skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most employers aren’t quite sure what they’re paying for so it hardly matters if your skills are unique anyway.
Average Large-Scale Solar System Cost Declined by 12%, Rooftop by 9% YoY
This was a very insightful analysis. Thank you. I absolutely loved how you brought it back to technological development.
(Not GP)

I worked in the TL for three years and went on a few dates with a girl who lived there. The people in actual apartments are fine. People in SROs not so much, people on the street can be a problem. The needles, urine, feces are real. The attendant at the lot I parked at said he thought he'd be dead within six weeks of taking the job, but in my time there, I think he was only assaulted once (it was more jarring than injuring). One coworker got slapped by one of the crazies, another assaulted. Oddly enough, my car did fine. I've street-parked it around Turk and Jones and picked it up at ~midnight with all my windows intact. As bad as the TL is, it isn't Bayview. I'm always amazed at walk from with Powell to Civic Center, Geary to Market, or west from Union Square; how quickly it changes is incredible. You also see scared, lost tourists a lot because of that.

There are some interesting restaurants there, and you're actually close to a lot of things. If you're living there in a secure building with a secure garage and can mostly avoid the street, it's tolerable. I wouldn't make a habit of casually walking around the block or stumbling home drunk. If you're paying attention and walking with intent, you're generally fine.
For me it's a combination of extraordinary achievements in scientific fields, a very distinctive art aesthetic and the promotion of an ascetic life. Even the well connected aristocracy lived plainly by western standards. I'm inspired by the ideal of success through sheer determination and ingenuity, against all odds.

Having known folks who lived in the USSR and modern Russia, I recognize the romantic elements are the effect of powerful propaganda. In reality, people were burdened by not being able to meet basic needs and were afraid of their government. Engineering was done under the barrel of a gun.

Romantic elements aside, I think we can all recognize the USSR was responsible for remarkable accomplishments, ranging from sublime to deeply horrifying.
Walkouts will achieve nothing, but the tragic part of the story is Silicon Valley engineers are sitting on a massive amount of power to affect real change IF they collectively organize, which they have various irrational hang ups about doing. Zuckerberg does not care if 50% of his engineers skip a video meeting. He would greatly care if he found out 50%+ of his SREs were going on strike. But the word union is stigmatized even though doctors/lawyers/police/actors/teachers unions all wield massive political power, engineers accept their market based compensation and micro kitchens and decide that’s enough then are shocked that on political issues they get pushed around by the execs and VCs. If you want to have any voice in what your work does in the world, step 1 is collective organization of Silicon Valley engineers, anything besides that is smoke and mirrors and a waste of time.
Regardless, the car should have emergency breaking. As it stands, it seems like Tesla struggles at novel stationary objects right in front of the car.

It seems like their training is more geared to Known object types in front, and arbitrary objects on either side
Apparently they’re not engineers, but stylists. Can the difference in pay for stylists be very large across states?
> The ideal protest in my eyes is a peaceful, effective one.

I know several people personally who say this exact phrase, yet they mocked the football players who took a knee during the national anthem at games protesting exactly this issue.

Obviously most sane people would prefer an effective and peaceful protest, but there has yet to be one for this particular issue. So I am hardly surprised it has become this violent, especially with members of the police force and the president antagonizing people further. Also, I would add that any protest of great size naturally has people who try to take advantage of it and turn to anarchy. Shutting down such rioters with force seems to exacerbate the issue, as police force is what is being protest—an understandably difficult predicament.
The arson targets are oppressed by definition, but often they are also part of impoverished communities. There is real concern that the few remaining grocers will cut their losses and leave rather than rebuild, creating even more food desserts. Flippantly disregarding this makes it sound as though you are happy to watch these communities burn if it means you can bring some political points home to the tribe.
I worked for a few years in London, in a place with no tube (Chelsea). Busses were a pain. Slower than walking in most cases.
Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Food poisoning will get ya. That’s why we have this chemistry lab in our heads, taking up a bunch of useful space in the center.
When we bought our used car, we were deciding between a slightly newer model and a slightly older model, and one of the differences was the older model used stereo vision for AEB and the newer model used radar. Even the car salesman said that the stereo vision worked better (as it detects stationary objects). I wonder why the move to radar. Is it cheaper?
I dislike the denigration of Twitter as a news platform. Just like every other, you must think critically about what you see. However, that's not possible if information has been censored beforehand.

I have not seen even a fraction of the unprovoked police beatings and shootings, which have definitively occurred, aired on news broadcasts. That includes incidents where the press has been physically attacked by police. How can this be representative of reality?
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Kind of interesting they picked Austin as a low cost alternative. I get it's a tech hub, but surely there are other cities less expensive?
I remember being in Grand Central Station, NYC, not long after 9/11, and noticed a student sitting on a step — right next to their head was the barrel of a casually dangled rifle, hanging off the shoulder of a cop who happened to be standing next to them.

We’ve become pretty normalized to it, but a militarized police force wasn’t always a thing in America.

The scenes of the WTO protests in Seattle two decades ago, of cops in riot gear shooting tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of people — those images were pretty shocking at the time. Now it’s a familiar scene, one that is currently playing out in cities around the country and beyond.
> This is why you hire a piano tuner to tune your piano.

I have an electric, but, yeah, point taken. And half the time I have it set as a harpsichord anyway.
This is fairly surprising since most ecommerce businesses have been doing well because of coronavirus shelter-in-place rules across the country.
Hi @umarniz Interested in Data Analyst position, Looking forward to it
Earth orbiting GNSS provides excellent position information near the surface of the Earth but poorer position information near the surface of the Moon. That said, the Falcon 9 is equipped with a decent inertial navigation system.
I support this walkout. As a small business owner all I've been able to do was purge my FB page profiles. I'm proud of them for taking a bigger step than I'm able to make.

Working people of all countries unite. Seize the means of production!
For small businesses and small startups it's still non-trivial to hire out of state, in terms of legal and tax overhead.
I am a violinist. :) That's my primary instrument. But even there you don't tune to perfects fifths all the time. In string quartets you tune the bottom C of the cello up a bit and the E's of the violins down a bit. But if you're playing with a piano in, say, a piano quintet, you generally play equal temperament with the piano.
> CARES bonus UI is removed

California UI maxes out at $450 per week. This is the same amount as 2008. $1400 per month (take out taxes) won't really cover any rent situation in the Bay Area, and definitely not a $3500 nice-but-not-amazing apartment.
Interesting, I keep coming across the technique but have yet to give a a try, I enjoy the thought of linking notes especially cross concept/domain which I can imagine aids in learning and saving to both short/long term memory

But rather than fumbling with cards it seems like an interesting use case for AR/VR

I always thought VR/AR would be very interesting in the studying/notetaking space, are any of you working on something similar?
I lost most of my sense of smell a few years ago. I've lost much of my ability to differentiate tastes as well.

As a former supertaster, lover of bourbon (I used to be able to tell my bourbons apart by smell), serious cook, and total foodie this has been the most depressing experience in my life.

Think about the experience that you have when you walk from one room to another, or into a field of flowers. I can't smell the differences between rooms, I can't smell the flowers, I can't even smell smoke.

People love to say you're so lucky you can't smell all of those bad smells but life isn't about the bad smells. Smell is memory. We wake up and smell the air around us, the dirt, the trees, the people we love, the people we hate, even exhaust fumes. The smell of ink on paper, spices, lavender, tea, the air after an electrical storm, the subtleties in beer, freshly fallen snow, rain, grass, the aroma of wine, freshly roasted coffee. I can no longer smell any of that.

When I realized that my loss of sense of smell was permanent I was suicidal for many months. I've gotten over that feeling for the most part and now I work to make the best of it because this is just the way that things are.

We all have our challenges. When faced with things that we can't change the best way forward is to work with what we have and make the best of it. Since I can no longer tell when food is ready by the change of smell I have to pay close attention to what it looks like and use a thermometer to carefully monitor its temperature. I can't tell when something is burning.

I've installed gas sensors in my house because I can't smell the gas that comes out of my gas range but I refuse to cook on electric. I have an induction burner but it's not the same. You can't beat fire. And I'm not giving up. I've gotten pretty good at roasting coffee but mostly by eye.

My 1966 Volvo caught fire as I was driving because I couldn't smell the gas coming out of the leaking fuel pump or the smoke coming out of the engine.

Fortunately my neighbor was in the passenger seat and he pointed out that the engine was on fire. He kept telling me that the car was beginning to smell a lot like fuel and he asked me if he could open the windows. (It's an old car so things break easily.) Fortunately the car didn't explode and we got out safely.

Loss of smell is no fun. Try cooking or eating while holding your nose. You'll get the idea. Just keep in mind that it's always like that. You can breathe in as deeply as you like and you still won't get the smells. You won't create the new memories and you'll have a hard time recalling the various smells that you've grown up with. They'll fade with time.
Interesting. I never had a problem with adjusting my pitch on the viol when I was playing that, even with single frets.
This article has a longer discussion on the limitations of radar for emergency braking systems https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...

This one discusses that the Volvo system has the same limitation, and implies that most others do too https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Yeah, I’d be in big trouble. My industry has yet to unionize.
Love org-roam. I've been heavily using it for a few months, and not looking back.

Don't miss these additional packages, which build on org-roam:

org-roam-server: better graph visualization and navigation [1]

org-roam-bibtex: Reference management in your Zettelkasten [2]

The latter, combined with org-ref and org-noter, is the most effective way I've found for taking notes on PDFs. Beautiful demo at [3].

FWIW RoamResearch has yet to implement a useful graph view, PDF annotation, or reference management. OTOH, tending to a setup like this in Emacs can easily become a time-sink, and it's single-player only.

[1]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server

[2]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-bibtex

[3]: https://youtu.be/Wy9WvF5gWYg
I wasn't talking about calling it a terrorist organization. I was responding to the parent:

> If the former, you also know that "antifa" is short for "antifascist" and your clear designation of that as an enemy is also clear signaling that you're in for fascism.

In particular, I'm responding to "designation of that as an enemy" which is not the same as calling it a terrorist organization. People who oppose fascism and violence may call antifa an enemy for the violence committed and espoused in antifa's name. If someone commits violence against me, or any other innocent people I call allies, then they are certainly my enemy, whether I agree with their ideology or not. You can agree with something in principle (be anti-fascist) but not support particular methods (violence).
You know, whining about blocked intersections is even less compelling during the never ending lockdown...
Note that this so-called walkout consists of people already at home taking a personal day and changing their autoreply email.
No police presence? Oh! You mean where they waited to announce anything and defended the house of the police officer while everything burned? Or do mean where people on their porches were fired upon for filming? Or maybe that cnn crew that was attempting to comply?
I'm disappointed they didn't talk about how they defined the demarcation between suburbs and urban areas or normalize it based on population.
There's something wrong about this. I grew up in Scotland where we had plenty of smelly, drunk, drugged and violent people, but they'd be dragged off the train by the police.
Speaking as a Stitchfix customer (and nerdy engineer who loves their service and hates shopping for clothes), I semi-permanently paused my subscription a couple of weeks ago. I haven't left my house in two months, so there's not much point in buying new clothes.
Literally that just happened with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, right before George Floyd's murder. Extreme conflicts of interest. These events back-to-back really set the bonfire alight. The immediate outrage over George Floyd's murder, ensuing demonstrations, and demands for charges to be filed probably helped motivate charges actually getting filed promptly. That's definitely not a guarantee however!
Some of us have been in unionized industries prior. It also lead to promotion based on years served. Pay scales. And the protection of low performers.

Right now engineers have incredible leverage. What do they gain by a union.

Don’t like what Facebook is doing. Quit and work elsewhere. There’s plenty of jobs available
There's also a risk-to-brand incentive for these console companies to control who gets to publish what games. If you make a console and then the games for your console suffer from quality control issues or are otherwise inconsistent with your branding, people associate that with your console as well and don't buy your (in their perception, even if not objectively) crappy console.
>The Right and The Beautiful are sublated by The Good.

That's an interesting postulated relationship between three of the four normative sciences. You've covered logic, aesthetic, and ethic. How does rhetoric relate?
I wouldn't say that you aim to play equal temperament. More that it's the base structure you deviate from. I think my real point is that on most instruments you don't play only twelve tones. You play a whole lot more that get grouped into twelve groups.
Austin is ridiculously expensive by Texas standards. Super cheap by California standards.
Good thing we have the de-escalator in chief.
Very few people in any industry have a truly unique set of skills. And in jobs that can be easily remoted away like software, that quantity is even less.
I know from another thread about how the police use indiscriminate violence instead of de-escalation that this is totally ok with about half the people here. That half can go fuck themselves
The job role itself will always attract such people.
I agree with you.

Personally, I wish there was a way at install time to completely opt-out of these unneeded and overpromiscuous services.

My linux machines don't print, I don't use any peer-to-peer dns on any of my machines, I don't need advanced routing protocols, etc...

Another thing I notice is an ubuntu machine I'm using runs 10-15 evolution contacts/calendars/etc processes and all I do on that machine is compile.
And yet it is true.
With a Red Cross. You’d think that wouldn’t be allowed, but who out there is enforcing what things are supposed to be allowed?
> After the George Floyd incident, everyone was in agreement that this should stop.

No, they really weren't - or at least not in any way that might lead to actionable results, like building systems that do not give cops the power to murder people without accountability. The same as all the other times the police have murdered people. It's not like this is a new thing that people are just waking up to.
> In fact, I was pretty convinced until now that the stylists were just algorithms but it looks like I was wrong.

Maybe the stylists really exist to train an algorithm that can replace stylists in the future?

I would be very surprised if an algorithm did not make suggestions that the stylists would confirm, deny or modify.
Forcing/encouraging the populace to wear masks, thus anonymising them, at the same time that many of them have lost their jobs and are unable to enjoy a social life, may not have been a good idea...
Expert theorizes why vehicle-ramming attacks on protestors happening across US
But the text is identical. This is the exact same article being syndicated on two sites, and therefore an obvious dupe.

More importantly: even if you have two different articles on the same topic, please don't make separate submissions. Submit what you consider the best one, and post a link to the second one in the comments.
If anything better pay would attract better cops.
If there were no difference, what would be the motivation to fire in CA and hire elsewhere? I guess office rent is a factor, but that's probably small compared to salaries.
Any indication yet that auto-pilot was active?
What does it even mean to “criminalize an entire community”? And why don’t you think these respondents understand what they’re asking for? Presumably they understand their own experience with police?
That's exactly what the state of CA has been doing with recent state bills that override local density restrictions.
Even for stylists, the choices they've made for the models on the front page are... tacky, to say the least. I don't consider myself fashionable in the slightest but that the outdated camo jacket on a sky blue tee is a freakin eyesore.
It seems like just over half of the photos are appealingly color-coordinated.

If that's what their stylists are coming up with then... ew
> That would devalue the copyright and creators would get compensated less. This also applies to a lesser extent to your other problems. Copyright outliving the author increases the value of the copyright even when the author still lives.

Um, tough?

The point of copyright isn't to create a perpetual rent ... it's to incentivize new creation.

For example, George R. R. Martin might actually finish his books rather than dragging them out as a meal ticket if the copyright only lasted 10 years past transfer (the moment where the TV show got posted). Or perhaps he might start a new series that might be better.

I'm not seeing the downside to society from giving creators incentive to produce rather than rent seek.
Nobody likes that these protests are likely to lead to increased transmission. It's a truly terrible choice. People are making that choice because these protests get to such a fundamental problem in our society that they are still worth it, despite the cost. And, as has been mentioned, mask usage is high, and these protests are outside. It doesn't eliminate the risk, but many, many people are still trying to minimize the public health risk.

So, yes, context matters. I would absolutely argue the value in the being part of the strongest push against police brutality in decades, that just might result in systemic change, is incredibly more worthy than virtually any other activity. It does not mean there is no public health cost. It does mean it is a tragic choice to have to make.
There's not too many of us with truly unique skills. And even those can usually be covered by different combinations of employees.
they can cut their pay and their employees could still be better off since they are going to be expaning in Austin where there is not state income tax.

Also, the company will be able to save more money since everything is cheaper from taxes to real estate in other states compared to California.
It's not about fabricating an otherwise nonexistent problem into being.

It is about applying the right pressure in the right place at the right time.

For example: jumping in with some social media accounts to schedule a protest for just before sundown (or finding one that happens to be scheduled that poorly to begin with) and using bot accounts to boost it's visibility, increase turnout, and increase the chances that enough stupid people are in the same place at the same time so that something stupid happens.
Very nice, that was my first language on a PC-compatible (Epson Equity I if anyone remembers those, later upgraded it with a 20MB Seagate ST225!). Man, those were the days... and get off my lawn! lol
Well i guess in a few days we might see some new generation drone and autonomous weapons too which were under wraps so far.
So we should hand over control and censorship of the President's communications to a small group of Silicon Valley engineers?
The full quote is, however,

"See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. If violence is effective, it's okay. But if violence loses it's efectiveness, then they start worrying and have to try somethong else." - Noam Chomsky.
I wonder at what point the military will stop obeying criminal orders. Looking at the military leadership now, don’t fail us like certain police did.
Oh My god those boundaries are so stupid
Apparently it's possible to make a futures market resistant to manipulation on the short side, or on the long side, but not both at the same time.

(if onions markets are poor because they're perishable, what might that imply about wage markets?)
Nothing compared to salaries for engineers. Office space averages $17k a year a head, and it’s probably higher in area like CA and NYC where land is expensive.
Circumstantial Superstitions
This concept quite diverges from the conventional superstition-beliefs. The following word is coined to throw light onto the dynamical nature of beliefs concerning superstitions.

Consider, a black cat crossing one's path, which is considered a bad-luck in the US, which on the contrary is a good-luck in the UK. Even the intensity of this belief varies based on the cruciality of the task to be carried out. Per se, if someone is going for an interview for which he/she has prepared with all their heart and it is quite important to crack it, they wouldn’t risk going along the same path crossed by a black cat (US). However, with a trivial task, not taking the same path would be less rigorously thought upon. Is this quite frequently observed/ experienced, let me know what do you guys think?