skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York State and California have lost enough population that they are likely to loose at least one representative in the house of representatives.

This "too big to fail" argument is BS - they are failing and once cities start to go into death spirals they can accelerate in astonishing ways.

And just to make things extra spicy, thanks to COVID job mobility has never been greater. This isn't your fathers economy. Any of these cities taking anyone for granted do so at their own peril. San Francisco's insane policy of supporting shoplifting up to $900 has caused Wallgreens to pull out entirely, Target closes at 6PM now - what do small businesses do where their only locations are in areas afflicted with these sane policies? When losses exceed revenue they go out of business. As if COVID wasn't bad enough :p
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Here is a small monorepo example. We build a DAG of dependencies between parts of the monorepo and only rebuild what is needed.

This is different but similar to what Bazel does.
Is public or private funding better for research and innovation?
Look at it this way: we're all convinced the problem is the whiteboard interview itself, it couldn't possibly be that we're not as smart as we think we are.

That's some pretty strong self-image of the "I'm a smart kid" sort.
So basically this heat wave has wiped away a substantial amount of biomass in the impacted area.

We are watching the world wither away, quite rapidly, with nothing to show for it.
I think the real take away here is to choose the right tool for the job; and that even JWT is many times a good fit when used correctly.

And to be more objective while writing public blog posts.
I agree with this. Channels have not lived up to their promises, and I mostly avoid them in Go. They're handy sometimes when you want to just block some goroutine (read from a channel that is never written to) or for a few other use cases, but mutexes are my go-to primitive.
It was definitely faster. I distinctly remember downloading a ~700MB Divx AVI from Easynews while the DVD was in progress. I don't remember what year but a rough guess was maybe 2010.
Not knowledge, just random thoughts: Could they return "We can not give you that information because it is a matter of national security." (Although that's still a sign that they have info on you that they gathered from Big Tech). Or they could give you pages and pages covered with black rectangles from margin to margin.

The scary thing is, they wouldn't have done any manual listening/monitoring, all the data can just be fed into some big data computer[1] and it spits out your "threat index".

For a Black Mirror episode plot, the main character hangs out every Friday at a pizza place that Google Maps has mislabeled as a mosque. The "AI" misclassifies his watch on a recent Instagram photo as the Casio F-91W, he gets detained as he tries to reenter the country, with the FBI agents not knowing why he's a baddie other than the fact that the computer flagged him after his threat index jumped over a threshold.

[1] e.g. from the NSA whisteblower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread: "Hayden admitted that the analysis technology is the underlying basis of current NSA analysis techniques"
> When you have multiple servers servicing requests there is no guarantee that subsequent requests will go to the same server.

Distributed key-value stores have been a thing for ages. Besides, the information you are accessing and manipulating through that REST API is probably stored in some sort of database, so you most likely already have a straightforward way to share state among your frontend servers. It's only a matter of whether it's fast enough for your purpose.

Most people don't even have to go "distributed" on the backend. A single Redis instance can handle upwards of 1 billion requests per day.
Ah, TIL.

More here if you want to learn about the reasons why: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/7/18214941/alex-blumberg-matt-lie...
Blanket PO vs. Standard PO: Which Is Your Perfect Match?
> neither parliament nor the government can dismiss judges

This is wholly untrue. Parliament can do what it pleases, including disestablish the judiciary and the executive.
Then let Apple leave the UK.

The UK should be better off.

Both sides are happy.
This is a great checklist for freelancing any project, not only React. Thanks for putting it together.

The fastest way to learn how to freelance is to pair up with an established freelancer for a few projects. Follow them to every meeting, ask to be copied on every e-mail, and observe the process from start to finish. Don’t be afraid to take a lower hourly rate for these few projects, because you’ll more than make up for it in experience.

If that’s not possible, blog articles like this one can be helpful to reveal some blind spots before you hit them.
Maybe I had a bad hair day...
People will not appreciate how beautiful I look in "reality"
No. This isn’t “as long as you feel you need it”. This is the seller abusing its position to demand the buyer to buy its own product.

If someone punch me first, I’ll punch back. It doesn’t mean that I think it’s okay to punch people in general, but sometimes it’s warranted.
There's probably some complications to that, not that I don't think it's a good idea. I say, if so, address them.

For instance heirs. Inventor invents, dies while they would and should still have all rights, say it's the day after being awarded, patent is transferred.

Inventor recieves a patent, but later that asset or all their assets are seized by the government as part of a criminal process, or awarded to someone else as part of a legal action.

There's probably lots of odd situations I can't even imagine where a patent like any other preoperty or asset (or debt or liability or responsibility) is transferred, without it being a sale and without the recipient deserving to be penalized or put under any extra burden.

Even fully business transactions like a company buys an entire other company, rather than specifically a patent. I'm not sure in that case the assets should evaporate or lose their "first sale" extra value. Maybe they should, but also maybe it's just as fair to consider the new owner still the originator, since the originator is a company which still exists. Maybe it should be considered a transfer if the purchasing company closes the original company as a distinct entity and simply ingests the assets.

Maybe this is all pretty easily handled and it's no problem by just having some sort of legal metadata where the patent has a property flag that says if it's considered to be in a state of being before or after first sale, and any legal process that performs a transfer records whether this transfer constitutes a sale or not.

Another gotcha, it probably also means somehow identifying and disqualifying some "gifts" and allowing others.

Anyway I do like the idea.
More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave, says UBC researcher - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/intertidal-a...
How is Apple a 'quasi-monopolist'?
It would also be nice if those who oppose licensing suggested credible alternatives.

As your anecdote suggested, licenses are typically implemented for a reason. Quite often those reasons deal with people who are taking advantage of a situation, with little regard to the interests of others or even the legality of their actions. I will admit that licenses can be problematic, but I honestly cannot think of a good alternative so I support licensing as the best option we have available at present.
If the existing framework is so great, why does it keep getting replaced with a new framework? Why aren’t we all still on Angular?

And if we all keep hiring only the best candidates, why would we think that they can’t write a better framework? somebody is writing a better framework.
The Internet (and especially the WWW) suffered the fate of television: advertising and banality consumed the user's time.

The difference is that Internet/WWW also involved some degree of technical and creative understanding, whereas twaddlevision is passive absorption.

All told, I would say the the Internet/WWW is progress. But like any human progress, there is a deplorable waste of opportunity.
Sync thoughts and actions to reach your full potential
For #1, let's not assume the business is employing anyone. Maybe it's one or two partners making no revenue, trying to develop some software on the side. I did this for a few years in CA, and the $800 was my biggest yearly expense. Flushed it down the CA toilet, just to exist.
My sons aren't named Jason but I still feel called out a little bit.
Old but Gold: Technology Adoption Lifecycle, Crossing the Chasm – Summary, Notes
> What harm is a random picture of my face in public going to do?

Perhaps none, but you never can tell for sure. Not everybody subscribe to this "radical openness" notion, so it's safe to assume people are not feeling comfortable being photographed. By the same logic, what harm is a random picture of you on the nude beach? Probably none, if you are not an alien you are very unlikely to have anything special that nobody seen before. Doesn't mean you have a license to show up there with a camera
> I'm not aware of any laws that would require the city to issue the license or even to respond

He purchased a license and sent him a response as a receipt. They have an obligation to send him his license or respond or both. That is quite clear. The NYC government doesn't have the right to discretionarily refuse to fulfill the services their residents directly pay them for.
So you say it spreads like PHP?
It helps that they have predicable pricing models.

You can pay $60 for day-one access to any of those games, you can wait a year to get them for $60 for the game plus a DLC, or just the game for $40. As time passes, their prices decay until you can get the full game plus DLC for $10 on sale.

This is great for people like me. I have no problem paying for day-one access for a game I really want to play on the first day (Cyberpunk), but I'll often load up on games when they hit that "bargain bin" price so that I have a backlog of potentially fun games to play.
Dying forests, megafires, failing crops. For all the talk of a looming crisis, it seems apparent that we're already in one.

It's time to consider solar geoengineering or other more extreme mitigation strategies.
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If you have a moment, please call the IRS' Customer Advocacy Department to file a complaint regarding this. Gotta be the squeaky wheel.

https://www.irs.gov/advocate/the-taxpayer-advocate-service-i...
to me the overriding problem here is that selects need to be carefully refactored when you add in other interactions. of course.

but this means there are as you say subtle non-local effects...and these kick in exactly when you don't want them - when you are trying to thread in a new feature in an existing codebase.

I prefer to just ignore channels. then that statement makes sense :)
the devices that infringe identify themselves to cell towers don't they?

would be easy enough for the patent owner to obtain an injunction preventing new devices being used on major cellular operators
What are some of the good project based learning sites to learn coding?
I have been learning to code in ruby from a bottom-up approach. that is master the fundamentals, learning topics in sequential order. But i am getting bored learning this way. Are there options that teaches you to build something concrete without missing the fundamentals?
Sorry to say but you'll have to find a better doctor if all you're getting is refills without being seen. It's a sad state of medicine but primary care is being rapidly replaced by NP/PAs who do a good job but are very regimented in their thinking.
I don't know what growing up in the 2000s was like, but my experience in your referenced time frame is like the person you replied to: it's not gonna make you popular, it's not gonna make you friends with the cheerleaders, it might be part of an overall miserable experience - but being interested in computers certainly wasn't going to make anyone stop telling you you're smart.
Faciliating is a downright weasel word to insinuate complicity. Power lines facilitate power outages - without the transport there would be no power to out. And where the heck does the "Because it is structurally convenient to autocrats" conclusion come from and what the hell does that even mean?

On another note does anybody else notice the inherent contradiction and massive exploitability of the "state propaganda is a threat" line that is so common? Deciding what speech from foreign governments goes against their agenda and declaring it a threat is itself propaganda.
I think there was less awareness around ASD at the time and people didn’t really talk about it the way they do now. That said, it links to the classic “Fanspeak” at the bottom, which does mention Aspergers.
Should renting properties for private revenue be illegal?
Link to outline https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner
I wonder if the writing confers the same benefits where the characters are the same as the learner’s native language. Here they used Arabic and so I wonder if there is something to the learners connecting writing new characters to new words/syntax/etc, versus if the characters had been the same.
Sometimes I feel that all the best business literature has been written in the 90's. Since then, it's mostly about slapping things on top and trying to be original, while looking back at the foundations like the Technology Adoption Lifecycle in Marketing is something that should definitely be done a lot more.
If you want it safe, then the C++ version should also add a (single) length check. To fix rust's multiple points of failure, move the check to the top, by add something like 'let length_check = slice[5]', moving the 'slice[5]=5' to the top (or something nicer, don't know rust), and you will get only a single point of failure and a single check, same as safe C++ with matching API.

If you want to have 0 runtime checks, like the C++ example, you can

1) make it unsafe and actively dangerous, like the C++ version

2) change the API so minimum length is guaranteed (probably possible in rust, harder in C++)

3) have the function private/inline where sufficient length is known/can be deduced and the check will be omitted
That’s what allowed ESP.deepSleep(uS)?
Indeed - but even "rich" cities aren't totally isolated. I'd encourage people to watch some of Louis's other videos where he roams the streets and even the national brands have pulled out of NYC - but the amount of vacancies overall is pretty astonishing. Between the "summer of LOVE" and COVID it's been a pretty harsh one/two punch and there is already a significant momentum that has started of resources pulling out of the city - and once these trends start they are pretty damn hard to reverse. NYC is only rich if there is commerce for them to tax.
The Tools and Techniques I Use to Build Simple Static Websites
What are the plans for Typora like wysiwyg functionality?
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Which issue tracker would you recommend? Jira?
> And I know of no system that allows different simultaneous workspaces with their own IDs, nor browser that allows the same with tabs.

firefox supports this with the tab container extension
> I’ve got a bunch of saved notes with various incantations that would become redundant if so!

Throw them in scripts! Another advantage of using a CLI is that it provides a friction-free path from ad hoc commands to saved commands to messy scripts to properly supported tools. I've ridden this gradient multiple times prfoesssionaly, especially now that I work with a bunch of PhDs who are less comfortable around OSes than I am. It's a good feeling to have such a clean pipeline from "this command/series of commands feels awkward to me" to a reviewed, checked-in tool that becomes a critical part of the team's workflow. The best part is that there's value at every incremental step, so you don't need to invest any organizational effort, which is especially useful in a chaotic execution environment.
Here are some quick ideas:

1. Home automation

2. Garden management

3. Vehicle data logger incl OBD2 via CAN

4. Open wifi-based services like a bulletin board for a cafe

5. Mesh sensor network

6. Retro gaming

7. Autonomous vehicle experiments (ESP32 can run TensorFlowLite)
It's in the pinned comment at the top.
reading through the FOIA document, LEO was very clear about which laws were broken.
Stripe Identity: an identity verification tool to increase trust online
Gianni Vio – Hacker Behind the Italian Soccer 2020 Title
ML is an associative statistical system of function optimisation -- pretty much the opposite of science.

Ie., ML makes the assumption that data points are IID.

The whole purpose of science is to produce models which explain why data isnt IID.
These game prices are no more absurd than a Mickey Mantle card being worth $20-$30 million (1952 Topps Mantle #311 PSA 9 sold for $5 million not long ago; there are three superior PSA 10 copies which in theory should be worth a lot more, two of which are owned by a billionaire).

Consider the global scale and love of video games, Mario, Zelda, etc. Versus the localized scale of Major League Baseball (even if it's in the largest economy) and particularly Mickey Mantle.

So why not Mario if Mantle? It makes just as much sense (however much sense that is, granted).

Check out what new prospects go for in the baseball card world. A Wander Franco card went for $200,000. This is a 20 year old that has barely played any professional baseball, recently got called up with the Tampa Rays, and hasn't hit well so far (and may just end up as a flop, as these guys sometimes do).

So Wander Franco cards make sense, and Mario doesn't? Obviously all of it seems crazy. And yet there it is.

You know what else is really crazy? Tesla's valuation. Shopify's valuation. Snowflake's valuation. DocuSign's valuation. And so on.

Yeah, I know, those are real companies that have products and services. Ok. I posit that many of those valuations are less sustainable than a 1952 Mickey Mantle card at $5m. And we're not talking a million dollars, we're talking trillions of dollars of laughably over-inflated valuations in the stock market. Mario at $1.5m is not crazier than Tesla at $600-$800 billion.

It's all part of the same asset speculation mania.

Millions of people out there are paying obscene prices for stocks and it won't end well. And with stocks it's not just some rich person with a toy hobby (because who really cares what that person burns their money on), it's retirement funds, pensions. All loaded up on Coca Cola at 33 times earnings, for a company that hasn't seen any growth in five years, has mediocre prospects for growth, and deserves half their present valuation at best (now repeat that scenario for most of the garbage-valuation blue chips, like McDonald's or Starbucks; check out the valuation on WD-40 (WDFC), an old slow-growth degreaser/lubricant spray company sporting a 40-45 PE; the entire market is like that now, out of its collective mind).

These are the consequences of perpetually low interest rates, it has bred a rabid culture of speculation and desperation for any yield or return.
>the intention is pretty clear.

I read that a lot about what people want deleted, but I don't believe it. When the sosh algos only allow conversation that they expect, like some GPT autosuggest, and hide anything that challenges the machine's idea of the way the world should be, it doesn't seem like it would have much purpose.
... and on promoting neoliberal ‘resistance’ cause célèbre, which varies with finances, leadership, and who happens to be holding political office. Surely positioning this licensing issue as such could almost instantly command the full weight and authority of that org.
But weren’t all those Google employees trained in the academy? Wasn’t this competition organized and designed by people in the academy? Who defined the goal, who laid not just the foundation but built the whole town? It’s clearly a positive collaboration.

In any case, left to their own devices, corporate R&D teams wouldn’t be able to define goals that work for their business. Like without the competition and goals being defined for them, DeepMind would be having meetings with brand managers about the avant- grade of ad tracking.
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Unless you are a large enough corporation, then all bets are off.
This carbon footprint BS is always trotted out. If these folk really cared about that then actually attack the real companies that contribute the most to the carbon footprint. Otherwise it's just a waste of space.

This article wasn't proofread as there were no 2021 London Olympics.

BTW, the Olympics is meant to showcase the city/country that the event is in for that particular Games. It has knock on effect for tourism, economic impact and the like.
Visiting Edward Tufte’s art farm
Maybe government should invest in companies instead of giving grants. So if the company fails, it is money lost like a grant, but if there is success, then the government can get its money back.
Whever I tried to use channels I regretted it at the end. I believe the channels in Go are the worst part of the language.

I use mutexes.
Weird take. Alphabets let you sound words out but does nothing to help you understand. Ideograms let you understand without knowing how it sounds. Perfectly good tradeoff IMO.
If you are having trouble visiting the site, or it's after July 15th 2021 then you can visit https://web.archive.org/web/20210712022605if_/https://www.te... or https://archive.ph/pLYU7 to read a copy of the farewell notice.
One counterargument is that hosting the Olympics seems to be an important prestige signal for nation states. Think Beijing 2008.
> You deserve protection for coming up with the technology, not for using it.

Why? Ideas are cheap, execution is everything and all that. You don't have to literally be the person executing on it, but whoever you transfer or sell the patent to should. I'd be ok with licensing or selling patents to others to build the technology, I'm not ok with licensing or selling the patent to others who will only use it to sue people who do try to build something similar.

The concept of patents was to encourage innovation, not stifle it.

Its also quite common that multiple people invent the same thing at roughly the same time. With these patent trolls, if one of these people gets the invention patented first, but does nothing but rent seeking with it, that will prevent others who came up with the same thing but were too slow to patent it to even try.

Couple that with overly broad, vague or downright invalid patents and you end up with a system that discourages, hinders or puts a large cost on actual innovation. Even if a patent is provably invalid, it costs money in legal fees to get it overturned.
By not falling for the bullshit of anybody who says you need to give up freedom of information for security - they are lying to you from the start and plan only more lies and abuse of power.

An internet driver's license is a terrible technically illiterate idea trying to cast itself as something reasonable. Who can I run over with my internet connection? How the hell would anybody check who is behind a terminal in the privacy of their own home? It would require somehow embedding an actual identifier in every last packet and ensuring it is always valid and isn't susceptible to replay or known plaintext attacks.
Atlas Centaur (AC-67) Lightning Strike Mishap 1987 (2007) [pdf]
Or it's a reference to a real life marketing campaign that was referenced in that movie?

[Edit]

So I googled. Never realized that message was never a real secret code from the radio show. Sponsored by Ovaltine but apparently the creators deny having put ads in the secret messages as the movie claimed.
Leonardo Torres’s Chess-Machine
The chess "job market" seems to be doing pretty well these days, at least based on recent publicity.