skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family in Wisconsin, and I enjoy visiting. I like parts of Milwaukee, and I've gotten out into the countryside. It's really nice.

This is all subjective, of course, but what can I say? I've been in restaurant and bars at the top of tall hotels in Milwaukee, I enjoyed it and the view of the lake and city... and no, I don't think it even remotely measures up to views of the bay from Pacific Heights or another dozen views in San Francisco. Nor does the surrounding countryside in Milwaukee - which I sincerely do like quite a bit - measure up to redwood forests, Pt. Reyes, the headlands, the coastline from SF to Santa Cruz. A little farther afield, Big Sur and the high Sierras, Sonoma and Napa valleys. I'm not really even sure how to debate it with people, it seems so self-evident to me. California and SF have some really bad qualities, but no, it's not all six of one and a half dozen of the other around any randomly selected US city of 100K in the US. The nature around San Francisco is a differentiator and a selling point (though I would tend to agree that it is now officially overpriced).

Puget Sound is remarkable, though, and the forest around Portland is beautiful. As I've mentioned in another thread, though, the coast is far more accessible in San Francisco.
Benefits of My Philosophy Major
I lived in 4 different apartments in SF in 4 different neighborhoods, each for 1 year. (Haight/Ashbury, SoMa, Potrero, and Castro).

Where I lived in Potrero and SoMa was absolutely not walkable. Potrero was particularly bad because any amount of walking meant climbing a very, very long and steep hill - as in by the time you make it up, you're sweating like crazy.

Castro and Haight/Ashbury were walkable, but nowhere as walkable as a city like NYC.

The middle ground for me was a motorcycle. Easy to park anywhere. Cheap. Great gas mileage, etc.

I had roommates working for Cisco in SoMa who took the bus to work. That was a constant topic of frustration for him. He ended up getting a motorcycle too because of the commute.
Can’t you just review their code samples?

The organization of their code tells way more about their skills, than some stupid L33T coding problem that they must solve in 5 minutes.
> I disagree. Especially today, capital is highly abundant and dirt cheap. The markets are starved for yield on any sort of fixed income product, especially when it's secured by tangible assets with predictable cash flows.

I disagree here. Capital might be highly abundant and cheap in general but not necessarily in the ISP sector for startups. There are enormous costs associated with laying and maintaining fiber lines or building/launching internet satellites. SpaceX has an advantage by being able to launch their own satellites, it might not be profitable if they had to contract out all of their satellite deployments. I don't think investors will be eager to throw lots of capital at an ISP startup, especially after Google Fiber.
google "overdose deaths"
Putting digital services at the service of Europeans
No, that was never the strategy, no matter how many times people on HN claimed it was. Both Uber and Lyft are aiming for profitability next year with human drivers.

(Disclaimer, I work for Lyft but this has been said in public many, many times by both companies.)
In TX, a number of the rural telco providers already have really good service in the towns they cover. Presumably at least partially due to previous handouts of the universal service fund being used for broadband. So I assume the higher tier rollouts are in similar situations.

For example there is a rural co-op that covers a number of the towns just west of where I live. The towns actually have better service than I do (cheaper, and faster) because the entire town is a mile or two along a major highway, and a few rows of residential streets. The density is at least as good as the suburban area I live in for a square mile or so.

Drive a few miles out of town though, and your on some kind of wireless or sat service.
It would be nice if we could get away from nations, but I'm not really ready to cede the game and entrust China with supremacy or even parity and hope that it all works out OK.
Watch I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary on Baldwin, to understand what a genius he was - innovative, able to think clearly beyond the intense social pressures of his time and around him (something we can better appreciate these days), miles ahead, extraordinarily articulate. He is the best commentator on racial issues in 2020.
https://jperla.medium.com/tesla-saves-lives-waymo-gambles-pa...
Protein design is an opposite of protein folding, just last week we saw AlphaFold2 claim to solve protein folding (finding the best structure given the sequence) with Deep Learning. Now this here DeepChain claims to do inverse protein folding, that is finding the best protein _sequence_, given the structure. This could be quite exciting, if done right. Can't wait to get myself an account and try it out...
From what I have read about the affair, e.g. the latest "setting the record straight" blog post linked from the article, I have strong reasons to believe that the paper in question:

1. Did in fact go through and pass the internal approval process that he implied it didn't.

2. Was then subjected to a second, intransparent "review" that is not customary practice at Google.

3. The results of that "review" were presented to the author as a decree (which also is not customary practice).

4. And when the author subsequently protested that she would not work under such rules (as well she should) that was taken as a pretext to let her go — without even involving her direct manager.

Under those circumstances, Dean's response is misleading and evasive, a practice often characterized as "gaslighting" or, in the term that the grandparent comment ridiculed, a "micro-aggression".

It's not about whether you're a "white dude", it's what rules you set for "white dudes" vs. "non-white non-dudes".
The concept of data ownership is questionable. When you do business with me, and I observe you, are not my own observations my data?

I am all for privacy, but I don't think that we get to dictate what other people are allowed to do with "our" data, legitimately obtained through the course of normal business. Observations are our own data, including observations about others.

You don't own your reputation, for instance.
Since getting into embedded firmware, I've had to write some very "critical" pieces of low-level code, often very low-level.

For example, I took over a piece of code that ran on a DSP on an audio card. This code handled PCI bus transfers and I needed to change the shot size and optimize it - a lot. So, parts became Motorola DSP assembly language. I had to find a lot of tricks, using unused bits in wide registers as cycling counters, fun stuff like that. But I got it working and it became very reliable.

I've written low-level code for other DSPs, particularly code that handles audio mixing, does filtering and sample-rate conversion, and things like that.

I also have written low-level driver code for various embedded processors in C, including code that drives SPI peripherals.

One of the more interesting challenges is writing driver code that allows writing to on-chip flash memory. The code is executing right out of flash memory, but then you need to program pages from a write buffer into the same flash memory. To do this you have to jump to a function that is guaranteed to be in RAM, change the chip configuration such that the memory mapping behaves differently, write the page, put the chip configuration back to normal, and then continue executing the out of flash.

Other fun "critical" code includes bootloaders that upload a new version of the firmware, and it's interesting what they have to do, to then start executing the firmware. They have to stop interrupts including clocks, set some critical registers, and then NOT re-enable interrupts, but take a "soft reset" and launch the new program, which then will re-enable interrupts after it gets itself set up.

I really enjoy this kind of low-level stuff, which I guess makes me an outlier, but on the other hand it's been good for my career to carve out a niche doing stuff that a lot of people don't want to do.

Oh - for a slightly different definition of "critical," I've also been employed writing test code for medical devices (and found bugs in medical device firmware this way).
Thanks. This is the one I'm keeping my eye on. Of the split keyboard designs, it seems to be the only one with an integrated trackball at the thumb.
Long-time eBird user here. This is probably the best introduction I've ever read to how eBird impacts the culture of birding. Doesn't really fit here as well as the articles focusing on the data, but very well written and accurate.
Yes, though it would be painful in the short term I think a "correction" in bay-area cost of living would be a good thing in the long term because more than one type of person would be able to afford to live there.
There is no such thing as 'no tuition'. In Sweden's case, the public is paying the tuition
Well, I mean, it depends on what you mean by "transgression", but when I worked at Google the following are lists of things that were not considered transgression:

* Saying a high profile project is botched, mismanaged, and doomed to fail. (Anyone remember google+?)

* Mocking and criticizing the SVP who led the project.

* Rejoicing in the departure of the said SVP.

* Talking about one of the founders having an affair. (Well, to be fair, the news broke outside first.)

* Memes disagreeing with company decisions, including one that literally said "What the fuck are you doing" for firing someone.

* And, last but not least, complaining that the quality of microkitchen has gone downhill since $(the year you joined).
> and also disagree Monero is a better alternative

It's empirically better.

Monero uses zero-knowledge proofs for the range proof, cryptographically protects the sender, receiver and notional.

Monero uses known, audited cryptographic primitives, elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman over curve25519, EdDSA signature over the twisted Edwards variant of the same curve, libsodium.

Monero is much less likely to have a production exploit than zcash.

Are you saying if you needed to send money privately you'd actually choose Zcash over Monero?
I mean that's a pretty big endorsement and something people here should think about.

Also I read the highlights of the paper linked here and it seems fine and reasonable. These are reasonable questions to ask. Sure we can mitigate the cost of training these models with green energy or finding new optimization./compression techniques etc... but that doesn't mean that with ever evolving data volumes we will ever fully mitigate that. Bitcoin for all its merit consumes a lot of energy. Is that more than USD or something else?

Another thing to consider is that AI right now has a rich get richer winner take all dynamic. We have titans battling it out for NLP supremacy. Deep mind just revolutionized protein folding which has direct implications into biomedical research and technology. Small academic labs are at an extreme disadvantage unless they collaborate with big tech. Interestingly physics research evolved in a similar way with large particle colliders and telescopes started up. So you can make a direct analogy to that, that the basic research can only be done with million dollar investments. That's an ethical question. GPT-3 trained on misinformation would make pizza gate look tame in comparison. So there are huge social implications.

Even real datasets collected from society and social data will have implicit and explicit biases in them. There are huge ethical concerns with data, data collection and with the interpretations AI models will make.

Your credit score, your social credit score, a company that refuses to hire you because a chat bot has labeled you subversive.

The TSA/DHS blanket banned people from flying and gave no feedback or transparency into why. It took members of Congress to get some people redressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
you will have the same bad performance of electron on Windows, Linux and OSX.
The Hughes grant is highly questionable too. Luckily they only got about a million.

> In the age of COVID-19, any investment in ISP infrastructure is beneficial.

Not if you end up having nothing to show for it.
If you ever say something like this and you are fired, you should not be surprised. There’s basically never a reason to do this. If it’s something that your manager can fix, and you’re valued, you wouldn’t use an ultimatum. You’d have enough influence and mutual respect to have a conversation about it. If it’s something they can’t fix, your ultimatum is useless anyway.

Otherwise, this is an all-in bet, and you need to be fully committed to leaving before doing it.
Do you think nations are a bad thing? What's your alternative? City states? Planet-wide government?
If the author is saying that I should die in a particularly disgusting way, no, I don't need introspection to see why I have no use for the rest of the article's contents. You want me to take your comments seriously? Don't write like that.
The most infuriating thing about this article is how many individuals lives have been ruined, and Uber is still steamrolling on.

I don't just mean the woman killed by a self-driving vehicle, but the Uber employees who went to jail or were sued and took a fall while Uber just threw money to settle out of court.
You are mocking this cycle by 1) making it a paid offering 2) joking about it / not making it out be god's gift to humanity. :)
WordPress and PressIt plug-in.

Searchable, accessible from anywhere, and I own it, no worries about service shutting down.
>There is one small comment at the top of the chapter, which says ‘Irony detected’.

The whole chapter is littered with clearly tongue in cheek remarks.
Yes I linked to the tweet when I wrote the comment.

I paraphrased his babel in my comment for brevity.

> I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals

a bit like:

"I think we can make this encryption algorithm too weak for criminals, but strong enough for everyone else"

> He's got enough crypto and pro-privacy cred to be worth a listen.

Not from what I understand.
Yup.

https://www.liveabout.com/bikes-an-illustrated-history-36577...

For one thing, iron is pretty much a minimum requirement for bikes. Iron was really expensive right up till the point where we learned out to use coal forges. That meant that early bikes were going to be made out of wood. That's pretty much a non-starter. You can't have wooden peddles.

But then, if you want to talk about really modern bikes, you need chains. Chains aren't simple to manufacture, particularly by hand. You need uniformity and consistency. For that, you need manufacturing machines.

And let's not forget the tires. Wooden tires simply don't work well or last for too terribly long (no good having tires that rot. Not to mention how incredibly rough that ride must have been). Rubber is a relatively late invention that was needed to make inflatable tires.
And? Building bases on the moon, mars, or the asteroid belt doesn't require terraforming, anymore than living on an Antarctic base through winter requires the ability to farm for food, and wear a bikini.

We spent $700 billion a year on the defense budget, and $7 trillion on wars, $1 billion on inspiring stunts like moon landings or mars landings once a generation, are not really a waste, the money is mostly spent on earth, dual use technology comes out of it, and it opens the possibility of space tourism, not to mention just cheaper launch capabilities (driven by the need to send a million tons to Mars) also benefit building a better space-based asteroid/comet defense system too.
'It's a free-for-all': how hi-tech spyware ends up in hands of Mexico's cartels
You are underestimating how much man made CO2 is in the atmosphere. Preindustrial CO2 levels were at around 280ppm. Nowadays we are at 415ppm and no sign of any slowdown. 30% of the CO2 in the atmosphere came from burning fossil fuels. We are just a few decades away from doubling CO2 levels compared to preindustrial times.

On the order of millions of years the earth is a self correcting system that always tries to release as much energy as it absorbs. If you disrupt it in mere centuries you're going to see mass extinctions. Humans can adapt but often that just means they migrate to more hospitable locations. It means more refugees than we already have. The negative effects on agriculture will make it harder to feed 8 billion people so eventually civil wars will break out.
If he was 20 years younger, I'd tend to agree with you. At that age, though, it doesn't seem like the income would mean much.
Former Texan here! You will not get RSU's or bonuses as an engineer in Texas. You will get cash and insurance. If you doubt me, feel free to go on an interview and ask about those things!

I can tell you there's a reason I left Texas and it's because cash doesn't do to your savings what RSU's and bonuses will.
So sad /s
One of the selling points of Electron was making easy to port apps between platforms.
I disliked almost everything about SF when I lived there. Literally the only thing keeping there was my job.

It’s a great city for some. If you like it - I do hope you enjoy it and stay for as long as you wish.

I have long left and prefer other states like Texas and the South. It’s more my style.
Oh look, weekly HN UFO post. Talk about jumping the shark.
This indeed reminds me the blackjack movie 21
This is why I'm moving to Vancouver, BC.

Safe, walkable, low pollution, high density of tech co's, beautiful people.
I really wish I could use the Neural voices on this, but at $4 per million characters, I'm just beyond breaking even. Since this is a self-funded side project, I can't run at a loss, and I don't think you can reasonably charge more for the kind of service ListenLater.fm provides, but I'm really excited about the prices coming down in this area.

For what it's worth, Google, Amazon, and basically everywhere else I've looked have the $4/million or $16/million for the higher quality voices.

I'm currently just using Joanna since I can get some cost savings by not having to run Text to Speech on the same article multiple times, so long as everyone gets the same voice. But I'm considering offering a limited selection of voices for non-american listeners soon.
Live. Yes, barely.

Recover. No.

Turns out some latent conditions active when exposed to toxins.
In this case, it's about Libertarian ideology, which is about money, the free market fairy, and laissez faire Chicago school economics, so it amounts to the same thing.
That’s right up there with anything plant based (e.g. broccoli, chickpeas or kale)
I don't have any particular use for this right now but the visualization is so good that I actually followed along and get what it's about. Pretty obvious to say but it's super cool and I wish more projects had this kind of quick intro/overview.
Don't forget to buy his book!

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I almost got Tutanota, I went with runbox. It is based off Norway, hopefully this ruling will not applicable for other email companies with EU.
The game may be unpolished and unstable but I can still boot it up and play it with my friends, which is more than I can say about Linux gamers.
> Every time someone mentions cheap midwest cities I have to pull up https://crossingenres.com/out-in-the-united-states-where-can... and see if anything's changed since I last checked.

This analysis is shallow and has a thumb on the scale in favor of California. The author says of same-sex marriage: “There is much talk at the federal level by the presumed GOP candidate of creating legislation that would remove this right federally. I will not relocate to a state where my marriage could not be recognized.” Even if that was possible, why doesn’t that cross California off the list? Californians went to the trouble of overturning a state Supreme Court ruling to make same-sex marriage illegal, in 2008. It was illegal right up until Obergefell wiped out all such laws in 2015.

Folks in California might be surprised about what the rest of the country is really like. For example, same-sex marriage was legalized by a decision of the Iowa Supreme Court in 2009. Unlike California, there was no public support to overturn the ruling by constitutional amendment. Iowa has had joint adoption by same-sex couples since 2008. The state has outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity since 2007. (California enacted a state-wide protection against such discrimination in public accommodation in 2005.)

I’ll also observe that categorically rejecting states that have “religious freedom” laws, without digging into the specifics of the laws, would exclude most of the EU as well. Most countries have various exemptions to LGBT discrimination laws for e.g. religious organizations and their affiliates.
I left it intentionally ambiguous about my own opinions on the topic, as I am not interested in a nationalistic debate about my own views, as they aren't relevant here. (If you'd like to take an easy guess at them and discuss further, my email's in my profile.)

I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that whether something is wasteful or not is a value judgement in a lot of ways, and that there aren't usually one size fits all answers for all members of a society when it comes to value judgments, especially for a potentially multiplanetary society.
Tires don't last forever...I could see this being an issue.
> The fact is, starlink is the absolute best option in quite a few places - sparsely populated, far from dense urban areas.

If it were only subsidized there. Some of the Starlink areas are next door neighbours to subsidized fiber builds.
Ok, but real-world coastlines are not true fractals. I assume that the numbers do converge as resolution increases.
Completely agree. I’d add proximity to nature: Yosemite, Tahoe, Marin, Santa Cruz, etc. If you enjoy the outdoors (biking, surfing, skiing, hiking, etc.) and want to be in a US city, I’ve yet to find anywhere better.

Sure, lots of people are leaving SF but I’d bet that covid is a good thing for the city longterm. Some tech people will return and others will take the place of those that don’t. Why? Because some companies and jobs will still need to be in SF and for all the reasons people came before tech (food, art, etc.).

SF was so over its carrying capacity and skewed toward tech that a reduction in population, a chance for local government to catch up, slightly lower rent, and hopefully a diversifying population might be exactly what the city needs.

I grew up in the Bay and work in tech and personally, a SF that’s a better balance between the city of my childhood and the tech city it has become sounds ideal.
I really need Steam to add a "Might work in Linux, worth your time to try, but not guaranteed" icon along with the usuals. Because there's a bunch of stuff I'd like to play but I refuse to purchase if I'd have to fire up another machine for it.
I don't believe it. If there's one thing I learned from Star Trek, it's that you can cure the technologically-limited species' plague in 42 minutes.
I don't know if those who would argue against funding SpaceX take the "either traditional defense contractors or SpaceX" bait. I think a major argument is that there are better ways to spend the money here on Earth. I.e., it's nobler and more feasible to protect and improve this planet than settle another one.

As a former space industry worker, I don't know if I subscribe to that, but that's the best steelmanning I can come up with.
Considering the Air Force can't hide the X-37B from amateur astronomers it's more than a little suspect that Americans have been traveling to Mars for decades without anyone noticing anything leaving.
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Wait, I thought banning convenient shopping bags and drinking utensils was supposed to fix everything.