skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the new office workers are going to look down into my hot tub and block my solar for half the day... then yes, the height is a pretty good proxy for the problem... unless they want to have offsets from the property line that prevent almost any significant building size on small lots.

The problem is you always have to have a border between low rise and high rise development. The difference between having a 1 story next to you with an 8ft fence and having a 5 story next to you is huge. Also there is no dealing with the new parking issues that will be created unless suddenly people decide they want to ride city busses.
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Claims about me that you just have to take my word for: (Most positive, some double-edged)

* Read a ton of ML papers (for leisure). Do genuinely love the field (afaik).

* Worked in 3 different disciplines and took non-traditional route, so have a bit more perspective than the usual junior-ish candidate. Good at explaining CS to non-CS people.

* Put in extra effort to be flexible, accommodating and amiable. Take time to gauge people's boundaries. Can come off as formal for a week, until I have judged cultural dos-don't of the circle. Turn into every other fun guy after that.

* I am super low ego. Take criticism well.

* Love presentations, talking about work and discussions (as my presence on HN may indicate) (to reach a conclusion, not be right) Friends suggested I do management, but like tech more.

* Show interest in literally everything, but avoid procrastination by religiously keeping lists and daily rituals.

* Like to think I am a fast learner. Proof-ish: have done well (so far) in masters at Top 20 university, despite not having a CS undergrad.

What do I not do well:

* Leetcode (yet): Clocking in 70 hrs/week (40 hrs work + commute + courses) for the last 4-5 months. No energy to do more work. Taking Winter off, so should be good to with Algos/DS by late Jan.

* Consistent over work : Willing to slog it off on weekdays. Want my weekends to unwind. (major breakdown, deadline exceptions apply)
> Would it be economically infeasible for them to be polite and professional?

Maybe not infeasible, but irrelevant.

95% of flyers will use a shitty carrier to save $5, or to get on a flight that departs 30 minutes sooner.
More recently I've started to consider abstraction an optimization of code readability/understandability.

Following the rules of optimization, it should only be done when absolutely needed.

1. Do not abstract.

2. Do not abstract.

3. Quantitative measurement of the benefit, then abstract.

This has worked out really well for me over the last 3 years.
One plausible thing I've heard is that the weakening of software patents has entrenched the position of the big tech monopolies. Quite simply, it's difficult new startup to establish itself (without getting bought out by the big companies) because it can't protect its product / ideas with patents, and is thus going to get outcompeted by larger tech companies with better funding and better brand recognition (the value of brand recognition cannot be overstated, as it greatly reduces the need to engage in costly marketing).
I wish they would at least leave creative commons licensed pictures, so many will likely disappear - it's such a shame.
I work in customer service. We don't have scores but we have detailed notes on every past interaction.

I don't keep anyone on hold long because I don't like dealing with people who get angry about that stuff,

But, lots of my colleagues put people on hold out of spite.
Would you say that bread should be free because it's not fair that only rich people should have bread? How about Ferraris? Houses? Why should social media be different? Note that I did suggest some smaller social media services should be free of this tax, so they could still operate free for user if they chose to. Social tools are useful. It just doesn't have to be a huge network run by a single company.

Besides, there's nothing stopping social media companies charging right now other than the fact they make more money by not charging, arguably to the detriment of everyone in society. Who do you think should be paying to solve that problem? No one?
That's going to be one heck of a prototype or one heck of a bang. Either way the results will be spectacular.
On the other hand if you’re flying with another person and you want to sit together, you’re more or less forced to pay for a seat upgrade. I’ve flown on Southwest with my girlfriend 5 times this year and only 1 time did we get to sit together even when I checked in exactly 24 hours beforehand. It’s infuriating. I imagine if you’re traveling with children it’s completely unacceptable.

There’s a lot of things I like about Southwest Airlines, but the lack of assigned seats negates them all.
From years i am speculating about this thing: Apple is a service company. Computers/Tablets/Phones everything is just a locked box for profit. I don't mind profit at all. But clearly in my view so much money can be used to deliver something outstanding for a reasonable price. The Apple tax from the past was: More money for highest quality of hardware and software and unrivaled reliability. I loved this and not only used their products, i was evangelist for the brand. The Apple of today is a service company: The Apple tax is abomination and in my view disrespectful toward users. Slowing down hardware update cycles, making obvious bad design decision, locking down Mac Os step by step and blending it with iOS (there is no Mac Os software division). So shareholders are happy, management is happy, users are .... The fact that i can migrate to Ubuntu Mate after years of using Mac OS X speaks enough. I intend to evangelize the Open Source and Linux to the max. Software is the key to the Future of Human Kind and the idea that some monopolistic company wants control is ugly and old-fashioned. So if Apple wants to redeem them selves in the eyes of professionals here are some recommendations: Stop over-hyping every product. Understand that iOS is companion os. Stop 30 percent tax on developers, make reliable hardware again, fix Mac Book Keyboard, again fix it now. Stop overpricing the iPhone. But wait, who cares about this, obviously nobody. So sorry for my rant...
I meant you would know how to get funding for it, since nuclear physics research is a well established field.
Well, it actually has 4 modes. You can use the fourth (Object testing arena) to see who would win a hypothetical fight.

Because it roughly simulates every organ and layer of flesh on every limb of every creature and stores them in a combat log, you can read about how a Dwarven Axelord sliced off the left pinky toe of a Human Necromancer. You can track where that pinky toe flew into the face of another dwarf, distracting him just long enough to be impaled by a skeleton. So whoops now he's bleeding out. Oh well!
That's called an apartment building. Or a large house with many bedrooms. Both happen all the time.

In fact, just last weekend I let 20+ people into my house for a party. The notion of privately owned property didn't suddenly become absurd at the beginning of that party...

"Exclusive right to use" is not unique to intellectual property, nor is the ability to scale a piece of private property from 1 user to N concurrent users.
Just keep senior people there as code reviewers and 'account managers' who would sit down with stakeholders from DC. Then open source some of the other projects or at least add approved citizens that could work remotely on low-security projects. (Like some of the commenters above).
Short TTLs on tokens can work very well depending on what the goal is.

If you're doing high-ops and your goal is to reduce authorization calls the TTL acts effectively as a cache that decouples API ops and authorization ops.

The compromise being that you can only rotate as fast as the TTL.

That is of course unless you want to implement revocation-list capabilities. But if your revocation-list server goes down you're back to the TTL limitation.
your own cloud will cost you less and it will be much safer privacy wise until these smugs change their ToS again and throw you over deck
Yep, this happens fairly often - We run on chrome directly so can't control updates, and a recent update made our dialogs invisible (funnily enough, if you clicked in the right spots you could still interact with it and open dropdowns etc). They'd show when you resized the browser window or otherwise forced chrome to re-render it (disabling the animation worked around this).

We also had a case not long ago where a chrome update introduced a bunch of bugs with stylus input on Chromebooks (a mission critical use case for us)- there we just had to tell people to downgrade to 66 or wait for the 68 update, there was no viable workaround.
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Yes but there are restrictions on holding data of citizens within servers hosted in another country. And there is a trend to segment users into systems hosted within that country designed to adhere to their requirements. The end goal is data on their citizens are more easily obtainable by local government.
It seems that, in some ways, a "crank" is not defined by what they believe or say, nor by whether what they believe or say is true, but by the relation between themselves and their society. Had Freud been in a society that treated the idea of the Oedipus complex differently, perhaps he would have become a crank. Some, like Darwin, were too circumspect to become cranks, but plenty of respected scientists, whether their main ideas were right or wrong, were not "cranks" mainly because of the way their peers reacted to them, not because of anything about them, or their ideas.
> If you’re a criminal and know there is a 90% chance your target will be armed, will you attack?

American police assume the suspects they approach will be armed, since they have a Constitutional right to be. Does that stop the police from attacking, or do they just approach with caution and, when they attack, do so with overwhelming, asymmetrical force?
You and me, but that is not the case for a lot of people.
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Sure, OTOH, Disneyland can give ~85,000 paying guests concurrent non-exclusive use of the property with them being really happy with it. AirBnB being the wrong mechanism and/or your house being a suboptimal property for concurrent paid licensed use doesn't change the fundamental analogy between IP and real property.
>In fact, no one is trying to compete with Apple anymore. Android manufacturers abandoned the high-end market.

You'll need to convince me that the Note 9 is not a high end phone.
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Bill Gates doesn't seem to care that that science behind the project is terrible. It must have been pointed out to him, yet he was still promoting the project in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovf8GYfNbw&t=40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFtSt862sKY - how much informed consent do you think was involved here?

A lawsuit against PSI Zimbabwe, also supported[1] by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://nehandaradio.com/2018/09/02/400-000-circumcision-laws...

15,269,720 "voluntary medical male circumcisions" based on this bogus science http://www.aidsmap.com/PEPFAR-funded-15-million-medical-male...

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> Would love to know where the TLA community hides.

Currently, the (tiny) community hides mostly in large companies and doesn't blog or evangelize much. Nevertheless, because it is used in such large companies on such critical and popular systems, its direct impact is far larger than that of say, Haskell, despite fewer people knowing it.

Here is a talk[1] about Microsoft's experience with TLA+. They do a three-day workshop for developers, which is sufficient to specify and verify the design of large, complex, real-world systems.

[1]: https://youtu.be/ifFfxRCX_jw
She giggles, he gallops
Couldn't you produce exact diagrams of such a thing and model its properties to show that it would be able to effectively achieve a stable plasma?
I have to admit around the time they went to 1TB free, I stopped taking serious pictures and just used Flickr to be the default backup for my phone camera.

Now whe I go to Flickr I see a lot more photo plagiarism by throwaway accounts, to say nothing of dank memes.

If Flickr offers better integration of their photo storage with blogging platforms and the like, it would be very well worth the Pro account. And by concentrating on helping peopel who gather photos for public presentation, they'd be offering a service that isn't quite like the shutterbug demographic they want, but is still on the same tenor.
Not sure whether to think "Damn!" or "Good, someone else has already had that dumb-but-fun idea, so now I don't have to do it!"
Share price going down after market when an earning release drops is hardly new.
They're easy to come by here in Sweden, just get a 'Mora kniv' (Mora knife) with a 'kolstål' (carbon steel) blade. It'll set you back around 55 SEK, around $6. There are more luxurious versions but the whole point of these knives is that they are tools to be used, not mollycoddled or used for snobbish whatever-signalling purposes. Use it, keep it sharp and clean and oiled and that $6 knife will last you a long time.

Here's that ~$6 knife:

https://morakniv.se/produkt/basic-511/

...or a somewhat more fancy model for ~$15

https://morakniv.se/produkt/classic-612/
>> why have so many of them achieved more in this field than you have?

Which field? Field of not drinking regular water like a human?
> Honest question: does this actually help you get what you're after faster?

For me, yes! Absolutely!

Having worked in a call-center before, there is a large amount of undeserved trust in their routing. I'm usually going to be transferred two or three times if I follow the phone-tree or not, skipping the phone tree just lowers my latency to those transfers.
Here's mine:

Array.from(new Array(100)).forEach((_, i)=>++i&&console.log(((i%3?"":"Fizz")+(i%5?"":"Buzz"))||i))

https://twitter.com/tracker1/status/1045475226128007169
This reminds me of a discussion I once contributed to in an AI research lab, which I got to participate through a Research Experiences for Undergrads program. The topic was genetic programming and someone casually mentioned picking a genome (code) at random. They seemed to assume that would create an initially flat distribution. Whoa hold up there, I said, you can't assume that. They asked, what did I mean?

I told them that both the way the "random" genome bits are picked and the way the genome bits are interpreted (fitness function) changes the distribution. For example, if the genome bits are picked as a random integer between 0 and 2^n-1, but the fitness function is a popcount of 1 bits, then the distribution will be hill shaped for the same reason that a 7 is more likely to be rolled with two dice than a 2 or 12.

Out of the researchers and undergrads there, I think about half nodded their heads as soon as I pointed it out, and the other half struggled to understand or accept the idea that interpretation could affect probability distribution, no matter how much exposition or supporting arguments I gave.

I didn't know about the water/wine paradox then, I wish I had. But now I wonder if part of the water/wine paradox (the fact it is even considered a paradox) has to do with that bi-modal distribution I saw between people who understood that interpretation affects probability distribution and those who could or would not accept that.
Made my day to see powerley on here. If you're in the detroit area and into IOT you should check them out.
There are both human and technological problems at play here.

The human problems, as you stated, have long been well known. These technological communications problems are new.

It seems pretty self-evident that the character limits, the incoherent way conversations are rendered, and how easy it is to take tweets out of context are all detrimental to the quality of discourse and understanding between users.
I find it hard to believe most call centres have sophisticated tracking systems when they can't even manage a basic "You are number X in the queue. The estimated wait time is X minutes." Or how about "If you would like us to call you back, press 1". I've had that from about 2 call centres in my life total (one was Google, can't remember the other).

Fancy tracking linked to wait times? Please.
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I like your site. It's not busy with distractions and works flawlessly without JS.

Unfortunately, my opinion is probably irrelevant, because I'm not a potential user. I'm simply not that interested in news (yes, I realize the irony of saying that on Hacker News) and looking at your headlines confirmed to me that I'm not really missing anything.

I do have an suggestion for your "In the News" sidebar: some entries (e.g. "U.S" and "President Trump") are likely to be there constantly. Maybe it would be more informative if you adjust for topics that are mentioned unusually frequently compared to their base rate. Additionally, that list begs for each item to link to a list of relevant stories.

Oh, and the link to your engineering blog's RSS feed in the announcement post needs an initial / to make it root-relative.
Liquid Crystal Displays at the university of a former fishing town in the north of the UK (my home town) [1].

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Does cynicism help solve the problem?

There are also bunch of promises that Obama kept (and Trump). Focusing on some that he didn’t keep doesn’t change that.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/
Definitely not the case in rest of the world. US is where iOS is equally dominating as Android. Probably due to social pressure or everyone having an iPhone. Android is still majority overall everywhere else.
> Apple will stop reporting how many iPhones, Macs and iPads it sells each quarter, beginning with the December quarter, Apple CFO Luca Maestri said on the company’s earnings call Thursday.

> "If you look at our net income during the last three years, if you look at our stock price in the last three years, there’s no correlation to the units sold in any given period."

As a shareholder, this strikes me as a bit strange and concerning. Why stop reporting how many of each product you sold? It suggests that moving forward sales and business is going to decline and they are trying to be more opaque and hide this fact.
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Would that be so bad? If the small companies funded by other means (let's call that "venture capital") could grow into medium-sized fish themselves instead of being gobbled up by the big fish, that might actually be a healthier ecosystem.
They have special family boarding. My wife and I just pay for a single seat upgrade, and then hold a second for the late boarder. Would want to be up front anyway.
There are extensions like "Cookie AutoDelete" where you can explicitly whitelist what coookies are not supposed to be delete. I think it does not automatically clear localstorage, though. But if you combine this with a blocker extension to remove the usual suspects when it comes to tracking, you are mostly there already.
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>What you are suggesting is called "blacklisting." You may be interested to learn that in many states it is illegal behavior itself.

If only the fact that it's illegal actually stopped it from happening.
It improves tracking by fisabling your ad blocker.
And here I thought it was because every customer service line is experiencing a 'high volume of callers' 24/7.
Your comment above mine says this

" I said they stopped listening to locals for advice about, primarily, the control burns, and the needs for forest thinning."

It doesnt say the need for MORE forest thining. Its says needs for forest thinning, which implies it wasnt happening
A classic example from several years ago:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

That was several years ago.
Eeeehhhh....

To me, OpenGL and Vulkan bear sort of the same relationship to one another that Xlib and XCB do: one is (relatively) easy to program for and lets you get good results right away. The other is much trickier to program for, but gives you much finer grained control over how the underlying layer is actually used, allowing you to get much more performance out of it. So there's room for both. And while basing OpenGL on an underlying Vulkan implementation is certainly feasible and may be logical -- as the Zink authors said, any optimization they can do can also be done by driver authors and then some, and there's still enough OpenGL stuff out there to where driver authors are going to want to make those optimizations.