skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a side-gig as a TA in grad school and eventually that led to networking that connected me to some small-scale remote work opportunities. I’d be willing to try something like upwork these days though.
Do the known ss7 vulnerabilities not count?
Everything about abolishing capitalism implies that people will be "less free". All capitalism means is ownership and voluntary exchange. Not allowing ownership or making exchange involuntary can _only_ be accomplished via coercion. I want to be very clear - this is not a matter of opinion but of tautology - capitalism requires freedom and freedom implies capitalism. In no way is this countered by comparing hypothetical systems with the USSR.
That's roughly inline with the 24% federal tax bracket covering $82,500-$157k (single filer). Many engineers are in the 32% or 35% bracket. It's definitely in the realm of "high quality problem"
most of the complexity around this issues is due to the fact that most private insurers follow the incredibly complex medicare billing system/codes
Between then and now, please help us fight for it.

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Until the damn antenna broke off...again.
I constantly get a kernal panic on multiple machines under heavy load of the sort of trying to interlock destroyed mutex from within, according to the backtrace, com.metakine.handsoff.driver. I'm wondering if it's exploitable.
We do quarterly OKRs. Quarterly deadlines are completely arbitrary and my actual deadlines aren't tied to the quarters.

So I (and everyone around me) don't take them seriously. We take the actual deadlines seriously. The only thing OKRs seem to do is provide direction to the higher ups about what my team is up to.
> China can just take the land.

I'll file that under "being propped up by the government"

> China's population density is not high compared to inhabited parts of the U.S.

I have no doubt that there are profitable HSR lines in china, just like there are in europe. The question is whether we would still get an "impressive" number if we cull all the non-profitable ones (the one stretching to xinjiang come to mind).
For starters, do you actually believe that, or are you just playing devil's advocate?

Discussing the definition of evil can certainly be an enlightening exercise, and people have been writing about it for thousands of years. But if, say, you see a guy roofie a stranger's drink, you don't sit back and ponder whether the rape he's planning has meaning in the grand sense. You do something about it. Or at least I hope you do.
> Some banks actually went under during that time, along with anyone's money sitting in it

That's not true, unless it either a) wasn't money deposited in the bank (i.e. it was an investment in bank stock - an inherently risky activity) or b) were deposits over FDIC insurance limits. That's $250K per account. What's bitcoin deposit insurance limits? Ah yes, $0 per account. Is there any insurance company daring to insure bitcoin deposits? I haven't heard of any.
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I agree. That’s why there I some truth to the stereotype of Chinese kids being better in Math.

Mandarin has 5 tones and having a keen ear to identify each tone and then recognizing it and memorizing it and matching sound to meaning is an enormous advantage.

Also...teaching music..to recognize diff sounds/tones..musical notes(Bach would do) also gives mandarain/language/math students an edge.
> " But diets with lots of beef and dairy and low on vegetable fiber are also unhealthy."

Not many people can afford the grocery bill of an all dairy/beef diet. Everybody I've ever met who does keto consumes more vegetable fiber than the average american many times over, because without grain as a filler and a wallet deep enough to gorge yourself on beef and cheese all day long, fibrous vegetables are the obvious solution.
You are correct to point out that governments subsidize roads, making this an unfair compare. Trucking is built on the highway system, a massive capital expenditure which is completely paid for by taxpayers as a gift to the trucking industry. Massive capital expenditures are often part and parcel of transportation infrastructure; what's different here is the political will to fund it.
That title, yikes.
This was really cool to watch!
The youtube video offered a nice explanation and I actually enjoyed the audio/visual-feedback from watching you type on it.

Kudos!
Well put.

Until they have a good reason, the major freight railroads (BNSF/UP/CSX/NS/CN/CP/KCS) will continue to be all-diesel. Also, as emissions requirements have gotten more stringent they've moved to rebuilding older power (which gets around the current Tier-4 requirements instead of buying as much newer motive power. In fact, a number of the most recent-gen units have been stored as they're often 15% less efficient than the previous generation (Tier-3).

I do believe a move to electric with catenary is inevitable, most likely via 50KV/50HZ to allow for greater distance between substations. However it won't happen for some time until legislation mandates it.
Coal and oil price changes have little impact on consumer electricity prices. https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/showtext.php?t=p...

Inflation adjusted consumer electric prices fluctuate but they where lower in 2010 than 1990, 1980, and 1960.

Consumers are also surprisingly price insensitive over the vast difference in regional electricity prices when adjusted for local weather conditions.
I mean... FB alone has something like 3k engineers in Seattle. Google is almost done with a campus that will house 10k in addition to their already large Fremont and Kirkland footprints. Zillow, Redfin, Expedia, and others all have HQs in the greater Seattle area. Unicorns like Stripe, Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb all have offices here.

You really think that, with all that, Amazon and Microsoft make up 95% of high salaried jobs in Seattle?
This was a worry in regards to the republic. It's why armies were not allowed inside the city walls; Pompey, Crassus, Julius et al were supposed to enter the city without their armies.

The difference for Octavian was that at the time he seized power the republic had fallen into disarray -- the Tribunes were now typically patricians, so the counterbalancing power of the plebs was pretty effectively eroded. In addition the years of accumulation of war booty had removed the citizens from the need to support the power structure -- most of the work was done by foreigners and slaves.

In addition the structure of imperial (that is generals') power throughout the empire created large power structures outside the republic's structure. So a large army like Pompey's or Julius's outside the walls (as described above) could become, instead of a guarantee of neutrality, a threat.

Remember in those days one became wealthy through power as opposed to powerful through wealth. Julius became wealthy by being appointed governor of Hispania (IIRC) then then using that as a power base to accumulate more power and treasure. This imbalance I talked about became so large that when Octavian took power (having inherited both wealth and position from his fellow consul and adoptive father, Julius Caesar) he was wealthy enough to pay Rome's entire budget out of his personal funds with plenty left over.

So in essence it was a "gilded age" similar to todays, the wealth<->power inversion notwithstanding.
I don't know if they edited their comment or not, but it doesn't say anything like that.
You have to know where to start looking though, and it's not at all obvious that LINE is what you need to draw a filled rectangle.

It also throws you off once you learn about subprograms (in dialects that had them), and realize that all this stuff is almost but not quite like them - and all the differences are there for no good reason.
I know that some people do find their dream job but most people cannot - trying to demand that people love their occupation is too extreme for me. Make working a positive experience, fairly share the fruits of their labour with them (allowing them that pride and connection with their production) and you'll find most people respond positively.

Some people may legitimately just love working but that isn't a reasonable expectation.

All that said, I think deadlines are terrible, they create a sense of cram and ease which works people out of a habit of working while at work. It's better to hide deadlines at the management level and make sure everything is comfortably budgeted, then just transition from one project or task to the next smoothly, without rushing pressure or the "months" scale of doing a thing that can cause it to never be done.

I worked in a job where overtime[1] was the norm for a while, I hated it, put on stress weight, and don't wish that lifestyle of zombie living on anyone. It builds up extreme resentment and lowers productivity so, as a manager, realize that if your project is pushing a deadline you, the manager, have failed utterly. Then seek help from your employees and try and get it done on time, be open about your mistake, make it clear how you'll address it and, seriously, keep overtime and deadline press to the exceptional case rather than the regular.

[1] Oh hey, for bonus points... where I work in BC overtime for tech workers is, by default, uncompensated... and we have nobody but EA and a compliant local Liberal[2] party to thank for that stupidity.

[2] Not liberal as in leftist, "Liberal"... in fact "BC Liberal" is a term up here as they are the most conservative of the parties.
I don't like the way this is written. The US is a country of laws. They should only prosecute people for breaking the law. Part of breaking a law is being subject to its jurisdiction. If you want someone to be charged who you don't think should be able to advocate for changing the law to catch future transgressions, not prosecuting them anyways. Alternatively advocate for supporting foreign law enforcement agencies who do have jurisdiction (it seems to me the British should have a good claim here).

But it turns out that this is probably illegal under current US law, which specifies a jurisdiction not limited to US soil. A protected computer under the CFAA is defined to include the following (18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(2))

> a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;

Recall that US journalists were targeted. I strongly suspect that qualifies as "foreign communication of the United States".
Keep in mind Glenn knows this too, so presumably would be somewhat wary of his "local" Apple Stores, and could instead choose to randomly drop into stores when travelling to unexpected and unannounced places.

It's not like _any_ journalist would trust this service at an Apple Store in Saudi Arabia, and probably not the UAE, Oman, or Qatar either. (Or may other countries.)

Being "not a perfect and universal solution" doesn't make it worthless. Snowden isn't about to stroll into Apple Store Moscow to take advantage of a refurbed iPhone. I suspect things would be different if Omar Abdulaziz could have dropped into Apple Store Toronto and swapped his Pegasus-infected phone over...
And taken the lion's share of London to Paris, which was also huge. But a combination of high-speed day trains and low-cost air has killed off many of the very long distance trains and most of Europe's sleeper services. So it's a bit of a mixed bag.
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Great point. The fact that street parking is roughly free in NYC both encourages drivers to drive and causes unnecessary bottlenecks on congested major thoroughfares. Take, for instance, 86th Street. One lane taken up by parked cars, plus just one double-parked truck means most crosstown traffic along that latitude and in that direction (including packed busses) must single-flight. That the city chooses to keep commuters stuck in traffic to accommodate disused cars is a pessimal allocation of precious street area.
There's not going to be any one magic bullet that solves all environmental problems forever. 18% of energy use is a colossally huge amount of energy.
"Imminent lawless action" is not the same as "shouting some words". People shouted "fire" in theaters hundreds of times - e.g. during plays - and nothing happened. Only when it causes - or is imminent to cause - the actual action, can it be punished. Just as saying "shoot him" is not restricted speech - unless you are saying it to an accomplice who then murders a person. There needs to be an independent lawless act, and speech needs to be used as a prerequisite or a tool for it.

> Private corporations can deplatform whatever they like for any legal reason.

Legally, they can. Morally, they shouldn't.
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in farming..construction..cooking..I use it all the time in my everyday life.
The financial & car industries have been immensely successful at making cars accessible to all consumers. Anyone with an income, a bit of credit history and a pulse can roll out of dealership with a car. Roads on the other hand are publicly funded and physical constrained. It's inevitable that car owning will have to become much more expensive via taxes in the decades ahead.

The mayors listed are not however making their cities particularly more accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists. They generally sandbag those improvements on the slightest complaints about loss of parking or access. DiBlasio drives to a gym in Brooklyn everyday and has the NYPD run a war on ebikes/bikes, Durkan just canceled a long-planned bike lane on an important arterial, Portland's doing a massive freeway expansion. Most of these cities are failing on Vision Zero efforts.

The reason congestion pricing is catching on is that the wealthy & politically connected older generations finally settled on it as the way to reclaim their privilege to drive straight into the downtown from their suburbs. Congestion pricing is now just another way to maintain a vehicular status quo.
I think this is a better description of the current understanding of the role of saturated fat: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-abo...

Is saturated fat bad for you? A diet rich in saturated fats can drive up total cholesterol, and tip the balance toward more harmful LDL cholesterol, which prompts blockages to form in arteries in the heart and elsewhere in the body. For that reason, most nutrition experts recommend limiting saturated fat to under 10% of calories a day.

A handful of recent reports have muddied the link between saturated fat and heart disease. One meta-analysis of 21 studies said that there was not enough evidence to conclude that saturated fat increases the risk of heart disease, but that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat may indeed reduce risk of heart disease.

Two other major studies narrowed the prescription slightly, concluding that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fats like vegetable oils or high-fiber carbohydrates is the best bet for reducing the risk of heart disease, but replacing saturated fat with highly processed carbohydrates could do the opposite.
We should hope so, though it's hard to see it happening soon. Anything automatable should be, and a lot of "programming" today is really just simple assembly of building blocks -- a wonderful democratization of programming!

It will be a while before the high end of programming goes away. But that's been a minority since the 1970s at least.
Let's see: America generally has terrible public transportation and purposely laid-out most modern cities to require private car use, yet the "solution" is to ban cars. In reality, the unintended consequences are the creation of an economic apartheid because the rich won't be as affected as a proportion of income and further, it will disproportionately tax on already struggling poor people.

Layout cities and do public transportation better, policy-makers shouldn't just tax what's vital to live and work just because they think it will go away... it's BandAid, panacea mentality.
Land has been completely irrelevant to the success of the entire information economy and the US still dominates that. It has nothing to do with a “superior moral fiber”, it’s about having an environment that promotes innovation and businesses based on new innovations.
Incase others like me don’t know - OKR is Objectives and Key Results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR

I honestly have never seen that acronym but apparently popular from Intel management practices?
Uber pays for its drivers’ tickets? Including things like speeding? Or just parking tickets? I wonder how much that costs them...
You need to add housing costs to the calculation.
The last-mile problem is also a significant issue for freight rail. US rail companies have been abandoning low-traffic and branch lines for years, because the revenue from the sparse traffic doesn't cover the infrastructure maintenance costs.

Being an efficient user of energy is not the same thing as being an efficient end-to-end mover of goods.

The best freight rail money is in "unit trains", long trains with a single type of cargo with a single destination -- the canonical example is coal trains from Wyoming heading for power stations in the midwest, which makes good use of continent-spanning "trunk" infrastructure and avoids the "first mile" collection expense and the "last mile" disbursement expense. Trains are very good at that sort of thing.
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Interestingly, the cities are in part broke due to the infrastructure cost of maintaining sprawl — which only cars make possible.
This, and regular checkins.
Where HSR excels is in being able to service several city pairs on a single line. The Northeast Corridor is a great example: you can have a single train service all pairs of {Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston} at negligible extra expense in time and money. Thus you can add in stops like Providence, which don't generate all that many trips on their own, simply because it is literally on the way to where you're going.

The problem with the US Midwest is that there's a lot of these third-tier cities, but you have to go out of your way to connect them. Who wants to go between Columbus and Indianapolis--the highway between the two cities is pretty empty. Even worse, the few collinear city triples you can come up with all completely miss the primary destination of the entire region, Chicago. If you want to go from Chicago to Columbus, Indianapolis, and especially Dayton, are not on your way.
Why would people move out of cities? Wouldn’t the majority of people entering a city (and being taxed) be coming from outside the city?
They also won’t fix leadership’s lack of vision, ability to focus, and courage.
> In 1994, with help from Patrick Volkerding, Slackware scripts were translated into German, which was marked as the first release of S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0 distribution. It was available first on floppies, and then on CDs.

RPM was first released in 1997.

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Anyone who doesn't get free parking, or doesn't want to spend their time and money maintaining a personal vehicle, but is coerced into doing so by society that was built around them.
Amazingly, it's possible to make a chip that is faster at a specific task than another chip, while not using more transistors than that other chip.
Yeah that or just plug in 5-6 extensions and you end up with the same. Found myself doing flask-sqlalchemy, flask-migrate, etc. after a while.
Too hand wavy.

On a related note, "On the Plurality of Civilizations"[0] by Feliks Koneczny offers interesting insights. Koneczny, too, wrote this book in the 1930s, but I have no reason to think he falls into the same camp(s) the article mentions. For instance, while he classifies civilizations according to a set of criteria he develops in the book, he does not believe that any society is civilizationally "pure". However, he does believe that any self-respecting civilization does spread and "wants" to spread. Spreading, of course, may be accomplished by sharing ones civilization with others, confident that it is good and right. It may be spread by the sword. I may also be spread in incidental ways, such as the way laws governing marriage may require e.g. that children in interfaith marriages be raised in the faith of the father or the mother which I believe is how Islam spread in Egypt (Muslim women are forbidden from marrying non-Muslim men but Muslim men may marry non-Muslim women but must raise their children in the Islamic faith). In any case, economics suffers from problems, too, when it begins with a false understanding of Man and society. The hyperindividualistic, atomistic extreme on the one hand (e.g. libertarianism) and the collectivist, individual-denying extreme on the other (e.g. socialism) both completely botch the proper comprehension of man and society and how they relate. FWIW, Koneczny avoids both.

[0] https://www.scribd.com/doc/4464979/ON-THE-PLURALITY-OF-CIVIL...
There's an interesting video by Allen Holub that I've seen on the somewhat related topic of ridding software development of estimates (#NoEstimates)[1].

He argues that they're responsible for deadlines that are impossible to meet due to them being based completely on a guess. He then goes on to talk about how we can still get predictive power without giving estimates. I found it extremely interesting and highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=QVBlnCTu9Ms
Excuse if this is an absurd idea, I really don't know. But...

Wouldn't it be possible to use (giant) batteries? It sounds terribly dangerous, but possible?
I can be claustrophobic..I don’t like being in a closed car..so when I am at traffic stops..I convert alphabets to numbers and numbers to alphabets of the license plates..and sometimes I add the numbers together to check if it’s a prime number. Calms me the fuck down.
Yeah but the morning star veggie burgers taste terrible.