skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You couldn't be more wrong, so many people are afraid of stuff like their old Tinder profile leaking etc. So having a law that forces companies to delete your profile rather than keeping it around forever is really important to people. You can see leaks from another site like that embarrassing a lot of people who thought that they had deleted all data related to them, they certainly would have wanted GDPR back then.

People don't care about most data, you are right about that, but they care a ton about some data.

GDPR is just about that, make you own your own data rather than companies owning it. Companies has to ask for it rather than just taking it, and you can revoke that right at any moment and the company has to comply.
You can't have morality without religion, it's a senseless question to pose.
> Everyone who engages in any social contact with others could potentially transmit to them a pathogen which proves lethal.

What other pathogens are similar to Covid-19 on all of the following dimensions?

- transmissibility (let's say this is equal to R number[1])

- mortality rate

- hospitalization rate

- long-term disability rate

- cost of treatment

- difficulty of preventing hospitalization

I don't know of any disease that's similar. When you take the vaccine, your risk of hospitalization and death are dramatically reduced, and you're much less likely to give it to someone else.

> This emphatically includes those who have taken the COVID-19 vaccines.

Yes, but degrees matter here. Risk is fine and a part of life. Being unvaccinated is an unnecessary risk to yourself and others.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52473523

2. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-l...
Switching employers, especially in tech, to get more money is not a new thing due to COVID. For whatever reason, employers are more likely to hire new talent at a higher pay grade than give equivalent raises to current employees. I know lots of folks in tech who would switch jobs every 2-3 years and get a much more significant raise each time than by staying with their current employer.
The most famous is willow tree bark that's how aspirin came to be.
I think inflation is a part of it. There is more money around but always the same internal reluctance to give raises that match the market. So higher inflation implies that more people have to switch jobs in order to take advantage.
>taking this vaccine lowers the risk measurably

Is there really clear evidence of a meaningful effect of a booster at this point, for people not in specific categories?

I assumed not, or else they would be recommending it.

Personally, I got a pretty strong reaction to my second shot, and I'm not eager to experience that or worse again, nor am I sure that the severity of the reaction implies its efficacy.
> The main point of fuctional paradigm in engineering is composition over inheritance

This isn't my goal with functional programming. My goal is to minimize side effects.

I want code that is repeatable, consistent, and easy to test. I want front end code that's as close to a pure projection of state->DOM as I can get, because that makes all sorts of problems simply vanish (And the less state, the better!).

I like hooks, mostly - but lets not pretend here... they're only functional if you don't look at the man behind the curtain.
Doesn't matter, real feedback loops are complex. ;-)
I was a cs student in your boat as well, I hated anime and vidya so I didn't get along terribly well with the nerdier kids who were into that from the department. I was lucky that I was social in other ways and met people from different majors and hung out with them outside of class, as well as meeting people through my roommates and going out with them.
They are the puppets of the people who hold true power. People so fabulously wealthy that they would never need to hold public office to get what they want. They can just buy it.
> the political influence of the people who own them

We have this concept called progressive taxation that's supposed to help with that. (Not it's actually used in practice, but it is a known thing.)
Disclaimer: I have read the Economist article but not the book it appears to synopsizing/marketing.

It doesn't seem like trying to simplify challenges in large cities to a single dimension like housing is a path to success. Basic needs and social services beyond housing go a long way in supporting people, which (sadly) can't be provided by just addressing a housing shortage/affordability gap.

It's worth taking a look at the SF Point in Time and Housing Inventory Counts data [1] to provide context on this conversation.

[1] https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit-hic/
I heard a good definition of what it means to be rational the other day. If I remember correctly it was a simple as being open to error correction. Perhaps this is a statement by David Deutsch, I don’t remember right now. But I like the definition very much. If you can’t communicate how are you going to do error correction?
Those areas are not that unsafe. I often walk there, even at night. Though I do try to avoid them as the pickpockets tend to hang out there because they're so touristy. And the Ramblas area is very overrated anyway IMO.

Barcelona is really not bad at all for violent crime :)

There's some places that really are a bit unsafe but it's more out. Like La Mina, there's been some shootings there recently: https://www.lavanguardia.com/sucesos/20210908/7706383/tirote... (Though technically that's not Barcelona anymore but Sant Adria de Besos)
> Everybody ignores small risks, and people are also remarkably inconsistent in what is a small risk, depending on context and cultural assumptions.

I totally agree with this, and I've made the same argument in the past as a reason to get rid of most social distancing measures (which I think we should do).

But I think of risks in terms of tradeoffs. What is the risk-benefit tradeoff of sky diving? Well, for many people, that's a life-changing experience: well worth the risk! What is the risk-benefit tradeoff of not wearing a seat-belt? You're more likely to die in a car crash, in exchange for, I don't know, not fumbling with the buckle for a half a second? This isn't hard, just put on your seat belt.

> But if it becomes a thing that everybody is encouraged to get boosters, the fact that I went right out and got the vaccine in the first place doesn't mean I'm necessarily going to automatically get another shot. If there is another big wave, if there is another variant, if half the country has gotten a booster, maybe then.

As someone who's in favor of vaccine mandates, I think this is totally reasonable—and I don't think it's going to be a problem for you. While I could certainly be wrong, I don't see the US changing the meaning of "fully vaccinated" until booster shots are widely available and a large majority of the public has them. Just as we didn't start to see vaccine mandates become a thing in earnest until this fall.
I think the article is implying the answer to the failed 'left' policies is to replace them with more 'right-wing' policies. I've seen bills popping up that involve criminalizing the homeless or making camping illegal except in designated areas [1], [2]. These are really just 'out of sight, out of mind bills'. Homeless will not respond to criminalization of being homeless just as addicted people don't respond to legislation criminalizing drug use. We are even wasting money on Boston Dynamics robot dogs in Hawaii to patrol the homeless [3]. The right-wing policies almost always seem like they will just end up being violent. However, i do agree the 'left' policies are insufficient. They are bandaids on the real problem: that rental housing is not 100% public and that even mentioning this gets you laughed at and shunned. Public housing could easily work and be healthy, well-maintained, and great, really. The only thing preventing it from working is the forces of private real estate. Any mention of it, everyone will respond with just random pictures of housing they claim to be some socialist country's public housing, saying "is THIS what you want?!?!?". The idea that you couldn't build and maintain excellent public housing is laughable. It's fine, we should seek it.

[1]: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/10/13/bill-calls-for-stat...
[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/using-new-law-la-city-coun...
[3]: https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/01/honolulu-police-spent-1500...
Here's a far fetched idea - Facebook/whatever have highly sensitive microphones scattered across cities, listing to peoples' private conversations, which they're able to link to individuals based on GPS data.
My friends in the last 4 years got 2x/3x salary increments without COVIDs help.

Tech inflation has been happening for a while now for the small minority.

I think COVID just caused more people to tap into it because of some of the reasons you listed. So inflation isn’t COVID caused, but the excess market movement is.
I don't need to pay to close my eyes or plug my ears.
I think there may be a slight causal disconnect between “guy tweets” and “stuff gets fixed.” I’d bet stuff got fixed after lots of stakeholders complained!
I think, quite simply, remote work in the tech sector has redefined work-life balance. Rather than work 9-5 and go home and disconnect, you can mix and match personal and work tasks throughout the day. This reduction in sole focus on "work time" has led a lot of us to realize that work isn't everything. As such, for those who have significant savings, resigning and taking a sabbatical or an early retirement is an attractive option as it allows us to maximize our life balance.

For others, the taste of flexible remote work is preferred and so they'll resign and find a job that better suits their desired work-life balance.

Consequently, because companies are more flexible on location since they're remote, competition to hire talent has become a national game and not just a localized one. Therefore, salaries _must_ go up across the board to pay the risk premium of folks going to a FAANG. As such, companies that want top-talent in the midwest are going to have to pay significantly closer to Bay Area/FAANG rates, or settle for less than top talent (which is likely). For those who fall into the upper echelons of talent, though, the compensation and location are no longer mutually exclusive ventures. Again, this expansion of the game makes finding new work more attractive and with significant, and sufficient, savings, resignation is suitable while they lackadaisically find their next opportunity.
San Diego county has roughly half the homeless pop of SF city/county while having triple the population.
No, not right now, which is why the definition of "fully vaccinated" hasn't changed.

I guess the difference between us is, I'm very confident the definition will only be changed when and if that evidence exists.
They can't, without your consent. The problem with google & fb is not primarily that they will share their data with 3rd parties (without your consent). It's that they will use it against you. E.g. they'll show the right adverts to nudge your behaviour in directions you may not want but for what they are being paid for. E.g. imagine a political party wanting to efficiently gain new supporters by converting those who are most susceptible. FB and google will have a lot of information about a lot of aspects of your life and they can sell services (not the data!) to interested parties based on that knowledge.

Tesla will just know about your driving habits and probably won't be able to sell anything based on that. It's a huge difference. Law enforcement, now that's a different story. You'll probably want to keep the privacy laws of your country strict and not allow peeking into the memory or recording of your car too easily.
Just playing devil's advocate. Isn't the "spirit" of the parent comment saying: because we have a free and accessible way to reduce the transmission of pathogens, excluding yourself from it for non-medical reasons should have some consequence for you?

One +1 point for scenarios like polio, where it's been virtually eliminated in the US by way of successful vaccination programs. [0] One -1 point for scenarios like influenza, which despite still causing many deaths per year, receiving a flu shot is encouraged but not required. [1]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/polio-us.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Low interest rates -> cheap capital -> lots of tech funding -> lots of jobs.
How do you know that your conversation partner did not look up dishwashers after your conversation? Or that there was not a trending YouTube video about dishwashers around the same time that prompted the conversation?
Exactly. While I think there is an argument to be made that many of SF's/California's policies are counterproductive (e.g. treating all theft < $900 as a misdemeanor), blaming SF without looking at the nationwide policies is cheap, lazy journalism.

The same thing is happening in Austin. As a liberal city in Texas with relatively homeless-friendly policies, it was been well-documented that many rural areas in Texas are giving their homeless one-way bus tickets to Austin.

So we're left with the dilemma that relatively liberal cities have their homeless problems blamed on their policies, when a fairer criticism is just that these liberal policies attract homeless to their locales.

Without a national or at least comprehensive state-wide solution for homelessness, this will be a difficult problem to solve.
I'm not sure what the hype is around framework laptops and reparability - having looked at a teardown video they are the same design as my Lenovo only each module is labelled with a QR code.

Lenovo already have full service manuals online which have explicit detail of replacement process and spare parts are cheap and readily available.

Yes Framework openly offer schematics, but my Lenovo has 3 year warranty, and once that is over its doubtful its economically viable to perform component level repair on the motherboard.
I think she's having a hard time because she doesn't have a big majority. There's only so much political capital you can spend. But at least she's trying!

I'm still a big fan of her :)
> unpunished

I'll have you know that William Calley Jr served three-and-a-half years under house arrest.
That's absolutely correct. San Francisco should be a city lined with gold given the wealth and income base. Given its fortunate context it should be more like Singapore and a lot less like a slightly nicer Los Angeles.
I have at least a few Raspberry Pi's that are programmed to simply boot and hit the aux out. This could be the difference between my car's white noise system coming online before I even shift the car out of park, vs. when I'm in the roundabout a few hundred feet away. Lifechanging.
You're contradicting yourself. You're saying you agree with me the vaccine is very likely impacting R yet you're saying it doesn't help. Which one is it?

We have lots of places, such as where I live, where the number of deaths and hospitalizations and daily cases is about level. Since you agreed with me vaccinations impact R you can also agree with me that going from 75% vaccinations to 100% vaccinations is going to cause that level trajectory to go down? What is your projection?

As to your question "which one is it" there is no conflict. The evidence is indisputable yet there is no certainty. Simply because in this domain there is no certainty. It's not a math proof. It is by far the most likely thing that's happening. I mean maybe aliens are curing people to coincide with the different levels of vaccinations but I've yet to hear some reasonable hypothesis how in place like where I live where seasonality dictates higher rates, restrictions have been relaxed, and there is clear correlation between higher vaccination rates and reduced other metrics (change in new cases/day, hospitalizations, deaths). I think if you disagree with the obvious you should at least offer some other hypothesis supported by some data.
Question: who is paying demurrage on these containers? Has that practice been suspended?
I wonder if this situation is intentionally maintained. Does anyone benefit from it?
Killing hosts isn't beneficial to the virus survival, quite the opposite in fact. An infection that super aggressively reproduces but due to antibodies fails to gain a foothold beyond the nasopharynx in vaccinated people doing little damage to the host but spreading effectively to both vaccinated individuals who largely have the above experience and unvaccinated who get miserably sick and sometimes drown in their own mucus could be very fit in evolutionary terms in a mostly vaccinated population.

A mutation which increased its spread slightly among vaccinated individuals by 10% while increasing the mortality of the unvaccinated by 10x would be fitter yet. This isn't fate because the space the virus explores is driven by its actual difficult to predict particulars not hypothetical thought experiments but I wouldn't bet on covid going away, I wouldn't bet on people choosing to be more likely to die and abandoning vaccination, and I wouldn't bet on covid becoming safer for the unvaccinated in the short term.

The odds are overwhelming that if covid does get worse despite our work in developing increasingly effective therapies the unvaccinated will have it much worse. So if you choose to stay among the unvaccinated I would expect your prospects in the next several years range from bad to worse. Make your own decisions accordingly.
The $900 felony rule keeps being brought up on HN, but the felony amount for Texas is $2500.

Clearly something other than the misdemeanor/felony classification is at play.
This interview is, among other very interesting threads of various ideas, like a capsule course in writing fiction from a master. It is well worth reading as it is not simply about the story, but rather how he put together a story, constructed layers and characters, and something like sketching out the mechanics of the dynamic between author, text, and readers:

FH: You see, and so we turn the whole thing whirling backward through the story. There was another thing there, in the pacing of the story, very slow at the beginning. It’s a coital rhythm all the way through the story.

WM: It’s a what?

FH: Coital rhythm.

WM: OK.

FH: Very slow pace, increasing all the way through, and when you get to the ending of it, I chopped it at a non breaking point, so that the person reading the story skids out of the story, trailing bits of it with him. On this I know I was successful, because people come to me and say they want more and…

It's a great read. Of course issues of power, structures of power, "the voice", and all things Dune are there as well.
Yes I think one thing is kinda missing in this setup. The public transport in Barcelona is absolutely excellent. But there's no great way to get into it from the outside if you come by car.

Most cities I know have Park & Ride facilities at the outskirts near ring roads. Barcelona doesn't seem to have these (though perhaps I'm missing them as I don't own a car).

But I know my colleagues who come from outside are always struggling to find a parking spot, and they tell me there is no P&R.
Perhaps the fourth estate needs the microphones currently stuck on a ship somewhere.
I think there a variety of factors at play in the tech sector driving hiring trends:

1. There are, in fact, tech companies that still demand employees come into a physical office. There comes a tipping point in a laborer's market (tech being one of them) where this becomes sufficient reason to leave when there are plenty of reasonable alternatives that don't require employees be physically present.

2. Mental health is often overlooked in these discussions. The pandemic has been a huge source of stress, uncertainty, and general chaos. Many people (myself included) lost their usual outlets of stress (going out, meeting with friends, catching up with family, etc). From personal experience, this lead me to having a spat of time where I was burned out and had to lay off working at all for several months before joining a new organization. From what I hear, I'm far from the only one who's gone through such an experience.

3. In light of COVID, many people are facing the realities of mortality much earlier and more frequently than they would prior to a pandemic. Many of us have lost friends or loved ones if not to COVID, than to COVID caused problems (mental health, substance abuse, health problems that became critical due to lack of ER capacity). Having a brush with death is a strong incentive for people to reevaluate their situations and reexamine how they spend their time. For many people, work is not fulfilling and they may be more willing to adjust their lifestyle to prioritize things important to them that don't require as much money; or things that take them to other careers; OR give folks a kick in the pants to demand more from their current employers.

I suspect there's more to this trend; more nuance than is being captured by the current news cycles. The US has a diverse population of people in a variety of situations and the driving factors for hiring trends for bay area companies are likely not indicative of what employees are seeing from their side of the table.
Make it a port rule that container ships must be fully loaded with containers (full ones or empty ones) before leaving port, or they will be banned.
Being stuck at an intersection for 10 minutes as cyclists meander through does not make me want to support their cause. Seeing such a large group act in a coordinated and legal manner probably would.
Sounded like the author did do that, the part about the new clothes for university and getting ads served up for those topics?
We're on hacker news, most everyone here works in tech.
Knows how Google knows you
One of the most important things for San Francisco - regarding homelessness - is to utilize housing first principles to remove the homeless from the streets. There is not plenty of housing for that in SF and there is very little will to change that.

They have the wealth base to do it, they have the income base to do it. They're a mix of cowards and immoral misers (those who refuse to act).

2019: "Bolstered by its transformative tech industry, San Francisco has the most billionaires per capita than any other city, according to a new study from Wealth-X that measures the number of billionaires and where they live in the world. For every 11,612 people in San Francisco, the study says, there's one billionaire. And that's a much smaller ratio than the second most billionaire-dense city. In New York City, there are 81,211 inhabitants for every one billionaire."

https://money.com/san-francisco-billionaire-density-income-i...
Who came up with the hypothesis that California is the dumping ground for the nation's homeless? I'd like to know if it stands up to scrutiny.

California itself has a population which is the size of a medium sized European country. It is large enough to have a sizable homeless population. If you are homeless are your chances of getting food and services better in the central valley or in SF? Also, are there significantly less homeless people on the East coast by comparison?
good link; good read
I don't get why "idea people" or people who can't contribute much to the launch of a product pick up some design skills to at least help convey the ideas they want implemented.

I'd only pick a cofounder that doesn't do engineering if they have deep connections, domain expertise in a relatively complex field that I myself can't pick up easily or has alot of red tape, etc. This person also needs a public past track record of success too. It'd also depend on the industry too, b2b is where this partnership has more merits (and larger contracts), b2c not so much since the barrier to entry is lower