skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always been my gut feeling. Nature is so complex that trying to replicate it in a laboratory will fall short. You can't simulate all of the processes and interactions that go on.
I've been in northern Nevada for the last 30 years and it's always been that way. When there's a boom in California it gets a little worse or the impact is felt a little more with things like housing, but it's not new. The best part is you get people that move here for the lower taxes complaining about the lack of services or the quality of the schools without the realization that those things are typically paid for with taxes. On the other side you have locals complaining about the "Californians" moving here and changing things to be more like California. I hear the same things from friends in Idaho that moved a decade ago to get away from the increasing housing costs here.
I completely agree with it. Vaping for young adults (that's the technical term for that) is a stepping stone for making the switch to cigarettes easier.
I wonder if this is the College in Breaking Away. Great movie.
There's legitimate complaints about AMP, but it's not a MITM.
The Australian election results were within the margin of error of the polls.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/19/voter...
Idaho is trendy with Californians, fwiw.
Yet another HN anecdote—I found a sick baby bird a few weeks ago with swollen eyes in northern Michigan, feather loss on its head, a mother bird circling and crying about it. it soon died and I buried it and also put away the bird bath and feeder, I suggest everyone do the same, another article[1] suggested a possible bacteria infection. Baths and feeders are super-spreader locations to these birds.

1. https://www.wlwt.com/article/birds-are-suddenly-dying-whats-...
Right but this is just by virtue of CA being a big, long, state where the northern reaches are far away from the economically active parts.

Eureka is charming enough, but it has no specific attractive force over any other (very) small coastal city where the next-larger city is many hours' drive away. Compare to Crescent City, or southern coastal Oregon.

So yes, you're still in California up there, and housing is less expensive. But there are no jobs (WFH tide floats all boats), and it isn't the California that most people are looking for. See also: Bakersfield.
I've been wondering that, thank you! That's very cool.
God bless you man
I don't completely blame them... just disappointed. They had supply chain problems for their current computers (granted, their own making by not upgrading as time went on) and they were thinking "can we get 10k of these devices? They're all sold out currently... at best, we could get a few hundred, not enough to redo all the current stores if we were to go down this path."
The problem isn’t with automated management but with economic inequality. Automating the job of property management and leasing makes perfect sense, having a system where people can be unfairly evicted and wind up homeless and jobless does not. Fortunately we can fix the real problem with some relatively simple policy changes.
Your boss should have less flexibility not more.

Too many people pretending to lead. Too many people in executive positions. Not enough actual leaders.

If Google loses this guy, tomorrow...whatever, he is just an employee, he is a cog. If all the guys beneath him decide to stop working, it is over.
Good luck in getting the Healthcare you need.
Is there joy in running Facebook? What once looked to be societally beneficial - connecting everyone - now looks to be societally damaging - connecting everyone to propaganda. Truth matters in democracy, but apparently not so much on Facebook. On the balance, is Facebook causing more harm to society than good? I don't know how one maintains the business and mitigates the adverse impact. I don't get the impression here that Zuckerberg or Sandberg know, and I get the impression that Zuckerberg, at least, is determined not to own the consequences. The roster of modern capitalism's villans includes cigarette companies, Purdue Pharma, oil companies - and one day Facebook?
Parts of the pacific northwest beat out Death Valley on certain days in June
I saw a reference to this site elsewhere on HN, so I thought I'd respond:

The focus on where to buy your token, how much your token is selling for, etc is a major turn off for me. It might not be fair, but my first thought after landing on your website is that it's another ICO that isn't going to go anywhere.

And looking at your token model, users can "see" that Leasehold the company is reinvesting in itself by buying property or buying back shares. This seems very easy to game - what keeps you from just burning some of the "significant" shares that you own to prop up the price / prove that you are receiving income?
My point is that it is happening, if my anecdata is to be believed, and that sampling theory suggests it might be (or have been) a trend. As a CA native I love my state, but it is also important to understand other perspectives.
Thanks for the tips! One mantra I've tried when starting at a new job is "for the first 3 months say yes to everything, for the next 3 months say no to everything." The idea is you first immerse yourself in everything, to find out what works and what doesn't. Then you dedicate time to fix the broken processes so that hopefully when you hit 6 months your team is better positioned to be more efficient. Obviously you can't be too rigid, but it seemed to work for me when I had buy in. Curious if you think that approach sounds good.
Indeed. Duplicating Test and Prod can be tens of thousands of dollars (or more) a month.

You have to invest big time in automation to build up and tear down any decent sized environment to save the spend there, and that itself costs money.
I work in the field. Transfer learning helps get you decent/good models, but the best models remain ones trained on large amounts of data. You may be able to get away with good performance and not great on your task. For some areas you really care a lot about long tail performance (like self driving) that you will need massive dataset. For other areas if your goal is to be the best relative to other large companies you will need a massive dataset.

Transfer learning best use cases are for fast prototypes or for ml tasks that do not need state of the art performance.
This isn't as clear as most things we work on as engineers, but there's a spectrum:

* An algorithm (or person) ingesting lots of code and then later spitting out that same input, does not free anyone from the copyrights of the input.

* An algorithm (or person) that ingests lots of code, finds commonalities, synthesizes that into something new, and produces something well beyond mere copying is producing something new, likely without any legal tie to the original.

Right now, it looks like most of what co-pilot does is closer to the latter, but sometimes it does some things that are closer to the former? I can't see any reason why they wouldn't be able to fix it to avoid regurgitating its input, however, with something like a bloom filter, so I expect a long-term there's a way to do it that falls entirely within fair use?
On the contrary, we have a great public health experiment underway that will be dissected for years to come. Hospitalization rates, medical bankruptcies, prevalence of long COVID, birth rates, excess deaths, etc. For science!
> Edit: I’ve upset some folks with this comment. I’m curious to know how/why.

Any mention of politics tends to get downvoted, but in this case, the myth is in significant part a product of a political narrative. I don't know how we can avoid the subject.

We can't talk about the Earth's orbit without discussing the Sun.
Thank you for this! I have wanted the ability to use high-assurance boot but also the ability to install what I want, and although the two do not in theory conflict, in practice Google wasn't really very helpful in this regard. I looked into it a couple times and found the documentation quite slim.

I will be reading about aosp-build tonight!
Target market is small.

I'm glad they haven't got to slick.

There's usually an underpaid employee who has to deal with the devise.

I dread the day where employees are required to wear "productivity" wrist bands, like the one Amazon patented.

I see it coming. The employers will know exactly where (gps), and what every employee is doing.

(The Fairmont Hotel wanted my father to carry around a pager. It was a directive from the Swiglets. (inside joke).

He kept droping it down the elevator shaft. They finally got the hint. They couldn't fire him because he was the only one who could reset the switch gear breakers after a hard rain. The breaker hot bars would bubble (thousands of volt amps) when flooded. My father would walk in the bubbling water to reset the flooded breakers. The only reason he wasen't electrocuted is because it was rain water, and luck. I belive the old hotel fixed the switch gear by now.)
Coronavirus and the Climate Challenge
Excellent information!

So what this tells me is based on migration alone, (since births / deaths are not indicative of intent to migrate) California has been flat at best, not counting an unknown number of international emigrants - so that number is likely lower. Given that those net immigration numbers have been dropping faster in the past couple years, we may indeed be seeing the tide turning on California immigration.
Yep! I have some evidence to back it up though there were perhaps more important mitigating factors.

I used to never drink water. After having some health issues for about a week, I swore off sugary sodas (except for a few a week when eating out). I also started walking 4 miles every other day. I now drink about 50% diet soda and 50% water.

I've lost 35 pounds in 3 months.

I don't snore anymore, I don't get constant heartburn anymore, my skin in clear and I no longer take naps every afternoon. I think the water has enabled me to reduce my meals to one, maybe two a day, instead of 3, and I am never that hungry.
Funny, do you have anything to back that up? Anecdotally, I have a 7 year old pi running my watering system and it hasn't skipped a beat in 7 years of being on 24/7. (current uptime is 1029 days).
Photoprism, digiKam, shotwell all have image recognition features, with varied levels of sophistication.
At what state do the donors realize they're doomed too?

It's not like the people who like climate change driving activity are living on a different planet.
This is really cool. This should also work:

ps auxww | grep b\\anana
Is there a similar scheme using primes?
The California 'exodus' is more of a mass immigration into certain desirable areas in the US. These cities & even states have populations smaller than individual suburbs of LA so Californians tend to stand out; especially when they complain and want to change the places they move to.
regex101.com says it works, by returning multiple matches, only one of which has a group 1.

But I don't what environments return multiple matches from one evaluation.
A calorie is a unit of measure.

Satiation is how you feel... It might change your ability to regulate how much you consume, but it doesn't change how much you gain or lose weight, because all calories are equal. 900 satiating calories add up just the same as 900 empty calories.
It's such an interesting and valuable article on building a data team, esp. insightful for organisation starting out. Guess the challenges in traditional/larger companies starting out a data team might look slightly different.
Hmm, I wonder if that's where late 60s Alan Watts got this idea:

"with the aid of laser beams, we can translate a physical object, let's take a complicated one, let's take a dandelion flower gone to seed a dandelion clock. You take a dandelion clock about so big, it can be turned into a formula passed through channels, enlarged to any size, say this big, and with laser beams, cut in solid plastic in a matter of moments. You can get this reproduction of a three-dimensional object. But the transition between the two was handled simply in terms of pulses."
Do you have some specific examples you can share?

No examples, outside of social media and authentication, come to mind for the US. I’m probably out of the loop on this one.

Edit: I did find mention of facial recognition being used for 7-Eleven’s in Australia and trialing of the technology at Target and Walmart in the US [0].

> [7-Eleven] confirmed that the data captured by the facial recognition software that is being introduced nationally, will be used to verify customer feedback rather than as a measure to prevent theft – in the US, Target and Walmart among others have experimented with facial recognition to combat shoplifting and fraud.

The article also had this at the end.

> Facebook also submitted a patent for in-store facial recognition tech that would provide retail staff with customer information drawn from social media profiles in a bid to deliver a more personalized service.

Edit: And this ACLU article [2] from 2018 implies many large US retailers are using it in store as well without notifying customers.

Edit: Oh and schools as mentioned in this article.

On a related but maybe ironic note SF and some surrounding municipalities have suspended since mid 2019 the use of facial recognition by government departments (with the exception of ports) [1]. So at least there is that. However private companies and people can do as they may.

> In the Bay Area alone, Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto and Santa Clara County (of which Palo Alto is a part) have passed their own surveillance-technology laws. Oakland is also currently considering whether to ban the use of facial-recognition technology.

> The ordinance… outlaws the use of facial-recognition technology by police and other government departments

> However, the ordinance carves out an exception for federally controlled facilities at San Francisco International Airport and the Port of San Francisco.

> The ordinance doesn’t prevent businesses or residents from using facial recognition or surveillance technology in general — such as on their own security cameras

0. https://techwireasia.com/2020/07/why-7-eleven-australia-is-u...

1. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/tech/san-francisco-facial-rec...

2. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-te...
I remember watching video podcasts on my iPod Nano in 2010…
I'm a bit confused: Doesn't everyone know it's a popular political narrative pushed by a certain political faction?
I think past me would have thought this was cool. Now I'm just annoyed about having to think about this.
They are "guaranteeing" in that they are putting themselves in high but limited liability in case they can't fulfill that "guarantee".

As long as they can find tenants for at least 6/7 (~85%) of their apartments, they're breaking even. Clearly, they think that's an easy target to hit.

(Another way to think of it: one service they provide is amortization of the risk of not filling the apartment over their entire catalog of apartments.)
We run our Terraform pipeline via Azure DevOps. We separate the plan/apply steps, stash both the binary and json version of the plan, stash the logs of the plan, and require increasing levels of approval as it moves through each environment on it's way from dev to prod. To go to prod it needs 4 people to have reviewed the plan - the person whose PR triggered the release, a director, a team lead, and another engineer. This is enforced using Azure DevOps' baked in pipelines and approval functionalities. To keep from nuking things we completely disable destructive operations from our AWS/Azure Terraform user and in fact, limit what the user can do as much as possible, only giving it the permissions needed to create what we use, and adding as necessary. For deletes we add a very targeted permission that we revoke after deployment.

It can seem onerous at times, but ultimately it's a far smoother process than legacy manual or scripted deployments and is very repeatable and visible. It's also a good thing to have lots of eyes on critical infrastructure changes anyway.
When people die, the carbon they emitted stays in the atmosphere, they don't take it to heaven with them.
Such a great read. Have been in this position in a large public org. Over a year was spent just creating a catalog of what all data the company has and figuring out how to pull them into a data-warehouse
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Cold weather 20 times deadlier than hot. Moderately high/low temperatures responsible for most of the deaths rather than extremes.
Wikia still exists... for example https://googology.wikia.org/wiki/Googology_Wiki is a fun one to lose an afternoon to.

And you thought Graham's number was big...

> Graham's number is commonly celebrated as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof, although much larger numbers have since claimed this title (such as TREE(3) and SCG(13)). The smallest Bowersism exceeding Graham's number is Corporal, and the smallest Saibianism exceeding Graham's number is Graatagold.
I did a design interview which involved drawing up an elevator control panel for an apartment building with 1000 floors. Me, trying to leverage my sense of humour I guess (oops) designed a system in which the presumed wealthiest users at the top were instantly recognized with a face scan and never had to see a panel of buttons. The rest were forced to use a basic number pad. Needless to say I didn’t get the job. Doesn’t help that when you google my name my father’s extensive work as a labour organizer tends to spook my potential boss…
I've considered doing directly valuable work, have tried things along these lines in the past, and may try them again in the future. For now though, I think earning to give is a much better fit for me: https://www.jefftk.com/p/earning-to-give-transcript
Feels like at a certain point those people will just go to a "be the last one standing" mindset.
Democratization of profits :-)
This reminds me of the product-infrastructure spectrum of dev specialization. [1]

[1] https://www.michellelim.org/writing/stop-using-frontend-back...
I don't see why you cannot be both.

How is it hard to have empathy and interest in solving problems and yet still a deep love and interest in the underlying tech you use?

I feel I am in this category. I would venture to guess that a broad array of useful developers do as well.

Siloing people like this creates an artificial construct wherein people feel they need to fit.

For what it's worth, I would definitely not hire the OP after his speech about being more interested in using a new tech to solve my problems than solving my problems.
Nudge Copilot to produce Mickey Mouse as ASCII art.
Hey there! As someone with just half the years of experience you have... I'm just gonna leave my one cent here :-)

Clean Code is an excellent book to start going in the direction of what I'd consider "good programmer", in the sense that a good programmer writes code for humans, not for computers!

My opinion of "good programming" is just exactly that, the code is easy to read, easy to glance and figure out at a high level what it is doing.

About OOP, there are a ton of opinions regarding that (I kinda dislike it...) so don't really fret about it, a good programmer writes code that humans can easily read, that human being future you also, since a week later we often have no clue what our code does and need to read it again anyways!

Something that I've been enjoying a lot lately is investing in my tools, which for me right now is learning to use neovim, and even thought I'm not using it professionally (I think I'll never will because that might convert it into "work" and suck all the fun out of it) it has made a huge difference in my side, projects, you know, the code that I'm actually excited about!

I sympathize with you since I didn't took formal programming courses and most of the felt like I was not good, or not up to par with other or whatever... seems like my engineering manager and the previous raises disagree with me! So, don't confuse impostor syndrome with "not good"

As a last thing, I recently came across a couple of articles here in HN regarding building useless stuff[0] and homebrew tools[1], and in doing so I've been finding the joy and fun I used to have back when I was just learning!

So bottom line, don't worry about being good and focus on having fun/enjoying what you do!

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27256867
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482397
Seeding a Database for Development
I'm not sure how well known it is, but YouTube itself has an RSS feed for each channel (well, Atom feed, most feed readers treat them interchangeably).

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=XX

Where XX is the channel ID (the last component in the URL when you go to a channel).

It's actually how I consume YouTube these days. It's a slightly orthogonal problem to the solution posted here, since it doesn't follow the RSS "enclosure" spec. Though my feedreader knows enough to call youtube-dl on these URLs, which is fragile at best, but works for me.
What is data seeding and why do we need it for development? Read this article to find out!
Yes and no.

That thread also pointed out that the local (2 weeks out) models did predict the temperature but the forecasters didn't believe it.

So, that means that the localized processes are being monitored and predicted. So, this isn't completely outside the models.

However, as was pointed out, this may be a type of "hurricane" (used as a stand-in for a random-ish large scale variation) which may now become more common. That kind of large-scale change will require some updates to the models. (ie. we can model the fact that hurricanes occur seasonally, but we can't model individual hurricanes until they occur).
It's semantics, not syntax. It's one of the simplest and oldest search engines in the history of computing; obviously a more complex engine can provide more robust semantics.
> Now that RSS has been effectively killed

Does that mean that my hundreds of still-functioning RSS subscriptions are undead?
The commandments that generalize are the exception, not the rule.

You know there are mitzvot about which positions of the priesthood should or should not be allowed to eat specific varieties of grapes (that only grew in Canaan) during specific growing seasons, right?

Those are pretty concrete rules, that don't really generalize. The sort of thing you'd expect to see matched by modern equivalents. And yet, these are believed to be literal divine law, just as much as "thou shalt build an ark" etc. is.

Also, there are separate mitzvot for kosher-ness rules for basically each kind of animal, starting with general classes, but then getting increasingly specific and obscure/unlikely-to-be-eaten-by-humans. (Almost exactly as if a series of people were actively pestering a High Priest with trivia questions like "but when is it ritually-impure to eat flying insects, though?", where they then felt the need to make a ruling.)

If you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments#Canonical_ord...
I am obviously just such a low roller that I can't even imagine downloading a spreadsheet of recent transactions from my bank's website being a genuine pain point.
It's not as though most countries have a local Google / Facebook / etc clone, so they can't "make the goods" domestically, there's no "means of production" in-country.