skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s sketching out a main point that a few are subjugating the rest using some sort of apportioned rights (in this case, runaway technological inertia and money leading to a positive feedback loop of even more inertia)

I think you’re missing the forest for the trees by concentrating on the historical robustness of his feudalism reference

My immediate thought was that he meant something more like corporate city states ala cyberpunk themes presciented by blade runner and shadowrun
I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface, but almost everything about the nav system on Android Auto is better than the builtin one.

AFAIK, one of the main feature requests for Tesla is to add Android Auto. Its one of those things that is annoying to go without, once you've had it available for a while.
Or aren't primarily carbon based whatsoever.
I generally expect Google to be using all possible data sources they have access to for ad targeting without explicit statements otherwise like Gmail has received.

You work for Google and are apparently "pretty sure" that Calendar isn't used for ad targeting but don't actually know, how is a consumer supposed to know this stuff?
I heard they did that in Texas.
Go GC can easily handle GBs of heap, especially if you're careful with pointers.
The Man with the Leaden Ear: Nelson Algren’s America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

Easy to way to know where the rust belt is wherever you can expect your vehicle to rust due to salting the roads in winter.
Curious. I once read that quote somewhere, but I don't remember where.
Building a Passive Radar System with RTL-SDR
> If Libra is an oligarchy, closed financial systems are dictatorships

You are on the right path, don't stop there :-)
Yii 2.0.21 Released
Not to mention trying to figure out which types implement a given interface. You'll get completely unrelated types you don't care about a lot of the time.
> “I think the downvotes (that's what gray means right?) are people's way of saying that the personal narrative that defines your life is so boring that your job is the only place you can achieve feelings like that. I feel bad for you so won't downvote.“

Okay... Maybe it came out not as intended, or maybe I misinterpreted it, but this statement shocked me with its (in my interpretation) condescension. “So boring”, ”I feel bad for you,” being I suppose the key phrases. What I had recalled was my own former inferiority complex, of which I believed I saw an echo in your post and many others’ responses. It no longer occurs to me to feel offense (as in many other comments) or pity (as in yours) when someone else speaks in a competitive tone of a singleminded desire to “win,” whatever winning happens to mean to them, and I now regard such reactions as irrational and egocentric, whatever internal mechanism they arise from. To illustrate, I’d predict many of the commenters would to varying degrees celebrate an athlete expressing himself in a similar manner (the most famous example I guess being Muhammad Ali, but there are many other such personalities in individual and team sports), and I believe that is primarily because athletes are in a profession they don’t identify with and therefore cannot locate any basis on which to feel either psychologically threatened or in any other way contrast with their own choices. But I may still be missing nuance in your individual comment.

Both the OC and your assumption that he is “handing [his] life over to the guy [he] works for” seem to me to be speaking pretty squarely of the popular notion of work-life balance. Perhaps I’m again missing some nuance there.

Anyhow, it’s not important. Hope you have a nice week.
Stand on the shoulders of giants
That it's (now) uncommon technology is only a small part of the hiring problem. Anyway, what's the alternative here? It is almost certainly not worth the effort to rewrite everything in today's common environment 30 years into the service life of the jet; whatever you do now is going to be uncommon again.

A bigger part of the hiring problem is aerospace software, specifically military aerospace software is a difficult field to hire for. Clearance requirements limits your pool. Building weapons of war limits your pool. Low salary compared to other software job limits your pool. Very high level of process / low velocity of shipping limits your pool. If you require experience in the environment, rather than training otherwise appropriate candidates, that's going to be a limit too, but if you work in a specialized environment, you really have to accept that you will need to train people.
that is amazing, i love it
Want to retire by 35? These millennials are on track to do it
Conditional Computation for Continual Learning
True, I should have said “weight difference”.
> i.e. unlikely to cover the cost of lighting and heating.

You forgot the most important factor in this - extra food.

Those people will burn a lot of calories, and surely enough compensate for it with a snack or maybe an extra meal. That alone makes any sort of human electricity generation scheme generally not viable.
Is there a technical paper or short writeup for this?

I'd be interested in hearing about the internals / structure..
e.g.:

1) what is the process/threading/privilege model

2) is this it's own lisp or ??

etc.

suppose i can read the source..
Yeah, I'm going to guess #corporatecoin will die from a thousand regulatory papercuts, because they won't be able to prevent criminal activity without exerting draconian control over the payment network, and then it will be too inconvenient for anyone to use.
Performance perception: correlation to RUM metrics
Except people are not perfectly mobile and can't simply relocate across a continent. Should California be free to say, deny all brown eyed people access to public schooling? Or to run its economy into the ground and dissolve as a state? What about selling itself to a foreign power?
We need to find a name for a gesture so small in its generosity that it ends up being offensive. No bonus would have left me disappointed, but a $50 bonus would have made me angry.

Like when Delta gave a food voucher to make up for a 5-hour delay on a 30-minute file. The voucher was for $3. Fuck Delta.
All these years of being a staunch techno libertarian and this what we end up with. I’m embarrassed, I thought it would be different.
Plus you'll be taxed on that $200!
I imagine this isn't a hard problem to solve, there are no major technical limitations to doing something like this and might not even drive the cost up that much.

There are other aspects of desalination that seem far more critical, like the ones related to efficiency and the scale of the required infrastructure.
Michaelhouse: A lost Cambridge college, 1324–1540
I particularly liked Sedaris' rendition of 'Away in a Manger' sung straight from the heart.
> Could a governor outsource specific depts and free them from 1st amendment concerns?

At face-value it seems so, which is scary.
The good thing is that Mars is chock full of dormant lava tubes[1]. That provides a solution to the problem you propose assuming we figure out how to seal them and make them habitable for human life. It is an exceptionally difficult, but tractable problem. FTL travel however, is not tractable at all with our current tech and (lack of) understanding of physics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_lava_tube
i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10
It's amazing how short of a memory people have. The financial system has at least a few centuries of experience and todays regulatory climate is a reflection of the lessons learned. To some, these rules may seem arbitrary and they sometimes are but people forget how things before.

I find it amusing that the big selling point behind the initial round of cryptocurrency was its lack of regulation.
I am from India, maybe that plays into it.
There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling.

Yes a single team could decide on a custom style, however when you need to cooperate with other teams, it takes a lot of wasted time in politics to agree upon a style.

It's also harder to read random code written by others, e.g. open source libraries. You can't just glimpse at it in the browser, you have to download the code and run it through your custom style applier.
How to Use a Service Worker to Create Progressive Web Applications?
The important question isn't what you or I will do, but what the 90% of people will do who don't care about privacy/oligopolies.
I personally agree with Schneier. I don't see how BigTech can be made to respect privacy given the current status quo and the data wars. I think regulation and government intervention is very much necessary at this point.

In some instances, BigTech, BigTelco, and govts have incentives aligned (surveillance and censorship), so its paramount for folks part of the tech industry to help steer the conversation and laws.
Non-technical user here: why does Google make me use Captcha if it doesn't work? Error 503, etc. afterwards.
TL;DR: "[E]ven our "best" correlations are actually the least terrible ones. Overall RUM metric correlation is quite poor and an indication that they only represent a small part of what constitutes the perceived performance of a page load."
You made a specific claim about rainfall. That claim contradicted my experience over the last several years. I searched for "USA drought", and a very simple government site confirmed there is no drought underway in USA. (EDIT: there certainly will be a drought in future, just as there will be floods and hurricanes and comfortable sunny days with light breezes.) I'm not sure what this most recent link is supposed to prove, but I'm not going to wade through it. I only consider specifics when it comes to weather/climate.
VISA and other payment processors already collect and sell this data.
Transforming a Tesla Model 3 into a Pickup Truck
I think most peasants from the 17th century were very religious. They were given a special place by God.

The town halls now don't have that much effect. Complain about education? Worry about federal funding and national wide programs. It's not something that happened over night. It's been happening literally since the technology/science era, which I think of starting with Gutenberg.

BTW, I'm not saying education is a problem. I'm saying it has problems, unexpected consequences with the obvious good side.
> This to me is insane reasoning. That is no way user centric. This decision is 100% business driven and has nothing to do with the end user. It basically means they have given up on developing a good branded interface between the driver and the car.

This is really wrong. People were begging Mazda to add Android Auto and Apple CarPlay for years and they have only just recently added them. Adding these features has everything to do with what people want. Android Auto is pretty amazing, and is steadily getting better as well.
Zawinski's Law:

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

If you'll allow me to riff on jwz, I think another law is applicable to social media:

"Every social media company will expand until it becomes a bank. Those social media companies which cannot so expand are replaced by the ones which will. A bank is meant in the sense that it will store and mantain things of value including favors, records, and money."
Someone has to mine them though, right?
Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
I worked in a startup eng. org that worked everybody to the bone for several months with a dubious SOA overhaul. The prize was a cheap open bar. At least it looked like an open bar, privately reserved and such. We each got two raffle-style tickets to exchange for drinks, lest us peons get carried away. Three days off? That would've been amazing.
> The entire point of 'sound money' is not actually to help the general population survive or prosper, it is specifically to limit the power of government

Isn't the point of limiting the power of government to actually help the general population to survive and prosper though?
"This question is being answered on Wall Street every day, even if the participants are not aware of it."

This is basically the deal with MMT too. We talk about the defacto status quo reality like it's a hypothetical and not actually describing current unstated practice. "What happens" is what's happening right before our eyes. The question, as always, is for how long it will last. It's been >20 years of saying "this isn't normal," so when is it?
> A hobo will not use a crypto coin.

Reality would like a word with you.

https://qolczpnfu7-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/20/1b/11/201b111e61b9f8266cca274d6...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/08/08/TELE...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/4b/9c/a44b9c2d5f4a671f5d23...

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11700457.ece/AL...
There is a reason why it's much harder to change federal law than a local ordinance. The broader the effect, the more difficult it should be. Effective government should not be about kneejerk reactions.
Haven't read all of these yet, but a couple stood out as matching recent experiences...

"Future thinking is future trashing": we had a good engineer with a bad tendency to write complex generic code when simpler specific code would work. In one case, he took a data structure and wrote a graph implementation on top of it - it was only ever used once, by him, and I recently rewrote it in about 15 lines of structure-specific code. In another case, he wrote a query builder to make it easy to join data from a new service with our legacy DB, which makes the high-level code simple, but the full implementation much more complicated, and means incoming engineers can't obviously see what implementation to use. His last week at the company was... last week.

"Understand and stay way of cargo cult": Today, I was reviewing someone's code, when I saw a language construct I didn't recognize, and which made no sense to me. I asked him what it was meant to do, and if he could give me a link to somewhere which described the construct - he said no, he'd mostly just copied it from someone else's code. I asked 'someone else', and he pretty much said it was useless, he's worked in so many languages that he gets confused about language idiom/construct sometimes, he writes his code like he'd write a letter to a friend, and it wasn't like anyone was reviewing his code at the time anyway. I said I wasn't going to take his stuff out of the existing codebase, but I wouldn't let anyone copy his useless code in future, and linked him to https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-for-violent-psychopaths...
they cannot, in most (all?) jurisdictions you cannot mint your own money.

You can, however, in many places, create something that works like money for some use cases.

This looks like a case of the latter, and it doesn't seem so different from stuff like Amazon Coins[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Coin
Who'd have thought that always-on, internet-connected cameras and microphones could be used for spying on you?
This just occurred to me, did someone at the OCC give Facebook a bank charter? So they have a Fed account and can issue fractional reserve loans?
Did you even work for Berkshire Hathaway? Lie to me, and tell me you worked for Citibank: it makes the story even better.
I still love that game.
I worked for a company that was always handing out cheap tokens of their "appreciation" (we all knew they didn't appreciate the employees but I guess they figured pretending might reduce turnover). Sometimes it was a free pretzel or water ice, other times it was a Thank You email that sounded like it was written by some cheap marketing AI. You could also get a "Shout Out" in the monthly newsletter that nobody read, but only if you twisted your coworkers' arms enough to submit one. In the end, all their efforts only served as constant reminders of how little the executives actually appreciated everyone, which decreased morale and increased turnover.

There's something extra depressing about working for a company where the millionaire executives think workers can be placated with 25-cent junk food. I think that company is still limping along somehow, which is great because the new Glassdoor reviews are usually pretty amusing.

Also, if you want to see an example of morale boosting gone wrong the Healthineers song is pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LiUrezV6k
Not as much as you'd think. You can run thousands of kernel threads on Linux.
Could be worse: https://youtu.be/1SXB1hvxnzw
> I'm kinda prepared to live with that [bad assumption].

Seems like el_programmador's follow-up question shows how bad.

> …a clear win for Python…

> …fall through to a C implementation…

The obvious explanation.

> …without looking at the code … likely look into the implementations…

The source code is one-click from the page el_programmador linked.
This trope had been regurgitated for decades. At least as far back as small talk.
Exactly. They can be a great form of "case analysis", and can also be translated back into business-analyst-speak or use cases.
They provide updates to customers, but I'm under NDA with them.
Some things are common enough knowledge that asking for a source is disingenuous. Everyone should know the earth was once warmer and went through various cooling periods.

It's like asking for a source to prove the sky is blue or that the earth is round...

This community claims to be one of educated professionals, yet somehow there's comments questioning things that are literally common knowledge and if somehow they don't know, can't spend 2 seconds to google it? Instead write "Source?". It's intellectually lazy as hell.
Why 24 years? Radio travels at the speed of light, not half the speed of light, right?
I know -- that's what I was trying to convey when I said "pay your taxes or other bills", because those are (pretty much) the only times when you can require someone to accept money from you, and consequently the only times the concept of "legal tender" could even possibly come into play. Even then, most creditors are happy to take payment in any convenient form :).

Most of the time most of the people are happy to accept anything that's a properly denominated bank note. But while I'll happily try to spend Scottish notes down South, there's no requirement on any shops to accept them.

Edinburgh Council have recently done something interesting though: they've stopped (in most locations) accepting cash for payment of bills. Now I'm wondering if I should cancel my direct debit and take them a stack of pound coins :).
Exactly. In short, we spend much less time to buy a coffee and much more others will suffer and die to keep that "real" assets "low-volatile".
Not a counter point to this article, but a counter point to the efficacy of monetary rewards.

> "Study showed that monetary incentives are great for routine, mechanical work. But how does it play when talking about cognitive, advanced tasks? Not well at all."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKKPQiRRag

Counter-counter point: If anyone ever points you to this for evidence _you_ shouldn't get a bonus/monetary reward system, ask if _they_ get a bonus/monetary reward system...
Cruise ships basically sell the same thing-although a lot of their paintings sound licensed-and some paintings are embellished slightly with a few dashes of paint to make them 'unique'/'one-of-a-kind'.
+ calendar in my region (scholar is up for me)
The Nokia Corporation and the loss of market dominance in mobile phones
And how about other amendments?

It's very scary if the court is arguing that the government can hire a private company to provide a service or perform a task and that private company is not bound by the constitutional responsibilities that the government would've been bound by had it provided the same service or performed the same task.
You must understand that we’re talking about trade school as an alternative to college, so if you point out some stunning detractor toward trade school, you’re implying the detractor does not exist for the alternative.

Maybe I took that implication to an extreme end, but calling out trade schools for producing “corporate drones” absolutely bears the implication that you believe the alternatives are different / not as bad.
Do many Go programs really have 100,000 goroutines simultaneously? I'm certain that's quite rare.
They do mention in the customer commitment document that they will not use data from Calibra to improved as targeting on the Facebook platform.
Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (2014)
The birthday paradox works because you are looking for a pair that has the same birthday, regardless of what date that birthday is. It doesn't work in the habitable planet sense because you would be essentially locking the birthday to a fixed date.
I highly recommend the book The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution[0] . While it's be foolhardy to rule out other dramatically different forms of life, there are only so many candidates in the periodic table and only so many of those in common concentrations throughout the universe. The universal laws of physics that continually converge on the same solutions on Earth, and the fact that life has apparently failed to succeed even on nearby planets (perhaps at all, and certainly not advanced life) with different conditions suggests that it's at least unlikely to find life thriving at far different temperatures (atoms just don't hold together or move enough) or bases (I wouldn't completely rule out silicon, either, but the author makes a good case that carbon is far more likely)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Equations-Life-Physics-Shapes-Evoluti....
They've been pumping the Ogallala since the 1940s. Western Kansas and Nebraska are not naturally green areas. That they don't have enough water for the type of agriculture they practice is not the sign of a drought.
I think it more just ended than failed.
The problem is not government, but highly centralized government at near continental and global scales. Power needs to remain as local as possible. This Facebook move is not a solution because it just puts some global-scope power in another entity, that just happens to be an Internet company.
Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers
Enabling imposter syndrome is a real issue too. There is no free lunch.
At least the book has an air of deniability ("we purchased the current top fiction book for women")

I'm unable to think of an explanation for this that isn't terrible: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48348431
By chance does the company name begin with "C"? I think I work there...
Well that's true. LM is known to pay lower than most of the defense industry as well though.
One part of a better grounding could be a free market as opposed to a system where the tax payer bails out the banks.
I cannot comment about other cities, Bengaluru it was a known issues. Primarily big builders who launch their projects dig up multiple borewell and pump out the groundwater. When government realized that ground water levels were getting depleted they did make rainwater harvesting mandatory. Yet it is either shoddily implemented or never implemented.

Ref: https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/civic/benga...

Most of the apartment complexes water supplies are provided by tankers. Local politicians have stake in these tanker services, so it is in their best interest to make sure local populace is dependent on the these tankers and not on government connections which is heavily backlogged.

Few societies, residents do get together invest their own money to get proper water harvesting, but that is far and few to even make a noticeable difference. Builders most of them flat out refuse to build robust water harvesting systems.
But Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency without boarders. If it can't make it in a country with the level of tech-adoption like the USA for the above simple tasks, please help me understand the use case.
Why Facebook’s Libra could be a runaway success