skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a failure of platforms to let people separate the content they care about from the content they don't. People should be able to tag their content with the stream it should go to and allow people to only subscribe to the streams they care about, or explicitly mute the ones they don't.
Perhaps too much road infrastructure has induced traffic?

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
Fun fact: a subway trunk line is more frequently physically occupied by a train than a highway lane is by a car.

The factors that limit train frequency are station dwell times and switching time. A subway line can generally hit 26TPH, and the top speed of most subways is usually about 70mph, with average speeds generally being in the realm of 30mph. Making trains faster actually reduces capacity; a HSR that goes 220mph is considered to have a capacity of around 4-6TPH. You can also improve throughput by cutting out all branching; Moscow gets about 40TPH as a result, which is about the feasible limit of rail systems.
Well, it also will likely be a huge boost to the economy, so it will pay itself back in other ways too.
MIPS was in bad shape when Imagination acquired them. Then, not long after, Imagination's GPU business was starting to go downhill, so they couldn't focus as much as they may have wanted on MIPS CPUs. Also MIPS failed to gain traction with Android, just as x86 did. And then Apple dumped Imagination's GPUs, which was basically a death sentence for the company, so they had to get rid of MIPS.

Wave looks like a pretty cool startup, but I'm not sure how helpful MIPS architecture would be to them. The biggest benefit is probably not getting sued by Intel or other large players.
Would you be willing to elaborate on the dosing schedule you follow?
I was in a similar position several years ago, and it seems like you have already jumped through the first mental hurdle.. actually being prepared to give up working on your own business. (Note, I don't mean this in a negative way, it's a serious consideration and opinions will vary.)

In my case, we met, no NDAs, they outlined initial terms (no actual numbers), and the idea of them shutting down the thing I'd built and working for them on their flat salary structure was too unappealing so I withdrew before we got to numbers.
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Haha, I had the same response from a door-to-door cable pusher.
Lol. Thanks. Work machine. Must have ctrl-tabbed without realizing.
Caveat: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

I'd start by finding and consulting an employment law attorney, they can best walk you through your options under California and US Federal law.

Beyond that: document everything dispassionately in multiple places, including paper. Ideally have a copy you can bring to and leave with the attorney if you engage the attorney. Assume your employment can be terminated at any time and that you'll be escorted from the office with no access to your desk or computer.

Assume that anything you've said or written, regardless of context, will be used against you.

If your employer is large enough it may have an HR organization which may be able to help, but HR primarily exists to mitigate risk to and to protect the company.

In my personal experience, if the conflict is with one or two specific individuals, it may be resolvable without leaving the company but resolution to your satisfaction will depend on the roles of the individuals involved. If the conflict is with some inherent characteristic of the company then you should prepare to leave, ideally on your terms by working with an attorney.
Yeah, but the reasons for failure are different. A startup usually fails because the founders are convinced they can't do whatever they want to do without investors and they never raise any money. OR, they do raise money and eventually run out of it because they never made enough money to support the costs that were enabled by ... the investment.

A bootstrapped business is alive as long as the founder is willing to continue trying to make it work. So a bootstrapped business doesn't fail per se — usually the founder fails to make money within the timeframe they'd hoped for and gives up.

I didn't start making real money with my business until I was 4 years in. There wasn't some magical day where I got lucky and started making money. The first 4 years was me basically being an idiot and making every mistake possible. It gave me the education I needed to price my product appropriately, position it, and sell it.

Some might say I'm a "survivor" but I don't think I am. I'm just determined as hell and didn't give up when I wasn't making any money. I worked freelance contracts and kept the thing going because I knew at the very least I was getting smarter even if I wasn't bringing in money, and eventually the education would probably prove useful or pay me back. Better and cheaper than grad school anyway, right? I sometimes think about the people who are "Masters of Business Administration" on paper and have never actually built or run a business.

The people I know who have successfully done it aren't geniuses with a bunch of money and lots of connections. They all just had the same determination to stick with it, adapt, learn, and find their way to what they want. There is definitely some pain and self-doubt involved, but like I originally said, you come out stronger for it.
What a sexist piece of propaganda. Was she hired solely so they could publish these sorts of articles?
Agreed. Invest heavily in WISP technology if possible. Running fiber through bedrock sounds ridiculous.
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People with DSPD can't have "regular" sleep cycles, it's thought to be a genetic disorder where their cycle is offset a few hours from a regular sleep cycle.

Couple that with society's 9-5 work schedule, you're in for a rough time unless you can find an employer who will accommodate.
What about winking emojis? I feel there's a lot more ambiguity/nuance with them, which can be a good thing, but can also express something you may or may not intend to.
The limits of expertise seem to be due to the lack of skin in the game for these so called experts.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/beware-fau...
That would be awesome, and would have been awesome 10 years ago, but FCC have been successfully fighting against this for a long time so we can't make assumptions. Regardless, fiber will always have more bandwidth than radio, and we'll always need more bandwidth.
In that regard, I could see it work. How much do you do? If you set aside time to do something, start getting in the flow, and then take a hit... it sort of starts a "new day" mentally because everything is a little more interesting. Then you can pop out a few hours. But with too much I get braindead and just want to listen to music and muse.
From a client perspective, QUIC seems like it would provide the most value on mobile devices. Any word on how well supported this is on Android clients? I'm assuming iOS adoption will take some time.

In many enterprise networks, TLS MitMboxes rule QUIC out completely. I'm not aware of any middleboxes that support it. Nevermind that even on many guest networks, I see udp/53 hijacked, and all other UDP dropped.
I had a boss that worked in Continuous Improvement. As a manager he was great because he was very good at coming up with the nucleus of an idea. He was terrible about implementing the idea, but had a crew that was great at implementing his vision (think George Lucas).

Left to his own devices, he had some horribly implemented ideas that really messed with our manufacturing floor. He was then moved to supervise a couple of manufacturing departments, which also resulted in disaster. He was moved to another facility shortly thereafter.
Pretty sure you're in the wrong thread, mate.
one single anecdote:
instead of installing commercial/industrial chillers on a certain warehouse in the desest, someone opted to install hundreds of 5 ton commercial/residential package units on the roof. That single location is going to burn a few million in maintenance, alone. AFAIK, robots don't do well in > 110°F ambient temps long and they haven't automated replacing motors, blowers, filters, txvs, pistons nor do leak detection/recharging or any other service duties yet.

Gotta love corporate: where big decisions are made by the least qualified.
Math is the easy part. Having the intellect to understand what the numbers coming out of the sausage machine is harder. As always, the incentive is to ignore all that difficult stuff ... Look ma, I am soooo machine learned!
So was Elon Musk lucky in all four of his main ventures? (zip2, paypal, tesla, spacex) Or can the luck factor be overcome if you are good enough.
Are you marco.org ? Because Marco has explained something similar in the podcast.
Thank you.

The estimated contribution to sea-level rise by thermal expansion of the oceans is 1 mm/year.

It's still not clear how this amount plus the measured contributions of Greenland (under 0.5 mm/year) and Antarctica (0.3 mm, possibly -0.2 mm) somehow add up to a predicted 6 mm/year (or even to a measured 3 mm/year trend).
> How is a company that had a net loss of $933 million and that owes $18 billion in rent even remotely worth $35 billion.

Theranos had a valuation of $9 billion not too long ago. Did we forget about Pets.com and all the "valuable" properties during the dotcom boom that became worthless in a manner of months? Or the shacks worth hundreds of thousands during the 2000 housing bubble?

> I'd consider the lemonade stand on the corner to be more of a business than WeWork in the true sense of the word.

You should. There is so much money out there looking for assets that you could start a lemonade franchise business and you are sure to get investors bidding up your property even if it makes no money.

The current economic environment is dotcom bubble + housing bubble combined on steroids. There is lots of money to be made if you are willing to suppress your morals and just take the money.
> The most popular developer machines (MacBook Pro)...

That's incorrect. The vast, vast majority of developers around the entire world are running Windows and on a PC, not a Mac.
You can do O(1) string operations in UTF-8 too, if you do them at the code unit level. It's just as wrong, but it's more obvious that it's wrong because it only works for ASCII instead of only working for BMP.
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Was confused at first, since it uses the same name as Microsofts Azure Data Lake language:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-analytics/u...

Hint: its not related!
Bit poor naming choice http://robotframework.org
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Same question as parent...but curious...which one is it?
Oh Dear !!! Climate change is a slow moving disaster which we humans have not evolved to completely comprehend. Once the oceans are not able to absorb any more C02, the temperatures are going to soar pretty fast and that C02 will remain in the atmosphere for a long time (unless some magic carbon capture thing comes along..which I doubt).
VLIWs can make use of the same branch predictors that you see in out of order cores like an Intel Core or in order cores like an ARM A53. The big problem that VLIW faces is starting loads early so that they've finished by the time you need their contents. Itanium tried to do that but their mechanism really broke down in the face of possible memory exceptions and it didn't speed things up much. Mill has a cleverer way to speculate with loads which might work better but it's still entirely unable to speculatively load values across boundaries between codebases, like system calls. But of course speculatively loading across system calls is what's causing problems here. So it might be that the best thing is to accept the 80% performance solution in the same of security through keeping the hardware simple enough to understand.
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America is sclerotic and timid and doomed to stay that way. The seeds were planted with the "liberty" meme hundreds of years ago. "Taxation is theft" has become a mainstream refrain. There is no trust in government to execute even basic projects, a position advocated even by the government's leader.

You want infrastructure innovation, move to China.
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How does that 250 months number change if you bake in a 2%/year price increase to account for inflation?
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I found the scene on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo

I'm bawling my eyes out right now.

"The only winning move is not to play."
> Subways are pretty efficient systems but that doesn't mean they are anywhere close to the most efficient system, especially considering they were invented during a time where it would be unthinkable to dynamically compute optimized schedules.

Personal rapid transit systems, which is basically what Loop is and sounds like what you're proposing, have been proposed several times and even built in a few places (Morgantown's is perhaps the most notable, at least in the US). They just haven't shown themselves to be very capable.

Subways are probably the most efficient system possible. They're a 1-D system, with transfers between separate 1-D system. When there's no conflicts between different lines (i.e., everything is grade-separated), you can dedicate most of the space to the actual trains themselves and the safety buffers for moving trains to stop. As you move to more complex systems, now you need to have extra gaps that other trains on other lines can merge into, which reduces scheduling flexibility. In other words, subways are much simpler, and it turns that simple systems are often the most efficient in practice. (If you want to see an example of what can go wrong even with computerized scheduling of dynamic routing, look at Denver's baggage system).
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I don't really see the point of an express train to the airport. Who's in a rush to get to the airport where you already have to get there very early anyway and do a lot of waiting?
Not exactly. "Extend those wrapper libraries" is not at all trivial or easy because when the wrapper library / charting library creates abstractions, it also places some limitations on the overall customizability. So when the wrapper or charting lib isn't cutting it, trying to shoe-horn the feature you need is not always easy and usually involves ugly hacks that reduce the overall simplicity of the code if you had just rolled your own D3 implementation from scratch.
Do either of these organizations get featured in the Guardian?
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Not incorrect, just clickbait.
There are a quite a few problems with this. We are 31 minutes into the first game (Russia vs Saudi A) and it is 1 - nil.

This feed (although updated each minute) is not reflecting the score. Also the current game endpoint is empty.

As one poster has pointed out the timezone setting are wrong which could be why.
Well, that's why I specified it as a library. A C compatible Lin is likely easiest for most languages to trivially support through an FFI, and it all it's doing is outputting structured text based on the input, that's trivial to hook up. It's not like it can be too language specific because if it's supposed to work in a bunch of languages, it has to be generic enough to handle them.

Although in the end you probably aren't getting much out of it, as a dynamic language is fairly easy to just pump stuff through a JSON converter, and static/strongly typed ones probably require enough boilerplate that the added benefit is slight.
Sorry, should have bern more clear: why didn't they fix the bug in utf8 so that it is correct (and would do what utf8mb4 does now)? It's just that the obvious choice of 'utf8' has been plain wrong for a long time.
> This is stupid.

Talk about stupid, run this query on both Mysql and Postgres:

select 0 = 'banana';

Make your own conclusion.
I ran a couple of Dungeon Squad games with my son when he was 6-7. Easy character creation, simple mechanics… that was really fun.

http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/dungeon-squad
https://www.metafilter.com/110941/DUNGEON-SQUAD-IN-COLOR
10-15 years ago, fiber to the home (FTTH) was hugely important because it was massively faster than cable (maybe two orders of magnitude) or DSL (three orders of magnitude).

Nowadays cable is almost as fast. The same physical cable to my neighborhood that offered plans of up to 10 Mb/s 10 years ago is now giving me 500 Mb/s on my current plan, and it looks like 1000 Mb/s is available if I switch to a bundle that includes Comcast's home security service.

Faster home internet has diminishing returns. With a 150 Mb/s service, you can have two parents and three kids each streaming a different 4k movie at the same time. You can download 67 GB of data in an hour.

For most families the only time they will notice a difference between 150 Mb/s and gigabit is when someone needs to download a large file, such as when someone buys a major new game. An hour download at 150 Mb/s becomes under 10 minutes in gigabit. For most that only happens occasionally.

The last couple of times that Comcast has raised my internet speed without changing my plan or cost, I've seriously considered dropping down to a less expensive plan that has my old speed. The only thing that stops me is that I have an internet/TV/phone bundle, and the bundles with my old speeds have smaller TV packages too, which are missing some of my most watched channels.
You’re not the only one to note this phenomenon. Airports in general aren’t the biggest generators of trips.

I’ve watched the process unfold in Seattle; the light rail opened first with service connecting the airport to downtown. During this period actual ridership was fairly small. Then they opened the second phase which connects downtown through a major neighborhood to University of Washington. Over night, ridership jumped massively.

I’m not opposed to airport rail per se, but there are generally much, much better places to build rail to and from.

Caveats about Seattle’s airport link: Building to the airport first did in some sense prioritize service to poorer neighborhoods in the Rainier Valley. That’s good-ish, but was made less good by making it a surface train, and cutting local bus service which often better served the local needs of those communities.
Whoa I never knew what those were, thanks for mentioning tonsil stones! I also get them, but mine are typically not very large based on some of these images that showed up on google.

This is entirely anecdotal, but for me they seem to show up when I do a poor job of keeping myself hydrated.
I've been through a small acquisition/acquihire twice. The first time, it was part of a small team. The second time it was my own bootstrapped one-person startup.

My biggest piece of advice is if you believe in your product and that it's a good fit for the acquiring company, you should ask for an earn out as a sliding percentage of sales over 3 or 4 years. For example, you get 75% of sales the first year, 50% the second year, etc. In my experience, the earn out is a common part of product acquisitions. It aligns everyone on the goal of promoting and building on the technology being acquired.
That's only if they give false or misleading statements or trading on non-publicly disclosed information. Does it count if you intentionally manipulate your body language or tone in intentionally misleading ways while still presenting factual and correct information?

For example giving an uncharacteristic pregnant pause when answering a straight forward question or becoming agitated when normally you're subdue?
Not female hormones per se, but things that are so similar as to have similar effects. This is not great for children, particularly developing boys. I've read some links between synthetic estrogen and changes in male behavior. I'd hate to think that a school might be naively using these things because they tend to calm boys down.
To clarify the woman farmer being 14 or 15 bytes: the example given is four different combined characters, and is additionally a "medium skin tone woman farmer".

A woman farmer requires the "woman" and "ear of rice" emoji, with a zero-width joiner character between them. To change the skin tone from the default yellow, a "medium skin tone" (type 4) modifier is added after the woman, but before the joiner.

So the sequence "U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F33E" represents "woman skin-tone-4 joiner ear-of-rice". And in the UTF-8 bytes, the first four bytes are "woman", the next four are "skin-tone-4", then three for "zero-width-joiner", and finally four for "ear-of-rice".

Emojipedia helpfully lists codepoints for each multi-character emoji:
https://emojipedia.org/female-farmer/
Sorry for not doing my research but, aren't there 4-byte regular characters from other languages? Is it all emojis and symbols?
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When I first read about pypy a decade ago, I also asked myself "but why". Now it is one of the most interesting projects out there and any talk they give tends to be really worth listening to. Their talk on Software Transactional Memory blew my mind.
I'm not so convinced; “linked to” is absolutely bog-standard for correlation. The interesting thing is how much more we're primed to read it the other way even with relatively unambiguous language.
The great thing is: no one has to care what you're tired of. Your hurt feelings aren't more important than the dismantling of systems of oppression.
I have it actually and I like it. But I was looking forward to all the system integrated functions. They're partially there like I can create a workflow from the visited websites in Settings but it's not editable without the Shortcuts app.
Came here say the exact same thing: "Hey, look! Its VCR for JS. Yay!"
This is trivial in the right environments. Not shockingly, in emacs I get that.

It actually takes a little getting used to at first, that up literally just moves the cursor up into the output of the previous command. Nowdays, it is severely restricting to have the same commands move the cursor that change the current command. (That is, left/right move cursor, up/down do a ton more in most terminals. That is not the case in emacs shells.)

Really, though, the repl is a fun stepping stone to just sending function definitions from the file you are working on into an environment. https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode is a fun video showing the idea for javascript, amusingly.

That said, there was a fun video a while back of the guy that did Minecraft live coding a video game. Basically, the game would be running, and he could make a change and it would live update, just like the javascript video above. But it was in java.

This is harder in non-managed runtimes, I believe. But not impossible.
Also, the enforcement of such regulation is usually done with handcuffs, a weapon and imprisonment. Those responsible for the enforcement are untouchable.
This appears to be a common theme and it growing, especially in the USA.
They execute everything in order on a fairly short pipeline but they engage in speculative execution just like everyone else. Here's their talk on their branch predictor.

https://millcomputing.com/docs/prediction/

There's a lot less mischief you can get up to when you only execute a couple of instructions beyond a mispredicted branch rather than a hundred but mischief can't be theoretically ruled out entirely.
I'm curious what the application could be for load testing? Tools like locust and gatling are nice but are still synthetic. I'd love to capture X minutes of traffic, then dupe it Y times and replay it as a more accurate representation of traffic patterns for load testing. Is that a thing?