skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had that experience describing the plot of a novel to friends of mine. The novel is pretty complex and covers ideas in crime, internet anonymity, memetics/virality, and then some technical things with vehicles and atmospheric science. Some friends I've talked it through with, they come up with ideas to add stuff and it's like "that makes no sense for this novel, but it's not a dumb idea given how little of the theory of the novel I've communicated to you." Whereas other friends seem to immediately grasp onto the theory and make suggestions that actually fit with the overall concept very well, and usually recommend small changes rather than wholesale plot rearchitectures. It's like an architect coming in and saying "we should move this door two inches so that this door doesn't bang this wall" vs. "We should build this whole house as one story into the side of a cliff."
US has been exposed for funding last year’s Hong Kong protests
It would help if they recognized homeowners as a cartel.
The part you're missing is that affordable housing is condemned and bulldozed in favor of luxury apartments. At least, that's how it works in DC. They evict the poor, bulldoze the existing businesses and residences, and put up pretty buildings for the trust fund kids that want to party and live in the city.
Yeah one guy has sound effects (such as driving for going to the store to buy the gift cards) and voice modification set up.

There was a video that he kept the scammer on the phone for 6+ hrs then at the end when he was giving them the apple cards was "confused" and redeemed $20000 dollars onto "her" "own" account to send them a computer all on a vm where they could watch her putting in the cards codes and go through the checkout but the control software "was broken" so they couldn't interfere.

edit: Youtuber/twitch streamer is mentioned below, Kitboga
Bay Area was mostly white and Asian anyway.

My grandpa used to be an engineer at Xerox decades ago. My family helped settle San Francisco. Most of us left because of gentrification in the other direction.

Whites are to blame if they gentrify a place but also to blame if they leave (white flight). No winning. 100% accountability.

BUT! Your original assumption is wrong anyway. it’s not mostly whites moving in this time. SV is a major world hub for tech. Lots of immigrants from India, Pakistan, China, Europe, South America.
Only possible good thing I can see from a US student perspective is that it's now more reasonable to go to grad school in US. Many programs in STEM have gotten out of hand with the number of the foreign graduate students--in some programs the number is over 80% [1]. I think this has led to the US educating many persons who later leave the country for visa issues. Also, some of the competition to get in can be considered bogus: near perfect GRE math which measures high school level math skills is hardly germane for research.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...
That man was something else.
It's at war with Amazon, and it's able to produce an ROI which exceeds the cost of borrowing anyway.
I think the only concern is the US has no high-yield disposal plan like other nations. Since yucca mountain got NIMBY'ed we had had reactors pumping out waste only to be stockpiled on the surface in casks that were not designed for long term exposure.

This is only something I know from watching docmentiries so if you know more on the lifecycle of waste in the US please let me know how much of this is true.
Are there any good quantitative estimates of how common this is?
went to youtube to find a better video of the sound of the floppy drive, as the one in the posted video is very quiet. instead, came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52JQHVVqFM
A lot of people have seen the Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" westerns but if you haven't watched "Once Upon a Time in the West" I would definitely check it out. One of the best movies I've seen and if you're not fan of westerns (which I wasn't) you will appreciate the genre some more after seeing this movie.
Re 2: Many things are possible. Do you have any objective evidence to give you reason to think that this is actually true?
This is true that gentrification is a problem with increased demand that is not meet with an increase of supply, but untrue in it's solution. You can't infinitely scale up the supply for the same plots of land. You can't even 10x it. Also, this entirely ignores what to do with the people and properties of the area that is being gentrified.

I see this opinion far too often from people who have never studied urban planning and development. It smells like of those 'I took an econ 101 class, let me tell you how the world works' kind of opinions.
The thing is, the fault of all of that rests with the people and the system, but mostly the system. Any individual is not responsible for gentrification, least of all one who just moved to the area. It’s the same principle as that citizens can rightfully criticize the overuse of fossil fuels, even though shutting off their AC would lead to a possible heat stroke.
I would say any class that's big enough to where you just blend into the crowd, meaning just a lecture class, is pretty much useless to attend and the same content can be found for free online and with the textbook.

The academic value of college comes from small class discussion (you don't get this in large lectures), direct 1:1 access to professors/TAs, and the ability to work together with other students. If you don't get these, then there's no benefit of attending a lecture in person.
Jaron Lanier's keynote on AI (2019)
This will be Senior's last impression of the school before they become alumni (and donors).
> If you lead a people, specifically the people who lived in the city when you assumed leadership, then gentrification can clearly be a bad thing - e.g. "Now our people can't afford to live here."

What does it even mean to "lead a people" in the context of a city with immigration and emigration? You quickly run into the Ship of Theseus[1] problem.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I would say more like they found a local maxima and stayed there, never going even slightly less efficient in order to find a higher maxima than the one they had.

Kind of reminds me of which countries have the fastest/cheapest Internet access now. The countries that had Internet first tend to have shitty copper infrastructure and expensive plans, while the newer countries are all up with the latest fibre infrastructure and fast/cheap plans.
I wonder how they feel about foreigners now working from home...
This ^^^ is a big part of the problem right here --- legitimate messages from government authorities are so totally non-credible that it makes the scammers' jobs super easy.

Same is true of banks and such. A few months ago, I got a mortgage, and I was totally blown away by how much profoundly suspicious shit that was actually legit happened. Like, I'd get calls from totally random new people from the mortgage company, no warning by anyone who I actually knew that this new person was calling, often from their personal cellphones---and it would turn out that the call was totally legit, and I actually was supposed to send more sensitive financial documents to this random new person. Totally bonkers.
Yeah, but in that form, to which portions of the population are the fed and treasury indirectly lending via mortgages? Are the people in a position to benefit from that lending the most important people to assist? Is their spending going to optimize some multiplier that gets the fed the most impact for each dollar lent? Or could they have a larger effect with an intervention that injects money to some other group?
Size comparison of SpaceX starship payload to falcon 9 payload
Tips averaged between $3 and $4 per run, and I got 3 runs an hour at peak. That's more than half if you add all that up, but not all time is peak time, so it averaged closer to 50/50. Plus I subtracted out fuel and car costs from the delivery side of things to net stuff out.
> Counterpoint: If they gave me terrible results I would just go to another service.

There would be an optimum point where the results are good enough that people won't leave the service en masse, but bad enough that they spend way more than necessary on it. The optimum point is where the profits will be maximized for the search provider. Thanks to the advances is AI/ML/Data Science methods and tools, a savvy company will find this point and stays there until the point moves.
If the shareholders don't think the R&D is going to be profitable then they can sell their own shares. It doesn't seem like the company should be making that decision for them.

More to the point, if the company is seeing such great profits then their competitors should be undercutting them. If they don't have competitors then maybe they should be regulated more like a utility and give that money back to the customers. Stock buybacks usually end up being just a handout to the rich, which they don't need.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one scratching their heads slightly. According to the article " claims to have found the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a Barcelona sewage sample from 12 March 2019[1]. Further reading of [1] says that zilch (zero, nill, nothing) was found in samples taken on the 11 March 2019 (the day before) and that equally zilch was found on 13 March 2019 (the day afterwards)[2] and yet the article casually makes the assertion " have found the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a Barcelona sewage sample from 12 March 2019". Uhmm yeah, no.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...

[2] "archival WWTP samples from January 2018 to December 2019 (Figure 2). All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019".

I'm not an expert (or anything even close to being one in this domain) but let's not post anything that has yet to be properly peer reviewed. Not a dig at the submitter, but an eye-roll at the article.
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This particular study did not cover that.

From the report: "Consequently, we did not analyze displacement by race and ethnicity, a task that requires precise counts of the residents in a neighborhood. Instead, the present study focused on socioeconomic data related to income, home value and education level to assess neighborhood-level gentrification."

https://ncrc.org/gentrification20/
Inputting energy to the grid must occur at grid frequency. You want that stable. And there are still applications which themselves rely on grid frequency for timming and synch. Change or vary freq and you'll violate lots of assumptions.
There's also the sad reality that for many students, it's not possible to work unimpeded on school work at home. For many, university is the a psychological retreat from home circumstances that are distracting at best the best of times and downright abusive at the worst. It doesn't matter if your Internet is solid if you can't actually focus on the work.
For many immigrants, it seems quite probable that they came from countries where bribery is totally normal every day behavior, so it is plausible that it might not be much of a stretch for them.
That last point seems particularly apt. I didn't consider that, but maybe should have, it explains this decision in the context of Trump's desire to punish people into getting what he wants.
You've never been to SF, I take it. The neighborhoods are in fact not getting any investment because all that's happening is the very oldest homeowners are getting massive payouts after decades of falling-in-real-dollars taxation. Furthermore the new people who move in, whose tax bills are absolutely astronomical because they paid five million dollars for their houses, are so burdened by the cost of their housing that they have little left to invest in their neighborhood, in terms of both money and time, since they are so busy working to pay off that house that they bought from Grampa Flowerchild for, again, five million dollars.

Random example, 120-year-old wooden house, price quadrupled in only 6 years. Was assessed for only $63k in 2014/2015!

https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/164-Belvedere-St-941...
Chinese students will be safer in China.
Bad news for US universities that built dorms and counted on the cash from foreign students. Now they can't come.
Many families viewed studying in the US as a pathway to eventual residence. That's gone, at least until there's a new administration.
Ah. Yup, it is. Thank you for flagging. Will fix this.
This is a trick.

Trump is telling universities to open up for in person classes or lose all their international students, who will mostly choose universities that have in-person classes over online classes after ICE's ruling.

This is a diabolical move, arm twisting universities into opening up or else losing international students - a major sources of revenue.
Have you ever heard of the floppotron? https://www.youtube.com/c/PawełZadrożniak/featured
The rotational energy of the planet is absolutely massive. I don't remember the numbers but you'd need millions of atomic bombs fired at once just to make a dent - and it would still not affect the orbit of this now radioactive fireball at all.
this seems like a very sensible idea, and easy to implement via legislation---make the companies liable for all losses if they violate
I'm guessing that was an autocompleter mangling "Bucky".
In most tech cities in the States, that's the main mix.

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/06/20/will-silicon-v...

Facebook in this article's paywalled chart even has more asian employees than white in its tech ranks.
What does lights-off mean?
> or fly out from the country with the highest number of infections

Are there exemptions in place for when it is difficult to actually return to country of origin? (e.g. it remains very difficult to fly into China)
One major question I have: how come we haven't seen any innovations to desktop monitors? Most of the innovations come first to TV's and smartphone displays. It seems like the pace of desktop monitor innovation is slower.
2012 macbook pro with 16gb ram and SSD, I purposely got the last one without the ram soldered to the motherboard to allow me to upgrade it. It's about at the end of usable battery health and the screen is only 720p so I am thinking of upgrading soon.
For EROI, "months" for deeply decarbonized renewable systems (i.e. what matters) seems to be in stark contrast to the values from this November 2019 study [1]. Is there a good critique of this line of thinking that you're aware of?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X1...
That's actually needed for a real proof. One should keep in mind that y = ax is not injective if a=0, so that "cancel a variable" step you're thinking of is most likely incorrect without that side-condition.
Markets aren't purely efficient, but the author's claim that 40% of jobs don't need to exist is so wild and absurd I reject it out of hand. I suspect that the items you listed, while they or may not exist, would only cumulatively amount to a fraction of a fraction of the total jobs out there.

If his argument was "many of us could probably work fewer hours without significant deleterious consequences in terms of productivity" I would be far more open than to the claim that 40% of all jobs don't perform any valuable function.
If they make less than $65k and don't have significant college savings/assets, then yes it is free.

If you're a hedge fund manager who just retired and is now making $0/yr, sure it's not free.
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So 8 of them went to elite/prestigious undergraduate schools (don't know about Holy Cross). Looks like a pretty strong signal to me.
> You can increase supply but that still leads to more costs, you're just shifting them from housing to transport/shared services/groceries/etc.

I'm not totally convinced. If you can afford rent in NYC everything else is actually pretty affordable. An unlimited metro card is much cheaper than owning a car (plus insurance, gas, maintenance). Cheap food is widely available and there's a plethora of services available that don't exist in rural areas.
This might be the most significant contribution to frontend development in the past 28 years.
My pathway into software development was through electrical engineering and embedded systems. So I don't know if this applies to other ways into software development as well. But what really stood out to me in the beginning was how useless code comment where. I would almost always see code like this:

x = 1; // assign 1 to x
y = x * 2; // multiply x by 2

I don't know if it was because they thought electrical engineers needed to be explained everything about code. Or if it was because all teaching material used this style and people just copied it. But I never understood why you would add comments like this, but had to do so anyways otherwise I would not pass my exams.

It took me a while to learn that comments are the tool in which you can express your expectation of what the code should do.
f(x) = 1/x is also defined over what we call the "extended reals" which is just R + inf.

But, I don't think what you said is quite right, either. If you define f(x) = 1/x over the non-zero reals, then the range does have the same type as the domain- you can't get zero out of the function, so the range is also the non-zero reals.
You can't increase it infinitely, but you can increase it a lot. Single family homes are 4-10 units/acre, townhomes are 20-40 units, and apartments are 50-100.

Here is one of my favorite illustrations: http://densityatlas.org/measuring/far.shtml

Another nice one:
https://twitter.com/euanmills/status/969132807548260352/phot...
That description of "leading a people" sounds a lot like nativism.
The BBC also has an article on this topic of sleeping in the office.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190809-why-overtired-...
I highly doubt that's what will happen. How many of these programs are dependent on foreign tuition? These aren't efficient institutions, mind you, so a downturn could lead to collapse of the weakest ones, leading to increase domestic competition at the remaining ones.
Decomposition of glyph sequences in phonetic transcription alphabets (e.g. IPA representations of phonemes) into phonological feature sets.

Existing attempts to solve this problem are hackish and difficult to customize: they typically treat each glyph as a set of features and handle diacritics and digraphs by naive composition and awkward special-casing. They also aren't written with an eye to customization in either alphabet or featural model: they typically map an ad-hoc extension of IPA to an ad-hoc featural model.

I think a natural improvement would be to develop a specification language in which each individual glyph (base character or diacritic) is a function from a feature set to a feature set, with Haskell-style pattern-matching to allow graceful handling of digraphs and context-sensitive diacritics - although syntactic sugar for digraphs would in practice be required for usability. Ideally it would also be possible to map feature sets to feature sets, in order to preserve a human-readable intermediate form (e.g. "unvoiced dental plosive") which is later mapped to the more customary binary features.

In addition to the utility for phonological databases and the like, this would also enable more rigorous testing of crosslinguistic feature sets: every feature set is implicitly a set of proposed linguistic universals and existence claims. If two segments have the same featuralization, they should never contrast in a given language; if they do, the featuralization is unsound. And if a featuralization proposes the existence of many contrasts that aren't attested anywhere, it could probably stand to be optimized.

But most of my interest in this comes from my work on a phonological database. The database needs some method of handling featuralization to facilitate feature-based search, and I just haven't seen a good way to do that yet.
I only see him valuing the pipelines themselves, and perhaps not as strong of a shift into absolving fossil fuels like everyone expects. Humans are slow to change and adapt, I mean look at coronavirus and masks in the US.

Natural gas is great because of the low levels of emissions, the not so great aspect is fracking continuing to mess up peoples homes, i.e. flaming sinks.

Those that are in control should advocate for the publics best interest imo.
>Wales has a long history ...//

Or to put it another way, Britain has a long history of building water capacity for British cities.

Scandalous! /s
Oh interesting. I'm part of the Dominion Energy Green Power initiative. I have no idea whether I'm actually making a difference...but I pay more and get a green sticker + pamphlet, so that's cool. Saving one starfish and all that.
Maybe?

The most valuable news I currently get is from newsletters by individual writers and their podcasts.

Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara and Cafe Insider, Stratechery, Money Stuff, recently persuasion.

I also like Stripe’s increment magazine, but that’s more similar to the old model.

I’d love to support more individual writers I respect rather than the orgs they write for.
Except that's a false dichotomy. Sqrt() could instead return Enum { Real | Complex } and the typing enforces that the surrounding math handles the appropriate cases (or proves that negative input is not allowed). Likewise for division by zero, etc.
> until there's a new administration

197 days...
This is lunacy. Also likely will fail in court since it doesn’t follow proper procedures - something the recent Supreme Court DACA ruling pointed out. These nitwits are cruel and incompetent. But all of this has damaged America’s higher education system and its attractiveness to foreign students for the long term. Many an economics PhD thesis will model GDP lost from doing everything in our power to scare away educated immigrants.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear: this should be the ONLY way clipboard contents can be accessed. Saying "it does" work like this tells half the story: developers can do these sensible things to check out the clipboard in a privacy-conscious way, but if apps can choose to access it without doing those things, it's not working as a user might expect it to.

Can you think of any conveniences which are broken by step 3? It's probably just my basic workflows, but I _never_ see any prefetching of clipboard contents with the exception of URLs.
I love it when neologism is used surgically to reduce verbosity.
A bit of a nit. Treasury money is taxpayer money. Fed money is ... not. It's seigniorage.

But the point of this subthread remains; corporate loans are expected to be paid back (less some loss reserve, but plus some credit spread), whilst direct payments to individuals are not.

[Edit: should speak of corporate bonds, not loans, for precision. There is a big difference though for this thread it's minor.]
Harvard does not cost full-sticker for most people who attend. Most people who go are very rich, sot hey pay a substantial fraction of full-sticker, but if you aren't, you won't.
Why would I use this when DuckDuckGo exists?
> Someone should not be able to buy $3000 of Target gift cards without doing a lot of explaining

Apparently it was $1k at Target and another $2k at Safeway. This was just under the limit of $1030 per person per store at Target. Perhaps the limit should be lower, or employees should be instructed to be more wary.

I imagine Target doesn't want to be too strict here, both because they don't want to inconvenience customers making legitimate purchases, and because they don't want to give up the revenue derived from scammers defrauding people (not that they would ever admit to the latter).