skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes me sad that my supervisor got replaced with Dean Preston, whose entire persona is crafted around housing policy; yet, he is so staunchly against actually building housing.

He's the epitome of everything wrong with SF Supervisors: they pit communities against each other to create political gridlock and build voting blocs for reelection, but do fuck-all to actually solve San Francisco's problems.

No matter how many times they say "gentrification" in the same tone as "boogeyman," it won't refute basic supply-and-demand. Inaction just makes all the problems worse.
Reporting and non-relational are like oil and water, coming from experience working with people who make reports.

It’s not like they come up with every report they think they might need while the micro service is being architected. They come up with a new report long after engineers have moved on. If it’s a SQL database, no problem. If it’s some silly resumeware data store, then what?
My counter-arguments (as a huge PyTorch fan) are:

1. GPT hasn't really been about model/architectural experimentation, just scale. GPT-2 and GPT were architecturally very similar. Scale, especially at the scale of GPT-*, is one avenue that TensorFlow does have an edge over PyTorch
2. Work on GPT-3 probably started quite a while ago.
I don't care if it's principled or not. It's obviously not working.
There is an app called "Here maps" (free) which lets you download map data for individual states and countries for offline usage.
Same could be used for movies - directors, cinematographers, producers. I wonder what else this could be applied to?
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery
In re: #1 The world is hell. Look at history: everything has been a psychotic nightmare for most people most of the time, except for a handful of people in the last few minutes. That's gonna leave a mark.

> Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.

~Robert Anton Wilson

So, yeah, don't pop off on the bus or anything and you're doing alright.

> "Oh, yeah, if I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time." ~Lenny, from "The Simpsons"

In re: #2 Of course your mind has layers. Who does your breathing when you're not watching it? Also, the nervous system in your gut is as large as your brain (just distributed, spread around, yeah?)
Well.... the math may work more in my favor.

But, no, that's not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying, one language is extremely well thought out, and offers great guard-rails for doing OOP very well. And yet, the code is broken enough that sometimes I just have to give up on getting my account balance. Yet, Facebook from that era typically "just worked"... except when it didn't, and everyone would lose their minds. My point was, code that works, even if ugly, is what the customer cares about.

I'm still on the fence if I'd recommend anyone use PHP... Swoole performs very well. Laravel has a great community. It's not my cup of tea but, I try to keep an eye on it.
Most environmentalists are in favor of increased density. The opposition is more NIMBYs who either don't want their neighborhood to ever change, don't want poor people anywhere near them, or want their house value to go up.
FCC already has a good solution proposed that will probably be implemented in the next several years.

Put transponders on all drones that must be registered. Then it's easy to track and ID anyone legally flying.

And anything large/long range without a transponder is illegally flying.
I have a lot of clients using MailChimp's free plan which has worked well for them. I am grandfathered into using all Google's services for my business for free (ignore usual criticisms of Google) because I got in early.

I've worked in this industry for over 20 years and found that the more complicated your explanation, the less likely clients are to want to work with you. Being a stick in the mud on usability is another example - they'll leave for someone who'll make them a splash page without question, etc.
But google has demonstrated that an offline cache can work great.
It is very likely that you are correct. Thanks, Apple!
One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying the exact same things, and I can't even remember how long this has been going on for.

Link to the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P4_E3GhUv8
Financial instruments can turn their equity into an annuity which will pay the taxes, or the taxes can be deferred until they die or sell.

The rest of the world manages without Prop 13.
Check the OSM Scout Server & related apps:

https://github.com/rinigus/osmscout-server

It's a local service running on your device that handled offline data updates (all data packs are generated from SOM data) and then provides various services (routing/tiles/geocoding/advanced PoI search) based on this offline data to navigation apps running on the device.

I really nice concept IMHO, but I'm a bit biased as I'm the author of one of the navigation apps (modRana) that make use of OSM Scout Server if available on the device. :)
They can’t be passed at a local level without CEQA review and a torrent of unending lawsuits. That’s why it needs to happen at a state level.
Back of the Envelope Machine Learning
Anecdotally I have been using it for the last 7 years and it's been perfectly fine around multiple US states and dozens of cities. The only glitch I had was driving out of the Dallas airport, but Google Maps had the exact same glitch.
There are large blanket licenses that professional broadcasters can acquire.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-radio-station-able-to-play-...
In theory, yes. But that's still bad, because it means that a nontrivial amount of your application code (as well as whatever is launching it, like the PHP-FPM server or the web server) is running as root.
The important things are that:

a) it is economically rational to mine on the correct chain

b) there are substantial economic net costs to mining on a wrong fork of the chain (and these are high enough that it is prohibitively expensive to mount an attack which would fool people as to what chain is correct)

Right?
You should read up on tulpamancy. There is a subset of people who would argue that the consciousnesses in your brain are just as much deserving of a life as you are.

There is a subreddit (r/tulpa) that deals with questions about tulpamancy. They are very very insistent there there is a difference between mental illness and tulpamancy, primarily because tulpas are not supposed to bring you any harm.

I don't practice tulpamancy, but my mind was just so blown by this other perspective that I've been passively observing them for the past few months.
Worth mentioning that one (or both) side(s) will try to make the hurt be full of people who are stupid and easily swayed. That makes it even worse because whoever can throw the most buzzwords or be most confident will usually win in those cases. For examples, see the many jury cases regarding pop song writers “stealing” music
Compare to swift it does look pretty reasonable.
Taken for a ride: how Norton Motorcycles collapsed amid acrimony and scandal
Wondering if you RateMyProf could be a component of your happiness ranking.

ie. look at the average rate my prof rating per school. There's of course room for bias, but schools with higher professor satisfaction may correlate with overall student happiness.
An enterprise play is a good idea, but Google has been messing around with the branding and implementation of their consumer products while chasing this strategy. I am reminded of Yahoo! building what was basically an enormous social network with Chat, Profiles, Groups, and Mail and then throwing much of it away to start over when the first actual social networking sites started to get big.

Most people are already confused about Hangouts vs GChat vs "the chat in Gmail," and I fear this will only get worse.
If the code is modularized and put in libraries, how often do you need to build all 2 million lines of code after making a change. What am I missing?
Oh wow, so it really is 0 free emails...
IIRC it was reported like that by some outlets several months ago but the truth is more like US DoD personnel had to sign some keys to get interop with friendly fighters... Communications or some other kind of data sharing, I forget.
You make it sound easy, but the patent office is severely overworked. Also, does the case just “go away?” Or do you have to file a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the patent is invalid?
Because when Portugal decriminalized every drug, the country saw an increase in drug use that was the same as the increase in other countries that didn't decriminalize [1]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/50/6/999/40402...
How are you using GPT-2 with an expanded context window? I was under the impression that the maximum context window was fixed.
Is this a left/right brain split specific thing or is there another thing going on? ever explore it?

I can do neither of these things. One voice dominates, self speaking, reading, listening to another person talk to me - the rest of them get 'left behind'.
Evidence of what? The rate of pay? The nature of employment of those doing the grunt work? The cost of living in the Austin area? The reason(s) why tech companies that had their start out of state open facilities in Texas? The general feeling that the first iteration of Apple Maps was substandard to the point where most agree that it sucked?
If you read the article, one of the issues holding back performance is the poor parallelism of the compiler.

How does a single laptop core compare to a single core of the fastest workstation money can buy? It's the same silicon with a touch higher power budget. Unless you time it, the difference is imperceptible.
Also rich people and neighborhood associations, who send their lawyers. And some poor and ethnic neighborhoods, who send their community activists.
On the counterfactual, it's actually not very smart, and a toxic and myopic view of society. There's an entire spectrum of coordinating collective human behavior that ranges from systems like feudalism to anarcho-syndicalism to mixed economies like those that exist in Scandinavia and much of Western Europe. Government's role is infinitely flexible as a result; it can choose to be as expansive or as minimal as possible. In the case of housing, which is an issue where there needs to be mass action to ensure additional housing supply, relying on either the free market or government exclusively is not going to fix the problem. One of the things that a lot of pseudo-intellectual YIMBYs in the Bay and elsewhere don't realize about the housing crisis is that it will require massive mobilization action by both public and private actors to solve. For instance, I rarely hear the YIMBY crowd sing the praises of public housing, a model that has been successful[1] in Singapore, Vienna, and many other cities across the globe.

I find the anti-government sentiments and libertarian beats on this website frequently tiring at best, gravely ill-conceived at worst.

[1]https://www.shareable.net/public-housing-works-lessons-from-...
I understand your frustration, I sometimes have it myself when trying to figure out something obscure. And this kind of "knowledge rot" is indeed becoming a huge issue in the main search engines.

Arch Linux provides awesome documentation though.
Slackware still follows the old ways iirc.

For *BSD, I'd personally stick with OpenBSD, but not sure how great you can expect it to be as a distro.
You're right that micro-services avoid a lot of the pain of micro-services if they have one consolidated "Data service" that sits on top of their data repositories. But a micro-services architecture with a consolidated data service is similar to an airplane on the ground, it's true it can't fall out of the sky, but it's as useful as a car with awful gas mileage.

Once you add in this consolidated data service, every other service is dependent on the "data service" team. This means almost an change you make, requires submitting a request. Are their priorities your priorities? I would hate to be reliant on another team to do every development task.

Theoretically you could remove this issue by allowing any team to modify the data service, but then at that point you've just taken an application and added a bunch of http calls between method calls.

This same problem ops up with resiliency. If you have a consolidated data service, what happens if your data service goes down? How useful are your other services if they can't access any data?
You can use you own server with eg. Postfix and Dovecot to do this, either with you own client or use Gmail to read and send the mail. The downside with using just Gmail is that mail will be delayed as Gmail doesn't check inboxes that often. Mail sent from can be stripped for any Gmail headers when being sent out, if you want.

I've used Gmail like this for maybe seven years to avoid gsuite and still have custom domains when using Gmail. The delay seems to vary based on how often there is new mail.

You could use a webmail solution or K9 mail to get mail instantly.
Pretty neat. Would note that customer acquisition cost on paid channels tends to go up overtime (as a channel like Facebook gets saturated / more competitive).

Maybe you can add a CAC growth rate / other way to adjust your CAC overtime?
>a normal program flow can safely ignore.

This isn't really true other than network errors are more likely than a machine getting shut down but you should really be writing your code as if something could go wrong at any moment.
But if I haven't spent the effort to extract it, do I really own it?

If you collected it, you are responsible for it.
Yes, I have worked free for charity, free for friends, and free/speculatively for or with people on projects hoping that some pay off. Some do.

I have a SaaS product with a free tier (like Mailgun) and I have had an app/game which was free with an upgrade.

(My initial point was not about the freemium model but about other changes that have made working with Mailgun difficult.)
Yeah, it is to some extent. (Also, the OP actually said "personal vehicles", which is definitely way broader than I'm meaning to argue. Bicycles are personal vehicles.)

A better formulation: Cars in their current form and predominance are terrible. Done right, we would still have pickups for moving heavy loads, and some speedy form of transport for moving around individuals, but would it be two tons of steel?

Imagine a world with no cars where you make this proposal: each person gets a two-ton machine that can go up to 100 mph, its direction determined by a driver-controlled steering wheel. We're going to have people as young as 16, with maybe 30 hours of training drive it on a curvy 20-foot-wide road. Now the machine's only ~six feet wide, so we'll divide this road into two 10-foot lanes separated by a painted line down the middle. People will go 55 mph on one side while other people go 55 mph in the opposite direction just on the other side. It's safe, because people know to stay on their side of the line, except sometimes when they're expected to cross over briefly if they think someone else is going too slowly. As mentioned, the vehicle can go 100 mph. The only thing keeping it at 55 is that the driver is expected to press and hold a pedal at just the right pressure.

This proposal would be shot down so hard. Someone would probably object that this crazy idea is likely to end up being the leading(?) cause of death for people under the age of 30.

We're in a situation where it's the best we have in rural areas, but if we really thought about it, we could come up with something better. We need them in this world, because we built this world to need them.
IMO you shouldn’t need experts; The jury should (in the first place) consist of people who understand the issue. Not people who are swayed by buzzwords.
Your phrasing is ambiguous about what those teams actually do.

If it's just a data entry or "look at this picture and type down the name of the restaurant" job, then I'd say $20 is pretty good. If it's actual software engineering then yeah it's pretty terrible pay.
5 vs 10
I suspect many tiny senders will just use SES...
> environmentalism is classism in disguise.
Except that there should be validations at even the Root CA level and most corporate MITM CAs don't pass those verifications either:

- Is your root self-signed only? (Root CAs haven't been allowed to be self-signed only since roughly 2007 according to the principles of most browser root CA policies for public Roots. All public roots today are cross-signed among each other.)

- Does your root certificate have a valid revocation chain? Can you query up-to-date revocation information on it? (Modern Roots all have to have working revocation information, and Root CAs have been revoked in internet history, you cannot blindly trust your device's Root CA store over time without up to date revocation lists.)

Those are just two warnings I see most often from my dev tools on the MITM infrastructure I'm forced to deal with it. I know that this is compromising my security stance as a developer, and I know that turning off/ignoring those trade offs is a risk I directly pass on to users of anything I build. I've felt it a responsibility of professional ethics to pass on this concern to others in my company. I have debated many times whether if the right Root CA CVE or Self-Signed Certificate CVE comes across my dash if I will have to attempt to exercise the company's "Stop Work Authority" and refuse to continue development while being MITMed in a way that the company's security/safety infrastructure will not understand how to handle, but remains on my radar because I'm a professional and worrying about such things is my job.

Running a Root CA is a huge responsibility, and still has a ton of risks for the "real" Root CAs. (Just look at the recent battle between browser security teams and Symantec, for instance, over generating bad certificates.) Running a corporate MITM has all the same responsibility, with an even worse risk if you get it wrong (your entire company's device footprint has a single point of failure). It's such an incredible vulnerability/risk that whatever tiny gain it gives companies in surveillance over SNI sniffing and endpoint/device-deployed auditing tools is never worth the risk of subjecting so many developers to badly MITMed developer environments, especially some of the developers most at risk (bank software, health software, etc) of passing on the software equivalent of a bad MITM plague given the worst happens. I cannot imagine the blasé with which Corporate America has MITMed itself can be seen as anything but an incredible folly, if not today than certainly tomorrow (hopefully not after the worst happens).
He does say:

>Per-compilation-unit code-generation — rustc generates machine code each time it compiles a crate, but it doesn't need to — with most Rust projects being statically linked, the machine code isn't needed until the final link step. There may be efficiencies to be achieved by completely separating analysis and code generation.

It was my first thought as well but I have no knowledge how Rust linking works so I don't know how reasonable caching module compilation units would be.
The market is all the places the devices are sold. So global makes sense. If you define the market as San Francisco then Apple might have a monopoly. But that feels a little like market gerrymandering.

Even if you were going to restrict to just the US, Apple still sells fewer than 50% of the phones.
Thx => so a maneuverable fighter (F-16), with hardcore ground-attack and survivability features (A-10), able to VTOL (AV-8B), and do whichever special things the F-18 can do (a generalist?).

Forgetting about budget overruns and malfunctions etc... I personally think that it won't excel in anything (technically I think that it cannot vs. specialized aircrafts), and that putting everything on one card is extremely risky.
Basically, yes - it's an upper respiratory infection. Indistinguishable from seasonal influenza or a cold, until symptoms are severe.

There may be some slight differences, but even seasonal influenza and a cold frequently present differently.
Good luck fixing your bank app. For a consumer it’s a lot easier to avoid situations where your communication is easily intercepted than it is to change the code of their banking apps.
I would assume the answer was speed.

I was also writing some spaghetti PHP code around 2007 and remember making choices that were the benefit of reducing server stress while making my life harder. No framework was a big one.

Remember, Friendster died due to crashing and Facebook, for all its spaghetti code at the time, was remarkably solid and rarely crashed. It is easy to forget how hard the sysadmin side was for a growing startups before we could spin up infinite cloud servers and VC wasn't just an open spigot for anything with growth.

Remember the fail whale on Twitter?
That's nonsense. It is well-known that Indian women do better in the tech industry than their American counterparts. See articles below.

https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/engineering-...

https://www.wired.com/2014/08/silicon-valley-sexism/

https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-countries-have-the-most-sk...

Developers in India are 3-times more likely to be female than developers in the United States.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015
I think you got it backwards. The current situation where unset field results in a value is the equivalent of "null", it's the opposite of "getting rid of null". The previous design didn't have that problem.
It’s almost certainly a “legal said so” thing.
I'll restate the same thing I commented on that post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174201

People only now start to understand that the problem with multi-core is memory speed and the only way to solve that is by using a virtual machine with a concurrent capable memory model = Java.

In-lined memory does not play well with multiple threads. Cache-misses is the way to parallelize code!
Again, I get that, and that's why I wrote what I wrote; what I'd like is some insight as to why this is so.

People downvote me as if I've just insulted their mother, when all I'm doing is asking why on Earth people would prefer laptops over large dual monitors, full sized keyboards, ... and so much better performance and cost effectiveness.

Seriously, I'd like to know, and if I can't ask it on HN then yeah, probably I should just forget it before I get lynched or something for daring to make those rational points in public.
i love scala. it would not only be longer but you’d have to compile it 3 times for each major version!
Opus would be a better tech to pick.
Then, like anywhere else, you can try to become a citizen. I mean, it's not like Spain has very strict requirements.
My mind races just like that, but without using words. I have to use a lot of noise canceling to drown out other noise to hear myself think at all.