skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing you have to keep in mind is that, almost always, the bigger a generator is, the more efficient it is.

Even if everyone's petrol-burning cars were swapped out for electric ones that were just as energy-intensive (i.e. required the same amount of joules of converted energy, to go the same distance, that petrol vehicles do) and then we took all that petrol, and burned it in a few big power-plants to generate that electricity... we'd still end up using less petrol. Because the big power plant would be far more efficient, in almost every sense, than the small ones in our cars. (Including senses like "sequesters more CO2.")

And that's a pessimized case; in reality, electric cars get far better "miles per gallon" (more literally, miles per megajoule of stored energy) than petrol cars do. Look at (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equi...): if you converted one gallon of gasoline into electricity using a regular, inefficient petrol car engine, and then charged an electric car's batteries using that generated power, the electric car would go quite a bit further than the same amount of stored energy would have taken the petrol car. (This being what hybrid cars do: use a regular petrol engine to charge batteries, and then run off those batteries.)

The two factors combined mean that there is every reason to centralize the generation of electricity. Even if we still burn petrol to generate all that electricity (unlikely), we'd still be burning far less petrol.
It's worth mentioning that none of these techniques actually apply to the case where you exercise stock options - other than the one that says basically "take options as compensation if you can because you don't pay taxes until you exercise them" which is true for everyone who gets options (because you don't get any liquidity) not just rich people with expensive accountants.

The only techniques that apply to income taxes are the "borrow against stock technique" (has a big caveat about a rich person who lost in court when he used it) and the deferred compensation example (which is also zero liquidity; presumably you pay all of the income taxes when you actual get the money).

The article makes a better case for ways to avoid death taxes or real estate taxes though.
I didnt understand apple until I read this book. Before then I was a total robot.
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This would likely depend on the terms of the contract with the drivers and on what statements if any were made to drivers about how rides were allocated, prioritized, etc.

If the drivers had been led to believe that ride allocation was "fair" (based on distance, predicted arrival time, etc.) or under their control (based on rides being presented to multiple drivers and assigned to the first responder) then finding that it was actually weighted in favor of people driving for Lyft might be a problem for them.

This also goes back to the principle of "anyone can sue for anything" as long as it's not frivolous, and this doesn't seem like it'd be considered such. A suit might not be successful, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't at least considered.
feast your eyes
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/325100669/
They could design a classic bluetooth controller and sell it for cheap. I'm using the expensive, but awesome Switch Pro Controller on my Android's SNES emulator.
Yep, those are all good points. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :-).
That's just beautiful. I'll reference that.
There are quite a few on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_round_of_simplified_Chi...). I would say the most commonly seen are 仃 for 停 (stop, park a car), 桔 for 橘 (orange), and less commonly 歺 for 餐 (meal).

These are pretty vernacular writing now: you only see 仃 painted on walls near alleys where they tell you to park or not to park a car somewhere and 歺 is found around some small canteens. 桔 is a bit more popular than the other two among schoolkids.
You are an atheist nigger monkey.
Cool. GE paid an average of 5.2% tax over the last 15 years.

But they donated millions and that's a lot right?

http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2016/04/just_plain_wro...
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First of all, modals create a bad user experience. But if you're going to use them, users on Android expect to be able to use the back button to cancel out of things.
A wonderful book that I'm amazed ever got published. Still, as noted in wikipedia: "It was originally rejected by 121 publishers, more than any other bestselling book, according to the Guinness Book of Records."

[edited to remove spoiler I shouldn't have mentioned -- my apologies]
Eventually that money will be either returned to share holders, or will be invested in the business. You also have to consider that the government in Finland is probably way less shitty than the US government.
My father-in-law retired at 75; he was writing embedded systems for machines involved in chip manufacture.

I'm 56 now. I'm just going to go until I can't do it any more; 75 would be great. Writing software and working with hardware is pretty awesome.

Consider how fortunate we are, who have found successful professions that we enjoy -- many people don't get that opportunity.
Both dogs and cats do kill each other. It is not uncommon at all.
If you believe accessing a URL manually, incrementing a number in a URL, or using wget is a hack, yes. At least you'd be in agreement with the US Dept. of Justice in that.

The web is open. If you put your a chair out in a public square with a sign on that back that says, "Only paying members can sit." don't be surprised when someone random sits in it.
It would be in B and C's best interests to hash together to avoid A's attack. A well designed cryptocurrency takes these game theory scenarios into accounts and properly incentivizes mining wherein it should be more profitable for miners to accurately represent transaction history over destabilization.

A in your scenario would likely be malicious to the network would have to be a state actor looking to kill the network. Luckily, in a sufficiently large network even governments are bound by CPU/GPU supply. It gets even harder for this kind of state maliciousness to take place in tech like ethereum: whose PoW function is both CPU and memory bound (I.e. You cannot use custom ASICs)

I casually enjoy cryptocurrency, so anyone who knows better please correct me if you find me incorrect.
(I am pleased you brought up Stephen W, and also that you asked us not to. That's all you'll get from me.)
This is addressed in the Youtube page's comment section by Bram Cohen

"Burstcoin is busted. For proofs of work you can throw any random bullshit together and it will be a functioning proof of work. Proofs of space aren't like that.﻿"
But with a huge barrier to entry. Smalltalk is at least reasonably easy to grasp for people new to programming, Erlang not so much (though it is incredibly powerful).

The graphical nature of the Smalltalk environment also really helped to make it accessible. Erlang lives mostly in text terminals.

I'm still not convinced of the 'image' mechanism, it's really nice to have implicit and automatic persistence but it glues the code so strongly to the data that it starts to hamper collaboration. Being able to easily pull a bunch of stuff from one machine to another and to integrate it with stuff that was already there is something that other programming languages have solved very well (together with DVCSs), Smalltalk seems a step backwards in that regard.

Though there are times I wished for an easy way to hibernate an entire session for later re-use.
Yea, I have a MBP, and Mac, and they arn't getting used much.

I decided awhile ago, I'm not buying new software, or new peripherals just because of a software update.

I've tried installing virtual environments, etc., but so much doesn't work.

I'm tempted to turn my MBP into solely a Linux machine, but fooling with that expensive harware seems wrong.

I do know this is my last new Apple product unless my income increases drastically. I will buy used used Apple parts though--when my computers break down. I will never walk in and had over thousands of dollars ever again though. I'll admit I'm not a typical Apple customer. I like to work on my computers(physically when they breakdown), and don't have a lot of disposable income. Plus, my computer needs are in niche areas.

I'm tempted to by a refurbished Thinkpad. I just kills me I have thousands of dollars in my room, and I'm thinking about a refurb off Newegg.

(I don't want to debate. I don't want to list what doesn't work anymore.)
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The finite field GF(2^k) has order (number of elements) 2^k, but its multiplicative group has the (2^k)-1 nonzero elements, and thus order (2^k)-1, which squares [pun intended] with the fact that x^(2^k-1) = 1.
> Norway has a population about the same as Sydney's metropolitan area.

This is an absolutely meaningless argument.
> If the US didn't have a considerable amount of immigrants from those countries then the times would be 8x less.

No, past levels of immigration has no bearing on the backlogs. For example Germany, Ireland, Italy etc have no skilled immigration backlogs.
This is a fun one. But then again most Alan Kay talks are fun.
No mention of Lilium, unfortunately, though they aren't in SV. https://lilium.com/
I will second this! I have used them for quite some time and their customer support is extremely responsive! I also like having ssh access.
In what sense are other languages less precise?
Yes. It works fine.
> Is it theoretically impossible to fit an interpreter for a dynamic programming language in the L1 cache of a modern chip?

I'm pretty sure Chuck Moore (yes, he's still around) would be able to fit the interpreter and an entire OS into the L1 cache with room to spare. Forth technically is an interpreter.
I don't think a roller would work. The solids in the bag would settle to one side of the bag and form a clump. You would either need a ton of torque to drive the roller and smash the clump or a slip-roller.
Yes, testing captive portals where https would give a TLS error!
So how do you keep the pulp in while letting the juice out, and not having the business end of the plastic package violently explode like a tube of toothpaste in a vise?
For my purposes, they have been quick to respond to questions via email, but I haven't had problems that required an immediate response via phone.
Its against the competitive spirit of business. Like if I'm trying to run the best taxi service and someone runs a better one, that's fine, but if someone is stalking my driver's and spying on them, that's bullshit. It's cheating.

Uber is capable of running the best service on a merit basis. Cheating this way is just childish and should be corrected immediately imo.
Are saying stakeholders aren't communicating the use case to the developers implementing these solutions?
I'm reluctant to weight in as I'm only 36 and well not terribly impressive. However as the owner of a company I must say programming is so much more relaxing than dealing with people... well mainly just people external of our company and family.

There is something extremely cathartic about programming. I'm not sure I can ever fully describe it. All I know is when I have to talk to a customer or partner I occasionally think... god I wish I was programming right now... even in Perl or PHP... anything.

The irony is I actively seek conversation as I always want to improve our company but about 20 minutes in and I start feeling uncomfortable.

The thought of never programming again is a scary thought to me.
Was there a US university philosophy class in the 70s and 80s that didn't include reading this book? Maybe outside the US, as well. Someone said about it that it was as much about riding and fixing motorcycles as Moby Dick was about whaling. Much like the book, I'm not sure I totally understand that but you can't deny its importance.
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When you're in the rocket business, and you don't have a big warchest, every year is a make-or-break year. One crash, and your entire cashflow seizes up.

You may not be liable for the rocket exploding, but you sure aren't going to be flying any more rockets, until your customers are assured that it won't happen again.
Have you used OMeta? That came out ouf VPRI I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta. It is a really nice approach to constructing parsers and interpreters. Then there is "Open, extensible object models": https://www.recurse.com/blog/65-paper-of-the-week-open-exten.... Again by the same folks.

Those are the one that come to mind when I think of simple and very powerful tools. There are many others. So I think Alan Kay and friends have demonstrated that we have made things complicated for dubious reasons.
If there's so much plastic in the ocean, and if it's (obviously) possible for something to evolve in such a way that it can use plastic for nutrition - it seems like we just need to wait a bit, and we'll get some bacteria or weird fish or something like that to solve our floating garbage problem for us. No?
I think Javascript,nodejs, electron and HTML and CSS demostrated that "we" have made things complicated.
Examine.com and wikipedia are my go-to sources.

I also really like Rhonda Patrick's Youtube channel.

If you get regular blood panels, you can usually find what you're deficient in and adjust your diet accordingly.

Cronometer is great for tracking micronutrient intake.

In general though, Michael Pollan's advice is usually enough. "Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much."
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So I'm not terribly old yet (37) but I'm a manager for the last 2 years. I'm on the fence about the whole issue. At my root I'm a builder, I love it and really would never leave that. That said, I've had a lot of REALLY bad managers and I know that I can do it better. I love leading my team. It's amazing and thrilling to be able to tune the situation and work being done to benefit everyone involved to the maximum that the situation allows.
Then comes the downside. Dealing with the other managers and the higher level business people. Some days, maybe even most days, it makes me miserable. I loathe it. So much self interest and political games. The really bad situation is that I work for a company that is actually really tame with that kind of thing. It's just the nature of the beast once you start up the chain.

Honestly I don't think it holds a future for me. At some point I'm moving to starting my own company... again or trying to turn my manager role into an architect/CTO type role or even more likely going back to being a lead developer. I don't regret it because I know what it is and that I can answer that bell when I need to. I just don't want to anymore.
Might raise too little revenue. But in general, if you want to tax capital, you should tax capital, rather than taxing companies (which do a pretty good job of offloading tax incidence onto labor.)
This is one of the main reasons I think being cloud agnostic is a fools errand.
I second the other comment. Please take a minute to expand your thoughts! I didn't read the book, but perhaps if you take a moment to write your thoughts, you will move some people to get and read the book as well :)

your thoughts probably also stand on their own and could be interesting for people who have read the book.
Thanks for the recommendation, I look forward to checking out MikesElectricStuff.

I have seen a lot of EEVblog videos, but only a small fraction of his output, prolific guy. I definitely agree, too much grousing at times. Though he did seem to be appropriately outraged in the first one I watched (#822, about a terrible medical tablet PC):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
> Erlang lives mostly in text terminals.

People (outside of Ericsson) just haven't bothered to take much advantage of Erlang's strengths. Erlang speaks network wire protocols very efficiently, so if you want graphical Erlang sessions, you just need to write Erlang applications that act as e.g. X11 clients. Which is what things like Erlang's own Observer application does, complete with the ability to use the graphics toolkit Tk. (Or, if you like, you could expose an HTTP server serving a web-app with live updates over a websocket, like https://github.com/shinyscorpion/wobserver. Or an VNC/RDP server. It's really all equivalent in the end.)

Unlike Smalltalk where the graphical capabilities are part of the local console framebuffer, Erlang's approach allows you to interact with a running Erlang node graphically irrespective of your locality to it—which is important, because, in the modern day, your software is very likely a daemon on a headless server/cloud somewhere.
Thanks for the information.

> We built a prototype of the emulator in C, but it quickly became obvious that we could not achieve the level of performance desired in C. Examination of code emitted by the C compiler showed it took very poor advantage of the Alpha's dual-issue capabilities. A second implementation was done in Alpha assembly language and is the basis for the current product.

First pass in C. Final, in Assembly.

Chip at the time was a first-generation DEC Alpha AXP 500 which had a 512 KB B-cache and two 8 KB caches.

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

Let's say its present day and you want to fit into a 256K L2. What language toolchains are available? How far can one go with JIT?
It's a good bet that Lyft lawyers are currently preparing and there are probably top level negotiations ongoing between Lyft and Uber regarding this area.

If there is evidence Uber attempted a bridge too far such as using the fake accounts to divert Lyft drivers or in some way impacted Lyft level of customer service, Uber can all but ask Lyft not to squeeze too hard
You're right. Unfortunately this also means our non garbage plastics are at risk. For example there is a fungus that converts cloth and similar trash to fuel. It also was a major problem in WWII.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/C8ED057F-...
From my experience working with netem and tc, it seemed like a great tool for testing purposes but I could not find any good documentations on it. As a result, I never really fully understood the relationship between qdisc, netem, the filter chains, and so on. At the time I read [1] (and chapters after it) but I wasn't able to comprehend it as I think I just lack the in depth networking knowledge needed.

Does anyone know of any good resources to learn this stuff more systematically?

Now that said (and without being too self-promotional), I did manage to make an OpenWRT package[2] that allows WiFi clients to select different speeds/latencies/packet loss settings to emulate different connections (3G, bad/lossy connections, etc). This was particularly good for testing web apps on devices that don't have the ability to emulate networks and it provides a simpler way to do it than the official way by Apple/Google, imo.

[1]: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.terminology.html

[2]: https://github.com/shuhaowu/trafficcop
And the trick with their custom-machined enclosures is they're also the internal structure. That saves on remaining internal parts.
Spanish already matches IPA, surprinsingly.
Flask app :)
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So am I! Canada's changing. Maybe it's just nostalgia now -- the folksy jokes and all. Still, I've got a soft spot.

If thats your flavour of comedy, I have to recommend Letterkenny. If you haven't heard of it, it's a show on CraveTV based on the part of the country I hail from.

(I know I'm digressing from the main thread... but a small sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLSbCtinXs)
Or take advantage of tax deductions and credits in your country so as to reduce or even eliminate your tax liability:

US-specific:

* EV credit: $7500

* Solar panels on your roof: 30% federal tax credit (some states have incentives as well)

* Mortgage interest/insurance

* Educational expenses

* Charity contributions

* Tax loss harvesting of non-tax advantaged investment accounts

Some of the above require itemizing.
> it certainly isn't because they have the best track record for working with third party peripherals like chargers

No, but it is that their engineers seem to just consistently get things right. I doubt they cared about third party chargers at all. I would imagine they maybe even never tested with third party chargers.

But they engineered the system so well that they just worked anyway.
I wouldn't say "fine." It works, but it's slow. The original USB standard only provided for half an amp of power, much less than modern phones and tablets need. There's a global standard for high-power USB charging, and another standard used only by Apple, so Apple devices are stuck with the default 0.5 amp when using a standard charger, and vice versa.
Suggestion: a short main() and if __name__ = ... for each file, serving as a demo/smoke test. It doesn't stop you from importing it as a module, and it's nice to see using code.
I wish more people had read that book.

Anybody with some education in philosophy figures out that utter, logical-proof certainty can't be had. So what does one do for epistemology instead? There are two main alternatives:

-- Religious-style faith. This is not my preferred choice.

-- An aesthetically-tinged approach to epistemology.

What I mean by the latter is, for example, generalizing Occam's Razor into usability. The problem with Occam's Razor is that it says, in effect, "In case of doubt go with the simpler answer", without giving a general way to judge what's simpler. Any solution to that problem winds up being an aesthetic kind of judgment.
Either way I'll be sure to check out some more. I got to practice a bit of machining at a former job. It's satisfying to see something come into such perfect, useful shape -- it's almost animal.
I love critical thinking as much as the next person, but I always find statements like this to be smug and self-congratulatory cliches. Of course you take things at face value, we all do. Every waking hour we're getting new information and having to make sense of it, while still living our lives. It's not practical for anyone to pretend that every interaction can be rigorously confirmed and independently verified, which means proliferation of convenient, effective mechanisms for lying and deception should be of real concern to all of us. No one is such a great critical thinker that they're immune, and it's particularly dangerous when our few reliable avenues of verifying identity and provenance are about to be cut off.
I have both of Glenn Gould's recordings of the Goldberg Variations, and I listen to them quite often. It's fascinating to compare the old man to his younger self. I'm looking forward to hearing what she finds there!
Money quote:

"[Supreme Court Justice Louis] Brandeis’s basic contention, built up over a lifetime of lawyering from the Gilded Age onward, was that big business and democracy were rivals. “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,” he said, “but we can’t have both.” Economics, identity, and politics could not be divorced, because financial power—bankers and monopolists—threatened local communities and self-government."
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> Great ideas, a grand pool of undiluted computer science theory, nobody going "why do you need 120 servers to run a webpage?"

I actually untangled a mess like that (only it was some 200+ VMs on 20 fancy HP blades + SAN to serve 5000 users daily), don't even joke about it.

If you arrived with something the size of a semi-trailer to squeeze some juice people would likely ask you if you're all ok in the upper department but if you do the same in computer land they call you 'architect' and promote you. So much of that complexity is hidden and your average business owners have no clue what is required and what is overkill.