skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a half-baked theory... one which is not mine to bring to fruition alone, should it even be of value: the relationship between referees and players is probably the best analogy to a functional world order plausible.

The players can't have a say on the rulings, and the refs shouldn't have an opinion on the winners. In other words, you're either in the game, or out, but never both.

I imagine a world where there's a very clear delineation between people who are currently in and currently out. When you're in, you go with the flow. You follow your heart, sing, dance, try to be happy, be creative. And when you're out, that shits a no go. You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive.

People take turns going from one side to the other. Too long on either side and you'd lose sight, ruin the game.

It's also kind of analogous to trip-sitters.
I live in a city that is about the same size as Dunkirk and would like this to be implemented (even though I walk to most places). I see this freeing parking places in the centre and that really would help with the dying local commerce in the zone.
That's the direct implication, however. Unless you claim offers are decoupled from the labor market's value of an individual, which is certainly a novel idea I'd be interested in hearing about.
I used to drive for a much shorter commute. At the time I could have been urgently summoned to a site 30 miles away at any time so I had to be prepared.

I ran out of gas on my way home one night. If you never drive past a gas station and only fill up every month or two it’s easy to forget.
Two things.

1. We'll be transparent about the services that we use. That way you'll know who your data is being shared to, and what data will be shared.

2. We'll try to take an Apple-like approach of anonymizing data as much as possible and only sharing the few pieces of information we need to deliver a better product.

I'm sorry there's no fool-proof way to guarantee perfect data privacy - at some point you'll have to trust us to do the right thing with your data. We hope that our incentives will . be aligned. Our service is predicated on keeping your information private and that's what you'll be paying for.
Why not? Why can some of those jobs not be remote?
That's the exact opposite of what he said.
I think usually metal gears are not cut by laser cutter or CNC router, but instead slotted using a milling cutter one tooth at a time and then the blank is rotated to the next position to cut the next tooth.

But of course if your metal gears are large enough to cut from the flat side then this template will work fine.
I spent six weeks, unpaid, at the Recurse Center this year hacking on gccgo to see if I could improve the situation. I didn't get very far—it's hard! And I don't have much experience with compilers. So, truly, I did as much as my finances could reasonably support. (I did manage to write up a blog post about where specifically gccgo needs the most work [0].)

I did learn enough in those six weeks to feel comfortable asserting that there is incredible potential in gccgo/gollvm, and that I think Google is making a mistake by continuing to invest so heavily in the gc toolchain.

[0]: http://meltware.com/2019/01/16/gccgo-benchmarks-2019.html
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TLDR: Its a mystery to me. I don’t know where HN is sending this from!

This is how my workflow looks like if ‘top story on HN’ then ‘slack me’ Now when I created this workflow, I was expecting to get results when something hits the front page-top news but what I saw was—it giving me news with even 2 upvotes sometimes and that thing wasn’t even there on the first page. Honestly it’s a mystery to me. In fact I even tried comparing ‘new section’ with the results I was receiving and they didn’t match! You can check this on IFTTT hackernews just select top news when creating your workflow. Also what I realized was these news hit the top section a while later the notifications-not all but a lot.
Just to throw it out there: the idea isn't absurd; it's evil.
Of course, because nothing matters more than getting the advantage.

Same line of thinking that results in depleted uranium tank shells.
I have, yeah.

Thing is, private prisons are 10% of prisons. Which means public prisons are 90% of prisons, and so public-sector prison guards are at least 90% of prison guards (maybe 100% if they get the state to require collective bargaining in private prisons). That means a majority of the special interests are there either way. There is a conflict of interest with private prisons, but private prison owners are a small and not-very-powerful special interest compared to others.

Like, let’s talk marijuana legalization. I’m pretty sure fast food franchise owners are already a bigger special interest than private prison operators. They probably would be even if 100% of prisons were privatized.

On the other hand, the prison guard union has some real power. If they go on strike, you have to call up the National Guard and panic to get the prisons in working order before the prisoners start rioting and/or starving to death. If a private prison owner pulled that shit, it’s just one private prison owner, and regardless, they’re ruined for life. It only even becomes a remotely comparable risk if there was a single private prison monopoly across the whole state, whereas public prisons already have a prison guard monopoly in the form of the union.
meanwhile, i just thought it was cool that you could draw a line where it's slope was equal to it's value.
Yep! It's called TEB (Triethylborane). More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane

JP-7 has a very high ignition temperature (it was actually used as a coolant/heat sink for the rest of the aircraft), so TEB combusting once it hit the air is used to light the engines.

SR-71s only had a limited amount of TEB to use each flight. I believe it was 13 shots per engine. TEB was used each time the engines were lit and also when afterburners were lit. While the SR-71's routes were built around refueling, the number of TEB shots remaining were the true limiting factor of the SR-71's flight time.
Most military helicopters having some ways of masking IR signature: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100093611...
It's true for analytical functions I think?
I don't know if I have a real strategy here. I just give my rate early in the process and don't make it sound like it's negotiable. Some people don't call me back, and I suspect my rate is why. I do offer a lower rate to nonprofits. I've gotten one client through Craigslist (oddly) but despite ads on a bunch of websites, the rest of my work has come through referrals.

I suspect the biggest thing is just being in a good location. I live 90 minutes from NYC and can get there easily. The majority of my clients are in NYC and I think it would be hard to get the same rate in any but a few other cities (SF, Seattle maybe?).

There are some intangibles here. I interview well. I have code samples that I think are good--I don't have a lot to compare them to, but maybe they stand out compared to other devs. I do one stack (Python/Django/React) which is in high demand. I've been told I'm easy to work with and my clients have always been willing to give me recommendations (the recommendations are confidential, but I imagine they're positive because I keep getting work based on them). My experience is with some big name (top 50) companies. There are a lot of things in my situation that might be different from yours.

In general "finding high value clients" sounds a lot like advertising, and I don't really believe in advertising. I think advertising is a distraction from providing value, and believe that if I provide value to my clients the results will speak for themselves.

I wonder: how do you know you can only make $50/hour? If you just started telling people your rate was $80 from the get-go what would shake out?
Yeah I’ve read about half of origins of totalitarianism. Really unique book. One interesting thing I read is how she shows that colonialism from the dominating powers was quite often rooted in capitalist goals. And so she shows how underpinning totalitarianism and powers spreading over other countries was the result of greed by those in power. Makes sense, but I never think of how capitalism could lead to that.
Would it be on a leaderboard that included empty frames with no air conditioning units? The Prius is nowhere near the best efficiency you can get with a vehicle. Check out the Wikipedia page on solar cars for a couple of pictures:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_car
Sidewalk Labs spins out urban data-gathering tool Replica into a company
> The government isn't going to be lobbying itself to pass minimum occupancy laws.

The government won't lobby itself; the prison guards unions may, however.
What happens when it gets hit by a bit of flying debris on the highway? Screwdriver, piece of wood, rock, etc? Do I have to call insurance to get the panel replaced? Or just hail. Can I own this car in the midwest?
3D Power Delivery: 2.5/3D integration push PDN problems to whole new levels
The amount of people who understand terms like 'grok', but don't know how to use SSH certificates is effectively zero.

You need to get to familiarize yourself better with your audience.
Job titles make everyone worse at their jobs (2018)
You gave two scenarios which are worth addressing:

"x-x=0". Here we have two terms (x and -x). Their magnitude grows at the same rate, so it is not surprising that their difference is fixed and the two-term "series" "converges" to zero.

"Any converging series." Consider the exponential growth function: e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2 + x^3/6 ... + x^n/n!. This grows fast, but we know that the factorial is super-exponential so the terms must approach zero for any fixed x. If the series converges (true though not obvious) then the value must increase very quickly.

Now consider the exponential decay function. Unlike x-x, the terms are raised to different powers, so they grow at different rates. And unlike the exponential growth function, the series converges to zero in the limit.

The "miracle" is not the convergence but how it happens: terms growing in opposite directions at wildly different rates. It's as if a lopsided spaceship chaotically fired rockets at full power in all directions, and happened to stay exactly still.
Thank you for the last bit about Freakonomics- it lets everyone know it's safe to ignore you.
Effective Ways of Managing Time
the logic required to make the redstone timing on a machine that large precise enough to control a falling block is insane, to get 99%+ of the blocks like in the video makes this look so much easier than it is.

For those not aware, unlike CPU design where a wire is a wire, in MC, pulses can travel for only 15 blocks before needing a repeater, which necessarily adds a delay.
Two of the big problems right now are:

1. People entering the country outside of defined points of entry. We can't issue a work permit to people we don't know are here. Anduril's products are meant to address these gaps in the border, which should lead to all traffic being forced to official points of entry.

2. Illegals who commit crimes get released.[1] Sometimes released domestically, sometimes deported. Some of the deported ones return. Which brings us back to #1.

[1]https://www.foxnews.com/us/kate-steinle-jose-inez-garcia-zar...
Beer, Cider, and Wine Yeasts Allergy
Analytic functions are usually defined to be those functions which can be represented by their Taylor series. This is what I meant by `tautological'.
Wow, that's amazing.

My commute was about 6 miles, and I rode my bike 365 days a year for 4 years. Even in the winter. In the Yukon. -48C one nice morning.
there seem to be quite a few available. I also like telebit. btw, saw a comparison the other day: https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/tunnelling-services-for-exp...
that seems in scalable and adds such a burden to adding data that it will have the unintended consequence of discouraging participation.

I only have a dataset of 1 but it seems like it would be useful data for devs to see so they know they can not use features X, Y, and Z if they want to be cross platform because of bugs in specific implementation but given I can't add the data without going through all the browsers, given that "unknown" is not the right label for conforming browsers, and given that I don't have time to dig up proof the other browsers conform I opted to remove my pull request
This is a pretty terrible deal for the homeowner. They're selling a call option that is $X in-the-money. This is worth that $X, plus a premium for the optionality involved. Then there's the counterparty risk, where you're obligated to a variable lump-sum expense in ten years at a valuation under the control of the entity you've contracted with (and based on the initial valuation, also under that control).
Funny story: decades ago I bought a copy of Sled Driver. I think it was in that remainder/coffee book section of the book store near the front, so it was probably $10.

Today they sell for $200-$350 used.

Due losing track of the first copy, buying a second one (when they were available new), then finding the first copy, I have two copies and high hopes of them funding my retirement..
One thing I took away from being on-call at a company with lots of outages/incidents: management allows those outages. I know that sounds weird, but if there are constant lights-on problems, but every day management is prioritizing features/other work, the management is demonstrating that those outages are tolerable to them. Once I got my head around this, I stopped jumping-to at 3am like the world was ending for every single incident.
I understand your arguments. I'm not discounting them. I am saying I don't agree with them. It sounds dangerously like when I was just out of college and I didn't understand why something in the company was done that way and I would get a response like, "Because that's the way it's always been done."

Folks in Tuvalu are going to lose the entirety of their geographical boundary to the sea.

I don't see why people should be kicked out of a country because they were born in another country. The whole concept of "illegal immigrant" just seems so ... medieval. Someone isn't allowed to live and work in a land because they were born across an imaginary line in the sand?

I don't get it
Yeah, downtown has the metro mover... you can move between most of the downtown area without a car.
Yeah, a lot of people inner city won't drive everyday and often only have on street parking. Or they'll be renting somewhere that has garages without charging stations.

Anything that can minimize the number necessary trips to a charging station or eliminate them completely for people that only drive once or twice would a week be a big win.
OT: how do you know when it's time to add an immutable library as a dependency (as opposed to following immutable update patterns in vanilla JS)?
That's what killed the Solar Road: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/worlds-...
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Although in this and other cases the free bus plan is chiefly motivated by the need to fight poverty (remember that the yellow vest movement started over a fuel price raise), its larger long term benefit might rather be to overthrow cars reign in cities.

From this angle, there is an important detail that I haven't seen mentioned in the article or the comments: to be really useful in a post-car environment and allow residents to reach any A from any B without a personal 1-ton-of-steel individual vehicle, public transports must be designed to transport not only pedestrians but their bikes too.

In Amsterdam for instance, most trains/trams/busses would have a dedicated place where to put bikes (coaches would have special bike holder at the front for instance, while most trains/trams would have a dedicated large lobby in some wagons). There, most large trips would naturally be completed by a combination of bike + public transport + bike, making it not only possible but normal to go anywhere without a car. There, it is not cost free though (and in some cases, such as trains, you'd have to pay a little extra for your bike); still, being able to bring your bike might help to reduce overall price (and time) as it may avoids to have to transfer to a non-free public transport for some leg of the trip.
If your commute is 5 miles/day, that's also bikeable, even walkable.
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> Intuitively, this should be completely unexpected.

It actually makes intuitive sense to me. I like to think of it this way:

1) If we have the value of a function at a given point and we want to extrapolate the function's values before and after that point, we need to know how the value is changing at that point: the derivative.

2) But if that derivative isn't constant, that won't get us very far. We also need to know how the derivative is changing at the given point: the 2nd derivative.

3) But if that 2nd derivative isn't constant, that won't get us very far. We also need to know how the 2nd derivative is changing at the given point: the 3rd derivative.

And so on, potentially up to infinity. But once we take into account all of the derivatives, we know how the value of the function is changing and how that change is itself changing, and as there is no additional change that comes "out of nowhere", so to speak, we have enough information to calculate the value at any other point.
As long as 1940's Nazis are monsters and the very concept of "conspiring" is considered crazy talk, yes.

I bring these two up because:
1. Saying 1940's Nazis are monsters exemplifies a lack of empathy. They did monstrous things, no doubt, but the vast majority of the army was young men, doing a duty, during a depression, while under one of the first and strongest propaganda campaigns ever. They as people were very little different than us now. It's a prime example of how the road to hell can be paved with good intentions.

2. The way that every single time anyone implicates to even the slightest degree that maybe powerful people might be smart enough to do something subversive and tricky, people jump over each-other trying to be the first to make a tin-foil hat joke... that shit is annoying.

In conclusion, a society which managed to miss the whole "empathy" message of WW2 and actively undermines any attempt to pass blame towards the people in power is being extremely irresponsible, and the odds of things going badly are stacked against.
> How does that work with state benefits like universal healthcare?

It would presumably work like it does in the EU presently - a agreement to provide care for any EU citizen reciprocally regardless of which country they reside in, with some very basic residency requirements to cut down on health tourism (3-6mo residency normally).
Yeah, the YF-23 wins a lot of cool points on looks alone[1], and it was faster and stealthier than the F-22. Taking the -22 was probably the right choice given that it was lower risk and absurdly better than anything it's likely to encounter in its operational life.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-23#/media/File:YF-...
Here is an example bug that had an unobvious cause (they just reverted the diff out in the end!):

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=520952

Bisect job status: Completed
Bisect job ran on: android_nexus9_perf_bisect

===== BISECT JOB RESULTS =====
Status: Positive: Reproduced a change.

Test Command: tools/perf/run_benchmark -v --browser=android-chromium --output-format=buildbot --also-run-disabled-tests power.android_acceptance
Test Metric: energy_consumption_mwh/energy_consumption_mwh
Relative Change: 150.95% (+/-1.88%)
Estimated Confidence: 99.90%
Retested CL with revert: No

Pretty graphs now deleted.
For me, it's hit and miss.

Mentally, I'm mostly alright, but under a fair amount of professional and personal stress. The personal stress is mostly due to medical and financial issues (trying to get my wife to live within a budget).

Physically, that's where I break down. I'm not quite 40, and I already have a number of chronic medical issues that are largely beyond my control. The worst of it is osteoarthritis in every thoracic and cervical vertebrae coupled with bone spurs and degenerative discs in the same. Short of it means I'm in pain every day. On a good day, I'm sitting at a 4 in the 1 to 10 pain scale. Sleep funny and tweak a back or neck muscle, I can hit an 8 or 9 easily. Pain bad enough it causes me to vomit. Docs dont/won't prescribe pain meds because of the opiode crisis, which is fine, because the pain I have doesnt respond to opposes anyway. But, makes them reluctant to prescribe meds that might help with the nerve pain, such as Lyrica.

I also suffer from Cyclical Vomitting Syndrome which means every 3 to 6 months, I start vomitting uncontrollably for no apparent reason. No infection, no flu, no food poisoning, no allergy, I just start vomiting about every hour for days on end if untreated. I have to go to the ER every time it happens. Sometimes I get sent home after a few hours and some IV fluids and antinausea meds, other times like this past week, I get admitted because my blood chemistry is so out of whack it looks like I'm about to have a heart attack, am undergoing kidney failure or it looks like I'm diabetic, or all of the above. I spent 4 days in the hospital last week. That stay caused me to miss other scheduled appointments with specialists and an MRI to check on organs due to a genetic condition.

The kicker? I feel great. The docs dont know what causes it, although there's about a 90% correlation with heavy marijuana usage (I've never smoked weed).

Iunno, I have a referral to a specialist a few hours drive away. Need to schedule that appointment...
That and pretty much everything else about it
Because there is significantly less illegal immigration coming from those borders. Responsible resource allocation involves employing your assets where they will net the greatest utility.

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

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

Let's say 1 Anduril Widget would stop 10 border crossings/year on the southern border, but only 1/yr on the Canadian border. If I have 100 widgets, allocating them all to the southern border is the objectively superior employment of my assets. Only if my marginal utility per widget drops to preventing <1 crossing per year in the SOUTH should I even CONSIDER shifting resources to the northern border.
If you are looking around your personal space and thinking “gee no borders would work out great” then you’re living in the very definition of bourgeoisie privilege.
> > What's your stopping distance at that speed?

> Faster than my car or motorcycle. And that's just using the regenerative braking of the motors. I've never tried a full-on-drop-anchor stop with both the mechanical disk and regen brakes.

Do you have a heavily modified scooter or something otherwise unusual? I looked up braking tests for cars, motorbikes, and e-scooters, and couldn't find a single e-scooter that's been tested that has the same stopping distance as a normal car let alone a sports or a motorcycle.

I don't think this is super surprising considering the relative size of the contact patch and what the "tire" is made of on most scooters.

In another comment, you said you have a Xiaomi scooter. In this brake test (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mi-electric-scooter-review-com...), it has a 13 foot stopping distance from 12.4mph even when using the disc brakes. This is similar to what other scooter tests show.

NACTO's suggestion for a conservative car stopping distance is 11 feet from 15mph, not including reaction time, which is the same as in the scooter test (https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/vehicle_stopping_distance_and_ti...).

How are you getting your scooter to stop more quickly than a motorcycle?
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LOTR had literal race wars. Think about it for a second.