skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Santa Cruz isn't really the Silicon Valley metro area - it's in a different county which frequently isn't considered part of the Bay Area, the commute is more like 45 minutes than the 30 quoted, and there's only one road over the mountains, so if there's an accident on Highway 17 (which happens frequently) you're looking at 3+ hours to get over the hill. I had one or two coworkers who tried to live in Santa Cruz and work in Mountain View, and they lasted about 1-2 months before they just got a place on the peninsula. It's more common as a weekend getaway for engineers who worked at a company that IPO'd.

The real estate market is distinct from Silicon Valley for that reason too. It's expensive, but it's expensive because it's an attractive beach community on the CA coastline, and the inland (no beach access) houses are significantly cheaper than anything you could get in the Palo Alto/Mountain View/Sunnyvale area.

The real story here the university admitting 7000 students for 5300 spots, which is an epic admissions fail and will cause problems for any college town. I've heard of Berkeley (CA), Brandeis (MA), and Ithaca College (NY) all having similar issues in various years, with similar drastic housing measures.
The correct link is: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/blob/master/CONT...

I submitted PR to fix this: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/pull/325
People can live in pretty awful situations, by that definition very few things are necessary.

I disagree with the point made repeatedly in the comments here that government funded media can't work. NPR, PBS, the BBC, and CBC all routinely perform investigative reporting on the very governments that fund them. Additionally, it would take a pretty wild set of circumstances for a federal government official to squash reporting into a corrupt water board member in Utah. If that happens, maybe that stone will go unturned, but if we do nothing nearly every stone will go unturned.

I would love to live in a world where it was possible not to have the conflict of interest that public funding creates, but it is abundantly clear that the options before us right now are publicly funded local news and very much less local news. I think public funding is the right answer.

Maybe we'll get lucky and a plucky Stanford dropout will figure out a way to make local journalism profitable, but I'm not interested in waiting for that.
> Wouldn't it be better if we had government agencies draft and strictly enforce regulations to prevent this. Like say, an EPA for environment, or HIPAA for healthcare, or GDPR for consumer/business data?

Yes! Since the state enforcing this creates a legal threat. If the individual has to prosecute there is a good chance that nobody comes after them, making it viable from the companies position to be a bit too relaxed. If the state strictly goes after it the risk calculation is different.
Exciting! I'm still badly in need of a bookmark manager (and hopefully sync-capable) since xmarks shutdown. I'm looking at Shiori, ymarks, and Floccus. How does Reminiscence compare?
After Brexit, The City will lose passporting rights and It would lose a large portion of the EU market. Most of City banks are large multinational corporations that care very little about British politics. If anything Brexit was surprising for them as well.

City banks are already moving to EU. JP Morgan is moving to Dublin, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Luxemburg. Goldman is moving to Frankfurt and Paris.

EU will start applying pressure to move City jobs to the continent. Brexit will destroy City and London in long-term.
Kornbluth's "The Little Black Bag" [1] [2] is another good read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Black_Bag

[2] https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluth-littleblack/kornbluth-...
> Remember when Oxycontin was supposed to be a pain pill that was "impossible to get addicted to"? Yeah... I'm trusting this "relief measure" about as much as I trusted that line in the 90s.

Huh? Oxycodone is extremely addictive, just like every other opioid. This has been well known since always.
Still, there is nothing about ability to listen or interpret human children - no expectatin about understanding of brain development (that is not just difficulty, there is way more to it) nor how their emotions affect their behavior. Nor ability to figure out which particular thing it is they don't get and need to be told to move on.

I can't recall good teacher thet would not had that.
How about this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/abstractusinterruptus
The fact that they did, in fact, report fairly on the debate over ending NPR subsidies disproves your entire point.
Fair enough. The way that HPKP was deployed and designed and then undeployed was really quite awkward.
I have similar issues with cyberpunk novels. Telling me how the internet is supposed to work is not a fun time for me.

Though, for foundation they do have other cool tech that is definitely still completely futuristic. (i'm thinking about personal shields, psycohistory and shiny spacecraft like int he starwars prequels)
For those around the San Francisco area, you might want to check out the Emeryville Vintage Synthesizer Museum:

https://www.kqed.org/arts/11260092/at-emeryvilles-vintage-sy...

http://vintagesynthmuseum.com/VSM_Home.html

https://www.facebook.com/vintagesynthmuseum

(I don't see a Mellotron listed, but the others look fun.)
What it takes is having the means to show up, etc. Most people are not in the financial position to pursue such actions.
Try https://www.fairphone.com/en/
Yes, C void is a kinda-sorta unit type. But I’m talking about the real uninhabited type, ie. Void in Haskell, Nothing in Scala, ! (Never) in Rust. Real-world languages including Haskell are not total, so all functions a->b are in reality a->(b|Void). And for a good reason, as totality means loss of Turing completeness. In a total language, a function `a->Void` does not exist, but what about `Void->a`, then? What is the single inhabitant of that type?
I am interested in topic of WWII including seeing Nazi movies. I am not interested in nazi stormtrooper adjacent alternative history channels youtube recommends to me as a result.

I am interested in scientist or writer etc youtube channel about her topic. Not so much in confident-Johnny-cranked-out crap on the same topic.
Yeah, unfortunately those are versioned so I can't even make a script to have it download https://someurl/ripgrep_latest_amd64.deb. I just added `cargo install ripgrep` to my script but that might prove too slow every time, so I'll see. Thank you!
Cool, how does this differ from using pg_notify and waiting for a notification on a stable connection / server?
> Would the BBC be trusted to fairly report on any proposal to cut the budget for the BBC? Never.

The BBC is indeed trusted to report on this, as well as scandals within the BBC that have happened from time to time.
Exploring AWS Lambda with cloud-hosted Hubble public data
The very first item - disorder vs. likelihood. Can somebody explain the crucial difference?

Why the dough is of higher entropy than the (random) distribution of dough components?
Why do they have to raise their prices? Couldn’t they just make a little bit less profit and protect their valued customers?
How to Disable New Material UI in Chrome 69
> Which state is more orderly, the broken egg on flour with butter over it, or the final dough?

> I’d go for the dough.

Strange.
I mean, if you're a single point this is true. The more realistic situation is you're torn apart first.

The point (and this is the main point behind SR, see my comment elsewhere in this thread) is that in your rest-frame, you are, well, at rest. In some ways, it's sort of like an extension of the classical mechanical view that the easiest frame to do physics in is an inertial frame, while in moving frames, you have to add a velocity or a non-inertial frame, you have pseudo-forces. Newton still contented that there was some universal rest frame, somewhere, out there. Einstein essentially made the "inertial frame" a general thing: the best place to do physics is the rest frame for a system, but there is no "universal rest frame" and every observer lives in their own rest frame.

Technically, in GR, space time is also flat where you are, you only notice curvature when you look across distances, so, if you're dilly-dallying in your own rest frame as you fall into a black hole, well, you notice nothing because you're in your rest frame. You already experience this in free fall (which was Einstein's insight), you're just at rest. It's just other observers accelerating with respect to you (say, people on the ground, or the ground itself) measure you as accelerating with respect to them. When you hit the ground is when you are essentially violently accelerated into the ground's frame.

Of course, it's complicated in real life, because people aren't points, and if the scale of curvature is smaller than you're body's height, well, different parts will accelerate differently from each other (say, your eyes observing your feet), so you'll be torn apart.
What do you mean? Even if the information happens to be correct in this case, it's still not a good idea to believe everything you read. There's plenty of bad info about physics out there, and it's not that easily to tell the difference.
Last week I found an interesting JS book on Amazon: Simplifying JavaScript: Writing Modern JavaScript with ES5, ES6, and Beyond

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680502883/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...
From my POV that's due more to a glut of cheap-inside luxury-outside condos and apartment buildings. I mean the word "glut" is in the title. A couple of years ago I was considering buying a condo in the Bay Area. I was surprised to find that, although there are tons of places if you can afford them, you have to look very carefully to find a well-built, well-managed building. The real estate market in the Bay Area has been so hot that it has attracted a lot of questionable development and investment.

A very typical pattern was a new, physically beautiful building with shoddy design and construction, so that it looks like luxury housing but the walls are thin and you can hear your neighbors, for example. Often the front office is staffed with perky young ladies who have no authority or ability to do anything other than sign up new tenants. They are not the building managers, other than in name, they're salespeople. Any problems you might have require you to call a call center on the East Coast. One place I looked at was owned by a huge corporation that had ~$2B debt and a bunch of weird holdings. Basically someone's pet company had bought the building as an investment, with all the problems for the tenants that you might imagine that entails: regular and steep rent increases, minimal staff and maintenance, cost-cutting everywhere.

So yeah, I am not surprised that the bottom feeders (of the high-end) are scrambling for marks and suckers. The quality buildings are easy to spot, I eventually figured it out. Can you guess the marker? [1]

But they still aren't renting to the folks who make ~$100,000 or less, eh? This article describes a correction, but the overall trend is still up, no? Or maybe this is some kind of inflection point in the 70 year trend, and the burst of construction combined with people moving out of hot city centers has fixed the problem?

In the meantime, it's easy to find a place in SF if you can afford $4000 a month, but almost impossible if you can only afford half of that. Calling that "the upper hand" is a bit rich.

[1] They have long waiting lists.
"No healthcare costs. Scraped elbow? Free. Brain surgery? Free.

- No saving up for college for my kids.

- No student loans tuition is free in all universities and colleges.

- Goverment-paid pension savings"

It's a little disingenuous to talk about all those 'free things' that 'others' or 'the government' are paying for, because it communicates that those costs are magically externalized.

They are not, of course.

Citizens are paying for all of those things through very aggressive taxation.

Denmark has basically the highest degree of government participation in the economy in the world. [1]

Taxation in Scandinavian countries run deep.

Swedens top tax rate is 67% (!!!) though this includes social security. Payroll tax (employer side of social security) is about 30%, deducted before transfer to employee. And then after you take your money home, you pay an additional 25% VAT on everything you buy.

Think about that: Swedish company allocates $100K to employee. ~30% deducted for SS, so employees income is really $70K. Now, you pay up to 66% of that in taxes (not at 70K, but for higher income earners - certainly a lot of Google folks would!), so say 50% taxes, 'take home' is now $35K. Now, you pay 25% taxes on everything you buy. Assume people save 10% conservatively, meaning $31.5K in spending, which is about $6 VAT taxes.

So from $100K in comp, you're paying $70K to the government.

In the US obviously it would be considerably less.

I know all this has been argued before, but it's important to consider how aggressive that taxation is, I don't think it's ever fair to talk about 'no student debt' or 'free healthcare' without taking into consideration that level of taxation.

The real issue is the cost vs. quality of things like healthcare.

Now - in Canada, we have similar levels of taxation as California or New York and we get healthcare out of that, so now that's something to talk about ...

[1] https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/personal-income-tax-rate
Yes definitely! The funny part is that the inspiration actually came from after a visit to an art exhibition where one of the paintings was just a few randomly colored boxes.

That sparked the whole, well if this is selling for x thousand $$$ maybe, we can generate something similar? I encourage you to play with it and see if you can somehow lock the colors so they are slightly more harmonized.
To be fair, no small newspaper owned by a large corporation is going to report about their own closing fairly, but they have lots of other things they likely have to be careful about. Who would report badly on a parent company if they knew the company had a history of closing down papers that report badly on them or censoring those stories out.

On the other hand, if your political system by law cannot cut funding to particular papers serving x customer base without cutting funding to all of them, it is harder to do such things. A newspaper in a city of 40,000 in northern Indiana couldn't be cut for reporting stuff the government does without the same thing happening for all the newspapers of around the same size in that state - or across the country, if that was where the funding came directly from instead of block grants that are popular.

You can legislate some protections into the law, after all. And you can push for this stuff.

As far was the "I oppose using my tax dollars to fund..." Unfortunately, tax dollars aren't something one can line-item. Everyone pays for things with their tax dollars that they'd rather not pay for. It is part of paying taxes. I'd rather not pay for lifetime health insurance for a congressman that serves one term, for example. I'd rather not pay for unnecessary military gear nor wars for that matter. But I understand these are part of paying taxes. Even if one is politically active and they talk to their representitives often, these things will always be the case. Just because everyone doesn't agree with everything doesn't mean much.
The Chinese phone manufacturer Transsion sells the most phones in Africa and has started or is starting to build factories in Africa.

https://qz.com/africa/1374404/chinas-transsion-dominates-afr...
After reading Last and First Men (1930), many news stories seem familiar.

> as time passed the mental difference between the two classes increased. Superior intelligence became rarer and rarer among the proletariat; the governors were recruited more and more from their own offspring, until finally they became an hereditary caste. The gulf widened. The governors began to lose all mental contact with the governed. They made a mistake which could never have been committed had their psychology kept pace with their other sciences. Ever confronted with the workers' lack of intelligence, they came to treat them more and more as children, and forgot that, though simple, they were grown men and women who needed to feel themselves as free partners in a great human enterprise.

> Formerly this illusion of responsibility had been sedulously encouraged. But as the gulf widened the proletarians were treated rather as infants than as adolescents, rather as well-cared-for domestic animals than as human beings. Their lives became more and more minutely, though benevolently, systematized for them. At the same time less care was taken to educate them up to an understanding and appreciation of the common human enterprise. Under these circumstances the temper of the people changed. Though their material condition was better than had ever been known before, save under the First World State, they became listless, discontented, mischievous, ungrateful to their superiors.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601101h.html
The key metric for telecoms is ARPU - average revenue per user. Net profit is a pointless number. Ebitda margins are something like 36% for verizon from a recent google search.

From my time making telecom comparables - you want to be America. American ARPU numbers aresignificantly higher that the world average. America had something like $40 in 2006, to $35 in 2016.

IN contrast, Germany has 14$ today, and Asia something around a $1 - $3.

https://www.strategyand.pwc.com/media/file/An-industry-at-ri...

Dont have access to any industry finance/research papers.

America telecom is moribund, To argue otherwise is to mislead. Google failed to change the market. Despite dumping huge amounts of money into it, something no other firm can afford to do.

Where it entered, incumbents magically were able to offer better services which they had avoided providing.

THis HBR report reads like MBA speak, more a lesson on spin than actual fact.

Remember when these firms hid zip code information in auctions so that they wouldnt cross bid?

I read the history of American telecom with bemusement, the lessons highlighting the necessity to build good regulatory frameworks so that the economy can work efficiently.

Finally - Building fibre is difficult, even in developing countries. The fact that you have regulation stopping people from tearing up the road, or just having wires crossing over houses willy nilly is the happy cost of being a civilized nation.
The videos are not removed and access is not terminated. The advertisement campaign is terminated, that's all.

Surely you have to backup your data, but this case has nothing to do with information access.
Hmm, she has a PhD and does research in one of the most prestigious institutions in the world.
Beta release nears for BeOS-inspired open source OS Haiku
I like seeing 20xy from the view of 19ab. It’s informative in a way and sometimes we have stuff they wanted!
very cool. may also be worth mentioning the difference between this and projects like shaarli, https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver , etc.
> asking the lowest paid (other than the adjuncts i suppose) to take on the burden of not only providing the education that the university profits from but also the room and board

I would hope the question that the faculty is asking is: Has the UCSC administration agreed to take any students into their homes?
By choosing to make art, you become an artist, so in that sense only artists _do_ make art.

This isn't art, though. Art isn't functional, art creates thought and emotion. Art has thought and emotion behind it. Code can make art, but there has to be a genuine artistic intent behind the code.

At best, this is design, but in reality this is a code snippet that generates random boxes.
I wasn't claiming it was a technical limitation or a requirement, just that the time where this happened certainly did exist. Choice or not, the time existed. That was my point. Fair enough.
This one typechecks but loops forever:

f :: Void -> a
f _ = let x = x in x
If you're eager to find more "creative coding" type works. Going on instagram and using hashtags like #creativecoding are a great way to find amazing work. Also twitter is a great source of absolutely mind-blowing artistic work that leverages technology. I've spent far too much time just browsing all the amazing stuff out there.
I'm sorry to have offended, but I stand by my statement. IMHO, you've conflated the guidelines of musical grammar for rules of musical composition.
As I recall, American telecom firms have some of the highest revenue per user - this is the key metric that all telcos get compared on (apples to apples metric). American telcos have the highest ARPU in the world. If they are not profitable, then the rest of the world is positively broke -

https://www.strategyand.pwc.com/media/file/An-industry-at-ri...

This is the first OK free report I found. Someone in finance or with access will have a wealth of better reports.
Here, let me destroy some of my precious karma.

I am so glad this stuff is in the past. I love cold, clean, infinite-track digital music making. I remember tape machines only too well. I remember tape slipping and breaking, having to splice tape, detesting tape hiss and how it multiplied every track. I remember old tape flaking and falling apart, and having to clean recording heads, and accidentally jostling spindles and ruining takes.

Some wonderful music was done on the Mellotron, notably the Beatles, Genesis, and Bowie. I love samplers, I delight in choosing loops, play extensively with soft synths, and would be very happy if the world never saw another Mellotron again. Just knowing they're around gives me the jitters ;)
10 CC (or rather, Godley and Creme) was super innovative.

Check this out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gizmo
The weak link you present is actually one of the reasons use HAS to be public record.

Making it public record also implies that there's a Cert Revocation List check (during the submit to the central monitor(s) oracles) and also gives everyone the ability to monitor those lists FOR unauthorized use they aren't yet aware of.
In my experience that depends on what is the v4 path between you and HE's PoP and how good is you v4 ISP in regards to peering agreements. In most places where I used HE tunnels the latency through the tunnel was actually better for vast majority of sites I care about (which is simply effect of HE having global network and huge amount of peering partners).
Thanks, you're answering my question. It's not a random distribution - it's separate substances (butter separate from flour separate from egg), so their order is actually higher. Then I agree - it's strange the author goes for the dough.
It is the so-called empty function, which diverges, e.g. throws an exception if called.
>> dismissing everything with [citation needed] isn't a great idea

> it's still not a good idea to believe everything you read

This is not a binary option. In particular my point is you should click a couple of links and do some holistic assessment of how/why something might be wrong before knee-jerking with "citation needed".
OP might have consulted a Chinese issued map :)

Supposedly, about a third of Samsung phones are produced in Vietnam https://e27.co/1-3-samsung-phones-made-vietnam-20150513/.

Some googling shows me that Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and India have significant share of smartphones produced (one example https://www.androidauthority.com/where-smartphones-are-made-...).