skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toronto and Vancouver housing prices aren't that much lower than the Bay area. However, it does look like the trend is downward in those two cities at the moment.
> AFAIK PostgreSQL has no such built-in functionality

Postgres actually has basic pubsub via "LISTEN" and "NOTIFY". I was planning on trying out rethinkdb as a real-time database but found that approach instead described in this blog post:

http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.ht...

which also had a huge comment thread with related links(800+ upvotes):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13610146
Not relevant, but "the fish rots from the head" is relevant to Chinese? I cannot find any explanation of that connection. Just curious.
The US has its issues but nothing to complain about in comparison to Mexico or Brazil.

50,000 murders a year - that's a low intensity war.
Or, they are making the claim that the people who left canada for the US are migrating back to canada
Nope. They're shutting it down https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/facebook-is-shutting-down-...
is there something which all the h1b holders together can do?
I was wondering why that'd be the case (usually the only reason these urls even pop up was because someone was copying urls from a google results page), then I saw this at the bottom:

>Made with the new Google Sites, an effortless way to create beautiful sites.
They're shutting that feature down: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/facebook-is-shutting-down-...
Sounds accurate. There is no realistic path to citizenship or even permanent residency in the USA for highly skilled immigrants from India. While the high salaries and quality of life are attractive for someone straight out of college, you quickly realize that this isn't the place to be if you want to buy a house, start a family, or make any other major life decision when you could be asked to pack up and leave tomorrow for any or no reason.
> WeChat seems to have never tried very hard to adapt their app for international users.

Seems fairly bad from the developer side, from a look at their documentation. Some of the instructions seem to direct you to use a Chinese UI: https://open.wechat.com/cgi-bin/newreadtemplate?t=overseas_o...

And there's some licensing requirements that, while translated, seem to be Chinese business licenses?
At first, I identified my writing as the skill I needed to improve the most. I started off writing prompts of a few hundred words. My skills progressed until I researched and wrote articles of a thousand words each morning. I did this for approximately eight months.

Once satisfied with my writing, I transitioned to learning a foreign language. Every morning, I read new concepts in a textbook, listened to audio recordings online, and practiced activities on language apps (Duolingo, Memrise, and Rosetta Stone). Over a period of fourteen months, my proficiency with the language improved substantially.

These days, I dedicate my mornings to programming projects. I've been working on my current project for about three months. I dedicate each morning to improving one component of the project. I would say that around half of the time is spent researching concepts, a quarter of the time is spent implementing the learned concepts, and the final quarter developing my own code.

I allocate approximately two hours to learning new concepts each morning. In the evening I review old concepts for an hour. I understand that this is difficult for those who work long hours or who have families, however, I have found this strategy to be effective in maintaining my self-confidence.
Body camera maker will let cops live-stream their encounters
> ignoring all other areas where things could go wrong

Doesn't this just say that NHSTA is ignoring other areas where things could go wrong?
Most people don't care about money, they want to raise family in a safe environment, I interview a lot of foreigners and there is clear trend that they don't want to go to the US with the current administration.
Vancouver is like Seattle, only a bit more rain than SF. Less fog.
You can request a waiver from the FAA, right now. It is free and good for 90 days. Here is a list of granted waivers: https://www.faa.gov/uas/request_waiver/waivers_granted/
It's because it forces you to pick. Outside of the discrete friendship groups online, there's an ever-shifting on-the-spot calculation about who's around you and how much you want to say. One day you might feel like telling friend X while you're in the coffee shop together with just one other friend, the next day you might not feel so open in the bar for a variety of reasons. Add in all the variables about who else is around, how much beer you've drunk, whether you've just been paid, if the relationship with a partner is going well etc. and every situation is different in a very nuanced way. I'm not on Facebook now, but when I was I rapidly gave up on the idea of administering my friendship groups because it felt like I was bureacratising my friendships in a very unnatural way.
Yup. Last time I looked, Seattle paid twice what Toronto did. Seattle was more expensive, but only about 25%.

Canada just doesn't have the sort of top-tier companies that go head to head competing for talent that the US does. Hence, rates are lower.
It's 20% cheaper EVEN considering the difference in currency.
Ryzen still stuck at SSE instruction. AVX2 instructions are faked and go at SSE speed.

[EDIT - removed AVX-512 claim that was wrong]

Overall perf is likely a lot better with the i9 for most workloads.
Holy crap, that's a whole another level of beautiful. Thanks!
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> I can see how Jacque's and Pierre's prolific fucking is a threat to their sense of security...

If Jacque is the leading candidate for president of france from a conservative party and an anti-NATO regime managed to record a collection od videos of Jacque and Pierre doing their private business to pressure him to be more anti-NATO... And Pierre is actually Dmitry and is in france as a translator for the diplomatic mission of the anti-NATO regime...

Perhaps the secret service could have done something to avoid this, right?

Do you understand how this works?
Are the countries these workers coming from so much more unsafe than the US or Canada? Otherwise, I think people do care about the money (as they should!).
I agree. Before a recent move, I flew a model airplane and “large” drone about a half mile from a regional airport (but not in the approach path). I called them up, explained to them what and where I was flying, and they basically told me it would be fine to do whenever as long as I kept an eye out for any low flying planes.
Yes I am not disagreeing with that. I am saying the bottom of the cone has to be more "cone" shaped. More resolution. Why not make it forbidden without authorization to fly large FAA regulated craft anywhere outside say a half mile radius of a runway? Because operating a craft that low is not very safe anyway outside of landing and taking off. Saying the FAA controls ALL airspace from the ground up for an area of a 5 mile radius is not necessary for safe large aircraft operation. In fact I wouldn't want large passenger jets flying <400ft in any densely populated area outside of landing and taking off as it is not safe.
I did not take note of the date when my grandmother died. The more I read, the better I feel about it. I do not need a fixed date in a year to remember someone
I call these companies not "really" remote.

If you can't hire someone from Japan, your company is probably not 100% remote.

It's very easy to take things normally done in an office and move them to a hangout (or w/e tool you use) but still rely on all the office constraints. A lot of companies still expect everyone to be 100% responsive at all times, add live video feeds to ensure everyone is "working", have the same working hours (as this one) and all the company's processes are tied up to specific hours and people being online.

I'm not saying this can't work. It clearly does. But I don't think it's optimal and doesn't take full advantage of actually being a fully remote company.

As a side note: not all companies can do that. But specially in our field I believe it's doable and personally seen it work before.
Anti-drone policies are good for pilots and manned aircraft operators. The bootleggers-and-baptists theory of political incentives would predict that the agency in charge of manned pilot licensing would find morally positive reasons for banning UAVs. They don’t mention the fact that unmanned aviation could be an existential threat to large sectors of manned aviation, and therefore their political influence.

Nor do they mention the enormous costs imposed on society because they have banned potentially cheaper or more effective means to productive ends.
I think it exists because it's a concise way to communicate "this is ending, and will end in a predetermined amount of time, but it has not yet ended" in the same manner that sunset indicates that a day is ending but has not ended yet.
Everyone I know who lives in SF moved there when they got offered a job there.
Thanks! Mostly it was out of a desire to learn more about the actual algorithms behind AI, and trying to figure out if it's a field I might enjoy working in. I really enjoy building things from the ground up, and understanding how each part works.
newer AAA games/3d drivers lead to a pretty nice workload split over multiple cores really. Battlegrounds was coded in a rush and inexpertly so but it still lights up 4 cores pretty well. Probably in part due to drivers and unreal engine helping out even if the game programmers aren't explicitly working at it.
You may be right. I have only visited Breitbart a few times, the actual "reporting" seemed to be reasonably accurate (although certainly overlaid with bias). I'm just concerned is all.
I'm not sure this resolves all the questions I had in my parent post (or that any reply would have), but I read it with interest anyway. :)
Show HN: We're building the first K-12 school in VR
That sounds great. Come to USA after college, make a million dollars in a few years, move back home, get married, and build the Indian economy. You don't want a country where every who has the ability will leave.
I tried to include these, but it wasn’t immediately obvious how to construct them from outside Scala without CanBuildFrom. If anyone wants to open a PR or even provide a few hints, I’d be happy to update the benchmarks.
With 1.0, PyTorch now has an official legit C++ frontend: https://pytorch.org/cppdocs/frontend.html

PyTorch was apparently used in ~43% of the ICLR papers (a big prestigious deep learning conference) (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/9kys38/r_f...) and it's market share is growing at an incredible pace. I would expect it to beat Tensorflow in popularity at least for research very soon.

That's definitely where I would start if I absolutely had to do deep learning in C++. Otherwise I would do Python, which is likely used by 95% + of the research field.
They generally do not give lifeguards, firefighters, and first responders firearms and instruct them to kill the survivors if they feel like their life is in danger.
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Thank you!

I really do value that feedback. I have also stopped using almost all forms of social media. I can't drop twitter - but that is because I value a lot of the content I read there (mostly related to game development).

I've also learned that I need to focus on what is important to my health, and less, on what is important to others.

These are hard lessons for some individuals to learn. It's amusing - because very much of my behavior is self-centered.

I think the key lesson I've learned throughout my continual growing process, is that thoughtless compassion and service to others, grants you the ability to also be compassionate towards yourself.

Living in your problems, hating life, focusing on negatives all the time, wraps your head around your own negativity and dissatisfaction with life.

It's a fine balance that needs to be maintained, and it's easy to slip up in that regard, but I think it's also critical in healing and recovery.

And even then - living this and thinking it, are two totally different things.
What we really need is

0-100 property Owner controlled

100-400 Hobby non-commercial

-400 the FAA does not need to be involved at all

400+ Commercial and this is where the FAA comes in and provides regulations for Commercial UAV and Manned Aircraft to operate in this Commercial Zone

leave us Hobbyist alone.
The issue here is people are forced to leave Bay Area or felt they are unable or not welcome to stay. So there is no free choice between the two.
My sister went to Germany for her masters. She was an exceptional mechanical engineer with several awards and tier-1 research papers. If no path to citizenship it was pointless to invest your life in a country that does not welcome you.
Yes it is a huge socio-economic issue but I was referring only to economic part of it. No one would ever want to be separated from their family.
Note that I quoted someone else. This is not my thoughts.

I am not interested in what should or shouldn't be, first and foremost. I am interested, sociologically, in understanding. I am interested to see what can happen with women in positions of power, embedded within a specific culture that tells them they are victims. I am equally interested in the corruption of men within positions of power.

Interestingly, women are expected to act in a certain way nowadays thanks to feminism. Culture says: "Women, you need to have a place in this corporations, independent of your abilities."

I think women should be free to act, independent of gender. Feminist culture reduces women to their gender, and associates it with helplessness. This attracts women who have been hurt by men, and unconsciously use it to fight back against men on an institutional/organizational level.

So I am not arguing for women to be constrained, I am argueing for a distorted view of women not to be used as a political weapon against men, which is what feminism is. Ideally women wouldn't be pushed into positions of power based on their gender, but based on their abilities.
My family is using Google+ to coordinate and share internal news (because do you really want to friend your parents on Facebook?).

Given that they are going to close this down for us as consumers, what is our best alternative? I would rather not have to have the headache of running and maintaining software myself, but what options do you recommend?

Or do we just have to bite the bullet and set up the Shaftoe e-mail list?
No, I don't feel the same way about chess, golf, or model trains for the same reason I don't feel the same way about "classic" weed and pong: they haven't been honed on an industrial scale to make them extremely appealing.

Obviously, all activities evolve and change over time but these are more like your grandma's pie recipe versus industrially optimized Lays with a hundred million dollar ad campaign to make sure you'll appreciate all the hard work put in by the chemists. One you can do in moderation, and it's self-moderating, the other you're better off just avoiding.
Maintaining VLOS was already a requirement for section 336 pilots, nothing has changed. There was one way around this which was to have dedicated spotters that kept line of sight on the UAS, I'm curious if the FAA will continue to allow this.
Thanks.

The fact that my comment got deleted will make me stop contributing in such a controversial way, as I respect the house rules.

But it leaves a bad aftertaste, even though the strong moderation on this site undoubtly keeps everything civil.

I think provocative theses are necessary, in line with the Socratic method, and even though my original comment wasn't directly aimed at the arguments in the article, the entire point of a provocative viewpoint is to question the entire narrative of something on a fundamental level.
People who excel in the relevant abilities should be in charge of corporations and institutions.

Reducing people to gender is sexist, and reducing them to ethnics is racist.

It's not my fault that the meaning of words has been turned upside down by popular culture.
It's more like 340k total comp right now for google and fb.

So yes, about 3x what you get in Europe.

And saving $6k-$8k a year in auto expenses is not that much compared to a 3x increase in income.
> I used G+ a lot a few years back, and I did dozens of posts of logs of projects and so on... and then one day I wanted to refer to one of them to someone and discovered you can't search you own posts.

I left Google Plus after Google Search kept turning up private posts that I had opted to remove from search.
Well to be frank I've been in these meetings and yes people do intentionally think of dark patterns. If people are willing to sit in war rooms to murder people and Wall Street board rooms to steal pensions, it shouldn't seem so unbelievable that someone could intentionally obfuscate a social media timeline. In fact they use more technical language, such as "engagement", to discuss these topics so that it seems less repugnant.
> Where's the sadness over the death of Apple Ping, or MobileMe?

What useful features does MobileMe have, that iCloud doesn't? I just looked up the list of features and the only thing missing seems to be publishing a personal website with iWeb.

I don't know a single person using iTunes Ping, or heh, Game Center's social features.
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I think <1 hr per day is healthy. That is no different than the majority of americans who watch a tv show or two every night. Video games can definitely enrich your life by providing a way to unwind (physically or mentally) that is still mildly engaging.

Outside of engaging, I learned invaluable life skills through mmorpgs as a child. I never got addicted, but it instilled the ability to research, plan, and withhold short term gains in favor of long terms gains. Plus I learned how markets function, how to avoid scams, the benefit of teamwork / friend groups, etc.

It also led me to create my first website and forum, which was undoubtedly the first stepping stone for my entire career.
This is something like "survivorship bias", but that term is usually applied to extreme outliers like CEOs rather that average case people like you're doing.
The link I provided clearly shows that white males are second only to black males in terms of how likely they are to be shot by police. My point is that excluding white males as victims of police violence or framing the problem as something that does not affect white males helps no one.
> It's a lot like marijuana today. We're way past pong and some ditch weed. These are very potent products engineered to flood your senses and highly addictive.

Lol what? Marijuana is not addictive. Also, a variety of low-potency products are now readily available to address your grievance in states where the market has been legalized. ;)
I'm still running an i7-4790K I got around when it came out (5 years ago)... getting kind of anxious to build a new PC, not because I need anything faster. Upgraded to NVME drive and GTX 1080 a couple years ago.

Will probably do a new system in the spring with my income tax return. Leaning towards R7, maybe Threadripper, currently. They're finally getting faster enough to justify the cost.

aside: switched to hackintosh for my OS last year, been very happy. Hoping the osx-amd support isn't too difficult when I upgrade.
Not all video games have to be a drain of time/money.

I've been playing Subnautica and it's a great way to just escape and dive into a exploratory virtual journey. There are no microtransactions and there's an endgame to work toward.

It has cut into my reading time but I don't mind too much. Before this game, I was playing PubG and that game was just stressful and definitely Counterstrike-like in terms of competitiveness. I only played with a friend and it was fun to have the social interaction but after awhile it just got old. The new map freshened things up but it severely lowered my patience level to the point where it's hard to play a more laid back genre due to the quick turn around.

Anyways, my point is that not all games are the same. If you want to dabble in the hobby you can easily avoid the games that are built to keep you coming back. Or just cut them off completely and pick up another hobby.
Drones are more dangerous than birds. Birds at least try to see and avoid other aircraft. And upon impact drones cause a lot more damage than birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH0V7kp-xg0
Green Card has a risk of deportation that citizenship does not. But the current administration is working to make citizenship revocable.
That’s disappointing to hear. Hopefully with the Elastic IPO and other public successes, the pattern matching algorithm will change. If you don’t mind the question, how many people is Gitlab now?
Hi, I'm one of the founders of Kosmos School.

Our ambition is to build the first K-12 school in virtual reality. We're starting by offering single classes targeting 13-15-year-olds.

Kosmos is a project-based school, and in our first class the objective is to build a rocket. The project team consists of 5 students plus one teacher.

Our first class (https://kosmosschool.com/project/rocket-escape/) premiers on November and is already booked out, with another 170 students on the waitlist.

Today, we launched a Kickstarter in order so raise some money and get the attention VR enthusiastic parents who we think might be hanging out on Kickstarter (and here on HN of course).

If you want to help us, pledging a small amount and/or sharing the Kickstarter link will go a long way.

Happy to answer any questions.

Cheers
I hopefully still have plenty of time left, and there are lots of other things to see in this world meanwhile. At some point, I'm sure!
Montreal is significantly cheaper to live in than either Vancouver[0] or Toronto[1]. I'm not sure what low CoL areas in the US are commanding high wages, but CoL is way lower in Montreal if you compare to places like Boulder, CO [2] or Dallas, TX,[3] which apparently have good tech scenes [4].

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[2] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[3] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[4] https://www.stoodnt.com/blog/top-student-cities-in-the-us-ou...
Of course it is by design. It is a blatant manipulation. "Protecting your Data". Come on!
It doesn't help that half of HN and I guess other communities as well decided to blame Google+ the social network for everything that was bad:

- linking their accounts (yep, bad)

- shuttering Reader (didn't care personally but I really doubt they calculated how much it would cost them in goodwill)

- etc

... and decided to use Google+ the social network as a target for all that frustration.

Google+ was really nice. And I'm gonna miss it.

Twitter? The place where I need to have 5 accounts to avoid spamming someone with things they don't care about?

Facebook? The place that 1.) Tries to make everything everyone puts into it public and 2.) makes large scale data harvesting possible and then say "didn't see that coming" after CA.

I've since been on Whatsapp (until Facebook bought it and destroyed the single reason why I was a walking billboard for it,) and later Telegran (don't like it either and I won't write anything there I cannot comfortably send on a postcard, but at least it is not proven yet that they will mine every ounce of metadata out of my connections and then try to kill me with spam, (including on my 2-factor address like Facebook will).

Mastodon? I don't know. Haven't tried yet. It might be brilliant but when I first heard about it it was presented as a twitter thingy and twitter is one of the more useless services I have a relationship with (of course, this is personal, for everyone who likes twitter that is more power to them I guess.)
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