skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that usually gets left out there is savings. If you take SF salary + SF costs and cut everything in half then you also end up with half the money left for savings.

The thing about saving for retirement is that you can contribute huge amounts of absolute dollars in a high COL place and then move to a low COL place to spend it when you retire.
Mobile Atoms are affected it seems despite using TXE (SPARC CPU) instead of ME.
I've seen a few of those before.

Some were CC text from CNN articles with random "war pictures". It was surreal - like a badly done brainwashing video. It had the eerie qualities of belonging as perverse art exhibit.

I have also seen these in "alt"/neonazi/kkk politics channels. There's not much worse than showing pictures of the KKK and black people while a robotic voice throws curse words and racial epithets. There isn't much else to say other than "WAT?"
it's less painful if you only pay half for being pwnd
I don't think kcorbitt meant that at all. I read it as that if the Bay Area wants to remain (regain?) competitiveness with other, lower-cost areas, it must adapt, not that the Bay Area is entitled to hoard every startup. Other areas are competing on the basis of cost or livability so the Bay Area has to navigate that competitive landscape if the people there wish it to remain a destination.
Keybase
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> There's quite a bit of skill required

That's false. Skill is not required. It can help you progress faster, but it is definitely not required.
It's all about perspective.

You're going to make plenty of money - I've been working for a while, I don't care what things below 1000$ cost - I have more left over than I spend regardless, and the mental bandwidth that's been freed up by not having to look at prices is very rewarding.

It's scarcity vs abundance mentality.

Another way to look at it is - when you're out there working, making say a phone app, and you find out it is costing them a million dollars, and it's a bug ridden piece of shit - you'll look back on this textbook, that was written by very smart people, proofread, etc, and it only costs 190$.
I rather replay the interesting section (for complicated stuff even on normal speed) and speed-listen to what I know and what is easily understandable or booring.

With video tutorials I have the same problem. On normal speed I will work ahead, take a wrong turn because I didn't know where the lecture would go or drift off in to something slightly creative and than notice that I missed a section where finally something new was explained. So I have to skip back and find where I started missing something (Something really really annoying with audio material; No thumbnails, no search, no skimming backwards, mostly no identification possible from a single frame or word (the easiest way to find a part again, to which I listened before, is to remember where on my journey I was when I listened to that part and where that was in relation to where I heard what is currently playing)).
Someone posted above that there already was one before and this is the second: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
Trust humanity to call our first interstellar visitor bizarre to its face. It’s space. Bizarre is the default. If this turns out to be an alien, we’ll regret this.
I knew I'd get this objection. :) It's true that to some degree Silicon Valley's loss is the rest of the world's gain, and I'm totally cool with that. But I worry that to a perhaps larger degree companies that would have been successful will simply never be formed, because the founders that could have made them happen won't be in an environment with the critical concentration of capital, mentorship and skilled employees. That outcome would be a tragedy for all of us.
Release is on track for December 2017, but Qualcomm chips have ME-like firmware too (from SCM to the modem)
Please read Henry George’s 1868 essay about the Bay Area and the completion of the transcontinental railroad[1]. It was required reading in California schools for decades, but generations of attacks by successive capitalists who hated his “Single Tax” proposal has rendered him an unknown figure in the 21st century.

An excerpt:

>And as California becomes populous rich, let us not forget that the character of a people counts for more than their numbers; that the distribution of wealth is even a more important matter than its production. Let us not imagine ourselves in a fools' paradise, where the golden apples will drop into our mouths; let us not think that after the stormy seas and head gales of all the ages, our ship has at last struck the trade winds of time. The future of our State, of our nation, of our race, looks fair and bright; perhaps the future looked so to the philosophers who once sat in the porches of Athens-to the unremembered men who-raised the cities whose ruins lie south of us. Our modern civilization strikes broad and deep and looks high. So did the tower which men once built almost unto heaven.

[1] http://www.grundskyld.dk/1-railway.html
This sounds great! I have 680 GB of podcasts recorded at 128 kbps which equates to 1.35 years of constant listening. I could definitely listen at a higher speed while doing housework, gardening or washing the dishes. I'd be concerned about doing it while driving, though, as that requires (for me, at least) a lot of concentration.
It's the only language that runs in your web browser natively. It was designed to be a simple scripting language to make web pages interactive. Written by Brendan Eich, it was a quick project that should feel like C but be easier to learn. It doesn't require you to learn about types and type safety which is a topic that can be hard to grasp. It's functional and expressive, and those two things make it fairly powerful. Finally, it has the backing of NodeJS which runs on the server so, as was previously pointed out, means you can write code for both the server and client in JavaScript so it's portable.

While it's debatable how easy JavaScript really is, most developers who bitch about it love it. It has its flaws, like many other languages, but I'm still surprised by the number of newer and better ways to do things in plain old JavaScript.
For a citizen and their family that live somewhere, it's either 100% or 0%. It's of marginal benefit to say a 'problem is much smaller' than somewhere else; this is similar to telling those citizens and their families they can solve it by moving, which has its own issues.
Paris and Amsterdam Win Brexit Races for London-Based EU Agencies
I would argue that those things historically have drowned out actual meaning,

Which is precisely why humanity didn't progress, never invented science, never improved human rights and the standard of living, and we died out in a state of primitive brutishness.

Clearly, actual meaning has found its way through, somehow.

I think the filter you mention exists but is struggling in this environment more than in the recent past.

What is your evidence for this? Can you quantify this in objective terms?
The commonwealth is nowhere where it used to be and Britannia do not rule the world like they did.

It's a perfect example of the fall of an empire and civilization without any collapse.
nonsense, because those adjustments don't include massive equity compensation, in the form of RSUs, options, etc. I doubt you have many jobs in Omaha offering mid-high six figure total comp.
"Yeah yeah you fed all those poor hungry people, but at what cost!"
>One implication of the Laffer curve is that increasing tax rates beyond a certain point is counter-productive for raising further tax revenue. A hypothetical Laffer curve for any given economy can only be estimated and such estimates are controversial. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics reports that estimates of revenue-maximizing tax rates have varied widely, with a mid-range of around 70%.[2] There is a consensus among leading economists that a reduction in the US federal income tax rate would not raise annual total tax revenue.[3]
Good luck getting a modern ARM SoC which doesn't depend on binary blobs.
The math is too complex to really know, because of all the other factors. Among them,

1) Your chances of becoming a millionaire through stock options are likely higher in silicon valley. Evaluating the optionality value of stock options at various companies isn't something a journalist can do.
2) If you are able to save 20% of your salary in Omaha, but only 15% in San Francisco, you are likely to save much more in San Francisco.

Then there is all the questions of quality of life, where it's easier to find new jobs in your field, where you are more likely to meet and work with the best in your field, etc.
> if the prior probability of disease is such that the outcome of the test doesn’t meaningfully change the likelihood, it’s bad for the patient to create a situation where for legal purposes I must now act as though the probability is much higher than it is.

I don't disagree. I was claiming that both patients and doctors are caught in this trap, i.e. doctors are legally liable for not offering, or recommending, treatment that isn't warranted.
Yeah - I can see that. "It's all functions so it all works" haha. I think the context setter that helped for me was to see "hey here's what I see with state, and here's how I think about it and did the thing" at React EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs
For me, it's actually about having additional communication that didn't exist before Hangouts came out. My family is spread around the country and hardly visits or calls each other. With Hangouts, we suddenly started communicating more, and that's not something I want to revert.
MEI is only exposed to the VM host, not to the guests thankfully.
webhook.io works great for me. they also have a great free plan
> but the recipe is so impractical I'll probably never make it.

or the food amounts to cookies dipped in honey dipped in butter dipped in icing sugar.
Most of those kinds of bagging systems have gotten much better about the whole "detection of bagging."

However, most of the time, the issue with self-checkout is the HUMAN, not the machine. Several extremely busy grocery stores near me ripped out self-checkout systems because it affected throughput too much. They went back to cashiers because the cashiers are A) faster and B) capable of judging situations for throughput ("Um, grandma, really, we don't need you to take 5 minutes to find two pennies for that $20.02 grocery bill. Have a nice day. NEXT!")

Amazon, unusually, has this one right. A self-checkout system CANNOT rely on the customer doing anything right.
Elon Musk Teases Higher-Performance Version of Tesla Roadster on Twitter
Sorry if this is off topic, but Nautilus seems to really need support[0].

I received an email this morning from the editor asking "to make an end of year tax deductible contribution to keep the stories coming. Anything you could donate would be greatly appreciated".

If you enjoy their content, please consider subscribing.

I'm not affiliated with Nautilus in any way, just a concerned subscriber.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227337
Nowadays, it is possible to create a 3D model of a space by taking hundreds of photographs of a space and using computers to analyze those photos through photogrammetry and computer vision methods. This is a laborious process, and is especially time-consuming and resource-intensive for large scenes.

I was recently trying to understand what the state of the art was here, and was surprised to learn that this is true: most 3D reconstruction fares better with a smaller number of high-resolution still photos than with a larger number of lower resolution "stills" extracted from video. I'm still somewhat confused why this is the case.

My limited understanding is that main advantage of working with stills is that they more commonly contain location tagging, while frames from video do not. Compared to the base level of difficulty of building a accurate 3D model from lossy 2D sources, figuring out the trajectory of camera doesn't seem too hard. Once one has this, wouldn't the video be just as easier to work with?

Trying to figure this out this discrepancy, I got the impression that many researchers may actually be trying to solve the harder problem of trying to compute the camera trajectory in real time, as might be needed for a self-driving vehicle: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~raulmur/orbslam/. This indeed does seem harder, but still leaves me wondering why a multipass approach wouldn't be feasible.

What am I missing? Why can't one do a first pass to calculate camera trajectory, possibly a second pass to combine temporally adjacent frames for greater resolution, then create a better model from the resulting wealth of data? Alternatively stated, why does the quality of the 3D model seem to depend more on the resolution and quality of the input 2D images rather than on the number of these images?
Eyeglasses and hearing aids are a racket. In my local hospital, there's large section just for frames. It's the only area where they have salespeople convincing you to buy frames above what your insurance will cover.

Same thing with hearing aids, I went and had my hearing tested and there was a salesman just outside the test room waiting to sell you their services which sold hearing aids for $999.00+ plus services.
Do you have some press links?
One theory of the late Bronze Age collapse I've heard is that great numbers of peasant types ran off to avoid governmental pressures and became nomads and raiders that eventually attacked and took down the large states.

I'm not sure how much weight I would put into it, but one story I've heard seems pretty solid: The Philistines (of biblical fame) were Mycenaean Greeks who attempted to attack and settle in Egypt, and who were in turn resettled on or near the Egyptian border with the Levant.
Whatever became of Jacob Appelbaum? Plenty of people have accused him of sexual assault, but it's been months since I've heard anything.
And the purpose of preventing a monopoly is, yet again, generally an economic one: to prevent price gouging or help out smaller competitors. Neither of those applies to FB.
Great point right at the end from the original author of the sheet: if I made it into a web app, I wouldn't be able to change the model so quickly...
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That's an excellent point! There are several near me so I'll ask next time I go to the market.
Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto (2017)
I got that part.

It's it is not, however, a desperate letter talking about the collapse of a civilization. You would be able to find similar letters begging for Romes intervention during Romes reign.

It's not proof of anything even close to awareness of the collapse of civilization.
Specifically, between, say, 400 and 800CE?
I don't know about your age but in 2000 I was in middle school and all my friends communicated by aim since we didn't have the ability to go where we wanted when we wanted. That social structure has carried over into adult life where I have several close friends that I get to see maybe twice a year due to our schedules, but can still talk to them everyday. Dropping communication through messaging apps would probably mean we just aren't friends anymore. The barriers to us meeting up more often aren't just laziness
It's good to have critical thinking skills, if people can't figure out if they want to use a tool or not, they should probably work on that a bit!
some of the worse evils I've seen in software development is a team of 5 trying to act as if they were a team of 1000. There are inherent costs in microservices, they don't come without tradeoffs. Those tradeoffs seem uncessary for a 5 engineer team (sometimes it makes sense). Not only that, it's very unlikely you are going to predict correctly how your product will evolve by the time you get to 1000 so even if you did microservices, they probablly won't be right for the future evolved product which will likely include new innovations you can't yet design for.

All you do, as a team of 5, is write nice modular composable well tested code. That way your code base will adapt as you grow. It's quite likely going from 5 to 1000 people is going to involve a number of large architectural shifts during the life of the product.
Paying for coffee with stocks?The new meaning of money in the blockchain economy
But watch the videos, they are legit
No it isn't. It's the more prosaic observation that governments are more accountable by procedural mechanisms than privately owned firms. How well those mechanisms work is subject to wide variance; nobody believes that North Korea actually operates in a democratic fashion,. but there are many countries that self-evidently do. The concept of a constitutional republic (as opposed to all of its real world implementations) is one of maximizing the citizenry's ability to participate in the decisions that affect them.

Most corporations not only function but are structured as autocracies, in which junior employees have no rights over their conditions of employment other than departure.
I'll take your word for it I guess, but I don't see the logic. Why would my motherboard manufacturer be involved in this process?

edit: maximum downvotes for a legitimate question, thanks all
I'd like to get into medium format one of these days. I don't think I'll even really want to do the development myself though.
Me too. chrome's ui is just better
What else do you want? If all you're after is less expensive and smaller than Seattle (I presume you mean "Puget Sound" because there are many cities in the region that are smaller and less expensive than Seattle itself), many metro areas fit the bill. Tyler, Texas; Midland/Odessa, also in Texas; Oklahoma City; Shreveport, Louisiana; Lincoln, Nebraska; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and so on.

Do you want a liberal/progressive-style government? Do you want a conservative/libertarian one? Do you want transit? Walkability? Large lots and houses? Small ones? A particular type of weather?

It's a lot to consider and articles like these don't provide a lot of detail to go on...
As an approximation, anything that isn't near the big cities and that isn't unusable due to periodic flooding is going to be fertile for farming or too far away.
I'm in the middle of progress and proverty, looking forward to this!
It should be made clear that Milton Friedman was georgist in taxes.

A practical understanding of whats going on in California is that the incredible gains of the tech sector, that above the median worker gains, are all going to the landlords and to the State.
In my case, their Linux detection tool is less than useless:

$ sudo ./intel_sa00086.py
...
*** Risk Assessment ***
Detection Error: This system may be vulnerable, please install the Intel(R) MEI/TXEI driver (available from your system manufacturer).
...

Thanks, Intel!

If you have a Lenovo machine, check Lenovo's security advisory [0] to see if it is affected. Intel has the wrong URL in their link.

Edit: FWIW, the (Linux) tool creates a .log (and .xml) file in the current directory that was slightly more helpful:

$ tail -n 4 SA-00086-cluefire-2017-11-20-21-09-36.log
HECI error: No device with MKHI found[2]
Can't find SPS version in the tool output
Status: HECI_NOT_INSTALLED
Tool Stopped

This workstation doesn't have an "HECI" [1], apparently. It does have SPS, but "spsInfoLinux64" throws an error too:

Error 9460: Unknown or unsupported hardware platform

This box has 2 x E5-2620 v4 CPUs so it is reportedly "not affected" but I thought I'd double-check anyways. Oh well, I won't miss out on all the excitement -- I'll still get to have some fun updating my other machines and all of $work's servers in the datacenters. :/

[0]: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-17297

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Embedded_Controller_Inter...
The Midwest (you know, parts of it) has one big advantage over the West coast: the people.

Holy cow, it's like night and day. Compare how willing people are to...not even talk with, but just acknowledge you in somewhere like SF or Seattle, to somewhere like St. Paul or St. Louis or Detroit.

The juxtaposition is staggering. On an individual level there's like this universal basic assumption that everyone is a person who has merit, which is totally lacking on the West Coast. Kind of ironic, considering the political differences. But hey, you can go somewhere your vote counts, right?

That might be a controversial opinion, but I've experienced both as a liberal techie, and I call a spade a spade.
One can argue that public ownership necessitates central planning in practice.

My cursory searches have failed to find a sovereign state that has successfully implemented parecon. Feel free to cite a counterexample.
About five years ago, a colleague had an idea for a social/user-driven app for seasonal food (produce, meats, etc.) He called it something like Local Bee, and then we created a version (for Windows Phone 7!) of it over the weekend at a Hack-a-thon. We actually won, though it was small (13 teams). We called it P2P Farms! We made another version (for Android Auto, before it was even called that) at another event, where it would actually alert you right in your dashboard when you got close to specified items. Then our employer started to turn it into "a real thing", and renamed it Fresh! However, I left the company around then and haven't heard much about it since.

At the time, I searched online, and found sites like LocalHarvest, Farmstand, RipeNear.me, LocalDirt, etc., each usually with a little different spin (some focus on specific food, some one farmer's markets, some on actual farms, and some on produce stands).

So you can see the challenges - data, use case, implementation, monetization, etc.

If it's from various feeds, they aren't standardized or consistent. They could update at different frequencies. They might omit huge swaths of geography.

If it's from the users themselves (i.e. you "check-in" when you find a local produce stand selling fruit or beef jerky or something), you need MASSIVE adoption and participation, and you'll probably have a 10-to-1 ratio of people that want to consume vs contribute. And how long is the data useful? Maybe they bought awesome watermelons but 15 minutes later, the last few sold out. Can you get people at the stands to update their listings?

What if you convince producers (farmer's markets, farmers) that it's worth their marketing dollars to get listed (and highlighted)? Does it follow the spirit of the app you envisioned?

And do you combine approaches? Multiple ways of getting data in, keeping it updated, etc? I'm curious where you'll take this, so create an "About/News" section of your site (or Twitter) and keep posting!

Edit: Also, I realize your approach "just what fruit is in season" varies from the above variations, and so the challenges and solutions do as well. I kind of went off on tangents there! Hopefully it gives you ideas anyway.
I thought this was the name of that religious operating system by that crazy guy.
I am on Window 10 too.
It is nice to know lenovo already has the updates, but sadly I'm gonna have to install windows for that :(
Did not know !g trick it is pretty awesome. Whenever I hit some unrelated results, I used to open a new tab and query the same thing in Google. My life just got easier.
I moved from Seattle to the Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina) area this summer, and I'm very happy with it.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about it.