skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it’s crazy. That qualifies you for housing assistance... too bad house prices are basically above the max assistance thresholds. At a minimum you need down payment assistance. You really need two professional incomes to make any headway.
'Tourists go home, refugees welcome': why Barcelona chose migrants over visitors
I always thought the Turing test was more performance art than scientific enquiry. Meant as much to illustrate the tenuous nature of consciousness as test computer literacy.
Well, not really. It's more like Apple going into partnership with VW for their self-driving car project. Building a production vehicle is a massive distraction from the core project (ie. the self-driving software).
I didn't really follow it very far, I did notice Dan Harkins quickly got assholier-than-thou. But there's no shortage of crypto or general tech talk that is worse.
I hope you find this comment, but I am an engineer over at REI. Just wanted to thank you for being a customer.
Iridium has finished launching their Low Earth Orbit satellite system using SpaceX's Falcon 9 http://www.spacex.com/news/2018/05/22/iridium-6grace-fo-miss...
Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities

http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

China has $1.2 trillion, as of April 2018. Total foreign ownership is $6.2 trillion (this includes individuals, companies, countries, though it may miss some). Total debt is $21 trillion.

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/econdata/govdebt#tab3
We (a family of 6) seemed to spend about 50% more on "general life" in the Bay Area than we do in Chicago.

* Eating out was a lot more expensive, kids' meals especially are more expensive than other places.

* More on gas because we had to flippin' drive everywhere. Anywhere with reasonable public transit or walkability had vastly higher housing prices.

* State income tax is high

* I don't know why, but we got a crap ton of ticky tacky traffic tickets.

* Property taxes are relatively high if you're in a house that was recently purchased.

Yes housing is the bulk of it, but I was really astonished how much money we spent.
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That’s one major advantage of living in an area with high cost of living. National products are priced the same everywhere, making them much cheaper when measuring the price as a percentage of total income. Take your MacBook example and apply it to big ticket items like cars and vacations and you can really see how living in these areas makes a lot of things more affordable.
.Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

.End of support for hardened kernel (unofficial Grsecurity)

doesn't that contradict?
I wish this didn't bother me so much, but ever since the Silicon Valley Episode where Big Head says: " Jesus! Why is it so expensive here? Look at this place, it's a shithole.", I can't seem to find a good answer to this question...

I certainly count myself fortunate to be able to afford to live here with my family. But I can't see the value of moving people to the area (as I was contemplating moving team members from out of state here). Even at six figure salaries they'd have to share an apartment to be able to save anything at all.

- Better weather, but LA is arguably nicer & less expensive.

- Better community of techies who somehow inspire you to do better? After being here for a year and attending meetups and community event, I know for a fact that's not true. Despite the density of people here, people are surprisingly disconnected, chance encounters are rare at best. Most of the interactions seem shallow at best and conversations often seem transactional.

- Better job prospects for devs? I guess for a software engineer it'd come down to better job prospects, but to be honest, it's not like the rest of America sucks for software jobs.

- Better social life? This may be availability bias as I am not single and live in the 'burbs with my family, but every single person I know seems pretty miserable & isolated. A couple of them actually moved out of the area because of the poor quality of human interaction/dating. It seems everyone works all the time. (Which works great for me as I'm on the employing side).

+ If you run a tech company & have enough money to move here and hire from the local talent pool, it's a decent proposition.

+ Relative to other places in the country it's pretty diverse and progressive

Some might say access to VCs and funding etc, but that seems to take some pretty serious effort and it might be a better idea to make the hike up from Gilroy or Hollister and not spend a 6 figures in rent for the privilege.

I think the area is beginning to emulate the inequalities that I saw growing up in a 3rd world country. The amount of homeless working people in the area is mind boggling. It seems like most people in the area are just too busy/too successful to do much about it (I include myself in this group unfortunately). California has been having an exodus of residents, but mainly middle class down. I don't see how this is sustainable long term.

*https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...
A "theory" that the moon was made of blue cheese is complete arbitrary non-sense which doesn't need refuting. On the other side -- the moon, orbital mechanics, Newton's laws to design the space craft and get it to the moon, that there are men who fly such machines and the machines are designed to support human life are all facts that are being implicitly denied by the blue cheese "theory". There is nothing to refute it is non-sense on its own terms.

Moreover, theories are just a collection of statements so your distinction is irrelevant and you contradict your own position by claiming a statement; "that the moon was entirely made of blue cheese" is a theory.

While your example is fanciful and exaggerated to make your point, it actually makes mine. You/Popper can't rip the application of the non-contradiction principle out of the context of the law of identity on which it is based and gives it meaning. The fundamental principle of existence is that anything that exists has identity. Non-contradiction is a (very crucial) corollary of identity and not a primary as Popper holds.
The AWS equivalent of Anycast / closest region is to route all traffic through Cloudfront. That way users enter the AWS fiber within 50ms (sometimes 5ms) and have SSL terminated there as well. Only works for HTTP(S) traffic, though, not general networking.
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Where are the Jobs Going?
You're implicitly assuming that you yourself have free will and/or are too complicated for a computer to mimic. Because if not, then I could just be a computer which doesn't even hear the words you are saying, and is merely reacting to the words I would hear if I did have ears (which I can do because I have your entire sourcecode built into me).

The longer you meditate upon this very silly paradox, the more unsettling it becomes :)
It has been worked on in the Alpine image repo:
https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/commits/master

The submission of it to the official images repo:
https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/4501
An aspect of this is that with the effects of globalization and the reliance of business in both nations on those in the other we could see entire large companies vanish almost over night as their supply chains dry up.

If you cant build your product because a component you relied upon is now 25% more expensive, you're continued existence is predicated on having deep reserves. Many smaller companies don't and even the larger ones will have to implement deep layoffs relatively quickly to conserve resources as they won't know how long the trade war will last.

This in turn will have an effect on the political situations in both countries although primarily America as its the democracy. Globalization and the economic relationships amongst nations now has a direct effect on the internal politics of those same states.
Interestingly you omitted the currency of that loan in your comment. Thinking on that should answer your question.
~$300k for a Tier 1 company including RSUs
It should be extremely subtle that users can skim through the categories also. I think they call this debouncing in the JavaScript world.
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While I'm sure people have thought a lot about it, I unfortunately don't know much about it =/.
No. With updated licensing, there are no big distros supporting grsec anymore. You pretty much have to pay now. (And there's more to security than grsec)
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I have used Alpine Linux for a long time even before they switched to musl libc, and I really liked it. However, I have now stopped using it because of the situation with security updates.

Very often critical security issues will not be patched for weeks and desktop software like Firefox can go months without being updated.

I would really love to use Alpine Linux again for my servers and desktops if the situation improves, but now it's simply too dangerous to depend on it.
I suspect 2 things.

1) Being Australia, the laws required it to be actually a competition and not a "chance for a chance for a chance".

2) Being 30 years ago, there is a less of a chance that people were simply trying to rip you off.
I grew up in California, but not the bay area. I personally refuse to live there. Pretty much for all the reasons you mentioned.
Clean, tight, sensible distro, the way the world ought to be. All my stuff on the web runs on Alpine. Images are tiny and easily manages. I use no Docker at all.
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I’m a YC founder from the S15 batch and worked as an early employee at another company from W12.

Happy to review your application or answer any questions from a founder perspective.

Email is in profile.
My second PC was a 286 with 1MB of RAM and a 20MB RLL HDD. My dad bought it and "borrowed" AutoCAD from work, so I could learn it. I remember we spent about $130 to get a math co-processor.

I think we had an EGA monitor and I collected 5.25" floppies like crazy. I had WordPerfect and SuperCacl.

My first computer was a T1-99-4a with basic and audio cassettes.
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Go read about YouTube or Twitch burnout to see what happens when artists are forced to go that route.
You might check out Void Linux (just in case you haven't already): they have a musl variant and it's more desktop-oriented than Alpine.
The 60% tax also covers costs for healthcare, college for your kids, unemployment insurance, and pension.
This made me wonder, how will driver-less cars interpret roads that have very faded, non-existent, or unique lane markings? I imagine rural, park, construction, and weather like snow/dust can really obscure things.
>save for its effects on inflation

That's a fairly large caveat. Zimbabwe tried it and it didn't work out too well. The Weimar Republic also tried it to similar effect.
I was about to say that I can't believe this isn't illegal, but I guess I shouldn't take things that companies do as an indicator of what's legal.
Nah, Google also did the same with its End-to-End encryption extension for Gmail.

They "didn't abandon it", they just "allowed the community to take it from there".

Yeah, so they abandoned it.
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Whether you can get ASLR depends on the system. Whether your app can be randomised in load depends on if it (and libraries) have been compiled with PIC. Whether you're main binary address gets randomised depends on PIE.
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humourless Vulcans.
They seem to be understaffed, and would probably benefit from having additional maintainers.. You could always volunteer.
Assuming you got to the area soon enough to avoid a $1.5 million entry level house and the taxes that go with it.
I don't recall any popular website using Basic Auth. FF must implement WebAuthN or whatever was last offered to fix auth. Have i been pwned brings nothing new to the table.
I've been a high school math and science teacher most of my life, but I've also been a programmer on the side all my life. I few years ago I wrote a Python book that's doing well, so I'm slowly transitioning away from classroom teaching and into more technical work.

There are definitely not many programmers in small towns up here. But I'm not sure how many people are doing remote work, that's really hard to tell. It would be hard to get established in tech up here, but once you've got enough experience to work remote you can figure something out. Travel isn't cheap though, and it does take a bit longer to get most places. But living next to true wilderness is just amazing.

My contact info is in my profile if you've got any more specific questions.
The "Better job prospects for devs" thing is always funny for me to see as a midwesterner. I know everybody has a different definition for "Better," but even in a flyover state, someone with marketable skills can have a new job tomorrow if they want pretty much in any city here. I guess the flare of working at a big name means a lot more to people than it should?
> it's not like the rest of America sucks for software jobs.

Yes, it does suck. Outside of major population centers where software/technology startups have been on the rise software work is terrible. It's not poorly compensated, but it's still on par with any other typical office job: mostly dead-end, shabby benefits, terrible work/life balance, and management who are euphemistically described best as marginally competent.

I will note that the stereotypical perks of software in the Bay Area seem to be declining: wages certainly aren't rising as much as they were even a few years ago, if at all.
What the...the problem is the contest winner not trusting the operator with their information. How does giving the operator an envelope containing their SIN solve this problem?!
I'm not as prolific as you are, but I bake fairly regularly, and its the perfect hobby for me. Nice and relaxed, with a tasty outcome.

While I haven't read it myself, on /r/breadit there's also a lot of love for 'Flour Water Salt Yeast' as well.
What's weird is that we create a tech (say, NoSQL) to address the shortcomings of another tech (say, SQL). We then call it a win and give it this strange grace period, during which we don't honestly assess the shortcomings of the new tech.

Worse, we actually declare the good parts (say, ACID transactions) of the old tech unnecessary and even dub it a feature that they are absent in the new tech.

Finally, the grace period expires and everyone seems to get the memo at the same time. The response is then "This is nuts. What the hell are we doing?"

The old tech is then restored to its rightful place and it's on to the next tech.
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It's been a while since I've read about this, and I'm far from a 6502 expert, but I think the biggest issues are:

1) There's not a cheap, straightforward way to get a conventional frame pointer (i.e. indexable pointer to local variables on the stack). I imagine one could do something with the indexed zero-page modes, but I'm not sure how well that works in practice.

2) None of the registers are large enough to hold a full memory address, which considerably complicates any pointer arithmetic beyond increment/decrement.

I'm even less familiar with Z80 than I am with 6502, but I gather that the IX and IY index registers were added to it to address similar limitations in the 8080 architecture.
systemd is fine until it isn't. On my systems with systemd inits, whenever there's a problem, systemd is always involved somehow.

[I had a cute one where a daemon (emacs, actually) set to start-up on boot with systemd ended up failing, which somehow caused the rest of the systemd modules to fail, with all of the modules failing silently (so the systemd tools themselves didn't tell me anything about failed units).]
Is that true for PA? Seems like the whole town is nothing but neighborhoods. I suppose if you include Stanford in that calculation you could be right.
SF is beautiful. LA is a Hodge podge of gaudy attempts at class. In SF, the buildings are similarly architected and colored wonderfully.
Palo Alto? Now that place is gross
This is a beta release, so I'd expect some bugs at this point.
This is the curious part about criminal justice, which like jury nullification, bribery and witness intimidation, people would very much prefer to conclude as non-existent: evidence contamination and tampering, despite auditable records for chain of custody for artifacts of evidence.

Consider that sometimes, lab technicians seem to fake drug test results, for whatever reason:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/crime-lab-chemist-accuse...

https://www.texastribune.org/2013/03/27/after-drug-lab-scand...

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Chemist-at-Boston-la...

It's very modern to hold up these examples of trace evidence proving incredible stories, but trace evidence exists behind the veil of highly technical instrumentation. But, as long as someone can get out in front of the scientists and the instruments, if the principle is simple to comprehend, and there exists a motive and enough power to control the outcome, it's still possible to game the system.

If the samples of bodily fluids in evidence sat there since 1992, and the crime were actually committed by someone capable of framing such a crime, which was committed carefully enough to prevent effective prosecution to begin with, in order to successfully frame the patsy, they'd need to intervene and place bogus samples at both points in the evidence chain, or simply bribe all the lab technicians providing expert opinions.

You might question how or why. Well, they wouldn't need to perform the chewing gum operation, until after they cemented the bogus semen in the original evidence locker. What would motivate someone to go that far? Well, pulling strings comes easy to some people, and history shows us that those people frequently aren't above murder. So framing a random semen donor comes naturally to the situation. The motive, of course, would be to protect themselves at all costs from prosecution.

It's easier to buy the story that genetic evidence or other circumstantial evidence exonerates the wrongly convicted, because those that benefit are otherwise powerless.

Unfortunately, given the premise of so many exonerations, it shows us that convictions can be wrong, and that cold cases should still be reviewed with serious scrutiny, especially the ones that seem like extraordinary long shots or somehow might be seeking glory.
I think there are times when the graph model shines.

https://theburningmonk.com/2015/04/modelling-game-economy-wi...

I read this article I found on HN a few years ago, and for some reason it came to my mind just now.

The neat thing about the graph model of course is being more immediately expressive to the query-er, and that takes cognitive load away from that person.

I'll never say a bad thing about SQL or the relational model. I completely agree that it's superior in terms of flexibility, performance (almost always), modelling (usually), etc but I guess there are times where you have a weird project and it's just I guess the convenience and ease of using Neo4j and a few cypher queries and then it's over.

In the case of the article I linked, there is also the benefit of having a convenient way to see how changes echo throughout the graph, something that is more involved to do with tables and joins and all that. I'm not a DBA, I've really only ever dabbled, but if I got dropped into that situation and DIDN'T have a graph model, I'd have no clue where to even start. Maybe I'd start trying to walk tables and build graphs out from each item type to each other item type. That'd be gross.

Of course, that's probably not a problem scenario that comes up very often. Most of the times I've interacted with databases in general I've been just dealing with sanitizing params, getting HTTPS configurations configurated, just boring infosec stuff. That problem is probably very rare in the realm of "problems that graph seems to have an advantage"

Anyways, yeah. Relational, awesome. Graphs, sometimes convenient.
Less trade due to tariffs lowers the incentive for China to a) roll over the bonds and b) buy new ones. This will hit the US federal budget and in turn be noticable for everyone.
Reinsurance funds typically market themselves as a source of alpha for large institutional investors. The reinsurance company sells bonds that promise a relatively high rate of return, with the caveat that in the event that the fund needs to pay out a large claim, the value of the bond may be nullified.
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Perfect example is that article about the Facebook messenger database migration earlier today. Messenger transitioned from an email-like system to an instant messenger.
I guess, I don't know of any precedents for demanding bond repayment pre-term (though I'm not well versed in that history). Those others all have precedents, and most are things that it's generally accepted that almost all large nations engage in regularly to greater or lesser degrees.
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I recently fled San Francisco (was downtown) to Nashville Tennessee and could not be happier. I will try to stay neutral politically, but I also think it is somewhat ironic the most liberal city in the US also has the highest income "inequality", homelessness, drug, and petty crime problem in the US. It all wreaks of hypocrisy and downright poor fiscal judgement to me. I have friends that are making $160,000 a year (single no families) and not saving anything. That is absurd. Not to mention being a single self-employed LLC company in California the taxes are anti-business and constraining. California dream'in... Ehh no thanks for me anymore.
Google – Account Recovery Creation Date
Has anyone else been locked out of their Google accounts because they didnt know the date they created their gmail account? I made it over a decade ago during the beta. I have TFA and other ways of proving my identity but was locked out because I couldn't remember the account creation date!
Well, it was mainly code bloat issues caused by the nature of the indexed addressing reach and the need for zero-page indirection. The 6502 instuction set is very simple, and the register complement limited.

I don't mean that as criticism, but as an acknowledgment of how the designers made tradeoffs within the die area budget. A good comparison is the Motorola 6800 which had about the same transistor budget but a much more regular architecture.

If you study either of those, then afterwards an ATMega168 is going to look resource rich in comparison.
I actually switched to Void Linux after having used Debian on the desktops for some time last year and I will say it's a near perfect Linux distro.
that actually looks amazing, I would buy it in a heartbeat and I haven't touched Windows in 20+ years.

I grew up with Windows 3.11 and '95/'98/XP/NT/2k and I think my sense of good UI is frozen at that period.
I’m actually calling him tomorrow to ask about that. I was wondering the same thing. He does a lot of local talks and such
A similar way of looking at it that I've heard: The USA got hundreds of billions of dollars worth of manufactured goods and raw materials, while China got hundreds of billions of rows in a SQL database.

Of course that analysis leaves out the skills, experience, and intellectual property they also got. That's more significant than dollars.