skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major issue with any plan to fix the subway is that MTA can no longer build cost-effectively. This was highlighted by the NYT just last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

It costs them $1.5B-$3.5B per mile of track in NYC, while other global cities do it for a tenth of the cost.

One glaring example of mismanagement of funds:

The budget showed that 900 workers were being paid to dig caverns for the platforms as part of a 3.5-mile tunnel connecting the historic station to the Long Island Rail Road. But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.

If they can’t get the costs down to the same range as the countries whose systems they envy, how can they compete?
Historically, kids were free to roam even more. Remember Sherlock Holmes “irregulars”? Packs of children roaming the streets used to be the norm in urban settings, where families were big but houses were not.
Well H1B is all about cost by design.

Say you want person with skill X and there is not a single American citizen with skill X. Theoretically you can always pick a kid from college spend $1M on training him and then hire that guy. There is no need to bring in brown people on H1B.

But the thing is that the Company is now losing $1M + time to train the person and USA is losing a bright mind that could have worked on other product.

H1B by law are not cheap because the mandated $60K is still higher than most American family earnings. But the cost of hiring American citizen could be $230K where it makes no sense for the company to pursue that opportunity.

It is idiotic to assume that H1B alternative is hire American. The alternative could be send jobs to India or China.
Threatening to quit is one of the best pieces of advice. Just be prepared to follow through or swallow it and shut up if it doesn't go your way. But for lots of bigger companies, they can't or won't without a thread like this.
Thanks for pointing that out, there have been major issues with drawing overly-broad conclusions based on studies pertaining to a specific demographic, before studying the general population.

For example, omega-3 fish oil became one of the most popular supplements since a 1970's Danish study showing it helped prevent heart attacks ... among the Inuit, whom it turns out are the only group that produce the enzymes needed to metabolize fish oil.[1]

That said this is far from the first or only study showing health benefits to vitamin D supplementation.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/inuit-study-adds-...
Thanks for the note. The Tokyo position is no longer available.
Higher-paid employees are always the targets for a staff-cut. It's still worth it to get a raise.
Guessing that would fall under "performance" as well, but each jukebox would be separately licensed. In the case of something like Spotify, it's n jukeboxes, where n is the number of total users. Of course, that's absurd, since most Spotify accounts are listened to a single user.

I think the reality is that over 20 years after the development of Real Player, we still don't have a good legal framework to discuss streaming.
Food-safety expert warns Silicon Valley 'raw water' trend could turn deadly
I like competition, but regarding "Google-less Android alternative" why everyone want to do his own project when this is a niche market with few developers who want to use their time to do this, and even less in the long run?

Why do people don't join their effort to put up something better, faster, safer?
Heritability refers to trait variation due to genetic variation within a population.

This is different than the amount genetics actually contributes to a trait.

While you are controlling for environmental factors in heritability studies you are still referring to a specific population. It can be the case that two identical genotypes across two different populations show two different phenotypes.
It's not clear to me what your point is. Are you saying that my suggestion that the article should have addressed a different (similar) hypothetical is at odds with your imagination and the physical structure of bone?
Yes, the work-around can be disabled via a boot-time argument.
Good anecdotal evidence. But how much sun exposure have you been getting over that period? That is, total light reaching sub-dermal layer, net of sunscreen, surface area exposed, and pigmentation either natural or result of sun-tanning?
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I talked to some people who did it full time but many are college age- some aspiring actors, but a lot of people who just want to work. There's so much film work in Atlanta that you could do it 5 days a week- and Atlanta is a pretty cheap city.

But the killer is no benefits and always having to self-organize your work schedule while working 12+ hour days/nights. I worked on night shoots with people who stayed up all night then went to a noon call time the next day. Can't see myself doing that full-time, but I'm not trying to be an actor either.

edit: to answer your question I worked about 15 set days so roughly 200 hours and made a few thousand bucks after tax. not efficient, but the fun stuff was really fun...worth it.
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I think if I were born in a different era I'd end up as an architect. I see it as much of a science as I do a creative endeavor, and it feels like the closest parallel the web development work I do.
Thank you for calling out a potential replacement service. Building iOS apps is certainly tricky (can't get Mac OS into the cloud easily), so these free-tier CICD services really are great for those creating new, smaller apps and are getting on their feet.
My thought as well.

Well that and, _surely this is a hoax._

The results are predictably going to be national news of the if it bleeds it leads variety... <shakes head>
The issue is that based on the reasoning that people who were paying for insurance before were already bearing the costs. If that’s the case then it doesn’t make much sense for those same people to see dramatic cost increases.
But don't all FS accesses (e.g., write to socket, read from DB) require a syscall? In that case, basically all web applications would be affected.

Or am I completely off the mark?
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I don't necessarily disagree, but two small counter points:

1. It's now illegal in California for employers to ask for salary history.

2. Vacation days, if they're not unlimited, are compensation and must be paid out if you leave. That's not base salary with which you can negotiate a higher offer at another company, but it is money.
You could still use it in a foreign country when you went home for the summer or on a vacation etc. Edu only was all about fake exclusivity and building a network effect not inherent necessity.

Uber on the other hand is only useful inside specific cities.
Thanks so much for your help, I will definitely contact some people in the industry and try to find some options for this summer. I am currently looking at Apple summer camp, and I will look around your website and try to find an internship.
NVMe means each drive can have multiple queues, but they're still managed by a kernel driver. You may be thinking of SPDK, which includes a usermode NVMe driver but requires you to rewrite your application. And many systems are still using SAS or SATA SSDs.
How can my phone have updates pushed to it without my consent? Does LineageOS have some sort of backdoor that you know of?
If we've learned anything about advertisers in the past, is they WILL get greedy, and start exploiting human brain in more and more ways. Eventually it reaches uncanny valley, and more and more people start noticing how messed up and over the top advertising has gotten and find ways around them or to avoid them, or in the end, neglect them.

Of course, this assumes people still 'own' their devices, at that..
>Teenage boys and girls partying together without adults

I was assuming you were suggesting large parties regardless of age is a new historical phenomenon.

Although, fraternities and sororities have been around for hundreds of years and they're 17-21 or so. I'm sure they've had parties most of that time. It's probably how they started. Not sure if that counts with teen-only criteria. The concept of adult age has changed over time as well.

Humans party. Always have, always will. They of course were called "feasts" in historical times. Lack of partying is probably more of an anomaly (assuming the article is true). Of course, I would venture that even having a large online gaming or chat session would constitute a party. I mean its a group of people socializing, and I'm sure some of them are having beverages or botany of their choice, plus some hot pockets.
If you are interested in 'raw' water live somewhere on a well rather than on mains water and do your own filtration...buying water in containers isn't cost effective, unless you are Nestle selling it...

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/12/21/c...
Make it part of your routine. Put them in bathroom medicine cabinet and take right before brushing your teeth at night. Or if you do regular breakfast, take with breakfast.

Tie it to an activity you already do daily.
Thanks for summarizing. Does anyone have time to link to more on the "side-channel leaking kernel address information into userland via JavaScript" ?
That's not really what I meant. Of course there were computers then. What I mean is that "ubiquitous screens and connectivity" wasn't yet a thing, and it's a phenomenon that crept up on us, so it's a little unfair to blame parents of a kid born ~1997 for not locking down screen time. We didn't know that was really a problem (at least, a problem distinct from "too much TV") until just a few years ago.
4,000 IUs isn't really an especially high dose. Standard Vitamin D supplements that many doctors commonly recommend (especially in places where people don't get a lot of sun for much of the year) are 2,000.
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...when running SELECT 1 over a loopback socket.

The reply to that comment is accurate: that's a pathological case. Probably an order of magnitude off.
On all the music players I've used, that's not the case. Easy way to verify is to not shuffle and then try pressing previous.
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I think I see what you are getting at, in that the mutations that initiate each evolutionary step are random, but selection is not random. It is not a coincidence that Impalas and Cheetahs can run at about the same speed, and it is not a coincidence that Pronghorns can run as if they were prey for Cheetahs, as until relatively recently, they were. This does not mean that every coincidence in biology has an evolutionary origin.
I'm not sure I would agree with this statement. I think there needs to be a balance of both solitude and human interaction, and that balances differs from person to person. I’m definitely more introverted but it doesn’t mean I don’t need human interaction. An example is that I play a ton of video games, one reason is for the solitude, but I also enjoy board games for the social component. At the core of games, I love the strategy and competition, but different types of games can scratch different itches. I think things like that can apply to a lot of parts of life.
Aren’t you exaggerating the cost difference?

I’m pretty sure a $10,000 drone can hunt down a $12 drone, and do it more than once. To make it work you need size, speed, radar / sonar, a computer, and a weapon for that sort of drone. Civilian DSLR-carrying drones are half-way there, they have the size, the speed, and the weight capacity. Don’t know the size/weight of the sonar though.

Besides cheap drones have low range and low speed, it will be hard for the perp to get away, or even get close enough in the first place.

Non-state actors are very limited in budget. They might catch some targets off-guard, but it’s not a game changer.
The article specifically notes they will fork lineageos and use microG.
>It is hard to _really_ know what the environment would be like at a new company if I was willing to walk

You should seriously consider interviewing at other companies, where you should directly ask your interviewers questions about these topics, explain why you value them in your current role, and ask how this new company handles the same things. You can find stimulating work at a lot of places if you look hard enough...
It is not wrong, but it is irrelevant except as propaganda: it frames the cost of government services as being borne by the wealthy and suggests the wealthy are being charitable already or that they should have some extra say over where their money goes. In fact it is the labor of the poor, extracted by the wealthy, then partially recovered from them in taxes that funds society. The wealthy hold the wealth not because they deserve it, but because they have used their power to take it.

Choosing to talk about what the rich pay, rather than how they have siphoned wealth from society (i.e. how much of their ill gotten gains should they be allowed to keep, rather than how much do they give) is not a "fact" even if it is a true statement, it is a political position, a rhetorical strategy, and a framing device -- it is an assault on your brain, an attempt to trick you into accepting a conservative frame covertly without being honest about it: "I'm just stating facts, what's wrong with that?" Well, everything is wrong with that. There are trillions of facts yet they state this one. For a reason, obviously.

You can reconstruct perfectly an ideological argument (of any ideology) based only on the sequence of facts they choose to present.
Funny you should mention The Power Broker, I got the audiobook through Audible in December, and I'm about 16 hours in (only about a quarter of the way through!). I think it's interesting how the book wants to portray him as a power-hungry evil emperor type. He was definitely power-hungry, but I don't know if I agree on the evil characterization. It seems like he did a lot of good for the city, and it's tough to imagine what NYC would be like if someone like Robert Moses hadn't been able to relentlessly modernize the way he did.

Thanks for the blog recommendation!
Is there anything to expect from Spotify aside from music streaming? Anything that might differentiate them in the long run?

Seems really hard to build a sustainable music-streaming business when all major competitors can simply subsidize this rather complementary part of their business (AZ, Apple, etc.).
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Vitamin D has also been recommended by both my GP and my significant other’s.

Both also say to stay away from most other supplements and especially multivitamins.
I know CRT is better than LCD, that is why i specifically mention OLED.

The prices of OLED will come down, expect the WOLED which LG current uses to be around the same as Top Range LCD in 2019 or 2020.

MicroLED, will fix every problem OLED has. Or may be MiniLED which allows up to 250ppi will be good enough.

Just wondering if there are anything CRT still wins, because even latency problem is an non issues with OLED, HDMI connection and software issues aside.
> Consider this comparison

Rendered moot by the fact that large numbers of people prefer the privacy and convenience of a car.

Musk's solution takes the human condition in to account.
I didn't say all masculinity is toxic. I think masculinity is fine but then you have things like this:

"Man up"

"Boys will be boys"

"You throw like a girl"/"[blank] is for girls"

"When men were men..."

"No means yes, yes means anal"

You can't deny there are some really terrible behaviours and expectations that have been normalised in our culture and they are considered as being inherent to masculinity.
Seems opportunistic. They file for IPO and this lawsuit comes out at the same time? Almost certainly not a coincidence. This is arguably when Spotify is most vulnerable and when they will be most likely to settle -- investors hate uncertainty, so settling, even for a large amount, would probably be good for the IPO.
"dollar cost averaging is your friend"

Research suggests otherwise:

https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGDCA.pdf

Diversification is a more effective strategy for dealing with volatility.
MOV-to-CR3 is pretty slow, yes. In the ballpark of a hundred clock cycles, and you have to do 2 of them. The cost of a system call was about 1000 cycles, maybe less on newer processors---both OSes and processors optimize the hell out of SYSCALL/SYSRET.
It's an extremely reasonable, ideal way to deal with China's one-way economic behavior.

They don't allow foreign corporations to buy up their domestic companies. They place foreign companies at an intentionally severe disadvantage. You can hardly operate in the country at all without selling a big part of your operations to a domestic entity (or otherwise being the minority partner). Every developed nation is beginning to approach China similarly on this issue. It'll keep getting worse for China on this issue until they begin dismantling their extreme protectionism.
So you’re saying that the latest RCS, without the patch, was supposed to be slower than stable by at least 10%? How often do companies release performance downgrades of that scale? That’s also very unlikely.
> modernize the public transportation system and, obviously, the housing crisis.

I think the two are very related. The Bay Area's biggest problem is there is no Brooklyn or Queens -- meaning large, extremely dense residential areas which are a (relatively) painless commute from the city.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It's an interesting question. I'm in on AMD for the time, just to see how to flows.
The stated purpose of this project is a phone for non-technical, privacy focused users.
The `pkg` package is a horrible convention. Having a `cmd` directory makes sense, as each binary needs to be a separate package, but putting all your libraries under a `pkg` directory is unneeded.
In the 80s/90s, I rarely had that many kids on my block but I was always outside. I had a bike and roamed ~10 mile radius around my house. So my friends and I would just meet up some place and decide where to go.

I wouldn't say the war impacted the parental decision(s), historically kids always played outside so they were just continuing what they knew, but we kids did have safety in numbers and that's why I'd say this is a perpetuating issue.

If a parent today told their kid to go outside and play, that kid would be alone and less safe. So parents just don't allow it.
I hope they do get funding so they can support messaging again, one of the reasons I came back to Spotify was for one of my most beloved features. Sending tracks to friends within the application, but then found out it was removed. I still subscribe to Spotify, but the "copy link" send to friend via text is so much worse than being able to just message within.
Read on twitter recently:

"Move far enough up in any career, and you are essentially doing sales".

Thought that was very true.
I think the model for cloud vendors would be quite complicated. Not every version of the CPU and not every application is impacted as much (new intel processors with PCID will suffer less).

Add on top of that the fact that a lot cloud customers over provision (there's good scientific papers on how much spare CPU capacity there is). Cloud service providers that sell things on a per request / real CPU usage model (vs reserved capacity) prob benefit more.

Also, you can't just separate trading in AWS or GCE from the rest of the core business.

Potentially business units of DELL, HP, IBM, ... should do better as people use this as a justification to upgrade overdue hardware they should cover 5% to 10% lower performance (needing more units to cover that).
A problem here is everyone's personal anecdotes are different. I have an uncle that has driven 10-12 hour hauls between Kentucky and Louisiana enough that he doesn't blink at doing it all in one day, with as minimal a break as possible.

On the flipside, I know that my limit before wanting to murder people and/or feeling bone-weary exhaustion is somewhere between 4-5 hours cumulative in a day, regardless of the number and length of breaks, but overall better with at least one >30-minute break every two hours and/or 15-minute every hour. (For me, EV's are clearly the present. I'm pretty happy within their travel limits.)

There's such a huge range of extremes with what people are comfortable with.

I've also met a lot of people that need more breaks than they actually take, but don't realize that self-care advantage yet. It's possible that forced, longer recharge breaks with an EV could be a good thing for overall road health. More drivers overall with slightly more opportunities to stretch and rest could be an amazingly useful thing for US traffic and calming some long distance road rage, given the chance.
> Fabrics were of far better quality than the ones we have today

At a low confidence, I'd suggest that fabrics were often of higher quality, but even more often were simply sturdier. Our "better fabrics" often have a focus on being light weight at a cost to durability - which is a fine thing for some use cases and a poor fit for others.
This argument has been made every single decade. Socrates even voiced concerns about writing and how it creates an illusion of understanding. It's been wrong every decade since and is wrong today.
Mine has been recommending fish oil too.

Same as yours in regard to multi-vitamins, she thinks they're a waste of money (we haven't spoken about D specifically).
> Like a classic British sports-car, but affordable, reliable and still in production.

For those who aren't aware, Mazda famously bought some Lotus Elans (and some other British classics) and drove them, took them apart, and so on to help them capture the magic. They really did succeed.

Ironically, they were a lot more successful than Lotus was when they made their new Elan which shared a name with the original, and came out the same year as the first Miata.
That territory is the price for being in bed with the Germans -- it's like people conveniently seem to forget why it is so; my mother likes to talk about history when she has had too much wine, it's surprising there is anything left between Stalingrad and Berlin -- I still get mistaken for being Jewish which is ironic considering Jews didn't exist in the region I'm from after around 1944 - also about 25% to 30% of the civilian population. Given how much a pain in the ass the Winter War was (my grandfather volunteered for the Red Army in the 1930s) somebody likely decided it simply wasn't worth it at some point to have the Scandinavian countries be part of the USSR -- has it really worked out that bad in the end? Best of both worlds between capitalism/socialism and widely regarded as a region people want to live in.