skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pull my emergency fund and short term savings accounts and put it in a safe in my home. The rest of my fiances would be either virtually unaffected or would benefit from negative interest rates.
I think Lua is also and already great at embedded usage? Of course the more the merrier.

tinygo, micropytho, lua, there were a few mini javascripts but I lost track any of them
Makes me wish I was European enough to be able to call it my “handy” (as in handheld computer) and have anyone take me seriously.
Airbnb has been heavily regulated in SF for years (ironically), so there hasn’t been a lot of Airbnbs that were full units vs just a spare bedroom in someone’s actual residence.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes. That's basically what I do during normal times. I actually live near a big office but I mostly meet with people elsewhere.
You're correct, I misphrased that somewhat. The government uses a blockchain (the Keyless-Serveless Infrastructure or KSI blockchain) to ensure data integrity in their government systems. As I understand, this is also used for their digital voting system.

> The Estonian Government started testing blockchain technology in 2008, as a response to 2007 cyber attacks and with an aim to mitigate possible insider threats. Estonia was the first nation state in the world to deploy blockchain technology in production systems - in 2012 with the Succession Registry kept by the Ministry of Justice.

> Which Estonian state agencies are utilising blockchain technology today?

> → Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

> → Ministry of Justice

> → Ministry of Finance

> → Ministry of the Interior

> → Ministry of Social Affairs

See their whitepaper here: https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019sept-faq-ksi-bl....
The article under discussion is titled "California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001". For that to be true, the author appears to be distinguishing between (a) outages due to load shedding due to insufficient generation capacity and (b) outages due to deliberate shutdowns of inadequately-maintained transmission lines in weather with high fire risk. The 2019 outages--which in an earlier comment I called "approaching third-world duration and frequency"--were (b).

That distinction is a little subtle, since they're both deliberate cuts. But I chose to follow the author, and I believe the "rolling" reasonably conveys "just (a)", since outages due to (b) don't actually "roll" (despite your CNBC article using that phrase). The power there stays off permanently until the fire danger passes and the line is re-inspected. This is actually worse, since customers don't get brief opportunities to re-cool their freezers and such, but it's different.

I don't see why you think the duration of the outages is irrelevant. For better or for worse, the USA accepts occasional outages of a few hours as "normal". People are inconvenienced, but not hugely--your freezer doesn't melt, water tanks in (older, at least) tall buildings don't empty, cell sites and other infrastructure with backup power doesn't run out of battery or diesel, and so on. I thought the Berlin blackout was particularly significant because its long duration meant those stopgaps were exhausted; but perhaps the two countries' overall attitude to power outages is sufficiently different that I'm missing something.

I mentioned country-level population density because I was comparing country-level SAIDI numbers. American cities still do worse than Germany, but by less. For example, my Singapore report above put the SAIDI for NYC at 20.53 minutes, around Germany's overall average.

In any case, I've lived many places in the USA and other countries, and California's grid is uniquely terrible. The rest of the USA's grid seems fine to me though, just one that makes different tradeoffs from Germany's. If I understand correctly, Germany's electricity prices are roughly double[1] those of the USA. So it seems like Germany just chose a higher-quality, more expensive approach, and USA chose quick and dirty, all very much in line with national stereotypes.

1. https://energytransition.org/2015/05/german-power-bills-low-...
We had this issue down here in Australia with a firm called MSY. They refused to offer returns on defective products. That is not legal down here (we are somewhat like CA in terms of consumer protection) and the ACCC fined them $200K AUD.
The incredible thing is they still found those pesky customers returning defective products too much trouble and started telling people that there were no refunds. After another few years of that, the ACCC fined them another $730K AUD.
If you have an issue with something and have to return it now they are very easy to deal with. :)
I think those are all basically the same use case - they're all about routing money of nontrivial value around governments. Much like Tor, it is not 100% unblockable, but it is quite difficult to block if you keep the internet flowing at all.

And like Tor, it can be used for both moral good and moral bad. (In fairness, you can decide that the good outweighs the bad for Tor but not for cryptocurrency; you can also believe that the good doesn't outweigh other harms like the computational/energy cost of running a secure blockchain, which necessarily needs a nontrivial fraction of the world's purchaseable computing power.)
A unique thing about SF is that its economic centers and tourist markets are where vagrancy and degeneracy are most tolerated and heaviest in density.

Its easy not to know that its not where to go.

Trendy transplants hang out on Valencia St in The Mission and towards Delores Park. Or on Union St in the Marina and towards the water. Or on the lawn in the Presidio. Or at Ocean beach. You will never see any strife, out of sight out of mind. These areas are still doing great for socializing and a brief escape. There are quite a few others places as well of course but I dont think I really want peninsula and south bay suburbanites coming to them lol.

Visitors are corralled into areas by Union Square, Embarcadero, Market St and the worst parts of SOMA. Its logical to want to go there but its a mistake. Commuters and sports fans are only familiar with that area, along with the parking garages being plentiful. But for a recreational visit, use this post as a guide.
The problem here is simply a bad regex pattern.
You need to use something that supports Unicode an enable it. (Usually a flag or option you have to set because Unicode matching is slower and often not needed.)
Then last but not least you need to use character classes and not define ranges yourself unless you actually need a range. Like you cant use [:digit:] or \d if you really only want 1-9 without the 0.

Here are some examples to match your string all of them use PCRE flavor

(UCP)[[:alpha:]]+

(UCP)[[:alnum:]]+ This would includes digits

(UCP)[[:word:]]+ This includes "word" chars

(UCP)\w+ same as above
The bonus is pretty formulaic with fixed performance multipliers - if you're doing poorly enough to get substantially less than the target bonus, you're at risk of losing your job and comp is the least of your worries.

And you absolutely can pay the bills by selling the stock when it vests. Agreed on the mortgage part though.
It's... It's called KJ...

https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/tree/master/c++/src/k...
Similar happened to me (UK) - my school went from performing under the national average for the preceding three years to being notably above for my year group, and no one could remember anyone going to Oxbridge, but there were two of us in that year (the school barely even knew about the extra exams we had to take - required for one, optional for the other - so the prep. was more or less entirely self-taught).
I like how you don’t specify “marketing consultant” because that would kinda give the game away :)
Well, if ME was activated by the byte sequence PLEASE_ENABLE_ME_42 being present in RAM, which caused it to look for the Firefox / Chrome network stack in memory and use that to send passwords to Intel…

Unlikely? Amazingly so. Technically possible? Yes.
Standard classes only work for 8-bit locales, afaik, and also in some languages (e.g. perl) when a string encoding corresponds to an internal representation of what its engine thinks it is a "current" unicode format for the specific version of language and a checkout location. The fact that different tools stick to different engines, modes and normalization rules (bre/ere/posix/nfd/nfc/perl/pcre/php/ruby/icu/whatever) doesn't help either. Full cross-platform unicode matching is a can of worms that you usually don't want to open. It is basically CSV of the encoding world. /\S+?/ to the rescue.

https://regular-expressions.mobi/unicode.html

https://regular-expressions.mobi/refunicode.html

https://regular-expressions.mobi/posixbrackets.html
The "atlantic bubble" limiting movements of canadians within canada was thought unlikely, and is probably illegal, but it is a thing.

Remember when trump spoke of closing off new york state? Canada has actually done something similar.

https://www.gov.nl.ca/covid-19/individuals-and-households/tr...

>>When entering Newfoundland and Labrador, visitors will be required to produce two pieces of government issued identification to verify that they are a permanent resident in one of the Atlantic Provinces. One piece of identification must include a home address.
Are the vast majority of these deaths specifically from coal? I didn’t see numbers split out by fossil fuel and thought that’d be interesting.
>It's up to Intel to prove that they don't exist.

That seems a bit over the top to ask them to prove a negative.
> Obviously, each company can't blindly trust the interviewing practices of everyone's previous employer.

Yet, they copycat each other on this.

> after you've been programming for 10 years

...as I said, you're not desperate enough, so you become picky how you spend your time.

> Companies aren't going out of their way to make it harder to hire good employees into their own companies.

Lowering the churn rate has a higher priority.

> The problems are designed to test CS skills.

No, these problems are designed to test CP skills. Even Norvig admits it has nothing to do with being a good dev/hire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmyUZCl75s

> How else would you suggest reorganizing the interviews to test for CS skills?

How Caltech, MIT, Harvard, ETH, etc... test for CS skills? Certainly not with CP riddles - unless you take a CP course, which indeed is a separate [optional] course at some of those universities for interview preps specifically.
An Architecture Agnostic Intro to Assembly
the thing is humans have most efficiently encoded (in detail) reality in text. humans already highlight what is worth encoding about reality.

for example, you can finetune gpt-2 to have an idea of sexual biology by having it read erotica. just like how you can have a model learn the same by watching porn. but it is much more efficient to read the text, since there is much less information that is "useless"
Wave Function Collapse in Clojure
I actually download it a few months ago and never played it, but started playing it yesterday when I was bored away from WiFi. It's very enjoyable.
In my current company, I have a long history of exceptional performance, but the job I'm currently in is turning out to be really stressful. A role has recently opened up in my company that I am an absolute perfect match for. The problem is that they are requiring me to relocate to the Bay area for it.

Relocating to the Bay area is completely out of the question for me, especially now that so many tech companies will let me work remote due to COVID-driven changes. The end result here is that my company is going to end up losing me to a competitor who can accommodate me working where I am.
Russell Kirsch, who pioneered digital image scanning at NIST, has died
David Sacks: WHO Reverse Engineers Science to Fit Their Political Agenda
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained clearly (2018)
In my opinion, the biggest issue with nuclear energy is that you have to trust the competency of both the companies running the plants and the governments of the countries those plants exist in. The Fukushima disaster is a good example. The plant was set up to switch to backup power generators in the event of an earthquake, but those generators were located in basements that would flood in the event of a tsunami. Since a tsunami is usually caused by an earthquake, this was a bad plan. A Fukushima employee testified that the vice president of the company running the plant knew from a 2008 safety test that the sea walls were too low, but ultimately scrapped plans to improve the sea walls [1]. If this can happen in a country like Japan, how can we assume nuclear power plants in countries with struggling governments can be maintained safely? https://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-owners-face...
A mathematician, physicist and biologist sit in a street café, guarding people leaving and entering the opposite house. They see that 2 people go to the house first. Some time passes and they notice that 3 people are leaving the house and start to discuss about the meaning of this observation.
Physicist: "The measurement may have not been accurate enough."
The biologist: "They may have reproduced inside."
Mathematician: "If exactly one person went into the house now, the house would be empty again."
I think talking about deaths is too binary when we are looking at air pollution, since I would imagine most of the deaths are from peope who have other conditions that air pollution is making worse, as opposed to things like car crashes where even very healthy people are killed. Looking at how much air pollution reduces life expectancy is a better measure, and is what they talk about in the study linked to by this article. According to the study:

Finally, we calculated to what extent LLE from ambient air pollution could be reduced by removing the avoidable anthropogenic emissions in our atmospheric model. We find that the global LLE of 2.9 (2.3–3.5) years (Table 1) could be reduced by 1.7 (1.4–2.0) years through the removal of all potentially preventable anthropogenic emissions and by 1.1 (0.9–1.2) years through the removal of fossil fuel-related emissions alone.

So they estimate air pollution from fossil fuels lowers the average life expectancy by 1 year worldwide. Pretty significant.
How can people that are able to user the internet and apparently can read still be so incredibly ignorant?
> I am skeptical if someone thinks they need to do this and how they will get it done

I most often use title case mappings in the context of replacements of names into diagnostic messages. I.e. you have n types of objects and m messages like “${foo} not found” or “More than one ${foo} required”, and perform title case mapping on ${foo} depending on whether it is at the start of the message (sentence) or not.
"We can only give them a citation"? I think a big part of the issue is that the police almost never even do that much. They do zero. If you try to call this stuff in, they laugh at you.
Thank you, that is helpful. Good luck and keep going and keep sharing. We all need to get with it and take responsibility of our own health.
I think it's very clear that I wasn't commenting on what framework they choose to write their projects in, and you're rather deliberately missing my point.
I think rent control laws recently changed, in the last two years; in SF units older than 2005 now fall under standard rent control rules of ~2% per year or CPI increase, whichever is less. Values of properties built in 2005 recently dropped as a result. A couple years ago, rent controlled units were much older.
Wrong. A law was passed specifically making crimes of less than $1000 a misdemeanor.
Turn on a English radio broadcast it is free and you learn every day English like a native speaker
Wow, insane much? Just memorize the seed or split it up. Not complicated.
I'm still mixed on electronic voting, but I do think it should be further researched.

The simple answer I've seen is giving people a hash or code that can be used to verify their vote in a database. Obviously you have to trust the database, but you also have to trust the people counting. I do think there are enabling technologies like zero-knowledge proofs and locally differential privacy that do help with many of the problems, but my understanding is that neither of these is mature enough for use in voting, yet.

But as to general advantages, I think there's two major ones I see. 1) Electronic voting better enables access to voting since people can vote in the comfort of their homes (especially relevant in a situation live covid). 2) Enables better research about candidates. I live in a state with mail in voting and how I vote is with my ballot in front of me while I research all the candidates. In fact, I spend several days voting (sure, not everyone will do this but it makes it easier). Links to official campaign pages or voter guides (we have this in my state with the ballot) would be helpful (and encourage candidates to create them! Because often they don't even have a website, at least on local levels).

As a minor advantage I do see having the ability to perform different voting testing and better answer questions to things like ordinal and cardinal voting systems (by participation not forced A/B testing).

Just because enabling technologies aren't there yet doesn't mean we should shutdown the conversation about how to solve those technological challenges.
Personally I'd be so annoyed by random strangers calling me that it would take at least $1000/hr to make me sign up. Good luck though.
That is seems to be more about the underlying infra (BEAM) than the language. I thought it was something specific to Elixir. I thought they meant it at the level of program logic, which is why it seemed very confusing.

I guess Lisp is about beauty and poetic justice and it shall remain in that realm.

I'll look into Elixir. Seems to have a healthy and growing ecosystem.
> Models are transitive- if x models y, and y models z, then x models z. The upshot of these facts are that if you have a really good statistical model of how words relate to each other, that model is also implicitly a model of the world.

This right here is a great way of putting the success of GPT-3 into context. We think GPT is smart, because when it says something eerily human-like we apply our model of the world onto what it is saying. A conversation like this:

> Me: So, what happened when you fell off the balance beam?

> GPT: It hurt.

> Me: Why'd it hurt so bad?

> GPT: The beam was high up and I feel awkwardly.

> Me: Wow, that sounds awful.

In this conversation, one of us is thinking far harder than the other. GPT can have conversations like this now, which is impressive. But only I can model the beam, the fall, and the physical reality. When I say "that sounds awful," I actually do a miniature physics simulation in my head, imagining losing my balance and falling off a high beam, landing, the physical pain, etc. GPT does none of that. In either case, when it asks the question or when it answers it, it is entirely ignorant of this sort of "shadow" model that's being constructed.

Generalizing a bit, our "shadow" model of reality in every single domain is far more powerful than language's approximation. That's why we won't be able to use GPT to do a medical diagnosis or create a piece of architecture or whatever else people are saying it's going to do now.
This is why I've also repeatedly stated in this thread that I am not in favor or blockchain-based voting, or even broad-scale mail-in voting (yet).

You're correct to an extent, but I believe with advances in cryptography (zero-knowledge proofs, quantum-secure encryption, etc.), these concerns will fall away. People regularly use their smartphones to do things that are high-risk and need to be secure. Take online banking.

Of course, elections carry an entirely different set of challenges, but to say they can't in theory be solved with careful encryption, analysis, and review, is (in my opinion) foolish. I will again bring up the example of Estonia, which has had massive success with its hybrid in-person / e-Voting system. Estonians have been educated by their government on how the technology works and how it is auditable. Every Estonian carries an ID card which they use to access their bank details, get healthcare, and vote.

I would also argue that technology does solve the problems you listed, and very well!

> Blockchain voting proponents come up with all sorts of schemes to solve ballot-stuffing attacks, the reality is that we really don't care about that on the ground; it's just not a problem we encounter. The real problems come from more mundane things like power outages, being physically locked out of the polling place, poll worker exhaustion, out-of-date records used to verify eligiblity, and voters taking a bathroom break and subsequently walking away with their ballots unaccounted for.

Except for power outages, none of these issues would occur in a remote, electronic voting system. A well implemented e-Voting system could expand voter rights and access to voting tremendously.
The property prices are due to "stunning incompetence of SF government"? I'm not buying that. Public officials are not in charge of—nor do they have any real control over—property values. Your co-worker who bought property elsewhere wasn't able to do so because the mayor of that town was incredibly competent. That had absolutely nothing to do with it.
There's a real advantage to having an interpreter.

Write your low-level/high performance code in whatever. Then write top-level logic-- and let your users script in-- micropython.

I'm teaching a middle school class this year with micropython on embedded. I can't fit Rust in with everything else I'm teaching in one trimester. I've even written an IDE which runs in the browser (on chromebook, etc) so there's no external dependencies for them.
DRY, also known as single source of truth, is one of the most important principles in SE. I just could not figure out what the single source of truth is in a factory pattern as is the electronic circuit factory. It implies centralizing the code which is responsible by the fabrication of the circuits, what would be their equivalent in the game? The conveyor belts?

Microservices, on the other hand, are overrated and unnecessary in most cases they are applied.
I wonder what the actual advantage of a synchronous grid is.
You're right. I stand corrected.

Unfortunately, it is too late for me to go back and edit my erroneous comment.
Is there a list of companies that purposely not use Leetcode in their hiring? Someone should make one.
It's shady to put it mildly.

It's not that much of a stretch to say that the entire business model for sales and gig economy platforms is to provide investors with a legal revenue stream from dubiously legal activities ranging from civil fraud to regulatory arbitrage intended to evade tax law, consumer protection law, employee protection law, and minimum wage law.

It's long past time for a crackdown.
> The iOS/Safari thing is another issue, which perhaps other anti-trust regulators will address in Google's favor.

Hopefully those same anti-trust regulators also have statistics for browser market shares :)
How to Read Instagram Backup Messages the Easy Way – jq
I'm curious why you think a "difference in kind" rather than simply "difference in degree" must exist between us and dogs.
Why are you complaining about the problem solving / leetcode culture if that's not what has kept you out of the Big N?
I have an ESP8266 running MQTT to make an alert on a speaker (I2C) on demand. I just looked at the counter I periodically send to MQTT. It has been up for over 200 days. It does not leak.