skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few observations:

There's impressively little biographic information about Smith, and certainly very little by way of records from himself (letters, journals), other than his books, as he ordered and witnessed the destruction of his personal papers shortly before his death. Much discussion about Smith's life is conjecture or assembled from remaining fragments, either recollections of others, or his (very rare) letters. Smith was a poor correspondant, and left few of the latter, either.

The one near-contemporaneous biography of which I'm aware and familiar is that of Dugald Stewart, published in 1793:

http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10573.pdf

Some notes on that by Gavin Kennedy, a modern Smith scholar, who died this past April:

https://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2014/02/dugald-ste...

On the whole matter of the pin factory: as enduring and (to some) endearing as the anecdote is, what's struck me is that few discussions of the Industrial Revolution attribute it to the simple division of labour. Rather, it's the consequence of mechanisation of production, first through water power, and following about 1800, steam. You'd think Smith might have been aware of this, as Newcomen's "atmospheric engine" was 65 years old at the publication of Wealth of Nations, and James Watt had been working on his own enhancements since 1763, though true, he didn't release a commercial product until 1775, the year before Wealth was published.

But Watt, like Smith, was a Scottsman. Surely the two would have know of each other? After all, both were in Edinburough.

Well, as it turns out, they did. Watt had ... some degree of difficulty ... in establishing himself professionally in Edinburough (the degree of interference from the blacksmiths' guild, the Hammermen, is displuted), and gained stability through a position at the University of Edinburough, in part through the intercession of Smith himself, in 1757, and the two were friends. Watt worked on a Newcomen engine at the University, that being the basis of his own improved designs, beginning in 1763.

The bulk of the commercial significance of steam didn't occur until after the publication of *Wealth of Nations, with about 500 engines existing in 1800, at the expiry of Watt's (previously extended) patent, and after Smith's own death. But if we're going to credit Smith with so much insight over the field of economics, it's peculiar to let this specific, and gargantuan, lapse simply slide.
Can you point me to a language or some code snippets with objects with no state --- in my head this just comes back to some sort of namespace for static functions. At that point, you need no object, so what's the point of having one. If you are saying that having a reference to an object is not 'state' then OK, but that makes no sense to me. I'm not trying to be pedantic, just trying to understand if OP had a typo or there is a whole world out there that I can't conceive of.
I'll have to look into it! But right now it's a free tool so I can't afford to set up paid OCR :)
That is a neat idea, and it's something that companies would absolutely get on board with and offer rates higher than 1-2%, especially if there were a minimum investing period of a year.
It's more about the entertainment and seeing what Russian politicians will do without their iPhones and Apple Watches if Apple were to decline and stop selling in Russia. Because if they do comply it will be boring. No fun here.
GP is indeed wrong. We do use fundamental principles and philosophical positions to figure out what's wrong with our math when the results are wrong or nonsensical. These are in fact part of even an undergraduate physicist's training to be able to tell if some model is violating energy conservation or the second law of thermodynamics or the speed of light etc.

However, if you count the number of times a physicist uses math to resolve conceptual confusion and count when they use physical principles to fix the math, you will find the former many times larger than the latter.
>Immediate responsibility, the Navy ruled, rested with Sanchez, his officers and senior sailors. They had been lax, even complacent, in their training of the sailors steering the ship. Sanchez had made a critical error in not adding more sailors to stand watch as the McCain navigated the treacherous strait

From what I read consistently about the Navy, and hear from veteran friends, any sailors they could have asked to stand watch would have already been overworked and under rested. Everything I read about the U.S. military, and especially the NAVY, seems to indicate a broken culture of bloat and incompetence from the top down. I think we've been too comfortable as the premier unchallenged world superpower and the services have started to rot from within.
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> And for most people it seems to work satisfactorily

Most people apparently don't look at their pictures.

The "enhanced" photos I've gotten from the Iphone for the last few models have just been getting worse. They look OK if you don't look too closely, but then they're just wrong. Blurry details on the same focal plane as crisp ones, crappy details with translucency, hair or anything else that confuses the "foreground/background" detector, they're just bad.

My DLSR will be in service for quite a while longer.
Advice for replying to Epic's Megagrants response inquiring for more information
TLDR: 1 - How frank should I be regarding the ability to realistically estimate costs for VR software development, particularly as an independent developer?

2 - Is my response effective?

"Before we can finalize our review, the team would like to know a bit more information about your project. Do you intend to release this as open sourced?

The amount requested was not captured on the application. Is there a specific amount needed for your project? If it is above $25k we ask that you provide a high level breakdown of how the funds would be used. We have found it useful to use a phased approach."

My Reply:
In regards to open source, from the beginning I have planned to allow users to build their own scenarios, then upload them to a cloud, where other users can rate and download them. This will allow the Fire & EMS to take the most challenging calls of their careers and recreate them in VR. Usually they are charged a premium for this type of customization. For example, Chiefs will frequently ask how much it will cost to customize the pump panel to match their trucks. (the color/names/location of valves) They are amazed when I show them how Unreal, through features like Blueprint, can make customized experiences much more affordable. (and in my case, included with the software).
Additionally, I currently have a free “Escape From Fire” module for school aged children to learn how to escape a fire. I have no intention of charging for it. For convenience, here is a link to that module.

As a nontraditional, independent developer, I think it’s too early to estimate the total cost of development. Rather, I need a year to be able to work on this full-time and 6 months to promote the simulator so it can be self-sufficient (I've spent 3 years on this part-time). The budget I've requested includes a year of my current salary at the fire department and other incidentals like hardware or conferences.
If all the institutions are inputting trades on their Bloomberg terminals, does that mean Bloomberg is actually executing their trades, making margin loans, etc? Or is just just a standardized interface to other firms?

What about when traders IM each other? How does that actually become a trade? Does someone at the bank read their chat history looking for agreements to buy/sell and do the actual paperwork later?
Yeah that is what I was trying to clarify, I guess my comment was equally confusing because I am getting responses trying to fill in words that the OP may or may not have left out accidentally
>> This result isn't even peer-reviewed yet.

ArXiv pre-prints are pretty normal in physics and math.

>> that doesn't have anything to do with the science, it does say something about the sloppiness of the researcher, I think.

Interesting. BTW, Krasznahorkay is a highly-cited researchers.
It's even worse if you're used to using spacebar to page-down.
Ask HN: How do you land customers with zero network
I'm an electrical engineer by day starting a company to help EEs find a company they love working at. Starting this company involves interviewing hardware companies, however I don't have a huge network of founders or influential people I know in the hardware community. Unfortunately, cold emails seem like a dead end and cold calls seem too invasive. Does anyone have advice on the most effective way to reach out to hiring managers, engineering managers, or founders?
The fact that the prop controls could be split but the UI would not gray out the sliders on the screens that did not have control is a poor user interface design choice. If the controls only appeared "active" on the screen they were transferred too this could have made things much more simple.

This reminds me of the Airbus control sticks, where the systemd averages the two inputs if e.g. one pilot pushes forward while the other pulls back. There is a warning but it can be easily ignored, as happened on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 .

Also, I suspect there may have been at least one person who raised the idea of disabling/graying out the controls if they're inactive, but it was not listened to or even actively opposed because "it's not in the spec" and the one who brought it up didn't have the power to do anything about it. I've worked in environments like that (thankfully not for long) enough to know that these big and highly bureaucratic projects will tend to have lots of "lack of common sense" problems, either because no one bothers to actually think about what they're trying to do, or the division of labour was so fine that no one could. Lots of process, lots of specification meetings, lots of cargo-culting dogma, but no real thought put into anything. The fact that such developer positions are treated as disposable and easily replaceable probably adds to the problem too.
I run as root when I need it.
There’s an interesting mix here though. As a nerd with a passing interest in politics, I don’t want to call Crimea lost. But at the same time, there needs to be a healthy dose of reality - if I’m on the ground, and crossing this imaginary line is going to mean russian soldiers with guns pointed at me - I think I’d prefer my map to render that line, imaginary or not.
I've not controlled anything that floats bigger than a pedal boat, but to the extent sci-fi shows and navy fictions show can teach me anything, I've always had the impression that the direction and speed of ships are controlled from two different stations on the bridge.
So recor and look at your car door signal. See how long the pulse train is for one click. Lets call that time N samples. Have a running sum of the last N samples' absolute value. When you see that sum peak above some threshold, switch to TX and play back those N samples plus some on either end for good measure. Newer cars with UWB wont work like this. They do an exchange and measure distance.
If the law requires to install some software, the law certainly requires to install them in a "working" fashion. Maybe lawmakers miss this in the first iteration. Second iteration however will contain this.
How should you criticise feelings to provide the author with a more accurate perspective?
Yeah, I'm familiar with the pattern, but I wouldn't say that this is a 'stateless' pattern because even having that object is 'state'. I don't think 'stateless' makes sense if objects are involved. I would agree that it's immutable.
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That seems more like not speaking English than not being a native English speaker. If you can't be bothered to pay for something until it's published why should the reviewers be obligated to give you the benefit of the doubt?
I know, it's insane. It seems like the only other clearly defined paths to that kind of money in your 30s are medicine, law, consulting, finance, etc., and all of them come with pretty significant downsides in terms of required education and/or work-life balance. The idea that I could never go to college (I did, but not for software) and somehow wind up getting paid a half million dollars a year working 40 hours a week in jeans and a t-shirt writing code?

I feel so fucking lucky.
I'm curious why these things are manually controlled at all. Seems like you should give it a heading and it goes that direction, self-correcting along the way.
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Didn't they do one automated landing? I seem to remember reading that.
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Amusingly I recently bought something from Jet (owned by Walmart) because the listing for the item on Amazon had a series of oddities suggesting it was counterfeit. The next day it showed up at my door...from an Amazon courier. Evidently brick-and-mortar retailers are themselves just drop-shipping from Amazon.
you're right, I should have replaced "intuitions" with "observations" instead of waffling
In Europe it peaked around 10% when Microsoft cut the rope.
Even Glk, which has styles meant for meaning and use rather than formatting, nevertheless has a monospace style, since some things need to be displayed using a monospace font to be displayed correctly. However, you could just as well display all text using a monospace font, if you are using only one font, so you might not be able to "signal specific things" by the use of a monospace font.

For the case of headings, this can be done without specifying the font yourself; if you specify it is a heading, then the rendering software can decide how to display it. (HTML has <H1> and <H2> and so on for headings, and Glk has style_Header and style_Subheader.)
Funny, I too am in Italy right now and I agree. I love that people walk so much here.
> It might be incorrect but to dismiss her feelings of guilt like that is missing the point.

Only if you think the point of the article is feelings and not the dissemination of information. This is not a personal blog about relationships, its about the science of genetics. Drawing a distinction between the two is important and blurring the line furthers the spread of bad science.
> This article was clearly written by someone that has not been investing long enough to encounter a bear market.

This, so obvious. Most people actually want to keep some fraction of their wealth in safe, liquid assets, it's just the sensible thing to do. So it's not clear to me what they would gain by getting rid of their ordinary checking accounts. Cash is king anyway.
I just signed offer, haven't started yet, but I've looked at people's responses on places like Blind and Reddit about work-life balance there and I asked multiple people in my interview loop about it. Sounds like 10a to 6p is pretty standard, people work from home when they need to, and the average (flexible) PTO per year for engineering is 20-25 days per year. My start date actually got pushed back because it sounds like no one is in the office most of the next two weeks.

It's an IC role, roughly equivalent to the upper band of L5 / E5 at Google or FB (though they might pay better).
Because being cheap has no correlation with being a bad scientist?
Number availability in some area codes is pretty limited with jmp.chat as they use the same underlying carrier as Google Voice.
I would say an individual never engages freely in a working relationship unless that individual is already so rich that he doesn't need to work. Otherwise it's by necessity that people have to get jobs as we do not have the ability to reject the social contract and live off the land or anything like that (legally or practically). At will employment is a misnomer. There's nothing at will about most employment regardless of what we call it.
Here is the high-level break down I plan to provide. Again, high level makes me think it should be pretty brief, considering the amounts:

Salary 127,500
Hardware/demo equip 20000
Software Assets 7500
Consultants/Tech Support 10000
Conference Exhibits x 2 10000

Total Request Amount 175,000

*this lines up just fine in excel/email draft
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In the HPC world, programs are sometimes referred to as 'codes'. Everyone's nomenclature is a little different.
Forget console. I've been upgrading OpenBSD and Linux systems remotely for ages with just the standard, runtime upgrade procedures. For example, as best I can tell my main OpenBSD system has been continuously upgraded since 2012 using the standard unattended[1] upgrade instructions, plus occasional housekeeping to remove unused system files (e.g. old libc versions). Between 2000 and 2012 there were a few changes (e.g. moving among leased and colocated hardware) requiring some reinstalls, but I otherwise followed the same pattern. I don't think I've ever maintained a single Linux instance for that long, but I've definitely upgraded across 2, possibly 3 Ubuntu LTS releases.

[1] Which is actually a manual process that requires attention, it just doesn't require console access--you're not rebooting into an installer.
Can you show this off? It sounds like something I need to have in my life. What TSDB did you use? What did your conversion from rtl_433 to a metric look like?
It should remind you of I, Pencil since it is essentially the modern telling of Smith's pin factory.

Milton Friedman described the pencil in his Free to Choose series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws

And in 2012 CEI made a movie version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE

I know the rules here are such that we don't talk about voting up/down, but I have no idea why you were voted down. Your post is on-topic and informative. I didn't know their was a book version or the CEI movie version, I had only watched the Free to Choose series. Thanks for sharing.
While in some cases the font doesn't necessary need to be monospaced, some documents might require that a monospaced font is used, so it should be monospaced anyways. Although, as you say, different from the main copy; so if all of the text is monospaced, there should be some way to distinguish it, such as by selecting a different monospaced font, or displaying it with a different colour.

(One case where a monospace font is required is if you are automatically including text from another document which uses plain text format; there is no way to determine what format is needed, but monospace will always work.)
> Or not. Linux 5.3 will turn back getrandom() into /dev/urandom with its never-blocking behavior, ...

This can be disabled by passing the

random.getrandom_block=on

parameter to the kernel.

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EDIT: It appears that this functionality may have not actually made it into the kernel (see other comments) so this parameter would have no effect.
> In 2014, Navy officials discovered a flaw in the IBNS. One component could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete tracked ships before the total hit the magic number.

This blows my mind. Can anyone here guess what's going on under the hood? Is this a magic number that a developer came up during testing to avoid running of out memory/swapping?
Seems like the obvious solution here would be a macro, I would think. I wonder why that wasn't tried.
I don't want to belabor a secondary point too much here. But I will add there's a big difference between feeling guilty for being wrong and feeling guilty for lying.
>> why should the reviewers be obligated to give you the benefit of the doubt?

That is a technical paper with 5 pages of text. Their PI has a few hundred papers published so he probably just does not care. The reviewers usually don't care as well as long as the core contribution is legit.
> answer may be that the dishwasher industry needs to work harder to more efficiently use that little bit of water and actually get stuff clean

The article points out that dishwasher sales have risen. You could even go so far as to say that this is a good thing.

Assuming it's possible to solve the technical challenges, then the manufacturer who does it gains a competitive advantage. And a big one if, as the article suggests, the primary reason people are replacing dishwashers is dissatisfaction with how well they clean. People who believe in the beneficial effects of competition in the free market should appreciate that.

If consumers are willing to fork over the money, then it is worthwhile to invest in the technology R&D, so the capital becomes available. So while this increase in consumer spending is annoying for consumers in the short term, in the long term it is part of the solution.
I'm not really worried. I'm both bored with self-employment and a little burned out. I think this will be a different kind of challenge but I also want a bit of a rest tbh. I'm also interested in transitioning to engineering management, which would be a whole new world for me.
I mean, unless you're at the absolute bottom end of society or you are terrible with money, you can get a credit card and pay it off monthly. There are poor people who are responsible with money. My fiancées parents are low-wage Mexican immigrants -- they have debit cards and only spend money that they have.

But poor people don't need those kinds of micro optimizations that will save them pennies a week (do you need an extra 1% interest in the $14 in your checking account?). There is way, way more low hanging fruit than that.
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I'm not sure how much of a gamechanger it will be to only be able to send SMS, and probably at a fairly high price point.

It's perhaps a big deal if you're a Yak farmer in remote Sibera and don't normally have any kind of coverage at all, but most people have some sort of cell coverage that provides at least SMS.

The comment that the bulky handset killed Iridium is only part of the picture. The bigger issue is that terrestrial cell antennas went up faster than Motorola expected, and by the time the system was online its primary use case had already largely vanished, especially among the kind of people who could afford the extremely high fees for the service. In the end the market niche closed down to government people in extremely remote locations who don't already have some sort of satellite connection.
Conceptually, however, if you were to sell a share of Starbucks, use the proceeds to buy a coffee, and then borrow against your margin to restore your position, then just borrowing against margin to buy coffee is net-net the same thing. It would even result in a wash-sale.
This research group has claimed previous discoveries of different bosons before [0]. They have never succeeded in reproducing a result. The scientific community is right to be skeptical. If there is real physics there, then follow up experiments should be able to reproduce the effect.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-boson-claim-faces-scrutin...
>> changes in speed can affect direction, and vice-versa. Splitting that to two separate brains that are communicating only via a low-bandwidth voice channel seems like a recipe for disaster.

It's interesting you mention this. My uncle and cousins have been sailing for years on Lake Superior. They navigated some of the largest races on the lake for decades, including the Trans Superior in every imaginable weather conditions. They are, IMHO incredibly experienced sailors.

I just sent this very article to them and my uncle responded within the hour about how having two people doing these in tandem was a recipe for disaster because of the very issue you pointed out. He said you should have one capable person who should be able to do both since it can be a delicate balancing act. Too much speed and over correction with steering can have disastrous results.
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Intermittent fasting seems to have health benefits.