skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#4: vivint smart home already has #4, including an app called streetwatch which does the multi-camera with neighbors grouping.

#10: a mouse is a mammal. perhaps author meant apes?
The author seems to have put more thought into what can exists, as opposed to what ought to exist.
> if your license is cancelled by legal means

This basically never happens to private individuals - the license enforcement focuses on getting you to pay for it instead. The data in any case remains yours and you can theoretically lift it off the drive (or your backups!) with FOSS.

In the very unlikely event of getting raided for copyright infringement, they'll take all your hardware and sort it out later.

(Of course the whole thing is a tremendous anti-advert for bitcoin if it can't be safely used on normal computer systems...)
I've done the whole "no stretching" thing before weightlifting when I was younger. It's led to injury every time, and that injury leads to 3-month breeaks.

Trading 10 minutes per session for a greatly increased chance of sticking with it indefinitely is the choice I make.

If you're lucky enough to not need stretching, or you do something like yoga so as to be pretty limber all the time, more power to you!
I'm using just uBlock Origin and since I haven't seen any cookie dialog I assume it did the job just fine. YMMV.
'Alexa, pay for gas’ command to work at Exxon and Mobil stations this year
Yeah that's the big issue there - HOAs are oppressive organizations run by OCD types who want conformity at any cost. I'll never live under the thumb of an HOA is I can possibly avoid it.
You can't manipulate ASTs (ie, Zig code), but nothing stops you from parsing string literals however you want.

For example, I wrote a PEG-like parser combinator library in Zig. Using it currently [looks like this](https://github.com/CurtisFenner/zsmol/blob/87de4c77dd8543011...). However, as a library, I ^could provide a function that looks like

pub const UnionDefinition = comb.fromLiteral(
\\ _: KeyUnion
\\ union_name: TypeIden
\\ generics: Generics?
\\ implements: Implements?
\\ _: PuncCurlyOpen
\\ fields: Field*
\\ members: FunctionDef*
\\ _: PuncCurlyClose
);

etc. But, I find reading the code as it is good enough for now that I didn't want to spend time implementing such a library.

[^]: Being able to create brand new types at `comptime` isn't [yet implemented](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/383), so this can't quite be done yet, though you could fake it with `get`/`set` methods instead of real fields
The negative is that you can't go out and do fundraising with any other parties until that 6 months is up. Depending on how much runway you have, that might be terminal for some startups.

I think 30 days is more typical, but YMMV. If the company is in dire need of funding then the VCs can usually get away with more.
You can always unsubscribe. I prefer that option vs going through Facebook.
The USA is broken beyond repair
You hit the nail on the head. The distribution of local server farms in Google's network is much, much larger than people assume (has been for awhile).

There's also a chicken-egg effect that Google's still interested in for secondary reasons. Reverse the question: assume Stadia takes off and becomes the "killer app" of gaming (big assumption, but still). Will local municipalities continue to tolerate crap networks if it means they're left out in the cold on this thing? Google's still interested in improved network infrastructure and has the clout to play incentive games to make that scenario more likely.
I worked briefly with a startup who's idea was to create an index of your entire corporate data (PDFs, powerpoints, docs, etc) and their product would intelligently serve up documents as you typed.

So for example, if you would pen an email/slack talking about a slide deck from a recent meeting, in the widget the product would have already found the deck ready for you to drag and drop it into the message.

It worked freakishly good, and saved a whole bunch of time trying to find a file in the mess that everyones Google Drive becomes.

The problem they were having was no enterprise wanted to hand over an entire copy of their data for them to index.
I’m Starting a New Company. Why? Ikigai
Please don't post vague flame bait.
> NoCode/LowCode (letting anyone build an app with a spreadsheet as a database representation)

AirTable has made huge inroads here. I'm also building something in this area (https://lightsheets.app/), turning slightly back towards spreadsheets instead of databases but then building enhancements and modern integrations on top. I think there's still lots of potential in this area, despite spreadsheets being 50 years old.
Briefly looking at redfin shows that my 500kish house would be 3.5 millionish in Mountain View. Similar in SF but it's a lot harder to find a directly comparable house. That's a 14k monthly difference in the mortgage. Equivalent to 240k annually after taking taxes into account.

Using that number means I'm roughly at par with a FAANG salary given my level. But it's not like the FAANG engineer is setting fire to that 240k. Depending on where you are in your amortization schedule 20-80ish % of your payment goes to principle. And my 500k house is probably going to be worth 800k in 10 years while the bay area house would be 4.5-5 million. When you take that into account I'm probably at 70% of an equivalent FAANG position.

The more important thing to look at here is risk. FAANG salaries and bay area real estate prices are out of whack with the fundamentals. If you get in and out without the bubble bursting you're sitting pretty. If it bursts or even has a 10% correction the FAANG engineer is way behind.
Including sales teams in the product process is hard because of the time aspect

The worst-case scenario here is to find out that someone has already sold something and now it's screwing up your dev schedule. This becomes a power struggle between sales & product because allowing this will make it the norm, but turning them down can look to non-technical senior management like PMs are directly harming the company and undercutting sales.

ICs are also nice + not political savvy, and can be plied and subverted by sales -- 'hey come out with a drink with us' turns into taking on random work.

This gets political fast, especially because the power balance between sales and product is usually off -- one or the other is the star and doesn't listen to anybody.

Good information flow requires trust, skill and good leadership.
> people often strenuously resist such diversification efforts

Yes, that would make sense.

Didn't look at the study, but if the depicted diagrams are representative of the phenomenon, people might just have used linear extrapolation to estimate population sizes. Extrapolation is just an improved form of lying, ask any mathematician. But could it really be called bias?

That aside, I also believe that I have a right to bias. This is equivalent to having a right to an opinion in almost all cases. If not, please specify the difference.
The jokes write themselves, don't they?
After having seen The Great Hack https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358204/ over the weekend, it's hard to imagine how the scope expanded again. They used the developing countries all over the world as practice for UK brexit and US's 2016 elections.
These seem like pretty common latency numbers for online gaming. I guess it feels worse when there isn't the movement prediction and other techniques to make the latency feel better since the game isn't running locally.
> If people are encouraged to adhere to a limited number of affiliations and be firm in that group identity, then doesn’t that make it easier for advertisers to target them?

I think so. If I sell motorcycles and I only have enough budget to show ads to one cohort and have two options:

A) a person who likes motorcycles but has no / very few friends who like motorcycles (presumably a diverse group)

B) a person who likes motorcycles and all their friends like motorcycles (a firm group identity)

I'm picking group B. If I'm successful in selling them a motorcycle, it's free advertising to many more eligible buyers. Plus, even if I'm not there's a chance they might talk about my ad if it's memorable enough and spread via word of mouth.
Yes, absolutely.

Today’s modern reactors are night and day compared to Chernobyl/Fukushima era reactors - they’re not even comparable. They’re fail-safe rather than fail-deadly, and are much more compact and efficient, with better controls and containment. The size of the reaction chamber is basically that of a household washing machine.

I’d gladly live next door to a modern plant.
American Security guarantees do not come for free. Feeling constrained? then raise an Army and a Navy worth fielding and fighting Russians with out American assistance.
Am I correct in assuming that a four-fold capacity in electric vehicles is coming? That will likely decimate oil dependency.
Thanks for mentioning intercooler! I think a lot of people would benefit from adding it to their toolbelt in 2020.
> ... caring about the assembly output is a spectacular case of premature optimization.

This is a hobgoblin. Assembly output of a compiler is the very baseline of performance. It requires no effort on behalf of the programmer (aside from learning a language).

Now, if you're skimming the assembly after every compilation and, say, fuzzing your implementation to coax the compiler to emit the best possible assembly... that's probably premature. If you're writing inline assembly before doing a higher level implementation, that's probably premature.

But choosing a language on the basis of its performance:effort ratio is downright pragmatic.
I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-kilometer precision, especially in suburb areas where monitoring stations tend to be sparse.
>And with smartphones, adversaries can access the OS using StingRay etc.

I was not aware of StingRay possessing any advanced capabilities, other than being used as a IMSI catcher and providing LE with 'tower dumps'?

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

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/08/cellpho...
Designing a way to make journaling more social
The problem with C-style bitfield values/arbitrary-sized integers is that they don't have addresses, so you can't take references to them. This means that you need special cases everywhere, and it increases the complexity of the language a lot. In Rust, integers often have methods that take self by reference, which demands an actual address. For these reasons, in Rust I think it's better that arbitrarily-sized integers aren't first class. They're never really first class anyway.
I haven't been paying attention to Intel Ark but I thought the CPUs talked to the chipset over QPI and only the chipset needed to support PCIE?
Redoable Graphics / Plots
>It makes me feel bad how many people see these figures and immediately start trying to find ways to rationalize why they must be overstated.

Some of the numbers can be hard to comprehend... for example, tech salaries weren't great until about the last decade. And, it used to be that the eye-popping numbers were not for everybody, and certainly not for entry-level / new-grads. Heck, just the amount of transparency in compensation available now was completely foreign when I started my career. Likewise, what's interesting is that in our always connected digital world, location still matters. Thus, for someone not working at a FAANG and not in specific geographic locations, these numbers are other-worldly.
Infer from the most secret corporate software projects problem commonalities and build a huge company devoted to these is not a realistic product proposal.
Unsure how many sensors they have in other metros, but here in the Salt Lake Valley, the Purple network does a great job of this.

https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC0#11.37/40....
You mean like downleveling? Sure, that happens a lot. The top paying companies mostly only consider engineers from similarly high paying companies to be known quantities. So if you are a staff engineer at a smaller tech company or a startup, you'll probably end up being "only" senior at Google or Facebook.
You sound live you’ve never done this, let alone any other shit.
It might be shitty but it's not like they didn't know it was 6 months.

I'm not trying to absolve Softbank here but if 6 months is bad, Creator knew it... they signed it.
On the contrary, the media consolidation that has left papers in the hands of a few individuals has been tremendously bad for journalism. The only safe types are either diverse private ownership (more than two owners) or blind trusts. Yes, this rules out a lot of existing news outlets.

Virtually all the UK papers are now narrowly owned by individual billionaires whose agendas are very visible in the paper.
> If you're concerned about the fees, just cover them yourself. Industry standard is 2.9% + $0.30.

I can recognise, from the links in this blog and other posts on the same blog like [1], that the author is giving a double-digit percentage of their income to charity. Maybe as much as 50%.

A person earning $100,000 and giving $50,000 to charity who paid a 2.9% card fee would be giving $1450 to a credit card processor - money that could have gone to the charity had they simply done a bank transfer instead.

Of course, for many charity donors paying by credit card is fine - better a moderately efficient donation that happens than a highly efficient donation that doesn't happen because of the inconvenience barrier!

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/earning-to-give-transcript
A Gentle Intro to Developing C++ Apps for AWS and S3
Privacy Law's False Promise
Those are quantifiable costs though. If your restaurant is shut down or your reviews are bad, you can say how much it'll cost the owner. The owner can then make a more informed decision about how much to invest in cleaning.
I wonder if there will soon be a market for battery backed refrigerators. Build a fridge with a 2 kwh battery system at $160 per kwh and it adds only about $400 to the cost. If it uses a DC motor for the compressor then you don't even need an inverter.
Thankfully, people usually do a decent job of filtering themselves in meatspace. At least, they are better at it in person than they are online.
Leytonstone Gets the First Permanent City Trees in London
They really need to share more details of these term sheets that fell through so we can confirm they were either binding or signed.

"Term sheets are non-binding, and even though they should signify a VC has conviction in investing in you and is ready to move towards closing, they fall through more often than most founders may expect." - https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/22/three-reasons-your-term-sh...

If these were signed term sheets and the investor has done a few weeks of legal / financial due diligence - then yes - not common. If these are deal or talking point term sheets with no definitive agreement and little formal due diligence - then those do fall away more often.
So it's not a good product for one US area. What's your exact point?

Product doesn't have to cater to every single place on earth to be viable. It's like arguing that ARPAnet was a terrible product because not everyone had T1 lines.
Everyone wants good editing and content as product feature. You can pay...
Anti-establishment sentiment has been brewing for awhile. Some candidates simply tapped into that (Bernie, Trump) whereas the losing candidates either pretended everything was fine (Clinton) or relied on older political ideas (Cruz). I don't think CA was responsible for forming opinions so much as knowing exactly how to exploit existing opinions. And anti-establishment opinions are still popular (Warren and Sanders are 2 of the 3 Democrat front-runners) despite media messaging.

Edit - examples of anti-establishment sentiment prior to Sanders and Trump are Occupy Wallstreet and the Tea Party. Recently I watched 'Saving Capitalism' with Robert Reich (Bill Clinton's former secretary of labour) and it chronicled the rise of anti-establishment sentiment quite well as well as the growth of inequality and how all this lead to the current political landscape. Based on Trump's messaging (his economic platform is basically the canonical right-wing solution to increase wages and employment), CA obviously tapped into all of this.
Can anyone reconcile the difference between $227k median wage in SV and the fact that even entry level jobs listed pay more than than? Is it just the most SV jobs are not in FANG companies.
I was expecting this comment.

Charities send mail because it helps them raise money, and it's one place that direct mail still works, and it works well. You can call the org and have them take you off their mailing list. I would just ask that if you do, also set up a recurring donation. One time donations are nice, recurring donations are better.

But if you're more comfortable giving Facebook more data about you (donations contain a lot of information) but not giving that data to the charity, why are you donating to them in the first place?
There's more to risk in the relationship negotiations, especially if there are kids involved. You can play potential employers off against each other. You might be able to leave an employer and come back in a few years at a higher compensation level. Try playing off a spouse against their replacement and see how that goes ;-D
All states whose major industries that have suffered from recessions in the past year. Agriculture, mining, transportation, utilities, and certain manufacturing areas have been hit by hard over the past few years.

The reason the "economy" is still doing well is because these are a very small percentage of the economy. The entire agriculture industry is literally a rounding error compared to the major sectors. These industries could disappear and the "economy" would still look good by GDP.

https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=51&step=51&isur...
I enjoyed having a skim through this code, as I didn't know about STUN before. I've built a similar utility for cloudflare-as-dynamic-dns [1], written in Node.js because it just runs on my home server and isn't performance critical.

I might have a shot at changing the IP retrieval from calling the ipify API into some STUN implementation; are there any pitfalls or gotchas you've come across when implementing STUN?

[1] https://github.com/Commander-lol/cfdns
Right - the term sheet is the "price sheet". The buyer still has to buy.
Why would we fight the Russians?
Was there no self-hosted option?
Correct. A study I've heard described (apologies for missing a link directly to it right now) attempted to micro-target advertising to nudge numbers, and found the strategy that worked wasn't to tell "dyed-in-the-wool" supporters of a candidate to vote for the other candidate; it was to tell them their vote didn't matter and they should stay home. It appeared to have effect.
> UK brexit

Is there any rock solid evidence around this yet? As far as I'm aware it's still in the realm of conspiracy theory. Given how far she's spun hearsay, circumstantial evidence and speculation, I'm betting if Carole Cadwalladr etc. did have anything concrete we'd never hear the end of it.
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With Monday night launch, SpaceX to become world’s largest satellite operator
I'd highly recommend How Behaviour Spreads by David Centola for anyone interested in this topic. His lecture at the Santa Fe Institute is also worth watching as a summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fDcUJMzkI
> "Linux pessimizes for high-performance games atop its kernel."

Yes, because that's not the main focus of a general-purpose kernel. Which doesn't mean there aren't ways around it if your objective is running Linux for a specific application.

The real time patches are in the mainline kernel since some time ago, but there are other options for softer RT at the kernel as well.
DynamoDB Is Not a Database
تحميل لعبة زوما 2020 Zuma الاصلية للكمبيوتر والموبايل مجانا
Hiring tech talent remotely: 2019 trends
Its worth mentioning that Manhattan, while massively larger than Los Angeles population wise, is dwarfed by the LA Eruvin which extends to cover 100 square miles. AFAIK it is the largest eruv in America.

https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/6241/

Both the NYC and LA Eruv have realtime updates for status that are taken as seriously as datacenter uptime. You can call virtually any Schul/temple in the Eruv to know its immediate status from a rabbi.

http://eruv.nyc/
https://www.laeruv.com/

devout jews dont so much as pick up a house key without knowing the Eruv status, while some not-so-devout will intentionally avoid knowing its status as this isnt technically considered breaking the mitzvos.
> This is equivalent to having a right to an opinion in almost all cases. If not, please specify the difference.

I would argue "bias" is a subconscious variation of having an opinion. It's fine to have opinions, so long as you think critically about them and chose a rational opinion based on well-defined principles and / or assumptions. It's not equally fine to discredit disconforming evidence simply due to cognitive dissonance.
For #2, the fediverse is lively and growing every day.

One of the easiest ways to join is through a mastodon[1] instance. Alternatively, there are other[2] clients available.

I know many of these are similar to existing social networks, and thus might not be different enough to fit the criteria of the article. But the federated aspect of it-- seeing small pocket communities form-- adds something to it.

[1]: https://joinmastodon.org/
[2]: https://fediverse.party/
> Basically you want to automatically accept all cookies

I don't.
it will be shocking if this actually works without being a glitchy mess. I think it’s mostly an excuse to get people to stop talking about it.
Excited that someone is working on this. It's a definite pain point for smaller remote software teams like ours who want to be able to hire talent globally while ensuring that everyone regardless of location has great benefits and is ticking all of their local compliance boxes.
Ultimately a non-trivial number of people have a collection of views that confound traditional left/right political boundaries in the US. I think CA was (allegedly) very effective in promoting issues that emphasized particular collections of views well, specifically on immigration.
First, you’re very wrong about my motives. At various points in my life, I have struggled with paranoid thoughts like that. When it happens, it’s lonely but I’ve learned to open up and talk about what’s worrying me. Sometimes there’s something there and I’ve actually started a few companies based on those ideas. Other times, perspective really helps.

In this case, let’s step back and add some perspective. Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. Their valuation is buoyed by Microsoft’s role in the enterprise. Do you actually believe that Microsoft would want to sacrifice that position for some bitcoin?

Or, there’s the rogue employee hypothesis. Realistically, how many people at Microsoft could directly commit code into Windows without it going through a review? Do you think any of those people are interested in stealing bitcoin? Now, look at all the other employees who have to go through some sort of review before their code ships. Do you think one of them has teamed up with their entire review chain to steal bitcoin?

How probable is any of that? And if any of that was going on, how easy would it be to catch the offenders?

There is a massive gap between analyzing what I do for marketing purposes and stealing my keys.

Edit - We live in a very sad world where you can’t reach out and offer someone an ear without being accused of ‘humblebragging’. I can’t believe what the internet has become in the last 25 years. This is quite upsetting.
Latency is something Google already has a large, distributed network with low-ping datacenters to major population centers to address.