skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My rebuttal is to note the notion of "expected value". A company that has a 1/1000 chance of becoming a trillion dollar company and a 999/1000 chance of becoming a worthless company is worth 1 billion dollars.

And that's the most simplified model possible. If you have a 1/1000 chance of being worth a trillion dollars, you may also have a 10/1000 chance of being worth ten billion dollars, 100/1000 chance of being worth one billion dollars, and 200/1000 chance of being worth 100 million dollars. That adds $220 million of expected value. You can add another couple million if you account for the company still having liquefiable assets even in the case that it ends up folding like Pets.com (which ended up returning at least a few million dollars to their shareholders: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1100683/000089161802...).
Hey America, do you think you might find a bit of time to persecute these Americans that are being such obviously terrible actors?

Sure, the crime wasn't on US soil and so-and-so but... I feel like in the modern world it'd really help America's cred to actually try and take action against these terrible actors. The fact that these folks were former three-letter probably means there's some contract somewhere out there where they signed away all their rights forever.

(Also, I get that America is probably fine with this sort of hacking, given that it targeted "the evil" but why not just prosecute these folks for the image of it)
That's interesting! Yes California, but it was a private school (chosen mainly because it had a low snooty factor but also because it had both English literature and English language/writing as two different subjects) so the problem was he didn't know any of the vocab when given a placement test so they just threw him in the default classes.
Share prices fluctuate, and IPOs are notorious for over-subscriptions by the banks/underwriters because their fees are often percentage based.

I don't know why it would be news that price dips below IPO. If the stock plummets over 50% after a few weeks/months like Facebook did, then that could/would be interesting news.

Sure, ride-hailers are loss-makers that would be watched with interest, but the author alluding to investor confidence with 1 day's worth of data is a bit foolish.
A good manager shouldn't resort to micromanagement even if the employee requires it. You're not supposed to be their secretary or mommy. A good manager would coach or train them to become more organized. A manager is responsible for supporting their employees' growth, but the employees also have a personal responsibility to develop their skills on their own.

In the long run micromanagement sets them up for failure. You're not going to be there for them forever. If they can't improve their organization skills to a point where they can complete work on their own, then they might not be suited for their job.
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Unemployment is there because people are there. So should we not control population? There are so many people in India it scares me as to what will happen when there will be a recession?
It's good that India has good family values. People will help each other out. I think the answer is to control population growth and innovation. Maybe create new cities? Last time i visited Pune and Mumbai i was shocked at the state of traffic.
Coming from Europe and stealing a large swath of largely unexploited land has done great things for the American economy. Unfortunately the majority of my fellow americans insist in believing it's all due to hard work and superior moral fiber, because everywhere else people are just lazy and corrupt :)
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Do you find yourself repeating code, or struggling to decide where code should live and where it should be imported?
He is most likely talking about the IP address inside the tunnel which in case of WireGuard is intervened with the exchange of cryptographic keys. You can not use a DHCP server as only unicast traffic is possible.
People don't seem to grasp exactly how variable this can be, or that it's a very inaccurate guessing game to predict a priori how much disruption this can cause.

The best sources of data are your historical responses and those of your family members, and even then, it's really unreliable.

Historically, I have had extremely few side effects from any medication, cold turkey (unintentionally, except for v. small doses of v. safe meds) or tapered off, and I have unfortunately had occasion to try a large spread of psychopharmacology.

Some of those medications either did nothing for me from their primary/intended effect set, while they were extremely effective for family members - not just limited to psychiatric medications, but they do have a great deal of variability in response compared to some.

Some medications that work on me but have no obvious secondary effects than sometimes mild sedation (opioids) do nothing for some of my immediate family (positive or negative) or are extremely powerful on others.

Some medications that leave me with no positive or negative emotional responses to anything are extremely effective for some immediate family members and even worse for others.

Some medications that are strongly sedating for some of my family members (antihistamines) have never done anything useful for me.

Some medications (both in the ??RI classes and a couple of atypical ones) that are helpful or neutral for me induce manic or depressive episodes in family members.

This is a hard problem, and it's going to take a good amount of work and better data curation (e.g. not asking a patient what they took for how long and how well it worked by word of mouth as a primary source) before we get any better at guessing.
Haven't checked the data. But lottery is for first 3 years. After that company can keep applying for extensions. For FAANG companies extension approval rate can be higher as you have already noticed.
Thing is, that really isn't much of a problem in downtown SD where most of these cameras are.
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I do rough division all the time in my head, for instance figuring out how much each can of beer costs if a slab of 24 is $60. Or on the flip side, how much it's going to cost me to get a round of 4 beers at $8 each.

It's just a general life skill.
China has more high speed rail than the rest of the world combined: https://geoshen.com/posts/10-longest-high-speed-rail-systems...
Deisel freight trains are huge poluters with regard to particulate matter (PM). This actually causes cancer as opposed to CO2. Reducing PM without impacting fuel efficiency significantly is possible but requires investment. https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/-/media/epa/corporate-site/resour...

Same goes for diesel trucks / busses. This type of change throughout the world would really improve people’s lives immediately.
I'm a fan of "common pot" but it doesn't work as well as one might like: in the public schools here in Palo Alto the parents routinely hold auctions that raise multiple millions of dollars which goes into paying for things that I think every kid should be getting (art, PE, music, an aide in the classroom etc).

PTA donations got so extreme that the school district had to implement the same "one pot" approach just to spread the money around the schools in the Palo Alto school district.
Paywall, but there's a good abstract. I hope someone has a workaround.

In the meanwhile, here's a couple of blogs with a little more description.

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2019/03/28/complex-societi...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320141116.h...
Are those units not made with transistors? This sounds like bullshit, frankly.
Hey Ben! What a great tool. This is helping ensure we higher at market rates.

I think I may have found a tiny bug: the “all Triplebyte” dropdown seems to always reset the previous dropdown to “all company sizes” and visa versa so it’s impossible to have both selected to something other than the first options. Perhaps this is because data doesn’t exist for both? Maybe it’s just a slightly confusing UX.

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Is that a scandal?
Hi bogomipz, I'm sorry to hear that you experienced that, we get a lot of resumes and aren't always able to respond to each one. Please email your resume directly to hiring@gridspace.com with [Hacker News] in the subject line.
Great so we've established you want to be somewhere in the middle.
See Piaget's concrete operational stage [1] of human development: "Abstract, hypothetical thinking is not yet developed in the child, and children can only solve problems that apply to concrete events or objects."

In other words, you can only push the mathematical thinking as far as the developmental stage of the child allows you to. Memorization helps though.

My son is 6. He doesn't know the multiplication algorithm, but he does know that 2 x 2 = 4 or that 3 x 4 = 12. That's sufficient for him to do discoveries of his own. 3 x 4 = 3 x (2 x 2) ! Picture that!

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Many vegetarians/vegans don't mind cross .termination.

Also, many fastfood places do have dedicated grills for vegan/vegetarian burgers, like for example McDonalds in the UK.
The ultimate guy who didn't need managing was Richard Feynman. Just put him on the payroll, and great things will happen!
Do you know about TCC (Tiny C Compiler)? Might be easier to port that and build up from there.

https://bellard.org/tcc/
> Rasterization time increases linearly with scene complexity, while raytracing time (with the proper acceleration structures in place) increases logarithmically.

Raytracing scales logarithmically due to the log(n) behavior of the ray-triangle acceleration structure, typically a tree or trie structure of some sort (f.ex. kd-tree, octree, qbvh).

Constructing the acceleration structure has a cost K(n), so the true cost for rendering a frame is O(n) = log(n) + K(n).

The problem then is that if your mesh is dynamic, you'll have to reconstruct the structure for each frame. For things like kd-trees, K(n) = n*log(n), killing the log(n) search benefit.

Typically one would use a hierarchy of acceleration structures where on the top level you have one structure which contains the bounding boxes for each of the objects in the scene. Each object then has it's own acceleration structure, which can be different depending on if the object is a static mesh or a dynamic mesh.

When ray-tracing one first traverses the top-level structure, and for each bounding-box hit, one traverses the candidate object's acceleration structure.

Creating the top-level structure is then fast due to low n. For static meshes, such as terrain, the acceleration structure can be pre-built or built during loading of the scene, where a few seconds can often be afforded, resulting in zero per-frame cost.

The key difficulty is with dense, highly dynamic meshes, such as character meshes. Due to the advanced animation of character meshes these days[1], pre-computing the acceleration structure isn't really feasible for the full mesh (though temporal coherency might perhaps be exploited here).

At least that's that was the state some 10 years ago when I last fiddled with this. Sadly I haven't had time to catch up much, though glancing over some DirectX 12 material it seems the above is pretty accurate for how DX12 does it at least.

[1]: Old (2006) but very illustrative example from Crysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFYt8kGYhM
Whataboutism is escapist, used to sow discord, and as such is a method of division commonly used to attempt the derailment [ha] of an otherwise useful discussion.
The US has extensive rail coverage, where geographically feasible, and has had such since the 1800s. Perhaps the system grew before the present US was entirely assembled, therefore, and could use a rethinking?
yes, there are policies on positions, I have also heard of lies at the border by CBP officers (around I-20). The interview process for green card itself is also a delaying tactic.
Yes, as I said, if DCI is already enabled and the device is connected via. a USB 3.0 debug cable.

It can be made like this:

https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-PoC#preparing-the-usb...

Or you can buy one from Intel.
> especially when locations are far apart

I don't think distance is a relevant factor: train tracks cost about the same as a two-lane highway while having higher capacity. Stations are fairly expensive, but when locations are far apart that's not a significant factor.

The bigger problem is that you can't profitably service low-demand routes with trains. Trains excel on high-demand routes but when you only want to move 20 people per hour a road has much lower operating costs.
Just to clarify for myself, this person asked for alternatives that are not WordPress and Wix and you're recommendation is to use WordPress?
If the program were set up as above, such that any accredited journalist could walk into any Apple Store at any time and do the thing, the logistical challenges in having custom, pre-compromized phones on-hand everywhere ("Why aren't we just grabbing those from normal inventory? Isn't that weird?"), or having to bake a "Glenn Greenwald" image onto the phone when he walked in, would probably be noticed.

EDIT: What's to stop Mr. Greenwald from sending a buddy from an old job to swap a new device on his behalf?
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I've been online for around 25 years and figured I know most of the nasty stuff going on.

But that documentary made me question my understanding of the Internet and had me realize how much of our "reality" is nowadays mostly perceived and shaped through social media. If it doesn't exist on social media, it might as well never have happened.

To give one of the worst examples: Pictures of "enhanced interrogations", performed by US soldiers on "terrorist suspects", are being deleted from social media with the reasoning "This is a known torture method by ISIS, deleted for being terrorist propaganda" because these Phillipino moderators, many just young students, often completely lack any real context or understanding of what they see.
Very long article that basically says nothing.

"In New York, many details of a congestion pricing plan — including how much drivers will be charged — are still being worked out."

So saying "implements" seems rather premature.

My personal prediction is that this will lead people to move out of cities. I guess we'll see.
I had the v2 impossible burger a few weeks ago. It felt close to regular meat, had a similar mouth feel, but the flavor was a bit off so I only ate two bites. I'm looking forward to trying their next version.
I think it's relevant to mention [1] and [2]. A lot of things can get done if you aren't constrained by economic and political considerations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19549466

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/ca28f58a-955d-11e8-b747-fb1e803ee...
Also trains can derail, which takes the whole line out of action.
Aha, thank you for the etymological details!
I find interesting that all these analyses of transportation modes generally fail to take into account the bootstrap and maintenance cost of the infrastructure. Roads are absolutely awful in terms of carbon cost, why isn't there more that takes this into account?
It's already snuck in with a lot of fast food taco meats. Soy and Legume allergies aren't that uncommon... I don't mind as long as its' clearly labelled... I have a problem when it's labelled as "beef" or left to ambiguity.
And now, having looked through the online archives you get access to as a subscriber, I realize my memory was faulty. It was the November issue with Guido on the cover!

nostalgias in intense greybeard The other holy shit moment I had with linux was installing slackware from a pile of repurposed AOL floppies. Ah, good times...
> Right now software engineering is one of the most fertile job markets out there. In the right city you can walk out on the street and stub your toe on a new job, offering good pay and office perks.

It's not like that for almost anyone in the world.
It might be fun/interesting to pipe pieces transcribed to MIDI into your system and see what falls out. I'm sure it'll be nonsense, but perhaps fun nonetheless. (e.g. http://www.piano-midi.de/chopin.htm)
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I'm also pretty sure that SUSE is currently oldest active distro as well, it's based on Slackware.
Nasa chief says a Falcon Heavy rocket could fly humans to the Moon
However PM is a fairly localized pollution that doesn't spread far. I don't think diesel trains that drive through the middle of nowhere are that bad. Near population centers it would be preferable to switch to electric locomotives.
It looks like a fun programming project..However, I am getting lost as to the purpose. Why write something so hard to comprehend just to get it into ~< 1K unless the only purpose is to get it small? Why not a larger game that is more fun to play? Why not a larger game that is still tight code, but good to teach game mechanics?
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BASIC has a very inconsistent syntax, and did so from the very first version. Over time it got worse.

For a specific example, just look at the syntax for drawing primitives like PSET, LINE or CIRCLE. Something like this is neither particularly discoverable, nor consistent with the normal function call syntax in the language:

LINE (0, 0) - (100, 100), 2, FB

(I wonder how many people with BASIC experience from that era remember what "FB" means here.)
Will Time-Travel Ever Be Invented?
Define 'brain chemistry'
It’s very location dependent. In Florida, 150k is great for a principal engineer. In the Bay Area, that’s terrible comp. Also, the faangs of the world do pay twice as much in total comp.
This is a problem of incomplete specifications.

"Make me a tool that extracts, collates and graphs data from this spreadsheet. We just need it to run once this friday"

"Done, super fast, slightly buggy python script it is!"

vs

"Every month we need a tool to pull data from multiple sources, and push it to a reporting framework. It needs to be scalable and robust... oh and we need it by friday"

"Well, you're not getting it by Friday."

Deadlines should be a conversation, not a demand.
Are you really going with the "the anti-Nazis are the real Nazis" trope? There are a few steps along the way between "let's try to stop Nazis" and "let's throw them in concentration camps".
"Healthier" is speculative at best. Often there's less fat than would occur in natural highly available protein sources. And added fats definitely have a different nutritional profile. The amino/protein profile is also going to skew, and there are other issues as well.

Soy and legumes are pretty common allergens for people, and the effects mild enough early in life that some may not realize it's actually legumes (mostly soy) that is the problem. I got used to the side effects and was only at 42 when it started to get bad enough that I found out via elimination diet.
>Doesn't your browser scroll much faster when you swipe twice in quick succession? I mean while the scrolling is going on, you swipe again and in worst case a third time. I never need to swipe more than three times unless the page is gigantic.

Yes, but then if I'm looking for a specific part it has scrolled way past and I need to then scroll back down, sometimes past it, and then scroll back up. Bearing in mind I have to scan the page as it flashes past too.

It's a frustrating experience.