skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that outside of a few tech hubs, most companies are unwilling to pay developers salaries that even come close to what they can make in a tech hub. So the best developers move to the tech hubs, where the jobs tend to be more interesting and pay better. Plenty of people would take a 25% pay cut to live in a cheaper city than SF, but the reality is that they might have to take a pay cut of 50% or more, and even when you adjust for cost of living, that sort of pay difference is still dramatic (housing might be cheaper in many cities, but car ownership, healthcare, groceries and your kids' college tuition are largely the same).
There's a toggle in each section, that said I wish I noticed the toggle switch before I read the complete article myself.
Paying a smuggler to get you across the Mediterranean is expensive, the death rate is high, and many of the transit countries like Libya you'd end up waiting in are seriously dangerous for foreigners who don't have the protection of a great power.

Regarding the undesirability of ending up in Israel - Israeli discrimination is mostly based on ethnicity, not on religion. Christian Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, though economically well-off, are treated by the state as security threats in a way that Muslim Eritreans aren't.
That's because it's Chile, not Argentina.
There is a million Taiwanese living in China, most of them go there to work or have families in China. Mainland China tends to have higher wages, lower living costs, better working conditions and a lot of young Taiwanese talent move to the Mainland which is cited as a brain drain problem in Taiwan.

Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Taiwanese

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4906162/taiw...
> data that can be nested a variable number of times

I'm far from a SQL expert and have mostly done client-side work in my life, but SQL-based database does seem like a good match for things like these. You just need to write more foreign key relations, and constraints are a bit more complicated, but I see no reason to switch to NoSQL for things like these.
> Often around these kinds of high-density cities, many (most?) people are living some sizeable distance from work anyway so I'm not that rent controls would be massively influential there either way.

Plenty of people commute from an inner suburb on one side of the city to a job on the far side of the center. If they could move to the corresponding inner suburb on the other side, and pay the same rent, that would be a substantial saving for them, at no cost to anyone else.

> I'm sure there are other possible answers to this, but quite a straightforward one to me seems that paying your employees for their commuting time would probably be right in terms of incentivising employers to allow more remote work or even set up satellite locations (possibly as a part of a desk sharing arrangement) in areas typically considered commuter belts.

That's not workable; employees can just pick a long commute and pocket the money. And what about those who aren't traditionally employed, or the small companies who'd be bankrupted by this?

Employers don't put their offices in the center of the city out of malice. They do it because it's better for productivity, and/or a better work environment that lets them attract more talented employees. That's real value that you destroy when you make it expensive for two people to swap houses and live nearer where they work; even if you force the bill onto the employer it's still a loss to society.
TeamSpeak 3 has a great mod for the Arma 3 series that allows use of positional audio along with virtual radios.

http://acre2.idi-systems.com/
... yeah if it's not the original coder at the helm I wouldn't trust them anymore.
Improbable VP Says They Can Support 20k CCUs in a Continuous, Seamless MMO
Because the beach gets boring after a while.

At my last company our lead investor was Rich Janssen (great name, right) and he said exactly this. He founded Realtor.com and took it public and founded a data analytics company that sold to Myspace. He had a $10M house in Montecito, CA next door to Oprah, and a million dollar yacht. I asked him why he didn't just retire to some warm sandy beach. He said he tried retirement but it didn't work. Golfing and sitting on a beach made him feel old. Working with young people made him feel young.
I mean Douglas is right that that UBI doesn't solve every social or economic problem, but this does seem a little out-of-character for him.
I find it hard to keep following comic strips. For many years in my childhood, the local paper would have a full page of black and white strips each weekday, then 3-4 pages of full colour strips on Saturday (there was no paper on Sunday). It was great for getting a wide spread of what's out there. But then that was cut down to four strips twice a week, then the paper was shuttered.

I have memories of laying on the living room floor with the Saturday comics spread out in front of me and the sun streaming through the window on a winter's morning, and that doesn't compare to reading them on my phone or computer. I want it on paper, and delivered daily, or a weeks-worth once a week. But no such service exists anymore.
I have to absolutely disagree with the point you're making about mongodb never being something an experienced developers should use.

An experience developer understands when the goal is to deliver something as fast as possible vs building something more resilient.

If you're building an internal tool, particularly one that won't be storing data that would later be used for analytics, there's absolutely no reason to not go with mongodb over a relational database considering you can get hosted versions of both for the same price. For a less than a week long project, you could be saving at least 20% of the time spent not having to worry about a datamodel.
Thankyou, that is even better than what I would expect. I have been trying to tune around similar issues in tinc-vpn which also runs in user space and depends on newer kernels and code changes to work around.
If LSTM is up there, maybe Transformer authors should also be listed somewhere? I mean LSTM is fine and all, IIRC, it only becomes popular after one of Hinton's students put it to work? And that is like in 2013. Similar tales to the CNN as well.

Hinton/Lecun pioneered early BP research, which is significant and fundamental. Bengio has attention mechanism/GAN, and in early days greedy layer wise pretraining for RBM (which isn't something end up today, but pertaining is a thing back in pre 2010 era).

Not saying LSTM isn't significant, but his achievements aren't quite there with those 3, looking closer.
They go to Austin though, because they have to be in Austin. Not because they want to spend that money. Same with NYC and NoVA, you just have to be there, they don't want to make outlays to move to NYC. They'd all prefer to just stay in the Bay Area/Si Valley region if they could.

Notice, none of them are moving any important people to places like St Louis, or Omaha, or Little Rock, or wherever. Those places are much less expensive than Austin or NoVA, but the tech companies don't really have to be there.
If all the water is frozen, what does "sea level" even mean?
It’s not just SF. This article also talks about NYC and the massive problem they’re having with the subways. San Diego (#8 in most populous cities) is having a very difficult problem with homelessness and has extremely high rents, one of the least affordable in the US.

NIMBY and high rent isn’t just an SF problem, as this article notes. It’s just easier to focus on SF because its problems are well-documented.
"...optimal for the amount of resource being spent."

Belated reply, catching up on my reading.

This is a very interesting point.

I live in a largish school district. I've long believed, but cannot prove, that it's just too big. eg Scale matters. Everyone I've ever met who has ties to the district agrees with me.

I know the CFO. He crunched some numbers, comparing cost per student and outcomes. Although he wouldn't share the data with me (political suicide), he related that the it's a bathtub distribution.

So, I believe, but cannot prove, there's an optimal range for most organizations, and education reformers would get a lot of mileage out of correct sizing their districts.
You might find this interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

There were a number of other companies that played both sides of the fence in WW2, including Coca Cola.

I agree, if they knowingly do it, then they should be punished as such. Especially in the US, if we are going to allow corporations to be treated as people for tax and legal reasons, then clearly they should be punished as such. When a person knowingly assists a criminal, that person can be punished for any range of crime from being an accessory to directly involved.
As an American citizen I agree with you, but I think that the comparison to China is excessive and inappropriate - and serves as some kind of perverted justification for China's crimes against humanity.
Rashed has many commits in other related projects, like LineageOs. So there may be some hope. But yeah, Copperhead needs to regain the trust lost when Daniel was pushed out (https://www.reddit.com/r/CopperheadOS/comments/8qdnn3/goodby...)
OK, but isn't the existence of zoning basically the same as the existence of HOAs, in that people have chosen to enact these policies locally, much as HOAs enact hyper-local policies? You seem to be OK with HOAs but not zoning laws, so my question is why are zoning laws bad when it is the choice of their residents (through representative democracy) that they enact policies that preserve their area's character and quality of life?
Yep, exactly.

Lieberman ought to more than I do, but his argument that "150 connections" can't be selected for because pre-agricultural bands were smaller seems ridiculous. Most fundamentally, because 150 doesn't have to be directly selected for; it's a consequence of working memory that might be valued for unrelated reasons. But more directly, because "bands of 30-50" is not "only knowing 30-50 people". Bands were usually extended family groups, so the value of maintaining personal relationships outside of those groups is obvious.

Honestly, the best I can work out is that Lieberman is a few decades out of date on his understanding of how pre-agricultural groups interacted.
Wow, sounds like an Order of the Arrow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Arrow) Ordeal. My large-city suburban US troop did this (I moved away before I was eligible to do it)!
I really want a client like that for HN, subreddits and my twitter feed, ideally with a feedback mechanism that can be used to rank the content based on my interests and filter out all of the other crap.
MSc in Physics (Plasma Physics diagnostics). I am currently a farmer, but I hope someday I can get back to developing electronics, hopefully something related to farming and/or meteorology.
Every dense city has the same problem. Short of creating a company town 2.0, as soon as the population and density are high enough to work for a knowledge employer, the same NIMBY dynamic takes over.
James Donaldson (the CEO) effectively kicked Daniel Micay (the then-CTO) out.

Daniel Micay destroyed the signing keys, so any existing users would need to re-format their phone to an image that accepts new signing keys in order to keep receiving updates.

In the opinion of many members of the community, without Daniel behind it, it isn't really CopperheadOS.

In a technical sense (because of the change in signing keys), as far OTA updates are concerned post-Daniel-CopperheadOS is a distinct operating system from with-Daniel-CopperheadOS.

In a social sense (because of the forced change in engineering leadership), as far as many humans are concerned post-Daniel-CopperheadOS is a distinct institution from with-Daniel-CopperheadOS.
timstamptz is fine for historical data and certain kinds of “this will (need to )happen at this time” situations, but as others have said it just converts to/from UTC based on your session time zone - this makes it inadequate for calendaring.

For calendaring or other applications where time zone’s shifting offsets can cause issues you need to store the UTC time along with the timezone and then do the conversion on read.
It's a pity they support only Pixel devices. Would be interesting to see less known phones supported (above all, Huawei ones)
That's a fair point.

Still, I feel I could take any of my students and in one month have them up to speed on what to look for and what things mean.

And I don't mean to suggest that finding challenging work is any sort of failing of my employer. I have been able to diversify the position to include doing graphics in R and some stats things and, along with some other people, I think we can sell some sexy Bayesian things.

They are very receptive of new ideas, but... it is not a growing industry (thankfully), so any sort of advance is going to be a jump to a different field. Which is possible, and I'm working on it.

My point primarily is when you read these things about people doing all sorts of wonderful exciting things, you get the impression that what you have done or are doing is crap. Perhaps it's nice to hear that a lot of people do not set the world on fire. Takes a little pressure off.
Time is so messy, and that messiness becomes apparent when the yes/no, true/false world of computers tries to interpret things.

The blog posts brings up a lot of good points about time zones changing, and the comments make even better points about people moving across time zones. Something that confounds me occasionally is the concept of "local human time" because there are all sorts of ways that humans tamper with time.

Lawmakers, for example, that are required to pass certain laws by a particular date will sometimes unplug clocks in the legislative chambers to stop the legal passage of time while negotiations continue. You end up in a situation where, on paper the next day or week, 134 laws were negotiated, voted on, ratified, re-voted, passed, and signed all at exactly $date:23:59:59. A physical impossibility, but a legal fact.

Or, as I explore the more interesting corners of America more, there are entire towns and regions that ignore their official time zone and every house, business, church, pharmacy, etc... is on a more convenient time for the locals. The only place you see the official time is at the post office.

People are messy. Time is messy. People * time = a complete mess.
Archived Tweet: https://web.archive.org/web/20190327150503/https:/twitter.co...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Mongo:2010s::MySQL:2000s.
I always ask for my fries well done to get a fresh batch. Also, as a bonus, they're more crispy and better than the standard fries anyways
How would that work? The 'youth' makes up a large part of the supporters of these parties you're referencing. Also in many cases these parties oppose Article 13 so this isn't in any way bad for them.
New Study Reveals That 20% of Employees Think They Own Their Company’s Data
Daniel Micay started https://github.com/AndroidHardening after moving on from the CopperheadOS debacle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17289536
Seems like a bit of a leap to compare enabling prostitution (something that ~50% of Americans think should be legal [0]) to enabling industrialized mass murder and genocide.

Backpage definitely enabled trafficking in some cases knowingly or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it made sex work safer in other cases.

[0] https://prostitution.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID...
How to save datetimes for future events
Those other cities around the valley are just as NIMBY and impacted as SF is, and the problem is even worse because the local governance structure is fractured. Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Cupertino are all separate cities with their own mayors and councils and zoning restrictions
Full legalization increases trafficking and allows brothels, which are basically pimps who are able to operate legally. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45198/1/Neumayer_Legalized_Prostitu...

The Nordic Model - decriminalization of selling, with criminalization of purchasing - protects sex workers from pimps and has been very successful in the countries that have instituted it.
Totally agree with you on those. They're a great way to tank your chances at the final interview, on the basis of "not a good culture fit"
Have worked on Mac's, XPS's and HP's in the past but once I got on Thinkpad, never looked back. My current system(for past 5 years now) is a trusty X1 Carbon that has seen some rough times but has never failed me. Thinking of upgrading later this year to a newer version of the same line.
Is Virtual Reality the Future of Ecommerce?
Apple keyboard related tale, though not an Apple butterfly keyboard:

I had to call Apple support yesterday to register an AppleCare Protection Plan agreement. The way this works is you first get routed to someone who takes some notes about your case, then that person sends you to the correct specialist.

Anyway, after waiting on hold a short while (Apple lets you choose your genre of on-hold music or wait in silence... though normally they call you but for some reason they kept getting my voice mail so I had to call them), the woman who picked up starting asking me for information.

Thwack, thwack, thwack I hear as she’s typing, like fire crackers going off. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore so
I said: “that is not an Apple
Keyboard you’re typing on!”

“Nope,” she said. “I spilled water on my Apple keyboard earlier today and it stopped working, so I pulled out this old PC keyboard I had. But I hate it. I texted my husband and asked him to go buy me a new Apple keyboard.” (It seemed like she was working from home.)

So I told her some people really prefer those mechanical switch keyboards, that they probably wouldn’t stop working from a bit of water, but maybe her Apple keyboard would start working again when it dried out. “I hope so,” she said, “Because I really prefer it for typing and my husband balked at the $100 cost of a new Apple keyboard.” (Obviously she meant an external Magic keyboard and not a MacBook PoS keyboard.)

(Aside: I’d consider it a public service if the WSJ would make this article available for free. I love the toggle switches! I was unable to make an outline.com link but I could read it by following the link from a Google search in an incognito window.)
How Google warped the hyperlink
Shooting a satellite in space is many many times more difficult than shooting a bullet with another bullet. It's not just because space is vast, but also because satellites move at about 35000 kmph & you need to factor for the trajectory, gravitation forces etc.
Also not all of them corrected from Yes to No, some went the other way
> I sometimes wonder where the equivalent items for other generations are…

My kids watch shows like Steven Universe and Adventure Time, and those often remind me of C&H in that they can be enjoyed on multiple levels. and often mix some pretty deep insight in with the entertainment.
DE Shaw: Inside Manhattan's 'Silicon Valley' Hedge Fund
> But basically a bunch of MEPs just didn't think it was that important to pay attention to the details, phoned it in, and screwed up badly.

Indeed. Epicenter.works published a table[1] to make it easier for people unfamiliar with the voting system to follow along. It uses the same template that the MEPs use, except with the "Vote" section filled in from the perspective of someone against Art. 11/13. This might make it easier to understand why this mistake could happen but it seems clear enough that, if you're actually paying attention, you could avoid mistakes on such an important issue.

[1] https://epicenter.works/sites/default/files/copyright_dsm_fi... (PDF)
Exactly, and allowing that ebb and flow of the market to work is a good thing. As other people pointed out, it's not like there wouldn't be grocery store staff and that's the end of it. The demand is still there. And when the supply is low but the demand stays the same, the wages go up. All of these things are connected and tend towards an equilibrium.

The thing that keeps things from flowing properly are artificial regulations. For example, artificially low housing (like gov subsidized) in expensive areas make it so low income people can work in high income places for low wages. They can't afford to eat at the restaurants (or buy other higher income things local to the area), but they can afford to work at them. The regulation is artificially boosting supply to match demand so wages do not trend upwards.
I'm not saying that Schmidhuber is not important pioneer in the field.

When you put researchers or groups into order of importance, the work from this trio comes before others, including Schmidhuber. The Turing Award is given to those at the top and it's not inclusive.

If I could give Turing Award for someone in the field who has not received it yet, I would give it to Vladimir Vapnik.
Sorry, I was wrong in my orders of magnitude. 100,000 square km then?
I have, insofar as searching from my own connection in multiple incognito windows - but as we've said that tells me nothing.

I'm not going to download Tor because honestly I don't want my ISP thinking I'm up to no good (paranoid and ridiculous as I realize that is).

Totally agree otherwise on trust not being a substitute for critical thinking and applied reason, and yes, it's the biggest problem of all of this.
These Mozilla blogs are some of the best edited, articulated and illustrated explanations I've seen on the web. I wish more people could put in the resources to help communicate their mission like this.
Yeah, I was confused about that as well. What are they talking about?
Andrew Marshall, Pentagon’s Threat Expert, Dies at 97
Counterpoint:

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Just as a heads up, in case this ever gets implemented, Opera browser has built in VPN for those who don't want to set up their own.
It's good to have an economy in which really good meals that cost 100x or 1000x as much as a normal, good-enough meal are available to those who want them. Likewise it's good to have an economy in which really good houses (which in practice means houses in particular locations) are available to those who want them.
Maybe not, but would you agree it's important to keep families together? If my children turn 18 and want to move out of the house but stay in the region to be close to family, they might not have many options when rent is $3000 per month and minimum wage is $7.
Oh, this is amazing!
I guess it stems from the fact that developers are one of the few groups which CAN dictate some things.

We do forget that other jobs come with 14 hour shifts, no breaks, no health insurance, and constantly being on-call for a 5th of the salary.

That doesn't mean that devs shouldn't push for decent conditions though.

Also, while devs "have it good," it's nothing near what lawyers and doctors made, so before patting ourselves on the shoulder and thinking we made it, we should keep tht in mind.
Wait, now I'm confused... is it a military national security issue or a scientific achievement?

China managed to not have Xi Jinping announce when they did it.
Because this project was directly under the PM.

Also to note, India was already ASAT capable about a decade back, but the political will (INC then) was simply not there to test it out & make a claim as the first among equals.
I've seen it happen virtually EVERY TIME there is a big controversial law. It's more of a rule than a coincidence.
The good news is that Daniel has not stopped experimenting with hardened android.

https://github.com/AndroidHardening/
Implementing a Simple Proof Assistant and Type System (In Mathematica)
Very cool writeup. I'm a big fan of Discover Weekly as it turns me onto new artists constantly.