skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda curious if this "new" plastic is going to be flexible enough in the number of applications to replace most common plastics in common applications, or if it's going to have the same issues (ie, needing fillers or other things to make it work for certain applications).

What is it's heat resistance? How well does it work in extreme cold? How flexible is it? Impact resistance? Can it be made clear?

Maybe any fillers, etc can also easily separate out?

If it can replace most uses of PP/PE/ABS/PVC - it would be huge on the consumer market (also, providing it doesn't have a similar BPA-like issue).
We don't need streetlights, they are a waste of energy.
I really like this comment, because I think it gets to the root of the problem. People on Hacker News would probably be happy with an engineer, systems thinker turned politician.

That's probably because all of the smart people that we know and interact with regularly are engineers and systematic thinkers. What ever the Business version of Hacker News would probably want someone with a business or economic background. Ditto for medical professionals, artists, etc.

What seems clear is that the only bar for being elected is some amount of charisma. Barring that, just stoke fear in your chosen party's base.
> Anybody remember the good old days when you could have AppleCare send you a box and a return label?

They still do this. Just a standard advance replacement.
The point about boomers is valid, but why? Let's simplify it a little more.

In my parent's day, and my younger days, almost every politican had had a life first. Lawyer, doctor, surgeon, Special Forces, union official, plenty of WW2 service too, you name it. You may not agree with their policy, but there was usually a huge breadth of life-experience, and often demonstrated knowledge even if you vary on the conclusion. We generally had older politicians as they had experience. There was a remnant of the once popular idea that after a successful life you gave something back in politics - locally or nationally. Now there's an expectation politicians need to be younger, media friendly etc.

So now we're overrun by professional politicans who get their degree in PPE and expect to start chasing power the moment they graduate, with little more than family wealth or the increasingly common short PR/media career to look back on. They can draw on short political experience and little else. They increasingly have no idea how the world works.

No amount of advisers and civil servants can close that gap.
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And in Belgium those 5 minutes only count at the end of the line. It means that the train can be 15 minutes late and miss connections but it won't be considered late if it made up for the delay upon arriving at the terminus.
> But the award for the most asinine thing about the Apple Store is their insistence on not having a proper area to pay for things

Interesting, that's my favourite things about Apple Stores! I wish more stores adopted this model.
Our internal model of the world is always simpler than the world itself (otherwise it wouldn't be a model).

This whole article is just saying "Dear client, here's why your model is insufficient".

Which is a much nicer email to write than "Dear client, here's why my model was insufficient". Which is what happens when the estimates go south
There are a ton of projects that will never outgrow TimescaleDB so if you have in house PostgreSQL expertise looks like very decent option.
I've heard you can perform arbitrarily difficult calculations just by getting gwern interested enough to write an article.
Then I’d assume it would be confiscated like what happened to this lawyer.
Bounty hunters aren't law enforcement anymore than Luke Cage.
“What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
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Another example of Dunning Kruger effect here. I assume you're competent at something, that's as polite as I can be. But the way you willfully ignore my power and trim explanations and yet continue to armchair pilot by mischaracterizing the importance of the power setting, while also implying the pilots were incompetent, is shameful. But you are so incredibly ignorant, you have no idea, so you persist in being obtuse. That is how a real pilot and flight instructor will view your characterizations. And even as I try to school you, you ignore it. Your defect is significant enough I do not have the time or interest in schooling you anymore.

FAA emergency airworthyiness directive 2018-23-51 directly contradicts much of what you are saying and implying.

The PDF you cite, if authentic, and if the units are the same between LNI610 and ET302, indicate substantially more nose down trim for ET302. And that is consistent with the airspeed differences, not power.

Since you seem eager to accept more rope and hang yourself with it: ET302 05:41:15, take the airplane state at that time, and only do a power reduction, explain what you think will happen and why, in sequence with and emphasis on the force changes that happen including change in attitude.
Zabbix is like a step up from Nagios. I don't know how they can even stay relevant with Prometheus.
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RAM drive used RAM as a storage device. This is the other way around. Storage used as RAM. Drive RAM, if you will.
I've noticed this when riding on a long tram lane which is supposed to be a fast track and a transfer one. So I prefer more often trams, because it means less people.

I've also noticed that I dont have to remember timetable because it's basically organized in so-much-trams-per-hour, so it's 20mins or 15, 12 etc. So I just need to remeber a minute-offset and an interval.

As a side effect, i've noticed that at rush hour when interval is 5 mins the timetable stops to have meaning because tram can be within -1 to +3 of timetable arrival, that means it can be virtullay any time. Also, I should wait max abt 5 minutes.

I think that intervals vs arrival time change meaningfullness as a relation of interval vs timetable confidence, and passenger travel time confidence for that matter. If you can't plan your arrival at the stop better than +-1min you don't need exact times for 5-6 minute intervals. For 60min it probably makes sense. I guess one could derive good metrics for this.
I think that the take-away from this affair is that we're not being governed by people, we are being governed by an institution, parliament.

That institution is made up of other institutions, referendums, votes, political parties...

In any case, the key institution for brexit was referendum. It was a particularly broken example of it too.

First, the whole UK referendum thing is broken because they're not legally binding which means they don't end a debate. Second, both major political parties opposed it. This means Brexit was handed to a parliament (and pm) who didn't support it, to implement. Third, it's not something the UK is used to, referendums are a quirky rarity. ... This led to spectacle.

2 party politics also plays a bad role. May was stuck trying to get agreement from populists, extremists from her own party and the DUP.. She could have gone to her opposition instead, but it would have harmed the Tories politically.

The recurring pathologies of democracy and nationalism are something we're used to. Obviously the proponents piled on the merits of Brexit and dismissed the opposite. They always do that.

Anyway, it's the institutions failing. ..and I'm not sure they're failing, it's just taking forever.

The only impossible thing about Brexit was northern Ireland, at least within the "red lines." The peace there was premised on the EU making sovereignty unimportant.
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on this note there was a nice paper [0] proposing a game entirely focused on hidden information (Hanabi) as a benchmark for automated decisions.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00506
Thinking out loud, but despite politicians going all over market-style structures (i.e., pay-for-performance with teachers, making welfare recipients jump through hoops, etc.) maybe you could flip this table on politicians for beneficial results:

1. Salary grading on some formula of bills proposed & bills voted on & passed could provide incentive for working together / compromising
2. Salary grading based on tenure could provide incentive to make your money in congress, versus using congress to make your money later
3. Maybe we need a mechanism where ideologues who waste time with meaningless votes on "crowd-pleasers" are disinvited from serving future terms
> You again seem to be applying what I'm saying to what seems to be your experience with the American government

I am European with direct experience with around 20 governments of the union; I've never visited the USA

> I just don't see collaboration in the context of a public institution as somehow separate from person-to-person collaboration.

One involves politics, lawmaking, ministers, directors, budgets, projects and governments and... And one does not. Pretty huge difference.

> We simply can't rely on a VM hosted by a profit-focused company as the backbone for record-keeping in posterity.

I already suggested IPFS, and there are more solutions to distributed data than you'd like. Choosing government for your purposes is about the worst thing you could do, even the government rather uses Amazon. My current government exists mere 30 years and each switch was accompanied by literal record burning. The previous communist phase lasted 40 years, and the one before that 20 years.

> One of the first suggestions I had was the UN or IEEE.

Why not Wikipedia or similar? That's what I am suggesting, basically
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So - are they not checking for error in this case, and using a value anyway?
The handyman spends 20min thinking about how to solve the problem.

The civil engineer spends 20min thinking about how to solve the problem and 20-days making sure there's no way whoever signs his paycheck is going to be told by a court to pay out a bunch of money if something goes sideways.

An professional engineer is basically just a lawyer for the laws of physics. You're not paying for his ability to come up with a solution. Anyone can read the books and do that. You're paying for the fact that other people take that solution seriously.
Yeah, no interest payments from you. Less profitable.
For those strangely un-persuaded by an anonymous soapbox opinion, Pew Research has published some data relating to Brexit.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/24/brexit-vote...
@magduf has the correct answer. The Sun optical mouse used dual photodiodes and had two grids in the mousepad. One blue, one red. The filters on the photo diodes allowed one to see both x & y grid lines and the other to see only the red stripes. Then based on their signalling you could extract a motion vector. The upside was no ball to pick up dirt and clog sensors, the downside was you needed the mousepad with the lines etched on it. You would also get less reliable results if the mouse pad was not in the expected orientation with the mouse.

Still I really enjoyed that mouse. It had excellent tactile feedback on the buttons as well.
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I understand what you mean. I would have preferred an article with lots more technical info.
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Grit is a tool to mirror monorepo subtrees to GitHub
I'd almost argue that, in the example, the clients model wasn't insufficient. If you want to include "implement automated testing" in a small feature request without telling your clien, then your client is probably right to be surprised!
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Seems like running `ls` takes twice as long as running `nnn`, but I wonder how long it takes to type each...

$ ipython
In [1]: %time input()
ls
Wall time: 324 ms
Out[1]: 'ls'

In [2]: %time input()
nnn
Wall time: 711 ms
Out[2]: 'nnn'

In other words, `nnn` takes twice as long (on my setup, including a qwerty keyboard and my fingers and muscle memory) and it's on the same order of magnitude as running them, so I guess they're more or less equal.

This is all tongue in cheek, but my point is that the important optimization is of user productivity and not of runtime, and in that respect as far as I'm aware `Total Commander` on Windows and its open source plugin-compatible clone `doublecmd` that runs on both Windows and Linux are far superior to anything else in the market. Don't let the Windows-3.11 reminiscent design scare you, with Total Commander you'll be as productive doing complex file operations as those vim masters are doing complex text transformations, and you won't ever be able to go back to any other file manager.

edit: I misread, actually typing them is a decimal order of magnitude slower than running them on 2083 files.
BugsEverywhere (https://gitlab.com/bugseverywhere/bugseverywhere) does this, but the project isn't overly active these days.

The nice thing about BE compared to the more recent ones, is that it's VCS agnostic - it's just files in the repo, rather than e.g. using some special metadata feature of git/etc to track the issues.

I've yet to see a web UI for it tough (to expose it to non-technical users).
At one time IBM (and probably other manufacturers) installed RAM and hard drive capacity, but didn't enable it. If you wanted more capacity, they sent out an engineer to basically "flip a switch" (more or less). You always had that ability, but not until they enabled it.

We kinda see something similar today with Tesla - and we'll probably see more of it in the future.
> the research showed that too little or too much sleep was associated with increased risk of dying – approximately 65 minutes more than, or under, the average nightly sleep duration (7 hours in this sample) was associated with a 10 per cent increased risk of dying over the course of the study

This seems inaccurate on the high end. Under 6 hours has repeatedly shown to be bad. But over 8 hrs and 5 min? If the average REM sleep cycle is 1.5 hrs, then your only "perfect" window is 7.5 hrs of sleep - 9 would be detrimental?

Other data suggests otherwise:

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/...
Are you seriously trying to turn this into some PR conspiracy?

> But even assuming your explanation is correct, it is incomplete. Why now?

The offender was brought back on with no long term consequences for his behavior, and now 100+ people have found the courage to coordinate and walkout to express their disdain towards senior management that thought this was ok (to put a toxic individual back in with people that are uncomfortable around him). Do you think this shit gets organized in a few hours around the water cooler or at a single happy hour?

The group walking out clearly articulated their reasons, that's on you if you can't bother to read up on it.

> Do employees feel secure enough

There's the National Labor Relations Act, plus California protects against retaliation when speaking out against working conditions.
Maybe "the indirect link between higher trait agreeableness and risk of dying" is due to others in their environment keeping them up and they going along with it even when they are tired.
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You seem to be implying that current low unemployment is caused by tariffs on china. I rather suspect that it is caused by continuing low interest rates and has nothing to do with tariffs.
In the U.S., we need to add about 20 years to the minimum age requirement for representatives, senators, and the president. Those were set back when the constitution was originally written (different world, etc.) and need to be increased.

Also, set the minimum voting age to 30.

That might help... some.
I've been developing for clients for 20+ years and 9 times out of 10 they do under estimate, but I think it has to do with lack of knowledge rather than anything malicious.

I found myself doing it when I get quotes for home repair or construction. My mind immediately goes to "I don't think it should take that long" even though I have no idea how to estimate those types of projects.

I wonder if it's because with something I'm not knowledgeable about I'm only estimating what I can see, but there are 5-10 tasks that have to happen in the background to make that thing I can see work properly. I just have no idea what those background tasks are to begin with or how many.
They'll probably use ROCm rather than OpenCL.
How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2003/10/28/how-...
I actually believe it may be the hardest card game to compute.

Magic has been around since 1993, and releases new cards every year. There are currently > 15,000 unique cards in the game.

When playing, you don't know what the next card drawn will be. You also don't know what is in your opponents hand.

In poker for example, there is a very small pool of possible top decks and hands.

Search trees in Magic (especially "eternal" formats that allow you to pick cards from any expansion) would be too massive to compute.

These cards are not vanilla either (not just statpools) - they contain over 100 categorical effects and many of them have unique effects.

I'd guess at least 1000 have unique effects and interactions.

Add on to that the fact that magic is both a pro-active and re-active card game. In most card games (aka hearthstone for example) you cast cards on your turn. In Magic you can cast many cards "in response" e.g. counterspells. You can also just play some cards on opponents turn.

Beyond this the game is split into a number of phases and card timing by phase is very important. Sometimes you want to cast on end step vs combat - the same spell does the same thing but might be much lower risk depending on the phase.
Agreed. I would note too that the closest thing to a broad-spanning "formative" experience for US baby boomers was the Vietnam War -- but unlike WWII, elites essentially sat that one out, afflicted as they were with "bone spurs" and the like, and not that many people actively participated in it. (And, it was a more politically and morally problematic conflict than WWII to boot.)

Anecdotally, I find that the baby boomers I personally know who did serve in Vietnam tend to be more politically conscientious/open-minded and less tribalistic than those who didn't.
Not sure they're relevant? * doesn't sort or filter by metadata, and since it's all strings touched only once I guess there's not much in the name of data structures to not paragraph-align?
In minds of developers/managers/testers. I find too often sites that do not work correctly in Firefox.
Beware of the extensive Restricted Businesses section: https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses
Question: Why don't you just order online and have it shipped to your office/home?
For anyone who wants a quick primer on OT / CRDT text algorithms:

https://gun.eco/explainers/school/class.html ( Cartoon Explainer! )

For a detailed deep dive, including RGA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcWpzY8dIA
> There is a small subset of devs that will rush and get the work "done" in the underallocated time. The catch is in, of course, the Definition of Done.

For these devs the Definition of Done is handing it to QA to debug. They do not include all the QA tickets their rush job creates as part of their DoD, and neither does their bad manager. Therefore, it does, in fact, look like they're way more productive than the rest of the team.
I can't say for sure, but shouldn't insertions be way quicker in Timescale, because the index-changes are limited to the most-recent subtable only, and it's still row-based?

We're considering a move from OpenTSDB to Timescale currently, and something that stands out in Timescale is the wide-table format; we get bundles of metrics at each tick, and having them aligned makes usage easier, and perhaps also saved us some space over having the timestamps repeated per metric.
Can you specify example names of professional politicians we are overrun by? I'm thinking and I can't even think of a single one. The majority of the famous politicians I can think of have some kind of law background, which is the former category you describe as the past.
I'd tend to assume, with the amount of resources going into this, that the software will be coded at a lower level here than it would be in a typical dev environment and so NVidia's library advantages will be less salient?
One thing I really miss from the JVM world was something like jOOQ.

I don't want an ORM (like specifically the object relational mapping stuff) for most of my use cases but I do want an abstraction above text for interacting with SQL.

gorm's sql builder is alright but something better would be really nice.
Yeah Jamie Wheal is kind of along the same lines. He has a way with words to say the least. It's intoxicating actually.
Summary: 7 hours of sleep is ideal; +/- 1 hour of sleep is related to increased risk of death.

Everything else in the article seemed to be a lot of assumption and guessing about why people got more or less sleep.

Perhaps the article poorly represented the content of the study...
>start chasing power the moment they graduate, with little more than family wealth or the increasingly common short PR/media career to look back on...

Well, yeah, but that's not just Boomers. That's Millennials too. That's just the way politics is now. Even for the people who do have a "life". From Trump and Steve King to AOC and Mayor Pete.

It's all just, kind of a popularity contest.
I remember when my school got a handful of Macintosh computers in the early 90s.

My friend's mom came into the classroom for a parent day shortly after, and I remember my friend asking her to try out this new cool thing.

When he was showing her the mouse and keyboard, she picked up the mouse and rolled the little rubber ball on the underside around with her finger to move the cursor.

We all got a kick out of it at the time. Now that I have young children, I wonder what my moment of "don't really get how this is supposed to work" will be when my kids show me some new technology.
We can’t do neurons efficiently for the same reason my battery powered pocket calculator runs circles around me at doing arithmetic: virtualization has a cost.
Mouse Systems I think it was had a PC mouse that used a special pad as well. Late 80s or so.
In my past experience the Sun optical mousepads worked OK in single user environments, where people kept the pads undamaged and clean. Generally, in 1993 if you worked for a university or company that cared to put a $5000 (in 1993 dollars!) computer on your desk, you would treat everything associated with it with care.

They worked considerably less well in university shared computer lab environments where the pads were subject to more wear and tear.