skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The music scene is notoriously bad in SF and has been for decades. You’ll find better music shows in third tier cities throughout the country.

Oakland and Berkeley keep the area just above fourth tier.
So so many "oh shit" moments in this article. Even if it comes across as a bit hyperbolic.
You're right that there's a ton of OSM data that most people can't use. We want to change that and give access to so much more. Follow us on Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/askiggyapp for lots more code samples this week and demos to come!
The Bay Area has weather. What it doesn't have is winter.

There is plenty of live music in the Bay. Example: https://thefillmore.com/

Public Transport (or lack thereof): The Bay Area has none

Wrong. The South Bay has Caltrain, the East Bay has BART. SF has... a few systems, but mostly Muni.

Variety (or lack thereof): There is a lack of variety, whether it be in the type of people encountered, the conversations, the cities/suburbs, or the scenery.

Very untrue. Try visiting Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Santa Cruz and see if you think they are the same.

Affordability (or lack thereof): Flimsy, modest houses cost north of a million bucks minimum. Everything that requires human labor is stratospherically expensive.

The situation is the same in NYC. Housing is expensive.
This is off-topic, trash besides, and probably dangerous.
The Magic of Boredom
Cryptocurrency Synthesiser - Making Analog Synth's That Plays CRYPTO's
I'd love to see an age distribution of Java develops vs the other languages. My impression is more experienced developers test their code more often. My other impression is some other developers have large egos and think "I don't need to write tests because I know how to test my code and everything I ship works".
Parent: "An untrusted client would not receive the enemy position until the enemy is visible. This, however, comes with the drawback that the server needs to do the culling - That's why pretty much nobody does it right now."

You: "But... it is done with a z-buffer.
If an opponent is obscured behind a nearby pillar or something, that's not going to be culled in software - that's done by the hardware z-buffer as part of the render process."

Then I explained why this doesn't make sense on the server as a generalization and isn't necessary from a technical angle.

Then you ignored that you were both snarky and wrong, provided your own source which directly contradicts what you originally said and ultimatly called yourself a victim of aggression when I pointed this out.
Kinda surprised Jeremy Askenas (Backbone/CoffeeScript creator) shared what is yet another "cali sux, i'm leaving" goodbye note.

Feeling the SF Bay burnout, too?
For real. No reason w can't build it as a service! (I'm the CEO of Iggy)
> There is plenty of live music

This is the lowest expectation one could have for a music scene.

> The South Bay has Caltrain

Damning with faint praise.
The term "career superpower" is great, i find that the ability to relate a current problem to a large collection of notes taken on a daily basis works extremely well.

A lot of information for these notes come from in-depth articles and blog posts and since they are online resources, it is trivial to add them as notes.

Microsoft OneNote has been the go-to tool to keep track of all the notes.

Textbooks do have their place for hard problems, e.g. algorithms or AI. But these problems tend to be hard to solve quickly, if at all.
I should finish reading the linked article. But I have a quick initial question.

Proofs in ZFC can be enumerated by a machine. In theory, we could devise a machine that (1) will certainly eventually halt iff ZFC is inconsistent (proves two contradictory statements), or (2) will never halt iff ZFC is consistent.

(Caveats: naturally, if ZFC is consistent, we'll never learn whether we should just keep waiting for the machine to find a contradiction. And our machine will require unbounded storage space.)

Can we build a corresponding device that would have different behaviors depending on whether the continuum hypothesis is "true" (whatever that means)? I suppose the computational model would be Turing machine as above.
The result stays more or less the same without it, still using FMA: https://godbolt.org/z/6MWcahsfo
Unravelling the Postgres Database Optimizer
Why Harvard and FAANG are overrated
Don't read about Gamma Ray Bursts, then...
This is a good nutshell of the evolution in internet systems operations over the past 10 years. The boss didn't go to GSB just to watch some unfungible college-dropout make their own schedule every day.
Initiative Takes Effort
>Hate to burst your bubble

Burst all you want, but it doesn't mean my comment wasn't true. You can want this conversation to only go one direction (real life), but it's the internet and conversations can diverge. The fact that it has been involved in plots is still relevant. Some people might actually find it interesting even if it steers the convo in a manner you don't approve.
Would it be better optics if they just amortized the cost of those old HW upgrades into the recurring monthly price or if they had a minimum 6 mo commitment for the subscription FSD?
It reminds me of Monty Python Bruce sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ULnwJX2AoA

First Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?

Michael: No, it's Michael.

Second Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.

Third Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?
So for a cost of $3.19 per man woman and child in Canada, there are 23,000 more electric cars on the road.

And Elon can leverage this subsidiary to make us a space faring nation.

And end mining on earth as we know it by corralling asteroids.

I never get the criticism leveled at Telsa for selling electric cars.
How do you correct for publication bias in these meta analyses? I really hope they do correct for it…
> The South Bay has Caltrain

The Caltrain is literally a single railway line.

I think this reasonably approximates to no public transport system.
I tried this too and had similar results. I restricted myself to one big meal in the evening. Like you, I found that it's difficult to eat too many calories for an entire day in a single meal. Also, it makes it easier to resist snacking throughout the day when the rule is clearly that there will be just one meal.
> Researchers progress by publishing research, and because the publication system is built on trust and peer review is not designed to detect fraud it is easy to publish fraudulent research. The business model of journals and publishers depends on publishing, preferably lots of studies as cheaply as possible. They have little incentive to check for fraud and a positive disincentive to experience reputational damage—and possibly legal risk—from retracting studies. Funders, universities, and other research institutions similarly have incentives to fund and publish studies and disincentives to make a fuss about fraudulent research they may have funded or had undertaken in their institution—perhaps by one of their star researchers. Regulators often lack the legal standing and the resources to respond to what is clearly extensive fraud, recognising that proving a study to be fraudulent (as opposed to suspecting it of being fraudulent) is a skilled, complex, and time consuming process. Another problem is that research is increasingly international with participants from many institutions in many countries: who then takes on the unenviable task of investigating fraud? Science really needs global governance.

Long excerpt but the best arguments defy paraphrasing. Arguably, Science would benefit more from decentralization than global governance, because more science could get done instead of spending time on the zero sum politicking of working the governance systems. When you train people to in-effect litigate their research as a case for approval of committees, the falsification of everything is an unavoidable outcome. It becomes like a legal dispute, where there is no truth, just the prosecution of their case to make anything stick they think they can.

It's not just health research, it's a couple generations of graduates who were given a simple blunt instrument in a system incentivised to popularize the use of that dull tool. The tool reduces to, "there is no truth, only power, words are just tools to struggle for it, responsibility is what you have when you don't have power, and if you take care of this system, it will take care of you, but if you call it out it will come for you first." That's the One Big Thing the hedgehog knows. If you practice it, you can rise to the top of almost anything without knowing much about it. The way to beat it is to set a bar of competence and concreteness.

Scrutiny of experimental data goes a long way to setting that bar.
Quick Intro to Mega CD Development
The chorus almost always goes:

Silicon Valley in particular has been known for boring suburbs (with the rare except being SF with its $5000 rents), massive wealth disparities, and general lack of livability and inability to get around easily.

These are well documented issues of living in the bay. What's with the surprise? Do people not do research before uprooting?
Yes, it grew 30+ new appendages. Jokes aside, it has improved quite a bit with lambdas, move semantics, type inference, standardized filesystem api, smart pointers, optional types, etc... Despite this, it still can't come close to offering the confidence that Rust gives you.
Hatred of anything not progressive, and especially of conservatives.
> Wrong. The South Bay has Caltrain, the East Bay has BART. SF has... a few systems, but mostly Muni.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my guess is that you have never lived for a significant time in a major (or even smaller) European or Asian city? Where I come from, pretty much everyone, everyone, uses public transport all the time. To go to work, to go to any leisure activity, to do some quick shopping. And it's extremely clean, modern, and convenient (yeah, people complain, they do all the time, but they complain that it's 10 minutes late in the deepest winter and then still use it daily).

That's just not feasible in the Bay Area. You are screwed here if you don't have a car, where as when I lived as a fully grown adult in Europe, I and many of my peers did not even have a driver's license (getting one is expensive, time intensive, and usually plain not necessary). Many others had a driver's license but no car. Now I need a car just to go to the supermarket because there isn't any in a walkable distance.

I have to say the subway system in Manhattan is indeed the closest I've seen compared to the European or Asian systems I'm familiar with, even though it still looks pretty "industrial" and somewhat run down.
It's about time to reinvent Java applets.
US blames China for Exchange server hacks and ransomware attacks
He talks about the case against science as well as bad studies like they are the same thing. Science is simply a method that can be done well or badly. The bad studies aren't fundamental to science itself.
It's a matter of your field of study. Climate change, in particular, is a minefield.

I am not saying what I said in a vacuum, this came out of conversations with actual climate science researchers and scientists that I had the opportunity to meet during the course of my work in aerospace. The context was a project were we were developing various systems and payloads for both the International Space Station and, eventually, the Artemis mission to the moon.

The message was quite clear: In a politically charged environment you have to be very careful not to ruffle feathers. Anything from your career to your funding could be at stake.

No, you are not going to find google-searchable interviews with such folks, again, that would be professional suicide.

You can find information that helps understand some of the forces at play. While not a full picture, it's enough to support the plausibility of my claim. You don't have to believer me, of course. It's your prerogative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politicization_of_science

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14258474/trump-inaugurati...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/canadian-scien...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/17/britai...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/358043-epa-blo...

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/15/8612113/truth-climate-change

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/battle-over-scien...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462961...

etc.
I'd like to implement something like this. What sort of tasks do you define in your Kata's? I'm thinking of adding them into an Anki deck to repeat them regularly.
This finds a certificate for positive instances, but without a complexity bound can this be made to solve the decision problem in the presence of negative instances?
This doesn’t answer my question at all.

This is not about discounting or disputing information, this is about intentionally hiding it.
The trope that SF is more expensive than the rest of the Bay Area isn’t even true, at least not anymore. I pay $1650 for a studio apartment in a decent neighborhood near a tech shuttle stop. That’s cheaper than Stanford’s student housing in Palo Alto.
Worth the DVs (;
The thing that drives adoption from regular folk is making it dead easy to hop on to whatever the solution/product is. Most average joes who aren’t as fired up philosophically about these issues won’t go adopting a product that’s a rough time to use even if it’s for the greater good, and the Venn diagram of bleeding edge fringe future thinker tech solutions and great user experiences don’t often overlap.
> South Bay terrible

> Unfortunately, suburbs typically mean zero walkability

I grew up in the Bay Area so I think I know how to do it: An electric bike makes most of the pain go away. I've been exploring South Bay since moving here and finding all kinds of cool things on my bike that are invisible by car (walking is not an option, author is right about that.) Just the other day I rode to the San Jose Diridon train station, threw my bike on Caltrans and spent the day riding my bike around San Francisco. Electric bike is the only way to explore SF in my opinion. I'm going to buy a second battery for my bike soon, then put my bike on Bart and go to Berkeley where I went to University. There's a bunch of interesting stuff there. You don't need a car to avoid being stuck in the suburbs.

tldl; Get an electric bike and learn the public transport system
On microbiome evolutive implication across species
Premium does not remove in-stream ads which are getting worse at the same rate as YouTube ads. I'm not paying for premium just to continue to see ads / use SponsorBlock.
Thanks for posting! I'm Lindsay, the CEO of Iggy.

I was a Data Scientist at Airbnb for ~5 years and was shocked at how little we knew and leveraged about location in our product and models. I had done a lot of GIS work in grad school and knew it could be better, so I left last year to start Iggy. Turns out Airbnb wasn't the only company to struggle with this-- so many other cos in travel, real estate and insurance have trouble building, maintaining and leveraging geographic and location data. We've been working with a few in stealth, and are excited to now open up our APIs for broader use.

I am happy to answer any questions folks may have. In the meantime:
- check out our launch blog here: https://medium.com/iggy-tech/launching-iggy-self-serve-apis-...
- API ref: https://docs.askiggy.com/reference/features-1
- follow us here: https://twitter.com/askiggyapp
I'm working w/ like-minded people from reddit/HN to build intentional communities (commune, essentially).

Start w/ small community, build a glamping sustainable living space...

Tent living but not complete roughing it, communal shower, restrooms, kitchen, gardens, laundry, and worker spaces...then little living areas will be setup by families with gates so children don't run off, or get lost.

I think mvp needs:

Living areas.
Land.
Storm safety spot.
Restrooms.
Showers.
Food Prep area.
Solar/Electricity.
Water.

Ideally in warmer climes as tents/yurts I think would be hard to keep warm in winter than cool in summer...

The idea being that the commune could pool resources and grow/expand and work towards fixing earth by making it fashionable to live in such communities...
Every business in the world hires accountants to balance their books, lawyers when they need to file paperwork or respond to a problem, mechanics, electricians, plumbers and other professionals to fix physical stuff. Yet when it comes to software the most they will consider is an online monthly fee for something cheap and out of the box, and when things get complicated or go wrong "this is out of our area of expertise" is always the excuse. It's really time to treat software professionals, especially when related to security, as a core requirement for EVERY organization, starting from a 2 person mom-and-pop shop.
> Also, I think I haven’t really met in person even a single person (openly) into this stuff, so maybe it’s an exaggerated myth, or maybe simply much more common in just VC/startup/big money circles?

Or maybe you caught them on a macrodose day
Here’s a reasonable way to maintain your weight:
1. Limit added sugar to an absolute minimum. Fruit is fine. Go crazy.
2. Avoid processed foods like chips and other things that have lots of preservatives.
3. Limit breads and starches to no more than 35-40% of your diet.
4. No restrictions on fat and protein. Go crazy, you glutton.
5. Stop eating at least five hours before bed. You don’t want to be digesting while sleeping and this is a reasonable amount of time to avoid that.
6. Sleep enough.
7. Try to keep a 12-14 hour stretch where you don’t eat. Do 5 and 6 and this will take care of itself.
8. Walk 3-5 miles per day.
9. Limit drinking to 1-2 days per week.
10. Critical: Avoid snacking too much, and stop eating when you’re full. You know when that last helping is more than you really need. Just don’t eat it.

That’s it. The boring diet. It won’t win any awards, but you’ll be healthy enough and that’s what matters.
I don't need an IDE that is going to dictate how I manage my project and build system. I need an editor with syntax highlighting, code completion, linting, and for bonus points can parse my build errors and provides a nice debug experience.

VSCode definitely does those basic requirements very well, and allows me to just fire off a custom (or not) build command. No fighting VS to get clang working or whatever.
This is a big deal. Plaintiffs figured out how to game arbitration in their favor. It turns out class action suits are cheaper than having thousands of arbitration claims.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463550/amazon-lawsuit-ar...
Not sure audacity telemetry will get you chopped to pieces in your country’s embassy
Immutable doesn't necessarily mean unchanging in the context of data structures.

An immutable data structure can support adding, removing, and/or changing the data but the way it does it is in such a way that once data is created it isn't modified until it is completely unused and unreferenced.

So an immutable data structure has the benefit that data stays the same and stays the same in memory so it can be shared where duplication exists. You can copy said data-structure but it won't actually modify the underlying data and will just allocate a new tag/head that holds some reference to the underlying data. Now this new copy can be modified and it will instead just allocate a new block of memory for the changed portion and stitch it in to the head/tag structure as if it was just some diff/delta.

Here immutable means that the underlying data is unchanging and can be reused/shared by multiple instances, not that it is unchanging at all from an external point of view.

Now in the case of your comment, an array is extraordinarily bad in most cases for an immutable data structure as it is extremely difficult to sub-divide and let go of unused/old parts without breaking that immutability for the in-use data. Linked lists have their own issues as well but can be a valid trade-off for certain types of immutable data structures. Generally though trees will be the primary underlying structure for these immutable data structures as they are easy to use for this purpose, have reasonably good lookup times, have reasonable worst time complexity, and most importantly decent average/amortised time complexity.
Regarding culture, variety, and politics, I think it’s more a consequence of the Bay Area being socioeconomically segregated. My neighbors are all artists, and have great and vibrant communities around their work — but of course, no one in tech mixes with those people!

Fewer people in SF work in tech than is often perceived, but the social circles are very clique-y and exclusive. It creates perceptions about the entire city that are really only true for one’s friend groups.

I wonder what it is about the design/culture of SF that makes that the case.
What does having concern with the PCR test sensitivity driving much of the cases (and thus fear) have to do with filter bubbles?

Are you really saying that the high cycle counts did not significantly effect the number of cases...?

How ironic to call me out for intellectual isolationism, you barely know what you're talking about bud.
> All I see is something they said would cost $500m and due to government involvement it is now unbelievably expensive.

Again with the ignorance: I just showed that it's not the government involvement that drove cost. It was because it turned out to be much harder than anticipated.

> Maybe there is more to it than it just being hard.

In this particular case, no there really isn't as annoying as that might be to the anarcho-capitalist/neo-liberal anti-government crowd.

The thing about NASA is that they're open and that includes their successes and failures alike. Delays are commonplace in private industry as well, but failure in particular more often than not results in bankruptcy and thus you never hear about it.

Just ask a venture capitalist how many high-risk tech investments actually turned a profit and within the anticipated timeframe. You only hear about the unicorns that made it or the ones that crashed and burned so brightly it could be seen from orbit. The majority dies like a drowning child - quietly and unnoticed.
What a dramatic title for a rather boring 'this is my new IF routine' blog post. The diet plan seems like waaaay overkill IMO.
I got the email too and had the same questions. Looks like it made news about a month ago when it was announced:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463550/amazon-lawsuit-ar...

According to the article, there are some questions about the validity of the jury trial waiver:

That last bit about waiving the right to a jury trial may be unusual for tech company ToS agreements, but as an alternative to arbitration, it’s certainly been tried in other industries — though some states have found such clauses to be unenforceable.
>Why is everyone in such a rush?

because most people are desperate to get a job that provides them a decent standard of living
Both of those require a player to claim the draw. There is no reason within the rules of the game for why it could not be infinite in the # of moves. The rule has also at times been restricted only to tournament play.

Also, if chess was "solved" and board states determined "winnable" after significantly more moves, the rules might very well change to extend that limit.

Something along those lines has happened before: When a combination of pieces have been shown to be "winnable" but might exceed the 50 move rule, exceptions have been made to the rule to allow more time to develop the win. At some point though, the rules went back to 50, but still with conditions about pawn moves, pieces taken, etc.

The history is interesting: 50 was originally chosen (or maybe just compromised on) because players felt than all winnable games could be won in 50 moves or under.