skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why is this dirty?

Sabotage and physical fights broke out between fire companies while fires burned. That's a pretty gritty situation.

Allowing fire sales gives way to perverse incentives, like the profitability of arson and predatory pricing of fire fighting fees such that certain portion of victims will always have to sell their property at a discount.
Also top speeds. Why would anyone would wanna go over 100mph? How is it even legal to produce cars like these? There's like 2 roads in one country where you'll ever use it.

Flashing your horsepower numbers just shows your lack of understanding of physics or childish pursuit for top speed. Unless you are a racer, torque is what matters much more.
> Though the populations sampled and the auction design differ across the experiments, we consistently find the average Facebook user would require more than $1000 to deactivate their account for one year. While the measurable impact Facebook and other free online services have on the economy may be small, our results show that the benefits these services provide for their users are large.

That's pretty funny.

So I wonder what the average opioid addict would want in exchange for a year of daily withdrawal? Or even tobacco addicts. I've read that, in Germany after WWII, some people just about starved to death, because they'd traded too much food for tobacco.
...that's not what wage theft is
>Isn’t reality just a holographic projection though? Isn’t time a construct of human perception? In a sense, all Amazon packages have already been delivered, if you think about it.

I deeply enjoy this conclusion, and wish that the author had explained the conceptual path to it in more detail!
The two are related. In order to infer the user's focal length, you need to know what they are looking at. Which requires eye tracking, which is also a requirement of foveated rendering
SQL Server on Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals
Hahaha... No, the ambulance is a 10 year old Chevy 2500 w/ 150k miles...
$1000/month is probably a heck of a plan or in a really expensive market if it's for a single person, and it's probably still decent for family coverage. If it was through the ACA Exchange it's probably also a Gold plan that when you look at maximum out of pocket costs simply loads up the premium rather than the OOP payments.
Not to mention the diameter of the solar system is nearly 10 light days across. A return pulse is going to take a really long time… and you don't know if and when it's going to hit something to expect the return.
So we have some Amazon drivers stealing Amazon packages now? Seems like in 5 years this won't be an issue anymore, not sure how yet, but seems like it will be solved.
Any recommendations for an easy to buy one in uk ?
> there are so many discarded K-Cups that if you lined them up it would be enough to circle the earth more than 10 times

Or, that means you could put them into ten 76x76x76 foot cubes, with really inefficient cubic packing density, with one two-inch cube per K-cup. And that volume is mostly empty air, not plastic.
Break Up Google for the Public Good
If your stolen gun was used in a future crime and they don't have a record of it being stolen, and can trace the gun to you, your in a world of hurt. They are doing you a favor to make sure to register the gun as stolen.
"1. ERs should publish prices in a public database. If a price is not published for an item/procedure, the customer can pay the lowest price she/he can find for the same procedure from an other provider. 2. The same price must be charged from everyone (regardless of insurance)."

this would bring a lot of sanity into the system.
How long for awesome video games to enter public domain? If only companies would open source games more often after about a decade when the game will likely sell in insane bundles on Steam.
Amazon giveth, Amazon taketh away...
Even more transparency is a step up. Meaningful non anxiety inducing prices are all that is needed tbh.
Yep that's what we were doing, and the management software (OpsManager) was also running on EC2 instances. We messed up the VPC configuration so that NTP didn't work on some of the instances - which unsurprisingly broke authentication between OpsManager and the db instances
Tim Peters for BDFL!!
What's your disagreement with the concept of economic growth? You say things elsewhere in the thread I rarely hear but broadly agree with, if I understand correctly, so I'm curious about this one.
They've got until 2024 before Steamboat Willie enters the public domain. Until then we're just going to be getting the years from 1922 to 1928.

I wish that Congress would just say "Everything before Steamboat Willie is public domain, everything else has copyright in perpetuity". Just give us everything they can afford to lose while still getting paid.
Except my understanding is that the amount of manpower involved in the Linux kernel is greater than that involved in the Windows kernel. (Does Apple do kernel development at all?)
I was trained by fb for interviewing, the phone screen, sw part. You start with a simple enough problem. See how fast the candidate can come up with a solution. Then complicate the problem to find more stuff. Like, what if you have unlimited memory? What if you have very little memory? etc. You are supposed to look for signals. Can the candidate improve the solution based on some random constraints/hints? Is the candidate good enough with the language they picked (eg, append vs extend in python, or why i copied S into s). We were not looking for tricks and the entire idea that big companies are looking for tricks in their interviews was spread by either people that never been in such an interview or were bad enough to be rejected.
Indeed. I am surprised though because the income taxes in NZ seem to be lower than the quality of healthcare then. Wondering what the catch is.
It's my understanding that code will not be committed into OpenZFS if it cannot be compiled in both Linux and FreeBSD.
Mine broke camera, good luck proving that to Apple.
Almost ironically, one of the limiting factors of the the O-Bahn in Adelaide is parking at the major terminals.

The road going past Paradise Interchange is always lined with cars for hundreds of metres on both sides during working hours. Modbury Interchange now has an inner-city style multi-storey car park to feed the demand.

The O-Bahn is almost a victim of it's own popularity and efficiency, but it took 20-odd years to reach that point, and it's still the best way to get into and out of the city during peak hour (with the possible exception of the linear park bike track, which is a beautiful way to see Adelaide 'behind the curtain').

Adelaide also is well past it's moniker of the 20-minute city. It's nowhere near Sydney / Melbourne levels of traffic, but the population is also much smaller.
It seems sensible enough to me. If you steal $item from a shop, you're a shoplifter. You stole it from an abstract corporation. If you take the same $item from /my/ doorstep, you stole it from /me/.

I don't eat the losses, Amazon do. So technically you stole it from them. But just as my insurance company eat the losses if you steal my car, I'm still going to internalize it as "you stole my $item." And I can't help but judge that much more harshly than shoplifting from some faceless name.
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix for IE Zero Day
A law is only as good as it is enforced
Wow, that must be why I start itching whenever I pass a manhole cover.
> There are extremely limited commonalities between an opt-in group based on a technical project, and a society.

The theory of clubs and voluntary associations is well-studied in economics, law, political science, sociology, organisational theory ...
Why would I believe the fibs from an ad company?
Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town
Interesting. Well the thing is if people really are motivated enough they will always find a way to skirt certain types of regulations.
The worst thing I’ve noticed is, when you disable updates on windows 10, you’re notified that you can disable for 30 days, and then if you want to disable it again, you have to do updates first.

Keeping your machine updated is a good idea and all but this is pretty insulting ...
By offering money to leave, we're not actually negotiating what the FaceBook usage value is to the user, but what it is worth to the payee to get that user to quit. (If you're willing to offer me $1M to stop using facebook, that's what I can expect to be paid, even if I would reasonably quit for far less.)
For ZFS itself, probably not much. It'd be the rest of the system you'd be selecting things for.
"Postscript: Comments in the Twitter sphere after this post was published indicate that time has not yet healed all in the Apache Cassandra community. The community now has a choice -- compete against itself or direct its energy toward building a common platform that stands up in a landscape with powerful competition from cloud platform providers. It's a strategic choice that will impact the long-term viability of the Cassandra platform." — Ouch!

One axis is the FOSS folks using Cassandra, and the proprietary folks using DSE. Another axis is running it on-prem, in hybrid environments, on public cloud, or on managed cloud services.

Beyond that, not mentioned in the article, is a third axis: choice to run on Cassandra API-compliant options.

This includes the re-written-from-the-ground-up-in-C++ Scylla, which is API compliant to Cassandra. (Disclosure: I work at ScyllaDB).

But there are also cloud offerings like CosmosDB, which allows you to make CQL queries.

Competition is natural in the world. But there is healthy, lively and fair competition which results in advancements for all, and, on the other hand, forms of competition which are acrimonious, toxic, noxious. That only results in a lose-lose for all.

I, for one, hope to see more cooperation in the true spirit of open source. "Coopertition" as some deem it, where you both compete and cooperate in tandem.
> ZStd makes less attempts to reduce memory use

Ever heard of flag `--ultra` ?
Without it, zstd memory usage will be limited to 8 MB.
It has been there since, forever.
I like the spirit of this. However, what the airline is really willing to price is "best effort to provide transit to location either beginning the time stated or as soon as convenient for them after". Fortunately, their operations are predictable enough that most customers are fine with this.

That's not quite enough scope control for all services.
> I don't think amplitudes "have" to be complex

You can of course formulate quantum mechanics in terms of strictly real numbers, e.g., the Wigner function. That's just a different representation of the same fundamental laws. (In that representation, it's easier to do some things and much harder to do other things.)

But that's not the alternative possible universe that Aaronson is considering. When he says "quantum mechanics with real amplitudes", he does not just mean a different representation of the same law; he means a totally different set of laws with dramatic experimental consequences (which of course aren't realized in the real world). The question in the post is "Why is the universe this way and not another way?" not "Why do we choose to use complex numbers in our description of the universe?".

To see this, it may help to know that there is an operational (i.e., representation-independent) definition of the relative phase between states. For real-amplitude quantum mechanics, that phase has to take real values.
I'm curious about your critique of capitalism. Do you think that alternative systems could:

a) Generate similar aggregate wealth to capitalism.

b) Generate less aggregate wealth, but similar or better median wealth by more equal distribution.

c) Median wealth isn't something we should even care about.

d) Some other thing I didn't think of and if so what is that thing?
As long as the incentive to actually deliver them is higher, it seems sensible enough to me. It's the loophole that allows him to return things that weren't his to return, that sounds like it may be more problematic than intended.
It's difficult to say for certain that the Ivies are actually that high in terms of academic quality. There's a history of people literally tweaking evaluation and ranking criteria until they get the Ivies to come out at the top. For example, US New and World Report got rid of a statistician whose algorithm didn't put the Ivies at the top of their rankings, and replaced with someone who would "fix" that:

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2000/09/01/playing-with-number...
> spend a ton renovating it to look "on-brand,"

Wait, why? If you're a small-medium sized company that isn't in retail (or some other business where you, as a matter of course, service customers on premises) why would you divert a significant amount of money to renovations that match your brand?

If you need to meet with investors or potential employees and are that concerned about appearances then just do it offsite.
Just scratching the surface really.
I couldn't disagree more, at least in the context of this article. If you have an abstraction layer so high level that app developers can't tell whether they're using MongoDB or PostgreSQL, then they're not able to use any of the advantages of either of those systems.

Sure, use an ORM to abstract away the differences between PostgreSQL and MySQL (up until you need to care about them). That's reasonable. But maintaining a magical MaybeSQL layer that's powerful enough to not totally suck is going to totally suck.
Pedantic, but Amazon isn't his employer. Flex is B2B contract work. The drivers pay for their gas, self employment tax, FICA, health insurance, etc.
So I'm partly stuck in 5 gear thinking. The gears are a lot closer together.

That said, Porsche's data sheet for the current 911 says peak power is at 6400 rpm, so the ratio in rpms between 'go fast' and 'cruise' is in fact a lot wider than on an older, cheaper vehicle, where cruise might be 1800 while you pass at something around 4400-5000 rpms.
I don't usually bite for these "X uses Y, so Y must be good", but I didn't know about Fortnite and MongoDB. A quick google suggest they've had downtime due to issues with Mongo and have had problems scaling it though.
I disliked the module\file order restriction when I started, but have come to appreciate it because every time it felt like a thorn in my side it turned out that the thorn was prodding me towards a better organizational structure.

I've even found that apart from enforcing better design, it can also trigger it. As an illustration, I've had a function 'f' in module 'C' that I decided made more sense in module 'A'. When I moved the function however, module 'A' would no longer compile because 'f' was dependent on a module 'B'. No problem I thought, I'll just move module 'A' below module 'B'. Whoops, now module 'B' won't compile; I didn't realize it was dependent on module 'A'. If I resist the urge to just revert everything and return the function 'f' to module 'C', and I investigate "why does 'f' feel like it belongs in module 'A' and yet placing it there introduces circularity...", often I'll discover a beneficial refactoring that I probably would not have thought of otherwise.
I am so curious about this project and really hope for it's success. But heat pumps and PV curves have been studies for centuries. I'm super curious what Alphabet has to offer that is cutting edge. That being said, I really hope they are going to use a Stirling engine to convert the heat back into electricity rather than a turbine. A large scale maintenance free Stirling pump has always been my dream.
OMG me too. Always thought it's because of "firm" as in a "company". Like, the software the company puts on the device and a user can't change. Haha.
My local Caltex/7-11/Fuel Stations all do package holding here in Aus, I honestly had similar thoughts until they started doing it. In the last 12 - 18 months I'd say I've had completely seamless package delivery because of it.
If you are successful enough to need a custom domain, you can certainly afford it.
HAProxy 1.9 Released
Charles Bloom is a data compression expert working on the compression suite at RAD game tools (proprietary library for game developers that delivers better compression ratios and better decompression speed over the best available in open source, i.e. lz4, zstd and lzma): http://www.radgametools.com/oodlecompressors.htm

Here is a blog post of his about Weissman score for compressors, including his and Yann Collet's: https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2018/01/05-17-16-weissman-s...
It's true, but a little dated. After all: where do I sign for the flat 10% tax rate, O Lord?
> I don't think they've done anything Mickey-related in a long while...

They recently produced a number of shorts (like 3 seasons worth) starring Mickey, there are a few shows out starring him on the toddler focused market, they're building a keystone attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios around Mickey, they use him extensively in the parks still in new ways, etc.

He is still in very heavy use throughout the company, but I don't think Steamboat Willie entering the public domain will damage that. :)
I don't think a driver with a history of that could get away with it, though. Customers will definitely complain if their package just disappears, and it's not very hard to see which delivery contractors have statistically significant higher rates of complaints.
"F* it, we like Reddit and we got some shit to sell."

As a headline is essentially click-bait.

That you had blowout conversions is great, but it's for the same reason Taboola and Outbrain also have ridiculous headlines and images, and not more informative content.
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No you can't guarantee that. From my experience, most people simply don't care.
Without disputing your points, I think it's probably a different focus that has driven the libremesh/librerouter approach.

They're aiming at price point that works for developing countries, as well as libre hardware/software.

That rules out eg. all -ac gear (I think?) and also probably means a developed-world commercial-grade PTMP solution is outside their budget as well.

One correction though: although the article is from APNIC, they don't "own" the project.
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You can get downvoted by sounding like a knee jerk racist. Go spend a little time looking into where healthcare money is actually being spent and written off as bad debt in the US then come back with numbers and sources. If you can back up that illegal immigrants are the source of healthcare cost issues in pretty sure we'll all be impressed.
Is it possible to to construct probability amplitudes out of quaternions, etc?
It doesn't need to be globally prohibitive, it just needs to be sufficiently prohibitive as to curb majority use of the target. And usually the things that make the most use of the target is disproportionately affected by thin increases in cost.

eg if k-cups cost 2c to produce in plastic, and tax raises that cost to 5c, and margins were at 4c so now 1c, then it makes sense to start looking at alternative materials/strategies that weren't previously cost-effective.

At the same time, auto using a good deal of plastic per car, but much higher margins, and much less plastic use across the total market, might have their costs raised by $200 in total per car by the same tax; but if they had a $5k margin now dropped to $4.8k, they probably don't need to change much (they're still affected, but not nearly as bad).

The problem with plastic is that its cheap, so it can easily fit in disposable markets, but we really don't want it there, and disposable markets tend to have razor-thin margins. Ofc the strategy I just described might not actually affect K-cups: K-cups are really the only thing I can think of where plastic got added to make it a luxury product, rather than removed (cars otoh are luxury despite the plastic). And being a luxury product, it's probably got decent margins and can eat small tax increases.

But you can probably get 90% of the way there with minor taxes. And ofc you'll still have necessary usage for certain things (lets say, emergency shelters), but you can avoid adding loopholes to plastic by lowering less tax-burdens on other aspects of the target industry, which might be less viable/harmful to abuse.
Assuming the sub-leasor wasn't trying being dishonest, they should remain the primary responsible party to the leasor. I work for a company and have never met the person owning the building, but if I wrecked the hallway the owner would quite correctly go and talk with my employer.

The only way I see this becoming an issue is if WeWork was being shifty about taking responsibility for damage and risk caused by their clients and if they were it wasn't so much "market disruption" as "we don't want to play by the rules but still want cake"
Since the guide wheels steer the bus, the driver only has to apply accelerator/brake and there is no chance of the bus deviating off the track at high speed. So it can travel at a faster speed more safely.

The track is also more compact than an equivalent two-lane dedicated bus roadway - especially given the safety margins roadways need when you have high-speed vehicles travelling on them.

Being more compact meant the O-Bahn route could follow the Torrens creek which gave it an unobstructed route from the outer suburbs right to the CBD without expensive land purchases etc.
> But the trouble is that nicotine doesn't give anyone a choice. You're going to be addicted whether it's good for you or not. That's the issue.

If something's good for you, you're per definition not addicted to it. That was the main point of the post you responded to.

I know people who can enjoy the occasional cigarette. Are they addicted in your opinion? Nicotine is also used extensively by people to self-medicate emotions. Are they all addicts? Would they all be better off if they didn't smoke? Some would, some wouldn't. Who are you to tell?
You could solve that by altogether dropping the Venn diagram metaphor when reasoning about joins. This is the number one problem I see with junior devs who have a hard time grokking SQL. If you think about a join as a cartesian product with a filter, where the type of join defines the type of filter, the reasoning is extremely easy.

Here's a good article about that: https://blog.jooq.org/2016/07/05/say-no-to-venn-diagrams-whe...
What definition of autonomous? Various military groups have deployed aircraft that do indeed operate totally independently, at least in some circumstances. A Global Hawk drone doesn't fall out of the sky if disconnected from controllers. It can continue flying totally on its own, as do cruise missiles. Lots of autonomous boats (small ones) have crossed oceans. A modern torpedo is essentially an autonomous submarine. But no, nothing on the streets of SF.
Bayesian Synthesis of Probabilistic Programs for Automatic Data Modeling
In NZ employers with higher risk pay more to the medical pool. Accidents outside work are paid for from common pool. Chronic diseases from unhealthy lifestyle (or bad luck) are not compensated.

I can't think of a better system.
> Do you think that people working on fields would fight over which tractor brand is better?

OMG yes. Having worked in the Midwest, I promise you that farmers absolutely do trash talk each other about John Deere vs New Holland vs International Harvester. Tell a Ford driver that you like his Chevy pickup and prepare to hear about it for the next hour.

> Do you thinks that builders would fight over which hammer brand is better.

You seriously haven't spent much time around blue collar workers, have you.