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The problem with planes is that they have to carry all their fuel/energy and to carry it costs more fuel/energy.

Most high-speed trains don't carry all their fuel with them. They get it from the network.

This will all change as battery technology improves but at the moment I cannot see it getting better trains.

That being said I expect that the 1000km/h speed will be like the Shanghai to Beijing track that got up to maximum speed a few times for the record and has since been reduced to make it more economical.

Even if this does happen and the train reaches 1,000 for a single trip and then drops back to a safer and more profitable speed of 600km/h or 800km/h it is still faster than what we have now and is a massive improvement.
So only the people fanatical enough to pay gets to express their opinion and the regular people just don't bother?
fascinating .. so there we go. there was an attempt!
There is more: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

The biggest problem with the agile manifesto is that armies of agile consultants and scrum masters have never heard of it.
Maybe not everyone uses it the same way but to me judgement in this context about values, risk appetite and empathy.

I just signed my youngest daughter up to a pretty extensive defensive driving course at a regional racing facility. When she's done, her skills will have improved but her judgement will be largely unchanged. If she was going to speed before and value her time over the safety of others around her, the same will likely be true afterwards. Fortunately (unlike her sister) she has taken after her mother and proven to be an extremely cautious driver. Her sister drives a smidge too fast for my liking, but we're working on it.
>> Small and medium sized business, are more like a stage in lifecycle than an exemplar. They either get merged or sold into a larger entity or they grow to become a larger entity.

Totally inaccurate. Having trouble finding sources but something like 99% of small business in US will remain under $5mil annual revenue, a fraction of a percent will be acquired. I'm talking all sectors, not tech.
There's an easy solution to this. Integrate some sort of tax on rent increase. Have a threshold to allow competition but if someone is gouging then their entire tax bracket moves up a notch and they spend a lot more than the money they make via upping their prices.

E.g. Say they sell rice at $3/lb, because of UBI they think they can sell it at $5/lb, gov't says 10% markup seems normal, but you've marked it up 200%, so you'll now pay 20% more taxes across the board --say the markup divided by 10.

Of course that takes a large amount effort behind the scenes...maybe an easier method would be say to Walmart: If you forbid sales of products where they raise prices in relation to GBI we'll give you a 10% discount in taxes.

Most small retailers and distributors do NOT want to lose good grace w/ walmart so they keep prices stable. Since walmart and other big retailers cover a lot of territory government only needs to make the deal with a few partners : Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc...
I disagree. Nobody said, a document can not be "interactive". With new technologies, old terms expand.

What I am talking about is the total applification of the web, as it happened in the last decade.
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De-anonymising data is not especially difficult. [0][1] Combine it with another database or two and you'll have a high degree of confidence you know who did what, where and when.

[0] http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handl...

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2013/how-hard-it-de-anonymize-cellphone...
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> Also, I cemented my understanding and intuition of the Unit Circle using this approach.

What do you need to do to “cement understanding and intuition of the unit circle”?

The common diagrams shown in high school trigonometry courses – e.g. https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/43200/43215/unit-circle7_43215_m... – basically involve only 2 meaningful facts: a rhombus made of two equilateral triangles has a long diagonal with squared length of 3, and a square has a diagonal with a squared length of 2. (a) These are fairly easy to figure out, and once understood are quite easy to remember, and (b) all of the derived factoids are pretty much trivial.

Students are typically taught this material in a quite terrible way, unfortunately.
>They going to abuse your platform to the extreme to promote their views.

Facebook and twitter _encourage_ people to abuse their platform, that's why you can write 100 tweets from one account on a single day and they don't try to stop you at all, they know all that content will show up in their statistics, it will also make other users reply to those comments and so on; so in the end they have all incentives to keep their platform filled with people enraged with each other.

>If a small group of dedicated people wanted to ruin Hacker News for the rest of us, I have no doubt in my mind that they could.

I'm not so sure, unlike Facebook HN is not a for-profit (Ycombinator is, Hacker news is not) so something as simple as only allowing comments from user accounts created before the attack started would mitigate the problem until a better solution is slowly deployed.

Also, Facebook cannot ban an IP because other non-attacking users may be using that very same IP, a little site like HN loses nothing by banning offending IPs, a site like Facebook would get a gigantic backlash that would hurt the bottom line: Their valuation.
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This is absolutely ridiculous, and a fantastic way to cede all power to opposing nation-states.
I think it's fine not to remember things like this; it's what man and tools like this are for.

Not having memorized cron syntax likely just means you don't work with it frequently enough for your brain to deem it worth the effort.
Just curious, why are you asking.
I think the most exciting industry are the old ones, there are some interesting projects out there, if you want just let me know specifically what sector
I was talking about that USSR specific "kommunalka". And there was another, more traditional, form of communal housing - dormitories - usually associated with specific factories/organizations and which especially took off during industrialization. With time the dormitories became the dominant form of housing pressure resolution. While intended to be temporary some people/families had to live there for years.
The solution for the blind spots in the Model 3 is to drive with the image of the rear camera on. There is 0 blind spot with that.
You said “but for the many other upper middle class people like me most likely the $220 is gone to sit in a bank or spent frivolously.”

That is not a correct statement. I think it’s much more likely to be spent on whatever that person deems valuable. Perhaps you think it’s frivolous, but that doesn’t make it frivolous. You don’t know the size of their family or the circumstances requiring expense.
Every company I've ever worked at that had drinks and/or snacks followed this antipattern. At my current job it's spearmint Orbit gum vs peppermint. Last job, blackberry Hint vs .. I think pomegranate?

They'd stock identical amounts of two or three varieties of thing, never noticing (or deliberately ignoring feedback about) how one was the clear favorite and disappeared immediately, and another was kinda gross and nobody took any until it was all that's left.

Not that I'm complaining about "free" food; it just baffles me that this is so pervasive when the solution is so obvious. Why don't companies select flavors proportional to demand? It costs the same as buying identical amounts of each flavor.
I don't see why cards need to be quite that simple. I generally take about 10-15 seconds for reviewing each card. A lot of my cards are why/how/what questions (typical examples: "Why are bras covariant?"/"How are Green's functions used in solving linear differential equations?"/"What is Q-Learning?") The problem with skipping memorization of concepts after having understood something is that two months later, you'll have forgotten those concepts. So, all that effort will have been in vain. I typically don't create much more than 10 cards a day, or maybe 20 on a day where I'm taking in a lot of information, and I typically have less than 50 cards to review. It's really not a huge time investment - especially if you're "busy".
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> You can pick your jaw up off the floor now.

I certainly can ... my jaw dropped that this deserved a blog post.
Oh most definitely. I don’t think someone with a high income has it easier or the same as someone making under $50k. But just because it’s easier doesn’t mean it is easy.
Brilliant people come from the most unexpected places. The one thing that stands out about Jobs/Gates/Wozniak et al. is that they came from unconventional (for the time) backgrounds with unique skills and talents.

It would seem that to change the world, you first need to be in a position of "being outside the world" - not literally but from a perspective point of view. Those who are immersed in the status-quo or are imitating some personal hero, are unlikely to ever come up with something truly radical and new.
By talking about those people and the questions they asked, you can skip questions of mine, such as "Would you want to be put into a concentration camp just for the sadistic fancy of others? And if you were, would you say nobody should care about it?"

> That's why so many people enthusiastically signed up for the Nazi party so many decades ago.

Is it also the reason people condemn them? Does some people you know not being aware of anything good about the US change the fact that the Iraq war was a war of aggression, for example? You seem to think no atrocities or crimes are real.

> If the narratives you hear are so one-sided that you can't ascribe any motivations to your enemies besides pure hatred

Keyword being "if". And if that's not the case at all, but claimed, then that's you talking about a straw man, and who you met, completely ignoring what I said and asked. For all I know, you treated those people the same way, so until I talk with them, I won't take your word for what their positions are, either. I asked you to speak for yourself, you did anything but that.

> your emotions were decided for you by editorial slant.

No, they aren't, and more importantly, you don't get to tell me they just because it would fit your narrative.
As one aside on the flat Earth stuff, I think something that people do not really consider is scale. There's always going to be people that are a bit off the cusp, some intentionally and some not. So hoping for 100% on most of anything is never going to happen. So let's imagine 99.9% of Americans think the world is spherical, or oval, or whatever - not flat.

That is really really good. Yet, take that 0.1% to scale. In America alone that would mean that you have 330,000 people that think the Earth is flat. On Facebook scale (2.5 billion monthly average users) that'd be all the way up to 2.5 million people. And thanks to the internet people with 'eccentric' views are more capable than ever of joining up with other people with such views. And people with these views tend to be very strongly inclined to do just that, alongside also trying to evangelize their views so much as they can - because they think they know something other people do not.

This effect creates a deeply misleading image of the relative popularity of various views and values. Can you imagine a Facebook group with millions of people who genuinely think the Earth is flat, and many people popping their head up in various locations to advocate for such a view? You could have that, yet it be the case that 99.9% of people do not feel that way.

Scale is a hell of a thing. And given the increasing size of various platforms, you're always going to see what you perceive to be large numbers of people with rather peculiar views and values. It in no way suggests there are actually large numbers of people with these views and values. The social media paradox stands head and shoulders above that relatively petty birthday paradox.
that's a false dichotomy.

The USA's rail system is shit because of lack of investment, and misaligned incentives. It's cheaper to fly, or drive, than to invest in rail, even though rail is very efficient (and i suspect, more environmentally friendly than either of the above).
> Total billable time spent on this 45 minutes.

Should've added the time spent on book to billable time (though I guess your manager would approve of that even less than they approve of scripts, given the description). In a few similar situations I've managed to get approval of my manager to bill the time I spent on such emergency learning, because let's be honest, I'm not speed-reading a book on an obscure piece of tech for fun.
Censoring accounts regional through UAE created this problem. They should not censor or do it from hq so at least values translate.
No matter what your language semantics are, there will still be different styles of coding. It's extremely valuable to shepherd your codebase into a particular paradigm for readability reasons.

That said, style warnings are incredibly hard to detect and enforce (e.g., -Weffc++ is so noisy I've never been in any codebase where I could leave it on)
Few years back there were stories about officials removing graveyards to give way for industrial developments. It's really easy to get things done when one only need to answer to above, not below.

I've tried to dig for references, but it's very difficult to find discussions 2+ years back, let along official news.
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It is incredibly hard to get things done in a fully functioning democracy. Ask us Indians and we know how difficult it has been for us to build any large scale project. First time a road building project was outsourced to private contractors was in 1995. People who wanted to use the road were asked to pay a fee (toll). There was an outcry from media, other political parties. That government lost power and only came back into to power 20 years later and no other big projects happened until then. Right now in Mumbai, one of the densest urban clusterfuck on the face of planet is resisting a rail project which will elevating pains for 5 million people everyday, saving enormous amount of carbon, reduce pollution. And all the resistance in for cutting down 2700 trees, most of which will be transplanted.

See in Australia how difficult it has been to build a high speed rail between Melbourne - Sydney one of the busiest domestic route in the world.

Edit - I dont mean to imply democracies are bad. It is just that things are hard to get done.
That's ridiculous, sorry. I spent a very short time at one of those places you hear of and enjoyed the little bags of dried mango that I had never had before. I took one a day because anything beyond that started to be gluttonous. Same with the 'Dang' coconut chips...so good. Point being that it's obvious these are provided for convenience and a way for folks to get a little break. If you just horde everything for yourself when it's obvious you're denying everyone else a share, you've achieved pathological status in your behavior.

On a side note the floor also had a location where folks could bring in their spirits of choice to share with the 150 or so folks that they worked with. It was a beautiful thing.
Not trying to be antagonistic, but precise. You say "upon vesting" which makes the assumption all employees are granted options. This is not the case. I don't see anything wrong with simply being a payed employee, receiving a fair salary for the work performed. If someone wants to be guaranteed a shareholder position, they absolutely can! By starting a company of their own. That is the beauty of our economic system. Not everyone is entitled to ownership at their place of work, nor should they be.
We're getting into the realm of Trolly Problem-esque ethical thought experiments, but how many drunk pedestrians should be allowed to die to save one victim of drunk driving? Consider also that those dead pedestrians are often not really at fault, but just unable to avoid a bad driver due to poor reaction times that would also affect children and elderly pedestrians.

I'm not saying that driving drunk is ever morally acceptable, of course. There are just some interesting unintended consequences of public policy at play.
In both cases, your peers will shame you when you cross the line.
> Seems like something a language ought to forbid, anyway

> What about the rest of my comment? The expression problem?

Navigating around the expression problem is precisely what I am demonstrating. A language ought not [1] decide for me what I am allowed to express or not. I have a healthy disregard for linguistic purism [2].

Expressive power is the ability to say whatever I want to, whenever I want to. That is precisely what a para-consistent logic buys me - expressivity [3].

This is counter-intuitive to most people who have been taught to value consistency above all else (mathematicians, logicians). Non-contradiction is an axiom, not a law - it's a false authority. A man-made deity.

> it's nothing special

I didn't claim it's anything special - I merely claimed that I can say it. I did say it.

If "Haskell can say everything Ruby can" then go ahead and say it in Haskell. I am not saying it's impossible - but I a curious how you might navigate the Turing tarpit [4].

>It's a trick because your first "p" and your second "p" aren't the same "p"

First p and second p? You mean p@time(1) and p@time(2)?

Are 'you' not the same 'you' as the 'you' from 1 second ago, despite the ongoing changes in your body?

Ironically, that is the disconnect between pure functions and reality. Side-effects are the norm, not the exception.

>That getters/setters are an anti-pattern in OOP languages (just ask Alan Kay...)

That's an appeal to authority. Alan Kay doesn't get to make decisions for me. He gets to voice his opinion - I get to evaluate the pros and cons. The choice is always mine.

Like I said - In my problem-space lack of choice/control is an anti-pattern. Humans get the final say - not algorithms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic#Paraconsi...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
Why don't people bring in their own drinks if they want so much of one particular thing over the course of a day that they can't depend on the common stock of it to have enough?
the solution? buy over a plot of land 1km x 1km and build a building 1km high. That should be enough space to cover everything.
It's been a while since I've seen Caddy here and I do remember all the controversy over the licensing. It is difficult to make an open source project and find a way to monetize/live off of it and there's always been that push/pull with projects like this, Redis, and others.

Back during that mess, I settled on haproxy+certbot+nginx in containers to setup my personal sites, but something like Caddy can greatly simplify that kind of stack.

This is pretty cool news and I hope this project continues to develop. How have they solved their funding problems? Does this have to do with the comment about Ardan Labs? For other people with FOSS projects who want to be able to work on this kind of stuff full time and not care about motorization, what options are there (other than Patreon/crowd/community type funding?)
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/shrug. When I was considering positions in SF a few years back, I was chatting with hiring managers I'd be under first before going through any whiteboard interviews. Maybe things have changed?
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It really depends where you want to go.

If you go from Shanghai to Suzhou via HSR a train goes roughly every 15 minutes. Most trains going east go through Suzhou (since it is a major hub) and it is roughly 30 minutes away which is a decent distance so worth stopping for. The train only gets to maximum speed for about 15 minutes in the middle.
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We might have to decide if that applies... if government ever gets around to climate action.
Makes me wonder what level of access the Five Eyes currently has if they're this afraid of losing it.
I am 100% blind. This article confirms my fears. In the future, it will be more dangerous to walk the streets then it already is. I was born with an deep fear of automatic doors. And I will likely die due to the autonomous car revolution.
> So only the people fanatical enough to pay gets to express their opinion and the regular people just don't bother?

Why do you think that only the fanatical people would pay?
The person in the story is right.

There's a simpler solution. A company can easily stock more stuff. It's not that hard.

If my colleague says that they need to take 6 bottles a day because it makes them 0.01% more productive, I'll be totally fine with that. It costs so little. I'll probably request the company to stock more.

Different people have different needs.

Why would Google want to create an environment where employees need to fight for food?

Why would Rachel blame that person instead of Google?
There are currently 61 high-speed trains from Wuhan to Guangzhou on most days (although to different stations in Guangzhou). The fastest one is now just under 4 hours.
I memorized the facts and then was able to figure out the relationships after the fact.

That may be a brute force way of doing it, but it works for me.
If you have the privilege, then yeah absolutely.
It IS painful. Today's laws reflect the misdeeds of the last 100 years. Compliance is incredibly expensive and slows down everything. I don't think its a bad thing at all, but most people don't understand the scope of the legal burden of being a public company. As a private citizen, I have a legal obligation to not murder people. As a public company, analogously, one would have to file a report every few months detailing how many people you didn't murder. Please indulge my terrible analogy.

I'm with Mr. Benioff on the point that private companies can harbor a lot of decay, while over-concentrating wealth. However, data shows that small-firm IPOs are simply not very profitable, and acquisition can be much more attractive: https://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/acsec/acsec-090712-ritter-...
That’s not at all what that means. Lots of companies follow the law. But when they go public they have to hire expensive auditors to prove it every quarter and it’s a drag on the business. A drag on both profits and productivity because you need to use up a whole bunch of staff time to interface with the auditors.
You cannot use any prior, let alone literally any regularizer, and say it would work almost just as well.

A standard normal prior centered at 0 and one centered at 42 can give very different results.
>4) Architecture is extremely sensitive to the initial choices due to isolation of side effects. Because if you suddenly need to do something as simple as logging or reading a config in a place where it wasn't originally anticipated, you're in for a bumpy ride.

Not a serious Haskeller at all, so not sure if this is a terrible practice, but for logging, `unsafePerformIO` could work in a pinch without changing types.