skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreign born includes Danes and Norwegians so trying to disprove the claim that Sweden is socially homogenous by pointing out that there are Finns and Danes, doesn’t make your argument convincing.

I think what makes a comparison difficult with the US is the difference race and ethnicity make between countries (eg, Sweden and US). In the US there are many negative correlations with race and ethnicity that make diversity comparisons simple to make (although not necessarily accurate). So people can easily look for diversity by just checking race demographics. It’s also difficult because some people talking about race are racists who have incorrect beliefs, but it’s hard to tell who’s who at first.

When looking at Sweden it’s not straightforward to look at race and I couldn’t even find solid numbers that describe Sweden by race, although only spent a few minutes googling. But in the US, racial demographics are immediately available.

If you compare nation of birth != Sweden that’s not necessarily useful comparing to the US as it includes other culturally similar peoples (eg, Norwegians). It would be like saying New York is diverse because it includes lots of people born in Connecticut while not breaking out those born in Somalia.

The comparison that is relevant is what are the diverse cultures, specifically those from lower socioeconomic status. Unless you can check that mix, then it’s not very useful to compare and make claims.

Of course, the purpose of comparison isn’t to achieve some sort of purity goal, that’s insane. But to identify what interventions are most effective based on cultural composition. While theoretically a country would higher social cohesion by getting rid of all the different peoples (Denmark pretty much did this is WW2 with the help of the Nazis). This is short sighted (hurts World to help country) and immoral (genocide is bad).
Are you concerned about succession risk?
Displays also drift over time. So even if you have a professional display calibrated at the factory it needs to be recalibrated a minimum of once per year with 6 months being preferred in a professional environment.

This is true with even the highest quality color critical displays like we use in film/tv color correction ($5-$50k+ for 25" panels).
Serious question: what due process does a foreign citizen not in the US have?
I wonder how the people in Ghana can afford "Microsoft Word".

My guess is they don't, and they pirate it. So then why not at least attempt to "teach LibreOffice" and get new generations to adopt open source solutions rather than teach them to pirate locked-in software from Microsoft?
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I don't bother much with trying to make my work rhythms other than what they are. It's natural for most people, I think. I concern myself with what I accomplished in a year, not what I did last Friday afternoon.
We have historically been very welcoming of immigrants and "guest workers" (despite some inherent racist attitudes), and a large number of them are so well integrated that we don't even notice anymore.

Unfortunately we've had a series of governments with increasingly bad integration policies, leading to ghettoes and increased friction.
I hope my other reply further downstream makes it clear that I did not mean my comment as you interpret and you just didn't see it.

But just in case, I want to make clear that by "the official dialect of Mandarin", I meant the one dialect of the Mandarin language that is officially recognized by the CCP. Whereas by "Chinese" I meant the language spoken by almost everyone in China nowadays, i.e. Mandarin (I did that because I was replying to a comment that was talking about Chinese, so I used their wording).

Thus, with a correct understanding of my intentions, the equivalent for English would be "Unless you limit yourself to the official dialect of British English, English also has lots of inconsistencies ..." (where the official dialect would be the Received Pronunciation).
This is correct. It's my site and I'm not trying to track you. I don't care.

If anyone has a better idea of how to make things work so that people with tracking protection don't run into problems feel free to submit a pull request.
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This might work well in F#. It has the ability to use most basic mathematical operators with different numerical types, so it cuts down on the multiple symbols Haskell and ocaml get forced into, and has native units of measure functionality baked into the language.
Why do many companies look for some one who is outside the organization when the people that helped you grow probably won't get that job. You are probably have to spend some excessive amount of money and the results aren't going to be that much better. Look at yahoo for example.
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Yeah we're on the whole low carb thing and it's relatively low carb while being cheap and delicious, couple that with living a distance from TJs, we tend to stock up and then our lack of will power comes into play...
Drive along the giant freeway admiring the natural landscape?
>Trust is hard to build, and our government is increasingly looking towards control and surveillance to ensure safety instead. Stores are moving certain items up to the register, because thieve simply walk out with entire boxes of Nutella or instant coffee.

I'm reminded of "The Evolution of Trust" [0], a fun and interesting online simulation of agent-based cooperation with iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas. Of course no society is perfectly uniformly cooperate/cooperate, but some have an equilibrium that is more in that direction than others. It's a property that can be eroded by the exploitation of group norms you describe, and the system has to adapt by assuming more malice on the part of others.

I wonder if anyone has written deeply on the trend toward externalizing and formalizing implicit/informal trust structures. Of course it's not a new thing (think of Renaissance-era credit systems that were arising that allowed for wide-ranging merchant trade in the absence of face-to-face individual trust), but the rise of the police state, cryptocurrencies, and even the new Amazon Go stores that outsource anti-theft trust to computer vision all seem to be an increasing trend toward assuming that informal trust is impossible in our new environment and that alternate formal systems are necessary.

[0] http://ncase.me/trust/
Probably the most accurate comment here.
> Where does the government get the $100 from? The audit isn't conducted by the government as far as I'm aware, just mandated by them. Correct me if I'm wrong there of course.

Well the bank is not keeping it, and the consumer is not keeping it. So whoever got that money got it because government said they should. They could be independent accountants but for any purposes, the government gave the money to the auditors, being their own or someone elses.

> That's my whole point: there isn't. The money they accidentally stole from customers (and eventually are now giving back) is different from the money they spent to conduct the audit, regardless of if for any given audit they find money that was misplaced.

Thats what you want to believe, but the money they get to spend on the audit all came from customers, they didnt come from the pockets of management. So if you want to believe the money was not taken from customers in this instance, it was in another instance, and now the problem of analysis expands into other areas.

> My whole point is being missed here: some good regulations can cut into profits of businesses and still be worth it from the perspective of the society as a whole. Only once a regulation is so strong of a profit cut that a needed business cannot exist is a regulation likely flawed

Regulations affect company profits in a different variety of circumstances: it depends on the elasticity of the supply. If you put a regulation on ALL banks, then there is no chance in supply, meaning that the consumer bears the entire cost of regulation.

Regulation affects profits of companies, generally by increasing the margin and decreasing the amount, because small companies cannot compete on regulations, the supply decreases, giving big players an advantage.

Remember how they just made it costly to have an account with little money with the bank? That's because it costs money in regulatory compliance. And the bank quickly wants to get their money back or they don't provide the service.

Banks are a special case of market for many reasons, for their capacity to destroy, for their leverage, for their relationship to the government. They have better cases for regulation than most markets. But the original thread made a claim it cannot sustain and i called it out on it.
Instagram, Heroku, Plan Grid, and that YC company involved in shipping - I forget the name...
if you are so afraid on your bike that you can justify irritating everyone around you, maybe you should get a different hobby.
I think MITM had the limitation that you could proxy only traffic from the different machine. Was/is it the case, or did I just get something wrong? Because if that's true Charles has an advantege there.
> Just remember that Danes/Scandinavians aren't better people than others

I'm not sure I buy that. Say you're tasked with planning and building a whole new city in an isolated place. Do you want to bring along 10,000 randomly-selected Bangladeshis, or 10,000 randomly-selected Danes? As a Bangladeshi myself, I'd choose the latter in a heartbeat. I think you can fairly blame circumstance for it, but at the end of the day, Bangladeshi culture has a higher tolerance for corruption, theocracy, opportunism, etc., than European cultures I have experienced. (But I'm biased--2/3 of Bangladeshis think I should be executed for apostasy. The odds are not in my favor!)

Also, in Denmark, the standard sentence for murder is like 12 years, while in America you can get 12 years for far less. We voted for that. Doesn't that make Danes better than Americans?
Www.physicsforums.com has a ton of resources you may find useful.
This used to happen to me until I found why I lack the willpower to start (at least in my case). The tasks were too big. I started using GTD (with a tool called Nirvana) and slicing all my "tasks" into units small enough to be executed in five minutes.

E.g. rather than "Research using Foobar in the next mobile project", the first task is "Write a Foobar Hello World". Rather than "Write proposal for project X", the first task is "Draw logical architecture diagram for X".

I find the inertia against getting started is a lot less when the task is a five-minute, self-contained unit. It also helps task switch because you don't treat them like links in an unbroken chain of tasks, but individual units.

Only downside: you have to spend some work up front slicing your projects into smaller units. It's kind of analogous to story slicing...
It sends the first 5 characters of the SHA-1 hash to the API, which seems reasonable. To be safe, you could check after rotating all your passwords, or I suppose you could download the raw data yourself to check directly.

And the API is controlled by Troy Hunt, not some rando.
Can you share your experience with sicp? I'm self taught in JavaScript, go, python, ruby and taken Coursera for algorithms and read up on the operating system. Will sicp help me?
Because the CEO skillsets to grow a company from 1-10 employees is massively different than the skills required to take it to 100 employees.
A simplistic explanation of the tradeoff between HVAC and HVDC transmission with modern technology is that HVDC has lower losses, but the converter and switching stations are more expensive. So HVDC can make sense for an application that needs to transmit a very large amount of power over a huge distance with no need for switching stations midway. A classic example would be linking a very large offshore wind farm to the onshore transmission system. But for "normal" transmission applications, where there are many stations connecting different HV circuits to each other as well as to lower voltage distribution circuits, it is less economical.
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Um... The Chinese like opiates, too. The majority of heroin produced in the golden triangle region finds its way into China.

Why all of the moralizing about the "evils" of opiate addiction? Addiction is complicated, and while substance abuse can be harmful to the user, widespread social intolerance and the subsequent prohibitions on addictive substances only serve to amplify that harm.

The opioid deaths we see are a direct result of the prohibition of opioids. Shipping into different jurisdictions carries the largest risk in the black economy. Thus, the transition from opium to morphine to heroin to the various fentanyls. There can be no quality control or FDA-enforced purity standards, hence the overdoses.

If you want to reduce deaths, opioids need to become more available, not less.

If you want to talk about morality, my question for you is: why do you want to restrict access to the chemicals that make these poor souls feel normal, pushing them into the black market?
> Teaching a Romanian immigrant, or a refugee from the middle east that it's completely safe to trust others is extremely hard

Am Romanian, reading how the author was robbed on the bus because he had the invalid impression that because it was a Danish bus there would be no thieves in it almost made me start out laughing. One of the first reflexes I developed when I moved to Bucharest as a freshman student almost 20 years ago was to always check my back-pocket for my wallet (and later my front-left pocket for the phone). I still do that gesture up to the present day. I could also tell you how about 10-12 years ago a woman tried to convince me, my ex-wife and my ex-MIL that her son was badly injured in a Bucharest hospital, about to die, and that she needed some money in that very moment, she was crying out in the middle of the street just in front of us. My ex-wife would have given said lady money, but something seemed suspicious to both me and to my ex-MIL and we didn't. We returned to the same area about 15-20 minutes later and said women was still in the same place, this time not crying, calm, waiting for another "victim" to pick.

Not trusting people by default is not bad, it's an evolutionary trait that has helped us as a social species over the millennia. I'm just reading a wonderful book that it's based on not trusting people and which, nevertheless, has had an immense positive influence, I'm talking about the collection of articles called "The Federalist Papers" by Madison, Hamilton and Jay.
The real issue is that we've had succession of more or less right wing governments, with increasingly bad integration policies, leading to ghetto formation and social friction.
> Surprisingly, Best Buy—arguably the most important brick-and-mortar computer retailer in the US—isn't included in Qualcomm's list. If this absence is accurate ...

Tsk, sounds like Intel abusing their market dominance again.
Maybe wants to relax from the 6 years of long days and enjoy the profit he's made. Can't blame anyone for that.
" In electromagnetic theory, the type signatures of functions that calculate electric and magnetic fields clearly express the functional dependency on the charge and current distributions that produce the fields"

Maybe a student learning this will go on to make a HDL for analog circuits in Haskell that are easier to get correct or simulate for being in Haskell. Prior work includes using Haskell for digital design (i.e. Bluespec) and non-Haskell HDL's for analog components. There's definitely more possibilities for developing or modelling electronics in Haskell. :)
To further point 1, Harley made the V-Rod in 2001.[1]

Departure from their typically... lacking bikes(liquid cooling, engine designed in joint with Porsche). With drastically different styling. They had a niche but never really caught on.

Harley also briefly had a Performance Bike company, Buell that they shuttered.[2]

I'll disagree with your point 4. Even though they're still behind, modern Harleys aren't the stereotypical leaking/broken down rattling apart of the past.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_VRSC
Warren Buffet is the world's greatest accountant. That's why he is so successful. He knows the numbers better than the CFOs .
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Here's something I've wondered about black holes, related to what's inside. Simplistically, there must be mass inside, i.e., every black hole has a mass that can somehow be measured, e.g., by orbital velocities of satellites. And the mass-energy has to equal the mass-energy that has fallen in. So far so good.

But the stuff that falls in is not purely described by its mass. It also has angular momentum, electrical charge, maybe a few other quantities such as charm and strangeness (speculating here). So the black hole must have a net angular momentum, electrical charge, charm, and strangeness. Electrical charge could be measured by holding an electrometer next to the black hole. And so forth.

So far I've described 5 quantities that "describe" a black hole. So my question is: How many more are there? What's the total number of numbers that accompany a particle as it gets sucked in?

Suppose it's a small number, like 11. Does that place an upper limit on the information content of a black hole, and hence the possibility of describing a "civilization" inside it?
I can’t speak to Kansas, but driving across Spain I found the wind turbines a pleasant part of the landscape. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Ken Kesey also drank there.
There a germ of the right idea here, but our universe is really more of a black hole backwards. Within the event horizon of a black hole, the singularity is always in the future. Within our universe, we see a singularity in our past.

In short, our universe looks more like a white hole than a black hole.
Hydro power floods huge areas of land and destroys fisheries. Fossil fuels produce harmful air pollution that kills both wildlife and people, in addition to the long term effects of climate change. All energy sources have impacts, at least with wind once you decommission the plant the landscape is left largely intact. Try doing that with a hydro reservoir or open pit coal mine.
Oh, totally. I think these LTE ARM Windows devices are neat; I don't think they're for me, though.
Black holes and time warps by Kip Thorne. Great book and great guy.
Kactus: Design version control without changing tools
Regarding taxes: In Sweden this is a rather recent change pushed through by right-wing parties. This wasn't the case when the foundations of social-democracy was set.
The headline may read that way, but the article doesn't.
Not everyone is a developer, and this type of comments is why everyone that cares about UI/UX design professionally, eventually goes back to Windows or macOS.
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The most updated book I read was The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
Thank you for the correction. The DC Circuit is the one that heard that case, declining to overturn the FCC’s reclassification of broadband to a “telecommunications service”.
1 - Always try to think of corner cases while reviewing code - where it could throw exceptions etc.

2 - When finishing the code review, try to think holistically about what it's trying to do and whether it's doing it in the right way or not. Check the level of abstraction where the code is being added/removed and think whether it's right or not? Or whether it should be at some other level of abstraction?

3 - Any security concerns that might arise with the new code that's going in?

4 - Anything which involves a call to a network / filesystem can fail? Check if those cases have been handled properly.

5 - Are variable names, function names, class names descriptive and yet concise? Do they follow your company's coding standards?

6 - Try to think from a perspective of "single responsibility principle".

7 - For all the new flows, replay each flow in your head and try to see if it can be optimized or not? Can we make it faster? Will the code that has been added/removed degrade performance to an unacceptable degree?

8 - Always be on the lookout for logical bugs. Never assume that the coder will have done it right. Always be critical.

9 - Last, but not the least, take out proper time to do the code review and think deeply about the code that's going in.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_in_World_War_I
Doesn’t java 10 add ‘var’ to the language?
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I think you need a mix. When I was in high school, I taught myself how to program through making games. Progress was slow, and I wrote bad code, but I had fun, and it's the reason I'm a programmer today.

Then I went to college and learned the fundamentals. I started doing projects in my spare time (often by attending hackathons), and now those projects were getting a lot better. The academics were crucial. However, I had friends that never did projects outside of class, and as a result it hurt their learning.

Then, fast-forward to my first job, and I learned just as much in my first year there as I did during my entire time in college.

So IMO, project-based learning without fundamentals (which is what I was doing in high school) ends up being really slow can produce poor results. But just learning fundamentals can be equally as bad. You need both!
The US government hasn't acknowledge the existence of aliens, but in 2016 the CIA admitted to funding programs because they suspected the existence of aliens. It is very hard to find a good source to link though due to terrible SNR when you google "cia aliens"
Reminds me a bit of the old short story The Crystal Spheres. In that universe, once a civilization had attained a certain level of advancement, they intentionally migrated to a black hole to await the arrival of others (the idea being that all advanced civilizations in the universe were separated by so much time, that they suffered from a sort of loneliness).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres
Especially if you can hack them to play around with the power delivery - the weight of the battery might make handeling tricky on a bike though.

A Hybrid scooter in the classic Italian style or the Honda c90 style might make sense for delivery riders deliverooo etc
This is not exactly reassuring.
hahahahaha keep knocking down glasses of OJ fatties !
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This was referenced recently here on HN: https://physicstravelguide.com/start

It's incomplete but there's some good stuff there.
" It has 74 horsepower, a 93 mph top speed, 50 mile ride time,"

50 miles?!? Is that it??
Does anyone know why Hawaii doesn't utilize more geothermal energy? There are a few hits for geothermal projects, but I would have expected these to be much more popular.
I can only speak from experience. I rode a very quiet shaft driven bike for 3 years, and then I switched to a loud Harley. On city streets people were aware that I was there when driving the louder bike. On the quiet bike they would not notice me until I came right up alongside them. But that is the experience of one person.
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So will the NBA be adopting these practices any time soon wrt Asians aND Hebrews (because Diversity)?
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