skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pilot wave theory only postpones the question of "what is a wave function and how does it collapse?", it doesn't actually say anything new. I think Wigner's Friend is really no fundamentally different than Schrodinger's Cat.
A key factor is omitted from the title: he marketed and sold the software. It wasn't just a prank.
> what tech companies have done to housing prices

Tech companies haven't done anything to housing prices. It's people who are convinced that housing is an investment instead of a highly leveraged depreciating asset that block new construction, changing of existing zoning laws, and drive housing prices up.

People in any sort of jobs struggle to survive everywhere. What's your point?
That's actually quite well done
I don't think that's true. Lots of local governments in the bay are actively hostile to the tech companies located there.
> Ya sure, landing booster rockets is a way bigger deal than sending men to the Moon.

I don’t think anyone is claiming that. They’re both impressive feats in their own right.
It is the responsibility of industry to attract people to a region, so these people can fill the jobs that industry requires; in most other places, this is celebrated.

It is the responsibility of government to ensure a well functioning society.

It appears clear to me that the government is failing its responsibility. The governments could have averted this crises by not zoning their municipalities for 3x, 4x, 5x more jobs than housing units within their borders. Its not like many of these offices have existed forever, they willingly allowed the creating of new offices, with out the requisite housing to support. (See, New Apple Spaceship HQ, Facebook campus, and expansion in Menlo Park, Google's constant expansion, the numerous new office parks that have sprung up in every city on the peninsula in the last 10 years).

Much of this is jobs/housing imbalance is a result from prop 13, which disincentivized housing construction by making the development of commercial property more net tax advantageous (taxes in minus services provided) when compared with housing.
I have never seen a claim from anyone who wants to block new housing that actually stood up to the slightest scrutiny. There is only ever one reason why people take this position: homeowners in California are hopelessly hooked on the Free Money™ from ever-increasing home prices. It's like a drug. Get your hands on a house and you're all set. With Prop 13, any risk is almost totally externalized. We see the result in action when cities allow additional office space to be built but not additional housing to go with it. The message is crystal clear: keep those home prices going up; keep the money flowing in. Screw anybody who hasn't bought yet.

When anyone proposes additional housing, all manner of excuses (and ugly accusations) come up: history, neighborhood character, the environment, claims that there are no more places to build, racism, classism, you name it. It's always a smoke screen. They are always lying. Always. None of the people blocking housing care at all about any of those things. It has always been about one and only one thing: the Free Money™. Anyone who says differently is lying.
> The tech industry did create this problem by suddenly attracting a ton of talent to the region.

Suddenly? This has been going on for close to 30 years. We haven't "created" a problem.

> had we chosen some other place

It's not as though some gigantic hive mind suddenly just put their finger down on a map and decided where to locate a tech center.

And any other place they picked would be going through the same issues right now.
Kindly help me out on how to learn this tool in Windows10 without using VM?
It is true that traffic problems could suffer temporarity as density increases and the infrastructure does not keep up. However, if it can be anticipated, and in SV it is, that the demand will be continue to be high, the municipalities can plan for increased public transportation with better service schedule for everyone. This includes larger investments like roads and subways in the long run.

In particular, increased tax base from new homeowners and commercial properties can be earmarked to support mass transit infrastructure and schools.
>And repeat that process when traveling, with added emphasis on cultural aspects.

Here in Norway it is allowed to take photos in public of groups of people without asking but it is not allowed to single out a person in specific and take their photo without permission. I think cropping a photo to produce a portrait would also fall under the latter btw.

So yes, it's absolutely important to be aware of local laws.
Show HN: A concurrent thread-safe hash map implemented in C++
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The idea behind relativity is that the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. [0]. In order for this to work, we "warp" spacetime depending on the velocity of the observer.

More concretely, imagine Alice and Bob are moving away from each other at 50% the speed of light. They both observe event some event, X, occur and note the location in space-time. If Alice observes that X occurs in the location (t,x,y,z), then we can compute precisely where and when Bob observed the event occurring (t',x',y',z'). This conversion is known as the Lorentz Transformation [1], and can be derived mathematically from the assumption that the speed of light is constant regardless of reference frame.

Where this gets weird is the case where Alice and Bob observe 2 events: X and Y. In this case, it is possible that they will disagree about which event happened first. Once you accept this, it should become clear why causality requires some speed limit. You can do the math based on the Lorentz Transform and confirm that this limit is the speed of light. Intuitively, this is a direct consequence of the fact that we defined the Lorentz Transform to make the speed of light constant.

In case the need for a speed limit is not obvious, let as pretend that it does not exist. Suppose that, from Alice's perspective, X happened before Y. Further, suppose that Carol happened to be in a spaceship that passed by X at the instant it occurred, moving at a velocity that would take her by Y at the instant it occurred. [2] From the perspective of Bob, Carol would have traveled backwards, going from Y to X.

We can make this situation even worse by considering Carol's perspective. Recall that we defined Carol as starting at X and traveling to Y. In the same way, we can define Dave as starting at Y and traveling to X (recall that, if we were Bob, we would be convinced that Y happened first, so with a fast enough ship, Dave and make it in time). In this situation, both Carol and Dave exist at Y, so Carol can give Dave a copy of her diary of the trip. However, after Dave makes the trip to X, he will meet Carol again, so he can give her a copy of her diary of the trip she is about to take.

[0] This means that if I am on Earth, and you are in a space-ship moving at 99% the speed of light (from my perspective), and we both measure the speed of light, we will arrive at the same answer.

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

[2] This is possible only because there is no limit to how fast Carol's Spaceship can travel.
You seem very sure by offering a guarantee, but how exactly would these companies go about bypassing city councils, regional authorities and current long term residents, many of whom seem quite hostile to the idea of density and housing?

Sure, Google/FB/Apple have plenty of money and power, but I don't think they have so much power that they could simply build whatever they wanted without approval.
't Hooft's approach is the only superdeterministic theory I've heard of, so it's worthwhile for the novelty alone.

I've never been pursuaded by arguments that science is impossible in a superdeterministic world though. The fact that all current observations are consistent with a superdeterministic world and yet we still came up with a viable theory already proves that science is possible in such a world.
That was one of the most clever phishing attack that I've ever seen. I'm quite sure that if I wasn't aware of such attacks, I'd fall for it myself.
I know its a common phrase like "hair on fire", but seriously, "jumping on live grenades" is super gross. That probably happened last week in Syria.

I get it, its just an expression we use in the industry. Its all good to hear it, but lets maybe stop using it.
NASA did operate the STS throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s though, which landed and re-used, albeit expensively, the orbital space-plane component.
The most important aspect of becoming a PHP expert is navigating through a safe path in a land of a million pitfalls.

This means, you should not try to push the language yourself in anyway. Do the most straightforward, traditional things. Use a well tested framework (if you are doing web). Something like Symfony would do. Don't make your own 'deep' abstractions. The language is not strong enough to support them without a million unit tests to go with it.

Then you should have awareness of the most prominent of the Php pitfalls. /r/lolphp is a good resource for that. Go through the posts and read anything with more than a dozen upvotes.

Then, regarding security and other general topics, don't count on the Php community to answer your questions. I mean, don't take your questions to /r/php but /r/askprogramming or some general forums.

Trust only extreamly popular libraries that have in in use for long time. For example, Symfony components.

Two things you might want to take a look into is specifically Dependency Injection and the Composer dependency manager and how autoloading classes based on their fully qualified name (\Vendor\Package\Classname)
Apparently, of the 800 men they have detained only 9 ever went to trial. Without trial ...
Cave Week
Qt has been open source since 1999 and GPL-licensed since 2000, nearly 17 years. GNOME was started in 1997 and GNOME 1.0 was released in 1999. So, much later is not really an adequate description.

I think the grandparent is definitely right. A lot of projects were started post-1999, when Qt was already open. But GNOME was the default desktop of many distributions (including Red Hat and later Ubuntu). Moreover, it is harder to bind Qt in order languages, since it is C++. There was a strong dislike for C++ in parts of the FLOSS community.
Seconding Sapiens. It's my favorite read of 2016 and takes an even broader look than Guns, Germs,& Steel. And although the author is a historian, he speaks cogently about the role of technology.
Google usually suggests that users create app specific passwords for anything that requires you to enter your Google credentials inside another app. If we follow this religiously, then the risk will be quite low
My opinion on that time was that it was a mixed bag as far as the mainstream media was concerned. I definitely do not recall coverage being one sided at all.
Not really. The animals don't deserve this treatment.
>And that a whole lot of technological advances have occurred outside of a capitalist context?

Please enlighten me on when such instances have occurred.
I care about the open source graphics community as a whole. Not just Gimp, not just Krita, Blender etc. But the whole ecosystem of Programmers, Researchers and Artists and the health of the software that brings those people together.

After more then a decade of failed and failing software development and funding modes that tried to shoehorn artist driven intuitive graphics applications into a development model that tangentially works for lone wolf kernel device driver hackers we have started to overcome the damage and move in a positive direction with Krita, Natron, Blender Foundation etc.

The Gimp project and development model has not produced a productive environment or a compelling product for any of the groups I mentioned. That has been the case for many years. After a lot of hard work other projects have managed to formulate better more productive models to develop OSS graphics programs and find funding to do so. The artists are happier because they get better more competitive software and they are willing to fund its development. The programmers are happier because they have a clear direction and understanding of who there users are and where the software needs to go. And the researchers are happier because they see a community who is interested in and welcoming of new and useful graphics algorithms and research.

None of this has happened because of the Gimp. It has happened in spite of the Gimp project sucking most of the air out of the room for many years and contributing nothing to the OSS graphics community as a whole.

If you care about fostering the growth of OSS Graphics software and a community of talented Artists that feel comfortable and productive using OSS software then you need to promote the people and the projects that are making that happen.

The gimp project needs to take a break and perhaps hand the reigns over to a new group with a different vision. The current project and its structure, soliciting money form the Artist community into developers private patreon accounts with vague promises to make Gimp great again is not helping Gimp or the OSS graphics community.
If my password was typed in Chinese would that make it hard to crack?? Or would it just result in collisions?
I mean, sure, but how is that Uber's fault? The same lady would have to have otherwise worked at McDonalds if Uber didn't exist. And if Uber paid its drivers more, it wouldn't be able to hire as many drivers, which means that the lowest level of worker has an implicit denial of a job.

Minimum wage sucks, but when there's an excess of supply, it's the unfortunate truth.
There's one artist that uses FLOSS to draw and make a living out of it, David Revoy.

He's using Krita as his main painting tool, but:
"Gcolor2 is a colorpicker, Inkscape my favorite vector editor, Gimp for manipulating images and Shutter for taking advanced screenshots."

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article316/ubuntu-16-04-for-my-di...

I don't see why we shouldn't support the development of both programs. I personally like GIMP better, maybe just because I'm used with the interface, and I don't do paintings, only image manipulations.
That is excellent. My colleagues in ecommerce will have kittens over that. Sometimes we wonder if such and such country or such and such bank uses chip and pin. We can just test our online checkout to find out!!!
Has AI advanced from the 1990s? Or has there been a change in the environment it can be applied to, with the rise of big data, big infrastructure - big everything?
I think a lot of these are phrases that had emotional impact at the time. For example, these phrases:

>Just between ourselves....
>Well, sir, you'll be so all-fired happy
>Say, you'll have a streak of []luck
>Right now while the going's good

These would be like the equivalent in our time of phrases like,

>You won't believe what happens next...
>These ten things will.....
>This one trick discovered by a mom.....

Some of those phrases really make you want to click, until they get overused and the public gets inured to them. Then they will be replaced by other phrases in the future. That is not the only skill the writer of this copy had, of course, but it's one of them.
IMO, I don't think it's especially silly if the goal isn't to win a coffee cup but rather to keep folks thinking about your topic for more than 30 seconds.

It worked on me, though I just guessed on all the questions.
This looks pretty sudden to me: [0]

[0] https://medium.com/@mccannatron/1979-to-2015-average-rent-in...
Explain to me how you get Saratoga, Cupertino, Atherton, etc to conform to Y. And why should they?
That's true for simple saving and checking, but not true for just about anything else. Most importantly, retirement/pension accounts, which get preferential treatment (in the US they are IRAs and 401k) in one country but not another -- and the US PFIC rules make them much worse than "just" not getting the tax benefits.
SpaceX has landing pads (see LZ-1 at the Cape) on land as well, and used one for a successful landing already. For the Falcon Heavy launcher there have been plans reported for two, or maybe all three, of the stage one cores to return to the launch site and land there.
But here you have two independent coins. My question is, how is entanglement fundamentally different than having two sides of the SAME coin but not looking until later?
You get them to conform by passing laws at the state level to take power away from the local residents. I know they wont comply, we have already seen the problems that giving local control creates in this scenario, so the solution is to make a decision for the larger and long term good.
> So it would be difficult to have members of said hypothetical community agree to contribute to a (for example) road maintenance fund.

One reason why I want to give up part of my land and pay for road to be developed is that it will increase value of the land. That reason would suffice for 99% cases.

Also its safe to assume that Humans are also cooperative and neighourly bunch.
" the proper course of action would be to refuse to implement it,"

No, I'm sorry, but this is not pragmatic or reasonable.

It's not remotely clear that this is a 'violation of the constitution' and given that it's implemented in so many other areas and states, there's no way a cop can reasonably make this claim.

That's a lawyers job, not a cops job.

Can you imagine every cop on the beat trying to split hairs in all these situations?

There are tons of little things that law enforcement do that could be feasibly challenged in court.

This issue could feasibly go to the Supreme Court - so how could a cop be responsible for knowing up from down on this law?

It's not like the cops boss said 'shoot that guy who looks funny' wherein the cop would have a reasonable requirement to 'not commit a crime or do something unconstitutional'.

We're talking about traffic tickets.

In court, the cop answered the question as best he could and his honestly basically outlined the oddity of the law.

Let the courts decide the constitutionality of it all.
True, but that is the system being exploited by those individuals, not the other way around.
I love my 70-200, and 90mm macro. I literally never use my 24-70 anymore. Should probably sell it.
In Norway, Inequality Isn't a Matter of Luck
I don't believe that a large proportion of phones sold by Best Buy have a 50℅ retail markup. If that were the case, you'd expect those models' effective retail prices in China to be ~70℅ of the US retail prices. But they aren't. Brand-name mobile phones retail for roughly the same price in China as they do in the US. (With the exception of iPhones, which are about 20℅ more expensive in China than in the US).

I suspect that Best Buy makes insignificant margins on most cellphones, but makes it up on accessories (and I guess they sell carrier plans as well?).
Democratic governments exist to serve the people who vote for them. I'd say they have succeeded in increasing property values for property owners who voted for them. Every single house in SF is owned by someone, and that someone benefits from this situation persisting, so there are quite a lot of winners.
Where there is nuclear power, there is a nuclear bomb. Where there is air travel, there are hijackings. Where there are smartphones, there are intelligence agencies vacuuming up their data. Where there is easy access to your own financial information, there is easy access to other's financial information. Where there is instant access to the worlds information, there is instant access to easy marks for charlatans and con artists.

For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction.

For every feature, there is an attack vector.
I guess I misspoke about being 1920x1080 which is a "2K" screen split in two. An 8K screen split in two would be ~4000x4000 per eye which is still 16x as many pixels as I said, plus the 33% increase in frame rate which I didn't include which matches your second one. Although with how embarrasingly parallel it is, I don't think it's as far off as it seems. Especially considering that it's the previous generation graphics cards that can handle current day VR fine so we're 1-2 years into the 9 years we have to wait, and with so many pixels anti-aliasing can probably be turned off completely. You could probably build something today that could do it, it just would be very expensive and I don't think 8K panels at cell-phone size exist yet.
In philosophy, this is what we call four dimensionalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-dimensionalism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/temporal-parts/
Yes, diversity of opinion is valued where it leads to better decision making. However, our focus on diversity and inclusion has more to do with employee engagement and making sure that individuals are able to bring their full selves to work and be their most effective.

We do not ask employees about their political affiliations.
Yeah, and 100 Moffett is $3700-4500/month for a one bedroom.
I don't want a tainted blood transfusion, so it does affect me.
Also impressive to be flying again just 4 months after a blow up (granted it was on the launch pad the day before the launch).
One of my most vivid childhood memories is waking up early in the morning to see the elephants come through the Lincoln Tunnel.

It was a truly wonderful experience, one that I wish I could share with others without supporting the overarching practice of show elephants.
This is a bit of chicken and egg. There is very little appetite for building mass transit until there is density and thus cost effectiveness, but your point is how can you increase density without first building out mass transit. So they would have to go hand in hand, where you build up and increase mass transit at the same time. Obviously mass transit is going to take longer to build than housing, so there is going to be short term pain.
And hence we have the boom-bust cycles of the California tax base, with alternating waves of budget surpluses and steep shortfalls.
I would say 80% of bus riders in Austin will thank their driver upon debarking. It may be a Southern thing, but it cuts across the social strata of the riders.
Sadly, with these new Iridium satellites, the 'Iridium Flare' phenomenon of a bright flash visible in the sky when the old satellites passed through sunlight and reflected it downwards when overhead, will no longer occur. I liked the quote from the Iridium CEO explaining why it won't happen: "[...] we weren't going to spend money just to make angular shiny things on our satellites [...]"
Step right up to one of the many amazing animal-free circuses. Cirque du Soleil in particular puts on an incredible show.

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/amazing-anima...
Ok then, elephants were not his favorite.
There's only so much that companies can do to provide non-salary compensation (like perks) to contractors and vendors without getting in trouble legally. Blame 80's Microsoft for screwing things up for everybody by abusing their contractors.
There's no doubt that people want to see exotic animals. Reputable zoos made a transition from entertainment to conservation, but many still have issues. There's no way circuses could ever do that. It's just antithetical to what they are.

Animal issues aside, it's a very dated form of entertainment. Frankly, I'm surprised it made it as far as the 1960s.
Gadget mountain rising in Asia threatens health, environment
That's how it's free.
Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKccr8g1xCU
No, you have multimillionaires that won't sell and will fight change.
You misunderstood. gnarbarian didn't thoroughly enjoy himself.
The first graph is misleading, as it shows a spike, but what really matters is the YoY % change. As you can see in the second graph, the YoY % change relative to inflation has been above 0 since 1979. You can't have an asset (or cost, if this is rents) that is vital to life increase in price above inflation literally every year since 1979 and expect that the price will be reasonable in 2016.