skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that people can't ever discharge their loans makes it hard to imagine it "bursting" in the way that the housing market did in 2008. The whole notion of bursting is people collectively realizing their folly and everyone scrambling as quickly as possible to make out with whatever they've got left - like a run on a bank.

In this case there is no bank to run on - people will just continue to have their wages/benefits garnished to continue to repay these loans that they are forever tied to. I feel like there's not really a "burst" that can happen - just that hopefully there can be some sort of debt forgiveness program or something that will alleviate the burden of the debts.
This is about people being able to do the job from home. So no, this isn't the same thing.
I can totally see that happening too...

There is an upside to that terrible timeline though: an opportunity to have the new name be USB-C++
I have always seen him as a bit like William Durant. His use expires when the company is no longer trying to grow at 2x every 3 years.

Alternatively, he could dramatically change his approach as the business matures.
The nostalgia and innocence and discovry of childhood hit me so hard when I saw that logo
This analysis ignores the fact that the two modes (bus and AVs) load and discharge passengers very differently. The problem is not only the physical space AVs take when in motion on the road. See, e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/bus-b...

“How many people’s doors can a driver get to in an hour, including the minute or two that the customer spends grabbing their things and boarding? The intuitively obvious answer is the right one: not very many. An Eno Foundation report promoting microtransit could not cite a case study doing better than four boardings an hour of service. John Urgo, the planner of demand-responsive service for AC Transit in Oakland, California, has said that seven boardings an hour is “the best we hope to achieve.” Few fixed-route buses perform that poorly. Across sprawling Silicon Valley, for example, fixed-route buses carried 12 to 45 people an hour in 2015. In a dense city such as Philadelphia, the number can exceed 80”

Door-to-door transit simply cannot achieve the throughput of buses! Which is not to say door-to-door would not be profitable or even have a role in a mass system. It's probably an improvement over the current dominant mode (although my suspicion is that it's simply a slightly less bad local minimum).

But the point of the original article is to argue that certain groups of people (decision makers in cities, mostly), should not extrapolate from their own needs and preferences when designing a system designed for mass use, because they're by definition unusual and they're each N=1
More likely you two just don't live in the same city.

FWIW, my home city's bus service (Charlotte NC) is exactly like the commenter above describes. There is a city-wide bus service that runs about every hour or half-hour if you're lucky, but it's terrible (unreliable, slow, poorly maintained) and mostly used by people too poor to own a car or those who can't drive due to disability or DUI.

Then there's the nice "commuter" bus for a buck more, which only runs during peak commute times, only picks up from park-and-rides in the suburbs, and is mostly occupied by people who work nice office jobs in the big high-rises downtown.

The middle-of-the road workers all pretty much have to drive everywhere.
Even with some kind of authentication that doesn't change the fact that public USB outlets can still be rigged to fry your machine. The likelihood of it is probably incredibly small but I personally still wouldn't use public USB outlets.
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> What exactly am I missing from the whole issue, since I don't seem to be having any problems?

Dude, you're using a pair of headphones that cost more than most people's cellphones and laptops. Normals use years-old Android devices, out-of-date Windows 7 laptops and the absolute cheapest peripherals from the drug store.

Of course that stuff is going to be buggy.

Even the Nintendo Switch, due to its hardware, uses the highly unusual "myDP" USB-C display standard instead of conventional alternate mode.
This was the policy for any final exam at my alma mater.

You had to be rather certain that you were sufficiently wronged overall, otherwise a few points more on one question could be offset by a large number of negated points from other questions where the professor thought that the TA might have been too generous.
Would you be open to have a brief conversation on the phone for advice? My email is knariks@gmail.com.
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the development of double precision floating point, and the kalman algorithm, were two major improvements. Basically there is a computer at JPL that, given a location in the solar system and a current location of a ship, will give you instructions on when to burn. After you burn fuel to move, you update based on visual locations of known stars, fit a model, and do incremental burns until convergence.

The book Digital Apollo touches on a wide range of issues associated with building systems that can do this.
We bought this and have been having non-stop fun with it for months. It's an incredible piece of software that I only wish I knew about sooner. It gives a retro 70s-80s feel to making video games that gives kids today a hint of what it was like to learn how to program back then, without being overwhelmingly difficult or giving up modern conveniences (built-in spite and code editors, lexical scoping, first-class functions and hash-maps, etc).
Modern JavaScript is much more "clean" than Ruby to me. Can you gimme some example. I found the exactly oposite :))
Japan doesn't have any obligation to enable more immigration and give everybody jobs.
If they're all like this one, that would be puzzling indeed! Well done Mr. Spock!
What's exciting to me is, both the first interstellar object we've observed visiting our solar system (Oumuamua) and the first Kuiper Belt Object we've visited have been "unusual". That strongly suggests to me that the unusual is more usual than we would have suspected, which means there's probably a great deal of opportunity to increase our understanding of the universe!
The biggest gripe I have with modern day monorepos is that people are trying to use Git to interact with them, which doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense, and results in either an immense amount of pain and/or the creation of a bunch of tools to try to coerce Git into behaving basically like SVN.

Which of course begs the question, rather than trying to perform a bunch of unnatural acts, why not just use SVN to start with? It works extremely well with monorepo & subtree workflows.

Sure it has some warts in a few dimensions around branching, versioning, etc. compared to Git when using Git in ways aligned with how Git wants to work, but those warts are minimal in comparison to what's required to pretzel Git monorepos into scaling effectively.
Microsoft Hololens does a great job with gesture input onboarding and discoverability/usability in context of virtual keyboard use.
I do not "want" to be cross platform. I just want to use popular frameworks with a large adoption.

(Working well inside wine qualifies as popular for me)

I'd think 3.5 had a greater user base than .net core.
When you think about the vastness of space (even in our own star system), as well as the incredible amount of time involved since the formation of our system, many things that seem statistically unlikely probably become very likely. How many objects are in orbit around the Sun in this system? We probably only know a small fraction of them, since we can't see ones this small very well from this distance, and there could be many more that are even more distant. So really unlikely objects like this could be more common than you think.
We're not corresponding via email... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Between github, SMS, social media, IRC & slack, video-conferencing, blogs, RSS, etc., email has become the medium of last resort. I still get a lot of email, but it's mostly automated notifications, and I usually have to log in somewhere to actually recieve a document because email is insecure.
You can't have a second-hand market without a first owner market, and EV prices won't drop because ICE prices rise, they drop because competitors enter a market to meet expending demand for EV, and economies of scale and demand for better efficiencies for the more expensive components.

Generally speaking, dont like either the subsidy or the tax approach, but if the goal is to get more EV than ICE purchases, you're going to hurt a lot of people along the way by going the tax approach, and we're not set up to mediate the regressive effects of doing so.
I think the gist of that statement is that there is no "easy" money anymore, if there ever was. I'm pretty sure it would be quite difficult get rich by simply importing commodity Chinese products and marking them up in FBA -- this is something that a large retail organization like Amazon can do just as well for much cheaper than any individual can.

To stand a chance at making some money as a small business (and I'm saying the more typical "some money", not the "strike the motherlode" type language many of the make.money.fast type scams promote), you have to have a good product idea, and do the full work of the low-margin retail business, with all that this entails.

In this regard I do imagine it's possible to make some money via Amazon with a traditional retail business. But even though it's the behemoth of American e-commerce, Amazon probably should not be a product's only Internet retail outlet. (You should probably have your own e-commerce site for a start... and other more focused outlets, especially if they fit a product's niche -- like, say, Newegg for a computing oriented product -- should also be pursued.)
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Better title would be "Monorepos don't fit with my particular use case."
This particular problem pops up in quite a few domains. (We often refer to it as "phase unwrapping" in the geosciences.) The approach here is a good one so long as your noise doesn't result in lots of mistaken "wrap-arounds".

However, it will fail badly in the presence of noise in many cases. It's particularly problematic when the slope changes (e.g. a polynomial) or where the slope is high and the noise is high. (Note that polynomials are still linear in the sense mentioned here: linear regression).

At any rate, this is definitely a nice write-up, but a bit more discussion of where the approach breaks down would be useful. It's actually a classic example of an elegant solution that breaks down frequently in practice (i.e. it's commonly used as a teaching example in various courses). A better solution is usually more complex, domain specific, and therefore out-of-scope, but failure modes for this method make for a nice set of examples.
Thunderbird was outdated?

Yes, together with nearly any other MUAs except few termina's based ones and Emacs based one. And that's clearly demonstrate how someone decide to push them to the oblivion. Someone that's probably interest in webmails...

> didn't see the point of using an IMAP client

Well, me neither. I use a local client that's operate on my very personal, well backed-up, maildir. My "imap client" (mbsync) is a mere imap sync tools not much different than intra-server sync tools like Dovecot DSync...

On "the better" part... Well, for me is better to have my messages on my iron, to act on them locally so at lightspeed and without the need of a connection and an working remote imap just to search or refile or compose messages. Also I do not know why I may prefer to download my MUA anytime I access my mail (like webmails) when I can have one, lighter and powerful locally...

It's a matter of taste :-)

Someone like freedom, someone like jails. Mozilla most important "business" is a browser so essentially a modern way to the jail (not because of itself, of course). Perhaps they have to choose, perhaps since they move big money they have managers more interested in money and trends than in tech, or even incapable of really understand tech and simply following current trends trying to feel "up to date"...
> YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format.

Right. A platform for audio/video or in this case extremely inefficient file storage.

> Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format:

That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!
You can try archive.org. If no luck I can find my links when I get back to my home computer.
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If both were created at the same time, it would be a far different court case. I was assuming the case where the logo clearly predates the algorithm, because in that case you would get enough expert witnesses to testify that the logo was itself clean and thus it is extremely likely the algorithm was developed to specifically produce that image given the input.

If both were provably independently created at the same time, you would probably instead be having an uproar among scientists about the probability for such an event happening. It may still cause issues because the probability of such an event is so small, that the probability of the proof of their being independently created being wrong is the far more likely event.
The CIA and NSA called, they said "Yeah".
They actually managed to predict the bi-lobed shape by keeping track of when the shadow of the object swept different points on the Earth’s surface. Amazing.
Have helped some >10M year companies sell new, remaindered and used books on Amazon/Ebay 10 out of the last 15 years.
...selling is the easier part.
...shipping quickly and profitably is harder.
...finding profitable inventory is very very difficult.
I'm unsure how blender is organized but they seem to compete with the proprietary competition on a much higher level. Does blender have so many more developers working on it than Gimp?

Edit: Seems like blender is indeed better funded: https://fund.blender.org/
Nothing crazy tough.
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The Model S is quite a bit more expensive than a 3 Series. Perhaps you meant the Model 3, which is still competitively priced with the 3 series?
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How was the Model S in the same price range as a 3 series? A Model S started around $70k after the tax credit was taken into account, a 3 series starts at about $40k. Do you mean the Model 3, rather than the S?
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So Italy is in the bubble :) Good to know

So many positions for sw. engineers and so little experienced professionals to fulfill all those job openings, at least in my zone.
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This.

It seems like it boils down to IQ, trait conscientiousness and the randomness inherently present in a complex, dynamical system.

I think people understimate or ignore the randomness aspect because you can't measure the way in which it contributes. But it's such an important factor. Randomness can generate circumstances that push and pull people at all ends of the distribution in all different directions. That not a trivial thing.

The detractors seem to want to focus on "well it's not a perfect predictor". Right. And you're not going to get one in a complex, dynamical system such as this.

But in case you were looking for some model that paints a roughly accurate picture in broad strokes, here's one we prepared earlier.
> But probably the most memorable pearl of wisdom is what I have come to call the valley creed. Early on at Apple they took me for a walk and said “Pete my boy, there are three basic rules that apply to a career in the valley, and if you can accept these rules, then you can thrive here. If not, then you should leave” — of course I said, “Ok, what are they?”. Walt said, “#1 — there is no justice”. “#2 — there is no mercy”, and “#3 — this is the most important — are you paying close attention Pete? — #3 is....no one cares”. There you have it – the valley creed.

This is good life advice.
This sounds to me like the prof tried to tell IT what to do instead of explaining to IT what he wanted to accomplish.

If you came up to me and said "Hey I want to plug in my own router in my office so I can have my own little WiFi network for my projects" I'd tell them no, it's against policy, against SOP, against best everything, and it would be an unmanaged, insecure, non-company asset (probably with default credentials and unpatched firmware). I would then just nod my head at his hemming and hawing and invite him to go over my head.

Now... If you came up to me and said "Hey I've got a ton of wireless devices in my office that are related to my work. What would be the best way for me to network them all together and isolate them from the rest of the network?" I'd gladly draw up a plan to get the task done, order the assets that I want in my shop (with company money), configure it the way I want, and then roll it out and keep tabs on it.

Just doing whatever you want on the network because IT won't let you is asking for trouble, and could/should get you fired.
And there's always the "get rich by self publishing on Amazon" scheme where you buy the book that tells you how to get rich by self publishing on Amazon and copying and selling it to others.
Contact binaries are fairly common. Expected to make up about 10-15% of NEOs. My layman's understanding of how Kuiper object contact binaries develop is mutual capture during the early life of the solar system and angular momentum decay until they come into contact.
the comet rosetta visited was quite similar. it's either humanity's dumb luck or those things are more common than previously thought.