skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In New York, living in Queens or Brooklyn isn't too bad on an engineer's salary. LIC is actually a pretty good location (although I would have preferred nearer the Barclays Center in BK for the number of trains that go there).

One of the obnoxious things about Google's NY campus is that it's on the west side of Manhattan, which means that to get a cheapish rent and a 40-60 minute commute, you have to live on the expensive edges of BK or Jersey. Doesn't really seem worth it imho.
When I objected that, no, the two paths equally lay and that the difference was unimportant or unknowable, my high school English teacher forcefully badgered me back into the common misreading -- and then promptly took the minor glory of explaining the more accurate interpretation to the class for himself! He was smart, had a PhD in lit from UMass Amherst, must have known what I was getting at and in all likelihood consciously blocked me. I felt so cheated and for the first time saw a teacher as a competing ego rather than a helper, and I realized that I'd better learn when to trust myself, even in the face of authority.
Which flavors are fully synthesized as opposed being produced by normal creatures or genetically engineered E.coli or yeast?
Individuals who are unaware of the price do not derive more enjoyment from more expensive wine. In a sample of more than 6,000 blind tastings, we find that the correlation between price and overall rating is small and negative, suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less. For individuals with wine training, however, we find indications of a non-negative relationship between price and enjoyment. Our results are robust to the inclusion of individual fixed effects, and are not driven by outliers: when omitting the top and bottom deciles of the price distribution, our qualitative results are strengthened, and the statistical significance is improved further. These findings suggest that non-expert wine consumers should not anticipate greater enjoyment of the intrinsic qualities of a wine simply because it is expensive or is appreciated by experts.

https://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/...
>Because tourists tend to impose negative externalities upon the city

Seriously? Cities love tourists, they contribute a lot of $$$ to the economy
...Except lack of design team to do all the custom design work that Apple does. The systems you talk about are assembled from off the shelf parts.
Alternatively, go to your local library and check out books for free. If you feel like you need to own them, then buy from the local book store. Supporting the local library is more important since they (almost?) all do great community outreach for literacy (children programs, etc).
I have observed the following in computer science departments.

1. They need students to justify their funding. If students stop taking their courses, they get funding decreases.

2. There are a lot of people that love SICP, and believe it should be the foundation for all computer science curriculum.

3. People pretty much agree it's important for computer science graduates, but the question is, should it be the first course? Are the concepts too hard, too soon? Does it weed too many students out too soon?

4. The industry at large is unconvinced about the benefits of Lisp dialects. They see high productivity gains with Java/C/C++/Python. And many students question why should they learn a language that doesn't advance their careers.
How can we avoid the disproportionate influence of late information?

What if we allowed people to voluntarily "lock in" their votes anytime after the party candidates are chosen?
These early votes could only be changed at some cost, which would rise the closer to election day.
No idea what that "cost" would be, as it would be preferable to have it affect everyone evenly.
is more important to whom? do you mean that tourists are non-people?
Fair - I think when people think of Queens they think JFK airport, which is 60-90m away from Manhattan with some traffic. Point is LIC is about as close as Queen gets to Manhattan and Brooklyn, which have traditionally been more desirable boroughs to live in.
"A transportation desert is defined as an area greater than ½ mile from a subway station."

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170913/OPINION/17091...

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/201...
The current political status quo is not "dangerous and disruptive" to you?

I'm not even specifically referring to the US.
Ray tracing is relatively easy to understand, it's not ray tracing that is actually complicated. Ray tracing is simply sending out rays from the virtual camera, seeing what they hit along the way, and calculating the lighting effects of the materials and light sources when you hit those things. In the end you've simulated a sample of light that hit the camera. Repeat a couple million times and you've got an accurate picture of what the virtual scene looks like.

"Normal" computer graphics is comprised of doing every dirty shortcut trick you can imagine to avoid tracing hundreds of millions of rays per second while still having some semblance of lighting effects in the virtual scene.
I understand that the apps discussed in the article are voluntary and used by people who want to share that information. But this relatively recent obsession over political alignment remains troubling. I'm old enough to remember when voting choices were considered a private matter. Today's climate is largely unconducive to polite discourse, and these apps strike me as another opportunity for people to share "too much" information, which provide an avenue for further weaponizing of public judgement.
> Which of these groups do you think it is more important

I dunno, let the market decide? From your question, it seems like you claim to have a self-evident answer, why?
It was international (it was probably easier to find an American children's book in USSR than a Soviet one in US, but then US is pretty insular in that regard) but I would not call it free of ideology. Translated books were often selected based on how "progressive" or friendly to the USSR author was, not on literary merit, and domestic ones pretty much had to give at least lip service to the ideology. Mind you, some of them were quite good (The Little Golden Key is probably better than Pinocchio, and surprisingly less didactic)but the ideology was omnipresent.

Honestly, I doubt that the government cared much about Baum's racial views. They just did not want to make it too obvious that "Emerald City" was stolen, fair and square, and that no matter how much you might want to read the original, and however many dozens of sequels Baum wrote, you ain't gonna get them.
But sometimes when the author say "the curtain is blue" the curtain is just blue.

If a person reach some original enlightenment trough a poem words doesn't necessarily mean the word have an hidden meaning, it's likely that the poem meaning plus the reader baggage construed composed or concurred into an original thought that's derivative but independent from the work itself and attributing that specific enlightenment to the work alone seems inappropriate first because the meaning isn't there and second because it diminish the reader turning it's originality into passive dissonance

An apple is an apple, if it moves to eat an apple because it reminds of grandma's apple pies then it's not that the apple itself has an universal meanings of grandma's. It has to you, but at face value it's still an apple for as much the eater wished it was grandma's pie, it still remains an independent thought formed from the apple but not what an apple is, the apple is still an apple.
I've been meaning to read that series, thanks for reminding me!
I don't think you can tell how someone voted. It pulls the party affiliation off of which primary you voted in.
Maspeth is pretty far out from LIC though. I'm not really sure how it comes into play here. Yeah, it's the driving-dependent suburbs. Barely even has any bike lanes yet.
I love the physical books in my library because I can easily see the titles and I can turn to them easily when I need to jog my memory.

This might be really weird but when I have a tough question, I like to think about what my favorite authors in my library might say, and I'll take the book out and flip through the pages, looking for their thoughts on the subject. When I spend hours reading a book, I internalize that author's voice, beliefs, and thought process. I don't need to remember all the tiny details but I remember their thought process which I consider priceless. I was going through a book called Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger and they have pages of questions to ask in the back and I realized I was automatically asking all of them on a daily basis. I had internalized that thinking.
Bezos bought the largest house in Washington D.C. early this year, it was a no brainer at that point that VA was getting it. Breaking it up into two is intersting though, it will probably seem less like HQ 2a and HQ 2b and more like "where does Jeff want to hang out his week?"
Assuming the mails are still online with the mail provider, I think that copying that data on local disk, indexing and then running queries on it should work. Doing this locally will save time and then you can sync back the changes.

I know of two tools which might help.

One that I use is more Emacs oriented. My personal setup uses mu4e[1], fetches emails using mbsync, indexes the emails using mu and allows you to run queries based on date/time/subject/content etc. You can quickly search, mark, delete and archive emails.

The other option would be to use a similar combination of notmuch, offlineimap and mutt[2]. I have used mutt but with the online services (i.e. without downloading my emails locally), so I am not sure how that will work. But mutt also support similar tagging and searching and running operations on selected emails.

Caveat: Make sure you have enough understanding with what you do with these tools, they also have the capacity to delete all your emails on cloud. Perhaps run the queries on some test emails first.

[1]http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/

[2]stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
Asians are the poorest racial group in NYC.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58ff...
Thanks. I see from the side bar have been hitting this site. Let's see, recently viewed items:

"Poppy seeds: differences in morphine and codeine content and variation ..."

"Spectrum of human tails: A report of six cases ..."

"Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string ..."

:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game_(philosophy)
San Jose is more expensive than LA and close to Boston in rent: http://d3exkutavo4sli.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017.... Also it really is the blandest area I've ever lived in in California. I don't think there's another city with a higher CoL:QoL ratio.
The large scale project using low temperature superconductors is ITER, initially proposed at $5 billion and currently estimated at $20 billion for a scientific test reactor.

The MIT ARC design is half the size using high temperature superconductors and should be in the $1-2 billion range for a full-scale 500MW pilot production fusion reactor.

What is currently being proposed (the subject of the papers being delivered tomorrow) and funded with private money is a $200-250 million SPARC (Smallest Possible ARC) that is half the size again of the full-size ARC.

So yeah, you are off by a factor of 160.
Silicon Valley for instance is sitting on top of a giant swamp. In the 70’s it looked like the middle of nowhere. In 2018, it looks like a bunch of office buildings and strip malls. Is this attractive?

Young folks are looking for the fame that’s what it is. The google’s, facebook’s etc. Yes there’s always san francisco but these are just extensions of the headquarters just to make sure they get hold of everyone.

If the fame was in the middle of nowhere people wouldn’t hesitate a second to move to that place. If it’s not you, someone else will.
I expect people to cotton on and jaywalk with impunity in front of self-driving cars, effectively always taking the right of way.

Hell, this is probably as it should be. NYC would be better off with fewer cars and further prioritization of other modes of transport.
One impression I got of San Jose was that it IS the sticks. Climate is nice, but culturally it is about as exciting as Omaha (no offense to Nebraska meant).
My first thought was about Drake Landing in Alberta. They use heat pumps and store excess summer heat in the ground for use during the winter[1].

Nifty that this is a new molecule for long-term rather than seasonal storage.

[1] https://www.dlsc.ca/
If you're interested in this stuff and haven't seen it yet, Dolphin's progress reports are wonderful as well.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2018/11/01/dolphin-progress-rep...
There are two common ways to draw stuff in 3D computer graphics. The most common one in games is "rasterization" which means: "For each object, figure out what pixels it covers." Movies (and soon games) use a mixture of rasterization and ray tracing. Ray tracing means "For each pixel figure out what objects cover it."

You can do simple ray tracing by looping over each pixel, defining a ray that starts from the viewpoint and passes through the pixel on the screen, then looping over every object in the whole scene to see if and where that ray hits each object. That'll work, but it'll be very slow. Then the fun begins figuring out data structures and algorithms to make that process faster.

The advantage of rasterization is that it can be very fast because it works with small amounts of data at a time that has fairly predicable access patterns and good locality between pixels. But, that's also it's down side. It doesn't work well with information that is not local to a single point on an object (for example, how close are other nearby objects? That's hard for a rasterizer).

The advantage of ray tracing is that it is built from the ground up around querying the entire environment. So, features like shadows, reflections and ambient occlusion become much easier to get to work. That's also it's down side. Querying the environment is difficult to make fast. So, even though the features are easy to write, they are still a challenge to keep under the frame time budget.
> On a person-kilometre-minute basis, cars are absurdly inefficient. Stupendously so.

You have forgotten about the human actually getting to the subway station in the first place. You need to include the distance from every person to the subway station they want in your length calculation.

You also need to include how long it takes the person to get there in your minute calculations.
NYC also has ad tech, commerce and fashion.
The 7 train stops at Grand Central so going North is essentially the same.
Relatedly, possibly the most misread quote in America:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
Have you ever been to a city with a proper public transit system?
Frog farming is like chicken farming.

It can be small scale, in urban environments and cheap to setup and run.

If you believe the hype around chickens (it's complicated) frog farming is good for the poor and good to help people like women set up small business ventures.

If frog ethics are important to you then you can apply the same ideas they do chickens.
Then it sounds like a great opportunity for self-learning.

One class can't teach everything. If people have preferences in their tooling, then that's a great opportunity to generalize the lessons they are taught about VS Code.
Huh? Estimates are just that, estimates. The market price is what someone is willing to actually pay for it right now.

And yes, it's perfectly valid for market price to decrease over time if an area becomes less desirable.
You're probably thinking Manhattan but NYC has a lot of affordable areas.

Queens or Brooklyn are obvious alternatives to Manhattan but, with the right long-term planning and development, Bronx or Staten Island could make great options.

Staten Island has transportation headaches (no subway) but the Bronx is well connected to Manhattan. It's also close to northern suburbs like Westchester County and Connecticut where many people might want to live and commute from.
> Really see how incredible all the people around you are. And I mean locally. ...the ordinary people around you scratching themselves out lives that seem to satisfy them. Become one of them.

This sentiment has very little actual substance to it. I'm dissatisfied because I want to do something meaningful. I want to leave behind tools that will better my species. I don't want my legacy to be solving a few bugs in obscure proprietary software. Why would I want to emulate people who are satisfied with a meaningless existence? I would much rather rage against the dying of the light.

> Most of the work will be unpaid, this is okay. A happy little flow of money is enough, because some money is really damn useful.

In a very literal sense, we trade life force for money. Money is life force. Telling people to work for free is doing them a disservice.

What exactly are you saying? Rip off the band-aid of ambition and stop trying?
I don’t think simply not wanting short-term visitors in your neighborhood is a legitimate desire that should be respected. It’s fine to desire a lack of specific symptoms like noise or damage. If a landlord or property owner allows guests that cause problems I don’t see why they’re any less liable than if they cause the problems themselves.
I don't understand how this constitutes a bubble? I totally understand how it is frustrating, even angering, that tech companies continue to do this. But, how's that causing a bubble? In other words, how is this going to "pop"?
In my side-projects I use simpler solutions as oracles to more complex solutions if I'm fuzzing. E.g. if I implemented some sophisticated `fac` implementation with secret sauce and mathematical yada yada, I use `def fac(n): return 1 if n==0 else n * fac(n-1)` as oracle, which works but is slow. I never used something like this for work, so I don't know what's the industry standard way to write an oracle, but this works fairly well. Another examples: I implemented polynomial multiplication with FFT and then tested it with canonical O(N^2) algorithm. I implemented Strassen algorithm, tested it with canonical O(N^3) algorithm. You can even have multiple levels of oracles: If canonical polynomial mul is too slow, use FFT PM to test a more sophisticated polynomial multiplication algorithm.

In college, in my OS class my professor said something like in the space missions algorithms were implemented bunch of times by bunch of different teams and then in runtime they voted on output. You can do something like this to orchestrate an oracle too. Implement the same function 5 times, they vote on an output, their agreed upon output is the oracle's output and then now use this to test your real function.

It goes without saying, if the problem is NP, then you can build a function that tests the output. Of course, now you need to test this function...
> - Amazon makes no money, except through AWS. Purchasing Lyft is a significant investment over a a long time, and the money has to come from somewhere. If AWS lags during this critical juncture, this could cripple Amazon hugely.

Did you forget Prime? Then there is Amazon Media Group, A9 etc.

In fact with PrimeNow and AmazonFresh, AMZN gets the readymade footprint of last mile delivery network. Not to mention same network can be utilized for last mile delivery of urgent/priory shipments via Prime/AMZN.

> - And Amazon has no giant cash pile sitting around like Apple. It cannot afford to cannibalize customer trust in AWS when it is imperative to their survival. See: their stock dropping, partly because their growth slowed slightly, and partly because it seems Azure's growth is faster.

Eh, it's just one customer that gets lost due to this (albeit big one). And I doubt Uber is sticking around AWS because of AWS brand, in fact most likely they are sticking around due to combination of tech debt and cheaper deal that they are getting. Why can't they move to GCP (ala Spotify) or Azure if they get better deal there?
WOW, I was under the impression that part of the promoted benefits of the democratic process was anonymity in your voting preferences. Double wow that Ycombinator sponsored this.
A long term storage system has to have very low capital cost, as it doesn't have many cycles over which to amortize that cost. I doubt this system makes any economic sense.
Follow ups claim that even after disabling it you can only install windows or OSX.
Long Island has way more people living on it than that. Queens and Brooklyn alone are 5M. Now add in all the other counties in NY State and it's substantial.

You also seem to be confusing Long Island with LIC, which is the downtown neighborhood of Queens.
If it ever happens, I'll gladly pay 12 more and you can have a kebab and a pint on me. ;)

I reckon if we ever get to that point, by then the pint alone might be 12 quid though. Soz.
Okay, then that seems like the problem. Why would short-term rentals laws be enforced any better? Unless, of course, the incentive to enforce those laws is provided by special interests like the hotel industry. Shocking.
Why did you give up on Brave? I find Brave a good option on Android with all the privacy options built in. What am I missing?
> Why do you need conventional forces in a nuclear world?

Because you don't want your only options for dealing with other countries to be "do nothing" and "start a nuclear war".
> Kavanaugh dissented on the lower court ruling (as it happened while he was still part of said lower court). So, he recused himself from re-hearing the case.

This is an interesting reason to recuse. You're supposed to recuse in cases where you cannot be impartial (or, similarly, where you cannot appear to be impartial, regardless of your inner thoughts).

Recusing because the defendant is your brother makes sense. But Kavanaugh was presumably offering a standard, "impartial" judicial opinion when he dissented on the lower court. It's definitely true that he's likely to come into the case at the Supreme Court level with a preformed opinion of the merits. Superficially, that's an obvious reason to recuse. But why? That preformed opinion was, by hypothesis, formed by considering the merits of the case as an impartial judge, which is the only thing he's supposed to do when hearing it in the Supreme Court too.
Tink Labs, which gives free-to-use smartphones to hotel guests, is raising $300M
Not just Maspeth. Look on Google Maps satellite view along Newton Creek and east of Sunnyside Yard. There is a ton of stuff that can either be relocated or built on top of. (If you drive through that area at ground level, it feels like you're in some post-apocalyptic horror movie.) It's not far at all, especially if you build a new road or light rail line connecting that area to LIC, which is reasonably feasible if the southern part of Sunnyside Yards gets decked over.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Maspeth,+Queens,+NY/@40.74...
I worked with Epic's main competitor. The main fact is that this type of software is sold alongside consulting and training solutions with custom options.

This allows IT teams at hospitals to have say and power over best practices but also requires massive investments in custom software and consulting and training.

Add in they've been doing it with patchwork for so many years and it's difficult and there's little incentive to build a new system. When consulting revenue for implementation outpaces licensing... You're going to have a bad time.
> Funding necessary to explore fusion energy's viability is at least order of magnitude $10^10

That's only 10 billion dollars. Far more than that has already been spent on fusion.
Vermont is starting a program where they will pay you to move there and work for an out of state company remotely.

To the companies benefit you can pay employees substantively less outside major cities.