skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the data rate afaik

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Data-Collection.p...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunicati...

Pluto encounter data rate was 2000 bp/s but that is with the spin, I’m guessing it’s lower now since it’s well past Pluto.

I can’t find the link to the interview which had a bit more information about it now, but I don’t think they refer to the payload data rate.
When it was South Bay to SF I commuted by driving to Caltrain, taking the train up, and then walking across half of SF.

Now I bike most days, unless the weather is crummy or the state is on fire again.

The work life balance issue was definitely partially the fault of the culture of the company I was at at the time, but living so close made it much more difficult to avoid.

And yeah, that’s an issue of willpower in part, and is the same reason I am not able to work remote or from home. But I don’t think that’s an issue unique to me.
Depends on if you want the government to expand, expand a lot, or dissolve.
Ask HN: Is GWT/Google Web Toolkit still being used today?
Severn Bridge, main route between England and Wales, shuts because of a drone
Red flag: invalid metrics exception

1.5M lines is the output of a team of hundreds of developers over years. I don't believe anyone would write a million lines during a job.

2PB a month, is 125B documents at 16kB each, or 50k documents per second. That's decent. That's where it starts to be interesting in elasticsearch or hadoop.
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A better way to frame this type of question might be "[Important Person X] asks you [Stupid Question Y], how would you respond?"
> Which raises the question: Is depression a symptom? The root "disease" being the inability to connect / feel connected to others?

Imagine that you're currently experiencing the worst headache you've ever had. Remember how focused you were on the pain and not much else? Now imagine that that headache is permanent and incurable. You might learn to regain some measure of normalcy but that internal pain is always there and demanding attention.

It seems reasonably likely that those unfortunate souls who suffer from chronic (physical) pain would also exhibit similar writing patterns for much the same reason.
There is no one part here. It's what many of us (with little power) have been saying for quite some time.

1. Minimum wage and poverty level are not increasing in relation to the power of the dollar. (1) (2)

2. Welfare of all sorts have been cut since the '80s with Reagan's attack on a felony fraudster [Welfare Queen] (3) (4)

3. Zoning regulations actively kill and impede lower rents and booming cities. (5) (6)

4. Employer-linked medicine harms and kills people, via lack of medicine and through monetary lack of means. (7) (8) (9)

5. The citizens have been sold a bill of bad goods with the "Debt Sentence" of educational debt. (10) (11)

The problems are numerous, and these cards have been stacked against us. Any one of these could topple, and take out multiple areas/people/economies. And just like the Great Depression, not even the banks getting together will be able to save us. Many of these are laws that would have to be changed at the local/state/federal level, which I do not see happening in 20 years.

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(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-higher-the-federal-...

(2) https://talkpoverty.org/2016/09/13/poverty-rate-just-dropped...

(3) https://www.newsweek.com/trump-plans-slash-welfare-spending-...

(4) https://timeline.com/reagan-trump-healthcare-cuts-8cf64aa242...

(5) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/7/3/how-zoning-is-h...

(6) https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/05/25/modern-zo...

(7) https://www.marketplace.org/2017/06/28/health-care/how-did-w...

(8) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/poor-healthcar...

(9) https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/01/this-is-the-no-1-...

(10) https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/08/27/how-u-...

(11) https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/student-loan-debt-ba...
here's the thing though, i've experienced the literal opposite of what you're talking about: adding fiber to my diet helped with mitigating my depression.

i think a lot of this kind of diet related advice is anecdotal and very person-specific. we should absolutely ask people to experiment with their diet more, but depending on the extent of their depression and the amount of flexibility they have in their lives (someone who works two jobs a day might find it difficult to find the energy to change their cooking/eating habits), this could be quite difficult for them

and its totally possible that a significant fraction (possibly even the majority) of people suffering from depression will see no major benefits to changing their diets.
Firefox Mobile for Android has all the spoils.
Agree in theory, but quite often that asset is not sellable as its underwater. End result is a foreclosure and/or bankruptcy. If the underlying behavior is not changed then people can spiral into further debt that they cant get out of as they already spent their once every seven year BK ticket. If people don't know how to budget you get trapped.

But yes I do fully agree, I would much rather be broke with a large income than a low one.
The Edge team could still decide to integrate their JPEG XR implementation into Blink. That would mean Chrome would gain support for JPEG XR.
> I believe China to be a mercantile culture

“Mercantilism is a national economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports of a nation” [1]. This is what China used to be. (Starting, mostly, with Deng Xiaoping.) Xi prioritising force projection and jingoism is a shift away from mercantilism.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
We need Bill and Ted now more than ever.
This. The FLIF format still has a nice TODO list which containt: native browser support..
Yeah, I don't want to come across like that.
Using the <iostream> stuff isn’t really idiomatic - on both modern and legacy code bases I’ve used operator<< overloads on custom types, but never called std::cout in a hot loop or used std::endl to do anything but actually flush the stream.
I am also an EE and have been able to apply ML to my field, wireless comms. It turns out people skilled in the intersection of two fields are very rare indeed.

I'd suggest you look for an opportunity to apply ML/CV/AI in your industry (deep learning for PCB inspection maybe?). Show the possibilities, get some research funding, do a pilot program or similar. Lead and drag your company (kicking and screaming if need be) into the 21st century.

Then you will have ML/AI on your resume, and recruiters will come looking for you.
If your depression is caused by lack of vitamin D it stands to reason that vitamin D helps fighting it. But not every depression is caused by vitamin D deficiency, so it doesn't always do wonders
Yeah you also need to be careful mixing C++ and C iostream/stdio as there is synchronization if you mix them. And if you don't then you should use ` std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);` to prevent performance issues.
Actually, people do avoid bad neighborhoods and suggest to their children and others to avoid those.

There's a reason, many actually, for freedom of speech. And all those reasons are more important than your feelings.
The specific ordering is somewhat sensitive to the specific date ranges. Looking at the BEA data: https://apps.bea.gov/regional/histdata/releases/0616gsp/inde...

If we use 2009 to 2015 as the data points (which is the most I have on this chart), the following states grew faster than the U.S. average:

North Dakota	1.37
Texas	1.16
Oklahoma	1.16
Michigan	1.15
Ohio	1.13
Pennsylvania	1.11
Indiana	1.11
Nebraska	1.10
California	1.09
Iowa	1.09
Minnesota	1.09
Tennessee	1.09
Wisconsin	1.08
Massachusetts	1.08
Illinois	1.07
Kentucky	1.07

I wouldn't call growing at about the same rate as Iowa and Tennessee as being particularly exceptional, even if it's technically in the top 10.

More important, because cost of living continues to explode, California continues to be middling in terms of purchasing power: https://spectator.org/adios-california/ (California 37th in GDP per capita adjusted for cost of living). For real people, that's the most important benchmark of economic health. (Which is why when you're comparing different countries, you always use PPP-adjusted numbers.)

Note that this particular problem isn't something you can fix through redistribution. California's COL-adjusted GDP per capita being in the middle means that, no matter how you distribute it, California's on average just can't buy as much stuff (food, housing, etc.) as Iowans.
The company I was at at the time was very startup-y. Fast paced, high stress. People in the office very late, and gave a stipend for living walking distance to the office.

The result was a perception by myself and many others that we needed to stay later, and could because hey, home is right around the corner.

I’m sure some people could manage that better, but a lot of the company, myself included, could not.
No, we're reciting the number "2^(500 x 165179 + 433) - 1" which, in binary, uses only the digit 1 repeatedly. Reciting the prime in unary (base 1) would take quite a lot longer.
> That conversation could convey the character of the candidate but I couldn't evaluate their ability to do new research.

It all depends on the questions asked to the candidate. You don't ask them about their research which is publicly available in any case. You ask them questions that let them reveal their thought process about their research. Now, it's up to the interviewer to come up with good questions to make this happen. The interviewer has to be well prepared and think about questions. You don't need to be an expert to ask good questions.

I'd like to reiterate that this applies to research/scientific position where pushing the boundaries is a crucial aspect of the job. In case you are looking for a very specific skillset, things may be different.
>No one would suggest you should just not visit a neighborhood if people there attacked you.

To be fair that's exactly what happens. People warn not to go into the crime/high gang activity areas of my city all the time.
There is a way out. Use cash.

My wife and I struggled with this, we do well and found our expenses increasing with our income.

Our solution was to take a small windfall (tax refund) to bootstrap two months of basic expenses, and dump money from direct deposit into a specific account. We did that to get current.

That eliminated many dopey expenses (Starbucks, shiny things in the grocery, etc). It’s harder to spend money when it’s in your hands. I have a no debit card policy, so we setup a dedicated credit card for things like gas that cash is onerous for.
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On the policy front they don't end up that different either. They just use smoke and mirrors to make it look that way. Keeps people aggravated.
Moving from Canada to California did a lot to help my depression. It's hard to not feel good on a beautiful sunny day
There will always be those who are unlucky and downtrodden. The point though is that media like these focus exclusively on this negative minority and exaggerate the negativity of the status quo.

My parents are first generation immigrants who fled the Soviet Bloc and built their lives here by living within their means, and making practical decisions, like getting degrees with some probability of return on investment.

They came here with nothing and it took them 30 years to find their way into the upper middle class. I have little sympathy for people who consistently plan poorly and make bad decisions by placing immediate satisfaction over long term financial security.
> Mr Putin and Mr Xi are well educated and have a grasp of how the world works well beyond what we lay people think we know

They’re dictators. But no man rules alone. Irrespective of how well they understand the situation, they are constrained by their sources of political power. There is no evidence those sources understand the rule of law or separation of powers.

This is a common failure mode for authoritarian regimes, by the way. A competent leader forced to make incompetent decisions by an elite corroded by years of corrupt rule.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, maybe its some SF NIMBYers? Anyways, your second sentence brings me an interesting idea. What if someone built a website with links to easily email local representatives (kind of like the Craigslist webmail links, maybe also with a message body filled in), so that people could quickly and easily send in complaints about housing/zoning restrictions? This idea partially inspired by the Airnoise button: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18792029
IPv6 is a clusterfuck of "hey lest add x!" and "lets forget reasonable previous experience!".
In the vast majority of cases having a child is optional.

This perfectly illustrates the problem the GP brings up. People have no concept of what agency is.
I find this unusual because usually the knowledge require to troubleshoot a complex piece of software is much more complex than that required to set it up in the first place. In other words, how can you troubleshoot it if you don’t know how it’s built?

It’s a bit like debugging software you didn’t write.
Nice, thanks! I'll check out ideacheck.
ITT: frontend engineers act like lawyers
What would you suggest is C++ recommended way for doing io?
I think the point of the “constant” is that the average hasn’t changed over the course of time. So it’s a constant average. Not like a ‘const’ variable.
An economic experiment with EDN data. (Clojure code)
Clojure Network aims to be the first Clojure oriented decentralized autonomous organization with its own cryptocurrency, EVAL.

Our main goal is to create a market for EDN data like pure functions and propagate an alternative financing solution for the Clojure community.

More details on Telegram: https://t.me/clojure_network

Warning! Clojure Network is in a super early stage. Any contribution and even nice words are appreciated.
Empericially, CNNs generalize better on image recognition tasks than hand built features. This comment doesn't make much sense and is needlessly obtuse in the face of progress, tbh.
In Los Angeles I’ve used the non emergency line a bunch due to homeless individuals causing issues, and in every case I’ve had a cop come within the hour. I know because they always give me a ring when they are at the location to just walk through what I saw.

My experience doesn’t seem to mirror everyone’s though in LA, so it may have just been the Wilshire division was all over it.
You'll never have banks working in consumers self interest as long as they are profit driven organizations. Public banks tend to work better for actual sensible banking.
Looking at the Rust source [1] it seems there the `next()` call has some overhead, so it's probably not the compiler.

I remember this was simple to implement in Julia [2] where you can iterate over the full range `for i = typemin(Int):typemax(Int) ... end` without overflow and without overhead. Same should be possible in Rust I think.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/iter/range.rs.html#340-35...

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/range.jl...
Which is why without tight controls on lending/debt Universal Basic Income will just lead to similarly desperate outcomes subsidized by the state.
How many places does this really affect? I see people in California complaining about it constantly. It is certainly not a problem where I live.

Take a look at the NAR's housing affordability index[1]. Basically 100 means the median family income is exactly enough to quality for a mortgage on the median home price, higher is better. If you look at the HAI by metro area there are a very small number of places where the index is below 100, and almost all of them are in CA. The vast majority of cities seem to have reasonably affordable housing.

[1] https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/housing-stat...
“Green bubble problem” prevents switch to Android
Having a nice experience with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB); they are able to address many startup-specific needs better than most other banking providers. I used them for a new Delaware corporation, and everything was done completely online. Despite SVB's namesake, I believe you don't have to be based in California.
There are plenty of legitimate pressure points. The CPC elites value sending their children to Western countries for education, frequently under pseudonyms. Stop giving them visas, or allow it but make sure the Chinese public knows.

Beyond enforcement of multilateral sanctions (especially the NK ones), the US and Canada (and the UK) could make it much more difficult for the elites to move assets out of China. Ban anonymous ownership of property, and start enforcing Chinese currency-control laws on government-connected individuals. Sure, President Xi might be able to evade Chinese law in China, but good luck convincing the Southern District of New York to look the other way.

Any ethical concerns aside, why would we break our own laws when enforcing them (and China's as written) is much more effective?
Just another illustration that the "America" you learned about is not the America™ we live in. As a parent I find it more and more difficult to try to teach my kids the reality of America without sounding like a conspiracy theory nut job. I do not want my kids growing up with blindly trusting that any institution (schools, corporations, government, etc.) have their best interests in mind. In a way I feel like selling them the "dream" is much less painful but I would feel like I failed as a parent to not warn my kids of the realities of the world.
WeChat pay is a lot less useful then Alipay. I would recommend Alipay.
Half of the accomplishment presentations and stories begin with "we thought the other company already had done it, so we reverse- engineered it from what we knew about them."

Unreal Engines mirroring floors where done that way. Thats why launching and advertising for fake products, and similar endavours are often a net positive. Somebody at some other company sees that, and gets into a "we must do that too frenzy".

Imagine the world, if Lockheed started a advertising campaign for a working fusion reactor in a box right now. The paniced race to market everyone suddenly would be in.
>AFAIK C and C++ compilers are not allowed to re-order floating-point arithmetic precisely for that reason.

You don't have to reorder to make bugs. Simply having a compiler replace (a-b)+b with a is a bug. Simply flushing an internal 80-bit floating register to a 64 bit memory place, then loading it, causes differences in computations.

Note the C++ spec specifically states it does not require an underlying representation or even any certain level of accuracy (6.7.1.8). So many of these bugs are allowed.

The spec does not even require that compile time evaluation of an expression must match a runtime evaluation of the
same expression (8.20.6). When you hit that in code you're going to be surprised.

C/C++ is not required to round-trip floats/doubles when printed and parsed. stream formatting rounding modes are allowed (and are) not exact, leading to different behavior on formatting the same number on different systems.

Dealing with these led to compiler implementation defined behavior added due to market pressures, making C/C++ numerics less of a mess, not anything in the spec.

C/C++ has notoriously been bad at all this, which is why the history of it is littered with such bugs, errors, undefined behaviors, and dozens of compiler switches to try and mitigate such behavior.

For example, many compilers notoriously replaced high-precision Kahan summation with low-precision regular summation because optimizations tell the compiler that such things are allowed.

The state of the art in C/C++ is now passable, but it is still flawed, and has been historically very bad.

And all this met the C/C++ spec of the time. Because if the underlying representation does not require IEEE 754, then it cannot require only transformations for IEEE 754 without making other representations behave badly.
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Static typing is the whole point behind Haskell.

C - static typing + closures and GC ≈ Scheme. If I wanted to write in that style, I'd just use Gambit and be done with it.
Hate speech covers this, and it is illegal.

Recently, there's a cultural idiom that offense is completely in the eye of the beholder. What people often feel uncomfortable with is not banning hate speech, but reclassifying milder and milder forms of offense as intolerable. To extend your analogy, bumping into someone intentionally on the street makes you a jerk, but not criminally so. It's assault in only the loosest interpretation. People that have done this probably don't need to go to trial for it.
Crossrail: how Europe’s largest transport project stalled
I dunno about that.

It is one thing to put mall stores out of business because they aren't really competitive. (eg. nobody is going to cross-shop Victoria's secret and Target or American Eagle and Sears.) Heck, shopping at the mall is painful enough that I'm not going to cross-shop Old Navy and Target even though they are next door.

Many purchases are episodic that vendors are inclined to play "Prisoner's Dilemma" games with their customers. For instance, there was a time when WalMart had $20 sneakers that were certainly worth more than 1/5 of a pair of Brooks that cost $100. (At that price I'd buy two different colors because I liked both) Once I got in the habit of going to WalMart to get sneakers they switched to styles and construction that was awful and I got another pair of Brooks instead.

Grocery is competitive because you buy groceries every week so supermarkets have a strong incentive to keep you coming back by upholding their brand. That makes it much harder for Amazon to muscle in, whereas most of the stores at the mall have been coasting for years and until they started to fail they'd just say that people who think "mall stores suck" are just out of touch agoraphobic eggheads.
Useful in light of the U.S. experience: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...
i used to live in Uganda and almost all of the cast metal parts for everything there is Chinese (sold by local Indians). I remember buying screws to affix solar panels to my roof and I kept torquing off the heads of the screws. I took a closer look at one of broken ones and it was hollow! I didn't investigate further but I'm pretty the screw was hollow down the entire shank length. since then I've seen pejoratively refer to Chinese steel as chinesium and I'm inclined to agree.
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> Imagine a billboard that says "Joe is a deviant criminal".

The solution isn’t to ban billboards.
> This is when he discovered that the rod throws on the crank were ground almost 1/8″ too wide.

In precision machining where tolerances are typically measured in thousandths of an inch that's way beyond unacceptable. At this point trying to make it work is throwing good money after bad. The fact that he didn't even realize it until he was trying to fit it into an engine means he did no QC on his own too. This whole endeavor was destined to fail from the start. He seriously needed a business partner with actual manufacturing experience.
This was a really good and worthwhile analysis, thanks!

Despite the changes people are submitting, it's good to know about these different gotchas. And there may be one or two actual compiler enhancements that could be made here also.
>As indeed is provision of roads, fire trucks, police, military and so on. For some reason, people rarely call those out

Personally I would call out. But hey, so what if I did? As you rightly pointed out most people are convinced that they need the govt in their _many_ aspects of their lives. I'm outnumbered by people who think, that they can decide what is good for me as an individual.