skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently in S.F, rent controlled. On the fence about leaving, but I don’t see This getting better. I’m seeing this country turn totalitarian; COVID19 running rampant, and one, of many to come,Retrovirus, which is extremely disruptive to our T-cells (immune response).

Where to? Santa Cruz, too quirky? Marin, beautiful but overdone? Santa Rosa, I like this. Now, in Silicon Valley, there’s a sense of being out there; Mountain View, Los Gatos; attractive smaller enclaves.

Inner neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, SoMa, Union Square, Nob Hill, Lower Nob Hill, the Russian Hill, etc. Will probably need a lot of infusion to keep the cartels from fighting over territory. With a deficit so big, its hard to see an easy way forward.
A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome
For a non-day-aligned f.lux to actually help you, you'd need to have blue-light filters on your windows, such that you aren't getting natural blue light during the day. Screens have only maybe 1/1000 the lux of daylight. Letting in even a little bit of daylight (e.g. through blinds) would completely swamp any effect from blue light on an LCD/LED panel.
It seems likely that in the near future we would be seeing content that is not only shared by bots but also generated by one. Would we have to go back to the times when we only trusted "conventional" NEWS-media outlets and were suspicious of everything we read on the internet?
strange how a whole bunch of people on this thread agree with me - both visitors and sf residents.

this ladies and gentlemen is what you get when you have a kid, he gets picked on for doing stupid things i school, and you tell him it's not his problem -it's just those people have issues.

sf has some good food. you have to know what it is, and take an uber across town there. the claim was, you'd live in sf for its food. if you step out of your house and walk to surrounding restaurants, the food is very average, overly presented, and priced by artistic presentation - not taste.

when in tokyo, i can walk to a random place and get great sushi. in moscow, the russian food at any cheap hole in the wall is good (and greasy) - you don't need cafe pushkin. in sf, if you don't know where you're going and do some research, the food is average. which isn't bad. but average food is certainly no reason to live in a sausage factory and pay 2mil for a studio.
No, he said layman’s terms
Ask HN: What to study to learn optimization algorithms
I find my self needing to find ways to optimize production processes. For example given an order what is the best way to split up the order into given batches for production.

I'm thinking a SAT solver is going to be the best approach and using the multiple buckets problem. I don't have a lot of theoretical background in these areas and would like to read a book or two before starting down this path. Any recommendations as far as books or even subject matter to study?
And what is ketosis and how do I do it?
The problem with Republics is that “one man one vote” does not translate into the majority getting what it wants.

You can say that again, mate. -- USA
FAANG don't really want to poach each other that much, as a sibling comment says, they had been already caught in the illegal non-poaching collusion. But even without any such collusion active they undestand that people would jump back and forth between these comapnies, ratcheting TC up every jump.

What they need is that somebody who passed the interview believed it was a lucky break and would not tempt fate trying a similar interview at another company. If they considered the interview just a filter, they probably would not be so lenient with letting people to apply many times and even encouraging this.
Because opening pubs was the top priority of the government, not holding exams.
Thank you! I don't like admitting to this behavior, but I can't trust a headline (any headline).
It is curious how the media has reached this point of cognitive dissonance. Each side has their own set of "facts". Synthesis isn't especially enlightening either. I don't think you are alone in observing the absurdity of it all.
Most cryptocurrency investment schemes basically work like this. Someone creates a cryptocurrency. The creators premine the cryptocurrency and sell the currency at a fixed price for pennies. The early investors try to "shill" their cryptocurrency and market it to as many people as possible. There is an influx of cash and the currency is valued at a few dollars. Early investors sell and late investors sit on a worthless cryptocurrency and the only way for them earn their money back is by marketing the cryptocurrency to even more people and selling it to them. Rinse and repeat.
> what did they find?

IDK, what did they find? Why not post some links?

Looking at your reference, here's the top liked review (in part)

"

I would have given this book four stars if not for the fact that I felt the Mr. Whitaker was overly antagonistic in his writing, and at times even dishonest in his presentation of "facts."

His citations are frequently careless, and he cherry-picks not only the studies he presents, but also the which ones he provides access to through his website. At one point I checked a cited quote to find that he found it in a blurb on a book jacket! Unprofessional. " (reviewer gives 2 stars out of 5)

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As for my depression, I was prescribed pills and they worked. They weren't a cure but they were the first and very major step out of the blackness. I presume you're taking an anti-medication stance, well please be aware that they work for some people. Sure they have a cost but it's probably a lesser cost than killing yourself.
So can job hopping. In fact, IIRC staying at the same company earns you less money than finding a new job every two years or so.
Which boards are you using and how did you chose them?
Define 'smart'?

For me, smart means not only knowing things, but knowing WHAT to do with that knowledge and how to apply it beyond what they learnt.

As an aside, High IQ != Smart
See his statement to that effect: https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/status/1275844030144950272
I visited Oulu in late November to early December a few years ago. Yes, they cycle.
I would bet that whatever the answer is, you'd find it best by looking into what kind of antivirus software is used by ISP/business mail servers to malware-scan attachments during send/receive.
I don't like the "free services" wording in the letter. Free services shouldn't be a justification for anything.
I think this comes down to a semantic dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_dispute

We may be meat robots, but we are social meat robots, so it's not surprising many of us feel a desire to discuss our shared meat robot-ness, aka "consciousness".
I mean the thread is they're open sourcing their work (if by commercial you mean proprietary).
or, follow me on this. i just walk out onto the street, type "restaurant" into google, and pick something with 4 star and up reviews. no marketing or presentations involved - just what people around there reviewed as good. and the food is average. this isn't bad, but average food with some gems you have to know about and take an uber to, is not a reason to live in a city - and it was presented as such in the comment to which i replied.
I feel ya! 9-10 hours optimal over here too. New baby is making that impossible.
I was in my early teens at the time. Not sure about the people who helped me but I assume they were older, which would have meant late teens or adult.
And having disabled personalisation on a lot of products for as long as I can remember, I can confidently assure you that yes, I do in-fact prefer the non-personalised experience.

I don't want it to display what some service _thinks_ I want, I want it to display what I'm asking for. No more, no less.
Kids take years to learn a language. They do it almost all day long.

Emerge yourself in an environment with the language you want to learn. Boost some important words with spaced repetition. You will learn faster than any child.

Accents, on the other hand, that's a different story.
The reason this is a significant achievement is that the DNA of living cells in the organism were "edited" to remove the pigmentation, thereby effectively changing the phenotype of an adult squid.
Being a neutral platform for speech is not ‘helping’ anyone. It helps the ideas the public agrees with the most, which is why Google and Newscorp are fighting to control internet media with backroom ‘partnerships’ rather than giving viewpoints that are actually popular a fair playing field.
Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)
Yes, it would be interesting to see what would happen if SF legalised housing again.
> Kids can learn one or multiple languages extremely fast

Can they really, though? I have a three-year old nephew who can speak, but not particularly well.

I feel like if you dropped me into another country where I didn't speak the language, and had someone to look after me and respond to me whenever I tried to communicate my frustrations or desires, and I had no other responsibilities other than to exist, I could get to the vocabulary of a three-year old in less than a year.
We've been running it like that for multiple desktop applications for years. So it's supported in the sense that it works but depending on what you do with it exactly it needs some boilerplate code which mostly means copy-pasting some parts from one of the main.c files for the different ports, no big deal. Creating bindings is another point which requires boilerplate code but that's no diferent from other scripting embeddings.
You're stating the obvious, a very well-known obvious. Perhaps you can suggest any system that is not intrinsically unfair (I'd be interested as I went both to schools in sink areas, and an expensive private school). (this was in the UK BTW)

> ...is awful at achieving a fair system [...] because schools are so stratified - by design of funding rules etc.

I'd say it was more down to the culture of parents in the poor areas mostly not giving a shit about their kid's education (and the roots of that aren't that the parents are intrinsically bad, it's a mindset of apathy inherited from their parents and the daily pressures that come with permanently worrying about money).
Is anyone usimg a linux phone? Love to hear use cases. I know about the PinePhone and the Librem, don’t know if there are others.
Give me an example. I'll try to find the best -IMHO- solution.
Or a proof only creatures who znurg can understand https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/znurg-2
> feel comfortable saying that the biggest obstacle in progress for AI is UI

Yep.
>> Germany’s top court also ruled, in two separate cases, that the right to information trumps the right to be forgotten. The rulings stated Google does not have to delist factually correct news articles, even if they’re unflattering.

Anonymity and privacy are the most valuable assets one can wish for in our times. Without them one's (wrong) actions can doom them for life with no second chances.
"When we A/B tested users against different kinds of personalisation, we consistently found that they liked personalisation"

If your non-personalised experience is stunted in functionality because the core UX of the product is biased towards personalisation, it will be unsurprising if people "prefer" personalisation.
I came here to say this: the artist’s renderings of the housing and monorail look exactly like the Contemporary resort at EPCOT.
> Shit, I’m never going to write if I have to fire up my code editor each time.

This is the most important part. I edit my site by typing in a WYSIWYG editor and hitting the save button. It works on any Internet-connected computer I can get my hands on, without installing any software.
I find it a little bit strange that there is an unspoked assumption in almost all natural language processing: That speech and text are perfectly equivalent.

All of the examples in the article work on English text, not spoken English. I would consider spoken English to be a much better "Gold standard" of natural language.

I'm really looking forward to machine translation operating purely on a speech in/speech out basis, instead of converting to text as an intermediate step.
I hadn't seen this. I was referring to his interview with Don Lemon before the tweet, in which he indeed doubled down on the noose angle. https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/6/24/bubba-wallace-don-le... He put the tweet out after being rightly mocked for not admitting that sometimes a knot is just a knot.
How does meaning come to mind when hearing a word?
Obviously the Australian government is trying to make google pay just because Murdoch told it to. But the pretense is bizarre - that google has to pay Murdoch because it steals his content.

Google doesn't republish News Corp content! It just lists headlines with URLs that readers click to go through to News Corp! Google is giving News Corp 70% of its traffic.

Bizarre.

What's to stop google from simply ceasing to index News Corp at all?

The fact that it doesn't, and instead runs a scary PR campaign, tells me there's something going on that I don't understand. But what?
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Thanks!

> I vaguely recall some mention in one of the docs I read a while back that you were having difficulties with the JIT causing noticable pauses/latency in interactive environments like Morphic, comparison to the OpenSmalltalkVM.

Right, have a look at the sub-discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182587.

> Am I recalling correctly, and if so is it still the case?

GraalVM and TruffleSqueak have evolved quite a bit, but it is still the case. With libgraal, TruffleSqueak warms up much faster, and we were able to further improved the performance of TruffleSqueak. If you'd like to give it a try, it should be fairly easy to get started: https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak#getting-started

> And more generally, in comparison to the OpenSmalltalkVM, what are the TruffleSqueak downsides? The upsides seem nicely obvious!

TruffleSqueak passes quite a lot of Squeak's SUnit tests (see [2]), but is of course not 100% compatible yet. Proper support for some plugins (e.g. FFI, OSProcess, ...) is still missing.

Apart from that, I'd say that TruffleSqueak has to live with the design decisions made in Truffle, but we can build on and reuse all of GraalVM components (e.g. JIT, GC, ...). The OpenSmalltalkVM, on the other hand, is more flexible, but you have to implemented everything from scratch.

[2] https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/runs/990481811?chec...
3-year olds don't only learn language.
They learn literally everything.
There's a bunch of anecdotal stories about personalization goes wrong, but I don't see how any of that is a strong enough point. Should you be equally given news about every local news from every city in the world? Should be equally given news about every sport and sport team? What if you don't even like any sports?

Does personalization sometimes go overboard temporarily? Sure. But there's more and more levers to try and fix it. Generally you can mention you're not interested in a specific topic, and while it's not foolproof nor instant, it's still overall much better than getting complete random news.

I currently get plenty of cool articles about fairly niche things that I'm into and don't expect any other "average" person to ever get, such as Python news, animal crossing tips, indie game releases or updates on my favorite TV shows.

Again once in a while I'll get updates for a show I was just looking for but have no interest in, but that's honestly a much smaller price to pay than having zero personalization.
> Cities are incredibly expensive to maintain

The whole thesis of the strongtowns.org website, with lots of data and references to back it up, is that medium dense city centers and town centers are the only parts of a city/town that are revenue positive. Commercial strip mall areas and suburbs do not generate enough sales tax and property tax revenue (and often require tax breaks) to pay for the infrastructure: miles of roads and streets, sewers, utilities, etc. Density, when you have lots of people and economic activity in a smaller area, can pay for its infrastructure, even if it might be more expensive than a country road.

Otherwise, I do agree, it is cyclical, cities were over-hyped for a while, with the tech boom in many east and west coast cities, but now remote work might reverse that. However, as Europe has shown, with a few precautions and some sacrifice such as concerts and night-clubs, a lot of city activities can go on, and with less rent pressure, we might be headed toward a good balance.
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Will battery life be horrific, or just "sub par"? In other words, are users going to notice and should I refrain from doing it this way?
Being able to control the geo is one of the great features of DDG for me, especially back when I traveled a lot. The search engine doesn’t know the context I’m in (and I’m happy about that, I don’t think it should be guessing something this personal and then limiting the options for me).

It also helps me search for content vs for listings, sometimes I want information on a product and not the local merchant, with Google the closest I would get was switching to news search (also not optimal).
Another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894000

But honestly I am more curious about the number of people who just read the headline and skipped through the content at super speeds.

Either situation is embarassing.
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Thanks mate. Yes that's true.
Quality Control – A Major Challenge in Clinical Labeling
And the advantage here is that it's the start of development of a genetic-modification toolkit (similar to that we already have for fruit flies and c elegans and zebrafish) for using them as animal models. Much more complex of a brain than any of the other animal models we usually use.
I doubt this. we are beholden to Google. we can't just go elsewhere even if we disagree with some things some people in Google do. advertiser or consumer. or government. they ain't losing half their business anytime soon, no matter what kind of things they pull.
The legislation [0] gives all news businesses (including smaller ones) a pathway to force Google to enter into an agreement with them. It opens up Google and Facebook to world of costly business dealings.

With little effort, I could start “Deco’s Local Newspaper” and publish a few issues online. This will give me a pathway to force Google to “deal with me.” This negotiation, mediation and arbitration could incur Google thousands of dollars in employee time, arbitration fees, and paying for half of the legal costs. Google cannot say “no” from the start. They can’t even ignore me without being in violation of the new legislation.

Relevant snippets:

“... news media businesses can participate in the code if:

- They predominantly produce ‘core news’, and publish this online: [...]

- They adhere to appropriate professional editorial standards: [...]

- They maintain editorial independence from the subjects of their news coverage: [...]

- They operate primarily in Australia for the purpose of serving Australian audiences: [...]”

“If the parties have not reached an agreement for the inclusion of news on digital platform services within three months of negotiation, and the parties have attended at least one day of mediation, news media businesses can elect to commence arbitration.”

“Arbitration under the code would be performed through ‘final offer arbitration’. The digital platform and news media business (or a collective of news media businesses) must each submit a final offer on the remuneration to be paid by the digital platform within 10 days of the commencement of arbitration. Parties would then have a further 5 business days to provide comments on each other’s offer.”

“After receiving submissions and comments from the parties and the ACCC, the arbitrator would have 30 business days to choose one or the other of the parties’ ‘final offers’, which would form a binding agreement between the parties.”

Therefore: I can force Google to enter into an agreement with me (even as a small business) and incur thousands of dollars of overhead costs in the process.

I’m not one to use hyperbole, but this is insane. I would not be surprised if Google turns off Google Search entirely for Australia when this code passes.

Also, this legislation is specifically for Google and Facebook:
“Digital platforms must participate in the code if the Treasurer makes a determination specifying that the code would apply to them. The Government has announced that the code would initially apply only to Facebook and Google. Other digital platforms may be added to the code if they hold a significant bargaining power imbalance with Australian news media businesses in the future.”

This also seems strange, though I’m not against legislation specifically for mega-corps. Small businesses / startups are already hard enough to start with all the legislation they need to comply with, so protecting them from irrelevant codes like this is healthy for industry.

[0] https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/DPB%20-%20Draft%20news%...
I'm curious to see how many applications they get from ethnically Chinese and Vietnamese students.

My guess is there's much more ethnically Chinese applicants (which includes international students).
You say that as if this code of conduct would achieve it. But it isn't really about that. This is not about who controls the media, it will not change that either way. If they ACCC cared about that they would not have tolerated the near monopoly of Australia's media that already exists.
Yes, same as the phone book for AAA Plumbers.

Playing devil's advocate, gaming search engines used to be about keywords then it became more about links. SEOs nowadays talk about "EAT", expertise, authority, and trustworthiness. It's still possible for marketers to mimic quality signals but it's less easy.

It would be much easier if the author of webpages were to declare themselves, sort of a Pagerank but applied on a person/topic level. It could/can be done with structured data. This of course has privacy implications but it keeps the publishers as transparent to the search engine as possible. Verification of sorts would be needed so other people don't use your authorship details on their own site. It's the kind of social fabric/data Google could've perhaps used Google+ for.

Slightly more on topic, marketers used to be able to do accurate keyword research with Google, and also see the keywords that people searched for when landing on their site, which is quite useful for figuring out their intent. Google keeps all that data to themselves now.

I find their "concerns" about "use of private data" a bit laughable, considering they used your personal search history to try and target you on sites you visit across the web via ads. They don't mind retaining data about users, they just don't like having to share it with anyone.
Because the best way to reduce drunk driving risk is to force everyone out of bars at more or less the same time. Back in my teens and twenties I found myself intervening, with varied levels of success, to prevent drunken trips to the store because "beer-o'clock" was nigh and it was the last chance to obtain more alcohol.

It's always seemed crazy to create a sudden spike in the number of impaired drivers.

What I'd like to see is a comparison of statistics from areas with early last call laws and other jurisdictions with later last call or no restrictions. It would be great to move past what feels good and use some actual data to make a our policies.
Indeed, I was thinking that generating a chording dictionary based on an optimal number of bits of information that would reduce the error rate on typos could potentially speed up overall throughput.
And/or add a new bullet to the guidelines: "Please don't assume that a comment is auto generated without solid proof".