skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Paradise on Earth and home to the nation’s fastest-growing industry; California could easily grow to 100M residents if it simply allowed housing to be built to accommodate all the people who want to live here. And it would be a net win for the climate, because most of them would be coming here from much less eco-friendly places.

Are you in agreement with changing zoning laws to accommodate many more high rises e.g in norcal and around the bay? (I'm presuming your location from your bio. Correct me if I'm wrong)

(I live near DC. DC itself has a height restriction that dates back to the building of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cairo, and I quite wish DC's height restrictions would change at the very least in its residential areas, but people are NIMBYing the heck out of that too)
I don't think we'll really see housing prices drop until the ocean rises up far enough to ruin our cities.
> I have asthma. That probably counts as a comorbidity, so if I die of covid, should that count as a covid death or not?

I've actually seen some people with Asthma may have possibly survived because of certain Asthma medications that may do something to block covid, I can't remember the study, but if you're on that specific med, maybe that helped?

I'm > 400 lbs (690 in 2012), I'm 41, I survived having it. Except for long-covid which was a bitch.
They are both photonic modes of quantum computing, that use some similar engineering, but deeply different principles.

In the PsiQuantum hardware (cluster state computing) the non-classical effects come from using single photons, not pseudo-classical (a.k.a. coherent) states. It is very difficult to make consistent single photons of exactly the same wavelength and it is difficult to detect them with extremely high reliability, but the rest of the engineering is "easy".

In the Xanadu hardware (continuous variable computing) the non-classical effects come from "non-Gaussian" operations (operations that are not based on the "Gaussian" beamsplitters, wave plates, and squeezing). They do not need single-photon states of light, they can start with coherent states. Coincidentally, the "Gaussian" operations and coherent states are the easy ones, but obtaining "non-Gaussian" resources is just as difficult (but difficult in a different way) as obtaining consistent single photon states.

At the end both of these low-level-hardware approaches will be abstracted in a nice programmable interface that just gives you an abstract quantum computer (e.g. based on the most well known "gate model"), but the low-level implementation is as different as it gets.

Lastly, there are teams that try to directly implement the gate model (IBM, Google, Yale, UCSB, etc), teams that try fancy topologically protected models (Microsoft, paper retractions notwithstanding), adiabatic quantum computing (D-Wave, but they were snake-oil salesmen for a bit and lost a lot of good will in the academic community).

And there is a ton of cross-pollination between the different teams and different (but computationally equivalent) models.
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's VR Future
On top of all the reasons already given, keep in mind the company is asking for additional late fees.
Complaining about paywalls goes against the site guidelines.
Having worked with Yoshua, I can say your company is lucky to have him around.
Convert it to charcoal, which is almost pure carbon, then dump it in an ocean trench for long-term geological recycling.
> Forgive me, it's wget, a checksum check, and then install command.

This is absurdly false.
> This metamorphosis of central banks from the aristocrats of finance to its labourers sounds far-fetched, but it is under way. Over 50 monetary authorities, representing the bulk of global GDP, are exploring digital currencies.

The article goes on from the premise that digital currencies are something new, but aren't almost all currencies already digital? I mean when a central bank decides to lend to retail banks (last resort) it just updates a column in its system. It doesn't actually print and ship physical currency. What am I missing? Is this just new hot buzz?

EDIT: I'm not too familiar with the process of "printing money", but I assume that Fed/central bank just buys some assets, and credits seller's account in its system. That all sounds pretty digital to me.
This is typically the kind of mistake a non native English speaker could make and maybe indicative of a more international community.

At least these are "codes" not "cods", as I've seen written in a project I worked with. Real mistake by a French programmer, not a typo. Reasoning: programme->program so code->cod. In French there is no difference in pronunciation, and spell check didn't catch it. This one is obvious and funny, but you can get some weird English when you apply foreign rules to it.
The people are fake, everything is on fire and the CHP is merciless
Type III Error
Having run all these thing in prod (except BTRFS, it ate a mirror on my desktop), I’ll say that even the LVM + + is so much more hacky than geom on FreeBSD which feels much more ‘Unix’ with a designed composable interface.

Although, I do prefer the durability of XFS or ext4 (depending on workload) vs UFS, and the setup you described is totally maintainable.
I am not trying to make it look worse, I am stating that its factual history is very problematic. There were many victims that came out of that history, and still exist to this day. Again, you sound like you're saying "stop picking on America, other people were bad too". That's little comfort to America's victims.
> managing to produce ergonomic APIs (semi-)automatically [...] I have most experience with the Python library (boto3)

This almost sounds tongue-in-cheek: the slightest use of boto3 makes it seem obviously auto-generated.

It's fine, it even has advantages (whole classes of bugs removed, or at least fixed once fixed everywhere), I just wouldn't call it ergonomic or idiomatic.

's3 = boto3.client("s3")'.
So I actually went to tons of doctors, my GP, neurologist, cardiologist (also had chest spasms). I got an MRI of my head, but not my neck, as the docs thought it was a head issue with all the headaches. I got an x-ray eventually as well but they didn't see anything they thought would matter. I did have a little misalignment in the x-ray but the doctors thought it was nothing.

My neck also felt unstable. Like my head would "slide off" if I tilted it wrong. My cervical vertebrae also would click in certain positions.

It was actually a physical therapist that fixed it. I had gone to them to "stabilize" my neck. They noticed that I couldn't turn my head to the left as far as I could to my right. We did ~2 months of exercises and one day they tried manipulating one of my cervical vertebrae and it was like night and day. I felt a rush of blood up into the left side of my brain and that night I slept great. It took a couple more weeks of exercises to stabilize the new position (other things started to move now that it was better aligned). And I haven't had any issues since.

I hope it's the same for you! I understand what it's like and it's awful. I think in my case it was more of a rotation problem so that might not show up as well on x-ray. Idk what other imaging would be better (if any). It might be worth getting a physical therapist to check out your neck mobility and see if there's anything noticeable. Best of luck.
In a world where the Fedcoin and e-euro are commonplace, having access to a decentralized money system not tied to the whims of politics would really matter to me.
TBH it will be a huge step forward in tech terms - Rusoto is maintenance mode, and it's missing functionality. I had to jump into it just the other day to add S3 Select support.
Not all viruses have the capabilities to endogenise into the host dna.

Yes we can see evidence of this in the human dna but thats not evidence that all viruses integrate.
The hateful delusional lunatics who write this kind of drivel are far more dangerous.
"In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help others do so."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Because in fairness, the blame for the emissions should fall on those who consume, not on those who produce. It's like blaming co2 emissions on fossil fuel companies, while you keep happily driving around your big car and flying across the world for holidays.
Hedge fund and PE folks can make way more than that (performance dependent).
The F35 is a jobs program for congress-critters.
I realize you were just using the Mpemba effect as an illustrative example, but thought it was worth mentioning that it has actually been disproved.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37665
Our product is built on AWS and is primarily written in Rust. If you're renting compute you'd better make the most of it, cause that's just money down the drain.
That just gives a pass to people who employ abusive behavior since the entire burden of adjustment is shifted to the receiver, incentivizing more abuse.
I can only comment on the Bay area which has plenty of land and lots of entrenched vested interests. Take a town like Atherton which is full of billionaires like Marc Andreesen who talk about how they want builders etc... But they are allergic when it is in their tony neighborhood of the zillionaires.

The hypocrisy of the NIMBYs at full display:

https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherton,_California
What's the difference between the bracketed syntax, e.g. [City] and `list`?
And this is the power of MDX (and some great focus from the author of course). I’m having a hard time trying to understand why some people seem to dislike MDX, it is the holy grail of web authoring imho.
You don't even need to go there--many different populations are unlikely to return their forms. And the Post Office was having issues due to DeJoy and dorks.

The Census normally tries very hard to find people. They do this by sending out legions of people in person to people who may not have returned their Census forms.

The "in person" part of the census was heavily compromised this year due to Covid even before you start to add in the Republican fuckery.
Really cool! Needs more upvotes! I do kinda this with Dropbox, but way more crappy.
70% of MLB pitchers are cheating
Another Man’s DNA Is Found on Murder Weapon Years After Execution
https://linkerd.io/

Seems relevant.
Huh, interesting. How about “Surprisingly, Gwen Stefani is older than Ted Cruz.”
> Apple itself has the ability to reject apps with GateKeeper, without forcing everyone to use the Mac store.

This is false.

Apple can’t legally use Gatekeeper to ’reject’ apps which violate App Store policies.
It's pretty hard to be upset about a trivial amount of light pollution which WILL improve lives all over the world... when there are gigatons of literal actual pollution invading the water and skies of the same countries, and barely anyone is making a real effort to fix it.

It's really, really hard for me to believe that these attacks on Starlink are truly proportional to the perceived harm. I think that 95% of the upset is directed at SpaceX as a proxy vendetta against Musk, billionaires, or the overall tech industry.
I'd only mention it if I could be considered biased, or if it's relevant to the conversation.

Disclaimer: it would indeed be silly in this comment
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What it means is simple. The J20 produces more thrust than the F-22, and has essentially the same dry weight.

If you compare a fully loaded J20 to a fully loaded F-22, then yes the F22 has a higher TWR. That's because the J20 carries more fuel, payload capacity of the J20 is however not known but assumed to be larger due to the larger and heavier Chinese missiles it carries in similar numbers.

However at the same loading the J20 has higher thrust than the F22, both with and without afterburners.

The J20 probably cannot supercruise yet, correct.

I haven't said the F35 is a turkey. Just that the US decided that other matters are more important than thrust and range for the F35. It may very well have been a correct decision.

As far as maneuverability of the J20 nothing is known. As J20s with thrust vectoring engines were installed and with the presence of canards, it may well be a highly maneuverable engine, or it might not be. None of us have hard data on this.

In a conflict with a peer power, the US will need range just as much if not moreso than China - outside of aircraft carriers - as all relevant US airbases are vulnerable to being struck and disabled, and the F22 requires advanced bases to operate correctly.
Crazy idea outlaw billionaires. Take 100% of anything they have that brings their total assets above 1 billion. They can keep 999 million. That's IT. Also maybe ban use of yachts and private jets until this is fixed....

Instead maybe the rich could ride-share on boeings where they have a little more security and privacy and get first class to themselves or something....
One thing I like about crossbar is the meta-events system. Being able to run a callback when some else subscribed to a topic has been super useful to only do work when someone is interested/subscribed.
"Don't be evil" ... Well, why not? ... Ba ha ha ha haaaaaa.
This has been going on for decades, it's called GWAS [1] and it has had a few successes but basically hasn't worked as well as everyone hoped it would in the 90s. The reason it doesn't work that well is that the human genome has ~3 billion letters and human physiology is complex. So trying to establish stastitically significant correlations between genome variations and human physiology is hard and requires more than Excel. In fact, the computational tools that have been applied to this are incredibly sophisticated and are not the limiting factor. The limiting factor is that you probably need millions or billions of genomes to make it work, and we don't have that yet. Also people are beginning to realize that many disease-relevant traits are caused by rare variants (rather than obvious statistically significant correlations) which are quite hard to detect this way.

So... anyway you're right that this is a natural way to approach the question of understanding the genetic basis of disease and physiology. But it's been beaten to death and found to drive fewer insights than were hoped

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study
isn't GDPR for EU only?
> Then why use a different initial flight path

The initial flight path matters least.

He mightn't have known which day and route would present the opportunity, which would also have to coincide with the right frame of mind for him to execute this operation. His opportunity might have depended upon who was assigned co-pilot on the day.

So, whatever initial flight path he took was outside of his control. What was under his control was the part we are trying to understand now - the rest of the voyage, and the destination.
I also agree, don't go to a chiro. Physical therapy works much better. I tried one out of desperation and I think it hurt more than helped.

Also you might need to try more than one physical therapist. Some are much better than others.
So I assume it’s “people that can move” which means this 200k likely represents a whole lot more in tax base. Miami has really been exploding with ex-SV talent from my anecdotal social feeds. Might as well as you’ll save tens/hundreds of thousands each year in taxes and not have to live with the dysfunctional political system in much of CA.
Pandemics are inevitable, we have a near miss every decade or so. Some of them will be near hits whether or not COVID came from a lab. COVID doesn't even seem to be that bad vs. some of the ones that occurred naturally - look at AIDS.

I dunno, what do you think someone outside China can do if it turns out to be a lab leak? If anyone had any ability to influence China's policy, stopping COVID is meaningless compared to efforts promoting peace in the South China Sea which is a much bigger threat. The next big war will be devastating in a way that makes COVID look like the good old days.
It's mostly from lack of building housing in the places that have jobs, which is what turned it into an investment vehicle rather than a savings vehicle.

And when there's lack of housing, the two choices are high prices and homelessness, or wait lists and homelessness. Neither are good, but the solution is really just more housing.
And really, the network effect is the only one that really matters.
You misspelled "USPS"
> It is revealing that China’s autocrats, who value control above all else, are limiting the size of the e-yuan and clamping down on private platforms such as Ant. Open societies should also proceed cautiously by, say, capping digital-currency accounts.

Copying “autocrats who value control above all else” doesn’t seem particularly open.
It usually isn't "me"... I made < 60k last year.

The total water usage of residents is < 0.2% last year, still they say "conserve water" and waste money on public service announcements etc... businesses, govt, industrial use is the other 99.8% and it's just business as usual for them....
Why is SMS not used more widely in Europe? It's less ergonomic than a dedicated chat app, but in the states it's the one thing everyone is guaranteed to have.
I've been clicking the X everytime i get the popup for a few days now. I haven't really thought much about it or actually read it yet. I honestly fucking hate WhatsApp and wish I could convince the few people i talk to on there to use something else, even SMS. I've tried, yet they always message me through WhatsApp. They're not people i can really ignore either.

Anyway, i guess this is mostly a rant. But fuck WhatsApp, they actually manage to somehow be worse than Facebook messenger. At least messenger let's you appear offline.
Depends on where and what you're looking for. I'd say 60k-80k€ would be normal rates in wealthier federal states for a decent "mid-tier" developer from what I've seen, which wouldn't be too dissimilar to 50k GBP.
And duly they downvoted my "fair" question....
Interesting that she joined the navy reserves at 36 years old as a PhD. and eventually made O-7 (which means she was a very high ranking officer.) Could it be possible that her work with computers had absolutely nothing to do with her service in the navy?

All anyone knows about former rear admiral Grace Hooper is that she was a woman, she was a rear admiral, and she "invented the first compiler." Nobody ever talks about the details
Of course not. He pontificates.

Also tangential: I find Balaji completely insufferable. His Twitter feed almost looks like that of a cult leader than of a CTO.
This brings central bank's control to a whole other level. For example, right now, central bank could loan lots of money to retail banks, but there's no guarantee that those retail banks will in turn loan it to average consumer. With this, they can bypass them alltogether and put it directly in retail's digital wallets.

Imagine things like money that self-destroys if you don't spend within certain amount of time or money that you can only spend at a certain place or for a certain purpose. The control that central bank will be able to exert is increasing by like 10 fold.
Save the past n crash logs on the local machine for the user to inspect, and allow the user to turn it off/clear them. When there's a crash, offer to send the most recent crash log.

Similarly, use a double-file-buffered stack trace of the last n minutes of function calls. If the user selects "I just experienced a bug" in the Help menu, offer to send the most recent stack traces.
Oof. Okay. I agree that particular article could have been arranged better. For the curious.

Money shot:

>Two vehicles smashed into each other and then into a group of people and a lamp post at the intersection at about 1:20 p.m.

>According to police, both vehicles were travelling west on Lake Shore Blvd. W. when one vehicle turned left across the path of the other to proceed south on Bay St.

So the actual injuries to pedestrians were an example of collateral damage from people screwing up while behind the wheel.

The author does embark on a secondary train of thought, highlighting a bit of trivia that people may not know abouut the local traffic regulations:

>How pedestrians interpret the newer countdown-type pedestrian signals is becoming a major concern for police, said Const. Hugh Smith of traffic services. Many don’t really understand what the timer means.

>Apparently their handbook states that once the countdown starts, they assume no new pedestrians should enter the crosswalk, thereby allowing vehicles to execute turns once the initial group clears.

I didn't personally read it as blaming the pedestrians for getting hurt, as it seemed like a more Public Service Announcement sort of thing tacked on the end, but I do agree that that could have been transitioned to or arranged better.

I've just been around placeswith some fairly militant anti-motoring sentiment (like do away with all motorways type), so I assure you it is a thing. I think Britain was having some troubles with it in London, and it's growing in popularity around some urban centers in the U.S.

It tends to go hand-in-hand with zoning (which is a nightmare in and of itself), and has a great deal of impact on your ability to freely get places in the U.S., which is why I always try to be sensitive to trying to counterweight the "change it now" crowd to "incremental implementation".

I don't mind public transit, but I'm very againnst throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I’m in favor of higher density and I’d have no problem tying it to practical mass transit - thus encouraging developers to work to expand mass transit so they can redevelop land to higher density.
math is not a spectator sport.

Just like you cannot learn to program by reading books, people have to really dive into problems and rediscover certain facts by themselves.
> Tesla is making cars at a profit.

Tesla has never made a profit from manufacturing cars in its 18 year history. The company only ever shows a quarterly profit when they sell sufficient regulatory credits to other manufacturers, or, as in the last quarter, sell $272M in Bitcoin.
>It's less ergonomic than a dedicated chat app

You answered your own question. And "everyone" does have WhatsApp.
Yeah I have switched back and forth between WordPress and Hugo a few times. Every time I am using Hugo, my writing declines but I spent a lot of time tweaking CSS. This might be due to the fact that I am using code editor (vs code) to write blog posts, so I switched to a writing editor (iA Writer). That helps a bit but still it is so tempting to keep tweaking look n feel.

These days I am back on WordPress mostly because I want to focus on writing now.
I think those are consistent with the numbers I found
What about water? Garbage? Electricity? Fuel?

Also what about the people that would inevitably arrive from your invitation that want to build plastic plants like in MO?

Point is I think you're hand-waving all the bad because of what it is today.
I live in the U.K. Basically everyone I know uses WhatsApp. My friends mostly use WhatsApp (it was to be a pretty reasonable choice even for the privacy conscious). My family use WhatsApp. My landlord uses WhatsApp. Some of my colleagues use signal but I work in tech so they aren’t very representative. I might use text to contact a stranger for some reason (say arranging pickup of something bought on eBay or Gumtree, or some other service) but they might also use WhatsApp. Some of my friends use Facebook messenger so maybe I shouldn’t care that much about WhatsApp’s privacy policy if messenger’s is so much worse.
No need for highrises; just take all the places where 40' single-family houses are allowed, and allow 40' multifamily houses.
GDPR has been copy pasted into UK data protection law