skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference would all go to landlords. Competitive commodities like rice have downward price pressure, because all it takes is one supplier selling for a penny less than all the other $50/lb price gougers, and the market will be theirs until the next penny defector, until you reach the commodity price.

With housing it's the opposite. Low teaser price to get you to sign a lease, and then you're guaranteed large rent increases until you move out because the landlord knows how much moving sucks.
Interesting pointer. I had looked at the Control Theory literature. We used the CUSUM "control chart" as an internal bit in Anomaly Detection method, we built a while ago. This had limited success. Usually the data is just too noisy. Industrial sensors tend to be much better behaved than stuff tha you get from the Linux kernel.

Are you aware of people in the IT-Ops domain who use control charts?
Can't speak for Signal but an app might reasonably require an update when the API also had a breaking change.
The market should converge at the point where the supply and demand curves intersect. The only goods that we'd expect to see a change in price are those where suddenly there was more demand. It's hard to imagine this for products like rice.

Trade is a thing, too. The local price of rice can't go up to $50/lb if you can import it for far less.

There's a lot of scary speculation going around about UBI right now. It does not seem likely that the sky will fall.
Ok then, I've missed this point. Nevertheless, I thought maglev (as well as high-speed rail) hardware is rater complex and expensive.
IWG has ~3500 locations though, so on average say 3 people per location. WeWork has closer to 25, so basically 10x people per location managed.

IWG has a lot of franchised sites, but so does WeWork, as far as I know China + India are franchise operations or something similar.
So I looked at your comment history, thinking that I would see nothing but low-quality one-liners that would explain your lack of traction. Instead, you're right --- you've got a lot of high-quality comments deserving of more upvotes!

Anyway, the secret to karma on HN is to submit interesting articles, ideally from sources that few people here are likely otherwise stumble across. While there are probably a few high scorers who get most of their points from comments, I'd bet the vast majority are from submissions.

And as the other reply to you says, don't pay too much attention to the points. Submit interesting stuff, keep making good comments, and please stick around.
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Actually, one of the big changes in that report is that more pedestrians are drunk.

A drunk pedestrian is likely to indictate 1) nighttime, 2) walking in a target rich environment (most bars exist near other bars) and 3) lots of distracted Uber/Lyft drivers.

What is interesting is that Texas/Arizona/Florida/Georgia have increases in deaths that completely cancel out California's decrease.
The ability for the citizenry to oversee and monitor the government should be required to be higher then the ability for government to oversee and monitor the citizenry. Do away with the veil of secrecy over government entirely (no NSA, no CIA, so secret ongoing investigation, no privacy for meetings among politicians, etc); that would slow abuse to the point where maybe we could trust the government to keep an eye on us.

I would personally even go one further and say that anyone or anything beyond a certain level of power should be radically transparent, and privacy should be reserved for the weak. If you want some privacy, step down from power and influence, and donate your money, because transparency is the only way we can even start to wield democracy properly and prevent the gross abuses of power we see in our society.
> Once you start preaching that certain lifestyles are better at stopping climate change than others, I feel you're effectively judging which life styles are good or bad for the world.

Certain lifestyles are better than others. You can argue that it's not effective to discuss individual contributions, but you can't pretend this isn't the case.

>I really don't think it makes sense to address climate change at an individual level. Most people have little to no control over how they live their lives. Even if they did, it'd be an enormous ask to have everyone understand their carbon footprint due to supply chain complexity.

This is _such_ a strange attitude that people apply selectively to issues. Poverty requires systematic solutions, but that doesn't mean we don't have a responsibility to help those in our communities. Diseases require systemic solutions, but that doesn't resolve us from doing what we can individually to prevent the spread of diseases. Violence, crime, education, pollution. Most big problems require big solutions, but that doesn't mean we should ignore individual contributions.
With all due respect to Wikipedia, the term meta-stability is applicable to any system issue where the behavior of the system is undefined when one or more of its inputs can be undefined.

The inputs to "software" finite state machines are typically inputs in the form of variables. Those inputs define which branches within the routine will be taken during processing.

You can model a subroutine as an FSM for which its "outputs" are its state, the FSM takes inputs, processes them, and sets new outputs or a new state.

We use fuzzing to expose the state machine to all possible combinations of inputs and this identifies all possible exit states from all possible input states, but assumes the input states are stable.

Multi-processing introduces the possibility of race conditions. In a race condition, one input state is present when the state machine is entered, but during execution the race completes which changes the input value.

We use 'stable' to define an input that has the same value across the entire duration of the state machine's state execution.

During a race condition, an input may change value one or more times across the time interval of the state machine's state execution. Thus at any instant in time the input has a singular value, during an interval in time that value may have many different values. These inputs are meta-stable.

And yes, you can fix meta-stability in software with things like mutexes and execution exclusion. Just like you can fix meta-stability bugs in hardware signals by add a clock synchronization domain that spans the widest period of meta-stability possible for a signal.

One of the things that makes race condition bugs so hard to debug is that your typical tracing facility assumes that the inputs passed to a function are stable and don't change. Thus you'll see a trace record of a function call, with its parameters, and walk through the code and say "Wait, with those parameters this code could never do what it just did." Or conversely, that variables that have shared write status across execution domains will be the same throughout a function.

Does that make is clearer what I was talking about? Race conditions suck :-)
(1) Not all politicians.

(2) Accepting money from someone to help them do wrong is not a neutral act.

(3) Shrugging off the bad actions of some actors encourages other bad actors, and dulls the public outrage that is appropriate.
In the context of rice...We already produce more rice than people can eat, so there's no driving force for supply to increase. Increasing supply would only make more rice go unsold. It's not like just because you have more money now you biologically need to eat more volume too.
I think 1000 km/h travel would bring HUGE benefits.

State-of-the-art high-speed trains at 350 km/h tend to waste less time than planes for distances shorter than about 1000 km if you include the time it takes to get to the airport, check-in, go through security, and all that nonsense. Beyond 1000 km journeys, planes tend to be more time-saving.

1000 km/h is about the cruising speed of an aircraft so if it were possible to achieve that with a train, it would no longer make sense to take planes for the same journey -- which would be HUGE plus for comfort for, say, trips between Europe and Asia. Imagine for a 10-hour journey that you could walk around freely, enjoy massive amounts of legroom, enjoy the views of Siberia, sleep in peace and quiet, dine at a dining table, and not have to be strapped into a seat all the time. For high-volume routes it is also likely to be lower-carbon in the long run than air travel, and at the very least, can be powered on something more sustainable and less polluting than jet fuel. The bulk of your environmental impact would come from laying the track itself, so it would have to be a route of extremely high tourism or business importance, e.g. Shenzhen-Shanghai-Beijing-Moscow-Warsaw-Frankfurt-Paris-London or some such. Or Los Angeles to New York.
> before they split the warehouse (down south of the viaduct) and the offices (in the heroin district of Seattle near Pike Place Market) before I joined.

Ugh. Sorry, this is off-topic.

I wish people who characterize Seattle like this just left. Sure, maybe there is a heroin epidemic and it's more visible in some areas than others, but downtown Seattle and Pioneer Square (arguably more sketchy) are so much more than the "heroin district". They're also beautiful and interesting neighborhoods, full of wonderful people.

/rant
I probably don't say it in the talk very explicitly (or do I?): the target architecture is web = JavaScript.
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We need to put them to homes of politicians, judges, lobbyist, diplomats etc since they are the biggest threat to national security. Also their close ones that might be even greater target.
That is a completely different scenario than what would be the case in many areas of the US.

In 2012, Amtrak estimated $151 billion to upgrade the Northeast Corridor (Washington DC to Boston). Adjusted for inflation that is about $168 billion now. I would assume that the actual price if we proceeded would be much more as I've never heard of a large project like that in the US coming in at the budgeted number.

It is a huge amount of money that can't realistically be recovered by train fares so you have to ask yourself is that the best way to allocate tax dollars? There are lots of other things I would choose to spend $168 billion on and one of them would be not collecting those tax dollars in the first place...
is this $500 on top of welfare and other social programs?
Sometimes I put off reading a book I've checked out—but also don't want to return it until I have read it—and so I am quite likely to end up accruing a late fee on any books I check out.

Given this, and given that I also know the price of just buying the book to begin with, I usually feel a "prediction of regret" that I'll wish I'd have just bought the book, instead of spending so much on just "renting" a used copy. This stops me from using the library, most of the time.

That's probably for the best, I guess?

There's probably some optimum stopping-point where a book that I've taken out from the library should be returned (although I'm not "done" with it yet—sometimes that's even true!), and replaced with a purchased copy, to sit there in my reading queue in the borrowed copy's stead.

Maybe you could make a service out of recognizing that optimum stopping-point. Rent-to-own books, where you hold onto the old one for three weeks and then, if you liked it, you can pay the difference to trade it in for a fresh new copy to keep?
I just got a $220 check in the mail from the state of Virginia related to the US Federal tax changes passed in 2017.

I have $10s of thousands in the bank, and my wife and me have a combined > $200K income.

I feel so selfish cashing this check, seriously, there are so many services/things the state needs this money for to serve people that haven't been as fortunate as me. I've been so lucky to be born in this country to middle-class parents. I would carelessly spend $220 on silly things over a weekend I probably don't need

Just tax me more already!
Ugh the whole idea of UBI scares me. It sends me shivers. The idea of shifting responsibility for a personal well being from a person to a governmental entity is really, really, really scary.

It will cost us larger government apparatus, more tangled, deeper bureaucracy, black hole for taxes, and is definitely something I wouldn't wish upon us.

IMHO, UBI teaches dependency, and is extremely politicized. And very, very easy to sell by corrupt politicians for votes (power). Once they have that power, how certain are you they wont use your dependency and wield this power against you?
Total revenue.

Apple did not make less total revenue when they introduced a lower-priced iPod. The claim above was that Tesla would have had a reduction in total revenue without being able to book pre-sales for this half-baked feature.
For a modern person getting married has few questionable benefits and a lot of obvious drawbacks.

Totally understandable.
I will believe that anyone in politics gives a shit about children when the US stops bombing children in other countries.
sorry for this but this page is messing with the mouse scrolling, how can I prevent that? I've seen other several pages that do the same
Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urTk6O4c0mU

https://i.redd.it/wp66quhos4p31.jpg
Most of the big chip vendors provide a libc implementation along with the proprietary compilers that they maintain for their chips. On the TI MSP430, I've had some projects that were too big to fit into flash if I used the libc (newlib) that's bundled with the open source MSP430-GCC compiler[1]. By contrast, if I compiled with the proprietary TI compiler[2] and its libc, the binary was small enough to fit. My experience is a bit dated at this point, so newlib and the GCC fork may have improved enough to reach parity by now.

The dominance of GCC and LLVM on x86[-64] machines has conditioned many of us to take great open source build toolchains for granted, but embedded systems are comparatively the wild west - there are still a lot of proprietary build toolchains out there. Obviously this is a negative if you're committed to using open source tools, but one positive is that it's a niche where companies can still make money selling compilers (and therefore employing engineers who work on compilers).

[1] http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP430-GCC-OPENSOURCE

[2] http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-CGT
Waze's new revenue stream will be shaking down neighborhoods for detour exemptions. "Nice street you got here... it'd be a shame if some assholes in BMWs started speeding through."
That study does not show much at all. They gave a small amount, $20, and prices went up 0.2%. Even if prices went up or down, a small amount of a specific item, food, doesn’t really equate to what UBI is trying to accomplish. Giving a more significant amount of cash to large groups would drive up prices and increase inflation.
Holy shit. This is weapons-grade WTF.
That's true.

Prior to the handover, the executive head of HK had been the governor, appointed by the British government.
Another reason is that certain networks will inject ads and other unwanted content into your webpages unless they’re transmitted over SSL.
We Don't Work.
So give it away?
Speaking as someone who has written maybe 100 lines of code in both languages, thus someone who should not be taken too seriously, there seem to be a lot of similarities between Lisp and Forth.
Many people experience significant lifestyle and spending creep as they earn more money, even when its still paid to them in exchange for work many still spend it all on subjectively frivolous things. I don't think giving people free money will be all that different. There are people who won't waste it regardless. Also, UBI doesn't mean no one will work and not understand the value of money.
I prefer something heavier, like a crowbar. Umbrellas just don't make big enough dents.
See my comment above re: estimates to upgrade the Northeast corridor lines, presumably some of that is $$ to acquire land via eminent domain.
There's a similar (yet generally not as bad) problem with airliner automation: the less a pilot has to do, the less experience they will have actually actively flying the plane. And when the automation hits a corner case where it can't control the plane, the pilot has fewer skills and experience on hand to keep the plane in the air.

The more automation allows people to avoid paying full attention to driving, the more crashes we will have when the automation fails and the human driver is unable to take control or react appropriately fast enough to avoid a collision.

This problem all goes away when we have perfect automation (or at least automation that performs better than humans do without the automation), but we're certainly not there yet, and it's not clear that we're even close.

And even if you have automation that's better than a human driver, when the automation does fail, and people die, there's an emotional backlash because, even if they're entirely wrong, people feel like they could have done better, if they just had control of the situation themselves. And even without that, you still need to assign blame. Does it go to the human in the car, even though they weren't driving? Does it go to the manufacturer of the automation? Or do we have to go through a huge cultural shift and dispense with the notion of blame in these sorts of situations?
Yes for sure, 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.
UBI would increase people's mobility, allowing them to move to cheaper areas where employment opportunities are not quite as strong.
You can send it in to the treasury. Or even better yet, donate it to a worthwhile charity that will have a greater positive impact than whatever your taxes would help.

That’s cool how you and your wife are so rich though and can afford more taxes and spend $220 on silly things.
You never know. They may not get you a promotion but they can improve your quality of life. They're more likely to respond to your input about what the kitchen should stock and/or serve. As another reply mentioned they may pass on information.

Be good to others and they'll be good to you.
I feel the same way about Oregon's "kicker" tax rebate
Like the parent comment said, there is a noticeable difference even in states like Washington. We have close to two weeks to fill out the ballots and mail it back or drop it off. There is a huge difference between "having a lot going on" and "procrastinating for two weeks". the ballots take ~5 minutes to fill out, and ~10 minutes to drop off.
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> prioritize public safety in designing its encryption by enabling law enforcement to gain access to illegal content

I don't think it works that way. Serious criminals that we really want to catch are probably not coordinating their activities using unencrypted channels anyway.
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Exactly this, along with rent seeking suppliers like landlords will doom this. You really need a free market and rational actors, which there are not. That's not to say the existing ways of redistribution are better.
So I asked on Biology SE and it turns out that the author of the article confused “centrifuging” with “vortexing”: https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/88111/1114
I think you're describing PGP. Other than some platforms having character limits, you can run PGP over any text format as long as both clients (or humans) know what to do with the encrypted messages.

A system that handled things like performing the encryption and decryption of messages over any platform would be interesting, the only pushback you would get from an authoritarian government is them telling providers to "block all pgp/encrypted comms on your platform" and/or the platform actively attempting to block your client's access to the API.
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>But the argument doesn't even make sense. It makes the horrible assumption that pedophiles will continue using a service they know to be insecure. That's literally a provably false assumption. The second they realize it's insecure (which will take exactly one raid), they'll switch to something else.

It's not an assumption at all. The fact that people engaged in child pornohraphy have had decrypted communications used against them in court demonstrates this to be true.

Ephemeral conversation is not new and implicit in a right to privacy assuming it extends beyond your actual corpus.

The only way I understand your arguments to be a justification to break encryption is if you believe we should not have freedom to share privately.
- When trying to decide on a new career direction, go onto career websites such as Indeed.com and look up what is the highest paying and most desirable. For example, whenever I go for a certification, I do a search for it on Indeed. I look at how many hits come up, how much it pays, etc.

- Dress just a little bit nicer/more formal than everyone else in your workplace. People who don't know you will assume you are more important than you are and people who do know you will unconsciously associate you with upper management and you'll be more likely to get promoted. Management promotes people they "see" as management material. If you look the part, they're more likely to see you that way.

- Take audio recordings of your meetings with your coworkers and boss. Use the recordings to take notes that you may have missed at the meetings. Particularly in a new position, going back and listening helps to pick up what people emphasize.

- If people can see your computer screen, do all your non-work bullshit on your phone, where people can't see. Keep only work stuff on your computer screen and you will look productive.

- Don't ever tell anyone at work anything personal that could be even slightly controversial, including political beliefs. People like to talk shit and if they have something on you, it will get spread around most workplaces. Gossip is cache for people and they'll use whatever they have to make themselves more likable.
One of the reasons I am reluctant to drive anything other than a pickup truck. Visibility is just so atrocious in most vehicles, and the trend of making mirrors roughly the size of my palm for aerodynamic reasons is problematic.
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