skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So random contrived example based on appriasals I've seen around here (east bay). House paid off a while ago, paid $250k who knows when, property taxes $4k/yr (prop 13), house currently could sell for $1.7M. Person is 65, kids have long moved out. Without prop 13 lets say they would pay $17000 property taxes, maybe less since it would be equitably distributed. So that's $13000 they need to find to not get kicked out.

You say they don't want to move out, can't they simply refinance? Take out $1M against the house. Then draw down on that money to cover the excess taxes you owe and pay the mortgage, this should get you 20 more years in the house, maybe more depending on how the market plays out, could be less if there is a recession but then you the alternatives are you lost the house already since you couldn't afford the higher taxes or the current system where all the new comers/people who relocate are covering for you.
James Damore
> I believed the universe was full of planets before our scientists validated it. My belief was based on the emotions I felt looking into the night sky full of the stars. It’d be a dull life if I could not entertain thoughts and feelings unless they were “scientifically validated”.

How old are you? ;) I completely agree with you. I love thinking and imagining reasons for things that we do not yet have answers to. But at the same time I recognize the probabilities of my explanations being correct. While, many followers in organized religions blindly and devoutly believe that their religion is the one true explanation, which is illogical to me.

>Be aware (just in case!) your perception of religion as merely a means of control may be a projection of your own desire to control others, out of your own fear of the unknown beyond what is “scientifically known”, and in doing so have made the religious ones who are “others” who believe in something “shady”, “others” who are less than you.

That's an interesting point. I've accepted that our lives are a temporary spec of existence on an insignificant rock, and I'm oaky with that. I also believe that we should fulfill our evolutionary purpose by propagating, improving technology, and recording information for future generations. If I made it seem that I think religious people are "less than" that is not how I feel. I'm okay with anyone believing anything they want to help them get through their day as long as they aren't harming others. My only point in that sense was the confusion I face with people seeking evidence and facts while engineering things and solving problems, but not applying the same scientific method to everyday life.

A modern example I can think of when it comes to religions being a form of control is how the republican party has a very profound base of religious conservatives. Many of whom are working class people, but the republican party is run mainly by wealthy elite. Most of the fiscal reforms that the republican party espouses do not have a direct impact on the wealth of the working class, but they republican party is able to capture all of these votes. (I have religious family who seem to get most of their political influence from their church). So many other historical examples of religion being a major contributor to the success of empires and countries . The Roman empire and Islamic empires being some examples. Helps you unify people, they are devout because they are promised eternal salvation, etc.
FBI couldn't access nearly 7K devices because of encryption
>A question I've never seen addressed: is one justification for junk DNA to create space for beneficial mutations?

Yes, gene/genome duplications can help create raw material for adaptation, or be adaptive by their own right.

>That's not a risk with non-coding (or irrelevantly-coding) DNA

It's not risk free. It's just less risky. There are all sorts of elements within the "intergenic" region of genomes which can impact fitness. Duplications in these regions can change the "dosage" of genes or the availability of DNA to be transcribed.

Duplicating these regions is mostly dependent on how tolerate the species is of dosage changes. Humans for example are very intolerant, while plants are very tolerant.

Also, please stop using "junk DNA". It is outdated term ;).
bioRxiv doesn't expose LateX files, they explicitly only use PDFs to make things easier. Which means you're going to need to reflow PDFs (a la https://docushow.com/), and I would guess there are a lot more edge cases there
I'll admit that I do that sometimes -- Patrick's blog over the years has been full of gems that are well written, easy to read, and make me feel like I could put into action were I braver / had better ideas / insert-excuse-for-not-starting-something-here. They were some of the best things I read when I first learned about HN, so I tend to value them more highly.

Because HN saves the list of things you've upvoted, I will at times upvote things that I know Patrick has written because I know it will be a good thing to read when I later get a chance.
Open-sourcing data will make big data bigger than ever
POWER and PowerPC chips have been bi-endian for a while. Since POWER3 would be my guess.
#carbureted4life

Whatever the case, I've found engine braking to be fairly consistent in manual transmission cars at a given speed/gear. But, I've never thought I could rely on it to bring me to a stop in a parking lot. It blows my mind that an EV driver would think that.
My favorite anecdote I heard was that Nissan was blaming the slow development of their PowerWall-esque project for secondary battery usage on how demand for used EV car batteries currently far outstrips supply (because batteries are staying on the road longer than some early Nissan projections).
I'm just above entry level, but by no means a recent grad. Not all of us were lucky enough to land a big software gig right out of college ;)

My family probably wouldn't be too happy to suddenly have roommates. Hah. But yes, if you're young and single, that's a solid option I would think.
Assuming that c is really the speed of causality, then no, there’s a limit to large scale structures or operations in an expanding universe.
I looked over 35th ave, which is fairly decent. Are there other pockets I should be looking at?
I've read and enjoyed it. Knowing good people who work and have worked for Bechtel, et cetera, I can assure you that the riveting read it makes contains some truths and many exaggerations.

The laws the U.S. is deploying here are designed to prevent a despot from pilfering a population's wealth to pay cronies. Letting Maduro liquidate PDVSA to pay debts which should be defaulted on is precisely the intent of the law, an intent which aligns the United States with Venezuela.

Again, suspicion is healthy. But using the possibility of an international conspiracy to detract from a well-established national one (in Venezuela) is disingenuous.
We bought a small one-bedroom condo in downtown PDX for my brother to live in ~3 years ago b/c it seemed like a better investment than random stocks/ETFs. He lived there for a year, and we rented it part-time for another four months.

Purchase price was $145k. Sale price (after only 16 months) was $190k.

We used to proceeds from that sale to buy a two-bedroom house for my parents move into for their retirement. Paid $250k last October; recent sales in the neighborhood suggest it's worth $310-325k now.

So yeah, agreed re: bonkers Portland housing price inflation.
Hey when you're off by 7 orders of magnitude it doesn't matter so much!
Why didnt a similar issue arise with housing during the first SV gold rush (Intel, Fairchild, etc)?
Yes and yes.

The utility is not in magically making every email sent to or from you unreadable to 3rd parties. The utility is purely on the side or privacy intrusion: be it via court order or hacker. Nobody can compel them to decrypt any messages that have been sent to or from you and stored on their servers.

Protonmail will NOT: Prevent interception of your messages by 3rd-party MITM attacks.

Protonmail WILL: Protect your privacy versus legal authorities. Safeguard your stored communications against hacker breach. Provide a high-quality, ad-free email experience and multiple email addresses.
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Where did you get 3k a month for housing?? Remember, this is an 80-10-10 loan which means you have two loans. I have a 80-10-10 loan for a roughly $900k house and the first mortgage is $3400/mth (30 year fixed at 4.15%) and the second loan is $600/mth (same but around 6% interest). $4000/mth just for the mortgages, property tax is about 12k for the year, which means you pay $5000/mth on housing. For reference, this is San Jose.

So with your estimate, you're actually left with $4k saved for the year..
I have lived in Texas. It absolutely sucks in many ways. No real cities (yes, I have been to Austin, doesn't count). Nothing compared to California when it comes to recreation, vacations, day trips, road trips etc. Acceptance of LGBT lifestyles. Very church oriented (I am a non believer). Low salaries, tech opportunities in Dallas and Houston are not comparable to the Bay.
For what it's worth, here is an implementation of the Miller-Rabin primality test that first tries the smallest 13 primes and then tries some random bases:

def is_probable_prime(n, num_random_trials=5):
"""
An implementation of the Miller-Rabin primality test.
If this function returns False, then n is definitely not prime.
If this function returns True, then n is probably prime:
the probability of n being composite is less than 1/4^(num_random_trials), and
nonzero only if n >= 3317044064679887385961981 > 3.3*10^24 > 1.3*2^81 (by https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00864).
"""
assert n == abs(int(n)), 'Need a nonnegative integer, got %s' % n
if n < 2: return False
if n % 2 == 0: return n == 2
(s, d) = (0, n - 1)
while d % 2 == 0: (s, d) = (s + 1, d // 2)
assert n - 1 == (2**s) * d and d % 2 == 1
small_primes = [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41]
for i in range(len(small_primes) + num_random_trials):
a = small_primes[i] if i < len(small_primes) else random.randrange(small_primes[-1], n - 1)
if a >= n: break
if not (pow(a, d, n) == 1 or any(pow(a, 2**j * d, n) == n - 1 for j in range(s))):
return False
return True
The problem is Oxford Nanopore data has about a 30% insertion and deletion error rate. While PacBio is less than 1% indel and substitution error.

Don't get me wrong, the Minion is amazing, but it can't compare to PacBio in terms of quality... yet.
I'm under thirty and bought a place in San Francisco this year using my own savings from my paychecks. No, I'm not being crushed by my mortgage either. It's definitely achievable, just need to work hard and save your money. Costs are higher here but wages are almost much higher than anywhere else so it's not as terrible as it seems. The Mercury News publishes this same article every 5 years despite home prices continuing to push higher over the long-term.
Similar discussion from some time ago: [0].
TL;DR a galaxy is too big for letting any sort of meaningful intelligence develop. The latency of signals would severely limit the complexity of the "brain".

Edit: moreover, on a less serious stance, there is always [1], which reassures us that the answer to such a question would inevitably be "no", when the question is posed as part of an headline.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395585

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
Same way they deal with internal combustion engine crashes and gasoline fires and explosions: training and preparedness.
China's advances in AI are impressive as well. A ranking based on publications at top conferences from 2012 to present (2017) has both Beijing and Tsinghua University in the world's top 5.

http://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp

(The starting year in the link needs to be changed to 2012.)

Many of the top researchers in US academia are mainland Chinese. I wonder if they will be enticed back home when the Chinese government has managed to reduce the pollution in their major cities down to healthy levels. It appears that the salary for top people there, especially those with experience at major Western institutions, is comparable to those in the US in nominal terms, and the research funding is easier to get.
That's a mighty broad brush you're painting all your brown friends with.
Why not switch to remoting? At that salary you are probably quite senior in your organization.
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Have to agree. I've lived here just over 11 years now and watching the rate things have changed and how fast people are moving here is insane. Funny I moved here from the middle of nowhere and now it is turning into one of THE hot places to move to. Just glad I bought my house back in 09 before shit got stupid...
I got mine as part of the beta almost two years ago. It's been in release since, and seems popular in the community. It's not Illumina HiSeq popular, but the cost is low enough that lots of people are experimenting with it.
Ugh, look at the school ratings on that house, though. :-(

Not that there aren't a lot of places in the country with good schools and affordable housing prices, but for a lot of people with kids schools matter as much or more than housing prices.
Mentioning Pendragon et al. in a discussion about originality? Rich.
Why Not to Work for a Big Tech Company
Git Coin Project Maintainer Consensus Protocol
Self-driving cars are going to be rewriting the commute paradigm. It's important to factor that in.
do you think it's the start of a downturn?
The Zaius/Barreleye systems use the LaGrange chips instead; the quick breakdown I made for wikipedia was:

Sforza — 50 mm × 50 mm, 4 DDR4, 48 PCIe Lanes, 1 XBus 4B
Monza — 68.5 mm × 68.5 mm, 8 DDR4, 34 PCIe Lanes, 1 XBus 4B
LaGrange — 68.5 mm × 68.5 mm, 8 DDR4, 42 PCIe Lanes, 2 XBus 4B

Though I have no idea what XBus is.
There are may ways to argue for panpsychism.

So far I have solid and interesting arguments only from David Chalmers. Most others, like Penrose, make basic errors or hand wave too much to my taste.
It can be on a day to day basis, but if it’s a chronic thing, it’s usually (in retrospect, of course) easy to differentiate. Person 1 goes home every night after work and feels like they want o watch TV, so they do, every day for a year. Person 2 goes home every night and feels the same, however they meet friends/go to the gym/read a book/_something_ different once or twice a week. There’s a world of difference in retrospect.
Feds urge airlines to ban laptops in checked bags
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Oh no, I look like a white guy, I'm Armenian, which is a tiny community with literally one little school off of Brotherhood way. I wasn't one to care about that, but I have to tell you, whenever I take my kids to the birthday parties or some PTA event, I sort of feel at home. It's odd because up until now, I didn't care about any of that, but I suppose my mortality is helping me prioritize on what matters in life. It's a mental and very much, an emotional struggle having to compromise.
Yea, the `catch` would probably have to set an 'errors' object on the response. The following `then` would then decide whether or not to throw an error based on that. Not pretty.

Also, I think `finally` makes your code easier to read. I always put the same kind of cleanup logic in there, everyone on the team knows what to expect in that block.
>The fact is, unfortunately, that Nanopore sequencing (and also, from what I’ve read, PacBio) has a dramatically higher error rate than Illumina sequencing-by-synthesis.

This is true, but only for Insertions/Deletions. The substitution error rate is comparable to Hi-Seq.

So it's good for resequencing but without a reference or decent scaffolds, you're in the dark.
That's weird - I was just in Kauai, and every third house has a "for sale" sign on it, which would indicate a strong buyer's market - i.e. downward pressure on home prices. Probably folks who bought with the intention to rent out to vacationers, but there is a glut of vacation rentals due to AirBNB.
> They also can process algorithms that break all widely used encryption.

there’s that science reporting we know and love
Note that not everyone on the Internet is a man.
That's a bad, pompous, self-important comment.
They were building housing back then. Lots of suburban housing. Now that the flat land has been built, current owners don't want anything to change and obstruct any new development from roads to housing to public transit.
If someone is still visiting this thread I'm still looking for a notebook app. Something to replace my paper notebook (because that can neither be backed up nor properly encrypted).

Keep is almost there with a combination of text and drawings. Missing:
- links to other notes
- checkboxes in between text (currently notes in Keep are either all checkboxes or no checkboxes)
- tapping on tags should show all notes with that tag

OneNote is also almost there.

Samsung notes is also almost there.

Maybe what I wish most is some way to link from my calendar to Keep and back etc etc.

However, seeing how I still cannot even link to a mail in desktop Outlook I'm afraid this is only a dream.
I've only seen a few pieces by Martin, but everyone was a gross distortion of the situation covered. She's a propagandist pushing anti-Western narratives, not a journalist summarizing the facts. I suspect her coverage here may be influenced by her anti-Western feelings.
Walmart ramps up self-checkout by letting customers ring in items while shopping
God that was good. The thickness of the bubble is exponential in the amount of money one has.
This makes sense to me because there are a lot of these youtube-esque clones that are finally reaching fairly good production value and can recut what they are building for a youtube format as well as a structured format. It feels like an easy landing area for these premium (in production) web channels, where their content has the youtube value curve of 1-3 days but easily could be repackaged in a form to be resold to someone else.
They aren't good places to live, because they are too far from the jobs that can pay for them.
Doesn't the inflation theory contradict this? If expansion (or contraction) of spacetime can occur faster than the speed of light, then it could theoretically enact causality faster too right?

Or even more theoretically, isn't it also possible that distant regions of our universe could be adjacent in other dimensions? Perhaps in some higher (or lower?) dimension, every particle in the universe is right next to each other, having never separated after the big bang.

Not that any of this is particularly likely, but since we don't understand the core mechanisms of consciousness very well, it seems possible they could be operating on levels of physics that we also don't understand yet.
"Don't be sexual at work, even jokingly" != oppression

If you had to ask someone if it were inappropriate to write, you knew not to write it, didn't you?

The rules people want you to follow aren't opaque or complex:

- don't hit on coworkers

- don't make sexual, sexist, or racist comments
One of the date examples shows a box with "06/09/2016" in it, with an error popup which says "Please select a valid value. The two nearest valid values are 2016-06-06 and 2016-06-11".

Seems incoherent to use US date format for the box and ISO8601 format for the error message.

Also I wish software in general would stop trying to guess what the locale settings should be and just ask. I have my language set as en_US but I prefer to use 24h time and ISO8601 dates. With this update Firefox guesses wrongly 12h time and mm/dd/yyyy date format with no way to override it that I could find.
Wow congrat! I hope you get in. What's your startup?
The FBI also couldn't access 2,456,789 million websites that used encryption around the world...And?!
The problem is your sorting process is identical to your original statement. It's like saying "why is the sky blue" > "air is blue". You need to make predictions that are different from your observations.

On the other hand if you say something like "Air becomes blue when it's colder." Then you can actually test what's going on and falsify the statement which may lead to progress.

Suppose you suggest the output of this experiment will change over time. Now, waiting a billion years is not going to happen but adding even more digits of accuracy may be possible.
We do not live in a "your data is the price of admission" world. We live in a "your data is extra gravy we monetize for free because in small quantities it is useless to you but in aggregate it has value so we will extract that value even if you've already paid for the product and legally own it"
I am hoping for recommendations based on that list to show up
I still dont understand why people here and Reddit claim that Bay area housing is more expensive than New York. In manhattan you get a frigging hole for a million bucks.
Is it may be because it is a new phenomenon in the west coast and people are shocked?
Each city is doing that intentionally of course, because it's in their best interest.

If they allowed housing to develop they'd have to expand their school, police, fire, garbage and other departments.
See[0]. The "Pay With Google" initiative is adding a 'supportedMethods' of 'https://google.com/pay'. What is then in the data section of that supportMethods call to Google is up to Google, which is specified here[1]. It looks like Google required "merchantId", which the merchant registers with Google to get access to the cards Google has stored for that customer.

So yes, if a merchant wants to use a customer's card on-file with Google to pay at a merchant with "Pay with Google", Google will be able to connect the 2 dots together, but I'd read the ToS to see what is allowed[2].

The value-add here for merchants is to get customers to complete a purchase without having to go through the pain of typing in their card details. And for consumers, if they don't fully trust the website and the website is using Gateway Tokenization, then the merchant never sees the credit card data.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/#the-methoddata-argume...

[1] https://developers.google.com/payments/mobile-web-tutorial#a...

[2] https://payments.developers.google.com/terms/sellertos
Sure, but thats not the only reason why the analogy doesn't work. The heroin analogy is B2C. The Facebook discussion is B2B.
FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption
In a lot of regards, the "not up to par" part of riot.im or matrix is the lack of a contact list (or simulated equivalent with same UX). IMHO it's the usability problem #1, and the reason for our team not to switch yet. The issue[0] should receive more attention.

[0] https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/4488
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To be fair, ProtonMail Bridge is available in beta for all paid members right now, which will allow you to use it with Thunderbird.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/77ifdx/protonma...
Why would the cigar seller ask to show me an ad for a STOP SMOKING CIGARS product? Also as I said, this showed up in Youtube the day after I ordered and the email hit my gmail. Never seen those ads before.