skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each of those items have a cost associated with them, at least at a societal level, even if they are provided free to the end consumer. A doctor, even if providing free services in a completely altruistic manner, must eat and be housed, as do college professors. A society must choose how to allocate their resources. Based upon the CHAZ demands, they wish to have a society which provides healthcare and college. I would call that a lifestyle.

My question was, does there exist a sufficient productivity in the population in the CHAZ to provide those services to their population?

From Wikipedia: Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.

The demand for access to healthcare and education does seem to be the interest, opinion and behavior of this group.
I live in a mountainous area, and there is a very large difference. So much so that VZ is basically my only option.

I think what happens is that tower leases in some protected areas can be hard to negotiate, so the cost/benefit ratio gets out of whack for new towers (amongst other issues with power, construction, and RF propagation in remote, mountain areas). Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.
WARDuino: A dynamic WebAssembly virtual machine for programming microcontrollers
Green threads are scheduled by the language runtime and by the OS. If the OS switches from one thread to another in the same process, there is no context switch, really, apart from the syscall itself which was happening anyway (the recv that blocks and causes the switch). At least not on Linux, where I've measured the difference.
Thats interesting. In PHP world the situation radically different: modern frameworks based on libevent are really speed up web apps up to 10x.

I've thoroughly benchmarked my own framework[1] for REST APIs and now it outperforms many of Go / Node.js platforms on Techempower[2]

[1] https://github.com/gotzmann/comet

[2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=e...
I am very good at containerizing and deploying projects. So I usually do that part immediately because I have patterns for it and it takes less than an hour to get started. This is how I start a new project:

1) I use Gitlab. So I make a quick gitlab-ci.yml and have a few steps. Test, Build, and Deploy. Test might just run one fake test to start. Build might do nothing much. Deploy might do nothing much at first.

2) Stick the project into a docker container. So create a simple Dockerfile. Make sure I can run the app from within the Dockerfile. Make sure the Dockerfile builds from Gitlab from the gitlab-ci.yml (which is the build step).

3) Deploy the app to AWS. I like ECS but maybe it's a lambda and I deploy it to Lambda. Just depends on what I am building. I update the gitlab-ci.yml to do that (this is the deploy step).

4 - forever) Code and only update the gitlab-ci.yml when I need to.

Honestly, the whole thing really takes less than an hour and I never have to worry about build and deploy after that. I say do it early. Also, don't over complicate it. Especially if you are using Django.
What's the difference between an SMS command and just sending data? It says they charge 10 cents for a Mb but 5 cents for a data command. Can I just send a command that is less than a Mb and save money?
Anti-union critics tend to have as much of a chip of their shoulders as well. There's no shortage of example comments where people are tossing around FUD and anecdata in an attempt to paint all unions as bad. If you're going to make presumptions as to sentiment, then it's only fair for your own side to be held to the same standard.
I'd be more interested in a study specifically around coding, as coding in dark mode is even more popular then general dark mode.

Perhaps it's just the historical nature of coding on older displays that couldn't render white on black well, however I suspect that has more to do with syntax highlighting.

Colors show up much better against a black background, which probably helps in visually recognizing syntax forms via clearer colors. The only time I've used light mode while coding is when coding outdoors, where dark mode is simply too dark for the ambient environment.
Please, I couldn't find a straightforward configuration to do that
Read the comment just before please...
But... they didn't, so why try to turn this conversation into a BLM issue? Is this to imply all Republicans are racist? Why not pretend it says U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (D-Mo.) so you can feel better and talk about the merits of the letter and the issue at hand.

This is my first comment in 4 years because it is incredibly frustrating to read thoughtless comments that just try to steer this towards a flame war
The original 1968 paper: http://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html
I guess we'll find out: https://kickstarterunited.org/
I forget the constant, but as I recall, that was likely true as well.
Assuming everyone took the bets
Wikipedia is more restrictive than I’d like. It’s also pretty good considering how hard it is to have an audience of everybody. I don’t know how it could do better.
Ok, I uploaded a photo of how the mails look like now - much better than the old pics. You can see it at https://findmegigs.com/assets/images/gallery01/d9a6787e_orig...
> Automatic rifles in the US are much, much more difficult and expensive to acquire than one would think--tens of thousands of dollars usually

Clarification: to acquire legally. It is not nearly that expensive black market.
At his rate, that probably buys you a couple seconds of his time. If he can teach you his introduction within that, I think he should be charging more ;)
I don't doubt the author gained benefits from the lifestyle change. I just appreciate the lack of hyperbole when describing how they feel. It's hard to get nutrition and health advice without a product/service incentive attached to it nowadays. The excerpt I highlighted matched the qualitative and candid style of the rest of the post.

It's refreshing
Werner Heisenberg, “Physics and Philosophy” (1958)
> I don't quite understand why they didn't think it was newsworthy

It's pretty obvious that they do not want to go into detail on anything that would paint the actions of the past two weeks in any negative light. There's no positive way to spin losing control of multiple city blocks, including a police station.

Bias does not have to be a slant in an articles content or writing style, though that happens as well, e.g. including phrases like "mostly peaceful protests" in articles describing looting. It can also be as simple as not reporting things you do not want to publicize.
Many developers have engineering bias
They’re pretty close, especially in regard to Trump himself. For whatever reason his existence turned up partisanship to 11, on both sides.
Depends on the city of course, but a lot of officer compensation is in the form of overtime, pension, early retirement, and other benefits.
How to do a product evaluation for enterprise software
Towers are typically owned by a REIT (real estate investment trust) or other entity that develops the tower and telco/equipment shelter and then leases out space on the tower to mobile providers (cost is higher to the mobile provider the higher you want to be on the tower).

In some locations, there just isn't any land to site the tower due to regs (national parks comes to mind, nothing except my Iridium hotspot works in parts of the Smokey Mountains), so there are no providers or a single provider who was able to swing a special case on an existing tower (water tower or similar).
Yeah you say that but in a tight crowd with nowhere to go, and enough ammunition, you can do a lot of damage. E.g., the Vegas shooting at a music festival with pseudo-automatic bump stocks.
The American Mathematical Society has a long catalog of reviews of mathematics books, although they are often very short and not enlightening by themselves:

https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-in-the-media/reviews
I am still wondering when we will see PostgreSQL being tested in a HA form.

It's just extraordinary to me that it's 2020 and it still does not have a built-in, supported set of features for supporting this use case. Instead we have to rely on proprietary vendor solutions or dig through the many obsolete or unsupported options.
Same problem here (FF on Linux).
Props to you for committing to your austerity, but we're not all monks in cells.
I am not sure to understand.

In this setup isn't the head of the dentist roughly between the patient's open mouth and the vacuum?

Isn't it like helping droplets coming from the mouth of the parient to flow towards the dentist's face/mouth? (of course protected by a respiratory mask, still ...)
The point is to go faster, not to be utilitarian. Materials and aerodynamics have improved since 1890.
I still play source. I could never get into go. Not sure what modding scene go has, but there are a ton of great mod servers in source. Zombie escape gets ridiculous.
Because the web is the closest to a universal platform where as the existing operating systems are walled gardens?
At the moment I negotiate my work against one entity: my employer.

If I had a union I'd have to negotiate my work against two entities: my employer and a union.

Why on earth would I want to do that? Seems more complicated and I'm less powerful in the negotiation.

Because the union would be 'on my side'? Lol I don't buy it. I think the union would be on the side of their management and whatever political hobby opinions they held, and possibly the majority of the members, but not on my side.

No thanks.
>all of which I won’t go into full details of because it lets a bit too much of the mad scientist crazy out.

This is a bit disappointing, but I know how the author feels. I can definitely feel like I am going to be judged for being crazy telling people about the strange ways in which I try to empirically optimize my health.

But, nothing is more important than our health, and I think it would have great effects on readers for the author to continue to expand on all of these other great health topics they're interested in. Speaking for myself, I became much more interested in this stuff just after reading some great detailed blog posts from others that are very into biohacking and related areas, and it had a wonderful effect on my life.

I'd love for others to be able to receive the same, much of us often focus too much on technical endeavors and lack giving the proper attention to diet, exercise, and much more. It becomes a lot more interesting and fun to some people when they realize the level of detail, optimization, quantification, and so on, they can put into this.

The best part is that instead of having your code run faster or your customer retention go up, you literally increase your life span and decrease your risk if diseases.
Isn't the problem of many weight lifters that "lean body mass" isn't consumed before the fat, but at the same time?
Because it runs in the browser it's trivial to apply client side cheats. For example see through walls, auto aim.
Researchers discover Skyrmions can split like biological cells
I have dealt with unemployment in the Great recession and know how nice that would be but the logistics of it are unfortunately very non-trivial, essentially in having everything already broken down to specified commoditized tasks. Annoyingly much of the work is "contextual" and would take far more effort to specify correctly to arbitrary outsiders and that is before work standards and cost of verification. Which would drive down wages of commoditized and halfway "automated" tasks further.

Ironically the best examples that come to mind are Uber and some other start ups which manage to both pay terribly and be hardly viable businesses.

UBW would probably work best in a productive sense in a massive stack of prespecified mini-jobs that could be done without supervision like "mow this section's grass, paint this fence".
LessWrong and niche subreddits depending on the political views you hope to find.
Favorable tax conditions are more likely the reason for that.
Extracting Structured Data from Templatic Documents
I don't think you're wrong, but in Jtsummers' specific case, I think multi-processing probably would be simpler. You don't have to implement the event loop, there's no risk of tromping on other processes' data, and if a process gets into an invalid state, you can just die without impacting others.

You'd need a good watchdog and error handling, but presumably some of that came for "free" in their environment.

Although if you take out the "free" OS support, watchdog, etc., I agree that there's likely a place between "shared memory spaghetti" and "multi-processing" that's simpler than both.
Facebook Deepfake Detection Challenge Results
> The map is certainly not the territory there, but for the average individual they're going to have a hard time understanding the map, [...], the map legend [...]

It's true in many fields of engineering and scientific research, including geography and map-making. Just see how complex Geographic Information Systems [0] (basically computerized maps) have became.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system
Normally I'm a core.typed person, but static type constraints don't quite make sense here. We want heterogeneity in some cases (e.g. you want to be able to mix nils and ints), but not in others (e.g. this short and int mixing, which could be intentional, but also, might not be)

I've considered spec as well, but spec has a weird insistence that a keyword has exactly one meaning in a given namespace, which is emphatically not the case in pretty much any code I've tried to verify. Also its errors are... not exactly helpful.
Semi auto fires as fast as you can tap the trigger, they still fire plenty fast. Test out how long it takes you to get through 30 clicks on your mouse. Now keep in mind with the automatic, by your third or fourth shot your aim might be 10 feet higher than where you set off aiming at the start of the burst, and you can see how even in crowds a semi automatic weapon would be far more dangerous as you could control where the rifle is pointed.
Have there been any info shared by Zoom explicitly about this decision?

And are there any HNers who work at Zoom, or know someone who works at Zoom, who can speak to how this situation is perceived internally?
It is not the fault of the union then. It is the fault of rules and structure provincially eliminating minute problems and creating larger problems as a result.

It is also about territory control. You don't want to give up power to someone else. Typical society problems. The solution lies in how do you practice friendship with someone so cunning and selfish that you can be in the loosing seat quickly, yet still be friends and still be on neutral ground?
Yes but the data is crazy expensive for that use case.

Companies that offer this aggregate connectivity through carriers across many countries which can vary widely in price, so they have to price in order to protect themselves in case someone only uses it in (insert most expensive region).

So you're paying premium for it to work many places. And it's intended for small data chunks that would be sent by things like IOT sensor clusters.

If you know you're only going to use it in (these N regions) you could possibly work with them to get a better rate and have them blacklist your traffic in the more expensive regions.
I have two concerns with that, above the (major) technical challenges:
1. we wanted this to be writable using colored pens
2. if we add a dimension, we must add it for real.

#2 is to me the vastly harder problem. Just like in UNLWS, we always have to challenge our own assumptions in order to get a sense for what would be "native to" a two-dimensional written langauge, we'd have to do the same for 3D (or 2.5D). Merely slapping 2D planes together with some links would not come anywhere even close to a robust use of the medium, just like merely having English sentences branch off from each other isn't anywhere close to a robust use of two-dimensionality.

Fully 2D language is already an extremely conceptually challenging problem, at least to me. Hardly anyone has even tried. There are fundamental challenges, like "how do you tell a joke when you don't control the ordering".

I don't think anyone is currently able to do 3D in a way that would truly serve the medium - and the medium would need to be much better defined, since humans' inability to actually see anything 3D instantaneously (we see 2D with an imputed distance and assumptions about what the rest looks like) implies that there must be interaction-in-time of some sort (like, at minimum, moving your head or the object in order to see the whole thing). That's going to be very specific to the medium. Are we talking about arbitrary 3D disconnected polytopes, ants' nest casts, convex hulls, computer-manipulated 2D, VR goggles, ...? Those all have radically different affordances.

Simultaneously, it would trivialize problems in 2D that we have to deal with. E.g. in 3D, there's no circuit wire-crossing problem, whereas in 2D, Borromean rings e.g. have unavoidable collisions. It would be cheating to use 3D in some shallow way to get rid of that issue, without also dealing with 3D's own problems.

Design constraints are a good thing.
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Last time I played with this, I read through the whole thing without at any point realizing that the code was live and could be experimented with. Don't make the same mistake I did!

Also I don't know much about WebGL and am quite curious how this works. Are they compiling these shaders locally in the browser?
Choose American principles and free-speech or face cease and desist
They basically have built a proprietary, distributed block store.

And on top of this they have layered PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.

I doubt they will never release the code for it since it's very much a competitive advantage.
If people are looking for alternative approaches to weight loss, I would consider simply buying a blood glucose monitor. They cost about $100 on Amazon or less and test strips less than $0.50.

The thing that makes it alternative is that it sets you up to be reactive rather than prescriptive. A lot of people end up rebelling against prescriptive rules for eating and then fall off the wagon in frustration.

The Blood Glucose monitoring approach is to see what spikes your blood sugar on the idea that higher levels are more likely to lead to reduced insulin sensitivity which often leads to more of the calories you eat being stored as fat. I just take the measurement first thing in the morning.

I find that how I eat shows up in my morning BGL and so I can be a little bit more reactive. If the level is high, then I need to pull harder on some of the levers that day.

This way of thinking also sets you up to have a better personal sense of what levers matter. For me, pasta is much worse than chocolate chips. What really flips my levels though is two high carb meals in the same day.
It wouldn't be a national concern dealing with foreign spying.

What if zoom kicked off your mothers knitting group would a senator comment? No it is not a national security concern just bad customer services.

Now if China has a strategy around taking over knitting perhap.
Serious question: you're not the only person in this thread who feels this, and I genuinely don't understand it.

Why is this so upsetting?
High pressure water can cause injuries, especially eye injuries. I believe tear gas is relatively benign other than possibly for asthmatics.
Fully agree with you on the tasers though. They should be just one step below using a gun, not “I’m lazy and don’t want to deal with this person.”
It's not just the one person but also the process and tools used. Intel's CPU design process tends to be stuck further back in the past than AMD's or Apple's. Instead of taking advantage of design automation Intel tends to throw more bodies at the problem. That doesn't scale well. Keller was brought in because of what he did at AMD and Apple to streamline the process and use more design automation. But Intel tends to hire people right out of school and they tend to stay around for many years so they've never been exposed to how things are in other companies. I have a suspicion that Intel has most of their US CPU design activities in Oregon not just because it's a cheaper location than SV but also because it's a lot harder for employees to switch companies - they'd have to move to the Bay Area or Austin and that's a tough move for people who have lived in Oregon for many years.
Ask HN: State of offline speech synthesis and software recommendations
Seems offline text to speech engines have all stopped development around 5 years ago as everyone moved to deep learning solutions with cloud tts, pay per character models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_speech_synthesizers#Technical_voice_details

I read that Google will be offlining machine learning tts onto neural cores, but that still leaves desktop market unaddressed - they're doing great work in accessibility in general, but I can't do productie work on a phone/tablet. Wondering if there are any other developments in this area, especially with reference to desktop hardware.

In terms of recommendations: looking for some sort of offline speech engine that can handle multi-lingual seamlessly i.e. English/Chinese.

Current setup: IVONA (stopped development after being acquired by Amazon) which sounds pretty natural, but skips non foreign characters. It works in Balabolka which has regular expression support to filter out cruft. Great workflow when TTS is triggered by clipboard.

Previously I used chrome Read Aloud extension hooked up to Google Wavenet TTS (expensive $16 per million character) and Amazon Polly (cheap but unreliable). Also supports Google Chinese voices which pronounces Chinese fine but switch to Chinglish when using English characters. Limited to chrome. On Android there's Voice Aloud + discontinued IVONA apks. Pocket uses Amazon Polly but can't parse all articles. Joey has TTS support for Reddit. No HN apps with TTS support that I can find, so trying to learn accessibility features but having every element read out loud is... subpar.
85k for almost 6 years of experience in New York is pretty severely underpaid.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-be...
No, the head of the dentist is usually always 45-degrees from the patient. Dentists NEVER look into the mouth of a patient head on. The vacuum is head on in front of the patient, the dentist is 45-degrees off. Imagine a equi-distant triangle of patient, dentist, and vacuum.
Protestors occupied the intersection of 11th and Pine (1 block from the police station) for multiple nights prior to the police abandoning the precinct. The police tried clearing people multiple nights with tear gas and flash-bangs, but the images and video of clearing the protestors night after night became politically unsavory. They probably won't try evicting people from the area again because they didn't succeed politically the previous times they tried.

(Plus, tear gas would seep into the nearby residential buildings)

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/after-mayors-spee...
I'm curious, is that money from ads? or in app purchases? Thanks!
I'm surprised that he even has to ask. Profits it is! Or else you better prepare for a lawsuit from your shareholders.
"Use PostGres until you have an engineering - data driven rationale not to" is my standard answer for non-blob data storage when a project starts.

Why? because when `n` is small (tables, rows, connections), postgres works well enough, and if `n` should ever become large, we'll have interest in funding the work to do a migration, if that's appropriate - and we'll be able to evaluate the system at scale with real data.