skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whom? The people threatened by a dysfunctional housing market aren't the the people pulling 100k+ wages as information workers. Vancouver's minimum wage is $13.85 CAD, so like 10USD? That's not 3x lower than what a service sector employee is making in SF.
I wonder how people's cochlear implants will change over time in response to new technology, and whether anyone would ever accept radio technology.
Many comments are debating where blame for the incident lies - some suggesting that Boeing is simply pushing blame onto the carrier and not admitting fault. This very well could be the case, but I do wonder why the crashes of this plane (to my knowledge) have all occurred with carriers that have less than stellar safety records. If this crash had been a European, American, or other airline with a top safety record I would have significantly greater suspicion of the plane model and Boeing specific problem and not just poor safety procedures and training with the airline.
Thank you. One of my last longer writing projects last year was to update this and author a new chapter on procedural content generation for the third edition. Which is due out at the end of the month. I think they were trying to get it out by GDC, but it slipped a couple of weeks.

The biggest problem with the book I think, has been that I have been unable to program for a while. So I was glad to be able to work with the publisher on a third edition, to solve some of the bitrot problems.
Epicurus' four-fold cure:

1. Don't worry about the gods; they're too busy being gods to bother you.

2. Don't get anxious about death; you didn't exist before you were born, and I don't recall that being unpleasant.

3. What is good is easy to get; friendship, wisdom, bad jokes.

4. What is bad is easy to endure; if it gets too bad, you'll die (see #2).
We don't know for certain that we didn't exist before birth/conception. It is common ground among materialists and the mainstream Christian tradition, but many people believe in a before-life – reincarnation/rebirth in Hinduism/Buddhism/etc, pre-mortal existence in LDS teaching, the 3rd century Christian theologian Origen, Islam.

About "wishful thinking", many people really want there to be an afterlife, but conversely at least some people really want there to not be one. Some people fear hell, or that everlasting existence might become boring (apeirophobia). Others find the idea of oblivion and infinite nothingness as reassuring. see e.g. Swinburne's Garden of Proserpine – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45288/the-garden-of-p...
I can't wrap my head around it either, but I don't worry about it because I won't be around to care.
Apples to oranges.

Assuming they where 1 year in service and doing 1 flight per day, it's more like 0.002% accidents to flights.
This is a good conceptual overview of how you'd accomplish this with ACME. From a more concrete perspective, I'd suggest using acme-dns[1]. It's fairly easy to set up and is supported by a number of existing ACME clients like ACME.sh and Certbot (via an authentication hook).

[1]: https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns
If you like that you might enjoy my literate emacs setup:

https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

Not remotely as well-documented, but still understandable to the novice I hope.
Not my understanding; just how the system is explained there. I would guess that after casting the vote you can only see that you voted, not when. The only way to ensure someone votes the way you want them to is to wait until the very last moment (or just take away their identifiers).

Again, this is no different from using another citizen's mandate to vote for them, and it doesn't scale.

Of course there are plenty of other problems with e-voting that remain unaddressed.
Right, that's the ideal of a good boss, but a boss, nonetheless. I think we agree about more than we disagree about, here. I just think words can be important, and when someone in a position of hierarchical power, no matter how benevolently they wield it, says things like "really, they're MY boss", it might be intended completely harmlessly, but can actually come off as patronizing.
How did you manage to enter it in HN? Is there an escape sequence for asterisk? Or are you using special Unicode codepoints?
> "Alternative search engines are garbage,"

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like that gap has been narrowing rapidly. Partially because other search engines are getting better, but also because google has been getting worse.
I don't deny your conclusion (much less the facts). But it's a scary job typically around a bunch of scary people (it's not Andy Griffith). Also there's the psychological factor that (people tend to believe that) you'll fall off the roof through your own error, which you'll be smart enough to make, while when you walk up to the stopped car the person could pull out a gun unrelated to what you do beyond walking up to talk. The stress comes from belief, not statistics.

I think the oppositional model and recent (last 30 years) glorification of militarism has caused grievous damage to the functioning of civil policing. Non of which excuses police abuse -- and in fact AFAICT encourages it.
You're spending those scaling dollars regardless (developers with devops knowledge, infrastructure/SRE folks). Better to spend it on competent staff than a company lighting VC money on fire, no?
I'm continually surprised by how many people don't recognize this as such a massive differentiator in one's ability to be persuasive.
On 9/11 they announced that all flights were grounded in less than an hour, and from that point it was just however long it took for each plane to find the nearest safe place to land.
For those curious why this is so important:

A service I sell is a callcenter SAAS. It uses twilio to make outbound calls, but this won't work on internal servers. (I prefer to deploy the service as appliances that get shipped to the customers).

So this is a great thing for me, since it means I can start offering my customers the ability to make outbound calls from their appliances.
Motorcycles do not have to be loud. Many riders believe that loud pipes make them safer, but I haven't seen data to back that up. I've owned bikes for years, commuted to work on them (when I've had office-based jobs), and mostly my neighbors are surprised to find out that I ride them, because I don't sit outside and rev them up in the mornings before leaving, or gun them up to high RPMs while leaving the neighborhood.

Motorcycles can be far more efficient than cars, so fight the noise, fight the obnoxious riders.. but not the vehicle.
Jacqueline Jencquel is a French woman who has decided she would die in January 2020 : https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/paw59z/meet-the-woman-who...
How can the brain be mapped to the definition of a Turning machine? It doesn’t have an equivalent to an infinite tape and it doens’t work accoriding to anything like the table of rules for a Turning machine. Can you point me to a reference for this claim?

Most of the comments I’ve read don’t like the article but almost all of the commenters I’ve read don’t seem to have studied this issue. It gives me the impression that these are visceral reactions. The article is not an article for experts. It’s expository in nature.

One thing that stood out for me was this quote:

The Future of the Brain (2005), a snapshot of the brain’s current state might also be meaningless unless we knew the entire life history of that brain’s owner – perhaps even about the social context in which he or she was raised.

If true this seems to me (very much a non-expert) to give serious doubt to the notion that the brain is a computer.
Double space at the beginning of a line makes that line verbatim (and monospaced).

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Wasn't intended to chastise them at all.

Yes it is amazing what they've accomplished.

I was mourning the fact that despite all the mind share, all the talented developers, they didn't manage to produce an OS that just works (tm). I'm cognizant of the fact Linus Torvalds started out very in similar circumstances. I don't know if it is Linux taking too much air out of the room, or if in 2019, building the OS that just works (tm) is just too bigger job for volunteers. That is the shame.
US should hang its head in shame over Shamir visa issue
Maybe it's more important to them to find someone who isn't going to wreck the place and seems like a nice person? Could that be it?
A compound hash map built on top of Abseil's flat_hash_map
Make the most of the time you are given for there are no take-backs or do-overs in suicide.
They changed job to sticking things together ...
Reproducible evidence talks, bullshit walks.

No sense wasting glucose on thinking about things that are beyond our probing.
What you say may be correct, but is it your position that these news sites are not Russian government propaganda machines, that they give good, objective coverage of what is right and wrong with the country and its government?

And what is your own view of the Russian government?
> What am I misreading?

> So small character pool means that "probably" the password is short/weak.

I really don't know how you came to that conclusion. I never claimed any dependence between the character pool length and password length. They're obviously completely separate properties.
It would be better to say he invented all generative grammars, among which the context-free form is noted as easy to parse. In consequence, it suffers from limited conciseness.

The piece doesn't say outright that nothing in Chomsky is original to him, but it is a necessary conclusion.
Would you take that at half the salary as SF or even worse? Because salaries in Vancouver are super low compared to the major US tech hubs.

Not to mention good luck finding anything decent quality with a 0.6% rental vacancy rate, competition is fierce.
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Not having a Facebook account doesn't put you totally outside of Facebook's sphere of knowledge. If any of your friends has allowed Facebook to vacuum up their contacts list, Facebook knows you exist and have a shadow profile for you. Piece by piece, they can compile a substantial amount of information about you even though you've never signed up.

However I agree with your basic premise, that Google is an even worse threat. From using uMatrix and paying attention to what 3rd party shit websites pull in, it seems like Google's surveillance net is far wider than Facebook's. If you consider the possibility of AWS being used by Amazon for surveillance, then Amazon seems to have more reach than Facebook too. But all of them plainly have more reach than anybody should be comfortable with.
> most of the difference

Well this varies from person to person, but in my experience most senior tech employees in the Bay Area are making much more than they would elsewhere, enough to offset the difference and put a lot more in their bank account each year.

I currently make several times what I was making in the last city I worked.
Excellent and pragmatic analogy!
Of course I am. I want to live in a nice place in a good location with washer and dryer in unit. I'm probably not alone considering the means of the average of Hacker News reader.
Assuming there's no way to triage or filter?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19349830
Less code, less debt.
Dunning Kruger effect going on with the author of the article. He's too ignorant of the subject he's writing about, to understand the difference between the low-level way computers works and the high level sophistication algorithms can exhibit.

Quite ironically, I think his line of thought shows precisely why the brain is probably quit like a computer. The algorithm going on in his brain was probably like this:

1. Assuming I'm like a computer leads to negative emotions (because lack of free will and reduction in self-esteem it implies).
2. Therefore give high weights to facts contradicting this, and low weights to facts supporting this.
3. For a range of subjects regarding the behavior of the brain, do:
3.1. If the subject feels like it's logically supporting my view on the subject, add it to the article.
3.1.1. Anything I know the brain does and I have no clue on how can a computer do, will automatically feel like it supports my conclusion. Since I'm pretty clueless as to how computers work in general, most things are actually going to seem like something a computer can't do.
3.2. Otherwise, ignore this and keep going on to the next example.
Why 50?

Make it 65, and then find something to look forward to in 20 year's time. Even if it is just GTA XXI
In most places with undeveloped third party social service family is your only option. If you have no family to watch after you, you perish miserably or put into some hellish institution running on absolute cheap.

For the lack of other options, family caretaking is typically presented as a virtue (just as GP does here). But it has its share of rarely mentioned horror stories with children and relatives… not doing adequate caretaking job with their parents to say least.
Why do you say that's American?
If there are general practicioners in the private market in the UK, that means their patients pay for the NHS and also for the private GP, thus double charging. Particularly with your primary care provider, continuity is important in medical care, not everything is replaceable like a cog.

> Given that we spend less money on healthcare than countries that do have healthcare “on the open market” like you suggest, I’d say this is a system that obviously works.

Sorry but this is a ludicrous claim. Argentina spends 2% less of GDP than the UK, and 70% of its care is private. And not only that, it gives free healthcare services to other countries, including organ transplants.
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Tech salaries are not even close to SF levels. The average pay for a software engineer in Vancouver is $70,000. Many new grad jobs average around $35,000/year.
God damn I hate this kind of attitude. Making your stuff hard to use / hard to access is NOT a virtue.
Right, sorry, forgot how the key generation works.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336512
We can't afford to wait for evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that this aircraft is dangerous.

Probable cause should be a sufficient standard.

Two crashes in similar circumstances is probable cause to take them all out of service until they figure out what the hell is going on.

For myself and my family, we won't wait for regulators and airlines to act. We will not fly the 737 Max.
Yeah, and how much more are you making in SF. Average software dev salary in Vancouver is $65k CAD ($48k USD) vs $113k USD in SF.
I wish universities would ban leaf blowers. In addition to pollution, they kick up spores that contaminate people's experiments in the bio sciences. I know people who had to turn around and go back home to shower because they got blasted by a leaf blower walking to work.

Given that campuses are eager to ban smoking, which produces vastly less pollution by volume, leaf blowers should be a no brainer.
My grandmother lived in a home for the last 8 years of her life. At first I felt pretty bad about it because there's no way I would want to be stuck in there. It smelled bad, the food looked gross, and there didn't seem to be anything to do.

My grandmother loved it. Until that time she had been living in her own home and I guess she was pretty lonely. In the retirement / nursing home, she made a lot of friends and was far busier than she was when living alone. There was a routine she had to follow and that structure was great for her. She sang in a choir, played a lot of cards, found a boyfriend, got her hair done every other week, and could go on a field trip to the mall or a Walmart or a diner a couple times a week.

I only saw the negatives and I think my grandmother only saw the positives.
I3 is coolest thing ever.
> Bearings for coastal nav, celestial angles if you want latitude at sea, accurate time source

Right, that's the western way.

But non instrument navigators could find tiny islands on purpose thousands of years ago without any of that.

I'd call that an art. Maybe you don't practise it as an art, but others have and still do.
Funny that "computer" was originally a metaphor applied to the machine from the human occupation.
Yes - this seems like it might be an interesting avenue to take for high cost of living cities with a lot of foreign owned condos like New York City.
No. The flat rate forces them to pay me when they don’t earn revenue and screws me when they earn too much revenue. The content publication industry worked out residuals years ago. They’ll need to do the same to earn my trust, and thus my location data.
Do you mean "Chinese influence" like you got the apartment because of guanxi? Or like the situation in Vancouver now is influenced by what you saw in Shenzhen?
Mulch 'em! (It's noisy too but they're full of nutrients!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9OhxKlrWwc
High rent like pizza said as well as crowdedness, having to choose between transit and driving in really bad traffic, general city complaints. I've used the subways in NYC a few times and I really wouldn't like having to do that all the time. There is some great stuff there like the Museum of Natural History but I think I'd rather live in a surrounding suburb or something, or Hawaii like the other commenter suggested.

On the transit subject, the lack of car reliance is nice in theory, but I honestly found my short experience of taking MTA subways around less enjoyable than driving. Very crowded, jerked so hard when it started moving that I almost fell over, and the walks between connections can be tiring if there's a rush to get there on time or it's a long distance (or both - running from one side of the PABT to the other isn't fun when you're not in great shape)
Perhaps a little pilot program where they just tested if they could even get a cat to behave in a way conducive to eavesdropping might have saved them a ton of cash. Or just ask literally any cat owner if they thought it would work (they would almost certainly and universally declare it a hilariously bad idea)
> But, to address what you said, the point being made is that if someone say made a clone of Google, that had better search results than Google, that Google would penalize the website, as Google penalizes websites that resemble itself. This seems inherently anti-competitive, no?

> So, you can clearly find these websites if you're looking for them. For Google to not directly link aggregate pages instead of direct results could very well be in the best interest of users... but the point at the end of the article stands that the sterility created in the overall tech ecosystem by such dominance may be harming consumers overall in the long term.

I remember when google searches would often return results that are searches in other websites, and hated this. It was so annoying. It hasn't happened in a long time, I hadn't noticed until thinking about this in hindsight. I guess this is why?

Regardless of the validity of the point, it was an obvious direct improvement in the quality of google. It was blindingly obvious that every example I saw of this (including the one at the center of the EU case) were bullshit SEO games, not actual google competitors that deserved to appear in search results.

It shouldn't be held against any company to improve their product. It is in direct opposition of what my understanding is the basis of US antitrust law (that there is some consumer harm being done).
Not sure if it respects it, but maybe encode them in EXIF and update based on the EXIF data again after downloading?
I have sent friends who were incarcerated (Texas prison system) programming books; I haven't had the same experience. With most issues in the prison, there's a lot of subjective judgment, often by lower paid employees without much training or experience. Your best bet is to contact the prison's office and ask to discuss the issue with someone at the major or warden level.
Even so, I'd think you'd choose a cheaper part of NYC to live in, just considering the rent.
I don't see how that's relevant. The article is attacking the claim "the brain is a computer". That means all computers.

The fact that the article's example were of a specific type of computer architecture, and had nothing specific to do with digital computers per se despite the article claiming it does, just proves my point that the argument is flawed.
This reminds me of a link to a talk by Nancy Leveson that a guy linked to while taking Uncle Bob behind the woodshed for a shellacking because of some ignorant things he said about software safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBktiCyPLo4

If you don't want to watch an hour long video, she says most serious accidents and near misses happen not because something failed (and lets face it software 'bugs' are just another type of failure). But because bad interactions between properly functioning systems[1].

One of her comments is you need a system that watches for stuff like that. Lion Air Flight 610 crash happened because there wasn't a system that could make a determination that the pilots needed hard control over the aircraft. A safety system being repeatably overridden by the pilots for 11 minutes should have resulted in that system being shut down.

[1] One thing I got beat into me over the last 20 years developing sensor networks is how little information is actually available to systems like a MCAS system. That makes it's reasoning about the world brittle. Humans are better at managing path dependent state based on inane sources of information. The pilots utterly knew the aircraft wasn't stalling just by feel. While the MCAS 'knew' it was based on a messed up sensor.
What consumer products are available for us to be able to filter our water?
OK, so all traditional car manufacturers are there. Tesla is probably not represented and at all or only with a very minimal weight through some association. No surprise they don't accept Tesla's aggressive and misleading marketing, which did not exist in Germany before and is not in compliance with accepted legal practice.

On the other hand there are so many competing companies represented there, that similar practices of any single traditional manufacturer would not be accepted either. So I don't see why people reject the characterization of self-regulation.

Of course if most of the car manufacturers agree to do something illegal the self-regulation will fail. This has happened in the car manufacturing supply-chain, fines have been imposed and more investigations are on the way IIRC. That is governed by different legislation.

Probably also in the emission frauds there have been at least been "gentlemen" agreements. It's not very convincing that the engineers of the competitors did not understand how some manufacturers achieved their emission values.

But also cases related to consumer marketing which should be covered by the self-regulation remain unsatisfactory. It's well known that all manufacturers advertise misleading and unrealistic mileage values that no driver can achieve in real life. So if the majority of the businesses agrees to cheat customers self-regulation just fails. They will just stop newcomers who try to be disruptive in their cheating.

In the end every decision could be brought to court. As a matter of fact in the case of self-regulation it would not have even been Tesla who would have needed to appeal a decision. There was no decision, just a request to comply with legislation. They could have just waited whether Wettbewerbszentrale goes to court. That they decided to comply without any court decision tells a lot.