skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This languages teacher has good info about practicing dozens of languages: https://www.youtube.com/user/laoshu505000
If you actually go to the source behind that figure (http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/) and scroll down, you'll find that it actually doesn't refer to the number of administrators--far from it--but rather just the total number of non-academic (i.e., not faculty) staff. Indeed, that figure includes service and maintenance staff, clerical workers, and employees of SLAC, in addition to "managerial and professional" staff, which includes research technicians, of which there are surely hundreds in the SOM alone, librarians, biostatisticians, accountants, lawyers, engineers, grants specialists, programmers, and yes, of course, administrators, among many other titles, but it's just downright wrong to say that Stanford has 12,508 administrators.
Maybe not as many batteries as we think.

Local generation (Photovoltaics or turbines) set up nearby the channel where water will move uphill could run the pumps directly, without much voltage drop because of close proximity. On cloudless days it "charges" the reservoir.

Batteries still necessary to smooth things out, but not to run pumps 24\7
I think there was a standard to generate keys in the browser, etc, but it got deprecated. The problem with certificates is moving them between devices. There are so many formats.
> When we talk about stable 2 parent households we need to consider the fact that many black and Hispanic families are torn apart

Given that these things are happening, do you think it's good for colleges to accept less-prepared students whom life or people have mistreated over better-prepared students whom life has treated well? (Because that seems to be the position of affirmative action advocates.)
Legacy admissions is a separate issue which basically everybody would be in favor of removing because such a tiny tiny minority of kids actually get that benefit.

After that only reasons you've listed for affirmative action have to do with economics. Why not just be race agnostic and then factor in income? As time passes races will fall in and out of the income brackets and nobody can argue its unfair.
I live next door to an AirBnB, in a building where maybe 1/5 of the flats have been converted to tourist flats. When I moved in 3 years ago there were zero.

I'm woken up by screaming drunk tourists as they come home at 3am on a Tuesday night. There are constantly people clattering suitcases up the stairs at all hours. People smoke inside the common areas instead of on the street. Of course, just generally feeling like you live in an illegal hotel is horrible. We're looking to move.

Then again, I have reservations for two AirBnBs next week on holiday in another part of the country. The difference is we have booked entire houses in the countryside, not city-centre flats. AirBnB is not inherently evil, but strict and enforced controls are definitely necessary in cities.

I love AirBnB as a customer, but hate it as a resident.
Is Facebook responsible for people using it to browse their highschool sweetheart's page, and using messenger to try to cheat on their spouse? Is Tinder responsible for an increase in STDs, infidelity, or date-rapes that occur? Is Zillow responsible for someone finding a house that was foreclosed on because somebody got sick and couldn't afford to make their mortgage payments?

AirBnB lets you find available short-term housing on their platform, that's all it does. Any complexity that arises around that, as far as I'm concerned, has nothing to do with AirBnB, and everything to do with local governance (if you have a problem with it).

Housing markets are based off of supply and demand, like most things. If AirBnB suddenly alters the nature of what is supplied, why does that matter? The demand in a given location is based off of so many factors to begin with, should we become upset with everything that changes the nature of the housing market? What happens if there is a neighborhood that is completely crime-ridden, and new police station is added right outside. Suddenly the crime goes down, and the housing prices in that neighborhood increase substantially as it becomes safer to live in. Whose fault is it that the people who were living there when it was highly unsafe can no longer afford to pay rent? Is it the police station's fault? Is it the new tenants'? The landlords'?

I just can't understand why people are so averse to letting situations play themselves out. SV, for example, is refusing to allow new construction due to zoning laws, and all of the jobs that drew people here are no longer enough to counterbalance the monumental cost in living...so people are leaving. Natural equilibriums exist. What happens when an area becomes so oversaturated with tourists that it no longer retains what made it desirable? Japanese tourism in Paris has dropped 42% in the last few years. What happens when the lack of supply for regular housing makes it so difficult to find local housing, people working normal service jobs have to travel increasingly far to work in the area? The rates to do those jobs begin to increase, as they become less desirable, and the area becomes less desirable to visit as everything gets more expensive. Those people become more capable of moving back to the area as their rates have gone up, etc.

This need for platforms to take responsibility for everything that happens as a result of the transactions they allow individuals to make with each other is so unbelievably misguided. There isn't always a boogeyman.
Many of the people who are long time residents and home owners in Mountain View wouldn't shed a tear if Google packed up and left. The general local attitude toward those large tech companies is ambivalent at best.
Solid point, I really feel for Asian kids and parents who are being discriminated against. The reason why these discussions usually end up in a discussion of black v. white is because (in my opinion) that "struggle" affects every aspect of American life, whether or not you are aware of it or have any influence.

Colleges like Harvard and companies like Google want a more diverse population and are willing to shape policy based on that; if America was truly a place of equal opportunity they would not need to bend their policies to reach out to marginalized groups at the expense of others who should qualify based on merit. If we want to remove the need for Affirmative Action we need to solve the underlying issues which made it seem so viable in the first place.
I remember old books with circuit 'recipies' where you had to sand off the top of a metal casing transistor to turn it into a detector.
It's actually not at all clear if it's legal hence the court battle. In fact AA is literally legalized discrimination that benefits Minorities so you really don't know what you are talking about.
> my city

Your city? Interesting way to frame it. Maybe you were born where you currently live or maybe you moved there last year. Either way it doesn't really matter. Why do you feel the need to keep other people out of the city you currently live? The reasons that you live where you live are the same reasons other people want to live and visit. Why deny someone that ability to move or visit only because you got there somewhat earlier?
Plenty of people are writing low-latency trading applications in Java where the latency budget is under 100 microseconds. This has been the case for several years now.

It's by no means new or even especially difficult these days. The resulting code is far more maintainable and robust than C++ solutions.
I don't think a pizza delivery job is considered competition against a dev role.
> Cities can ban it if they want, but I'd rather they focused on allowing more housing to be built.

Why not do both?
> Asian incarceration rates are also lower than that of whites, another fact difficult to explain through the prism of institutional white supremacy.

It was almost impossible for Asians to come to the U.S. before 1965. Wait another couple hundred years and check back on whether there is a reversion to the mean.
Then cities need to invest into noise reduction, pollution reduction, etc. Maybe it's not that people don't value their time, but rather value not walking streets which smell like trash.
> it's especially better than u2fzero. ;)

genuinely curious: why? (disclaimer: I'm working on Solo, the successor of u2fzero)
I'd wager, by cloning another successful OS. Also, all Microsoft engineers didn't work exclusively on the kernel.
For those who think data is beautiful, here is real-time information regarding the majority of California's grid:
http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx
With the exception of Go and C#, there are no limitation on value types.

All those languages are GC enabled systems programming languages.

Regarding Go the memory safety in multithreaded code is orthogonal to having support for value types or not.
Not a Show HN. Just a signup page.
Jesus, this is too real. I'm experiencing this 100% right now.
Trump is interesting in that he's kind of a product of modern media-fueled outrage. Sometimes I call him President Clickbait. He says and does a lot of things because they are provocative and travel well. Both his lovers and his haters pay extraordinary attention to him.

Makes me dread what the next president will be like.
Yes but then you invite the idea that the “meritocracy” is biased because only rich kids have the opportunity to study and achieve the top 2 percentile scores needed for admittance. This argument has been used against Texas schools, specifically A&M and UT, who currently work with a “Top 10%” rule where the top 10% of any class in state is automatically admitted to any state school.

Note that I am not expressing any opinion about any of this, merely pointing out the counter argument.
i stand by my original statement that, mainly that

1) i was not talking about google news, i was talking about google search results

2) (1) uses page rank which you need to understand basic linear algebra to understand the paper (aka maths)

3) its not possible for a team of internal engineers to bias it nor would it be in googles interest to do it
But (a) that's not idiomatic (b) malloc/free aren't refcounted.
60% has to be wind and solar, the remaining 40% may be hydro and nuclear.
Nuclear waste is not an actual problem and the only reason there is no 'solution' is because it has turned into a political shit show.

Worrying about nuclear waste at the beginning of the nuclear age when most of that waste is actually valuable fuel is downright idiotic.
>Are you kiddin' me? Have you ever tried creating any non-trivial web service with ANSI C?

The sort of person who agrees with this list likely also believes the web should do nothing but serve static HTML.
Until recently I was extremely pro nuclear, but in the past months I've been researching renewable energy and have changed my mind.

I hope not. For a similar cost you can actually turn coal power into massive carbon storage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-energy_with_carbon_captu...

This is actually pretty ingenious, if it works at industrial scale then it's better than even wind and solar power.
Human capital is an underrated advantage Chinese sellers have to game the system. Having the ability to pay people pennies to a couple dollars to do the grunt work of spending hours creating fake reviews and fake accounts is something that isn't as feasible in the US/Europe as it is in China due to differences in standards of living.
I find The Economist's weekly brief super useful (the author talks about this as well). Aside from that I find Reuters' coverage pretty unbiased and objective, though I don't think 'curated' would be the right term to use in Reuters' case.
If you've got the skills for that, you could probably convert it to a web extension that tracks when you type into the URL bar or follow a link as well.
One is mostly helpful (building housing) and one is mostly detrimental (banning airbnb).
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Apple announces special event for September 12
I volunteer in SF -- would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to be more involved with making the tech industry more diverse and accessible!
Tracing GCs don't need to synchronize at each access point.

One can optimize refcounting with deferred reference counting algorithms, but then that is already the skeleton implementation of a tracing GC.
This is a tricky one, because society also shares that burden in providing jobs just as politicians do.

Society could provides these jobs in positions some might consider "pointless" or "bullshit": using gas station attendants instead of self-serve pumps, for example, or giving local mentally disabled folks a job sweeping floors and cleaning trays at McDonald's, or giving local homeless jobs hawking newspapers instead of self-serve vending machines.

The difference with these positions is that the person is performing real, if only a little, service to other people.

Some bullshit or pointless jobs can still give someone meaning. I think it's important to find a way to keep the population busy, even if it calls for society hiring tons more gas-pumpers or walmart-greeters
Conversely, this is an invitation to renegotiate prices. If a client is going to require you to do something expensive, you calculate how much that's going to cost you, and pass that cost along to your customer. You can even tell them that's exactly what you're doing and what the numbers look like, and if your customer isn't terrible they'll appreciate the transparency.

Frankly, that's a potential PR win for MSFT, as well: "we're requiring our suppliers to do this, and it's increasing our costs by $X; we're putting our money where our mouth is & invite you to do the same".
Apple Announces September 12 Event
Links in body of YC application
Can we put links in the body of our YC application to take the reader to more details/examples regarding the point being mentioned?
rg > all other grep tools

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
You can greatly reduce the danger of improper disposal by implementing a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit-refund_system
For small groups there is little difference between firing a person for not following cultural and authoritative norms vs constructing process around those and then firing when those are violated. The written process is merely a concrete representation for what is already known by the nominal parties.
For some reason people's intuitive estimates of pumped storage/dams are completely off the mark. This study concerns Germany, but the same orders of magnitude apply to California: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/144985

>Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.
Absolute bullshit. Its one of the best run and safest nuclear plants in the world.

Union of concerned scientists is nothing but an anti-nuclear lobbying group the same as Greenpeace and others. All they do is spread FUD or outright lies.
> My research has found as many as 90% of Airbnb guests have said they were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their stays.

For a perspective on the other 10%... checkout:

https://airbnbhell.com
That may happen in a vanishingly small subset of instances, perhaps in developing economies where the housing stock of a desirable destination hadn't already been augmented by dedicated hotel space—since visitors would be so profitable. My guess it that any situation like that would be relatively short term, but could be handled with special case moratoriums.

Maybe I'm missing something but I have a hard time thinking of a situation where this would be anything other than a short term issue.
Right, I recall you having said that before, and I guess I never thought too deep about it :-P

I'm gonna go with "maybe" - there are a whole lot of details there and there may well be good plans in that space.

I'd like to get back to this when I have a bit more bandwidth.
This doesn't make much sense. Using object pools and and off-heap data structures doesn't warp the code that much, if at all. You still end up with pretty much all clean, simple Java code.

I've seen (10+ years old) low-latency Java apps where people avoid using any OO (ie everything is static methods)... and even then the code was still often easier to maintain and understand than equivalent C++ applications. Nobody does this any more anyways.
Oh wait let me guess, non stop spamming every social media outlet they use! Am I right guys?
>If this was mandated at any of the companies I was applying to I’d be guaranteed to not get hired.

Why would you disclose your wife's pregnancy?
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So are you saying that non-salary benefits are bullshit?

Besides work flexibility, culture, purpose, and equity, how is a new venture supposed to compete with an entrenched monopolist that is essentially printing money (see: Alphabet)? Sure, equity is a multiplier that can return a huge amount of money with huge risk, but even equity+salary can't come near total comp offered by these juggernauts. I mean, these companies generate mountains of profits after paying crazy salaries and perks.

How can a startup compete for talent against these behemoths?
Yeah I tried it out as well. It might be important to note (for user's sake) that if you try to go back from the sign up screen for any reason your work is lost.

Otherwise this is quite polished, and I think it's a great idea. There are a lot of small restaurants and shops that would benefit a lot from this, especially the free version.
Please stop repeating this everywhere in the thread.
Because of taxes. OP likely has been paying taxes all his life, his parents likely paying taxes all their life, and so on... in a way, the city belongs more to the OP than not.
> The bat command also allows me to search during output (only if the output is longer than the screen height) using the / key binding (similarly to less searching).

You can do this with `less -F <file>`. It will show the file on the screen like `cat` unless it is longer than one screen, then it will go into paging mode and allow search with `/`.

Side note, how do you make his nice-looking prompt?
> Nuclear waste is not an actual problem

If you're comfortable eating food grown in the soil grown around uranium processing plants then by all means go ahead.
> ... gives me a tiny bit of hope that maybe pervasive tracking isn't an irreparably permanent feature of the web after all

I don't think you can protect yourself from tracking unless you stop using the internet and mobile phones. Wherever you have an account, a cookie, or simply make a TCP connection will be a place that can track you. Especially if they cross correlate with other tracking services.
It seems like this tunnel is better thought of as a tech demo that will be open to the public.

If it turns out to be more expensive than they think, they'll find out soon enough, without cost to taxpayers.

If it works, it won't carry much traffic, but it's proof of concept and people will have fun trying it. And Boring Company will be able to do something more ambitious with better proof of their claims.
I thought they already open source various parts, including the command-line client, iOS and Android applications?

https://github.com/kryptco

Edit: I didn't realize that they publish the source code, but with a non-FLOSS license.
Bitcoin miners to pay more for electricity in central Washington
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Since you posted this exact statement a dozen times. Could you answer, What exactly is the benefit for white people to be racist to black and brown people?
That is a naive assumption - dating back to Marx who failed to see that not all value came from work of means of production and that the means themselves are not fixed. Intellectual work can provide continuous dividends for one. While factory workers may toil day in and day out the engineer who designed it do work.

Investors and management are intertwinned and blurry. Smaller businesses usually have them the same and larger ones must compete with the alternative of starting ones own and thus pass down dividends. Even the most hands off "useless idiot heir" has an indirect management role via who they ultimately choose to support and what they do with it.

Investment has a role aside from funding that they engage in by driving efficiency, expansion and the dreaded counterpart of contraction to match with demand.

We have empirical evidence that while management and ownership often do in fact do useful work. Look at how farm appropriation has ended in reduced yields instead of increased as one would expect when farmhands gain the benefits of more ownership. Instead their production plunged and they started experiencing increased crop failure. Which brings to mind the related fallacy that farming is simple.

It is true that management and ownership and investors are often overcompensated and worryingly self perpetuating at the expense of others - but they do in fact have a legitimate claim to profits.
It doesn't seem this can really be FIDO, because FIDO only defines usb, nfc, and ble security keys.

I'm not saying Krypton is bad, just that you're installing an extension that (I imagine) interacts with a server to send a push to your phone. It's a very different security model than keys, that require no extension and don't interact with any 3rd party.

Update: I'm seeing that my comment is read as negative, and I don't want to give this impression. I think Krypton is great, I use 2FA over push notifications all the times myself. I was just trying to reply to the "has it been audited?" question.

Edit: changed chrome extension -> extension according to comment below.
If the startup has all the expertise necessary to execute, then it’s less of a concern. However, it’s still a bit of missed opportunity to bring onboard someone who can actually help. What are the objectives of the fund?
The idea of drone swarms doesn't go well together with aerodynamics and basic physical intuition. If you shrink an aircraft down, the aerodynamic cross-section (i.e the drag force) scales with the area (scale^2), but your engine thrust is going to drop roughly by the decrease in volume (scale^3).

So you end up losing maximum airspeed and fuel efficiency (in terms of the mass you're moving) the smaller you go. Unless the drones in your swarm were really big, it doesn't work out.

Although, I imagine we'll see some smaller, unmanned jet fighters in the future (assuming someone figures out how to control something like that remotely, or autonomously). A smaller aircraft has the advantage of a smaller radar cross-section and being more difficult to hit. Doing away with the pilot cuts out a lot of weight and frees up room for a larger engine and fuel tank, offseting the downsides of the smaller size somewhat. There should be a sweet spot where that works out.
Neighbours should have a hotline to Airbnb that they can call to report disruptive guests.
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The F18 vs F18 Superhornet wasn't a limited upgrade.

They replace (iirc) 30% of the plane and it's much bigger.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2f54130dd50490fcfd1ad0...
I would rather use something like this:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1970583
> It’s crazy unbelievable how low-latency Tobii’s eye tracking is

Tobii uses cameras at 60 or 120 Hz, so >8 ms. It's the mature but old and limited tech. MEMS-based tracking is faster. During a saccade, you've the samples to predict where the eye is going to end up fixated, 20 ms before it happens.[1]

GGP> but our eyes move.

Slowwwwwlllyyyy. ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAxVhZQs-o