skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are risks almost everywhere. I remember seeing a combined risks map that showed there was really only a small patch in the southwest devoid of all types of regional major disasters. There is no "perfect" place to live, and you live in fear, you'll never live. And if you ignore the coming droughts and famines that maybe nearly global and everyday safety, then you're optimizing based on unreasonable, manufactured FUD from watching too much mainstream media rather than taking an active, data-driven approach.

I grew up in San Jose in the early 80's through the late 90's. When I was 12, I went through the Loma Prieta which had aftershocks for 2 days. I turned off the gas to every house on the block as a preventative measure. There was a lot of internal contents damage but the building codes worked out fantastically... there was very little actual damage except to poorly-engineered structures and structures on landfill that experienced liquefaction. The only real changes where anchoring bookcases and furniture to studs and Velcroing monitors to furniture.

In 2018, I evacuated with my mom from the Camp Fire. As the property had little fuel and large set-backs because of large, water-hungry lawns, the structure survived. What burned: wood fences, a very large shed, ½ cord of wood, almost all of the landscaping and a large blue recycle wheelie bin caught fire and melted into aggregate concrete in a ring. PG&E and the city have so far removed tens of thousands of trees such that a future mega-fire is highly-unlikely for at least 80 years, and they're doing the PSPSes. The worst case near-term is local brush fires. What may lead my mom to move would be if insurance rate go up any more as her CSAA (AAA) premium has doubled. The PSPSes are annoying because maintaining the fuel and oil on a generator is a pain and Xfinity (Comcast) infrastructure shuts-down after the first day.

Elsewhere the weather is horrible. You won't find better weather than the Bay Area outside of San Diego, parts of LA or Hawaii.

The biggest cases against living in the Bay Area are the cost of living (unless #vanlife) and the majority of people aren't planning on staying and so treat the area poorly and each other not so neighborly. These are compounded by the messy, inconsistent, unpleasant decline of American influence where there's a mass shooting nearly every day, terrible poverty like a third-world country and the largest military white elephant the world has known so far.
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I had the same worry three years ago when I moved here. And of being the closest big metro to North Korea. I've gotten used to it. After doing a bit of research I realize the story is overblown (I mean, it'll be bad, especially on the coast, but most people a bit inland will survive and carry on. I lived through Wenchuan so.).

I'm far more afraid of these giant Douglas Firs and their branches during snow and wind storms now. And, the likely drop in home value in the next recession.

And realistically I should be more afraid of driving to work every day. (Even though Seattle seems to have pretty good drivers compared to Chicago).
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I'm okay with this. It's a long-standing principle that you have no expectation of privacy in public spaces. On what basis do you get to claim suddenly that it's "not okay" and on that basis slow technological development? Every new tool has benefits and drawbacks, when it comes to integrating computing into our lives, the benefits have always massively outweighed the drawbacks.

We don't need regulation here, urgently or not. This whole push towards banning things --- this company, the EU facial recognition thing, and so on --- strikes me as just another moral panic used as an excuse for a few to impose their opinions and power on the many.

I've yet to see privacy advocates identify actual undeserved harms that have come to people as a result of the technology that they want to regulate. Loss of "privacy" in public is only a harm if you already accept the premise of the argument, which I don't.
Why are most buildings rectangular? [pdf]
Hey, author here. The writing on this section was a bit tricky to get right, but we did our best to keep it as clean as possible while still being precise about the concepts we were considering. And it's definitely not perfect; I've just made some small edits to hopefully make things a bit more clear.

This blog post is a response to ongoing discussion with the Bayesian community, so it was primarily aimed at a more technical audience. If you have any suggestions for how to make the writing more accessible, without becoming so overly expository that the mathematically-robust folk lose interest, I would love to discuss them.
I went with a Samsung postscript compatible, duplex black and white laser 5+ years ago. It was a bit over $100. The only problem I’ve had is that there’s a wifi setup button that the cat presses, which disconnects it from wifi.

These days, a duplex, 600 dpi color laser is < $200 (though the first hit is a Canon that is not postscript, smb, or lpr compatible, so watch your wallet...)

My last N inkjets died due to dried up heads (a Brother all in one scanner printer dried out and ruined the permanent heads in a month or two, on the starter cartridge!) or removal of windows driver support (It was an HP; Linux still worked fine...).

Sadly, Samsung sold their printer business to HP. The model I have costs more used than I paid for it new. :-(
And yet the 3D upconversion of Terminator 2 was incredibly well done. Like anything else, the quality is based on the effort and money you put into it. (Compare with the 3D Jurassic Park, which varies from adequate to terrible.)

That said, the best native 3D movie I've ever seen is Dredd. The few upconverted scenes stick out like sore thumbs because they're so planar.
Dogs are fooled by simple human paper masks, what is the likelihood this can work and not be duped endlessly by some clever exploitist? Or maybe Amazon is willing to foot the bill on this feature being exploited in order to garner more "future cred"
Defunct Textual User Interface which attempted to implement the ideas Jef Raskin had intended for use in the original Macintosh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin
Many hotels will hang onto your luggage even after you check out.
It seems like the problem might be less about tooling and more about identifying when writing is the most effective medium of communication and when it isn't.

We've found a lot of success in intentionally not starting conversations off in written form and instead set aside an hour for a conversation.

Live conversation gives the group the ability to clarify each other's ideas in real-time, which I think is where email and Slack threads inevitably start to become bloated and multi-threaded.

The critical piece, though, is designating somebody in the meeting to share their screen (critical) and take notes.

That way, the group has the flexibility to generate and clarify new ideas, while also having a shared record of truth that they're all a part of building.

Afterwards, have a designated person (it could be the notetaker, but probably best if it's the lead on the project), clean up the notes and send it to the group as a summary of the conversation and any specific decisions and next steps that were agreed on.

Instead of ending on a question ("are we all aligned on this?"), which can lead to nitpicking, I've found it more effective to be a little bit more direct ("This is what we're planning to do. Please reply here if something is off-base or missing and I'll adjust accordingly").

TL;DR: Sometimes writing is the right medium for deep conversation, sometimes it's good, old-fashioned talking.
> "Modern Vim by Drew Neil"

I took a look at that on Amazon[1], but the reviews seem to indicate that it gives a surface-level walkthrough of some of the available plugins. I'd need something that gives me a mental model I can use for debugging.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DFBWVMB/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
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"i don't care if i don't have privacy" is not as strong an argument as you think. almost nobody wants strangers to be able to stalk them trivially and arbitrarily.
Rose-tinted Red Car nostalgia is common in the post Roger Rabbit era. It was a poor private solution to what would later be a big public problem, and you can read a more neutral take on its demise at 99% Invisible [0].

I lived in LA for quite a few years and they opened the expo line through my neighborhood (Culver City) towards the end of my time there. It was transformational. It wasn't the fastest way to get downtown (assuming no traffic), but it meant you could have a drink without worrying about getting home. You could have a nice afternoon walking around without searching for parking. You could see an event at Staples Center and easily get home when it was over. Now the line goes all the way to Santa Monica, bringing more and more people into the fold.

I get that it is not as extensive as other systems, and parts of it share passage with cars, but it would have never gotten done as an underground system [1], and it works quite well as a complement to local bus lines.

Basically, LA Metro is actually building the infrastructure people imagine Red Car to have been. It takes decades because it is a big project and we are not good at building infrastructure quickly anymore [2], but it is a long-term investment in helping the city grow.

[0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway
[2] https://patrickcollison.com/fast
I’ve seen some anti-Reddit posts on the front page over the past month. It’s nice understanding the purpose of HN and Reddit and how HN - in all likelihood - will never go the route of Reddit.
I'm not sure if you are replying to me or the parent but I'm asking a genuine question. If capital needs to move from investments where would it go?
Virginia seems to get a little of everything, but not enough to be an issue.

It gets snow but it’s a long way from the extreme winters you get in the north east. Hurricanes turn into heavy rains when you leave the coast. Earthquake’s are hardly a concern outside the risk of minor property damage.
Well, it's going to have to be if we're going to live in a world where facial recognition technology exists.

Because this idea where the government wants to jail peaceful protestors, but surely they'll refrain from using certain technologies to find them if we just ask nicely does not make sense to me.
I agree. My Dad is a physicist and in his late 90s still a member of the National Academy of Science. We riff a lot on science and technology and this is a favorite topic :-)
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As to kanban boards, I am not very familiar with it yet. Can you please try OneDev board and let me know what points you feel missing compared to Kanban? You may also file feature request so that discussion can happen there easier.
Indeed a standard technique in numerical analysis. Among the advantages of doing things this way (when applicable, i.e., when one has holomorphic integrands) are significantly better accuracy & stability: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/sirev56-3_385.pdf

(Haven't looked closely at the posted code so no idea how directly relevant this is.)
I think most of the comments I've seen here about cables wearing out fast have been specifically about Apple lightning cables.

In my experience, USB cables do not wear out quickly, especially if you buy braided ones. In the past 15 years or so, I think I've had a single cable fail (a cheap, crappy one that came free with something).

As a consumer, it benefits me greatly to only need one connector and charger, and the environmental argument makes a lot of sense to me too.
So uh, I gotta be honest with you: I can barely follow your post. It makes very little sense to me. But the parts I can figure out, I disagree strongly with.

> So if you come to my battle-tested codebase, and tell me "Hey, I've made you code better. It now has a theoretical metric of cleanness, instead of your proven metric of cleanness"

The flaw with this is that just running code in production for a modest amout of time proves nothing. That is in fact the opposite of proof, it's an anecdote. Safe code from a sound compiler can be literally proven to hold certain properties, with a margin of certainty that depends on then compiler.

Now of course, the proof guarantees of the specific code in question are weak compared to what you can do with something like Liquid Haskell or Idris or Coq, but they're definitely more than this pride-based programming you're holding up.

> Maybe your code has introduced a complex interaction that none of my examples exploit, but other people's examples blow up because of it.

And maybe your code already had that. That's why I trust compiler checks a hell of a lot more than people. And that's why I find this entire movement of pride-based programming that you and the subject of this thread so problematic. You're just holding up your haphazard experience as evidence. And honestly, not many people's experience would move me that way. Maybe if you're running it as Google or Facebook's frontend I'd find that reassuring, but short of that...? No.

Have you load tested your software? How did you simulate it? Have you validated your algorithm with a tool like TLA+? Have you watched your memory use carefully? Have you measured the latency variance? Under what kinds of loads? Is your data real or a projection using something like USL4J?

> Either way, it's a lot of work, and little certainty, and only theoretical benefit - vs no work, and full certainty in the real-world correctness of my code.

Pull requests on GitHub are generally the click of a button. If they're not good on grounds of completeness, then reject them on those grounds. Not, "Oh here we go again this code is so much more mechanically verified than mine, don't start this again."
Amici Curiae of 83 Computer Scientists in Support of Google (v. Oracle) [pdf]
There's not really any risk worth worrying about, there is no imminent eruption coming. Its not even a given that it will have a major eruption again. If it does start erupting, we're most likely going to know its imminent well ahead of time (earthquakes, smaller eruptions, etc).

In Yellowstone's case, the timescales involved are hundreds of thousands of years or more, where margins of error dwarf human lifetimes.
The car companies bought the already failed transit lines, sold them for scrap, and then sold new busses. The city was already transitioning to busses and the trams needed replacement regardless. One could say that the auto companies hastened their demise, but it wasn't by very long.
Lots of discussion on ethics (important!), but little in actual metrics.

What actually are the precision and recall of systems that search over faces of the entire national population? I would have thought enough people look similar that precision would be inherently low (even as a human it is occasionally hard to tell people apart in photos), but the claims here (and in similar articles NYT has had on Chinese companies doing similar things) is implying near perfect numbers.
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Fake doesn't mean bad.

The "Fake" category should probably divided into subcategories of low-effort "bad" post-conversion and high-effort "good" post-conversions.
A short but great book came out last year called Black Death at the Golden Gate that explores the epidemic(s) of plague in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, and how epidemiological efforts to study and fight it were hamstrung by local press and government officials viciously opposed to every measure the proto-CDC health service tried to impose. It ends on an ominous note, noting the likelihood that the bacterium persists in East Bay rodents and could strike again without warning.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Death-Golden-Gate-America/dp/03...
I read through much of this book as a fun hobby/side project. I felt at times this was a book written by a genius for geniuses... For example, there's a chapter on numerics. Simple, right? PG's "example" was a full ray-tracing library in only about three pages. There were single pages that took me an hour to read and understand fully. Very cool/fun stuff, but also extremely terse, especially if you're new to lisp.
This has got to be a fake. The only way AI would be able to make any sort of correct judgment about someone's probable future performance is if it had some training set of data of employees who had their interviews recorded and who were known to be bad in some way. However, it's still a massive leap in logic to be able to correlate anything an AI could observe to some tangibly bad behavior later on.

I'm thinking the promises of this technology will never be realized.
Not necessarily uploaded by people themselves.

Ever been to an event where photos were being taken?

Ever walked by a surveillance camera?

Ever walked by a house with a video doorbell?
I'd like to live in a world where, if I tell you something, you can take my word for it and you don't demand a contract for it.

Also, those words are still on the website. If the author is no longer interested in bug reports - which is absolutely the author's right, to be clear, and does not make them a bad person - they ought to at least change the language on the website to make it clear. Otherwise the language encourages people to waste their time, which is pretty rude.
> Similar to how car-traffic was largely unregulated until we realized that traffic rules are really necessary

Sure. And then we over-reacted by passing laws limiting cars to the speed of a horse. I'm much more worried about that kind of kneejerk regulation than I am about the actual supposed privacy problem.
Wow, I just discovered that people dislike this sensation—I’ve always loved it. It feels like my head is “exploding with silence” when it happens
Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
These have been popping up all over Europe the past two years, often at stores which also have key-holding services for absent AirBNB hosts.
If you want to compare the capabilities of Linux and Windows systems, comparing Linux kernel APIs and Windows library APIs might make sense. However, complaining that dealing with the Linux kernel interface directly requires more work than calling Windows API functions doesn't make any sense, because of course higher-level interfaces are more pleasant to work with regardless of the target platform. If you want to make that comparison in a meaningful way, you should be comparing Linux libraries against equivalent Windows APIs.
> I’m not sure how comparable a professional athlete is to a CEO.

I agree that this is a difficult question. But why in the world is the government, with all it's perverse incentives, trying to figure this out? The shareholders, the people with a literal financial stake in the outcome, have spoken. Good CEOs are worth their weight in gold. Actually, gold isn't valuable enough. Steve Ballmer's resignation immediately added $20 billion to Microsoft's market cap. That's worth about 400,000 kilograms of gold.
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I bought an 'Audrey' years ago - early touchpanel tablet meant for the kitchen counter. Had three buttons for 'channels' which meant url-for-specially-formatted-web-page, for news and weather and music.

Almost immediately 3Com discontinued support for those channels. So I thought "No problem; I'll just go into settings and change the URLs". Nope. No way to do that.

Early internet stupidity, where some marketing type figured "Capture the customer to our data stream so we can spam them". So screw the customer.
I think the Marvel movies do okay upconverted because some consideration is given during 2D filming to how the upconversion can be facilitated. The trippy 3D in Doctor Strange, though, is one of my favourites as well.
> It's a long-standing principle that you have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

There are limits to what we consider acceptable even in public spaces; for example, upskirt photos aren't ok even you're in a public place. I think it's still reasonable to consider that one day (maybe today, for many people?) it might mean that every single moment of their life outside is being recorded, which was literally not possible until recently. It's a valid thing to discuss.
But right now people don't have guns to defend against the state but against their neighbours.
Disclaimer: I don't drive a Tesla.

That being said, you really don't want to accelerate forwards quickly because you'll shred tires, and you don't really want to "decelerate" hard either because it's not good for your brake lifetime and passengers don't really enjoy it much.

Electric cars with regeneration are more efficient than ICE vehicles, especially in stop-and-go traffic because when you don't need the power, it's not being used. Most gas vehicles still burn fuel spinning the engine while idling at a stop sign. So while yes, the acceleration may be faster, the real thing that's gained here is efficiency, because you can recapture some of the car's energy whrn stopping the vehicle.
Thanks for willing to contribute. I will write some guideline for that later. Also it is possible to develop in IntelliJ, just that you need to run "mvn compile" from command line every time you changes the dependencies. While in Eclipse, it is fully automated with help of M2E.
This is still possible today. Costco has an ink refill service [1], which I assume should support all printers they sell.

[1]: https://costcoinkjetrefill.com/
gradle works on commandline. Gradle has nothing to do with intellij.

Gradle supports modular building and other cool things that improves productivity. And a gradle build file is like 1/10th of a POM.XML file. Try it sometime.
Some people treat style as a problem. In the context of “boring” conversation the problem was the unsafe usage. How’s that not style?
Here in Houston we have a few gated communities here and there, e.g., Stablewood, just outside the West Loop and off of Memorial Drive to the south. Agreed about the walking.
As loosely dramatized in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? . The tire companies were involved as well.
In their TOS 3,2

They specifically prohibit on their site the very Thing they’re doing to others.
They failed because the car companies worked with (i.e. paid) local town councils to restrict track placement, restrict time-of-day allowed for transit traffic, and generally strangle their service model. Tightened the noose until they failed.

So yes, it was car companies that killed them.
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This lecture[0] gives a good description of MIP and MIP* and how the poly(n) verifier is permitted to communicate with them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmPA5FfLd6k
Come in earlier before the others arrive or come in later/leave later. No matter what scheme you use there will always be a means to interrupt you. The longer the overlap between you and others then the higher probability of interruption as it gives more opportunity to be interrupted. If you reduce the overlap then you squeeze interruptions into a smaller time slice, and you'll get more done.
Google and other large tech giants have been working on precisely that sort of AI with those types of data for at least 10 years now. They are famous for tinkering with their hiring process based on mountains of data, with mostly bad results.

Which aspect do you find farfetched?