skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you wouldn't want to live in an SRO doesn't necessarily mean others wouldn't. I don't think she is suggesting building Hong-Kong style cage beds, but it sounds like something more like a college dormitory. It's not ideal housing, but for many maybe worth the price. Look at all the people renting bunk beds in SF - maybe they would prefer a single room?
You say "no move", but you made a good one. I concede the point. Thanks for being a good sport.
Capitalism has nothing to do with personal possessions. It pertains to the personal holding of production.
I never had issues with Paypal and in general people do not complain about stuff that works. I always only use Paypal since it is available everywhere, convenient and i trust it more than random websellers with my debit card details (i do not use credit cards as i prefer to either have the money to buy something or not buy it at all).
If you read that out loud as if it were Spanish, it would sound like the original French pronunciation for Galois. So, good job! :-)
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the complete fucking shitshow that is SFPD

I know what you're driving at here and I would probably tend to agree, but man you should travel to some other parts of the country some time.
Flagging posts as nazi and letting users choose to unhide nazi flagged posts is better. Twitter has a NSFW flag and lets users view NSFW with a setting.
So like it wouldn't be a decay if it went neutron → neutron, if that makes sense. There is one “main” diagram which goes neutron → neutron and it looks like a straight line with no vertices and it is by far the most probable thing, most neutrons just stay neutrons.

So there are two reasons that a free neutron outside of a nucleus takes so long to become a proton, and you can kind of visualize it like pulling a molecule of air through an air filter or so, the first reason that this particular setup takes so long is that this particular air filter is really thick, and the second reason is that the fan you're using is not very strong.

The “wall being thick” has to do with this intermediate particle, and that’s what I was alluding to above. The wall is thick because you need to create this W- boson. The problem is that this boson has about twice the mass of the neutron itself, call it Bohb because it’s a Big Ol’ Honking Boson. There's just nowhere near the energy in the system to create this thing directly. And in quantum mechanics that is okay because quantum systems can “tunnel” through states that they cannot directly actually occupy: but it generally takes longer and longer the more and more energy you need to borrow, and this is a lot of energy to borrow.

The other thing is the weak blower, and that has to do with what “pressure” or “energy difference” drives the decay. In this case the driver is the mass difference: down-quarks are just intrinsically about 2 MeV heavier than up-quarks and that is enough to cover the 0.5 MeV of an electron and a neutrino., so you have something like 1.5 MeV left over to spread across the universe. By itself that number doesn't mean anything, though—what means something is the ratio of the initial to the final masses, which is something like 939.57 MeV : 938.78 MeV, so the final mass is only 0.08% lighter than the initial mass. The reaction rate goes like some high power—a fifth or sixth power—of this ratio, so when one side has like half the mass of the other side then the reaction happens very very fast because there is so much pressure driving it. But in this case the masses are so close to equal that the reaction takes something like hundreds of times longer than you might otherwise expect from just the thickness of the barrier alone.
There is a precedent for regulating this sort of thing. Advertising to children is regulated to some form or another just about everywhere.

What's new and challenging here is that when a person simply posts a video they made on YouTube, that's freedom of expression. If I want to post videos of me unboxing things, there's nothing morally or legally wrong with that.

The grey zone is the money being traded between toy makers and video makers. As soon as money is exchanged, that should logically be considered sponsorship and be subjected to advertising laws.

Just because it's on YouTube doesn't change that a company is paying money to an entertainer to promote their products to children. There are already laws in place about this. It's only a matter of time before prosecutors get involved.

Of course, the toy companies know this and have factored in the legal risks into their calculations. YouTube will be able to skirt the issue because they're just a platform for other people's stuff, and they're not being paid for these sponsorships. The real risk is being taken by the content producers, who almost certainly don't realize how liable they may find themselves to be.
That's a really interesting final point that I've been trying for a long time to ingrain in myself. If someone is grouchy or irritable, it might not be that they're a bad person, it could be simply a bad time, day, week. The best bit for me about being in a software team for the first time has been learning to work with people. Consistently tough but rewarding.
Cobra is great, add in Viper for config.

Goreleaser for creating binaries, home brew, os packages, GitHub releases.
Fun fact: The Dreamcast GPU was a precursor to the PowerVR GPUs used in iPhones and many Androids.

Also, Qualcomm’s popular Adreno line on Android GPUs has its roots in the Xbox360 GPU.
I read his book Europe through the back door before my second trip to Europe, around 1992. What a refreshing book, especially in a category that was (and is) dominated by publications and institutions that are invested in making you want expensive and exclusive accommodations and attractions.

He has kind of a upright earnestness, combined with a sort of Germanic devotion to efficiency ("save money by sleeping on the train"; "plan a day's activity city-hopping by integrating a few key visits with the train schedule", "roll your trousers when packing"), that some nerds would generally find appealing.

I've returned to that book several times over the years when I feel like I need an attitude adjustment about how I travel, because it's easy to fall into the habit of just booking expensive accommodations. The result can be one-dimensional.
Cheers. I just feel vicariously embarrassed for him (in regard to his writing here, at least). I can see how one might mistakenly read more into what I wrote than that, but that's all I intended to say.
That's both a relatively cheap price tag for a robot and a famously hard problem in robotics. You're in luck though, foldimate is aiming to launch this year for $1k. Given that a washer/dryer combo can be purchased separately for ~$1k, all you'd need to do is load each machine. Ain't the future cool?
And here's the AI Gigapixel tool:

https://topazlabs.com/ai-gigapixel/
Was able to get 6 nights in Japan on 4 vacation days by leveraging Thanksgiving. Told relatives I would miss Thanksgiving but attend Christmas, everyone thought that made sense. For those who celebrate and enjoy Christmas, I don't recommend missing Christmas for solo travel overseas, did that once and felt very isolated. People in the place I was visiting were celebrating their own Christmases and people I knew back home were celebrating Christmas and I wasn't there. With Thanksgiving it's likely not a holiday in the country you're visiting so everything is open and for me at least, I don't really care about missing Thanksgiving, a better version happens 1 month later.
Yea but nobody (no company/org) is going with that direction except a few...

Majority goes to Rust for what it is developed for: system programming.

Just like I won't use Go for web app dev (ugh.. what a PITA)
This is the thing that is drawing me in. The fact that others really need babysitting.

I've never had huge problems with writing programs php or JS. Now everyone is freaking out about typescript and PHP type hints and all I'm doing is sitting here scratching my head asking but why? What does it do for you?

It looks like people were doing a lot of dirty state mutation and a lot of optional parameters that sometimes had mixed types because "then you can use it with an ID, an email, or a user object you silly billy".

Both of those things create a god awful hell. The second example may sound easy to use but then you have now way to reason about code, you can no longer clearly compose pieces and variable names become less descriptive. Types provide you with a simple pair of hand cuffs that prevent this issue. But they come at a cost.

My issue is that people with shitty habits should probably just change their shitty habbits. Changing from a dynamic language that lets you take a lot of safe shortcuts to a static language because you abused those shortcuts is really the wrong way to go.

Moving to something like clojure looks like a much cleaner solution to the problem.

Still handcuffs, but at least youre forcing the right thing (pushing the state mutation to the edge, leaving the business logic clear and rational without all the type safety bloat.
Are you paying a flat rate per conversion or a flex rate based on customer spending or some other metric?

If its just a flat rate per conversion, this could be accomplished with minimal (if not no) PII collected from the customer.
Depends - I started freelancing with 2 kiddos and little savings, so I had to do the side-gig transition until I was sure it'd make ends meet.

You definitely need a "fire" keeping you moving, though - if you have savings & low expenses, making the leap to full-time can force you to learn fast.
It's not just wordpress. There are magento, joomla, drupal...
Or the gentleman was on probation/parole, so GP's testimony wasn't necessarily required.
Working on the "Spinners": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcmHXvR-W1c

It's cool that the Blade Runner name works for those things.
D:

Which are the "right extensions" because what I saw was not "fun" at all.
Even if you take the rather extreme assumption of purely environmental factors, your conclusion does not hold. "Environmental" does not inherently mean "changeable" on already affected individuals. For instance developmental malnutrition is a purely environmental phenomena that leads to stunted growth, reduced IQ, and various other issues. It's completely environmental and completely irreversible upon already affected individuals.

And even if some revolutionary discovery was made to help treat stunted IQs, prisons are probably not the place one would want to start. The IQ gap holds between populations of all classes and socioeconomic condition. You open yourself to missing the true effectiveness of such a monumental discovery due to confounding biases within the prison population. The possibility, if not probability, of coercion upon experimental "treatment" towards prisoners is also probably something we ought probably prefer to avoid.
Laundry is absolutely the biggest "housekeeping" item I have trouble with. I would pay a lot of money (thousands of dollars) for a robot that would take dirty laundry and wash, dry, and fold.
Alternatively, you could always use pyinstaller to create a single static binary for a Python app, so no need for python to be installed at all. Not quite as performant as go, but should be good enough for this use case.
Obviously there's still a lot of greenfield C++ work out there too, but I would expect that it's no longer the lion's share (C# is very much getting to this stage of it's life too).

Given that C# is the go-to language for new development on Windows, and with Microsoft now officially supporting cross-platform C# and .NET, I find that very hard to believe.

What’s the trajectory of - say - new Github projects that use C#/.NET?
The point the author is trying to make IMO is that the parents dismiss the relationships as shallow and contextual, while the children themselves, the ones actually in the relationship, have no choice whatsoever.

Of course relationships will come and go in everyone's life, but in an adult relationship at least there is some choice made by one of the two parties invested in the relationship.

I met my dearest and oldest friend in the fourth grade. If my parents had made a life decision that would have cost me that relationship it would have been a huge, huge (really unimaginable at this point) loss for me.
But it's not down to polygons or details in the environment - the simple architecture still looks realistic with the addition of realistic lighting. In the quest for realism, modern games have so many details, dirt and grit everywhere [1]. Perhaps going forward artists can let the lighting do more work and still represent realistic clean environments. I loved this blocky room in Half Life 1 for the dramatic (prebaked) lighting: http://combineoverwiki.net/images/thumb/3/37/C2a4e_lobby.jpg...

[1] just look at Doom 2016: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160...
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

-former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman

https://www-m.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-ri...
Have you tried Symfony?
> How long you don't use debuggers?

Like 7h ago?
Great point; this kind of codification is absolutely in service of HR-type requirements. It reminds me of the book Seeing Like a State; the entire premise is the way that various administrative forces elide or even erase complex on-the-ground details and nuance in order to make the subject more manageable in some way.

Not to say this is categorically bad or wrong, but it's useful to recognize its purpose. In my current role I have a position as a technical lead, with someone who formally outranks me on my team. In practice all it means is that I'm the one that management comes to for scheduling. :) We work together as equals on any given task. I don't think either of us would ever try to pull rank.
Yes, they should compare it to Quake 2 XP which is already a nice improvement over the original graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uurJ-zjhok
You need some money, sure. But, it's not nearly as expensive as most people think. Rick Steves is also all about frugality where possible. His one exception is if spending money will save time, as time is the most valuable thing we have.
can someone help me understand what "ray tracing" means in this case?

i've read a few technical articles about ray-tracing, but they mostly describe it as a rudimentary (largely outdated) way of achieving 3d effects with relatively little code, and with severe limitations (walls must be orthonormal, changes in elevation require extra work, etc.). i understand ray-tracing at this level (break the view into columns, set the fill height of the column according to the distance of the ray).

then i see marketing-style articles like this one that use the same term to describe advanced lighting effects, material reflections, etc. and i don't understand the technological jump. what am i missing?

edit: i was thinking of "ray casting", not "ray tracing". thank you for the corrections below.
sure, some pop artists have great skill, but that's beside the point.

my point was that singing entertainment (e.g., pop) is widely available (someone sitting near you right now can probably sing well enough to be entertaining), so not scarce. you can find millions of decent takes on pop songs on youtube.

and further, the level of passable entertainment is low, both because plenty of people can sing passably, and because enjoyment of the music comes not from admiring the skill but mostly from other factors.
How long have you had it? Any annoying things about it?
in my personal opinion: baldness used to be unsexier, but that changed in the last 1-2 decades. nowadays it's another hairstyle people might adopt even if they're not bald - fashionable, especially combined with a beard.

being partially bald (instead of going all in ... or all out?) feels like it's (still?) unstylish, as a tonsure (monk spot?) is not a hairstyle you'd be going for on purpose.

though, as i grow older myself, as in 30+, even though i still have a head full of hair i tend to notice it less and less as there are so many people in my social circle (mostly in the 25-45 year age group) sporting partially bald heads it pretty much became the new normal.

edit: one of the reasons might be that people started to get in shape more. if people are balding but in shape, the lack of hair becomes secondary. as linked below: http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/180/
My definition of a "Distinguised Engineer" is Dave Cutler.
The magnitude of the error has been overstated though. There were issues, but a coal powerplant is worse for public health than the known disasters.
The way I see it, most existing financial transactions are trust-based. Many cryptocurrencies aim to be trustless. I see this as a compromise, with the visibility and implementability of cryptocurrencies, while still being trust-backed.

This way, if there is a problem with a transaction, or the currency, etc. there is someone left holding the bag, which is a better fit with the existing legal infrastructures that are already in place.

I'm actually pretty surprised that this is coming from a corporation, and not a national government. SWIFT can be an absolute bear, and providing a programmable currency interface à la Stripe, but with lower fees and the full backing of a government could be a killer app for international trade facilitation.
It’s not precisely global. Throughout the world it correlates best by far with the year that a given country, state, or region phased out leaded gasoline.

I.e. declines did not start in same year in every country. They almost entirely began 18-30 years after phase-out of leaded gasoline.
> A technical leader should be able to have strong opinions loosely held on designs and architecture. They do not need to have opinions on everything, that would be pedantic.

Pedantry has nothing to do with having opinions on everything, but has more to do with an obsession on minutia :)</pedantry>
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Everything in Las Vegas is showing up in Euro prices, even though I am located in Las Vegas and would like to see dollars.

Also if you look at "The Mob Museum" one vendor has the lowest price, which is 15, but its only because they offer a child ticket, and that price is being compared to the adult tickets on other websites.

Not sure how you can solve that but it seems like a significant obstacle to finding the actual best price.
Still, emissions from planes are a tiny percentage of global output. Individuals should not share the burden if it's a handful of companies polluting the Earth.

You can also offset your footprint by buying land and planting trees. With some handkerchief math you'll be able to fly without any worries.
Presumably, the makers of Plavix had an estimate of what they could sell the drug for in the US. It's possible it would not have been a viable investment if they weren't able to sell it for 5x in the US. This never bringing it to market.
About "Humility and Empathy"... why not to try Whiplash(2014) movie teaching method?
This is misleading. Hispanics as a whole haven't risen very much (but are rising) because there's a consistent inflow of new immigrants. Many also also return to their home countries after making a decent chunk of money. So this gives the appearance of not being successful.

Populations of Hispanics that do stay in the US for larger stretches of time have been successful. Cuban Americans, for example, have higher than average incomes and education rates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Americans
I remember my grandfather in dire need defacating into a plastic bag and dropping that to the trash. Considering that this is how dog poo is treated in many communities it may be a step forward.
You're right about those tips. It is totally possible to travel and keep the budget from getting crazy. That's the kind of stuff the wife and I do every year (BTW, I highly recommend Bologna).

A lot of folks, however, aren't comfortable with putting themselves out there into an airbnb (or equivalent) and fending for themselves with local markets and transport. It's really not that hard (depending on where you go and your tolerance for embarrassment and alienation), but there's definitely a language and cultural barrier that needs to be overcome or worked around.

I think that Rick Steves, in his unique way, makes a lot of people feel more comfortable with getting out there. It really is so much better to travel without a tour company mediating the experience.
I think that's because you don't understand what a PE is doing (or you work in a very broken org). As an example:

Imagine you're the driver of a car. You're an expert at driving that kind of car. Someone gets in the back and says, "Please go to 123 Main St.". Another person gets in next to you to tell you how to get there, they are your navigator.

You are the software engineer. You understand the mechanics of actually making the car go. The person next to you is your manager, and the person in the back is the PE.

So what has the PE and your manager done here? Well, what you didn't see is that your manager went to a bunch of meetings before getting in the car to find out that 1st avenue is blocked up and will help you avoid it by navigating you around it. And the PE? The PE had 12 meetings before getting in the car with both internal and external leaders to figure out where the car will go.

Without the PE, you would just be driving wherever you want, and maybe you'd get to a useful place and maybe you wouldn't, but with the PE there, you'll go directly to a useful place. And if you ask them why 123 Main St is the most useful place, they would probably be happy to tell you.

To you it may look like the PE is just sitting in the back, but that's because you don't see all the work they did before they sat in the car, and you haven't asked (or they're bad communicators and haven't told you).
> The letter is a dreadful example of how to not plead a case.

Maybe you should reread your own comment, and apply your own advice.

Using things like "crap" and "rubbish" doesn't indicate that you would do a better job at writing that letter.
It won't change much on a desktop device if you're already running things like uBlock Origin. But on mobile, where your options are a bit more limited, it can make a huge difference.
Step 2 for people with passports issued by developing countries: Allocate a month to visa applications, interviews, biometric checks, gather documents and letters, then take a mini vacation to a city that has consulate services for the target country, to convince them you are not a liability or future illegal immigrant.

More discussion on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17778108
You shouldn't be downmoded as that's a perfectly valid point.

Yet, it looks like this time the details Boeing hid from regulators were incredibly relevant and regulations were right in placing a high evidence burden on their safety.
This is a very good point! I'm trying become a better leader and reading this list was actually not motivating. I felt I had to be perfect all the time. I thought if I was this good I would start my own company instead of being a corporate cog.