skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story makes no sense. $3700 can get you a nice 1 bedroom anywhere in SF, so it’s unclear why they couldn’t have found another place. If you’re renting, you find mold, and your landlord does nothing then by CA law you have the right to break your lease for unsafe living conditions.

The author’s LinkedIn is filled with executive/founder/CEO roles (and claiming a 7 figure exit) and yet still needing to use GoFundMe for $50k?

Also don’t understand how his existing health insurance through his work would not cover him. He claims he doesn’t have it anymore because they wouldn’t treat him? I’ve never heard of a situation where you get insurance through your work and you are dropped because they won’t treat you for some reason.

Lastly the mold is clearly visible in all the videos and pics he linked! It’s not like they four years later decided to pull out some carpet or something and only then discovered the place was filled with mold. They seriously lived there for 4 years without questioning that at all? If the story is true (questionable, really) then I would have to question their mental capacity if they thought nothing of all the clear as day black mold all over their apartment while getting sick without thinking twice about it.
You're decrying inequality, and supporting the ridiculous SV salaries in the same paragraph.

>> Do you think SV salaries would be as high as they are if they could import any workers hassle free?

There's nothing great about the wealth generated by the entire global digital industry being concentrated in a few cities.
<Random musings of a train traveler follows>

I think this is great.

When I went inter-railing around Europe, we actively looked for overnight trains and long, slow journeys. If we could get a 10pm train to the next place, for 8 hours of journey, that was a night in a hostel saved!

We took the train from Venice to Innsbruck (highly recommend both places). It was a nightmare because we got an 8pm train, arrived a little after 2am and found (predictably) nothing was open and basically laid on the stone floor outside the station for 5 hours trying to sleep. A 9h journey on a nice warm train with a seat, would have suited me fine!

Similarly, here in the UK, I took a sleeper train from London to Exeter regularly. The train would arrive at around 4am but didn't leave Exeter till 550. So you have to decide: you could be woken at 4am with breakfast or at 540 with a coffee and 10 minutes to get off or travel on to Cornwall. I always picked 540 because then I'd get 6 hours sleep and remain awake the rest of the day. The alternative was to get up at 4, walk home (30 minutes in the cold and dark), then get into bed and get another 2 hours. Who wants that?

I know it's hard to suit everyone, maybe some people are desperate to get to Exeter or Innsbruck in the early hours of the morning when nothing is open. But I imagine a longer overnight journey and arriving around the times people get up anyway works better for many more people...
Is there a rendering tool for statecharts, something like plantuml?
I guess it really depends how the trainer organize his classes. In my case, my trainer is a former European champion, he knows the potential danger and he really cares about us. We use head protection, he pairs us wisely to avoid accidental injuries, sparring is optional, and 75% of our time is shadow boxing, heavy bag training and padding. So, we end up doing 3-4 rounds of sparring per week. I may get a couple of soft jabs in my head.
It’s the same in the US Federal government IT space, especially when dealing with archaic legacy systems. Innovation is nearly impossible and change approval boards reign. Everyone is risk-averse because of previous breaches, even to the point where engineers are not allowed to run the code they wrote themselves. You heard that right. We can write code, but we can’t run it ourselves.
> The thing that made git click for me was to understand the data structures that make git work.

I cannot agree with this more! The data structure makes git git, there are some questionable CLI design choices but they all melt away once you get the data structure.

In relation to trying to manipulate commits and "undoing things", everything will be significantly clearer the faster you can move away from thinking of undo like a one dimensional word processor function... Instead start to think of git as an immutable graph of commit objects you are able to traverse, reference and use in anyway - at that point "undo" seems like a completely inadequate description.
Propogating false health claims doesn't help people either.

I can claim that good old whisky is the cure for cold if you are mountaineering in extreme climates, but it certainly isn't going to help anyone.
Are statements of the form "Social media bots often tweet fake claims about <insert more or less anything you like here>' really newsworthy? Asking for a friend who bought a course from Siraj Raval...
Let's just pretend that was intentional...
> the NSA public key had an organizational name of "MiniTruth", and a common name of "Big Brother"

> the Ministry of Truth was the agency who's job was propaganda and suppression of truths that did not suit the malignant fictional future government in the book, and "Big Brother" was the evil shadowy leader of this government.

"Are we the baddies?", said nobody at the NSA.

Seriously, this is kind of blatant. I could see them using the phrase "Big Brother", because it has become a common saying and lost some of its edge. But not Ministry of Truth, that only has one meaning and it's terrifying. It literally means "ministry of lying to the people and denial of truth". There is no reading of the book, no matter how superficial, that the term "Ministry of Truth" is anything but overtly sarcastic.

What does this come from? Is it edgy young people (young back then), picking these names? Even if tongue-in-cheek, it has enormous consequences on the culture inside a rather insulated work environment of a job that really should be one of solemn responsibility.
I thought HotJar positions advertised 70-90k, a number that would also be adjusted further based on cost of living.
It sounds as weird as watching Die Hard.

People are focused on cooking dinner and/or getting ready for the Christmas parties, it's not weird that some different customs will come up at that time.
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That. So much.
Sounds like the most garbage meta analysis in the history of science.
The author of the Snowman book, Raymond Briggs famously always disliked Christmas and thought the cartoon twee. His picture book includes no Santa or Christmas, just a boy who makes a snowman, which comes to life and is melting next morning.

40 years later, he's bloody sick of it.

“I was fed up with it years ago. I’m even more fed up with it now it’s been going on for nearly 40 bloody years.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/21/raymond-briggs...
If only they build more housing in Inner Richmond, more people will benefit from it.
This article reads like a dystopian, horror version of the rollout of "Phoenix" in the book The Phoenix project.
That sounds true but is really not - it's just a way to throw out everything because you don't have a counter.
Nice work! MicroPython is nice as well although I prefer C for now, but that's probably just because MicroPython would not be very feasible at the moment for projects we do.

I have been dreaming about making our card (see my profile here if interested) run a real (well embedded but) OS; we had a version which could run some embedded OSes but to cut on material costs, we had to remove a mcu which got us down now to less than 23kB of workable memory. It is possible to run 'an OS' in that like computers from the 70-80s; the speed of the current mcu matches more with that era as well.

I like this kind of thing, but I would want a display on it and maybe no USB (just a radio circuit communicate with it for updates etc).
For $3700 a month you can live like a king in a 300m²+ serviced mansion apartment here
> If Airbus wants to hire 300 software engineers, good luck finding them in reasonable time periods in Germany or France.

Are you serious? Countries with traditions of engineering going back centuries, with some of the best schools in the field, will have trouble to find... 300 software engineers?
That's still not good enough as compared to Zurich or Amsterdam. Or many other cities. Why stop at tech. Many Romanians and other poor EU immigrants move across Europe for all kind of jobs. I don't think you have thought this through and not realizing or outright ignoring xenophobia in your arguments.
I hate to say this seeing what the OP is going through: But this seems largely their responsibility. While the landlord, in theory, should provide these baseline services of cleaning and repair, sometimes you got to take matters with your hands.

I have been in this situation before and there were either one of these two solutions: Fix things yourself if you can't afford a new place; or find a new place and make sure things are fixed. I prefer finding a new place but sometimes you can't afford that and need to take matters with your hands.

Where should I start?

> It took us over 9 months of emails and complaints to the landlords to finally get the doorbell replaced.

Replace the doorbell yourself. Should be easier than the endless contact with your landlord. Should be fixed in 1-2 days. Return the old doorbell when you are leaving the property.

> We ran home, but by the time we got there the box was gone.

I'm not really sure. But if I got a package stolen, I'll probably stop ordering delivery. I thought delivery is mostly useful for those living in suburbs but if you are in the city, just walk to the nearest store? And that would help preserve the community too, right?

> the gold rush mentality of the tech industry, which is mostly a lie.

Which sounds like the OP profile? https://trentlapinski.com/

If you think it's B.S. don't do it for the sake of money or fitting in. It'll just make you miserable.

Let's look at the photos:

> https://techpost.io/uploads/mold-document-4.jpg

This is "inside" the house. It'll take months for such a mold to develop. They probably have a problem with water but hell sure they have a problem with cleaning. Mold is easy to remove from my experience. Just clean the damn thing.

Tip: Paint is cheap. Buy a bucket and paint it yourself.

> https://imgur.com/a/VCFLDxz

I might be wrong here but this dust looks like it built up over a very long period. Looks like the guy and his girlfriend don't clean up?

> https://techpost.io/uploads/mold-document-2.jpg

Jesus. Did it ever come up to your mind that this doesn't look healthy? If you didn't see it, do you ever change your bed sheets?

You are paying $3500/month. The repairs could have been done by you in the weekend or the end of the day. Probably costing you less than $1000 for a one year value worth until new repairs.

Here is a tip: If your landlord is non-cooperative, tell him you are fixing it yourself but will invoice him later. He might/might not accept that but at least you get it fixed.

tl;dr: Time to grow up?
For tVOCs and inaccurate, inferred CO2 readings, absolutely. Sensors like the BME680 or SGP30 are ~4mm square.

For real CO2 sensors, not yet. The smallest accurate sensor I've worked with is the SCD30 and it's much too large to fit into a watch body as-is.

Sensirion has come up with the SCD40 though, which is 12x12x7mm and should make a wearable CO2 sensor feasible.
I can see where you're coming from, but the reason i ignored the distribution function is that it's very complex. You're right that education is a factor. But it's only one. If you took 2 (groups of) prospective software engineers, would the fact that India is a poor country, with a lot more respect for engineers, where education is much more demanding and less accommodating not mean you ended up with better (more robust, more independent, better at working without assistance) engineers from the Indian group that the other group?

And even if India only produces say one tenth the rate of great engineers that the EU does, you still want those!

Im actually more than happy to admit the other side too by the way: it drives me nuts when politicians commit to be tough on immigration except for skilled immigrants of course. Why am I or you competing for jobs and getting lower salaries because we got on and got educated but an unskilled labourer deserves a monopoly? I'm just saying, there are plenty of great people in every country. The quick path to improve home is to get them to come here.
Maybe I'm twisted but my first thought if that if I were a pen tester I would want business cards exactly like this. And yes, they would run Linux... and some other things. :-)
you've got some advanced lump of labour nonsense going on here
> instead of USB

And how would you power the card?
Elastic JVM with Automatic Vertical Memory Scaling (2018)
Of course but I don't think there's any debate about which side has been subjected to more propaganda over the years.

Regardless this furthers my argument - that there is not enough research because of said propaganda for any claims to be made in the first place which is the real travesty.
It’s a film called “The Mouse that Roared” with Peter Sellers; a very funny movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/).
That's why I sprinkled the word "ideally" so liberally throughout that comment, as that was the premise of your question. To actually reflect the population, you'd have to somehow address centuries of institutionalized disenfranchisement, de facto segregation, educational barriers, racially-moticated policing and disproportionate conviction rates (highlighted by the OP). That's a lot to put on a hiring manager who isn't even sure that racism is an actual, tangible thing.

Realistically, the most that hiring managers (save for huge FAANG institutions) can do is thoroughly ensure that their team isn't inadvertently (or blatantly) racist/sexist in their hiring process and on the job, and to post the job in enough places that a diverse applicant pool will see the posting.

With that said, hand-waving away that there are few to no women or African Americans/Latinos/Native Americans/etc. on the team with an overzealous application of the Equality Paradox is a pretty dangerous mindset to get into. It's essentially passing the buck, and is eerily reminiscent of the claims made by 1950's Southern US Politicians that Blacks were the ones who were self-segregating because they wanted to, not the other way around.

What I'm saying is, the ideal 50/50 gender ratio/representative race may be unrealistic for a myriad of reasons, but if you're a 50-person start-up with 2 women, one of whom is HR, and no black people, I'd take a good, hard look at the company culture that's being fostered, and particularly whether turnover for women and People of Color at your company is worse than average.
Why not let those people live in their countries with their families, friends, cultures and traditions, and simply import the amazing software they're going to write?

The idea that the we need to concentrate the best people in a few cities in the west is both absurd and dangerous.
It created these drum beats; they did not exist before. Each drum beat is unique and has never been played before.

See my lyrics project for something similar but for lyrics:

https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/
ClassGraph: Fast parallelized Java classpath scanner and module scanner
Great to see these views are becoming more mainstream. The talk does not mention it, but it's likely convergent with neuroscience ideas of:

- Bayesian Brain

- Theory of constructed emotions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gks6ceq4eQ)

- Free energy principle and Active Inference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1egnoCWgUg)

A good overview is also here:
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-intelligence-might-be-sim...

The issue to be reconciled is though that some of those ideas are talking about "keeping uncertainty in the sweet spot, not too high or low" while others about "minimising uncertainty/prediction error". I think the difference will turn out to be only in relation to how far of a future/prediction we are talking about. So optimising for long-term vs the short-term.
Shit talk.
I find it's funny to look at dude that say 1 hour 1 sentence but can't say clear about alternative / solving this.
> after we finally called the city, their inspectors discovered a number of safety, structural, and health violations

They probably should have called the city on day one of moving in. Did they really go years believing this place was inhabitable? Did they never have a friend stop by and see the shitty conditions and insist they should call the city?

There is an inspection department who can haul your landlord into court. You can also withhold rent when your unit is in these conditions and if you show up to court with the photos from these posts, your landlord will be in for a bad time.

They claim the building suffered from lack of oversight from the city; and sure the city didn’t know it was being rented out. But it also suffered from lack of someone actually notifying the city.
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Then I suggest updating the readme:

> Jarvis is currently under development, and all features are not there yet.

Both of those statements are false if what you say is true.
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Ask HN: Which parts of cryptography should I study to master blockchain?
Which subdomains of cryptography should I study to master blockchain technology?
what makes you think the united states doesn't regularly "experiment" on its population
Posting a video of an article, but not the actual article?
Seconded. I personally think it should go up to 50 posts.
might as well start at the official site https://developer.nintendo.com/the-process
I wish jetbrains would tackle the CitC space. They're well poised to do so.
Possibly calling both the compiler implementation and the language Rust is the issue here.
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Agreed. Though afaik there are plans to build a huge apartment complex where the recently closed CPMC California St hospital is now (despite strenuous NIMBY objections of course). So some progress is being made, but a lot more is definitely needed.
IMNAL but...

Rust the name is a trademark and the software licenses deal with copyright. Someone can hard fork under a different name and the copyright carries but the trademark wouldn't. Plus, this isn't an EULA where more info is conveyed.

Not sure there is a clean way to fit multiple separate things into a copyright policy and maybe IP grant. Trademark law works a little different, right?
Sigh. Market failure. Externalities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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To be fair to them, it's not obvious to me what their politics are. Their willingness to complain about the homeless suggests that they might be less liberal than the avg. SF resident.
Is it better in the US? San Fancisco / NY / Boston sound way worse despite way higher wages. I don't really hear much from people outside of those places.
The best house I've ever lived in was built in 1850. As a sibling comment points out, this is definitely survivorship bias, since only the "good" wooden houses survive this long.
Wouldn't the zlib licence fit here?

> 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
The restrictions are so reasonable that even the GPL would allow supplementing similar terms (if I understand it correctly):

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#section7

Quoting the relevant bit:

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms:

…

c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material, or requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in reasonable ways as different from the original version; or

…

e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or

…
As always with these comparisons the origin of the data is key. This is based on data from SimilarWeb which states these sources:
1) Global Panel: A global panel of opt-in panelist who agreed to share with us their digital footprint
2) Direct Measurement: Websites and Mobile Apps owners who share data with SimilarWeb directly
3) Partnerships: Data from partners with millions of subscribers
4) Public Data Sources: Proprietary technology and indexing engines that scan hourly for every existing public data point
> At one point our doorbell stopped working, resulting in at least a half dozen packages being stolen (..) It took us over 9 months of emails and complaints to the landlords to finally get the doorbell replaced

Is this a fucking joke? Remote doorbell costs like 4USD. You should just buy it yourself...

> 3,657 USD per month for an apartment

It is cheaper to go to EU by plane, get a job for like one month, get proper healthcare and come back ;)
Many other open source projects have registered their trademarks. Even unregistered trademarks are protected in the US and elsewhere, and one of the specific things trademark law lets you do is prevent people from misrepresenting the origin of a product bearing that name. So unless the license or the trademark owner (like the Linux Mark Institute) explicitly grants you the right to use the trademark you have no guaranteed right to use it. So rust is really no different from the vast majority of open source projects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867639
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> as it increases the inequality

Really?! Speaking about inequality is so hypocritical in this context that it just boils my blood.

I could understand if you were having trouble to earn a living. But you can easily live in the Western Europe on even €30k. EASILY! And happily, and stress free. Your kids will get free education, free collage. You will get tons of vacations, 38 hours work week.

But no, you want more. You want luxury life, you want to keep the rest of the world underneath you.

Letting poor people compete with you on fair terms does not increase inequality. It undermines your position of power.

Western Europeans and their ancestors benefited greatly from conquest all over the world.

Are Indians and Chinese somehow second rate people? They do not deserve to even compete with the White Elite of Western Europe?

You should stop being egoist. Start your own company if you do not like being employee.
Make your branch & call it Tsur Ekil.
Victim mentality.
Do they need to move to India? I can see many interested people but not if they have to move...
He just said he was in SF, so kind of