skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Munster, Indiana, a Chicago suburb. We're the food court of the region. Not terribly far from Chicago but not a ton of things to do locally.

Pro: way cheaper taxes than Illinois and Chicago

It's a red state, we have constitutional carry, so crime is far lower than Chicago

Con: it's a Red State, with all the hazards for women that entails.

Chicago Winters
Sounds like you are into some 90's top-down management mentality right there. Good luck with that. (in my experience, that no longer works well, and is a poor solution applied in highly regulated markets and mainframe land) That makes your lack of high speed software supply chain management not go away, and with ECS you'll just get mandatory Fargate update notifications, unless you're using ECS EC2 in which case, what you are even doing?

We don't allow systems that cannot be mass-managed and don't have an active lifecycle that keeps up with demand. Sometimes that doesn't mean K8S, but often it does because it's the only large adopted system with a high speed reconciler. But the teams get to choose that on their own.

Edit: let me rephrase that a little.

It seems that software lifecycle speed and business speed interact to a degree where if the software is faster than the business, you need a different product or speed up the business. For me, that would mean that if either aren't an option, I'd change jobs because it doesn't align with my standards.
Yes! Whenever I see motion interpolation on a TV, it gives me a sense of revulsion. It seems okay for sports, I guess?, but awful for movies, to the point where I would rather turn the TV off than watch a movie with motion interpolation. Perhaps what I'm thinking of is the 3:2 pulldown thing for 60Hz TVs and I haven't seen what it's like on a 120Hz screen?

I don't play games much, but visually I've always distinguished between games and movies. I expect them to look quite different, not at all similar.

And I thought my feelings about this were universal, and had confirmation bias from seeing postings before Thanksgiving like "if your parents' TVs look weird, here's a guide for turning off motion interpolation depending on make and model", etc. I've assumed that the whole point of motion interpolation was for new TVs to impress people with how they look for sports, that this is what sells TVs in Best Buy, and the over-application of motion interpolation to other content was an unfortunate byproduct.
Gotta throw the babysitter into the description just in case your imagination is so limited that you ACTUALLY think this is about catching thieves taking a shower in your home during a break in.
Vancouver

Pros: No need to have a car (pretty great transit system), I can't leave the house without running into someone I know as at least a friend, great coffee, super easy access to international travel and nature. People who are at the peak of competitive athletics, particularly outdoor athletics, also tend to gravitate here, and that's a unique circle to be adjacent to.

Cons: Outrageously, comically expensive, for pretty much everything, especially a place to live, and there's fuck all for jobs atm. I'd also argue that the city lacks any kind of particular cultural expression except bland richness and being filled with fit attractive people. We have concentrations of some ethnic groups that bring some interesting visual architectural flavor in specific areas, but the city stands in for arbitrary big American cities in plenty of movies. Maybe that's it, film people is our thing.

I have no plans to leave; though I'm sure I could find some footing elsewhere, it would take a rather unique opportunity to throw away my sense of community where I live. I still enjoy traveling internationally to see what other places are like.
Oh yeah I thought he was taking about a real product, but a classic SNL callback was too hard to resist. I hope it didn’t violate HN rules.
lol Vancouver is as safe a city as they come - try basically any large city in the us or in the developing world, you'll appreciate Vancouver.
UX Job Listings Plunged in 2023
Yeah, it would work with /dev/dsp, the primary interface for audio IO in Open Sound System (OSS) -- the first media API for nx operating systems. Around the turn of the century it was replaced in the Linux kernel by the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Which, to this day, is still the "lowest level" high performance way to do audio w/ linux.

As for _visualizing_ the audio as video, no, that was never possible w/o writing code. =) And to do it _well_, you need to do some math as well. I say this because I wrote that code in 2001, 2003, then again in 2008, then again later... it's a ... hobby of mine :)
cnn.com is a pretty rough experience these days.

But lite.cnn.com still loads stories near instantly with no bloat / ads.
Are Finnish families flying to the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands for culture or for a beach vacation? I'm guessing the latter. And to replicate this, Americans don't need to leave the US - they can fly to south Florida any time of year, and a bunch of other places like California during the summer.

Americans travel a bunch, and I'm not convinced they travel shorter distances than Europeans. It's just because the country's so big, it's not international.
Found it already! In today's news:

> Currently, a number of randomised trials which test aspirin and mortality are in progress. These focus upon the common cancers: colon, breast, prostate and one in lung cancer. One of these trials, based upon 3021 selected patients in remission from a HER2-negative breast cancer, has already reported [31]. This trial was ended prematurely because aspirin was associated with a possible increase of about 25% in deaths.
K8S needs a 1.0 and some stability. It is still a public PoC.
Yea I'm not blaming the state governments because I don't know who's responsible for burns, just pointing out that the end result is the west coast is a tinderbox relative to the rest of the country
It points anyone who has an email address to specific leaks that have that email address. These leaks contain additional data beyond the email address, like passwords, location data, message contents, etc.

This enables bad actors to quickly and easily figure out which leaks they need to go look at to find further data related to the email address they searched on.

It'd be a great service if it hadn't spent the last decade deliberately ignoring a fundamental principle of security: Assume there will be bad actors.

It takes a bit of cognitive dissonance to leave the problem unaddressed for so long. eg, if you assume there are no bad actors, there's no need for the service to exist. And if you assume bad actors DO exist, the service needs to protect its core functionality better against being an engine for abuse.
I love Chicago. One of my favorite cities in the entire US.

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... in the summer. After about the end of September, until about the middle of April, you can keep it. I just can't do those winters. I spent a big chunk of winter in, aaah, 2014, 2015 (one or the other) in Naperville just west of Chicago and it was brutal.[1] :-(

[1]: But still not as bad as the Twin Cities, Minnesota area. Edina, MN is not a place you want to be at in the winter, IMO.
Right, I've seen that. It does look somewhat promising, but Apple has briefly acted like they were pro-games before, and the situation with Macs still seems pretty dire. I'm not a game dev, but from what I've heard, developing for Macs is typically harder, and Apple doesn't seem to give a shit.

I'd love to see official Apple support for, say, external GPU's to try and compensate for the lack of customizability on low-end and mid-range Macs. That'd be something that would feel like a real olive branch, since that's one of the weaknesses for Macs, how expensive it is to get built-in powerful GPU's.
San Diego

Pros: Best Mexican food in the country, proximity to Mexico, beaches, biotech (if that’s your industry), weather, laid back, great zoo, people are generally active.

Cons: Very expensive CoL relative to income (“sunshine tax”: despite the same if not higher housing costs than other west coast cities, salaries are comparatively lower), not the best tech scene (e.g. tech meet up events hard to come by), tourist season can have bad traffic, people who purchase second/third homes here.

Pro/con depending on who you ask: everything is 15 minutes away from everywhere (unless you’re at the peripherals).
> Edit for OP's explicit question: One standard-deviation errorbars are 68% confidence intervals. Two standard deviations are 95% confidence intervals. (assuming you're a frequentist, of course)

Also assuming normal distribution, I think?

> If the notion of letting your reader take either side of the bet makes your stomach a little queasy, you're on the right track. The feeling will subside when you're pretty sure you got the errorbar right and your reasoning is documented and defensible.

> For a concrete example, with a 95% confidence interval, you should be as willing to accept the 19:1 odds that the true value is outside the interval as you are the 1:19 odds that the true value is inside the interval.

I would like to build some edge into my bets. If a reader takes both sides of your example, they would be come out exactly even.

But since readers are not forced to take any side at all, they will only take the bet if one of the sides has an advantage.

So I would like to be able to say, 20:1 payout the true value is inside the error bar, and 1:10 payout it's outside the error bar (or something like that).

The tighter the spread I am willing to quote, the more confident I am that I got the error estimates right. (I'm not sure how you translate these spreads back into the language of statistics.)
Houston is okay to live in. I lived there for 30+ years and while you're not wrong about your pros and cons, those cons severely outweighed the pros more often than not for me. For instance, the zoo is great, when the heat isn't trying to kill you. The sprawl can be a real pain, especially if you're heading from one corner to the other (Kingwood to Sugar Land / Katy is just not enjoyable at all).

Add in the current politics in Texas and yeah, I'm glad I'm not in Houston these days.
> Gardens are horizontal with no dependencies between plants.

Two words: companion plantings

Also, there's a world of incompatible plants. Some plants actively harm the growth of others, and some simply can't grow in the same place because of different soil and nutrient requirements.
Experimenta una calidad de audio superior con los auriculares de Soundpeats. Con tecnología de vanguardia, estos auriculares ofrecen un sonido envolvente y comodidad. Ya sea que estés escuchando música o atendiendo llamadas, Soundpeats garantiza una experiencia auditiva premium con estilo.
The National Lyrics or Things My Dad Says While Refusing to Check Google Maps?
> “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”

I am not sure I understand. We know alcohol isn’t safe, let alone very safe, in any quantity. So immediately this seems contradictory?
If you can go negative, it seems you've turned the problem into a Diophantine equation, the order of trades doesn't matter, you're just asking if we can get from the start state to the end state by using each possible trade an integer number of times.
Gilbert, Arizona

Pros:

Often ranked a top places to live in the US.
Very safe for families.
Day trip access to Ocean/Snow/Lakes/Mountains.
Lots of good food to discover.
Relatively cheap CoL. No snow.

Cons:

A car is absolutely mandatory.
The purge June-Aug. Everyone is moving here. CoL is rising quickly. The sprawl can make hobby/tech meetups inconvenient to attend.
All of those things are so complex that faults are repaired by rebooting it. That is not a solution
Rural New Mexico, a couple of hundred miles from the nearest city with many coding jobs, an hour from a real grocery store. Remote work.

Dark skies. Vast quantities of wild life. Sane, friendly neighbors, sufficiently far away. Surrounded by public lands, great hiking starting out my back door. Cheap property and low taxes. Clean, peaceful, quiet.
> The modern NVIDIA cards have dedicated silicon for deep learning workloads, used for features like DLSS or RTX Voice. So you could theoretically tap into that for such a feature without meaningfully lowering the game's framerate.

But...what if you're already using that for DLSS? Can you do that at the same time?
Los Angeles

Pros: AFFORDABLE, strong ethnic food centers. Do you want mountains? Yes. Do you want beach? Yes. The working class is diverse. On one freeway, you're looking at rockets, then up north, it's the film industry, and everything in between. Culture is overlooked and underappreciated (see: Getty) compared to other US metro cities.

Cons: Wild EVERYTHING-ELSE living cost structures, chronic homelessness, questionable climate change macro. And oh, wow, a special place for LA drivers.
Oakland, Bay Area, California

Pros: Incredible weather, close to ocean and close-ish to mountains, wonderful outdoors and outdoor activities, great ethnic and cultural diversity, excellent food choices, lots of smart, educated, interesting people, close to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, okay public transit (by US standards), world-class universities [nearby], ...

Cons: Very high cost of living, extremely high crime, mediocre public schools, creaky infrastructure, huge drug and homelessness problem, society in a constant state of high stress.
I don't want to spend all my waking hours hacking all things in my life. That's not what "hacker ethos" means. Especially not when the "hack" is working around stupid wankery, which, to me, is completely boring and uninteresting and doesn't "build" anything.

I just want to watch a film.

I don't want to hack my forks either. Or my microwave. I just want to heat stuff and then shovel it in the appropriate foodhole so I can get on with things.
Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis (2003) [pdf]
True, I did cherry-pick the data, but pedestrian/vehicle interactions are the most likely to occur in areas where the speed limit is lower.

i.e. Most 55mph roads do not have crosswalks at every corner and pedestrians using uncontrolled intersections. Most 25mph roads DO have crosswalks (marked or unmarked) at every corner, and intersections are likely to be uncontrolled for peds. In other words, I am much more worried about getting hit by someone doing 30 in a 25 zone than I am about someone doing 60 in a 55 if only because I rarely walk or cross on roads like that. I suspect that data extrapolates since pedestrian infrastructure tends to be densest in low speed areas.

In any case, the GP was arguing that 5mph was arguably inconsequential. The paper I linked shows that at almost any speed risk of death rises in a meaningful way every 5mph.

To put it all into perspective. Would you rather get hit by a car at 55mph or 60mph? Is the difference marginal if you have to make that choice?
Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode
Pertains to user scripts injected by MV3 extensions. Noticed this when my Tampermonkey extension updated today with this message:

Enabling developer mode will soon become mandatory for running userscripts via Tampermonkey.

Not a big deal for me, I have extension dev mode on all the time, but ymmv.

Some discussion here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
Hmmm, isn't the number of proofs to check normally exponential in the length of the proof?

E.g. if there are n proofs with length k (characters, applications of rules of inference, intermediate steps), shouldn't there be n² proofs with length 2k? (In some systems you can prune some, but the extent to which you can do that would depend on the representation of the proof and the allowable inferences.)
> it assumes that everyone likes the same things and feels the same way

I don't think this is about feelings. (But it just might be in a small minority of cases IMO, and if it's the case for you, then all the power to you.)

In the case of this article, all the points are about discernment. Some people not only notice the issues, but are also able to identify them and articulate precisely what is happening. The rest don't.
No, then you would have however many apples you actually have, as well as an obligation to provide someone more apples than you have.

Having an obligation to provide a thing is not actually the same thing as having negative one of the thing, even though it may occasionally be useful for some purposes to treat them as the same thing.

(This is somewhat less true with money and things that work like it, since those things are essentially themselves already a social exoectation of future goods and services from other people, so the difference between an obligation of money and actual money is somewhat less than with other things.)
Yea 120 v 144 isn’t too big of a difference for me. Actually until I got a new GPU that could actually output 120fps at 1440p, I left my monitor on 120hz. When AMDs AFMF drivers came out I actually went ahead and bumped the refresh to 144hz as I was definitely starting to see screen tearing but it was still pretty fluid. I’d be curious on whether the next jump for meto will be 4k 144hz or 1440p 240hz
It's a religion that worships a spherical cow named "rational actor".
Unwalkable in terms of hills or sketchiness?

The sketchiness is mostly contained to tenderloin and soma south west of 5th st so fairly easy to avoid
Near San Francisco

Pro: it's near San Francisco

Another pro: it's not San Francisco

More seriously, I love the bay area, and where I live, housing is much cheaper, and it's much safer and much cleaner.

Beautiful places to go hiking, great places to eat / hang out. Bay area is really fantastic.

I love it. No complaints.
Boston area.

Pros: Great suburbs to raise a family, small, people from all over, close to Europe, diverse opportunities (not just tech), relatively safe, bike paths, green, beach in the summer, more sunshine than Seattle, plenty of water, NH, Vermont, and Maine in the north.

Cons: Harvard, food (good cafes, shitty restaurants), expensive, windy and cold in the winter (not much snow though), rains all year, Boston the city sucks.
That question, as posed, represents why this isn’t often done. It’s very difficult to determine the contributing revenue fraction when one illegal action is laundered among many. Seizure tends to be all or nothing as a result.
tokio is so wide spread now such that Arc<Mutex<T>> is coincidentally the right choice.

I'm not saying that's a good thing.
Why should a teacher or anyone besides the childs parents have any right to mess with in any way somebody elses property? Students are people not property.
You’re right, but I’m wondering where my confusion comes from. I’m absolutely positive something required a much higher %. Maybe a different license or regs changed in the last decade or so?
That was super cool.
Have you found any tech meetups here that were worth it? I find myself agreeing that the tech scene is a bit lacking (I only have a few tech-minded friends) but then again I haven't really made much effort to look around.
What I love most about Portland OR isn't so much the city itself, but the surroundings. The area up in the Columbia River Gorge and what-not... beautiful scenery, great trails and outdoor areas. Waterfalls, etc. I just love that area.
You do understand, please don’t use that rhetorical device here.
Read it again :)
The entire city is very run-able though (so the Con is a little less so if you're into long distance)
What is the hourly rate for bicycle couriers in NYC? They are frequently used in the legal and real estate industry to quickly move physical documents between offices.
The woods. An hour away from where the lights stop in a satellite image. Literally on the last FCC broadband map hexagon.

Pros: Quiet. Clean. Dark. Private. Land. Tractable government. Low costs. No landlord, no HOA. Paid for. Good neighbors. Wildlife.

Cons: Power outages. Wildlife.
Progress will be when the accumulated CO2 decreases. When the "ppm" stays stable for a year and starts to decrease.

At the very least, the private jet, mega-yacht, and cruise ship industries would be outlawed and eliminated. Decades ago.

Building a trillion EVs will make this situation worse, not help this. They do not remove CO2 out of the atmosphere. They do not spring into existence from no-where. The production, transportation, and maintenance of "green vehicles" create massive amounts of emissions.
If you climb 50 steps a day as well, you may become unstoppable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425724
Cardiff, United Kingdom

Pros: It’s in the “West”

Cons: It’s cold, expensive, and all the kids are vaping and drinking. There was a stabbing on the street on my first week here just 10 minutes away from where I live. Even though GDP per capital is higher (but actually unexpectedly low), purchasing power is much lower.

Context: I come from Malaysia and have always idolized the west as some sort of paradise. Even for lower pay, I’d much rather go back to Malaysia in a few years.
Tips to those that were in the same situation as I was (got some money through luck and considered coming to the UK for university): You’ll probably be happier staying where education is cheap, days are warm, and skies are clear.
Sounds cool! Can’t wait to check it out!
Pro-tip: City Island and Pelham Bay Park are very nice in summer, and get you somewhat close to nature with just a subway and bus ride.

Similarly, LIRR/MNRR run to quite a few nice hiking or otherwise outdoorsy areas. They're obviously not as flexible as a car, but I've had consistently good experiences taking MNRR to e.g. the Bear Mountain area for day hikes.
Well, but at least 538 has a reputation to defend as an accurate forecaster. So they have some skin in the game.

(Of course, that's not as good as betting money.)
Do the applicants understand that they're applying to a chatbot?
Devil's advocate: Doesn't HN frequently tout "moats" - isn't this a moat? What is the practical difference between a moat and vendor lock in?
Bucks County, PA (1/3 of the way from Philadelphia to NYC)

Pros: natural beauty all around (wildlife, forests, rivers, parklands, 40% permanently preserved farmland), low key river towns, easy access on Amtrak / SEPTA / NJTransit / I-95 to NYC, Philly, and Princeton, great biking along the towpaths that line the river on both sides, quiet, privacy, good to great schools, 6/10 diversity within 15 miles

Cons: not walkable outside of small towns, only 6/10 diversity as compared to, say, NYC
What does it even mean to be a literary powerhouse in 2023? Of the Norwegian authors they listed, the only name I recognized was Knausgård. His most famous books came out like 10 years ago, and while they were a sensation for a while, I believe they still sold best in Norway. And I think that even the most successful literary novelists of today are selling fewer copies than the moderately successful literary novelists of 30 years ago. Their novels are surely enjoyed by far fewer people than an only-relatively successful niche Youtube or TikTok content creator. Literary novels don't make money, and don't shape the culture, so what does it even mean to be a 'powerhouse'?
I'm not sure if you noticed that the GP wrote "e-bike". Yes, even riding a e-bike would be more taxing than driving for many, I would say that an e-bike is much less taxing than a regular bicycle.
Long term low-dose aspirin regimes are well studied and common (for cardiovascular protection). This isn't some oddball thing the study is suggesting people do; the reason they were able to survey over 1MM pts is that so many people are already doing this.

Meanwhile --- and I say this as a stalwart enjoyer and advocate of crucifers of all kinds --- broccoli is simply not associated with dramatic suppression of cancer metastases.