skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically true, but I'm happy enough to let the market solve this one. California will change or it will fail.

The one thing that should perhaps be legislated is some up-front disclosure in employment offers of typical costs of living in the BA. Many prospective employees from elsewhere will not quickly realize that (absurd as it seems) you can't raise a family there on $200K/y.
Wireless Security Protocols: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 (Exploiting Possibilities)
And we rely on eyewitnesses to send people to jail for life.
(I work on Bazel)

Starlark (Skylark) is used for a huge number of rules. The community has written and used in production lots of rules, such as Closure, Docker, Go, Haskell, Kotlin, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Rust, Scala, Swift, Typescript.

We stopped creating native rules many years ago and we are actively migrating them to Starlark. I'd replace the phrase "real rules" with "legacy rules".

If you hit critical limitations when writing rules, feel free to ask on the mailing-list (or on a GitHub issue).
>Every time ddg is mentioned on hn, it receives a lot of praise in the form I use this or that bang - in essence negating its usefulness as a search engine and making it a glorified shortcut app.

A huge chunk of what people do on search engines is essentially using them to query databases. If I know which database my answer is in, why add an extra step?

It's actually a point in DDG's favor that they forgo a chance at ad impressions and allow the user to jump directly to what is wanted.

(Though to be fair I suspect a big chunk of their income comes from Amazon referrals, which will give them income whether you search on the site or use a bang command)
Direct quote from the piece:

"I’ve lived in the Midwest, on the Texas/Mexico border, and in New York, and when I moved to San Francisco..."

Additionally, the argument in the entire piece is about California not being the epicenter of all of the things it claims to be.
Your comparison doesn't actually hold. Working from home, while more convenient, actually decreases the externalities we pass on to others.
Do note that the accuracy of "Enemy at the Gates" is dubious at best. Not a good source of facts for the Battle of Stalingrad.
I never planed to be thirty - so there is that.
>Back to your bang feature point, I really appreciate that DDG makes it easy to search Google instead by simply using !g.

Or you can use !s to use StartPage, which uses Google's results to seed it's own and is more privacy respecting
As discussed with my father today, a good care home for elderly should be a social club rather than a health care institution foremost. Let us all go out in good company with high spirits, and maybe some coffee and spirits to go with it.
He had THC pills so those scenarios don’t have much to do with the moral right of the hospital to confiscate the THC pills. Also it seems like he was using THC pills to avoid using opioids prescribed to him. You can likely forgive him for being skeptical of the risks associated with that.
I think it can't be the case because the brain is a chaotic system. But hiding behind chaotic behavior to preserve "free will" is farcical, isn't it? We can't know how the pendulum[0] will swing next, so we can say that it's got free will?

0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Double-c...
Prolog, of which Datalog is a syntactical subset, is an ISO standard since 1995.
But they neglected maintenance when serious issues with the plane were apparent. The pilots of the flights prior to 610 noted that the two AoA sensor readings differed by ~20 degrees, and nearly aborted their flight before overriding the auto trim.

Flight 610 should never have taken off.
Either Jeff Bezos is really stingy or pizzas must be ginormous in the USA two pizzas does not feed 5 - 7 people.

Two large pizzas would feed 3 people at most.
If I understand correctly the data is updated once a day, so everyone who does this will have the same random number. It is even described in the linked slides: they were able to generate the same random number, without communication. What use can this have?
To my knowledge no other state throws out non-competes like California does.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-and-regulators-delay-jet...

Boeing and Regulators Delay Jetliner Fixes Prompted by Lion Air Crash

Software update, initially expected in January, now likely pushed until April or later
Misery was
In a way similar to how the third leading cause of death is medical errors, in the future, one of the leading cause of death will be computer bugs.
And it works brilliantly, easily my favorite feature on this phone (key2). Thinking about it this phone is my favorite since the iPhone 3g
The concept of free will does not inherently rely on the concept of a spirit.

It may be in your philosophy, and I'm not arguing that. But it's not universal.
Wording. I would think about how to announce the death of a community member, not to be mistaken with other such instances.
I can see this working for me. And it would be highly efficient and ergonomic. Would definitely like to try it.
Do ethicists actually behave more ethically than others?
> A full 80% [of US] believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” … The woke are in a clear minority across all ages. … Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30% see it as a problem.

This is because the definition of "political correctness" is different from person to person. It conveniently drifts so people can think they're against some common problem when in reality some people use it to veil homophobia, and others to complain about postmodernism.

It's a convenient term, but useless. You call someone politically correct and they'll say no. You learn nothing about their position, you only get to engage in some petty name calling. Feels good, right? Maybe we should stick to the factual matters, the specifics of what legislation and culture is too "politically correct" for you.
This entire document [0] is about exactly what you are trying to piece together. And it talks about a criminal justice algorithm that was "discovered" to be racist.

And it explains that these types of things "being fixed" is not really possible in a way that doesn't screw some group over ... you just kind of have to decide who you want to screw over.

Have a read it is very interesting.

[0] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max has had a deadly crash
> The whole OSI stack might be silly but separating the physical layer has always been a great idea. When I upgrade from 10/100 ethernet to 10/100/1000 ethernet, I don't have to re-test my web server and mail server.

No, but you had to change all your network cards on both ends of the connection, and of course there were new drivers for the new chipsets. Same with USB.
I'd now days say google is mostly a shortcut app too. 90%+ of the time I'm really just loozing for data from a well known aggregator (wikipedia, reddit, stack overflow, rotten tomatoes, etc.)

Google basically enhances that in three ways:

* It takes away the choice/effort behind selecting a source.

* It combines multiple sources in an ok way

* It gives ok results for things that aren't really just shortcut queries
Was going to mention similar - that video is of the Passport, which uses their OS, but I use a KEYone, an Android-powered BlackBerry with one of these keyboards. Soooo much nicer than software keyboards, it was the single thing that made me choose it over all the others available.
The Bay Area has some of the nicest weather and access to some of the most beautiful recreation opportunities just about anywhere (even if Silicon Valley itself is mostly meh suburban sprawl). It's hard to believe those don't have some effect. Sure, most people who move there do so for jobs, but--especially as they get a bit older--most people will try pretty hard to have a job somewhere they actually like living.
Maybe it's unavoidable, but this is very sad to me. A library cannot simultaneously be a flophouse for the homeless and an institution for learning for kids. And unfortunately, in many cities, we've decided that the former matters more than the latter.

I would have been intellectually destitute as a kid had I not had weekly trips to the library. I lived in the middle of nowhere, and there were no adults around who knew anything about what I was interested in. Perhaps the web would now fill that need. Not sure, though. It was a magical place.
Improving the distribution developer experience was one of the early objectives of Ubuntu, and where it had the least amount of success. It's a pity, because perhaps the only useful thing you could get out of essentially forking Debian (in itself not a great idea, but say you wanted to...) is independence from its technical and social processes. Ubuntu's processes are different, but not wildly improved... primarily because Launchpad was designed from a database schema, not for users.

Ubuntu exploited a clear gaping hole in the distro market in 2004. There's still a gap in 2019, but it's a weirder market now than it was back then.
It does if you try a little bit. But, you said truly, not if you don't.
Like Relativity, Nuix or any of the existing eDiscovery processing tools?
Are you implying that vote buying and voter coercion are theoretical threats? They are real and very common problems even in old fashioned paper ballot elections.
Are there are any games they play/might be interested in that have scripting facilities of some sort?

I got into tech of various flavors by learning to write RuneScape bots circa 2005-2009. There were a few publicly available Java reflection-based bot dev kits at the time, which was my initial entry point. I later got into more advanced programming topics by figuring out how the SDKs themselves worked and rolling my own, as the widely used free ones tended to get your accounts heuristically banned quite a lot. Sysadmin stuff when I got around to setting up proper remote bot farms, etc.

My example is somewhat more ethically dubious than a lot of similar-ish stories (e.g. blizzard rts mod development, Minecraft mods, etc.) but I've always found that "pure" intros to programming tend to lack an inherent motivating factor like what you can get with messing with games, whether it's to make something cool, skip a grind or generate some pocket money.
This is interesting but he kind of jumps all over the place; it strikes me more as a brain dump of ideas and hypotheses.

There are a few areas where he’s playing pretty fast and loose with the facts, too. For example: NYC has way more homeless people than SF, but they aren’t as visible because under city law, the city is required to provide shelter to all of them. It has nothing to do with the weather, and in that sense NYC is way nicer to its homeless than SF.
More News, India institutes a new regime where there is no bribery of politicians...
When did they stomp out vote-buying in the UK? There is a steady stream of substantiated irregularities around postal ballots (like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/440..., this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/86..., and this: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-19397157).

Postal voting should be restricted to the certifiably homebound, if it's open to everyone the opportunity for abuse will be taken.
I normally use a Microsoft natural keyboard and I lay a magic TouchPad over the numpad/home/end button area.

This way it's ergonomic and productive, as I never move my hands. Seems like a better solution, to me, than passing your fingers through the bumpy keys "islands"...
Because we are introducing a third party into a situation that didn't require a third party.
Scott Kelly’s Body Has Been Going Through Gruesome Hell Since a Year in Space
> That's how you get people selling votes.

It's also important to realize that the mere suspicion of other people selling their votes is enough to undermine confidence in the system.

And confidence in the system is pretty much the only thing you have to optimize for.
Can't you hash a signature of some manner to your vote in a manner only the individual can know how they voted? After all this is exactly how login/passwords work.
California is the United States, writ large. It's not qualitatively different, it's just more so.

Or, from a slightly different standpoint, the rest of the country is California, just 20 years behind schedule.

I have lived in many different places all over the United States, including twice in California, where I have settled with my family, and it's very easy to fall into a "crazy california" narrative - especially when comparing with "sensible" places like Minnesota. But it's not true. Right this very moment in Minneapolis there is a heated, polarized debate about housing affordability and homeless services and zoning that is indistinguishable from the SFBA debate (save for the pricing numbers difference).
As an American of Irish heritage - my family until very recently lived in an Irish American community in South Boston for generations - I can't stress enough how little I share these feelings. I know I'm not "Irish", but my life is presumably a consequence of the same decisions that the author is upset about. It seems that the author is using historical events to justify political resentments that are very current and very local. To me that is unhealthy.
> Why do tech companies flock to California (LA/SF)?

1. California has laws surrounding non-compete, making it easier to poach from the Fairchild Semis, Hewlitt Packards, Intels, Sun Microsystems and Googles of the era.

2. It's easier to recruit out of Michigan than into it. California wisely keeps its snow in one place: Tahoe.

3. Diversity. As you point out, there's a ton of H1-B workers, and SF and LA have sizeable preexisting communities. It's just easier to be an immigrant or hyphenated-American in world class metro areas that can support a variety of ethnic and cultural clustering.

4. Public transit. Depressingly, the bay area still has better public transit than most other cities. Yes, the big companies still run coaches in the bay area, but that works in part because of density you won't see in cheaper, lower cost metros. And if you're recruiting internationally, the ability to commute to work without a drivers license or car kinda matters.

5. Access to money. There's a decent number of banks in SF's Financial district -- Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab are headquartered here. VISA is nearby in Foster City, and there's a number of VCs on Sand Hill Road you won't find in other cities.
The most dense cities in the world: Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo even New York City should be the go to locations for tech, but they're not.

The Bay Area has two things going for it that will make it hard to replace.

1. Non-competes are unenforceable. This means that the most talented engineers like working here because they can job hop with ease where in other locales they are locked into jobs working for lousy bosses.

2. Many of the most talented venture capitalists and seed investors like living here. They like it because it's pretty, you can escape the city in no time and be in nature and it's low density. I doubt the kind of people who live in Atherton or Woodside would pick up and move so easily to L.A or Manhattan. The Bay Area with its geographical boundaries provides a pretty good integration of ultra-rich neighborhoods with the middle class workers that make up the bulk of tech's working class.
Her issues with the English are founded and interesting. But we all feel like that. Our history is complex and bloody, you go to any part of the UK and the people there feel the same way, why are we the butt of jokes? Why do they not care about our history and oppression (the North, Scotland, Cornwall, Wales, any rural part of the UK). While Londoners drone on about London.

Brexit and the Irish border is almost impossible to solve. The talk has been endless, with what? An hour a day on Radio 4 for the past 3 or 4 years. It is complex. It is miles and miles away in a land 99% of us have never been to and can't help with a coherent answer. A hard border is madness. A soft border leaves a gaping hole in the EUs borders. A backstop means Northern Ireland are running a separate legal system to the rest of the UK, and we still have the issue of some sort of border somewhere ... in the UK ports? How many harbours and ports are there that are capable of getting a boat to Ireland? Hundreds?
I can't think of a situation where two parties would want to generate the same sequence of random numbers without communication, however, if I ever need it, this seems like a really interesting solution.
You're assuming free will is mutually exclusive with determinism. This is probably not the case. See Compatibilism, which enjoys majority support among philosophers and studies of lay people.
That doesn't help at all because although Datalog is a syntactic fragment, its dynamic semantics are very different, so the operations defined in Prolog standard are suggestive at best and completely nonsensical at worst.

For example, the program `p(X) :- p(X)` with query `?- p(X)` is an infinite loop in Prolog but in Datalog it terminates trivially and is equal to the empty set of facts for `p` in the absence any other facts.
I'm starting to think that bottled drinking water is a simpler and more efficient method that getting people to drink tap water. It seems crazy that every drop from the tap is high quality water good enough to drink - when 99.9% of it is not used for drinking. Perhaps its more efficient just to deliver drinking water to everyone in office cooler type bottles, and lower our standards for the water system.
I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I found it quite interesting and it is at least as substantive and relevant as a dozen-plus other, non-downvoted comments on this post.
AutoHotkey[0], which is a phenomonally inconsistent and bizarre yet simple scripting language for Windows that lets you hack together pretty much anything. I knew nothing about programming and was just trying to do something simple with it (I don't remember what), and failing until I dove head first into the docs.

The I discovered the forums, which had a lot of healthy discussion at the time. I remember contributing to a clipboard manager written in AHK called Clipjump[1] that I still use to this day (great concept, not so great implementation). This was when I was in high school in the early 2010s. From there I got a lucky break when I was hired with no prior experience for a PHP4 scripting job, and then on to greener pastures from there with JavaScript and Python.

[0]https://autohotkey.com

[1]http://clipjump.sourceforge.net/
Tap to Click on this would be amazing
Hehe, I also recommended the same book in my reply. Definitely, a must read! :p

What do you mean when you say, you "found the book a bit difficult"? As in tedious to read, or difficult to implement?
Sure. Just a few things that stand out:

- Constant criticism and nitpicking. Essentially I feel like nothing I do is right and even the smallest mistakes get a private Teams message about how I shouldn’t have done X, and then any apology from me is basically met with “Ok” as a response rather than any sort of empathy. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like small mistakes in a new position were never allowed.

- Micromanaging and controlling. They referred to themselves as a “dictator” on more that one occasion and had a “my way or the highway” attitude. I was hired on at a senior level and essentially ended up with close to zero input on design choices, so basically I stopped giving my opinion because I knew it would always be met with being shut down.

- I also felt singled out and was essentially told not to socialize in our Teams channels. This cut me off from the team quite a bit and made me feel totally isolated. I’d also try to suggest things globally so that knowledge could be shared and discussed with everyone. Again, I’d get a follow up message on Teams about how I shouldn’t be doing that and any suggestions like that need to be discussed with the manager first.

That’s just a few things. Overall, it’s just a feeling of not having any autonomy and any attempts to gain any being shut down. I want to say they maybe feel threatened, but I don’t like to jump to that conclusion.

Maybe it’s not yelling and screaming, but it’s a more passive-aggressive type of abuse and toxicity that in some ways digs deeper because it’s not easy to pick up on immediately or as visible.
With working from home and unlimited vacations becoming more and more widespread, I wonder are there any upsides left in freelancing?
I think 19th century? Not too sure of the exact dates. I do know that it persisted for a while after it was made illegal and then disappeared completely once it actually started being prosecuted.

Vote buying could still re-emerge but it can only flourish in an environment where you can do it openly with impunity - i.e. it's legalized or the cops for some reason think they can't touch you.

Your first link doesn't appear to be about vote buying (looks like low level postal fraud which is something else), the second is only about allegations (and again, postal fraud) and the third link looks like a 404 to me. I would be surprised if anybody's seriously attempted vote buying in the UK in the last 70 years.
True AI likely wouldn't be able to deduce context much better from the words given (i.e. a clear 'this' or 'that' situation, like Hamilton the musical or Hamilton the individual). It's just impossible to tell sometimes, and would require user effort to specify. Maybe the value in the AI could be sorting results into the 'this' category or 'that' category, making perfect results just one step away for the user?

Also, I've heard that the issue with AI in some specific domains is substantially slower responses than traditional / non-AI. Would this / how would this be reflected in a search engine? Would query results be updated less often?
> The majority of those h1b workers are at like tcs Wipro and Infosys, not conventional sv companies.

Who do you think those companies contract out to?
If you combined this with a local GPS receivers location + other data (system I/O load, temperature, etc), it then is random. But I agree without anything else it is... just a long-digit number that anyone can reproduce ?
Is it normal in India to stay in the same town as your parents?

I see that as part of the problem in the west, especially if you are educated and have some sort of specialization, you are kind of expected to travel to get a "better job" - though that's a fairly personal decision to be fair. Certainly my parents put more of an emphasis on getting ahead in the working world rather than staying close.

Also I have met a few Indians here in Europe, as far as I am aware they don't have plans to go home, whats the expectation there?