skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since hybrid cars have two power sources - electric and petrol or diesel - the catalytic converter is used less frequently to process pollutants. The metals are less likely to corrode, meaning they are worth more and thus attractive to thieves.

Is this true? I thought hybrids needed more surface area in the cat because they don’t get hot easily because of the engine running less (frequently).
Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster
I think the important thing is they contribute to Google's wealth, which includes over $100 billion in savings.
Calling for a more nuanced rendering of someone’s character isn’t “bashing”, nor does being a “self-made” man disqualify one from criticism.
There's a parallel effort to detangle who employs Google et al's workforce too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/29/california-b...
I just stopped using both Safari and Chrome, ditched them for Firefox on all my devices. Also, I'm almost exclusively use Duckduckgo now for search.

Yes, Firefox does drain MBP battery, that's sad, but they promise to fix it.
Divide each price x_t by x_0 and multiply by 100, so at t=0 the price equals 100 and at each t>0 x_t-100 is the percent change relative to t=0. Since your profit/loss is proportional to the stock's relative change since you bought it, this is what you want to know.
Safari is aggressively attacking the tracking problem as a code browser feature, and the as blocking capabilities are sufficient for blocking all the ads you need blocked anyway. It just can't do all the other page optimization / CSS stuff to strip out elements completely, so you might have some empty divs or whatever; who cares
It's complicated? They have advantages and disadvantages over extensions. For most people who just installed an adblocker and never touched its settings, I bet they're practically equivalent.

Advantages: privacy, efficiency

Disadvantages: lack of flexibility, some things they just can't do
I think it depends on the constraints, and what kind of innovation you hope for.

If someone is working at a job most hours, most the remaining hours caring for family, constantly having to chase more work because they are on the breadline, mentally stressed all the time, never getting enough rest and sleep because of the demands on them, cognitively impaired by stress and malnourishment, they may have lots of creative and innovative thoughts, they can be stuck for decades unable to build a prototype due to lack of time, energy, and a place to build it.

(Little web-based things may be a relative exception, because people can do those at home, on the side, and while looking after others. Maybe that's why we have so many of them, and so many people trying to make more.)

Aside from personal circumstances, at the business level, there is a reason investment is done in business growth, and why many businesses try to borrow, rather than waiting to save up the cash for new investments.

For some things, development just stalls without resources and breathing room.

Even when successful, it can be greatly slowed.
It should be pretty close to a math function. It must be 10x something great. If it’s supposed to 10x the speed of human travel, and there’s some plausible reason to believe there’s a chance it’ll work (TBD what exactly that is) then it gets funded.
It probably won’t be that analogous. I suspect that having the parallel, contract labor force is at least somewhat about exerting additional control over those employees that are actually permanent. A kind of implicit threat that your employment status can be downgraded.
What is the advantage to buying Tether with Krones instead of just converting them to USD? I think people jump to crypto as a solution when oftentimes the financial markets have already had the same solution for hundreds of years (in this case, foreign exchange).
Performance has not hit a wall at all. More transistors was never going to speed up serial processes forever. Transistor count is still increasing, core count is still increasing and software speed usually has room for a 10x-100x speedup in most places since it is usually done so poorly. Most of the time high end games are the only areas where CPUs are actually used to their potential because of memory latency.
I’m actually surprised by how professional the police are acting.

The protesters are throwing Molotovs and yet no one has been killed.

After 2 months of riots, the police have been very reserved in there actions compared to other SWAT happy countries.
From http://www.earlytelevision.org/yanczer_eidophor.html they could run at 120 Hz.
In your quest to rattle of glib retorts, you have failed to bother even reading the list. There are about a dozen countries with similar levels of corruption as Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, and New Zealand. And then there’s a whole bunch of other countries that are pretty close.
This is a seriously great write up. So many links to research and papers. There were some truly new-to-me concepts and they implemented some stuff that are optimizations that I've not had to deal with yet despite the scale with which I work; it is fun to read about those. Seriously awesome work -- I would love to optimize as much as they have. Two things stand out. One, they could maybe improve thrashing at full capacity by evicting more than one key when at capacity (say, evict n% of total keys). Two, my reading here suggests this is not production ready and dangerous to use.

> ... then used this hash as not only the stored key but also to figure out the shard the key should go into. This does introduce a chance of key collision, that’s something we plan to deal with later.

If a Get and Set can produce a collision and it is not dealt with, then it is unsafe for production. Imagine calling user foo's data and returning user bar's data instead. This could leak PII and would be an unnoticed bug. Generally, in collisions, you drop down to a list and hurt your runtime to ensure accuracy. I need a correct cache over a fast cache.

Unless I misunderstood, this is not production ready. Again, amazing work; it is just not done yet.
If I recall correctly, generally janitorial, stuff like that now.

EDIT: geez, sorry guys, I already admitted I misremembered down below. Sorry :/
Did the University offer any explanation for why the event needed to be cancelled as opposed to just rescheduled or held in a different room/building?
Right, hold the most clandestine organizations in the world to the same standards as petty theft. Do we really expect the NSA to be trailing HN in knowledge on zero-day vulnerabilities?
I did not know that list, it's awesome, contains tons of things I was looking for.

Thanks!
The interest rate on deposits was previously -0.6%, and now is -0.75%. Hope that clarifies if you were unsure.
If you think about it, the concept of self-made man is a bit weird. Every man comes at least from a woman who carried him for about 9 months. Even if she abandoned him at birth, he must have been taken care of by some people who taught him how to speak, helped him with his first steps, etc. Not to mention the roads he drove on, the food he ate, the knowledge he learned, etc. This concept is problematic in that it negates the fundamentally social nature of humanity. In fact, there have been documented cases of real self-made men in history, but it wasn't particularly pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
>there’s no x10 improvement in anything interesting

Don't you think trusting code to transmit and trade assets is a x10 improvement over trusting people? I'd rather trust code I can audit than people.

Even if you don't call it an x10, I would definitely call it a success.
Even Tesla does it.

This was last true in 2016, when you could add a dual-charger option to your S or X to increase non-Supercharger charging from 48 amps to 72 amps (dual != double because of battery limitations). Would you mind citing your source?
Both of those statements are correct in context.

RGB if a thing is emitting light.

CMYK if a thing is reflecting light.

So it is true to say "Red, green, and blue are the basic building blocks of other colours"

It is also true to say "When you were told in primary school that the primary colours for your paints were red, green, and blue, this was untrue"

I do actually think that this is an example of a somewhat muddled thought process that is jumping from one thing to a other pretty eratically, or perhaps of something being edited such that it is now confusing to a reader going over it for the first time, honestly the whole thing reads a little like it was written by someone who really enjoys stimulants and can't keep their focus on one thing. But _technically_ I don't think any of the content is _wrong_ (obviously this means excluding ~70% of the content because it's largely about how people feel, and this is probably never _wrong_ but it's also not a matter of fact...)
> Did Microsoft make their services run faster on IE6?

Yes, the pillar of Web 2.0, the AJAX, was implemented in IE5.5 first with XMLHTTPReques.
Another happy Wipr user here. I have yet to notice a difference in adblocking capabilities and it’s nice knowing that Wipr is entirely incapable of ever doing anything shady.

It’s also nice that content blocker extensions work with mobile Safari, removing the need to install a third party browser and dramatically reducing cell data consumption when browsing. It’s frustrating how Chrome for Android has no blocking capabilities whatsoever.
EC2 Instances with Nvidia T4 Tensor Core GPUs
This looks great. It looks similar to JooQ.
Just as an anecdote we moved away. Our friends moves to the city and buy houses for 10x what we bought ours for, and smaller ones too.

Of course it's not possible for everyone and there are sacrifices with living in a small community as we do.
But in the state of 5, 10, 15 years, the beauty of this is that most of it is easily replaceable, assuming the foundation and flooring is solid. I mean, there is just not a lot to "go bad", so to speak.
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy
No, actually, my bad, I went back and read that bit over again for a third time and it does actually say red yellow blue aren't primary, but that the primary colours are red yellow and blue.

You were correct and I jusy managed to misread the article twice....
Why not have a content blocker with much higher limits? If security is the aim why the limit for 50000 filter rules in use at one time?
They really only care about the social aspect so they can use it as PR. LGBT & the rainbow flag sell really well. The second anything challenges capital, all gloves are off.
From where I stand, I seems not very far from that argument to arguing in favor of trickle down economics being a success by the same mechanism.
Watch the master attack an intermediate problem. They "make it look easy" because it is easy for them because they have been doing it for so many years they have forgotten that it was ever not easy. This is the real curse of knowledge.

> Bower

Yes, finally! In another 40 years most of the trash we're creating now will also be gone, probably replaced by more unless we find some discipline.
The post states:

>"The firm will be forced to sell equity/issue debt at a price substantially lower than they had anticipated."

What is this "selling debt" referred to here, is the basically a bond? Would it be a bond that's backed by equity? Something else entirely?
Building Real-Time address search with the Australian G-NAF dataset
Just think of this article of not mostly a science, but a reflection of the common trends that consumers experience and expect. Design trends are good to follow because they are familiar and comforting to users. At the very least, it'll prevent you from making egregious design errors.
"Of course, no amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them."

https://www.infoplease.com/history-and-government/famous-pre...
At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.
............

how do you make that leap exactly? and how do you think Sparkswap is going to be any different than coinbase?
Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
The name reminds me of https://metacpan.org/pod/DBG, which, full disclosure, I wrote. Not that it's nearly as cool or likely to be used by anyone, but ... it has a superficial resemblance.
I thought, "This article is based on a Hacker News comment." And it was.
According to that logic, does money have any material basis in reality? Or is it purely authoritarian in nature?
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers
Well, its Google's responsibility in this to make it clear unlawful anti-union activities are grounds for terminating contracts. They have a lot of the power here and if they set a precedent, a lot of other companies can follow.
Or sorry - to re-phrase my question - what created the God?
I gave Ghostery Lite and Ka-Block! a shot and they blocked ads on most sites except for reddit. Pretty good for free.

Wipr blocks the same ads as the above combo, but also blocks those on reddit.

YMMY
Wich is why I use Firefox for Android. With extensions.
Cutovers are hard, to be sure. Ideally they should also be short (the time time a service undergoing mitosis spends talking to the old and new locations should be measured in days or hours or less).

Don't choose general data access patterns for the infrequent occurrence of cutover. Cutover is when you break a few rules and then immediately stop doing so. Build for everyday access patterns instead (which should be through the API of whatever owns the data--SQL is a powerful language and a really shitty API).
The argument that the central banks couldn't fight inflation by raising rates is sort of undermined by the fact that central banks have raised rates in very recent history and there was no catastrophe, in 2011 the ECB raised rates 1/2% and all the Eurozone got was a stunted recovery. The US Fed had been steadily raising rates since 2016 and has since admitted that it was a mistake and reversed course.

The tools to fight deflation/low-inflation are mostly left in the hands of government spending, which unfortunately governments refuse to do for political reasons, the central bank's tools are limited.

What about Japan, or the Eurozone?

What about them? The story you are telling is the some one from the 90's about Japan and it has been wrong so far, at what point is there enough evidence to prove that Japan was right to keep interest rates low? Furthermore Abenomics has been largely a success, which is doubling-down on those policies plus being willing to pile on even more debt, raising an expectation of future inflation to create investment (not quite exactly but more or less as Krugman encouraged them to in the 90's).

The Eurozone's problem is clearly austerity in the face of the structural issues that the single currency creates, as long as the wealthy members are unwilling to spend and the rules prevent the poorer members from spending they are caught in a low-demand trap of their own creation.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24385696

They have even lower interest rates and they're once again stagnating.
You really believe if money was even cheaper, even more growth could be achieved?

I believe that higher rates will hurt them (supported by the evidence from the 2011 ECB & 2015 Fed rate increases and the study of their consequences) and, as I stated in my original post they, like the Danish, should be spending money on things they need to stimulate their economy and invest in the future.

If you can borrow money at negative interest rates and build assets of any future value then you should do it and make citizens' lives better now and in the future.
> It is a bit like saying that if someone can juggle 3 balls, then they should be able to easily juggle 6 balls because - inertia.

It's not at all like that... Adding more balls doesn't increase the inertia of the existing balls, it purely adds complexity.

I'm not suggesting this is easier. As I said, there are dozens of complexities it adds (like you outlined). It also means the margins get a lot tighter, and the consequences for exceeding those margins are a lot more significant.

My point was just that the added inertia is one of the things that actually reduces a few variables. The system is inherently unstable, and one of the ways to counter that is to constantly "push" it in one direction, so it doesn't more in an unexpected direction.
> If half beat the market in a year and half don’t

As per this article, that wouldn't happen: more than half of the bots would fail to beat the market.

This article finds that the vast majority of the positive return is explained by relatively few stocks, leading to a positive skewness. The median random choice has a below-mean outcome.
Without entering the debate regarding whether Gates foundation does more good than damage, it seems a bit of a stretch to say that this is unrelated to his earlier business practices. It's fair to imagine that those practices have contributed to put him in a situation where he can do what he does now.
Not really, it's more impressive to block whole countries (not just your own) to do business with Iran for example.
Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex (2008)
Both?

My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced by something new. Trump obviously has a good nose for these matters.
The root cause is usually poor resource estimates (ie. not spending enough time estimating effort before committing to timelines).

Some estimating techniques: https://www.simplilearn.com/project-estimation-techniques-ar...

For a team’s ongoing everyday tasks, I’ve used parametric estimation with some success by defining team weekly capacity for productive work and then summing up the parametric estimates for all backlog tasks. You can then get a rough idea for the number of weeks to complete a bigger, more complex task.

You can even build a model to automate this estimation.
I stopped reading at "low-skill".
Python and Ruby are dynamic and strongly typed. Possibly you meant static typing.
(insert comment about smashing square pegs into round holes)
By adapting the 2FB API (which you can use today adding 2fb.me before ANY link.. i.e https://2fb.me/https://news.ycombinator.com ) Iv'e made many posts about it and didn't get much attention but now that people are starting to understand the power of this service; I'm moving on to release it as a free and open source Chrome Extension SDK with additional features and examples. I think it's a good idea to specifically serve the Chrome Developer community. And once I have some semblance of API documentation up, I'll post about it. Hold on.
That's actually not Google's responsibility. It's the government's. I mean, it would be a nice thing for Google to do, but Google is not law enforcement. It's important not to assign the responsibilities of the state to a private company, as that inevitably leads to disappointment.

I'll also just point out that Google probably lacks a sufficient, just apparatus to evaluate the claims being made. I mean, USW claims that illegal anti-union activities are occurring. HCL would probably deny those claims. Google is not a detective agency, and it shouldn't be. If it observes illegal activities occurring on its own property, or has substantial knowledge of them, that would be one thing, but I imagine that if HCL is doing this dirty stuff they are not going to make it obvious.

Finally, I doubt the unionizing HCL workers would appreciate the remedy that some people here are proposing. People are saying to terminate the contract with HCL. What? What good would that do? Do you think the unionizing workers would appreciate having their positions eliminated? If anything should be considered anti-union, this proposed remedy is it!
A possible alternative: pester Blackberry with requests for opening the 32bit variant of QNX (crowfunding?), since they're likely moving to 64bit anyway. Very small devices with RAM sizes well below the Gigabyte are the ones which would benefit the most from it.
Thank you! And how did you learn these guidelines? Is there a book or blog post you recommend for data visualization best practices?
Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.
The painfully obvious answer is that the work is low skill. Why? Because the job market in the Bay Area is such that high skilled labor can easily and quickly find more gainful employment.

It doesn’t make it better for them to earn less, and a union is one way to group high and low skill labor pool such as the whole can have a better quality of life.
Understanding Translation and Types
In Utah, These Entrepreneurs Are Creating Their Own Version of Eden
It’s exactly the same as dilution on shares except for in this theoretical, you’re talking about 1T in dilution while the asset wealth of the US is something over 270T. So this would effectively be one of the kindest dilutions ever — and even then it didn’t actually come to pass.

The main reason to raise the debt ceiling is that we are carrying a percentage of debt (which has market stabilizing effects), and our assets are growing, so we should be spending more. And practically this is money already spent so this is arguing about paying the bill after eating the meal. The fact that this is somehow contentious at the highest levels of government speaks to either bad-faith acting or complete financial illiteracy.
I use jdbi.org in Java all the time because it does just that for me.
The real issue in a deflationary situation loans effectively become more not less expensive vs 0 inflation situations.

Lending always carries the risk of not being paid back, where you can always just keep your own money. So, a 100$ loan needs to return the original 100$ + the risk + some incentive not to use this money for something else.

Thus loans are effectively the absolute value of (inflation or deflation rates) + a constant factor.
With Tether you're essentially converting your cash into USD, but with massive risk added on top. Tether is, as stated by themselves, already not backed one-to-one by USD and you cannot actually redeem them, only trade them in exchanges.

What you instead should ask what effect real cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can have.

I'm personally quite positive to cryptocurrencies, but I don't have a crystal ball. If a single country is about to go under of course it's a good alternative, but of the global economy tanks it's all up in the air.
No, money is (mostly) a government tool used to make the economy run smoothly, it doesn't have intrinsic value.
I've yet to see a iOS or macOS content blocker that doesn't use multiple filter rules to bypass the 50k limit.
I think there are many niche BSD derivatives that focus on minimal footprint and small machines.

The other day I was looking at RetroBSD for example.
Understanding the Pattern of Technology Evolution
I found that computed-goto (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html) is cleaner than Duff's Device for this sort of thing. (It works for clang compiler too.) Take a look at https://github.com/bxparks/AceRoutine for an Arduino library that uses computed-goto.
AI generated classical piano composition
With the Wii, though, there were two important differences: you could call it "The Nintendo Wii", and it's spelled differently than the English word.
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>I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine

I am curious, why is that ?
Yeah, but going to Zimbabwe to get them for cheap is expensive for anyone not already in Zimbabwe.
According to their website, they are an India-based IT services contractor. Not janitorial.
Nice idea! I would appreciate a warning from the author specifying whether dbg evaluates its argument twice, as if so one must be careful with side effects when using it.