skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lot of people who had to move away from rural areas to get tech jobs. I would guess that it wouldn't be so bad if it were those people moving back. Or just people who had a genuine interest in living there. Instead it sounds like it's mostly people who have always lived in the cities that have some idealized view of the country that doesn't actually match the local customs/culture, sort of like gentrification in the cities.

"and in many cases use their money to legally fight with the district about funding because their kids go to private school"

I'd be interested to learn more about this. I grew up in some rural areas and went to private schools but never heard of anything happen like that.
Which would indicate he is still available _for free_ to do the duty of reviewing the patches.

Good open source citizen, if you ask me.
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Law and application seem to differ/lag somewhat. Each influences the other. It’s worth being aware that neither fully determines the other, and that each evolves in parallel. We live in an organic world where things are not as well defined and predictable as the typical programmer might wish. To thrive, one must dirty oneself in the actual code, rather than get bogged down in the terminology of the man page.
>"...If one of the parties to a lawsuit conceals or destroys important evidence..."

Then how do you treat this Anthrax archive destruction done with the blessing from FBI?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
Although this is not provided by SimpleR State out of the box, the library makes it easy to implement a "selector" function that accepts an SQL query, and pass this selector to the entity hook. This SQL query syntax in React can well be a library on its own, I suppose.
They've had some good results though. From poor and third worldy they now rank

GNP PPP/capita #2 (USA #7)

Corruption perceptions index #3 (USA #26)

Life expectancy #5 (USA #40)

they must have been doing something right. I'm sure the US was way ahead on all of those back in 1965. Also I was in that part of the world last year when the race riots broke out in the US and it looked terrible - Singapore is one of the most racially mixed countries in the world and seems to deal with that much better.
it’s not that weird to be upset about part time residents that drive up property values and taxes and contribute nothing else to a community
You fold them so you can stack them on other folded things. If they're messily folded, the pile falls over as you carry the basket upstairs, or stack other things onto them on your shelves.
Numerous times in the past couple of years I’ve briefly tried Firefox, or considered trying it again.

Stuff like this just keeps coming up completely souring it’s reputation.

At least anecdotally speaking, they’re shooting themselves in the foot and I’ll put off touching FF for another few months until I forget about this.
I'm not quite sure what position and tone the parent comment is aiming for. Is this an example of the GP's concern that you are agreeing with? Or an example of why you think graphic design really is overrated because here's a company with millions in funding that doesn't care about design?

You're welcome to hire an agency to help with things like colors, fonts, illustrations, and to audit our component library.

I suspect someone like the GP could help with the other 90% of what graphic design is about, too, and the attitude implied here (whether it's your or the company's, again I'm not sure) is probably exactly what the GP is disappointed with.
Because one better knot will do!
What does this have to do with a microsoft page on indirect time of flight?
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You make it sound so calm and settled!

as a young developer in California Silicon Valley area, I saw companies try to create 24-7 blanket enforcement of IP rights, solely to increase control and profits; I also saw coders definitely steal company IP and try to start new companies. That State law you are referring to was passed long after this battle was underway, and I can tell you that companies definitely denied that the law existed, said it was unfair, and also paid lawyers to write contracts that tried to take employee IP anyway, and use sales tactics on new employees to accept it.
You can improve security of the booklet with secret splitting: type the strong part from the booklet then keep typing "hunter2" from memory. The (strong) booklet part protects from machines, the (weak) remembered part protects from humans. Weak passwords are ineffective only against machines, they are still effective against humans.
Because companies reasonably try to avoid throwing away money?

I mean, I'm not sure exactly why companies higher CWs as opposed to just lower-paid FTEs. Could be a remedial stopgap to deal with issues in the "normal" hiring pipeline, I'd guess? But the answer to why they don't just throw extra money at people who are already willing to work for you is obvious.
WTF, it's already started. And, FF discontinued on Android TV.

Mozilla is being run into the ground with leadership entropy like an empire in decline.
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The kinect does do the "chirp", but this detail is omitted from TFA.
true. 99% of the time i wasn't on campus so "come to the friday afternoon austin beer bash" e-mails didn't bother me as I wasn't in austin :).
its more the silent power dynamic that i felt. if a full time apple employee is just spouting nonsense on a call, i was not going to make too much of a peep. but if they had a disagreement with me or one of my coworkers we usually just had to grin and bear it and "ohh yes of course we can do it that way". but thats life i guess.
Geico data breach exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers
> is Prolog a good language for doing statistics or ML or scientific computing?

Not really, but the interesting thing about Prolog is ILP (inductive logic programming). ILP does things current deep learning can not: learning compact models, in a data-efficient manner, while utilizing explicit background knowledge. It has its own limitations though, related to noise tolerance, scalability and efficiency.
That sentiment isn't unique to small towns either.

Residents of Austin, TX have been complaining that the city changed or got too crowded shortly after they moved in, whether that was a year ago or decades ago. People who moved to SF in 2010 complained about the people moving there in 2015.

Same thing happens at a neighborhood or district level too. Everybody feels like they were the last person to move in while it was still good and everything after them is unwelcome.
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There's a real gem at the end:

> However the family succession and continuing presence of the military at the heart of power may reassure nervous allies such as France and the US, observers said.

With a link to this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/natkpowell/status/1384477661632757774
This is blatantly false. People are using formal verification tools in hardware design, and they do work and they do compose. Here is a simple verilog code which accomplishes some of what he wants.

module Blinker (
input wire clock,
output reg state
);

always @(posedge clock)
state <= !state;

`if FORMAL

always @(posedge clock)
assert ($past(state) != state);

`endif

endmodule

module testbench (
input wire clock,
output wire state1,
output wire state2
);

Blinker blinker1(clock, state1);
Blinker blinker2(clock, state2);

`if FORMAL

# assume that they are different
assume (state1 != state2);

# then they stay different
always @(posedge clock)
assert (state1 != state2);

`endif

endmodule

Of course you NEED clock wires to the blinker. Composability comes from the use of assume and assert. You assume that your environment is behaving according to spec and you prove that you are also behaving to spec PROVIDED the environment working correctly. See https://symbiyosys.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html for more details.

Moral of the story: broken spec cannot be used, and I am saying this as a mathematician!
Thank you, that is quite interesting! As you can see, even though I have an applied math degree, I still can't just analytically infer a distribution. You need empirical results. This reminds me of the Jellyfish network topology for data centers (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51943691_Jellyfish_...), where they found completely random route selection to be faster and more scalable than any other existing solution.

I suspect, naively, that latency purely from network appliance queueing probably gives a mixture of Poissons in a straight line bus topology. But add in arbitrary routing and the much more complicated schedulers of the servers themselves, and you get no well-behaved distribution at all.

It's especially interesting to compare the SLAs given by data center providers that tend to always use 99th or even 99.9th percentile worst case performance, with application metrics using arithmetic averages.
I think you've put your finger on it. Because guns are ubiquitous in the US, the police are afraid every single time they interact. This leads to mistakes, sometimes deadly ones. "Almost zero chance" times millions of interactions means a few very, very bad outcomes.

Those outcomes may be clustered around certain people who already have a tenuous relationship with the police. Again, a small amount of racism times a lot of interactions leads to some very visible issues. And now that people have cameras all the time, those very visible issues are obvious to everybody.

There doesn't seem to be any solution to this. The US has committed to its guns. Police must assume that you are armed, and agitated by having to deal with police (even if they've pulled you over for a genuine but minor infraction such as a moving violation or equipment failure). In this circumstance, people are going to die. It's simply a thing we have tacitly accepted.

There will also be people who won't tacitly accept it, and their outrage is also a thing we have to accept. They live in fear of an armed police force the same way the armed police force is afraid of them. That's going to lead to escalating violence, and there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about that.
I wasn't trying to imply that there was. More that any push toward long-term stability gets a ridiculous amount of pushback on the methods. If it is done through legislation, the free-market libertarians come out in droves to say "No! Let the market decide!" If it is done through market forces, the free-market libertarians come out in droves to say "No! The market should be amoral and profit-oriented! Let legislation decide!"

I recognize that these may be entirely separate subsets of free-market libertarians, but it's enough to make me grow frustrated at the entire group.
You can absolutely make ToF sensors work outdoors in direct sunlight, but you need to operate at different frequencies that require more expensive emitters and detectors to avoid being saturated by light from the sun.
Related:
http://xahlee.info/python/quality_docs.html |
http://xahlee.info/comp/which_programing_language_has_best_d...

It's curious, despite not a example of a great language, PHP has great documentation.

I tried Pharo, and a great functionality there I miss in other languages, is the search by example ability. Saves a lot of visits to stackoverflow. See for example:

https://avdi.codes/in-which-i-make-you-hate-ruby-in-7-minute...
What a horrible deduction to make from a couple of sentences.
We work on a solution - https://relizahub.com

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Ask HN: What content license do you use on your blog?
Do you use any type of CC or other content license for your blog?

Does it even matter if such a license exists on your content or not?

Most technical user blogs on HN don't seem to have any type of licensing from personal observation.

Curious to know what the HN crowd thinks about content licensing.
I've heard about this for years, but I've never had it happen, and I don't know anyone else who's experienced it. I don't doubt it happens, but what could cause such a discrepancy in the time it takes to degrade?
(Context - I've worked for IBM on two non-consecutive occasions, do not currently, speak only for myself etc)

It may also vary by geography.

Between 2005-2012ish, IBM UK and IBM Australia didn't claim ownership of IP created on your own time, and I wouldn't have wanted to sign up if they had, but they did require you to consult them and seek permission before becoming heavily involved in FOSS and contributing to public OSS projects. This was for several reasons, IIRC -

- To make sure you weren't competing with their business
- To make sure you weren't leaking IBM IP
- To make sure you weren't bringing IP into IBM that might cause issues (think SCO)

This all seems pretty reasonable. OTOH the one time I did want to make a contribution to the linux kernel (board support for an ARM NAS), IBM delayed giving me any answer at all until the moment had passed and the project was no longer interesting. I very quietly helped a couple of other people get their boxes running too, as I hadn't been explicitly forbidden from sharing the work, but I didn't feel confident trying to submit it to the maintainers in case it got picked up by my employer and they kicked up a fuss.
> Compared to McDonald's employees, probably. Compared to other actual technical jobs, like electrician, I can't imagine.

When someone has few work skills - as noted in the article - do they more closely resemble a McDonald's employee or an electrician?

Yes, people with low/no skills and little/no experience tend to start in crap roles. Some people will not further their skills, abilities, or knowledge and stay there. Others - like Ms Wait in the article - will use it as a stepping stone to pay the bills as they grow and improve.

Wiping out low level jobs by paying "too much" (yes, entirely subjective) raises the bottom rung of the ladder but also puts it out of reach of others. There's no magic right number but there are dangers in having it too low or too high.
They literally have the best (ok, subjectively) browser right now and they're just...

What even are they doing? What is their goal with all these user-hostile changes?

If it's to try juicing up active userbase just be a good browser and wait for chrome to make a change that annoys everyone (FLoC seems like a good candidate)
This sounds exactly like the stupid decisions made when all you do is look at data and not care about anything else. If all you care about is more people making Firefox the default browser and not care about doing the right thing, then you get people like this doing what he is doing.

Doing the right thing is to ask once, and stop asking. To do something different is horribly stupid and reflects very poorly on Firefox as a whole.

YouTube keeps asking me if I want to switch to a paying account and I keep clicking no. It’s very annoying and the fact that Firefox is following this tactic is truly sad.
It's actually DEoptimized for outrage, if one reads the guidelines closely.
It's a rhetorical argumentation technique. They make it seem like it's inevitable and follows naturally from the obvious fact that you are an employee 100% of the time, so they don't even need to spell out the specific point in the contract, implying that it's not just a technicality in the contract but something fundamental. Which is of course not true, as in many countries you can't have such valid terms.
Great thing about changing your password - that old one - also now "ancient and obsolete".
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No, my view is essentially that companies should be democratic institutions, and in order to achieve that it means the workers must also be capital owners.

Corporations today are essentially authoritarian regimes, whose agents have wide remit to dictate the working conditions of other people.

The bit that usually confuses people about the socialist axis is that capitalism vs socialism is always framed in terms of free market enterprise vs statism; I’m arguing you can keep the free market dynamic while having a truly empowered workforce (not just some management spiel). This is very different to the models where the state either runs everything, or taxes private enterprise to run half the things.
I love the drone videos produced to replace Edinburgh's traditional new year celebrations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV4jNWZlmEU
Is there anything I can help you with?

No, thanks; I'm just browsing.

Is there anything I can help you with?

I just said "no, thanks."

Is there anything I can help you with?

Hello?

Is there anything I can help you with?

#$&@! Leave me alone. I'm not a criminal for just browsing here. Can you stop profiling me too?

Is there anything I can help you with?

...
From second-hand experience (hearing directly from someone who was from a place like this), I would also add Hawaii to this list of places. Although the dynamic has existed there for a long time, it seems definitely to have accelerated in recent years.

It's somewhat received wisdom that those who can afford private schooling throughout their K-12 years leave the islands for labor opportunities (outside of tourism and real-estate management) in the lower 48 (the mainland). Meanwhile those who have to suffer through the Hawaii public education system are destined to do their part in entertaining wealthy mainlanders.

Extremely high land and input costs have long pushed many innovative/nascent businesses to the mainland. Consequently the jobs created by those firms are not available to people from Hawaii. I've heard of some promising new ventures that are seeking to change this, but I'm not holding my breath that this dynamic will change anytime soon.

Note: I apologize if I've casted shade upon anyone who's been through the Hawaii public education system and found a career that suits them.
To be fair, it's not just the monopoly money that changes things but also long term changes in economics.

I'm old enough that I remember my home town (which has been inundated by California retirees) as having 100% family-owned grocery stores, drug/general/hardware stores, distributorships, all of which started shifting heavily to chain and corporate dominance by sometime in the late 1970's. Since the modern concept of retiree and tourism based economies hadn't taken hold, towns of that type had to be mostly independent in terms of income for money inflow....small factories, mining, farming and ranching, etc.

I'd say that this movement of people who can afford it just another side effect of something bigger. The irony that a lifestyle of living in a nicer small town with a Powerwall and a Model 3 is both less sustainable and less diverse is not lost on me.
Ridgway, CO
> Are we still ignoring the ecological collapse that is caused by urban sprawl? We *must* increase the density of our cities.

I agree. And moving from California to somewhere that still builds new housing is one way to contribute to that.
These figures are not just creepy, they don't look like those artsy hand drawn figures which do a better job. Line drawings are more impressive.

EDIT: Not being dismissive, these figures are weirdly disturbing.
Sure, when the local desicions have outside externalities (e.g. pollution).

But this is a case where we're taking about outsiders making it more difficult for locals to hold to their homes, so they (the outsiders) have it easier to live in some place.

How is that OK? Ousiders "really" wanting to live to that place is not enough justification (people want lots of things. Many people want a pony too, doesn't mean they will get one or that they deserve one).

Plus, those outsiders only want to come live to a place (over other places) because the place has been developed well by the locals.

So they like what the locals have toiled and paid to build, and want to make it easier to throw the locals out of their homes, to rent there themselves. Doesn't sit right...
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Why did you include the Mozilla Foundation as an awful decision?
Or they could hire them as employees. This is not temporary work, they only use agencies to save money and circumvent workers protections.

I get that there are freelancers who like not being employees but that's not the case here. I bet most Temps at Google would love getting employee status and there's no reason most of them shouldn't. It's not like Google couldn't afford the extra payroll.
'The top comment is an inaccurate claim of "nothing to see here", but don't insinuate anything.'
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>Who’s to say that more issues won’t come up as time goes on?

I don't think I was saying that they wouldn't.

My estimate was based on pessimistically assuming there is a new issue every year. That could be because of a new vaccine or because of delayed issues uncovered with the existing ones.
Ughhh those sponsored links ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26262031 ) are only just new. I can't believe they are pulling that.

Glad it can be turned off but I bet it won't sync to all my other systems.
My wife and I traded living near a beach and lagoon in San Diego country for a small but nice house in a mountain tourist town (Sedona Arizona). That was back in 1998. Except for some time working as a contractor at Google in Mountain View and managing a deep learning team for Capital One in Urbana/Champaign IL, we have lived a quiet life in the mountains since 1998.

One reason for my success in being happy here is that I accept the 1 1/2 million tourists who flood through our town every year. I view them as good for our economy and go out of my way to offer advice on the hiking trails to people who are obviously visitors, easy to do since I like talking with people. A few of my friends are miserable because of the tourists, but they are just a fact of life.
> no-one in the UK thinks that this is a major national security issue.

"says" yes... "thinks"... you don't know. I would think it if i were them.
I have once built an interactive calculator[1] for this exact problem, maybe someone else will find it useful too

[1] https://observablehq.com/@oavdeev/parallel-task-latency-calc...
Same. Workarounds don't appear to be available on mobile. On one hand, it's hilariously meta; on the other hand, I can't even go into the arguably minimalist reader mode

edit: well, outline.com gets at the prose, anyway https://outline.com/DRXrCu
Also looks nicer on the balance sheet. Basically Workers as a Service. Makes Google look much more efficient (in terms of revenue per employee) than it actually is.
We always do it by not pushing breaking changes to the database. It’s extremely freeing. It does require some discipline to go back and cleanup things later, but not worrying about database “versions” is the way to go in my opinion.