skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please not be snarky in HN comments? You have a good point here, but please follow the site guidelines.
Companies like Celigo created an industry out of allowing Excel users to shoehorn pretty much anything into a spreadsheet and then have it interact with their major accounting/ERP systems.
Doesn't really present anything terribly surprising. Bigger cities have crazier cost of living and wages for the degree-less are, no surprise, not keeping up. I don't think anyone here will be shocked to find out working at mcdonalds or as a janitor in SF or NYC isn't as viable as a smaller city.
Trebuchet?

They could have a notification app or send an email/text that the delivery is there. The person would then waddle out to the delivery truck.

Drone, robot, or mechanical arm thing.
Yes, but so far, no one has ever demonstrated a computer that is even remotely competitive with a human driver.
Speaking of zoom, it'd sure be nice if the keikai web site didn't kill zoom on the ipad. Pretty hard to see the screen shots, etc.
For context:

http://seemycgm.com/2019/05/20/fda-warning-against-diy-syste...

https://www.jdrf.org/press-releases/jdrf-statement-on-fda-sa...
I'm doubt the regressive city council will appreciate that nuance.
> Certainly, nobody needs access to Facebook.

Nobody needs electricity either. The Amish get by without and I wouldn't be surprised if they had better mental health than us.

Claiming nobody needs Facebook is just delusional.
https://archive.org
Source for this is here [1].

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-ser...
Why not? The sky if green if and only if pigs can fly if and only if water is wet.
The sky if green if and only if pigs can fly is true.
True if and only if water is wet is true.
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>No you don't and this is a problem. Anybody can say something abusive but that doesn't make it right.

Of course it doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make it a valid reason to drag that person through the dirt. Especially if something was said between the accused and a third person and the accuser was just eavesdropping on the conversation.

>I think there are a vocal few who are super easily offended and too many people are focusing on them. They don't make up the general populace. Just like how not every guy is out to make crude jokes and be offensive. It always seems like the "not every guy" defensive always comes up but it is unfathomable that not everyone is as easily offended as this vocal minority.

I agree, we are talking about minorities on both sides. Not every man is an abusive predator and not every woman is going to be a snowflake, who will cry abuse over everything a man says.

But as my first comment stated, the problem is that our current society caters to them. They are the ones who will go great lengths to ruin peoples lives, even when it turns out the accusations were false. They pressure companies into firing people. They harass, threaten, deplatform and dox people without thinking about the damages they cause. And when you work with a person like this (and you might not know this) you will be the target very fast, even for the slightest mistake.

And don't forget the bias towards genders. We talk about biases towards women for countless hours, but when someone brings up the biases towards men, that person is kicked out of the conversation. A level playing field goes both ways.
> A possible 5-10 extra seconds

> the 5 minutes of BIOS/EFI POST time

Yeah we measure boot up in seconds. If I restart a machine and it takes more than ~10 seconds to boot I send a ticket to our infra guys to figure out why the server is configured poorly/troubleshoot the slow start.

>Logs

I guess I prefer `journalctl -u service.service -f` or `journalctl -p "crit" --since "2 days ago"` to the ole `ls /var/log` and then `grep`ing

Honestly, I don't understand how it makes life harder. To me, systemd is a huge QoL impovement. Even in the most mundane tasks like `systemctl restart tomcat-*`
If the federal government adopted California housing policy it would spread the disease everyone.

At least this way california loses residents to other states that dont have such regressive policies. What will change this in california is an economic crisis.
If you're likely to benefit from one (e.g., you had cancer), your doctor should be able to make that happen. Otherwise, it's unlikely to do much for your health.

If you're just curious to see what your own brain (liver, etc) looks like, you might want to volunteer for a study at a local university and ask them if you can get a copy of your own scan. I know one lab that will even show you how to 3D print your brain, if you want.
Even when we think "the world is going to hell", it simply doesn't

Actually things are pretty much going to hell, as far as climate change (and its spillover effects) are foreseen to go.

Or what is your prognosis of that situation?
> 1. Calculus is really, really useful. Maybe AP Stats is also useful, but singling out Calculus as an example of useless signalling sets off really loud alarm bells.

34 years old. Been writing software since I was 14. Used to know some calculus and sometimes poke at picking it back up because I feel like I "ought to". Have usually been the one to tackle tough or odd problems where I've worked.

Haven't once managed to find a reason to use calculus for anything whatsoever. Not a damn thing to differentiate, not a damn thing to integrate. I think the need for it is in a very, very narrow slice of all jobs, even in "STEM".

Statistics is 100% for sure more useful to me, in everyday life and at work. And I've not even worked on anything especially stats-ish, it just happens to come up a lot. That's the thing I really ought to work to get better at.
It would be wholly dependent on the load and the technical implementation.

In my view the monitor would be a driver with standard knowledge and experience who could drive if the autonomous system encountered an edge case or for last-mile, i.e., from the freeway to the shipping or receiving facility.

Under those circumstances a load traveling ten hours with six hours of loading and unloading time would require two hours of active work and fourteen hours of standby.

Any driver would accept a lower rate for this kind of arrangement.
Thanks for the source! Jumping from that study (which is tightly focused) into the statistic of "0.8% body fat per day limit" is dubious, and "close enough" doesn't work with nonlinear systems like the our bodies. Read many of the threads around discussing that article for more information :)
That's rich coming from someone who probably speaks one language.

99,9% of people understand what she means, even if it isn't the legally correct word. The other 0,01% are pedantics like yourself.

Furthermore there is no evidence that she used this word, the interview might've been in Dutch or French and translated by the authors.
It will be interesting to see if this is an ebb and flow or a longer term pattern.

>Many of the jobs that offered a leg up to those without a college background no longer exist and won’t come back.

The jobs thing is interesting. I changed careers via a bootcamp (that's a whole other topic but let's just assume they produce some portion of viable candidates (like me!)), and I found a lot of jobs requiring lots of experience, working with 8 frameworks / languages (at least) described as "entry level"... and if you can't say you worked with all those things the impression you're just out and they'd rather sit there looking for someone for a year (giving HR and recruiters something to do I guess) than actually try someone out.

It would be nice to see more jobs / companies open to hiring non traditional type folks for say 6 months trail, reasonably well paid (obviously not the salary for 8 languages / frameworks guy, and find people who can help to some extent now, and later.

It could extend to even other areas of work with shorter term retraining and reasonably paid, but still entry level type work.
I put one together for TFB [1] a little while ago and used the prefers-color-scheme media feature in anticipation of it being supported more broadly. I'm super happy to see that added to Firefox.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Some browse in private mode all the time and many times I have wished it asked me to save passwords so I don't have to type them repeatedly. Bookmarks work in private mode, why not passwords?
Why?

Why not have that data go someplace it could do real good in informing better safety systems, better traffic management and so on.

Privacy is a spectrum, I am getting kinda tired how people think data about them is "theirs". In some cases maybe it should be, in other cases, it should not be. Now maybe you should have a right to see it, download it, and remove identifying markers but I am so tired of this extreme privacy movement.
Americans don't consider a large, essential expenditure to he a tax because it's not. Food and rent are not taxes either.
America Is in Full Employment, So Why Aren't We Celebrating?
You agree in principle that nobody needs Facebook while acknowledging that somebody needs Facebook?
Right to object: How to stop organisations from using your personal data
https://pastebin.com/b6TbxtGh

Here you go
This is an interesting statistical breakdown essentially saying that moving to the cities for opportunity used to hold true but likely no longer does for those without college degrees. Therefore it makes more economical sense for people without college degrees to move out of high COL areas, as there is no longer an income gain worth it anymore for them (broadly).

I fear this is a worrying sign that cities will eventually begin to lack necessary labor to keep running.
So it is.
> Why Aren’t You Using Our Technology?

It’s not open source.

Even if the engine is “free”, I don’t want to build an open source product with it and hope to be granted a “free production license.” If I build something on my own time I don’t want to ask my employer to purchase a “production license” as soon as it becomes useful.

Wolfram believes that mathematics software (or “computational knowledge” or whatever he calls his entire enterprise now) must be proprietary and paid-for in order to exist. Maybe it’s true; all of the successful and wildly popular computer algebra systems are closed source. (wxMaxima is rough to use, Axiom has 3 or 4 different forks, each with fewer than 10 developers, SymPy just isn’t there, Sage is absolutely wonderful but not polished or easy to deploy, ...) But that’s completely at odds with how most software engineers work these days. Most software is grounded in an open source development and deployment tool chain. There is a market for proprietary developer tools, but it had been dwindling since its prime-time in the 90s.

I think Wolfram needs to think quite hard about how he wants to get his technology in the hands of developers while maintaining a business. Not that my opinion matters, but if he can manage to do it by open sourcing Wolfram Language, Wolfram Engine, or something like that, while keeping his business intact, I might again consider him to be the genius he was lauded to be in his 20s.
What is the first diagram on this page supposed to depict? Seems like a bunch of unrelated topics with random arrows drawn between them.

Also, the author seems more than a bit arrogant and deluded: http://settheory.net/life -- I would _not_ touch any of this stuff with a 40 foot pole.
I became interested in Georgist tax models a few years ago but at one point I came across something that didn't seem to be Georgist exactly but perhaps a later modification that seemed terrifying.
The idea was that you were responsible to tell the tax authority what the taxable value of your land was. The catch was that anyone could come and (forcibly?) purchase the land at that price. It struck me as an incredibly dangerous and almost Orwellian version of the "make me move!" concept. You have to decide at what price you'd be willing to sell essentially and then you'd pay taxes on that assessed value.
I found it deeply disturbing but I have never been able to find any additional information about the proposal. Of course I think we'll probably colonize Jupiter before we'd ever adopt a model like that in the U.S. but it really was fascinating to contemplate.
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during all of those crises people were in near-universal agreement that there was a crisis, and were actively working to fix it

I don't think that's accurate. Take AIDS for example, there were plenty of arguments over the right approach, with very little consensus. Even with WW2, there were plenty who said "America needs to stay out of this war" and "We shouldn't have used atomic weapons".
+1 for Nand to Tetris.

As someone who came to computing through high level software and a little later than many (I wasn't dismantling appliances at age 5 like you hear in a lot of people's origin stories) this was a really empowering ground-up introduction to hardware architecture.

One of the few Coursera courses [1] I actually finished and found rewarding, challenging and fun throughout.

1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
It would be super awesome if Firefox can implement writable streams:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474543
Just remember when talking about this topic that public employees like Firefighters and policemen make 300k+

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=firefig...
Design Documentation for Projects and Styleguides
Many More Students, Especially the Affluent, Get Extra Time to Take the Sat
From the website:

You must be familiar with Assembly code, the C or C++ programming language, Unix or Linux, and the basics of pipelining.
It looks like the main problems were problems with HVAC (which wouldn't be a problem in California and probably could be more easily solved with modern building materials) and the ugliness of it. Everybody in the Bay Area would surely hate a version of the Skyrise Terrace in their city but it could be a good idea if someone could buy a large parking structure and retrofit it for mobile home utilities.
I have good faith debates all the time, and I can count on one hand how many times I've been arguing with someone that is relying on incorrect facts. People actually don't tend to disagree on facts very often, they disagree on conclusions. I don't want a political entity determine which conclusions are correct, because that is the job a long and public negotiation.
What arguments for consent get wrong
For a case study here, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6SSTRr2mFU

TL;DR: Rust's concurrency guarantees made parallelizing CSS layout feasible. They tried it in C++ twice, and failed.

One of the early justifications for pursing Rust at all was security; an internal survey of security issues was done, and over half of them were memory-safety related. At the same time, browsers need speed. Traditionally, you get either speed or memory safety in a language; Rust gives you both.
Taxpayers still pay for fed expenditures, albeit indirectly. Expansionary fiscal policy -> inflation, and inflation is probably the biggest single tax on any one.
> Claiming nobody needs Facebook is just delusional.

Claiming that Facebook is comparable to ELECTRICITY is delusional. Facebook is a website, it is not critical national infrastructure that underpins literally every economic activity in the country lol.
> Open-source projects approved by Wolfram.

“You can’t use this free thing to make other actually free things.”
Craig Wright files copyright claim for Bitcoin white paper
Yes, it's certainly using whatever sound hardware you have to emit beeps and blips :)
We need an European company that steps up. Maybe in an Airbus styled way. Different countries different parts of the product.

Hardware, software and services. Working tightly together.
Eh, given the absolute shitshow he was handed, he didn't do an awful job. No mayor could fix all of Chicago's long-term structural problems in two terms.
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I guess everyone accessing the same data at all times is not so valuable after all.

I've seen people having multiple versions of the same excel file and not remembering which was the last one...
It probably has something to do with (some) extensions not being very privacy friendly. Some extensions spy on the user in return for the utility the extension provides (remember the Stylish addon fiasco recently?). I'm not certain of the reasoning behind the decision. Also: it's possible to enumerate/detect what addons are installed in a browser with javascript (and thus fingerprint the user), although I think that bug was patched in Firefox and Chrome.
I'm sorry that my comment sounded rude and condescending. I try to avoid that, but haven't yet mastered the art.

Generic ideological arguments are simply off topic on HN. If you like, you can think of that as an arbitrary moderation decision. I think of it as following from the site principle of curiosity. Either way, please don't post any more of those.
Wrong. Driving a commercial vehicle requires a license that is more difficult to maintain, and for good reason: It's much harder to safely operate than a standard passenger vehicle.

Tesla and other 'Autonomous Driving solutions' are missing parity in the 'contextual awareness' space IMO. Safely operating a commercial vehicle is very much about 'contextual awareness'. Car cuts you off unexpectedly? Easy, slam the brakes in a Tesla. Truck? Crash and kill the people in front of you. You have to be able to absolutely anticipate crazy drivers and their terrible habits like jumping in front of you in heavy traffic and having to stop hard.
If the city can't (or won't) support the company, yes, the company should move. The city can make decisions from there, instead of assuming that the companies will be there regardless of the city's actions.

There's a lot of cities throughout the US (even a few within easy driving distance of SF) who would love to house Google.
Get a dog instead. All the benefits and almost none of the drawbacks.
Expecting undisciplined and financially illiterate people to have healthy finances and a middle class lifestyle is also unrealistic.
He only cares about the non-Iraqis, I guess.
Judge: Parents of Dead West Point Cadet Can Use His Sperm
I’d love some more detail on your statement, but either way I don’t think we should attack the messenger here. The message in OP is solid in my view, and the fact that it’s coming from an “establishment” Democrat is refreshing.
Craig Wright granted US copyright registrations for Bitcoin white paper and code
How Much Will Consumers Pay for AR?
Twist: rather than rent out the spaces, just post the parked RVs on Airbnb! Can we divide an RV into a duplex? As long as it still has wheels, how big can an RV get before it's legally an apartment building?
There's no reason a Facebook-like experience couldn't be developed using distributed technology like SMTP and HTTP. It's just that no one has garnered enough traction yet.
People get kicked out of the conversation because men still have power. A good example of this would be this exact argument. A woman feels uncomfortable about a man and she is a "whiny snowflake" while a man feels uncomfortable about a woman and the world needs to change.
> If Google decided to move their HQ to rural Kansas tomorrow, most of the company would quit overnight.

Which is merely a different form of "I got mine, F' you" from some employees (especially the C level employees) to other employees.
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I wonder: does the "fake news" regulation also apply to fake (i.e. false, misleading, fraudulent, conspiratorial) advertisements?
Inflation is a macro benefit to taxpayers.
If you flip the setting, that doesn't solve a problem of a user installing the browser for the first time, installing an extension like Stylish †, going to a porn site in private mode and getting their private browsing history leaked to the extension operator together with their regular history. Who thought that is a good idea? :)

† Stylish is a … special case [0]. But see also hypothes.is or any other extension that relies on a "user-created content store".

[0] https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...
They are always following chrome's tail.

But anyway, the reason probably is that some extensions are abusive of personal data and you don't want them sniffing stuff in private browsing (with out your persmission).
And are the private ones stored in a way that can't be easily viewed, unlike the non-private ones?
US has underestimated Huawei, says founder
> I am getting kinda tired how people think data about them is "theirs".

Huh? How is users wanting to control the personal data they create (e.g. telemetrics) an “extreme” movement?
Supposedly, more companies used to hire people on a trial basis. That probably went away because today's employees require a lot of HR overhead, and businesses can get in trouble for alternatively hiring people as contractors(if it appears they are treating the contractor like an employee).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970333 for discussion
On the one hand I agree about extreme privacy movement and I can see how travel in the public roads provides some reason to provide driving data to the public... or even the builder.

On the other hand, if it's your car why don't you control it and the data it collects? Maybe if it was loaned, leased, or licensed I could see the seller retaining a right to data, but ownership has its privileges.

In the extreme case, let's say your local used car dealer surveils his sales after the fact and at some point offers not to publish details for a monthly fee?
> By the way, did you try the "Save selection" feature

Wow, I didn't... duh! Works great, very very nice!
FSB Chief Says Jihadists Have Terror Chemical and Biological Attack Drones
I think folks in the trades probably still do well. But the low end has definitely become unaffordable. The housing situation in these cities in untenable so now second tier cities will experience major growth. The Twin Cities metro is one area which I think can sustain a differentiated jobs economy and you can still find reasonable housing... that may not hold long term though.. still there is a lot of land to develop.
Radical Markets chapter 1 [1]. It was a really interesting idea, I wanted to see more discussion on it, I don’t think it’s entirely without problems. Maybe cabals could form for example.

[1] http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s11222.pdf
How did he prove it?
Ghost [1] seems like a good alternative blog platform for non-techies if you really dislike WordPress. It's a CMS like WordPress but it focuses mainly on blogging unlike WordPress which does e-commerce as well. If anyone here is interested in JAMstack with ghost here's a Gatsby ghost integration which brings CMS like content management to JAMstack [2].

[1]: https://ghost.org

[2]: https://gatsby.ghost.org/about/
The root of all problems is the tax system in california.

It bleeds out foreigners and renters to pay high incomes to retirees that dont pay income taxes or property taxes.

Everyone is absolutely wrong focusing on housing: it is a symptom, not the disease.

If san francisco eliminated the regressive sales tax and put it on say, garbage collection, it would shift away 2 billion dollars from all workers, including low income to the very enriched landlord class. Iterate that on business taxes, which are about 25% more of its budget if i remember, and then businesses will grow and wages will go up: and landlords holding the bags will be the first to change zoning codes on the plummeting value of their properties.
Synthetic biologists hack bacterial sensors
I regularly get migraines, where "bright" lights are searingly painful to look at. When the symptoms aren't too bad, dark themes on a text editor are okay, but light themes are not.

Migraines aren't an uncommon problem.

I think that is a fairly objective reason driving the preference.