skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flowers can also be cut as if they're bushes, making it a reasonably hypothesis that the bushes serve to make the tile "cuttable", and the flowers then just change the look.

I too enjoy the traces of development decisions that must have been made decades ago. As an example, when making a toy Gameboy emulator, I discovered Tetris writes to a memory address that is normally used for bank switching, yet the game has no memory bank controller. Given that it just barely fits in 32K, with 60 bytes or so to spare, I presume they were using such a controller during development and then maybe spent some time cramming it into 32K to spare the cost of the part.
Yeah unfortunately I contribute two users - WhatsApp and Instagram to that count.
I am sure plenty of people count multiple times because the services may not be linked together.
IG, WhatsApp, FB and even FB Business accounts would all count as separate users when really they are the same human behind the account
The distinction still matters and I give Robinhood credit for admitting it and immediately notifying their users.

Security is a long term investment and it's easy to mess up. Taking responsibility and being transparent when you don't is the only way you're going to get it right.

There are some reverse proxies that are being sold as a way to mirror HTTP data to metric/analytics systems, which would bypass built-in filtering mechanisms which automatically remove passwords from logs (as Rails does). Metric/big data systems are an easy place for sensitive data leaks to happen. So your web developers could be getting security 100% right but some higher level systems integration with an analytics or ops software (requested by marketing or BI guys or whatever) could mess it up.
This rebuttal is very weak. It’s attacking straw men, not really addressing the original article at all.

For example, Motl objects to Ball’s The world we’re living in sure doesn’t feel quantum mechanical by quoting himself(!): some people keep on saying that it "looks like" there must be a classical mechanism beneath the quantum phenomena.

That’s a ludicrous misreading of the article. Ball isn’t claiming that nature is somehow secretly classical, he’s saying it is quantum but looks classical in everyday life. Ball is in fact making the same claim as Motl himself, if only Motl could see it.

Or for another example, Motl objects to Ball’s How do quantum probabilities coalesce into the sharp focus of the classical world? and insists that they do not in fact coalesce: Statements about big objects' properties may "look" certain because quantum mechanics may predict probabilities to be 99.9999% or higher [...] But quantum mechanics never allows the certainty to go to 100%

Again, Motl is in violent agreement with Ball! The whole thrust of the article is that wave function collapse is not a special process outside of known quantum mechanics, doesn’t depend on consciousness, and doesn’t require an observer. It’s a statistical process where the probability of seeing a singular, classical-like state will tend towards 1 as a system interacts with its environment and decoheres.

And there are plenty more such examples. It seems like Motl in fact agrees with the article, but objects to... the tone for some reason?

Or maybe he just thinks it’s trivial? If so, I don’t think that’s fair at all, as wave function collapse really is widely depicted as highly mysterious, in pop science circles at least.
But you have similar concerns with which you can empathize.

Builds that take 5 minutes are a lower cognitive burden than builds that take 35, or two hours. If this is a worthwhile goal for your team, why shouldn't other teams want the same things?
> Yet an underlying concern is that pilot programs like these could alienate riders from taking public transportation entirely.

I thought this was the best line of the whole thing. If you can't pay for it then how can you be alienated? If you are paying for it then isn't the so called "hostile" design no longer hostile?
Over 4400 units, 80% of their total backlog, representing 7 years of production value at the present production capacity.
> I understand that being poor can be hard, and short-term fixes can be tempting; But people need to see the whole picture.

You can’t expect people to skip meals or rent because it may be helpful down the road in someone else’s labor negotiation.
Seems like a false dichotomy?

Allowing people to use public spaces in safety and comfort doesn’t preclude addressing homelessness by other means.

Hostile architectural features actually cost more to install.
That would probably be the worst thing they could do. The FA has already lost a lot of credibility; if there was even a hint that this had happened, other regulators would be extremely cautious of it and any other Boeing plane.
Read it from my phone. The big problem here is to remember to make anything I might want to access without signing into LP on the device in question something I can type relatively easily (not XH6M6cz5d8jZ@$tNOZ5wUHTO3ewxYW@L for example)
I'm not sure fair salary is enough, if their quality of life still sucks otherwise and they're still being ground up by the algorithm.

Perhaps they'll be able to save up enough money for something and quit sooner than they could now.

But perhaps the ideal should be a liveable wage and liveable job conditions.
Maybe I'm showing my age, but I honestly don't understand what's "anti-poor" or "anti-homeless" or "ableist" about this design? To me, it can only seem this way if you see fare evasion as a natural right of the citizens.

Am I a curmudgeon, or is the level of concern shown in the article a legitimate thing?
Algebraic effects are synchronous; they can't be a generalization of async anything, because that uses threads.

A generalization has to do everything that the specialization does, like dispatch on multiple processors.

The synchronous version of async/await is delay/force; that is just macrology over some lambdas.
> as long as phone calls can be spoofed to look like it's coming from "inside" the house.

Many times they don't even need to bother that far. A fatal incident last year involved a 911 call from an overseas number (that couldn't accurately describe the house he was supposedly looking at as he called). There has to be some astronomical odds about you internationally roaming, and seeing a supposed multiple execution style homicide "from the sidewalk", but yet, SWAT still showed up, and killed someone.
Why do many people give false equivalence on disparate actions? Whataboutism?
From the other side of the pond it looks like the US police dresses up like a military unit with supplies from past wars. SWAT teams that show up in war tanks.

I haven't seen many cop series lately but my impression is most police actors in hollywood don't dress up like John Rambo in fighting in the jungle.
Apologies for Try-Ing
Not everything aims to be a "product", I suppose.
I'm trying to use transit in SoCal right now and its dogshit. These stations have multiple floors of parking for cars but no bathroom!!!

Positive Train Control doesn't work right and is causing delays, the readerboards are accurate to within 10 minutes (but don't display info about trains when they are over 10min away).

Walking across the street to a store that had a bathroom almost got me killed by an SUV. In Seattle I can count on Sound Transit having restrooms at any station they've invested millions of dollars in.

We all have the urge to go, why should I be forced to cross a hostile road and pay multiple dollars just to not piss in public?

Whoever is running the transit agency down here is trying to drive away anyone who can choose not to ride.
Dbq – Zero Boilerplate Database Operations for Go (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
Let’s say ITER works exactly as planned at some point in the future (delayed or not). How far are we from commercial fusion power as a reasonable source for things?
I think this is a slight over exaggeration. Trump is an example where he seems to gain strength the more outrageous he is. Cops don’t have careers ruined by protests. Sarah Sanders lied repeatedly as does Kelly Anne Conway. Some celebrities have criminal complaints etc... the only real issue is that the left like to fall on their swords.. this is probably to set an example of doing the right thing but it’s probably short sighted.. so history will see how that plays out...
Pay no attention to him. He’s not smart enough to make up for his visciousness
> Also, this is a statement by Prince Charles of all people, might as well have Taylor Swift chime in while we're at it.

That's not fair. As the Prince of Whales it's his duty to protect the environment of marine mammals.
Google or Apple would buy Tesla immediately. They both have tried already.
Teh French cement company Lafarge did business with jihadis in Syria during the current civil war, including with the Islamic State [1]. That's corruption on a whole new level, as I'm 100% sure the decision to conduct this type of business was taken at the company's HQ in France.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/28/lafarge-charge...
D-T fusion, which ITER will use, produces neutron radiation, which will cause neutron activation in reactor components, rendering them radioactive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_activation

Aneutronic fusion is possible, but requires collision energies much higher than what ITER is designed to create.
Oops! The "Thank you" below was meant for you. (Dodgy 3rd party mobile app, honest!)

Looking again, I'm going with de Havilland Vampire as the most likely candidate.
Of the people who take off their shoes, 99% of them wear slippers or indoor shoes of some sort. The rest who wear socks don't seem to care about the floor either way. As a sidenote, shoe policy is a really terrible barometer for whether or not to apply to a company, regardless of how little it may have influenced your decision. I can't imagine you actually took it into consideration.
Tesla has to account for legacy systems and designs, since they refresh models all the time without even bothering with distinct ("set in stone") model identifiers (like year). For example, there is no such thing as a "2018 Model 3" as there were multiple variants released over the year with changes over the year, not including the range-based option packages.

In fact, Tesla's legacy systems are actually a disadvantage perspective, since they have to account for a much larger range of hardware configurations than do legacy automakers.
Far enough away that even if there are no issues with scaling, we're going to face a climate change catastrophe, before we can replace fossil fuels with fusion.

We need to take drastic action on power generation in the next decade. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that fusion will make it in time. I can't over-emphasize how dire our current situation is - and that's with us currently living in a world where 3 cent/kwh solar power exists.

If we're gambling on fusion, at this point, the best-case outcome for it would be that it could be brought online sometime between us hitting 'drastic climate catastrophe' and 'civilization ending climate catastrophe'. To me, that doesn't sound like a great situation to be in.
What if it costs too much to fix?

Anything can be made to fly if you spend enough money on it. But Boeing are in the business of making money. So they can't just get the 737 Max to fly at all costs. Even if they went all out the reputational harm is very much deHavilland Comet. They fixed the Comet and it was a lovely plane, but nobody wanted it. With the 737 it needs a full redesign, otherwise it is just an exercise in polishing a turd. Even if the MCAS works perfectly it is still an ugly hack.

To Boeing the decision to be selling single aisle short-hop planes might be something they get completely out of. They can finish orders for 737 oeo (old engine option) and just shut the whole thing down.

After 2008 the US auto sector was pared down a bit, GM getting rid of Pontiac to shutter it for good was needed to solve the bigger GM venture, similarly 737 MAX might be best closed in order to save the company. Much like how quick they were with the Dreamliner, in 5-10 years time Boeing could be back with another Ryanair grade offering.

Ford, GM and FCA decided to give up on making saloons for the domestic market, they let the Germans fill that niche. Similarly, with the 737 it might be better to be realistic about the competition, not just from Airbus but China, Russia and anywhere else. If China has a good plane to rival the 737 in 2-3 years time then it would be hard for Boeing's unionised workers to compete with their robots.
I believe that was what they said at the festival of Britain in 1951.

"Zeta Hotter Than the Stars" "To Cheap to Meter " :-)
No. Too many fusion nuclei will destabilize the plasma as quickly as too few.

Fusion is about hitting a precise balance point. It's why it's so hard.
It can be made to work in at least some cases -- for example, QED is a theory about how individual photons and electrons behave that’s in truly fantastic agreement with experimental results.

There’s a deep philosophical question about whether we can every truly learn the real fundamental laws of nature, sure; but it certainly looks like we can get very very close, perhaps arbitrarily close.
is there a good reason that this would be bad practice? it's much more friendly to the end user than uglifying your html with randomly generated ids on every div!
The detector would have to run everywhere, not just on your web application. It'd have to check linux/nginx/apache/etc logs, metric systems transit pipes and storage, etc, etc.

I guess you could install it as a Linux system which searches through all plaintext traversing the network AND filesystems of the entire infrastructure. Which might be a good business idea if you could pull it off.
Doubtful.

The United States has had a high level of gun ownership for several hundred years. The police response of "respond to anonymous tip by kicking down the door and opening fire" seems to be a mostly post-9/11 thing.

I suspect that the root causes are multifold:

(1) No-knock warrants became legal in 1995 to prevent the "destruction of evidence" during drug busts.

(2) Americans got really paranoid after 9/11, and more tolerant of this sort of police activity.

(3) Increasingly harsh prison conditions and unfair sentencing encourages suspects to fight back, rather than comply with law enforcement.

(4) We have a number of well-funded and well-trained paramilitary criminal organizations in the United States, thanks largely to the War on Drugs and decades of poorly-thought-out immigration policy.
There is a very long thread on LKML discussing this. But I'm pretty sure the primary reason is that procfs has been slowly accumulating more and more random knobs, while sysfs actually has a structure that can be used reasonably by userspace.
Watch SpaceX's StarHopper hop 20 meters untethered
Looking at the competition, ford, VW, Mercedes. Their battery production numbers look pretty mediocre.
Also their cars are less and less competitive in a rising carbon market.
The law states that a preference must be given to Amtrak over freight. The law can changed to give an absolute preference to Amtrak.

http://www2.laufer.com/freight-railroads-fight-new-rule-for-...
For anyone curious for more, the article surprisingly doesn't bother to mention the philosophical name given to this view:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism

> "In philosophy, idealism is the group of metaphysical philosophies that assert that reality, or reality as humans can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In contrast to materialism, idealism asserts the primacy of consciousness as the origin and prerequisite of material phenomena. According to this view, consciousness exists before and is the pre-condition of material existence. Consciousness creates and determines the material and not vice versa."
The creativity with which I see people "compose" Excel actions together 100% supports your theory.
Only a couple percent of hourly workers make minimum wage or below. That's why people keep saying raising it doesn't create inflation that cancels the raise out. Most of the inputs to a typical basket of goods are not minimum wage labor.

See:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
A company that is production constrained does not need to lower the price of its products. It can keep the price the same or even increase prices. This is basic economics.

Tesla has already lowered the price of its vehicles 3x this year...
Running the latest neural net build in a shadow mode pitted against the real world driver and relaying back telemetry where the shadow NN took an opposing action is a little more sophisticated than pushing out an ECU update.

I think you're being a little uncharitable or simply don't understand what Tesla are doing.
Apropos of anything else, it's interesting that:

> he needed to bring destruction 'upon bad cops as well as good cops' because of what he saw as the justice system's failure to prosecute bad police officers who commit crimes

wanting society to hold criminal police officers accountable is a "extremist far left belief", regardless of this individual's deranged methodology.
I'm reminded of the time I waited 90 minutes on line for Shake Shack (original location, when it first opened) and as I got closer to the front saw that the cashier had a visible and severe herpes outbreak that looked like it wasn't being treated. She kept scratching at her face and then touching peoples' money.

I noped on out of there. No thank you.
This is the complete idiocy of it. There are absolutely wonderful public transit systems that operate at a profit and are far cheaper than anything in the states. (E.g. MRT)
Actually they could and did raise enough to buy themselves out and have done so every time.
Not surprised, considering their security practices... see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679099
That's just not how labor animals work. Just like human laborers, animals need rest, and they're darn expensive. You can't drive your workhorse or your ox 24/7, it would die early and you would just be squandering your investment.

For meat on the other hand, you can lock your cow or pig or chicken in a cage exactly the size of its body with no stimulation except the food being shoved down it's throat, it'll get fat and you can sell if for meat. There is no downside to mistreatment.
That's just one LIDAR, count how many are on their vans. (I think 5)
Neither associated with leftist groups. The first was at most in anti-govt groups, which were clearly not left. The second was anti white. This info is easily found online from many places.

What makes you think these were from far-left extremism? What groups or ideology did they profess to be a part of?
Heavy capex spending???

Did you even look at the financials? It doesn't even cover depreciation!

Edit: Downvoters want to explain how $250mm is "heavy capex spending" in the automotive world, particularly in a "high growth" company?
True, but I think the general idea is not that police work isn't dangerous -- it is! -- but rather, that it has become less dangerous over the decades.

I don't have an opinion on that, having not looked at the data, but it is entirely plausible.
If I was making 34k a year after 13 years on ANY job in the USA, I'd get off Hacker News ASAP and make changes in my life so that it doesn't reach 14 years.

As an answer to your original question, Gusto's CTO responded in the question above yours. His answer below:

Co-founder and CTO of Gusto here.
This is a REALLY good question and something that’s hard to appreciate until you actually to build a payroll system. I think a common misnomer is that if you’re not doing ML/AI/AR/blockchain/[insert latest technology here], you’re not doing R&D.
The domain of Payroll turns out to be an incredible complex business domain. I think Ron Jeffries says it best in his post: http://wiki.c2.com/?WhyIsPayrollHard
The software design of such a complex business domain at scale turns out to be an incredibly hard engineering challenge, and something that is often overlooked when we think about big engineering challenges.
A little known fact is XP and Agile were developed by Kent Beck while working on a Payroll system for Chrysler (In fact, Kent now works at Gusto to help us with our payroll system).
If your supply of Deuterium and Tritium was jammed wide open you, would stop the fusion (either by switching of the heating if you are in startup or by messing with the magnetic confinement to make the plasma hit the diverter). At that point all you do is pumping low density, relatively low radioactivity gases into a large gas proof vacuum vessel. No explosion, no meltdown, no release of radioactivity to the containment building let along the environment. As far as worst case scenarios go it is pretty harmless. The entire ITER site will never store more than 4kg of tritium, most in the form of metal-hydrites.
Not sure how it looks on mobile, but the list is right across the top, with sublists under core and tools.
Nobody seems to agree on what a free market is.

My definition is pretty simple, but it may surprise you if you think regulations go against a free market. To me, a free market is one that is transparent and has low transaction costs. And I think this is only possible if it is well regulated by an authority or government.
Although some research out of Finland indicates otherwise.

http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/16...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf
Yes and no. Depending on the fusion process, the fuel can be radioactive: DT for example, Tritium, Hydrogen-3 is a beta emitter. But it certainly isn't as bad of a thing especially compared to Uranium and friends.

EDIT: see other comment, DT produces neutrons which can be bad, I still think the amount nastiness is small compared to say Chernobyl.
If it that were simple, the GAO report mentioned in the article would surely have found it. It's not just labor cost.
Sheesh, imagine if they had access to Facebook's data.
Anyone old enough to second guess that McDonnell Douglas and Boeing merger? And 30 years before that, the McDonnell and Douglas merger? Are these really natural monopolies?
Wrap this up in an visualization animation and I'm sure I could understand it.
Could you explain your view in a calmer and clearer way than Motl? I’m curious whether there’s any “there” there, so to speak.

QD as described in Ball’s article sounds very sensible to me, and Motl’s objections sound like he misunderstands the article and would actually mostly agree with QD.
I don't get this either. If the author designing to prevent people from not paying for something with a price , it implies that the author either a) doesn't believe said thing should have a price or b) thinks certain groups shouldn't have to pay said price and that it should be subsidized by those the author thinks should pay said price.
There are a plethora of really neat design choices made to get the most performance out of consoles & handhelds. The only downside is it can make writing emulators or porting said code to another platform quite difficult.
If you managed to opt out then find an attorney to file a class action. Force DoorDash to make the case that you don’t have enough people to get the class certified, don’t do the hard part for them by just assuming it.
Apple maps works offline while giving accurate timely route information.
Aka the infamous ghost cities?
Professional tools can get away with slow cold starts, since they’re likely to be left open all day. If the individual editing operations were slow, that would be another thing.