skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two are not equivalent. A patent application is something a patent attorney will make hundreds of in a career. A bridge that can survive the big one is something a team of engineers would do a few times in their career (treating it as a unit). There are multiple orders of magnitude in difference between the two.

I can tell you from witnessed experience that a "car engineer" can custom design a house, do most of the code-related work himself, and pass all relevant inspections on the first try (with flying colors and compliments from the inspector), which seems much closer in scope.
Anecdata. There were undoubtedly many other engineers working just as hard as Musk at other startups that never turned into Paypal.

You can credit him and his cohorts for having the foresight to work on products/services that turned out to be winners, especially given that he's followed that success with other potentially successful ventures. But I don't buy that work alone got Musk where he is.
I love how cynical this comment is. You're absolutely right though, every language solves a specific problem, so it's kind of arbitrary what language does something in the shortest amount of letters.
Richard Hamming had a pithy line about this (I believe this is the origin of the phrase "In computer science, we stand on each others feet"):

Indeed, one of my major complaints about the computer field is that whereas Newton could say, "If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants," I am forced to say, "Today we stand on each other's feet." Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way. Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things.
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USPTO processed >600K patent applications in 2015 [1]. I assume more recent years are similar. Looking over their fee schedule they probably bring in around ~$1-2K per patent application. I'll be generous at $2K.

So they have ~3.5B + 1.2B in revenue. This allocates on avg <$8K to evaluate a patent. Patent examiners likely cost ~150K/yr to employ (wages, benefits, overhead). This is $300/hr.

So an examiner has on avg ~25 hours to evaluate a possibly lengthy, complex, specialized document that often took a team many months to prepare.

That's not very much time to do the job people want them to do. The limiting factor is money.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h_counts.h...
Dang, this guy would understand my argument for what IS tested in science versus what people WANT to test with science. There is a huge gap especially in medical PRACTICE and drug DEVELOPMENT. I.e. What IS practiced versus what could be practiced if we (the participants) were safe and capable of developing. I.e. Often we try to prove something is correct and overlook proving something is incorrect.
My selection of ISPs is local, but so is my selection of power companies, housing, heck, even grocery stores. I choose my ISP on primarily non-local considerations, so I don't think it's quite as cut and dry as you state. (i.e. I choose my ISP because of it's connections to other states and countries, not because of my connection to it.)
> if we all had similar potential, then we would all have the same shot at being top physicists

Even if we all did "have the same shot at being top physicists", some people may prefer to be something else.
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Right, but IRL blackjack the human is the pokemon, vulerable to various type of human tells etc to what is otherwise grindable.

As far as the various pokemon vs another vs the simplicity of jkqa it seems to me something like a weighted adjacency matrix could handle the increased complexity even in a relatively simple ai (imagine two pokemon doing a graph traversal to opposite ends of a node graph, whichever gets there first wins).
I would be more concerned about fellow humans not having a living wage instead of "unprofessionalism"...
What experience do you have? Because this seems opposite my expectations; I doubt standard techniques will do all that well. The only thing harder about chess seems to be that people take it more seriously, so the average skill of the playerbase is higher.
Not only that, we have the Java and .NET runtimes, both of which can be used from many languages. I'd say, along with C, that makes three widely adopted approaches to sharing libraries between languages.

Furthermore, C libraries don't even have to be written in C. It's far from unheard-of to use a more powerful language like a lisp or Ocaml to write a C library.
After the recent Chrome debacles, I removed it from my systems (not that I was using it much before). On iOS, my go to browser is Firefox Focus, a single tab browser that you treat as a private tab and erase quickly when you're done. It comes with a built in ad blocker too. Next in line for my use are Brave and Firefox. They're different, have good interfaces, and support multiple tabs. Last on my list is Safari.

The only thing that sucks about browsers on iOS is that extensions are not supported by the platform. I'd love to have Firefox extensions work on it, but that seems as unlikely as having another browser/JS engine on the platform.
Have there been any studies around the length of time increasing wages is actually beneficial for? I assume we’ve been here before and companies eventually increase prices or inflation kicks?
Honest question, do those raises amount to anything? Or is it akin to the $0.25/hr that many retail employees see that doesn't even provide them with the equivalent of an additional paycheck over the course of a year?
Doesn’t amazon operate as a middle man for a lot of independent service workers, like Uber does for drivers? How does the $15 apply to them?
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Most objects in space have some amount of spin to them. That is particles throughout a body, each with a velocity that may be changing, but the change in velocity with position is smooth, or the object would be ripping itself apart. This means the object has flow. A noticeably misshapen object will not have relatively constant speed and angular direction as a function of latitude and radius. However, objects that gravity rounds out do have this feature (to within an approximation, there is still weather). Thus the term hydrostatic equilibrium. The reason we don't just say "circular" is that this does not include oblate objects, which result from higher spin.
Scare quotes are rarely a good look.
Notice what Osama did not do: put his hands up and shout "I surrender". Osama is a bad case because of LOAC. Most criminals are not engaged in acts of war.
I was a customer of Hetzner for years but my experience was way worse than others unfortunately.

I have lost my data twice on different hardware. The first one was totally Hetzner's fault since they have failed to identify the faulty disks when they check the disks for it. They were like `oops, sorry, it seems second disk was faulty too` AFTER I tried to re-build the RAID array on a recovery attempt. And the second one was being a bit unlucky, the RAID card didn't detect the faulty disk and tried to sync the broken disk with the healthy ones. So I lost data on a RAID-10 array, twice.

I asked them to do tests on the faulty hardware to identify the problem, to confirm my suspicion, so I could go back to my clients with a proper explanation and things got interested at this point;

While I was talking to the technical people at Hetzner and trying to explain why I think the RAID controller is the problem and how the RAID logs are confirming that, a guy called Arno, Head of Product Advice and Sales took my ticket over. He said;

```
First of all we want to apologize for what happened. Why it happened is hard to say. As you wrote at least one disk was so faulty that your data was corrupt.

Those things can happen and from our point of view no one can prevent from happening again. The only things that help are good backups and a good recovery strategy, which I think you have both.

Of course extra efford on your end occurs for recovery and since it happend the 2nd time, we want to compensate you for that.

What compensation would you expect from us?
```

which was kind of ridiculous because I didn't ask for a compensation, I didn't even imply that I want a compensation for what happened. I was simply requesting a solid explanation and/or confirmation and this guy was saying that I lost my data on a RAID-10 array because 1 (ONE) of the disks were faulty.

I asked him to handover the tickets to the technical people since he's from sales and what he says doesn't make sense. Also provided him some numbers about how much money the sites were making on that lost server, just to prove how wrong he is to approach to the matter from that perspective and guess that was the bit what triggered him.

He fought so hard to not handover the ticket back to the technical people, explained how much he knows about RAID-10, how loosing the server is our fault while making so much money the sites because the server was cheap (WTF?), they won't do the testing because they host many more servers with the same hardware and they are just working fine etc.

After using Hetzner for 7 years, I cancelled the service I take from them, along with other 11 company accounts and tens of dedicated servers and never looked back.

Hetzner is a company that ask you to move from their network to some other provider when you ask what happens if you get DDOSed (this happened before they introduced the DDOS protection).

So never again...
For those unfamiliar with the terminology, "steelmanning" is a play on the term "strawman." But instead of making an opponent's argument that's easy to push over, you try to make a very strong version of your opponent's argument.
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He deserves credit for choosing his staff well, I totally give him that.
Its a modern version of trial by combat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat). As always ,those who can buy a better combatant - win.
I think the richest man in the world can handle it.
He ignores that Manhattan housing growth is also terrible. He also ignores that a lot of Manhattan workers live in other burroughs, cities, and even states.
Is the .Net environment in SQL Server since version 2005 considered a different runtime?
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The key thing missing from this submission is: What is the intended use?

The only concrete usage example is on the deepmac.org home page where it says: For example, a CISCO device with a MAC prefix assigned in the 1990’s is more than likely an elderly model. OK, if I'm connecting to an ancient CISCO device, I suppose it might be handy to know that it might not support the latest protocols or might need updating.

But I think tracking people and network surveillance are the more likely uses. You connected with MAC address 3c:45:a3:6a:0d:76 at the coffee shop? That tells us that you were using an HP laptop manufactured in the October to November 2014 timeframe.

This database will be especially nice for finding people who spoofed their MAC address, and therefore deserve extra scrutiny. You used an impossible (never issued) MAC of ef:22:7b:09:09:ba to connect to the Internet. Or the MAC was issued in 1999 and it's unlikely that you're still using such an old laptop. Why are you changing your MAC address? We need to investigate you.

Maybe we can use this database "in reverse" to make sure all spoofed MAC addresses look real.
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> they're pricing is near unbeatable.

If you really want to penny-pinch unbundled solutions that charge you separately for compute, storage and ip addresses might be even cheaper, e.g. on scaleway you could get way with 1€/month if you go ipv6-only on their smallest instance type with a minimal amount of storage. Plus you get unlimited traffic with them.
That's not an argument. You should look at the example in the wikipedia article I posted.

The poster formed an opinion based on observations and gave his reasons for doing so. If you disagree with his observations, the best way to do so is to provide your reasons for disagreeing with his analysis.
Not a fan of satire and parody then?
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I don't see your point here. The US funded Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan war? What's that have to do with the US's decision to kill the world's most wanted terrorist in a country giving him safety?
>Sorry for having to say this, but YIMBYism is one of the most tribal, most emotional, most closed-minded movements I have ever seen this side of a college campus.

Why do supposed “rationalists” insist on trying to advocate everything through dispassionate, logical discourse? Do they really not realize how ineffective that is in the competition of ideas for human mindshare? Do they have zero understanding of human psychology and sociological group dynamics?
Chicken and egg. If you built the infrastructure beforehand, land prices would skyrocket because of increased amenity and then you'd have both excessive costs building in more density along with many people who paid top dollar for a "nice" suburb now losing out badly from planning decisions.

Long term planning that is set in stone would solve this problem, but doubt it's politically feasible in many places.
It seems fair to compare an automaker to another automaker. Declining sales among your competitors is a strong indicator of a difficult environment to sell into.

Unless you're saying the cited sales are sedans only, in which case I get your point.
Picking Microsoft and Cisco’s stock price during the dotcom bubble to use as valuation benchmarks seems disingenuous.

Picking anywhere outside the bubble makes the original point of rise of corporations clear.
it makes sense, because unionisation will decrease the company's competitiveness, leading to their clients shifting to another (non-unionised) call centre and everyone getting fired. Thus companies in sectors like this end up trying to squeeze every drop out of their employees before they quit, because they are expendable.
We don't want to offend one of handful of people that control the vast majority of wealth in the US. That would be so counter to a democracy?
The reason that, back in the progressive era, all the eugenicists were on board with the idea of the minimum wage was that they thought that at a high enough wage "undesirables" wouldn't be able to a job and so couldn't compete away jobs from "desirable" workers. Thankfully these days we have a social safety net that generally prevents people from starving whether they could get a job or not but making people starve was part of the reason for the original support for minimum wage laws back at the turn of the last century.
"Plato o plomo" actually, silver or lead :)

EDIT should be "plata"
Hello Mike! Can you please reference the Sourcegraph example in the issue? Maybe this will initiate further discussion and convince someone to reconsider your proposal. Thank you!
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The "higher" the language and more declarative. "Higher" because all the lower level work of data structures/etc are taken care of or even embedded into the language itself. "Declarative" because in declarative languages you just express what you want, not how to get it ( which imperative languages have to do ).

Compare "SELECT * FROM TBL1" with what you would need to do in an imperative language.

You would have to open data connection, set up data structures and have to specify step by step what you want. Even if you had libraries doing most of the work, you would still need to specify step by step what you want to be done. Whereas with SQL, you specify what you want and let the language/interpreter/optimizer/engine figure out the rest.

That's only considering "number of characters". Now if you measured "executable size" or memory size or any other impact, it might be different.
That makes a lot of sense - there aren't that many companies that "even register in comparison to Amazon". On top of that, most of the other world's-largest companies to compare against aren't as labor-dependent.

(Meijer is a regional chain. Sears is nearly out-of-business. Using them as examples would fall flat.)
>"For example if I wanted to conclude that a solenoid worked I could correlate piston position with applied voltage"

No one would do this, its once again a "rudimentary science" behavior. People have figured out what we need to know to get the exact relationship between voltage and position.
The point is that calling them "underlings" has a clearly negative connotation, and one would hope that instead of just name-calling you'd give arguments of substance against someone.

If I referred to HRC's staff as "underlings" no one would question I was anti-HRC.
The 13 weeks by 5,000 per week making 65,000 still seemingly stand:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095198
GM's Bolt EV will nip away at Tesla's bottom end. It has really good range, in a shape (hatchback) that Tesla has no intention of offering.
You are correct, Kubernetes does operate at a higher level of abstraction. By the time you're deploying to Kubernetes, you'll already have images that can be used to run your applications.

However, those images typically will be unconfigured aside from sane defaults. The final configuration (connecting an application to a database, etc) is indeed handled through Kubernetes.
Maybe the GraalVM is what you're looking for? https://www.graalvm.org/
> what we have in China is much worse than japan since artificial intervention is much deeper and prolonged

I think it's the question of whether or not it's going to pop.

If the housing bubble did popped, then we are screwed a big time, worse than what Japanese once had. But if it didn't, then the leverage is still there and economy maybe low at worse, but stable.

I don't think everything is concluded at this point, because SSE 000001[0] is showing sign of very slow recover. And the censorship on economic news in my opinion is rather one effort to preventing domino effect.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?ei=P3KzW_6LF4fUwQKM77uYAg&btnG...
Entirely agreed that precedent accords Customs their present powers.

From the case's dissent: "If the Government is allowed to exercise he power it claims, the door will be open to the wholesale, secret examination of all incoming international letter mail. No notice would be necessary either before or after the search."

Viewed from a post-Snowden perspective, it sounds predictive.

Segregation, too, was once considered well-settled. That didn't make it right nor consistent with the Constitution, which has not changed its language on the subject since 1868.
The evidence that IQ is strongly (though not close to "fully") heritable does not imply that IQ is "fully genetic". Genetic determinism and heritability are different concepts.
because employees have inherently more power then workers in suchs an example. Workers need wages and money to survive in the economy, and usually have little negotiation power compared to (massive) companies.

You could argue we could go back to the 1800's in terms of labour standards, but don't be suprised when workers simply decide to kill their bosses and companies retaliating[1].

Diminishing labour rights is just asking for another violent class struggle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars
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> If you're following video games, Pokémon isn't really anything special. It's an RPG.

Pokemon Red, Green, and Blue are the number two Game Boy video games of all time. Behind Tetris of all games. This is a pretty extreme reductive statement, akin to calling Super Mario 64 "just a 3D platformer."
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Sure it benefits Tesla to produce more cars to compete with the big auto companies. But I do not believe that suddenly any of them will be able crank out a cost competitive electric car with the same range in any large quantity.

Sure your existing car companies are better right now at physically building the conventional parts of a car, but the most expensive part of an electric car is the batteries. Tesla's partnership with Panasonic (Gigafactory) is their true advantage over all the other manufacturers, since they have a reliable source for large quantities of batteries. The rest of car companies are fighting for supply from LG Chem.
Isn't "in line with our guidance" the key phrase here? How often does Tesla get to say that?
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You have to imagine that the quality of service people are providing isn't that high either if they're miserable. I think about peoples' quality of life in a call center whenever I'm stuck on hold with Verizon or some other faceless corporation.
If they did something else, they might be more persuasive, but would they still be rationalists?
Because we like to establish whether the ideas are good before trying to push them into the 'competition in the human mindshare'.
The poster claims two things:

1. It was "poorly drafted legislation"

2. The authors had "no idea what they were doing"

Whether it was poorly drafted legislation remains to be seen. The "unintended consequences" people are talking about here are minor, what matters are the intended consequences such as the augmented rights europeans have over their data, their privacy, etc. I personally don't give a shit about the annoying cookie popups, I'm just glad I can finally delete my account and email address from various websites when I want them gone.

GDPR has given me a ton of rights over my data that I should have, and everybody should have. It has given me access to my own data. It has given me the power to delete it. This shit is important, and now it's law. That there's cookie popups because the companies in question suck? I don't care. If it makes you close the page, that's a positive side effect IMO. This shit must be bad for conversion in order for businesses to start getting a clue. It's a version of the "tax on privacy" that a lot of people on HN like talking about.

Regarding #2, I dispute that for the same reasons. GDPR is achieving its goals of securing user data in europe. Companies are scared straight into following it so far.

There are issues with it (especially a lack of compliance material). None of them point to "the authors had no idea what they were doing".

In other words, no, GP isn't "right" just because you have to click off some annoying popups. That's not the only thing GDPR does.

Edit: Lacking replies, I'm going to assume those downvoting this comment are the usual no-privacy-apologists who are annoyed they now have to put legalese in front of users and don't ask themselves why they have to.
If you're going to bite the bullet and pay your employees more, you mind as well hope that everyone else does as well, so they can afford to buy more from you retail.
Also, repitition of movement is killing your body aswell.
Doing the exact same movement all day will eventually just wreck you.
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So tired of building these myself, thank you for this. :)