skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slate Star Codex recently did an analysis of technological progress and income growth and found that the most correlated variable was population growth.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...
> HN, because 99.9% of the people here have always had pleasant interactions with the police (i.e. they’re white)

I'm white and as a teen growing up in Idaho I had many unpleasant interactions with police. Once two friends of mine and I were stopped at gun point just for walking home at 2am. The excuse was that there had been some thefts in the area. I guess we looked the part.

Granted, there are not a lot of black people in Idaho. I was actually quite surprised when I moved to NYC and realized that the cops weren't looking at me any more just because I was white.
Read the article and ask yourself which one of the things described would seem out of place in one of those sad gossip magazines targeting low-income housewives.

E.g. water mixed with Himalayan salt and lemon in the morning.

And since I'm mentioning it, Himalayan salt is not better than normal salt. It could also contain more contaminants and it has no iodine (that could not be desirable in some countries).
Relative Proofs of Consistency
I'm curious how they compare "fasting" - which people have been doing for thousands of years and has traditions in nearly every major historical + religious culture and cost nothing with "jade eggs."

Doesn't quite seem equivalent...
Also, the cars are competing in completely different markets. A better reference might be that a base 2019 leaf is now $23,000 or so with tax credit: https://www.motortrend.com/cars/nissan/leaf/2019/2019-nissan....
The Model 3 has positive gross margins. Its an issue of volume, not an issue of margins.

There's a lot of things they did wrong to get to this point: changing the design of the M3 too much and too often, making it difficult to stock parts for repairs and all that... but ultimately, the vehicle is actually positive margin.

That doesn't make the company profitable. They spend $700 Million / quarter on their Supercharger network, their sales channels, salaries for employees, and other such "static costs". They need to get to the 5000 cars / week (or higher) point to become profitable.

That's all it come down to. They've got a positive gross margin car, its an issue of selling more of them. If there's a ton of customers waiting for a cheaper vehicle, well that was an error in Musk's marketing. Too many people are holding out waiting for a cheaper car. IMO anyway.

At ~$40,000, they make $8k per vehicle or so. If they raised average prices to $50,000 or so (assuming a base price of ~$45k), they'd only need to sell 1/2 as many vehicles to make a profit.
Yes, just break open a 1L torts treatise and there are dozens of cases.

The difference between autopilot on a boat and Tesla's Autopilot is a matter of agency/autonomy. Boat and plane autopilots mostly just go in a straight line--they make no decisions.

Tesla's autopilot functions autonomously from the driver--and that, legally, makes all the difference, because it can make different decisions from what the driver would do. The driver still bears some responsibility for their failure to oversee and correct TA, but TA bears direct responsibility.

The analysis would be different if TA was just a glorified cruise control or lane-keeping system.
> that was done on undergraduates

There aren't a lot of old undergrads (and undergrads themselves are not terribly representative of the entire population within the same age group -- this has been a known problem with tons of university research for a long, long time).

This implies that the research you're referring to wouldn't necessarily speak to what drives older generations.
Thanks for the mention, Eli. I work for Avalara on their social media team. We are staying on top of these changes and I wanted to share this clarification.

More than a dozen states impose a sales tax collection obligation on marketplace facilitators (Amazon, Etsy, eBay, etc.). In addition to collecting and remitting tax on their own sales into the state, if they have any, marketplace facilitators will soon be responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax on all sales made through the marketplace in even more states. Most recently, Wyoming and California have joined the ranks; Virginia is close, which we expect to be on the books by the middle of this year. We anticipate every state to have a law like this on the books by Q1 of 2020.

Where I see a lot of confusion is from sellers who are struggling to understand economic nexus regulations that are based on reaching sales thresholds. Adding to the confusion, these thresholds vary from state-to-state.

If you'd like to learn more, our recent blog "How marketplace facilitator sales tax laws in different states affect marketplace sellers" covers this in depth. https://avlr.co/2VFKvCa Here’s an excerpt:

"Now that states are no longer prohibited from taxing remote sales, they’re looking for the most efficient ways to bring in remote sales tax revenue. Approximately 35 states have adopted economic nexus laws, which impose a sales tax collection obligation on businesses with significant economic activity in the state. Such economic nexus laws generally provide an exception for small sellers (defined differently in different states).

Many marketplace sellers qualify for these small seller exceptions, meaning they’re safe from the long arms of the tax authorities. But states that require marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales tax on behalf of their sellers still reap revenue from those transactions. It’s a win-win for states, which is why we can expect to see marketplace facilitator sales tax laws proliferate.

It’s important to note that marketplace sellers aren’t necessarily freed from all responsibilities under these laws. In fact, these laws can complicate matters a bit because they change the rules. Ordinarily, businesses that don’t have nexus with a state (an obligation to collect sales tax) don’t have reporting requirements. That’s not the case with all marketplace facilitator sales tax laws, as you’ll see below."
I’ve always found this phrase an oxymoron.
How to get clicks: write something controversial, post to HN.

Friday deploys are a fast way to end up ruining multiple people's weekends, and if you value your developers you will build a solid CI/CD pipeline and accept that you are only human and your tests may never cover 100% of stuff that can go wrong, so you can wait till Monday to deploy when everyone is around to fix anything that does go wrong.

Is the author's team also deploying on Fridays?
I suspect this has more to do with losing the federal subsidy than competition from Tesla
I'm not sure "because people ask him about it" is a very clear line here or means much.

People might ask Paltrow too...
There are many many ways to not be fat and/or diabetic, and some of them are more wrong and ridiculous than others.
This is spot on.

The exotic error paths are always there, but you don't always need to handle them. You can push some error handling to other systems, such as clients and supervisors / orchestrators. The reason why mmap with files is tractable is because we have a good error handling strategy (remap with zeroes, mark error) and we have a few understandable reasons why we might expect the error (IO errors, lost media/network failures, or even truncate). In general the problem that IO is done outside of direct syscalls like write() can be difficult even when you're not using mmap, like when Postgres was losing errors when calling fsync.

But when you have an IO error in your swap file, go ahead, eat the SIGBUS and die. This is fine.
I disagree with the paren't sentiment but I think they raise an interesting point: is/should there be a license that says: you can read/use/modify {this} but you cannot use it as a training data for the AI.

{this} can be code or text or an image or any other content.
Clean Code versus Clever Code (2015)
This sounds like a delusional person who happens to be an 'engineer', rather than someone who who is 1st & foremost, or archetypally, an engineer.
Needlessly, definition: in a way that is unnecessary because it is avoidable.

Therefore this statement:

> every time someone drives they waste some amount of others' time needlessly

Is absolutely incorrect. Following good driving techniques means no needless wasted time happens when driving. By the very definition of the word needless. Anything that is within good driving techniques is needed. By the very definition of good driving techniques.

Since cell phone use to check messages (the point which you are answering to) is not needed to operate a motor vehicle, IF time is wasted on this (again, the point you are literally hitting reply to), any amount, it is a needless imposition on other people. As someone who can communicate effectively pointed out, this has a knock on effect. (again, the point you are replying to)

Using words by their actual meaning helps communication. Playing games and saying 'driving is not needed' is a silly ego defense that doesn't further the understanding of reality and the finding of truth. Especially because there are people who clearly need to drive. And the who point that was being made was 'when driving', not if driving is needed.

This is all very basic.

BTW, in the middle of the hair splitting defensive posting, you forgot to clarify what the point you were making when replying to rconti - because that is the topic we are supposed to be on.
Apache Pulsar: Synchronous Geo Replication: Hybrid Deployment Model
What value has "buzzfeednews" added here?
You just said that anyone who isn't fat or diabetic has a lifestyle that is automatically better than someone who does. That's not the case.
Is there a way we can see what data specifically is being sent to your servers from our local VSCode installations?
Last time I visited my parents I noticed that my mom had Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook on her shelf. She mentioned how pretentious and crazy it was. I flipped through it and I couldn't identify most of the ingredients.

Yahoo News calculated it would cost you $300/day to feed your family from her cookbook:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130719034903/http://shine.yaho...

And speaking of Dorsey, this is another crazy article about him:

>Why are Silicon Valley billionaires starving themselves?

>Dorsey recently appeared on the Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast to explain his monkish lifestyle in more detail than the 240 character blasts he's known for sending out to the less biologically enlightened universe. He says he eats only one meal a day in the week and doesn't let any foodstuff pass his lips at the weekend. He also starts every day with an ice bath. "Nothing has given me more mental confidence than being able to go straight from room temperature into the cold," he says.

https://theweek.com/articles/835226/why-are-silicon-valley-b...
What is it that you wanted to show?
Desired Role: UI Engineering Management, UX Management, Technical Product Management

Location: Charlotte, NC

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Vue.js, JavaScript, Sass, Webpack

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ex0KCWYsdOZVB0bDdsWEstNEk...

Email: exaltedsolutions at gmail dot com

Website: http://www.etaylor.io

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbtaylorjr

Hi there, I'm currently a Lead UI Engineer with nearly 15 years of UI Engineering experience and a strong background in User Experience and leading cross-functional, agile, distributed teams.

I've spent the last few years managing a cross-functional team in the design, development, and support of an internal design system from the ground up. This design system was then adopted by the rest of the organization and now fuels multiple applications, which requires our team to work closely with internal clients, while also gathering feedback from the Product team to improve the overall experience for our customers.

I'm looking for a management opportunity to lead a user-centered team to craft top-notch experiences. I prefer to lead shoulder to shoulder, building a strong relationship with the team and encouraging advocacy and healthy conflict to ensure the team is producing the best results possible, while learning from each other and building their own relationships as well.
C bit twiddling for me means a bit of inline assembly, inspecting the assembly generated by the compiler, figuring out why the files generated didn’t work across platforms (found out about the endian difference between x86 and whatever the mainframes we were also targeting), etc.
Slate Star Codex recently did an analysis of technological progress and income growth and found that the most correlated variable was population growth. Malthus' predictions never came true.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...
My framework is to just look at your metrics and ascribe certain metrics to the right areas of focus, if one metric is lagging/worse than the others, focus there. Not enough free trial signups? Switch focus to marketing. Good trial volume but % conversion to paid is too low, time for some product/onboarding work. Churn creeping up? Allocate more time to bigger product work, bug fixing. Customer support tickets too high? Bug fixes + documentation.

And invert it too. Even if you personally are annoyed at how bad your current state of help docs are, if support tickets and churn are low, save it for later
>and then restore after they get to where they want to be

It seems like the clear workaround is to ask travelers if this is the case, and to ask for their passwords to any popular sites that provide this service. A clean laptop workspace* is suspicious on its own.

I suppose you could lie about it, gamble that they would have no way of knowing that you're lying. But that's not a fun game to play long term.
This happens in construction too. Architect/engineer sign off on a design, the "no education" guy swinging the hammer has to make adjustments in the field to get it to actually work.
Calling Elon Musk hyper-masculine is just funny. Masculine is enough.

I suppose it's like how "right" because "far-right."
and it's LIVE ;)
Most of it is just straight up assembly. I don't think there's much inline assembly because that's hard to maintain for multiple platforms.

Rich Tea is a British biscuit. Maybe that's why you remember it?
Are being healthy and not unhealthy the same thing? For example not smoking is "not unhealthy" in the sense it does not hurt your lungs, but I would not consider standing around not smoking as being healthy. Similarly drinking water is not unhealthy compared to the harms of soda and dehydration.

The traditional form of healthy is avoiding harm; avoiding less than normal health. Ice baths and fasting seem like an attempt to be above the baseline normal healthy. Its an addition instead of avoiding a subtraction.
The Giant Panda Is a Closet Carnivore
Veganism don’t require that you miss out on essential fats and proteins.
Let's try and simplify things here: the post we're both currently commenting on relates to doing file IO via nmap. Of course 'avoiding all use of virtual memory' is ridiculous, but nobody except you is suggesting that, and you continue to suggest it even after a long reply.

The "powerful (and consequently hazardous) OS feature" here is using mmap for general file IO, it:

- introduces resources leaks many developers can't profile

- introduces VM bottlenecks 99% of developers can't profile

- introduces random segfaults delivered to arbitrary threads in the running process, leading to crashes many developers can't diagnose

- the mmap() interface itself is fundamentally unsafe in that it allows partially overwriting random bits of VM (MAP_FIXED) with file views, and worse still, allows those mappings to be read-write

Once again, nobody has ever suggested avoiding virtual memory except you -- once again, that is impossible in a modern environment, but it is more than possible, and ultimately incredibly sensible, not to mention entirely on topic with regards to this thread and the article it is attached to, to suggest avoiding use of mmap for general file IO
That’s possible but also adoptions aren’t as common as in the US. I’ve had conversations with people from some of these areas and adoption is hardly considered as an option to adding to a family.
Exactly. Your vulnerability is an opportunity for your peers and friends to be supportive.
If you think jailing someone for a mistake is a good thing, then you have some serious humanity issues that you need to work on.
We had our preemie vaccinated way early for this reason, you can definitely get away with it.
>"Tesla hasn't actually delivered any yet at that price point" (article quote, not mine)

The article is wrong. The first $35k models started being delivered a couple weeks back.
I've been doing some fasting lately, and what has deeply shocked me is precisely that I'm not "staggering about hungry for days". It's surprisingly easy once you get over the initial hump. (Note: I'm not saying it's necessarily easy in an absolute sense; I'm saying it's surprising how easy it is. Based on my upbringing I would have guessed after hour 4 I'd be in constant serious hunger, and it's not like that.)

I've come to understand that what I interpreted as "hunger" in the past was basically a sugar craving. I don't know how long it would take real hunger to get to that level, but even in a two-day fast I'd only gotten up to more-or-less "I could eat, yeah"... still a long ways from the hunger I've had in the past.

(Also, my interest in it has actually been coming from the scientific side, rather than the traditional side or crazywhack theory or any sort of Puritan impulse. I have an autoimmune disease, and there's been a lot of interesting work on those and fasting lately.)
Yep, I bought a 2 year old one with 19k miles for $8,500.
It's wrong no matter who does it.
I've done C firmware. I disagree about these problems.

C did not have a rigorously and formally defined memory model until 2011. We did C for almost 40 years before we got that.

Go read what Linus Torvalds has to say about "volatile", and then go rip it out of all your code. You should not be using that keyword, except possibly for a software-incremented global clock tick counter residing in normal RAM.

You need to call a function that will properly perform any required memory fences. If you don't do this, the CPU or bridges may reorder the memory accesses.

Rust might have problems, but the issues listed are not problems. My immediate concern is the availability of inline assembly. I would hope that this is possible and can be inlined into code that isn't marked unsafe.
He was right in spirit, wrong on timeline (and perhaps mechanism).
> Case in point: closing nuclear plants and replacing them with renewables is what Germany has been trying to do and has failed to do so far.

Germany was the global top electricity exporter, by dollar value, in 2017 [0].
If that's what "failing" looks like, then maybe more countries should start "failing" like that?

In that context, coal and gas are only stop-gap technologies until storage technology and deployment has caught up, and coal is mostly only around for the same reasons as in the US: To not piss off the miners/lose those jobs.

[0] http://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country/
yes its veganism that is the extreme part of this...
They are being compared as sources of cultural influence, not in terms of their personal degree of responsibility.
Never understood the disdain for people for trying wacky sounding self-improvement techniques. Just like I wouldn't make fun of the 17% of Americans who take antidepressant pills to feel happier, I'm definitely not going to make fun of people fasting or using sauna to feel happy.
Okay, I’m a South Korean citizen.
That, is one aspect.
Consider another aspect.
Nuclear reactors are dangerous. That doesn’t change. We get the Fukushima accident much more prominently because Japan is so close th Korea and everyone (literally everyone) had to worry about eating Fukushima fish.
Nuclear reactors are dangerously close to so many cities, and that can’t change, because our country is too small, and there are so many mountains (which take up space).
It’s different from saying ‘Hey, it’s failure rate is super small, it’s gonna be safe.’ and living close to the reactors and worrying about the tiny failure rate.
And, I was Science High School student which studied nuclear reactors in detail. What would usual people feel?
> “I don’t know of any other software company in the history of technology that fell onto hard times and has recovered so well,” says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc.

How about Apple?
I try to keep an eye on what's urgent (the current crises, whatever's currently on fire) and what's important (longer term objectives - features, code maintainability). You can't just do one kind or the other; you have to cover both.
Ah, sorry, I think I missed your point (or reversed it). To my knowledge, I'm not aware of any research that can support that bias is function of age. Was the claim that it's a function of age based on research or your personal opinion?
I'm firmly of the opinion that a lot of wellness fads spring up fields like tech because its a field where traditional religious views are rarer. People latch on to these new belief systems that are like religion in most ways beside name. They all have a set of rigid rules to follow and rituals to perform, and they all have some type of self-denial or sacrifice as one of their core values. Fasting, temperance, Whole30, gluten free, even modern fitness culture all share elements of denying yourself things you enjoy or putting yourself through unpleasant situations in search of some kind of enlightenment or transcendence.

I often see the same people falling into fad after fad, first telling me how EMFs are poison and will be looked at like cigarettes in a decade, and how singing bowls realign my spirit, and trying to insist on the power of visualization can cure chronic pain. I'm curious what it is that causes this.
>It may not go everywhere in every condition, but so what?

The "so what" is that it isn't really an automomous vehicle of it can't navigate the roads for a solid 50 % of the year in a good chunk of North America.

>Isn't it still totally mind blowing how far it's already come?

Not really, to be honest.
Google does, in a way, with the GitHub data set in BigQuery -> https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/#sample_tables
Why would it be outdated? It has 200+ miles range.
> A bit flip can't be expected to be skewed towards any particular bit within a float,

Actually, I think they are - for example, the exponent path through an adder/multiplier is typically shorter, so when operated close to clock speed limits, the exponent is more likley to be correct.

(I've not actually verified the above on real hardware)
Part of the point of the audit would be to demonstrate that you take it as seriously as you say you do. Not so much to check the fine details.
There's no reason to be that dramatic. The US often has worse impacts on people's lives. If you're poor and uneducated in this country, one mistake can lead to a lifetime of debt and a cycle of prisons, hospitals, mental health facilities, homeless shelters, and so on. There is no significant social safety net for a large swath of the population (we're talking tens of millions of people) and people's lives are often left in shambles by a system that doesn't operate on empathy.

But also, this person is only facing six months and $30,000. That is no reason to consider suicide. Of course it sucks, but their life isn't over.
The key point being identifying those variables and ensuring they remain constant (i.e. in that example - tire pressure, elevation, fuel load etc.)