skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been watching this and wondering the same thing. I think Seattle Washington's lack of city and state income tax is a huge plus and provides insulation. Contrast that with SF California of I think 1.50% + 7.25 - 12.3% taxes.

I wonder if a lot of Californians are coming to WA because of this
at that time i did not have regular backups, so i had to find alternatives
> It would be unremarkable if the same system would have to be retrained from scratch to work with a different language, but I take it that you mean more than that.

It really is that unremarkable, despite the GPs insinuations to the contrary.
And to simplify even more:

Generators are just spinning magnets. When load goes up, magnetic resistance goes up, so given the same input mechanical power, the spinning will slow down.
I can confidently assure you that I've had that feature off for ages and could not possibly be happier about it.
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
Historically cost. Building a non-synchronous grid is much harder because you need equipment that can correct for phase differences in your grid. This equipment used to be very large and very expensive, Mercury-arc valves are some of equipment that used to be used (they provide AC to DC conversion) [1].

But modern power electronics are so cheap and efficient that High Voltage DC transmission lines are becoming increasingly common, driven by the fact the High Voltage DC is more energy efficient that High Voltage AC (you can push more power down the same cable, with less energy lost to resistive loads because DC doesn't suffer from the skin effect [2]).

With more High Voltage DC transmissions lines it becomes easier to run non-synchronous grids, because the DC transmissions acts as natural breaks between synchronous grids. Running a non-synchronous grid tends to be a little easier because you no longer need to worry about strange phase variances caused by multiple transmission lines of different lengths injecting phase delays into your network.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect
How are they working against your personal interests?
sorry, i thought i shared the paywall-free link, here it is https://medium.com/dev-genius/what-to-do-after-accidental-rm...
I found [1] https://www.igorslab.de/en/inside-amd-bios-what-is-really-hi... to be a good explanation. Essentially it's the crank which brings up the rest of the SOC. The other functions are optional, but no booting possible without it.
Really? They regularly have huge data breaches and are totally incompetent at protecting data and security in general. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/03/home-affa...
In theory, you're right. However, in practice, SaaS pretty much always implies multi-tenancy. Why would one want to host software for someone else who is a single entity?
I think it may depend on how strenuous the exercise is rather than the duration, but I have a similar observation. I normally sleep 6-6.5 hours at night. When I did p90x (45-60 minute sessions) a few years back, I would usually be wide awake after 5 hours. I suspect this is because I sleep really deeply when tired - I remember most of those nights sleeping dreamlessly.
I encounter abandoned syringes and feces in the street multiple times daily. I’ve seen syringes in public transport less frequently, once or twice in 5 years here.
> One thing you can't escape is just how much money supply has increased

The money supply is supposed to expand as more people use it.

That's why we don't use gold / silver / whatever coins anymore, we couldn't dig it out of the ground fast enough. When population grew, there wasn't enough coins to go around, so everyone just kept ledgers about who owed what to who.
I think, the best solution here will be for Google to sell all its assets and business in Australia to a company to be named by the Australian prime minister.

If they wish to continue to offer search there that is.
How do you develop/IDE/debug apps like this though?
I've actually preferred it on Google services. I seem to get the same recommended videos on YT otherwise and I like how unlikely I am to click on an ad if I ever see one.

What personalization products do you work on? Just curious if there are other services/situations where it's a better experience.
I get more relevant results from DuckDuckGo. Who doesn't do the personalisation to begin with.

I have found personalisation doesn't work for any search product. YouTube's ranking engine won't get me what I'm looking for. Google's personalised search doesn't get me what I'm looking for, and the de-personalised whilst better, only gets me halfway there because it still tries to geo-bubble me.

I am aware that what I search for makes me slightly outside the norm. All attempts to bubble me fail because of that, and turn your product into nothing more than an exercise in frustration as I try to escape the narrow roads you expect me to walk.
Cool, I've always wondered how the stenography machines worked. Also, I'm stupid because I read through many pages before realizing I was mispronouncing 'Chording' in my mind as 'Chow-ording' and was wondering where that word came from.
They offer "anti-interdiction service"

https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/

From the site:

-Customized tamper-evident tape on the sealed plastic bag surrounding the laptop itself

-Customized tamper-evident tape on the internal, branded box

-Glitter nail polish covering the center (or all) screws on the bottom of the laptop

-Pictures of all of the above plus pictures of the inside of the laptop before sealing the bottom case

-All pictures sent to the customer out-of-band, signed by Purism and encrypted against the customer’s GPG key

-All coordination occurring over GPG-protected email
Extensive discussion 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573
I live in Brooklyn and have seen 2-3 business close a week around me. At this point almost every other storefront is vacant (many of which have been since before the pandemic). My hope is that this will bring down commercial real estate prices down significantly and create an opportunity for a lot more small businesses in a year or so, most of which I assume will be restaurants and other "experience" based shops.

The outdoor dining has been a great addition and it looks like it might become permanent [1], which would be a big plus for the city.

There's also a lot more people biking now and I'm hopeful that it will help shape future legislation to make the city even more bike friendly. (I went to 4 different bike shops around me and they were all sold out).

https://ny.eater.com/2020/8/3/21352532/outdoor-dining-extend...
Hey guys, I've done SICP in the past and I like scheme a lot. I've since then moved to Haskell.

How do I get a functional programming job (say lfe)? A lot of the job listings ask for experience of 2 years. Any suggestions on where I should look would be really helpful.
It appears they've blocked access to it from non-Australian IPs.

I wonder how that conversation goes...

Middle manager: We have a message that we want an entire continent to see. But only that continent. Nobody else.

Webdev: OK, but why?

Middle manager: Because if people outside of that continent see what's happening on that continent, they might want the same thing.

Webdev: That feels weird and icky.

Middle manager: Here, have some stock options and office toys.
Hi everybody, author here!

Task is a build tool / task runner that can be used to automate stuff, like code generation and all kind of development tasks.

You can think of it as an alternative to Make (Makefile).

The offical website / documentation is here: https://taskfile.dev/
Wow, not too long ago I tried to get a dev environment setup for working with GAS + Typescript and after a few hours of banging my head on things, I gave up because I couldn't get it working the way I wanted. This is fantastic. Thank you for doing this, I'll definitely try it out!
It is a well-worded question for its purpose. The whole point is that, of all the options given, only one is justifiable (and it does not require a tendentious stretch to justify it, either.) Even “light” (which was not chosen) only applies half the time, on average. This is a valid test of natural language understanding.
It is happy to see that Rudy Giuliani had better days when he did good and he was respected for it. How the mighty have fallen.

> About an hour later, Mr. Giuliani was at Fresh Kills himself, standing amid garbage hills 200 feet tall, alongside Staten Island’s borough president, Guy Molinari, and Gov. George E. Pataki. These three Republicans had worked together to close the dump that Mr. Molinari’s father first protested when it opened in 1948, a time when Fresh Kills was a saltwater marsh where kids swam. After 1948, it became an ecological nightmare and a political hot potato. A banner behind the politicians read, “A Promise Made, a Promise Kept.”
It's definitely possible to have a good experience without personalization. Depending on how much you inherently value google not storing data about you, it may be the only way for you to be happy.

But it's very unlikely the actual product experience would be worse with personalization enabled, measured by probability that a search includes something relevant near the top.
Unfortunately the same business types who demanded such a ridiculous self-own as an integrated CPU-level backdoor also pressured AMD into shipping the same thing. And we know less about the AMD PSP than we do about Intel ME.

ARM is no better, either, at least in practice. Their relatively friendly licensing terms would allow a vendor willing to make their own silicon in volume to ship a no-TrustZone, no-Secure-Boot SOC. However, nobody does this. In fact, moving to ARM has traditionally been used as an excuse to lock out third-party operating systems and unlicensed software. (Remember Windows RT tablets?)
Absolutely, I totally agree. It's going to be really sad when we're out in a year (or two or three) and all those places that we went to and remember are no longer there because of this pandemic and ensuing lockdown.

But I think about the places (bars, restaurants, clubs, galleries, small shops) I visited almost a decade ago now when I first moved to SF and a bunch of those disappeared in the good times! They were displaced by rising commercial rents or a change in their clientele because of the rapid gentrification of neighborhoods and replaced, oftentimes with more kitsch stuff but sometimes with amazing restaurants or shops, which might not survive this lockdown.

San Francisco was once destroyed by a fire and has bounced back over and over again and I don't think this time will be different. It'll be different but not in the way people are panicking about in this thread and post.
Interesting thinking. People have fairly predictable / individual word usage patterns and modes. GPT-3 is trained on the words of a whole lot more than one person, so that would probably skew a word frequency analysis quite a lot - even on a paragraph by paragraph basis.
I am. It helps to be grateful for what you've got, and focus on simple pleasures.
Either way it demonstrates that their judgement was flawed
There isn't a body that's suitable for me, unfortunately. The best I could hope for might be a somewhat waifish androgyny, but even that would only be a very, very loose approximation.

> So your problem was that other people didn't accept you for what you are

No, the problem is that my identity didn't match my external presentation. Yes, fixing that comes with some stigma (and that sucks), but fundamentally the problem is making the outside match the inside.

> And why is it necessary for people to advertise their pronouns

Being called he causes dysphoric feelings and anxiety for me. This is not something that I have conscious control over. I have learned some adaptive behaviors, but ultimately it's much less uncomfortable for people to use they/them for me. I ask people to do this, and generally people don't have an issue. You could also use my name and avoid pronouns if you want. Ultimately, you can choose not to use my pronouns knowing it makes me uncomfortable. I ain't going to yell at you, but I'll also remember that you made a choice knowing how it impacts me.

> Why do we have to divide people on a spectrum

Great question. I actually think of gender as much more complex than a spectrum, but there are folks who see it as two, concrete points and will loudly exclaim "ONLY TWO GENDERS" to me. I'm just sharing my own observations about the behaviors I've seen and how I choose to interpret them.
Sorry this is remotely tangentially related, but one of my favorite websites to peruse when bored is this hello world collection http://helloworldcollection.de/ You can really get a feel of a language's personality and style from its 'hello world'
>> SF is known to have a world-class food scene.

Exactly. It is known to have a scene. It is a great place for people who like to go to restaurants. For people who like good food, not so much. I remember going to a tea tasting in SF's chinatown while at a conference there. My friend (a local) asked if we had such good tea in Vancouver. The shop owner who was serving us interrupted: "They do. My brother has a shop there. He sent me this tea."
For me, it's too much of a hassle to open the mdn website THEN type in the search phrase.

I would have to change this:
CMD + SPACE -> safa (Open Safari) -> CMD + l (url bar) -> type: html forms mdn -> Click result

To this:
CMD + SPACE -> safa -> CMD + l -> type: devel (auto completes to mdn) -> Click search bar -> type: forms -> Click result

There are five actions in the former, while 7 in the latter.
I mean the miniature physics simulation of me actually imagining another embodied human falling off of a beam. There is a huge knowledge of the physical world encoded into that. Think about it, you can viscerally imagine balancing on a beam, losing your footing, falling, and the subsequent forces and accelerations on all parts of your body during and after the fall, in real time. All of that information is in our model, and none of it is in GPT's. Everyone has this, it's builtin. I'm not talking about Newton's Laws here.

The physical mechanics of being an embodied thing isn't the only example of this. Any experiential knowledge, any knowledge with feedback suffers from this. And any knowledge that is difficult to put into words, like emotional knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, etc., will be off-limits.

That's my point.
When going remote you don't get to avoid the California state taxes for the year, will never avoid it for current granted-but-unvested RSUs, and won't avoid them in the future unless you get your employer to actually change your employment to the new state (not exactly sure what the process is here, but I know my 'desk' is in CA so I have to pay taxes there). So this doesn't apply to the many people in the technology industry leaving CA to take advantage of temporary remote work
I work on a lot of different products, usually trying to answer the related question "how much better on average is the personalized experience". Often I look at the more relevant but less profitable question, "what percent of users would have had a better experience without personalization". It's always been <1%.
Yes it is, it’s supposed to increase with population, GDP and a few other things. The US hasn’t seen population growth to justify THIS level of monetary expansion since WW2!
This reads to me more as if though G/FB have to tell news organizations what data is being collected, rather than disclosing the actual data.

A quote from the Q&A seems to clarify:

> give news media businesses clear information about the nature and availability of user data collected through users’ interactions with news on their services;
Condos are, but single family home prices are going up.
Why not give you cat vaccines? Cost?
I know a fair number of people moving away because it's too expensive.

I think it's important to recognize that unless you know people from a broad selection of socioeconomic groups, it's easy to have observer bias.
and give google 45 or 90 days to comply
The US has 2 reactors under construction...
USA != world

1. UPS do not leave packages at door in all countries

2. Some people live in apartments with nowhere safe for packages to be left

3. In some cities/countries in-person delivery does not exist at all. Only "collect at post office"
Mines from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection also doesn’t require guessing and does take that case into account:

> you are guaranteed to be able to solve the whole grid by deduction rather than guesswork. (Deductions may require you to think about the total number of mines.)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine...
A few of my friends have been asked to take pay cuts and/or relocate out of SF so the company could avoid the city payroll tax. I imagine this will have ripple effects. I already see more office space for lease signs, for rent, and for sale signs than any other time I can remember. SF Bay Area is due for a massive fall in real estate prices.
A criminal use is still a use. Some percent of gun sales are for criminal purposes. This counts as market demand just the same as any other sale. Precisely measuring how valuable this is to criminal enterprise is an interesting question.

My main area of skepticism regarding this proposed use case is that a blockchain is an immutable public ledger, and thus with enough sleuthing, it is probably quite traceable. Indeed many criminals have later been apprehended through monitoring bitcoin transactions.
as another person who worked on personalization I can assure you that way over 90% of users prefer personalization. Decades of A/B tests have proven that.

And yes, some people, myself included turn it OFF because of privacy concerns. But we are in a really small minority.
> As somebody who works on ranking and personalization products, I can confidently assure you that you would not prefer a less personalized experience.

As somebody who uses search products many times a day and who has opted in to the less personalized experience in several different ways over the past several years, I can confidently assure you that I very strongly prefer the "less personalized" experience. Additionally, I don't feel like I need a shower just because I used it.

Why on earth would I want you to track me more? I don't see any reason.
Right now, we only in theory know how to do some very specific things with quantum computers (mostly involving factoring prome numbers and doing physics simulations). These things mostly aren't useful to average computer user.

It would probably be an add-on, kind of like a GPU (if we massively solve all the engineering problems), but only for people working on problems that need it. Sort of like how GPUs are a thing now, but most web servers dont have one because they are useless for your typical web server.
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle
I think the first analogy the author made to shenzen io is still a good one for factorio, just a lesser scale. This is engineering without many of the messy unfun parts. No setting up tool-chains, or build tools, or your environment and being totally lost in what to do. The game itself will (usually) not have bugs and it has a clearly defined goal (which can be difficult for things like personal projects if that part of the creativity/drive just isn't there). So even if it is a game that invokes the messy parts of engineering, it does so without actually making them sometimes intractable because it has been designed around those (and in fact is designed to specifically smooth out the curve of difficulty).

The other thing to keep in mind is that like many of the zachtronics games this one is not directly programming. The spatial orientation puzzles and 2d layout and organization of the factory is distinctly different from most programming. I would compare it to trying a language like Lisp or Haskell when has only used languages like C, C#, and Java. It's a totally different take on the concept of symbolic computation (re: programming). And it is one unlike any programming language you will have ever used. So if you enjoy the experience of learning new paradigms, and viewing classic computational ideas from the perspectives of those new paradigms, factorio might be fun for that.

Hopefully that's helpful.
Yes, fundamentally I agree, of course. If you could find a way to get all of natural knowledge into a sufficient enough network, you would probably have a very intelligent network. But getting text in is easy. It's the most manipulable proxy model. Getting other data in, data that represents what I'm talking about, is much much more difficult.
>> That's true, but being able to quickly click on the line that has the error and have your editor navigate to the file automatically is slightly more painful to setup, and is bespoke for whatever tool you are using.

In the event that the tool doesn't output in one of the common formats, it's usually just a regex; again I had this in Vim for several different languages back in the 90s.

>> My point was just that a tight integration between language and IDE/editor makes the overall language experience much nicer.

I agree (happy SLIME user here), but it often seems like I'm in the minority. I've literally never met someone in person besides me that uses pycharm, and you are about the 3rd person online I've seen mention it in a favorable light.
Love it. Can't wait to check it out.
The government that mandates backdoors in every software product? That government?[1]

1. https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-...
Just because you can afford it doesn't mean it's a good deal, basically. And living in SF with everything shut down is a pretty terrible deal.
To all the people (hopefully Australians) who paint this as the government propping up legacy media: Isn't it better to have control of your media in local, Australian-owned and regulated megacorps, rather than some faceless megacorp in another country?
Did I miss something at the airport? I haven’t flown in over a year, is it a hellhole now? Was it ride sharing that fostered the downturn?
Yeah seriously. This gave me flashbacks to Boston.
The "İ" strikes again
Actually, sake can be enjoyed cold, warm, or hot. Having the sake serve at a warm temperature doesn’t mean there is anything inherently wrong with the sake itself.

The purpose of changing the temperature, as you pointed out, is to change the flavor notes. Having a particular sake cold may bring out fruitier notes while warming it up gives it an extra layer of vanilla. This is just an example. All sake have different notes and it can be really subjective on what notes are being registered. The ability to change the flavor drastically just by temperature is what makes sake interesting. This legit use isn’t just limited to subpar sake, but to the entire quality spectrum sake as well. So it really depends on many factors like the intended temperature consumption by the brewery or the establishment you are consuming the sake at (they want particular notes to come up so it goes well with the pairing of a dish, for example), or the most important: consumers palate.

Playing with the temperature is akin to whisky drinking: neat vs on the rocks vs water dropper. Each preparation changes the flavor and aren’t necessary bad.

You are correct that warming up bad quality sake can mask the undesirable attributes.
> As somebody who works on ranking and personalization products, I can confidently assure you that you would not prefer a less personalized experience.

I absolutely prefer non-personalized web search results, the YouTube home page you get when you are not signed-in (and have cookies deleted) and suggestions based on the current view only (not on the previous history). I confidently assure you ;-)

Obviously there are people who feel different.