skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems misguided to me.

For one, even if you take the 6tn total cost for these two wars you're talking about 330bn a year for 17 years. A staggering sum to be certain, but the USG's expenditures measure in the trillions annually.

For another, our immense military has almost certainly prevented regional conflicts (say Saudi Arabia vs Iran, China vs the rest of the South Pacific) and has allowed other nations to bring up their economies without having to worry about military spending (Japan, Germany).

The net positives from a more peaceful world are very hard to measure but a lot of it is having such a large dog in the fight.

More equality of armies means more regional conflicts.

Finally as a measure of GDP US military expenditures are still less than several countries.

You can point to our many follies because of course you can, that's simple and easy, and I'm not trying to defend them. But to say we've run amok would imply that they've done no good and I don't believe that to be the case.

Like it or not under US hegemony the world's been safer and more prosperous than its ever been and a tremendous number of people have been lifted out of poverty globally.

Is that all because of US hegemony? Maybe not but I'd be hard pressed to see a clear argument for why the world's defining super power would not have had some measurable role in the fulfillment of those measures.
Sports teams. A LOT of spending on sports teams, stadiums, etc...
> Keep in mind when you get legally married you are signing a legal contract that entitles that other person, in most states, to half of everything you earn during the marriage.

And keep in mind through the magic of commingling they will probably get half of whatever you had before the marriage too. Good luck keeping it's status as separate property.
Coasting in first is a rarity. Requires a really big downshift (with intense rev matching - older cars with less of a 1st synchro left will even require double clutching) or you to be in high rpms to start
Why is everything so expensive in America...
Agree, I have the same fear.

Google has done such a good job "lobbying" their "friends" in Washington, that the AGs from the more privacy-focused states (like Arizona) are probably our best hope for bringing this bad apple into line.

How Google engineers can think it's ethically acceptable to ship interfaces like this, I have no idea. Time to give them a legal liability reason to do the right thing as a stand-in.
I hypothesize that outlawing the automatic transmission would have an amazing effect on traffic. If everybody is driving a manual then there will be more foresight; and at the least you're probably reducing the driving pool by 10%
While I'm not suggesting it to anyone, your passport still work as long as you have no outstanding child support judgements.
You don't really need moment.js
The "deal breakers" checklist skirts the true issue.

I have been married longer than most HN members have been alive, which is no accident. So I'll temporarily be arrogant enough say my peace on the theory that someone might find it useful, and then duck and cover.

There really is only one thing that matters: You and your partner must share the same value system, or at least if not identical, then there must not be core values in conflict.

Why? If you agree on core values, then any disagreements (and there will be many) will be about implementation, not about the desired end state. Those are healthy discussions, even if stressful. It is possible to both be "on the same side of the problem" -- it is the two of you against the problem, and the disagreement is about how to get from point A to point B.

On the other hand, when a core value is in conflict, the only way one person can be happy is if the other person gives up a part of themselves. That is at the very least the seed of resentment, and can't help but be a wound that will not heal.

So.. Step 1: Clarify in your own mind your own values. Until you have done that, you have nothing to go on. Step 2: Get to know your potential partner well enough that you both understand each other's core values. Make sure they are compatible.

I wish I could say I did this, but in all honesty I had been married for 20 years before I understood it. I just happened to get lucky -- growing up under similar circumstances as my bride has given us common touchstones.
Well a large 1M Homo sapiens multiomics dataset with 100+ clinical variables would be great. :) ... the data gets more and more interesting the more variables you have, but generally all the government datasets reduce number of variables for privacy reasons. That’s why if perhaps there was a way to get access to the quantity of data on something like GEO or TCGA, but with full clinical, from healthcare providers, you might find some interesting things.

I would like to see more research as dashboards more than research as reports. The book “The Half-life of Facts” is relevant: many bio conclusions we’ve made in the past hundred years seems to later be contradicted or at least tweaked as new tech and data come out. NIH and others now have big pushes for personalized medicine, like NCIs Precision Medicine Initiative, because it’s pretty obvious that a great medicine or piece of advice for one person is useless or even harmful to another. The amount of health data we’ve collected in all of human history will be dwarfed by the amount of data we will collect in 2028. Instead of looking back on data and making static conclusions, what if we wrote the code that adjusts the conclusions as more and more data come in. So the research findings will be “updated” continuously, like modern software, as opposed to shipping once in the form of a paper.
A takedown of the Go2 error handling proposal [Golang handle/check]
It's obvious nonsense to anybody who's taken even a moment to understand what those numbers mean.

Here's a very, very simple chart that shows population with tertiary education [1]. The US is not significantly above other countries where education is paid for by the government.

What's more is that those numbers are very generous to the US because, as everybody knows, most private colleges in the US are shit. So called "non-selective schools" as well as the straight up for-profits and the religious schools will take anybody that applies and hand them a degree in 2-4 years.

Like much of the nonsense about free markets etc in this thread there's little understanding of actual facts. The American education situation exactly parallels healthcare: other OECD countries are able to provide better service for less cost by having the government direct the resources. But, yes, somehow we need to get the government out of education. That will surely fix everything.

(Though serious people know full well what will happen if the government stops funding higher education. Graduation rates will plummet and within a generation advanced education will abandon middle America. The rich, highly educated coasts will do just fine. The real question is, as always, whether the ideologues are committed enough to cut their children throats in the name of their god, the free market. Then again we already see rapidly decreasing graduation rates in America [2] and the increasing prevalence for worthless degrees from shitty schools so I guess we already know the answer that one.)

[1] https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decreasing_graduation_completi...
I tried to learn to drive stick on a Subaru WRX, I believe it was a 2002 or 2003 model year. It did not go well. Almost ended a friendship and I had leg cramps for days. Fortunately I managed to get the hang of it later on a more forgiving Mazda Protege.
Also FWIW here are the two easy study guides used for US Tech/General licensing that can be downloaded. You shouldn't have any difficulty getting 35/35 on each in ten minutes.

No Nonsense Technician Class Study Guide

https://www.kb6nu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-no-non...

No Nonsense General Class Study Guide

https://archive.org/details/NoNonsenseGeneralClassStudyGuide

NB Tech now has 15 revised questions in test pool so check.
>"Now that they've captured 50%+ of US ecommerce, they've also raised many prices, to the point where they're far from the cheapest price in many cases."

This has been my observation as well, at least for a basket of household sundries and office supplies I was previously sourcing from Amazon. They were often more than a few dollars cheaper at a local store. I realized I had fallen into the too complacent to price shop trap for a while. I agree with your other points and for me deliveries issue started to become a regular occurrence. I think the bloom is off the rose with Amazon.
I am not accepting the current state of affairs, I just don’t have a good solution to change it. Neither does the GP, nor anyone else here.
i believe that's the case with current batteries too. Car batteries, such as Tesla's, require both heating and cooling elements to keep them in an acceptable temperature range. Unsure what the exact temperature range is, but my guess is it's not too far off of those ranges.

Interesting fact: Tesla achieves their ludicrous mode (2.3 seconds 0-100kph) by pre-heating their batteries so that more power can be drawn. During my test drive, it took an estimated 40 minutes to heat the batteries to do this...
It's far too long to fit on a Scrabble board.
> The best you can do is increase the glide time between stops

Do you understand what causes traffic? That harder you brake, the bigger and longer the wave of people braking behind you will be. By braking less hard, you are causing less traffic.

And yes, 99% of people driving in traffic are idiots who don't know how to drive or they wouldn't be tailgating and slamming the brakes every 6 feet wasting thousands of hours of people's collective time by causing needlessly large waves of braking behind them due to the fact that those people are also following too close, amplifying the problem.

See http://trafficwaves.org/ for further reading
Same for southern Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico
Naively, wouldn't a blank check for a semester ecourage universities to raise prices even higher?
This probably needs a rename, "SQLite: View Ticket" is not a terribly descriptive title.

That said, it's a little surprising to see a bug of this type in SQLite which generally has such solid test coverage... Oh well, nothing is bug free after all.
This got me to dig into historical prices a little, and turns out I was even more wrong than that. Looks like car prices were pegged to inflation until about 1997, where they level off while overall CPI keeps growing:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCNS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SETA01?utm_source...

That said, loan terms are lengthening and subprime loans are a large and growing part of the market. That has to be buttressing prices. I really can't back this up, but my suspicion is that over the long term, available credit has helped discourage auto makers from simply making cheaper cars.

Today you can buy a cheap appliance computer for a price that would've been unimaginable in 1995. And you can buy a cheap appliance car... for about the same price as in 1995. Obviously the two markets don't work the same way, but there's still something odd about that.
Not to mention, these things are usually case sensitive. Sure, I can remember my childhood address, but how did I capitalize it? Did I abbreviate street? If I abbreviated street, did I add a period to make it "St." or "St"?

Fortunately, I don't notice too many services requiring security questions these days. Unfortunately, most of them are banks or other services that probably also have my SSN.
The idea is that you intentionally pad your type with fields that don't do anything other than provide a scratchpad for extra storage, much like over-allocating an array to avoid resizing on append. If the stored data is smaller, those go unused, so if you pick the wrong amount, the overhead is too great. But if you hit the sweet spot, it has very significant perf benefits, not only because it avoids hitting the allocator on copies, but also because of data locality.

BTW, why wouldn't a lambda with a single usize field be common? I thought Rust captures everything by borrow by default; if so, doesn't the implementation simply store a frame pointer inside the lambda, and use it to access the captured variables? It seems like an obvious optimization...
I have trouble understanding why people buckle to social pressure in this day and age. If you aren't Amish or JW risking your entire livelihood and social circle... is it really that hard to tell you're relatives you just aren't ready to be married?
> Still, the return varies wildly depending on the college one attends. One in four college grads earns no more than the average high-school graduate.

I found this shocking: 25% of _graduates_ are in a significantly worse financial position after college? They're not only getting zero monetary benefit for their degree, they've forgone 4 years of experience. And I'd bet that most of them are adding significant student debt on top of this.

I'd be curious how _that_ number compares internationally.
I'm not sure you understand persistent stop and go traffic -- shifting between neutral and first gets awfully tiring after 45+ minutes when you have to do it every day. Putting the car in neutral doesn't really solve that problem.

Adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go support is not really the same as cruise-control in free flowing traffic. I rarely use cruise-control in normal traffic, but the stop-and-go cruise control is a luxury I never realized I wanted until I had it.
Seemingly in response to their refusal.
If that servo fails to unlock, though, now you can't shift into certain gears. I thought that a centrifugal clutch disengage mechanism would solve this. Centrifugal clutches are already common in scooters - the clutch engages gradually as you rev above idle rpms. My theoretical feature is basically the opposite: a centrifuge that disengages at a given RPM. You _can_ shift into 1st at 100mph but your clutch will quickly disengage as your revs approach redline. You may burn out your clutch but those are cheaper to replace than engines.

Of course I have zero mechanical engineering background so who knows the feasibility of this approach.
I am reminded of https://xkcd.com/1181/.

What garbage string is there doesn't matter. Just as long as it is recognizably garbage and you know it.
I've never had a huge issue with driving in stop-go traffic with a manual.

It really depends on the type of car you're driving though, I guess. Driving a sports car with a grippy clutch is going to be painful. Driving a $750, 20 year old Mazda with a 2 L engine and a soft clutch isn't too bad at all, you just sort of ride the clutch (which I am aware isn't great for it).

I think that there is nothing that beats driving a stick shift in winding hills. Autos and paddle shifts just don't feel the same. There's just something about the mechanical action of shifting manually that I love.
I’m a committed manual driver, but I fully grant that dual-clutch transmissions and EV powertrains handily outclass manual transmissions from the perspective of effectiveness (although my casual understanding is that an electric motor without a gearbox is still going to be limited in its ability to provide torque at high rotor speeds). I would consider driving a car relying on either of those technologies, even though I favor the subjective experience of a manual transmission, but I still can’t imagine driving any vehicle with a torque converter or a CVT (CVTs sound great in theory, but as far as I know they’re still pretty limited in terms of torque tolerance). I’ve driven some nice autos and still find their response to torque demand from the pedal to be unacceptably slow, plus I find the way that throttle mapping works in manual transmission cars to be much more intuitively close to what I would expect from direct throttle control. Flooring it to induce a downshift feels like a crude distortion of the input space in a way that inhibits the development of an intuitive connection with the vehicle’s operation.

Anyway, if you’re a performance vehicle enthusiast on a budget, you’re going to have trouble finding a suitable car that isn’t equipped with a manual.
1: I've created a lot of experement functions that I hardly ever use and have ones that are no longer used so that would be expensive.

2. The last company I worked for isolated functions to vms on a customer level. That way, if someone hacked their way past the function container, they would then still have to hack their way past the VM container to access another customers data which is what you would have to do anyways on the public VM offering.
They call them devops these days.
It isn't possible to overstate the importance of developers to the health of Apple. There are so many reasons. Maybe the most significant: without love from the developer community, Apple can't hire and retain "A players"
Mux is hiring engineers to build cloud video APIs
Same here, which is why I cancelled my prime membership. You can get almost any book you want slightly cheaper on abebooks.com (also owned by amazon).
Farmer’s Lobbiest Sells Out Farmers
That's what you are supposed to do, isn't? I think most (all?) car clutches are dry, so that means that not going to neutral at a stop would eat your clutch in a few months.
Seems like a slightly more practical version of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414796
> Superiority

> It's not Eclipse.

Shots fired.
BI... is an interesting publication. With an interesting relationship to facts.
Add version 69 just wiped it all away. So much more bog down when working with multiple tabs open.
South Carolina had no private prisons.
That doesn't explain why it is banned in most countries around the world that didn't have Nixon nor blacks.
Very interesting. What tool/s do you use to gather this feedback and get the aggregated view across all clients? Do you weigh all clients the same?
If you are unemployed and have a good savings account, you can start trading the stock market. Not guaranteed money, but can definitely make more than most employees.
Well, unless you're looking to actually buy, who says it has to be in the right price range? ;-)
Intel pulling out is far from a canary in the coal mine. The rest of your post is fairly accurate though!

Background: Intel has serious production issues with their latest 10nm process, meaning their x86 chips and LTE modems for Apple are filling most of their capacity to manufacture chips on the existing 14nm process. I doubt Intel has LTE modem designs that work on older processes, and NB-IOT being unproven, low volume and needing low power chips means it could really use the best process available. Thus, with no slack capacity to build chips, why spend engineering time on something you can't build in quantity?

If 10nm were usable, Intel would likely have numerous side projects filling their older 14nm fabs. Sadly this won't be the case for Intel anytime soon.
Google Cloud's new AI chief is on a task force for AI military uses
I test drove a manual 2010 Impreza before I bought mine in automatic. The automatic has a 4EAT which sucks, but the clutch on the 5 speed would have sucked so bad in traffic.

As one of my friends with the same car said "it's a heavy clutch. It's not that bad to use if you are a tall guy, but if you are a short woman who weighs less than 120 pounds, you are going to have to stand on it or pull the steering wheel to use it"

He has the Saabaru, and his GF can't drive his car at all because of how heavy the clutch is.

Now that I only use my car for errands in the city I wish I had the manual, but I am so glad I didn't have it when I had a 1 hour commute each way in stop and go traffic.
Oh man the thought crossed my mind many times during the divorce process. Especially as a programmer who, at the time, had a boss who mostly had business in India and would have loved a programmer in Asia.

(Un)Fortunately I met a girl I plan to marry(haha yeah I don't learn) so I'm trying to stay legal and not forfeit my ability to freely return to the US.

If, for some reason, the second marriage goes south I'm not divorcing. I'm just leaving. I've already discussed it with my girlfriend and she gets it.
I've been married about 19 years, and I think I'm clear on what you're saying. But I haven't heard it put quite this way.

Can you cite some concrete examples of these values, and, perhaps, common ways that an otherwise seemingly compatible couple might not share them? Thanks.
I have an E350 and the transmission is very good. I do think you need to make the effort to learn how your transmission responds, no different to a manual really.

And for extra whizz while overtaking use the paddles to preempt the move by changing down a gear or two - exactly as I would in a manual.

I say this having owned numerous manual cars, including BMWs, gen 1 and gen 2 Minis and a ‘74 TR6.

Mind you it didn’t like driving over the Sierra Nevada last week. 9000 ft. saps a lot of power on a normally aspirated engine and it unbalanced the engine and transmission.

Edit: some words
You can get many of their sandwiches for $1 using the mobile checkout coupon, including the Fish Filet and Big Mac. I've been using it pretty regularly recently.
You can't sum the marginal rate to get the 'effective rate'.

The effective rate of income tax in the UK is closer 37%, not 60%, at an income of £121k.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Percentage_IT_and_NI_and_...
My EV has a manual transmission. 1 forward gear and reverse :)
It isn’t that manual is bad at stop and go traffic. It is that adaptive cruise control is really great at it, and adaptive cruise control is only available on automatics.
Are they actually unsafe now? Anyone see the blueprints of the prison? The topo shows it 10 feet higher than surrounding land. A prison is probably the safest place during a hurricane.

Assuming the inmates aren’t safe where they are is an especially big assumption that deserves debate. But the knee-jerk response is that they are all in severe danger based on no facts other than a hurricane might be heading in that direction. Risk assessment isn’t easily translated in puerile news articles designed to rile people up. If it weren’t for the fact the governor is Republican, and it wasn’t election season, this would be a non-story: nowhere in the story did it discuss the structure or placement of the prison, nor the risk assessment matrix used to determine safety.

Rikers Island wasn’t evacuated during Sandy and that wasn’t some controversy except for an article in Mother Jones while Republican governor Christie evacuated relevant New Jersey prisons. Was Cuomo held to account for failing to evacuate Rikers which was in the direct path of the storm — and an island at that? In the end, didn’t Rikers survive just fine? Perhaps the people in charge of these decisions might actually know what they are doing? With the exception of Ray Nagin and the one-step-from-a-nervous-breakdown Gov. Blanco, states typically do a pretty good job with these sorts of decisions; certainly a better job than the armchair experts and journalists that have limited experience in these sorts of challenges.

These debates are fine, but let’s not discount the motivations behind these sorts of stories.

And I also wonder what merits this story on Hacker News. It doesn’t follow the guidelines at all unless I missed some startup or tech or esoteric item of interest to our community.
> although my casual understanding is that an electric motor without a gearbox is still going to be limited in its ability to provide torque at high rotor speeds

BTW I find your entire comment pretty interesting.

So the current top speed on Tesla Models S3X is 155MPH. The Roadster 2 is expected to have a top speed of 250MPH.

Is the 155MPH an example of what you're referencing Re: high rotor speed? Thanks.