skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen! My favorite thing I've learned as a Boy Scout leader is the EDGE method of learning (Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, and Enable). If we as parents spent more time teaching our kids skills in a methodical way (which doesn't necessarily mean doing so in a lengthy way), then our kids would feel so much more empowered to be truly independent. I've also found that taking the the approach of "inviting" them to learn a new skill (and using the EDGE method to teach it) can be so much more powerful than attempting to force them to learn. When we do that, we often default to teaching them using only one method rather than the multi-method approach of EDGE.
Actually, Outlook GraphQL reusing the idea of batch JMAP calls.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/of...
Reminds me of the Northwest Angle, which requires you to cross the Canada border to get back into a small piece of America that is self-contained within Canada. And odd piece of geographic borders: https://lakeofthewoodsmn.com/northwest-angle/
What's the current cost of sucking a gallon of gasoline's worth of CO2 out of the atmosphere?
Perhaps, if the people would allow it.

Theoretically you could end up in a loop where the people vote in Party A in a minority government, then Parties B+C oppose a budget bill, an election is held, Party A is re-elected into a minority government, and Parties B+C oppose a budget bill, and so on.

But it's important to recognize that blocking a budget is a risky manoeuvre. In all likelihood the above cycle would never happen more than once or twice because people find elections irritating. If people think you called an election frivolously then voters will punish you at the polls; in the above example people would eventually get pissed off at B and C and break the cycle by giving A a majority so that they can pass their budget without opposition support.

The important thing is that in the Westminster system (e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) if Parliament loses the ability to pass important bills then it results in an election. It keeps the opposition parties honest insofar that they have to be confident that they would actually gain in the polls in order for them to force an election by blocking the government. They can't just block things without repercussions.
The analysis about execution quality of VCs gives me validation for being frustrated a huge swathe of the VC industry. The bar is shockingly low. I'm surprised the long tail gets in any deals at all given how lazy most of their execution is. So many of them are just farming out associates to send spammy drip emails from Salesforce.

This is such a niche market (how many investable companies are there?), I don't see how it works for most of them at all. Every deal we did at Ionic involved a very attentive and responsive partner on the other end, and our first conversation with that firm was always through a partner rather than an associate/analyst.

I suppose we're in a capital bubble and when this long tail comes back with awful returns for their LPs this issue might sort itself out.
Now that's a straw man. Congratulations.
I've found myself reminiscing about the power switch on old PCs (XT/AT era). Bit of force needed to move, made a nice heavy clunk, and of course it seriously shut off the power.
"Cities existed before without cars"

Without engine powered vehicles yes, though man power and horse powered (with the loads of poop that come from the animals) were there though.. (unrelated note, personally, imho, i dislike horses more then cars)
Yeah, grow up. Be a wheel in the machine. Waste your life away sitting in traffic. Breathe in that toxic air. Risk life and lim every day so the trip to Walmart is a little shorter. This guy has arthritis and this guy is out of shape and has a kid, so let’s continue this insane dance to make it easier for them.
A 1 million salary for a CEO of a hospital is nothing thogh. Any specialist doctor makes that much.

Hospitals are pretty expensive and probably super inefficient: they are 30% of NHE spending.
Trump accepts deal for temporary end to painful shutdown
I had a co-worker pull this once. Let's call him Larry. Larry is not his name. It wasn't because of management, although Larry was not a great fan of the management. It's because there was a woman in our work group Larry was head-over-heels in love with. She resigned the right way, with several weeks' notice, because she and her husband were moving to another state. (Larry was not her husband.) Her last day at work was the last time we ever saw or heard from Larry.
Yea he's pretty much just spouting racist nonsense now.
The strange thing about slippery slope is that it is both a logical fallacy and an effective means to accomplish political objectives (of course one does things incrementally)

Left wing conspiracies are usually narrow in scope: the Republican party, the Koch brothers, George Soros, Dick Cheney, the Oil Industry, its not really the same as a intra-national conspiracy that transcends party lines.
A Language's Popularity Could Influence Its Grammar and Vocabulary
How is WhatsApp using libsignal without being obligated to disclose their source code - as it's licensed under GPL?
I don't want someone to tell me what's "true" or what's "real" by refering me to the so called "facts".
Sounds like a slippery slope to me...

It sounds at a first reading as though you’d feel everything since the Enlightenment has been a slippery slope. To be fair to YouTube though, if you want an environment devoid of “what’s ‘true’ or ‘what’s real’ by referring [you] to the so-called ‘facts,’” then YouTube seems like it should be your paradise. I watch mostly technical, science, and history videos, but apparently YouTube interprets that as a preference for ranting conspiracists and people who make Joe Rogan look like a gentleman and a scholar. I can only imagine the trash it throws up if you actually seek it out!

If you want to create a bubble of people saying things totally divorced from anything like reality, what more could you ask for than YouTube?
The short answer is that we're great at compensating for CO2 variation, but only if it's constantly elevated for days or more.

The long answer:

I think the clarifying reference here is 'respiratory acidosis', which is the general name for what blood acidification that comes from CO2 exchange problems instead of internal sources. It's diagnosed as a disease when people exceed a threshold pH, but the body's behavior is the same before that. Acidosis is diagnosed in two forms, acute and chronic. Predictably, both represent the same problem of too-low blood pH, but acute is more extreme and shorter term. What's relevant here is the difference in subsequent outcomes.

Regardless of what's driving the acidification, the body responds first by making more bicarbonate, then by excreting more carbonic acid and reabsorbing more bicarbonate. The production response happens on the order of an hour, but heavily undercompensates for acidification. The reabsorption response happens over several days, and multiplies the effect of the first response for full compensation.

This makes the problem with acute acidosis obvious: you suffer symptoms much faster than you adjust. A weaker version of the same effect is what happens when you go into a high-CO2 space. Chronic acidosis, meanwhile, creates two different concerns:

First, can the body compensate for CO2 levels? If bicarbonate production is disrupted or acidification is very severe (e.g. late-stage emphysema), it's possible to exceed the bounds of compensation and end up with an extended form of the acute symptoms. For our purposes, though, this isn't a concern; at sub-disease levels, the only people who can't compensate probably can't produce bicarbonate at current levels either.

Second, does the compensation have health consequences? Chemically, we see slightly elevated serum levels of Ca and K, but even serious acidosis rarely requires any response. Experimentally, submarine atmospheres are substantially higher in CO2 than poorly-ventilated houses or global warming projections, but animal experiments show basically no effect and submariners don't show obvious problems.
Here’s my salary to help ppl negotiate:

I worked for KPMG previously (within 12 months) and made 140k as an AWS Architect (designing the environment and then building it out in the GUI).

This was in Dallas, Texas so good amount of money.

If you’re going into any consulting company as a cloud person or devops person with more than 2 years experience, anything less than 120k isn’t acceptable if you’re a US citizen.
FYI Once a stubborn man is named the crime will either be found or invented.
Elon Musk's Secretive Foundation Benefits His Own Family
The idea of the fall of civilsation following such an event is ludicrous.

Given emergencies, governments can setup the necessarily laws and contingencies to put focus on rebuilding the electrical infrastructure. The army has generators, which can be used to bootstrap building more and setting up makeshift transformers. Building transformers is not black magic. Nationalising eletricity-related patents and some companies to put resource on what matters and gearing up the rebuilding can be voted on rapidly.
Right, and if the costs of running your business are greater than the revenue you can generate from market demand, then you are not running a viable business.
take a bus. or tram, metro, or train. When there's no cars on the road to compete with and enough demand to make 5-10 minute departure intervals viable, public transit can be a very efficient and convenient option.

Making the city center car free and making the city center motor vehicle free are not the same thing.
I am French living in Switzerland, sorry but private health care is a scam. Switzerland choose to privatize insurance because it would be supposedly better and cheaper. 10-15% inflation a year on premiums.
The golden rule is almost the opposite of quid pro quo ("you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours")

A common statement of it is "Do unto others as you would have them do to you". It has equivalents across human history and cultures. It says nothing about the actions of others.
No, it wasn’t. And life expectancy is mostly a function of infant mortality. And no they weren’t. The car didn’t liberate disabled people. If you’re going to say stupid things like that no one is going to listen to you.
Google releases dataset to train more sophisticated question-answering systems
You call yourself a tinkerer yet you have no idea what the implications of losing right to repair is. Kind of disturbing to have that knowledge and still have this mentality.
Can I just say how immensely well written the first two paragraphs are?

So clear and concise. Telling em upfront what will be discussed.

The article itself is many pages long but I feel like I know exactly what I am in for and whether or not it is for me or not, so I know whether or not it will be worth the read for me or not. Thank you!
So much good in here, thanks for sharing!

>For my mother, privacy is not just a personal boundary or a practical concern but an instinct, and something like an ethos: She has a deep revulsion to the idea of something private circulating in public context. She dislikes having her picture taken and hates having it shared; it removes her right to represent herself.

>As I circled my parents’ house with my phone, I claimed to be acting in good faith…But…I was trailing the threat of an unknown audience through her space.
straight up, you don't know how to read.

>But what Mr. Yasharahla might view as great, others call something else: hate.
>But Ms. Beirich said that groups like Hebrew Israelites were also anti-gay, anti-white and anti-Semitic.
That's so contorted an interpretation that I think it's enough to just say it's not what we mean.

No more of this, please.
"It drives the modern economic engine"

Yeah kind of what I was thinking. I suppose if you could reliably separate car a business tool from car as personal transport. I fear you'd just get everyone setting up as 'builders' and 'delivery drivers' though.

I also think that outside of dense city centres you'd run into competition and economy of scale issues. If you're only now within range of one shop for x, prices are likely to increase in short order. And that shop will have less shoppers.
In the US they have one year to file. In UK, EU, and most other countries public disclosure bars them from filing a patent application.

But there is no way to really be sure. Because they may have filed something before or after (within the 1 year) public disclosure.
I think it's important to recognize, though, that in many cases, heavy road users' road use is subsidized by lighter road users. Roads are expensive both in terms of construction/maintenance and land use, they're mostly not paid for by user fees anymore (gas taxes cover a relatively small share, and same for tolls), and many people benefiting from these subsidies are doing so for lifestyle choice reasons and not out of necessity -- like, they're choosing to live in a rural area far away from infrastructure and then expecting government to build and maintain low-traffic roads to provide them access, or they're choosing to live in an exurb and commute an hour every day, or whatever.

Yours is not that case. You have a medical need, as do many people. But it's still reasonable to move away from the mentality that's common in the US of viewing road use and car use as a human right, and towards one that's about explicitly opting into or out of trade-offs about how best to make use of limited road space and government funds. Specifically: if we're going to subsidize road use, should we subsidize all of it, and if so, all of it at the same rate? I think you make a good case for why people with mobility restrictions should have access to such a subsidy, but I don't think it follows that because they should, everyone should. Maybe people who are able to take the bus or walk should have incentives to do so, or disincentives to not do so.
I am fully in the hate-cars bandwagon and I don't drive myself, but I have no objection to any sorts of park-n-ride style solutions. Cars are very time-efficient for long journies and they aren't terribly fuel-inefficient for those long journies considering how much infrastructure investment would be needed to establish good rail service, but within a city cars are silly.

I've always wanted to establish high tolls on entering dense urban areas, you can leave all the roads as-is but introduce a high tax on driving that last mile and supply free busing to compensate, some rich dudes will still drive everywhere but after a few years of high tolls you could probably ban cars outright with good public support.
I'm using compiled libraries for all my heavy lifting—the Python code is there to glue those libraries together in convenient manner that allows for exploratory programming. GIL-free CPython would let me distribute computations across multiple cores without having to deal with the overhead of multiprocessing (serializing objects across process boundaries, etc.).
I think the front-ends would remain completely separate, and the back-ends would be namespaced by a platform.

For instance: facebook.users, facebook.ads, facebook.feed, facebook.messenger, facebook.instagram, facebook.whatsapp.

This way, users and ads would be shared across all Facebook's platforms, which is, I believe, the main reason for the entire integration.
If you were trying to hire Jimi Hendrix to play guitar for you, would you make him audition by playing Mary Had a Little Lamb? Don't dictate what they should play, let them show you what they got.
Yes it is possible, but instead of 30 minutes each way by car it takes 1.5 - 2 hours each way depending on how well the different transportation systems correspond.

With a three year old and a seven year old it's not so easy.
Life expectancy was not 40 years. People who did not die in childhood generally lived to their 70s.
That doesn't match the people advocating for less cars around me at all. Children and elderly are massive users of good public transport networks, where they exist, because they can't or don't want to use cars if it can be avoided. (And places where cars are absolutely not an option are very rare, so less cars can often benefit people who absolutely need cars)
Socialized systems can engage in agressive cost-cutting, meaning that the poor use the public system and the better off private system. Thats how it is in argentina as well.
Look at the times for Google where they loaded jQuery: because it's using an external CDN, the initial connection time (80ms) is greater than the total transfer time (69ms) on a relatively fast connection. It would be faster to serve it from your own server and then you also don't have to deal with things like SRI to maintain the same level of security.
> Obviously if someone couldn't figure out any of these, they'd be a bad hire

Patently false.
Which European city centres are car free?

Let's just think about capitals. London? Brussels? Paris? Berlin? Dublin? Lisbon? Bern? Rome?

None of these places are car free. You can go on Google maps and see cars everywhere. So we know 'all' is nonsense for a start. And 'most' is looking pretty doubtful already.
I would go a step further. Please don't show me code. Show me runtimes, interesting problems, and MAYBE a line that shows "Aw gee! Thats easy!"
I have always given two weeks notice. I was not necessarily crazy about those I gave it to, but none of the employers truly counted as toxic.

I have seen co-workers simply vanish. This did not necessarily have to do with their disagreements with the employer. It was disconcerting. Did the guy fall off the face of the earth?
> Here's more nursery school level life advice: respect is a two-way street.

Treat people well, and they generally will in return. Sometimes they don't - but does that change who you are?
I like seeing code being ran live though, even if the change is a couple of characters.
Trump announces deal to end shutdown and temporarily reopen government
In winter Oslo averages 10C lower high temperatures and an hour and half less sunlight than Amsterdam. Oslo is also less dense, and spread around both sides of a fjord.
Memories Can Be Saved with Pulses of Electricity
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=temperatures+in+oslo+v...

Oslo is 5 deg celsius colder in winter than Amsterdam. You sometimes have sub-0, for them it's a norm.

There is a big difference between 5C-10C and 0C (a Warsaw-native here, which is closer in terms of temperatures to Oslo)
Cool, scrape any web content, some limitations I found - links aren't opening. Will check back later. africasiaeuro.com/cloud
Hell, some companies will even walk you out (terminate, fire) when you give notice, and deny you the two weeks earning you would've made. I've seen this happen at multiple companies, to multiple people, myself included.
I also live in Amsterdam, and while I bike to work every day my wife isn't as confident in the snow and when it snowed this past week took the tram.

On that day two full trams passed her stop before she was able to get on one. Something that otherwise never happens in the city.

So I think you've got a very different impression of how Amsterdammers stop cycling when there's a bit of snow. My own impression is that there's at least a 10x difference in the number of cyclists the day after some snow at rush hour compared to the same time of day on a weekday in the summer months when you can bike to work in a T-shirt.

Also, as someone from further up north than Oslo you may not be appreciating the logistical difference in cycling in the sort of snow they get up there v.s. what you get in Amsterdam. Most of the time when it snows in Amsterdam you've got 2-3 cm at most, no icing, and major cycle paths clear up down to the asphalt on at least the center-line by 8:30 at the latest.

None of which means you need a car. I cycled to work year round to work when I lived in Iceland, but it's definitely a very different challenge. You need studded tires, a mountain bike etc.
Perennial grains could be a climate change weapon, if researchers increase yield
Also remote devops remotes in SF and NY that require 1 week of travel a month at most are in the 180-200k from what I’ve seen.

These are the top salaries I’ve seen if you’re committed to living somewhere inexpensive like I am.

This assumes 3 years+ of experience. DevOps is harder experience to get sometimes so just study cloud architecture and engineering which is similar. That whole field lends itself to self-study.
I agree. I've found a host of new artists this way. I've taken to subscribing to a few choice channels that have live performances (mostly local radio stations). There are a few that do a thing where they have a band on and the do one original and one cover - sometimes I end up finding two new bands.
Old people are often capable of walking as well. Or taking transit. It's in best interests to encourage the elderly to stay fit and capable.

A better question is how do disabled people get around, and how do we prevent people from becoming disabled.

Obesity and lack of activity often cause disabilities more than age.
Could be re-titled as "Which duopoly eco-system is for you? A pangyric of user lock-in".
> "Technically" O(n) is the only O(n).

In idealized algorithmic analysis, but not necessarily real life. "Amortized O(1)," which I assume you concede is a commonly-used, meaningful and legitimate term, means "technically" an idealized O(>1) but O(1) in practice.

Calling memcpy inside a Ruby method call is amortized O(1) because for any "n" that fits within available memory, it will always be much faster than the other things in a Ruby method call, which involve dozens of locks, hash table lookups with string keys, dynamic type checks, additional Ruby method calls and so forth.

Likewise, computational complexity on an idealized Von Neumann machine isn't always the same on a real computer, in both directions. Dynamic allocations are theoretically O(n) but may be O(1) if the program never exceeds the preallocated space. Or suppose there were a loop over an array of pointers which dereferenced each pointer; the dereferences are theoretically O(1) but may be O(n) if they evict the parent array from the cache.

> What is the common case in your view?

Such as an array small enough that it can be copied with 10 or fewer vector load/stores.

> O(3n) = O(2n) = O(n)

Yes, that's my point. It's impossible to implement the example in less than idealized O(n) time, so O(n) and O(1) operations are equivalent complexity-wise WRT the entire method.
The power-train is everything from wheels to engine. Where as drive-train is the power-train minus the engine.

The transmission is the most complicated part of the drive-train and arguably more complicated than all of the other drive-train components combined. In current EVs there is no transmission, just a single reduction gearbox.

In an EV the engine is dramatically simplified compared to an ICE and there are significantly fewer parts and almost no moving parts in comparison.

Another thing to consider is that all internal combustion engines have multiple supplementary systems that are required to function such as cooling, fuel delivery, and ignition. At most an EV motor might require supplementary cooling but no commercial vehicle has one that I'm aware of.
Experience of Building a Hybrid Mobile App with Ionic
And the average human has roughly one testicle and breast.
I took half of ML before. The pace is a bit slower and topics are slightly different. ML goes into using random forests and focuses more on working on structured data. I think if you have programming experience and are more interested in Deep Learning than the Deep Learning course is great.