skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something about that particular (shady) business model of ethically questionable work that over-values "commission activity" and under-values technical achievement that makes it possible.

A past employer used the software we built to create a commissions lottery [1] for a call center floor, and paid huge commissions to an "R&D team" that "value added", but really just created idiotic Access reports from the software's databases (sometimes bringing the Production databases to their knees until we started forcing them to use clones and BI data lakes), but software development was a "cost center" ineligible for commissions, despite doing all the "real" work (including any and all efficiency gains). At one point the executives convinced themselves despite huge turnover that they were somehow magically hiring "better" call center staff.

I feel somewhat confident that that companies misplaced ideas of work/efficiency/how it was profitable were directly correlated with its misplaced sense of ethics. The "R&D team", for instance, seemed representative of the sort of bottom feeder scum that play political games well but don't actually have any skills of their own, and arguably at the end of the day that was roughly what the company as a whole was, a bottom feeder parasite playing politics well enough to make a ton of money surviving in an ethically dubious evolutionary niche.

[1] We had proof that it was a really bad lottery, too. The software was something like 95%+ accurate in how much money was likely associated with each item that went out to the call center. To make things "fair" we kept getting a lot of feedback to make it as "random" as possible.
Some banks do actually offer this.. Wells Fargo actually does (though I'm no longer a customer)
The main question is, can Fb print currency
That title is amazing.
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don't forget, you're going to have to slow down at some point, too
I too like this thought experiment! Checkout the movie Kpax with Kevin Spacey if you haven’t already, it touches on the subject — ”Why is a soap bubble round? It’s the most efficient form”
With roads it has been done successfully, see again Wikipedia article. As you can see from our discussion, a detailed analysis of what the underlying drivers of the rent crisis is missing.

Without that a solution is difficult to find. Just to give you an example: one major trend is that people live by themselves. Is that a core driver? Another is that there are huge amounts of capital flowing in buying properties. Another could be the that people’s expectations how sqm per household person have increased dramatically. Yet another is that with 1 mio refugees entering the country in 2015/16 the pressure on housing has increased, etc. Is it all of them? Another ones?
I agree with your general idea, that perhaps life exists in non-chemical ways, but a galactic scale life form would be tricky for a ton of reasons - just one would be inter-organism communication.

The Milky Way is a pretty average galaxy and it's 100,000 light years in diameter. In humans, if inter-hemispheric signals takes 3ms you can achieve roughly 40hz "synchronic activity". Let's say (and this is a massive simplification) that the inverse of the maximum inter-brain delay is ten times the "clock speed" of the brain. That would give a human that lives 80 years over 100 billion clock cycles in a life, and a galactic brain that communicates at light speed (so 3e-13 hz "clock speed") only 9467 clock cycles in 1 billion years.

So one single human life would have ten million times more "clock cycles" than a billion years of this galactic life-form existing. Or, the galactic life form would have about 3 minutes and 55 seconds worth of "normal" human thought, from the moment it's born until one billion years later. I know human babies certainly don't do a lot in their first 3 minutes and 55 seconds.

Or, for a simpler example: say a massive star goes supernova at one end of the "brain", damaging it and requiring resources from the other side. It'll be a minimum of 200,000 years before that section gets repaired.
It’s all about if fb can print money and able to compete with USD money supply
It's already happening and every time they estimate how much methane is trapped in the ice and permafrost that number becomes bigger.
Usually I write "why" documentation before code, that way the purpose is clear as I code it and later when I re-read or share it.
You need a nuclear-powered airtight bunker that can sustain dozens of people, but that's also buildable with 70s technology.

Once you have propulsion and a ship you're pretty well there.
Update: It's (partially) working again now.

You all can view the Sketch. Apology for the inconvenient.
> Gold from AGR has made its way into supply chains at U.S. companies including General Motors Co. ,
General Electric Co. and Starbucks Corp. ,

What do Starbucks and GM use gold for?
I agree, but I'd be somewhat satisfied if trucks just weren't so damn tall now. It sucks to have to climb into or flop up onto the side of the bed just to reach your tools. Lots of older trucks weren't made this way.
The problem is the Green New Deal politicians also want to ban guns and socialize healthcare and college education. If they would stick to climate, maybe they would do better.

I like my guns and EV; don’t know why they have to be antipodal in politics.
The US to get brought off to allow this is same as treason, it can fuk up the country
I would've liked to see ps/2 keyboards gone over. I still use one.
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If you tax rent, landlords will pass the tax on to renters. All you are doing is making renting more unaffordable.
Don't forget that U.S has outsourced its industry to China. Just look at the current trade balance. It's all over the news now thanks to the trade war. And the reason it was outsourced is precisely because environmental regulations are weaker in China and therefore production is cheaper. And on top of that you add shipping emissions, which are not included in any country emissions.
I'm suprised that he got 9 years in prison and was convicted of 2nd degree murder for this. What he was doing was definitely strange and ended up causing someone's death, but I haven't seen anyone from Tesla or Uber going to jail when people died because they're beta testing autonomous cars on public roads. The double standards are crazy.
That's often times not an option. [Hypothetical] Just because I don't like the sensitivity of the airbag deployment sensor in the new Acura I'm designing doesn't mean I have the authority to switch it out. I can complain about it to management, but at the end of the day all I can do is modulate the signal going into to make it within industry-level safety specs.
Vinge is a master.

"Rainbows End" is must-read cyberpunk IMO. (And of course he wrote "True Names". (In '81!))
Speaking of that branding, it was pointed out in a different thread somewhere that FB/Zuckerberg have opted to name this currency "Libra," which is quite the coincidence given that the Winklevoss twins' Bitcoin exchange is named Gemini (and touts "regulated" as its value prop no less - what a circus the crypto world is).
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These discussions about writing books are the best thing in Hacker News.
Seconded, it’s a great resource. Just started with Joplin because of actually
Only if you really need all combinations of those options. The flip-side is true as well - multiple booleans creates a combinatorial explosion of corner cases that you have to test for. I have definitely been guilty of adding flags to functions that really should have been separate functions, and being bit by permutations that were not tested. Some of which we couldn't even decide what the proper behavior ought to be when we went back to fix the function.
It actually is, otherwise you would have seen Manhattan skyline reach the end of earth but it does not. Premium condos demand such high prices that developers dont have incentive to over supply the market.
Their interests can surely be aligned with a minor amount of high-level bargaining.
I truly wish for a current phone designed even half as well as the Palm Pre and Treo were a decade ago. (Slide-out keyboard, "Just Type", non-sucking contacts and calendar, etc.) Really, I just want an updated Pre with a state-of-the-art browser and radios...
That's generally what we wanted companies to do,

Maybe so -- but as a response it completely dodges the question of whether or it has been a contributing factor or not.
Right you are; I didn't read my own post carefully enough. I still think that the intended interpretation is that the growths are indicative of, rather than the cause of, damage.
New York state lawmakers have agreed to pass a sweeping climate plan
John Mallery owns the Genera IP and, from what I’ve heard, there doesn’t seem to be a price he’d be willing to accept for the IP.
Freezing rents to fight increasing costs makes as much sense as limiting the maximum reading on thermometers to fight increasing temperatures.

You realize that, logically speaking -- there's no analogy to be made here.

Right?
"Einstein had the definitive quote"

I think you're thinking of Mark Twain.
The irony here is Y2K was just the start. We have Y2K-like problems coming up in 2038, 2050, 2106, and many others on smaller scales in between such as the 2036, 2040, and 2042. This tells me that it is not just poor judgement, but rather widespread systematic incomprehension regarding the longevity of systems, protocols, and data.
You'd probably do it in the theorem prover extracting it to a language with a web framework or use a language with a web framework that are both easier to prove. Here's a few places to explore:

http://www.impredicative.com/ur/

https://wiki.haskell.org/Web/Frameworks

Note: You'd pick the purest of them probably.

Most work I've seen on web applications with formal focus used model checkers, though.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.397....

https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/papers/Forte2004.pdf
Cross your fingers for the librem phone
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Thank you. Like you said, I use Firefox for development and test it on Chrome as well.

The target users of Sketch.sh is web developers so I received bug reports about browser incompatibility almost instantly.

It was a problem with now.sh version 1 platform. I can't find a way to scale the free v1 node. All their docs prefer to upgrading to version 2 platform.
GPS failure is the entire reason the LIDAR map exists. The map is used to give centimeter accurate location without any GPS availability.
Informally, there is no difference between higher order programming languages and higher level programming languages.
Rent control diminishes the incentive to make new housing, and causes rents on remaining housing stock to rise, generally. It privileges the people who have held onto their apartments for a long time at the expense of everyone who has had to move recently, at least as it’s been implemented in American cities.

Doll ownership isn’t a great analogy for housing.
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Another prime example of people using sexism to battle sexism... It totally makes sense as long as you don’t think about it
The QE technique is interesting and new. They write up the money on Fed book as liability without pumping printed money into the economy. I think it's recently possible because our money is mostly digital now. You can look at US national debt clock. It's there.

I think inflation is shifted into debt on Fed book. Between having some inflation and blowing up the debt, I think having some inflation is better now. You don't want to load up all your risks in a central book. But our political class doesn't want this. They want to keep loading up debt. We'll then have a QE race between nations. Maybe, at some point, we come to love each other and burn our debt on each other books. JK, that'll never happen :)
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Try buying an oscilloscope - the difference between a $3,000 scope and an $8,000 scope is often just a few software toggles.

It's annoying if your hardware has features that you can't access, but it's more annoying if you don't have hardware at all because you can't afford the entry-level model. Disabling features allows a manufacturer to offer a broad range of products at a broad range of prices without sacrificing economies of scale, especially when there are large NRE costs to recoup.
So what does the “IA” stand for?
Is 2fa a norm in the corporate card market?

I've carried a handful of different corporate cards, and do not recall even being offered an option for it.
He's a weird guy, which means certain jurors will be biased against him. He's also an asshole, which also means certain jurors will be biased against him. Also he killed someone, even if out of negligence rather than spite. This doesn't seem like a giant miscarriage of justice.
Your first statement speaks to the larger "disrupt everything!" naivete found in spades on Hacker News, and I imagine, by extension, in Silicon Valley.

Sure, wave a wand, and POOF! No more greenhouse gases. Wave a wand, and POOF! No more single-use plastics. Wave a wand, and POOF! No more dead bodies in the Ganga.

That's not the world we inhabit. The world we inhabit moves at a glacial pace, and I sincerely doubt India moves at ALL.

The fact that humans can all fit into a small cube says nothing. Or at least, says far less than the fact that in India, the cities are in squalor and resemble garbage dumps much more than they resemble thriving metropolises. And that's NOT hyperbole.

What, exactly, has improved in our cities that leads you to your optimism? The fact that Delhi is the least polluted city in the world? Oh, wait. Or does your heart glow with joy while taking long walks along the banks of the Ganga, breathing in the smells of nature?

Hypothetically, anything can be done. In reality, the only part of your argument that matters is the rather poignant last statement. Optimism is for other people. A large order of deep-fried cynicism for me please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchship

> Torchship (or torch ship) is a term used by Robert A. Heinlein in several of his science fiction novels and short stories to describe fictional rocket ships that can maintain high accelerations indefinitely, thus approaching the speed of light. The term has subsequently been used by other authors to describe similar kinds of fictional spaceships.
That’s not entirely correct - Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir supplies much of the coast: City of Half Moon Bay and a part of the unincorporated area of San Mateo County including Miramar, Princeton By The Sea and El Granada.

http://www.coastsidewater.org/production.html
http://www.coastsidewater.org/water-supply.html

Unfortunately, no new connections are currently available, but the already sold connections are not all 100% utilized and some are just assigned to parcels without use.
We need to step up the swastika false flags, even when outed no one believes they're flase flags. It's beautiful, and super helpful to the cause of making people realize just how real soft attacks on vulnerable peoples are.
If comma.ai had killed someone while illegally testing their self driving cars I would expect someone to go to jail. If Tesla and Uber are following the laws regarding testing then they probably wouldn't be held liable.

I do think there's a huge double standard where companies get treated better than individuals, but I also think that this guy ignored enough regulations regarding construction that he should definitely be held liable for this death.
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They wouldn't, and that's the point. They would build housing for purchase and make their profit on the sale. Pretty simple.
A government can ban BTC<>fiat exchanges within their country fairly effectively. A ban on transacting on the Bitcoin network would be extremely difficult to enforce - VPN to a different country and they've lost you. Cyberpunks could still cross borders to cash out, or just purchase digital goods/services.
Those factors do make sense, although I'd think Sunnyvale would have a shorter commute to employers like Apple.

I definitely don't have a nuanced enough understanding of the difference in civic liveliness of the two cities - and resulting desirability - they both always felt pretty suburban to me. But I've never lived in either one.
Finally someone with the sense to realize what difference an order of magnitude can make to a decision. Now lets compute how likely we are to die by an asteroid vs how likely we are to die being stranded on a barren, frozen rock 60M Km away from the nearest source of critical supplies.
Can they use Airbnb and the likes to bypass this?
A point for further research on shells: bash was designed to be mostly compatible with the Bourne shell (hence: Bourne Again SHell). At that point one needs to research early Unix history.
Thanks for the questions! To your first point, there's definitely some potential interaction between our customers. We're not quite sure what that will look like right now, but we do have our eyes on that in the future. We offer discounts on goods and services through our rewards portal so there's always the possibility of getting customers involved with that.

We're actually partnered with CLSA! You can read more about that here (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brex-launches-first-corporate...) and if you're a CLSA member you'll start to see some communication about our partnership in the coming days/weeks.

Helping you comply with SBIR-type grants is definitely something we're researching. We actually already have some expense management tools (such as our receipt capture/handling) that make it easier to comply and will continue to work to make them better.
Yeah, paid customers. Not sure why I've been downvoted.

The engineers there obviously have info before the public status page gets updated.
Enough individual action can create a political climate that enables an appropriate governmental response.

For example, when every home has roof-top solar, everyone is riding bikes or scooters, growing food locally, not flying, etc. It's harder for politicians to create new subsidies for coal mining, or tax concessions for airlines. Instead they will be more likely to pass carbon fee and dividend schemes or similar.

On the other hand, while everyone continues to drive around in SUVs, buy cheap goods from China, long haul flights all the time, and food from the other side of the world, it's easy for politicians to maintain the status quo.

Individual action can't solve climate change by itself. But it is still meaningful and necessary. Our actions influence the actions of others around us, and we can redefine "normal" for our society. Studies have shown that somewhere between 10 and 20% of a population acting in a new way are enough to shift the opinions of the remaining majority.
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> Understand and stay way of cargo cult. "Cargo cult" is the idea that, if someone else did, so can we. Most of the time, cargo cult is simply an "easy way out" of a problem: Why would we think about how to properly store our users if X did that?

_cries in kubernetes_
We know how the mortgage crisis went. Government isn’t a magical solution.
The ignorant in power should be mocked?
Hmm, I still can't relate. It sounds like a very sweet gesture. If you told me you'd miss me and hugged me, I'd buy you a beer.
Sorry I meant I don't see the appeal in contrast to using CSS in JS solutions, BEM clearly offers better separation of concerns compared to traditional CSS, but this problem is already solved when using CSS in JS, because you explicitly import the styles you want to apply to an element, having to line up class names in your CSS and DOM is a non-issue as the classnames are autogenerated
I've lived in apartment buildings in at least four cities (mostly in the midwest) where I could hear my neighbors doing normal things (i.e., not throwing ragers). It seems be a widespread problem not confined to SV.
There's a lot of hate from LGBT back the other way too. Look at the massive backlash towards the straight pride parade. If you can be proud of being gay why can't I be proud of being straight?
This is what makes Docker (or even Vagrant) perfect. Super repeatable development environments that can run anywhere.
I’m thinking about this for my niece--topics, ideas, pedagogy.

First, I’d say data storage and retrieval. I created my first DB on a Macintosh and FileMaker. Super useful. I still use a DB I started 20 years ago filled with every book I read. Make a project for quickly designing a database and using it. Someday they'll find a use for the skill.

Second, flip the script. Instead of cool projects, teach them what computers are great at. I think algorithms and models/simulations are really on-point. Team that up with learning Jupiter Notebooks, wow.

Finally, maybe you could teach them strategies on how to learn, and mix some computing solutions into it. Audit some Coursera or Edx classes. I recommend Charles Severance [1] and the Guttag and Grimson [2]. The whole course may be over their head, but there are a few really accessible lessons that are super interesting.

Good luck. Whatever it takes.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-network-data

[2]: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-computer-science-...
Motorcycles could ease traffic congestion
Ride a bike!
This article cherry picks research, ignoring mounds of research that shows the opposite.
Don't dogmatically choose either. I had one case where it made sense not to use UTC but was hard to get across to those who were stuck on ALWAYS. The case was for photos taken around the world on a photo site. Each photo effectively has a place and time at that place. Storing UTC would have shown NYE midnight pictures at an arbitrary hour based on viewers tz.
Your cover art on downpour doesn’t have a picture FYI.

Thanks for writing it, ordering soon. Just deciding between the audio and the paper
That abbreviation seems to grow by about two characters per year
Proving the theorem in a theorem proving engine adds credibility to the result, just like reproducing an experiment in science adds credibility to the experimental outcome.

The random bit flip comment is of course silly, since anyone can mechanically verify the Coq proof; it doesn't have to be those who created the proof. What has to be assumed is the correctness of the Coq kernel, but all uses of Coq contribute to that, not just this use.
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No, we really don’t need to question that. Financial laws exist for a good reason. Nor should some private company have more power than a sovereign nation just because.
Lmao!!! I love how the government focuses on miniaturized drones. I forgot that bigger drones HAVE to carry candy and flowers.
Direct link to the episode which includes images: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/39/

This podcast has been around for a while but I recently discovered it and has become a personal favorite.
Your anecdata doesn’t add much to the conversation, and you seem to be relying on a particularly extreme interpretation of what I said. It’s a fact that there are many skilled professions where we have labor shortages. If more people (I never said all people) had chosen to study in those fields, then they likely would not be facing underemployment. Unless you want to disputed the existence of skilled labor shortages, then this is a perfectly self evident conclusion. If you’d like to claim that there simply aren’t enough skilled employment opportunities in the entire economy to provide all of the skilled professionals with employment (which it seems you’re hinting at), then I’d suggest you produce some evidence to support that position.