skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems the issue occurs at some range (10^0,39794 - ?]

10^0,43407 - Invalid Input
10^0,00001 - OK
10^0,50001 - Invalid Input
10^0,40001 - Invalid Input
10^0,30001 - OK
10^0,35001 - OK
10^0,39999 - Invalid Input
10^0,37501 - OK
10^0,38751 - OK
10^0,39375 - OK
10^0,39794 - OK
10^0,39795 - Invalid Input

But when I tried better approximations things got weird

10^0,397941 - Invalid Input
10^0,397940000001 - Invalid Input

Seems six or more decimal places result in Invalid Input

10^0,39375 - OK
10^0,393751 - Invalid Input
10^0,39376 - OK

Even well outside the range

10^0,123456 - Invalid Input
> There are always going to be limited quantity goods

Some limited quantity goods are unavoidable, yes. The quantity of land in the Bay area is limited.

But the quantity of housing in the Bay area does not have to be limited by the quantity of land. If it is, that's a choice people have made to impose scarcity. And decreasing relative wealth inequality won't fix that problem; you have to fix it by taking away people's power to impose scarcity to further their own ends at the expense of other people's.

> Harvard only produces a limited quantity of lawyers every year

Yes, which is another example of a choice to impose scarcity. See below.

> Harvard only produces a limited quantity of lawyers every year

But you don't need a Harvard education to become a lawyer. A Harvard educated lawyer might be better able to handle certain legal matters, but most people who need lawyers don't need that level of expertise.

In fact, most people these days who need legal documents prepared don't even need lawyers; the free market has created plenty of services that provide such products at a much lower cost. The only reason why many people still need lawyers is artificial scarcity: lawyers write most of our laws, and of course have written laws saying that you have to have a licensed lawyer to prepare various legal documents, even though the lawyer doesn't actually add any value to the process. You can't fix that problem by reducing relative wealth inequality. You have to fix it by taking away people's power to write laws to benefit themselves at the expense of other people.
My point is that upstream can't always be trusted. With snaps there's no one between you and a potentially bad actor.
My performance hierarchy from fastest to slowest goes in this line. Numbers are based on how much slower it is from the baseline of C / ASM.

C (static typed, static dispatch, manual memory, x1) -> C++ / Objective-C (static typed, dynamic dispatch, manual / refcount memory, x2) -> Java (static typed, dynamic dispatch, GC memory, x3) -> JavaScript (dynamic type, dynamic dispatch, GC memory, x7)

Java is a actually fairly fast for a language with GC. Far faster than equivalent javascript unless you do things like asm.js, which might as well be just a binary runtime.
Of course it was overreach and a tortured interpretation of the commerce clause to get there.

The "time of war" argument is completely bogus. The word "war" doesn't appear anywhere in the decision itself nor are its consequences limited to wartime in any way. The law in question was a 1938 law that was trying to increase government management of agriculture economic activity. While progressive are happy to use any crisis that comes along to further this sort of overreach into economic activity, including war, one could equally say that the courts decision was probably at least as influenced by the fact that Roosevelt had appointed 8 of the Justices that heard the case and the court was ideologically aligned with him... since the 1938 law was part of his disastrous economic program (http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-D...), it's little wonder they sided with the government.
> I'm curious how some unions devolve into this sort of behavior.

Distrust—usually well earned—of management is the main way. The incidental items that are mocked are not the issue, the issue is that without an inflexible blanket rule, management will bend any other rule to use people in nominally different job duties to replace union labor.

Also, sometimes, the rules are negotiated in part by unions other than those doing the work, to prevent their covered staff from being compelled to do other kinds of work (and selected against for inability to do so: if lifting heavy items is part of the job duties of, say, someone in a clerical union, then inability to do that well can be used as a hiring, promotional, or termination consideration for such an employee.)

Even in places (as sometimes happens) where orgabized labor and management have good day-to-day relations, there usually is a feeling—with good historical reasons behind it—that the foundation of that good relationship is a “good fences make good neighbors” style solid set of baseline rules around which, where it is important (and the little stuff that is fun to mock isn't that) negotiated exceptions can be made.
Learn Keras by Example
Here you go:
https://browser.yandex.com/
You can barely pay what it takes to just exist on a minimum wage full time job these days. I wouldn't expect tuition to ever drop to the point where people can get through college on summer jobs or part time work without a serious shift in the labor market.
Maybe. Maybe they've got a good paying job fairly quickly out of school and thus have great cashflow but not much in savings built up yet, like I did.
So the smart ones have to suffer for the students that dont want to learn; so lets just force them to not use tools to learn more efficiently. Hammer the nail that sticks out. We shall all be equally ignorant. Viva el socialismo!
I think people forget how entrenched and relatively good the existing package delivery services are. USPS has a key to my apartment building, so they can just show up and drop off packages hassle-free. UPS does not have that key, but they successfully break in every day and leave packages for my building with no problems. (Spent some time not working and they didn't even ring my buzzer in an attempt to get in, the packages were just magically in the common area. No doubt the driver knows the friendly neighbor that is happy to let him in and do his thing, and knows that the three buildings owned by my landlord have the same key/super, so can do 3 buildings worth of deliveries with one buzzer press.)

Meanwhile, the upstarts just don't do this. Whoever Amazon contracts out to (is it still LaserShip?) just doesn't care about attempting to break into my building. They show up at 9pm and ring the buzzer, then leave if I don't go downstairs and open the door quickly enough. They are getting better, though, as I've seen some random LaserShip packages laying around in the common area. But I still think "shipped via USPS, this will arrive" and "shipped by LaserShip, better go pick it up at B&H and cancel the Amazon order".

But anyway, expecting random Walmart employees to have the skills necessary to circumvent pesky locks is kind of unreasonable. When you do it every day for years you probably develop a process that works for each building you deliver to... but when it's a one-off thing for an extra $3... the customer probably isn't going to get their package. The customer that doesn't get their package is probably going to order from Amazon. Sorry, Walmart...
That's like comparing your salary to my net worth, and trying to glean some meaning from that. All this says is that on Canada's salary, they could surpass Apple's net worth in under a year.
Swift, Kotlin, Rust, Objective-C, C++ and Java have huge communities and code behind them too :)
Did you mean Stuart Sierra? :-)
> Wealth isn't choices, it's the accumulation of value.

The value of anything is the choices it enables you to make. Don't be misled by the dictionary definition.
1. Choose what sort of Raspberry Pi you want. Choose carefully because even if this doesn’t matter, you think it matters.

2. Buy that thing and wait for it to be delivered

3. Decide what Linux distributation you want. Choose carefully because even if this doesn’t matter, you think it matters.

4. Download the Linux distribution. Make sure that you don’t accidentally download one for the wrong architecture...

5. Somehow work out what to do with a .iso

6. Start installing Linux distribution (may need to set up network)

7. Decide on programming language. Choose carefully because even if this doesn’t matter, you think it matters.

8. Decide what you want to do

9. Part of what you want to do is hard/not supported/you don’t know the “right way”. Figure out how to get round this (if possible)

10. ???

11. Congratulations. You have now started.
Weird. Many (most?) of the commenters in this thread have accounts created in 2017-2018:

AnIdiotOnTheNet, binomialxenon, Boulth, crtasm, Iolaum, jillesvangurp, kyrofa, logix, maccio92, maxyme, newnewpdro, octosphere, pleasecalllater, sincerely, sitzkrieg, shrimp_emoji, taway234252, xmmrm
This comment threw me off for a bit. I was reading a math article before running into this page and kept on thinking what this ^ equation meant :-/
Ask HN: How to deal with a blackmailer who wants Bitcoin?
I just got an email from somebody who has a password I used to use a long time ago. Not sure how he got it. He threatens to release bad information about me. I am inclined to ignore it but now I am wondering: He wants to have a payment in Bitcoin. Is there a way to trace that address to someone or somehow else go after that person?
https://reza.codes is mine
Then that is a project that should not use Agile in my opinion.
Wait, what? It works fine for me. https://imgur.com/a/LvZtIOd
Someone in the comment thread suggested that perhaps the decimal point is ignored altogether, and some inputs get rejected as being too large.

If that is true, then 0.00001 is being tread the same as 1, but 12345 and 0.12345 are both considered being "too large".

FWIW, I can't reproduce the bug with my current Windows build (1703 / 15063.296).
Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea
One thing that the standup helped me was getting blocked by a senior developer.He would never answer my questions normally. But once we started with scrum and daily standups, there was that I am blocked because of something that can be answered by another developer within 15 minutes. Standups make a team working.
Pls can you help me to get start
At this point, I think you should be rooting for the 'year of the android desktop' more than the 'year of the linux desktop' if you want low cost OSes.
Hi - thanks for responding!

I'd point out that if you look at issue 5439 the team itself was originally unaware of the high number of edge case states of the merge request and closed the issue prematurely. Having many code paths is a code smell so I'd suggest simplifying your UX and edge cases here.

Since you own the merge request flow, I would suggest looking at the page and all it's edge cases and seeing where you can simplify for the user. There is a dizzying large amount of info and CTAs presented to the user; it's pure information overload. Don't just measure yourself by how many features you ship but rather on how you communicate those features to your users. Simplicity is a powerful feature in itself.

Looking forward to batch comments.

The disapprove merge request is a feature available in Phabricator and other competitors so I would look to see how they've implemented it.
And yet, story points are used to estimate how much work a team can get done in a sprint, which is a time measurement... and they are used to track velocity, which is used by management to figure out when a project might be completed (also a measurement of time).

"Oh, story points are just about the complexity"
Oh really? Why does complexity matter, if not to function as an indicator of how long something might take to finish?

Anyone who is telling you that story points aren't directly related to time estimation is either confused, or lying.
So's renting. I took an FHA loan and paid it down to the "cancel my PMI" level as quickly as possible, and I'm fairly sure it was the right decision in my case.
What's the Best App for Making Memes?
Are they hardware limited? It seems like the limiting factor is the convnet rather than the hardware...do they think it would be more safe with less latency?
> It's pervasive in government/bigco's because they had to deal with decades of every imaginable stuff happening.

This is important: big orgs—government and private—not only have more chance of having an incident (because they deal with more events because of their scale), they are often bigger litigation targets when an event occurs, because they are giant bags of money.
What is your full version number? If you open the command prompt it should say something like Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.???]. You could also run 'ver'.
Amazon.com: This is my family tree Shirt – Great gift for your family
Dollar stores are frequently warned against on /r/Frugal

For a lot of food and kitchen consumables like aluminum foil or trash bags, they're a horrible deal. Things that aren't consumable such as utensils are extremely low quality and can even get rusty.

That all said, they're the BEST place to go for party favors. Gift bags and cards are $3-10 at Walmart. You won't find a bag with a Disney character on it, but the kids don't even notice or care.
I like this also:

https://i.redd.it/domryaykbdn01.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/86eef7/san_f...
Yea and dont forget that 'limited liability' is illegitimate, hence equity can go below zero in case of lawsuits. This will eventually be recognized, then watch the stampede out of equity markets.
Home mortgages are usually nonrecourse loans. You can just walk away.
Ya standards might be higher. Doesn't mean they're being followed though. I've worked in an industry that's fairly dependent on development. New constructions are built as quickly and cheaply as possible. The developments we do jobs for aren't cheap but the quality of the construction is extremely poor.

Years ago I worked as a landscaper. One of the sites we worked on was a 2 year old townhouse complex at the center of the complex was a 100 year old heritage building the developers weren't allowed to remove. It was beautiful, solidly built and will likely be standing for another 100 years. The townhouses though, there were several units having balconies, railings or even parts of their roofs replaced only two years after being built. They looked run down, parts of the foundation were already cracking, parts of walls were already beginning to rot. Gates and fences were broken. And this was in a fairly nice neighbourhood.

I've also talked with construction workers who worked on the False Creek development they built in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics. There's only one building's worth of insulation in the entire development. When one building was nearly finished they brought the inspectors in, got their approval, then moved the insulation from the one building to the next one in time for the inspection.

I've probably rambled enough though...I could keep going on i've got lots first hand experience at just how bad modern construction is.
I avoided mentioning the Flynn effect because it tends to attract naysayers (see below, with some embarrassingly poorly structured studies pulled straight from google).

The argument against the downfall of society stands pretty well on it's own without it though, mostly because there's no evidence the tests are getting easier (regardless of recent score changes a 1600 is still a 1600) and even less evidence the test takes are becoming less accomplished.
Just ignore it. He probably got them from a dump and is spamming everyone.
It is illegal in a lot of countries if I'm reading this page correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safe...
Ignore - it is most likely just a scam.
I would have called it Clacket. Cool project nonetheless.
Q. Why is it so hard to swat a housefly? A. It sees you coming in slow motion
Apple makes history by becoming first U.S. company to reach $1 trillion value
Actually I'm far more suspicious of the opposite. Sure it can happen that there is dispassionate lawmaking that benefits most people and harms almost no one. But I'll continue to argue that this is only due to many prior frothing arguments, which distill out the crap, and leave only the salient arguments, and the skilled arguers.

Watch a debate in the British Parliament and then watch a U.S. Senate hearing. It's difficult to take the U.S. Senate or House seriously because there is so little frothing. It's docile, servile, and subservient, and their master is the dollar.

In self-rule, ultimately the buck stops with the citizens. Not only voters, but all of the citizens. The state of affairs is due to the combined effect of action and inaction. The blame ultimately rests with them, same as the buck rests with the shareholders of a company.
For what it's worth, they address this (superficially) in their FAQ:

> Are rainworks bad for the environment?

> Heavens no! Once dry, rainworks are completely non-toxic, environmentally safe, and biodegradable. The solvent in Invisible Spray means you should not pour it down the drain, but when used as instructed, its solvent evaporates and does not enter the water system.
If you're going to add something, add something better than the old Calc, unless you really need some feature that only exists on that Calc. I use their PowerCalc Powertoy for Windows XP. [1] There's also SpeedCrunch which in some ways is probably better (minus the plotting) but personally I'm used to PowerCalc.

[1] https://imgur.com/gi0jmdI
million and billion? As in, ~1,000x the retail price on the secondary market?
I wonder if Whole Foods, Wegmans or Trader Joe's would be more successful at an experiment like this. I can't imagine anybody working at a Walmart store trusting their employer with schemes like this.

P.S. Their new website homepage doesn't show any prices. It feels kind of dishonest.
I wonder when these companies and employees will realize they are tax donkeys for welfare extortionists. Seattle is great. 13% raise. At least I can retire... have fun being poor in SV and “living the dream.” It’s a house of cards.
If I have a merge request where I am added as an approver and that code is merged in, then I don't want it to show up on my todos. A merge request has a specified amount of approvals required and when that threshold is hit and the code is merged, there is no work to be done. It is no longer a todo but a done. Unfortunately todos doesn't work this way and become useless for senior members who get listed as approvals for many merge requests.

In terms of combining them with notifications, I agree. I just need a web place to see all the "pending" action items I need to work on. A web notification feature should be the place to see all the pending notifications left for me (similar to how it would work on email except you can't expire emails).
> Why can’t the fed keep interest rates low for the next, say, 15 years?

Because inflation, the same reason the Fed has started raising rates and signalled that more raises are likely. (Of course, that could change of inflation crashed or the other side of the Fed mandate created pressure by unemployment spiking, but those each present issues, too.)
Why would they want to attract? The article summarises it well: ignores local workforce, requires resources, can relocate quickly - it doesn't sound useful for the towns.
I'm pretty sure at least a couple of those were intentional.
This is kind of a strange comment. I don't think a lot of HN folks have worked in last mile logistics, but $2/package is average to above average. Amazon typically pays around $1.50 for Prime packages and I would say it isn't just the upper middle class that is buying from Amazon at this point. If people don't pay for shipping, there will be a human cost. If people are willing to pay for some aspect of value-add (actually coming to your door, caring about retry attempts, caring about lost packages, caring about how well the people involved are treated) this would change fast. Anyone who tries to go slower than peak speed or do it ethically gets crushed by someone doing it faster or in a shadier way, because people refuse to pay for shipping.
My school had a very simple method in dealing with this. The phone got confiscated until the end of the semester. That was also in the late 90s. It was effective.
Things Gateway from Mozilla lets you control your home over the web
I'm skeptical, too. On their site [1] they claim it's "Eco-Friendly & Biodegradable" and that "Once a rainwork is dry, it is non-toxic to the environment!" A different page [2] says: "The spray is a solvent-based formula. Because of the solvent, it is not safe to drink the liquid or inhale the vapor. ... Once the Invisible Spray is sprayed on the ground, the solvent evaporates, leaving only the biodegradable water-repelling ingredients locked to the surface, making it superhydrophobic, creating the rainwork!"

Not a chemist, but I don't think fluoropolymers are generally biodegradable. In fact, isn't non-biodegradability (and non-bioavailability) part of the point?

[1] https://rain.works/invisiblespray/

[2] https://rain.works/product/invisiblespray/
I know this is an extreme comparison, but Walmart reminds me a lot of Blockbuster. I remember Blockbuster thought it would be fine because of physical stores all over the place. They thought they had a plan to leverage that, but they never could. Turns out no one cared about the physical stores.
Part of the joy of Racket is that you can mix and match :-)

In some cases, it allows people who like some of the Clojure syntax to still write you libraries. In other cases it allows you to move a prototype from normal Racket to Typed Racket in a piecemeal way.

In general I like the purity of scheme as well, but sometimes that little bit of syntactic sugar goes a long way. Non-Racket Schemers use macros too, and Racket’s are second to none. Use what you want and avoid the rest!
That's such a good idea that Whole Foods is already doing it. You might know it as Amazon Fresh.
Sometimes the goal is to slow down work. For example, if your budget is for a year but the project only takes 6 months, sometimes people add extra hurdles that look good to outsiders but slow down work enough so they get paid for the full time.

If a project ends 6 months early it's entirely possible to not get paid as much.
661Tbps through a single optical fiber
Yes! This is right on the money. So many people forget that "being Agile" is an active undertaking, something that takes reflection and iterative improvement of not just the things you're building, but also the process you're using (in search of a way that works specifically for you and your team). One easy step is rethinking the classic standup questions, in a way to address the overall question "what do you need?".
Does this run on Linux now? Honest question.

I remember some years back toying around with C# on Linux using Mono. The language is nice, but the .net stuff quickly became limiting.
One previous employer, an analytics company, had their website's title set to "<Company Name> Analytics". It just so happened that at my browser's default tab width, this title showed up as "<Company Name> Anal..."
Because the fed isnt in control. They just made enough people feel like they were, whih creates a feedback loop. Just look at how the BOJ lost control of their rate curve, and now trillions of long bonds with a zero yield (only potential financial loss) are held by all their major banks... Its an avalanche in the waiting. Can you borrow for 0%?? So the fed doesnt control credit that much after all.
Awesome! Good idea, great execution!

I am also a brazilian (you too, right?) solo founder (https://www.oneonemeeting.com/, for one-on-one meetings); although I am keeping my day job.

We are forming a group of indie hackers around here in São Paulo to keep in touch. It seems you are in Germany now, but if you are interested, let me know! Email in the profile!

Good luck!