skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bike Citizens (German/Austrian App) does it (for bikes) in urban areas (mainly in central Europe at the moment but not only) as well
https://map.bikecitizens.net/us-newyork#/!/1/1/40.98604,-74....
Interesting to see this decision today, as I was just speaking with my Google Fiber tech about their Nashville rollout.

Apparently there was so much heel dragging pole access, they ended up laying their fiber in tiny channels cut into the road.

As an aside, I also heard the channels weren't cut deep enough initially, so they were forced to go back and redo part of the work after much of it was considered complete.
I work in Chicago and our office of 75 people has 2 dishwashers, 3 refrigerators, 3 microwaves, multiple drawers and cabinets full of plates, drink ware and utensils (including chef's knives and other cutlery).

It's not even hard to maintain.
Employment as a flat stat is useless. Folks with college educations are flipping burgers. A better measure might be 'employment expected value' where you take the sum of the product of job X earnings or some such.

Its been popular lately to claim that, because folks who used to have good-paying factory jobs have slid down the economic ladder to labor or service, its still good because its 'full employment'.
Agreed, I don't even code anymore (I provide business and integration strategy primarily) and have no problem getting $100-150/hr and for 4 years have had as much work as I've wanted.
HA, this made it to the front page right as I was composing this Ask HN submission about picking a de facto standard element CSS class so that ad blockers could just start including a simple rule to get rid of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679932
I tried using it for US locations, got a little note underneath the search bar saying "France Only". It's true Americans don't like to go out of their way :)
they were around before GDPR:

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
Isn't this exactly what Google Cloud, EC2, etc are? i.e., Google and Amazon selling access to their internal infrastructure, or something closely resembling it?
There is a big difference between computer science and computer engineering.

Science is about understanding. Engineering is about using that understanding for building.
Hell yeah, BIRDS!
> People who create something, who research something, should by definition have a better grasp on their topic than everyone else. To expect that they are more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped to see what it means, and therefore also have a civic duty to explain this to less well-informed, not not patronizing. It's acknowledging their expertise.

They are experts in how the technology works. That doesn't make them an expert in how other humans will take advantage of what they have discovered/created. I've taken the charity of assuming the scientist or engineer themselves had non-evil aims.

> This is an interview in Nature. Academics with the ambition to publish in academic journals, be they prestigious like Nature or Science, or smaller and more niche like <insert your favourite journal here>, are taking on a role of a philosopher.

Yes, but a philosopher on which topic? A doctorate from an engineering background is not equally as educated as someone with degrees in history or other studies of human nature in regards to the societal effects of technology.
> Time zones are also called isochronous or catchment area.

IsochrOnes. Catchment areas are something different.
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> there could be a universe with weird physics that could permit an ice-cube to be in the center of the sun

Could there be? This assumes that

1) different universes have different physics

2) there is at least 1 self-consistent rules of physics that allows this. I suspect that this is a harder problem.

It's fair to say that if our universe has uniform physics, then even if it is infinite, there are no solar ice-cubes anywhere in it.
I don't understand the usefulness of Microsoft investing time in writing a built in half finished markdown rendering engine. With Linux these things just pop up and get popular as people get used to them. Feels like Microsoft is trying to just woo developers on the fence.
Unless you are living in the US and getting paid in CAD what does it matter? That's not really a legitimate perspective.
Fair enough. It was an orthogonal comment anyway.
This is too limited a view of what is "political" because it completely ignores the context in which it lies. That's the point of the article - that you cannot disentangle human action from societal impact.

So extending your example, by doing work that generates "business value" in a corporation as an at will employee, you're implicitly supporting the political structure of hierarchical capital ownership of productive labor. This would be in opposition to, say working only in a labor owned cooperative. (note that is not to favor one or the other, simply to make the point that there is a choice)

People generally do not make such a distinction because it doesn't seem like there are options to choose from, or more likely they are simply ignorant of other ways of cooperation/organization.
The naming part is probably about brand recognition and they are doing really well with Huawei(which recently surpassed Apple on the number of unites sold metric).

Also, Vue.js seems to have a lot of Chinese contribution.

Their Google, FB and Twitter knock-offs seem to be doing good too.
Congrats on having a profitable self funded company, and in Toronto, that is amazing.

As an example situation, I'd like in this pseudononymous situation to ask what are the factors and principles that makes $120k/y a reasonable offer for a functional programmer in Toronto?

A consultant earns about $1k+/day, or double the proposed salary, and companies typically pay $1600-2400/day for contractors through an agency, so I'm trying to figure out what makes that $120k/year viable.

Presumably you pay based on what the work is worth to the company (revenue per employee) and what you can find in the market.

If you are getting price takers at that level, that's the market clearing price, then the market is the market.

But if you aren't getting takers, what is the value can you afford to pay for at $120k, but can also afford to not-have that value if it saves you $30k? Is there a revenue-per-employee threshold, or are you reaching a diminishing marginal return on additional developers - which suggests you are toward the end of your growth curve?

The idea that a company can afford to wait two quarters or longer to hold out for a %20 salary savings by waiting for someone to take it suggests that the marginal value of the work isn't very high.

The definition of a shitty job is pretty much one where your work isn't valued, and when you compare Toronto offers to the rest of the market, they are literally advertising, "we will pay you for work we don't value!" Is there a principle at play here, or is it just a straight "take it or leave it," offer?

The saying, "we can't afford cheap things," is why SFBA startups pay so much - because there is too much multiples growth at stake to miss out of it by saving on small things. Do we just not have the same growth upside?
Expect of others? No.

But are such questions important? Very.
> The hardest part will probably be the sheer amount of DRM installed around them, as consoles tend to have

Technically it's not really DRM which is the issue, it's the software engineering and security mitigation letting you jailbreak the system (unless it's just not jailed in the first place).

Then again, while the XB1 is still locked down tight, it took 2 years to get a working PS4 jailbreak and 15 months for the Switch. If the usual chinese SE is any evidence, Subor's probably be at or below the low end.
But terminals 11 years ago were already more advanced. So, yeah, I'd echo the "wtf took so long?"

All the resources in the world but absolutely glacial progress.
Gaming BANNED in China for 15 years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdvY35Av3M

serpentza also made a video about buying officially allowed console games, there were like 5 western titles on the list.
Depends on the context. If you're (as I suspect) talking about not liking playing with Nerf guns yourself or not appreciating people using them around in you a professional environment, not at all. If you're walking around complaining about children playing with Nerf guns, maybe just a little.
I've never heard of the American Health Organization, and I Google doesn't show a result for them. You might want to double-check your source before sharing that info again.
> could you have a remotely-operated lunar rover?

Yes. The Soviet Lunokhod program built and flew two successfully in the early 1970s. I don't know the details of how they did this, but it would make sense to use more automation today. A 2.6 second ping time is long enough that pilots who have played modern video games are likely to complain :).
>The rest is in people's heads and hands

Not just in the heads and hands, but in the available infrastructure and supply chain as well. A classic example: SR-71 airframe documentation would probably have been nearly useless for Soviets, since they didn't have good titanium machining capability at the time (they decided to go with steel for MiG-25 airframe, for example).
It's always amusing to find out what Americans think is old. Most of the buildings around here are mid to late Victorian with the odd Elizabethan dwelling sitting about two feet lower than anywhere else. The church is 900 years old with the present building dating from 1483.

I chuckle when I realise we have public conveniences here in the UK that are older than Canada.
Geeze - I look in a grocery store and see way more good food that that kind of crap. Is it just that the average American doesn't eat/cook what they find at the grocery?
Just play along. Do you want to be rejected for being a bad cultural-fit?
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Some people already experience societal consequences and they have yet to be academically discovered.

That's the point of this article. Not future prediction of what could happen. What is happening, and is presently an unknown.
And all the VAT they collect on the products they sell which is surely into the billions. I certainly spend a lot more money than I might otherwise thanks to Amazon, so their impact on the tax base is a lot more nuanced than corporation tax alone.
> They don't strike me as being any different than the people constantly writing articles about how AI is going to leave everyone penniless and redundant.

Stephen Hawking for example expressed concern about the combination of automation and our current trends, AI or not, as well. Would you call him, and other people like Joseph Weizenbaum, luddites, too?

> I see no problem after reading that entire article calling [..] the author of the next AI scare-mongering article a Luddite

So you already made your mind up about the author of an article they didn't even write, and you haven't read. Or might I say, you destroy it pre-emptively for fear of what it might bring. Isn't sophistry wonderful?

You smear wholesale anyone raising any $placeholder concerns about technology or AI going forward, even bundle them together with a terrorist -- but would not mention names exhaustively, even if you could, because it would include a lot of people you might pay lip service or real admiration to. So the people that are uncomfortable because they are veritable titans of science and intelligence, and social and historical awareness and responsibility, I might add, they simply get ignored, because you can't easily smear them (yet). Then we take any random article that and that serves as example for all of it, case closed. Yeah, no.

"It sounds like", they "strike you" [as no different from a whole category of people many of which who are vastly different from each other, no less], and they "maybe had a point", but you're not saying what, and at the end of the day, you'll still lump it all together, with your vantage point from the right side of history. This isn't even nothing. This is just embarrasing.

I find this generally very fascinating, arguments that a kid could poke holes into. Like this recently:

> User-facing software is about politics the same way architecture (like for buildings) is political: sure there is a lot that software and buildings can do to make people do one thing instead of another, but they don't change the fundamental things that drive us.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675577

Not even political parties "change the fundamental things that drive us", yet they're clearly super political. But it doesn't matter what any of it actually means, only the displayed orthodoxy of unthink and obedience does, that's sealed with approval no matter how inane. Actually, being more inane shows more loyalty, so in a sense that's encouraged. Which absolutely is a form of politics by the way, a rather sinister one as well, especially when it comes in the guise of being unbiased and unpolitical.

How would one call a person afraid of thought? You know, the branch technology is sitting on? "Noophobia" from passing glance seems like it could have been claimed by esoteric peeps, but other than that, it's a good word. If the glove fits, you must not allow a goosestep gap.
I think I understand the ethos behind pushing for traditional social norms to not be discarded in the digital age, to resist stratification of security and convention between us all.

Conversely, I also think I understand the rationale for distilling the digital network security flaws and laying them open with the goal of changing and updating the social conventions which can now be completely bypassed and still accomplish a successful intrusion.
Ask HN: Work as .NET independant contractor in SF/Bay Area? Or re-specialize?
I wanted to ask you if you think if there's interest for a SF/Bay Area company to hire a senior .NET developer as a semi-remote independent contractor / consultant, or if it's better to shore up other skills.

I'm a longtime developer, working mostly on .NET for an U.S. company as an employee for a South American branch, getting a (good by local standards) South American salary, but I've hit the "glass ceiling" and the only way to get a better salary is to go the management path.

I have an U.S. business visa so I thought I might try my hand going to SF and interviewing for .NET positions next year, working mostly remotely, but I do have where to stay in SF for short periods of in-house work (crunch times, project prep or whatever is needed).

I know .NET is not the most used stack, I don't know if I'd have more success if I brush up React/Vue (I'm not a fan of frontend work), I'm mostly a backend person. I work with Java occasionally but I'd rather not. Rails demand has gone way down from what I see, but seems much more in demand than .NET - should I learn it?. I have a chatbot in production use but it's very basic - I did try out all the current frameworks. I'm also very comfortable with Azure but not at all with AWS.

Pretty sure I'd at least learn the basics of AWS, but I'm not sure where to spend the next few months preparing. I probably should shore up on the algorithms interview questions but those are unrelated to the actual job :)

Very grateful for any feedback.
I think there are particular topics and arguments that he finds tiresome, like people demanding that he explain Braid's point in words, or claiming that he doesn't like Linux development because he just doesn't understand how it works (and not because he's legitimately flabbergasted that the UX can be described as a time warp to the '80s, if one is feeling generous).
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I guess when you are Microsoft you don't have to test software internally since millions will do it for you for free. Also for what it's worth I didn't have any problems with these numbers on `kcalc` in KDE (not that I expected to see it, but worth a shot)
The Google Translated version is pretty good: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&...
If I had more work in Waterloo, Paris, Guelph, etc.. I'd definitely move further west (I'm on the western tip of Missisauga now). But, 90% of my clients are in the city so I have to go in to Toronto 4-5 times a month. Not really worth moving further west yet.
I think his tongue is within cheek.
Yes. It's not limited to airports.

There are many reason why a hotspot provider in the US wouldn't want the liability of anyone other than a know user accessing their service. These issues are probably more limited elsewhere in the world, although it's probably the case that they are just lagging in coming up with better security practices/policy. Some home internet providers in the US like Comcast have a public WiFi service, but you have to authenticate to use it.
Fast for how long ? Few days a week ?
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I don't (btw, I'm a software engineer and scientist with extensive training). So I looked it up.

Did you mean first order or second order kind of like the way physics people mean it (direct linear relationship with strong effect on the unknown variable). Or the way that MBAs mean it (they have their own definition).

Or did you mean structural engineering, same as physics:
https://www.quora.com/In-structural-engineering-what-are-fir...

I think what you probably mean is a colloquial interpretation, where first order means something is directly causal in an obvious to see way, where second order is more of an indirect effect that occurs through complex dynamics.

Either way, I don't think those terms are well defined, and they're kind of complex enough that using them to argue for morality, and calling people out for not knowing your definitions, makes you look caddish.
What is there to steal? The primary resource from China technology-wise is physical materials - mostly their near-monopoly of rare earth metals. I believe most technological advancement happens in the west (for now) still.
I'm willing to entertain the possibility. And, unlike most things that people try to peddle with low-quality evidence, going to a sauna isn't obviously unhealthy. So, it's low risk.

The bigger issue is that observational results often invert cause and effect, and without any clever instrumental perturbation, such studies are merely hypothesis generating.
I guess a little humility is warranted. But I think your attitude is really about letting engineers shirk their responsibility as moral agents. You know, sliiiiide by, as they've always done. Take responsibility.
If you look at how neural nets work, they too tend to hallucinate. It doesn't seem so mysterious to me. We have GANs, autoencoders and network visualisation tools (finding the input that maximises a certain neuron or set of neurons) - and they show that noise injection into the net can cause hallucinations.
I think it boils down to a lot of people having a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes PS different than Bash, i.e., not understanding how significant it is to have processes communicate through piped objects versus piped text, which is far more brittle.
The listing is "oldest intact buildings" and Hovenweep is a ruin. Though, I'd agree that the listing, as published, is a bit strange, given the Molalla Log House is also a ruin (collapsed roof).
This is one of the weirdest posts I have ever seen. Agreed that Canada doesn't have the 1st amendment but it's not like people feel they can't express themselves, unless what you have to say is threatening or offensive. In which case, you usually get away with it anyway. So unless one is a right wing christian that wants to post pictures of disgusting things or a racist that wants to put down other people I'm not sure why one would feel their civil rights were impinged.
yeah, it says I can commute in half an hour, but unfortunately it's 45 minutes on a good day at best. A little too optimistic for me.
Here it is: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6639e1.htm
Rejecting harmful traffic is only one of the threats. There are many other attacks that can be conducted when you control the network and DNS. Only security-conscious users think of ways to counter those threats.
Common Lisp allows arbitrary names via escaped symbols:

CL-USER 2 > (defun |this
is a
multiline
symbol with whitespace|
(a b)
(+ a b))
|this
is a
multiline
symbol with whitespace|

CL-USER 3 > (|this
is a
multiline
symbol with whitespace| 20 22)
42
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Fine, re-structure the tax system around income tax. But at the moment it means your local book shop pays corporation tax whereas Amazon doesn't.

In the UK it's double broken, because shops have high rates of business rates (which don't go away if you're not profitable), whereas giant warehouses attract very low business rates.
That's what standards are for. The threshold is determined by harm. Software practices are still in their infancy, which is is why it is hard to take them seriously as mature disciplines. Now that software is having a direct impact on people's lives on a large scale, it's time to set some standards, starting with autonomous driving and mass surveillance. Then have people trained to understand those standards and adhere to them as best practices.
Undictify (python lib): Type-safe dictionary unpacking / JSON deserialization
That was my thought too.

If it's an unnecessary mental load (for developers or managers) to find out about the tasks currently being worked on and what they are, then the problem is with your work/task tracking system, not with your developers.
Can’t you just use type hints (in both clojure or python 3)?
We eat a lot of meat other cultures eat meat but we really eat a lot.
Invest several days teaching yourself each of them (azure/gcp/aws) ... spin up a VPS and execute some code then build a serverless service ... I tried each two years ago and felt gcp was the most enduser friendly ... do not limit yourself to using those explore open source github repos which provide a serverless framework then execute you code on a much cheaper VPS from places like https://www.ovh.com/world/vps/ where you can get a decent 8 gigs of ram box for $14/month

Create a toy domain at domains.google.com which you can use anywhere your compute runs ... write a server then wrap it with a container and spin up instances of it to get the feel of microservices ... pickup the language golang and start using some of the hundreds of API's available

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/all/apis

Throw together several servers just to stream data between them using different protocols like DASH-MPEG or websockets

Become a master of visualization using D3.js or WebGL to enable you to render dynamic interactive 3D browser friendly graphics
Steganography can be sufficiently redundant so as to be resilient to recompression. Of course then your signal-to-sunset ratio gets even lower.
Hello Win32 rc files all over again.
It started as a hobby. Now they're using DNA to help cops crack cold cases
Google Simplifies Machine Learning with SQL