skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a good idea. Grant money should be used to create income producing communities that help the most vulnerable.

Homelessness also has a mental health/substance abuse angle. It stresses local resources to address these issues and it is something like 43k/person allegedly when they are on the streets. It’s some super dodgy math that doesn’t inspire confidence in government.

One big issue I see is that homeless from the street being placed in sec 8 or affordable homes often end up back on the streets. I feel a certain percentage of them still need the community..while some of us see it as a dysfunctional relationship(I have had the opportunity to work with some homeless folks and this is my 2c), ..they still need their community. Sometimes they need their community with them so they don’t lapse back into homelessness and street living. Group homes and large homesteads with multiple small units which still have low skill jobs is also a solution. Solutions should include community preservation to be able to retain sheltered status.
Maybe leave it to the professionals next time and just worry about feeding your starving population?
For anyone looking for the realities of planting trees en masse, BC has a long history with industrial tree-planting:

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/pains+gains+tree+planters+five...

>> This month, as B.C.’s planting season reaches full throttle, about 3,500 people are slinging seedlings into soil up and down the province. Industry bosses expect them to plant 240 million trees in the province by the time the season ends this fall.

>> Eating Dirt author Charlotte Gill’s pay ranged between six cents and about a dollar for each seedling planted during her 17 years as a tree planter.
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2019 Edition
This is for sure going to be unpopular, but folks here need to hear it:

The reason for the byzantine complexity about drone regulation isn't that some Big Government is injecting its ham-fisted regulatory appendages into a problem that it doesn't understand.

It's that, for the most part, no one wants your drones in the air at all. People don't like these things. They're noisy. They're scary. Their operators tend to be pushy jerks more often than not. They just aren't what a median voter wants to see on a nice sunny afternoon in the park or trail or whatever. And those voters governments, at all levels, are responding to that desire.

Basically: drone operators are the mid-life-nerd-crisis version of skate punks. No one wants them hanging around either, and skateboarding regulation is at least as complicated as drone rules.
This. Why do programs do this when they don't have to? I'm genuinely asking here; I'm trying to understand the thinking that motivates this kind of decision.
Wait, are you a) also Canadian, and b) saying that you literally cannot bake cookies and then legally give them to friends?

I could understand if a nursing/retirement home had its own rules for not sharing food, but this is actually illegal?

Edit: OP edited comment with a different scenario.
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots [video]
In my experience windows utilizes ram much better. It will cache programs and data at times it anticipates you will use them. For example it will cache outlook at 9 am in the morning because that's the time I check my email.

At all times only a very small fraction of my ram is free.
The problem is that "regular expression" is equivocal.

Sometimes you hear "regular expression" used to mean the language of things accepted by some Finite State machine. Lots of folks on HN took a Theory of Computation class and learned about these in that class. In that meaning, yes, you are right.

But sometimes in professional conversations you hear "regular expression" used to mean the strings that can be matched using, say, Perl's regular expressions. I know I have heard it used that way often. Since Perl regular expressions can accept anything a Turing machine can accept, the answer to the question in this case is yes.
ISRO has had many successful missions. Your ignorance is clear to see.
That’s an interesting perspective. I wouldn’t do it, but interesting nonetheless
First of all, they probably wouldn't make as much, at least at entry level, if cost of living wasn't so high. Second, the silicon valley ecosystem isn't even mostly populated by developers, the rest of the people making below median household income need places to live too. The housing problem isn't a "rich millennial vs rich boomer" scenario, it's "rich boomer vs literally everyone else". Maybe if they had to pay property taxes on the current value of their property they'd move somewhere else, and we wouldn't have this issue.
Simple Web Scraper Using Puppeteer
Why bother with CD or FLAC? If you're not listening in analog, you're losing fidelity. That's simply the nature of digital.
FWIW...

"Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore"

"How Google Backs Up the Internet" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM Detailed notes: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...
Revisionist? Are you saying it wasn't a period of intellectual stagnation for the many reasons detailed in the comment you're responding to?
for what benefit?

Drones can be a rather severe nuisance and potential safety hazard when mishandled. As an example I was at the beach in San Francisco once, and someone flying an obnoxiously loud FPV drone was repeatedly buzzing everyone's heads, often just feet overhead. It completely ruined the beach for anyone nearby.

Even without such dickish behavior, the sound of a million angry wasps and the possibility of unwanted aerial photography is generally not a welcome addition to most of the places people want to go.
This isn't by definition a captcha at all. This is just slowing users down. Took forever to run on a phone too.
3. Copying passwords to clipboard is awfully insecure.

Not that I am aware of. What would make it insecure?
Not to mention the prestigious organization could be doing worthy work and gets tainted by the bad actor, especially if the organization has been seen as knowing about it or concealing it.

In my example of Weinstein, it remains a worthy cause to help people with AIDS, to prevent new infections, fund research, etc. But now maybe people hesitate to donate because of how they dealt with Weinstein.

In the case of media lab, obviously there are people making their career there who have nothing to do with this Epstein controversy. Now they may experience a sense that they are also tainted.

When such an organization turns a blind eye to this problem, they risk harm towards their stated goals and they do a disservice to employees, other donors, those who believe in them, etc.
I am with you on farms and even food industry jobs. It’s short time to train them. I have worked with juvenile girls from half way homes. Working in the orchards and gardening is therapeutic and fills a labour deficit. With more automation and tech, it can also become less physically demanding. It can be a skill based job rather than manual jobs. My goal to automate farming: If you know how to use a smart phone, you can farm.
So basically, NIMBY.
After trying Charlotte, SF, and Seattle on for size, I’ve learned the same about myself.

I work remotely for an SF-based company from Greensboro, NC: population 300k, with a highly walkable downtown. Bought a townhouse in the heart of everything with a commercially zoned office as the first floor. I go weeks without driving and share a single car with my wife for the times we need it.
LAANC gets you approval (or not) from the local Air Traffic Control of the Airspace you're trying to fly in (through the FAA). It does not do anything for all the non FAA-regulated areas, which is essentially what the article centered around.

(I work for Skyward, who were the first USS that implemented LAANC.)
In terms of writing the code in Python vs C++ (or a compiled language), there is a good interesting post about this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7931314/pycuda-vs-c-perf...
What are you filming in a crowded downtown with 150 story helipad-topped highrises that isn't the inside of private buildings?
It was tactically smart to initially refuse to resign... it shifted the Overton window so that now he’s seen as defeated simply by stopping being the Media Lab director, instead of needing to make any attempt at restitution for the damage he has caused to Epstein’s victims and to MIT.
Yeah, I used to buy exclusively California Olive Ranch specifically because I could just grab a bottle of the desired size at the supermarket and trust it. Now I have to read the labels and figure out what exactly I'm getting, just like the other ten brands on the shelf.
This is exactly why I'm against UBI: As more and more people get UBI, we will have more generations of people dependent on the government for all of their needs.

This also means they have control over large portions of the population, directly funded by the billionaires.
That definitely doesn't ring true, in the conventional sense of the concept of "breaking the sound barrier" which would inflict aerodynamic buffeting on the geese.

There are three or four principles that stand in the way of such an idea.

First, just look at the geese compared to falcons, eagles and hawks. Geese are not classed as serious bird of prey, and don't dive at hundreds of miles an hour to attack their food. They aren't built for that. They run marathons.

Second, watch geese fly, and it's obvious they aren't very fast. Certainly they are not breaking 100 miles an hour regularly.

Third, inside a column of moving air, flying with a good tailwind, they'll catch a bonus to speed. Ground speed. Not air speed. Even if their progress across the ground is drastically improved by riding an air current, and they do well to exploit the natural assist, what they're doing is not "super sonic" in any sense, literal or figurative.

Subsonic speeds at sea level are usually 600 to 700 miles an hour. If their wind current is a moving column of air, there's no way they're going faster than even 300 miles an hour, ground speed. Ground speed, meaning that inside the air current, they're still flying at goose speed, but briskly jogging toward "the front of the train" to maximize apparent speed. So they aren't overcoming aerodynamic drag.

There's no way a goose is flying faster than 200 miles an hour in a hard vertical dive at the ground.

There's no way, even in a dive, that a tail wind is adding more than 400 miles an hour to provide the goose with bonuses that put them near 700 miles an hour.

This is plainly wrong information.
Tetris challenge with fire engine and police vehicles
It seems like the marketplace needs to offer some kind of contract: any purchase in a f2p within 30 days of the app being turned down for any reason should be refunded.
I was not clear enough? Good grief:

As I made clear, all she had to do was just look at some pictures, e.g., some of the many ones on record jackets or concert announcements. We can see one quite good example of such an old record jacket cover at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJLf5jI-54

That picture alone shows left hand, right
hand, chin, shoulder, and back posture all
quite well, and there are more such old
record jacket pictures, e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iG9tUJ7Am4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWy8iibtd98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fCuMFGVwhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fCuMFGVwhc

Of course now there are some just fantastically good videos on JUST how to hold a violin, e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-W3lfcVvY&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dBg__wsuo

Also good help has long been in a library, e.g.,

Ivan Galamian,
Principles of Violin Playing & Teaching,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs,
1962.

Galamian was long at Juilliard.

Of course, looking carefully at the pictures, will see some differences in the right hand: Heifetz has his little finger barely on the bow and Fischer and Hahn have the little finger more on the bow. The Heifetz approach is sometimes called Russian and the Fischer and Hahn, German. Otherwise all the pictures are very close in how to hold a violin.

The record jacket covers did well for me!

So, how the heck did she miss all such pictures?
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If you really just want a FLAC rip of a CD to play over a media center, then consider simply downloading the FLAC rip from a filesharing community, but then buying the vinyl release for the sake of owning the physical artifact. That way, you both get high-quality digital audio and you financially support the artist, but the vinyl release has larger artwork and is more satisfying as a collector item.
Not Google, but another Big Tech company.

Visibility is very important to getting a promotion at a large company. Selling your work is important.

To move up, you must be playing the "choose a good project or team" game for at least 6 months before you try to get promoted. Preferably for a year or more to hit the right checkboxes for multiple cycles.

If you fail to do so, you can do absolutely amazing work but rigid processes and evaluation criteria will conspire to defeat you in a promotion committee setting.

At least, that's true in my company. From my ex-Google peers it seems to be true there as well.

Being in a smaller office means you get fewer of the best projects available to you. Reorgs sometimes steal them. Cancelling projects makes the last half a waste of time from a promotion standpoint.

As for what constitutes a good project. It will:

* Let you lead it

* Have peers at your level + one or two

* Work with multiple other teams

* Ideally work with multiple teams outside of your group, e.g. you're in, say, a chat app team and get to solve issues for some other app

* Good product manager and designers with a well thought out product; it's not fair, but if the project is successful business-wise people will often incorrectly attribute that to your own skills

* Have large engineering scope. Committees get confused and sometimes think simple designs to solve complex problems are bad. You want to solve problems that are complex even in terms of the solution (or can be made to sound complex) to check more boxes.

* Allows you to solve problems for other teams

I haven't optimized for promotion and thats personally hurt me in the quest to get to L6. I very, very close but didn't quite make the leap.

Don't ignore the flaws in this committee process. Exploit them.

Don't be me.
I've been pretty happy with 1Password for the last 3 years or so. The only point where I had a trust problem was when they introduced subscriptions (which is fine, I happily pay software subscription fees for good software, because that way the software is sustainable), but migration involved creating an online account and entering my secret password in my browser. That is something I always find scary: yes, they do assure me that it's just locally-run JavaScript, and the password never leaves my computer, but still.

In other words, I am somewhat scared, but the usability is so fantastic that I find the compromise reasonable, especially with 2FA (TOTP or U2F using YubiKey).

Now, if only Apple finally learned that prompting me for my Apple ID password in a modal popup whenever they feel like it, without the ability to auto-fill is a no-no...
If you log in to AWS, then visit another site, your password is still on the clipboard. 1Password clears it out after ~30 seconds, IIRC, but it's still a bit of a risk.
Yes. To me it seems that great players find something new and relatively simple in the music and then find a way to communicate it in performance.

Likewise, the best music is simple in its core. Starting with melody. If I can't remember the tune, perhaps it was too complex. Apparently it's hard to compose simple melodies. They're like mathematical theories: much easier to appreciate than to discover.

And there is a darker side to complexity. Many in the audience will entertain fantasies about becoming great players themselves and occupying the place of the soloist now on stage. To them, complex technical feats are glamorous and worthy of slavish emulation.
How do you measure them and how do you set a price on their cost? When they are in a gray area, how do you decide if it's truly negative? Should we negatively tax something with a positive externality? Who gets to decide, and how can I be that person?

(A permit auction does not suffer from these problems)
Not everything can be grown indoors. But most can be grown inside..covered cropping is a good compromise between row cropping and indoor hydroponics/vertical Ag. In fact, better returns and productivity than either of those ..capital costs are higher but easy to recover.
We never should have made that deal, Stalin was actually worse than the whole Nazi regime of murderous scum. At least the Germans had style and before you accuse me of being some kind of 88er, I will remind you that the big shots in the US loved Hitler in the 1930s, the adored what he was doing for Germany because it was so technologically progressive and forward looking.

Plenty of American businesses made money off of the Nazi regime. IBM. The Bush family, and many others. It wasn't until the horrific crimes committed during the war that everyone here quickly distanced themselves from Germany and pretended that they never liked them and were never anti-semitic.

As far as Epstein goes, I don't think we're even asking the right questions. The underage girls, despite being underage, all knew what was going to happen when they went to that island or to meet up with Epstein or his compatriots. What is more important is, how did the blackmail operation run and who received the photos and videos?
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Programming: PHP, C#, Ruby, Java and a bit of Go. Though I am a polyglot programmer.

Resume/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me

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Email: kadnan (at) gmail (dot) com.

I have been working as a remote developer for a US-based startup where I have set up and managed an infrastructure to run data pipelines that acquire data from different resources 24/7. Besides, I have worked a decade+ as a Web developer and well versed about the core concepts related to modern development. I am also into system optimization and love to find ways to speed up systems; be it on website or backend DB and other application servers. I am looking for remote work and I am capable to manage my own workflow and tasks.

Recently I started learning OpenCV and made a toy app, called _ImageInsights_ You can learn more about it on my blog (http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/create-a-simplest-image-search-e...). The demo video is also available (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG0uVcYGpDc)
> It's fascinating how the backlash and the anger towards organic run deep in the US and on HN.

There's organic and then there's organic.

Moving to carbon-neutral methods and creating processes which are sustainable or actively improve the world? Great. We need to be doing that.

Eating food labelled as "Organic" and shunning GMOs as if they were actively toxic? No. That's bullshit and actively harming the legitimacy Greens have. It's barely a step above pushing "detox" and thinking chemtrails are a thing.

Green should be about using the best current scientific knowledge to improve the world, not thinking science is actively harmful and rejecting it in favor of crap that makes you feel better. Ceding the intellectual high ground to people who crack jokes about Al Gore every time someone mentions that the Arctic is melting is the exact opposite of a good idea.
if we mean stand alone cameras then I could see it happening at some point as phone cameras get better and better.
> get a spread at official conversation rates

"official"? What is that, exactly? "Official" determined how, and by whom, and using what inputs?

Forgive my scepticism, but that sounds awefully fishy...
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Willing to relocate: Not immediately but in plans.

Skills: Web Development, Data/Web Scraping, ETL Development. Blogging and Teaching

Technologies: Laravel, Django, Flask, Selenium/Requests, Elasticsearch, Airflow, Bonobo, custom Data Pipelines in Python.

Programming: PHP, C#, Ruby, Java and a bit of Go. Though I am a polyglot programmer.

Resume/CV: http://adnansiddiqi.me

Blog: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

Email: kadnan (at) gmail (dot) com.

I have been working as a remote developer for a US-based startup where I have set up and managed an infrastructure to run data pipelines that acquire data from different resources 24/7. Besides, I have worked a decade+ as a Web developer and well versed about the core concepts related to modern development. I am also into system optimization and love to find ways to speed up systems; be it on website or backend DB and other application servers. I am looking for remote work and I am capable to manage my own workflow and tasks.

Recently I started learning OpenCV for fun and made a toy app, called _ImageInsights_ You can learn more about it on my blog (http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/create-a-simplest-image-search-e...). The demo video is also available (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG0uVcYGpDc)
That doesn't usually work because the the diffraction limit PSF is usually Gaussian and therefore the overlapping region can have lower fluence than the peak regions.
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As much as it pains me to say this, I think I'm a hipster.

I put a lot of attention and care into my audio and vinyl setup, but now that you can find albums at Walmart, the hip factor has been sucked out of it like a vacuum.

I've recently been downsizing, and this might be something that doesn't stay with me. I'll keep my signed albums, but maybe not the rest.
> because people don't coordinate IRL or in blocks

Isn't that true?
Yes they do. In all these places except Amazon, the engineering culture is essentially identical. I’ve worked at 2 FAANG companies and a few startups that had a big influx of ex-Google engineers. In fact it’s a whole process that startups go through to copy Google: monorepo + misguided in-house tooling for it, homebrewed canary deployment strategies, naming things “mon” like “altermon” or “datamon”, etc.

It’s a very miserable monoculture.
Why would you back up the server?

In case of things like this. Also it's usually quicker to recover a server using an image than it would be to provision from source in the case of, say, a hardware failure.

What would you do when you had 100 servers?

Something more scalable. There's no reason why you should pick an approach to solving a problem and stick with it forever. If the situation changes you do something more appropriate. That doesn't mean the small scale approach is wrong when the scale is small.
Yes, exactly. Even people that like drones don't want a drone hanging out over their back yard.
Big organizational problems can't be fixed by writing better code. Meritocracy sounds nice but you have to learn to play office politics. New products and new features should have a business case (yes, even at Google) so that eventually they can stand and be valued.
"in a void filled only by wealthy donors and bloodsucking companies" - spoken like a true socialist. Like the world “owes” you a living? Produce what people value, and they will pay you. Very simple. Anything else is oppression of the worker or by the State.
Google showed me the fine engineering at large scale. And the key is the people as they are behind everything.

That’s why I changed my view on who was the key person for google success. I used to believe Larry and Sergei, then urs, now I put on Laszlo Bock.