skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The title of the paper is

Yeah, not that one. The one I cited by the UK low pay commission where it found a minimum wage hike was accompanied by a 11% drop in profits and a slight increase in prices (and even then only in the food service industry).

I doubt that anybody has studied the profit drop in Seattle. As an economist, it pays not to look too closely at certain topics and that is definitely one of those topics. It would not help your employability to study that topic at all.

Your employability goes up, however, if your research helps to find results that restaurant associations or "walmarts" with a bit of cash to splash around might find useful.

David Neumark and William Wascher are keenly aware of this, which is probably why they took Card and Krueger's landmark study and twisted it until it showed employment going down after a minimum wage hike.
"vote in a different government,"

There is extremely impractical. First the voting system is extremely antiquated, and second your average American is not terribly smart, and will tend to prefer to get "free" stuff from the government paid for by people making more money.
Props to the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, it’s perhaps the best general resource on philosophy on the web
Wyoming is an amazing place. I was just reading about how windy it is there. Blows vehicles over cliffs. Turns over 26 wheeled tractor trailers.

Geologists have rough estimates for how much sediment, from the once 10,000 - 15,000 foot higher Rocky Mountains, has been deposited in the plains and in the Mississippi river delta. It's a lot! So much that the delta has 25 thousand feet of sediment, sinking and pressing down into the Earth's mantle, causing one heck of a thermal reaction.

But maybe 30% of the former Rocky Mountains is unaccountable as sediment or as nicely sloped Kansas/Nebraska plains. One day, scientists in South Carolina noticed a lot of dust in the air. They checked the weather and found out the dust had been carried from the Rockies. They estimated that over 1,000,000 tons of dust was deposited in the Atlantic Ocean that day.

Apparently, many places in Wyoming don't have any soil smaller than pebbles. It's all been blown away.

Wyoming has a history of producing energy for the West Coast. The Jim Bridger Power Plant is turing 250 tons of WY coal per hour into 2,000 MW of electricity for the Pacific Coast. But, it's keeping all the pollution for Wyoming.

You can learn a hundred more interesting facts, in poetic story form, by reading: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005H0O8KQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
I got excited in the article, especially the mention of the Zero SR bike with 135 mile range for $10k. Well the Zero SR starts at $16k. The Zero S with less range and power is around $10k.
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I think the math could be corrected slightly for clarity, but the general point still holds I think: the money is not apples and oranges 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.

> note there are only 100 bucks

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.

> But citi can't run negative as a whole. Its a business, if it didnt make money, it would shut down.

People are acting as if this audit's cost will run Citi out of business, which I would find very hard to believe to be the case. If you actually read my post carefully, I too believe a regulation that causes that is likely flawed.

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. Of course, there are many other ways for a regulation to be flawed as well.
It fails to address an important aspect of learning by projects: Being exposed to the problems. You are orders of magnitude more productive when learning the solutions to problems you have encountered before. This kind of motivation can only be achieved if you really do stuff.
> Disclaimer: I've read nothing about project based learning, I only recognise it as a concept that has emerged in my own personal learning strategies as I am sure it has in many others.

You may not have read anything about it, but you've nailed it.

If it's project-based learning, the learning has to take precedence over the project.

This is why I had side projects when I was a software engineer.

Most day job projects have to work, with minimal (technical, schedule, etc.) risk, and minimal development time and other costs. For a low-innovation project, this generally means using familiar tools. For an innovative project there's still plenty of skill development, but often in circumscribed areas. (This is true for journeyman to master engineers. When you're early in your career, you get learning opportunities for free out of any halfway-decent environment.)

A side project can take an arbitrary amount longer, or fail, without letting your team or organization down. (Or, a side-project with a team can be a designed as a learning experience, if that's a shared team goal. This is gigging with your band, not building with your crew.) This creates the space for prioritizing new concepts and skills, and practice on weaker skills.
It's a myth. They will prevent some accidents with pedestrians or bicycles in town because they haven't looked properly. That accident won't kill you anyway.

A loud pipe will make bugger all difference when you're doing 50+ down a major road and that idiot in the 4x4 on the side road junction looks right at you, then pulls out anyway. He probably has music on so gets little input, and no direction, from your nice open pipe.

What saves lives there is the biker actively moving across driver field of vision - eg weave in lane or more dramatic if you think he's going anyway. More motorcycle awareness on the car test might help, but that's not politically popular.
More like smart.
If you're interested in going through the literature about learning, I recommend starting with Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom by Marilla D. Svinicki.
The Making of Tesla: Invention, Betrayal, and the Birth of the Roadster (2014)
Summary:

- A company called "AC Propulsion" built a zippy electric sports car called the tzero on top of a kit car.

- The original Tesla Motor founders (Eberhard and Tarpenning) invested in that and then decided to start their own electric sports car company. They built the prototype on top of a British Lotus Elise.

- AC Propulsion pitches Musk, he turns them down. Tesla pitched Musk, he invests $7.5MM and became chairman of the board. The executive summary of the original Tesla business plan, shown in the article, pitches a profitable electric sports car called the Roadster.

- The co-founder of Ideo puts the vision to a design. ("OK, let's consider this axis, from retro to futuristic," Moggridge said..."Here's another axis, masculine to feminine"...)

- Musk leads the Series A, B, and co-leads the C ($55m of personal funds) and reviews/steers the product design.

- Complications in getting the product out delay the release of the Roadster from feb 2006 to 2008.

- Eberhard floats the idea of bringing in a new CEO, to sort out company's financial picture and ERP software. They pitch the board to get in a new CEO so Eberhard can focus on the Sedan.

- Musk has a board meeting without Eberhard and replaces him with another CEO. Eberhard is off everything but troubleshooting and tending to peripheral issues. Suits and countersuits are filed. They settle.

- Two CEO's later, in 2008 Musk takes over as CEO and fires a quarter of Teslas employees. In 2014 they unveil the model D. "Three settings: normal, sport, and insane."
I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you’re saying. But my point stands: the critique I responded to was incoherent.
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Model 3 says 220 miles base model and Leaf says 151, I don’t find their range to be that similar. 70 miles is a lot of distance. Granted the model 3 is more expensive but I would much rather have that extra range.
a) PR
b) From what I understand, Hawaii's power utility either doesn't allow or strongly discourages new net metering customers (e.g. where excess generated power goes back to the grid and you get credited). Accordingly, on-site battery systems make sense for most PV solar installs to help deal with the difference in generation and usage over time.
> I did not realize we were talking about you?

I re-read my original comment again and still think it was pretty clear, but I realize how easy it may be to gloss over things like that in reading, and in hindsight it was definitely in bad taste on my part to assume malice and respond with a snarky comment like I did, so I apologize.

> I'm just not clear how "if you build it, they will come" applies here. We've built the workforce and the work hasn't come. As a result, people are opting to leave for the US where the work is needed. If the tech industry utilized the top talent, and even the not so top talent, these people would have never left. You might have a good point here, and I am interested in learning about it, but I'm afraid I still haven't quite grasped how you think this would actually play out in the real world.

It sounds like we're at two different sides of the same chicken and egg problem.

My view is that if we had more competitive salaries, those who have left Canada may have chosen to stay and help build more successful Canadian tech companies, which would then make the tech industry as a whole more competitive relative to the US, and therefore our job market would become less saturated and we'd be able to afford to pay for better salaries and employ more talent.

You seem to have started at the other end of that chain of reasoning and worked backwards, i.e. our job market is saturated, and thus we can't employ more talent without deflating salaries further, etc, etc.

I don't think either view is more or less valid than the other. Like any other chicken and egg problem it really depends on your starting point.
GCP also offers Cloud SQL with similar features to AWS Aurora.
> And lots of people complained about the Nightrod because it wasn't a "real" Harley: it had a Porsche designed engine that incorporated modern features such as water-cooling (I'm being totally serious).

Serious? As if such attitude was unknown to the hacker community...
> And yet, the amount of FUD and ridicule people got for trying to fly was enormous

Sources? Almost immediately after the invention of flight, WWI started putting them to use [1]. (There was ridicule about the possibility of heavier-than-air flight prior to its invention. But that’s not comparable to the matter at hand.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_in_World_War_I
LOOOOOOOL :D
One thing to understand, my Harley riding brethren, Harley cannot be targetting you. They are clearly targetting new riders. The combustion engine is a hobby as much as anything for 1/2 the riders I know; for them, it's the fun of owning a bike. Unless you have a lot of money, the only way to fix an oft-broken motorcycle is by doing yourself. I've owned a similar (not Harley) bike for a number of years. Parts are always vibrating off off the damn thing. It is loud; I do believe it helps make you visible. Yes, that is anecdotal, but I have ridden bikes with all types of pipes and I find it 100% true. I am much safer (heard) with my La Chopper's Curvedd pipes than the very quiet stock pipes; meaning, many fewer close calls.

So, they are looking for riders that don't care that their machines will (ostensibly) be more reliable (less vibration), saves money on fuel, and is quiet and efficient. I care about none of those things, BUT I want Harley to stay in business, and if they can do that while attracting new riders, I fully support them.

A side note, gas sport-bikes accelerate insanely fast now ... imagine how fast they will with an electric engine ... scary!
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That is a good find! Wonder why.

Also if a significant number of firms are excluded, I wonder if new ETFs will pop up.
If you look at the inelastic demand graph, in the "cause" section of the wiki, it answers your question. Even if there's increased use of a resource, total energy consumption often still goes down, because each resource now consumes less energy.
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Another great find.

Yeah wasn't Dropbox one of the first big things that was built on top of S3?

Amazing to re-engineer that.
There is a place for something smaller and more flexible, it's not clear from the article it this method can scale, however.
> And yet, the amount of FUD and ridicule people got for trying to fly was enormous.

Was that for trying to fly or because the proposed mechanism was obviously unworkable? It’s not like people are saying there isn’t room to improve on the credit card system, only that you have to deliver something which is actually an improvement.

Similarly, your defense of bitcoin is a great example of that problem: nobody is arguing that the marketing points you repeated weren’t widely made, only that the system on offer falls far short.

(E.g. “send cash instantly” versus a substantial fee and time delay compared to a credit card. Similarly, talking about currency manipulation is reasonable but it’s laughable in the context of something which fluctuates so much more than almost all currencies)
What about IT University Copenhagen?

I'm curious as I graduated from DTU several years ago. But since I'm not Danish and I moved back to Oxbridge I lack insights on the different universities out there.

DTU was a very nice theory + project-based learning setup. IMHO, along with Chalmers and a few others, a really underrated option. It was quite heavy and rigorous on the theory side of things.
exponential growth rates in industrial production are HIGHLY unlikely.

At best you will have a step function as additional assembly lines come on.

OR you will have a max production ability, with various factors inhibiting that production ability such as part issues, failures, faults and so on.

So either the plant is not at full capacity, and there are production issues.

OR the plants are at full capacity and more lines are being added.

(and you can have the worst of both)
Yeah, I'd agree with this. You see it play out in interviewing when the "academics" ask questions that are quite useless in determining whether or not someone is qualified to build a web app.

It's as if interviewers are just stroking their own ego trying to recreate the relationships they encountered in academia only with the roles reversed.
padding the network traffic.
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I was excited by your comment, so I looked up the 2018 Leaf's range: 151mi in the US vs 310mi for the Model 3.

Is there a different model in Leaf the UK? The article you link to says "235 miles (NEDC)/177 miles (WLTP combined)" for the Leaf. Or is the way EV's are rated for range in the UK just different than is the US?
> The majority of Europe is poor compared to Sweden or Germany.

There are some poor countries like Bulgaria and Romania. Most of Europe is doing just fine. Like you have poor Europe you also have poor US cities and countries and if you compare the poor parts you will find them not all too different.

> If you're making ~$60,000 or more in the US, you are overwhelmingly going to have good health insurance. If you're making $140,000, you're going to have great health insurance. I fail to see how universal healthcare is a lure in this case.

Even if you have great insurance the knowledge that whatever happens to you, you are fine is an amazing feeling. Also knowing that everybody (with exceptions like people who are there illegally and not entitled to healthcare) having coverage adds to your personal quality of life tremendously.

> The US has a far more progressive income tax system than most of the developed European nations

It’s not about how progressive the system is but how much you pay and get for it. In the US you need disposable income to get qualitatively high services and most of those are individual things. Eg: public transit and things like that are hard to get and underfunded.

> Grocery stores in Europe do not pay better than in the US.

A grocery store worker in central Europe earning minimum wage or equivalent gets social security, child support, maternity leave of a year, a guaranteed job after returning and a dystem that supports their children and partner. It’s not the money that matters but what you get.

In Austria for instance someone working in a grocery store has a minimum wage of 21000 eur a year minimum, guaranteed increases every year. A 38 euro work week with guaranteed overtime pay, a guaranteed weekend (and at least every secon saturday off), one year of maternity/paternity money and time off, 5 weeks of holiday, two months of notice, unemployment insurance, guaranteed salaries in case of bancruptcy and much more.
Related: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
You’re jumping all over the place.

Passwords != session tokens != certificates.

Passwords are a form of access control. I repeat: a strong password cannot be brute forced for billions of years. Even with technological advancements, most strong passwords are well over what’s required to literally be safe for a lifetime.

Certificates are not a form of access control, like I explained in my other response to you. They are a form of cryptographic authentication. Digital signatures cannot be revoked offline, which is a problem because they’re used by other parties for validating trust. Therefore, certificates have a built-in dead man’s switch that requires renewal.

Passwords are not used for validating trust. They’re not comparable to certificates. Stop using certificates as an example of why passwords need to be rotated, because certificates don’t even use “rotation” in that sense of the word.
Found these -

https://www.businessinsider.in/Tesla-is-having-some-predicta...

and then this

https://qz.com/1107802/tesla-raises-wages-30-in-germany-soon...
That sounds great. If you're not practicing the theory you're learning, then it's just slipping away into oblivion.

I've always said that traditional computer science programs should really be split up into the "theory" part of computer science, and software engineering curriculum (the practice).
ColorMod: Recoloring 3D Printed Objects Using Photochromic Inks
Interesting project! As a Ruby developer I love what you have accomplished with do little code
"client side balance check" - these people should not be allowed to write software.
There's also this one, "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" (by the same authors): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...
> The answer is that Apple is the only tech company that actually has leverage with the CPC in (indirectly) employing millions of workers in China.

You can assume that or you can assume that they need the access to the huge market which would be a much higher leverage for China over Apple.

Both not more then thought experiments by people not actually having any insight.
There's a third possibility in your example though: Invest in mining the PoW currency.
Using data to find the middle of nowhere
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I can send money using a credit card, Square/Venmo, Apple/Google Pay, etc. faster with smaller fees and fraud protection. What incentive to I have to switch?

Your last sentence doesn’t make any sense unless you live in a place with a tyrannical government, and they’ll take your bitcoin like anything else – in fact it’s easier since you have to leave a public history which cannot be repudiated.
Ah, midlets. I wrote up an entire presentation (using docbook) on networked j2me applications, based on lessons learned from a startup that built a j2me application that allowed consumers to search for homes (in 2004): http://www.mooreds.com/midp/midp.html

Good times, good times.
The user style I've made for HN reduces the level of greying out considerably - dead comments are only 50% black instead of 14% black for instance.

https://userstyles.org/styles/156181/hacker-news-improved-re...

If you had a user style extension you could just change the five styles used to grey out down-voted and dead comments.
The haskell library is here: https://github.com/walck/learn-physics https://hackage.haskell.org/package/learn-physics
I'd say Porsches have far superior quality, in terms of materials, manufacturing, and engineering. And the newer 911 series models are beautiful, minimalist designs (although that's obviously a question of taste).
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Please don't ride noisy stupid bags of metal and plastic anywhere. Nobody has to listen to that deafening annoying noise. Don't get me wrong I prefer a bike over a car anytime and if I needed to own a vehicle I'd get a moped, but I'd rather not add to the sound pollution and annoy the heck out of people.
I was ignoring that for simplicity. Presumably Mandarin, unless otherwise specified, but who knows. My Chinese is pretty rusty, but Cantonese and other dialects were always unintelligible to me even when I could speak decently.
Teslas can use the other chargers, but no-one except Tesla can use the Superchargers
People like to pretend they can afford anything. I think usually it's high-priced restaurants, over-priced fashion items, and such.
The main issue I have with Harley and all the loud bikes is that riders are remarkably rude and inconsiderate. Yeah, I'm passing a very general comment around, but I don't think it's wrong.

Any time you ride that thing past someones home you wake everyone up if they're sleeping and completely ruin any sense of quiet that may have existed.

If your neighbor fired up a chainsaw (or six) 20 feet from your house at all hours of the day, I imagine you'd consider that neighbor similarly.

So if they loud bikes go away, I'm all in favor. I think you're all acting like jerks for riding them.
Nitpicking here... making a 10,000 year clock is fairly easy: Take a thermoelectric RPG and attach it to a quartz crystal.

The goal of the project is to build one that can be understood by a primitive society, which has questionable application to modern technology.
But why would we need to reduce consumption? We need emissions tax -- a tax proportional to the environmental cost. If power consumption carried little or no environmental cost, we'd want to use a huge amount, and that wouldn't be an issue.
Networked J2ME Applications (2004)
You aren’t a robot, ride the waves and stop trying to optimise everything. There is nothing wrong here - it sounds like most of the time you are productive and then find you need a break to begin something new. I always look at this as being a time for communication and “soft” work or learning something new. It’s a positive for everyone if you make use of this time to develop yourself and learn and communicate. Good luck.
Interesting POV
In Dublin, Ireland you would pay about 500k USD for a 2 bed apartment