skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in Sonoma and lived in San Francisco for three years. I’m near the end of a two month stay in Medellín, Colombia. I’m looking to make the move out of SF permanent. People here ask me why I’d move to a city like Medellín from SF. It’s because there’s less crime, less drug use, less homelessness and less street harassment for my girlfriend.
> Not mention that software developers work for gov or bank in China are usually worse than developers in tech companies.

It's true.

But in recent years, leading tech corporations like Alibaba are becoming the major backers for the government's plan on big data and smart city. You are sure the Chinese governments won't start outsourcing its mass surveillance system to the private sector?
Me, I can approach 250 miles at 60 on the freeway, but 200-220 is easy with skis, 4 people, a bunch of equipment.

The latest model goes 370. not 500.
I don’t see the point of an LLC if you plan to have an outside investor. The LLC will have to be converted to regular corporation (typically. C Corp) anyway.

The LLC makes it easy to pass profits through but if you don’t have any yet...what’s the point?
The full story though is they had their Wordpress site done by a company from Singapore who charged them 1000's of dollars for what seemed to be a $50 template from Themeforest. And the worst part was it was hosted on top of a third grade shared hosting provider, with really low memory and RAM and the site would take about 15-20 seconds just to render the page. It didn't even include a year's worth of support which they would've easily gotten if they directly purchased from themeforest. This company then stopped answering their calls one fine day and abandoned them after taking their money.

The site itself was fine, until one day it broke and was completely inaccessible.

So, they were stuck in a limbo and the CEO happens to be my good friend, so while working on another project for him, he asked me if I could help. So, that's how I got incharge of maintaining it for them.
Going to be there next week. Lived there twenty years ago. Haven't spent much time in the city since. All I hear is horror stories. I hope everything is ok? I was going to try to break in my new hiking boots after work each day. Any suggestion on safe places to walk with my pack on? I'm camping in Montana the following week.
Raising a Moral Child
Also not a lawyer but it seems unlikely. You can’t create a legal shell just to shield yourself from liability. There needs to be an actual entity. Or not, again not a lawyer.
Just want to give a shout-out to all the other sole proprietorships out there. It's a nice route to follow if you hate paperwork and legal fees.
I think everyone should learn some basic HTML. You still need a professional for design and templates though. If you already have an example page of what you are going to publish, its not hard to figure out the semantic elements. I think CSS helps as you only have to figure out what elements h1 p img, etc to use and the CSS will take care of the layout. My experience with visual editors CMS/ builders is that they are more complex and harder to learn then semantic HTML. As a web programmer that can also make some design, I hand code CSS gradients etc and use SVG for when CSS becomes too hacky, Im a bit slower then the Photoshop wizards, but then its already converted to web format, and as everything is hand coded its small too. Its always frustrating when another designer edits my SVGs in Photoshop blowing them up 100x in unreadable blob riddled. Just as when back in the days some other designer would edit the page in Dreamweawer.
How Sydney’s pools became the envy of the world
Then the US military would be very late to that crowded game.
How to Get Good Lighting When Filming YouTube Videos
You’ll be fine if you’re just visiting. Just don’t move there for any length of time.
Only under post-modern, fully secular humanist conceptions of rights.
40% on every layer of the stack
Facial Recognition in Identity Verification
This makes me sad and angry at the same time.

My introduction to MIDI was as a cheap-ass soldering-iron wielding 13 year old hooking together components for my Commodore VIC-20. I credit that work for my subsequent career as a scientist, programmer, and mathematician.

$250 a year. To solve a solved problem?

Everyone generates a UUID. Part of the CI setup is mapping the 128-bit UUID to a short identifier. Or some other compression scheme. Hell, even 64-bit random identifiers will almost-surely not collide on a bus.

So much for "hobbyist-friendly".

And totally unnecessary.
Keep in mind that these are marketing materials for a commercial product. Grain of salt sold separately.
No, because digital processing adds distortion to the signal, which means that having an input beyond perceptual accuracy still matters to a production needing to apply lengthy effects chains. It just matters less than the case of a quiet signal recorded at a linear bitdepth.

For this sort of reason many digital effects operate at an oversampled rate(i.e. they apply a FIR filter to represent approximately the same signal at a higher sample rate like 1.5x or 2x, do the processing there, then downsample again). Contemporary DAW software has tended towards doing processing in 64-bit floating point, while source recordings typically go up to 24-bit/192kHz, which is probably "way more than good enough" even if some room to inflate the specs further exists.

For playback, 16-bit/44.1khz stereo is still as good as ever. You're limited more by the other parts of the signal path in that case.
looks like it's a mobile imgur thing, the images are less compressed on the desktop version
>Disable all notifications except direct messages

If only that were easy. @here on slack and being cc'd on emails i really don't need to see makes that line frustratingly fuzzy.
I guess this highlights the problem, that “brilliance” is in fact subjective and relative. To some “brilliance” is a PhD at MIT, to others it is being able to do something much more mundane.
Interesting. So what do you suppose the function of a Limited Liability Company with pass-through taxation would be?
Hetzner Cloud Dedicated VCPUs
Is anyone here using these servers? Are they worth the difference in price compared to the ones with shared vCPUs? Thanks
In traditional residential neighborhoods it’s still ok. It’s the tenderloins, SoMA, areas of the mission, etc., that have above average street crime. In the residential neighborhoods it’s petty theft, car break-ins and such. Nothing to worry about, but if you live there it can weigh on you after a while.
For example, with a video player like vlc, try moving the sound out of sync with the video with the hot keys.
I skimmed through and didn't find anything inspiring. Videos for exercises look awful and not at all fun. I'm learning another lisp to be able to design an interactive world, so I expected more from this title.
Yes , I am in the US.
> There are millions of people in the world who believe that Goebbels introduced the tuning to make people feel more anxious.

That's absurd.

It's more likely Goebbels did that to demonstrate that Germany was no longer bound to Article 282 (22) of the Treaty of Versailles, which forced it to accept the 435hz standard.

See: Jerry L. Weinstein, Musical Pitch and International Agreement. The American Journal of International Law
Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), pp. 341-343, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2194075
This is exactly right
Your girlfriend gets harassed walking down the street of SF more than she does in Colombia? What kind of harassment are you talking about?
Google Is Tracking Your Purchases Through Gmail
Wow this is wonderful, thank you!
In the USB case that simply translates to rogue VID/PID by vendors that don't want to pay the fee.
So strange to finally see these practices in a trial (but also great!!). It was talked about a lot directly after it happened.

One thing that has stuck with me is that the officials of the company have always insisted that the suicide rate at Orange/TF was not higher than the general population one. A grim statistic, but one that they were the only one exploring.

All the articles I have read so far failed to establish whether this is factual or not (and that would need a rigorous statistical analysis.. not just comparing the %).

And just to be clear, even if these rates where indeed "normal" or even lower, it would not lower the responsibilities of these execs in these deaths and the harassment policies.
The primary source at the top of their article, Susan Dyer Reynolds, is not an expert in any way but editor-in-chief of the Marina Times, an independent community newspaper.

I wouldn't trust a single word out of this NIMBY's mouth. Why they chose to lead with her and quote her like she's an authority on the subject is beyond reason.
Sure, SaaS business. I'm interested to know why it varies so much as well.
Nice. We'll need a lot of batteries for the transition to renewable energy.
I've wondered if what San Francisco needs is a Rudy Giuliani type mayor. Someone to come in a shake up the status quo with valid right leaning polices when it comes to crime.
I think brilliant, not-brilliant, idiot or any other judgemental terms spent on tagging someone or ourselves is just a waste of time.

The greater the effort spent on something by someone, greater is the probability of a favourable outcome to them. But it is still a probability and not a certainty because of variables involved.
When did a court decide it was libelous? As far as I understand a court decided it fell under Right to be Forgotten, which surely extends beyond libel laws.

This is a circular argument. The courts decided it falls under the law in question, but that isn’t a justification in itself for the law in question.
An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist
I generally agree with reduced sentences, if any at all, for minor offences.

Once someone becomes a 3+ time offender, it is worth removing them from the street. The majority of cases are caused by a tiny number of people who do it serially because they can.
A friend gave me a Mid-2011 MacBookAir4,2 because some keys died, the battery lasts less than an hour on a charge, and it freezes up regularly when running MacOS. I installed Linux on it and connected it to my 4K TV (at 1080p resolution). I use a wireless keyboard and mouse with it. It runs flawlessly, and since the fan rarely kicks in, it's replaced a much more powerful (but loud) tower PC. I mainly use it for surfing the web and streaming music, with some light YouTube use. It's no longer very useful as a portable laptop, but it's a great media PC. I have some even older 2009 white MacBook5,2s that run Linux fine, as will most Intel MacBooks manufactured in 2015 or earlier. They also tend to have fast WiFi cards, so performance seems better than their processors would suggest. It's a shame to see them scrapped when they can be creatively repurposed.
Why would you say this? Assessing IQ is the entire purpose of standardized tests, and unsurprisingly it's something they do well.
If you want to do something about climate change—I've just launched crowdfunding campaign to raise $2 million dollar for effective climate policy.

It's for the Clean Energy Innovation program at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)—a top-ranked US think tank. The program is led by Professor David Hart and Dr. Colin Cunliff whose policy research focuses on the effectiveness of higher and smarter clean energy R&D spending and communicating this to policy-makers.

We have done hundreds of hours of research to figure out most effective way to donate to combat climate change and believe this is best place to donate. Why?

You can read our in-depth analysis at https://lets-fund.org/clean-energy/, but briefly:

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Public clean energy R&D is neglected: only $22 billion is spent per year globally compared to $140 billion spent on clean energy deployment subsidies and trillions spent on energy. Many advanced economies (e.g. U.S., EU) could unilaterally increase this substantially without international coordination—which makes this much more politically tractable than carbon taxes.
Better yet, advanced economies can coordinate spending parts of their GDP on clean energy R&D. Many countries have already done so by signing an international ‘Mission Innovation’ agreement, but are not on track to fulfill their pledges. Donating to this campaign might lead countries to get back on track and increase clean energy R&D budgets.

This would make low-carbon energy cheaper, carbon taxes more politically acceptable, and prevent dangerous climate change.
This is over ten years and only if he significantly grows value of company. https://ir.tesla.com/index.php/news-releases/news-release-de...
Web Components should replace them both. They aren't standards - just frameworks developed by third parties. The Web Components standard is the official standard and should be the one people reach for
I see what you are getting at. I don't have to go round trip very often and worry about charging because I have enough range, but also because because there are chargers everywhere and I can charge on the way back if needed. Most trips I take are within round trip range of my car. of course it's more convenient not to have to charge.

plugshare.com is a good site that shows all the chargers. supercharge.info is a 3rd party site that shows tesla chargers only, plus where the ones under construction are. tesla.com has one too.

I go skiing a lot, and there's one thing you learn - you use a lot of energy going uphill. An ev has much more accurate energy usage so you notice, gas cars of course use more energy doing more work too. But the huge difference is going back, going downhill, your electric car basically glides down hills for free, and because you are recharging the battery when you do moderate breaking, I can drive 20+ miles back and end up with more range than I started out with.

In Seattle I can easily go round trip to the 3 ski areas around town.

Basically I don't worry about it because I could charge on the way back if I needed it, and in 6 years of day trips I only charged once or twice on the way home - the one I remember was when I went to mt rainier for a week with no charging.
If your business model is scum I'd wager that it should die a slow and painful death.

I really don't see, why a scummy business should get a pass, just because it's a startup.
On exposed sandstone in a region with torrential rains for 8000 years? That doesn't seem likely to me. Am I missing something?

I can't tell if they're on exposed stone or not from the pictures and video, except for the fact that all images seem very well lit. And sometimes seem to feature natural shadows.
Wow. Even more Intel CPU vulnerabilities. I hadn’t even heard about MDS until now. Glad I based my new rig on the Ryzen stack.

I wonder how much these continuous performance degradations are costing bigger customers, like cloud operators. This shit can’t be cheap.
MIDI is extensively used for stage light control.
I know this is not a popular point of view, but I'm also read a big pile of these books. And from my perspective (I'm living far from the US) there is a very big gap between nice theory and the real world. I'm trying to be positive about things but the real help in my business I've got from different sources. Maybe this is my own way, but after a few years of studying books like this from "business" shelf, I barely moved to the place where I'm now.

For example, a few months with a therapist gave me more resources than hundreds of hours I've spent on videos and "startup books". Best books I've read in the last 3-5 years was Martian by Andy Weir, and Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. Very inspiring for me as engineer. Few videos about how to organize personal finances on Youtube gave me financial ground.
You are absolutely correct! That is precisely what I mis-remembe... er, mis-attributed.
Walking down Market street from 5th - 8th Street gives you a 50/50 chance of getting cat-called as a female.
OSC is fantastic in many ways, but it makes for a pretty inefficient (and unnecessary) replacement for the primary use case of MIDI, which is note on/off messages. It’s much better suited to some of the other layers that got bolted on top of MIDI, such as MIDI Show Control. For most musical purposes, MIDI v1 is perfectly sufficient, well-documented, optimized, and open (from the standpoint of being free to implement).

OSC absolutely has caught on in a lot of professional applications, just not the ones that MIDI was initially designed to serve. It’s huge in the world of theater, for example.

(Background: I wrote the initial OSC implementation for QLab [a theatrical show control application].)
DSL = Domain Specific Languages
Income After Tax 2019
I used to go running in the early morning near Dolores Park. I remember a period of about six weeks when the entire row of cars there parked overnight would reliably have their windows broken every morning. I also struggle to remember ever seeing an SFPD officer patrolling this neighborhood (two blocks from a major police station) on foot.
You can also allow calls from contacts in ios dnd. Android may have that, or allowed callers etc
Mind sharing the finance videos?
>But I have to wonder whether the internet connection can be maintained during cloudy days and what the expected upload/download speeds will be and finally what the expected costs will be.

Depends on the size of the constellation. Ultimately I think they want to have 3 sats visible at any given time which should be enough. The bands used can penetrate though anyway. I've seen numbers quoted of speeds up to 1gbps, so basically "good enough". I'm currently using a 4 mbps connection just fine and the fastest I have access to is 8 mbps down 0.5mbps up. And I'm getting my browsing done just fine. Costs are up to discussion, the main selling point of Starlink is backbone and the receiver was according to Shotwell one of the main research points to drive the cost down( 1k$ at the time but an obscure tech, they want it down to 300$).

>Affordable and globally available internet could be a game-changer. If viable, couldn't it challenge wireless carriers and ISPs?

No because of density limitations. They can't support enough bandwidth for an entire city. Also direct LoS is required so big buildings will limit you.

>Also, aren't there geopolitical ramifications. Would China, Russia, EU, etc allow their citizens to access the starlink system? Or will starlink have to be censored, filtered and monitored in these regions?

Current sat internet providers just don't sell their receivers in China or any country that doesn't allow them.
This statement is obviously incorrect.

It’s literally the name of the thing, the two L’s stand for “limited liability”
Native/Kernel code in Elm 0.19 the hacky way
> Why they chose to lead with her

Because it's super important for political reasons that San Francisco be seen as failing. It's the same phenomenon as perception of the national economy: if you don't like who's in power, you think the economy is poor.
LLC stands for limited liability company. What makes it different than a DBA is that a LLC gives you limited liability. If your LLC is sued, you're protected personally from losing assets. Regardless, many people don't need it and a DBA suffices until the liability gets too high.
Depends if you are keeping the entity and its finances separately. If you can demonstrate your finances are not commingled, they can be considered as separate and distinct even when reporting taxes as pass through.

So, for instance, document the seed money to the LLC, and any other money you put in, carry on the books. Similarly, pay yourself a salary or if doing “equity draw” again keep it full documented.

Never pay for personal things with company funds.
Twitter thread on exporting video game assets
The coming declassification will show more of this.
What people really don't get is that the president is not the whole government and has far less power than people seem to assume. All this surveillance state stuff kicked into high gear after 9/11 and kept going through Bush, Obama, and now Trump.
I have a laptop manufactured somewhere around 2008 or 2009. For a long time it worked with Windows XP, but recently I had to upgrade it to Debian because website and software developers have been intentionally breaking Windows XP support.

It is fully working, it has Core 2 Duo CPU and 4 Gb of RAM (I would like to install more, but Intel made a limitation in their chipset, probably for planned obsolence. Lack of RAM is the main problem when using Firefox and Electron apps like Skype), and I am sure that there are people who would be happy to get such laptop. Maybe not in US, but in Russia and in other developing countries there are people who cannot afford buying a new one.

So I think that you are wrong about nobody wanting to get a 10 years old computer.
Lots of people have one skill, few people have two, and only a tiny fraction ever put multiple skills to use at once.
>“We could be keeping them and be giving services while they’re in jail,” says Fabbri. “It could really be effective.

>we’re not solving our problems when we pretend low-level crimes aren’t important.

Those two facts are the crux of the issue. Prisons do not rehabilitate criminals; they just restrain them. Couple that with the fact it costs, on nationwide average, $84 per day to incarcerate someone and the average petty criminal steals less than $84/day and you end up with an uncomfortable conclusion. That conclusion is that it would be cheaper to offer government-funded total coverage crime insurance than it is to arrest the criminals.
Super. I hope all manufactures go back to building products for longevity instead of planned obsolescence, for the sake of the planet.
It’s OK That Amazon Will (Likely) Get the .AMAZON Domain
For more nuts and bolts: I'm a part-time law professor and do a fair amount of (pro bono) mentoring and lecturing for local academic institutions about "Startup Law 101." In lieu of handing out the slides, I maintain a Web page with summaries and links to further reading. [0]

(The page includes links to lots of HN discussions in this area; depending on how this discussion goes, I might add it as well.)

[0] https://www.oncontracts.com/startup-law/
> Anyone who thinks DSLs for the general public can't work has never used Excel.

I would say Excel is exactly the opposite of a positive example. Unless you mean being used as a sort of electronic scratchpad, which works okay.

But apart from that there's too much freedom in Excel to be used to make anything properly. Every time I've ever seen a non programmer use it, they make a pile of spaghetti. You never have any assurance that you're actually calculating what you want.

Even highly qualified domain experts (eg in derivatives trading) will end up building utter nonsense in Excel, and then use it to trade millions of dollars worth of exotics. Whenever they need something fixed, it takes an enormous effort to trace through all the cells to make sure things are correct.
Which of the high-crime areas have rent control? What would the crime look like if the market had let the rents rise? It's my intuition that people rarely commute 1hr in bumper to bumper traffic to smash windows.
San Francisco absolutely does not need a racist[1] mayor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...