skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're the kind of person who wants "open data" (read as broadly as you like) and could get it in snapshots direct from the source without having to scrape, what would your ideal format be?

I know it's a very open ended question.
It's funny, I moved to SF and landed a tech job, in that order. I moved to the Bay Area for certain things above a job. I know there are others like me, perhaps not a majority of the HN crowd, but I quite like it here and it would take a lot for me to change my mind about the place.
On the other hand, who would research anything or spend anything on R&D if it was not protected? It's a two-way street. There are good patents, bad patents, and everything in between.
Presumably they make their boss richer by providing value to someone paying their boss. Sure, some industries are probably parasitic or primarily extractive but the whole main idea of capitalism is than it can drive improvements for consumers, and for the people of a lot of countries this has largely panned out?
Funny thing is, on an older Mac, If you try to run Netflix with the most current supported version of Safari, they redirect you to a page about Microsoft Silverlight[1]. If you don't read that page carefully, you might conclude you need Silverlight to use Netflix, which, of course, 404's when you go try to find it. Totally broken experience. I encountered this recently and had to download Microsoft Edge for Mac.

I'm not sure if I should be more irritated with Netflix, who can't be bothered to maintain backwards compatibility with not-that-old browsers, or Apple, who can't be bothered to get newer versions of Safari to work on older Mac hardware. Both companies are displaying a total disregard for paying customers who just don't happen to have the latest expensive hardware.

1: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2090
Respectfully, nobody asked your opinion. Your reply is not responsive at best.
I feel like Harvard and MIT, those two universities in particular, carry a very unique cachet. Other elite universities may not be so worth it.
The principle advantages of cubicles:

Over offices...

- Less real estate per worker. In theory you get more return on your workspace lease/rent/mortgage expenses with cubicles than offices or WFH.

- Ambient signal (vs noise). You learn more about what else others in your area are doing through audio/visual leaks into your space. Easier to become known to neighbors.

- Togetherness (vs isolation). You're with others AND have your own space.

- Flexibility. Cubicles used to be fast/cheap/easy to reconfigure and rearrange. Less so now.

Over shared spaces...

- Lockable elements. You can secure work-in-progress and tools and confidential materials in drawers, cabinets, and cupboards.

- Visual privacy. You don't have others looking over your shoulder as much, even incidentally.

- Visual isolation. You don't have others intruding on your peripheral vision.

Personally, I prefer an office for headsdown concentration but cafe style workspaces are cool sometimes too for the interactions. And I've grown very used to working from home but miss the watercooler effects of a workplace.
The short version is that it isn't. You just hear about the worst parts. There are still plenty of fully functional cities and towns and the crime rate is still quite low by historical standards.

Definitely has its problems, but the availability heuristic makes things seem worse than they are.
Anamorphic Encryption: Private Communication Against a Dictator
Why not just reusing an existing modulation? There are dozens out there, from fast ones to super robust ones like JT65 (ridiculous baudrate, but you can basically decode it even when the sounds can't be heard any more)
I suspect that for every well-run public corporation, there are a dozen that are bloated and wasteful, and should have died long ago. SaskTel seems like one of the good ones, but it’s not that way because it’s a public corporation.

This doesn’t happen because people involved are less competent, it’s just that if they make some bad decisions or have some bad luck, they won’t be forced to answer to reality by the market by e.g. running out of money or being beaten by competition. Public corporations are too easy to keep going by continuing to fund through state coffers; to shut them down suggests that leaders made a mistake, so instead we throw good money after bad. It may not have been a mistake to attempt a public option, however even good ideas can fail for lots of reasons, and incentives just make it too hard to fail when it should.

To me the LCBO is the shining example of this: any reasonable analysis that compares with private competition for alcohol sales (e.g. Alberta, BC) would find Ontario has much worse store coverage, worse selection and lower net revenue per unit of alcohol .. yet, no politician would dare visit such an idea, since it suggests government (and its leaders) and ineffective.

The best thing would be to do a Yozma-style funding program. The government offers to match investment and provides clear buy-out terms for successful cases. If you lower the downside risk, you’ll get the competition you want in the space.
>I believe your vision is to replace all satisfying work with soul-crushing work. If all your work is done by people who don't want to work there

I am hesitant to believe what I think you are implying here. Do you think everyone in cheaper countries would prefer to live in more expensive countries? Even if provided a stable income far above everyone in their area?

I also dont know what would be soul-crushing? It's doing what we do here, just over there.
I'm in this boat and this is true. A hybrid wfh and partial in the office option really opens up options living in this area, it makes it much more doable.
The relevant data point for 1992 is the year after the amendment. That's a 39% drop from 1992 (1.9) to 1993 (1.16). Similarly, the relevant data for 2009 is the year after. That's down 36.5% from 2009 (1.55) to 2010 (0.98). Those are the two biggest drops on the chart. Citing the years before the law changes - in anticipation of changes that hadn't happened yet - is either asinine or dishonest. We don't do time travel around here.

> Know what trendlines are?

The trend line is from 1.86 in 1990 to 0.74 in 2017, as successively more restrictive laws were enacted. Apparently I'm not the one who needs to learn how to read a chart.

> lead paint was banned in New Zealand in 1979, gas phased out starting in 1986

And what were the effects on gun deaths in New Zealand? Why don't you cite those? Oh, I think we know. Those arguments are both post hoc and red herrings. You can add those to your collection, along with cherry picking and goalpost moving. Yes, you're done all right. Positively toasty.
I think it's also the case that people whose main experience with SF is going to conferences at the Moscone get exposed to more than their fair share of the city's underbelly. When I was last in SF last December, I was actually led to expect things would be a lot worse than they were. To be honest, it seemed "normal" which is sort of a low bar in certain areas but, as you say, that's true of Seattle too.
Keep in mind that video cameras of that era were mostly not bayer pattern sensors, at least for professional television cameras. They were three, full raster sensors, typically with an interference-based prism block shunting blue, green, and red light to different sensors. These were so-called "three chip" cameras, the optics of which dates back to analog cameras that used tubes.

Bayer pattern sensors were more common in DSLRs, because they were an extension of 35mm film, and you had to have a single, flat imaging device to work with film optics.

In the film industry, the only digital cameras were the Sony F900 series (iirc) which I believe had the three-chip design, the Thomson Viper (again, memory foggy), and maybe the Panasonic Varicam... I don't know if the Viper or Varicam were single sensor, but they evidently weren't Bayer pattern or didn't compress the Bayer pattern. (I think at least one had RGB stripe layout, which is just inherently inferior.)

So yeah, it's obvious now. But it was patentable then, because nobody (or very few) had ever made a Bayer pattern sensor for a video camera. It's easy to forget how long ago 2007 was, at least until I try to get out of bed in the mornings.
No, the code that uses the library is a derivative work of the library, whether or not it modifies the library.

GPL still allows commercial use in any case, it just requires you release your code under GPL.
Currently existing schools can't find enough teachers. There definitely wouldn't be enough teachers to make this work even half way.
Reverting gentrification is a valid goal.
The Democrats are not interested in anything that isn't gun control, and the Republicans aren't interested in gun control.

$40b to Ukraine though? Full bipartisan support, passed in no time at all.

You do the math.
I've also bought this app on Playstore, a couple of years ago, but for me it's sort of useless.
Yes, you can try to follow the picture, but that's usually not how you tie the knot.

I wish this app would show how to tie the knots efficiently with your hands, like in this video [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2aRj8dQPRQ
Having lived a couple of years in Italy, I can attest that Italians are hard on the outside and chewy on the inside. They have built a hard outer shell to deal with all of the constant bullshit that they're awash in day-in and day-out. But once you're "in," you are *in*. The degree of mutual trust and goodwill among their in-groups would put most North American social groups, including and perhaps especially families, to shame.
Is pumped hydro really able to scale to a significant level where it can provide enough energy storage for a national (or even state/regional) grid? I was always under the impression that pumped hydro was indeed awesome, very cost-effective, etc. but could only be developed in places with very specific geographies. After all, you have to somehow place two reservoirs near each other with a significant elevation difference. Isn't this the limit that governs pumped hydro as a storage technology?
I hate that rule.
It makes almost entirely sure that you'll loose control for your duplicates.
The way around is way easier
> like most major cities

I have lived in or visited Boston, Chicago, North Carolina's RTP, and the Bay. Only in SF are there homeless camps with blatant drug abuse and public defecation being tolerated by authorities. Only in SF can you run into, with 100% probability, a mentally deranged person on your daily commute. When "specific streets" cover half the city (Financial district, Tenderloin, SoMA, Mission...) they aren't so specific anymore.
https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography

https://www.amazon.com/dp/3642041000?tag=readthistwice-20&li... -- along with his YouTube course: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg
Everyone knows there is a problem. What do you think your trolling is achieving here?
I've lived in the same spot in the mission for 10+ years (and been around longer), and other folks in the building for 20+: the mission hasn't regressed to the gang wars era (we have stories there...), but between the break-ins, homeless tents, poop & drugs, crazy people shouting at 4am, and occasional shootings, the neighborhood has slid back 10-15 years. Luckily I've only witnessed 1 murder, so the crime is merely 'costly and disruptive' vs 'life threatening', but that doesn't mean it's acceptable.

I lived in Seattle as well & visit frequently -- around when capital+pill hill gentrified again around MS downtown employees (games studios?): the current Amazon-era of the city is closer to SF 5-10 years ago vs today's slide back. It's not all good, to be clear: I'm guessing buying a place just got steadily harder as well, and families pushed further out.
I don't think this will work. People who want to drive these vehicles will just register them somewhere other than DC.
When I began covering Tesla in 2016, the company started grooming me
You can query subset of specific sites from common crawl itself.
I've heard this as a reason why HBCU's are so great. Basically a lot of African American's come from schools that don't prepare them as well for science and math as their peers who went to more expensive elite schools. They have to work twice as hard because they're playing catch up and thus many transfer out of math/science/pre-chem and into less rigorous subjects.

This is one theory as to why HBCU's do such a better job at preparing the next generation of black scientists, engineers, doctors, and lawyers then other comparable schools.
I'm a gamer, so Windows is my daily driver. I'm not going to install a Linux VM just to run PyCharm and VSCode.

Professionally, I'm at the whim of whatever environment my employer uses. I've used Linux (CentOS), Windows, and Macs. If I'm doing Python development, then it's pretty OS agnostic unless I'm using a Python module that compiles to a native binary, in which case Windows is certainly a nightmare.
Your timing matches with the winter "seasonal affective disorder", where you felt depressive at the peak of winter and became better in spring.
I was expecting an article talking about probability instead of algebra. People are bad at coming up with random numbers especially if you put some restrictions on what number they are allowed to generate.
"I’ve worked in software engineering with Harvard, Stanford, and MIT students. The only difference I saw was during their first couple of years out of undergrad where the people who went to prestigious schools had more confidence to jump in and solve problems. After those first two-ish years, people’s abilities correlated more with who they were and not where they went to school."

Have you considered that the students whom you are working with were among the bottom quartile at their alma mater? The very best tend to take unique paths.
For those who may not be aware: digital cameras capture a grayscale image with a single value per pixel. The image sensor is covered by an array of colour filters (red, green, blue) in a pattern called the Bayer pattern. Typically, one row of filters will alternate RGRGRGRGRG and the next row will alternate GBGBGBGBGB. "Debayering" involves interpolating the colour-filtered grayscale values of neighbouring pixels into each pixel, and then often applying some software filtering to remove dead pixels, noise, and sharpen the image.
I used say, "I hate being a smoker, but I love smoking." Pretty much 90% of my social circle evolved because of smoking. Like church, it is fulfils a particular role in society that you don't really understand if you haven't experienced it.
Even worse, the blob of suburbia is spread out in a ring around a giant body of water, and it's almost certain that the place you want to go is on the other side. So now it's 1+ hours on trains (assuming they even run near your destination) or dealing with the eternal traffic jams at the chokepoints across the bay.
The models in games are usually optimised for entertainment rather than predictive accuracy.
People in my area completely lost their minds. Like it was as if somebody cracked open their head and ran a stick blender up there. Some of the smartest people I knew bought so deeply into this stuff that when they'd harass me and call me a "grandma killer", it was basically word salad coming out of their mouth. It was nuts!

Of course I'm calling in suspect pretty much every bit of research conducted over the last two years. Nobody had a level head, myself included. It will be at least a decade before things cool down enough to actually look objectively at covid and our mitigations. And I strongly suspect when it is objectively looked at, it will be regarded as one of the worst public health fuckups in human history. Mass hysteria at a level never before possible.
Again, the patent to compress Bayer pattern data before de-Bayering is the pivotal one. There's a reason Apple is still paying royalties, and it ain't because they don't have good lawyers.
This is a discussion, and there was nothing disrespectful about what he said. Respectfully, nobody asked for to jump in and be an ass.
Just started sailing and this looks handy.
Probably not. Rents dropped (supply meets demands - even in San Francisco). Most people I know who were unhappy with their apartment moved across town and got better deals (myself included). If you left you probably left because you had no strong connection with the city and you wanted to leave. Anyone in tech who wanted to stay could fill the vacancies.
I think you are misunderstanding my argument - the statement is not 'renting is like slavery'

The argument put forward previously was 'people were starting families without X, therefore people not having X isn't a problem', where X was a house.

I was trying to demonstrate that no matter what you substitute for X, even something extreme like basic human rights, people were still starting families, therefore either we should not be concerned about anything, or the argument is flawed.

Also many people were rendered homeless or pushed into poverty by the current housing crisis, and I am sure those folks find the argument proposed above offensive and inflammatory.
Again you'll know very little about the details of how much discovery and how complex that was in any particular case.
Unfortunately, yes. People have stopped voting based on rationale and policy, but instead based on team colors.

For those who don't know Shellenberger, he is your classic liberal running as an independent. Pro nuclear alone gets a vote from me. But there are so many things he talks about that are just common sense in majority of large cities around the world.

If you're fed up with CA, please look him up.
https://archive.ph/1cBXZ
It seems like there should be some kind of penalty for filing troll patents if they can be invalidated like that.
You can also tax based on engine volume, in order to penalize gas-powered vehicles more and still penalize curb weight indirectly. Probably a formula combining the two would be ideal.
I'm in this boat. We moved apartments in SF during the pandemic and we now live in an amazing neighborhood, amazing building, for 40% less then we were paying for a below average apartment before.

It's not one or the other (moving in or out), it's about getting what you (the individual) wants, and being smart about timing and using world events to your advantage, not disadvantage.

Some people wanted to move away from SF, some wanted to move in. It was an opportunity for either.
And I'm old enough to remember this clip on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXlpVz9rnx4

If you're not aware, many people are assholes, and the story that you're reading is about an instance where someone was finding that everyone around them was being an asshole, that means it's less than likely that they would have stopped to give them directions.
I'm pretty down right now. Some months months ago I passed on a good job offer for opportunities for continued growth at my current employer, promises of career advancement and better work responsibilities. Now, I learned we are being bought out and sold for scrap. I'm a mediocre engineer who rarely gets in network offers, and I turned down something that was a big step up for me.
> if they don't settle out of court

Nikon never settles out of court. They have excellent IP lawyers.

That said, the video/imaging arena is a minefield of highly-enforceable patents. Very old ones. I don't miss writing that kind of software.
Kind of okay. I came down with COVID on May 10. Took Paxlovid (I'm 64) and felt recovered in a few days (but I continued the 5 days of Paxlovid, of course). Then on May 23 a bad cough started up and it's been bothering me ever since. My family doc could not see me so I went to a clinic in a CVS where she diagnosed bronchitis and said it's likely a lingering effect of the COVID. Damn. And now I read this in Nature: "Long COVID risk falls only slightly after vaccination, huge study shows", <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01453-0>
Apple and Sony have both tried to invalidate this patent collection and failed.
Guile scheme is made to be easily embeddable. You should definitely try it. If you want to go the minimalist way, there is also S7, which is very good.
As a professor, I'll put out there how I'm currently thinking about grade inflation in my case.

Classes of let's say "Type 1" have lots of students and very specific learning objectives. I need to make sure everyone who passes the class is proficient in those objectives. So I focus on teaching the baseline expectations. I give assessments where, if you understand the material, you get it right. Therefore, most students who have the prereqs and try hard get A's. The median grade is pretty high along with a tail of people who mostly aren't trying that hard. But you don't need special aptitude to get an A. Unfortunately that can make the class pretty easy for top students, and I'm working on ways to challenge them. But I don't need to knock the whole class down to a B just to challenge top students.

The other "type 2" classes are upper level where people are there to learn hard material and are self motivated. Here students may face tougher challenges and experience more failure even when they put in lots of time and effort. But I usually give As pretty easily. The fact that they're trying hard in a difficult upper level class already shows they're ahead of 95% of their classmates, why would I punish their GPA for that? And most of these students don't need the threat of a bad grade to motivate them, they put in the effort because they're interested. Of course some students will get bad grades in the class but the median is again usually pretty high.

So I find myself a contributor to grade inflation. Employers, look less at GPA and more at what courses a person challenged themselves with!
I've felt very much in limbo for a few years. I'm facing some one-way doors about where I want to spend the next chapter/decade of my life. My reaction is mostly of fear.

Move back to my home country where my friends and family are. I only really like the lifestyle of the downtown core of a single city there. I'd give up permanent residency to the U.S. Pay cut would be to 1/3rd my current salary with a similar cost of living - probably never afford to buy a home. But I'd be closer to people I care about. And maybe live a life of not striving for more.

Or stay in the US where I currently am. I'm quite lonely, but enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle and US cities are beautiful and culturally interesting to me. I'm well compensated in my field, and not even near the ceiling. Could retire 15 years earlier here than otherwise. But always feel like I chose to be away from the people I love.
Isn't that like 2 hours each way..? That's like a quarter of your day, no thanks.
> You can choose to face the risks of life ... sad and scared

There are reasons to believe this public will be more than typically keen to consider, in general, risk mitigation.

Risk awareness does not bring «sadness» - on the contrary, it brings relief. Surely, many will also be «scared»: but that is not because of /one's own/ risk mitigation practices - it is an effect of "looking around". In fact, «spending... limited time on this planet afraid» is pretty much an objective perspective. It may avoid you worse predicaments.

And for the ever present mention of «risk from driving»: there are Cost/Risk/Benefits considerations involved. Easily, renewing them may not bring to a reconsideration of the advantage of driving.
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