skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Weak economy. Little to no valuable goods were produced. People not allowed to have valuable money, just worthless tokens.

So the united states?
As another resource, I just finished up the chapters of The Linux Application Programming Interface [0] that described this.

Highly recommend this book, its filled with fun tidbits of Linux-lore.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...
> the US Constitution today does not allow for a state to secede

This is completely untrue. The US Constitution has no such clause. Let's have a wager. We both transfer $10,000 to an independent bookie. Then we each submit our evidence that the US Constitution prohibited secession in 1861. An independent panel of judges rules and winner takes all. I'll give you 30 minutes to accept the wager and transfer your contact info.

The War between the States was an illegal war. Because the Northern Aggression won and wrote the textbooks of course they justify their illegal actions, just as the US currently justifies its illegal war crimes in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Disagree? Under what legal theory does the US have the right to seize Syrian oil fields as it is currently doing? That's the latest action this week. There are similar absurd and illegal claims of the US government going back centuries. What legal theory do you think the US claims for their seizure of native american lands and parallel mass genocide? Are you aware it's not the Doctrine of Conquest, but the Doctrine of Discovery that the US Supreme Court cited as legal justification? That the first Christian to eye lands held by non-christians permanently and irrevocably has sovereign ownership of the lands, as well as the right to enslave and kill the "pagan" populace. Do you believe this Doctrine of Discovery is a valid legal principle? Or do you agree the US has no legitimate legal claims whatsoever over the much of its territory, which it seized through genocide and deceit and spurious insane pseudo-legal principles. The Doctrine of Discovery has as much validity as the spurious claim that there was anything questionable or illegal or especially unconstitutional about southern secession, and as much rational basis as the european and puritan claims that witches can be detected by attempting to drown them, pile stones on them until they asphyxiate, or that werewolves are responsible for crop failure.
>If they don't have any money to spend on infrastructure, then what have they been using to pay dividends to investors?

The money they should have spent on infrastructure?
The court found that the destruction of property was the result of the state using its police powers, and not eminent domain. Seems reasonable to me.
That's how you get a black market/under-the table cash payments.
Is WP WaPo or something else? WaPo went for only a few hundred million when sold. Economist around the same time was valued 3-5x more at $1B. Did WaPo turn things around that much? Economist is mostly owned by super rich elite families, so prestige would’ve entered what they paid too. But WaPo was purchased by Bezos so not likely he was super skimpy on the price (even being considerably “poorer” back then)
Yes, and moderate-distance trips are the least-common trips that I tend to take. Plus, those would probably be better-served by better bus service anyway.
First I just want to point out that I really do not think healthcare should be a jobs program. Second, turning medicare on for all will NOT destroy the entire industry, we would not lose 16 million jobs from a 20% cut in healthcare pricing. Healthcare insurance providers would definitely be in for some hurt. Bloated administrations would be out. 20$ ibuprofen would be out. The market would start to function as a market should.
Ugh, what a completely appropriate topic for the week of halloween. Zombies, nightmares, and a lot of late fucking nights saving people from themselves.
The L4 work is usually quoted for relatively recent advances. Presumably monolithic kernels don't benefit from performance work that's specific to micro-kernel message passing, if performance was all that mattered.

I don't remember the OS4000 context switching time but it was fast in comparison with other systems of the 1980s, and it was very fast in actual use (running real-time and interactive processes). The performance of L4Linux is quoted within the typical margin of speculative execution mitigations relative to Linux. However, it's a strange idea to me that speed is all that matters for an OS, and not reliability, trustworthiness, etc.
You can't just advertise whatever loony accusations your link goes to (I didn't click) and absolve yourself of responsibility. That's the old "I'm just asking questions..." shtick.
I think some intelligence agency (even money CIA or Mossad) was using Epstein's tapes of powerful people engaged in pedophilia as kompromat to blackmail powerful men into being subservient to their interests.
Epstein maintained a nice lifestyle with a tarnished reputation.
Good thing laws aren’t set in stone and can be amended.

They may become a hassle here and there but it won’t last.
Lately I wonder if America's businesses have always been this corrupt and I just wasn't old enough to be tuned-in to it, or whether the current levels are a more recent phenomenon. Between Juul, WeWork, Boeing, PG&E, Equifax, the Sacklers. It's just mindblowing how rotten everything is. It's amazing society continues to function at all.
I agree in general, but I am torn; while I find drones in parks and natural areas extremely annoying I am utterly fascinated with the technology.
All these systemcalls (except wait(2)) are just facade for clone(2), which has a whole bunch of options.

Basically everything from threads to program invocation is just this one powerful systemcall.
I always thought it was from nimbyism, but that's an assumption. The biggest resistance to new housing or denser housing in an area that already contains housing often comes from residents who think it'll decrease their property values. So they push back on it as much as possible.

On the other extreme, you have people up in arms about gentrification, where they oppose new or better housing because they're worried it'll increase their property values. But in both cases, it's the people who already live there that push back on more and/or denser housing.
> Berlin to London to San Francisco

one of those is not like the other. Berlin has recently passed a law capping rent at below 9 Euro per square meter (much less in many regions) all over the city.

It's the first time such a law was passed anywhere in Germany. [1]

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/eckpunkte-fuer-mi...
Wow that is really disappointing. I recently picked up a copy myself and really liked the print magazine. I was debating subscribing but there are several people in the comment section with the same story about not receiving issues.
Having worked with scientists and mathematicians with PhDs, I can relate to the notion that they could have difficulties when it comes to identifying what is important and what to focus on. Their lack of eagerness to find real-world applications for their substantial skills is perhaps what had allowed them to stay at university and keep studying for so many years in the first place.

It's no coincidence that, on the other end of the spectrum, a lot of successful entrepreneurs could barely stay in college long enough to get their bachelor's degree.

I'm not sure if "eagerness to efficiently apply one's skills" is something that can be taught but it could certainly be incentivized.
which one lol. My browser says its using 243, just incredible.
> Almost any material hard metrics you look at like life expectancy, economic growth or whatever you could consider a sign of technological advancement, even tens of billions in investment seem to produce only marginal improvements. We are not living in the golden age of science.

As a knit pick, these metrics are all derivatives of science output, and not science itself. For example, detecting gravity waves does move the needle on any of these metrics, but it is still a great achievement for experimental physics.
Having been in insurance, I seriously doubt anything in insurance can be pithily and accurately summed up with a one liner.

In my experience, what gets covered depends on the policy you bought, the state you live in, luck of the draw for who reviewed the claim and, I don't know, whether or not it was a full moon when you dropped it in the mail.

I wouldn't draw any conclusion whatsoever about what is and is not typically covered based on the outcome of a single claim. Plus, other comments here contradict your statement.
Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds isn’t unexpected
FAANG employees give most often to Sanders and Warren
I remember when I spent a few days in Utrecht: It was so dense that the walk to the supermarket was about as far as walking across a typical American Walmart parking lot.
Yes, they do exist. See the CERN supercollider, LIGO, the DEMO fusion reactor, and many other projects.
Get into a lab doing primary research as soon as possible. Full stop. It can be a college/university lab, government, foundation, anything.

In my opinion, information medicines is the fantastic convergence of bio and tech, so I would look for biochemistry labs that focus on DNA and RNA.

Once you have a list of local research institutes, I can help you pick a lab to focus on. Then you just hammer them constantly by email and in person asking questions about the work until they hire you to wash the dishes :)
Reflective roofs/walls of buildings, basically make more IR and heat energy get reflected away from the surface.

You don't really make the atmosphere thinner by removing CO2 or methane...they are trace gasses relative to N2 and O2, CO2 is less than a .05% of the atmosphere, IIRC. So, you mostly want to prevent heat from hitting the Earth, or decrease the absorption (increase albedo), or you want to remove the heat-trapping gasses that will continue a warming cycle by trapping the heat we do get.

I think space sunshade's a decent idea, but we still need very aggressive decarbonization, as CO2 is very bad for the ocean, nevermind the heat trapping.
Even opening in a clean incognito window hits the paywall
I'm still digesting this recent finding on how DNA works.

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-dna-held-hydrophobic.html

I'm using golf theory here, but if you're off a half a degree, the further it goes, the more errant the shot.

With so much missing/incomplete/invalid information about DNA, writing junk code sounds about right.
Google Experiments – Paper Phone
They beat Athens only with the help of tremendous quantities of Persian gold. That was what enabled Sparta to win the war, not Sparta's military capabilities.
There is the Wiki Book Creator Feature, which lets you create books from selected articles, and mediawiki2latex which can output these to epub. Though there seems to be a page limit of 800.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books
Armed robbery is serious regardless of the amount stolen. Not that it justifies what the cops did, though.
I live a lot closer to work - 4.5 miles straight down Central Expressway. Even though my route is no better than what I could do by car, both my average and variance are much better by bike than by car. Typically 15 minutes door-to-door by bike. I can't touch that by car, with evening commutes often taking 45 minutes. I wave at my coworkers when I bike past them.
>Is this an error? I asked around for a comparable estimate at the national level. As of 2017, that estimate is 2.5 km. So, 1.5 miles per person per day. Either way you count it, the Dutch hardly bike at all.

An average of 1.5 miles per person per day sounds huge.

What's the American average? 0.05 miles?

What's the baseline from where the author justifies the "hardly bike" line?

There are 17 million people in Netherlands, and 800.000 in Amsterdam.

If half of the people in Amsterdam go about 5km per day (they wouldn't need much more, it's not a huge city, and they'd mostly go to/from work/school/home) that's 2.5 km per person per day -- the number they post.

Half of the people of a city biking everyday is HUGE, and dwarfs any US town 5x easily.

Heck, merely 10% of the population biking every day would be huge, and that's easily within the number given.

I'd say the same holds for other Dutch cities and villages.

So what are we are comparing with?
Just curious what prohibits Tesla to stop shipping updates for owners who will demand sources?
I find it hard to believe that someone who has spent a large chunk of their life in the field of medicine is going to choose unemployment over continuing to practice with less remuneration.

If the jobs you describe are necessary, then they will continue. If they are not, they might go away. That's how things work.

We've had a long time to find these inefficiencies you describe, and yet all they've done is multiply. Cutting rates means leaving less room for inefficiencies, and is the most certain precursor to eliminating them that I know of.
Not a very good article IMHO. In addition to not explaining things well, it doesn't discuss posix_spawn or clone which are much preferable and more extensible ways to launch processes.
In many of the subreddits the mods are directly improving the site's contents through extensive manual filtering and moderation. Some subreddit mods also manually manage "flair" including various forms of "verification." There are may subreddits that would be effectively unusable due to spam and irrelevant content without such moderation. Some social media sites pay people to conduct this kind of filtering and curation, so it doesn't feel like a stretch to me to say Reddit mods might qualify here.

I'm not saying that there isn't a "common-sense" counter-argument to some of the cases I noted, but "common-sense" is a defense to be raised in court, the case is brought based on if the law could apply. In my mind that's troubling as it weaponizes the law in a way it could easily be abused.
I wonder if what the author is observing is an effect of the industrialization of science. As she pointed out,

> Because the existing scientific system does not encourage learning. Physicists today can happily make career by writing papers about things no one has ever observed, and never will observe.

Maybe what's really going on is that almost every scientist out there is forced to chase grants and maintain a steady stream of publications. We have to give our scientists the ability to put long-term effort into projects that have a low likelyhood of payoff; otherwise research stagnates.

Also, it seems like the 'groupthink' she pointed out is a very real problem. Remember that weird EM drive associated with NASA? We all know that it's nearly impossible that it could be a valid phenomenon; but as a global scientific community, almost everyone dismissed it outright. We should all have jumped on it, to see if it could possibly be true, regardless of how outlandish. If we are unwilling to explore the boundaries of what we know, then we deserve to stagnate, and we will.
I mean, it seems like you are suggesting 3 incremental non-backwards compatible changes. I'm not sure how that's better. Nobody is going to sign on to the first two, so you end up with the exact same situation we have now, but took a more complex approach to get there.
I'd follow what the ex-cop's eventual sentence is. If he completely skates, surely something is up.
I'm not an expert but I would think gravitational forces could move them towards other bodies like Earth?
City uses combination of zoning laws, right of pre-emption and expropriation to have good and affordable housing supply. Policy is that land is not zoned until it's acquired by the city, which will then sell and lease lots - old landowners can't get huge windfalls from city growth and lease contracts force to build in allotted time.
> what I hear is "don't look too closely! You might find something!"

Ah, you mean like the link between vaccinations and autism?

Or are you just taking about the conspiracy theories you want to believe in?
We hire data scientists constantly. We also hire along the full-stack because we make all our software in house. There is tons of low-hanging fruit right now in biotech for CS problem solvers.
The software limits height by allowing 400ft of elevation above the takeoff height. So it's tricky to take off at the base of a mountain and fly up the side because you'll be restricted at 400ft from the start point, despite it actually being totally legal provided you remain less than 400ft from the mountain at the point directly below the drone.
Glad to hear that!

We can agree on a license to ensure exactly what you asked.

Please write me to omar -at- monitoro.xyz to discuss this further.
This is also true for my commute in Palo Alto, even without the “door-to-door” qualifier. I don’t even particularly like biking, but I’ll gladly bike when it’s significantly faster + cheaper.
Relevant Chromium bug:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56845

It works fine when you open the image directly, but it will not apply EXIF corrects for inline images (<img> tag). There are JS libraries that load the image as file data to read the EXIF data and apply the correct rotation, but those fail in some cases (HTTPS trying to load data for an HTTP-linked image, for example).
You could also write forms by hand, the WYSIWYG editor just visually represented the code and modified it using a bunch of metadata (again just .Net attributes) to help the designer.

The GUI designer actually just ran your code to display in the designer, which mostly worked, sometimes it could break if you form relied on runtime dependencies and you could code around that by specifically checking for DesignMode == true in your code.

I am not saying this was perfect but it had a lot of advantages. Now you see SwiftUI and the like going back toward that model.
Any evidence it was the Mob he was going to testify against? I have seen a lot more speculation that he would reveal his cooperation with state intelligence agencies.
Thank you. And there's already one :)
Sure there are plenty of things that aren't perfect in Python, but I think it was the best of all viable candidates that came closest to that goal.
There was a blog article maybe a year ago, that Dropbox finished migrating client side code to Python 3.

He also spent large amount of time working on mypy (type checker) which my understanding is also is used for the migration to address unicode issues.
People enjoy doing something clever. It takes experience and careful reflection to realize the downsides of being overly clever. It takes maturity to not give in to the guilty pleasure. It can also stem from boredom or insecurity.
> The poor brother was grown up now and a software engineer who already went through enough trauma and had to sue the show for defamation.

I have watched that documentary and as someone who has a lot of experience with autism spectrum disorder and complete inability to control one's actions at not such a young age, I have little doubt that he could have done that unintentionally.

Even as an adult, he still doesn't look as someone who is fully able to comprehend his actions.

In such a case, it would be easy to understand the parents' desire to protect at least the child who was still alive.

And not suing after the documentary was released was not an option, if they wanted to stick to their story.
You're not the only one. In the US they're banned from most national parks.
I know!! As a student pilot I have zero issues with the drone flight restrictions. It's easy to trivialize the rules as a drone pilot, but in an airplane, hitting a drone could be life and death.
> I don't see why electric cars can't accomplish sustainability goals

Because anything resembling a personal automobile is

1. Still enormously dangerous to everyone else on the same road;

2. Takes up a ridiculous chunk of space;

3. Doubly so when parked/not used;

4. Does not navigate nimbly in traffic;

5. Rips up tarmac and damages road surfaces;

6. Makes a fair amount of noise still;

I could go on but I think you get the point. It's not only about CO2 emissions, it's also about its place among the humans it shares living spaces with.
Newspaper?
A worthwhile read: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/la-danse-mossad-robe...
If the plan can't survive pointing out the various giant elephants in the room then it's not much of a plan. You have to do better than "lets hope everyone is happy to join us in pretending this problem doesn't exist."

Further, of all the oxen that need to be gored provider compensation is not the most scary. Who is going to believe these people are capable of addressing the really tough aspects of US healthcare when they can't deal with even that? When the only defense is "don't talk about it"?

When faced with such cowardice I conclude that what we'll actually get is more cop-outs; anyone with a non-subsistence level income will take another huge bath, the backhand rationing that is huge deductibles will continue and we'll still have a big cohort of people that get no healthcare.
A collection of one item is still a collection. My website of a single page is still my website. It's also my web page.
Agreed that P2P sub orbital hops are any direction.

Low sun synchronous orbits are approximately the same as polar oribts, more perpendicular than retrograde. I'm not sure if we use high sun synchronous orbits for anything?
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
It's almost like there's an insanely talented genius at the top making consistently great decisions!
Hi Bilal, Thanks for the overview of the product.
This is a really important business problem to solve for many marketing teams. Just using this to prioritize A/B tests in itself pretty valuable. But one of the concerns around this approach is the un-reliability of causal analysis to estimate true effects. The link below refers to a study done at FB that shows observational studies could be erroneous in estimating effect sizes and in some cases, the direction of the effects. Do you think clearbrain's system is robust enough to estimate the true effects?

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/gordon_b/files/...
Yeah, those are my thoughts exactly. The relevant measure is what fraction of adults bike for travel every day (or close to it). Pretty sure the Netherlands crushes the US by that metric.
What in that thread do you object to?

Seems like it's all either factual or clearly labeled uncertainty ("seems", etc.)
This looks nice and I certainly appreciate the battery life.

To the people that are excited because this is outside some regulatory limits. A few years ago there were no or few drone regulations and people abused this; the result was strict national and city regulations to the point that flying a drone is almost impossible (legally) in some cities in the US.

If people abuse the regulatory limits expect more strict regulations. I fly drones and I support such regulations.

BTW, a 249g drone would likely take down a small airplane.
He unintentionally garrotted his sister in the middle of the night? Then left a basement window open?

They found touch DNA on her pants that matched a Latin male among lots of other stuff that just makes the whole brother story sound ridiculous.

Autism is also not sociopathy.