmed by the number of successful doctors and lawyers who don't meet the 100 IQ bar you're setting here".

The number of doctors and lawyers who do not meet that bar appears to be slim to none, so I'm not at all alarmed...

> There is no universal ranking of doctors, you can't really claim "percentile of success" for doctors or lawyers, and it's weird you're trying to do so

I'm not claiming percentiles of success, it's IQ percentiles across all doctors and lawyers.

Regardless of how you define success, a very small proportion of doctors and lawyers don't meet the 100 IQ bar. And if you define success as anything other than having the job, that proportion gets smaller.
Ding! I interviewed in this area in 2018, I was shocked by how low the salary was.
There is a sort of lived-truth here, that innovative upstarts are generally going to be in opposition to IP laws rather than in favour of it. Laws generally favours established players with money, lawyers and political contacts.
California was a semi desert before we built the canals and aqueducts -which is why it was a backwater with few people till that was done and its fertile soil was able to sustain life.

People (city dwellers) came _after_ the farmers.

So, it might be in need of an update, but I think you're mischaracterizing how this happened.
I was thinking maybe they shared a common origin, but apparently not: https://www.etymonline.com/word/hob

I think speaking of stovetops is around two orders of magnitude more common than speaking of hobgoblins among BrE-speakers nowadays.
> you only have one home, real estate appreciation only makes you money if it’s higher for your house relative to others, since if you sell your house and buy another house of comparable quality that’s also appreciated to a similar degree, you wouldn’t come out ahead.

Equity can be leveraged meaningfully without selling, so that's not true.
I think you're being extremely generous by ascribing any ambiguity to it. Especially as there is context.

That's not how I read it, I think almost everyone would read it as Rapptz did.

Tone is difficult to gauge over the Internet. Maybe Mason just messed up how it would be interpreted. I suspect we've all done that. I know I have.

But the term "martyr" is a really loaded one. This didn't feel like a playful tone misjudged to me.

Both of the Discord employees in that were screenshotted come out of this looking really bad. Unprofessional and hostile. The question is just whether they were actually also hostile, or just unprofessional.
No one deserves to be physically attacked because they have a different opinion than you.
Dont be scared of different ideas.
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No. I did not mean at all to imply that.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-death-idUSKCN0XP383
> closed without fixing in an effort to purge the backlog of old bugs.

Ugh. :(

I like to run on a "constant beta" basis. I fix every bug that I can find -even the small ones- immediately; halting work going forward, until they are fixed.

As you can imagine, this was not popular with my employers, so I was not allowed to work that way. Since leaving my last company, that's exactly how I've worked, and the results are nothing short of miraculous.

As a result, I actually had to dismantle a JIRA reporting system that I set up, because I get so few reports. A sticky note is usually all I need.
I don’t work in big tech but I do work in big industry. In my experience you need to have the ability to go hard and put the team on your back when it is actually necessary. You equally need the ability to turn it off and put work back in its proper place. They don’t pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to throw in the towel or coast when shit hits the fan.
I agree. The only other place I’ve seen anything similar is India. Is San Francisco the India of the USA? Lots of techies in San Francisco are from India. Maybe they feel at home.
They were providing a list of neighborhoods in SF. It wasn't ambiguous and would have been well understood by anyone familiar enough with the city to comment on the state of SF. There's also a Richmond Virginia (among many other Richmonds), none would make sense in the context of a list of SF neighborhoods.
Chicago sues Grubhub and DoorDash for allegedly deceptive practices
You can implement a linked list in safe Rust (even a doubly linked list if your prefer), there are a number of examples available if you google for it - for instance:

https://gist.github.com/matey-jack/3e19b6370c6f7036a9119b79a...

In fact, the Rust book explicitly mentions doubly linked lists when discussing Pin:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pin/index.html#example-intrusi...

The ownership system might make it less trivial to implement, but the statement that you cannot implement it in safe Rust is incorrect regardless.
For the most part this is an important point.

But there is a minor perk that a greatly appreciating house gives you considerably more equity to act as a large rainy day battery via a home equity line of credit or traditional loans backed by home equity.

My home appreciated 20% last two years and while I hate the condition of the housing market, this unlocked a lot of equity years earlier than I expected it to.
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> you force them to get the psychiatric help that they need

The problem is that there’s a long history of people labelling all sorts of things they don’t like as being a mental illness and using that as an excuse to use treatment as violence against them. We called homosexuality a mental illness until very recently and forced people to have violent treatment for it, for example.
Giving people rights to water simply because they took it from the Spanish first is the definition of feudal. We don't allocate resources logically or helpfully, we give people rights because their ancestors got their first, and it is preposterous economically and morally.
I don't think it's necessarily that scientists are avoiding the hard work to show causality. It's that the most interesting causal experiments are often unethical, or the independent variable cannot be hidden like a placebo (so the participants' bias affect the randomization), or it's simply impossible.

I'll use one example from some data I've been looking at, which is whether the covid-19 pandemic has changed how people sleep. To study this using the formal notion of causality requires asking a random 50% of people to sleep as if covid isn't happening. That's obviously both impractical and implausible.

So you can really only look at correlations. But I can show you the correlations, and I bet you will be convinced that the pandemic HAS changed peoples' sleep. Here's some charts if you can take a look: https://jeffhuang.com/covid_sleep/ but there's probably several factors that convince you that this is causal.

First is the pattern of sleep pre-covid is very stable, and feels trustworthy because it goes up and down during weekends, and holidays are visible. So the data is visibly sensitive to changes in the environment. Second, nearly every country reacts similarly when the N is separated, so even if there's some large group of people somewhere that are outliers (say, some policy by California that everyone needs to go to bed later), it would only affect that one country they are in, not each country separately the same way. Finally, the patterns of sleep post-covid are also stable with similar patterns as pre-covid, but just shifted.

I'm not sure if there's formal ways of representing these concepts, but I feel humans understand these intuitively.
You are both kind of right.

Parts of California, like SF and the East Bay, have started building a lot of housing. Late, and still not enough to make up for the shortfall, but building nonetheless.

The problem is that places like Silicon Valley that have seen the lion's share of job growth haven't built commensurate levels of housing.
How much of what you buy on Amazon is made in China?

How much of it do you think has been audited for IP protection?
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How can it be housing when there are so many vacancies? I honestly don't understand this. Obviously they can't afford it, but that's how markets work. When there is high demand, prices go up.

It seems to me the solution is just for people to go elsewhere... again, the housing is there, plenty of rentals everywhere, except too expensive for someone who is living on the streets to, all of a sudden, start paying for, yet they can't live anywhere else?

Also politicians where talking about an exit tax for people who leave, or something like that. You can't have it both ways: be the most popular destination and also have affordable housing. It's either/or, and people who can't afford simply need to go elsewhere that they can afford. How can that not be an option for people?

It seems to me everyone just ignores individual incentives when talking about this problem. What are these people on the street motivated by? What do they want? And why can't they decide to go to a less popular, and cheaper place to live and work? I honestly would not stay in CA if I couldn't afford it, and would at least find a cheaper place to be homeless in, just to have a better chance to afford a place. When are we going to start factoring in these people's agency and incentives? They are people with desires, motivations, and plans.
A lot of folks enter into mental health crisis from the stress, sleep deprivation and other issues caused by being homeless. Certainly not all. But having gone through a time period dealing with stress and sleep deprivation from the comfort of my home, I can empathize.
A better argument would be that "slash commands lack the same accessibility", than to say they are boring. I have many friends that use a variety of accessibility tools and well aware of how changes can really frustrate and block them from communicating.
Viewed through the lens of the original Silk Road, the "closing off and turning inwards" trend is consistent with an increasingly Middle Kingdom posture. China is the center of the world in this posture, and in a very nearly literal sense all roads lead to China with BRI.

It also neatly dovetails with asserting greater, more finely-granular political and social control the leadership desires (from which all other power emanates in such a world-view). Chinese nationalism is strongly encouraged, and evolving it to a "New Middle Kingdom" posture will generate incredibly powerful historical resonance with Chinese.

Convincing 1.4B people to politically turn inward to only concerning themselves with domestic matters because China is the only nation that matters in an exceptionalism narrative, while delivering a practical logistics network to feed their ramping up resource requirements (because China cannot sole-source these resources domestically), could be a winning formula for a leadership that wants to maintain the bargain they have struck with the people: continued increasing prosperity in exchange for continued Mandate from Heaven.

This is just my uninformed perspective from the outside looking in, without extensive corroborating data and cultural referents. I welcome discussion on what is really going on.
"Stop voting for people" is kinda the problem with California. Since the US is a 2-party system, and California is leftish, California is effectively a single-party system. So the people get, more or less, what the party picks for them. On the other hand, "dismantle the 2-party system" is quite the yak-shave.
Can't agree more. Now I see all "Open" APIs as bait-and-switch and vendor lock-in.
Is there a clearnet repo? Or a name for the project perhaps so I can look for a clone?
> You're not wrong to point out that we can't generalize from a single data point, but you're wrong to bring your positive experience as if there is an equivalence between the two.

I don't think this is how statistics work. Both are one piece of data. In order to make meaningful conclusions, we need more data. It seems to me that all of a sudden we have a mental health epidemic and I am peppered by mental health stories left and right in the media including HN. I'd love to know more if what changed, some hard data, happiness surveys even if they have flaws, it is better than arguing like this.

I'll throw one more anedote - I've worked in large tech company and my experience was it was just super chill. No issues with a team of 24 engineers. Everyone left at 4pm everyday and at 2pm on Friday. In fact, people were frustratingly lazy.
Not exactly the same direction as Strongtalk, but Herman Wilkinson's "live typing" project does interesting things by collecting type information as Smalltalk runs.

Here is a recent talk he gave about it:

https://vimeo.com/ukstug
I've run up against this building a gigantic LZ dictionary for full text search[0] and I got around it[1] by using npm module called big associative that provides dropin big map and big set primitives.

but even in that code I think there was some error or inefficiency that I had to customize to make it usable.
But in the end I was able to get around the 16 million limit on entries and good efficiency.

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/futzz

[1]: https://github.com/i5ik/futzz/blob/master/src/futzz.js#L3
I lived in San Francisco from ~1999 to about 2003, and the homeless problem then was pretty bad. I can only imagine what the city must be like these days.
Even if, for argument's sake, one accepts your claim, it's quite clear that the policies are not going to change.

I'm a native Californian who left and now lives overseas, and every visit back has not only provided a stark demonstration of California's decline, but also taught me that many Californians refuse to believe their lying eyes.

I have friends and family who in the past 5 years have lost homes to fire, seen their wells run dry, had to flee from toxic wildfire air, etc. and yet all but one of them has stayed. It's insanity in my humble opinion and I think if more Californians had an opportunity to spend some time away from the state, more of them would realize that the state is in great peril. It literally and figuratively is a case of the frog in boiling water.
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Author here. The short version:

We used to build small homes in walkable neighborhoods where you could live without a car and have reasonable rent. That's mostly gone.

You not only need to cover the cost of a large home, cars are mostly not optional for most Americans. This is a huge additional expense.

The combination is killer.