skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On this post,

- the first level commenter: Empathetically describes the problems of a person/family in poverty.

- the second level commenter: No I disagree with what you are saying. Here is how they should have approached the problem.

This reminds me of how much divided our society is, the have's vs have-nots
How to get into the middle class in America:

1. stay in school, pay attention, get good grades

2. get a loan and go to college, major in something that pays well

3. don't do drugs

4. don't commit crimes

5. use birth control

It isn't rocket science.
Yep, ditto. You can sometimes score good deals on meat that’s turned brown from oxidization because it’s unsellable to most folks. Tastes fine, same nutritional value
kinda crazy, i was looking for a previous discussion on this article just last night.
lots of little things, but recently I've found that good, comfortable noise-cancelling headphones with good built-in mics help when it comes to maintaining focus on an online meeting
Just to clarify, you're claiming that ALL businesses that discriminated were legally compelled to? If you're just talking about some businesses at some point in time, that does nothing to refute my point; or "narrative" as you put it.
> Calling not being able to be a consumer of the company their firm is suing punishment seems to be a bit of a stretch. And it's only during the duration of the lawsuit.

What if the company was Google? What if it was a healthcare provider with a patented/proprietary treatment?

As a matter of fact, didn't we recently have articles in hn where people were commenting they are reluctant to charge back to Google because they don't want to risk losing their gmail and the rest of it?

> I'd almost consider this to have been an intentional act by the law firm

Good for them. The legal system is the only way corporations can be effectively held accountable. You can hate lawyers as much as you want but this is directed at us via proxy. Lawyers litigate for clients.

"Sorry we can't take your case. We use Google products extensively."
> … unless you live in a food desert, in which case that capitalist society is failing to provide for basic needs.

Yes, you're starting to get it! If demand existed for cheap, nutritious food, someone would provide it for profit. We already know the food can be provided cheaply and profitably in other, more expensive, regions. So what conclusion can we come to other than that food deserts exist because the demand for the food doesn't exist?
A simple reason could be transportation cost/difficulties, especially for fresh foods like the ones you’ve described. Productive farmland isn’t ubiquitous. Outside of a spreadsheet, physical products certainly do not “materialize” from nothing.
No, only about 1 in 5 mice become addicted to it. The number with humans will be far lower.
One if the aspects I loved about flying more basic planes. You can master the controls, and then you just know that interface forever.

Another reason is that it is discrete, and feedback is obvious. I flip a switch, it goes thonk, and it is in a new physical state. This is where I think modern UX fails the most often. Did I click it? Did it work? Was that a button at all? Is this toggle on or off?
I think I follow, but I'm not sure if you're capturing all the factors.

For example, let's say you lived in Canada and bought a house 4 years ago for $300k with a 5 year 3% mortgage. You can't get a 30 year mortgage in Canada, the banks won't underwrite a loan that long. So you will have to enter a new loan next year, and lets say it will be at 6%. Your payments change, going up significantly. You might have to put the house on the market if you can't afford the new payments.

In the U.S. that same person would have had the option for a 30 year fixed rate government backed mortgage at a 3% interest rate, with only 3-5% down. They don't have to refinance in 5 years=, like in other countries. If interest rates go up, and they had nowhere else to go, their mortgage will not increase.

How could these government subsidies not be contributing some amount to an increase in housing costs? Doesn't that make it harder for people coming later to afford housing, since housing has increased in price so much faster than wages?
I guess that only pins tools by nixpkgs version, or does it have capability to pin by exact version of tools like say go 1.18, pg 12, node 16 etc?
Depends really how you trade speed for complexity. To be honest at the end of the meal I had no more than 2-3 items to wash. Of course this means your dinner will look and taste "poor" but it's way "better" than the microwave pizza/dinner.

If you have kids perhaps the solution is for each one to wash its own plate(s).
My point is that you can be poor and eat healthy but you have to want that.
HFCS and seed oils were not consumed in quantity by humans 40 years ago. These seem to be linked to both inflammation and enlarging waists.
You are both right.

Cooking takes time. Working too many hours (for good reasons) robs you of that time. Cooking adds other time-consumers, shopping, washing up and so on.

Equally, once you have a skill set, cooking doesn't need to take a lot of time. If you are lucky you learned to cook growing up, or if you have the time you can learn to cook as an adult.

While your nan breads are perhaps not the best example of quick cooking (flour isn't necessarily the best starting point) it's true that stir-frying some veggies, or anything with eggs etc can be done in a couple minutes.

But cooking quickly takes skills, and practice, and acquiring those takes time.

As an anecdote we required our children to learn to cook young, and by 13 cook a regular meal for the family once a week. Ultimately some enjoyed the process more than others, but all are able to feed themselves quickly, and with little effort. If I have one bit of useful advice it us to encourage kids to learn how to cook for themselves, and for others. And yes, alas, I'm aware of the cost in money and time in doing that.
I don't see how you prove your point. It's basic economics that, in the job market, supply and demand are the forces that set the amount of money any job will pay, so a job that anyone can do might pay $10 an hour, while a highly-specialized job might require paying $100 an hour to attract that smaller group of people to consider dedicating their skills to that job. None of that involves any of the attributes you've mentioned. And it's tough to believe you when you say that "money is not the mindset" then go on to say "money is just how we exchange our value for goods and services without making 10 trades to get what we want".
Considering how many middle-class and upper-middle-class folks live paycheck-to-paycheck too, I don't think it an "unaffordability problem" -- it's a "missing social safety net" problem.

Many will always live paycheck to paycheck regardless of their income. The solution is to make financial disasters less devastating. "Unaffordability" is a separate, also extremely serious problem.
Flynn effect is reversing so this time actually is different.
They give it away for free, want growth year over year and are answerable to their investors. That’s not a recipe for creating user centric applications.
Is it possible to draw in Obsidian (with a tablet/touchscreen)? I’d really like a digital app for algorithms work but so much of it is based on doodling graphs and automata and diagrams. I really like the idea of progressive annotation of such doodles with a note-taking app, but I need to be able to doodle in the first place.
3% of 350k is still over $10,000, which is a big chunk of change for the vast majority of Americans.
No offense, but it's like a textbook on awful debates.

Your best arguments are: "big guys are doing it therefore it's good for me too" (argument from authority) and "I tried both and decided only one is good" (argument from authority/anecdotal evidence). Plus a ton of ad hominems.

To be fair, your opponent isn't very different.
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I have been receiving emails from them about a phantom account. It seems legit, but I tried calling their official number to commandeer any accounts, they customer service rep tells me it doesn't exist.

Funny enough, about a decade ago, there was an actual account created that I was able to shutdown. Shady.
Homeless people generally wouldn't defecate on the sidewalk if they had bathrooms to use, so even that point doesn't stand.
High-end not necessarily means everything has to be purchased, they could increase the ticket price to cover the cost, but a non-payment required Wi-Fi improves the user experience so it makes it feel more “Premium”.

I have a Gogo account with passes in it, it is such a big hassle - every time I have to wait for the captive portal pop up and log in, sometimes it just doesn’t pop up and redirect and I have to scratch my hair looking for ways to fix it. Worse than that, if I would like to keep my phone and Laptop both connected, the plan will automatically kick the other one offline. I flew JetBlue only once in the past few years, even though I don’t quite like other parts of the flight, the free fast Wi-Fi was quite impressive and I even streamed a video during the red eye.
Another point against the Mickey Mouse theory is that the trend ends on January 1st, 2024. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain.
It's just a marketing gimmick.

Anyone is free to write software that modifies a file - there is no copyright law protecting that. This is one of the reasons why many large corporations are pushing hard towards cloud - they can protect the format AND the platform then monetize it at will. End users lose control.

I will give them points for putting it in a readable file format. But placing it under an MIT license and "open sourcing" it, doesn't do anything - and they know that. It's just fluff to market their new features.

Edit: Re-reading what I posted, In case it's taken the wrong way, I am not disparaging the team at Obsidian in any way:

I think they do good work and make great software.

IANAL

> The file itself is considered instead to be an idea or a system and is therefore not protected by the laws of copyright. So the description of a file format is copyrightable, but the format as it exists in its medium is not.

https://www.fileformat.info/mirror/egff/ch08_09.htm
I just want to second this suggestion.

Pick a small project that you care about.

It has to be something you care about because you will pay attention to whether the results do something meaningful, which is the key to guiding you toward actually learning what you need to learn. For me, this meant making video games. For my friend a physics educator, it might mean generating random quiz questions with meaningful or realistic numbers.

It also has to be simple. For me, I started a long time ago with a text based game where you fight a sequence of monsters by basically rolling dice with tweaks and theme that mattered to me. For my friend, it might be literally randomly generating 3 random numbers and putting them into a pre-written physics problem.

There is always a way to add on to a project you care about, so start super simple and make it work really well (just meaning, to your satisfaction). Then add on another thing and try to integrate it, and so on.

My CS students when I was TAing always learned the most from long term projects that had enough freedom for them to make it fun for themselves. This is in contrast to curated sequences of academic exercises and expository text.
> I can't see any content on the link you provided (it just has a header that reads "News"), but faculty are not subject to the style guidelines of the IT department, especially if they are tenured.

The url indeed seems to be dead right now but it originally had described an initiative which would periodically scan everything which is hosted on Stanford domains, which naturally would include faculty pages. It previously stated as follows:

"EHLI Scans In addition to the educational website, EHLI involves scanning Stanford University domains and sites to determine where and how identified harmful language is being used. The end goal is to help individuals and units eliminate harmful language that could be perpetuating stereotypes, inequality, violence, and racism.

Seven web domains authorized by the CIOC were scanned in a pilot phase to test the process of receiving, analyzing, and addressing scan results. This pilot phase led to a change in how terms are categorized from the scans, using these three priority levels:

Most egregious terms that need to be addressed immediately Terms we do not expect to find on our sites but will scan for due diligence Terms that can be used in a non-harmful way, generating many false positive results For the seven domains in the pilot, baseline scans have been recorded, and scan results are now recorded monthly. The process for working with content owners for remediation is still in a planning phase. Additional domains to be included in the scanning process are being evaluated, in close partnership with the CIOC."

> But the fear you articulate here regarding faculty freedom of thought is baseless.

It absolutely is not. The coded language of "Harmful Language" which is constantly morphing and changing to continuously include more and more benign words such as "User" and "American" will absolutely be used to full effect against Faculty.
“Lord Coke gravely informs us that corporations cannot be excommunicated, because they have no souls, and they appear to be as destitute of every feeling as if they had also no bowels.... There is in truth but one point through which they are vulnerable, and that is the keyhole of the cash box.” - Hugo Grotius
I work 60 hours a week and cook most days.

Where it gets hard is over 70 hours a week.
> More people than one would think are just one bad situation away from falling into that trap.

This is a great point to keep in mind. I think a lot of folks are blind to how fragile financial stability is in the US and how much of a role luck plays in all of this.
Can GPT-3 fix hiring?
I'll need to find a better source because I remember an actual study, but is it that they don't have executive functioning skills or is it that being poor affects their executive functioning skills via the constant stress: https://borgenproject.org/psychological-effects-poverty/
Food is really cheap. In my experience, American born people assume that immigrants and poor people are buying packaged foods. In my experience as a child of immigrants, my parents bought actual bulk food items and produce at stores. It's exceptionally cheap unless you're shopping at a DINK store like whole foods.

Dollar stores are amazing for kids things. For example, balloons are a dollar at the dollar store and ten dollars for the same balloon at Safeway.
"Take the bus"? That seems like a massive exaggeration.

It's not hard to do simple, health, quick meal prep. Hell, buy some veggies, wash them and eat them is health as hell. Make rice or beans in 20 min.

If you have enough time to walk or drive to get fast food, you have enough time to make a healthy meal.
I’m telling you that there IS demand, there IS need, but capitalism will not provide because market incentives are not enough to correct the situation.

Reality is not a thought experiment, and “supply and demand” is a simplistic reduction that conveys a general principle of economics but does not cover the entire nuanced reality of the food desert phenomenon. You are approaching this like someone who just took Econ 101 and thinks they have the whole thing figured out.

And since it’s clear that you really are doubling down on your idea that “it is poor people’s fault if they live in a food desert,” all I can do is encourage you to read this article and read more about the subject before assuming you are smarter than everyone else who actually works on this type of issue. Cheers.
What is better, one banana today or 2 bananas tomorrow?

If you do the math for these intertemporal choices with different combinations of time and rewards, the answer is hyperbolic discounting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting

Behavioral economics is part of the knowledge that predatory people use to exploit the poor.
ML engineer with 10+ years experience, took voluntary break in Sep, started interviewing in Nov, interviewed at 6 companies to land 2 offers.

Most companies have been having hacker-rank pre-screen coding, Hiring Manager Technical screen, System Design, Product round, Behavioral round, ML specific round.

While it's not been hard to land interviews, the process is taking a long time and it looks like people are looking for previous experience in the specific stack they work on. Offers are also lower from a year ago.
Does it work for corp/foreign shareholders?
One of the biggest risk factors for homelessness is being LGBTQ.

Now explain that one by saying who gets hired or whatever has nothing to do with anything I said.
Food deserts occur because we tolerate petty crime in the name of wokeness. I'm seeing this play out in my own inner city neighborhood where grocery stores are talking about closing after the city destaffed police.
I understood leach also cannot be transformed when I reaches the environment, and that water treatment plants --- when effective --- are in constant trouble because of it. Can someone clarify?
I'm not sure this is a win for the environment or human health.

3M is gifting sales to it's competition to avoid future liabilities. Chinese companies are ready to pick up the slack.

3M is certainly developing safer alternatives, but until they are as good and as cheap, companies will buy their toxins elsewhere.
It's important to approach it from both POVs.

We need to reiterate that, as humans, we are all the same in that our struggles emit terrible emotions that either deprive us of our liberties or freedoms (freedom to spend time doing what you want when you want to do it). And doing this might turn people to different political parties, causes, and charities that will help achieve this.

But going straight to "everyone gets free rent" isn't exactly likely, so throwing out ideas that might only requires maybe 10 years of political shenanigans to move the needle is better than going far into the unrealistic category.
I don't understand what you're saying. To me, if the rate stays flat but represents fewer married couple, then this same rate actually means more homes are owned by people of that age.

Meaning - if guy and girl are married and own a house together, that counts as 2 people towards home owner bucket.

If they are not married, they'd need to each own a house for the same rate to hold.
Elon's involvement with SW at Tesla has been terrible. Functionality has not aligned with customer manuals for years. And that is before you come to the Full Self Driving.

I'm not expecting serious improvement at Twitter -- particularly given the reckless devotion to 'rules', as Elon promulgates them via tweet.
My experience was the opposite. We were dirt poor and had home cooked meals all the time, it was way cheaper than fast food or microwaveable meals.

Buy 10 kg of rice, a bag of beans and some frozen veggies for under $20, cook it all at once in a big pot. You've got 10 meals for under $20 and maybe an hours time.

Put it in the fridge/freezer and you've got healthy meals for a week that cost $0.50 each.

Not sure how a single $10 meal at fast food could be considered "a cheaper alternative".
Related story: "Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on? " – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879737
Agree. With yaml infested cloud native asshatery everywhere, the xml or simple properties file based project look very decent to me.
> just torpedoed more wealth than many people could ever imagine for his family

You know, I believe that Kanye may have significant mental illness, but...

An argument primarily from an economic angle makes me uncomfortable. On paper, I am not maximizing economic value right now-- but I'm pretty sure I'm well adjusted and happy with my (seemingly economically irrational) choices.
Landlords can (could) get in the 2-3% range for sure. Maybe not on a new purchase, but a refi like the commenter said.
What's your opinion on Canada jurisdiction ?
As a chemist I am not sure it's even possible to create matching alternatives. The stronger links inside molecules and outside, the more they are "alien" to life and environment. While reducing their usage is a good strategy, an outright ban strips technology of useful materials.
So why do food deserts exist? The article simply states people live in food deserts. The article doesn't offer a reason for their existence.
I agree that random sampling surfaces of 3D meshes seems like a reasonable way to generate synthetic data for mesh > point cloud.

Without knowing a dang thing about AI, it feels like the problem moreso lies in:

1. Math related to topology: vertices, faces, edges, tri vs quad etc

2. Different topologies for the same object are better for different use cases. Rendering, skinning, morphing, physics etc all have different optimal topologies, and the definition of optimal varies based on workflow and scene specifics or even the human who has skills based on certain topological preferences. In other words, I'm not sure how much of 3D workflows are standardized even -- getting the topological data for workflows is no easy task, and it's not super usable until the model output can plug right into a workflow and the existing DCC ecosystem.

text2img generates a static asset, text2mesh is far more interesting beyond just the static rendering part which is where mesh topology becomes a big sticking point.
I don't understand the purpose of this "study" in the sense that if you practice some forms of water fasting whether for multiple days or practice eating only one meal per day OR a short 6 hour feeding window per day... you will know the role potassium plays in your body. You need water, salt, potatassium and magnesiums. If you're eating healthy whole foods your liver should have enough nutrients stored away. So basically your body is designed to go between feasting and fasting - to produce and burn ketones from your fat stores versus burning food you consume. The belief that you need to eat 3 meals a day or or snack small meals all day long (constantly producing insulin) is just nonsense. It is not that hard to supplement salt, potassium and magnesium and not eat for a day or more it is actually extremely benefifical for long term health to fast for about 3 days or more once or twice a year. Look up the fat lies by pradip jamnadas on Youtube.
The WEC was wonderful! What the video didn't say was that the WEC was a community built book. We (the folks who owned one) sent in suggestions for more content, and the book grew organically at a tremendous rate. So, a new version came out quarterly. It was our book. The modern marketing technique of creating an on-line user community where the members contribute to the growth of the product is a direct descendent of the WEC.
The crowd isn’t wise, it’s dumb as rocks and social media was a generally terrible idea except for the heavily weeded gardens. AI is more likely to save it than harm it.
Are you talking about San Francisco? Sounds like San Francisco.
I would have to imagine a $3-5k type place would be even less likely to allow this.
It's not a threat until AI can start creating new ideas in a vacuum. As it stands, they require our creative output and all of their outputs can be considered derived works. It's very effective, but it's still dependent on INPUT (human) -> OUTPUT (AI).