skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many software engineering jobs in San Francisco pay 50,000?

The $50,000 lower limit is there for people looking for work in more rural communities. For example, yesterday we had a student that was formerly a forklift driver making $10/hr get a job offer in the middle of nowhere for $78k (and that was only two days after graduation). He lives in an area where he pays $500/month for rent.

If he only went from making $10/hr to making $50k, the lifetime economic value is still indisputable - easily over a million dollars during his lifetime. Him paying us back for a couple of years in exchange for making that possible at no money down and shouldering the risk if it didn't work out is a fairly reasonable ask IMO.
Startup WorkRamp's Marketplace Helps Train Employees Like at Airbnb and Uber
Chengdu is a wonderful city, despite the pollution problems, and it's surroundings - Emei, Qingcheng, Jiuzhaigo, Huanglong - are unique, magnificent, and rather less known for westerners. Visit them while you can.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736270
The Falcon Heavy could send Red Dragons with supplies in advance of the ITS missions (this is in fact the plan).
If Antpool, BTC.top, F2Pool, and Bixin conspire, they control 51% of the mining power. There is the oligarchy aka centralization.
This recruiter chatbot can change language mid-conversation
I'm a bigger fan of putting a semi-permanent ISS 2.0 on the surface of the moon vs. boots on Mars. I don't work directly in exploration systems, but I'm not the only one at NASA who feels this way.

But more than anything I think we and the other executive agencies would take any strong commitment on an exploration and human spaceflight direction from congress that survives across presidential administrations over any specific technical consideration.

I.e. we're waiting for strong elected leadership.
But hasn't this generally been an issue since Apollo?

Great Ideas(TM) emerge and people get enthusiastic about them, but fail to realize that the cost makes them difficult to carry out as intended. The Great Idea is then either watered down (Skylab, Space Shuttle) or comes to an abrupt halt due to lack of funding or for political reasons (Space Station Freedom, Constellation).

I'm getting more and more convinced that it will take autocratic nations looking for prestige, or commercial companies offering cheap and exotic tourist flights for humans to get back to the moon. The US doesn't have the political strength or stability to plan such a mission at the moment, and keep it going for the ~10ish years it takes.
Can't quit your job to start a business if you need health insurance. Which you do.
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Is it possible for NASA to Kickstart this? I'd throw money at them.
I think accidents in traffic will be completely 100% solved by brake assist and collision prevention systems - I think they are meant to be mandatory in all new cars sold in US by 2020 if I remember correctly? So not long now. AI solves a different category of problems and isn't really necessary to solve crashes when there is a lot of cars driving close to each other.
Orpheus's Lyre puts Kerberos to sleep
You should make the Y logo black and yellow too.
China’s most famous dissident, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has died in custody
Quite the opposite, I'd say.
How I created a $980-per-post social network in just 2 days for $10
Most people see Mars as great potential for a "back-up" for the human race. If something catastrophic happens on earth, humanity will continue.
> With a larger block it will outpace the storage advances and will not be downloadable for the average user

This has nothing to do with the block size. The size of the chain is proportional to the number of transactions. Whether those are sliced-and-diced into small blocks or large ones is completely irrelevant to how big the chain is. The only thing the block size influences is how many transactions can be mined in one block, i.e. the rate at which transactions can be processed.
So I graduated from DBC 3 years ago and I agree with most of the sentiments already stated in this thread. However, I think the red flag for me was seeing some of my cohort graduate and then immediately after become instructors at DBC. I don't care what you say, you cannot teach programming after being exposed to programming for 12 weeks. For one thing, a "good" teacher isn't just someone who has been coding for a while (which obviously you lack if you have just graduated from the program); you actually have to understand pedagogy and take an actual interest in being a mentor or guide. If DBC had hired instructors with industry experience, I often found that they lacked the proper skills to make them effective educators.
the 'multi billion dollar watchlist' that tax payers pay for
so storing data on multiple (billions of bacteria). I assume that you would have populations of duplicates and would piece together your entire original dataset (e.g. a tar) using start and end encoding tags? How do you re-sequence multiple populations of bacteria that you just grab from a sample sitting in a -80c freezer? You'd also have to prevent them from modifying their own genome and messing up your data.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755429
What I am going to be interested in is this versus EPYC parts. I think the higher clocks are mainly to achieve some of the more insane (and useless) FPS counts for games. If you are willing to ramp down the FPS to a number that your monitor can actually display, it may be better to find a general purpose EPYC MB and chipset, and use that. Especially if homelab / big data / compiling linux/ occasional gaming is you cup of tea.
Damn. I used both and Uber is cheaper and much better customer service. Trying to get your money back from Yandex.Taxi is a kafkaesque nightmare.
This explains it: https://medium.com/@clintmania/in-person-coding-bootcamps-ar...
If you'd like to know why NASA is getting less and less funding and can expect this trend to continue, see this chart from Five38/NYT:

https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/16fi...
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Perhaps my analogy was bad, but my point is that MySpace and Facebook were extremely similar services which made Facebook a direct competitor.

When I was younger people would use MySpace to stay in touch with friends online, then for various reasons Facebook grew in popularity and people used Facebook to do basically exactly the same thing they were before on MySpace.

I don't think this is the case for Instagram and Snapchat. It's like comparing Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is where you go to share random thoughts more or less publicly to friends and followers. Alternatively, Facebook is where you go to share much more intimate content with close friends and family. And LinkedIn has a different purpose again.

One might dominate in many ways, but there is a reason why I have a public Twitter and LinkedIn and not a public Facebook. There is a reason why I post random photos and songs I like to Twitter and not to LinkedIn.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755429
Google now lets users book appointments through its apps
cf. Year 2038 Problem [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
they store the data in the dna, they encode pixels using ATGC, and re-sequence. But they only have one population of bacteria that contain all of the same data.
For example, branding of beauty products/fitness/some sports equipment, it works great.
I think I have had my fill of Magic Kingdom in Orlando. Last time I was there, I hated just about every minute of it. Every square inch of the park seemed to have been redesigned to suck more money out of my pockets rather than to ensure I was having an enjoyable experience.

Every last one of the rides seemed dated and lame, even if they had been recently renovated. Wait. Scratch that. The Finding Nemo one was okay. And that was back when they were using Fastpass instead of this wristband/app system they apparently have now.

I'll actually be in Orlando again a week from now, and we didn't even consider planning anything Disney. The entertainment value divided by the total daily cost of visiting a park is simply too low now. It isn't just the high ticket prices. They unabashedly overcharge for meals and food, and the nearby lodgings nickel and dime you on everything. And the time cost for everything is ridiculous.

The only reason it is so popular is that Disney cross-promotes everything in its media empire. If you let your kids watch enough Disney Channel on television, they will eventually want to visit a Disney theme park or cruise ship.
Just a question (this is how out of touch I am). I thought most linux compilation moved over to a lvvm toolchain?
If this is true that would be the last nail in the coffin. It goes against everything that site, in theory, used to stand for.
It doesn't seem surprising to me that if there is demand, but supply is capacity limited, it's hard to determine the full extent of the demand, and that when more capacity becomes available, the demand may exceed that as well.

If you build more lanes where the roads are generally uncongested, you won't see much 'induced demand', because the there wasn't much demand for travel that was waiting for less congestion.

If you build more lanes where the roads are generally congested, you will see the amount of time the roads are congested decrease when construction is done. However, most additional lanes are built in areas where there is strong population growth, leading to increased demand overtime anyway. For example, in southern california there was a project to add another lane to the I-405; when completed, the average duration of heavy congestion (rush hour) was reduced by several hours; but it's reasonable to expect that over time the congestion will increase again, just as it was before construction.

It's reasonable to expect the same to happen for theme parks. There are a lot of capacity constraints preventing people from attending a Disney park, and you see that in the high attendance. It's probably difficult to predict how many additional parks you could build and still have good attendance, but building one at a time seems reasonable; being a bit hard to get in isn't terrible for Disney's brand perception.
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If the platform is obnoxious, people will abandon it for other alternatives.

You know, like the crappy ones (flash, silverlight) we've been trying to ditch for a decade now.
Ethereum (Vitalik) wants to switch to PoS.
They inserted the binary code in the dna using CRISPR and CAS-9
Quite a lot actually. US defense spending in 2014 was $614 billion, 3.5% of GDP. US healthcare spending in 2014 was estimated by the world bank as 17.1% of GDP.
A CPU that large reminds me of the famous remark made by Grace Hopper about how light can move 30cm in one nano second, I guess theoretically meaning that CPU could have some kind of maximum size.

Of course since current CPU contains cores, it doesn't apply.
I would strongly suggest that anyone reading this with depression disregard personal anecdotes like these. The placebo effect is powerful, and it's dangerous to self-medicate when suicide is a possible side effect or consequence.
Cern does lots of data analysis where measurement precision is not essential at least in evaluation phase. Switching into higher precision may be needed only for the final calculations It's also possible to scale and normalize data to lower precision.
Provided you happen to be between the ages of 18 and 30.
Back in '92, right after my discharge from the Air Force, I went to work for a copier company, who sent me to LA for training on how to repair copiers. It happened to be during the week of the LA Riots!

My instructors told us to take the day off and they stayed home to protect their homes. I hopped the bus to Disneyland.

There were no lines there that day. I rode Space Mountain about 12 times!
I have two if I count 4 mbit DSL from ATT as my second option.

Yay for monopoly!
In the nineties, a distant uncle of mine (I'm from the poor side of the family haha) used to commute to central London each day by helicopter from his farm in Buckinghamshire. That's sensible (if the company is paying!). 6hours by plane each day... not so much o_O
In regards to the cycler idea, he has even acted as a "customer" to a Purdue University team doing a mars feasibility study. They've recently released their report, in which they detail how a cycler might work in comparison to the original SpaceX ITS proposal.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAECourses/aae450/2017/spring...

Buzz Aldrin with the team:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAECourses/aae450/2017/spring...
This press release, when you read the details, is not very impressive.

The headline sounds good, but the details are that it only works on highways, up to 38MPH, and won't be enabled right away; they are going to roll it out later. The one notable thing seems to be that you can be stuck in traffic and take your hands off the wheel, unlike Tesla where you have to have your hands on the wheel.

I'm not sure how they call this "first", since it won't be on new cars released next year, until after some future software update, how is this different from Tesla that is already shipping cars that can do this and more with a software update?

Full disclosure: in Dec I sold my Audi A8 to get a Model S.

Currently, the Model S can basically drive itself in heavy traffic, but it will periodically want your hand(s) on the wheel. I recently was in stop and go traffic on a 2 lane road for an hour and the Tesla did great. The A8 won't be able to there, it won't work on anything but a divided highway which this was not.

Don't get me wrong, I've had 5 Audis over the years and have loved them. But this really isn't "news", Audi is still playing catch up.

Oh, and from the testing I've done this winter, the Tesla AWD system is at least as good as quattro. Probably better.
Is AirBnB harmful for the society because it decreases the demand for hotels, or what is the thought process here?
That sounds wonderful. My kids are about the right age to do this, and I'm curious, are there any English-language versions of this text?
What if you can't afford a plane ticket to attend a funeral? Should airlines give you one? Without overselling flights travel would cost more for everybody (at least in theory).

Job interviews are readily rescheduled if you're bumped against your will.

Airlines already have bereavement flights that give the bereaved priority and extra flexibility.

We already have regulations that compensate people who are bumped against their will so it's not in the airlines best interest to do so, it's expensive.

BTW, my mom missed her dad's funeral due to the 1981 air traffic controller strike.
I’m pretty sure it says a lot about my aesthetic and political preferences, some aspects of which I’m not proud of, as I try to reflect on why this is, but the concept of a corporate theme park being a nice place for a walk gives me a physical feeling of revulsion.

I will likely take my daughter to a Disney theme park at some point, and will be willing to tolerate the hyper-branding experience for a day, but I will do so clenching my teeth while observing (especially) people pretending Disney Princesses exist in reality.

Different strokes for different folks!
I guess many people just don't understand how any possession can justify the murder of another human. I'm one of those people. I have a wide variety of friends with ideas that I personally find reprehensible or that I disagree with strongly, but I have to admit that this is something I find very difficult to wrap my head around, much as I try.

Downvoting you for it isn't my style, but I can understand why others would.
Ask any European who lives or works in a major tourist destination. Many American tourists are wonderful, but the worst of the bunch are atrocious. The yahoo tourists openly mock the local culture, they ask for prices in dollars, they wear yoga pants and tank tops in cathedrals, they get offended when the locals don't speak English. It really isn't unusual to hear someone loudly complaining about how awful everything is and how much better things are in America.

Some American tourists seem to have the attitude that American culture is objectively correct and that the rest of the world is essentially a theme park with bad service. The "USA, USA, USA" attitude doesn't travel well. It's an attitude that quickly melts away after real immersion in a foreign culture, but unfortunately many Americans don't have that luxury.

It isn't a new problem - see this wonderful 1943 training film for American troops being stationed in Britain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYSBBE1DFw
On July 27, you'll be able to buy an Alienware Area-51 with Threadripper.
>Hiring based on IQ tests is illegal

Citation pls?
Pay-walled science don't you just love it? Why do they bother - it isn't science until you publish IMHO. This is just showing their rich friends.
Environmental defenders being killed in record numbers globally
That is insane. Take a USA tax funded public entity and spend the budget of it's most ambitious project in Israel or India. What are you talking about? And we already send money to Russia for Soyuz to get to ISS via ULA.
Liu Xiaobo, Nobel laureate and political prisoner, dies at 61 in Chinese custody
without getting more than a touch political, the last 24 months have expanded my definition of what people will accept enough that I don't know if anyone can credibly speculate about it anymore.
The logo's an image; messing with it exceeded the threshold of work I wanted to put into it. :-)

I'm actually not sure how the logo could be made yellow and black without distracting from the signature stark yellow/black diagonal to the right...
Of course, long circuit lines will limit further increase in clock frequency. But in practice, heat is the lower bound. In CMOS, heat arises from charge dissipation, or voltage times clock frequency. Unless we can switch to transistor fabric that does NOT dump charge with every state change, heat will remain the dominant problem for future CPU speedup.

Despite what some claim, multicore is no solution to speedup. Coarse or fine grain parallelism is useful only when data parallelism is possible, which applies to less than 5% of today's software (graphics, speech, deep learning, et al). Functional programming may free code from explicitly addressing variables, but FP's implicit addressing does not magically eliminate sequential dependencies.

The vast majority of processes in mainstream software are inherently sequential. Simply implementing them in an FP won't make them parallel, so adding threads won't increase speed.
Some airlines ask at check-in time whether you're willing to be bumped at ~$200 compensation.
Basic human ettiequte and decency is taught at home, at schools, and within the culture of society (e.g., Mr. Rogers neighborhood or Sesame Street on TV). I do notice that countries that have serious overcrowding, like mainland China, India, and probably other third-world countries, just do not bother or have no access to, or maybe just plain don't know any better.

I don't think this has anything to do with the lack of travel experience. It's just the way that they were brought up and perhaps in their village or town it's just like that.
I believe there's not much value in making games that run in browser and served from website. But real value of Babylon like Javascript libraries lies in their portability. I would use Electron like framework to create desktop app for my Javascript game created using Babylon, then sell it on Steam. Unity and Unreal are good portable options, but they lack the complete open nature of web technologies. They have their own private scripting languages that are not portable. A game engine written in Javascript is therefore more valuable.
> There was no scenario under which a Western firm was going to be allowed to dominate any meaningful Russian infrastructure long-term.

You're probably right, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if the government passed a law enforcing that some day.

But - in this particular case, I have to say that Uber had nothing on Yandex, who has been in the Russian maps and taxi business far longer and their navigation app is absolutely top notch (you should see how it lays out the route, and the funny jokes the navigation voice cracks when you're stuck in traffic), as well as their taxi app. Yandex is a very clever company and infrastructure questions aside, they are hard to compete with.

In fact, I'd argue that Yandex's technology is better in some respects than Uber or Apple's and Google's (if we're talking maps) but you will not see Yandex taxi service in the USA for the exact same reason you've stated, in the US it will be a US company.

BTW, Google is only #2 search engine in Russia as far as I know, simply because Yandex is better. I often find myself checking ya.ru when searching for Russian words when Google comes up empty.
I would also guess that he can actually afford a house for his children to grow up in down in Burbank.

I wonder if Motiv subsidies the Surf Air membership. Moving a company from LA to SF is expensive - maybe that was part of the price payed to keep the CTO.

I'd also point out that it possibly was not his decision to move the company.
I am a fan of that too, but I don't know how practical it is. What would we get out of having a manned station around the moon? It's a desolate piece of rock with little to no activity in the core. It's dead by all means, and the probes we have in orbit + instrumentation that was left by Apollo and the tons of moon rock we brought back I think already gave us an abundant amount of data to work with.

But alas, I am a computer programmer and that's just what I think. I could very well be wrong and there could be a lot of value in having a manned lunar station.
If Firefox and Chromium don't work with EME I will go buy a a hat, and eat it.

I'd hazard the folks who truly get locked out, users of more ideological browsers on more fringe linux distros, already were not using flash or silverlight, because those already required a proprietary blob of code. And frankly they're probably not interested in content that is locked down.
You'd definitely be using IndexedDB, not LocalStorage for that.
I did. (as a millenial)
I didn't even study a subject connected to mathematics. I came across it and thought it was neat, so i learned it... but forgot it.
The funny thing is, with the kind of space presence that kind of money buys you (we're talking Clarke-style rotating space stations here), nobody would dare fuck with you.

You don't need an official space weapons program to be able to drop heavy things from orbit. Nor do you need a fancy anti-satellite ballistics system when you can have one of your many astronauts sidle over and hit it with a hammer.
There are hundreds of thousands of other web development businesses out there, so you need something to differentiate yourself.

Whether that's a great social media presence, better branding, or working in a niche then you need to focus on that.

Most of your business will initially be through your network so start talking to friends/family/contacts about the fact that you're looking to do some freelance development work. Chances are that you'll be able to get a job or two out of that.

As you get bigger and more experienced, you'll likely find that clients come back to you and refer you to others. That's your network providing organic growth.

I'm now working on freelance web dev amongst some other side projects so feel free to ping me an email to discuss if you want. My portfolio is https://codefox.io and email contact is there :)
You'll be able to pre-order. Still no official word on when it'll ship.
Is this a limit of photovoltaics or a design optimization? Or other?
Well well... TIL

If I thought we'd all still be here in 2038 I'd have something new to worry about :-/