skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you battery is dead and your engine isn't running, isn't the battery the priority anyway? Having backup batteries to provide initial excitation for generators should not be difficult. They just need to start it, afterwards you can use the output for self-excitation. Worst case, you'd just use a tiny PM generator to bootstrap the process.

I think there are other more significant trade-offs between induction and PM motors. Induction motors/generators are significantly heavier, and have significantly lower torque (i.e. can extract less lower at low speeds when used as generator). Their main attractiveness comes from lower cost, reliability, and decent efficiency at high speeds.
There are no good reasons I couldn't host my own files, with my own bandwidth, on my perfectly cromulant server/mobile device.

The only issue is, it hasn't been considered of any importance to maintain user agency; better we steal the users agency over their data/computers, put it out 'in the cloud', and get them addicted/dependent on third parties, than to make the operating system deliver similar levels of service, at scale, at the local level.

What if, instead of getting all hot and bothered about browsers, OS-teams instead focused on making source-/locality-/ownership- of user-generated data, within the context of the local machine, available at scale?

Like, gimme IPFS open and operating by default, in my regular distro, and I'll never have to host a site on a cloud server again...

Todays computers/bandwidth/connectivity can handle the load.
I thought content was shared even if not pinned until it is garbage collected?
Thanks, Scott! I appreciate that and look forward to hearing from you someday :)
No. For two reasons: first talking of the "West Society" as a single entity doesn’t make sense. There are multiples societies such as the Fench, the German, the US ones which have common traits but also some differences. You could however put them under the concept of Western civilization.

Secondly, Japan is very different from the West. Not so much about the institutions which were calqued on Europeans ones after the war, but because of how people think. Having living there speaking a bit of the language, it is a totally different world with different values and most people are just fine living in their country and nor caring about the West or any foreign countries.
People with a need to launder money?
It is willful ignorance in a way, in these cases. But that's just because there's no impetus to learn. Everything works fine, looking into it is just a hassle. I see analogies to politics, science, etc. We need to create a culture where it's highly valuable to be aware of what's going on with the tools we use, not just in tech. Most people don't even know how to argue a point effectively and correctly, because they don't understand that there are tools for that. Our culture is situated around how loud any one person can be. Security is quiet-- unless you can build status around being security-minded.
The iptables-extensions(8) manual page is fairly recent. AFAIK, previously, there was no manual page, but maybe it was scattered over various pages.
San Franciscans :-)
Every company offering "friday beer" I've worked at also offered the beer for free and up to an hour of extra paid break. Drinking the beer was never an obligation and there's always non-alcoholic alternatives.

This gave us an opportunity to meet with all the other teams / departments.

Sure, I would rather be at my local microbrewery drinking stout with my friends rather than drink cheap pilsner at work but it has its benefits. There is no way I would have been as close to those people if not for this paid social time.

It also helps the work. Very often people would vent about their projects and other coworkers would listen and come up with quick solutions to their issues. "Oh yeah, X software is a pain in the ass. Did you try doing Z? I had to work with that software at my previous job and doing Z always helped!".

Even in those cultures, I've never ever seen an employer allowing anyone to drink during the rest of the week. Now that would be obscene.
>Career outcomes are strongly correlated with IQ in the US

I'd actually love to see that study. But before you link it I'll dispute it anyways which is that this a problem with a third variable, wealth. Wealthy parents raise IQs by being more attentive, allowing children to attend better schools, etc.

>Japan is also not “The West” - if you’re being sarcastic, it was a bit under the radar.

Yes it is.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/08/why-are...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Heritabilit...
> So the minimum wage worker as 70% less buying power than me: making it fair that I contribute more.

I don't think you can assume that it's fair based only on the income. Maybe their job is useless or even harmful to society while yours is useful and helpful.

> we'd all feel a lot kinder towards what we would consider as giving.

Giving implies that it's voluntary. It's not.
The complexity of a (i)FFT scales with O(n·log(n)), whereas a naive, direct fourier transform scales with O(n·m) where `n` is the number of samples and m is the number of channels. Therefore for any `m > log(n)` the direct method wastes a lot of computational power.

The base of the logarithm depends on the radix of the FFT implementation, but in the end it comes out as a constant factor anyway, and for most FFTs out there it's a base in the range of 2…5, so it's at most a factor of about log(5)/log(2) =~= 2.32

Say you're synthezising a waveform of 1024 samples, then the break even between a fast against a direct fourier transform comes it at around 10 channels. For small numbers of channels the direct method is better. Prime example: Quadratur demodulators where you operate on just a single frequency with the real and imaginary parts.

But when you want to do simple additive synthesis, just put your amplitudes and phases at the right places in the spectrum and to a Inverse fourier transform. It's almost always going to beat any other method. Also it's numerically more stable (although the amplitudes in audio synthesis are never going to be so spread out that precision is going to be a problem).
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Only because of efficiency different. Even Tesla now uses pm bldc, when their earlier models are induction. ( The irony. ). I hope they do more research to increase the efficiency of induction motor instead of giving it up to china.
Thank you for the suggestions
The automators are automated.
You're wilfully ignoring the substance of the comment you're replying to which makes me think you're acting in bad faith.

There is an argument to be made that the US' economic system is fair. I disagree with that position, but it isn't completely unreasonable.

But your argument simply "proves too much". Your definition of "agreement", for example, includes a hostage agreeing to pay the ransom. It would also cover child labor, any form of discrimination, selling yourself into slavery, the abolishment of all labor standards including safety laws, shrink-wrap TOCs, non-compete clauses, forced arbitration for all disputes etc. etc.
By real work I mean the process of actual wealth creation. I'm arguing that certain types of work are net positive wealth creation while others are net negative, meaning that more useful resources are consumed in the process of creating that good/service than the benefit to the system that this good/service provides.

Take my Assassin's Creed example. Consider all the electricity used to run their computers, the food and shelter needed for engineers and marketers, the raw materials needed for game parts and distribution. These resources are essentially burned or are outflows of the system, while providing very little inflow (that is directly or indirectly contributing to the creation of real wealth). The result is a net outflow of real wealth of the system.

As more and more people shift to such jobs, productivity gains in "net inflow" work will be partially distributed to those working in "net outflow" jobs.

I'm also not arguing that all software jobs are net outflow. Something like Google for example, could be argued as a net inflow, because fast information retrieval and distribution can greatly improve the overall efficiencies of the economic system.
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>But why should management then expect to see increases in revenues?

There's no universal answer, but in the canonical example of better machines, then part of the higher productivity is likely due to the judgment in recognizing where machines could be deployed, which is managerial labor.

>If labor is not going to see increased wages, then why are they now doing more work?

I'm not sure what you mean, but I was just explaining why we shouldn't expect higher total output to mean proportionally higher wages; it all depends on the cause of the productivity. If the worker is pushing the same buttons and the machine is doing more, wages should not be expected to increase and there's no mystery. If the productivity is from workers becoming more versatile and able to handle a bigger variety of situations with the same capital, then we should expect higher wages without a higher return to capital.
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In Google Maps Navigation, there used to be a "dim screen between turns" option. Anyone knows where it went? Not sure why they took it away. Seems to be a pretty useful feature.
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Hey, blog post author here.

Good question. We just tested with ab (ApacheBench) and consistently observed the difference between Lambda enabled and disabled. We wanted to be sure this system does not incur any significant overhead and that’s why we made sure to only run the Lambda when it is needed.

We hope to see Amazon improving this, as there can be use cases for Lambda@Edge where you can’t restrict URLs so easily.
Part of the problem is... games have explicitly defined rules, start and end points, boundaries, and discrete "win" and "loss" states (and sometimes "draw"). If the game itself (ie, all the rules including the ability to judge "win", "lose", or "draw") can be easily represented in a simple computer program, we shouldn't be surprised that a complex computer program can master the game.

The real world is not a finite problem with explicit rules, obvious boundaries, well-known start conditions, or any way to judge a specific situation as "win", "lose", or "draw". But, even if you want to argue that specific tasks can be broken down this way, you still have to be able to represent this subset of reality in the computer, before AI magic can even begin to work on the problem.
Now that you mention it: many viruses stay with you your entire life once you have been infected by them, and are simply continuously suppressed by your immune system.
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I would caution anyone from using these tips if you are building some kind of B2B Enterprise app where the focus is on getting as much information on screen as possible and minimizing the possibility of making errors.

Borders and clear destructive actions are a must. Needless spacing is wasted space.
The live steam hobby commonly works in 1:8 and 1:5, sometimes even 1:4... and that's just the folks on 7.5" gauge track. Tilden Park has a RR running on 15" gauge. It's a beast.
IPFS should be enabled and treated as a first-class service by my distro. I install said distro, it comes with a folder - and a basic service - upon which I can replace Dropbox, Facebook, and Instagram - for my target peer group, i.e. any of my friends and family who will also run the very same distro, for this purpose.

Like, plug and play OS support, and its a go.
Yes, you would use more than one $2-bill to tip them $10.
Abe is going to reinvigorate his air force with a bad plane
This is very interesting. First time I hear anyone say that cultivating friendship is not worth it.
According to the comments on that article they do have a proper patent and do collect licensing fees from other businesses. Which may be partly why they see their consumer app as being redundant.
I've been to many "beer flowing" companies and every time it was reserved for the Friday extra paid break. Those taps are there to offer quality beer at a low cost during happy hour on Friday when there's no more work to be done for the day.

I find it hard to believe that any company would allow daytime drinking.
The attacks here are not surprising in the least, FWIW.
It was known this would work, nobody worked up a POC.

The, IMHO, novel part here is the formalism.

(i'm not trying to denigrate the work mind you, it's definitely hard work and they did a great job. i'm just pointing out for those who don't know that this is not a surprising new result, but instead an expected new result)

Otherwise, pretty much anyone who had basic architectural knowledge realized this was possible the second spectre and meltdown came out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084318

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16083964

(there are more, i'm too lazy to find everyone who pointed it out, sorry)

I can't speak for gpderetta, but like, if i can predict this problem, I expect pretty much anyone can :)
The key is mixed-use. If you're in a large block of apartment buildings, people go elsewhere for everyday things, only coming back to the neighborhood when they want to be alone.
Can you explain what you mean? This definition for meritocracy: "government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability." says nothing about fairness. If people are able to gain increased ability based on privilege than you have an unfair meritocracy. Since it is pretty clear that you can indeed do this, through parental involvement, tutoring, nutrition, better medical care, etc. than it follows that meritocracy is not fair.
I use Piwik (now Matomo) for Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.org) and have had no problems with it.
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A 40% increase seems pretty vast to me.
This looks great! But my question is... what's the story behind the three-letter domain name? If you bought it, was that for 6-7 figures, and what made you decide to invest that much money in the brand?
Waze has settings to output to the phone speaker, instead of bluetooth, even when its connected to the car via bluetooth. My stereo doesn't autoswitch to bluetooth when directions come in, only on phone calls, so unless i want to hear dead air 99% of the time, i dont get directions from google maps which doesn't have such an override.
Try sharing a completely open office concept with 250 people on one floor, it's a joke. Now that I have worked in both a office with walls and this open office concept I can see that people get much more work done in a cubical with walls or an actual office where you can close a door and focus.
Just think, in the future, these shiny war machines will be fully autonomous. Their only remaining purpose is to kill enemy shiny war machines, destroy the ability to make more shiny war machines, and to kill civilians either inadvertently or intentionally.

Of course they will be much more efficient shiny war machines because they won't have the same human limits of G-forces, heat, oxygen, etc.
Fugit: *really* lightweight Git access control
Currently the trial is limited to 5 users and something like 100MB of file storage. I was actually more worried offering a free-tier
would result in people abusing the service (i.e., using it to store/share illegal stuff).

However, just between you, me, and the internet, I actually haven't enabled the logic to lock trial accounts out at 30 days. Because I'm still unsure about it.
I doubt there will be online degrees equivalent to a PhD (or calling itself a PhD). The coursework of a PhD is typically very similar to a master's in the same subject (maybe with a few additional requirements) but is usually just a primer for the real work doing our research. Conducting research is an inherently social exercise and the mentorship that is given during a PhD won't be easily replicable with an online program.

I agree with the general point you're making though.
Hospitals have insurance for malpractice. My friend is an OBGYN so he gets sued every time a baby is born with complications. His view on it is that the family needs money to care for the child and the only way for them to get it is through his malpractice insurance.

But, what do you think the difference in net-worth is between these two men? I don't think the hospital is to blame that one of these children was going to have the best education and the other wouldn't but you have to blame them to get the insurance payout.

Plus, maybe the truck driver will do something like start a scholarship. In that case, I'd hope he gets much more than $300k.
And yourself. Lots of people kill their bodies for a lot less than what a software developer makes.

Not that it makes it alright that anyone has to do that, but I keep that in mind so I don’t lose perspective.
I can't go all the way to luck egalitarianism, I'll admit that. But I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It seems to me that a "meritocracy" where merit is primarily earned by being born into a wealthy family is just smuggling aristocracy into the public consciousness under a nicer name. I think that is a goal that society definitely wishes not to achieve and to be honest it doesn't seem much like a meritocracy at all.
As I understand it though, this wouldn't be the case in the future if one becomes a Filecoin storage provider in which case one could be holding some illegal content. IIRC though some sort of blacklisting protocol will be provided in order to respond to DMCA, NSLs, etc, so I think Filecoin storage providers are covered in that regard.
I'm disagreeing with the article you wrote and the way you wrote it. It read of fluff and arrogance, and I tried to respond to the points I found most objectionable; I'll be honest there were more. But nobody wants to read all that.

If my feedback was not constructive enough for you to improve your writing off of, I apologize. While I found what you wrote to be disagreeable, idealistic and in some cases downright toxic, it's only my perspective of the writing.
It seems pretty obvious that it usually takes more than one generation's effort to gain certain things in this world. My wife and I work very hard so we can afford to optimize the development of our children as best we can so they can eventually do better than we did. My parents did the same. My parent's parents did the same. If people struggle raising their children, then their children will be at a disadvantage. I guess you could say it's a kind of multi-generational meritocracy. Some people seem to imply that this reveals a flaw in our society, but I am having trouble seeing better systemic alternatives. Can someone please help me understand?
Meritocracy is very much in conflict with equality. Meritocracy means you are judged on your merit. It is completely orthogonal to a nature-vs-nurture argument.

For example, this is exactly the sort of debate we've been having in Singapore, which prides itself on being a highly 'meritocratic', which consequently people have criticized for exacerbating income/social inequality.
His point was about scalability within centralized (logical) services, which people often confuse or understand them as a single point of failure or not scalable. But that's not true, as he pointed out there.
I occasionally give gesture typing a try since it's built into a lot of keyboards now and I've also found it to be imprecise. On a normal software keyboard I can type as fast as I want and count on autocorrect to fix most of my mistakes. When swiping I find myself stopping after every word to make sure it got the right one (it often doesn't) resulting in a halting style of typing that ends up being slower than regular typing.
Where I work we have beer on tap. People are free to drink whenever and the occasional person will grab a beer with their lunch but peer pressure and not wanting to be drunk while at work means most people won't drink during work hours and it's used mostly after-hours or on weekends.

If it ever became a problem or someone got shitfaced I'm sure we'd see restrictions put into place quite quickly.
I disagree, the internet is very much centralized.

In your example, this very post on HN points to an https url. An url that for now, means this article, but years from now might land in a 404 page, or a dns not found. Sure I can use the internet archive or find your post here on HN and ask you for it. But those are alternative services, they're not part of http.

IPFS ensures that a url means one thing and one thing only, if changes, the url changes. No censorship, no ninja edits, as long as someone in world is willing to host that specific url, the ipfs protocol will serve it.
So, if I were to invite you home and offer you a glass of Glenmorangie (Scotch) or Suntory (Japanese Whiskey), that would make me a drunkard? What about a nice glass of finely aged wine? Please, don't limit your worldview to stereotypes...
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If you've downloaded it, yes. If you run IPFS on your laptop and you haven't viewed some content, you won't be sharing out that content.
Take a look at the map. Most of what’s covered is exclusively or predominantly single family housing today. In SF the houses are much closer to each other than in postwar suburbia, but all along our transit corridors, it’s mostly houses. The only neighborhoods this avoid are those which don’t even have bus service.

Upzoning is needed and transit is the right place to start, but we have to acknowledge that this would certainly have a massive effect on many single family neighborhoods.
You are assuming that no one pays royalties, and I don't blame you because that's also implied in the article, but I have hard time to believe that companies like Google or Samsung would do that.

I think when Nuance purchased Swype all they wanted is the patent, and simply didn't want to spend resources on developing Swype when they could get money through royalties. The original Swype preferred to be sold to OEMs, but OEMs typically want to make their Android version unique, so might actually prefer to implement their own keyboard with that functionality. This plus the fact that Swype quality degraded since Nuance's purchase makes me believe that they just went the route of permitting other companies for using their patent in exchange for royalties.
I want to have IPFS services built up to the point that I can rely upon it so I can .. take the 100 or so of my peer group, and give them access to Content I Create.

I think I can have a machine up and running in my life that serves the principle nodes, and if a few of my other peers are also capable, we can build a scalable net among us that would serve the rest.

This is a very different scenario to mass-scale datacenter levels of delivery, and at a much more localised scale.

Among my peers, it'll scale just fine.

(So its mostly about the UI and presentation... I don't mind sending my friends a funky/cool URL. If that URL solves the IPNS->IPFS issue .. and if we also can get some pub/sub channels happening, to make the URL-swapping even more fluid .. wrapped up as a standard distro item .. )
Japan is also considering a F-35B purchase according to the article.
Is it a given that a speeding car emits more emissions per the distance traveled?
That's true of Haskell for the parallelism faculties. It's also true for STM. You can still get stuck or have race conditions with the other concurrency abstractions but it's less common than I encountered elsewhere. I didn't have problems resulting from mutable shared state that was aliased across threads and wasn't supposed to be, it's always explicit.