skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualifier: I do not like extreme mandatory minimums, ever, on anything.

These people are non citizens ignoring commands of military officers taking photographs of military installations and even running, apparently, from the military while taking them.

I do not know how lax the gate guards were; but, if they were lax, it sounds like it’s time for them to be unpleasant. Give a very clear air showing ‘you are not allowed here’.

Now, there were joking comments about what would happen if people stormed the actual Area 51 and how we would shoot them. That is a reasonable response for dealing with people entering a military installation without permission and then running from the guards.

Leave it to the judge, of course, but I think a reasonable sentence for non-citizens that break into military bases without permission to include immediate extradition and perhaps a general ban on their family from coming to the United States (while allowing for exceptions, because there are tons of exceptions where that could go wrong).
Regulatory uncertainty. Investors building in risk of potential $1B+ in fines.
Living somewhere is.

Rents are also high in these very high cost cities.

Continental Europe has places with higher rates of home ownership than the UK.

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

Norway - 82%

Spain - 78 %

Italy - 72%.

All higher than the UK at 64%.
And indeed, buying a home outright would sometimes be impossible depending on when you started saving. E.g. If you tried saving to buy a house outright in the 00's in sydney, the cost of housing would increase faster than you could save.
LVM software RAID has the same problems as ZFS's implementation and hardware RAID. When drives fail, high capacity arrays will take over 24 hours to rebuild themselves and are likely to run into additional read errors due to the heavy load. Expanding the capacity of the array is an incredibly complex process:

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing

It should be possible to buy disks of any size, add them to the computer and tell the file system to use them. Drive failures shouldn't increase the risk of additional failures.
> you want to be using

Not everyone has to use the same thing.

As you said: Gajim does lots and lots of things, some of it only half-works. Gajim might be good for some people, but confusing for others. I probably wouldn't recommend it to my mom.

Dino has a good feature set and the user interface feels nice. It doesn't do everything, but that can also be a positive thing.
Dino's OMEMO works fine for me.
>dwindling user base

Their report indicates they just passed the 2.5 billion user mark.
Knewz.com
Interesting, I wonder if this has been changing due to the arrival of the telephone, internet, etc. Like maybe other factors contribute to local vs global thinking more than geography.

I'm honestly at kind of a loss as to why politics is so polarized right now. I've tried just about everything I can think of, but can't create a self-consistent system of logic that explains the reasoning behind why people vote the opposite way that I do. It must be something subjective like religion or some context that I'm not privvy to.

I'm kind of joking and kind of not when I say that I wish we had an AI trained to be either liberal or conservative so that we could study it and see where it diverged. It's like we're way out on separate branches of a large search tree, so lack the context to understand where the other side is coming from. It really messes with me, because I should be able to understand a system of logic even if I don't agree with it. But I can't even get that far. What gives?!
No? The market expectations were a EPS if 1.76 this quarter. Tesla best that, but acting like the market expected them to go under is ridiculous. At the beginning of 2019, the Wall Street consensus was a profit of close to $400 million for the year. They lost $800 million.
well they are still traded on the public markets right? I'd imagine that's certainly a consideration for them when it comes to marketing.
it's a prerequisite sure I don't disagree. But it's actually funny in how many ways California is mismanaged, from lack of public transport to infrastructure to rent cost and tax burden and silly regulations and still people run there. The human network-effect is insanely substantial.

If you were to do napkin math on which cities have the best internet speeds and the lowest cost of doing business, and the best regulations then probably we'd all have moved to Estonia by now, but people are still more likely to go to Israel, a place in the middle of a warzone.

So for that reason, I find hyping technology up as the great equalizer very cynical. It's mostly still people and culture at the end of the day.
BS marketing works on businesses as well as it does on consumers
Even if you think your app depends on push notifications, your customers don't necessarily want them. I would bet that in 98% of the cases you have in mind, I would be perfectly happy to use the functionality without push notifications. (For example, "all chat". Even if your app is capable of chatting with me, I doubt I actually want it to.)
Great accomplishment and kudos to the dedicated maintainers. That being said, I've always had a love-hate relationship with pandas. It is a very powerful library and does a ton, but yet the API is all over the place and unless you use it regularly for a long period of time, it is almost impossible to get fluent with it. Every time I am away from it for a couple of months, I find even doing the most basic things to be complicated/confusing and find myself on stackoverflow way too often.

By comparison, the API of something like Pytorch is an absolute pleasure to use and even though I'm not using it all the time, I almost have no trouble every time I begin training models/trying out new things in Pytorch.

All that being said, this is definitely a step in the right direction and hopefully the API gets a bit more coherent over time.
Nice! I made a tiny game with a car for my 3 year old and he's already asking me "how do I do this too"...
While we're on this subject - does anyone know how median household income is actually calculated within the USA? I feel like there's some weird distortion bubble within the bay area because I've seen the data on household income within the bay area and the amount of households under $100k/yr seems way too low. Individuals under $100k/yr would make sense but households? No - it doesn't add up.

For instance, the median household income in SF is around $100k/yr. By its own measure in SF - $100k/yr is considered poor for a household of 4. I have a hard time believing that somewhere around 50% of residents in SF are poor.

I feel like something is off with the way this is measured. How can it be that a large amount of housing is SFH (can't be rented on a $100k/yr income), about half of people rent here (thus - half of people can't be prop 13 beneficiaries), and yet the median income is $100k/yr? The median rent in SF is beyond $2,500/month - which is the max a $100k/yr household can afford.

I've looked at the stats a bit and it just feels like the incomes are estimated to be too low across the board for households. I see way too many homes/apartments where there are 3+ working adults.

If I look at all the people I've worked with or socialized with - I can't find a single one where the household income was below $150k+. I know there's a bubble in terms of what I've worked with or interacted with - but the truth is that anyone below $100k/yr income was very likely renting with someone else. (Which would push the household income higher)
Are we looking at income post tax here?
I've always found this convention bizarre, because graphs are always drawn with the origin being the bottom left.

I'm not sure where the convention comes from. Maybe CRT screens drawing that way?
I heard kaiwa (http://getkaiwa.com/) is good, and it has this now standard Slack-like UI. Never used it though so I can't personally vouch for it.
The other aspects of prices is the replacement cost for an existing or the build cost for new. Its a min of $500 a sqft to build in CA these days. Double and triple that for a high end home. Building codes, permits, zoning, materials and labor have all increased dramatically over the last 40 years.Those add significant costs to housing.
Engineers keep shrinking communications, computer, and power technology. Launch services keep coming down in cost.

Check out all the stuff people are accomplishing with CubeSats, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
For sure. I made sure that the digital piano I bought had continuous pedal and realistic key release. Still really want a player acoustic some day though.
Well, in England being a tenant has been a terrible experience for me despite paying premium prices and trying to aim at high quality properties with reputable landlords and agents. I've spent 5 miserable years. So I can totally understand why people tend to buy. Most people I know currently letting are either low income or moving jobs and cities.

You have very few rights (even in comparison to Wales or Scotland). So landlords use you for example to live in a property they plan to sell immediately. Typically they sign a rental contract and shortly afterwards advertise the house for sale. You need to cope with all the viewings, probable breaches in the tenancy (agents will enter the house quite often without notice) and the certainty that after ~6 months you will need to relocate again (which also impacts your credit score).

My experience renting in other places in Europe is, in comparison, fantastic. Totally boring (in a good way) experiences in Scandinavia, Germany and Belgium. Rent, pay, stay undisturbed for years, return keys, get deposit back and go. Also much lower prices.
Are they your numbers, someone else’s or theirs ?

Seems like they’d have a vested interest to claim anything as daily users. Bots, trolls, whatever.
Again, only true for regular (non synthetic) CDOs - this is where the issuer is a dumb (or managed) vehicle that buys loans and tranches them up. The best example today would be Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) tranches / Asset Backed Security (ABS) tranches. AS you say, if the intermediary is suspect the structure can become suspect - but this can be fixed by appropriate structuring and security.

In a synthetic CDO the cash raised from CDO issuance is invested in collateral (more often than not, chosen for highest return rather than real safety), and the investment return is generated by selling protection on CDS - the terms of this CDS may not always be very clear. If you have sold protection to Lehman for example and they go bust, your structure is in limbo, without a single underlying having defaulted.
I disagree with your statement as well, psychedelics have a variety of use cases and the entire experience is difficult to describe, for example take the following statements

"I like the wall breathing"
"The wall is breathing"

it is difficult to qualify and categorize whether this is "Escapism" or "Facing reality" this statement and a variety of the subclass of total experiences of mushrooms and lsd at times is that often, it just doesn't make sense, but it can induce profound thought, at least we hope is profound =)

Much love.
> Over a million dollars spent per staff member.

Are you saying that's a lot, or not a lot?

At somewhere elite like Facebook many of those staff members are probably being paid about half of that in compensation. And then they have massive server farms to run.
Well, there's an easy way to find out who's right. Look at the website, go outside when it tells you to, and look up. Let us know what you find.
Huge spike in general and administrative costs, is that hiring?
Why do you assume they can sell all those cars, when they can’t even sell all their current capacity of cars? They’ve been able to produce 500,000 cars for awhile, yet only delivering 367,000 this year.
Something I always wonder when I read comments like these is whether the poster got real LSD.

There are a lot of other substances being sold as LSD, and the vast majority of users don't test their drugs.

That said, yes, it's possible to use psychedelics recreationally (this goes back to at least the Merry Pranksters and their Acid Tests of the 1960's, not to mention their use in celebrations by various indigenous cultures around the world), and some people do use them superficially and sometimes even self-destructively.

500 ug of LSD, though, is a pretty hefty dose, and I'd be surprised if one's "fun" didn't eventually turn in to a seriously ego-shaking if not ego-destroying experience, which is difficult to face on a regular basis.. that's if it's real LSD, of course.
exactly. i mean, i pity this poor dog.
That's several layers up, and is true. There are many bugs in docker for mac, one of them is that vpnkit(?) leaks memory like a motherfucker. And the other is that volume mounts crunch I/O like madness, so your load factor spikes and your laptop perceptibly becomes slow due to IO latency.

So "grinds" is somewhat accurate, if you have long running containers doing very little, or you are constantly rebuilding, even if the machine does not look like it's consuming CPU.
I’ve seen this reported as “free” datasets elsewhere also. But the datasets are not necessarily free, commercial datasets are included too. This is a search of the metadata not of the data.
I'm one of your dad's generation and we like to call this "inter-generational theft" because it kind-of sums it up: the spending patterns we established, are predicated on leaving our kids (and grandkids, probably) worse off. Not because of a debt burden, there is nothing wrong with long term public sector debt financing.

The problem is the asset bubble in home ownership prices. We should have 10+ year secured residential tenancies and rent controls in place, and put home ownership back into the 3-5% compounding asset class. Sydney and Melbourne is insane. Brisbane (where I live) is better, but only just.

I worry about Hobart: the longterm income levels in Tasmania are not going to keep up, the price of housing there is creating a huge social dislocation issue.
After-hours numbers can be somewhat random and "estimates" are often sand-bagged a bit so that companies will beat them.

With Tesla, deliveries of the Model 3 look good and the company keeps increasing production capacity so if you're a believer in Tesla, they're going in the direction you want with a new plant in China, increased capacity in California, a new model on the way, and a German plant being planned. I think Tesla's earnings beat expectations, but I don't think Tesla is about making money today. Tesla today is more about scaling up production, making cars in more parts of the world, making a new Model Y, etc. And I think along those metrics Tesla is doing quite well. They're shipping a high-volume car that customers are loving, they'll have a cross-over based on that car available soon, they're proving they can open new plants, etc. If you're a believer in Tesla, they're probably hitting the metrics you're interested in and you have realistic expectations about their current earnings which they probably exceeded.

With Facebook, it could be a number of things. Their margins are going down. 2018 had 45% margins which shrank to 34% in 2019. Earnings per share are down 15%. For the quarter, net income was up 8% YoY and margin was only down 4%, but it's not the most encouraging financial numbers. Heck, Facebook increased headcount by 26%, but their daily/monthly active user base is only up 8-9% and revenue is only up 27% so they're employing more people per user and revenue is only scaling with headcount. That's not necessarily bad, but you'd hope that they'd be able to keep margins higher and maybe grow revenue or users faster than headcount.

But it might just be that after-hours numbers don't necessarily indicate what investors will think during a full trading day.
There still is billions of dollars short this company. Not that much has changed
That is a flaw of Prop 13, but I don't see how it drives home prices up? Wouldn't it motivate devleopers to build properties to rent out because of a long term margin improvement in the profit? (because the property tax rises are constrained below most inflation).
Buy cash, refinance later. In a competitive housing market, sellers would rather take the cash than risk a contingency falling through.
Tech Loses a Prophet. Just When It Needs One
This is not surprising at all. Population has exploded, immigration is easier than ever before (since the Industrial Revolution), desirable places have become even more desirable, plus real estate is used as investment.

Under such conditions, wages can only stagnate or have modest growth, while prices for scarce resources like land in desirable areas can only go up.

Good news is that there are still cheap places everywhere. But everyone treats them like they're all plague infested or something. Building a new town/city is no easy feat, but it sure used to happen more often in the past.
luks won't change that at all, it'll still be at the md level overall. The main encryption modes used by luks will lose a block to bitrot and such but won't lose the rest of the drive. They essentially generate a new key (really a new IV/nonce I think?) for every block through various means. This is the only way to allow for random access to any part of the disk without having to decrypt the previous blocks, and rewriting the rest of the disk whenever you change a part in the middle. I think you can setup an authenticated luks mode, but I've not looked at it and that should catch errors but that's all it would do, catch them.
> When a person shows such loyalty, it can almost be off-putting!

I don't think it's really as universal as that and depends a lot on the cultural norms and the specific manifestation of loyalty.

A good example would be the common misconception of the Samurai ethos in Western circles. Many people cite the Hagakure [0] and Bushido [1] like they are some kinds of manuals for a bad-ass Samurai making their own way through strong principles, perfectly fitting the pop-culture depictions.

When in reality, these books describe the Samurai as the most loyal retainer to his daimyo, who holds up his strict principles not out of vain/self-glorification, but because that was considered the best way to serve his master, which was considered the most important thing to them.

It's an ethos about loyalty to the point of self-sacrifice for the master's honor, which doesn't hold up very well in our modern hyper-individualistic times.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido:_The_Soul_of_Japan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dg9n
I know I'm not the only one, but it's hard to imagine doing my job the last several year without Pandas. Even though Pandas has been used in production by many people as basically a 1.0.0 release for a long time, this an amazing milestone and I think everyone in my office smiled when they saw the release news.

I think it's worth it to acknowledge the great stewardship of the community by all the Pandas developers (and the rest of people in the PyData ecosystem). It has been an inspiration for me as I create and contribute to open source libraries for data science [0][1].

[0] https://github.com/FeatureLabs/featuretools/
[1] https://github.com/FeatureLabs/compose/
Oh that's great. Now I can better aim my Elon-Sattelite-fryer device.

I already collected 25 old microwave ovens which I plan to operate as phased array to produce a collimated beam of microwaves directed at the satellites to fry their electronics. I might have a better chance If know the exact frequency their receivers are tuned to. Does anybody know more?

The reckless littering of our precious LEO must end here!
GDScript is really easy to pick up, well documented and like any DSL created specifically for one job, it's straightforward without sharp edges. I've used many languages in games including C++ and I find GDScript a breeze.

If you need something only another language has to offer, unless it's a big library, conversion to GDScript is usually the matter of a few hours at most.

Otherwise for 2D another game engine I'd recommend is Love2D.
It states in the deprecation policy that "API-breaking changes will be made only in major releases (except for experimental features)".
Supply and demand amigo. There is an abundance of land and water in TX. In fact, an over supply...
It is a basic necessity to have physical space in which to exist. Property ownership of course isn't strictly necessary; renting is a fine way to satisfy this need. But how can rent prices remain very far below the price to own?

In prior generations, rent was a way to express a preference about longterm vs. short term occupation of a given space, or it was a way for people with relatively little credit or capital to get access to space. But it seems impossible for purchase prices to perpetually outpace rent prices, and it is unsettling to imagine the fraction of the economy dedicated to land ownership growing perpetually.
I currently make 600K / year in SFBA and don't feel comfortable buying a home (2000+ sqft in a good neighborhood is 2.5M) We rent for $7K / month but our mortgage would be 14K a month if we bought.

I am not sure how much money I would need to make to do this.

My worry is that I lived through 2 recessions and we'd almost certainly lose everything if I lost my job and couldn't afford the mortgage.
I love Standard ML. As an undergrad, I wrote a compiler in it (through Zhong Shao's course at Yale), and it remains the most fun I've had using a programming language, let alone a functional programming language. The syntax is so simple yet it is extremely expressive. Hindley-Milner types are great, and the pattern matching is slick. SML also strikes a logical balance between purity and practicality.
Pidgin is a very bad XMPP client these days - at least until you have spent quite a lot of time on gathering and configuring all the plugins needed for modern XMPP experience.
I can’t help thinking that notebooks would be less relevant if people embraced unit testing more
I think it may have to do with where you live.

I've been in the same house in south-central USA for 15 years now. It has a heat pump, first I've owned. It provides reliable, inexpensive service. I have only good things to say about the heat pump.

I hope the additional emissions (if that's factual) are offset by the many years of reduced electricity usage (which I am certain is factual.)
> Each night, a swimming pool’s worth of ice is emptied into eight tanks. During the day, coolant is routed through the ice tanks and distributed through the observatory by 7.5 miles (12km) of piping. More than 100 air jets are also positioned behind the main mirror.

Are they actually making a swimming pool's worth of ice cubes that are "emptied" into these tanks? I looked at the wikipedia page [0] for more information but there's no mention of the cooling system.

It sounds like a major part of the interesting engineering challenge, strange to not find photos or even a description of the cooling system's design.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K._Inouye_Solar_Telesco...
Agree. Given the growth numbers and their market leadership in the EV area, there's a strong case to be made that this 'loss' is more of an 'investment' to set up for future revenue growth and consequently profits that come with increasing maturity and operational cost reductions.
A question for people with experience in this area:

I've been considering setting up WireGuard so I can keep my mobile phone always connected to my home network.

Will I experience degraded network performance (either latency or bandwidth) if I have my mobile phone always connected to a VPN 24/7?

My phone is an iPhone 11 Pro and I would be running WireGuard on a Pi4