skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most answers below are wrong on one thing. Yes, your house may be reassessed, but only the structure portion can be reassessed. If have a 1 M house, usually land is 800 K and house is 200 K, and in the case of a long term owner, it could be 300 K land + 50 K structure or something like that. County can’t re-access your entire land. They might add 300K for your structure improvement. Yes, it is bad, but not as bad as someone who is buying that home now.
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It's quite OK to use, if you do a review, identify all problematic dependencies, and license them under more "commercially friendly" licenses, or replace them with something else.

I do advise to be very careful about such things, and spend the effort to figure out the legal obligations that stem from transitive deps though. Not just for this project either, for _any_ project.
Thanks for posting this explanation. Bolinas is also pretty infamous as the only town in California that Caltrans can't post a sign pointing too.

It does hit on the fundamental Bay Area issue that almost all water is imported, and there are significant restrictions on development because of that. Almost all of the land surrounding the populated bay is part of a public & ngo "green belt". In the Bay Area, there really is not just some new amazing new places to build. We must build up.
Testing one execution is a start but isn't enough in a nondeterministic distributed system. If you need to check that an invariant is held across all possible executions (e.g. node 3 is down and node 4 is suddenly faster than node 5), you could brute force that yourself but TLA+ has it built in.
Apparently not in SF.
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The drawback of not getting permits is that permitted work is valued higher when it comes to resale.
I'm right there with you. I am always looking for people who attack problems with new perspectives and, most importantly, can describe to me coherently their thought process and pros/cons of their approach.
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> TCP has 8Mb of overhead per 100Mb

So to reach that number, I guess you're talking about 60 bytes of headers for each 1500 byte data packet, then again for an ACK packet?

That's partly or entirely wrong in multiple ways.

First, the combined IP+TCP header is only that big for IPv6 connections.

Second, under general circumstances an ACK is only sent for every other packet, halving that bandwidth.

Third, that 100Mb is going to be for one direction, so the ACK traffic going the other way doesn't affect it at all.

Typical overhead is generally 3%, not 8%.
Not in SF from what I've seen. Unpermitted work is so common that people basically don't care anymore. Maybe in other cities where it's more common to get permits, it will definitely make a difference, but not in SF.
Also: why do startups cover the new hire’s early exercise cost upfront when the new hire is an executive, but not for other employees ?
> In the case of vowels, Turkish contains eight different short vowels and no long ones, whereas Arabic (and Persian) have three short and three long vowels;

Now, the alphabet of Turkish language is latin. This statement applies to Latin alphabet as well. Latin alphabet does not contain all the vowels and but Turkish version latin alphabet contains the necessary vowels. The problems are solved just as done in Arabic alphabet.

The thing is that assuming these adjustments as a conflict is meaningless. More, calling it funny is just an ignorance of linguistics. After reading this passage, I would think that Turkish people cant write in Turkish during Ottoman era because of the alphabet limitations. Then, millions of Ottoman manuscripts would deny me.

Wikipedia is a practical source of information, but not necessarily a trustful and truthful one. If anybody thinks that these are valid statements to achieve a success on a language, just consider applying same revolution on English language to achieve the same success. Catastrophic, right? What happened has just happened. Just don't polish this move.
I still see Japan use PS, which is known as Metric Horsepower. I think it comes from the German words for Horse Power, "Pferdestärken". It's 1 PS == 0.98632 HP
This is useful information, I was told differently, but thanks for the links.
Intuitively, only store numbers in their natural dimension. The same thing regularly happens in finance where interest rates (1.5% ie 0.015) is often stored as percent (1.5) in databases. And of course you never know what conventions people take, particularly in these days of super low interest rates. Then you have spreads which can either be stored in basis points (10bps), percent (0.1%) or natural (0.001). And currency of amounts, etc.

All table columns should also have unit in names, whether in charts, tables, database or variable names.
>strongly reminiscent of test-driven-development

Tests only cover the cases you think of. Proof systems let you validate claims about all possible executions.
Certainly I may be missing something, but it seems like the advance in this series of papers is that they figured out a way to calculate a differentiable solution to the sorting problem quickly, whereas it was already known that the a differentiable solution already existed, no?
I thinks this is one of the main features of prop 13 and should have been rescinded a long time ago

No reason to give corporations preferential treatment on property taxes
It's only 3% of the total but the characterisation of the error as a "decimal point in the wrong place" suggests that something was 10x heavier than it should be.
I come back to this from time to time as a reference for doing the uglier things in Rust. Writing Iterator<Item=&T> with raw pointers, recursive drops, etc. It's better than reading the std source code, because it's got a guide right next the code. I think I'm using it as intended. The title might be suboptimal/confusing for what it's trying to do. It's less a resource for newcomers than an illustration of someone bumping their head against the wall to do hard things.
> I suppose I'm naive, but it seems obvious to me that a company should want to pay its employees as much as possible

"As much as possible" is everything. So no.

> that is, as much as is consistent with the value the employees deliver.

If companies paid for the value the employees delivered, the company would have no profit. Companies make money by taking a share of the value employees delivered.

> It just seems obviously in the company's interest.

Maybe in a disneyesque/"it's a wonderful life" fairy tale but not in real life. Obviously it isn't in the company's interest because no company does it your way.

Actually, employees salaries, like rent, fuel costs, supplies, etc are viewed as costs/expenditures for a company. Something all companies want to reduce as it eats into their profits.
Thank you for your patience in answering my woes.

You’ve given me a lot of food for thought and some good ideas on how to attack some of my problems.
I tried this for a while but it decreased user adoption a lot so I added it back but with a savings limit of $1000/month.

Looks like most people don't seem to want to build it from source and it deters them to use it if I don't provide easy to install binaries.

It also also impacted negatively the conversions to paid users, people who convert seem to try the free binaries first and update to the paid version if they need to get above the $1000 monthly savings limit or they want the peace of mind to be on stable builds. I then charge them $29 monthly for the stable and unlocked version that I have also tested.

I also experimented with various pricing tiers and decided to settle to this for simplicity.
How does Dream innovate over LBP, since they come from the same studio I’d guess it was somewhat of a successor?
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Have someone else independently code up / compute the number from scratch and compare against it. Likely you'll come up with a different number, then figure out which one is right (you'll probably find both are still wrong).
I think the author is just using $100 as an illustrative value, since earlier in the article the author says they owned a schooner and the price in their table is $126ish.
eventually i guess. if the interest is high. this is just an example of what cloudflare workers can do.
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That's ironic, because in science nothing is usually better than nonsense.
You're seeing the same thing happen with the "Data Engineer" title as what has happened with "Data Scientist."

In the hiring market, many positions that were previously titled "Data Analyst"/etc were renamed "Data Scientist." Similarly "Database Engineer"/"Data Warehouse Engineer"/"DBA"/etc were renamed "Data Engineer."

Why? Various reasons:

One might be the need to give people a sexier title because they don't want to be "just a data analyst."

Another case might be, hiring managers and recruiting teams changing their title to capture more views for people searching using these terms.

And why are people searching for jobs using these terms? Articles like the ones in the original post, and "Data Scientist: The sexiest job of the 21st century" ;)
Thanks for the links - I’ve heard the bit about prop 13 causing people to never sell
Google-Fonts could be made part of Google-Chrome and would never be downloaded ever again for Chrome Users
Just roll the camera all the way to the mail drop.
Does anyone have a handy 20 minute guide to getting started with balcony farming for apartments?

1) sunlight requirements, different for plants

2) soil and replacement.

3) water, frequency and outlet.

What are some other things to care about? Where do I get soil? Is it okay to dig from an existing farmland? I live quarter mile from a river. Should I collect from river bank?
We just have a big Hadoop cluster with a big Airflow instance, and nice frontends for submitting adhoc Spark jobs and SQL queries before they get checked in and productionized under Airflow.

What more do you really need?
You are correct for ALSA == the kernel driver model.

But using "alsa" as a userspace audio stack has its own latency, dmix in particular. A highly optimized .asoundrc might be competitive.

This feels to me like background knowledge from long ago, but I can't provide any specific source other than anecdotes like https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=234235#p23423... .
Thanks! Probably we only hear of the successes.
I agree with most of what this author said, but I definitely do not agree when it comes to parties.

Wasting people's time by not showing up to meetings within a few minutes of the appointed time, especially, is such a selfish thing to do. I think it's so important to be flexible and understanding of people, but it sounds like this guy is working with people who casually show up 15-30 minutes late without remorse. That's horrible.
Laszlo Bock found that interview skill is pretty homogeneous, so it doesn't really matter who does it as long as you just do enough of them. But if you do 4 algorithm interviews you have pretty good interviews.

> Four meticulously orchestrated Google interviews could identify successful hires with 86 percent confidence, and nobody at the company—no matter how long they had been at the company or how many candidates they had interviewed—could do any better than the aggregated wisdom of four interviewers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/the-sci...
Two isn’t statistically significant. It may well be coincidence.
I'm not in your target market, but csv/xlsx/ods would seem to be the natural export formats.
I recall it was possible also in Second Life to do the same..so, nothing new
That doesn't seem right. Cars have catalysts where the air flows through. Also 2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O (+ a characteristic bang :-)) at room temperature and pressure (initially) using a platinum catalyst is shown in school chemistry classes.

Just learned on Wikipedia (en/Platinum) that the 2007 Nobel price in Chemistry was awarded for explaining how that works. doi:10.1002/anie.200800480
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> After reading this passage, I would think that Turkish people cant write in Turkish during Ottoman era because of the alphabet limitations.

No, that isn't what it implies at all and I think you are misunderstanding the concept of orthography. It implies that the Arabic alphabet didn't correlate precisely to the Ottoman Turkish language and thus exceptions and non-obvious rules had to be learned, rather than being plainly obvious.

As I mentioned, English is in a similar position in that its orthography is really not suited for the language.

> English orthography, for example, is alphabetic but highly nonphonemic; it was once mostly phonemic during the Middle English stage, when the modern spellings originated, but spoken English changed rapidly while the orthography was much more stable, resulting in the modern nonphonemic situation. However, because of their relatively recent modernizations when compared to English, the Italian, Turkish, Spanish, Finnish, Czech, Latvian and Polish orthographic systems come much closer to being consistent phonemic representations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography
Apple Is Vindictive and Ruthless
It's not a Pi either. Hardware link on this page.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
Despite your best intentions, I think you're being very narrow minded by focusing on largely irrelevant (in this context) history and culture. The author of this article is right to point out that you're wasting everyone's time by not showing up on time, not due to an emergency, but due to your own laziness.
How are spain's southern neighbors agressive?
I'd love to live next to something like this. Could you imagine walking through that? It'd put Filoli to shame. :)

Also, notice how the walls are not in a grid formation. Maybe I missed that when skimming through, but I imagine that's for a reason?
I get the whole "home grown industry" and sovereign production of defense and all that, but just like when Australia tried to build its own submarines, really you're better off just buying them off the shelf from your allies who've already been ploughing billions into design and development of the things for decades.
Google is blocked in some parts of the world, so chance of "being down" is actually non zero if you think of the whole world.
the difference is that amazon's tech operations can fund their other business, even at a loss (as they had done so in the past iirc).

AWS is insanely profitable, and looking likely to continue being insanely profitable.
I think that's totally reasonable prepping. Extreme prepping is what gets the focus of TV and media.
Late reply but it frustrates me when these examples are all (1) public standarda, or (2) two companies in bed with each other.

The best counter-example I can think of is "Microsoft NWLink", which was a Netware 3-compatible file server offered with Windows NT. How long and under which legal threats is unknown to me.
It's a meaningless question if the person answering it simply doesn't have some qualitative frame of reference to gain intuition from...and gaining intuition on EM phenomena grounded in reality isn't easy; there'd be a lot more EEs and physicists out there otherwise.

Besides, if you're walking into a time-constrained exam of toy questions, I fail to see what incentive a student may have to corroborate toy answers against a reality that it may or may not be an approximation of.
I don't think he was thinking of this in such a draconian way.
I was trying to open a PR to fix a typo in the devops map but the repo doesn't seem to contain the text I want to fix...
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The goal is to offer an ad-free product that doesn't sell your data while informing you about the topics that matter to you the most. A product that is private, where you can select topics you want to follow, with no social media bluff.

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> there is a surprising amount of engineering going on without scrutiny or peer review

I've worked on testing DoD satellites prior to launch.

There were comment-level spelling errors [with "no real impact" to actual testing or functionality, honest] which passed through multiple reviews involving 3-4 people each review before being caught -- and even though they were in comments, required a version-uplift for the change.

And these were comments for Humans. Imagine if I or someone else buggered up on actual executable software functions.

[Hardware bugger-ups are a different similar stories]
> And no one bothers to look at my portfolio when I've been contacted to apply for engineering positions.

I think the root cause of all interview issues is that interviewers aren't incentivized to care. You're never going to get promoted or even a good performance review for reading a candidate's code or ask them meaningful questions. On the other hand, it takes little effort to pick a couple algo questions and use them for everybody, and they still provide some meaningful signal. With alternative interview methods, apathetic interviewers will just rely on their intuition, which is how a "good ole boy's club" is formed.
> And while it's easy to dismiss policy makers as doing it wrong, it's important to understand that they're not.

Except when they are, which is more often than not.

Creating good policies around anything is hard. It has taken centuries to fine tune the laws for things like physical theft and contracts and acts of violence, and even then examples of unjust outcomes are easy to find.

Using a process that takes a decade to modify rules for a system that changes every year is pretty hopeless. The rules are already stale by the time they're enacted and any mistake takes generations to fix.

More to the point, most of the "tech problems" are not novel. Essentially 100% of the legitimate "bad stuff" that the CFAA prohibits was already illegal under existing laws that have nothing specifically to do with computers. But because of the way it was drafted, it's so broad and ambiguous and draconian that it also imposes severe penalties on a wide variety of largely innocuous behavior. And so it is with the unintended consequences from DMCA anti-circumvention, the unintended consequences from SESTA, on and on.

Doing this well is hard. Most attempts have not succeeded. And doing it wrong is worse than not doing it at all. It's not as if the only alternative to SESTA was for sex trafficking to be legal -- the alternative would have just been the status quo ante. Which was better than SESTA.
KASLR: Break It, Fix It, Repeat (2020) [pdf]
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Please don't post trollish comments to HN. We're trying for a different kind of discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Skimming papers like this make me think maybe we spend too much time computing stuff in discrete spaces vs continuous ones.

I would go one step further and argue that we shouldn't teach kids discrete math first, but rather continuous math instead.

Sure, you have discrete digits and toys, but Piaget (and his student Papert) observe that kids begin pouring water between different containers in the bath before they can do integer counting and from that develop understanding that objects of different shape can have the same volume and concepts of partial filling, ratios etc.

The human scale world is continuous more than it is discrete.
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The page below suggests that, in the Netherlands:

1. Anyone who wants to do business must either register as a sole trader (eenmanszaak), or set up a company or cooperative. So it seems you have to register something.

2. Not only can sole traders register for VAT, but this registration happens automatically within 2 weeks of you registering as a sole trader.

https://business.gov.nl/starting-your-business/choosing-a-bu...
https://archive.md/Idtvs
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> All table columns should also have unit in names, whether in charts, tables, database or variable names.

Oh yes. That would mitigate a lot of stupidity. Imagine if math in programming and Excel had to have both a) always visible/known units, b) unit propagation and c) unit checks. So if A is seconds and B is kilograms, the compiler/spreadsheet wouldn't let you write C = A + B.
Can you make a browser plugin for HN (and preferably other popular news aggregator) to show icons which sites are Scroll partners?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921901

A bit from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788619
Wonder how much of this is startups hiring early engineers who are only too willing to write new things to prove themselves.
> Another example might be a compiler; it's pointless to deallocate all your structures manually before calling exit().

And now the compiler can no longer be embedded into another application, e.g. an IDE.

It's a reasonably pragmatic way of thinking, but beware the consequences. One benefit of working with custom allocators is that you can have the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, custom allocators are clumsy to work with.
Voting none of the above encourages alternatives.
Not voting is seen as apathy.
We need to break this broken two party system on a state by state basis.
I hope californias future 10% tax ubi includes a voting component.
Also tbe ability to vote for two candidates but not a third would also be useful.
Your “old”[0] set was actually introduced 4 years _after_ the “new” set[1]. Also, the “old” set has quite a few less parts: 297 vs 384. And the “new” plane is about 20% longer. And looking at the instructions, the hull is rather similar to build.

[0]: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=909...

[1]: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=587...
> I actually think this is a good argument for licensure like civil engineers etc have to have

This logic is sound, but I don't personally agree that bureaucracy is gonna solve any of our problems.

The rest of your comment, I believe if you spend time reading my OP carefully and spend some time noodling over it then you'd find that all of it had been covered already.
Garry's Mod (as a game development "platform") essentially boils down to a Lua interpreter bolted to the Source Engine, with access to assets from Valve's games. If you want to make a new game(mode) in Garry's Mod, you still have to write code, design levels and possibly create models, textures and sounds in separate somewhat hard to use programs.

That's very different from Dreams, where you can create everything within the same program with a unified set of pretty accessible tools and a very fast iteration cycle.
Projects like this never seem to pan out. It solves a problem people should care about but most aren't motivated to act on.
An alternative is jsdelivr, a CDN for hosting open source libraries and fonts: https://www.jsdelivr.com

For example, here’s Lato: https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/lato-font