skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and that's the core value proposition of democracy, but it doesn't address my complaint. This over-simplified model isn't quite relevant in the face of the huge incentives to screw with voters' epistemology that voting creates. There was no small-ox constituency trying to push voters towards estimating lower, because it didn't matter, while modern culture is suffused with politics, and not symmetrically with respect to every issue. There's a reason that my original comment was disgusted by the tendency I'm describing, instead of modeling it as stupidity: a voter would have to be unbelievably dumb to think that their gut feeling is even remotely useful when it comes to 1) complex topics 2) that they haven't bothered to inform themselves about, 3) for which there are a huge amount of resources dedicated to skewing their views on the issue.

> There are a lot of reasons why democracy as it stands today doesn't work as well but I don't think ill informed voters is one of them.

I agree with you in that I don't think it's a "voters these days" problems as much as a "most people's moral reasoning is horrifically stunted, in any population and time period". This is a baseline flaw of democracy, and one of the things that made Churchill call it "the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried". But the inevitability of it across a population doesn't mean it can't be criticized at the individual level.
Exactly. It's usually best to specify end times exclusively, and not just for leap seconds; it's easier to program in general. If your clock has sub-second granularity, then you can end up with a time value like 23:59:59.123. Which will require some truncation before it can be compared like t ≤ 23:59:59. If you use exclusive end times, you can do the comparison directly; 2016-12-31 23:59:59.123 < 2017-01-01 00:00:00. The key is that now we have an end date-time that actually specifies a true instant in time, and isn't an interval in and of itself.
Because it is the cheapest...
My Chinese friends do. Not sure if regional. I think it's just the logical shortening when the other option is 'canto', but it doesn't really make sense.
My goals when talking to a CEO are to get a feel for the strategic direction of the company and culture fit. I try to ask these questions to a variety of people at the company to evaluate how aligned everybody is, but usually the CEO has the best insight into strategy.

To that end, I don't really have any generic questions because they vary greatly by situation. Some examples:

Company was beginning to enter the enterprise market so I asked questions about the direction of the sale team, their comfort with enterprise sales cycles, etc.

Company was tightly integrated to a third party platform so I asked questions about that relationship, wether they wanted to move that tech in house, how they would do that, etc.
> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to move to an area?

Just to be clear, "move to an area" includes "move out of their parents' house and live on their own".

> because it serves existing constituents above new ones

Because the "new ones" are the kids of the "existing ones", in many cases, if not most. As in, they are also existing constituents.
a normal Parliament would be able to revoke the law and have another go, especially if there was a majority

however as the EU parliament has no legislative powers: we're stuck with this forever
They have money and Backpage doesn't. Lawyers just go after whoever has the most money, hope for vicarious liability, get a big payday while the Salesforce will end up donating money to an anti-sex trafficking organisation.
Unless some pieces were boosted higher by the explosion. But I guess they are confident this could never happen.
We should also point out that UBI does play a role in addressing the housing-unaffordability problem. Being stuck in a high-rent, high-COL place is a sort of poverty trap that is solved by enabling people to move to somewhere cheaper and seek successful work there.

This is basically an extremely classist, racist and uninformed version of NIMBY that says "Poor people: They are allowed to exist, but Not In My Back Yard. Go be poor someplace else!"

It's a complicated issue and I've already written a couple of long comments and I have other things I need to be doing. But telling people we will cut you a small check so you can move someplace cheaper amounts to saying poor people cannot live in desirable areas with lots of amenities and have no right whatsoever to desire to do so.

I also have zero reason to believe it actually solves the housing affordability issue. I was willing to move to almost anywhere in the western US to get off the street and back into housing. I left California and moved to a small town in Washington. But it was extremely challenging trying to find a place to make my life work with affordable rent and no car.

I no longer drive. Even if I did, buying a car is typically the second highest household expense for most American households.

We just don't have a lot of options for a full and vibrant life without a car in the US. Living without a car requires a certain level of urban fabric so you can do your shopping etc on foot and via public transit. The lack of walkable places in the US is a primary part of the affordability issue.

It will not get solved by injecting funds into the system for poor people to use to cover rent. In fact, doing so likely makes the issue more intractable.

Real change is always hard. People inherently do not like change. UBI is a "status quo is god" answer when the current status quo has terrible problems that will not be fixed by simply giving poor people a few more bucks to live on.
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This.

Silicon valley is leaking, starting with places that have huge amounts of cash and have already hired everyone they can in the Bay.

They'll start by offering a few people to transfer with same pay to a way lower cost of living city with a different/better for them lifestyle. Enough will bite and those people will then spin up the new hires.
Keep drinking that flg coolaid
That office is mostly empty space, and with all the effort to noise damp one has to ask - why bother? Just add offices at that point. At Microsoft you could always chat in the halls and people would just close their doors.
They’re not bad. They’re similar to questions asked by employers to candidates. The fact that you find them arrogant, to me, says that you hold yourself in higher regard than you hold your employees; that you feel superior in some way.

If someone asked you to share some board slides, you could simply explain they’re company confidential then try to tease out what information they’re after with follow up questions. Or maybe consider that they care enough about the business (or want to appear to) to ask questions like that.

Why is asking where you see yourself in 5 years arrogant? I own my own profitable company, no vc funding. I’ve never been asked that, but if I were, I’d be delighted to give an answer. Totally reasonable question.

If someone asked me why I wasn’t relaxing on the beach, I’d explain to them that it gets old. Sitting idle is a terrible way to spend time, although it might not appear so if you haven’t had the experience. I’d tell them that I hope to get them to a place one day where they could see just how overrated it is and judge for themselves.
So what happens to the seed??
VCs are largely already wealthy, and SF is a pleasant city to live in if you're already wealthy. As such, they have little incentive to move

And apparently, little incentive to improve their city and environment. What the wealthy need to realize is that human nature is hard wired to notice relative wealth inequality. Crime and social unrest are directly related to perceptions of relative wealth inequality. Past a certain point, life expectancy is directly correlated with relative wealth inequality, not absolute wealth. [b]

http://www.sfindicatorproject.org/indicators/view/146

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/15/income-inequality-in-...

([b] Ichiro Kawachi, 2000. Income Inequality and Health. In Social Epidemiology. Eds. Lisa Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 76-94.)
I have an Msc in Physics. I got it after my CS Msc, because I got really hooked on physics after reading tons of Feynman stuff (FLoP, etc). I've been programming since age 7 (C64), so I'm a programmer who got a Physics degree, not the other way around.

I worked various SWE jobs initially, mostly C++.

Then I started a Phd in Physics, but didn't finish, bc I did a startup [1]. The startup failed.

Since then I've been working in various data/science roles at companies (Prezi, Facebook, now Fetchr).

Data Science is a perfect fit for me (CS+Physics), there's nothing around it that I can't do, from setting up stuff on AWS, building dashboards, A/B testing, getting data out with SQL, doing ML with SKL or Pytorch, defining metrics and setting high-level company goals, explaining stuff to the CxOs.

I'm really good at it, I have very high impact, get paid good money, make my own rules (mastery, autonomy, etc).

Overall I got lucky because data/science exploded, and it just so happened that my interests/background/experience were a perfect fit.

I got doubly lucky bc now Deep Learning is exploding [2], which is a perfect playground for people like me (play around with models, metrics, training, loss functions, etc.)

I still buy lots of Physics books and sometimes read papers, but I'm trying to quit that, bc it's mostly pointless.

[1] https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499515
I get that serverless is trending and I am really interested on the subject. However, in terms of cost, I think hosting the domain on a server is more efficient.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Care to expand on your last point? I haven’t heard that before.
As someone who used to live in a house that got graffitied almost weekly, often with gang symbols, my sympathy for neighborhoods that are shitty because of the idiotic choices of their own residents is zero. Bring on the gentrification, the people are way nicer, and they actually make the city a better place to live.
Me too. It seems like instantaneity does not actually, by default improve everything. Instantaneity was one of the biggest, most novel things about the Internet/digital communication so it was adopted by default in all applications. But now I think it must be rethought.
I'm not saying that the housing would need to go to those who work in the office, if anything it should be a part of the broader open market.

I'm also not saying that the office needs to match the housing supply of it's office workers in full, as a lot of new office development is hiring from people locally as well. But say, if you looked at the Seattle area, where Microsoft and Amazon have built over 10 million square feet of office space in recent years, an extra 10,000 apartments would go a long way in relieving the pressure on housing prices.
I got a Pixelbook last week and have been using it as my everyday laptop for the last few days. Hands-down best keyboard I've used in a long time, probably better than the older Macbook ones.
In situations with ambiguity like this, it's probably best to ask the user instead of make assumptions.

I would not be remotely perturbed if my phone had a pop up when I stepped off the plane asking me if I still wanted to wake up at 7AM local or would prefer to wake up at 10AM UTC.

I would be greatly perturbed if it assumed the latter and I missed my meeting, all because I forgot to set a timezone when I originally inserted it a month prior.
He complains that UBI would funnel more money to the people producing goods. At the end he advocates "universal basic assets," distributing ownership of productive assets instead of just income. If anything it's more left-wing than UBI.
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Lmao get outta here with that trash
This is nice and I'm excited about it, however there is a concern that people are going to start building code that targets WASI and then shim it to run in the browser. This happened to JavaScript when Node.js was released; people began using APIs intended for servers and then shimmed them to also run in the browser resulting in code bloat. I'm worried that the same is going to happen here; the video actually encourages doing just that. The browser is not a platform that should be treated as secondary.
How's the touchpad? What's kept me on Apple is the ability to actually use the MacBook Pro as a portable computer, not just a crappy desktop you can drag between the power and mouse+keyboard stations that you need to get work done without swearing at it constantly or frowning while you watch the battery life indicator plummet.

The keyboard and port situations are both pushing the MacBook far enough out of that "close the lid and go, no worries" sweet spot it used to fall so solidly into that I'm eyeing other options, but I have some very bad memories of both battery life and trackpads on non-Apple machines, and my (limited!) interactions with such more recently haven't made me optimistic.
This is an excellent write up, thank you!
Technology always has an effect in art, simply because it impacts the media art is performed on, be it cave paintings, marble sculptures, live concerts, radio or Netflix series.
That's because one of the two political parties has only minority support and thus depends on a long list of dirty tricks to remain in power.
A number I saw a few years ago, is that the just the plugin market for Petrel is estimated at 4.5 billion USD annually.

Unfortunately I have no way to verify the source.
That doesn't solve the problem. Suppose Massachusetts were to decide to move from the Eastern to the Atlantic time zone and New York were to decide to remain in the Eastern time zone. The time zone you would need for people in Massachusetts would be America/Boston, not America/New_York--which doesn't exist now.

Representing future times correctly is very hard, especially because time zone changes (including creation of new ones!) aren't always announced years in advance.
I have a master's degree in theoretical physics (2006), first went into consulting. After two years I quit and implemented currency trading algorithms for a small company for five years. After that, I tried something on my own (not related to physics or coding) and slowly slithered into teaching.

Today I teach math and physics in high-school and feel like never having had a better job in my life.
Icons can be removed from the dock when the window is open.

If windows minimize into their icon and you have more than 1 instance open, then clicking on the icon opens the last instance open. It should give you an option - or better yet duplicate the icon

Generally, it works for launching apps. Not window management.
Now everything is moving to open office or has already moved :(, I envy the people that still have their own office.
At my previous employer, I worked in an office with real walls and a real solid wood door, in a cubicle with a sliding plastic door, in a cubicle with no door, and in a couple of larger open areas with between zero and three other people sharing the space. The real office was by far the best, but having a cubicle with a couple cabinets and a sliding door was almost as good.

I've experienced an "open plan" setup that worked; we based the setup on Bell Labs' Unix Room after visiting them. The Unix Room model is actually great, but it's different from your standard open-plan setup:

* People in the Unix Room seemed to be largely working on either individual projects or projects involving only a few others.

* The room itself was not actually very big, so you couldn't jam too many people in there

* Workspace was pretty generous, you weren't expected to tuck your elbows in lest you rub up against your neighbor

* Everyone in the Unix Room also had their own private office with a door, which I think was the key to success.

The last point is the biggest challenge: implementing a good open-plan workspace is going to require even more space than a traditional cube farm.

Edit: I work from home now, in a shed in the back yard. It's the size of a nice office, has doors and windows, and if I decide to work with the door open I get fresh air and birds chirping :)
> The line in the US is commercial use.

The “line” in the US is more of a complex curve, and commercial use or not is insufficient to make a conclusion either way (for just one common example of conmercial use without subject permission that is allowed, consider journalistic use.)
> - Owning property in NYC makes you a resident of NYC so all your income is taxable by NYS and NYC

So what do you do when the 5% tax rate in the 20 cities in which you own property all claim 100+% of youur income?
I'm not an expert, but I presume "magnetic monopole antenna" refers to a monopole antenna[1] with some affiliation with magnetics. I presume the word "magentic" came from this description in the article:

The key part of an oscillator is the resonant tank circuit: an inductor and a capacitor. Energy sloshes back and forth between the inductor’s magnetic field and the capacitor’s electric field at a resonant frequency determined by the capacitance and inductance. In the new circuit, the team used the antenna itself as the inductor in the resonant tank. Because it was acting as an inductor, the antenna radiated using changing magnetic field instead of an electric field...

Though I don't follow the meaning of this paragraph, what with the energy sloshing. I guess it comes down to the antenna being used as an inductor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole_antenna
Probably true, but I know some upper level math through programming, and I associate "monoid" with Haskell and an abstract concept, but "tensor" with tensorflow and a more concrete idea.
180k as a junior... no way
You would pay Apple 2x their price for already overpriced hardware, but won't pay the WSJ for reporting on a topic you "care about" ?
Properly sandboxed VM that you can compile practically any language into?
He gives an argument that the answer is still "yes". If UBI happens and Uber et al still ends up with all the money, then the argument still holds. Using a non-existent UBI as an argument for how they behave today is another level of problem.
I dont think any home in SF is sitting empty; nice strawman though.
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translation of the first two paragraphs is "I've decided what I think already and if you say you work at Amazon now and are happy it's prima facie evidence that you can't be trusted to be objective about it"
We just closed a lease on a new space where every employee will have their own office. Definitely atypical in Silicon Valley, which meant that buildings with a lot of build out are less desirable. That made it easier to negotiate the price.
Can still block them with element blockers. Elements are quickly cataloged, added to block lists and shared. Happens in mere minutes. A lot of this is automated, but it can be hand curated as well for some that were not noticed or perhaps new. An entire "industry" exists to keep the web clean. uBlock Origin does a fantastic job in this regard. In fact, it's one of the only methods that kills adblock blockers. I've not seen a successful adblock blocker since using it. It kills them dead. No more nag screens. Nothing but a clean content-only website, as nature intended.

There are some very smart people in the blocking arena. Since most of this stuff is delivered via JS, it's fairly trivial, at least at the moment, to handle same-domain ads. The game may change in future, but the adblock people usually prevail.

One idea I have if the sites start outright blocking blocking users, is to sort out how to write the ads to a form of /dev/null while making the site think they've been shown. I used to do this with Flash cookies/LSOs. I wrote them to /dev/null so I could take advantage of Flash back when it was a thing, yet have no LSOs on my machine to track me. Coupled with referer blocking, history blocking, no fingerprinting, and other settings, it worked a treat.

I'm willing to bet that if we cannot "block" them as part of the domain, we can sort out a way to block the element, shunt the ads into the bit bucket and continue on our merry.
absolutely, because it's dirtly comparatively cheaper. Period.
I find this scenario strange. Why is your wife not interfacing directly with her brother? Why are you even involved in these discussions during this obviously challenging situation? It might be better to step back and support your wife and not insinuate yourself into the higher level aspects of the situation. You're only increasing the conflict. "Blood is thicker than water" is very true. And you just received a good lesson on that from your brother in law. Put your wife before everything else. If things get even worse you'll be the scapegoat at the end. Guaranteed.
You don't see reports like that about the US because of US hegemony, and most things that do come up is usually by the UN and isn't taken seriously. I'm not saying china is perfect by any means, but things ain't great in the US either. They just seem normal to us because we're used to it.
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Next figure out how to work the YouTube and YTM recommendation algorithm. I know I'm not the only one paying for premium and actively discovering small independent artists everyday through recommendations.
I'm not a fan of UBI, but income is a valuable and liberating thing. It gives people choice by providing them with a resource they control and can spend as they want.

Living in the modern works necessarily involves the consumption of valuable resources. Space, power, water, food, goods, services. Providing those at no costs will lead to horrible inefficiencies and excessive use. You need to charge for them so that people can make rational choices and trade-offs between them and take responsibility for their decisions and preferences.
Their code explicitly depended on the wording of exception messages because they were using a dynamic language. Java is a typed language, where we can match on exception types:

if (ex instanceof NullPointerException)
catch (NullPointerException ex) {

It is therefore rare for Java programmers to match on exception messages (it would be a mistake).
> Basically, take the numbers 1/3, -1/3, and count how many terms you need to produce something that sums to a whole number.

Any whole number of terms greater than 1 will allow this, by the way.
I'd wager open office is 2/3 the cost of small cubicles, 1/2 the cost of large cubicles and 1/3 the cost of cubicles plus offices.
> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to move to an area?

Because walling off cities has awful consequences for national GDP

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/opinion/housing-regulatio...
Have an example where votes were reversed and laws were tempered? And were there any upsides for the defectors?
If you are going to adopt a policy of stagnation in housing availability, you need to adopt a policy of stagnation across the board. You can't have incentives that encourage businesses to locate in your area and at the same time refuse to allow additional housing for the jobs that the business creates. You should prefer to send to universities out of state where they are more likely to find jobs out of state rather than expanding your local higher education options. You should help with relocation expenses for young people who don't get into college, since you don't have enough jobs for them locally. And you should hope that the current industries you have remain relevant, because it is hard to adapt and diversify without allowing growth.
That which can be measured gets managed. It’s very easy to measure the cost per employee, productivity is very hard to measure.