skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See [1], section "Number of competitors", page 12. This isn't a policy document, but an EU study. An interesting result in that paper is that low interest rates make tacit collusion more profitable. We've been in a period of very low interest rates for some time now, which increases the number of competitors for whom tacit collusion pays.

As before, collusion is sustainable if and only if firms put a sufficient weight on future profits. The critical threshold for the discount factor, δ, now depends on the number of firms: the more competitors there are, and the higher this threshold, meaning that collusion is less and less sustainable. For example, the threshold increases from 1/2 = 0.50 to 1/3 = 0.67 when the number of competitors increases from 2 to 3. This means that if the firms’ discount factor lies around 0.60, say, two “competitors” could in fact maintain the monopoly outcome but three or more competitors would have to price at cost.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/studies_reports/the_...
I wouldn't say it's common for people to kick doors in either, I'm sure it happens though. More likely to happen at a place like a dive bar - that wouldn't surprise me, or some place where the bathroom appearance isn't seen as a high priority - like a gas station.
We simply don't have the prosecutors to litigate every case of lawbreaking; there's a reason discretion exists, and it's not to be nice. And dramatic changes don't happen overnight. We start with the system we've got and try to work towards something more fair in little steps.
I seem to have been unclear, when I said "houses are depreciating assets" I meant the structure itself. This is almost always true.

However, the land it is on may well be rising in value enough to counteract the depreciation - so your house + land may well be worth more in 10 years, even though the house itself is probably worth less.

Make more sense?
NYT has a paywall.
The good news is this article is bullshit, fear mongering.
> growth obsessed global capitalists are completely delusional

Infinite growth and finite material resources are perfectly compatible. Case in point: Fortnite.
well, if the contaminants are in the air, business have two choices: either fully hermetic spaces with air filtration, or every single place will have now to show the warning, because of the air inside.
If quadcopters would be better you would’ve seen countless designs for the military by now.

Quad Copters work well in toys and any similar application because they fly primarily based on their insanely high trust to weight ratio.

Helicopters don’t levitate on thrust.

Things simply don’t scale in this manner, the cost of the components isn’t even the issue here the cost of maintaining a system that is certified for manned flight is, buying a helicopter is cheap keeping it flight worthy is the expensive part especially when it comes to commercial application.

Literarily nearly every commercial aircraft has about as many maintanance hours as flight hours and in fact many have more.

Just to put into perspective here is what the Airforce considers an aircraft that is efficient to maintain:

>Reliability and maintainability are two outstanding benefits of the C-17 system. Current operational requirements impose demanding reliability and maintainability. These requirements include an aircraft mission completion success probability rate of 92 percent, only 20 aircraft maintenance man-hours per flying hour

While smaller aircraft don’t require as much as 20 hours per each flight hour they would still require plenty of it to make scalability very difficult.
I started working for a Japanese tech investment company with this mindset. It's now outdated.

I was shocked to discover that Japanese employment law has changed dramatically vs the perception. Someone died a few years back apparently, so the Japanese government stepped in. They closely monitor logged overtime hours. Bosses whose employees persistently log long hours (I think it is 60+ hour weeks) get a warning, first from HR internally, then the government itself. It's a big deal.

They have a "no overtime Wednesday" every week, and a "Premium Friday" where workers are encourage to go home in the early afternoon.

I went in imagining people sleeping at their desks, etc, but it was the opposite..My Japanese co-workers are surprised at how much I worked! At this point, I wish the U.S. would adopt Japanese labor laws.
The strategy of Fabiano was better, but the tactics of Carlsen was the real reason for his victory.
>one, the universe will not remain in the state of perfect spheres of stars and planets, it will eventually end up in a radiation and fundamental particle soup as all complex particles decay and the universe’s expansion overrides gravity.

Right, that's a technicality. Before that happens my statements about entropy apply.

>Plus, you’re not looking at the whole picture: a random gas cloud has potential energy, while the spherical object it collapses into has much less-the increase in order means that heat and other disorder is produced in the process, which leaves the system.

So the universe automatically divides itself into solid spheres and excess heat radiation? Sounds like a type of organization to me. Keep in mind, according to the definition of Entropy, as the universe transforms itself into this state, it is STILL transforming into a state of higher entropy. I am not talking about energy exiting or entering the system.

I am saying in a closed system, particles condensing into spherical planets is a transformation from a low entropy state to a high entropy state. Spherical planets are a high entropy form of disorder according to the definition of entropy. You'd know this if you truly understood entropy.

This is very different from something like life on a closed system like earth, where energy is continuously fed into the system then dissipated... overall lowering the entropy of earth but increasing entropy of the universe overall...
Human gene-editing experiment is put on hold amid furor
> Essentially, he noted how computers gave people tools to produce and consume more information, but not the tools to discern, filter and analyze it more effectively. It's a profound and very important observation.

Is it, really? There's a myriad of analytic tools for every imaginable domain, and even more domain-independent ones. You just need to be skilled enough to use them properly; not because the tools are bad, but because the analysis itself is hard, and even a seemingly simple problem usually needs abstract thinking and domain knowledge.
I have been following this service from afar, as the founder is quite skilled. Seems a bit pricey, but does similar.

https://www.pdfdata.io/
from reddit's biologists i got this:

> he actually doesn't report a mosaic at the CCR5delta32 locus - just a mosaic off-target effect in a non-coding region that disappears when sequencing tissues from the baby

and heterozygous knockouts are still knockouts so i m not sure why they are so quick to discredit the work
I appreciate this follow up and information, so thankyou.
Was on Project Fi. Now on Mint mobile. If T-mobile coverage is good in your area, Mint is the way to go. (25$ a month for 10GB data)
Finding the match can use the lazy DFA, which is roughly one or two orders of magnitude faster than the Pike VM, and similarly faster than bounded backtracking. Typically, the span of a match is much much smaller than the entire input you're searching, so it makes sense to find that span as quickly as possible. When it comes time to run the Pike VM (or the bounded backtracker), you can run the regex on just the span of the match, which will be much better than running it on the entire input to find the match if the input is large.

This strategy doesn't always make sense, and it can be better to just run the NFA right away if the input is small.

If you find this stuff interesting, you'll definitely want to check out Russ Cox's article series on regexes. In particular: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html
doesn't help much since the southwest map shows 3+ radioactive sites/sources near the densely populated coastal area, and only two detectors thousands of miles inland from the sites...
Probably why Twilio isn't interested in making their money at the bottom. (Can't tell if they are increasing price at Pro tier - I haven't seen any such email however)
If I need something, I'll ask for it. When I visit the US there is nothing more annoying to me than waiters interrupting my meal.
Well AWS is already the trusted third party for so much stuff. What's another db ?
sorry ... just saw like a billion grammar and spelling errors! urg
If you find them no good then you haven't worked for a big company. These docs are standards are your complaints have been heard before and shaped the doc.
Thanks https://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-air-data-san-francisco-ca shows a clear increase during the fires. Note that graph is log10 scale.

Now, can someone explain what this data means, and how dangerous these levels are?
> No one is denying that ...

But it seems you either do not understand or do not support that. That's far over 90% you have to appeal to, not just those who happen to have a horse in the race. That's not a strawman argument, it's a viable figure of speech.

> a palpable source of harm

If bio and virtual gender are different, then virtual gender should remain unphased by a notion of bio gender.

Since you seem to be in disagreement about that, your position appears conflicting so that any interpretation is naturally a strawman, but provocating clarification. Same as:

> the other [side is trying] to restore it [harm].
the slower generated code is an academic concern. Show me a realistic/non-contrived benchmark where not keeping the stack unwindable actually helps give a useful performance increase. Error codes force people to litter the code with branches and put error handling code in the hot path of the instruction stream.
If it were not the favorable strategy, it wouldn't have to be illegal, because it would not be popular enough to hurt consumers. People habitually favor optimizing for short-term success because there is no long-term if you don't survive the short-term. Furthermore, it is actually repeated interaction that makes collusion/cooperation better than betraying, because of the opportunity to get punished on subsequent iterations. It is this medium-term thinking that pushes collusion (but not too much of it) into a position of dominance. In the truly long term, nothing is stable because we're all dead anyway.
You won't pick up alpha particles with Geiger counter. Plutonium, which is the main concern in this case, is an alpha emitter, so it will very difficult to pick up with a Geiger.

You may pick up its decay products, which emit beta and gamma radiation. According to the EPA chart [0] there is a little spike in gamma.

Now whether this represent an immediate danger to the public is open to discussion, as the levels seem to be pretty low.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-dat...
FIDE actually owns the rights to the content. As far as I know there is no way other than to pay $20 for the video on the their main website. https://worldchess.com
Saying a 2-week is a mini-sabbatical reads like satire no matter how many quotes are around it. A term like that could work from the 3-month mark or something like that though, since it would be rare for even extended vacations to last that long.
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I have no data here, I would guess that number would be lower today than in 2013. My reasoning being the proliferation of smart phones in second and third world countries and the general trend of more web 2.0 users, though I fully accept that this is just an educated guess.

As a web developer, for me the problem is that writing anything modern without JavaScript is a much harder task that only really benefits a small minority of users. I'm unfamiliar with any disabilities that would require JavaScript to be turned off but I could see this being a valid usecase.
It seems like the author didn't read the guidelines very well. Especially this part:

"The intent of this document is to provide maximal guidance with reasonable restriction. As always, common sense and good taste should prevail."

There are good arguments for deriving from the guidelines in lots of situations, guidelines merely establish the default style, but don't prohibit code that does not follow the guidelines _if_ there is a good reason to. What the guidelines establish is a duty to justify deviations.
> Amazon last year dismissed the idea of getting into the blockchain with AWS, but today that’s changed. The company announced a new service called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, or QLDB, which is a fully managed ledger database with a central trusted authority

So, Amazon is actually not utilizing Blockchain in their business, but they sell it as a service, right? To me, it sounds like they’re selling shovels in a gold rush.
It doesn't matter how Google, or anyone else, feels about exceptions. Using them in a code base that isn't exception safe is essentially guaranteed to cause issues, and Google knew that was the current state of things when they wrote that document.
I'd say either Berlin school or kosmische musik is a better name than krautrock, if only cause it's more specific. Though it's all under the krautrock umbrella anyway. At least I usually see Berlin school as the descriptor for that kind of synth music.
We also switched from MailChimp to SendGrid, but it appears MailChimp will still be more expensive as they bill based on the number of "subscribers" instead of number of emails sent.

On MailChimp our cost is $210/month on SendGrid it is $100.

However, looking at their updated pricing, they also now have "Marketing" as a separate pricing tier, so I can't say exactly how that will affect us.

Keen to hear suggestions of who else to use.
you know what's ironic? that in every thread there's one of you people complaining about the name - you're all just like cockroaches! no matter how successful cockroachdb becomes, no matter how technically impressive the product becomes, the naysayers never die.

can you imagine 20 years ago someone complaining that google wasn't safe for work because it had a silly name?

newsflash dummy: stop saying/thinking/repeating stupid things like this and it'll stop being the case that everyone is so conservative that silly names are inadmissible.
Re: separate issues, that's why I numbered them (1) and (2). I totally agree that increasing transparency in the form of body cameras that can't be disabled really helps make it harder to cover up police abuse.

I'm not sure I agree that cops shouldn't get a double standard vs regular citizens — they spend far more time in dangerous / escalating situations than your average hothead with a gun. If they had no double standard protections, it'd be impossible to hire cops (or the ones you'd find would be too stupid to do the job) due to the legal jeopardy. I agree that military discipline makes police look like sloppy amateurs, but the military has the advantage of military training and discipline. Cops by and large don't have that continuing discipline, even those who are former military.
Well in a way it makes sense. Its like learning any other technology stack. The core stack may not be the best fit, but its considered a better bet to hire someone with experience in the target language/stack because the learning curve is reduced.

AKA, a developer that knows the same framework your app uses, only has to learn about your specific application rather than all the background libraries/etc your using. Its the same reason for preferring a C programmer for a C position over a ruby programmer (or flip it). Sure the ruby programmer might be awesome and after a couple years more productive, but in the meantime they will be making a bunch of newbie C mistakes, and generally bootstrapping slower.

This is part of the reason i'm in favor of generally reducing the number of languages/frameworks in general use. Its better for everyone if we all agree on some simple baselines even if they may not be the most optimum for any given problem. The efficiencies of repeatedly avoiding a bunch of rookie mistakes (and then having to debug/fix/test them for the next few years) is well worth it in the long run.
Actually, I haven't found that to be the case with this phenomena -- as soon as they return, they are eager, engaged, respectful, and often write large checks, and there's no diff in their attitude on projects that have a sales process gap and those that don't.

I just don't put this int the category of disrespect, but of "they've probably got their own problems, so I ought to have a bit of compassion".

(If I put any unannounced hiatus in the sales process in the disrespect category, I'd have very few clients left, as I generally fire clients that treat us with any significant disrespect.)

It'd certainly be nicer if they were more forthcoming, but I've seen it in two industries, software & manufacturing, and it just seems that

1) they're writing the checks and determining the schedule, and
2) their schedule is often determined by THEIR clients, and when that has a hiccough, the entire downstream supply chain gets a cold.

I've just found it better for everyone to be sanguine.
Hmm this is the noob in me but why would there be a need for a "central trust authority" for a distributed ledger? Or is the ledger not distributed?
updated: looks like aws reintent happening.
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Or just nationalize pharmaceutical companies, because all they do is buy up base research from state run universities and just produce the meds. No reason to allow people to profit from sickness. Don't need a profit motive to innovate
> some customers tell us that when they use the service to translate company-authored content like product documentation, website strings, functional content, knowledge bases, and help pages

Generally, applying automatic translation to content like this seems to produce poor output, at least in my experience. Usually, I prefer running content through a translator myself instead of relying on the “translation” to broken English, without any supporting context in the source language, that is sometimes provided.
“All my HTTPS traffic was sniffed and I got pwned”
Aussies owe more than $900m on Afterpay-style services
What do you mean "strict seralizability has its limitations", you need something stricter? Or you have a need for something weaker for some reason?
Can you recommend any good biotech companies in image/optics? I just got my degree in BioEng. in bio-optics and have been pretty unsuccessful in getting any traction on the job market.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553387
Normal park goers don't carry guns. Seriously. So it's a minority that's making everyone else feel less safe. Show me stats otherwise.
$200 credit if you bring your own device today? That's it, I guess I'll try a 6-month free trial of Fi...
Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime
I think those are family plan prices. I pay about $140 unlimited cell data, 15Gigs for tethering, an Apple Watch, and 2 lines of unlimited talk/text.
I see all of the gaps you mention as things that are being worked on activily. For some of the things you mention there are already decent Rust libraries: Hibernate => Deisel; Unity/Unreal => there are a bunch of things being worked on eg Piston and others (not yet fully featured of course); code generation => macros_rules! and proc macros, and custom derives can be extended to support this; javafx => yew?.

I’m not saying there are things available for all of these areas, nor am I saying that I think necessarily others should choose to rely on the language in some of these areas, unless you want to directly contribute to filling in those gaps (there are many people who are doing this). What I am saying, is that based on my experience with the language, especially in the context of Web Development, I would pick it for frontend and backend development at this point.

I agree that there are areas it really shines in right now, and if you’re working in those areas than I definitely push people in that direction. But yeah, for native GUI stuff, if you need to do more that toy stuff, it’s not ready yet.

> Do you also plan to replace SQL with Rust?

I’ve considered it! As a way of more replacing DB side procedures: https://github.com/clia/pgxr (an example of one option). What we can do with SQL is use code generators to type check the SQL at compile time.
The "flooding" attacks identified by the researchers work by raising the cost of consensus building in a democratic society. Your approach helps deal with the increased cost on an individual level, but it does not help prevent the attacks or counteract their effects on a societal level. i.e. if I can raise the cost of getting quality information from 2 cents to $200 for everybody, you can empower certain people by giving them $200, but you can't bring the price back down to what it was.
Learning about Church and Scott encoding was much more interesting than I thought it would be. I was expecting it to be tedious and banal, but I came out of it feeling like I had some sort of revelation. Imagining naturals, lists, trees, etc. as function application was mind-bending at first, but it eventually clicks into place. Lambda calculus is so incredible in its combination of simple semantics, expressiveness, and abstraction/compositionality.

To go a step further, think about how you would implement a predecessor function on the Church encoding of the naturals. It is much more complicated than one might expect, and perfectly motivates the introduction of Scott encodings and the fixed-point function.
Who uses FaaS successfully? O get it for very bounded use cases, but was never able to really get a ton of use out of it other than gluing different AWS things together.
I must agree with your subductive logic. But magnitude isn't the right measure here for effect on structures, we'd want the Mercalli scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale
> I was pleasantly surprised to go to the public whiteboard and not immediately see it covered with phalluses.

Wikipedia had inclusionist vs deletionist ("this is strictly an online encyclopedia - most research programming languages are not notable - delete!") warfare, because the kludgy early Wikipedia infrastructure couldn't provide multiple views, so both communities couldn't be made happy.

HN is a stew of high-effort insight, and low-effort cruft, because it doesn't provide multiple views, so you can't toggle between expertise and chat.

A public whiteboard could be both without phalluses, and covered in them, toggled by preference. Image recognition, and user profiling, has gotten quite good. But for an absence of multiple views. Or... at least the arms race might become richer.

If user requirements are multimodal, and one's current UI, being monomodal, can't cope with that, well then...
This should be titled "the absolute don'ts of software engineering when you have large projects, large teams, and lots of money."

Most of the projects I work on are small, the teams are often a team of 1 (me), and the money barely covers my living expenses. So a lot of this gets chucked out of the window. Sometimes folks, it's OK to SSH into a VM and type git pull ; touch tmp/restart.txt. :)
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It's a dawning of mind, grateful state. It's like peeling one layer off the onion.
As I understand it, Fuschia doesn't aim to comply with POSIX.

Your suggestion matches the behavior of "O_BENEATH" in Linux and FreeBSD, or e.g., Capsicum directory descriptors with the CAP_LOOKUP capability.

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