skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed in Seattle how differently Covid-19 has impacted the city core vs the suburbs.

Suburbs seem almost normal. People are out. They are shopping. There are kids around. People are in parks.
The big difference is nobody is drinking at bars or restaurants.

The urban core seems like something out of a zombie movie. It's dead. Everything is closed. There is almost nobody out and about. Few people are on transit. If you do see someone they have a mask on.

If I lived downtown right now I'd really be regretting my choice. Not having a yard, a car, and a home office right now would be awful.
Yeah. I think it comes down to style. The new book is almost exactly twice as long as the old one; the old one had less stuff to explain, and also didn't explain it in as much depth. Some people prefer brevity. Some prefer the extra explanation. It's a constant struggle to keep the book from getting even longer.

I think the new book is far, far, far better, but I can understand why some other folks don't agree.
These days many of my deploy targets are docker images anyway, so not as much an issue... though looking at Rust with great interest.

For anything less, I reach for Node first, only because I can get something done faster.
Reminds me of the first PhD CS I worked with. He asked me for some problem he was having with his system and after poking a bit, I said the quickest solution would be just to reboot it. He gave me the blankest of blank looks, so I rebooted it and he watched the process like the computer just grew horns.

How can you get all the way through a PhD program without even encountering the concept of rebooting a computer?!
Nah, they will build windows subsystem on top of Linux.
Reminds me of the US during the Vietnam War. Things weren't going well and when asked why, the answer was always "We need more. More soldiers. More bombs."

Never even entertained the thought the entire approach was wrong.
This is a useful article of general interest to everybody. It even has advice for parents who need to focus on their job during lockdown.

A recent meme is, "Focus is the new IQ", meaning the ability to focus is a superpower akin to having a 200 IQ.

Programmers are self-selected for focus, so we take it for granted.

But people I know outside of the industry are often amazed when they experience people who can deep focus for an hour or more at a time on one task.
> Right now, it makes sense not to prosecute petty crime

Right now, ok, maybe an argument could be made for it. But petty crime wasn't being prosecuted before CV either. CVS Pharmacy downtown was keeping many products in the back (as opposed to the shelves) because police don't do anything about thieves that were stealing stuff in broad daylight. You literally had to ask the cashier to go and look for some items.
I would also love to see a book with some whimsy; when I try to emulate this style, it doesn't work. Oh well.
That's good to hear. Apologies for spreading FUD by assuming the name change would be a way to weasel out of that.
Having lived there for 3 years in downtown and recently moved away I couldn’t be happier. For how much tax Californian residents pay, San Francisco is a disgrace of a city.
My favorite way to picture Kubernetes is to think of it as a distributed operating system. It generally happens to be run across Linux hosts and is used to run Linux containers, but the Linux parts are incidental, like the specific model of CPU in a desktop system. The Linux parts aren't core to Kubernetes' abstractions, and it's possible that Kubernetes could add support for hosts and container runtimes that aren't Linux but instead platforms more streamlined for Kubernetes usage without historical baggage.
2m is only if they keep the current headcount, which may not be feasible if they want to test in more locations, or negotiate the upcoming self-driving legislation in multiple countries. Plus who knows how long it'll take before these cars are viable. This is still very much a research project.
No? It honestly seems like you're being intentionally obtuse. The simulation being correctly implemented is an underlying assumption; in the face of failure the implementer is stuck determining the most likely cause.

Take for example cryptographic primitives. We often rely on mathematical proofs of their various properties. Obviously there could be an error in those proofs in which case it is understood that the proof would no longer hold. But we double (and triple, and ...) check, and then we go ahead and use them on the assumption that they're correct.
Yeah no one uses it because they explicitly want you to authenticate to register the clients on the users behalf so they can lock you out if you abuse it. It's annoying, but it makes sense. Otherwise an abuser can just dynamically create new clients anytime their existing clientID is banned.
The docker images have been great... can spin up a fresh install and deploy schema and config in a couple minutes for local development.
Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose itemized cost breakdown
> Those in poorer countries are as productive as the Bay Area folks, it is unfair they get paid less.

That does not really make sense. Work does not have some inherent value, its value is based on market situation, and different markets have different price equilibriums.
"Tononi gives some simple examples of the computation of Φ, showing that it is indeed larger for systems that are more “richly interconnected” in an intuitive sense. He speculates, plausibly, that Φ is quite large for (some reasonable model of) the interconnection network of the human brain—and probably larger for the brain than for typical electronic devices (which tend to be highly modular in design, thereby decreasing their Φ), or, let’s say, than for other organs like the pancreas. Ambitiously, he even speculates at length about how a large value of Φ might be connected to the phenomenology of consciousness. ... Now, evaluating a polynomial on a set of points turns out to be an excellent way to achieve “integrated information,” with every subset of outputs as correlated with every subset of inputs as it could possibly be. In fact, that’s precisely why polynomials are used so heavily in error-correcting codes, such as the Reed-Solomon code, employed (among many other places) in CD’s and DVD’s. But that doesn’t imply that every time you start up your DVD player you’re lighting the fire of consciousness."

Holy poop!

So, spaghetti code is more "conscious" than modular code and parity check code is more "conscious" than any physical entity. Yeah, there's something wrong with this theory.
The US already has a system for this: accredited investors. I believe the thresholds are $200k/yr income for several years or at least $1m in assets.

This makes me wonder if TON ran afoul of the SEC somehow.
Probably be better to move to Netlify than risk an outage, it's like a commercial version of GHPages with a very generous free-tier. Should be very easy to setup too.
This is a very enlightening post, thank you. I don't often develop cross platform to this depth, and I think it is a wise reminder that Microsoft actually knows a thing or two about operating systems, contrary to popular opinion. It's almost like the application teams sabotage the OS teams...
Oooof, spot on. They have governed pretty much unimpeded and what do they have 60 years later? The city might be great in some aspects but it is so in spite of its government not because of it.
Hey,for those who would like to help the Internet Archive with their excess storage, we are ginning up a project with Filecoin.ai to store some of our open data collections like Prelinger films, .Gov data, some audio and texts.

You can get an update on decentralized storage at our DWeb Meetup tomorrow (5/13 at 10 AM pacific, 5 PM UTC)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meet-up-virtual-decentrali...
I think this is the hugest news yet. It suddenly opens the pool of candidates to all across the country.

I expect other tech giants will follow suit.

Those who previously can't afford or don't want to live in big cities like NYC/Seattle/SF because they are older, have families, or various other reasons now are included in the candidate pool.

This can go two ways: either the local software business will have to compete with FAANG salaries, or there will be jumps from senior developers, experienced developers, and many smarter/more capable developers from smaller software business to FAANG due to salary/perks attraction.
Whatever the case is, suddenly fresh graduates, mid level developers, senior developers, are now competing on the same pool. It is getting even more real to compete in the high FAANG salary job openings now.

This serves as a reminder for us, whether fresh graduates, mid level, or even seniors, to always to keep your edge. DS&A grinding, system design, etc, do whatever you can to not lose your edge.

As a matter of fact, I think almost all knowledge workers will find themselves in this situation. If you are a knowledge/office worker, huge competition looms over the horizon. Never lose your edge.
Horizontal Data Partitioning with MongoDB
The worst if it wasn’t the tube so much as the MacArthur and the Berkeley interchanges as well as the civic center- 16th street dogleg.
Yes, SF has lots of high paying jobs and smart people, but don't kid yourself, that's a very small slice of the 1M people who live in SF.

Just hang around outside a public school in SF when it lets out. The vast majority of people who live in SF are middle to lower class in terms of income.

Why do you think there is so much hate for tech in SF? Because most people who live in SF have zero contact with tech workers, but they hear all the stories of throwing money around their city.
I feel the opposite. It's hard to focus on work with family at home. If your young and single then remote work is a perfect fit.
Hi there, Kite at most about half of what TabNine uses, often less than that.
In this case, where you're probing for user names or emails, you don't own the email, so you wouldn't receive the verification yourself, and thus wouldn't know if the account exists.

This is exactly why most password reset emails say "if you didn't request this, please let us know, as someone may be attempting to access your account".
Thank you, I will bring an appropriate gift to show my appreciation.
I was curious what the City Journal was, so I looked it and the Manhattan Institute up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy.... Worthwhile reading for anyone wondering where the original piece is coming from.

Personally, looking over their history, I think their interest in publishing a piece like this is likely rooted in ideological issues rather than actually looking at anything meaningful. (I also think they've been wrong about...very nearly everything they've ever offered a position on, so I'm skeptical about this claim that SF is on the brink of tipping over into a Mad Max set.)
From Coffee Filter to Safety Mask, in a Hurry
Outlook Android is just Acompli, a third-party app Microsoft purchased and rebranded.

Same goes for their Android calendar app, it used to be Sunrise Calendar.
Where are the emergency injunctions, then?
The evidence is not in favor of long term WFH though.

The evidence shows that WFH work creep is a thing - you get people who dont know how to turn off, and bosses who think they can get more out of you since you are a few feet away from your laptop.

There is also a decrease in creativity and networking - evidence again shows that a good team has someone who is very tuned to the emotional and mental states of the people around them doing a lot of bridging.

Finally - the people who work at office get more money over time, unless the firm takes active measures to combat these biases.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze and was there during the Thailand flooding.

> While the shucked drives might not have had the warranties

We haven't shucked drives in a while. The main advantage was when this artificial price difference that occurred in the Thailand drive crisis where a "raw drive" cost $400, but if it was put inside a $7 USB enclosure the same drive including the USB enclosure suddenly only cost $200. At the time, our business model literally wouldn't survive the cost increase, it was shuck drives or go out of business. :-) We assume the issue was that mostly "rich companies" bought "raw drives" and could afford the increase in price, but "poor consumers" bought drives in USB enclosures and couldn't afford the increase.

We still watch the prices though. You can think of it this way: if 3% of the drives fail but don't have a warranty because they were shucked, then we have to save more than 3% (plus the cost of the "shucking" process) to make it worth it. That rarely happens anymore. I think partly because as the volume of drives that we purchase has gone up we have the ability to get better "bulk discounts" than we had in the earliest days. Also, the process of "drive farming" where the retail stores would limit it to "2 per customer" or whatever would get much harder at our current scale.
"Senior lawyers" exist—they become judges :)
I kind of want to write a dystopian novel where to solve the housing crisis, the state of California contracts private businesses to build out rapid transit underground. But instead of paying them any money, the excess earth is dumped into the Bay and the tunnelers are granted land rights to anything above water. The Bay is only 12 feet deep anyway.

An ecological disaster resulting in the construction of a neo-feudal society in the new county of Rancho Musk. Everything between the Bay bridge and San Jose, suburban sprawl.

Hey kid, did ya know Treasure Island used to be an Island?
The Three Body Problem and its two sequels.
> That sort of relativism is trite, specious, and insincere.

It isn't. I don't think you understood what I wrote. What's important is the ends, not the means. As long as the OP got what he needed out of linear algebra, then that's what matters.

> If you don’t think it matters then why are you participating in the discussion?

What is this "it" you are talking about? Be more specific and precise otherwise you don't add anything to the discussion.
Make sure you keep a HEPA filter running so you don’t get mushroom lung from the spores. If you’re growing in the hundreds of pounds per week I wouldn’t even go into that room without full PPE.
Scott Aaronson has an argument along roughly the same line regarding the Chinese room thought experiment. He points out that although it is usually framed as a "room" or a "box", the amount of space required to simulate a conversation of length n with just a lookup table is exponential. So in fact, the "room" would have to be colossally large for any reasonable n. There is a much more involved discussion of it, but the upshot is that the separation between polynomial and exponential time or space is a plausible place to draw the line between "really actually thinking and understanding" vs. "just a computation".
I wish every language had the equivalent of https://tour.golang.org.

Edit: hey thanks to both answers, bookmarking it for later. I'm learning Haskell right now and it definitely misses something like this.
WSL2 is the only thing that has made Windows bearable for me. That and VS Code's remote extensions. Almost everything I use is cross platform for years now.
1. I've been told that it takes 1..2 weeks for average front end developer to get into Sciter and features that I've added to HTML/CSS to support desktop UI use cases.

2. "larger ecosystems..." Sciter is embeddable and extendable engine, this means that you can extend it by existing native libraries, time proven and effective. Here is how SQLite native namespace looks in Sciter: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/sqlite/sci...

3. "it has a larger community..."

I am aiming not to larger but rather more professional community. Sciter sources contains patches from these dev teams: https://sciter.com/#customers
Security audit was made by Symantec and 3 more AntiVirus vendors. All that... Source code base is compact enough for a C++ programmer to get into when needed.

"Some bencharks comparing engine performance to V8"

Slower than V8 but faster than Python 3. But script performance in Sciter is not that critical (never been a bottleneck) for simple reason: script treated as a glue between native function calls. If you need something to run with bare metal speed - just provide native function(s) for this functionality. JS approach in this respect is simply crazy: to run something fast add megatons of JIT implementation and then another twist: WebAssembler. Why not just to compile what is needed with C++ into native code and call it? Again, Sciter is embeddable and extendable by design.
Can I move from CA to Reno NV, work remote, and pay no state income tax in NV?
Indeed. However, if it is necessary to reduce output in order to control the virus, it surely must be fair to distribute that loss evenly.

Hence the point of helicopter money is exactly that - to ensure that those who are unable to work (and have no other source of income) do not carry a disproportionate burden through this situation.

EDIT: Furthermore - if you give someone who is broke $1200, they will likely go out and spend it on food and essentials - hence significant (for them) resources are allocated towards them. If you gave the same to a multi-millionaire, the chances are that it would have zero effect on their consumption. Likely it would end up in their bank account (if they could be bothered to cash it) - where it would contribute to the slight erosion of the value of money.
You're right--'heavily' relative to their purchase price ($0).
Freight trains are much heavier on the same gauge. The weight limit for a BART train loaded is 55 tons. Compare that to a freight car which weighs 30 tons empty, but can carry up to 100 tons worth of stuff inside it.
Although they physically resemble a normal coffee filter, the masks are made from different material (making them unsuitable for brewing coffee). The material, a triple layer of melt-blown and spun-blown microfiber, has a Bacterial Filtration Efficiency certification of above 98 percent, a value comparable to simple medical masks. The company has now produced about 10 million masks over the first month...
I loved it and couldn’t be happier not living there anymore. Lived there for three years. It is a great place to visit but a terrible place to live.
Android was also acquired.
Yes, you have to debug your code. I suspect that the people who implemented OpenWorm are capable of and have done that.
Restaurants price the 30% cut into UE and GH but increasing the prices of food offered through those apps.

They don't provide a 20% discount from the prices on their own websites/flyers because those are the normal prices.
Hey, we are working with Filecoin.ai on a pilot program where their new minors in Filecoin Discover will host some of our open data sets like Prelinger Films and .Gov web pages.

It will be an additional back up to our copies.
We're hosting a DWeb Meetup to share the latest in Filecoin and Storj (two decentralized storage providers we're experimenting with.)

It's Wed (tomorrow) 5/13 at 10 am Pacific, 5 PM UTC
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meet-up-virtual-decentrali...
Left SF after 8 years. Many other world cities have what SF offers, including the beauty, restaurants, quirky bars and cafes etc. but the thing that stands out most is the concentration of talented, smart, ambitious people in tech. Tech scenes in other cities don't compare. Something in the air that will push you to be better.

I do hope said concentration diffuses to other cities, because in retrospect it's clear to me SF is a mess... the generally low quality overpriced housing, filth, and general anxiety walking on sidewalks in most parts of the city (not unfounded, been harassed many times). Goes for most neighborhoods. Was still fun experience in my 20s, but I wish I hadn't been so attached to the idea of living in SF.
Came here half-expecting to see probabilistic programming implemented via Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). This is cool, too, though.
Existing property owners have too much control to prevent new construction. Consciously and subconsciously they restrict new construction to boost property values. IMO most of SF's problems can be traced back to this. And it's a vicious cycle. Once you're in debt up to your eyeballs for your home, you do not want to see the problem fixed. SF city doesn't want it fixed either because they want more property tax dollars.

Of course there are other problems too but they would be easier to solve with cheaper property prices. California should tax property at their current market values instead of purchase price. This would fix the tax sort fall and put downward pressure on property prices.
Neat work, but their method of improving the audio quality is not very good. They could get much better results by looking at the magnitude spectrum of the source audio, lowpass filtering with a cutoff chosen to keep 95% (if possible) of the energy (likely 1-2 kHz) then downsampling to nyquist. 4 kSamp/s @ 4 bits per sample would sound much better than his method, and it wouldn’t take extra fancy software tricks. The driver/speaker on a gameboy isn’t going to have a very controlled lowpass filter, and it’s behavior is also unknown. Delta-sigma is heavily reliant on the output lowpass filter.
Sorry, "we" being the Internet Archive.
Thanks! Here is a longer/complete version of Cohen's article, along with Frankfurt's reply.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/592b5bbfd482e9898c67f...
Yes, you could feel the seething behind the words. Still tended to agree with it.

One nitpick, Chavez is a favorite punching bag for the right. Most don’t seem to know Vz was pillaged for decades by corrupt capitalists before that. If you ever wondered why folks choose communism when it’s never worked at scale this is why. After the experience you’d probably rather watch the world burn as well.
I don't usually like programming books. I am usually easily overwhelmed by them and I find that they are at the wrong pace for me.

This weekend I read most of the Rust book without much effort and found it really helpful for getting up to speed with the language, especially the more novel bits around safety. It took me to the point where I was able to explore and evaluate the bits of the language I needed with only library docs. I know that the remaining chapters are there for when I am ready for them.

My experience with the Rust book as made me more likely to consider starting with a book when approaching programming languages in the future.

Reading other comments, I recognize that I was fortunate to have a project in mind that motivated my reading of the book and just happened to be an excellent fit for Rust.
It doesn't render CSS, not in that context. The way styling for layout and for colour/text/etc is specified is designed to match a subset of CSS so that developers can easily transition across to the platform, that's all (and for layout it uses an engine called Yoga, which implements CSS' flexbox spec). So in the context of actual component code, it's a layer designed to look like CSS that can generate whatever the backend being used requires to render (so it should be able to produce valid CSS as an output, as in the case of React Native Web)
I chose CS as my major in 2001. Yeah, during the dotcom crash and the outsourcing frenzy. I was told I would never have a job.

I'm not saying it will never pass. But history has shown it's much harder than you're making it out to be. We already had a great outsourcing attempt 20 years ago which had questionable results. And now pay is higher than ever.

Maybe they will be successful this time. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I haven't based my life around earning an SF bay area salary. My retirement is already paid for. My house is 80% paid for. College funds for children are mostly paid for.