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My perspective shifted over time as I watched children become teens, then adults, and marvelling at how I thought of them changed.

It sounds lame, but I came to think of kids a people too vs just children. As in they are adults whose brains haven't finished wiring themselves and they deserve not just to be treated with respect, but also to be thought of respectfully. It's obvious to me now, I mean I can remember how some adults treated me all the way back to 3 yrs old or so. I'm that kid, just older.
Let me stop you right there, lest you propose any form socialism limited to just your nation, national socialism
Yes, that is my hope. Happy to pay, I just don't know who to ask. Any recommendations?
Fortunately, the political will for carbon pricing is growing. The one obstacle is that conservative politicians are scared of using the word "tax" – so the current strategy is to push for a bill that would return all of the money to citizens ("carbon dividends" are an easier sell than "carbon taxes").

Here are the biggest organizations pushing for this — support them if you can:

– https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ (strictly bipartisan)

– https://www.clcouncil.org/ and their PAC, https://twitter.com/afcdividends (conservative/industry-backed)

– https://allianceformarketsolutions.org/ (conservative)

– https://www.s4cd.org/ (campus-based)
If you pass the interview as a generalist, Google absolutely prefers for people to work in their Mountain View office.

1. The cost of relocation is minuscule compared to the total cost of employing someone, so I don't buy that argument.

2. Do you have data to back up that Google engineers in Denver get paid less than their Mountain View counterparts? I believe this is true when comparing US to non-US salaries, but at least where I've worked, engineers get paid the same everywhere within the US (and indeed, you can relocate from the Bay Area to cheaper locales without taking a pay cut).
Tesla production drone footage https://youtu.be/HFB-l52Ag2Q
Really sickens me to read that they didn't acknowledge the prior work. It would break my heart to be in this position, but then to not even get credit is just too much.
Thanks. They sure did bury what used to be one of my favorite views.
>500px says that it reached out to Creative Commons in May, and explained at the time that the reason for the shift was that they weren’t seeing a lot of activity with Creative Commons images, that they still had a number of bugs when it came to searching for such images, and they only had outdated licenses for photographers. In short, there’s not enough activity for 500px to justify continuing it.

What? That doesn't make any sense. Creative Commons is not some kind of million page regulation that requires constant maintenance - it's just an option in a dropdown, or even just a note in the description. There has to be some hidden motivation behind disallowing it, although I can't imagine what that motivation could be.
Who is this new voting brigade that is pushing ideological crap to the top during the first hour of a submission?
Why businesses fail at machine learning
Good incentive for photographers to ditch this service.
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Interesting analysis, thanks for sharing!
Doubly so after hearing about the "semi-open outdoors tent in a hot climate" manufacturing strategy.

Who's to say some of the components aren't half melted or contaminated with natural elements from outdoors?
My point was more that it is wrong to say that financial calculations should not be done using floating point formats, for example Decimal in .NET and BigDecimal in Java are floating point formats and they are the types you should use for financial calculations. The important difference as compared to formats like IEEE 754 binary32 (formerly single) and binary64 (formerly double) is that the representation is based on base 10 instead of base 2. Fixed point or floating point and base 2 or base 10 are two orthogonal choices.

So when you initially mentioned high precision floating point numbers for financial calculations that was not necessarily a bad idea because you might have thought about base 10 floating point numbers. The comment I replied to however assumed you meant base 2 which of course most people do if they say floating point numbers without specifying the base and which of course is a bad idea for financial calculations more often than not. I just pointed out that assuming base 2 is usually but not technically correct.

And you can of course use base 2 floating point numbers for financial calculations - 32 bit, 64 bit, or 4096 bit - you just have to keep track of the accumulated errors and stop or correct the result before the error grows into the digits you are interested in. But why would one want to do this? The only thing I can really think of is that you need maximum performance and there is no hardware support for base 10 floating point numbers. And just using integers as base 10 fixed point numbers, which would often be a even better solution, must not be an option.
Yeah, I don’t particularly care if economists think it will boost global GDP by 10x, I’m never going to be on board with that. Abolishing borders is essentially the same as abolishing nations, and in that case who has the power then? Certainly not me, or anyone that has anything in common with me. Our “democracy” sucks enough as it is, why the hell would I want to sell out national sovereignty to global capitalist interests? Honestly, I’d rather make a change in the opposite direction and have governments that actually represent their people at the cost of halving global GDP, if that’s what it takes. There are many more important things than money.
A bit!
But having spent some time in a model 3 lately, seemed fine!
How would you teach me to recognise a Chinese character without showing me a picture?
"But there is also nothing saying half of the western technology industry won't go down with a recession and subsequent housing market crash in San Francisco, Stockholm, London etc."

What do you mean by recession? Depression? The west can survive a huge recession. Can Xi and his regime? I have doubts. Let me make a prediction. Xi will go down as one of the biggest failures in China. Mark my words!
Another way is to bring economic freedom to poor countries.
Yes, it's not a bad thing considering the alternative would be that those things might not exist anymore having been eaten and degraded by such pests. Clearly anything treated to prevent organisms from growing and consuming it is not going to be healthy for humans either.
A mining company mines raw materials.

Panasonic takes those and makes battery cells. Think AA battery. That part is done as a joint venture between Panasonic and Tesla which means Tesla contributes to the design e.g. Tesla employs people doing research into battery chemistry i.e. cell level R&D. (and so does Panasonic, to be clear).

Tesla takes those battery cells and packages them into a battery modules, which they also design. That part is all Tesla.

That description doesn't adequately describes how much technology and work goes into making battery modules. Cells are an important component but it's also inverters, multiple electronics boards, software to control it all.

You can see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNd-yJtRPhk

TL;DR: it would be grossly misleading to say that "battery tech is Panasonic". Battery cells are important but battery packs are designed and manufactured by Tesla.
FWIW, mergesort (von Neumann, 1940s, Manhattan Project), Shell sort (Shell, General Electric Company, 1959), and quicksort (Hoare, Elliott brothers Ltd, 1961) were not created in an academic laboratory.
if a component melts in a tent how would you expect it to fare on a car, that sits outside in the sun all day rather often? around parts that often generate a lot of heat.
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>Basically: if you want to argue against "globalization" and for a return to, I dunno, the world of the 1960's, recognize that you are arguing for a return to the 1960's, and the 60's were by modern standards a human rights disaster basically everywhere.

That's one of the more bizarro strawmen I've seen.

He doesn't suggest some kind of time travel -- so that we have to take it all, the good and the bad, of an earlier era.

In that he doesn't even say anything about going back to an earlier era.

He speaks of going back to an earlier practice.

Which is what humans who shape their future, as opposed to being taken left and right by some impersonal forces, can perfectly do, without having to adopt anything else.

>Progress is good.

Progress, outside of technology (which is accumulative), is a myth.

History has ups and downs and can go either way. The horrors of WWII were worse than whatever 19th century came up with. American politics, for one, where better in the 60s and 70s than today. And so on....
That's before you mention if 7000 cars went through production. You could easily have stored 7000 cars half way through production and finished them over a week.

Heck, they could have 8000 cars parked waiting to go through quality control, discarded 1000 that didn't pass and rolled out 7000 cars.

The number is largely meaningless without further qualification.
> "If people could migrate freely around the world" what would stop that from happening?

Most people wouldn't want to move. The EU has freedom of movement, and there's plenty of migration, but it's not like everyone from Romania up and moves to Germany.
Go to Las Vegas and then a dry county in Kentucky and note what you're allowed to buy and what you're allowed to do on the streets.

I can smoke weed legally for recreational purposes where I am here. Where I grew up I'd be thrown in jail.

Texas has no zoning laws of any kind. You can build any kind of building for any purpose anywhere (I'm sure there's still restrictions, but there's no zones per se.)

States have wildly different speed limits on highways. Different levels of allowed alcohol.

This is just off the top of my head without googling, I'm sure there's probably even bigger examples as well.
Honestly I think the people suggesting this are usually totally fine with people invading western nations and voting to take their shit as long as they’re still profiting from it.
It's interesting, why do you think individual states in the US "giving up their sovereignty" by way of control on migration was successful, but doing so at any broader scale wouldn't be? That's 325M people -- they're not all in California and New York, are they?

How about within Europe? The Schengen area alone is 400M+, the EU is 500M+ and Europe is 750M+. The amount of complaining about freedom of movement is really quite limited in reality given the scope of the free movement area. They've even developed a program to smooth out bringing in new countries; read up on the accession process.

Why is it that going from 5M (free movement within, say, New Zealand) to 35M (free movement within Canada) to 325M (free movement within the US) to 500M (free movement within the EU) all work -- over 2 whole orders of magnitude -- but expanding it any further would turn the world into a post-apocalyptic hellscape? Why would 1 more order of magnitude cause apocalypse when that hasn't happened yet?

Moreover, why doesn't everyone in the free movement area in Europe pile into Switzerland? Plenty of people move from eastern Europe, but there's still last I counted 38M people in Poland. They're not all in the UK, Germany or France. Local language, local culture, local jobs, economy, opportunities, family -- these all tie you to a place.

If offered a permanent life in Switzerland, would you drop everything and go? Why not? Probably all those things I listed above. I'm an EU citizen. Through EFTA, I absolutely could, forever, without restriction live in Switzerland, and yet here I am, somehow not in Switzerland. Fascinating.

This sounds like tribalism to me.
> “if you have any other options.”

This is always the key. What are you going to switch to? Shutterstock? Getty? They all do crap like this unilaterally and with no regard for what contributors or customers want. It’s a calculated business choice that the people upset by the change won’t materially impact business as usual. Unfortunate but omnipresent.
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Maybee, that is part of a plan, that gets you nowhere. Because there is limited attention, a exaustion to campaigning and emotions. At some point, when all your actions result in evil- and none of the coices you make seem to put a dent into it- you just give up. I sincerely do no longer believe that the left can ever continue to exist after the cause of its existance has been obliberated.But like all movements, craving for power, this one wont die.
So there will always be causes, always be marching, and the wretched of the earth will always wait invain for the help of the freedom front of judea.
I disagree. Incentive to get recurring business mandates integration. Also, if the presence is not sizable enough, they would largely go unnoticed, so, integrate or not, it doesn't matter.
Open borders is a great idea but is not compatible with democracy. Garett Jones writes well on this topic. Immigrants from parts of the world with bad institutions will likely lower the quality of the institutions in their new countries, but only in democratic nations.

I prefer other forms of governance to democracy, such as Futarchy and certian forms of meritocracy in which standardized testing and sortiton are combined. One thing radical open borders would do is bring in an era of competition in governance, as for the first time there would be significant competition for citizens. Overall it is a good idea, but those who believe in the welfare state have little choice but to shun it.
The transparency is refreshing. The details for Server2 show some hardware info as well as the max number of VMs. I've never seen that before and wish other organizations would follow suit.

I also like that they publicly state their support for the OpenBSD Foundation. Given the transparency about their approximate userbase and donation amounts, one could even roughly predict how much they will donate per year. Among other things on the site this makes me trust them more, as it's not the info you'd expect from an untrustworthy person.

Good luck!
> I can't imagine what that motivation could be.

Last time I checked, their revenue came from members. If they plan to act as middle-men, this move makes sense if they see CC as a no-profit scenario.
This post is terribly lacking in Gung Ho references.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gLOUbQZgk>
Who'd to say it all hasn't turned to pasta either? Or they are importing special parts from Elons moon base. Who says they aren't doing that either?
Three ways writing tech blogs has helped me become a better engineer
This is a great summary of many world problems
While broadly I agree with this comment, I'm annoyed by the smug South Park centricism of "the left and the right are both wrong", when in the current political climate of the US the left generally want less restrictions on immigration while the right are literally taking babies away from mothers to try and scare away future asylum-seekers.
From the description:

Common Voice is a project to help make voice recognition open to everyone. Now you can donate your voice to help us build an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web.

I'll be the first to note that here's another piece of personally identifying information you just "donated"...
That sounds like a pretty good idea, would be nice to see gdb implement something like that.
It's under Hyperdrive Tesla Production Blog, Friday June 22, 2018: "The $366 Million Subsidy Play, Part 2" as well as "Tesla's 200K Strategy".

tl;dr they'd basically benefit from an additional 336M in government subsidies if they delay recording their 200k'th sale to July 1 instead of June 30.
There is no metric for that.
Are you saying that things can be manufactured in the same environment where they'll be used?

Even if all the parts are OK one would think not the whole manufacturing is temperature-insensitive.

I wouldn't worry if I saw Tesla as a responsible company, but I see them as desperate to achieve goals and capable of misleading people (e.g. autopilot being marketed as much more than what it currently is [1]).

[1] https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/autopilot?redirect=no : watch and read the embedded video too
> Would it be totally find if e.g. 9 million people from another culture come in, change the cultural climate in the place, and vote their politicians into power?

I think that might be an exaggeration and not likely what would happen. People would move to where there is demand for what whatever work they are able and wanting to provide and then approaching a stable equalibrium would hopefully occur.

Would cultures change? Yeah but that's what they do.

Edit: eh, fuck this site, instant downvote for disagreement is just as bad as Reddit. Thanks.
An interesting piece, this is an important discussion point when it comes to international healthcare policy comparisons. I like collecting things like these for a NLP project that outputs variables and methodologies used in a given study.

However, the title appears to be misleading.

If I'm reading that article correctly, it seems to say that we can't predict whether someone is receiving expenditures that are in the last year of someone's life - the general claim that roughly 25% or so of Medicare spending takes place in the last year of people's lives is still accurate.
So far the evidence is that prosperity reduces (and even reverses) population growth.
An Entrepreneurial Investor’s Take on the Utility of Tokens beyond Payment
It's good to set the record straight on the relationship between c2rust and corrode. I was wondering that myself. Galois should give some credit back - that's free for them. It sounds like an accident not to.

I'm sympathetic to the terms of a non-fundamental research program funded by DARPA. Easy street with that agency is to get designated as doing fundamental research. If you aren't at a university, that is an uphill battle that most prime contractors won't be willing to deal with.

However, the pre-pub regime is not impossible to live under. You'd have to do something like: have a private repo/branch where you do the work that's funded by DARPA, rebase constantly against the public branch, and send once a month public release request with a diff to merge into the public one. Probably after the first few months, the PM will come up with a way to streamline the process.

You lose some energy to friction, but your other option is to just not take the money at all, so it's a question of do you spend 80% of your time working on this project and 20% of your time dealing with administrative bullshit, or 0% of your time working on this project.

It's a choice that's given to many.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the underlying motivation to this is essentially to make us all into forced labor. That probably would be great for global GDP, if that’s your only metric for success.
lol! But apparently it was reduced in 2011:

> In 2011 Congress passed the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act (RLDWA) revising the definition of lead free by lowering the maximum lead content of the wetted surfaces of plumbing products (such as pipes, pipe fittings, plumbing fittings and fixtures) from 8% to a weighted average of 0.25% [https://www.epa.gov/dwstandardsregulations/use-lead-free-pip...]
That's not 5000 a day...
Assuming you're writing this from the US, your county and state authorities already have a lot of power even though they don't control immigration.
I hear you, but there's a distinction between open-ended autonomy and being provided with structure in which adult behaviour is incentivised. They're different things each of which are beneficial in different ways.
3% is not a rounding error. There are industries with smaller profit margins than that.
Romanians cannot just move to Germany, because they are not in Schengen zone. The other East European countries also couldn't, they had 7 years long limitation on movement (they could enter, but not work in the bordering countries). Nowadays, they can work there, but they still have no right to request social security or other social services.

You can not have both free social services and totally open borders without ruining your economy. Pick one or another.
I’m not so sure. With an ever closer relationship between global capital and governments, and advances in technology that could facilitate incredible levels of surveillance, any form of resistance against the status quo could be shut down far more effectively than it ever could have been in the past.
"You can put a touch of sugar in the dough, or you can put a touch of sugar in the sauce, but don't put it in both. Corollary: If you put pineapple or other sweet toppings on the pie, don't put any sugar in the sauce or dough."

As an Italian, I feel the urge to jump in here. Sugar in dough is used to kickoff/boost yeast levitation, while sugar in sauce is used to affect tomato acidity. In both cases, they are not intended to provide your pizza with a sweet taste. If for some reasons you like some sweet flavor on your pizza, you should at least take into account the fact that it comes as a byproduct of diverse chemical reactions that affect consistency and PH of your pizza in multiple/subtle ways.
it's absolutely possible to spend whole winter in a thin cotton shirt, but most of us prefer not to do.
How is this comparable when most of those aren’t open source
Trolling of crowdsourced data isn't unheard of.

...in that case it was specifically done in retaliation to Google trying to get free mental labour from ReCAPTCHA users in return for being able to post to 4chan. Quite a different situation.
Would you please stop using HN for religious and ideological battle? That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the left generally want less restrictions on immigration

Frankly though, many do to "import the proletarians" and use them as a permanent underclass to point at, and to further their political agenda. That's not necessarily "right" either.
We see lower birth rates when countries grow richer. People have a lot more kids when there's a high chance a lot of their kids won't live long enough to support their parents in old age. Also in richer countries people aren't relying on their kids to support them in old age as much as in poorer countries.
Unleashed OS – a fork of Illumos (itself a fork of OpenSolaris)
My biggest complaint with JIRA is it's absolutely woeful performance. 3+ seconds just to open a ticket is ridiculous!
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1) Frozen pizza is awful
2) To properly bake a pizza you need 350/400 C
3) Normal electrical ovens arrive to 220/240 C and the pizza becomes dry and crunchy
4) If you put a frozen pizza in a cold oven it will always be burnt because by the time the inside is cooked the outside has become overcooked and burnt
5) Please don’t make me cry writing pizza misadventures :’(
Elon may have did this the wrong way. He should have released the 2020 Roadster first, price it at a lux $500k, beat the snot out of every hypercar out there. Get the Semi out, make actual money, then lose money on every Model 3, but have a subscription service to have monthly income. Kind of how Amazon loses money on the thing people mostly use it for, selling physical stuff, but makes money everywhere else.
How do you handle release upgrades?
Back end-in-the-front end: a pattern for cleaner code
Hey, thanks for the awesome work! I always wanted something like "one drive on demand"[0] but for linux. Maybe in the future you could add an option to keep some files offline. By doing that, Linux would have a real alternative to one drive
[0]https://support.office.com/en-us/article/learn-about-onedriv...