skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will eat into profits for US based electronics manufacturers, who in many cases may already be under contract for assemblies or finished products at particular price points. It will also make it even more uneconomical to manufacture electronics assemblies or finished products in the US, a business that has been drying up for years.
>Would you say the same about prostitution?

We haven't exactly messed with it too much over the millennia. It's acceptableness to society and the way prostitutes are treated by society has remained roughly constant after you adjust for the baseline trend of increasing personal freedom and decreasing violence.
They just have to come up with a better brand. Outside of China, "Xiaomi" is not an easy word.

There are innumerable examples of Japanese companies that changed their names to make them easier to market. Panasonic, for example.

More recently out of Korea, look at the rebranding of Lucky Goldstar as simply "LG." Worked wonders.

There are plenty of Chinese brands that are successful in the West. But they are always brands that are appealing to the Western ear. Vizio. Element. TCL. All better names than "Xiaomi."
The "statistics" don't show any such thing.

You do have to admire the intense racial resentment at work here. There's no evidence at all that these Asian Americans aren't boring cookie-cutter kids when compared to the broader pool of applicants. The headline literally reads 'Harvard admissions have a broader perspective than Alumni interviewers' ... duh. But this non-story is enough to summon up all sorts of wild accusations and intense paranoia that somehow, somewhere the blacks are being given an unfair advantage.
Hosting, if I understand the stack correctly.
I don't see the term "MaxQ" very applicable here. The idea of Max Q is that you start at low aerodynamic forces and then accelerate via rocket thrust, with dynamic pressure increasing until the atmosphere density causes it to fall.

For a projectile from this launcher, MaxQ is the second it opens the airlock of the vacuum chamber and releases it to atmosphere. Then it hits a wall of air, and dynamic pressure spikes to the maximum instantly. It is true that you get rid of the centripetal acceleration upon release, so to a degree you trade the centripetal acceleration for drag acceleration.
I misremembered. That was the cost in the middle of Barcelona, which is a big city: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2012/02/15/why-do-su...
Very true, and that situation is the only time the feature appears to work. Minimal repetitious physical engagement wouldn't change much I'm guessing.
* Writing on a consistent basis is both rewarding and eye-opening.

* Bumbling a tech interview can still bowl me over and make me feel inadequate, even though I've been in tech for 15 years.

* International travel is life-changing. Seeing the world outside of my American bubble for the first time a few months ago altered me in a way I didn't think possible.

* Not all titles mean something.

* Do things for the sake of doing them, not because there is an end goal.

* Time is more important than money (but pay off your debt).

* Words and intent matter.
Yeah I'm not up on my supersonic aero anywhere near enough to work out max-Q for their very pointy projectile, but I'll point out that 'suddenly hitting MaxQ' is a jerk problem, not an acceleration one. MaxQ is MaxQ, whether you've been cruising at that speed and air density for hours or just hit it out of a near-vacuum.

I think centripetal / launch acceleration dramatically outweighs air drag though, by analogy to the SR-71. The max thrust divided by its dry mass gives a maximum thrust/weight of about 1g, and that thing could cruise at Mach 3+ which is about halfway to Spinlaunch's 5000 mph.

Their little teardrop projectiles have got to be way lower drag than anything with wings and intakes, and it's probably much heavier for its size than the SR-71 as well, so I can't imagine MaxQ on these things gets past 10-15g.
Multi-gate protocols do that too. The investment just gets more complicated.
"You get what you measure" is the bane of KPIs everywhere. Measure deals closed, and you get deals with no regard for profitability. Measure profitability, and you will burn through your customer base by jacking prices and cutting quality. Etc etc.
ok, but now you are talking about kids. Your original comment was simply talking about partners.
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I have, but I didn't know them that well. It was a married couple, and they even led a polyamory group. They seemed very happy.

I will admit that what I said before is all theory, not experience from practice. When I see poly people on the dating sites, they're way too "out there" for me to have any interest in them.

I have read though that there are successful poly relationships, and that relationship counselors generally agree that the successful ones have the best communication skills of all their clients. All the stuff I've read from them highly emphasizes communication skills.
Now that really makes me want to try it out.
I'm using S3 + CloudFront right now to host a React app, would you say Netlify offers advantages over that stack?
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It's not even that correlation doesn't equal causality, it's that the correlation may also completely reverse.
It wasn't because you started on a promotion deal and the deal ran out?
I don't think CA pays $1 billion/mi just to drill. The Purple Line Extension project in LA is forecast to cost $8.2 billion total and covers 9 miles (http://media.metro.net/projects_studies/westside/images/fact...). That's pretty close to $1b/mi but it's also all-inclusive and a subway underneath one of the densest, busiest streets in LA.

And the cost of subway in Europe is much more than $40M/km. The Crossrail project in London is 118 km and 15 billion GBP (http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-in-numbers). That's about $280 million/mi. Definitely less than the LA project, but it's the same order of magnitude and much of their mileage is in suburban London.
The mass leaving the surface and entering orbit around Earth doesn't change the location of the pair's center of mass.
I think energy would be the answer for many people. Seems easy to become demotivated from corporate work and let that leak into your side projects.

Not that I disagree with you. But I've run into the problem myself. I think what you state is probably the best option though. Just gotta get life in order enough to avoid the energy issue.
That is true. So a reliable mode of transportation to the airport that is always 15 min saves people more that 20min than an unreliable system that averages 35min but sometime takes say 60 min. To use the unreliable system you have to always plan for the delayed time. Most people don't want to spend even more time sitting around airports.
It's not responsive like you think, none of the templates work right on mobile. It's very much designed for desktops.
You’re not really reading what I write, are you?
Replication was huge, we didn't even have an internet connection when I setup a application replicating between three suppliers and a bank.
I agree

This is a typical Chicago/Illinois gimmick again
The state and the city is so corrupted, another attempt to distract from the other bull-shit they are trying to pull.

The word is, only the mayor and the governor are interested in an express train. Everyone else is happy with the blue-line.

Chicago is so parallized trying to make any decsion. I am ready to bet, the deal will fall aprat during the negocaitions
What Harvard is trying to do is admit the people who will be national and global leaders 30 years from now, not the people who will get the best grades at Harvard. Since the country’s future leaders won’t be 60% Asian it doesn’t make sense for their class to be either.
> Not actually the case, given what we know of the incredible variety of sexual/reproductive practices in pre-modern societies.

Reference?
The 1 individual was democratically elected though so I guess it's just not 1 individual.

Now, I wouldn't mind if the rest of the world gave him the stick, but like it or not he does represents and is the figurehead of US so it is your responsibility to deal with his actions.
Good point about the signs. I found the UP express rather hard to find. Great experience though once aboard.
Towards endless stars, bound to be pulled in by another
I guess those of us that believe in karma :-)
Yes, and correlation doesn't imply causation except when it does.

Say, a patient doesn't take an important drug because the 0.001% chance of death seems too large, or alternatively they are falsely comforted by a seemingly-small 1% chance of death.
* assembled in the USA.
> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way. They're better for resource-sharing and avoid the problem with thinking that your partner has to satisfy you in every way.

I read the book "Sperm Wars" a long time ago, but I still remember their argument that humans are mostly monogamous by nature, and that all the social factors we attach to monogamy and marriage are just rationalizing what we tend to do anyway. They also point to other species that do this, since it's a common misconception that animals aren't monogamous.

FWIW, I'm not against polyamory per-se, but I personally reject the idea that it's the solution to having unrealistic expectations. In my mind, thinking that you have to be satisfied in every way is the problem, not thinking your partner has to be the one do to it.
The most conserved marriage agreement in recorded history is a property agreement, usually with women regarded as second class humans. The largest and most durable civilizations for example ancient China, endorsed plural marriage until the immediate past. It is totally inaccurate to call modern marriage with equality a conserved social structure.
Prove it using any long running test doing actually work.

If no such test is reasonable I have no inclination to accept a, flawed one whose source is secret and methodology flawed.
Yeah, but the whole point of the Mac Mini was to be less stuff on the desk. I wish Apple would have given me the USB hub on the front of the machine.
Apple doesn't assemble their devices domestily. This tariff does not include complete phones. I'm sure they are perfectly fine with these tarrifs, they are a barrier for potential competitors who don't already have established supply and assembly facilities in China/Tiwaian.
You shouldn't optimize at all but instead pick multiple, 'distantly related' measures and satisfice over them.

That's sort of what humans do to have a robust objective function. Sufficient food, water, physical safety, love, social interaction, meaningful work, spiritual fulfillment—fulfill each of them and humans generally move on to the next 'unfulfilled' goal on the list rather than endlessly maximizing something that ceases to improve their life quality.
> How many others fall into this category?

It happens a lot. ($2.5B in 2010) In some states, it's a systemic source of income for police departments. Most asset forfeitures are never returned to the individual, yet they are never charged with any crime. Even with an attorney, it is extremely hard to recover your money or other assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
The default datasource is a regular Google SQL server, so if you want to change something later on, just plug the DB credentials into your new thing. There's no lock-in.
Yeah, I'm worried because a nonprofit I'm working for recently decided to manufacture a convention badge in Ohio rather than China because it was barely economically feasible... with this tariff change it may eat too far into our donations.
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Whether a human or a machine (or a machine that claims to be a human) is doing it, there should be oversight and double or triple checking if the result is used for anything sensitive.

I'd say it's unethical to put the outcome of medical research into the hands of unknown Mechanical Turk workers without any oversight.
>And in my world-view, if an individual can't rightfully do something, then neither can a group of individuals, no matter how largebased organization.

This is interesting idea. Do you have any examples of this incorrectly applied in modern times?

At it's core the law takes away the permission to apply violence from your average person and puts it in the hands of supposedly fair/blind judges.

From Bastiat:
"It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all."

So ultimately were making the same point I think about protection of property?

You feel like the govt has crossed a boundary somewhere though and I'm curious where.
> I can't help but think that college admissions based solely on test scores [...] might be the least unfair way to judge applicants.

Intentionally provocative question: is "least unfair" the right goal to solve for in college admissions?

If a change to an admissions system makes it less "single-input->single-output" from the perspective of an applicant, but produces a positive effect elsewhere, what is the right standard to decide whether it was a good or bad change?
Yep, this is one of the frequent complaints about the lifestyle. The problem is that, in my view, men are much more accepting of this* (in that, it's easy to find men who are perfectly fine with having a FWB, not necessarily sharing their primary partner) generally than women, who are much more possessive and jealous.

I do find it interesting, because women actually stand to benefit more from relationships like this: resource sharing, being able to take extended time away from work for child-raising, having more adults in the house to cooperate on raising children together, etc. Raising kids in a modern dual-income 2-person family is extremely difficult and stressful (and costly, with day care); I honestly don't know how people do it.

*edit
Pretty awesome living in an oligarchy, no?
Because every applicant has the best grades and extracurriculars in the world, the only thing left to use for admissions is “How pleasant of a person is this student to be around?”
I prefer the unrestored version of the images. They feel more real for some reason.
What would the benefit be to the United States for production to shift to Vietnam? Simply to avoid it being done in China? I thought the idea was to increase domestic production.
I am thinking the parent was quoting also TFA, who themselves quoted the plaintiffs, whose source I am not sure:

"They [the plaintiffs] compare Harvard’s treatment of Asian-Americans with its well-documented campaign to reduce the growing number of Jews being admitted to Harvard in the 1920s."
The more I read about the contortions US colleges go through in the name of social justice, the better scores-only admission looks to me.
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Generalisations never stand up to scrutiny and (like this article) tend to be a bit niave
The thing is Harvard doesn't need your money. If your non-legacy family has the resources to make a big enough donation to move to move the needle, your likely to either: 1) get in anyway just based on who you are, or 2) not really care whether you go to Harvard or not because you're the scion of generational wealth.
> mechanism to define precedence

Read syntax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL [1973!]

https://www.cliki.net/infix

Macros:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25434538/define-function...
One question I've never been able to figure out with this concept is what happens when this fast moving launch vehicle hits the stationary air. Would it be like hitting a wall? I'm a bit physics ignorant.
This doesn't seem to compare the actual number of marriages happening in these decades - my guess is that fewer people are getting married and/or they are marrying later in life. Meaning people aren't pursuing marriage just because that is what they are supposed to do, but instead because they actually want to.

As for people being flakier - I still think that is actually true - but as a result of communications technology. When you had to agree on meeting someplace a week in advance and not have contact with that person till then, you inherently have to be more "reliable," otherwise you would become known as being flakey for not showing up.

So I don't think it is the people that have changed, just that we still are adjusting to having the ability to be instantly connected with everyone in our lives.
Fair point. It just seems like a very of a narrow market for high speed public transit over such a short distance. A large % of the travel time to O'Hare is not spent on the train/in a cab.

As a former consultant, I agree that business travelers would be willing to pay the cost whatever it was. However unless my hotel/office was right near a stop or traffic was unusually bad, I think it would take less time to get a cab from wherever I happened to be than to schlep over to the stop, wait for a train to arrive, take the train, and then walk all the way over to the terminal.
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Madrid built a subway tunnel (Metrosur) for about $60M per km (about 41 km length in total) in 2003. That's about $97M per mile. Tho, the tunnel is actually outside of the actual metropolitan area,

Berlin calculated some planned subway extensions (U1, U8 lines) at $120M to $280M per mile (2017), tho, those are short extensions of existing tunnels of about 1 km each and only estimations not actual costs.
Thankfully there are better algorithms that are not encumbered. ARC is fairly memory hungry and requires a large cache to be effective. It is not as scan resistant and does not capture frequency as well as many believe. LIRS or TinyLFU based policies are what new implementations should be based on.

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Efficiency
the parent stated they were in China. Whilst I am making a huge generalisation here - I have found it to true from extensive travel. Lots of people from non-western countries have a mythical view of the west and especially the west. Most of this will come from stylised tv / films where everyone lives in a mansion, doesn't have work problems and live is just perfect and the roads are lined with gold.

I remember when my now wife came to the UK for the first time "wow you have poor people too!". She had been brought up seeing postcard perfect depictions of quaint little village hamlets. But the misconception is both ways. Many people from the UK are shocked to find out that in the tropics you have rainy miserable grey overcast days - as we are brought up with postcard perfect Caribbean seas, palm tress, blue skies and full sun...

Anyway I digress, I can quite understand why someone from China would be surprised at homeless and poverty in the US
But realistically, when has Apple guaranteed anything about future products? Even if they released a newer version of the mini, you might hate it because they changed something you like.
It's punishment for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP, illegally subsidizing businesses to steal market share, and general national security by not outsourcing knowledge and infrastructure critical to national security to save a few bucks.

It's easy to let someone push you back inch by inch instead of fighting back, but eventually you're on the edge of a cliff and have nowhere else to go.

I'd take short term pain over one day waking up and realizing that China has total control over manufacturing for everything essential for modern life and in exchange we got cheap consumer goods for a few years.
Well, why discriminate on US citizenship for that matter, if academic merit is the main criterion. Americans of any kind would be less than 10% of the student body.

Harvard does not claim to be a purely academic meritocracy.
I've had Verizon FiOS fiber and it was just as bad as when I had terrible Comcast. Now I have Comcast in a different neighborhood and it's great.

Personally, availability/stability is WAY more important than bandwidth. I don't know what I'd do with over 200mbps. But in some of the places I lived, during peak hours, the internet would just stop working. That was very frustrating.
>I saw some people really being miserable in polyamorous relationships.

How many people are miserable in monogamous relationships?
You can't use the "Made in the USA" label like that anyway. It must be all or virtually all made in the USA. At best you could label it "Made in USA from Imported Parts" or "Assembled in USA."

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
Studies have shown grades and test scores are predictive of college graduation rates and grades. Where is the research showing that subjective assessments of personality do so?
That's substantially less of an issue in a dense urban environment like Chicago.
Hopefully they can just increase the price to keep it at just capacity. As long as they don't charge a super high price to maximize profits and the train is mostly empty (like I see with many toll roads), I don't see why using price to keep it just full is a problem. Use the extra profits to build another tunnel.
I literally created a Hacker News account solely for the purpose of observing that this is a terrible article and the author should feel terrible for writing it.

The idea that social maladaptation and/or rudeness is some sort of marker for talent is garbage, and wrong.

Furthermore, the idea that talent is or should be an EXCUSE for social maladaptation or rudeness is ALSO garbage, and wrong.
The hacker category is described almost perfectly, in my experience. It fits the truly high level people I've been fortunate enough to know.

It's probably important to realize that most devs aren't hackers. Not in the traditional sense of the word. I aspire to be, but in many ways I fall short. And I work every day, all day on it, most days.

Simply being a programmer doesn't automatically make you a hacker, just like having a boyfriend doesn't automatically make you in love. And like love, you probably know whether you are.

The defining characteristic of a hacker is probably an unusual sense of blending computers with your own identity. Computers are seen as a tool for changing the world, not merely a means to a paycheck. And that necessarily means that your identity with your work extends outside of normal work hours, since it's inseparable from who you are.

Good hackers have a variety of other hobbies, of course. But the base traits described in the article seem to line up nicely on average (if it's even possible to average the highest echelon of programmers).
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Yes, I consulted on such a product for a few years, all the people doing the successful projects with it were programmers. The tool was very productive in it's domain.
So let me ask you, do you think the people in charge do not know this? Do you buy into the media push that Trump is a petulant, reactive child who does not listen to advisers? Do you think our government is truly led by the whims of a single individual?

Tariffs are a political tool. There is some objective here that is not being publicly outlined because it would defeat the purpose of the strategy.

Example: Other countries involved in this "trade war" are placing tariffs specifically on bourbon. Why? What do they have to gain by that sort of rule? Absolutely nothing, other than putting political pressure on the representatives and senators from Kentucky. (Source: NPR, radio earlier this month where a representative of Canada said exactly this. I wish I could find the audio.) This is the very definition of other sovereign countries interfering with American politics. I would bet that the tariffs being placed here locally are designed to have similar effects.