skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I have a bunch of Han relatives over there and they worry about travel into non-Han areas of China.
What about brains in awesome flying robots
I think tech employment in downtown San Jose is going to blow up for this reason, once the BART tunnel goes in. Combined access from electrictrified Caltrain/BART/ACE/VTA/Amtrak is going to be killer for bringing in people from all over who don’t like being stuck in traffic. Google sees this coming and is building the new campus there. And that will push up prices for homes near any of those rail systems.

It will also be possible to commute from SJ or Santa Clara to Oakland via BART, which may marginally improve recruiting there.

It would be fantastic if Caltrain or somebody rebuilt the burnt-out rail bridge next to the Dumbarton, but that’s wishful thinking. It would be useful to integrate ACE, Caltrain, and Amtrak.
My understanding is that the Fed Circuit rulings were very inconsistent, so that for every patent claim there was a ruling saying it was eligible and another saying it was ineligible, with the eligibility possibly changing every time a new ruling came out. The new guidelines are intended to establish a clear procedure that can be applied consistently.
Musk is stating, for the record, that your Tesla will be able to drive, _coast to coast_, full level 5 autonomy - poor roads, blizzard conditions - THIS YEAR.

Given that the autopilot system has been evolving for five years (introduced in 2014 for Tesla) and still has problems like "aims at water barriers and accelerates", "fails to recognize that trucks may be more complex than simple cube in space", "fails to recognize that vehicles of a certain color may be hard to see when driving towards the sun"... and that will all be solved "this year" (t minus 9 months and change) seems...

supremely optimistic. I was going to call it naive, but that's an insult - Elon certainly knows far more about self driving than I do.

But this is the equivalent of man kind making fire, making the wheel, and then turning that into a car as the next logical step, ignoring all the interim.
> It's not a free press when that press is a corporation with a political agenda.

If it's a corporation with a political agenda, sure, that's an issue (though not of an absence of free press, just an inability to serve the purpose of having a free press); when it's a multitude of corporations with a diversity of political and financial agendas, less so.

OTOH, "freedom of the press" is not "immunity of people who publish information from all law", either.
I prefer Firefox, but it should be noted that author is software engineer at Mozilla
No question. It's pretty evident they are aggressively spending on acquisition to boost their top line numbers. Timing wise, this effect will probably show up after they IPO and for their first publicly reported earnings announcement. Which will hopefully keep the stock price high long enough for the employee lock-up to expire.
Yar, that be a recipe for scurvy.
New vehicles piling up on dealer lots: What it means
"Let’s all join hands, admit that labor market regulation is a scourge, and tear down these paper walls."

This thinking is as cropped at it can be. The US is also the country with the highest consumption of anti-depressants. And what not other social problems.

Besides the whole article being a bunch of patting one self's back.
The notion we'd settle on planetary surfaces makes assumptions on the anthropology of our offspring.

Moving between stars requires us to master living in enclosed habitats for generations. If we do that, why would we bother with planets? We could arrive at the periphery of a system or an accretion disk of a young star, get all the materials to build a couple hundred new habitats and launch them towards the next system.

Would we still want to settle on planetary surfaces?
Forgive us for taking her campaign speeches at face value. She chose to make FAG the highlight of her campaign, not Comcast.
Multi-ethnic is not a problem in the Bay Area. Most of the people with money & skills are also immigrants, and many of them are various shades of brown or yellow.

Poor is. The Bay Area is one of the least racist places I've lived in in my life, but it's also one of the most classist. There's still a big class stigma based on where you live. (Though sometimes gentrification flips this on its head - the Mission and EPA used to be poor, crime-ridden areas, but now they're rich, crime-ridden areas.) It's very strange - I think that people who are used to the race & class social systems of much of the rest of North America don't really know what to make about the Bay Area, because in some ways we've busted out of those social systems and just replaced them with other ones which are...weird.
And don't forget Google maps. They can just add a button on ride sharing tab in Google maps in cities where Waymo is launched (whenever it launches)
There's zero net benefit in breaking up large companies that are driving innovation and improving consumer experiences.

If you don't like the economic result, redistribute some of the growth. Walmart doesn't deserve to be saved by splitting up Amazon if they can't compete.
On the suburbs - the funny thing is, besides a few wealthier suburbs to the west of downtown, if you drive 15 minutes outside of downtown, it feels almost no different than the suburbs of Waco, Houston, Dallas, etc.
Thank you for the response. That's good to know. I don't understand why interviewing isn't just, "Did you work yesterday? Great. Open up your laptop and show me the code you wrote yesterday."
What do you call it when a Tesla drives me 90% of the way to work where I don't do anything but observe?

It's not full self driving but it definitely is driving it self and providing value.
How does that work? Any pointers (that you know are of high quality) would also/instead be great too.
did not seem that hard I did 106 iterations and it guessed correct 35% of the time. Maybe over more iterations I would have gotten less random (due mainly to boredom).
> In general, I find the radar-enhanced cruise control very reliable (so nice in bad traffic)

Which is great but hardly unique to Tesla. Every major manufacturer out there offers adaptive cruise control. My car even recognizes the difference between in traffic stop-and-go/rush hour, and "queue" mode (exiting parking lots after events, etc).
The Dark Side of Machine Learning
Where did you hear he had such a deep understanding of the 68000? (Not questioning whether he did, just curious because I've never heard that.)
If volume isn't expressly ruled out as a factor it probably ought to be.
Typical middlebrow dismissal of every sidechannel attack ever.

But, "Attacks only get better."
Great to hear - will be good for the city (depending on who you ask). That's a positive trend.

Still think Austin needs more homegrown startups to be in the same sentence as Silicon Valley.
Card-Skimming Scripts Hide Behind Google Analytics, Angular
I feel like if a company decides it doesn't want to be in SF proper it's more worth it to go south rather than north.
‘Cloudborne’ IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud
Hot tip? How does this solve anything? People who work at big tech companies migrate to Oakland pushing those who have been there out by driving rents higher.

And you think those companies will forfeit their offices in the city/SV?

Maybe you can kindly migrate back to where you came from?
Nice to see more about CRDTs and Riak. Worked a bit with Riak a few years back and was sure at the time that CRDTs would play a much larger role in distributed databases, but have seen very little about them since.

Anyone have any more resources on the adoption/use of CRDTs?
I have to disagree about this one. Cars, sure: we try to engineer cars to protect people better in crashes, we invent devices to try to help avoid crashes (e.g., blind-spot warning systems), we try to make roads safer, etc. Guns, no. Some people do vote for politicians who might push for laws limiting guns, but in office they don't do much because there just isn't enough broad political will to do so, because the voters really don't want to do anything about the issue because roughly half the population doesn't want any kind of new limits on gun ownership at all.
a few of the download links here work (try the washington post e.g.): https://crosswordfiend.com/download/
We moved from SF to Oakland more than a year ago and could not be happier! Here's the view from our Gravitational's Oakland office right now:

https://imgur.com/2p9BX1b
This sort of nonsense is why there's such a gap growing between the rich and the poor.

It sounds logical, but it's in fact just another way of a few marginally deserving people taking a disproportionate amount of the proceeds of a group effort.
I've heard about artists being told to destroy their artwork for obscenity or copyright reasons, but how many companies have been court ordered to purge their databases in the US?
Choose something to be good at at, and focus on being the best at it.
It would be way easier to just, you know, eavesdrop with the actual microphone instead?

Although it is a cool experiment and POC. A few years ago I took apart 5 HDD's to see if I could make a usable speaker (as a desk/novelty thing). 2 of them worked, one of them worked with decent fidelity. Three failed (probably my fault). The one that worked was a literally massive double-5.25" Maxtor.
That's a good example of why work should continue on flu vaccines.
This is not a joke at all, and was not an attempt to offend people's feelings, though it appears i did.

I truly do not understand why people want doctors to be required to hold hands and make eye contact, when telling there's no cure. I'd prefer doctors to be chosen based on their ability to cure illness, instead of the ability to demonstrate empathy to thousands of patients that will die during their career.

And i wonder how many of the people who are outraged by lack of the empathy from a doctor, also think that extending human lifespan to several centuries is a bad thing
The State of Software Engineers
I don't think the bar is set at 100% autonomy. I think he's saying it will be possible your car can do those things and probably do them safer than a human, there will still be edge cases for many years I'm sure. I do think blizzards are unlikely to be solved soon but that's a very small % of driving that humans are also bad at.
Presumably if they blocked speech that most people actually wanted to see, they'd leave to one of the billion other messaging tools. You can still say anything you want over email.
I believe they are more emotional in many ways - more driven and consumed by their emotions. Especially in social animals emotional reactions are inescapable for them. Humans are able to overcome emotion through higher level thinking and effort.

Also depends on one's definition of emotion. Is fear an emotion?
No guns or lockpicks needed to nick modern cars if they're fitted with hackable
Did my quick research. Actually I was wrong. Mosasaurus lived in a different era and adult Megalodon would probably be larger, so looks like Megalodon had no real threats.
I think that thinking around the Fermi Paradox has the fatal flaw that we think our current technological boom can be extrapolated. We have the feeling that the Kardashev scale, even type 1, is attainable. I'm more technological pessimistic and think it is not attainable. I think the technological boom will peter off, because of hard insolvable questions limited by nature and energy and money. We are enthusiastic now because of past progress and progress we see we can still make. But we will get in diminishing return time and slow stabilization before too long. And progress will become hard until impossible.

Humans will never colonize this galaxy. It's too hard, too expensive, and too pointless. And neither will other intelligent civilizations, of which I guess a small handful at most will exist in the lifetime of our galaxy. Maybe some galaxies do exist where a civilization lives that put everything of their energy on spreading within their galaxies. But even they will not be able to spread to other galaxies. The acceleration of the universe and the extreme distances and nothingness forbids that.
> The Bay Area is one of the least racist places I've lived in in my life, but it's also one of the most classist. There's still a big class stigma based on where you live. (Though sometimes gentrification flips this on its head - the Mission and EPA used to be poor, crime-ridden areas, but now they're rich, crime-ridden areas.)

The rich get crime-ridden places, too? Sounds less classist than most places.
Fascinating. This implies that Facebook, Amazon, Google are hated because they pay their rank and file employees well, instead of senior management and shareholders ahoarding all the wealth like traditional big companies do.
Ah, so delete all the apps from my phone.
SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight
> Raising taxes instead of increased deficit spending is an example of something that is often unpopular, but in many cases the objectively better option.

I don't think that you could get any reasonably representative range of economists in a room to even agree that this is ever a better option, so I think your claim to objectivity is unwarranted.
Websites Using Swift and AWS Lambda
My point is not whether government interference was impactful. My point is exactly that it made no difference.

Microsoft lost its position of dominance through purely market ends (in my opinion -- certainly between the US actions and the EU actions you could argue that they made a difference).

In retrospect breaking up MS between Windows and Office was not a necessary condition to breaking MS's monopoly, and so we have an excellent test case for government intervention at that scale. Not definitive, of course; MS could very well be the exception, but certainly the Justice Department's actions against Microsoft should not be used as evidence that such actions are effective.
A major function of law enforcement is preventing murders (and to a lesser extent suicides), which includes those performed with a gun. That’s a lot of time and effort spent.
What I'd say to that is, yeah, it's true that a senior dev will have skills that go beyond a particular tech stack -- but if you're working as a dev, then those skills are still tied to your technical knowledge.

You might be great at mentoring... but you have to know the stuff to mentor people in it. You might be great at communicating with stakeholders... but you have to understand the technical constraints of your system in detail to have that communication. You might understand principles of software design and debugging... but you still need to understand the particulars of these technologies to make your design or to focus your debugging.

And yeah, you can learn the tech stack, and a company that really needs a senior dev eventually could do okay to hire a senior dev with out of date skills, and wait for them to get trained up. But don't plan on it taking three weeks, is all I'm saying. To really get to that point of fluency and domain expertise takes longer.

(And also, one of the things that senior devs are supposed to do is evaluate new technologies and figure out when and where adopting them can make sense. If you've fallen so far behind on learning new tech, then it's not clear if this is something you're able to do -- maybe it is, and you just worked for a workplace that stifled adoption of new tech, or maybe you're someone who'll just learn what you need and then stop paying attention.)
There are a lot of crossword constructors who publish/sell their puzzles independently on the Internet, and often they create both puz and pdf files. Some sources of free ones:

- Brendan Emmett Quigley: https://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/

- Paolo Pasco: http://gridsthesedays.blogspot.com/

- and see the sidebar of Paolo's blog for links to many more constructors

- They stopped publishing these online, but the Chronicle of Higher Education has several old crosswords here: https://www.chronicle.com/section/Crosswords/43
I wanted to ship it with an original demo puzzle but construction is really hard! That's on the roadmap for the future.
The actual Moore's law is about integration of transistors. That is mostly slowing down because the physics of semiconductor manufacturing have been getting increasingly ridiculous for the last 5-10 years.

Using photolithography to build features with sizes smaller than the wavelength of the laser being used has been normal for years now. That's the level of ridiculousness we're talking about here.
The only way propulsive landings might come back on dragon is if Red Dragon or Lunar Dragon missions happen.
Ad revenue is powered by the content that draws eyeballs to the ads.

Ads are worthless on their own.
There's a great web-based tool for making your own puzzles available here: http://www.keiranking.com/phil/ (with export to the .puz format).

Really useful for both creating an initial grid and for suggesting possible fill based on existing crossing words.
Yes, and what is the problem with Amazon just employing better tools to do the same?
In My Culture
I was given an offer from Amazon with a BA in a completely unrelated field. They never even asked about my education. This was for a Front End Engineer role though, not sure if that makes a difference.
agree with most of the other comments in this thread, but would add

- BART is an extremely filthy and dangerous transit system by any 1st world standard, and I say this as a lifelong transit rider.

- Oakland, Berkeley, & Richmond govs/regs are business unfriendly & tech hostile. It's a traditionally poor working class area undergoing massive housing displacement & the political class is all old money or non-profit types.
I was gonna say, selling your winners and keeping your losers is exactly what you're _not_ supposed to do when investing.
not OP but I've eaten two eggs on toast every morning for a lot of my life
I'd like to add that this isn't restricted to the bay area. All of America has a huge classism problem, and it's often misdiagnosed as racism (not saying the latter doesn't exist at all, of course).
Twitch Town Hall: Twitch CEO Considers Geoblocking EU After Article 13
The Wikipedia page, which some of us help to maintain, has a list of industry adopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?
A lot of these companies (GM, Tesla, all ridesharing companies except Uber, Doordash, Grubhub) can't/wouldn't acquire Lyft anywhere close to its current valuation though. Maybe some of those companies could grow to the point where they could, but I doubt it. Realistically the only company which could and would acquire Lyft at its current valuation is Google - Lyft doesn't mesh very well with Amazon now, Apple won't get into rideshare, Tesla and everyone else doesn't have enough money.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114020
I buy this argument, more or less.
Easier Way to SFTP/SCP to S3 Buckets Than Amazon SFTP
It's not if you take a simple view of emotion. What's controversial is whether or not they feel complex emotions. Is that really depression or just sadness? Do adult elephants have periods of melancholy that are suddenly brought on by seeing elephant children playing in the watering hole which causes the adult elephants to remember their home town and childhoods and wish they never came to this distant country for better opportunities -- leading to regret, and then anxiety because they realized they did this all for naught are and feel trapped in their current situation? Who knows. I doubt it.
It seems like they should be able to pack more people into economy for long-haul flights, and make them more comfortable, by simply eliminating seats and replacing them with bed-pods. They'd be like little tubes you could crawl into and lie down in. They could have a monitor on the ceiling if you want to watch a movie, and otherwise you can just curl up and go to sleep (something that's usually very uncomfortable in an economy airline seat).
All signs point to Thiel entering politics.

>Writing in Cato Unbound, the organ of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, Thiel wrote,
>
> …I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible… The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.

What a pleasant fellow. I earnestly wish him the worst.
Well, if the pre-existing taxes were zero, you could probably get a most economists to agree that raising taxes was better than increasing deficit spending.

Beyond that...yeah.
As often as what? Plus, we've seen some pretty huge rocky planets. Another way of looking this is that it's akin to erroneously calculating the probability that someone might win the lottery twice by multiplying 1/gazillion by 1/gazillion and concluding it can't realistically ever happen.
This is only true if you think that "the rules" can't include breaking up companies when they reach a certain level of market control. I hope you agree that Warren is running to change or enforce some rules; the reason you run for political office is to become a rulemaker or executor.
Voltaire on Issac Newton
It's not that big of a deal apparently. Our public transport doesn't has any kind of filter system and because of that I'm sick every year for 3-7 days...
To a certain extent you also just need to be aware of where you are and where the market is going. You don't need to keep up with every single new technology, you just need an idea of where you fit in the current market and what skills you will need to pick up if / when you go to switch jobs.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smi...

Improving a blighted neighborhood is racism. If I were to displace a minority from “their” neighborhood, I would have done a racist act.
Thank you for that correction.

I am having trouble finding the reference that I found that claim in. But note that Kepler-90 does not have rocky planets that look like the Earth. It has super-earths, and gas giants. A gas giant will do a worse job of protecting a super-earth than it will of protecting small rocky planets.

So Jupiter still seems rare.

Incidentally while looking for the article that I saw before, I stumbled across https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4ohkkn/how_uniq... which pointed out something I had not thought of. Our Sun is an unusual combination of old and metallic. It is likely that a neutron star collision happened near the stellar nursery where the Sun is born. This is important for a couple of reasons. The first is that metallic stars give rise to more planets. The second is that metallic stars can give rise to planets with richer chemistry. This is another way in which we are weird, which could be potentially important for the development of intelligent life.
Netflix added banners promoting net neutrality to their website if I remember correctly.
The ‘Mad Genius’ Mystery
Oh also: if you're an NY Times crossword subscriber, you can download any of their puzzles as .puz files.
I linked your site on our slack to ask about opinions, and was surprised (not pleasantly or unpleasantly, just neutrally so :) to see that Slack can identify the app even though I haven't installed anything yet: https://i.imgur.com/H6v3LYX.png
Elizabeth Warren wants to 'break up big tech' including Amazon, Google, Facebook
Intriguing - do they use FPGAs or something for the processing?
yeah some guy who just sold a multi-billion dollar company is going to retire with a $40k/year withdrawal rate? lmao