skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't you promote everybody who's performing at the next level? If they're delivering more value, they should be paid for that.
While this is true of SF itself the Bay Area as whole has been growing at a steady million per decade (one and a bit San Franciscos) for the past 70 years.

Other urban areas undergoing growth seem to have done much better by allowing more density. Unfortunately the California tax system incentivizes municipalities to build office space over housing. With the Bay Area's patchwork local organization and no metropolitan level layer of governance local municipalities instead play beggar-thy-neighbour as they promote only development that expands their tax base while the burdens of providing schools etc. falls to the municipality next door.
Worse (to me) than the meat / not meat shenanigans, are the many ways in which manufactures hide artificial sweeteners in food.

Once, I had one bite (that I spat out) of a sweetened bake good at a hotel breakfast, and it gave me a mild migraine later in the day.

I don’t get migraines, but I have a family history of artificial sweetener induced migraines.

Also, friends have been prescribed medication that can cause adverse side effects when mixed with artificial sweeteners.

Clearer (and maybe standardized) labeling is needed across the food industry, especially for allergens (serious meat and soy allergies both exist, and are somewhat common).
My stepgrandmother was part of the Communist Party USA and continued distributing their newspapers and trying to recruit people until she died. I don't want to softpedal the human-rights abuses that happened in the US, but in fact even the Smith Act prosecutions only imprisoned a dozen people — there was nothing like the gulags in the US (until the War on Drugs, anyway), and it was not difficult to find out the Soviets' side of the story.
Its every startups story that they are going to lose a bunch of money and eventually somehow make enough money to justify their evaluations. Not only hasn’t it happen with any YC company, nor has it happen with most of the money losing tech darlings like Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Mongo,ElasticCo, etc. I believe that Amazon retail is profitable or could be anytime they chose, but not enough to justify Amazons valuation in the foreseeable future. Of course AWS is a different story.
>for the most part the population is participating in it

If anyone ever dared to assert that I support US war mongering just because I live the US..... lord
There is a cool effect where a laser reflecting back into itself will cause interference inside the laser diode and affect the power required to drive it in a measurable way and with it you can extract a surprising amount of information (distance, rotation, angle, speed, etc.)

I was ... hasty ... with my first laser diode and burned it out in about 30 seconds. I like to tell myself the money wasted was spent on learning lessons. The second is coming in the mail.

The upshot with this method is that it can be extremely low cost and give you access to write code that interfaces directly with physics instead of somebody else's device.

The idea for hacking on these things comes from Ben Krasnow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdro-6u2Zg and several research papers.
1954, when USSR voluntarily transferred Crimea to its then-vassal state Ukraine, was 65 years ago, not 1,000.
Yeah, but after continuing to vote for people that don't have backing and therefore never have a chance to start really is starting to feel like I am wasting my vote.

Hell, because of the Electoral College, my vote ultimately doesn't count if it isn't what the whole state picks.
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Add earthworms. ;- )
It's absurd to describe groups whose concerns have been primary focus of American politics for 50 years, who benefit from numerous policies granting preferential treatment and have whole departments in universities devoted to their interests as "disenfranchised".

And that's where most attempts to be "righteous" fail: either through shallow thinking or the desire to be popular, they favor those groups that are already politically powerful and ignore the truly disenfranchised.
On a more positive note, cosmic ray flux and the ensuing daughter products are used by geologists to date how long a particular rock has been buried or exposed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_exposure_dating
Btw, the letter I used as an example was definitely not from a minority person and not about SoCal neighborhood.

Regardless, these people are not "natives" who got SF entirely in its current state from God, it was growing up, as prosperous cities do, and neighborhoods were changing. So why should it stop its development in 1976, why are people who moved in to SF back then entitled to this? If you ask me, this is becoming uncannily feudal.
You’re pretty much inline with my timeline. I use an OTA arial for terrestrial TV nowadays and only do internet with Comcast. Internet has no fees with it and OTA digital is a much better picture than compressed cable local channels.
The real question is why Amazon doesn't have email/calendar/chat/video conferencing; "AWS for Business" or something. I am sure they could get a good deal on the hosting costs!
> But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on [...] eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out

No. Every scientist will probably agree that this is a highly likely outcome. But every rational scientist would also acknowledge we currently have no way of predicting future engineering or even - with certainty - the fate of our universe.
I expected to lose against a computer.

I was right.
Having tried recently to implement a good MQTT library for embedded devices from scratch (there is surprisingly none which can actually do async message delivery) I found the protocol to have a surprising amount of shortcomings. I found the biggest one to be about the actual reliability of QoS1/2 transfers due to how sessions and message IDs work:

Each message in MQTT carries a 16bit message ID. There protocol allows for retries of message delivers for QoS1/2, but in revised specifications limits to allow retries only if the session got disconnected.

Now this opens the question what a client should actually do when it does not get a ACK in a certain timeframe? Since retries are not allowed, an alternative is to close the connection. That allows for resending this message, but opens up other problems. First of all reconnecting when only a single message timed out introduces a huge overhead, which is not what we want for small connected devices.

In addition to that there exists an issue with the persistent session feature, which requires the client and server to track all message IDs across connection attempts. This has the implication that if a client does not get an ACK for a certain message ID it can never reuse the ID - even not with reconnects (assuming clean_session=false).

The tiny 16bit message ID space also requires clients to remember sent messages and prevents it from easily dropping/cancelling pending transmissions if they are outdated or superseded. The server might still respond to those IDs, and if we send a new message with the same ID there exists ambiguity. So technically the client would need to track all used message IDs until they are ACKd. This might be never, and is not reasonable for a small IoT device. Common clients just ignore the problem and reuse message IDs whenever convenient, which means they are actually not reliable. A bigger address space would have made the problem going away by being able to utilize unique IDs. But with the current spec it seems hard to really provide reliability on non-ambiguity utilizing the MQTT QoS guarantees.

So thereby the conclusion was that there is no way to provide real reliability with the defined QoS classes on MQTT, since that would not allow for ambiguity.

From my point of view the best way to add reliability on top of MQTT is to add a custom reliability layer on the application layer and just use QoS0 transmissions. Those work somewhat better.

Depending on the application a different protocol (fully custom, HTTP long polling with a persistent connection, Thrift, grpc, etc) might also be a reasonable choice.
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> It's two bits, DAZ and FTZ. (seems like "denormals are zero" and "flush to zero")

You mean the standard ones for normal floats? You certainly wouldn't want to reuse that for bfloat16s.

> ML is all about difficulties with reproducibility. I don't see a reason to get upset about denormals when a 3D-printed turtle can be confused with a rifle.

These are different things, despite the similarity in terminology.
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straight out of idiocracy
I know there is a lot of confusion about the differences but is actually very simple. The difference between jelly and jam is I can’t jelly my penis up your butt.
I agree with informational advantage and sort of self patting on the back thing but it’s also that average manager is a lot better at politics than average IC. Because it is literally their job. So a lot of power imbalance comes from that imo
With taxes, you do.
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I hate to say it, but I’m not sure it’s playing fair. I used random.org to play truly randomly, and the “neural network” beat me to 10 pts 6 times in a row.
I should clarify. Being able to add headers to a project in C++ is easy but adding translation units is not (usually). This encourages header-only libraries even when they are not really appropriate, increasing compilation times etc.
Seems like a pretty straightforward hair transplant, no?
That’s probably true, but there are a lot less highly paid ICs at the top than there are highly paid managers. So yes, you _can_ make the same, but your odds are a lot worse.
It seems like the US has become what the USSR was

Not it doesn't, unless you want it to seem that way.

but then, for the first couple of decades, neither did the USSR.

The USSR very much had these within the first years, not decades. One of the most famous germinal camps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solovki_prison_camp

Learn from history.

We should, but it's useful to get the history right first.
I may have overstated the case; certainly on many international conflicts between the two countries, he supported the same side the USSR did, which was often a totalitarian regime, but that isn't the same thing as supporting the USSR's own totalitarian regime.
I let rand play it 500 times the results are as followed.

Player: 144,
Computer: 179,
Tie: 177,

Although I think I got more equal results when I did 1000 iterations, but failed to record that one.

https://youtu.be/g9Zo771HYpM
Service workers maybe?
I seem to recall the voter ID laws that Democrats at the state level worked so hard to kill did include free ID provisions for low income and disadvantaged. Republicans certainly aren't against it.

There's a reason Democrats don't like voter ID laws:

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/tammany-h...

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/27/2-investigators-chic...

Dead voters (who magically cast ballots) and social strong-arming and vote-buying like Tammany Hall (over two different periods in New York's history) all tend to vote Democrat.
> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was: companies who publish speech from people in Iran or Crimea are now violating the law by doing so.

I think the intent is not that, and a company could probably argue that the law doesn't mean that because it probably can't mean that.

In this case though, AFAICT it's a restriction on use of private repositories, a feature considered to have commercial value, and thus subject to sanctions.

(P.S. I think your characterization of history is kinda wack [though I understand you can't write an essay before getting to the point], in ways that other commenters will point out in more detail)
Actually there are 791 presidential candidates according to https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020#Declar....

Yes, most of them are probably not "real candidates", but Google would be in even hotter water if they tried to predetermine who was and who wasn't a real candidate.
We didn't have much time to explore many formats available at that time. However, we quickly evaluated BSON in a prototype, and as the overall size was bigger than Google Protobuf, we've decided that it wouldn't worth explore it further.
You do still use Github if you have any popular dependency in your project, which you probably do. The point is that when it's decentralised, nobody would be able to take the repo down that easily or prevent someone access to public repo due to arbitrary rules.
Incredible that Google has been able to sustain almost 20% revenue growth for so long - much longer than most people expected.

For the past 6 or 7 years people have been predicting that Google's growth would soon slow because:

(a) The number of ads on a search result page had reached saturation point

(b) The percentage of people using the internet in rich countries had reached saturation point

Although real, these effects have proved to be outweighed by other, less limited factors of growth; in particular Google's ability improve the quality of match between advertiser and user. Even now I think there is significant room for Google to improve this matching - eg. when I put an iPad Pro in my online shopping basket at apple.com but don't buy it, why don't I then see iPad ads on YouTube? When I give Tesla $1,000 to reserve but not buy a Model 3, why don't I then see Model 3 ads reading The New York Times? Apple and Tesla are leaving money on the table, and when they wake up Google will make even more money.
https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
That's why some people who don't agree with the YIMBYs deride them as Yes In Your Back Yard.
This is how class actions lawsuits work. They're not meant to completely compensate all the victims, but rather sue the defendant on behalf of all the victims with a single case to efficiently enact a larger punitive financial penalty.

Or at least that's my armchair IANAL understanding.
Workmail and Alexa for work seem to be the beginnings of this.

https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/

https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/
The term "widow's peak" is often misused to describe a receding hairline from the temple. It actually refers to the point at the center of the hairline and is often present in men with little to no recession.
If you want a long but clear image of the Russian geopolitical chess game, read "The Fourth Political Theory". Putin loves this book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Political_Theory
Went bald (like Elon but more complete) before I entered my 20s. Really wish I knew what having hair into adulthood is like. I’d prefer to just be completely bald all of the time, but shaving takes considerable time.
Oh I probably misworded my comment, I understand the legal and geopolitical reality, it just pains me that it's turned out this way.
gp's approach works best when you know that the argument is a list or tuple (something which can be empty). Of course, due to python's lack of typing, you should only use that approach when the function is being used in well-understood contexts.
I think AWS has been working on an offering like this for a long time. They sue a former exec for joining Smartsheet because it competed with a similar AWS initiative. https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-resolves-contentious-no...

But as a former Amazon employee, the only thing that I can say is that if it's anything like Chime in terms of quality, then Google and Microsoft have nothing to worry about.
Lived long enough in Hong Kong before 1997 and after 1997 and being a Hong Kong family can understand it from inside/out. So sorry to break your bubble they can not take care of their economic situation without China, it was true before 1997 as it is today. Hong Kong's survival is China, which did not tax it yet like other cities of China with better GDP, but spend on it. Hong Kong got rich when China was closed acting as middle man and earning US$ 5-20k, doing nothing just some paper work on each container shipped from China. Easy money, I was one of such beneficiary.

If you want to talk about human rights, please read through the first instance of re-interpretation by China of Basic law of Hong Kong, when Hong Kong people requested China to re-interpret the basic law against basic Human Rights not to allow mainland spouses to enter Hong Kong. So Hong Kong is still denying the most basic human right of a family, but at that time it was in the interest of Hong Kong people and bad for Chinese spouses, so no protest against it neither any backlash. Indeed overall society was very happy at the cost of infringing human rights. You do something wrong once and open the doors, it will come to bite later. If at that time Hong Kong people would not have involved China for re-interpretation, it would have brought 150,000 people from across the border, along with it some more hardships, but would not have eroded the freedom. Hong Kong people chose prosperity over freedom and now will pay for it.

So fighting for human rights now is just a farce, main reason is, get rich quick does not work, majority live in prison cell size apartment(again by choice) and have no way to change it.
“Class Counsel will ask the Court to award them attorneys’ fees of up to $77,500,000 and reimbursement for costs and expenses up to $3,000,000 to be paid from the Consumer Restitution Fund.”

The lawyers are the real winner here.
> Why do they sanction Crimea (victim) instead of Russia?

Because Ukraine is pro-west and Crimea is pro-Russia. West good, Russia bad. Sanctions are black and white. The political situation is less-so:

The Crimea voted in a (illegal) referendum to rejoin Russia after a coup in Ukraine (also illegal, obviously) had replaced the elected but somewhat pro-Russian president with an unelected pro-European government.

While this revolution was popular with the west (funny how we support coups that overthrow elected governments when they go our way), it was unpopular in the south of Ukraine, which is mostly ethically Russian (the previous ethnic population having all been ‘relocated’).
I’ve wondered the same thing about Mozilla. I feel like should be building more value added web services that go beyond just little add-one to the browser itself. First, they would help sustain the org. Second, they would help encourage use of the web as a platform.
We started the sanctions on Venezuela in 2014. Why bother posting such obvious nonsense?
Just fyi the mpc live is an absolutely drag without the mpc software and a computer.
Why are you referring to Crimea as a victim? Their desire to leave the Ukraine has been well-documented since the beginning. See this amusing article from 1994 in the NYT for an example [1]:

> A separatist candidate who wants Crimea to leave Ukraine and integrate with Russia won more than 70 percent of the vote today in run-off presidential elections, preliminary results showed. His victory sets the stage for a direct confrontation between Ukraine and Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula that is dominated by ethnic Russians.

Russia took Crimea illegally by force, but people of Crimea are hardly victims. Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to signal that the US is not accepting Crimea as part of Russia. To allow US companies to operate in Crimea would legitimize the annexation. (And as far as the people go - I don't think anyone cares for the people, particularly.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/31/world/separatist-winning-...
High tariffs on Brazilian beef are an idea.
>I like Gitlab but that's not exactly what I have in mind, I think about something more similar to torrents

So everyone runs their own gitlab instance, and there's some sort of gitlab "tracker" that you can search through?

>without discoverability

What is this "discoverability" you speak of? If you want a library to do "foo", do you search up "foo" on github and look through the repositories? Is this better than searching up "foo" on google?

>& interoperability

The only "interoperability" I can think of is for pull requests, and I do agree that having to make an account on the instance and push to it to make a PR is a pain. This can easily be solved by allowing remote git repos to be used as PR sources, and using social sign in for account creation (so you don't need to create an account to create contribute).
The AWS and Azure numbers are actual revenue, but the Google cloud number is a ‘run rate’, meaning, pick a particular high point, call that steady-state, and multiply accordingly to get an annual rate.

I am not doubting Google’s success with GCP. However, they should provide the actual revenue, in addition to the run-rate or whatever other vanity metric they want. Not doing so just makes me wonder about their lack of candor.
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> The fact is, github adds value because it isn't "decentralized"

Exactly. It's the most popular brand, same as Disney buying Hulu. Not to make Hulu into Disney, but to bring the customers into an arena for control. While I do not use github, npm does, for example.
AWS is basically "run your entire company's engineering as a service" now, and they've done a good job at it. It's not at all easy to compete with such an integrated and battle-tested platform (other than on cost; AWS can be pretty expensive).
There are 57.5 million square miles of land on Earth, including mountains, deserts, rainforests, national parks, tundra, and Antarctica. There are currently 7.4 billion people. This works out to ~4.9 acres per person of land of any type.

World arable land is ~26.2 million square miles, or about 2.2 acres per person. At 11 billion people (projection world population peak by ~2100, you get about 1.5 acres of arable land per person. There is literally, physically not enough space on Earth to put your plane into action.

I like nature, but I think you underestimate the subsidies given for rural development and infrastructure and just how unsustainable our development style in the US is.
Most interview processes I've been a part of had a target level for the candidate, with the possibility of leveling them up or down based on the outcome of that interview.

There are other reasons why leveling can be important - the expectations of the candidate around title and comp, for instance.

This is why sites like levels.fyi exist. They are surely not perfect and I don't know much about how the data is collected or verified, but it's a question that people want answered.
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The US has in fact sanctioned Russian officials associated with the annexation of Crimea. [1]

You might also spare some sympathy for those residents of Crimea who did not wish to join the Russian Federation, for example, many Crimean Tatars. Not only have they suffered the loss of access to github, they also have to contend with a campaign of political repression. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_sanctioned_duri...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea#Crimean_Tat...
I'm missing something here.

Anyone can produce a torn-in-half "Di-faced" fake banknote with Lady Diana's face on it, with a handwritten ID number across the bill.

Hell, I'll validate your Banksy pieces for £64.

Where's the authenticity coming from, and whats even the point of the torn note?