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What are some great hacker houses in San Francisco?
I'm currently exploring the vibrant tech scene in San Francisco and am very interested in discovering some of the best Hacker Houses around the city.

I'm particularly interested in places that are known for their strong community vibe, where residents are actively working on interesting tech projects or startups.

Here’s what I’m looking for:

Community-Oriented: Places where there’s a strong sense of collaboration and mutual support.
Tech-Focused: Houses with residents who are passionate about technology, programming, startups, etc.
Location: Preferably within areas that have a strong tech presence or are close to tech hubs in San Francisco.
Networking Opportunities: Places where there are regular events, meetups, or opportunities to connect with other tech professionals.

If you have any recommendations, personal experiences, or insights about the best Hacker Houses in San Francisco, I would greatly appreciate your input
My grandmother's on her deathbed and really needs to know who killed JFK.
People don't like hearing it, but if you can't make peace with your mortality in 80 years, you won't manage it in 800 either. And you (whoever is reading is) isn't actually that special that you should go on forever, instead of new life coming into the world. It would be a bigger loss for you to stay, than for you to pass on, because of the implied opportunity costs of other people being born. We all think we're hot shit, but so did the people hundreds or thousands of years ago whose outlook and lifestyle makes us cringe or even puke in our mouth a little.
The Q function is a fundamental part of reinforcement learning. It's a function that gives the expected reward of an agent given a specific action and state. Deep Q Learning, that is using a neural network to estimate the Q function has been around for a while now.
Einstein's famous E=mc² equation is actually a special case of the general equation [1]

E²= (mc²)² + (pc)²

Where m is the rest mass of the particle (the mass measured when the particle is stationary relative to the observer) and p is the momentum of the particle.

Therefore when we discuss high-energy particles, we mean they have high-energy associated with their high momentum (velocity).

Typically the comsic rays are near-light speed protons. Although they maybe light nuclei.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/143652/is-e2-mc2...
Thanks for that, though at least there are explicitly free options in some of those cases. Not 'free' enough for all definitions.
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1. This usually occurs when your connection is unstable so the new edits are not properly saved. Regarding the extremely rare bug where emails would be sent incomplete, this was addressed in the most recent beta version.
2. Most of the issues in the Proton Mail Android app have been addressed in the most recent beta, which you can download on Google Play Store. This applies to the Send button being unresponsive (another extremely rare issue, easily solved by exiting the app and opening it again, or clearing the app cache).
3. This is a false statement. We in fact cannot remove Google Play Store reviews of our apps, only the Play Store can do that.

We constantly maintain and update our products - only in the last quarter we have launched about a 100 of the most requested updates and fixes to Proton Mail and Proton Calendar apps.
Ignoring the fact that KURZGESAGT is a blatant propaganda conduit, the art-style they use in their animations is so flat and devoid of any personality at all, I'm actively repulsed by it.
> doing the same thing to them

First I'm a leech, now I'm a literal cracker who hacked his way into the trillion dollar monopolist corporation's servers and forced them to serve me videos at their expense. Even mined some Monero on their data centers while I was at it.

Are you for real my man? I'm not even gonna read the rest of your comment.
Less pollution from burning fuel next to where people live and work as one.
Yeah, the second `CalcOp::add` should be replaced with `CalcOp::sub`, but `arg2 != none` is not redundant. The condition narrows `arg2` from `Int?` to `Int` when `CalcOp` requires two arguments.

EDIT: Oops, I misread the comment. The following the following "check arg2 != none;" indeed seems redundant.
Is the requires release... line correct e.g.should it be add or sub?

Also, there is the additional check... line which seems to imply the same thing.
Fair enough, but if the interface is simple yet has somewhat complex validation logic, it may just make sense.
There is a lot of amateur literature on this topic, written by Monroe and others, even though Monroe in particular made an honest attempt to tell what he knew. To my knowledge, some dzogchen and especially bon authors talk about this, although very reluctantly. Among the western authors, the most direct work on this matter is Leadbeater's "astral plane", but if you're looking for instructions on how to obtain such clarity of perception, you won't find anything, except the usual "learn to control your mind and everything will follow". I think the reason is partly to fend off lazy curiosity, but mainly because many who already have all that's necessary don't need any secret instructions, and those who are not there yet can't use a safe method. It's quite possible that in the near future this will provoke a social strife between those who can and those who can't.

I'll make a guess that the loud sound is just switching audio source. Sometimes the new source is some internal process, like breathing, but unfiltered. I personally heard my own breathing in this transient state that was amplified to the loudness of the Niagara falls, and "colored" with the same waterfall sound texture. Even though at the mental level I recognized the pattern of my breathing, it was hard not to yield to fear, so overwhelming the sound was.
What about “grad students” implies “foreigner”?
That sucks :)
- Performance: I agree it's not there yet. But it's still improving. There is currently major Skia to Impeller migration in progress. It look like Flutter should be able to reach good performance once it matures. The only long term limiting factor regarding performance is declarative architecture of Futter, which adds a bit of overhead.

- UX: Again I agree. It's not there yet. But due to Flutter being based on low level APIs, there is nothing preventing it to mimic any platform's "feel". This is also still being improved. While Flutter will UX probably never 100% match any OS's native UX, as it implements everything on it's own, it could reach the same UX quality.

- Web: IMO, Flutter weakest platform. Let's see what WasmGC support brings.

I would add fourth problem: Dart. It's not a bad language, but it is years behind with features, performance is currently the same as JS (even though it's statically-typed, AOT compiled language), ecosystem is small and it tries too hard to keep compatibility with JS target (eg. no proper unsigned 64-bit ints).

So, currently there are still some moderate issues with Flutter. But its foundations are good. It all depends on Google to keep investing in Flutter.
Seems interesting. What language model are you using? Are what info are you sending to the model? Privacy is obvs a concerns with this type of thing.
Will be interesting to see the effect on global temperatures when this SC is finished, especially if we get a prolonged quiet period afterwards. Might provide a proverbial cold shower for climate scientists.
One solution, nationalize the company. If they are only a financial company, seize the totality of their asset and transfer their clients to a true company that really create value.
And on desktop Chrome!
2023 been full of oopsies & MITM for you too :( based on anecdotal evidence I think after companies reach a certain threshold it really won't matter they compartmentalize to the max and even if something of value comes out of mailbox they probably have enough resources to track down people if needed (if they can do that I'm sure the government can figure something out)
Always nice to find like-minded people on this site. You might enjoy this mantra I like to recite in every ad blocking thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329083

Refined these over years here by discussing the subject with like-minded people. I always post smaller versions of it when people start trying to shame us for not tolerating ads.
Spaceship that mows the lawn
"Remarkably, the microenvironmental change and the functional decline of mid-old cells could be reversed by a young cell-originated protein, SLIT2. Our data identify functional reversion of mid-old cells as a potential method to prevent or ameliorate aspects of aging-related tissue dysfunction."

I think this sounds promising.
The same with contour line elevations. They are unreadably small, and when zooming in enough they just disappear. Hate it.
I heard something a bit like that, once when I was 11, and I was waking up after being knocked out by a trampoline. Only time it happened though, and it was spinning triangles filling my vision.
I tried wayland maybe a little over a year ago and the copy and paste behavior was bad enough to switch back. I recently switched to get freesync to work on multimonitor and the issue is now manageable.

app sandboxes I fell less positive about - I dislike them since I think they are only fixing stuff that is already unaceptable to happen.

As for audio - yes while pulseaudio was working i remember some issues with that (mostly related to s/pdiv). This also has lessened with pipewire.
I suppose, in that model, unplugging them?
You don't expect the number of use cases for software to double with AI?
I love it from the bottom of my heart. It is my Swiss army knife and a source of envy and amazement for what it allows me to do among all my colleagues. And I have converted many of them to use it (on PC and MAC)!!! (Clearly and Proudly Licensed)
Media queries and different grid layouts. It's a lot easier than flex when it comes to responsivitiy.
It's not just that it's a holy site, it's also that Hawai'i was annexed by the US and its population disenfranchised with most of the land increasingly being owned by rich foreigners and foreign investors. The telescope may be benign by comparison but with growing cultural awareness of Hawai'i's status and history, I'd imagine it's more about the symbolism than the immediate harm. Context matters.
Regarding TOR, it's based largely on volumes. Spikes on a TOR IP for example would trigger additional anti-abuse measures.
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Veritasium is the kind of guy who makes a video explaining how his titles aren't clickbait, yet he optimizes thumbnails and video titles after the video is published to maximize views more than anyone else.
It can be helpful in any text input. We decided to validate the idea on GH for the starter because most users can try it as a Chrome extension. If the idea gets some traction, it can be extended further.
You're trying to make yourself sound cooler than just someone that expects someone else's work for free again. You're not, you are just a leech.
Yeah it’s to find the 1–3% who still want to buy something but got lost for whatever reason. “dress for my wife, not sure if she’ll like it.” “well what does she usually wear?” etc.

More common retail interaction in some cultures than others.
> I could see a day when titanium laptops return.

I don't get it. I was issued a metal macbook once. I had to buy a plastic case for it, because the bare metal scratched my fingernails.

Why would we want a hard metal case instead of a soft plastic one?
Regular-expression derivatives reexamined [pdf]
> You are proposing making the internet worse

We're proposing they stop pretending the service is free when it's not. If they keep giving us free stuff, who are we to refuse?
Performance and security, basically.

Similar to trying to run containers bare metal directly on top of type 1 hypervisors, except unikernels are designed for this purpose.
The Jolt Physics Engine [video]
F1's videogame-like Las Vegas race defied critics' complaints
> Do you hate the company so much to risk hurting and risking many many people in the whole country?

If it's that important, the players should be nationalised.
Even if they didn't revoke his access, he'd be smart enough not to access their systems and leave audit logs, thus leaving a window open to be sued/prosecuted for exfiltrating trade secrets and proprietary IP (even if he didn't do so). That being said, knowing where the bodies are buried and having insider knowledge of IP are powerful motivators for retention
I completely understand your comment, it's reasonable to want sources. I didn't have enough time when I made my original comment to do some good sourcing, but I had that time now. In the interest of not making this comment absurdly long and not repeating work that's already been done, I'll try to be brief and link to secondary sources that contain accurate analysis where possible, rather than linking to primary sources with mostly my own analysis.

>but without considering the second-order effects on his credibility and funding if he actually turns out to be proven substantially wrong in the future

He has continuously made predictions about how bad deep learning is and how it would never achieve much, unlike his "much better" neurosymbolic theories that have never shown results anywhere near as significant (there might be good ideas there, doesn't mean that his continuous goalpost shifting is good science). Those predictions have continuously been proven wrong for the last decade, including a number of predictions specifically about LLMs. This is relatively normal in the academy, people have hobby horses, but he's now engaging in public discourse and advocacy about an actually contentious topic and there are different standards here, so I'm going to respond in that context. If you're not familiar with him at all, that's fine, here's some of his track record and explanations of why he's wrong:

For deep learning in general, in case you want an overview of where he's coming from (he stands by everything in this article today, don't let the age inspire sympathy, he's a deep learning skeptic to the core): https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-deep-learning-a-...

For GPT-2 (a moderately important retrospective is in the comments): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZFtesgbY9XwtqqyZ5/human-psyc...

For GPT-3: https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/628024664310136832/gar...

CTRL-F "Gary Marcus" on this page to find a bunch of sourced, specific claims from Marcus alongside evidence they are wrong: https://gwern.net/gpt-3-nonfiction

He has never stopped, and probably never will. He's the student of the original guy who first buried neural nets back in the sixties or seventies; he's royalty in symbolic AI. The only concession I've ever seen him make to the continued progress of deep learning and LLMs in spite of his continuous early proclamations of death is, bizzarely, that he is concerned about existential risk from current AI research. I don't personally see how he squares "Deep learning and LLMs are all nonsense, have hit a wall, off-ramp on the road to AGI" with "Current AI research [which is overwhelmingly deep learning, even if he doesn't say that part out loud] presents an existential risk", but he does it somehow.

Basically, no matter what new AI research or artifacts come out, if they are made with neural nets he will explain:

1. They are not that important

2. It's a dead end

3. They're harmful because people might wrongly get the impression that they work

4. They're nowhere near as good as his favoured AI architectures are, if only his favoured theories had as much funding as that broken deep learning crap
I think a part is also motivation - there aren't many devs that care to support Linux so when someone does provide a Linux version I am more inclined to help out in making it work.

The other part is culture. Linux users are used to having access to bug trackers where they can get responses from actual developers of the software in question. Not that this means you will always get your issue fixed or are even guaranteed a response but IMO the experience is much better than having to dig through a help desk that only answers trivial things that any competent user can figure out on their own before being allowed to interact with a corporate support drone who can't do anything except repeat scripted answers. The latter is just so demotivating that if you have go through it enough end up not bothering in the future even if some developers might have better systems in place.

Being used to having access to developers also encourages you to make good bug reports because those will often get you a fix quickly. E.g. I have had cases where it took only a few hours from a bug report with a game trace reproducing the issue to a working graphics driver patch.

Lastly, actual bug trackers - as opposed to bug black holes like support systems where you don't see other people's reports or bug report forums that quikcly become a mess of already resolved issues and duplicates - provide an opportunity for the users (especially powerusers) to help each other out by sharing details to narrow down the bug as well as workarounds. All of that also makes the bug reports more useful for any dev looking at fixing the issue.
A similar thing happened to my dad. He got it while recovering from cancer surgery. It was tough, but fortunately he recovered.
This looks great. Can someone explain the implications of manipulating gcode directly?

I like the convenience that OpenScad and the slicer take care of translating my shape into instructions for the printer.

With FullControl, will I still be able to describe a shape and it gets done, or do I have to think in printer movements rather than 3d forms?
Depends on what kind of entertainment. Some forms of it can bring cultures/countries together.
As i assume, you are being sarcastic, i would point to the effect, that certain endeavors, that bring money today (and to the content creators) finance the other endeavors, that dont bring in money just yet or maybe never. Thank you.
Not really, I think it's about that self-narrative, if you find a pathway to telling yourself how something is normal, well then clearly it is. You know how.

Before being forced to, the narratives you probably had about someone eating by themselves were all about being loners or at least something negative. Now you know more reasons and the new reasons feel positive or socially acceptable, so you're willing to do the activity.

I suspect there's a step in the middle of this which is rationally coming to the reason vs experiencing it which also makes a difference. IE I can do some uncomfortable activity because I believe some reason that it's ok, but haven't experienced it, vs I've experienced an activity and now know it's fine, so now it's comfortable or easier.
Huh? I think you might have skimmed what I wrote a bit too fast and didn't end up comprehending most of it.

Some Rust types have niches, bit patterns which the type doesn't use. For example booleans take up a whole byte, but only need two bit patterns, leaving 254 unused. Today there is no stable way to conjure into existence a type with a new niche of your choosing.

The example I gave was BalancedI32, a type which is exactly like i32 except that it doesn't use the most negative value. The most negative value of integers in a two's complement system is a weird outlier, so in many ways this is nicer to work with, but the niche also allows such a type to take advantage of the Guaranteed Niche Optimisation.

Rust's String type is basically just a Vec<u8> with extra promises about the bytes (they're guaranteed to be a UTF-8 string) and there's nothing special about it, you can make your own and several people have. You can even use an existing niche to do clever things, as CompactString does.
Yes, https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/21/docker-acquires-unikernel-...
blue hydrogen is an abomination. I don't count pyrolysis derived hydrogen as blue because I can actually see some chance that the carbon gets sequestered. The pessemist in me sees the resulting carbon being sold to coal plants tho :P

That said hydrogen as a direct fuel replacement for individual transportation is something I am very much against. I simply see that we will need hydrogen for some applications but most have nothing to do with transportation whatsoever.
https://btcodecs.valdikss.org.ru/sbc-encoder/
Creating a macOS native app using Haskell and SwiftUI
They aren't pretending it's free. You are.
Patterns for adpoting Realtime updates in your app
Yep, I zoom in on a road name all the time in order to make it large enough to read... only to find it disappear (or even more bizarre, change languages).

Aside from that, it's a little wild to think that after using it for 15 years, Google Maps still prominently features 'Gas' and 'Hotels' buttons on my screen even though I'm looking at a map of the 5km directly around my home and I don't own a car.

Fuck these guys, I'm going to download OpenStreetMaps and give it a whirl tonight
That makes sense!

We're trying to build something along these lines with Airbook (https://www.airbook.io) and we're looking for feedback for the same.

Would anyone be willing to connect?
Atomic simply means indivisible: you don't observe half of an atomic operation. Of course it strongly depends on where you are observing the operation from, and that does not necessarily just mean 'a running system', hence OP specifying that they wish for the operation to be atomic even when observed from a system before and after a crash.
The idea was to VPN only ad traffic (which would be automatically blocked anyway). Proxying video content through Russia would considerably increase latency.
I’m open to debate but propaganda for what exactly ?

There was only one of their video I felt awkward was their video about the fact we will tackle climate change, I felt like they were I little too techno optimistic. But given that they have a good history in this subject, I just felt their goal was to provide optimism.

Also, I’m sorry if I’m overly paranoid but I feel strange that you created an account just to make this comment.
Graph-Topological-Data-Analysis
I mostly tag pictures, adjust exposure, sometimes split toning and contrast, that’s it basically. And cull pictures quickly.
A while back I was working on an indie game dev project and I wanted to see if I could do it without using Photoshop and in my naïveté I downloaded gimp expecting it to be an easy switch over. It was probably one of the most frustrating experiences in software in my life, I knew what I wanted to do but it seemed like gimp was going out of its way to make it as difficult and unintuitive as possible. I was literally getting angry in front of my computer which never happens.

My solution in the end was to download Krita, without using any tutorials I was able to figure it out and was working on assets and textures with very little friction.

Now days Photopea, a web based editor is much more useful and less frustrating than gimp.

I still think of gimp as one of the worst UX experiences in my life and it makes blenders interface seem amazing in comparison which is sad because blender too has an awful unintuitive interface that keeps getting “fixed”.

In the end, what the gimp team should focus on is the UX of gimp and make using it not feel like pulling teeth.