skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC. Ticks off all but the last two. But salaries are more than high enough to make up for the high rent - especially if you’re willing to make some compromises about living by an urban rather than a suburban standard.

I love it here. There’s a great tech scene and tons of career opportunity without the pathological monoculture of SV.

You most definitely don’t need a car, though if our current elected officials have anything to say about it, 5 years from now the subways will stop working entirely and the city will come to a standstill because there is quite literally not enough road space for everyone to travel by car.

That last bit (plus, yes, the insane US approach to health care) is why I’m looking into getting out of the city; but in the meantime it’s a surprisingly good place to build a career and save a bit of money.
This isn't the first time journalists have been killed by governments, and won't be the last time.

A journalist was assassinated by the Taiwanese government right here in Silicon Valley, on US soil, ~30 years ago, and no one seems to care anymore. No one would think twice about doing business with the Taiwanese government these days, I think, tragically, this will blow over after a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Liu
Competing with https://www.amazon.com/services ?
Damn, I wonder what that kids childhood was like to form that kind of dishonest person.
Could u give your opinion on Starcraft2 mastery as the next level?

So this includes opponents, long term goals, short term combinatoric optimizations, etc. But it is still a very simple, discrete, well-defined world with clear rewards.

The consensus is that brute-force DRL is insufficient.

My question is, if we add some currently known modules such as relational reasoning, memory, attention, hierarchical attention (maybe even human demonstrations), plus deepmind-scale computing, can we expect to see a super-human SC2 agent soon ?

Or are we really waiting for a more radical mechanism ?
I can’t stress how much my math teacher’s passion had to say about my math understanding.
I am getting the Wikipedia list (“I found this on the web”). Tried asking it to search Wolfram Alpha (which spellcheck corrected to WolframAlpha btw!) and it said it couldn’t find that info on WolframAlpha
> are worse in nuclear accidents

Do you have numbers for this comparison?
Can you win at TETRIS?
Garbage-fed livestock is most of the source of worms etc. In the Western world, commercial livestock is not fed garbage.
There hasn't been a trichinosis case in America from
commercial pork for instance in 60 years.

Still, with home-raised pigs you have to be careful.
To save your microservice having to run a graphical environment and simulate mouse interaction?
Ethereum and Web3 – The answer to Privacy?
The difference here is that critics don’t believe that Khashoggi was killed by “rogue government elements” — they believe he was killed because of orders from the top of government. Can you recall the last time a journalist, or other controversial citizen, was killed inside their country’s own embassy? Nevermind one that had such a blatant coverup? I would agree that other governments may have had citizens assassinated and made it look like “rogue government elements”, but not nearly as obvious.
> It also enables event driven programming through tokio, which is a better fit for web servers than green threads (you're mostly waiting on the network)

This is a really strange thing to say. Erlang is still an event-driven I/O runtime, it just doesn't inflict the user with the burden of continuation passing like tokio does. What is the benefit of doing that yourself? Even with futures its far more verbose and awkward than it needs to be. And since the entire ecosystem is not built on this io system, you will always be finding libraries - even very popular ones, such as diesel - that are incompatible with it and forcing you into threadpools. Every library in use with BEAM uses async I/O in exactly the same way.
Competition hacks Boston taxi business
What are good alternatives to Gillette?
> Sunday, 29 June 1975, has gone down in computing history as the day on which Steve Wozniak first showed Steve Jobs a working prototype of the Apple 1, and as the first time that someone typed a character on the keyboard of a personal computer and it appeared on a screen. ... Said Wozniak, “You know I’m a prankster — I actually made up that date and just kept repeating it.” The actual event, as he can best recall, happened weeks or months later.

I don't get it. How is citing a decades-old date weeks before the real date a "prank"?
"A blockchain is a chain of blocks" is my new favorite definition. It's not a magic bean that solves all problems. It's just a tiny part of what makes Bitcoin function.
don't you sometimes think you'd want a platform where the users are in control of the platform rules? of course we'd all be held to the standards to which we hold others...
You have ~three working and the 'defunct' AWB one.

Durden : http://durden.arcan-fe.com is tiling, stacking, tabbed, and a few others rolled into one.

Prio : https://arcan-fe.com/2017/04/17/one-night-in-rio-vacation-ph... - much more simple one that builds on rio from plan9.

Safespaces : https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr... - 3D/VR.
It is opt in. When you set up your phone for the first time or after a restore, it asks
I am working on Execution.com - We are showing businesses what meetings cost in terms of time/money at their organization, as well as a lot of analytics to help them improve meeting culture. And, we are trying to see what the best companies are doing so that we can give companies the tools to improve the effectiveness of meetings.

https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/
There’s an organization in New York called City Harvest. They collect extra food from restaurants, supermarkets, regional farmers, and distributors. And they distribute it to soup kitchens, food pantries, and special markets for the poor. They rescue over 50 million pounds of food every year that would otherwise be wasted.

I’m sure there are both major similarities and differences with how things might work in India. You might want to reach out to them for information about how they operate.

This is a lovely idea. Good luck!
I’m European, and before apple maps; Siri couldn’t search for businesses or places of interest. “Sorry, I can only look for places and businesses in the US and when using US English”.[0]

Sure. There were growing pains, but being out from under the thumb of google is a good thing. Both _my_ user experience and my privacy as a customer has improved.

[0]: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0o_e4qV2dRCdQY1aAFdEQW9Lw
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to basic income?
Basic income has some nice properties but quite some disadvantages, too. Is there any research towards alternatives that would help keep the society together once the machines really kick in?
Thank you for this one!
It isn’t, but it’s still a huge factor in American politics that so much of the eligible voting population stays home. Successful campaigns are the ones that optimize the “get out the vote” efforts, and that requires money for ads and field offices.
I think this is out of touch. I make near $60k outside of Seattle and can barely afford to take care of myself in the slightest of comfort possible. I don't get luxuries, and I haven't been on a vacation since I started my working life. I'm away from home for 12 hours every work day, not by choice. There is no way to responsibly care for even a single child at this income in a non-rural area in 2018. I can't even responsibly get a dog.

I think as a poster said below, your views have probably not been updated for a very long time. The cost of everything essential has gone up since you had your children.
Yeah...but maybe in the ideal world the addiction gets kicked and the drug dealer get rehabilitated. Isolation will probably create its own consequences.
We're talking Carnegie here. He created the self-help genre. And unlike what came after, his books are relatively bullshit-free.
Classify Your Food with Deep Learning
I'd say get a $250 aftermarket replacement top lid from China, a screwdriver, and 2 hours free time to DIY the replacement. Bonus credits for eco-friendliness. Your laptop is okay, and IMHO there is no need to throw it away.

Considering the battery life, my observation is that the older the laptop line, the worse the battery life. They used to do good keyboards before, maybe good chassis, but the batteries were small and heavy. Refurbished Thinkpad P52(s), new P1, X1 are all good choices if you're nostalgic for that "red dot".

However I recently had a chance to use a Huawei Matebook X Pro, and it's a beautiful machine, build quality on par with Surface with much more reasonable pricing. Ubuntu or Manjaro run well on it.
Angular verison 7.0 released!
The Making of Quezon City Documentary Intro
I agree with what you say, but the implications are rather interesting. It means that while we know less than stellar governments kill journalists, the killings themselves aren’t as upsetting as the manner of the killing? As if there is an accepted “etiquette” in those things?
100% anecdotal report, and slightly off-topic:
I cured (as in not just remission) my HSV2 by swallowing my own loads for 2 years. Am a pretty heavy self-pleasurer, usually once a day.

[Edit]
I figured this would get downvoted. Is it because it's offtopic?
That username. lol
Mom and Dad (2018) izle Türkçe Dublaj
Huh. We used to eat cottonseed and I don't seem to have died. The father of a friend of mine even made a candy with it, something like peanut brittle.
Isn’t that still genetic editing, just an inefficient form?
Skim the docs. Come away knowing what it can do even if you wouldn’t be able to say off the top of your head exactly how to make it do that. Then go back to the docs or google when you actually need to do those things.
Once the founder of the startup where I was working as a PHP developer asked me to develop a fingerprint scanner in PHP using jquery.
From the IC POV:

1) Somewhere between once a month and once a quarter seems about right frequency-wise. Once a week would be way overkill.

2) I want to come out of the meeting with a good sense of how I’m doing. Remember neither being fired nor being promoted (or getting a big bonus etc.) should come as a surprise. If it does, that’s a management failure.

3) This is also a good time to give me context on wider departmental priorities or changes that are in motion which I might not know about.

4) It’s probably a good idea (for your benefit, not mine) to use this opportunity to sound me out for any issues and figure out if I’m unhappy. Preferably in a subtle and comfortable way, but straight out asking probably works okay too.
It is less worse though. Cigar smokers do have quite a bit lower rates of lung cancer.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...
I disagree, IMHO what works best are immigrants and emigrants. Typically, the country people emigrate into has more influence in that relationship, but there is an effect the other way around, too.
> Apple lost my trust with their maps. They were willing to push a bad product to their customers as a negotiating card against Google.

I don't know the details but I assume it was about money. If I ran Apple, I wouldn't be comfortable displaying ads on an app that is 1. installed for all users by default 2. the user cannot uninstall.

I am OK with a built-in app doing data collection for ads provided it only starts collecting said data after informed consent. However, displaying ads from Google's ad network would hurt me in at least two ways: 1. it ruins the default experience for the users (I think Google agrees that ads are bad for user experience or it wouldn't have things like YouTube Red or soon to be called YouTube Premium) 2. it ruins my relationship with advertisers who now have to go through Google to reach my customers.

Google, I assume, is also unwilling to provide Google Maps free of charge without 1. contributing data back to make Google Maps better (and serve better, higher paying ads) 2. allowing Apple to serve as the sole ad exchange for Google Maps for iOS

Once again, these are just my guesses. I know nothing about the industry. I thought it was strange that advertisers don't simply trust Google when it comes to data about advertising and want some kind of auditing (can you imagine yet another tracking script that phones home to some consulting company that is charged with keeping Google "honest"?) However, the recent reports that Facebook lied to advertisers shows that the concern is real (if not for Google but at least for some other people). Anyway, what I have learned is that the world of advertising is built on distrust. My understanding of advertising is very limited. It seems like the industry thinks there is value in advertising that does not immediately lead to user action like a purchase. The advertiser gets value out of an ad simply being displayed even if the user has no intention of eating a McDonalds or getting an Uber at this very moment. The problem I can't wrap my head around is how does McDonalds know if an ad display impression is legitimate and how does Google know that all legitimate ad display impressions get counted and paid for without using a third party arbiter (an arbiter is unacceptable to me if I were Google)?

I'd love corrections if I made any bad assumptions. Thanks
Using Let’s Encrypt Without Certbot
At least in Puget Sound, every transit operator (except for Community Transit) makes their real-time bus arrival data publicly available for free via Sound Transit's Open Transit Data service, OneBusAway: https://www.soundtransit.org/Open-Transit-Data

(OneBusAway is the name of the app that shows information to end users and the name of the API service that developers can query.)

I know that this service is widely available and free because I've had an API key for years and have (accidentally) pummeled the service with requests and have heard nary a peep from Sound Transit asking me for money.
School made me hate any kind of sports. The teachers were awful, bullies loved it because it allowed some of their behavior to pass as "camaraderie", and I'm not even going to ask what are they thinking when deciding to put a bunch of 14/15 yo teens in a swimming pool for a whole trimester at the age when they're starting to grow hair and breasts and are mostly very uncomfortable with their bodies. Most people I talk to feel the same, school as a teen put them off sports for a looong time, if not for ever.

I tried going to fancy gyms, running around the block, at home body weight exercises... Nothing stuck and I quit in short order. The only thing I kept up was cycling everywhere because it's cheaper and faster than any other means available in my city.

It took me 20 years, a personal trainer, a private gym in my building, a lot of courage, and a lot of free time from getting laid off to finally start exercising regularly. It was absolutely worth it and I could feel the benefits after a couple of months only. I wasn't obese, didn't have heart problems, didn't smoke etc, and thought of myself as healthy as the average person my age.

It made a huge difference in my life, my body doesn't hurt as much anymore overall, I stand straighter and taller, I can lift more and more weight, I can do more reps, hold things for longer, and feel better about myself... It was a pain and a drag to go for the first few weeks and the. It becomes a habit if you stick to it.

So thank you to that dysfunctional employer and their shitty politics games, you made me a huge favor by laying me off!
As a general point, I totally agree with this. The Enron dataset released over ~15 years ago is still used by EDiscovery and other legal vendors along with other researchers.

There have been a huge number of papers using this dataset and there are not many other datasets of its type or size available and despite its age is one of the best we have. If people are aware of legally released datasets with a similar size and content I would be interested to hear about them.
I think that those people I wrote about are running BEAM in containers as if it were PHP. No connections between nodes and a load balancer in front of the containers. That should leave them with the niceties of the language, most but not all of OTP, and almost none of the deployment woes people have when unfamiliar with BEAM.
See this example for how neural network can be used to "sort and search by vague similarity and classify on a spectrum of multiple qualities".
youtu.be/5PNnPagENxQ?t=1540

Descartes Labs uses the pre-trained ResNet 50 and removes the final layer which does classification. What's left is a layer that provides image features necessary to do classification. These features can be used to sort images by similarity and search for similar images.
The great irony is that elisp, as with most of the languages of its venerable era, is not very good at processing text.

One of my emacs experiences is playing "escaping the regex" about once annually, where I need to use backslashes in a regex, but first have to escape an emacs string.

I'm not very good at elisp, so this is what a basic begineer regex looks like to escape a ' in a shell (so, I want the bash command to go from ' to \'). The regex in emacs I came up with was:
(replace-regexp-in-string "'" "'\\\\''" $)

Now maybe there is some sort of shortcut for passing a string straight to a regex that will make me look silly, but for a text editor with emacs' power and flexibility to make a regex look that hard bought a smile to my face.
Did not see this before but have to reply anyways:

> there are loads of people who will angrily just do things that make my life worse.

But unfortunately, those are especially the users of those companies. I do not care if there are bikes parked at the side of the road (and do the same everyday myself) but a user who does not own said bike and is not forced to park it in a sensible way will, more often than not, just drop it whereever it is the most convenient, often in the way of others. I have seen people with a stroller walk on the street because someone parked their rented vehicle (especially cars are prone to this) at the next free spot that was free for exactly that reason.

I do not and never planned to obstruct anyone else path with a bike because it obstructed my path (and can honestly not understand why you would think anything like this from my comment as I especially point that out), but the users of these services do and I feel helpless against those everyone-but-themself ignoring humans (and to cite you, those are the people 'that make my life worse').
Disagree. Obviously there was a bug in the system, the author simply uncovered it. I'd rather have a smug white/grey hat than a malicious black hat. Now the system is all the more secure thanks to his actions.
MonkeySort: From $2 to $2B: How Nilekani Did It, Healthcare.gov Breach and More
I see, thanks for that extra information.
True, but consider some folks are content with a 38 hour week, may have automated large chunks of their job, and find the demands of working for a big public sector organization far less than that of a similar role in a private sector tech company.
Easier for them to bypass the taxation system a la Dutch Irish sandwich?

Same should apply to Fin svcs or other highly fungible products.
That sounds just like 'any Engineering job'.

And No, its not resetting the switch, because the 'career path' that most companies offer is a hoax - a perk here, a perk there. What matters at bottom is, the money. And as a contractor you arrive there quicker. My references get the next job, and my pay goes up as I raise my rate. There's no reset involved.
The wording is workers 'who see themself quitting'. The reality is 1 or 2 in 5 (my guess) will actually do it. People always say this but fewer are willing to fight the inertia
Ethereum's P3D, why it's more than what you think, and what's next for Team Just
Siri can control the flashlight as of iOS 12
Which part of that is not biology?
Some would argue that Job Guarantees could perform a similar function. Personally find them a rather depressing idea, but you’ll find plenty of arguments for and against.
I think the "prank" is that now whenever someone cites that day he knows it's the wrong day. I find it kind of funny the cult of Mac has that day wrong.
Ethics aside, ideally you're right. In reality though you're wrong because you just described a key function of the CFAA
Exercise improves your DNA.
> I have never assumed that an email address I gave the government would be protected. I would also not assume that the contents of any email I sent would be in any way protected either.

That's because you're not corresponding with case officers and police officers.
I found this article extraordinarily helpful in understanding the high cost of US care - https://mises.org/library/how-government-helped-create-comin...
Housing Market Is Raising Serious Red Flags
I use it for setting reminders (with the default Reminders app; I use it for everything), sending text messages, calling people, and playing music.
Emacs has a function for transforming a window of text under ROT13, rot13-other-window. The Emacs manual [1] says, "For example, a review of a film might use rot13 to hide important plot points." This example was added in 2012. The source code [2], on the other hand, gives a different use case: "ROT13 encryption is sometimes used on USENET as a read-at-your-own-risk wrapper for material some might consider offensive, such as ethnic humor." This comment was added no later than 1992.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rm...

[2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/rot13...
Our entire civilization runs on energy, mostly from coal and oil. Until recently it was not feasible to use alternatives. Change takes time.
Practice, practice, practice. I find it hard as all heck not to be in problem solving mode. That's essentially what we do in the tech industry in our jobs. Take a problem, break it down to manageable chunks and fix the them.

Do some digging around and read up on "Active Listening". The bare bones of it are just to hear what the person is saying, and reflect it back. "It sounds like you're frustrated because <paraphrase>." If you're attempting to accurately paraphrase, it will take quite some concentration on what someone is saying. The devil is in the details, and so is a lot of subtleties.

It might be worth seeing a counsellor, they're trained in, and can help you to develop, these kinds of skills.
Maybe ask around for methylene blue. You need an Rx in the US.
Handling these kinds of things anonymously is the only reasonable way to protect yourself.
David P. Reed has a very impressive CV.

Designer of UDP/IP, per above thesis also inventor of MVCC, and a co author of the (imho) important "End-to-end arguments in system design" whitepaper, etc ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed

[edit: alt url for OP: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/0533164...]
The simplest difference is expectation.
> It’s not the business capital of western Canada—that’s Calgary

Can someone explain what this means? It seems like Vancouver is most definitely the de facto business capital of Western Canada but I base this solely on my observations as a tourist from Seattle and friendship with Chinese real estate broker.
AS someone that recently transitioned from engineer to engineering manager, I don't feel like I'm doing less. Quite the opposite. Is the work as worthwhile? It is mandated by the company. So no real engineering would happen without it. Is the work as rewarding? Not yet and that makes it feel more like "work" than my previous job. I hope that changes as time goes on.