skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Revisiting the program a couple of months later (he wanted the grid spacing changed) and dreading to do that work, I was flipping over the manuals, when it suddently clicked: I could use a variable for the 'line' instructions, and change with this 'for' instruction, which so far had eluded me. A few 'pages' worth of code got translated into 4 lines.

This exact same eureka moment happened to me as a kid when I picked up BASIC in first or second grade.

I was comparing two numbers to figure out which one is the larger one. I put my if statement, and the condition, but then turned out I had another number I had to compare to the larger of the first two. Once I wrote that, I realized I needed another one, and then another one. It struck me that I didn't even know how many numbers I was going to need to compare and it was clear to me that I cannot continue doing it this way.

I started to think what can I do, what if I compared the first one with the numbers after it in the list... Oh what happens on the last number? Do I wrap, no that doesn't make sense, because I did that comparison already.

I know what to do, I should compare each number with all the numbers after it, and pick the largest one from each iteration and place it elsewhere.

This is how I came up with my O(N^2) sorting implementation. Probably the first "general purpose" algorithm I've ever come up with or implemented but I remember the exact feeling of "wow, this changes things".

That realization that I could execute the same subroutine while changing the parameters it is operating on was literally an eye opener at that age and it was so satisfying having come up with it on my own.
Seeing this raises my already high opinion of Cloudflare!
> If a team leader doesn't have a few days to decide on the strategy for the team for the next quarter, I have no idea what more important thing she is doing

Typically, focusing the team on the strategy for the next 24 hours.
Calling these "voter mandated" is a serious stretch. It was the government agencies who put them on the ballots (as opposed to any voter initiative/petitioning), and it was those same government agencies who utterly lied about the fiscal effects in the ballot statements, as detailed in your own link. Quoting:

'The grand jury suggests voters may have been misled by official ballot pamphlet cost information on two of the three “significant” pension increases described in the report. A dozen retroactive retirement benefit increases between 1996 and 2008 are listed in a report appendix.

Voters were told that even with a retroactive pension increase for most employees (Proposition C in 2000) the city is not expected to make an annual payment to the retirement system “for at least the next 15 years.”

The eight-year period with no annual city payment to the retirement system, known as a “contribution holiday,” ended in 2004.

For a police and firefighter pension increase (Proposition H in 2002) voters were told that with a “large surplus” city contributions should not be needed for at least 10 years — but if needed, police and firefighters would pay “all or part” of the added cost.'
Despite the name and intention, in my experience, OKRs is a prime candidate for cargo culting culture into an org and using process as a proxy for actual focus on outcomes.
Germany recently finished upgrading a good chunk of the line between Berlin and Munich, dropping travel time from 6+ hours to under 4 on the sprinter.

Train service now has a marketshare of 46-30 vs flying, and widening. I'm certain it was reversed before.

People like fast center-to-center connections.

https://www.rbb24.de/wirtschaft/beitrag/2018/12/vde8-deutsch...
How the flying heck did your psychiatrist let you stop taking your medication cold turkey? There's usually a weaning off process for any sort of psychiatric drug.
Young blindly build Facebook like apps, old build a CCTV network.

Everything feels scary, try walking around at 2 a.m. and not feeling it. People are tired of it.

I don't think that all the surveillance will work. You always find the most amount of sketchy people around police stations. The cameras will make things worse. Good people will flee to other neighborhoods, were they are not being watched.

Fundamentally, why arn't things safe?
You're confusing two topics. I'm not talking about "socialism", and I don't want to get into definitions of that word, and frankly I don't disagree with anything you've said at all regarding socialism. However, I wasn't talking about socialism. Rather, the OC said "abolishing capitalism". Abolishing capitalism _means the same thing_ as abolishing voluntary activity. In order words, limiting individual freedom. So there is no way to construct "abolishing capitalism" as to not meant "violent coercion".

None of this has anything to do with socialism or social programs or anything like that.

I've read plenty of anarchist literature, and studied economics extensively. I would, ironically, label myself something of an anarchist as well.

You've called my individual thoughts, constructed by myself alone, after careful and considerable study, propaganda. You're confusing my tautological deduction for ideology. That's fine, but golly does it make me sad. You're seeing what you want to see, my friend.

Edit: Also, none of this even makes a value judgement about the worthiness of abolishing capitalism or infringing on personal freedoms. Perhaps it's a worthwhile calculation? That's not an opinion I'm bringing up - but the word "capitalism" has a simple meaning: trade and property. Abolishing the ability of humans to own things or do certain categories of things _is exactly the definition of limiting freedom_. Socialist philosophers are not unaware of this and their entire philosophy is built upon the calculation of limited personal freedoms to enable potentially greater net happiness. This is not a controversial opinion, is my point.
Have you already started on this concept? Myself and our team are working on some of the ideas you listed for an upcoming app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/guardian-firewall/id13637963...). It would be great to chat further, if you have interest in working on this concept (e-mail is will.strafach@guardianapp.com).

Designing a reasonably secure and reliable mobile VPN has been a very difficult challenge to get right. If you look at existing mobile VPNs through a tool such as Charles Proxy or Burp, you will see that none of them really appear to be designed very well. There are many unsolved technical problems with managing and scaling such services, likely avoided by existing providers due to how easy the issues are to mask. That said, Cloudflare’s cautious approach with Warp gives me some confidenxe that they really are trying to do this right.
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> ...it's somewhat disingenuous to tar them for lobbying (even ~threatening) other UN diplomats.

We're not tarring and feathering them _for_ lobbying. We are tarring and feathering them for _what_ they are lobbying. Is that not a valid distinction?

What strikes me as disingenuous is to frame your argument in this way, when it misses the point of _why_ this is drawing any attention in the first place.
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Well the idea is that having more money means you can get your message out more. The money has to be spent to be useful. It isn't just the person who "has" the most (though you could also use Trump as an example to that).

But Trump's team did a good job at getting in the media. Any news station you turned on there was more talk about Trump than Hillary.
As a daily transportation cyclist, I doubt I add any measurable amount of time to the commutes of drivers I encounter on the road. In fact, it's not uncommon to see the same drivers at multiple stoplights because the effective speed (due to the stoplights) is sometimes a bit slower than I ride.

That of course leads to another problem: Impatient drivers giving me close "punishment passes" only to wait at the stoplight. This is a common experience for cyclists.

Add on top of this the fact that most cyclists usually take different routes than drivers would from point A to point B. (Routes with less cars.)
Whoops, you're right. Should be there now.
Slow traffic is created non-linearly, i.e. if a road has a capacity of 100, it will be totally fine 0-90, but traffic will rise sharply after that point. If you could reduce the amount of cars by 10%, you could massively reduce the traffic that everyone is experiencing. So in that example, 90% of commuters will still be driving and paying tolls, but with far less traffic, and the other 10% may be on public transit/bike/walk/wfh and also experiencing far less traffic.
Every time I've tried to use it, as a desktop, it just wasn't great. Edit: let me clarify. It just didn't work great out of the box. Maybe it was hardware problems, or general weirdness and brokenness, but it felt "off".
"What is it that ... do with primary-age Asian kids that your SFUSD doesn't do with its Asian kids? Why not start with that?"

Because that's culture. That's respect and reverence for education and teachers. And then there's the after-school and weekend tutoring.

There's always this discussion in comparison with Finland, as well, which takes a very different approach to education than China. Yep, again culture. A commitment to children. In Finland, a commitment to funding schools and social services as a society.

It's way easier to mandate a change in the curriculum. As a mathematics educator in the US, I'll make this claim: the curriculum is almost irrelevant. It's the teachers and the attitude of society toward education that matters the most. If teachers are good & have the freedom and training to teach, they'll adjust the curriculum, whatever it may be.
Can relate to the article. Since 2003 or so I have been homeschooling my kids, very intentionally developing my spiritual path, taking on occasional web dev and database projects, and being the stay at home dad.

Up to that point, I had been in healthcare analytics doing everything from custom ETL, database design, to ad-hoc reports. Writing code and solving problems related to data was one of my favorite things.

Well the kids grew up and my engineering brain stayed active. Except, between age and the various non-traditional choices I had made in life my self-confidence was shot regarding employment.

Six weeks ago I accepted an offer for a data and business analyst position in healthcare at age 52. The pay is modest, the people are great, and I feel in many ways like I am starting all over. It is easy to regret lost time and opportunity. I sure have at times. Really I traded one opportunity set for another.

Now I see I am well suited for a new kind of role which uses my technical and non-technical strengths. In fact I was told being able to bridge technical and non-technical areas of the organization was a primary reason to offer me the position. I still get to write small bits of software to automate processes my new employer didn't realize could be automated. My favorite type of software to write.

Ironically, I have more fields in and out of tech I want to explore than I did 20 years ago. Yet, my life is over halfway to the finish line!
What is OKR?
My parents are Christians. There are a few Christian denominations/groups/cults with strict food rules, but definitely fringe.
And Queens is not Long Island.
There are experimental train engines with pantograph for mainlines and batteries for the "last mile" the issue is that for freight you often have heavy trains which need lots of power, pulling the required batteries would need lots of power as well, not to mention charging times.

More likely in the short term are electric engines, with a Diesel generator for the last mile (i.e. Bombardier TRAXX)
For really long distances across sparsely populated areas like parts of the US, it probably doesn't make much sense.

I think thw biggest win would be in cities. People wouldn't need to take cars everywhere, so you build things more densely, etc.
I think Google or one of the other big tech companies also use OKRs instead of the more traditional KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
I went to public schools and then to Caltech, where I could sleep through freshman chemistry because my public school chem teacher was so great that I already knew the material.

Experiences with public education vary.
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I do have a pretty good sense of how to structure things for performance, simply as a result of doing it over and over. But it's more akin to speed reading, where big O notation would be like sounding out each letter. It gives you the tools to explain to other people why something is better or worse.
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parking and other tlc related violations, not red light or speeding tickets. I actually never see uber drivers speeding, on the contrary, you will see them going 50mph in middle lane while everyone is passing them going 75 on 50 because thats what new york drivers do when they see room on the highway
Everybody bills off of the government CMS medicare billing codes.
> How about some parking protected bike lanes and encouragement for e-bikes, which can actually deliver reasonable door to door times?

I'm a daily transportation cyclist and I usually find parking protected bike lanes to be worse than no bike lane at all. In my experience, they greatly increase the risks at intersections due to turning drivers either not checking the bike lane for traffic or not being able to check it due to cars blocking the view.
Let's wait and see, but I expect for AMD to come up with a good enough generic solution which will render Nvidia's dedicated hardware obsolete.
One of the rare times I would condone the destruction of property and make it expensive for the city to operate these things. The US government has 0 authority to monitor its citizens without a warrant.
There are many things that factor into how likely HSR is to be used. Intercity travel demand is one of the chief metrics, but you also have to consider the quality of intracity public transport. Indianapolis and Columbus as a city pair simply does not score very well on this metric; you'd put the billions of dollars investment to much better use elsewhere.

The point about collinearity is that you can make a strong demand by combining many individually weak demands. And this is the problem in the Midwest: the strong demand is Chicago, and it has a lot of moderate demand endpoints, such as St. Louis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit. But the real strong city pair is Chicago/NYC, which is already at the extreme margins of acceptable time, which means substantial detours to hook up the lesser demand centers is going to kill ridership.
The Kurzweil keyboards let you type (e.g. to enter program names) using a simple A-Z mapping to keys, with a little practice it was easy to be quite fast at entering text.

I briefly tried to find a youtube video of someone using it, but no joy-- I guess it's too boring to watch someone type. :)
We still have one more in the freezer too. I'd hate to see it go to waste, so it's an interesting question as to who to donate it to and under what conditions.
On the scale of what the US does about those who trade with Iran, say, what China is doing is nothing.
As someone else who was in the same situation: In a way that additional problems would help, almost never. All my mistakes at that point were the equivalent of typos, things like dropping a sign from one line to the next.
All of that is interesting but the article, and GP, were talking about interurban transportation, not commuting to work. The flexibility of bus networks (using road infrastructure that would needed anyway for commerce) is desirable to be sure in metropolitan areas, but not as applicable or useful to inter-city routes.
> Will people still cheat if they know there’s a high likelihood that it will come to light?

Probably, but they're probably more likely to use contraception and/or get abortions.
One could tax single-occupant vehicles to encourage carpooling.

Nit: most public transit involves vehicles. Walking, swimming, skipping, jogging, etc. aren't usually considered public transit.
I think it was Netherlands, not Poland that had religion listed in national census, but I agree with your other points.
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Fine, that myth refuses to do, but can we get some common-sensical security best-practices for intelligent but non-technical folks?

This is a real problem, that smart people don't know how to keep their stuff secure.
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The City of Portland is not doing a massive freeway expansion, the Feds are doing it. They deemed I5 going through Portland to be a bottleneck and required the expansion.
Nobody said this was just a joke.
> If the trades aren’t happening, the necessary mutual benefit is not present.

Then why does the US governement fund roads? Because there's a collective bargaining / coordination problem. It benefits us overall if we have them, but that doesn't mean that a profit could be usefully generated from maintaining them, or that this is the best way of running the system (we want to maximise use of the infrastructure, not discourage use with high usage tariffs).

The is fundamentally an economic argument, albeit one that recognises value beyond monetary value.
I don't think this era is going to last much longer. Something has to give if we want to make any headway on climate goals, and increasing air travel prices is one of the more obvious steps.

Right now train travel is cheap if you plan ahead and have the right discount cards and some flexibility regarding time. Otherwise, not so much. But then again, this is true for flying as well.
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This has become more worrisome of late since the number of workable toolchains seems to be increasing. The fraction of jobs in this town I could be eligible for (without a lot of tapdancing) is much smaller than it used to be, despite the fact that we aren't really doing all that much that's different than ten years ago.
I used to own a Just5 Brick phone for a simpler phone experience. I don’t know if they’re going to continue selling them though, as they’ve been marked “sold out” for some time now.

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I like the idea of business card sized pieces of useful or potentially useful code. However, it's not useful for much beyond putting it on a business card.
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> John Doerr wrote the great book about OKRs…

The book, in case anyone else is curious: https://www.whatmatters.com/
My wife and I took a trip to the middle of nowhere in Wales last fall. Train to Cardiff from London, then from Cardiff to our little cottage in the Pembrokeshire coast, I drove for 2+ hours in a rental car, learning to drive on the left.

The day after we arrived, we learned we could have caught a train to Fishguard, a tiny village nearby, and then the local bus would have gotten us within a ten minute walk from our rental house. It probably would have even been faster and cheaper than the car we rented. It sure would have been less stressful for me.

It's not just that the cities are more walkable. It's a whole culture that says cars should not be required to live a full life.
The OP was obviously referring to abolishing capitalism in favour of socialism. So either you're being so overly pedantic it's impenetrable, or you're just very obtuse.

> You've called my individual thoughts, constructed by myself alone, after careful and considerable study, propaganda.

Glad you brought up your study of anarchist literature, because surely you've read Chomsky. Propaganda does not require the individual to be aware of their complicity in spreading it. You can very well assume you've come up with this on your own, but rational thought doesn't result in this kind of bootlicking drivel.

> You're seeing what you want to see, my friend.

I'm seeing exactly how you are presenting yourself; a pedant far more interested in the definitions of words and meaningless civility than humanity and moral righteousness.
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Trains are easier to electrify than any other mode of transport, though.
I feel the same way about "clever" code. Most of the time "clever" code isn't really any more efficient than a naive approach, it's just a way for a developer to code golf at work by abusing / using uncommon syntax or idioms. Which is really a net negative since other people need to be able to read your code
John Doerr's book is "Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs":

https://www.whatmatters.com/
lol that's not how April Fools jokes work - try again next year. Did someone actually pay some sort of licensing fee to use a star wars logo?
>both employers and residents want to minimize rents which drives sprawl and transportation webs, as opposed to hub and spoke models.

I don't think this holds up empirically? The US is home to some of the highest rents in the world. Mid-sized US cities have way higher rents than major cities like Tokyo or Paris.

Or maybe this is the idea, but if so it has failed miserably at letting people on the lower end of the spectrum be able to rent stably
I mean, roads are propped up by the government and clearly not profitable
Power density is the main issue. There are some experiments with batteries, for sure, but you can't really create the same density of stored energy as diesel that would actually fit on a frame and can be recharged in some semblance of a normal time.

IIRC it was bandied back and forth but you'd only get a few hours of peak load, vs a diesel which can run at peak power for days before running out of fuel.
It must be one heck of a fun title to take someone who would — if not for that dratted game! — be a productive pillar of the community and make her a bump on a log.

The far simpler, albeit non-egalitarian, explanation is some people are more productive and others will find ways to waste time.
Good people make any
process look good.

No matter how amazing the process is, without good people, you’ll fail.

I like OKRs, but I benefit from being with smart people.
Example of a more traditional KPI (Key Performance Indicator): System downtime must be below 0.01% every quarter.

Example of an OKR (Objectives and Key Results): By the end of the quarter, implement a new fast-response process to reduce issue resolution time by 25%