skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang it. I wish I had thought of that. Quite an insight.

It harkens back to an age where the very rich had private rail cars.

It also nicely solves range and charging when your tug can be quickly swapped for a charged one at a transfer station. Even better if the replacement tug can meet you and swap "in-flight".

Personal cabins are as a result much less expensive to build and maintain and can be tailored to the need.

Dang it dang it dang it!
> January 1, 2018

If your system clock is too far behind, SSL certificates will fail validation. I suspect during QA the certificates were valid for the reset date, but the current certificate is not.
> 98%, 99%, 92%, 98%.

How were those extremely precise measurement obtained?

What's it like moving from a 98% remote company to a 99% remote company, and then back to a 98% remote company?

What in your opinion is holding companies back from getting past 2 9's remote?
Sure. But you still see them in cities and parked at very nice driveways. Many trucks have never seen a bad pavement since they were manufactured.
I wondered this myself. However my work got me an XPS 15 at my request (with Windows), and I installed Ubuntu on it. I can switch between NVIDIA and Intel graphics just fine. I haven't tested the USB-C video output though, just the HDMI.
Wow, that century was so full with suffering, war, slavery and genocide. Let's hope our century will be better.
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> But of course nobody is saying this because nobody took anything years ago.

> They bought it from someone who wanted to sell it to them.

I'm not proposing to take anyone else's house either. They are more than welcome to keep their house (as long as they keep paying their fair share of taxes, obeying the law, and doing all the other things that we expect of decent citizens). They still have a free choice over whether to sell their house or not. Once we remove the unfair subsidy they get because they happened to buy it a long time ago, a lot of them are likely to decide that the house is worth less to them than what they could sell it for, that's all.

> I am not saying you should pay twice as much property tax as someone living in an equally valuable house.

> I am saying that increasing property taxes as prices go up is confiscatory and immoral.

How do you reconcile those two statements? If you're saying that people should be taxed based on the price they purchased that then you're saying exactly that I should pay twice as much as certain other people living in houses that have the same value. Of course property prices change; taxing everyone based on their current house value is equitable and nondiscriminatory. Taxing based on the price when they happened to buy is neither.

> I am saying that anyone who wants to use this mechanism to displace people so that they can acquire their property is a thief.

We live in a society, it's everyone's responsibility to pay their taxes. The thieves are the people who want to avoid paying their fair share so that they can keep living above their means.

> If the city needs to raise revenue it should be via income, or a per person charge for services. Other countries do this and it works just fine.

They do not work "just fine". Poll taxes are immensely regressive. Income taxes disincentivize productive work. Land is the one thing we can't produce more of when prices rise - those hoarding it should absolutely be shouldering a corresponding tax bill.
It never ceases to amaze one just how tone-deaf big companies can be. Smart managers at Krispy-Kreme would have been all over this: looking to include this guy in ads, touting the way Krispy Kreme is helping one hard working student pay for college, living the American Dream, etc., etc. The good-will alone would have been something you couldn't buy if you tried.

Instead, they totally screwed the pooch and hurt their brand, their customers, and the hard working college kid aspiring for the American Dream. Way to go, Krispy Kreme.
I didn't claim it's trivial or not. The message itself is confusing. There are 3 concerns here: beta, Stripe, countries and it's no clear how they inter-relate from the blog posts. As far as I can tell now, no-beta==Stripe Countries, beta==non-Stripe-Countries and other payment options like wire transfer have no weight.
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Among software engineers? I would expect (hope?) that the percentage that could do this approaches 100.
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The 100 units don’t have to come with 100 cars, if we fixed parking demands and appropriately fund public transportation we could allow more travel with less single occupant vehicles.
So, I bought a Dell Precision 5520 back in 2017 and I'm so impressed with the machine (despite the price tag) that I feel like I really have to chime in.

32GiB of ECC, 2TiB NVMe SSD (and an optional 2.5" SATA bay, but I opted for larger battery), 4k screen (although I took the 1080p), and an nvidia m1000 - but the Xeon inside has an iGPU.

oh and it came with linux pre-installed.

I have used the GPU as a renderer and I'm pleased to say that it also worked well under optirun/bumblebee. (although, I'm not a gamer, and this gfx card would not be as good as a GTX 1050 which was contemporary in the XPS line). Although when ramping the system at full tilt (CPU+GPU) the thermal solution is unable to keep up.

iGPU means that my X11/Wayland doesn't break, and since I don't use the power of a discrete graphics card most of the time it works absolutely wonderfully.

My only greivance with this hardware is that the black rubber-soft surface picks up hand grease super quickly-
Tried it out. Found it confusing to add items to the list, kept on "canceling the mission". Perhaps see if others have the same ux problem.
Except we know why there's national healthcare in Europe: because it's more cost effective per citizen (economies of scale and collective bargaining for prices with no profit motive), and the US effectively subsidizes research costs.

I suppose in a way that is "money", but not in the sense that he meant (ie money directly exerting political power)
Let's run with your idea and let's say that there are clandestine efforts to promote the idea of nuclear power generation in the public -- cui bono?

Who benefits? Are there any major initiatives in the nuclear industry? Are any new plants starting to be built?

All I've seen is a bunch of plants that have horrible cost overruns and no fixed time line for being finished.

That doesn't sound like something that you'd want to raise public awareness about if you were in the nuclear industry.

So who does this kind of campaign benefit if not the nuclear industry? It doesn't seem to benefit the oil and gas industry who are without a doubt the masters and originators of propaganda in this market. It doesn't benefit solar and wind generators -- so who?
That is the state policy of forced buying at fixed price which on practice basically was outright confiscation of food from peasants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka#Soviet_prodraz...

Beside everything else (like massive loss of work capable men and horses (there were no tractors back then) due to WWI and the Civil War), the important point here is that usually everything was taken away, including that grain, potatoes, etc. that would otherwise be used as seeds next year. Not having anything to plant next year naturally amplified the situation into such a severe famine. In general dominance of such short-term approaches were the hallmark of USSR through all its existence.

Another situation of famine and related cannibalism - 2 and half year siege of Leningrad during WWII by Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad#Cannibalism

and some stats :

"By December 1942 the NKVD had arrested 2,105 cannibals – dividing them into two legal categories: corpse-eating (trupoyedstvo) and person-eating (lyudoyedstvo). The latter were usually shot while the former were sent to prison. The Soviet Criminal Code had no provision for cannibalism, so all convictions were carried out under Code Article 59–3, "special category banditry".[72] Instances of person-eating were significantly lower than that of corpse-eating; of the 300 people arrested in April 1942 for cannibalism, only 44 were murderers.[73] 64% of cannibals were female, 44% were unemployed, 90% were illiterate, 15% were rooted inhabitants, and only 2% had any criminal records. More cases occurred in the outlying districts than in the city itself. Cannibals were often unsupported women with dependent children and no previous convictions, which allowed for a certain level of clemency in legal proceedings.[74]

Given the scope of mass starvation, cannibalism was relatively rare.[75] Far more common was murder for ration cards. In the first six months of 1942, Leningrad witnessed 1,216 such murders. At the same time, Leningrad was experiencing its highest mortality rate, as high as 100,000 people per month. Lisa Kirschenbaum notes that rates "of cannibalism provided an opportunity for emphasizing that the majority of Leningraders managed to maintain their cultural norms in the most unimaginable circumstances."[75] "
Got early access to it as well (not validated yet, Stripe's interface is really not user-friendly and asks for papers I don't usually have handy).

And yeah, I totally agree with you. I felt really weird writing the tiers. GitHub's wording seems like there shouldn't be any reward, so I didn't put any reward (and I don't really feel like pushing rewards anyway). But why do tiers then?
Perhaps it will help herding people into making it to higher tiers? I don't know, from my point of view, I'd prefer let people free.

As for person vs project, I don't really have the problem, though I agree with you. I feel like small projects won't setup this, because it feels much more complicated than doing a paypal (perhaps paypal got so cumbersome as well? it wasn't when i made an account there.), and big projects will need teams.

I have to mention that I also have an account at liberapay for donations, and they do handle teams! (they basically do a round-robin, so you need enough donaters)

Edit: Yup, Stripe is really annoying. They somehow denied my ID, without saying why, and I can't seem to link this account into liberapay.
Only indirectly.
He was referring to just how pro-Sanders/Anti-Hillary Reddit was up until the electron primaries. Right after Hillary got the nomination in 2016, it turned to Pro-Hillary. /r/politics was particularly bad on all of that. The first day after the election was the first time any news about the private email server was even allowed on /r/politics.
Aside from the Dell battery issues, the XPS 15 is a workhorse that runs linux flawlessly. I had some bluetooth messiness but was able to resolve it playing driver bingo. You'll be happy.
It's a good question, GitHub posted an FAQ a few months ago and talked about this a little bit: https://github.blog/2019-06-12-faq-with-the-github-sponsors-...

> Today’s GitHub Sponsors is just the first step, and we plan to extend the types of sponsorships it supports.
I am not sure it is a fierce defense of rideshare companies as much as it is about opposition to government overreach and the proverbial slippery slope. They don't need real time scooter data any more than they need real time car data.

I mean, one could make an argument for the utility of a transponder on every vehicle on the highway to use this data to gain an understanding of flow patterns with the aim of improving traffic flow, laws, efficiency, etc.

Frankly, having had the pleasure of driving the 405 for several years as part of a 50 mile commute (each way) I could see the potential benefit of having this data so long as it is used in a determined effort to improve traffic flow. Our traffic rules and laws are a mess.

The problem is that this kind of thing expands the surveillance state. I am, by no means, a conspiracy theorist, but I have also had "interesting" experiences in other countries where the state and law enforcement are far less constrained than they are here. These rights are precious and must be defended.

Yes, sometimes opposition can seem --or even is-- petty. Before we know it we have eroded our freedom by a thousand little petty things that collectively take out big chunks before we are able to realize what we've done.
Your unstated major premise here seems to be that every jump in BTC's price must have the same cause.
2003 TJ here. I would be terrified of water and dirt intrusion along with corrosion, wear and tear. It would also be terrifying coming down hard on such a large battery, even with a skid. I inspect everything after a weekend of wheeling, I have no idea how I could do the same with a BEV and feel safe.
> It's well-understood by Marxists how the mode of production determines the cultural superstructure[1] (and vice-versa).

It's not "understood," it's a sociological theory. Hardly hard science.
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A-choo! "I choo"se to attend one, and sick out of the other.
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So why the double standard for scooters and skateboards? Aside from scooter users injuring themselves, there hasn't been a significant problem and yet we're discussing a ban.
I don't see the line of thinking from anthropomorphizing plants to dehumanizing humans.

If anything the experience of getting in touch with Nature forms a powerful and undeniable basis for loving other humans, due to our shared existence within the unifying web of life.

In any event, I'm not anthropomorphizing plants, quite the opposite: I'm pointing out that humans are the anthropomorphization of the ambient natural "processing power" of living intelligence.

Without getting into to metaphysics of identity and the subjective "I"†, there is a result in cybernetics to wit: "every good regulator of a system must be (contain) a model of that system." Ergo, in a system under evolution we should expect models of systems to appear in those systems. In other words, a self-concept (of some kind) should develop in any stable evolving system.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/LAW_MODEL.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Regulator

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Conant_Ashby.pdf

So you have a system that includes many "I"'s and each of them is "running on" the same biological "wetware", so it's really not at all strange that they can communicate with each other, eh?

From my POV, this is filling in the scientific story for phenomenon that are common knowledge. There has been to time or place in human history without some people understanding and practicing the I-Thou relationship with Nature.

†(Gurdjieff distinguished humans from animals and plants as being "Three-brained" beings, as contrasted with "Two-" and "One-brained" beings.

Unity of the subjective "I" and God is a foundation of, e.g. Hinduism: "Atman is Paramatman." That "I" of consciousness is the "I" of all beings, including plants, animals, and ecosystems, as well as the Whole Earth.)

- - - -

Er, FWIW...

> To cut the story short: By speaking in the first person we can make statements about ourselves, answer questions, and engage in reasoning and advice in ways that bypass all the normal methods of discovery. As a result, we can participate in dialogues founded on the assurance that, when you and I both speak sincerely, what we say is trustworthy: We are “speaking our minds.” This is the heart of the I-You encounter.

This is incorrect. Scruton has failed to sound the depths of "I-Thou", "a relationship in which the other is not separated by discrete bounds". There is nothing linguistic in it. No boundary. As an example, consider that you can be in the "I-Thou" relationship with an infant.
Maybe I've not fully understood pivot tables (quite possible), but this example[0] seems to support my understanding... aren't pivot tables basically just aggregate functions such as `sum` and `avg` applied to a window of the table data (pivoted by rows -> columns)?

Some of the executives I work with like to relate all their work in Excel and they just love pivot tables.
I showed one of them the output of a table of data on web page backed by a database and they asked if I could export the data to Excel to make a pivot table that would then be displayed on the web page. Of course, I implemented their pivot table as queries against the database and created a new view to display it.

I've never understood why I would need Excel to make Pivot tables when I already have SQL.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/spike/2009/03/03/pivot-tabl...
I get 503 trying to open it.
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Ask HN: What books about programming in general do You recommend?
Hello,
I wonder what are Your favorite books about programming. I do not mean books that strictly cover a certain programming language - I mean books that cover programming topic but of course if a given book covers a certain language it does not disqualify it.

My favorites are:
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
- Grokking Algorithms

Feel free to post Yours - thank You and have a nice day!
> synthetic in the sense of synthetic traffic, since it isn't traffic from genuine users.

Yup - I think that lines up.

> what is the master aggregate "switch" ? what does it do?

We have a hierarchy of aggregrate monitors (or "switches") that watch n amount of either specific metrics or other sub-aggregate monitors.

In the case of production deployments, we watch a specific rollback aggregrate monitor for either a fixed amount of time or customer traffic that will auto-trigger a rollback if it goes into alarm (aka switches on).

We also have a master aggregrate monitor that will switch on if any sub-monitors get swtiched on for any reason. We typically watch this master aggregate alarm to auto-disable any promotions in our code pipeline.
I'll add my account to the pile of people posting theirs:

https://github.com/sponsors/ddevault

Thanks to GitHub adding an API a few days ago for accessing your sponsors programmatically, I've updated my donation hub with the relevant info from GitHub:

https://drewdevault.com/donate

I'd encourage anyone else who is relying on donations for their open source work to consider doing a similar process of income diversification. We don't want to have all of our eggs in one GitHub-sized basket. If anyone needs help setting up a fosspay instance like mine, please reach out.
Chicken-Egg
Agreed.

One your last point, I don't think that will ever happen. There is a lot to benefit from your role being ambiguous.
What I said:

> I was not making a general comparison between the pros and cons of electric vehicles

And you replied:

> Yes, but on the converse side...[something that has nothing to do with traction]

Am I unintentionally arguing that electric vehicles are bad? I get the impression people think I hate electric vehicles and are trying to convince me of their virtues, when I was simply pointing out what I thought was a logical flaw from another commenter.
I'm of a believer in that there's no global north-star metric, but if you were to pick one, looking at retention in this way isn't a bad place to start.
That S-Curve your talking about is mostly for software and other technologies that have low barriers to entry. Cars are far harder than software and thus will take much longer for adoption. I mean just look at the production number projections for electric cars. It's not spiking like an S-curve. this is gonna take some time.
We need to move to vertical industrial farming.
I only use my alarm clock in addition to my phone when I must not miss something really important.
It's a thing on Kraken and Bittrex, with about $2M in daily volume on Kraken and $290K on Bittrex. That's a lot of trading days to absorb the $4.1B market cap of Tether or even the $800M that are reportedly unbacked.
For a non braindead implementation? You can run NTP and never adjust anything.
Opps meant 12 years. Currently Cats has been running for 38 years.
It more often goes the other way, and more profoundly.

Group theory.

Laplace transforms were considered an irrelevant curiosity until somebody figured out they were isomorphic to the wildly effective Heaviside D operator. Then everyone did their best to bury Heaviside's demonstrations of their utility, and pretend that Laplace had done all the heavy lifting.
Haven't had a coffee yet so go easy on me - doesn't this solve your issue?

interface Functor<A> {
map<B>(f: (a: A) => A): Functor<A>;
}

You map over an option, you get an option. You map over an either, you get an either. etc etc.
>As we automate everything this is inevitable.

Which is why it's important to ask the question "should we" instead of just "can we".

Even more important is not dividing people into groups that we treat differently. Everyone should have the same education, work, credit and health opportunities. If we can free ourselves from the desire to segregate and separate people in the name of progress, whether or not an "AI" guesses wrong about you is irrelevant.

It comes down to ego... people have to accept that no one can predict someone's potential or value to the world with enough certainty to make restricting people's opportunities worth it.
C++ is not a purely functional language, but the type-system is (caveat WIP things like concepts). Even if all you're doing is "vector-in, vector-out", the types of those vectors matters immensely. This is especially true in languages like C++ where the type-system is very deep but also very hard to debug or change at varying levels of abstraction.
> and if you don't get to sit in a room and look at everyone to figure out the politics nothing works

This is actually a big problem in my experience, because remote workers are cut out of the "inner-circle of people" when office politics kick in. Face to face time helps networking a lot and creates much stronger ties than slack chats ever can.
What was it about select_related that slowed your queries? What'd you do to fix them? Did you have to abandon select_related, or just tweak its parameters?

I'm just building out a Django app now and using select_related, or rather prefetch_related, for retrieving tags (m2m relationship). Seems to work well so far, but I'm I'm sure I'll run into a similar thing of having to optimize all these queries soon.
Should be possible to check if its the thermal mechanism by looking at the frequency response. Should act like a low pass filter because of the mics thermal mass. If the response is flat i agree with Horrowitz that its probably leaking into chip packaging. The fact that IR light still works suggests to me that it's the mic heating up.
A problem for who?

Certainly not for the MBA programs and their graduates.
It's hard to get an emotional reaction out of bare numbers and facts. If you tell people "x million people starved to death in a famine", we all intellectually agree that it's horrible, but it doesn't seem shocking. If you tell people, "no seriously, here are some stories about people cannibalizing each other because they were starving from a famine", it gives you an emotional gut punch because you get a stronger grasp of the utter despair and suffering involved.
The desktop 3000 series APUs are still Zen+.
Maybe if there were some standard protocol for a device to offer controls to nearby phones. (Perhaps HTML-based, but it would be nice to have a more semantic, scriptable layer, perhaps in addition.)

As it is, every device has its own bespoke iOS app and Android app. The apps’ user interfaces usually suck, but you could say the same about the buttons. More importantly, at least on the iOS side, apps need continual maintenance to avoid breakage on new devices or OS versions, ranging from quick updates for new screen sizes to the dreaded 32-to-64-bit transition. But that maintenance is likely to stop being provided as soon as the manufacturer is focused on their next thing, turning the device into a ticking time bomb of future unusability. With an unrepairable device, at least you only run into the problem if something breaks!