skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from Canada to management position and found myself working from home most of the time. Or traveling to visit customers.

I don't go to SF often, unless the visit is driven by some sort of event. Traffic is a mess, parking is a mess.

SF area is expensive. I can afford it but it feels like a big waste of money as I can work anywhere.
So I going to move soon to area with better weather and less taxes.

If you have friends and local social circle - then it makes things more fun and you can tolerate things to better degree.

In case of economy crash SF area is the first and worst to suffer.
You just have to spend some time on 4chan and have common sense.

I won't link it but right now I took a minute to find an example. There's a thread on /b/ where someone claims their mom found their bottle of urine and asked what should they do. Countless people said to basically murder their mother.

So do you think those people are truly encouraging a murder? No. They're going along with the fiction. It's just part of what 4chan does...
This article is flawed. It assumes that just because someone stands up for their category means others who aren’t a member will listen and respond reasonably. The examples given in the article contradict the very idea.
The question was who has not who developed.
A 40000-year-old well preserved wolf discovered in Yakutia
Not just most people in the US. Most people worldwide at the moment would probably be classed as 'populist' under those criteria.
And you get 4g nearly everywhere! It blew my American mind to pieces. I would intentionally check my phone on random gravel roads in the mountains and there was almost always 4g. We even had a hiking guide take a phone call on a mountain pass.
All new technology is overestimated in the short term, and underestimated in the long term.
Porting a Face Detector to WebAssembly
It would be really awesome if we figured out exactly how the brain works before we are able to simulate it. But at current rates of new discovery I think we might be able to simulate it before we understand it
We don't describe it as totalitarian or oppression because, by looking around the world, we've seen real oppression and totalitarianism, and they weren't just an economic system. I mean, look at the Uighurs in China. That's oppression.

Note well: I am not saying that the economic system does not have its oppressive aspects. I am not saying that those aspects should not be improved. But I am saying that calling it totalitarian is cheapening the word "totalitarian". There's real things that the word applies to, and stretching it to apply to the economic system may help make your point, but it also hides the difference between the economic system and real totalitarianism. And there is a real, massive difference, which needs to not be swept under the rug of rhetoric.

(Also, positivism is dead as the dominant means of making sense of the world.)
The problem is that while most of them aren't, some of them are. If you doubt the sincerity, just observe /b/ for a day. It's filled with fiction, but yeah, every so often you see something that looks real.
Transparency does not inherently require a request.
That was a good read!

It is much more interesting than the obituary the nytimes ran for him:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/05/nyregion/obituary-alden-w...
So you're saying that Greg K-H is intentionally breaking ZFS in Linux so as to promote btrfs and bcachefs?

That's a big accusation.

Do you have any evidence?
It's like the browser's kernel. You can build different browsers on top of the same engine without having to write everything from scratch. Chrome, Opera, Edge and Brave all share the same Blink/Webkit engine and there are a bunch of Firefox forks like Palemoon that share its Gecko engine.

Servo is a new engine written from scratch that's progressively replacing Gecko in Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
Bluetooth scales are fairly common. As are toy robots and quadrocopters that use Bluetooth for control.
Because they have a lot of patents. Either they developed the tech in the patents independently or they stole tech which other companies declined to patent. The latter option doesn't make sense since everyone in the wireless industry makes money from patent licensing. (Opposed to something like DRAM manufacturing tech where you generally aren't licensing patents and your tech is your competitive advantage)
From everything I know,MediaTek basically caters to the low end. It will be years before catering to the low end will be a viable business model. The only companies selling high end phones at scale are Apple and Samsung and even Samsung sells mostly low end phones -their average selling price is below $300.

That’s also the problem with Android watches. The Android market for Android Wear is minuscule because the processors suck and the processors suck because the market is too small to be worth the investment.
But the very nature of your dissent increased the chances of you getting that A - this is a little similar to why we have Publication bias in scientific papers. What more interesting things would you have to say on this paper by concurring with all the popular opinions of the time that Woolf deserves recognition? Much easier to find something novel to say through disagreement, and therefore, easier to receive that high mark.

That doesn't mean you had the right opinion... something about the fact that you are lauding your own opinion on Hacker News while Woolf's place in literary canon remains unassailable makes me think otherwise.
The problem is that for every serious threat there are thousands or hundreds of thousands of unserious ones. The vast majority _are_ unserious. It's obviously wrong to evaluate it as "entirely unserious", but it's not wrong to evaluate the collection as "mostly unserious".
Banana Pi BPI-M4, Raspberry Pi Clone Packs a More Powerful SoC and Costs US$35
Every cell contains the entire genome which, informed by chemical messages from cells nearby, has a subset of genes activated which encode the information needed to know what to do.

Even the simplest cells on Earth are extremely advanced and intelligent, the latest in 4 billion years of evolution
Let's see what their whitepaper says.
Sorry, should have been more clear. The case where she called the IRB was where the office completely messed up the consent process -- told her to disregard the first page of the consent, which was included in the package and included items that were directly relevant, and also didn't include materials referenced in the consent. Note, this was in a research/teaching hospital, where the consent notice includes consent for students to participate in the procedure, so that's why she called the IRB -- and they were very interested to hear what she had to say ...
Will Hurd loses cyber keynote over women's issue votes
Buying DMT Online
Is Brainmagic Psychedelics safe to buy from? Do you have an official link? I’m a high schooler who wants DMT and I have $—- ( redacted because of abuse purposes) dollars I’m willing to put into cripto.
Brings to mind:
Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things
A seemingly silly gesture is done for the sake of safety.
BY ALLAN RICHARZ MARCH 29, 2017
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...

April 2018 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793
> Your only value is measured by what role you have at what company you work for.

I’ve seen this in Bay Area churches unfortunately. Fortunately, my friends are interested in deeper aspects of life. You can find people like that here. Meditation groups are a good start.
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
Yes; improvisation should be taught more, but learning and deconstructing pieces by other people is an excellent way of doing it, in the same way that learning a language is often best done by listening and deconstructing what native speakers have said and written. The key difference is that we should be encouraging people to learn and /understand/ pieces written by others, rather than just blindly learn the notes.
I've known folks that have moved back to SF after years away because they were looking for the place where makers meet investors. For that, the city is the place to be.

Also, it's the bees knees for tech meetups and generally being an active technologist.

But honestly, it's oppressively expensive if you're not making well over $150K. Forget buying a home here. And renting, you'll just know every day that you're getting screwed. Even if you can "afford it," it doesn't feel good to know so many Americans are struggling and meanwhile you're burning money to live here.

Having lived here myself for over 8 years, I can say that culturally the city has been decimated. Only the rich can play here now. Students, teachers, artists, normal people of all kinds are priced out. For me, that means 90% of the friends I've had over my lifetime cannot afford to live in my city. It's not a good feeling.

My other experience has been that the city is no longer friendly, most store clerks and other folks you'll interact with on a daily basis are stressed out because they are commuting from 60 miles away to work here (serving the rich). Don't even get me started about the Uber drivers.

Despite all that, it's a beautiful place, and easy to romanticize, and I still love calling it home.
It's certainly peculiar that the person driving efforts to cripple ZFS (which is, let us note, under an opensource license, albeit a GPL-hostile one) seems to be putting tremendous effort into doing it while being completely disinterested in, for example, the entirely proporietary graphics drivers from free software hostile companies such as NVidia.
Such data is usually so noisy and incomplete that you cant get any actionable value from it.

The more complex a method is at tracking someone, the less reliable it is.

People fear too much of what can be done with the fancy ways of tracking while overlooking simpler ways that are much more effective.
I like the pointlessly-recursive screenshot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
I treat playing piano as a creative outlet these days as a small hobby, not profession. Not much different than say, playing video games. I actually have very little interest in becoming better these days, mostly due to forgoing lessons / daily practice long ago.

That said, I’ve created compositions that are really cool on occasional boredom, which is probably something many “accomplished pianists” don’t even do. And that is a lot cooler than performing challenging pieces, if you ask me.

I also don’t think that more challenging pieces actually necessarily sound better / distinct. There are beginner level songs that are surprisingly good.

My music teacher also told me that there’s good and bad practice. If you continuously do bad practice / habits, you get worse, not better.
Controversial, but couldn't you make this claim about almost any profession with a decent number of practitioners and any sort of responsibility?

Probably about any political side or extreme outgroup too.

There are likely at least a million police officers in the US, so hundreds of those being associated with questionable Facebook groups hardly seems like it'd be statistically relevant. And you could probably swap police officers with teachers, doctors, lawyers, politicians or military personnel and find similar figures.
For me it's notable that the first drop doesn't contain any "oh shit" bugs, which would tend to suggest the more conservative amongst us should be thinking about upgrading the on-disk format from 0.7.x to 0.8.x.
The real problem isn't right wingers or left wingers. The real problem are extremists who are willing to resort to violence and to destroy civic discourse. One extreme fringe has a higher body count, which is still in the same league as being hit by lightning. The other extreme fringe has a lesser body count, while the press is covering for their excesses, as the numbering climbs towards 4 digits.

What we should be concerned about, is how the dishonesty and bias distorts the information available to the public, and destroys civic discourse.
It's all fun and games until someone gets shot.
One trick is to go on weeknights after work. If you live in Sausalito you can get to Muir Woods in about 10 minutes and no one is there so there is tons of parking and free entry.
Slack group is created! Instructions on how to get the Slack group invite here https://www.lewis-lin.com/blog/2019/6/14/better-freelancers-...
It's not that hard to tell.
Yes. Which is why I think there's tremendous risk for a bunch of idiots on the Internet to be railroaded because the thread they participated in ended up being a very serious one.
If you've never run a chaos experiment, how do you square up blast radius with running in prod?

It seems like this setup works great if built from the get-go but incredibly painful and possibly dangerous if starting with existing applications.
I work in credit scoring and you should be afraid of what you will not be eligible / priced systematically for in the future.

What will employers find when they use this for background checks? If you regularly buy alcohol a drinks_alcohol flag could be set or a health_indicator could increase.
> If practice is not fun I just don't play, and I don't get better.

But what if your goal is to be one of the greatest pianist alive? Then we have to dissect what is "not fun". There are moments of neutral practice, or "monotony", which is what I think the article touches on. The idea that sometimes, practice can feel more like a chore than a pleasure. The article speaks about in this context, you have to push through the negative (or apathy) to continue practicing.

Last year, I had the privilege to attend a seminar in Aikido where two individuals were awarded the rank of godan (5th degree black belt). In our organization, the minimal amount of time required to be eligible for the rank is just over 18 years (and the requirements are increasing next year). One of the individuals spoke about how Aikido and training was much like a marriage - sometimes you enjoy coming to class, sometimes you hate it, and sometimes it's neither feeling; however, much like a marriage, good times or bad, you have to continue working on it.

I've spoken on here before as well about the element of discipline/perseverance/grit in terms of improving oneself. Angela Duckworth has studied the effects of grit across multiple fields, one in particular was grit in cadets at West Point. Higher levels of grit were more likely to complete the program and good leaders were more likely to have higher grit scores.

"Fun" is still a loose, ill-defined term. You can have fun being pursuing a task for leisure or for mastery.
Depends on your commute tolerance. I think the best commute is a 5 minute walk from your high rise apartment to your high rise office.
That's just because you had to program on punch cards and run your progran over hours to see if it worked. Now its faster to just run the tests and see how it went rather than spend ages reading the code trying to spot issues.
What an amazing resource. Thank you for sharing.
I didn’t realize so many companies had 5G related patents. Are they part of patent pool like MP3 (was) or h.264? Where you can pay one entity and it gets distributed to all of the holders?
Burn.. I'm not even a musk fan, but still, I like his attitude.
Ollam is top class, he manages to get so much good information across without getting long winded, and never sounds condescending.
The audiobook thing! Yes! I hike or mountain bike with books, too, and when I bike those routes now, sometimes I get almost total word recall of a moment in a book I heard years ago. It’s a great sensation.
So he's redefining a word with a well-established meaning based on its etymology to say... what, exactly?

These kinds of word games are what turns me off of philosophy. Like the argument that there isn't a multiverse, since "universe" includes everything and would include alternate realities. Congratulations, you know Latin roots. That is all I have learned.
You probably should also look at "The Search for the Perfect Door", pretty fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYvBLAF4T8
Never heard of them selling to individuals but it wouldn't surprise me if they do. At the very least a record should be kept of who they sold the data to in case it is used for a purpose like stalking someone.
Undecidable in principle but I wonder how much it comes up in practice.
Why would private parties file suit under any of these statutes? The Ohio RICO act lollll, these are matters for the state

Could it be just to bring attention to them in the civil suit and then hope the department of justice comes in with the criminal sanctions and asset freezes? Maybe PrivatBank makes a little money in the process?
Commitment but it makes me wonder where to draw the line.
This feels like it should be better dealt with via legislation. Already sounds like health data, which is legislated to high-heaven in the US, and also sounds like the juiciest ever GDPR suit waiting to happen in the EU.
This reminds me of lifeguards, which seem to have changed their techniques since I was a kid.

They seem to point at one end of the pool and move their finger back and forth to the othe end of the pool.
> "We didn't so much evolve to eat fish, but we did evolve to eat mussels. Neanderthals 150,000 years ago in Europe were found eating mussels. Mussels can simply be grabbed, whereas catching fish requires a level of technology and intelligence we seem to have reached only in more recent eras. It's the seafood our ancestors ate."

I know this is an old post and everything, but this is pure nonsense. Modern day humans didn't descend from Neanderthals; they were a branch of early hominids that died out. Yes some Neanderthals genes survive today due to some inter-species breeding, but citing Neanderthals as a reason to eat mussels as if it were their only food source and simultaneously claiming that we didn't evolve to eat fish is just pure bs.
Amiga BBS Online in 2019
Is this not what Manafort was essentially charged in aiding?
The 4G patents were also under FRAND. Didn’t stop Qualcomm from failing to actually license under those terms. The judge specifically found so in the case.
If I’m working on a specific algorithm, I’ll drill it. Setup a test rig and test my assumptions. I’m often wrong about a lot of things, and playing around with something in isolation is great practice.

For example, when learning ant colony optimization, I started with a naive approach. Then I tried to see if I could estimate an ideal termination condition. Then, researched known methods and refined my approach. Then looked at ways to optimize, refactor, specialize for different use cases. The hours I spent would be considered excessive to some, but far more effective than writing something that works and moving on.

As a result, I’ve used ACOs to model NPC swarm behavior for ground troops that respect mutual collisions, multiple openings, and group behavior that looks very convincing with minimal computation cost. It never would have occurred to me if I only saw it as a graph path optimization technique. I can also with an ACO from memory.

I do similar things when learning new languages. Start with something and focus on interactively refactoring it to be as idiomatic to the language as possible. For hybrid languages like Scala & Ocaml, I try different approaches and try to solve in as many ways as possible.
Hacker News also fails to parse that. Give it another decade or two; we'll figure out how URLs work.
I think this explains it better:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)
>by looking around the world, we've seen real oppression and totalitarianism, and they weren't just an economic system

This just dances around the core question, though: you say we've seen "real" totalitarianism, but by what do you judge that standard other than the uncritical ideological framework that's most common? Of course the treatment of the Uighurs is totalitarian, but that says little about what is and isn't totalitarian. Marcuse's claim isn't that "economic system" totalitarianism is the only kind, he's saying that the limiting of the concept in today's world is a result of technological and instrumental rationality, just as is the limiting of various other concepts - we conceive of totality, freedom, peace etc. within our rationalities, but Marcuse is saying that our very conception of what is rational changes in the advanced industrial age just as it changed in past ages more obviously (e.g the early Rennaisance moral opposition to a tradesman collecting profit other than by remuneration for his work of doing the transport).

>But I am saying that calling it totalitarian is cheapening the word "totalitarian".

Why couldn't it be the opposite - that the limited construction of the folk (generally uncritical) concept of totalitarianism is a restriction which works well to serve the interests of advanced industrial society?

>And there is a real, massive difference, which needs to not be swept under the rug of rhetoric.

Marcuse (nor any of his followers) argue that the forms of totalitarianism are qualitatively the same - in fact to do so would be self-defeating, because they want to draw a distinction between folk concepts of totalitarianism and critical concepts - and that is only possibly by accepting there is a difference between, for instance, the treatment of the Uighurs and economic totalitarianism.

>Also, positivism is dead as the dominant means of making sense of the world

Marcuse is not strictly referring to philosophical logical positivism, since even by the time he was writing this application of the concept was waning - he is reacting against the "positivist" sociology which was dominant at the time (and some scholars would argue still is). The dispute (the "Positivism Dispute") refers to the debate over the notion of "historicism" and in particular revolves around Karl Popper's criticisms of critical theory methodology.
Even from an imperialist point of view makes no sense to me. It would be a huge distraction from actual threats to US imperialism, Russia and China. Sitting presidents are more likely to stay in office during wars though.
Why not let the free market solve the problem?

Find fit, healthy, young people, with a clear medical history and that pass all tests, and let them make regular donations in return for payment?

It still strikes me as odd that we don't allow or encourage a free market for blood, semen, egg donation.
Almost everyone. Radio nowadays is just a RF frontend + ADC/DAC block + DSP. RF is the magic grey beards part, but can be quickly solved with off the shelf parts. Conversion is also easy off the shelf, or even integrated into rf chip. DSP is where patents come into play and dragons live during implementation phase, but its more or less all software, Apple is good at software.
Is there a concise, well written, summary of the types of things that are likely to happen to folks because of data collection? Would be nice to have something to give people that don’t understand.
"The store" that implements these is probably not a mom-and-pop. Places like Walmart succeed because of their ability to execute major logistics and networking projects.

If the beacons increased Wal-Mart's revenue by 1%, the "major networking infrastructure" project could be a $5 billion department, larger than Google's entire R&D operating expenses.