skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The membership checkers are there to give members the feeling of exclusivity and belonging. They do not generally turn people away and will accept basically any reason from "meeting someone" to no response at all, in my experience. But I haven't been to more than half dozen Costco's, so can't speak broadly.
Another article on the front page decries Harvard’s holistic approach to admission - with arguments that admission should be based on a single measure of academic performance (like standardized test scores, GPA, etc.).
I don't want a big space though, I just want it within an hour commute of my job. Who decided we wanted a few bigger spaces instead of more abundant smaller spaces?
It's all anecdotal but recruiters and lot of developers seem to frown on me for not being interested in moving to SV. I'd rather be unemployed in the midwest (which i am) than employed in the SV. Why give up my 1.5 acres and 4500sq ft home for the hell i see advertised on here so often.
No.

For one, the PRL paper linked here is highly speculative, using a phenomenological model and a lot of assumption and extrapolation. It's full of "may" and "if" and "possibility".

Furthermore, what they suggest appears like it would only work as an (inefficient) energy storage; it's not a primary energy source, since you'd have to spend lots of energy first to create this very hypothetical quark matter,and then regain some of that energy as you feed the quark matter with slow neutrons.

Finally, assuming everything above actually works, this would be a slow energy release, not fast like in a nuke.
Unless these myriad of dialog options lead somewhere meaningful, it's not much different from Mass Effect or the even older Knights of the Old Republic and other precursors.
I quit my job to work full time on something I’ve been wanting to do since I was like 12. It’s been like two years now, mich longer than expected, but there was a lot of shit I had to plow through, the project is more researchy than I thought. I don’t regret it whatsoever, what I regret is stressing myself over launching ASAP in the first nine months of this thing, which really caused me to burn out. I would never take time off cause I thought I was wasting money, but it’s impossible to do that in the long run. If you want to play a game, play it, you’ll return back to your project soon enough.

Here’s my project, it’s not launched yet but check it out https://www.ngrid.io
Use SSH config for SSH.

I built a database on AWS DynamoDB + API Gateway which has the "url" information. Also many other things, like which newrelic accounts are used by each environment. This is intended to be used by automation, but humans can just curl | jq these.

That said, SSH access (by humans) should be very rare. If you have to SSH to a production system, ask yourself what is it that you are trying to accomplish, and would you still be doing that if you had another tool to accomplish the same operation?
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Hah, this is literally my exact setup too, right down to using LastPass and Postman.

Although, my work recently took away direct SSH access for all devs in all environments, we now have to SSH to a bastion host, then SSH to servers from there. Makes my ssh config less valuable.
Yes, but holistic approaches have -also- become a target. Think of the over-achieving high schoolers doing as many extra-curriculars as possible just for their college application.
Hey there! I know this is unrelated but I have been trying to learn about programming embedded systems mainly for IOT. I started with pi and right now I want to create minimum O.S for my pi.one of the challenges i have faced is using updating without corrupting or bricking device. I have managed to get and understand abit about SWUpdate which is build for this . But I am totally lost when it comes to which O.S I should start with. Yocto vs buildroot. Also I would love to hear your views on Ultibo.
And then yesterday we got an article called “Microsoft Office rewrite in React.js nears completion” qouting a tweet that said “All of Office 365 is (almost finished) being completely rewritten in this little scripting language called #JavaScript.” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310738

But I don’t know who Sean Thomas Larkin is, the author of the tweet.
You do not need to be a member to access the food court, alcohol sales, or pharmacy. You will need to stop at member services and wait in line to get a temporary pass. It's a deliberate hassle, but by various laws Costco can't stop you from accessing those services.
>g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores.

That's the problem IQ tests can be gamed as well. There's ample research showing you can study to improve your score on IQ tests.
Here's a pretty critical clarification: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qqhlz/comment...

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Hi there!!! Original Tweeter here! I'm Sean and I'm a Program Manager at Microsoft working on Microsoft Edge and Edge Dev Tools!

Going to clarify across a few things. Some was lack of more then 280 chars in a tweet and not expecting this to get beyond #JavaScript twitter.

MS Teams, VS Code, is already written _with_ TypeScript which is compiled to JavaScript powered by Electron. It is an electron application. VS Code is on GitHub and Open Source if you'd like to see examples of how or what.

We are not abandoning C++, C#, or any of the other awesome languages, apis, and toolings that we use across Microsoft. EdgeHTML is almost entirely written in C++ like any other browser engine. However we do also run JavaScript (compiled from TypeScript) in DevTools, and leverage open source technologies like React and webpack to build the UI's for them.

Office 365's UI, a lot of it, but definitely not all of it, are pieces that are built using React Native (Windows). API's and Services are still going to be powered by C++, C#, or whatever is the most appropriate for that team. Nothing is converting to "all/completely" JavaScript/TypeScript.

React Native compiling JavaScript to "native code" is arguably wrong. Most of what is native are API's interactions and Native Modules that can be communicated with through JavaScript. WebViews power UI rendering thanks to React. Thanks to the Skype Engineer who sniped me on that in discussion.

Feel free to ask anything else! It's the least I can do for tweeting some pretty unclear messaging.
Gamification increases as understanding improves.

Information is exploited.
We do the color coding in the web applications themselves, usually through the background color.

There used to be a "Domain Switcher" extension for Firefox, but it doesn't seem to work in a post-Quantum world. Chrome has such a addon: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/domain-switcher/lb...
Exactly. At best, an inefficient energy storage technology.

Edit: the difference from fusion (which is a primary energy source) is that in fusion your starting reactants are available. In this case, you'd have to spend lots of energy in a heavy ion collide to create the initial reactants from scratch.

Also, this type of matter is experimentally disfavored in the same way as strange matter: if quark matter was stable, all neutron stars should have converted to quark matter already, but measurements appear to be consistent with them being made from ordinary matter.
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I'm only consuming "far more than I normally would" if I'm routinely throwing away things I bought from CostCo, unconsumed.

I don't. Nor does anyone else I know.

It's just consumption moved around in time.

I know, I know, it may be aesthetically distasteful to you to see people walking out with 36 rolls of toilet paper instead of six. It may be hard not to sneer at the poor people trapped on the capitalist treadmill.

But you should get over it, because in most ways you're better off when people shop at CostCo, because buying that way and storing things at home for a time is much more packaging and environmentally efficient that packing things into little bundles to be bought every day. And buying like that also minimizes the little bites being taken out by middlemen who are doing the packaging into little bundles. And a car trip taken to CostCo that fills the car is more efficient than lots of little trips to the grocery store.
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Just append aliases to .bash_profile? E.g.
alias connect-amazon-example="ssh -i ~/.ssh/amazon-example-key.pem ubuntu@123.123.123.123"
Then just 'connect-amazon-example' at the terminal?
While true I don't think this is widely known, and even less widely practiced. For those who are unaware, you just need go in through the exit to avoid the card checkers and that's where the food is.
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So you think Costco's master plan is to sell people hot dogs and soda at or below cost, just ordinary hot dogs, and as a result of eating one hot dog and drinking one soda when they do their monthly Costco trip, they will develop chronic illness and need to pick up prescription drugs there? Even if you're that much of a sociopath, there are much better business models.
Almost every Costco I've been to, the food vending is a window on the outside of the building (so before the checkpoint).

And, at the ones where the food vending is on the inside, it's on the "paid" side of the cash registers. You can get to this area just by claiming you're "going to member services", since that's also on that side, and it's where you go when you forget your card (and so can't show membership at the checkpoint).

Source: Have forgotten my card a lot.
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Correct. "The key for a good society is regulating the places where making max profits can induce bad behavior and leaving alone where it does not." Start of the second paragraph.
I would assume it's similar to fusion. The energy would come from the binding energy, but in this case the binding energy between the quarks in QCD?
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Yes, but people argue that the finite supply of Bitcoin is a fundamental advantage vs. currencies. The supply of a currency isn't really infinite, but it's quite flexible when you consider that giving credit effectively "creates" more currency and expands the monetary supply. (I'm not clear why BTC won't eventually have this issue as well if folks start lending / borrowing it.) All the BTC really avoid is increases in the monetary supply via the printing of additional currency, which is arguably a feature of traditional money, in that the central government can intentionally tighten or ease the monetary supply to help manage economic volatility.
BMCs are now powerful enough to run full Linux/BSD and there's a distro for them: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc
It's actually a first-person RPG.
Credit where due, I think this is the first time I've read of anybody being told how they got something wrong in an interview.
That just sounds like coordinate gradient descent on a multi-term objective function. Just same old optimization but with some metaparameters or component-wise conditioning.

In fact, I think to argue against optimization, you’d basically have to boil it down to existing philosophical arguments against utilitarianism.

Either way, I’m skeptical if this conclusion is very connected to Goodhart’s Law, because it assumes some type of normative axiom that would have to precede your interpretation of Goodhart’s Law.

My main interest was to pointout that it creates a sort of impossibility theorem situation if you accept Goodhart’s Law (I don’t personally accept it as a general rule, only something that applies to some types of measures and not others).

The impossibility criteria would be something like:

- If one finds a good measure, one should optimize it.

- If a measure is an optimization target, it is not a good measure.

- For a given entity, there exists a set of variables governing how well that entity can meet a goal (e.g. measures can possibly contain relevant information).

Basically you could only choose 2.

- If you pick the first two, it means there are no general variables governing the outcone you want; they are constantly changing and fundamentally unpredictable, so you might get away with optimizing something briefly, but its informativeness immediately disappears. This type of thinking is common in efficient market theory, for example, and could be connected to a fundamental belief about non-determinism or non-stationarity.

- If you choose the first and third, it seems like standard utilitarianism.

- If you choose the latter two, it seems like fatalism or religion — there are quantities that govern achieving desired outcomes, but they cannot be treated as objective optimization criteria and can only be analyzed subjectively or fatalistically.
Uranium isotopes. One of Feynmans safety changes involved changing how uranium was transported (?) in water at the time. Slow neutrons were building up toward criticality in the water. Something like that. I think it’s a standard trick in particle physics to create a particle source by having a radioisotope at the end of a cylinder/magnetic field. Not sure how they’d do it for neutrons but that’s what I think is done.
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Very interesting. Would it be correct to say that if true this could lead to an earlier end of the periodic table[0] than had been previously predicted?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table#End_of...
You can definitely get alcohol w/o a membership. I think it might be a state-by-state thing, but in some states it’s illegal to require a membership for alcohol purchases, so you can buy alcohol even if you don’t have a Costco membership.

The food court I'm not as sure about, but in both cases I've walked into a Costco with no membership and they were fine with it.
Starting a business isn't an obvious proposition, and an entrepreneur takes a lot of risk and puts a lot of startup money (their own or OPM / investors' money) on the line. I've never been that business person / VC and do resent occasionally that my software creativity and grit fuels their occasional outsized returns. However, they had the vision and so get the "surplus value" ... and I get a comfortable-enough lifestyle in return, especially given that lately I earn a somewhat-Bay-Area salary after having moved to North Carolina. If I were renting in the Bay Area I'm sure I'd be looking to get out, and since I sold our condo (unfortunately too soon, in 2013) there, I'm forever priced out of ever returning -- I won't pay the inflated rents there.

I look at four of my relatives who started a Salesforce consultancy, especially my younger older brother who started the whole ball rolling. Though a full-time Boeing 757 pilot for a major airline, he got a software degree, specialized in Salesforce work, started working with others, hired an initial team, and introduced several family members to the whole gig. The relatives founded a partnership and had around 40 billable, very good, consultants working with them, and had committed to longer term real estate leases. They had some marquee clients and a good reputation. Then they hit what hits a lot of family businesses -- intractable personality conflicts. (I'd joined this partnership briefly in 2013 but then bowed out after several months since I guess SFDC consulting isn't my thing and greenfield software constructing/craftsmanship is, and mostly because I sensed those personality troubles brewing.) So ... my younger older brother and younger brother both were left winding down this once-promising consultancy, taking low pay, risking a bunch of collateral (e.g., homes) they thought they would lose at one point, and eking out a low, but at least in the end positive, return. They each would have done significantly better just working on their own for the four years ... and I benefited financially by sticking with the startup world.

So ... I'd like to take a flyer some day on starting my own business one of these years, and I won't feel bad about taking some outlandish returns. If things turned out real well I think I'd pay "my team" more than had been promised them. But I've seen the risks founders take and admire that, and they deserve their gains.
But here's the problem: at some point, the user wants the tool to do something beyond what the tool can do.

And at that point, the user is stuck. Customer service recommends posting a feature request in the product forums and all the user can do is wait... and hope something gets implemented that solves their problem, or find a new tool.

But with programming, it's possible to execute scripts, make system calls, write to files, and initiate network connections to talk to APIs and invoke other 'tools' to continue the task at hand. The tool is now a shape-shifting collection of code that can take on many challenges, limited only by the creativity of the developer. You can't do that with a WYSIWYG, it would be too complex to allow all these functions, so the next best thing is allowing plugins, at which point the tool now requires programming knowledge anyway.
As far as I can tell, both the CEO and the developer have behaved very unprofessionally during this whole affair, airing their grievances and their dirty laundry on public forums. I don’t think I would trust either of them to run a company or maintain a trustworthy codebase. They should consider the damage they are doing to their reputations and start acting like adults.
When particles come together and form a nucleus, it releases energy. This energy is because the new form is more energetically favorable, that is it requires less energy than the particles had separately. This is what makes it stable - it requires input of energy to undo the release of energy. (It doesn't guarantee that some other state is even more stable, like some kind of fission. But going directly back to the form it was in takes extra energy.) This is called the binding energy and it's the same as any other kind of fusion.
I'm sorry but this is a serious (and arguably offensive) falsehood.

A 'free fire' zone is an area wherein there is no requirement for soldiers to coordinate heavy arms fire with other units via HQ etc.. This is a very reasonable policy in jungle fights where units can come under ambush at any time, i.e. "We're in an ambush and we're about to die, can you ring up HQ to see if we can shoot back?"

But the notion that US forces would just designate an area where everyone including civilians are to be killed is an outright and offensive lie.

Though there are some situations in which Army Units did actively and knowingly fire on citizens, these are known and well documented tragedies of soldiers acting with fury in the moment agains villagers who were supporting insurgent forces - this was not and never was any kind of US policy, and the perpetrators faced Court Martial.

The Vietnam war is so completely misinterpreted in pop culture; even to this day, it's disturbing.
If “progress” means murdering civilians by the thousand as part of a vain attempt to maintain a vestige of colonialism, count me out.
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Ive always suggested that the tech companies need to just start setting up satellite campuses in the central valley. Plenty of cheap housing out there.
Not necessarily.

I get a loan for a rent house, I'll be paying it for 30 years.

I take your rent check, pay the loan fee, and invest the rest.

The market crashed. I lose my investment. My renters lose their job. No one can afford rent that matches the minimum loan payment.

Where is the real money again?
Yeah, someone spoke out of turn.
Not your OP and not answering your question directly, but the aforementioned "tech-to-housing cost" ratio isn't so straightforward for finding out where to work. For the record, your parent seems to have thrown out Houston anecdotally. AFAIK it doesn't have a tech scene much different than would be expected from a metro area of ~6M people but it's super cheap to live in as cities go.

The 'cheap' big cities (sticking to the US, those in the middle of the country: Chicago et Houston in particular) have just enough tech to show up on the hypothetical chart and are cheap enough to place well. But IMO, even as a U of Illinois alum and massive fan of Chicago, the tech density isn't such that you would be able to find particularly interesting work, especially compared to the Bay. That said, surely there enough startups that need app/web developers to pay your rent in those relatively inexpensive areas if that's your thing.

The cities that interest me are those with a high density of tech at a lower cost: Austin, Portland, Raleigh, etc. The Bay housing cost is trickling down there too; there are so many people making _so much_ in the Bay that still can't afford to stay that when they start moving to these places they can really affect the smaller markets. Austin has had a crazy housing boom in the last ~15 years, but it would take a _lot_ more people moving to Chicago to move the needle there.

You still face issues with inequality squashing culture, like in Austin, which has a strong history of art and music and is so much cheaper than the Bay but so much more expensive than the areas around it. Bigger cities can generally support the diversity of people needed to maintain a viable culture if they aren't 7x7 miles and surrounded by water on three sides like San Francisco is. In other words, you could move out of the Bay to one of these places and live happily for a few years before you find these same problems following you to your new home.

This is a bit of an exploration but I think about leaving the Bay daily as my wife and I get more serious about starting a family. We talk about this often, and to each family, it's the most important thing in their lives. SV is really in for a wake-up call as it sheds talent that can't afford to stay.
Yeah, it is a cool camera. Would love to play with one, but its a bit outside of my budget like most Leicas. Sigh..
You don't need to fork it, or mine it. You just use a smaller amount.

My point was that other traditional "store of values" have inherent value based on their utility per amount, which means that the finite supply has implications for people who want to use it. Bitcoin doesn't have that - it's purely useful in terms of what you can trade it for (much like a dollar.) Hence the fact that there's only so many "units" is kind of uninteresting, because a fractional unit is no less useful.
I take it you don't use Google Docs. It has improved considerably over the last few years:
- better office import
- better commenting / colab
- several UI refreshs

It hasn't changed a lot in the last year or two, but with "since 2005" it's hard to take your comment seriously.
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>> "VC -> Startup -> Employee -> Landlord."

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the VC is the landlord. They're not stupid, and this setup is intentional.

It's a company town. History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.
Thank you, I hadn’t heard d of this yet.
And thus for performance measures, "security through obscurity" can make sense.
CDPR the old Blizzard looking forward to this.
From another hand there are thousands of ex-googlers left company to engage in startups, and Google likely doesn't have enough lawyers to go after each of them..
It was never a very secure OS / product / distro if a single individual was able to destroy the signing keys in this fashion.

If this personal battle is enough for folks to say the whole thing is now compromised, and one person held all the keys, how do you know he hadn’t been compromised before? If the code has no third party audits, or a web of trust, then it was never secure to begin with.
I think their primary purpose is to ensure that nobody who isn't a member or forgot their membership card gets in the checkout line and slows it down.