skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might sound crazy, but I wouldn't be surprised if the traditionally male activity of video games could help explain the gap of spatial skills between men and woman.

Navigating and memorizing virtual 3D environments is a skill that seemed very natural to me growing up so it was always a bit strange to watch other people struggle at what seemed like a basic task.
The iead that airlines have no reason to be efficient in it of itself is idiotic. It is an incredibly competitive industry, and the lengths to which airlines go to explore every possible margin is enough testament of that.

To add to your list of examples. KLM, for instance, was one of the first to introduce a system that would allow certain flight data to be uploaded into the flight computer as opposed to be requiring the pilots to enter it by hand. Other than fewer errors, they touted potentially saving pilots a couple minutes of data entry as one of the chief gains of the system.
This does seem like a possible application of blockchain to me. Yes, this could theoretically be accomplished with a database but if chain of custody was written to a blockchain it would be immutable. Tracing food supply I think is important to some people and this would provide a cryptographically secure way to do so.
At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure
This is a National Review opinion article offered as a news piece (as they are wont to do). It features a seamless conflation of SF's problems with Silicon Valley's somewhat corrosive lobbying effects on the urban expansion problems of SF, as if they're the same thing.

It suggests that San Francisco's housing problem is NOT directly at the feet of the folks who own the majority of the property, and instead implicates... uh, let me just check the article again... "Baby Boomer civil servants [acting] as urban taxidermists stuffing and mounting a dead city so it always resembles the past."

The implication of that paragraph is that it's democratic "regulation" that is halting SF's expansion, but if you live in the city you're looking at the recent unsuccessful public/private partnership building projects wondering why building codes aren't stricter (I'm looking at you, ridiculous Salesforce(tm) transbay terminal). The implication that it's bureaucracy and not a bitter generational argument between young and old residents about "preserving the city" vs. "meeting the housing demand" is likewise absurd; it's SF citizens as a whole that are debating how to proceed. A republican governance wouldn't be better off here, except it might find more alignment with property owners (who benefit enormously from this state of affairs) instead of less.

It suggests that SF doesn't have culture, but that's wrong. It has tons of culture, but it's not accessible to rich white people hoping to stroll through like tourists. You can still access it if you code yourself correctly, but if you roll up with merino wool shoes and $800 vest over a tech t-shirt and iWatch, you're not gonna make a lot of progress because people will avoid you.

But if you are that person, it's not like there aren't a dozen hopeful artists lurking around the edges of popular rich mission spots hoping to get your spare $20s. It's not like public spaces don't exist for you.

Most humorously, it features at least one nationally reviled industrialist who has increasingly had a hard time finding anyone willing to work with him anywhere where Software Engineers make good money. Thiel avoids popping up in SF because people don't like his politics here and would rather he retreat back to his bubble in orange county. We don't, strictly speaking, need his money. We have enough money, we need to build up the will to use it to solve the problems we have more acutely, but that are shared in kind with every city that's finding a way to prosper in an era where many other cities are struggling to recover from even more acute decline.

This article is everything I'd expect from a National Review piece about SF. It is confused about the geography, tone deaf to the politics, quick to blame local government for problems brought about by citizens, and steeped in the popular meme that "art is dead because I don't see marble busts anymore" memes that sound like they're fresh out of a PragerU video.
For now. The NOAA is headed now by a man who spent 30 years trying to hobble the NWS.
This is actually a useful comment and points out something I didn't know (about how the CMake if statement resolves variables).
"The two craft met within the blast-shadow of the planetary fragment called Ablate, a narrow twisted scrue of rock three thousand kilometres long and shaped like the hole in a tornado."

https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-hydrogen-sonat...
Then you can go ahead and use the option to check them for things they forgot. You can also probably use an option to file yourself, which might be the case if you have complicated taxes. The great majority of Americans, however, are pretty poor and qualify for few tax breaks that cannot be done automatically. All they need to do to encourage the automatic filing would be to consistently prove to be accurate.

The database will be hacked and all records leaked within the fist 18 months of operation

You know, the same information they need for most people's taxes is already in the IRS database.

I'd also like to say that I've had automatic filing for my Norwegian taxes since moving here to Norway, and always have to file American taxes manually. The emails get sent to a secure email system which you can check. Letters get lost and stolen as well, by the way. The system doesn't have to go down either - I don't even have to interact. I just get the email telling me I can check taxes, but it is not required that I do. (Safer to do so in case of owing). They tell me I'll get my money in a 3-month timeframe. It goes to the same place paychecks go to, though I imagine if anyone gets checks they take longer, as do the people that manually file.

I'm also pretty sure that the reason it would be expensive is that the government isn't exactly known to keep the IRS fairly current and the government isn't really set up to handle the digital age well. But then again, the records are already there. They already plan on getting refunds. And easier filing means more people do tax returns... and it catches more people that owe. Oh, and you won't need as many people working at the call centers because fewer people will need to actually calculate their taxes. I'm gonna guess it would be a net benefit and profit within a very short amount of time.

The main people that do badly with this sort of system are the tax filing companies along with, I'm guessing, some accountants.
On the Commodore 64, it was the only option. It had minimal support for a thing it called a "subroutine", but what it really was was a GOTO that pushed the source on to the stack and could be RETURN'd to that source. In particular, no concept of return value, no concept of parameters; everything's global. Modification of global values prior to the "call" is the argument passing, and modification of global values is the "return".

Commodore 64 BASIC, and 8-bit BASIC in general, was fully in the paradigm that Dijkstra was referring to when he wrote Goto Considered Harmful. (Not exclusively, of course.)
bbc iplayer shouldn't be there. Great site though.
I don't think that would be enforceable. Besides, no sane investor would go for it.
So let's build more facilities to help deal with the homeless problem rather than whining about why we can't just ship them off to an even bigger city, the way the rest of the western US does?

We cannot stop other cities from doing this to us. So we are going to have to stop whining and cope.
There are like three dozen factors in a web user's fingerprint, of which the user agent is just one. And no, the rest aren't all controlled by JS.
Again, extrapolate that out to other contexts.

Is the value of a Steam recommendation list the conversation around defining "fun" and how each game conforms with that definition? Or is it a way to quickly find good games you haven't heard of?

When you read an Amazon review, do you think, "well, this will give me some insight into the nature of quality in general?" Or do you think, "I wonder if Arnold35X subjectively liked this vacuum cleaner?"

Of course there's personal value in trying to narrow and understand your own definition of ethical -- you could read through a list like this and pick out the products you agree with, and then ask yourself, "why do I agree or disagree with them?" That would be great.

But OP themselves is under no obligation in this context to justify their decisions to anyone. Their opinion could be, "ethical software has to be written in Lisp." They're here to help you narrow down the software you know, and to find new software. That's it. Curation is not consensus.

This is the equivalent of showing up on an Open Source project and forcing the maintainer to justify their choice in testing libraries. The software is on the list because OP decided to put it there, and because OP is the one that made the list. In the context of this specific list, OP is God. If you think their definition is too broad or ill-defined, make another list with a more narrow one.
I wish CLion supported this as an alternative to CMake for project definitions!
So what you are saying Firefox is bad and instead it is better to use Chrome that is owned directly by a company they are trying to avoid?

Creating and maintaining a web browser is not simple, Firefox is the freeest usable browser.
>How to stop it and create a city where anyone can live

I'd say if "building a city where anyone can live" is the highest goal, that's an issue in and of itself.

Would you want to work for a company "where anyone could work?"
Does SF have high population density? That's never been my impression from reading HN.
We're already starting to see that change. As traffic has grown airlines have added more point-to-point flights that skip the hubs. Newer aircraft have also changed the economics of those route changes well and enabled more point-to-point flights that weren't previously economical.
Leaving aside the weird premise of your comment, you're confusing the Bay Area with San Francisco, which are different things. Black communities in the Bay Area are where they are in part because of a very long history of institutional discrimination. Richmond may be the most glaring example—you have a very rich marina district on one side of a freeway, and a very poor one on the other.
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Citing from the paper:
We refer the frequency shift satisfying the
above requirements as artificial Doppler shift, implying that
it has minimal impact on existing systems just like Doppler
shifts caused by normal movements.

So they're just calling these "Doppler" shifts because they are so small that they don't really have any effect on the WiFi link, just like real Doppler shifts should be compensated for, while the tiny frequency shifts still contain enough information to be picked up by the BLE radio.
I believe Oracle is maintaining Coretto for AWS. It's all about sustainable (from a financial PoV) development.
SEC says no to Amazon bid to stop shareholders voting on use facial recognition
No, it was mostly due to shale gas, not renewables.
The comments section makes the hypothesis that women with strong spacial skills may flock to fields such as animation more than to engineering, which is interesting. Having two equally valid choices, I could see why a young female student would choose a path where there are more role models...
Having lived here for 20 years, I can say things are a great deal better than they were before the Downtown tech explosion that happened 10 years ago. Market was filled with pushers you would only now only see on 6th St, and I literally saw a drive-by shooting (resulting in murder) on Mission at 19th (Beauty Bar). Both of those things are unthinkable today.

I feel like people are forgetting how bad things use to be.

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Sure, but nowhere do I see any indication that the airplanes are purposely being flown below their maximally efficient speed? Most of my flights are arriving early these days (I guess because of the padded schedules). They're certainly not lingering in the air any longer than they have to, because lingering in the air costs money that they don't want to unnecessarily burn.

As another commenter pointed out, even if the gate isn't ready yet, there's always room to wait somewhere on the taxiway (this has happened to me a few times recently). They'd rather wait on the ground with the engines idling than circling around in the air with the engines running at speed. Plus, it's not like gate availability is affected by schedule padding anyway; there's only so many gates at an airport, and they always are trying to turn over planes as fast as possible.
Things I Learned When I Moved to Silicon Valley to Work for Tech
It depends on how one defines merit and natrual. Meritocracy technically only needs ability to determine - with no regard to fairness, potential, or optimality in how the ability is obtained.

It is immaterial if the interutero cannibal shark that wins because it developed first and the consummed would have been stronger it is still the sole survivor.

Actual aristocrats were better at fighting as they could afford the diet, equipment, and to train from birth essentially. They had advantages but martial abilities still ultimately provided the limit. No money or royal blood could save chevaliers from changes like establishment of pike formations, or armor piercing crossbows on the battlefield, let alone guns no matter how much they cried foul about honor.

Ultimately they were part of a high value specialist-low value generalist cycle like how professional weavers did better than just any peasant in a cottage but worse than factories designed by more educated engineers but staffed with unskilled factory workers who in turn may be displaced by increased automation or cheaper labor elsewhere.

So their surviving descendants "administratized" and had others do the fighting more while they ruled through other means.
Isn't that the definition of money laundering?
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the US, because they allow people - and not just wealthy people - to live there.
But its from Vox.... and its political and they are known to be very left. Not as bad as Buzzfeed, but just as bad.
Ideally the government solution doesn't take any time at all. The IRS knows about the w2, 1099, whatever forms you are going to get, you will be audited if you don't file because they see that you didn't do anything about that form, so why do we even have to file? The IRS could do this in the background and either mail you a check or ask for a bill. Done. Filing yourself is completely unnecessary and only serves to prop up a useless parasitic industry.
We can file ours online in the UK, it's easy to use and pretty reliable (now).
Fitting that in a world where all the same old labor fights that were settled in the past are happening again that someone would un-ironically invent a new form of indentured servitude.

Makes me laugh at people who think that non STEM subjects have no value. Perhaps opening a book in one of those non STEM fields once in a while would help you avoid reinventing things consigned to the dust bin of history without realizing it.

Nearly but not quite as rich as when ride-sharing companies accidentally invent the city bus.
> However, this global trend poses multiple problems: not only does your journey take longer but creating the illusion of punctuality means there’s no pressure on airlines to become more efficient, meaning congestion and carbon emissions will keep rising.

Am I missing something? It's not like flights are spending more time in the air compared to before - it's just that you wait longer and your flight leaves late vs schedule. So how does that increase carbon emissions?
Where in Texas were you? I live in Austin, which is rapidly becoming a landing spot for Californians looking to get away, and my experience in Texas has been quite different than yours.

Segregation was physically built into the planning of the city of Austin[0], and it's pretty apparent if you spend a significant amount of time here. Not only that, but rising cost of living in Austin keeps pushing minority communities further and further from the city.

The social scene is pretty similar to what you're describing in Palo Alto as well. Tech is overwhelmingly white and male, and the social scene around the industry reflects this.

I'm not going to argue that companies are the only problem, but job creation that only benefits highly skilled labor and leaves the rest of the community out to dry causes, or at the very least exacerbates, several of the problems outlined in this piece.

It's a system that has benefited me tremendously, but as I get out of the tech community "bubble" and explore more of Austin, I see a lot of parallels between SF and ATX. My fear is that SF is just ahead of the curve.

[0]: https://projects.statesman.com/news/economic-mobility/
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Good thing they don’t call it a democracy!

It’s a republic. There’s a meaningful difference.
A mixture of VJ and Vlog. Tokyo cycling with an avatar so-called VTuber
iPad (and others) based electronic flight bags are already in place on passenger airlines. Your points are valid, but the debate is pretty much over.
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White progressives are often further left than minorities on issues of identity politics. See https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18259865/great-awokening-white...
There was a double murder in Fillmore 2-3 weeks ago during a busy Sat night.
Yeah, the airport is at capacity. I'm not seeing how it has anything to do with schedule padding at all. They're doing take-offs and landings there as quickly as possible.
Have you paid attention to the “cityhood” movement in Atlanta, where white people are using their friends in state government to split themselves off from the black neighborhoods in their towns?
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Sounds like "air ionizers":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser#Ions_versus_ozone

see also "Ions versus ozone" (part of the same article):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_ioniser#Ions_versus_ozone

I'm fairly certain any plasma is harder to create than ionized air and the plasma could be maintained only in a relatively small confined space, whereas ions can be freely distributed into a room.

Air ionizers are one option used for cleaning up black mold, fungus, etc. when a building suffers water damage. They're sometimes used to "mop up" after the usual methods of cleaning (washing with anti-fungals, antiseptics, etc.) have been exhausted.

Turn on the ionizer, keep the air circulating, and periodically measure cooties (fungus, bacteria, germs, viruses, etc.) until levels are below tolerance. You leave the premises if using an ozone generator but some models claim to limit ionization to the unit itself, in which case you should be able to live on the premises.
Any released ionized particles travel to the remotest parts of the air circulation system for mop-up.

Its old tech that has existed almost since the first spark coil.
That second group of states is half states in the black belt. Those state governments are bought and paid for and their people largely disenfranchised, same for much of Appalachia. (Like, c'mon, Mississippi is around 40% African American, you really think them electing Donald Trump reflects the true will of the people? Of course not!) They're run by shitty rich people with shitty agendas who are just out to further enrich themselves and have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures that be. That's why the South "votes against its own interests." It's literally a narrative invented by the coal industry so it could justify and get away with brutalizing West Virginia and leaving it far worse off than it was before. Coal owns WV all the way down to the school boards and sherrifs.
> people know how to solve the problem, but to many voters it is directly against their personal interest.

The thing is voting to preserve the feel of their neighborhood is in their personal interest too. They like the area they live in and simultaneously want to see some of the problems solved. The issue is these are in conflict because pretty much everyone else is also making the same decisions so everyone fights to protect 'their' piece of SF hoping they're not the ones who will have to change and move (because they can't afford to in a lot of cases) to densify SF.
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I used to, until they blocked the public folder. The sync between my computers was nice, but for me the big feature was copy/pasting (or directly creating) an image or static html page(s) with images (or flash files, at some point) in the public folder, right clicking in Explorer/Finder (depending on the OS i used at the time), copying the URL and pasting it on IRC/IM/Reddit/whatever when discussing stuff.

They tried to sell their 'get public URL' wrappers as the replacement for the functionality, but that only covered a tiny aspect (and OneDrive, Google Drive, etc already offered that stuff) - sharing photos - and even that was slower due to them wrapping the files in some sort of viewer instead of giving the raw file data like the public folder did, while using some sort of hash ID to identify the file instead of the actual filename (this was another convenience lost since with the public folder i could guess the URL to share without copy/pasting).

I never found anything as convenient as Dropbox's public folder while the rest of their offering wasn't anything i cared much about and even then by that time both Google and Microsoft's offers were better (and with Microsoft's available right out of the box in Windows).
Who hated forklift driving? Also lots of spoilers here.
Read http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html, specifically the criticism on Upstart.

Systemd having taken such a different path to solving the startup and service problem, I don't think you can really say that Upstart inspired systemd, perhaps only Upstart's failings.
It's really, REALLY not. I've been here 10 years. I'm post-exit, and I still can't really afford to own a home. I could cash a down payment check, but it'd wipe out most of my savings and the home would be some ancient decrepit thing needing an 8th of its values in repairs. As such, I'm at a disadvantage in exercising political power. I'm constantly forced to move around, limiting the time I have to short stints in any given community.

Most of us actually exert very little influence in local politics, precisely because we're here for the work. I'm in a tiny minority that's decided to "settle down" and not retreat "back home" once I've got a quarter million in investments and another 100k in cash.

And in fact, I think very few of my peers are super into local politics. Even I'm guilty of being somewhat disengaged until recently, and I'm trying to make up for that now in Daly City.

The property owners moving in sync are what dominate a lot of features in this town, and very few "hackers from this site" are actually in that club. Even the rare post-exit folks like me. The truth is that they have a lot more to gain by keeping the status quo than itinerant tech workers have to lose by just leaving rather than dealing with the difficult problem of entrenched NIMBYism.

I'm dealing with that now in my area and it is AGONIZING to sit there listening to some old man or woman go on about how Asians and Brazilians ruining the community and stealing their parking when they're the ones renting out 3 homes in the first place.
Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
It's a little bizarre to me that the very act of paying an independent CPA to run through my taxes feels like a deliberate anti-regulatory capture decision, but there it is.