skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going just by the bedroom counts listed on that website. It's possible that those numbers are also deceptive because square footage per bedroom is sufficiently different. I was mainly remarking that the breakdown seems to indicate that NY inventory is biased towards 2BR apartments while SF inventory is biased towards 1BR. This is based merely on the fact that the SF overall average is much closer to the SF 1BR average while the NY overall average is much closer to the NY 2BR average.

Price per square foot would shed more light on this, but I don't know of a reliable (free) source of that data.
Show HN: Empirical Eye – Bring ML+AI to the Physical World
Hi HN,

Our startup just released a sensor+computer module called the Empirical Eye. It's basically a stereo vision system + on-board embedded CPU+GPU + WiFi (plus some mounting straps). Internally there is also an IMU sensor, and the ability to attach others via GPIO pins.

The Eye is meant to be easily attached to physical machines, to collect and stream data, and enable novel machine learning applications (and one day: control those machines!).

The goal with this device is to bring ML/AI to the physical world. We've made our own "visual quality control" software with the device.

We're doing a device giveaway to developers for feedback and troubleshooting, which will help us refine it. We'd love to send some out to the HN crowd (quantities limited to about 75), and get your feedback and see what you build!

We want to make life easier for running ML experiments and developing new applications. The primary motivation has been the field of robotics, but we see it as a flexible module that can be attached to any number of devices or machines, so feel free to be creative :)

We're looking to do another production run in a month or so, with a cleaner industrial design that'll look a bit more professional. Upon delivery you'll get the device's software API. It's a Linux OS not that different from a Raspberry Pi OS, and we have basic data collection + streaming scripts written in Python for your convenience.

If you're interested, definitely check out the site and sign up for a free device. Let us know what you want to develop, and ideally a quick one-liner describing your background experience.

www.empiricalautomation.com

Happy to answer any questions, cheers!
There’s only one logic board design fir the Airs, in two configurations just fur storage. They’d have to design and manufacture new board configurations just for upgraders. No way that could ever be economical.
Can you give a concrete example of this? I'm having a hard time imagining it.
Is this article supposed to be satirical? I have trouble believing people being paid to write can think this way.
I understand how you would read it that way, but I didn't mean any condensation towards Chinese workers. I was simply being lazy at showcasing other factors and picked the two easiest.

> Maybe they are as capable as we are, as productive as we are, and also are putting the extra work.

I 100% agree with this and don't think I suggested otherwise. My comment was in no way meant to take away from the incredible work of many people. I don't doubt that many people have worked long hours and absolutely think people are equally capable regardless of where they come from.

I just think it is ridiculous to suggest that other economies should participate in a race to the bottom of who can work their citizens to death
How do users do logging, just an agent in the app that sends data to a hosted logs platform?
Remember a decade or so ago when the U.S. military was icing Middle Eastern "terr'ist" targets based upon gait analysis?

Well, now it's you. And also, once again, brought to "the world" by China. (Maybe they'll sell it along side of or as an add-on to their Great Firewall turnkey systems.)

I remember viewing a few of those old video segments (drone- and plane-based platforms) and feeling pretty nervous.
Yeah, the problem is any FPGA solution that integrates directly with the CPU cache is going to be a bit underpowered due to fitting on the silicon. Even the integrated CPU/FPGA SoCs I've seen have the ARM core separated by an interconnect
He is merely attacking the lone inventor myth. While it is good for putting names in the history books it is completely inadequate for actually deciding who invented something.

Mathematics has the rule of thumb that anything named after someone was not discovered by them. It should equally well apply to all fields of human endeavour.

Until we get rid of that myth we will never figure out how creativity actually works.
Would love to see a more up-to-date version of this. I know MIT sold [1] a bunch of its address space not too long ago.

[1]: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/05/mit-goes-on-ipv...
The Office UK vs. The Office US [video]
Choose Your Product Battles Wisely
Honestly this just may spur people to use bicycles, or moped style scooters as are common in Europe.

The type of people to use these scooters are exactly the types that would likely use a bike. Or a Vespa.
If Chrome takes 30-50 seconds to open and your computer was made in the past ten years, you should probably reformat
The scrollbar distance confirms a suspicion that I've held for some time: that writing a machine learning algorithm is of similar complexity to developing an iOS app in Xcode!
Not to be cynical, but there's enormous PR pressure on Google and Sunday Pichai specifically to make this their opinion. Widespread public opinion is turning against silicon valley, and even technological advancement more generally, like a kind of mini-second-postmodernism.

For sure silicon valley has some serious problems, but humanity is a lot better off generally than it was a few centuries ago, and the reason isn't because we all became nicer people. Discounting technology as a driver of human flourishing is a grave mistake.
This word soup reads like it was generated by the Postmodernism Paper Generator [1]. What am I supposed to take away from this? Is there a TL;DR version?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism_Generator
We changed the url from https://mindmatters.today/2018/11/software-pioneer-says-gene..., which simply copies excerpts from this.
Either they did late stage down rounds, or the data is just wrong.
Implementing classification using a SVM in Ruby
I'd be interested to know if anyone actually seriously uses something like this. I can't imagine there is much crossover in the irc audience and the people who would want to use a web based client. Even less so when you need to self host it.
IQ is just a number determined by a test, by definition. I don't think it's possible for a person's IQ number to be independent from the IQ test. Certainly he had more intelligent contributions to physics than expected from 126 IQ.
A few years ago I created a syntactically correct, but semantically meaningless programming language based on this.

Devoid of syntactic sugar, Buffalo Lang has only one token.

http://bfalo.com
The employees are both behaving like children AND being infantilized at the same time. How do you even get to that point?
> I disagree, you can ride a scooter on a sidewalk safely and I need to do it from time to time. Of course, I don't prefer it. But it's pretty easy to do safely and it shouldn't bother anyone if done correctly.

Keep it simple. "Can" but people won't. There is reason in this post ... but the law should remain that riding on sidewalks is illegal.

"Trusting" strangers on scooters to slow down is unwelcome heart-burn, as a pedestrian. "Will they slow down for me? Will they move off to the side? Will my dog stray into their fast-moving path? Will my dog, who freaks out for any person-riding-on-vehicle, freak out as this scooter crawls past? Do I need to pull the neck-collar on my dog hard so he stays sufficiently close to my feet as the person riding on the vehicle passes?"

None of this thinking should be necessary for a pedestrian. Keep the law set. Stay off the sidewalks.

Go further, require license-plates for scooters, to track infringement of riding on the sidewalk. Report scooters dragged into the lane. There is something fundamentally "not right for a metropolitan" about these smallish, easily misplaced vehicles.

Skip Scooter https://i.imgur.com/K6RuVzE.jpg

More Skip https://i.imgur.com/ZkdndG1.jpg
So much truth in this.

In Germany doctors have a "budget" per quarter allotted by the public insurers for every patient they treat.

All meds and treatments they prescribe come out of that budget, if at the end of the quarter the doctor ends up being above that budget, then he's stuck with those costs and has pay from his own profits.

In a setup like that, the doctor is held personally responsible for not overprescribing.

Just like insurers only pay a certain amount for meds for certain conditions/treatments. Creating pressure on the pharma industry to also offer smaller packages of drugs, instead of forcing wisdom teeth patients to buy a whole 50 pill bottles.

It's not perfect because it suffers from a bit of the opposite problem of underprescription and doctors being shy about prescribing expensive treatments even when they are needed.

But if that really becomes an issue then patients can just change the doctor, they are always free to do that and never forced to visit a specific doctor.
It has been going slowly downhill since I moved here two years ago. I'm glad I don't have to go into Penn any longer. Hoboken has its own problems, but at least the NJT cancellations are rare and the trains usually get there within 5 minutes of when they are supposed to.
they didn't even bother set up a GTK+2 theme for geany in their screenshot :p
Sell organs.
The cost to run the DNS servers was fixed (and mostly still is, at least compared to the money raked in by registration fees).
I have a T470P (the i7-7700HQ with 2560x1440@14" came in about half of a Macbook Pro in my country), I've genuinely had to do nothing to make Fedora 26 (then 27) work on it perfectly since I got it.

It of course came with Windows 10 and that's the rub, it's a crap shoot since I knew I'd be able to get Linux to work fine I just didn't know how much work (if any) would be required.

I was pleasantly surprised.
> Tesla turned the car into a software problem

No, they convinced fanboys that they turned it into a software problem. The reality is they are no different than any other auto manufacturer. Being in Silicon Valley doesn't change that.

An electric Camry would sell so much more than the model 3.
What did they do to that poor computer? On my 3 year old Thinkpad Chrome/Firefox take < 1sec to start and Gmail takes a couple seconds to load. Can't talk Excel as I don't use it.
Oh please. If you had said "humans never have enough", I would have agreed.

Be it art, science, business, relationships, longevity, finance or knowledge, the human condition is we're never satisfied with where we are.

Which is good or we'd still be living in caves.
The biggest issue for urban transit is safety. I don't think scooters can be a valid replacement for cars until the streets are redesigned or all the cars are self-driving. I used to bike to work until a couple close calls. I don't feel comfortable riding a bike or a scooter unless its a dedicated bike lane away from parked cars so I don't get doored.
That's awesome.

What has been your strategy to "keep up"?

I ask this because I recently left a job I started in 2014 where the people were great but the technology was old, not modern at all.

In the time I was working there Docker, React, Vue, Serverless, GraphQL, Kubernetes, gRPC have all become a thing.

I didn't have a chance in my work life to use any of them and it was my first job, so I couldn't easily change (it's different now I suppose).

In my experience it takes between 300 ~ 500 hours of solving new problems and challenges before you're really proficient with a technology and have gained a certain mastery over it.

It also seems to be the case that a technology lasts about 5 years (roughly speaking).

So this then presents me with a scenario that I need to spend 40 hours working a job where the tech stack will most probably not contain all the new hotness. Then after family duties at home it's now 9pm and I'm free. If I were to get 8 hours sleep I want to sleep between 11pm and midnight. This leaves me a window of 2~hours a day. If I need to spend 300 ~ 500 hours to gain proficiency in a technology that's then I need to spend my two hours from 9pm to 11pm either learning two technologies to a reasonable level or one technology really deeply.

Surely that just isn't sustainable?

Now, obviously that's the brute Force strategy and it can be improved a great deal.

I'm very, very interested to hear what your strategies have been!

I want to able to do this without killing myself. I love tech, I aspire to be in a similar position as you. Good stable work, working with stuff that's fresh and being a high value, high level, hands on contributor.

Some optimizations that come to mind (and chime in with your thoughts on these, so I know if I'm on the right track!) are that I should choose my working environment carefully to optimize for working with the technologies that are going to matter so I can do a good deal of learning on the job. Second I should pick what I'm going to say no to and drop the mental load of having to care about those things. Three I could work 30 hours a week and study for 10 giving me a great balance of doing what I love by contributing to a team but also doing what I love by exploratory learning.

Anyway, very keen to hear your reply.
This, in turn, is a popular myth often promulgated by apologists of the Empire of Japan (but also reiterated by others, I'm not saying you're among the former). The terms proposed by Japan during the latter period of the war included not only keeping the emperor, but also the existing government, immunity from war crimes trials, and keeping much of their colonial territory (namely, Korea).

The Empire also planned to resist a speculated US and Soviet invasion as leverage to negotiate better peace terms. The expected Japanese casualties (that is, the Japanese military's own estimates) of this planned defense numbered in the tens of millions. The Japanese high command deemed this an acceptable number of casualties and went forward with the planned defense.
seriously, me too. If no one can find one (I just tried to no avail), I'll make one myself and post it on here
What gave you the impression that the MacBook replaced the Air? The Air has never been discontinued.
> I'm more interested in how you can get into a high AOA, low airspeed condition without noticing something is off. As AOA increases, indicated airspeed decreases further so it seems like nobody was even bothered so much as to glance down at it for a split second during the lead up.

Maybe you were confusing this accident with AF447, which indeed stalled due to an excessive AoA?
Agreed 100% on the sidewalk-riding. The other day I was outside a restaurant waiting for a table. I moved back one step to let some people by and felt something brush my coat. It was some idiot riding one of those powered rental scooters downhill. 15 MPH at least, and given that it was downhill, maybe more. Two steps back and I would have been in the emergency room.
The MacBook Pro with function keys does have the trouble prone keyboard design.

The MacBook Pro with touchbar received a slightly updated keyboard that is supposed to fix some of the issues people had with the old one.
The current consensus is the closest that science gets to "truth". Depending on your definition of "groupthink" (which seems like a deliberately pejorative term), either that describes most categories of knowledge, or we can suggest that the difference is that there is a rigorous methodology and system of verification for these beliefs.
You seem to be conflating quotas and diversity, and also conflating mechanisms and results. The point of a diversity office or officer is to provide a resource for discussing whether mechanisms of hiring and recruitment are fair, and trying to improve them if they're not.

Once all those studies that send out the same exact resume with the names John, Jane, T'yesha, Jamal, Xiaoying, and Shan Shan at the top find you get the same number of callbacks, then we'll actually be in a situation where people are being hired on their qualifications!
Google offers email with extra security for journalists, politicians,  and you?
I have a question (I've tinkered with Serverless stuff but never on a production app) but my underlying assumption might be wrong.

I like that the cold boot up performance for a single function is super fast when compared to a "Legacy Server". But after the legacy server is up it "stays warm" regardless of user activity. Unlike a lambda function which goes cold after a few minutes of inactivity.

So the first user that hits an endpoint after some inactivity has to wait (a few seconds) for the lambda function to cold boot vs. being served immediately on the legacy server.

Is my assumption here true? Or are cold boots on lambda super fast now? When I was doing this stuff ~8 months ago it would take like 5+ seconds to be served after a cold boot.
Elon Musk is not the best in anything? Not even building world changing businesses?
Probably because their product was toy-grade, slow and with inaccurate movements, not meeting the demands for the industry. It did look photogenic though.
I meant weight as in extra RAM usage for the application I use it in.
There are streets for cars.

Scooters are often driven on sidewalks, illegally.

There is no viable enforcement options - cops do not have the easy means to stop scooters going arbitrary directions - and there are no license plates for scooters, yet.
Speaking as someone writing a dissertation, I am here, at the end of 4, with a nice, shiny, well-polished bit that I am really proud of and a mountain of crap still to deal with!

It's really hard to go back and pick up the next bit, but it's due so soon . . . .
I don't think this is the problem. I think you assuming a short blog post like this is supposed to be a universal, generalized solution to job searching is the problem.

You can pretty much tell if this article is meant for you in about 1 minute.
Agreed. I have never seen an actual scooter owner park badly. It's always a rental scooter company. I object entirely to them just seizing the public sidewalks as the parking lot for their private businesses. And then I object again at the tragedy-of-the-commons effect when scooter renters feel entitled to drop it wherever they're done with it.
I too look forward to when ZEIT revolutionize datastores. Immutable datastores with the ZEIT UX (DX?) would be incredible.
Wow, that opinion piece is a huge stretch.

Reagan fired air traffic controllers who were striking illegally. It then makes the huge jump that this caused private sector companies to not negotiate.

I don't buy it.
Because it is a big difference to have 100% of the code unsafe or just a set of visible code regions marked as such.
That sounds more like a surplus than a shortage.
I have been for.the past five or.so years. I hop on.and.off withoit much thinking. It just works whether im on or offline
They should really just have anyone who asks if they can control the car using an app tossed out.
I used it for a while when first getting into IRC communities; it serves as a really nice gateway into it - extremely user-friendly, hackable, usable from my phone if I wanted. Generally just a really good client overall, despite the bloat.
Cell – A self-driving web application framework
On Android, Termux lets you read and write texts using the Termux API, and set up an SSH server.
1.) As for the first point, propulsion is not the same as a bomb. Yes the mechanics are the same, but what this example points out to me is that the context and concept behind an invention is an important component of the invention itself. Most people would consider nuclear propulsion and a nuclear bomb to be entirely distinct inventions, even if the mechanics are the same. And indeed there are some mechanical/physical considerations that make the inventions distinct. Blast radius considerations, for instance, are entirely different if one is constructing a bomb (in which case they might be maximized instead of minimized, etc.) as are the considerations that go into constructing the container that will house the explosion/reaction.

2.) As for point 2, Look into the nuclear fallout in Kazakstan (for which the soviet tests are responsible). Unless there have been significant developments in controlling the effects of nuclear bombing technology and more recent tests (which there may have been, idk) I would hardly think anyone familiar with the environmental side effects from those experiments would recommend it as a good landscaping tool.

One could make a similar rebuttal as the above to space applications based on the environmental impacts nuclear bombs have on earth. We don't know much (afaik) about the negative side effects using nuclear bombs in space could have, even if they're useful asteroid detonators. Radiation takes quite a long time to dissipate. This would be one reason for dissuading its use in terraforming activity, at least without extensive consideration and analysis.
You might be right, but this case is not the best example. Here loss of AoA sensors led to plane trimming down when flying in manual mode. So, more manual flying worsened the situation here (because they may not have cutout the stab trim...)
GitHub is where source code lives
Except during bad weather, or when you need to carry more than yourself and a backpack. For those scenarios, a vehicle sealed from the elements is important. It doesn't need to be a full sized car, but it does need some more amenities and space than a scooter.
This seems off-topic, more political than an interesting new phenomenon.
Humanitarian Highlight 11/8: Shining Bright
Those literally were indeed fees.

The National Science Foundation paid Network Solutions a payment, per registered domain, in exchange for the service of registering it.
You're right, they're slow. All the major providers are working on ways to speed up boot, and some users just send requests every few minutes to keep the functions warm.
If the original article is a year old, why was this killed as dupe? I've seen old articles reposted on HN before. This repost seemed to be pretty popular.

Also, why is it considered blogspam for having excerpts from an original article? I also see this occur frequently on HN. The article not only has excerpts, but comments on the excerpts and links to related material. This appears useful to an interested reader.