skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already have a designated desk area against the wall, we're talking about adding a footprint for a couple of 5cm thick walls which is already my personal space anyway, the only difference is actually enclosing it instead of letting people wander into it because the office is already full.
Yeah this was anything but random.
That was a lot of words to describe what speculation is. Enron was really good at booking future values as fact. Capitalism runs on fictitious future values.
For comparison, the fatality rate for motor traffic in the US was 8.25 deaths per billion passenger-miles in 2016 ([0], [1], my calculation). There were 7.1 trillion passenger-km of global passenger air traffic flown in 2016 [2]. 100,000 deaths (your estimate) in 7.1 trillion passenger-km is equivalent to 22.6 deaths per billion passenger-miles (my calculation).

In other words, if all global passenger flights were on 737 max planes and the fatality rate continued, flying would be a little under 3x as deadly as driving on US roads on a per-passenger-mile basis, based on your estimate.

[0] https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles

[1] (PDF) https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[2] https://www.icao.int/annual-report-2016/Pages/the-world-of-a...
It could be tied to Leopold Kohr's observations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#Philosophy
and to the way our typical political party hacks his platform in order to gain votes. In some ways 'quantity kills quality'.
How is it a loophole?

Is the loophole that you can export food? California exports a lot of food, apparently $20 billion/year worth of it (see https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/). Is there a reason why this food should be different?

Is the loophole that a foreign company owns the farms? There's a lot of foreign investment in other industries in California (and everywhere). Is there a reason why this industry should be different?

I'm just not seeing what is unique about this.
Debate about birth of new neurons in adult brains extends to Alzheimer’s disease
> I find it fairly rare for developers that I work with that think of Big O considerations when writing their code.

Every time I choose between a set and a vector in code, I'm essentially drawing on my knowledge of their big-O properties to choose the right one for whatever task I have at hand.

I wouldn't say that's the only piece of CS theory I use, either. I routinely run across problems that are best modeled as DAGs (any dependency relationship between items boils down to this quickly). I use DB theory any time I design a database table. I draw on language theory to write parsers.

Most of it is reflexive, I think, at this point, but it doesn't change that a "vector" is the right structure b/c I don't need O(1) lookup, or I'd like indexing.
I don't think they own most of their locations. They're just leasing long-term and subleasing short-term.
t-mobile has a USD 3/month pay-as-you-go plan.

(I don't live in the US, but keep a T-mobile sim card active for when I travel there).
Yeah, what's the problem here? Presumably Facebook won't get the data on the legal owner of the number.
You're not completely wrong but O&G don't really hire all-star software developers. Most of the software is complete crudware with asp/dated mssql back ends and just buckets of bad and legacy code.

I've also seen a lot of geo/petro phsycists/processors intentionally not want to help because they know heavy automation endangers their job.
One tool that doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves is Marginnote. I spent a bit more money than I should have on it, but in terms of reading, annotating, and making notes from PDF's I don't think there's anything else even close. I particularly love the ability to create a mindmap, flashcards for spaced repetition, and native export to evernote. https://www.marginnote.com/
This is super weird because that min-width has no positive effects. It just makes things worse on smaller screens. Removing it makes the page fully responsive and usable on all screen sizes.
I think I'll go work for a defense contractor instead.
Do you read HN? When we're not lamenting that someone wrote something new in JS, we go back to our mainstay of humble-bragging about our hard ball negotiating strategies.

I'll quickly summarize the majority of HN conversation for the uninitiated: if a potential employer asks you to write something on a white board or solve a take home coding problem, politely gather your things, leave, and start contributing to an open source Rust project until a more ethical employer makes you an offer. Follow the same procedure if a potential employer has an open office, uses recruiters, or employs anyone with the job title "Scrum Master."

But to answer your question, apparently like everyone that posts to HN. ^_^
Does not matter people will still want to avoid 737 Max8. You should just respect that and move on.
The loophole is in the flat rate for water access on that tract of land.
Not with the strides we've been making in fuel efficiency.

An EV pays no gasoline taxes, but has similar impact on the roads to any other car. Now, EVs are a good thing... but they do expose issues with paying for transport via gas taxes.
No mention of whether Apple+Goldman Sachs will take over the 0% financing currently handled by BarclayCard for new Apple products. That company’s implementation is antithetical to the values expressed by Apple at this announcement: they retroactively apply interest if you miss a payment or don’t pay off the balance before the promotional period ends; the promo period varies by the amount purchased and the dates only appear on a PDF of the statement; rewards are doled out only after accruing at a certain amount (expressed as points), etc
Seriously. This is long overdue. The city should also charge market pricing for street parking and eliminate large swaths of street parking: https://www.city-journal.org/html/high-cost-free-parking-146..., but this is a good, if tardy, start.
I'm at the WeWork in downtown, used to work at the CTRL Collective nearby before it got closed. Any advice? My WeWork is OK, but I'm always looking for a better deal.
What could possibly go wrong....

https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/01/17/fortnite-security-flaw-e...
That should have said between, not below.

Also, I'll add a link to http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map . Essentially this shows the transmitter and receiver locations for low power beacons, which might give you a sense of what HF propogation looks like. It will vary according to the time of day and solar conditions.
Part of the problem is the NYC transit is frantically doggy paddling to keep its head above water. Decades of underfunding tunnel maintenance is coming due.
It's not a great experience to work for an algorithm.
And this is just on Steam, not including PS4 and XB1.
That’s not how it works.

“except StopIteration” only watches for the specific StopIteration exception coming from the next() call on the Iterator (the bit included in the try block).

If there was then an, for example, “except Error” line afterwards, then anything that causes an Error exception (ValueError, TypeError etc) would call those lines.

If you get any exception that has not been explicitly referenced in an except clause, then the program will halt, with that exception as the error output.
Same in NZ. People who work for more... insular... American companies here are regularly embarrassed by being unable to use their corporate card (because e.g. IBM mandate Amex) most of the places they go.
Unpopular opinion: They didn't actually promise anything that wasn't in the game at launch or say anything that wasn't true.
> When color is the primary means of status description that is discriminatory, because blind people cannot perceive color in any way. The status must be described in some other way equally for all users

Yes, agreed. That's why you should provide a non-colour-based indicator of the status, AND ALSO make sure the colours work for partially vision impaired people (or colourblind, etc).

If the information is technically accessible, but in an awkward and hard-to-use format compared to the sighted version of that information, then it's not really accessible. Making colourblind people read awkward labels when you could just as easily use colourblind-compatible colours is inaccessible. I am not confusing presentation and semantics, I am just saying that both are involved in creating accessible content.
Not finding significant pipelines. That's pretty easy if you want to do it.
So do you feel the same way about console makers? Every game that ships for any console has to be approved by the console maker - including physical media. It’s been that way since the 80s.
You're probably seeing a different part of academia than I am. The portions of CS academia I'm familiar with don't do O(log n) addressing.
Labor is one thing but I'm really talking about how expensive it would be to get access to dozens of live rigs and tons of data.
I pray for the day that Tensorflow has an official rust (or scala) api.
No, I just had to open a support ticket. That said, it definitely added significant friction to signing up, and took two days for the ticket to be approved.
No it can't, Google isn't the only "App Store" in town, and you are not forced to use them, so it in no way could apply.
> Purchasing insurance across state borders would increase competition and statistical averaging of premium to payout ratio.

No, it won't. They'll all move to the most corporate-friendly state. This already happened with credit cards - half the issued credit cards come out of Delaware.
> I think there are already time O(log n) multiplier circuits out there.

This only can be magic! It's not possible!
Simple calculator written in pure HTML (no script) – proof of concept
I definitely agree on the over-promised features. I was severely disappointed on launch, as was just about everyone else I think. They should not have promised what they did, and they shouldn't have launched at the price they did. They definitely should've playtested and done more Q&A before launch.

Now considering that, I do think that they seem to have made the best out of the situation they were in. Hello Games seems to be a lot more open, not promising things they can't deliver, and they've been quietly bringing the game up to where they said it would be. It really seems like they're trying to make restitution and do things the right way, this time around. That says a lot to me about where they want to be in the future and what they've learned from what they did.
Electric usage taxes or separate metering and rates for EV charging will be coming. That or much higher registration fees to offset the lost fuel tax revenue, which has already started happening.
> pedestrian injuries/deaths

The Dodgers actually got their name from the high rate of pedestrian fatalities in NYC, albeit from trolleys.

Traffic has been causing problems in NYC for over a century.
what do you mean by we will pay more than UK? Comparing medicare for all to Obamacare makes no sense.
Not when there's no phone anywhere near your thigh. Have personally experienced that enough to know for sure it's a thing.
IIRC they got in trouble for not being forthcoming about basic questions about the game close to launch.

However, we as humanity really need to give people the opportunity to make things right. And Hello Games surely did that by implementing just about everything they said they would including multiplayer over the next few years.
I was wondering if there is any legal recourse for a situation where:

1. I create a business that operates inside a marketplace that you own.
2. We have an agreement that says you will allow me to operate as long as I don't violate your terms of service.
3. I am kicked out of the marketplace but did not violate the TOS.

If there was a line in the agreement that the either party could terminate the agreement at anytime for any reason, I guess the TOS doesn't really matter. But is that what exists right now in these app stores?
That's beyond insane.
Didn't they take away the level playing field when they created the playing field?
They lost almost a billion dollars last year.

Doesn't profitability rely on eventually being able to replace drivers with automated systems?

I feel sorry for the drivers at that hotel.
Show HN: Crowdsourced map of workplaces around the world
Tesla Delaying Deliveries of Standard Range Model 3
> How is it a loophole?

The “140-year-old loophole” is the free-of-charge 1877 federal unquantified water rights grant in Blythe, which they (among others) are exploiting.
More like decades of incompetence and corruption.
This is pretty much the essence of crony capitalism. Unfortunately I have to say Democrats are catching up to republicans on that department led by Pelosi and friends.
It doesn't really matter how it's built; all the waste heat will be visible and the short-wavelength light won't be.
Airwallex claims unicorn status with $100m funding
Google suspended my account but kept adwords running
Deciding 'whether to do business with someone or not' is one of the kinds of freedoms capitalism is supposed to protect.

Outside of a standard set of specific reasons for which it is agreed to be illegal to refuse business (race, sex, orientation etc..), no business is supposed to be able to be compelled -by the government- to associate or transact with another. Instead, boycotts are used by the public themselves (rather than via government strongarming) or by company-to-company action to persuade companies to adjust their behaviour to meet expectations of what is ethically appropriate.

In arrangement, the expectation is not that companies are 'neutral' but that they are sufficiently moderated by public will. This freedom not-to-transact is what allows things such as boycotts of Apartheid South Africa, boycotts of companies that abuse their workers or run sweatshops etc.

There are plenty of ways to rearrange things outside of a Capitalist model, but once you decide to have Capitalism but 'prevent boycotting on political grounds' you're basically suggesting that Capitalism ought to be stripped of one of its extremely few mechanisms for ethical feedback. The implications of that ought to scare you.
I think “loophole” already covers the fact that this is technically legal. The issue raised in TFA is a question of whether or not this should be legal.
Tourists don't use the subway much. It's rather confusing and even scary.
Believe it or not, even the routing to google data centers can be improved.
That's fair I didn't think about EVs. For now their adoption rate is low enough that Gas Taxes are still a decent stand in (~2-4% it sounds like with quick googling). https://bnef.turtl.co/story/evo2018?teaser=true

In the future though it probably will be a bigger problem. I suppose you could add similar sales taxes to public paid charging stations, but without separately metering home charging you'll probably still miss the bulk of EV users. Either the separate metering or a mileage reporting/road tax seem like they could fairly account for EV usage though.
Ambient temperature in the Herald Square station (one of the biggest) in the summer is often well over 100 degrees, humid, and stagnant, while the platforms and tracks are filthy and smell like mold and pee everywhere. During rush times, there are half the number of necessary cars so you're crammed up against strangers. There's no way to tell when the trains are coming. 5 will get you 10 this tax does nothing to improve the subway.
Sorry but you are doing too many generalizations here. Comparing ACA to M4All is almost criminal. To see who the ACA served you can simply look at the stock prices of major health insurance companies.
The problem with your incremental change is that you are again leaving 30 million Americans uninsured.
Well but (I think) what you're talking about now is the complexity of the 'wrapper' function I posed, not the complexity of the hypothetical algorithm I started out with. Yes you can add an indirection that converts it back into O(1) but the original, but that wasn't the point. I think. But then again, maybe what your second paragraph is saying is exactly that? I'll admit that I lost track of things somewhere between writing my original comment, switching back and forth to my code between compiles and now being back here :)

Also, I don't understand what you mean by 'mathematically pure', but that's on my end.
> In this case SA isn’t doing anything unlawful.

That's why the article is calling attention to the “140-year-old loophole” that is being exploited.

> If they want to disallow water to be diverted to farming, that’s one thing, but singling one entity in this whole deal seems to be odd.

They are singling out a federal grant from when the part of California involved was essentially uninhabited and the Colorado River wasn't heavily used that gives unlimited, no-usage-charge water to users in the particular locality where the Saudi farm is located.
There'd need to be some central authority (like you said) doing the certificate issuing that verifies that you are, indeed, a human, and that your a unique human that they haven't already given a certificate to.

Chances are they'd want more than a phone number; probably a photo ID or something as well, else their value proposition isn't very strong.

I'm not sure if that's better for privacy and safety than many services asking for just a phone number (which I can generate a semi-throwaway Google Voice number for).
Part of it is that there's very casual, conversational usages of Big O vs. much more formal usages when trying to actually quantify performance.

Conversational Big O tends to include a lot of spherical cows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow), because when Big O comes up in conversation, people are more likely to be talking in generalities about high level designs. More detail could be counterproductive in that context.

When someone is actually trying to quantify and predict performance of an algorithm, then the other extreme becomes desirable- the more detailed and specific the function, the better.
Nice.

There's a long history of printing globes on icosahedrons, e.g. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map.

You can find plenty of printable versions online, including of other planets.
A programming language agnostic type construction and interchange language
> I don’t want to turn this into a Redis commercial, but I will say that it (and systems like it) have a lot to offer when you start thinking about things in terms of time complexity, which you should! It’s not premature optimization to think about Big O upfront, it’s programming and I don’t mean to sound snotty about that! If you can clip an O(n) operation down to O(log n) then you should, don’t you think?

The thing is, I don't care about 'time complexity', I care about performance. Big O can serve as a useful datapoint for what the performance may be, but it's only that, one data point. e.g. It's not uncommon to find that a 'worse' algorithm/data structure in Big O terms will out perform a 'better' one because the 'worse' one has better cache locality. So no I don't think you should use an O(log n) operation in place of an O(n) operation just because of Big O, what matters is which one is faster.
Also: https://github.com/knsv/mermaid
Single vs. Multi-Patterning EUV
> My commute is toward the city center like most of the single occupant traffic.

This is the problem mass transit is ideally suited to solve. Hiring 1 professional driver per 2–3 commuters when there are thousands all going the same place is ridiculously inefficient. A bus can easily fit 10x more passengers.
When I worked at CGG long ago, we worked with a lot of the proprietary E&P analysis software - it was primarily old UNIX but surprisingly quite capable and scalable.

I think there’s a lot of unknowns in terms of capabilities and algorithms to go after that in that market.

I’d thought of going back into it and developing some front end visualization software - but the amount of secrecy and magic sauce put me off.
This still doesn't allow for the case where you have multiple accounts for valid reasons like keeping personal and professional accounts but neither does a phone number so this is still an improvement.

I think the main thing blocking this is its a huge pain to go through this system when the average person doesn't care that facebook and twitter have their phone number
The problem and solution are one and the same. Google is trying to automate tasks that are nowhere near ready for automation.

This doesn't even really make any sense either. You might argue its because they're huge, but the numbers don't add up. Google netted about $31 billion in 2018. It's hard to tell exactly how many apps are published on Google Play per year, but it seems to be in the ballpark of 200,000 [1]. Let's hire some low wage employees to spend just 1 hour per app which is generally enough time to determine if an app is at all legitimate. That's obviously 200,000 man hours. Creating these jobs in the USA could be done for about $10/hour, or $2 million, or a minuscule fraction of 1% of their their annual net income. Problem solved, happy customers, happy developers, jobs created.

But Google gonna Google. Though even here if they really wanted to Google, they could even hire these guys in e.g. India or wherever and pay a fraction of even that fraction of what they'd have to pay if they created these jobs in the US. But I'm certain they've Googled that the $ cost of pissed off customers and developers is less than the $ cost of providing a decent solution.

The one confounding issue here might be that the 200k is lowballing the number of apps. After all that's only the apps that are published, not the ones that are refused publication. But all of the above holds true even if you push it up to 2,000,000 apps trying to publish per year. Perhaps the more salient point is that Google also charges $25 before you can even try to publish an app. Why not direct that money to a human being and actually have a half decent review process? That same human being might even be able to answer complex questions like, "Hey, I don't even have any ads in my app. Why was my app removed for deceptive ads?" in a timely fashion.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/266210/number-of-availab...
I'm sure plenty of insurance companies would underwrite terrorist events, considering how rare they are compared to other risks.
>their app is riddled with dark patterns by US standards (all of which btw is normal in China)

I've never used tiktok, could you give a few examples?
How else would you suggest they combat spam? How do you receive a verification SMS on a public phone booth?

Most actual humans have a phone number, and Twitter wants a semi-1:1 mapping between human and Twitter account. Spammers have hundreds. This seems like a reasonable way to greatly increase the cost of making accounts for spammers.
They built a nice new field with a wall around it and guards at the gates. The old open field with all the weeds and litter is still there.