skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're implicitly talking about a classic style 2-door pickup truck, but most consumer trucks these days seem to have four doors.

Replace the shortened bed in the back with a cover and a third row of seating, though, and you have an SUV that's still going to be even heavier and more expensive.

> Small two door pickup trucks are even more extinct, at least in the US.

Very true, and as a small pickup lover that makes me sad. :(

> It's been a long time since there was a market for those.

Indeed, which leads back to the question I posed above... why do we prefer such large vehicles?
Unfortunately, the challenges before the bar associations were apparently not successful. Their wording is careful since "disciplinary proceedings in front of bar associations are generally confidential", but they do remark that "it will take a broader change in orientation by these professional associations" before even obvious patent trolling is considered legal malpractice.
Stocks represent actual ownership in the company, potentially voting control of the boards decisions.

Government bonds are backed by the full force and trust of the government they represent, and repay the face value plus yield promised at the time they were bought. They represent the most reliable yield you can get.

Real estate? You mean that thing you live in?

This is all a bunch of a false equivocation with one goal: "please buy my Bitcoins and give me USD for them"
This is false.

Once a channel is funded, it can stay open for as long as it needs to. I can have a payment channel open with my local coffeeshop and we can transact dozens of times; only the final bill has to be broadcast to the bitcoin blockchain.

Well connected LN nodes can be connected to hundreds of other nodes and route transactions accordingly.

In the short time LN has been available, there are over 10,000 nodes and growing; the network capacity is almost $8 million USD: https://1ml.com/statistics
Very true, but AFAICT it's not as easy in many countries. Shopping across borders is pretty expensive; currency conversions take a chunk.
Based on what we seem to be learning about how the body responds to the hostile environment of space, it seems reasonable to think we should wait for the faster engines. Send drones if you must.
That's not what money is.

You're describing futures.
> Also, what kind of society would we be if the only subjects available to pursue were a select list of STEM programs?

It's a sacrifice. I love art and music and spent many years pursuing both. I'm an old man now and many friends spent years seeking that out and unable to ensure their own survival years later.
I'm not sure that you fully understand what aspects of a car's performance that enthusiasts seek. Just about any car can slide around a corner or go fast with enough coaxing, but the feedback and feel are not something that can be programmed or "tricked" into the experience. I say that as a GT-R owner, a car that is often criticized by enthusiasts as a "computer on wheels". A common saying in the auto enthusiast community to emphasize handling and feedback goes something like "it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow". That's not a literal statement about velocity, but more about how driver feedback is almost everything in the driving experience. Driving a Miata at on a curvy road with hairpin turns is more fun to me than doing the same in a Ferrari 488. The Ferrari is capable of so much more, but it doesn't provide the same experience to the driver in that environment. EV's in the same way have a much narrower scope of "ideal enjoyment" due to physical limitations, but in time they'll be worked out.

Most enthusiasts will absolutely not end up in a performance Model 3 for quite some time. I've been behind the wheel of one, along with a Model S P90D and a Model X P100D. They have impressive low end acceleration, but from an auto enthusiast's point of view that's where their allure ends. Model 3's (and all Teslas in general) have very poor top end acceleration which is crucial for track use and drag racing, they're extremely heavy for their size, they overheat easily with aggressive driving and most importantly they feel numb and isolated to the driver. Those are all great for a comfy daily driver, but for performance driving they're all negatives.

I'm excited to see how the Taycan fares, because Porsche knows how to design enthusiast cars. If anyone is going to bring EV's to the consumer auto enthusiasts, it's them.
Deepfakes were just the very thinnest end of the wedge. We're only a few years away from video not being a reliable proof of anything at all.
We already have barratry laws on the books. Someone just needs to enforce them. Advancing disingenuous arguments in court should be an automatic year's suspension.
Lightning network payments are denominated in sats.
So you can buy 1 Sat for $0.0000945 USD
Why would a paid troll degenerate to irrationally?

If anyone is going to have a script and long list of references to draw from, wouldn’t it be the paid shill? Provided by their employer?

It seems more likely to me that most people are just an emotional wreck and don’t perform well in debate.
I had a single mom with a government job. Being discovered as gifted saved my life. I am still bullied to this very day. Most recently I was fired by bullies for refusing to write illegal software and now the company could be in serious legal trouble.

Gifted people don't escape bullying by growing up and it has immeasurably costly ramifications for society at large.
Scenario (2) more likely indicates that before (1) happens, a number of colleges would have to go bust in rapid succession.

TBF my biggest problem with scenario 1 happening would be if scenario 2 DIDN'T happen first. Colleges have too long been promoting degrees that they knew students would never be able to pay off reasonably.
> stems from an abundance of ignorance.

Ouch. In their defense of their 'ignorance' of gene therapy, Zolgensma was just approved this spring, it's literally one of two in vivo gene therapies, and it's only approved for kids < 2, which is a developmentally special sort of group.

On the other hand, they're almost certainly correct that there's no straight path from this one patient to a therapy. For SMA, we've known about the affected genes for nearly 30 years (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2320125). The pathways are not totally trivial--there's some weirdness involving alternative splicing--but it's not impossible to wrap your head around what goes wrong. For AZ, we have no idea. Untold amounts of blood and treasure have been sunk into the idea that plaques were the problem, and despite some promising initial data, that hasn't panned out[0]. This is exciting because it suggests a new set of pathways to explore. The rest is hype and speculation: I'd be gobsmacked if there were a viable therapy in the next ten years.

[0] Or maybe not. Biogen seems to be taking yet another whack at it.
Dang, Ibis doesn't support Redshift or SQL Server. I'm also having trouble understanding what it really is - it's an entire framework for big data it seems and not just a translator. What I'd really like is just that, something that turns pandas dataframe operation into ANSI SQL. So input pandas2sql('tablename["col"]') -> "select col from tablename". Something really simple to use.
As long as they pay me I don’t give a fuck. Don’t patronize me with pats on the back for doing what I agreed to do, just pay me.

Don’t get emotional, when you get bored and it’s time to move on get a better offer from somewhere and tell them to counter it or you walk, then follow through.

When you’re a remote worker you must learn to not play any sort of games. Say what you mean and mean what you say and you’ll be respected in the industry.

At the end of the day, all that matters is getting paid.
Different priorities for different people I guess. And also very much dependent on profession & lifestyle. Couple of the points you raised though I thought that's the exact opposite of what I want.

Crumple zones - I want that. My life matters more to me than repair cost. And it's missing a second reason for soft exteriors - pedestrian safety. Deers aren't the only thing getting hit.

Suspension, brakes etc designed to carry 1000+ pounds, to me that just means the it's calibrated for a state it'll rarely be in - and by default is suboptimal for that state it is then. Same for the weight of PUTs - the lighter the better due to stopping distance.

More ground clearance/higher seating = higher center of gravity which bring ends safety & handling issues.

Solid axle are mechanically simpler, but there is a reason most of the world dropped them - they will chew tires on turns. Also prevents nifty stuff like electronic stability control applying variable braking left & right.

I totally get the utility angle in the sense you lay it out. But the US population is like 80% urbanized. I don't see them sling 1000 pounds of hay-bales on their rides and regularly hitting deer on the way back from work.

People that need that exist sure, but it doesn't account for 50%+ of sales being pickups. pm90's "symbol of rugged manliness" theory seems much better at explaining that.
Return the fridge. If you don't return it, you're telling the company you're okay with this.
Lead levels in Canadian water 'exceed safe limit' in a third of cases
Patents in general yes (assuming patent office really validates patents instead of rubber stamping ones from big companies).

Software patents, business methods and other fishy stuff - I would pretty much love those eliminated completely.
Thank you for your work. One less patent troll, one small step towards a better economy.

Two questions:

a) what would you recommend, if anything, around personal activism to help to advance the system of patent laws (in US markets)

It seems that you had received as help, anonymous donations, but it means there is an opportunity for more public awareness/participation in some form.

b) for a small company with little revenue, what means of protections to they have? in case they get attacked by these types of racketeers (not just for money, but as revenge, or anti-competition tactic)

For example, are there effective (aggressive, and not just waiting) insurance pools or other similar collectives to participate in ?
Budgeting app with dynamic daily spending limits
As I understand it they are predicting that a single app will come to be used for all public transit in a major city or on a larger level. If Uber is able to play a role in this project they can have a income stream that doesn't require heavy subsidization. Without that they will at some point fail as they require more input value then output value is produced.
Ha! I didn't even think of that. :)

We're talking about a vehicle that's not really even relevant to the question of why different countries prefer different four-wheeled vehicles, though. People looking for a four-wheeled car or truck are generally not looking for a motorcycle, and vice versa.
> you're a fool

Yeah, fair, but...

> who deserves what you get

...whoa there, pardner. Nobody deserves to be the victim of burglary/robbery simply for being uninformed or naïve. Relatively few people really understand the implications of this sort of technology. I don't hold that against them. I take it as a learning/teaching opportunity instead.

Besides, who the hell would've guessed you could work these things silently and from long range with lasers?
Having grown up in public schools in a G&T cohort and participating in CTY/SET, I absolutely favor teaching all kids to the highest level of challenge they can benefit from. That’s going to mean some are challenged by simple arithmetic. Others by multi-variate calculus in 10th grade.

I think that necessarily means segregating the kids by ability in a subject, but I’m not married to that input or mechanism near as much as married to the outcome that every kid is appropriately challenged.

If challenging kid A results in a worse outcome for kid B, so be it.
Why do you care what the narrative is? If you produce something of value the market will reward you.
Yubico announces first biometric YubiKey
Thanks for the feedback! We've updated the post to clarify the options for folks who don't have a bank account in one of the 30 countries currently out of beta:
https://github.blog/2019-11-04-github-sponsors-is-now-out-of...

We do support ACH transfer and wire transfer (as noted in the documentation) for developers with bank accounts in countries that are still in the limited beta. In the coming months, we'll be expanding general availability for more countries on a rolling basis. I'll look into clarifying that in the help docs too.
An interesting talk on this subject was given at PyConUK last year: https://youtu.be/AeScwg-nZk4
Thanks, old friend! Hope you decide to give the package a peek and maybe lend us some of your Python chops. :)
"People leave managers, not companies"

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/people-leave-managers-not-com...
A lot of food is shipped in unsealed boxes. Bread, meat, fruits and vegetables. Have you ever seen the horror of grains growing on OPEN field and then transported on OPEN truck and then processed UNWASHED?
I own a business. I invest in a garden hose so my gardener can water the plants more productively than refilling a watering can constantly. Why would you expect the financial savings of my investment to flow to the gardener rather than to me? If anything, the gardener is now exerting much less effort, and may accept the job for less pay (or be replaced by someone less skilled and cheaper).
We don't plan to do so. I'm not immediately familiar with the case, you cite but it was our understanding from counsel that was a very unlikely outcome for us, which isn't surprising as attorneys fees are VERY difficult to recover in the US system.
"educational bureaucrats" includes "state bureaucracy". They're just pocket-lining middlemen. They have no agency. The final "paymasters" would be corporations, small businesses, and their PR agents in the non-profit sector.

Examples:

- textbooks--topics that haven't changed in centuries--better-covered by texts from generations ago. school system still buys sorry books at $100+ a pop because salesgirl wined-and-dined the right batch of bureaucrats. pearson, mc-graw, et al spend a few thousand, then rake in millions.

- job training--local corp wants more welders/java programmers/truckers, drops some cash on school board members (directly or indirectly), then bibbity-bobbity-boo there's a brand new training center attached to a high school for some thing that I would barely even consider to be education. again, leverage to hell-and-back. tens of thousands in bribes, millions in taxpayer $$$ for free worker training & wage reduction.

- educational software--oh my God. have you even seen some of the shit they waste the kids' time with these days. how does it come about? same story as the rest.

- religion--the motive behind most western art and history, be it protagonist or antagonist. can't talk about it though--massive black hole in any sort of humanities education.

- owned teachers--the front-line infantry, who should be able to offer constructive insights into the process are utterly powerless. too poorly paid to accumulate f-you money, and so terrified of getting kicked out before their pensions vest, they must keep their opinions to themselves and quietly tow the line.

- poor accreditation--by the numbers, education programs at colleges have notoriously low standards. verified by personal experience. we had math teachers who couldn't multiply, and english teachers who couldn't diagram a sentence. thank God for the teacher's edition!

I could go on, and on, and on...
I have an alarm clock that's probably over a decade old, and I think I had a similar one 20 or 30 years ago.

The controls are a large "alarm/snooze" button, small "Time", "Hour" and "Min" buttons, and an on/off "Alarm" slider.

The display is a segmented red LED display, with one round light indicating PM (just turns off for AM) and one round light on the opposite side indicating the alarm slider is on.

It runs on AC power, with a 9V battery backup.

Hopefully they won't stop making them, since I don't think there is anything you could add or take away.

There are not many devices where the logic of the controls is so simple and standard you could almost design a clone from memory.
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I forgot syntax constantly, basic things I use often.

Difference is I understand the underlying concepts extremely well. I can reference any needed syntax in seconds.
But my cat is fed twice a day...
There is probably a better way involving home assistant and a smart plug, but I’m a sucker for those TP link Kasa plugs and default to them for every problem.
The solution is not to pull out a handful of high performers, it’s to kick out the even smaller number of disrupters.
I mean that would make sense and I don't really care what's under it, the fact of the matter is it does have a unified brand these days.
Depends on the speed you most commonly drive. For urban drivers, they spend a lot of time at slower speeds where aerodynamics is less critical. Also, even pickup trucks are designed to be much more aerodynamic and efficient then they used to be these days.

For rural drivers, they probably have other reasons to want a pickup truck besides simple cost effectiveness. They're usually the ones who actually do need the carrying capacity.
Some clocks use switching of AC polarity as a time keeping source.

There was a big event in Europe sometime recently where lots of clocks went out of sync, because power grid was doing some resyncing and was not constant 60Hz
Patent trolling isn’t considered improper at all. I would hope that the complaints to the bar had a little more in them than “this lawyer is doing something we don’t like but that isn’t actually against the rules.”
There a lot more options than tracked vs non-tracked.

My public school district implemented a combination of pull-out programs, advanced sections, and tracking on a per-subject and sometimes per-previous year's performance basis. A lot of effort was made to keep class cohorts together, while allowing students who excel at a specific subject to engage in a more challenging curriculum for that particular subject. These were all based on independent assessments. There wasn't a notion of "track" because most students were in a hodgepodge of "advanced/ahead" and "regular" courses, depending on the subject, depending on the previous year's performance, or depending on whether they themselves decided to sign up for the class or not.

A high school kid could:

- be a year ahead in English (which would only separate them from classmates for freshman and sophomore year; English curriculum was completely open, like college, after sophomore-level English.)

- be in one of three math cohorts

- be in the honors or regular section of a science course (based on the previous year's science performance). It was always the same science subject (eg, honors bio vs bio).

- take any AP course they met the prereqs for (iirc, pretty much all APs were available to all students within four years, save AP Calc, which would require a summer school catch up for those in the baseline math track).

- have been in the gifted pull-out program in elementary school (no special curriculum for "gifted" students in high school, afaik)
EVs are less efficient at highway speeds

Huh? Less efficient than what? There is no way it is less efficient than an ICE.
Microsoft bought an existing company with commitments, staff and operations.

Your estimation matters very little.
The NIST radio stations that serve those radios have been under threat of defunding recently. So far, so good.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/time-may-be-running-...
Are you open to the possibility that you treated me overly harshly, and that I've never actually taken the position you seem to badly want me to have taken? Or is that beyond the pale, and this is exclusively my fault?

To try and contribute to this conversation a small amount, it makes the most sense to me to establish a Professional Engineer like system for the software industry. I don't know all of the details about how these systems work, but a friend of mine is a structural engineer and as he's described it to me it creates a personal ethical obligation that currently feels entirely absent from the software industry.

This ties the regulation to the industry, lets the experts decide what is and isn't okay, while also involving personal ethics and keeping individuals accountable for their decisions.

Keep getting called by a spam bot? A licensed engineer can be tied to that system, and can be punished.

A self driving car had a bug that couldn't tell the difference between a plastic bag and a child, forcing the vehicle into a concrete barrier? Someone stamped that code, and is now accountable.

Is a company using your tracking data to raise your medical bills based on your online food order history? That company's engineers are liable, you can sue them personally.

Again, not sure of the details about how this works in the construction industry, but when you put professionals at personal risk, they tend to care more about the outcomes, and it doesn't end up forcing the US government (specifically legislators) to understand all the details.
Can you say more about the complaints you made to the bar on their attorneys? Curious what the grounds were.
> Statistically, that should happen half the time.

Uhh...no. Non-GAAP is financials manipulated against accounting standards to show a better picture. No company wants to show a worse picture.
This is a media falsehood. Money != Quality Education.

Lived in one city. Higher wages, higher level of overall education, multiple colleges, very high per-pupil expenditure--terrible performance.

Lived in a rural town. Low wages, uneducated, poor, lower per-pupil expenditure--outstanding school performance.

I'll ponder some other hypothesis, but money ain't it.

edit: will add--before someone derps me on sample size--that a careful review of the stats will establish this as the rule rather than the exception.
I wish there was a corporate progressive tax, such that if you're business profit is between $0-$1M you pay no tax, and once your income gets into the tens of billions (in profit), the effective tax rate is over 50%. The big companies would just break themselves up to take advantage of the taxes.
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Just downvote and flag. If it's genuinely negative behavior, the mods will usually deal with it.

If you're going to reply, it's better to give the uninformed reader some idea why it's ridiculous, rather than just the bare claim that it is. But hey, I just told someone that their post was "paranoid drivel", so I'm maybe not the best one to talk...
> Did you believe you could deliver better long term compensation?

Usually, but not always. Of course it's impossible to predict 4+ years into the future, because so many factors can come into play on that time scale.
They could be treating it internally as unsupported workflow too. Or at least untested workflow. Kind of like that issue where your CPU would be loaded 100% when you open start menu if you have cortana disabled.