skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author's real problem is less his age but his tendency to stick to rules which are just meant as "rules of thumb". He says that this is how he is thinking but still primarily blames his age.

Following rules and schematics in chess is great/necessary for end games (which he says he wins) because there you really just work through the algorithms and it also allows for quickly played openings (assuming you memorized the few standards that are played 99% of the games).

But in mid-game you actually need creativity and concepts like forks become much more important and I'd trade a "knight on the rim" for a choice between two forks the next move any time. His daughter seems to be playing with creativity while he is so stuck in schematic play that his daughter can even predict his moves (“I knew you were going to do that.”).

What I think is really curious is his remark: "She played [...] as if I were just some lower-level chess engine making haplessly random moves. Indeed, when I made my moves, her eyes would often drift elsewhere—as if what I was doing was almost inconsequential to the larger game."

She is right to do so, nobody cares about what one did 3 moves ago. The board is in a state that does not care about its history, it only cares about future possibilities :)
When I play chess and look at the board when it is my opponent's turn, I don't care for my opponent but just take the time for a deeper analysis.
You tend to focus on your users rather than on making money, which, paradoxically, often makes it easier to make money. Also, you're free to make decisions that may be long-term good for your users and the ecosystem but cost you in the bottom line.
One more time - what Trump has to do with actions of government officials, guided by current administration of President Barak Obama?
As long as control software in cars is held to the same quality standard as that found in planes, I don't mind OTA updates. If it isn't, the risk of critical regressions will be high. I believe before long we'll have an FDA-like body that has to approve software updates or whatever process works for planes. It'll apply to cars, smart heating, smart plumbing, smart wiring, smart kitchens, etc.
It is probably an extreme example, but there is always "The Street Stops Here", a docu. about Bob Hurley, who is simply obsessed with keeping kids raised in dire poverty out of prison through the education system.

Of course he coaches basketball but that's almost peripheral (although he also loves winning ). His program is tightly integrated with the rest of a Catholic school. These kids live in a state of despair. He will fight this until his last breath. And he does not fight fair. Bob is a retired parole officer.

If anything, the film leaves me with the unsettling feeling that this is a very hard problem. It'd take decades of failure as a parole officer to make one Bob Hurley, and there seems to be only the one.
Only just started watching Frasier. The delivery of this joke is perfect.
Keep in mind grip for stopping is more important than getting grip to accelerate.

Some provinces here in Canada have made winter tires mandatory AWD, 4x4, fwd or rwd it's not so people can go faster but to stop on ice and snow.
John Deere is trying to retain de facto ownership of their tractors through an abuse of copyright law. Dissembling about "selling" a product that the customer cannot use as they desire (as long as they don't copy the firmware) is fraud.

Also, except for circumventing any DMCA-covered "protection" on the firmware, you are not legally banned from modifying it. Use != copy. At best, you might be civilly liable for copyright violations.

The law that restricts what you can do with the AR-15 is (I believe) criminal law. Transmission power is similarly banned. (through executive regulation, I think?)

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As for traffic control, common ownership is not only a terrible erosion of property rights, it also smells similar to border-security-only "security". "we can implement traffic control with common ownership" sounds similar to "we don't need encryption because we have a firewall". The only thing central ownership gets you is a false sense of security.
The fed is not a public institution.
Almost all of us already have a device in the car that is updated OTA and can be told to call 911. Car screens should just be dumb bluetooth-connected (or cable, or dock port) phone display mirrors, probably with a manufacturer-supplied app. Attack surface is a thing, there is no state of resolution that can be achieved, especially when people have to own multiple disparate architectures.
I'll begin considering this argument when 18 year olds are no longer allowed to vote.
Signal now has a desktop version which runs with Google Chrome: https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/
Differences Between Beet and Cane Sugar in the Kitchen
I have zero evidence of this, but having witnessed Uber and Lyft spending over $8 million dollars trying to pass pro-ridesharing legislation here in Austin (which failed, thankfully), I can't help but wonder if these types of "Transit is Failing" stories might be their astroturfers/PR agencies at work.

Think about it: as a ridesharing company, the more you convince people that public transit is in bad shape and getting worse everyday, the more they will clamor for your ridesharing service.
Roundabouts are awesome --- self-organising, self-managing, power-free traffic junctions! But they do have a failure mode, which is that they tend to starve low-traffic loads if the traffic is too asymmetric.

For example: consider a T-junction with a roundabout at the junction. (Very common in the UK.) Most of the traffic is travelling across the T in a straight line. But I'm entering the junction via the cross road.

The rules are that traffic from the driver side has priority over me, but that I have priority over traffic on the passenger side. So I stop at the line and wait for a gap.

With balanced traffic, I'll be guaranteed a gap because the oncoming traffic will have to stop to wait for someone else, which means I can move onto the roundabout ahead of the vehicle they're waiting for. But with unbalanced traffic, there won't be a gap, and I'll be stuck.

Typically what the traffic planners do at this point is add traffic lights, which is basically giving up, and defeats the whole point of having a roundabout in the first place.

...I used to live near this monstrosity, which had lights at every stop line. Blech. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.436168,-0.8971696,200m/dat...
> Maybe someday they'll do it in house.

I don't remember where I read it, so I can't provide a source, but I thought I read somewhere that after this issue with the doors it is a goal at Tesla to try to manufacture as many components as possible in-house as their resources grow.
All sound true (except #7 - no possibility of accumulating mass without mass input) and a good starting point for a sensible conversation about diet. Water retention alone is probably responsible for almost all the perceived irregularities, IMO.
In Washington DC it has taken over ten years of crashes, worker and passenger fatalities, and awful service for the press to start telling "Metro is failing" stories. Up until then the stories generally were positive.
Re designing a design community website with over 5000 active members
Wow, it's interesting how divergent perspective can be.

Just the other day I came to the conclusion bitcoin is a monitoring tool for the powerful to keep track of advances in digital security by incentivising implicit disclosure.

If someone cracks integer factorization or tsp and thinks bitcoin would be a great way to make some dough on the discovery it will immediately set off red flags to anyone watching.

If your typical nonce is found in a pool of many, but an individual suddenly starts solving blocks and banking 25btc, as of this writing, left and right you'll know straight off that individual has compromised the entire system.

Putting a target on the poor rube's back and destroying any confidence in bitcoin as a currency.

Perhaps this is unlikely but to put all of your trust in a system with such a huge potential to immediate failure terrifies me.

Who is satoshi? Maybe a three letter acronym.
> To be more exact here, 63% of those surveyed stated an interests in utilizing high-speed rail service if it was available.

That's asking the wrong question, though. The issue is not so much whether people would, in the abstract, have an interest in using high-speed rail as a hypothetical means of transportation. The first challenge is figuring out where to place the rail - trains can only travel on tracks, so the train routes need to connect highly-trafficked (source, dest) pairs in order to be useful. And the second challenge is figuring out how to do this for a price that justifies the costs. (Even if the project is taxpayer funded, the costs include the opportunity cost - what other projects that tax money could have been spent on).

Two-thirds of Americans would use high-speed rail if it connected their home city with their most frequently-visited destination city. But that's not the same as saying that two-thirds would use high-speed rail if it connected, say, LA and SF, or NYC and DC. The question is, would enough people use those routes in order for the project to justify its costs?

The question isn't entirely useless - for example, if only 1% of the country demonstrated an interest in using high-speed rail, we could probably stop there. (Even if it connected NYC and LA, the two largest cities, there's no way the traffic would cover the opportunity cost of the project). But as stated, this survey tells us pretty much nothing new - we already knew that there's an abstract interest in high-speed rail, but what we don't know is how to convince people that we have a cost-effective way of building out the tracks between the most-important destination hubs[0].

[0] We sort of do know what the most-important destination hubs are, because it's not that different from the most-trafficked Amtrak routes and flight routes in a given region. Yes, you can make the argument that high-speed rail rail should serve the areas that aren't currently well-served by other transportation means, but keep in mind that those also tend to be the less-populated areas to begin with, which means that the challenge of recouping the costs of the project is even greater.
NSA has an ‘unbelievable’ child porn problem
It would help people who fly too.

One thing that struck me living in Europe was that flying was much cheaper and easier and I think competition with rail was a big part.
but the backwards compatibility guarantees make Windows an absolute joy compared to Linux if you want to write software with a long service lifetime

The linux user-space ABI is extremely stable. I think the one thing that would frustrate the development of long service lifetime software on linux would just be library availability on various distros, but the actual operating environment presented by the kernel and the image loader for user-space software on linux is very, very stable.

And all future Win32 implementations must be 100% binary compatible with previous ones

And no one is asking microsoft to break the windows user-space ABI. Adding a new, sufficiently-tested, MBCS codepage would have no impact at all on existing windows software. None whatsoever. Other than to make localization a whole lot easier. And compared to the cost of building in a whole new csrss-level subsystem like the one Microsoft just built in to windows last month (linux), it's probably a lot safer and easier to test.

Working in this world myself, windows developers become philosophical when discussing localization. "Someday, we'll turn on UNICODE," "We really should be using TCHAR" (as if that silly thing would fix anything at all), "Shouldn't we really be using wstring?"

OSX, Linux, and mobile developers just do it. It's mostly a solved problem on those platforms.

The decision to stick with 16-bit Unicode is an engineering tradeoff.

It's a cost tradeoff - Microsoft doesn't want to spend the developer and testing time adding a UTF-8 codepage.
I enjoy playing chess since maybe middle school, but it wasn't until about 20 years later that I tried to program my own chess game, including logic and rules. It was extremely difficult for me at certain points, especially figuring out check mate. I really didn't think it was going to be so hard at first.
I've traversed it and it's not that bad. Google Maps on an iPhone is horribly useless in roundabouts (I've mentioned it on HN a few times). Apple Maps is a little better. I found our 6 year old TomTom to be the best at giving directions. Having a bit of spacial awareness helps a great deal.
Five days? $50? And you say that's not a hassle?

In the rest of the country, things work just fine with zero days, $0.
This is California specific. Don't bother reading if you thought the title was about larger scale trends.
From https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm,

"Who owns the Federal Reserve?

The Federal Reserve System fulfills its public mission as an independent entity within government. It is not "owned" by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution."

...and, it goes on from there...
It plays into the "ridesharing is the future" narrative that pulls in the big bucks.
Roundabouts have a 'window of efficiency' where light-to-moderate irregular traffic works wonderfully well. But when an area grows and traffic increases, it can move out of this window. When you have regular moderate to-heavy traffic, it can be impossible to get onto a roundabout when facing say commuter traffic in the other direction.

This is probably why rural American cities are installing roundabouts at the same time urban British cities are demolishing them.
The Fed pays its profits to the US government. The chairman of the Federal Reserve board is appointed by the President and approved by Congress. It has statutory legal authorities. It's a little more federal than Federal Express.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
The real winner with anti-ridesharing legislation isn't public transport. It's car ownership.

Uber doesn't let you avoid taking the bus/train. It lets you rely on public transport 95% of the time, and use ride sharing the rest of the time.

Fighting uber/lyft means forcing people to own a car, and if they already own a car - they aren't going to be riding the bus.
Is it just me or does the type of chart used only make it harder to interpret things?

Why not plot actual numbers for population and ridership on a chart instead of % change relative to 2001? It seems deceptive.
Even more likely: what happens if somebody steals the hardware wallet or it gets lost? E.g. It's in a backpack that is left behind. Does the screen display the private key that you can write down on paper (hopefully correctly) as a backup?

Edit: Apparently on first use the device displays a list of recovery codes which would cover it being lost and the inheritance issue (assuming the manufacturer is still around). I'm a bit concerned the recovery is through a web based tool though:

http://doc.satoshilabs.com/trezor-user/recovery.html
Cloud Chief Diane Greene on How Google Can Beat Amazon and Microsoft
Looks tight!!
> which failed, thankfully

Why are you opposed to Uber & Lyft?
Camera must be pointing towards the black, blank universe.
I wonder if the review time for apple will ever be as short as for android, which would be few hours(rather than up to few weeks)?
>Finally a break point is reached where the legislators see that allowing comparatively death-trap like normal cars on public roads is irresponsible, and they become banned.

Here's why that won't happen: Motorcycles.

If motorcycles came into existence in, say, the 1970s, they would've never been made road legal. However, there's too many of them out there nowadays that barring their use through legislation would cause a massive backlash. Now apply that to cars, of which there are far more, and which they cost people significantly more money to obtain. Banning them would be political suicide.

Non-automated cars will simply be treated like motorcycles. If you're willing to accept the risks and costs, it's your choice. It just eventually (i.e. 2040 or 2050) won't make sense for the vast majority of people.
holy. and then you have cook, that sucker, selling 16gb phones wanting buyers to sign up for apple music.

this is some serious shitshow. i'm sorry but i don't have excuses anymore.
Your example works fine on Chrome and Internet Explorer on Windows, by the way.
True. But, well, I supposed USD-to-BTC and BTC-to-USD services conceal this data to the extent recipient isn't aware of sender's address. This is usually not the case with "classic" services like bank-to-paypal-to-store chain (where PayPal requires you to identify and also would still provide a good insight of your identity to the store).

Also, I think there are coin mixers to avoid this.
Psychology is the only necessary skill for the Presidential election
Sorry, it acted like a trigger phrase. I'll try to take it back a notch in future.
Science be damned. I reject any reasoning built on limit based thinking. I'm 40 now and if I wanted to be world class chess player by 50, I would be. We are all constrained by the limits we accept. Limits can be accepted at any age. There are plenty of limits I have accepted by 40. The problem becomes when we believe those limits are not optional. Any limit I accept is optional.
Any recent event which wipes out FDIC accounts is going to devalue all that gold a surprising amount too.
Public transit is a very visible part of government for people who live in cities that have it, and it's controversial because it's partially financed with taxpayer money whether you use it or not.

I feel like especially in southern California, there are a lot of people in the suburbs who don't use public transit and who feel like the money spent on transit ("moving poor people around") should go to road projects instead which benefit them.

I was recently in Miami, and my friend who lives there said to use Lyft instead of taking the bus or the metro, because "it's only used by poor people". I compare this to Boston, where people complain about MBTA crowds and management, but in general if you're near a subway stop you'll take the subway over Uber of Lyft (when it's running).
There's also the risk of a redenomination. Bank accounts and other monetary instruments are automatically converted in that case; physical cash has to be brought to a bank to be exchanged, and there's often a time limit.

And there's also the risk that, as newer notes and coins come with stronger anti-counterfeiting measures, older notes and coins aren't accepted anymore, or accepted only with a discount over their nominal value. (I've seen it happen with older USA dollar bills left over from a trip to the USA a couple of decades before.)
Palantir has great marketing.

Several friends turned down offers from Facebook/Google/etc. for (much) more money to join Palantir because they "didn't want to sell ads" and somehow thought that Palantir's work would be more fulfilling. The government and NGO work certainly sounds compelling (you're going to be finding terrorists and improving public health) until you realize it's a soul-crushing job mostly pushing low-level data around.
I think Metros problems are relatively recent though. There were some crashes before (inevitable in a large transit system). But it's only in the last few years that service has totally gone off the rails.
It would make sense that the Apple version would be at least fairly reasonable with roundabouts then; as they currently get at least a portion of their data from TomTom.
Motorcycles are the cheap way onto the road. Drivable cars are just the opposite - expensive and getting more so. I can easily see the population of manually-operated cars reducing to nearly zero, then getting regulated out of existence. Look what happened to buckboards and horses!
If you want to browse normally (linearly):

1 go down until you can't do down anymore
2 go right once
3 goto 1
"If more of their bets pay off than don't, they come out ahead. That is very hard for investors to understand but some get it and some don't."

If you are an investor and don't understand that, I strongly suggest you change jobs. Investing isn't a lottery with guaranteed wins.

Also, the article hints that Tesla doesn't have enough money in its pockets to withstand making few bad bets. They may have a strategy that is guaranteed to move them ahead after 20 bets, but if they have money for only 3 bets, they may run out of money before they can pay for those 20 bets.

But yes, from what I understand, the financial journalists aren't reporting what kind of deadline was talked about. If you have a zillion suppliers, you don't tell them "July 1, but if you don't make it, it is OK", but you also know that, statistically, something will go wrong. A fire in a factory, a strike, an earthquake, or a design change, all can lead to delays, and cannot be avoided.
Are Humans the Greatest Things Made by the Human Hand?
I'm hoping the failure of transit leads into a 32-hour/4-day work week media fixation...
Overnight 20% reduction in load = dramatically faster service and reduced congestion.
You may be paying for it even if not using it, but you have to account for the environmental savings. But people care less about stuff that's harder to measure.
This trope.

The Fed chair is appointed by the government, and profits are returned to the US Treasury. It's independent insofar as the government doesn't have direct control. But they do have oversight, and could legislate it out of existence tomorrow.
If a state or municipality makes a public policy decision that people convicted of certain felonies can't drive taxis or livery vehicles, it seems especially strange that Uber and Lyft would take a stand over their right to bypass that decision.
When was the last time you tried to rent an apartment in a city (close to the jobs available)?
I'm sure the official inflation rates are low, but when you're looking at real life of real people, they _need_ to move to a big city in a western country to have a normal life and rent a flat there (which is probably the biggest single cost of living).
Remember that every bus full of 'poor people' is 10 or 12 cards not on the road. It already benefits everybody. As public transportation increases, so do road conditions for all. This is an example of a win-win situation.
The telephony standards are all kinds of bizarre. It's a testament as to how well the specs are written that it actually works.
You would just cross each street that feeds in/out, right? No cutting across the islands.
This seems to be a lost cause, but I'll try one last time.

The point is that even if there were some yet undiscovered particles or forces, they wouldn't have any effect whatsoever on the world around us. This we can say with certainty. Even if it turns out that our current understanding of QM or GR are just approximations of the real laws of physics, again, this won't matter, much as GR doesn't matter at the speed of a moving car and thus you wouldn't take time dilation into account when you calculate the time you need to get from point A to point B.
>because I have this strong feeling AMD is about to be back and stronger than ever before.

Sorry, but AMD is not coming back in the foreseeable future. It's all about economies of scale, and Intel has them, AMD has not.
Your loop:

void TestSigned(int min, int max, int step) {
for (int i = max; i >= min; i -= step) F(i);
}

Becomes this with unsigned:

void TestUnsigned(unsigned min, unsigned max, unsigned step) {
while (true) {
F(max);
if (max < min + step) break;
max -= step;
}
}

Now if I want to transform my loop to operate on pointers or iterators, the transformation is trivial:

void TestUnsigned(unsigned *min, unsigned *max, unsigned step) {
while (true) {
F(*max);
if (max < min + step) break;
max -= step;
}
}

Quick: Do the same for yours.