skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father writing a number guessing BASIC program on the computer in his lab (possibly a Vector 3, I don't know) literally in seconds - in 1982 - to demonstrate its capabilities to me.

I still believe BASIC (with line numbers, particularly on graphics capable systems) was the zenith of stimulating programming environments for beginners. Having everything you might want to do available for download/copy on the Internet within seconds is the opposite...
But do they die before everything else?
That used to be the case but it is changing now because potential employees are saying they aren't as interested in bay area because of the cost of living. I've seen more companies offering remote working arrangements. Work from home in vegas, reno, phoenix or some other small town within 1,000 miles from the bay area and then one day per month, fly into SF to attend the monthly meeting.

That's why companies like wework and regus are becoming so popular these days. I've seen a decent amount of tech companies signing deals with these companies to basically be able to offer remote working as a work benefit.

Of course, if employees don't want to use the remote working benefit then they can still live in the bay area.
I wanted to play games! Back then, you would get a magazine, peek and poke hundred of lines, and then save it to a cassette tape. It was heaven when I got my first cartridge.

My kid got a kick out of https://robocode.sourceforge.io/
That is obviously intentional, and (I think) an interesting perspective.
Flash Boys was pretty inaccurate.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/michael-lewis-...

Remember that most retail investor orders never hit the exchange because your brokerage firm is selling the orderflow to a HFT firm.

Overall, you can say the benefit is that spreads are cheaper to cross for investors. But, you could also make the counter-argument that if things became slightly more difficult to buy or sell, this inertia would prevent retail investors from over-trading by taking a long-term view.
Additionally, an individual's next "move" (whatever that may be) being unpredictable doesn't make it "free will".

Universal predictability would definitely disprove free-will, but disproving universal predictability tells us nothing about free-will.
Have you ever looked at any sort of public grounds? Because your home isn’t the only place on earth with leaves and I don’t know where you got the idea.

Public parks, office perimeters, college campuses, busy roadsides, and yes, home lawns are all locations where people gather up leaves to burn them or send them off to the garbage. These are spaces in which billions of people spend all day and expect to be “cleaned” of leaves, so yes, the impact is significant.
The robot business is where it's at!
Wow, that looks like a shit ton of work for $300. The pictures make it look like it takes hours and dozens of specialized tools.
What an interesting concept!

What if it sent a DOM string instead of a picture?

The client would need some js, but mostly just click and input handlers. All the heavy JS runs server-side.

One could use v-dom diffing and only send updates to the client to reduce bandwidth.

But that is getting complicated. I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of using image maps.
> I often hear people credit the great technical universities. But that can't be, because most of the actual workers at these companies didn't go to Bay Area or even California universities [1].

Having great technical universities doesn't mean most workers will come from there. Obviously a majority of employees do not come from these schools. But a plurality? I wouldn't be surprised.
He is referring to how tech is driving our social life outside of our comfort and privacy zones. Today you can't function properly, as a member of western civilization, without carrying a smartphone, and for that you get penetrated into your privacy by the provider of the phone OS, be it apple or google, the 2 big ones.
Before you had cars, tv, planes etc, but none of them followed you inside in your bedroom. Now you are.
So yeah, he is right actually, we need technologists to become lawmakers, not just specialists that congress only summons when need it.
> Newver understood the fascination with e-votes.

People want convenience. Citizens would like to vote online, and are largely ignorant of the technical challenges that make it impossible to secure, at least on your average everyday Internet connected consumer device.

Its the job of us techies to keep shouting from the rooftops how all these implementations of online voting are deeply flawed and exploitable the same way climatologists have to keep screaming from the rooftops about the damage rising co2 is causing to our biosphere.
With syncookies disabled, a quarter of the SYN backlog is reserved for seen IPs
Not sure what I'm meant to glean from that video? It's the last 10 seconds of the flight?

The lion air pilots had 15 mins to disable the automatic trim system and simply set the trim manually. It's turning off a switch and spinning a wheel. Manually setting trim is second nature to student pilots.

They should also have read the log prior to departure and seen the previous four flights had this problem that did exactly this. Quite sure pilot error will be the outcome for lion air.

There's absolutely no difference in procedure here a normal 737. Unsure where you got that idea from.
Another example: on one of facebook groups I regularly see posts from a person regularly bashing Russia. Under every post he leaves derogatory comments. Sometimes he posts derogatory posts although the facebook group is not about Russia at all.

Just recently he had shared a meme picture from some of the "opposition" groups (Alexei Navalny or his friends) stating that Russia has the highest suicides rate in the world (of course, because we're poor and doomed and Putin eats our children for breakfast).

I didn't believe it and went to several official sources (including international) to verify. Of course, we're very far from the first place in the list of suicide rates. I've commented this on the post and received zero reaction. Moreover, the post was liked and shared further by several members of the group.

This is all you need to know about our "opposition".

And there're many persons like this disseminating fake news in facebook groups and other communities. I have no evidence, but I strongly believe that they're on a payroll from some non-Russian agency or NGO.
That's partly why I suggested people try it for themselves, because while I agree my personal subjective experience doesn't qualify as evidence one way or another for it being real / not real, it's much harder to dismiss once you've had it happen.

FWIW, this wasn't actually my goal when I started meditating, it just happened after some months of regular meditation, and I had to piece together what it was from limited information. As you can see from the number of downvotes, there's still a strong prejudice against even the suggestion that these are valid experiences with potential utility. So it goes!
> maybe watering lawns & washing cars

Water usage is twice as high in summer as it is in winter. There's a reason why, when mandatory water restrictions go in effect, the first thing that's banned is watering lawns.
> Coming to the bay to live far from SF? What's the point?

I don't regret a second of living 5 years in NYC. And I still have one friend there who, 15 years later, still lives that same life of partying until 2am, fancy restaurants, and whatnot. It sounds very exhausting.

The vast majority of my friends back then have moved to the suburbs. Good schools for kids, a nice house in a quiet neighborhood with a garage for the minivan to drive those kids to cross country meets during the week or to go camping during the weekend in the summer and ski in the winter.

The point of living in the Bay Area but not in SF is that I can have a nice house with a large garage for my hobbies: the fumes of a laser cutter or the noise of a table saw wouldn't go well in a tiny apartment. Or that I can live close to some of the best semiconductor companies in the world, something that's not even available in SF. That, if needed, there are tons of similar companies in a radius of a few miles. Or that I can drive 15min to my local park for 45min of mountain biking in the morning and still arrive at work before 9:30am. Or the weather: I still occasionally forget a warm sweater when I go to SF in the summer.

Have you considered that people in their early thirties might have different priorities in life than those who are 50? Maybe you should?
It started with fixing them. Family didn't have a lot of money so I'd get old Pentium 3 machines for free (around time core2duo was popular) while in middle school.

I'd put Linux or Unix on them and play free games like Wolf:ET.

Linux because - was shopping for Windows on Ebay and found Ubuntu 6.04 cds.

Had to learn basic bash. Coding started from there.

Internet wasn't the best, so I setup my own squid proxy, then web servers, etc. By HS I was writing code for fun and profit.

All thanks to some old Pentiums. :)
> it takes my packets to flow, somebody edges in the queue and inserts trades to make me have to deal with them for some increment of price

This is the biggest mistake people make when talking about HFT. At no point in time does someone see your order before it hits the exchange (unless you’ve specifically agreed to trade that way & even then they are obligated by lots of regulation to execute in particular ways to protect from that agency problem).

No HFT is taking pennies from your order. If you send a limit order through the book you will get filled at the best price available up to your limit.
CA and Bay Area will be fine, economically speaking, but at least from my perspective we've already reached a tipping point where it's become so expensive for your average family that it's created this strange, dystopian atmosphere (in SF) where you have obscene wealth next to in-your-face poverty, there are basically no kids because no one can afford to raise families here, streets downtown are lined with human feces and used needles, $1m gets you a small 1-bedroom fixer upper in a bad area, diversity (in profession/race/ages) is extremely limited, and people are generally stretched/anxious due to cost of living.
that was not the site linked, and took me a lot of clicking to finally see yes. though having read up quite a bit, not really a big fan.
And bigger salary and bigger projects have nothing to do with it.
It's exactly 0.0001% of the water no matter how much water there is. Context of what the substance is and its mechanism of action would determine whether or not that "is a rather substantial amount".
I think electric only makes sense for individuals that use these tools once a day at most. Running a lawn maintenance business on electric tools would probably be far more expensive and logistics-heavy.
How was that enforceable? Unless you were working for Google outside of CA?
Exactly's Bruce idea as well, as a technologist go run for office...start locally then go up the ladder. And create laws that you know will stem the tide of apple/google/facebook to trample your privacy as they see fit.
I did the math to use the neutrino transmitter it'd be 0.13% faster to transmit information from Chicago to NYC. Using equations:

s = r(theta)

l = (2r)sin(thea/2)

s: arc length (air travel distance 714 miles)

r: radius of earth (3,958.8 miles)

theta: arc angle

l: length of cord (straight line under arc)

(s-l)/l * 100 gives the % increased difference in length
I'm dreaming of a keyboard where the touchpad would be placed in the middle between the two halves for left and right hand. Because arms aren't growing in front of people's bodies (as e.g. Kinesis well know). Still waiting for which manufacturer has this idea first.

But the thing in the post might be a better solution if both the keyboard and the touchpad work well. A great illustration of the classic principle: good design compromises in a contradiction, clever design eliminates the contradiction.
Or you haven’t lived in Boston, or Chicago — both cities facing major racial integration problems in the modern day
Well yeah, if you're going to sell how great California is then of course you are going to point to the place that basically puts California on the map in recent years.
Couldn’t you just remove it?
I'll take Wyoming, thanks :)
Interesting perspective. I've often been tempted to work in the US, but one factor that always deterred me was the treatment of African Americans. I've generally had a very good time as a business traveller. I'm half-white and from a privileged background, so it's never been a question of access or belonging -- I've found the tech industry very welcoming. It's more one of personal safety and general disgust at how the US has never really tackled the legacy of slavery. I also find the US bone-deep assumption that "we're the best" extremely irritating -- kind of epitomized by the opening portions of this article only considering US locations.
Moar links!

(caveat: I am involved in many things)

1. You can implement some minor flavor of Doop in differential dataflow (https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/tree...). The fragment came from Yannis which he described as a minimal non-trivial analysis (vs other, even smaller fragments), but it still uses some 900 dataflow operators (updates in 10s of ms when inputs change, though). The DD impl isn't meant to be understood, I'm afraid.

2. Many ex-LB folks are now at relational.ai doing .. advanced weird tech like they did with LB. I'd watch them (I do).

3. Polonius (https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius) defines the Rust borrow checker as Datalog rules, and went from differential dataflow to datafrog (https://github.com/rust-lang/datafrog).

4. If you want to check out other incremental Datalog environments, in addition to IncA, there are

https://github.com/comnik/declarative-dataflow

https://github.com/ryzhyk/differential-datalog

https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow

Good times for Datalog, imo.
Batch auctions don't eliminate the speed advantage, because it is still incredibly valuable to be the last one to get information into the auction before it crosses. How sure are you that this will decrease whatever problem you think HFT causes?
Don't those subsidies cause fluctuations elsewhere?

Last I looked most countries get very upset when others dump products on their markets at below cost. Chinese steel in America being a prime example.
OP was discussing poverty rather than homelessness; having cycled through a number of bay area cities which have a much less favorable economic situation than downtown SF/Oakland/Berkeley/San Jose/MTV/Palo Alto/etc... yes, there are serious problems with poverty in California.

Most commentors here have some kind of conceptual idea about what poverty is like, or see West Oakland town houses sometimes from BART, or have ideas shaped by homelessness in SF and occasional conversations with colleagues and friends - the reality is that there's a whole ton more people out there living on much less, and it's a different world entirely, especially when you see it in person.

In some ways it's probably less dangerous than people would imagine, but it's also shocking and nearly third world.
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You can film yourself voting now. Vote buying is not a serious problem, and can be readily solved by stiff jail time for attempting it, and large monetary rewards for reporting on people doing it.

If you get 10 years in prison for trying to buy votes, and the government offers a standing reward of say, $100,000 for evidence that leads to a conviction, all of the sudden you have to pay substantially more than $100k/vote, which means that it's completely impractical to engage in.
At least one manufacturer will use this to make a 21:9 notebook.
Compared to Toronto, Canada, they kind of are though.
I believe apple got them just for the multitouch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
Carbon is not that useful on its own.
> You knew it but didn’t mention it as an obvious neutralizer of your objection, in the context of a discussion about possibility (“you could”)? I doubt that.

This is baseless and useless. I've discussed this online in several situations, including on hacker news. If you really want to check this feel free to see my comment history here and on reddit.

> There are many systems in the literature. What are your credentials in this field? Are you a cryptanalyst?

There are plenty of systems in the literature, even ones I am happy to stipulate right now are 100% cryptographically sound for the purpose of the discussion. The kinds of attacks you'd use against them are not to break the crypto. They're to break the usage of the system by common citizens and eliminate all trust from the election. Once you do that you no longer have a functioning democracy.

> This is as myopic as saying “E-commerce and e-banking are some of the few situations where the lack of sophistication of pen and paper works in your favor significantly. The demands of e-commerce and e-banking are incredibly unsuited to digital systems and definitely to any online systems.”

eCommerce and eBanking have very different needs, so the query/replace doesn't work. In banking you both accept that some people in the banks have access to your data and that transactions can be reverted. None of that applies to voting where the process has to at the same time avoid leaking who you're voting for, provide accurate counts, and be trusted by the average citizen. Those properties are simply not possible without a traditional paper count done by adversaries.
If you’re an options market maker and you are 10ms slower, you legitimately will be obsolete in the market. You will be arbitraged against when stocks move and you are slow to update quotes. This happens all the time, and it makes it so that you have to quote so wide that you aren’t competitive. Milliseconds are the difference from being competitive and going broke in the industry.
They spent 4 years and $40M on the investigation which including recovering most of the fuselage from the Atlantic and reassembling it in a warehouse.
Citation for "designed to handle the strain" of heavy metals?
Commodore Tape Recorders
I think we're talking past each other here. How would forcing Facebook to split off Instagram and WhatsApp (for example) cause a worsening of ideological bubbles?
GUI for dragging/dropping commands onto terminal
What happens is, first, speed is still an issue because life and news do not happen on 1-second intervals. So readers will wait til as late as possible to make sure they have up to date info and then send their orders as late as possible.

Second is the risks to market makers goes up, which means they need to acquire more edge to cover that risk, which in turn widens the bid-ask spread, which makes prices for retail traders worse and will likely reduce liquidity as well.
Seems this article is not about California, but the SF Bay Area. Greater Los Angeles housing is not nearly as over priced, nor is it as dependent on the tech sector.
Semantics aside, the gist of the issue is: should exchanges offer faster data feeds as a service? In a perfect world the goal of an exchange should be to facilitate fair trading not to make money by allowing sharks to feed on the rest of the participants.
Funny enough I found the HighLife replicator just by browsing through some randomly initialized runs. I think it is small enough to arise from random junk fairy often.

But I was deliberately browsing variants of Conway’s rule that supported the glider at least and maybe some of the other familiar objects.
Yes it's been said many times and they make it sound so easy, yet its not!

>> "You are now a consultant" <- this kills me.

there are so many steps and effort before rising your rates, and becoming a consultant
This is so similar to the "how to draw an owl" meme
That would be a CA certificate w/ a nameConstraints extension; from RFC 5280, §4.2.1.10[1]:

> The name constraints extension, which MUST be used only in a CA certificate, indicates a name space within which all subject names in subsequent certificates in a certification path MUST be located.

That is, you get a CA certificate signed by some trusted CA; that essentially makes you a CA; the nameConstraints section restricts it to a certain set of names, so the rest of us are okay w/ you being a CA as we know you can't issue for google.com. E.g., a nameConstraint of ".mycompany.com" allows you to issue under mycompany.com.

Sadly, and this is the key bit, AFAIK, this is completely unsupported by browsers¹ and CAs. So, it's not possible to get one, and AFAIK, even if you did, it wouldn't work. I really wish this was different, since it would make the whole certificate thing considerably easier for a lot of usecases, IMO, and is a more sensible way of doing things.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10

¹I think Firefox might support them, but I think that might be it.
I remember reading this back around when it was written - and haven't read a WIRED article I've enjoyed since.

Know this is slightly off-topic, but does anyone have another WIRED article they enjoyed reading?

Maybe of this Longform Style?
All the major tool companies use battery platforms that have been stable for much of the decade. I've used Dewalt 20v Max tools since 2011 and never broken one. Ego's yard tools were introduced in 2013, and the battery interface has not changed since. I have their mower, leaf blower, and two weed whackers, operating for over four years with zero problems. I haven't even had to replace any batteries.

Meanwhile, my neighbor's expensive new gas-powered mower has been in the shop twice in the past few years. When it does work it's loud and smells like shit.
Am I Too Old to Be Successful?
So this was an interesting book, well written and using empirical evidence that humans are killing the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Extinction:_An_Unnat...

I tend towards the view that this book is accurate, simply because I read a lot. When you read explorers accounts hundreds of years ago you have sea and land teeming with life and biodiversity. Now, when you watch a reality TV show like 'Naked and Afraid', there is very little to no wild animal life, the show should be called show up and starve.