skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately this will counteract a total lack of privacy caused by ubiquitous microscopic drones and cameras. You come forward with a celebrity/political/ceo sex tape? There is no difference between the "real" tape and thousands of already synthetic ones; no one could know the difference. In other words, this technology will return privacy to everyone by allowing us to all "hide" in plain sight.
Perhaps they estimate the benefits correctly. In that case, they may never switch.
I loved Elite Dangerous, and poured many late nights into it. Would certainly recommend to anyone looking for a modern space sim.
Prediction: National adoption of cryptocurrency
There is a lot of ego in this industry. A lot. And a lot of denial about how very much like many of the people they deride its practitioners are.
the common marriage vows explicitly state death as the one justification for exiting vows, so married with no kids is definitively in the clear.
The thing is you are absolutely correct, but the OP you respond to are the people you are competing with for housing.

I've watched astonished as friends of mine buy homes that end up eating 60%+ of their post-tax income. That is what is being called "affordable" these days.
Accidentally removed our corporate ID from the ad code, very high traffic website. So the ads displayed, but we were not getting paid for the clicks. $140K lost in a few hours. At the time that was almost double my yearly salary.

Nobody got fired, because we had a QA team, and their testing procedure didn't test for something like that.
Found this somewhere:

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In The Forks Over Knives Plan, there’s a section “What About Alcohol?”

“It’s been reported in the media and many people think that drinking some alcohol is protective against heart attacks and strokes. There does seem to be a beneficial association between some study populations who moderately drink and their risk of heart disease. However, this relationship is not clearly causal in nature. Furthermore, it turns out that only in the unhealthiest populations does the possibility of such a benefit even exist.
An interesting study looked at “healthy” people and found that there were no longer any cardioprotective effects of alcohol in that population. We are putting “healthy” in quotation marks because we don’t know whether this study’s definition of healthy was adequate: it was composed of exercising moderately or vigorously a minimum of three hours a week and not smoking, but the published results referenced eating an unspecified amount of fruits and vegetables each day. (It is unclear in the study whether eating as little as a single serving of one or the other each day may have qualified as sufficient.) Yet these habits alone were healthy enough to cancel out any possible benefits of alcohol. The diet recommended in this book is at least as healthy as the diet component in this study. Furthermore, a plant-based diet protects your heart and blood vessels, likely negating any potential positive effect of the alcohol and leaving only the harmful effects.
Alcohol seems to increase the risk of many other problems, including getting cancer (even with very light drinking), cancer recurrence, weight gain, liver damage, and heart arrhythmias. And the more overweight you are, the more likely you are to succumb to liver cancer because obesity and alcohol synergistically increase the risk of incident liver cancer.
In short, there is nothing health-promoting about alcohol. If you do not presently drink alcohol, we urge you not to begin.
That being said, the most important thing you can do for your health is to change your diet over to whole, plant-based foods. So focus on what’s easiest for you to change right now. However, if you feel ready to push further toward optimum health, then by all means cut out the alcohol.” (p.126)

So… maybe a single drink every now and then.
pre-conception birth control is still a male's choice.
I don't see any theoretical reason to only choose two, and reject it. We can choose three. Building more housing to lower the cost of living probably has very little to do with the bay area's tech income potential.
Well maybe Baby boomers cashing out.. maybe.
Helped the armed forces of my country kill people.
The description sounded to me like a job offer, but what it is is this:

"Now you can give the customer support experts in your organization the ability to respond to customer reviews on the App Store with the new Customer Support role in iTunes Connect. Users with the Admin or Customer Support role have the ability to respond to customer reviews."
I think this is a short sighted way to view ourselves. More often than not, our emotions are caused by externalities, or even our own internals, as scientists have recently discovered how our gut microbes might directly influence our feelings and behavior.

People are complicated. If you have an emotion, it's important to know that it doesn't have to represent who you are, and that you can do something about it. Processing emotions is a legitimate thing to do. EMDR therapy is a great example of processing emotions for traumatic experiences.
Funny, I have lived in several California cities over the years. I am routinely appalled at the not terribly old, ginormous houses that I walk past. This has been true every place I have lived.

I am currently at the research stage for trying to buy a house. My magic 8 ball increasingly suggests "not in California -- please move elsewhere, since you have portable income."
I am a YIMBY and we consistently say all those things. I also reject the notion that the eastern district is "built out" or that developers will stop when things don't "pencil out".

What pencils or doesn't is a direct consequence of the regulation and tax burden we place on construction, and there's probably an order of magnitude of levers we've yet to pull.
Look, I love diving, and I love my kids. But I can't rent kids for just a few years [ok, excepting foster parenting]. Having a child introduces complexity, and "drop everything for 15 years" is only one possible answer.
There was a guy on Australian radio today saying that international traffic from Australia and NZ has decreased by about 70% over the past few years thanks to the ever-increasing usage of CDN's putting data, in most cases, within the ISPs network. Was something interesting I hadn't thought of.

He also mentioned that in NZ miserly data caps are really not implemented any more, since people just aren't using expensive transits as much (any NZ people confirm?)

Of course you wouldn't know about any of these savings by following the pricing of internet services in Australia. And the government seems intent on making anyone who cares for even basic privacy needing to tunnel their entire connection outside Australia (not to mention content providers and their geoblock rules).
There have been at least some situations exactly like I described[1]. I'll admit I don't know all of the rules of the game so I can't describe what might have been different in this situation.

[1] https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/02/21/bayer-leverkusen...
New York, the only example I can think of, has plentiful housing and it's still more expensive (yes, all boroughs) than most of the country. Will more housing help? Sure. The question really is whether or not increasing housing supply will or will not increase demand more than the newly available supply.

Why not just move to another area? If there's something uniquely good about the Bay Area perhaps it's that same thing that makes the incumbents not want to let more people in. It's kind of a geopolitical problem.
There is an issue for that https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18596. It has not been our priority as we have been working on the navigation but it is something we are keeping in mind for future focus :)
Local Barycentric Coordinates
The day you flip out on your bike and land on your head, god forbid, the same questions will be asked of you.
https://github.com/pisomojadogrande/fcpl-api. Was a little weekend project, so not at all polished or documented, and only does a single account, but has a template where you could deploy it in your own AWS account. Also, the HTML scraping works only if your library is Fairfax Co., Virginia. But hopefully the pattern will be helpful.
Google Fiber Loses Chief Executive Officer After Five Months
The future of MPC-HC
Transfer learning has been shown to improve training times in other modes (such using an image classification model to initialize an NLP model) over randomly initialized values.
Politicians/business/others will have to cryptographically sign their official audio/video
I think this is an incredibly fatalistic attitude. California is also great for many reasons beyond "great weather". Lots of people want to live here for family, emotional, or safety reasons. I've met so many gay and transgender people (tech workers and otherwise) who have told me they just don't feel safe where they're from.
Surely employers must cover life insurance then?
Probably SJWs.
Why would it?

As a C++ developer, I think Rust's main selling point (memory safety) isn't as big of a problem as it's made out to be. For every unsafe memory access that results in a crash or exploit, there are millions and millions of memory accesses that work just fine and never cause a problem. Tools like Coverity and Valgrind can catch a ton of errors, and its not clear Rust offers any significant advantages over C++ with Coverity.

Parallelism is nice, too, but C++ already has a ton of options there: OpenMP, MPI, TBB, OpenCL, standard library threads, boost/standard library async tools, etc.

On the other hand, as an end user, "written in Rust" or "written in <any language>" isn't something I care about. I don't even remember the last time I had a piece of software crash due to a seg fault, so a vague promise of being "safer" isn't good enough to accept an otherwise inferior product.

I guess to summarize, C and C++ developers are going to keep writing C and C++ and if Rust is going to take over the world, the people advocating for it will have to write better software in it and beat out software written in the other languages.
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I'll add my anecdotal data point to yours. The experience has deteriorated to the point that I am afraid to click on anything on a site that has a lot of adverts. Or at least I wait quite a bit to wait for the layout to stabilize. I do move on often if it is too annoying.
Yes. Death Race 2000.
A post-Xerox world
People will crowd into an area until the misery and housing price equalize out the earning potential. Only way around it is to limit migration or to have a hard cap on rent (which of course causes its own chaos).
Your life insurance policy is what it is because diving is unsafe
I am amazed at the scale of the RV housing in industrial areas of Oakland. I walked several miles yesterday in southeast Oakland and saw up to five RVs on a block, obviously housing. As the article says, this is not a question of a few very poor people having trouble finding housing in few very expensive coastal areas. The Bay Area town I live in has a median household income of $100K. The payment on a 3-bedroom condo or 2-bedroom home is now just about $100K as well. And my area is a solid 1.5 hours from San Francisco.
Still bothers me that we didn't get a black bar. Can someone explain what the criterion is?
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Why hasn't another language, like Ada with similar goals to Rust, replaced C/C++?
This is neat and all, but no LTE standard has been tapped for 5G. LTE Advanced Pro (the third generation of the LTE spec) is the closest to having a spec that can work for 5G, but has not yet been chosen for that.

In addition, it is implied that 5G will require usage of 28, 37, and 39 GHz, which LTE Advanced Pro does not currently have profiles for.

What San Marino is doing is building a current gen 4G network (ie, 4.9G or whatever they're calling it), allowing as many feature of LTE Advanced as possible (including complex MIMO), so in a few years most cell phones will have caught up to make effective use of it.

Also, as a side note, LTE Advanced Pro was introduced in 3GPP release 13 (early 2016), and anything that meets the requirements for 5G will not be until release 15 (most likely next year).
Still using GitFlow? What about a simpler alternative?
For me, equivalent support for the MSVC toolchain on Windows. Obviously it won't ever be 100% without support from Microsoft, and a lot of work has been done, but some items on https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1061 feel important enough to give me pause before spending much time with Rust.
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Greenfield systems work by startups isn't really done these days. If it's not greenfield, it's probably already in c/c++. If it's not a startup, they probably already have a bunch of expensive c/c++ tooling (static analyzers, IDEs, CI systems, ...) that they aren't going to get in rust.
Not mine, but one I ran into. This is on an automated testing rig for microwave devices, which are odd things - you don't have wires for microwaves, you have wave guides, which are basically tubes which you can pipe the microwave through, and which are incredibly fiddly to get situated properly. So, to test one of these things, you're likely to get a failure and not have any discernible reason for it failing - you'll tear it down and not find any problems, put it back together and it'll work just fine.

Well, the engineer writing the test code knew these devices were odd, and that sometimes they'd just fail. So, s/he put in an if block to the effect that, "if this fails once, run the test 30 times and, if it passes 25/30 times, call it a pass." So, every now and again, the entire automated testing line comes to a halt and sits there for 31x the amount of time it should take, and it's not a short test (maybe sat there 30 minutes each iteration).
I think remote work will become much more prevalent especially as our economy continues to move away from making physical things. i dont see employers counting time on a crowded train or bus full of distractions amytime soon. People who live outside the big city are much more likely to have a place in their home that can serve as a distraction free office.

There are so many benefits to remote work for humanity I don't know why it isn't the norm already. No commuting means less CO2 emissions, saner people, more flexibility, arguably more productivity, and the opportunity for the company to hure from a much larger and diverse talent pool.

Rmote work will soon be a competitive advantage.
This is true 5G. Not the fake ATT 5G. I saw neowin.net taking a stance against fakes by labelling ATT 5G as "fake 5G" clearly in their title. I hope we all do the same until ATT & co stop misleading their customers leading to eventual confusion for everyone.
I always see news articles about companies building campuses and headquarters out there. Can anyone tell me why Google/Facebook/apple can't just build a residential tower for 10,000 people next to their building? It seems they get approval for everything else they build out there.

The only time I went out there it was very suburban, with plenty of room for more buildings. Seems odd that the businesses with all the money paying all the taxes can't get a city council to approve giant apartment complexes right next to their headquarters.

Anyone have the answer? Must be the only place in America where corporations don't get their way, unless they don't actually want housing for their workers.
Yes, that's true but then that's really not the topic here, is it.
The Mega-Money Manager Killing His Automated Competition
That's nauseating. I have to hear all this vitriol over a silly difference like that? Why doesn't anyone just bring this up every time Blockstream talks? I feel like I'm in bizarro land.
On Gist R. Kelly allegedly keeps at least six women in a sex-obsessed cult
and if you can't judge him for being addicted to taking risks, you can't judge people for being addicted to having feelings about it.
Unrelated, but it drives me nuts to see high end or luxury property with commodity fixtures. It's surprisingly common.
I'd love native support for a dark theme! As a workaround, I've found darkreader's (browser extension) default handling of Gitlab's light UI elements to be exactly what I want. It handles about 90% of other sites I frequent effortlessly and is easily toggled with a keyboard shortcut.
1. Zoning

2. Corporate housing that you need to move out of as soon as you leave your job sounds pretty dystopian.
> Good luck with that.

Web-filter companies: "challenge accepted".

Make no mistake, there is an entire industry which has been dedicated to this exact task for decades now. They will be very happy to help the UK government... for a fee.
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It may have changed since the last time I used this, but here's how it works:

1. There are two sides to a trade, Alice and Bob.

2. Alice has USD and Bob has Bitcoins.

3. Both sides wish to trade money but they don't trust each other.

4. To do this, they deposit collateral in the form of Bitcoins into a escrow
account (multiple mediators need to sign to give back the collateral to their owners.)
This is a bond separate from the money they are already trading.

5. Alice sends her USD to Bob.

6. Bob sends his Bitcoins to Alice.

7. If either side cheated the mediators won't sign
the "check" to release funds from the Escrow account.
Therefore, so long as the value of the collateral is
worth more than their potential profit from scamming
-- there is no incentive to scam.

In BitSquare step 4 I think is done with third-party mediators and the mediators make decisions based on evidence. So first, how do you prove that a user sent Bitcoin: easy, its on the blockchain. Second, how do you prove that a user sent USD? Well, I believe BitSquare uses something called "TLS Notaries" -- this allows a person to cryptographically prove that an SSL website was in their browser, potentially enabling a person to prove that they sent funds.

As you can see this scheme has a few problems:

1. Users are required to have Bitcoins for collateral.
So if you don't already have Bitcoins you can't buy
any (strange scenario.)

2. It relies on collateral, period, so you can never
buy and sell the full amount of funds that you have.

3. Liquidity is poor. BitSquare could be improved if
they had more investors and structured the exchange
to provide liquidity themselves at a premium.

4. It's unclear how secure the notaries are and whether
or not it can be cheated.

5. Reputation isn't that secure and the model
doesn't account for attackers, though I think
BitSquare solves this with multiple mediators.

Another option to solve the same problem is to use micro-payment channels. A service would have credit that represented a USD balance and micro-amounts of this balance would be sent to the recipient as the sender receives micro-amounts of Bitcoin. This is a better model, IMO, but still can potentially be reversed.

It's good to see that BitSquare is still around though. Decentralized exchanges haven't had much adoption so far and I haven't seen anyone who nailed every usability problem that these exchanges have. Even assets on Ethereum where you can literally write simple code that says "a transfer occurs if two users agree to it" are traded on "decentralized exchanges" with multiple vulnerabilities and bad UX for traders.
There is an implicit ordering of timesteps ("before" and "after") though, right? If you have that, you can dispense with an explicit time dimension.
This is going to get so destroyed but HFT strategies. A million already come to mind.
Oh, holy shit. This wins the thread, as far as I'm concerned.
If you have 10000 teachers teaching 10000 classes you have 10000 different view points with a diversity that will allow more complete knowledge and understanding being passed on.

If you have 10000 classes taught by robots programmed by 1 or 2 you have a very limited viewpoint and a large chance of knowledge and experience being lost, and a huge risk of inappropriate manipulation.
Yes, I work purely remotely.

The screening process shouldn't be that tough. It's broken into multiple stages. The first three are short sessions. The longest of which was around (I think, don't hold me to it) an hour.

The project is a confidential project you make according to specifications, but they give you enough time to pull it off, even with a full-time job.
I also reject the notion that the eastern district is "built out" or that developers will stop when things don't "pencil out".

Reject what you like, but you're wrong. Investors don't finance real-estate projects where the per-square-foot returns don't justify the expense.

The expense, in the case of eastern SF, is >80% land and materials. It's been documented, extensively, by groups like SPUR. Taxes and regulation are less than 20% of the cost of construction in San Francisco. It's simply not the limiting factor [1]

[1] http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2014-02-11...

(You'll note that this link shows $48,000 of a $469,000 unit -- or about 10% of the cost -- is attributable to permits and regulatory fees. The cost of land and labor and materials amounts for >75% of the cost.

When you read people complaining about "regulatory" costs in SF, it's really a political dog-whistle to the BMR housing subsidy, which developers hate. Most self-professed "YIMBYs" I talk to do not know this.)
I'm hopeful that autonomous buses make this extra capacity possible. The main problems are unpredictable/long waits and overcrowding; the proposals I've seen involve smaller (<20 passenger) buses that run much more frequently and can fit more people into standing-room space because automated drivers have better planned acceleration and longer braking. It's so much cheaper and easier to add hundreds of small buses to the peninsula's streets than to build rail or subways.

Another crazy low-footprint idea: connecting our city of hills with an aerial gondola network. https://www.fastcodesign.com/1671214/a-mass-transit-proposal...
http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ec-council/
That we may live, other life must inevitably die -- in fact, this is generally the rule for most life at this point. Even if you consider plants unworthy of the same regard we give animals (how zoochauvinist of you), animal life is lost in the tilling and harvesting from fields, even if pesticides are not used and no new habitat turned to our use. Further, the harvest would be most meager without any pest control, and manual removal of insects, etc. is fairly prohibitive; organic farmers usually make use of more natural options for pest control, like diatomaceous earth, rather than discarding treatment entirely.

The real lack of introspection is our handwaving away of this truth from notice, such that we find an unavoidable truth abhorrent.
This is a very Malthusian attitude that hasn't really been borne out by the data. Many metro areas with similar earnings potential to SF do not experience nearly the level of crowding and rent gouging that we have here.
This could really be expanded on into something great.
I don't often use Gitlab, I just logged in this morning to update my 2FA and saw the new nav in the profile. Enabled it and instantly felt a lot more compelled to use the site.

I'm a big fan of your guys' work but using Github for a variety of reasons (UI is a big reason why), so I really mean it when I say the improvement is noticeable.

BTW, have you thought about talking to Zenhub to get a "Zenlab"? Given that Gitlab implements a lot more than Github in terms of Zenhub features it might be worth looking into.