skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i said what i noticed from my 3 weeks there over 2 trips, which was contrary to what op claimed. i presented my observations asking if they were not normal for sf.

so you consider a sausage festival at every bar you go ok, but not enjoying that sausagefest is awful.

i think i just solved a mystery of my own. not that there's anything wrong with that, just not something that appeals to most males.
> culture was when i lived in versailles

As someone who actually lived in Versailles, this made me laugh outloud. It’s a boring upper-class suburb which happens to have a big castle in it. Culturally it’s at the same level as the Hamptons, just with older buildings and more royalists.
For the author: https://docs.docker.com/compose/wordpress/
The swing that you are describing, and the jitter (“variance”) that GP is describing are different things. :)
Hey, that's me - if anyone has questions about that then you can ama!
You’ve described waterfall accurately, but waterfall is kind of an anti-pattern. Nobody actually uses it.
Tug Boats Drag Split Japanese Cargo Ship Out to Sea Off Coast of Mauritius
I think that if you are extremely disciplined and self-motivated you can learn a lot these days from freely available resources on the internet. I think you miss out on two really big things.

The first is that most people can learn much more and more quickly when interacting with others and with good mentors. Depending on your personality, you might need this less or be able to get some of that from communities online (e.g. forums and open source projects).

The second part is basically the value of signaling and credentials. Part of the value of a Harvard/MIT degree is that it tells potential employers that you were able to get into Harvard or MIT. Since they're very selective that is a useful piece of information for them. A capable seeking person who comes across well in interviews but is self-taught might rationally lose out to an equally smart seeking person who also has a fancy degree.

You could consider Georgia Tech's OMSCS program. It's not free but it's pretty cheap and you get a degree from a well respected school. FWIW I'm an alum of that program.
With twitter this is true since at least 4 years.
Furthermore when reusing a dormant account after about 10 years you are flagged as a fraud.

Happened to me recently with Amazon after password reset. But not instantly, only after very carefully choosing and comparing about a dozen articles for about 500EUR during the night, then in the early morning finally putting it all into the basket and confirming the order. BAM! Two dozen popups about fradulent activity, account locked!

WTF?!

At least I managed to get called back on my landline instantly, from someone in Egypt. Very friendly. Account unlocked, but now I'm in CAPTCHA-hell. Unusable that way.

All very unsatisfactory. Gives one the feeling one is on someones shitlist.

Anyways, there are other options.

"Shrug..."
It does; in fact with my Maix Cube it came shipped with it pre-loaded.
Lol. The diversity of worldviews never ceases to amaze me.

What might those "pretty" "simpler tools" be? Perl? Heh.
Exactly. You can see loads of videos online of 5, 10 people, entering a regular Whole Foods or 7-Eleven and simply looting the place and leaving without pay. This kind of thing doesn't even happen in 3rd world countries like where I live, its's baffling to see what a huge american metropolis is allowing to happen in the name of political correctness.
You’re right. Maybe the technical definition means altering a record to say DELETE=TRUE, but the widely used definition means unrecoverable, and that’s what matters.
I could not disagree more, as someone who operates a niche ecommerce business. The longer I exist, the more reputation I have. But every single customer I sell to is a new risk, and the credit card companies fob all the risk onto me. Crypto payments (which I accept as an option) are great because I have no risk of a charge back a month after I shipped. The risk of being scammed is so much more about anonymous customers than it is of businesses, who need repeat business and word of mouth.
See what fees do you your long term returns in mutual funds
If orgs like Skeptical Science already exist and are influencing academia then why should the public assume that the advice of climate scientists is anything but political at this point? Laymen don't have the insight to make judgements about which scientists are quacks and which are just under fire from a cancel campaign. You can't expect to be treated with credibility while being this susceptible to outside influence and it's weird that there isn't a universal effort to identify and decry this sort of behavior within the field.
Since this website only has one narrow column, the reading experience on this is smooth
Imagine what would happen if everyone did that!

Some practical advice: HN has two ways for you to do this without cluttering the discussion. You can simply upvote the post, or you can favorite it.

Both of these lists are available at the bottom of your profile page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Gummaluri

Be aware that favorites are public, while your list of upvoted posts or comments is private. (View your profile page in an incognito window to see what the public sees.)
Speech recognition on any device? Translation?
'In 2009 we first approached Apple to get f.lux on iPhones. Years of promises of API access. The last conversation we had with them was "that's too weird for most of our users. Like the Klingon keyboard." Then, they announced their clone onstage, Macworld 2016.'

— https://twitter.com/JustGetFlux/status/1288979404677292032
Yes a donation platform.
Yes everyone would prefer to get goods/services in exchange for their money.
But this is to ensure the business' survival. I think if asked, most people would want their local restaurant, coffee shop, boutique store, corner store etc to stay in business.
Potentially, similar to kickstarter, these businesses could provide some sort of reward system, which could translate to "IOU" goods/services when the economy and business picks up.

And yes I do agree that in these times, bad businesses need to be left to fail. However, this is different: for the public health good, governments in many countries are restricting movement of people, operating requirements for businesses, or even closing down some businesses for weeks/months at a time. It's not the fault of these business owners that this happens. Unfortunately for the good of the public health, they lose out, default on mortgages/loans, lay off staff, and exit to go on welfare (if available to them in their country). I think this is a reasonable alternative to that scenario.
Promotion of any content results in the suppression of other content (inventory isn't infinite). If you were in charge of the algorithm, what would you promote? Considering half of America views CNN the same way you view Breitbart, do you consider that to be a despicable source too?

It's really not as simple as you think.
Tangent:

If I don’t like Minesweeper or Chess, am I still a smart? I really think these games stink.

Need to know guys.
DP as a paradigm is very interesting. From a high level view, one can appreciate the essential concepts that make it work, with things like memoization, optimal substructure, etc. It's also interesting how it relates to shortest paths problems, and greedy algorithms.

However, as you said, actually trying to solve DP problems relies on knowing the trick, and the tricks varies almost wildly from problem to problem. They're unintuitive, and difficult to derive normally. The intuition you gain from one of them could be entirely useless, or, worse, counterintuitive for another. I personally think, they shouldn't be used for interviews because being able to solve them seems to be more a matter of luck than actual competence.
The ESP32 port still has a few rough edges, particularly around peripheral control. But it's a popular device and the port is improving all the time.
The ME is running Minix/x86 and presumably a vulnerability could be used to inject new code that isn't signed by Intel.

But what would you do with it? Why not just use the OS?
Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct
Good luck with your Mark 1 Brain.
It often gets posted and ends up on the home page because many developers are very impressed by Nim and love it.
I was using model to mean the architecture, ie. the way you're modeling the data flows - not the specific params, which are ofc language specific.
I have highly efficient actuators directly attached to my shoulders that open and close windows with remarkable ease.
It is not just SF, but the whole Bay Area. My power is out now for the 2nd time in 3 days. The first 2pm Friday until 3am Saturday and now since around 3am Sunday until ... well it’s 6pm and no end in sight. The infrastructure is crap here. I was on the edge before, but I am over now. 2 more years so the kid can finish school and we are leaving. While it has been hard managing a team without the ability to have a whiteboard session, we seem to be dealing with it. No reason to stay anymore. I just hope I can sell my stupidly over priced house for what I paid for it in 2 years.
Using the built-in diagnostic report generation in Node.js
What isn't? Noise, traffic, expense, crowding, lack of green space, no sense of community, it's just an extremely hostile environment for human neurology.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3079
ie. a dataset/corpus problem?
Everyone is open to their opinion; in the meantime the company I work for uses it for mass market devices in the medical domain. ;)
You can rent-to-own a 6br house on a 6k+ sqft lot with a detached garage in NJ with a ~1hr commute to Manhattan for $3,500/month in NJ. $3k/month on an apartment gets you a luxury huge 2 to 3 bedroom with in unit w/d and bowling/swimming in the basement or something in Hoboken with a <25min commute to Manhattan.

Thinking 36k/year (more then the total comp of many workers in America) is cheap housing is a Bay-area distortion.
To be fair, he said crime rate
I think that modern BPE and techniques are more than sophisticated enough to handle things like this.
Coronavirus News: Strong Immunity May Follow Even Mild Cases
The most fulfilling thing I've had in my 66 years on this planet is raising my three boys. Even with all of the bumps in the road along the way it was well worth the effort, and especially now that I have four grandkids.
Nice thought. But if I'm going to sit in front of a screen, there's got to be money it.
>Given the extent of some candidates differences and the impact to their life (denied entrance to offered Uni courses for that year) there’s some very serious outrage.

It's not as bad as you might think. A large number of students are rejecting their offers with the intention of re-applying in 2021 and there has been a substantial reduction in the number of foreign students, so there are an unprecedented number of surplus places available through clearing. Even if your grades are substantially worse than you might have hoped, your chances of getting a place on a decent course are very good.
Nice, so my typical starting move of clicking top left first was not only safe, but also didn't leave me with a corner guess at the end.
...and now Lyft and Uber might be shutting off service in CA this week.
It's like the stock market, buy on the dip. This year would be a great year to buy the sf property if you see yourself there in 5 years.
Feels related to this article from June 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53176945

"Google to pay for 'high quality' news in three countries"
> this is all just a temporary thing, even if this pandemic meanders on for another 3-5 years.

The last American urban exodus started in the 1950s and wasn't fully reversed until the early 2000s.

Many cities never recovered in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Even the most expensive cities, like San Francisco, LA, and New York, had neighborhoods that were run down and dilapidated, ignored for decades, until very recently.

I'm not saying this will necessarily happen again, but it certainly could. Cities are incredibly expensive to maintain, and most American cities have already spent their "rainy day" funds in just a few months of lock-downs. All the while depolicing is gaining steam.
I’m starting to think a power wall is more useful than solar
There's a Linux port too
Supervisors are only the beginning of the journey to fault tolerance in the BEAM... There's so much you can do; one way of thinking about it is that you get very smart garbage collection on arbitrary system resources, tied to concurrent threads, and you can link threads so they fall in the same failure domain.
Colloquially, worth remembering: "exams don't get you jobs, they just prevent you from getting jobs."
repo name is on point
I’ve heard of people charging up their powerwall at night with cheap power. (TOU plans)
And then they consume that power when electricity is normally expensive
That’s true. Your house becomes a negative thermal battery
For the forseeable future, quantum computers need big honkin' hardware. I've read too much failed futurism to predict that it can/can't happen in 100 years, but I'm pretty confident that current approaches won't miniaturize quickly.

They can help out with pretty neat stuff and could make for an awesome special purpose co-processor, but they'll be cloud-only for quite a while.
Python 3.4 is actually the baseline for MicroPython these days. Many other more modern features have crept in; such as f-string support that was recently added. And the asyncio support is a modern implementation too...

Generally MicroPython can absorb modern Python features where the implementation can be shown to be efficient, particularly with low RAM costs.
San Francisco has functional public transit which escapes almost every American city and the cool neighborhoods are in fact quite dense, like the Mission. This is why people view it as one of the most walkable cities in America even though it may not be a compact area built around a train station like much of Europe, for example. I would like that, but that’s not how any of America is.

You went to a few sushi roll places and now you want to demean the quality compared to Tokyo? Give me a break. I’ve spent months in both and you’re not painting a very fair picture. Tokyo is the sushi capital of the world. No one would dispute that the Japanese have the widest variety of amazing sushi. But San Francisco is way up there and if anything the problem is there are too many unaffordable omakase menus with the best fish from Tsukiji market in Tokyo or from Monterey Bay. There are places that sell California rolls to tourists like everywhere, but San Francisco has so much actual Japanese food and so much omakase that I find it absurd that you characterize it that way. There is no way Chicago can go toe to toe on Japanese restaurants and you know it.

As for drinking sake cold, if you spent much time in Japan you’d know they typically serve crappy sake warm to disguise the impurities of not having polished the rice enough before making it. A good Junmai Ginjo will be served cold. You are welcome to have sake however you want, but don’t blame San Francisco for knowing how to drink sake properly. In fact, San Francisco has the only sake store in America (True Sake) because there are so many Japanese people and it’s so popular.
Link to the draft law is below [0].

Quoted from that page:

>The code also includes a set of ‘minimum standards’ for:

>providing advance notice of changes to algorithmic ranking and presentation of news; appropriately recognising original news content; and

>providing information about how and when Google and Facebook make available user data collected through users’ interactions with news content.

This sounds great to me. Australia has a history of producing consumer friendly laws (although I am sure we have our share of bad laws on this), and I consider google to be working against my personal interests, so I think this law is probably good (for consumers and news media, but not google/facebook).

0. https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/draft-...
The other half isn't a "rather small" part in the West.
Because they are a bunch of lightweight cocksmokers.
Many of the bars, restaurants, and smaller cultural institutions will be gone.
The larger, well-funded museums and nature will stay of course.
But much of what is interesting about a city comes from the people who live there and shape its culture.

The San Francisco of today is very different from 10 or 20 years ago, and will be very different 10 years from now.
This is recoverable, sure, but its not guaranteed, and its absolutely a change of course for this city and others.
Adversarial examples probably exist for humans too, they are just less easy to find since we can't easily backprop through human judgements like we can a bunch of array multiplications and dot products.

Doesn't mean that they are not "actually" learning any more than we are.
You vastly underestimate the desire of people for things to look 'nice' where 'nice' is defined by exactly what they mean when they say it. If you want a 'nice' display of data that's input by users, you're often going to butcher it by doing things like converting everything to lower-case, then maybe upper-casing the first letter. Because 'nice.'

It's horrifically wrong, of course, but no one is going to think you're a reasonable person for insisting that correct wins over nice.

Imagine a real-world scenario where you're displaying a list of names of users, where the users got to type in their own names. You can either use what users typed in, or you can do something like process it so it's in the American idea of initial caps. You can't possibly do localization, since it's a list of names of people in the US, so it's melting pot of names from all over the world, and you never asked for user input of what you'd use to localize it anyway [and no, you absolutely can't figure that out from just the name itself]. You can't use what users typed in, because the design team thinks that looks like a horrible mess (and it is; users are laughably bad at data entry). So the design team wins, and you butcher everything by pretending that toLower() plus toUpper() for the first character of every word is a sensible thing to do. (And yes, that's a painful real-world example of software I've shipped and that was used by millions of people.)
Funding niche software projects by using tokens. For example, Unitrade launched a token to fund development of a project providing advanced tools for Uniswap, a decentralized exchange https://unitrade.app/ https://uniswap.org/

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that are new and experimental forms of company formation. See DXdao https://dxdao.eth.link/#/

Compound, a large player in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space that allows anyone to borrow against their crypto holdings https://compound.finance/

The craziest part of Hacker News is the near universal opposition to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. It is not going away, and governments are finally bending to reality and accepting it, rather than banning Bitcoin and similar outright.

There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are rewarded extremely well for doing so by a global group of investors involved in this alternative financial system.

But please, if you don't like crypto, just build whatever SaaS bullshit an MBA is telling you to and take your 0.1% equity for busting your ass. I have spent years in the extraordinarily interesting world of blockchain and have been rewarded extremely well in terms of personal growth, education, and financial rewards.
> can get

And I “can get” yellow fever if someone with it comes back to my neighbourhood, a mosquito bites them and then bites me. But it’s largely a waste of money for me to get vaccinated anyway.

Considering risk vs. cost of prevention seems to be lost when dealing with vets (whom also often lack strong evidence for their interventions).

If anything, it’s the humans in the household that could benefit from preventative de-worming, not the cat exclusively eating canned cat food.
It's not just SF. Why am I paying $2,000 for a 1BR apartment in DC when I now work from home and there is nothing to do in the area? My lease is up in November and I am going to month-to-month while I decide.
> bars -there are very few attractive girls at bars, or at offices, or even on the street, compared to just about anywhere in the world. and if that's not why you go to bars, i have to ask -you'd enjoy going to bars with mostly men? because that's cool too -once in a rare while.

I don't think everyone goes to pubs or bars for the same reasons as you might.
Google is famous for "non-human support", believe it or not. I never seen people successfully contacted a Googler.
REALM is amazing, and Google's PEGASUS[1] taught itself to count between 2 and 5 (which is mindblowing).

Basically the NLP groups from Google and FB[2][3] are always worth watching.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/06/pegasus-state-of-art-model...

[2] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/covost-v2-expanding-the-largest...

[3] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/introducing-a-new-large-scale-d...
I read recently that light brightness is also very important in regulating circadian rhythm; not just blue light. I'd recommend f.lux or similar + dimming your screen until just before the point it's too hard/straining to read things.
And for that matter, even [unicode 88] admits that it isn't a character.

unicode 88: http://www.unicode.org/history/Unicode88.pdf search for "A ligature is a glyph"
Main bus designs work really well for building one factory to launch a rocket because the resource demands aren't so high that you run into belt scaling problems.

If you're going for one of those crazy ridiculous high output post-endgame factories, the sheer complexity of running 8+ belts of one resource and branching off 2-3 belts at a time, then having to double that to go from 1k SPM to 2k SPM is way too painful. That's why most of the factories you see north of 2k SPM aren't main bus designs (aka well organized monolith), they're modular designs ("microservice" based). I put that in quotes because at those scales the sub-factory for creating a single input resource might be bigger than a whole base used for launching a rocket.

The analogy actually applies really well to software engineering: for a practice that works really well for 99% of the players (main bus), at a certain level of scale the approach breaks down, and you need a different approach to deal with scaling past that point.

As evidence for that, I usually use a main bus design to get to the endgame, but once I start the megabase scale climb, I break the factory out into discrete, networked (by train) modules in order to keep the resource distribution problem under control.
Disappointment on results day is par for the course. Grades awarded this year were higher than last year across the board, so it can't be argued that the system was unreasonably harsh. The centre-assessed grades provided by schools and colleges were unrealistically ambitious, so if they were taken at face value we would have seen an unprecedented level of grade inflation.

As always, students who are unhappy with their results have the option of (re)-sitting their exams and re-applying for university; given the substantial uncertainty over whether universities will be able to offer anything like a normal level of teaching in the next academic year, deferring might be a sensible option regardless of results.
I really hope 4th gen succeeds since in high-population areas without much land for wind/solar it's badly needed. However the fact it's taking so long suggests there are serious challenges. For example, there is the neat idea of a fail-safe freeze-plug to stop a damaged molten salt reactor - but what happens next? The corrosive nuclear fuel needs to be safely contained for a long time or safely removed for re-processing.