skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if you restrict yourself to downtown Seattle, it looks like a clear divide, but if you go to the Seattle city limits, it doesn't, and if you go to the Seattle metro area, it looks even less like that?

What's the problem supposed to be? And why is "North Seattle" being used to refer to the northern half of downtown, rather than the northern part of Seattle?
Surely this isn't a new problem given that credit bureaus, hospitals, and so on already had to turn over information on demand?
This looks great. Just submitted Taskade (https://taskade.com) to the list, a unified workspace for distributed teams! :)
The idea of Radcliffe calling up a Mexican joint in Brooklyn and introducing himself as "Dan at the New Yorker" - impossible to read without imagining in his accent - is also whimsical.
Just wondering but would insurance cover you in either case?
> Kolmogorov random if, for a given universal Turing machine, there is no program shorter than the string that produces the string.

That’s not a definition of unbiased randomness. A true unbiased random number could be all 0’s. Nothing about an unbiased random number demonstrates it’s random, otherwise whatever that distinction is would be a bias in it’s generation.

Kolmogorov complexity is it’s own thing, and sequences that seem very complex can have extremely low complexity. Such as long sequences of hashes of hashes.
Hey I had this happen last week, but every non-exec was blindsided. In fact, I had to break the news to another engineer after he was just kicked from Slack/GH/etc with no explanation.

The video I'd love to see is "How to Shut Down a Startup"
That talk is a spin on Nick Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer. See: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
If it wasn’t charging at the time, why turn off the breaker?
> You demonstrate you have great skills and work ethic, but there’s no path to permanent residency or citizenship

That isn't true with the H1B. You are allowed to apply for permanent residency while you have it.
Were they raising their next round and trying to demonstrate to LPs that they pick high-growth startups?
I would absolutely pay for this but I don't even have the opportunity.
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Rofl politicians are not very well informed the gov already can see all traffic generated in DoH due to a built in flaw that is waiting to be fixed which i have no doubt will be "fixed" with open access built in as normal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
What? This fix literally makes everyone equal.

Why should a person get priority just because they are from a certain country?

Instead, everyone should be treated exactly the same.

There is a saying about how treating people equally, looks like oppression to the people who were at the top before.
This is really cool! I really want to make something like this as well. I have all the necessary components; it's just a matter of making it. I was just going to make it a music visualizer, but your weather and stock information is really interesting.

I actually recently finished making an automatic lock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9hKzVNNs0
> I imagine the BigInt index that points to the starting digit for your data would take more space than the data itself

Assuming optimal conditions (i.e. optimal randomness), you can expect that as many pieces of data will have pointers smaller than them, as pointers bigger than them; you can't win that way necessarily, only in some cases.

But maybe if you can find two 'opposite' algorithms, such that for any data where the pointer is larger with the first, it's smaller in the second...

(From what I know of information theory, the extra bit you have to use to specify which algorithm to use will outweigh all savings, but it's still fun to think about.)
More companies and developers are entering the cryptocurrency space, though there are certainly defunct companies, too.

DeFi is the most concentrated aspect of blockchain at the moment. Assets going into DeFi are up and to the right: https://defipulse.com/
Two beefy ones in parallel don't really solve the problem. If you leave your 1-Amp (probably a gross underapproximation) headlights on over the course of ~200 hours, you'll deplete the battery.
It puts the lotion in the basket.
As others have mentioned, if you know enough to make a blanklist, you know enough to go after the sites that host it. Better yet, instead of playing whack-a-mole with blocking sites (it's incredibly cheap to get a new IP/domain), go after those who make it (set up a sting and arrest a ton at once).

If a site is in another jurisdiction, you can still distribute a list of sites to ISPs, and ISPs can report suspicious activity to the police (so they can get a warrant for closer monitoring).

If you block it, you just alert people to which sites are more likely to have illegal content, which can encourage them to access it through other means (VPN, Tor, etc). I honestly don't see any real value in it from a practical perspective, and the only real "benefit" is it gives the government an excuse to add other stuff to the list it doesn't like.
I am a very poor student of mindfulness meditation. But, one of the big benefits I do recognize is practicing this strategy.

Have you ever watched someone screw up in slow motion? Where you sat back and said “Duuuuude... don’t go there!” And, it went badly exactly how you knew it would?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could practice doing that for yourself in intense situations? That’s a lot of what mindfulness meditation can be about.

“Can be” because there are a zillion variations out there depending on where you look.
I can imagine adding this to gimbal stabilization within a drones camera. Even with a 3-axis gimbal, which is already pretty stable, I bet it would make things even better.
This it could have the side effect of killing independent journalism startups. Big media is already too entrenched.
These big newspaper websites do already sell ads directly too - DoubleClick can serve both Adsense (usually as a backup) as well as their own inventory.
That's an unfortunate acronym.
But for any other industry, there would be no existing infrastructure to support this.
Are there any historical examples of large numbers of immigrants politically changing the country they immigrated to?
How about speaking of oneself in the third person to others? Does this make one seem wiser? Or perhaps arrogant.
I hope to not come across as too snarky, but the issue for many employers may be in not fully comprehending either "quality talent" and "market prices".

You won't have to pay Google-in-Mountain-View competitive wages, sure, but you do need to be competitive against the general tech market, inclusive of SV remote companies.

Assume a reasonably skilled, experienced software engineer. According to Indeed's Salary Search[1], in San Francisco, they could reasonably expect to hit an annual salary of USD 170k at Companies That Are Not Google, whereas in Salt Lake City, that number drops to USD 90k.

USD 90k is well below the bottom of the market in the Bay, and is near-as-makes-no-difference half of what our hypothetical engineer would make in SF.

In terms of raw-cost-of-living, sure, those numbers work out. However, people do like to also build up their savings account, and that's where things fall apart.

Post-tax, the SF salary will net you USD 110k. Your annual cost of living will run you somewhere around USD 77k. In Utah, you'll net USD 64k post-tax, and your annual living expenses will run you somewhere around USD 48k.

Rent is 70% higher in SF, and cost-of-goods is 20% higher, but you also don't need to own a car or pay for car insurance, both of which you will need in Salt Lake.

In SF, our hypothetical engineer will be able to bank USD 33k annually, more if they contribute to a 401(k) or other tax-deferred savings vehicle. In Salt Lake, that number drops down to USD 16k per annum.

That's a massive gap, which is often similarly reflected in long-term compensation -- e.g., the engineer in SF might see USD 100k+ in annual stock options, whereas the one in Salt Lake will probably see half that.

To be competitive on salary, that Salt Lake company would need to lay USD 120k on the table. That's 30% less than in SF -- plus all the other operational savings -- but not "half", which is what "market" seems to be at present.

[1] https://www.indeed.com/salaries
I stopped using both of these BECAUSE of the ad network, years ago. A lite / regular / premium option, that I could trust to not also sell to the ad network (just because you pay doesn’t mean your info isn’t being sold...), would be a most welcome upgrade. Bonus: my friends and family become protected from this ad network too, which nets even better privacy for me (since analytics can know a lot about you just from the people you associate with).
I get what you mean. I’m American. Grandparents have extended their independence in their home by 20 years, on land an hour outside of city, because their kids go over every 1-2 weeks to count out their meds, meal prep, and help out with a few other household things. They have done a few periods of livein care while they recovered from surgeries or falls. They’re in their mid90s and it’s getting pretty hard now because there’s some dementia and other issues setting in. They’d have much more help if my stubborn grandfather moved to the city near other family members (we could casually drop off groceries while we’re doing our own errands, etc).

Every case is different, but I don’t think you have to be under one roof to significantly help some people keep their independence and avoid spending money on caregivers that are very expensive especially
This works especially well when combined with the Cookie auto-delete extension.
The underlying blockchains often do not have central authority; that is, no one entity can make a rash decision for bitcoin tomorrow.

Cryptokitties can manipulate their contract, so in that case it is true a central authority is in control. Even though Bitcoin has been around 10 years there is still a lot of development and people are still figuring out how to approach this type of thing. The obvious answer is to start with a central contract and have a mechanism to slowly decentralize or remove ownership. It’s going to take time to get it right but it will happen (and even cryptokitties can upgrade their contract to include this logic).
Do you know of any way through the about:config editor to do this? I'd hate to have to install yet another browser plugin.
>You didn't buy the house from the government and they don't owe you any right to not meet any poor people.

Ignoring the snark, arguments like these stop making sense when the government is actively tipping the scales by manipulating the housing market in that area. You can make arguments for the morality of it, but arguments along the lines of the government not owing one group something are pretty weak when you're literally supporting the government owing another group something. The government can owe whoever and whatever we want them to owe.
It sounds like the New Yorker has it down to a fine art as much as possible.

- Identify every statement that could be construed as a fact

- Formulate a simple yes/no question for each one

- Verify with a quick phone call asking trusted source each question in turn

And just don't skip on the process no matter how insignificant or seemingly obvious as there is no room for error in the current environment.
I like to refer to POA as Resume Driven Development, pairs nicely with TDD IMO.
IIRC, the trick is to time filesystem access and deduce you're running from RAM rather than disk, thus in incognito mode.
This is just one of the many incidents of police brutality that happened in the latest protest in Hong Kong. All the cases quoted below (and many more) happened just yesterday. Baton beating, framing protesters, firing tear gases in residential areas have been a "norm" to HK police and have happened every time there was a protest, so 2-3 times a week on average in almost every district in HK. They are not quoted. Numerous similar brutalities have happened throughout the protests in the past 2 months.

Some other cases are:
1. Police ground a protester's face on the ground, breaking his teeth and injuring his face:
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/08/12/video-hong-kong-police...

2. Police shot "bean bag bullets" at a protester's eye, rupturing her right eye and caused permanent blindness:
https://news.now.com/home/hot/player?newsId=358763&hot=1

3. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into MTR (subway) station at normal operating hours:
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3022348...

4. Police disguised as protesters to incite to riot and capture real protesters:
(Same link as (1))

5. While they were insistent and brutal in arresting protesters, HK police assisted and protected triads AGAIN as they attack civilians:
https://www.facebook.com/standnewshk/videos/1256615241186946...
How is regulatory capture related to this?
I'd say this is more atypical than typical. Your spouse would also need to qualify for their own TN which may or may not be the case depending on their profession.
I don't know how I "abused" your issue tracker. :P

I filed a github issue on your lobsters open source project asking how to change the logo. If not there, where else should I file issues related to the codebase??
I don't know much at all about ion drives. But in (e.g.) an x-ray tube, electrons are accelerated to high speeds by arranging for them to begin in a location with non-zero potential (a hot negative filament) so that they will gain speed as they go away. So at a very vague guess, I'd expect that ion drives arrange to ionize the atoms in a region at a high potential, after which the positive ions quickly accelerate toward some negatively charged but porous "target" and then (mostly) pass through and continue at constant speed.

My broad take on the distinction (assuming I have the right general idea about ion drives!) would be that if you're the one providing the material to be ionized, you get a lot of control over its initial conditions. But if you're planning to use matter that's externally available, your control is a lot more limited. In the schematic that I've seen for this dipole drive, the ions begin far away (so, at zero potential) and end far away (again at V=0), so I don't see a way to avoid that.
The charts look lovely but is this even worth discussing without knowing were the data comes from? From all I know the author could have made those in Microsoft Paint O_o.
If you park it in an unventilated space like that and then leak gasoline all over the place to evaporate until it reaches an ignition source? Yeah.

https://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20090702/News/6041531...

https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10515159/one-killed-in-c...
I feel as though your argument is predicated on browsers that leak tracking data such as cookies, etc.

If the browser vendors would tighten their products up and start considering things like profiling the user's installed fonts as a security vulnerability, then we might see some progress. Unfortunately Google has a financial incentive to make Chrome trackable to advertisers.
Sometimes, though, the answer is "run screaming out the front door and never be seen again. :P
Changed through the civil rights movements which featured many illegal protests.
CNN is WRONGFULLY forecasting a $1500 12month jump in the stock price of Alibaba
The main idea of "molecular Darwinism" is that the initial life for had a very short DNA [1]. While the species evolved, the short DNA evolves and got longer [2].

* For example some genes are repeated, a bad copy may repeat a gene and the DNA get longer. Virus may cause some duplications too.

* Some genes are almost repeated,each copy has a slightly different function, so each one has a variant that is better for each function. The idea is that an error in the copy made two copies of the original gene and then each copy evolved slowly differently.

* Some parts of the DNA are repetitions of a same short pattern many many many times. IIRC these apear near the center and the extremes of the chromosomes, and are useful for structural reasons, not to encode information. The DNA can extend the extreme easily because it's just a repetition of the pattern.

* Some parte are just junk DNA that is not useful, but there is no mechanism to detect that it is junk and can be eliminated, so it is copy form individual to individual, and from specie to specie with random changes. (Some parts of these junk may be useful.)

So the idea is that the initial length was not 1000000000, but that the length increased with time.

Your calculation does not model the theory of "molecular Darwinism". Your calculation is about the probability that is a "human" miraculously apear out of thin air with a completely random genome, it will get the correct one [3].

[1] Or perhaps RNA, or perhaps a few independent strands of RNA that cooperate. The initial steps are far from settle.

[2] It's not strictly increasing, it may increase and decrease the length many times.

[3] Each person has a different genome, so there is not 1 perfect genome. The correct calculation is not 1/4^1000000000 but some-number/4^1000000000 . It's difficult to calculate the number of different genomes that are good enough to be human, but it's much much much smaller than 4^1000000000. So let's ignore this part.
No one can be anything better than their parents were? My father and mother were drugged out losers and I’m not that at all. This comment is condescending and paternalistic. It’s something that would only be said by an out of touch elite who needs to “save the poor”.

I used to live in a highly integrated neighborhood. The neighbors across the street were section 8. I had no problem with that. What I did have a problem with is when my daughter was playing in the front yard and their son ran outside screaming shooting his rifle as a car peeled out down the street. This was of course on mother’s day while my mother-in-law was on the phone.

We moved to the most expensive neighborhood we could afford after that. And you know what? The worse thing I’ve had to deal with was some neighbors having a slightly heated conversation at 11pm on their front porch.

If that hadn’t been an option, if everywhere had this “affordable housing”, we’d have just moved three hours away and bought 100 acres and lived in a trailer instead. I’m not going to risk my daughters safety to fulfill some equity agenda.
CNN forecasts a $1500 (843%) jump in Alibaba stock over 12 months. This stock has pretty much been flat for a while.

Nasdaq forecasts it at $219:

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/baba/analyst-research

I looked at the archives and this mistake/intentional manipulation has been around since at least May:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190521013640/https://money.cnn...
Russell thinks this might be a good solution for people who don't currently (or maybe ever) have a significant other or a close best friend. Normally, Russ likes to bounce ideas off his partner, but when he isn't in a relationship, it feels like he's hamstrung when making daily decisions. He's a little worried about seeming like a complete lunatic by talking to himself though - especially if he starts to talk or write like this in public.
It’s native in a number of browsers but quite hidden these days. Set your JS security settings to (ah I’m making this up as I don’t have the browser window in front of me) “Prompt” or “Allow (Per Site)” or “Blocked” - https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/12654?hl=en

Then in browsers like Chrome, click the site icon, SSL icon, or little plugin icon in the address bar — some icon usually appears, which when clicked gives access to enable/disable blocked content for this site.
It's enough for knobs of 1 inch spacing or wider, no easy support for fancy geared knobs that coaxially have a rough setting and a fine adjustment.
Yep. It's also dystopian maybe to disallow suspicious characters around playgrounds where they could kidnap and molest kids, but we do that already.

And gun violence in America has already shown what happens when we don't take common sense measures such as this seriously. If you knew someone had a 50% chance of shooting up a Walmart, would you casually say "Well we don't know that fro sure." or would you make a list of all of those suspicious people and track them?

We already have what is a dystopian credit scoring system, and I don't see people in a panic, or protesting in the streets, excepting for an occasional person writing that their data is used unfairly.

I'm in agreement really. If people don't want their information used for a credit score, they should be able to refuse to have their info used for it, but of course that comes at the cost of not having good credit.

Social credit scores could function quite similarly.
> The first response is too general, certainly there is a way to design separate cut/copy and paste functionality without this risk.

Star had no clipboard; instead it had COPY and MOVE ‘modes’. The user made a selection, then invoked COPY or MOVE, and then (while the mouse cursor shows the pending operation) clicks on the destination. Presumably this is why Tesler called it ‘nearly modeless’, and presumably he thought this was worse than having invisible fragile state. One can however imagine a modeless variation, where invoking COPY or MOVE immediately performs the operation, targetting the current mouse position.
Very concise and to the point. My effort is quite a bit more verbose:

Get yourself a project. Any project, but preferably not too minor. Write that project in your new language. Many times while doing that, you will need to do a few days or more of solid studying of the new language to get yourself past a hurdle that's blocking your progress.

Eventually, you will complete the project. Now, throw that one away. It was just to 'show you the ropes'. (That's commonly said as "Build one to throw away.") Now do that project again with your new, greater, basis of knowledge.

Repeat that with several projects. You now have a fair level of self-taught programming in that one language.

Repeat that process again but using a different language. There will be hurdles again, but different hurdles.

Now you know programming to a reasonable level.

Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat.
> 150 is harder, but I would use the same trick.

150/5 is something literally any adult should be able to do instantly. I realize that’s a bit hyperbolic, but still seriously easy. 30*8 is also very simple too.

So yeah, I get what you’re saying, but seriously, practice a little and I swear you’ll be able to learn it.
Very strongly related to what you describe is fiducial markers. They were a big thing in the small pond that was projected touch surfaces some years ago, though I haven’t heard anything much about it in recent years as the industry has headed in a different direction. It’s harder to find info on them now, but it’s still out there. A quick search yielded https://www.christianholz.net/fiberio.html which contains an image of the concept at the bottom.
It's relevant to the political problem of defeating their opposition, sure, but not relevant to the merits of the policy.

It's also fairly obvious - rich people think they're better humans than poor people and don't want to live near them. Not worthy of much hand-wringing or fretting in my opinion.
Generally pretentious or simply weird; but manipulative and psychopathic when it appears you're trying to come across as an impartial observer when talking yourself up.
NL does have wind to make up for it. Of course there is also rain, heat and cold (both with high humidity)