skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the cleanest, safest, most reliable, most convenient, and cheapest public transit that has ever been invented.

But it's not public transit. It's private transit, because it's your car. Actual public transit will either not be subject to the congestion fees (buses) or will be able to split the fee across enough riders to make its effects negligible (taxis, Uber).
As a patient (or a patient advocate for a loved-one), anytime a test is proposed it is important to ask what actionable information can come out of it. Basically look 2 steps ahead.

Some tests will help confirm a course of treatment, or propose a new one. But what if that treatment is something you've already decided you won't do? For example in an older patient too old for a surgery or a baby that you've already decided you'll keep.

But you are right, some tests are ordered out of a desire to show that "something is being done". It's important to talk with the doctor about the cost (not just money but pain & recovery) and benefit. Everything is a tradeoff.
E-sports is this funny thing where everyone on the internet seems to talk about but I have yet to find one person IRL who actually gives a shit about it. Like seriously, where is the interest??
Redux in 27 Lines
Fascinating to know that swimmers (professional) employ breathing techniques, as well as being selective on which body part they choose to use during swimming events - given the ratio of how much oxygen is utilized when using a part of the body against not using it.

Does the size of the diaphragm also takes into factor on this scenario? I guess it might be because that would be the muscle that helps compresses the lungs to be able to take in the most amount of air possible.
I'm long on $TSLA and agree with the opinion. However, I think critics have the opinion that $TSLA is over-inflated and the corrective action is the marketing coming to terms with the logistical / systematic challenges ahead.
I have to imagine amphetamine use/abuse is also super common in e-sports, which among other things, can have a severe impact on mental state. As far as I'm aware there's no anti-doping body for e-sports at this time.
Okay, I guess everyone should just shut up and not have any opinion on the matter then.

Just because they can do this does not mean people cannot criticize it or find it reprehensible. Is it surprising that people don't approve of this?
Yeah and watch inflation sky-rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution
I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago (Planet Money) and was genuinlely shocked at how poor the US payments network is in relation to here in the UK.

Most bank transactions here complete within 2 hours (faster payments service) and are completely free.
Still, I'm floored that ICE cars are that cheap!

If you wait, you'll probably see a special for Nissan Versas just over 10k.
I love this stuff.

I remember custom flashing a motherboard to support a pair of SSD's in RAID-0, and allow it as a boot device.
Yes...
You maximise money, by maximising prices (for some value of maximise).

I'm not saying they should be aiming for $1 million / barrel. But clearly $60 is better than $50, assuming that doesn't lower volume.

We seem to agree on that?
New York's problem is that its fuel consumption has been flat for 50 years because of increasing fuel efficiency and low population growth. Meanwhile, everything else is more expensive to maintain so it must make up the difference with other funding sources or higher taxes. The latter is is difficult political issue when they are already near the top for state fuel taxation.
To be honest, in regards to ACPI it was a very painful couple of years until Linux got the hang of it and stopped breaking for any issue

(It also took some Perkele by Linus to make it work correctly)
That may also be a concern, but there are software workarounds. I would also not run Postgres on a non-checksummed filesystem or without data checksums enabled in the postgres cluster.
I am interested in this MLE opportunity. I just mailed my resume. Please let me know if I can provide any other information.

Thank You
The problem is this: From the CEO's standpoint, grounding the fleet might have cost him his job given that there was a plausible (even though we know now ineffective) checklist based solution to the problem. Another crash might also cost the CEO his job, but that has a probability of less than one. The incentive in this situation is to roll the dice. The problem is that the decision maker does not bear the liability for his actions. He's not the one making a smoking crater in the ground. That's why you need a regulator with different motivations. Historically, the FAA has been exceptionally effective at improving air safety. The Republican/business argument is that they have overdone it and the costs of compliance exceed the benefit at the margin. These accidents are a strong argument otherwise.
I don't think that novaRom was not saying that we compete fairly. I read novaRom's comment to say that we can't win if we play fairly.

I also read 'AI Superpowers' and I agree with the book's premise that long term China will win the 'AI war' economic competition because their society allows broad use of data and since they are more of an online Internet-connected society they have much more data to use for training deep learning systems. China is also throwing a ton of money at supporting startup AI companies.

I pains me to be too critical of my own country (the USA) but I think we are really making bad mistakes by: 1) not sufficiently supporting research at the government level. 2) turning our students into life-long debt slaves with student loans. 3) screwing up our long term economic and social health by, for example, not providing free meals to poor kids in schools (one of the very cost effective ways to get a more educated work force - kids who are hungry in school tend to not do well). 4) stop allowing Facebook/Google/etc. unfettered use of private data while at the same time not figuring out a way to get more training data to people doing basic reseaerch.
Why Boeing’s emergency directions may have failed to save 737 MAX
Precisely. There's also PHP-FPM. I am astounded that people still rely on mod_php!
The problem is that regular SD cards were made to store photos and music once in a while, not host an entire operating system.

They make high-endurance SD cards that _are_ more reliable and _can_ handle being written to constantly but everyone cheaps out and just gets the cheapest thing on sale from the rainforest retailer and wonders why their cards keep dying.
Amazon has the advantage that Blue Origin can be their launch provider, a capability that Bezos cleverly developed without having to justify the expenses to any stakeholders (running a public company can suck sometimes, as a famous business man once said about his electric car company). It has massive funds for this enterprise as well. While they are only getting started, I'd definitely take them seriously. Never underestimate Bezos...

SpaceX being their own launch provider has its own advantages as they could fully utilize the cost savings of reusability. On top of that, they seem to almost have a headstart. Two test satellites in orbit, the first batch scheduled for about june this year. Looks good.

OneWeb has launched their first satellites already but they'd have to pay the full price for their launches, so they're at a disadvantage here. OK-ish outlook, I'd say. I'd still place them behind Amazon if I had to rank these three.

I'm really curious how the satellite internet provider story will end but I'm rooting for SpaceX. They have the most compelling vision in the long term.

Bezos seems to be more like sweatshops-on-earth-suck-let's-put-them-in-the-asteroid-belt and frankly ... I don't like this one as much as the other.
I've been struggling lately with distinguishing between things that are inherently idempotent and things that are made to be using deduplication.

For example, assignment is inherently idempotent. Assign the same thing twice, and the world is still in the same state as before. Calling assign over and over with the same arguments thus results in the same outcome. For example:

a = 10;
a = 10;

But, incrementing is not:

a++;
a++;

That said, you can dedupe the incrementing operation:

increment(a, id1);
increment(a, id1);

Where increment keeps track of if it has already been called for a and id1, and cached the result. Thus subsequent calls dedupe on the cache and return the same result.

In my opinion, these are different. While increment is made idempotent, it requires a deduplication strategy to achieve it. It is not an inherent property of incrementing.

Deduplication is really hard to get right. And it prevents retrying an operation. When someone says, this is safe to retry, its actually saying, you can't retry this, subsequent calls are noop.

Is there a better vocabulary for these two things? I don't like how idempotency is ambiguous and refers to both. I'd like to be able to know if something is idempotent by its design, or if it is through the use of deduplication.
Pretty poor sample size; I've never met anyone interested in baseball.
> Aside from funding, what's stopping this from happening?

The Tax Prep lobby. The middle man gets to collect a nice rent from you for being the middle man and they don't want that to end.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
You own your shirt and shoes, does that make a Bus "private transit"?

Cars are a form of public transportation whenever the public drives them on public roads and freeways. Public infrastructure does not become "private", just because a private individual is in it.
But what can "close friends" do? Real question.

My understanding is that real clinical depression is not the kind of "feeling down" we all experience at some point or another. That's not something you fix by just having a drink, talk a bit, or go to a party.

It is more like the absence of feelings. Depressive people are more likely to take the least resistance path to everything you try to do. Want them to go out, they will follow you. Want them to talk, they will answer your questions. Leave them alone, they will stay where they are. In fact I know someone with severe depression who didn't even have physical feelings (like hunger, pain, cold, sleepiness, etc...).
Parent's last sentence gives me hope it should be OK, at least for the heart.

What I can surely say is that I have never been feeling better and healthier than since I started running long distances at 30.
Actually the price of a good is almost always the cost to manufacture and sell. If it were not, someone else would manufacture and sell it at cost. Bear in mind that the profit inherent in captialism corresponds to the cost of the capital required to run the manufacturing and sales process.

Of course, goods fall on a commodity range. Some things are entirely fungible, others less so. The less fungible a good is, the more the cost can move away from the cost to produce.

Books sound like they aren't fungible - after all one title isn't an exact replacement for another. But, they are quite fungible in the sense that one murder mystery can in some sense substitute for another.

Very few things are not fungible at all.
It sounds like you're working in some specific (and enviable) circumstance where people can get productive right away, and where job success is fully defined by meeting your expectations. False positives get more expensive when there is training or provisioning effort required to get someone onboarded, or when you expect your teams to satisfy multiple stakeholders or to grow beyond initial job requirements.
But assuming most of these people consider R and D acceptable but actively prefer the third party (if they consider them equally acceptable FPTP isn't really depriving them of their ideal electoral choice), AV is inferior to most other non FPTP votes like IRV, which accurately represent their preference for the third party first, and the Rs and Ds only if that party can't win.

AV has a pretty significant "if I tick the good candidate box, am I impairing my ideal candidate's chances of winning?" problem.
Companies are already blocking IP addresses from the EU due to the new GDPR regulations. As restrictions and laws increase (which seems to be happening already), it will make sense to just block access rather than deal with draconian regulations.

The end result will be a separate Internet for people in the EU because so many sites will be unavailable to them.
It might also be something like limited resources as a driver in environmental pressure such as food being available to older members that did not pull their weight and a tribe had a better survivability if these individuals naturally died off earlier than later.
Keep in mind that he’s writing to convince other writers, statistically you probably aren’t the target audience. My gym buddy who’s a professional tv writer says that this entry had a big impact on getting WGA to do something.
Show HN: Current options to deploy Serverless blogs
Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system explained [video]
I don't think it's a bug, it's a feature (no pun intended).

If there is problem with reported values from a BIOS, it's a good thing Windows does not continue. BIOS issues (such as a RAM address out of the reported range) can lead to unpredictable behaviour. Troubleshooting such issues is next to impossible.
You can't really have a setuid "script" anyway. But you can, at the bare minimum, launch CGI scripts via suEXEC. This prevents them from being able to attack the httpd worker processes, since they won't be running as the same user.
So true. This argument is simply bullshit in the US. It's just another justification for ridiculous hiring tests and other stupidity that weeds out a lot of good candidates. You can hire someone today and fire them next week. It happens all the time and there isn't a high cost other than the compensation for a week. You can, although a really shitty move, even delay someone's benefits for a few weeks or even months while they go through a trial period, often known as probation. It's shitty, but if costs are that important, it can be easily done. If you can't tell if a candidate is good after a few weeks or months of them working with you, that is a problem with your company not the candidate.
> I've never gotten burned out from working too hard.

Me neither. I burn out when I'm working on something that I don't love working on (and things like feeling powerless or bad management can make it something I don't love working on). Not coincidentally, I also don't work as hard on those things despite all good intentions.

This is why the #1 requirement I have when I'm considering a job is that it is something that I will enjoy. That's more important than compensation or location.
> Every other city's experience with congestion pricing shows decreased car use in favor of alternatives.

Suppose the forest is on fire and instead of spending money to put the fire out, we just ignore it. Then a bunch of wolves come into the city to flee from the fire.

Someone suggests that we introduce bears to the city in order to drive out the wolves. Many people point out what a terrible idea that is, but some cities do it anyway. Then the proponents point out that some of the wolves have fled back to the forest.

But now your city is full of bears. And the surrounding forest is still on fire.

> Effects on local grocery prices were minimal.

This is cost disease in a nutshell. "We did this one thing that was a bad idea, but the net effect was small, so that makes it alright." What's the cumulative effect of using that logic as a general principle?

> And in the end, revenues paled in comparison to the health, infrastructure, policing, quality of life and economic costs of traffic congestion.

Compared to the untenable status quo, or compared to the better alternatives?

When the status quo is a dumpster fire, "this is better than a dumpster fire" is not a very high bar.
Your logic, as usual in the US, is predicated on cars being a de facto unassailable guarantee from God, and all other modes of transport being simply blessed to use them.

You don't need a road for public biking infrastructure. The BEST public biking infrastructure doesn't come anywhere near a road.
I'm sceptical of ccTLDs mostly because of how the Libyan government killed a domain shortener for linking to porn sites in 2010: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...

Heck, I own a .sg domain, and I don't trust the Singapore government to not overreact if I published anything politically sensitive on it.
I'm wonder if we the same sort of stuff might arrive in the corporate world. If exercise improves intellectual performance significantly, couldn't your employer ask you to exercise during work hours?
I don't think the parent poster was saying that the learning itself was bad.

I think the gold plating they're referring to is a form of over-correcting. The learning itself is good, and correcting prior issues is good. But over-correcting and over-learning can be problematic and can lead to gold plating.

I don't think there's any easy indication of the line between the right-amount of correction and over-correction, but I don't think it's unreasonable to state that one can over-correct based on prior experiences.
Or buy high-endurance SD cards that are _designed_ for heavy/frequent writes instead of the cheapest thing on ebay.
This is the whole reason congestion charges exist: to get people to weigh comfort and laziness against personal cost.

> no reasonable way to listen to music

...headphones?
And since windows was meant for the masses, it also helps keep someone from accidentally running in an unstable configuration.
I understand. I wasn't supporting the person you were arguing against, just pointing out that the US Border Patrol hasn't killed thousands of migrants.
The use of poison gas probably has more to do with that.

Even in inhabited parts of France they have an “iron harvest” as plows continue to turn up unexploded ordinance.
Some of the streams of the tournaments I've encountered have millions of people watching them. The younger generation seems to like it.
They have an exclusive tech partnership with John B Goodenough (yes that is his real name), who is literally one of the inventors of lithium ion batteries. He's made a few breakthroughs[1] recently wrt max duty cycles, and only Tesla is getting that technology. It means their batteries will last longer than anyone else. It is one of the reasons the Tesla batteries have less nickel and cobalt, which is completely unrivalled and makes the tesla batteries cheaper to manufacturer. There are also patents around several of the chemistry specific things that ensures Tesla will in fact stand alone for some time in these areas. When it comes to battery tech, Tesla handily stands on their own.

[1] https://www.inc.com/wanda-thibodeaux/the-inventor-of-lithium...
Yes, there was a real world election run using IRV that got the wrong answer. Fortunately the full (anonymized) vote set was released and we can see how it would have gone using other election methods.
https://bolson.org/irv/
I've also done simulations of millions of elections with various election algorithms and there are trends about what works and what doesn't:
https://bolson.org/voting/twographs.html
Lyft uses dark patterns to hide unsubscribe button for marketing notifications
Rust really needs to watch out to not further increase the complexity of the basic language.
I remember being 14 years old playing with my NEC PC because IRQ conflicts caused it to reboot at unexpected times. My dad might have fixed it, but he didn't have time so I had to rely on myself if I wanted to play Warcraft ever again. I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was the first time I took something apart trying to figure it out. I explored BIOS and all the hidden parts that Windows tries to hide from casual users. Looking back, that's really where my perseverance in working through hard problems began.

I was expecting this to be "Linux roolz, Microsoft droolz," but I really enjoyed this. It's been a while since such simple, fun hardware exploration came across my desk.
> I think they ended up paying the original user something like $500k for the handle, which IMO was a damn good deal for the user.

I've always wondered such deals could just be bait for a user to violate the Twitter terms of service, and therefore free the username up for others to use.
This reminded me of the reasons that NASCAR drivers exercise. Any activity that you do for medium-to-long periods of time will inherently have a physical component. Increasing your physical stamina and strength could be the difference between a win and a loss.

I thought this quote was telling: "It [physical conditioning] doesn’t make you drive the car faster...it allows you to drive the car faster for a longer period of time."

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/04/nascar-jimmie-johnson-ryan-...
"The vision of VLBI is so sharp that if people were playing table tennis on the Moon we would see the moves of the ping pong ball. "

I was under the impression that a radio telescope could only take a single pixel image. Are they using a different kind of receiver that can create a complete image? If so, how can they still increase resolution using interference?
Not just high performance ones, high _endurance_ ones.
Cats Recognize Their Own Names–Even If They Choose to Ignore Them
Isn’t that a fairly common practice in Japan?
Programming language design: the balance between generality and specificity
This is really interesting. It reminds me a bit of peer-reviewing journalism via Web annotation: https://web.hypothes.is/

I have a couple comments to make as a former newspaper reporter:

* Many important stories use anonymous sources that are impossible to verify via crowd-sourcing or by linking to official documents. Much of what happens in the world is not publicly documented nor is it widely known (until a reporter publishes a story). That gap between events and any record of those events is one of the structural problems that allow "fake news" to occur.

* Timing matters. Reporters working for the dwindling number of publications that employ fact-checkers or editors have their facts checked before they publish. For that small group of outlets, this diminishes the number of falsehoods they are responsible for unleashing online. Fact-checking a story after its release is useful, but the cat's already out of the bag. The lie is already speeding around the world at the speed of viral outrage.

* As with any platform where better information leads people to make different choices, there are lots of incentives for publications not engage in crowd-sourced fact-checking. Why do people lie or distort the facts on their dating profiles and job applications? Why do companies put forward their most utopian face? They are trying to shape the world with information. And so are media outlets such as Fox News, to name just the most egregious.

* Fact-checking is a lot of work, and can descend into epistemological quibbles. Most people don't have time do engage in it, or even to understand the debate around a given fact. This is why, in the past, we outsourced this work to the editorial staff of the fourth estate. While this would bring more transparency to the process, I am not sure who would have time to take advantage of that transparency, anymore than the normal reader will closely follow the "talk" tab on a Wikipedia article.
> Cars are a form of public transportation whenever the public drives them on public roads and freeways.

Incorrect.
In another career I sat on a conf call where an engineering manager was really upset and went off on a tangent about how X code should not "freak out" every time it sees something unexpected.

I was not writing code at the time and had nothing to contribute.

So apparently they fixed it later.... then came the security issues, unexpected behavior, shit going sideways.

Sometimes a straight crash is not such a bad thing.