skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a lot of what's outside the Overton Window is there for a reason. The fashions of an era aren't entirely arbitrary.

Believing in the theory of evolution would have placed you firmly outside the Overton window, at the time.
Thanks for clarifying that for me!
Looking at the map, I see what looks like one decent road to the beach.

Couldn't the state just come in and make their own road? Where I live access roads are common on private property, but the are on the borders of the property between private owners.

Is he just that petty that he truly doesn't want others to have access to the beach? Or is it more complicated than that?
Clickhouse is also crazy fast without materialized views - I've only done some PoC's against it, but in loading a largish data set of raw invoice CSVs, I was very impressed with the performance compared to our standard RDBMS.
He locked the gate at the entrance. He doesn't have to allow parking, but he has to allow people to get to the beach somehow.

His argument seems to be that he HAS to maintain the beach and parking lot, which he doesn't want to do because it loses money.. but I am not sure where that idea comes from. He could just close the parking lot and leave the road open. I am not sure about the liability concerns.
That’s amazing and actually reminds me of a book I read about young Merlin. As a child Merlin was blinded but learned to “see” by sensing objects with magic. Eventually he became so good at it that even though he didn’t use his eyes, it was just as good as normal sight.
Well, I, for one, have tried to avoid companies funded by Khosla Ventures since this story initially broke. I doubt a lot of people feel strongly enough to do that, but there are some.
You should read 'The Storm Before the Storm' by Mike Duncan. It details the fall of the Roman Republic and highlights the role played by land consolidation and the social dislocation that gave rise to the empire. For better or worse, it was definitely less stable.
No need to be condescending.
Ignore the benchmark for a moment; the original issue is that a real program (the game Rage 2) uses spin locks, and experiences really terrible hangs on Linux and not on the other kernels. What he wanted was for that to not happen. The upshot is that there really is no way to get spinlocks to not hang on Linux. Now, there's a very good argument that spinlocks are just dumb, and therefore that real game is broken.
I think that you would have a hard time getting EPA approval if you starting making brand new copies of legacy engine designs. A new diesel tractor engine has to meet EPA Final Tier 4/ Stage IV standards. I don't know what would stand in the way of making a knock off of the 4440 chassis and transmission that uses a new Cummins or other crate engine though.
Thanks for being inquisitive.

It's easy to look at this as giving education to those who wouldn't get it otherwise.

But there is a dark side: https://medium.com/@kevgardner83/the-true-cost-of-income-sha...

> The average up-front tuition amount for coding bootcamps is $10,000 to $15,000, according to Course Report, which collects data and reviews on coding bootcamps. The idea to not pay thousands of dollars at the start of the program may be attractive. But, let’s say you agree to an ISA. And after completing the a coding bootcamp, you’re hired with a salary of $60,000 a year. If you pay 20 percent of your salary for four years, you’ll end up paying $48,000. That’s more than four times the average cost for an up-front payment to a coding bootcamp.

It's basically charging those with the least money more tuition. It would be fine if they capped it at the tuition price or even a nominal interest rate, but some programs make 400% more from students that can't afford upfront tuition.

It's fine if you want to charge everyone in your bootcamp under the ISA model, but if you offer a $10k tuition and a $40k ISA you're basically offering the same product at vastly different prices to two different economic groups.
I would be very careful in trying to attribute something as complex as corporate structures to human nature. We have seen massive changes in all parts of society throughout the last 10k years. I don't think the human genome has changed so rapidly as to cycle through slavery, feudalism, mercantilism, capitalism, etc.
A W2 includes bonus and RSU vest though...
HN is more worship of entreprenuership with a focus on tech.
I'm a really big fan of the concept of UserVoice (no affiliation). Essentially direct the end-users there and let them vote on product features, track them, discuss them, and so on.

A lot of organisations are scared of this, because they don't want to be put into the position of saying "no." Which is likely to occur as not all feedback is actionable, even if popular.

But saying "no" and explaining WHY is in itself a great relationship building exercise with end users. I'm not saying they will always agree with the decision or explaination, but they will feel closer/more connected.

This won't improve the empowerment of Customer Service roles however. Just might make them less of a punching bag for customer feedback that won't go anywhere.
Incredibly far stretch to turn one guy illegally blocking a road into a straw man against an imagined political grouping from the 90’s
Advertising bird watching equipment in a bird watching magazine isn't targeted?

"Targeted advertising" has been around longer than you think.
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Who needs estimation: a backpack analogy
^ kind of agree.

Merging behavioral analytics like “people are still using this feature” and the more creepy type like retargeting ads that follow you around seems to be at the root of this.

If you use a service, why would you expect them to not know you used the service?

It makes tons of sense to be concerned with giving them PII or access to your other habits. But you’re upset that clicking a button on someone’s website informs that website? Combining benign behavioral analytics in criticism just serves to degrade real privacy concerns.
Odd, I have a knee-jerk reaction when I see a service offered for "free."
> Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales. Is that cheating?

This is no more "cheating" than using any other pseudo-publicly available sources of information, such as credit card purchase data, yelp/foursquare/FB checkins, or whatever. It's entirely legal in the same way sitting outside Macy's and counting the number of people who enter and leave through the public entrances.
Does anyone really care about the Constitution anymore? At least in SF, I doubt so.
A competitive market should improve the quality of planes: no one should buy a Boeing if there is a viable alternative. Allowing the merger reduced competition.

We really shouldn't blame deregulation (in the sense of reducing the barrier of entry to airline markets). Lower airline ticket prices (Europe is a case in point) is better for everyone. And if quality were indeed lower, then another company should be able to swoop in and capture a higher tier quality market if there are people willing to pay for it (like first class, or business class)

Lack of anti-trust enforcement in the aerospace manufacturing industry is entirely orthogonal and hurts plane safety.
It looks so much better on large screens without the margin
Don't forget that it may be an ad campaign to promote a book, though.
If I can't join the company then immediately take the next 30 years off I don't have unlimited time off.
but automated manufacturing techniques are not widely used except for mobile homes....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_building
Some collect $40-60k over the life of an ISAs while normal tuition is around $10-15k.

If the ISA is capped at the tuition or sightly higher it's a wonderful program. Very few are.

Student loans are often predatory but I'm not sure if any topically collect 4x the total tuition over the life of the loan.
When there are big air pollution problems, people and municipalities usually install their own monitors.

Say, I live in a region with a very bad air quality in winter, and in the vicinity of my house there're at least 4 devices I can (and do) check - 2 from airly.eu (within 200m, installed by the village) and 2 from luftdaten.info (within ~1km, installed by the locals) and one mine
Doesn't that "unproven personality score hogwash" have something like 9 decades of research behind it and is considered the gold standard of personality testing by textbooks on the psychology of personality?
Not a pharmacological intervention, but I'm currently in the process of building out a newsletter for "longevity basics": https://pareto.substack.com/

I feel like too many people have gotten caught up in fringe science practices and "biohacking" the basic information that will keep us healthy and living long has been drowned out in the noise.
A complete jerk
No major browser redirects to HTTPS when the site is not on HSTS preload list AFAIK. I don’t have a PC with me, but at least Firefox for iOS doesn’t. But I've been using HTTPS everywhere for a while now, and still once in a while manage to find sites that have a correctly configured SSL certificate, but only serve the default "Apache has been installed" screen over the HTTPS, while serving the full site only over the HTTP. I guess if the behavior you described was the default in any browser, those sites would have got fixed already.

The extension is still worth running, though, as some sites I visit have a perfectly fine HTTPS version, but don’t redirect to it (some even serve HSTS header there).
how is this "top of HN" worthy? bot campaign?
It also stands to be said that there is commonality between these types of "firms."

The two firms are essentially dictatorships masquerading as firms. What you get is a bunch of definitionally impotent lieutenants who go make deals and carry them to the 1 yard line and then the boss (Masayoshi or oliver) decide again as if nothing had happened before whether or not to execute.

Unless the bosses are the ones leading the deal, know that you there is zero good faith and a lot of risk as far as outcome goes.
I dunno, my friend is an electrician and he said he is constantly solving the problem of how to route the conduit pipe around all the existing stuff in the available space. Every day is a puzzle and he has sent me pics... sometimes progress is less then one foot per hour, after all the bending and planning.

They may not be "inventing" the faucet every day but I wouldn't count tradesman out as not solving problems.
But it's not competing directly with solar plants, but only with the price it's able to sell electricity at. That there are some new solar plants being built that are more efficient is irrelevant, at least until there are so many of them they push down the price of electricity.
This seems like a very useful framework to consider ML systems in.

The thing about an ML system as such is that such a system is intended to turn big mounds of data into a predictions/classification without a human having to directly considered the multitude of questions otherwise addressed in large scale software design. IE, a multitude of boundaries and criteria are replaced by one criteria - "it works". The thing is that this set of boundaries and criteria still exists even if they individual setting the system considers the situation solved. This manifests both as the world changing over time and as other people not being perhaps as satisfied with the results of the system as those who created it, this being just two potential gotchas.
I see nothing in the parent comment to imply a desire for gratuitous attention, nor self importance, nor a predilection for drama nor profanity. I just see someone who is tired of being tracked, and earnestly wants to know how to opt out.
Right out of Silicon Valley. Way to go team Airbnb!
Isn't this not about the beach but about his private property that leads to the beach? The courts previously ruled in favor of Khosla - see https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/A154022.PDF. The conclusion is on pages 35 and 36, which notes that this particular piece of land was NOT dedicated to public access and does not fit the common law parameters for implied public access.
#3 seems possible - normally there is a recession every decade or so.
I did it for year. Two big benefits: first, you are loosing weight (I lost ~10 pounds) and second, craving has gone. It was seriously concerning me and a big motivator to quit.

I did not find much difference in how I feel, but at least this disgusting feeling in your mouth in the morning has gone too.
It doesn't matter. ScyllaDB is a Cassandra clone, an advanced nested key/value database that stores data per-row and requires slow iteration to scan through an entire table.

Column-oriented databases will always be much faster at analytical queries because of the difference in physical layout and vectorized processing. Scylla's has very impressive OLTP performance but really shouldn't be compared to OLAP databases at all. That original 1B rows/sec blog post by them is kind of a strange benchmark to begin with.
I was fascinated to hear a recent news story about how this works. The US has a long history of subsidizing its dairy industry (not unlike other countries) and part of that has been a "price floor" on milk. This floor applies to retailers purchasing milk from producers / distributors, but if the retailer also owns the producer... there's no retail price floor. Hence, the fairly extreme price difference between a regional dairy's milk and Great Value.
Yes, you're right. I'm responding to the comment above which states that the case here is akin to forcing homeowners to allow people to picnic on their front lawn. The difference is that homeowners own their lawn, while Khosla does not own the beach. Many homeowners have easements requiring them to maintain sidewalks and allow the public to pass through (I know I certainly do). In this case, I suppose the question is if California's 1979 law implied this easement or not. Either way, it is hardly unprecedented.
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Pretty much. IAP (Independent Activities Period). He's doing a Deep Learning series this month.
I took the test mentioned in the comments and failed quite remarkably: https://perceptiongap.us/the-perception-gap-quiz/ I was certain that the world was more polarized than the tests stated. I didn't base my answers on my interactions with people in my personal life but rather on what I read from social networks, especially Twitter. I think I may be poisoning my perception of the world when I use the Internet as my lens.
I think part of that is, had there been different engineers there, it is not so clear that the outcome would have been different, but with different management decisions (e.g. whether to make a new plane or try to pretend it was still the 737) things could have been different.

Was the MCAS a lone example of rushed, poorly tested work done by people without enough knowledge of the industry they were working for? Or is it just the first one to come to light, because the MCAS caused the plane to be grounded before any others did?

We don't know, but my guess is, based on the other news coming out about the 737MAX since it was grounded, that there are other issues like this lurking. This tends to suggest that the problem is cultural, and the corporate culture is one of the primary responsibilities of the people in command.
Your 'right to lodging'? Did you just make this up out of thin air? What is it that drives people to assume that they have a right to whatever it is they happen to desire?
Right. And I could imagine a few other scenarios that get us here as well:

Boeing's MCD buyout doesn't happen, industry keeps going where it was going, Boeing didn't adapt, their market share and market cap drop, MCD's on the other hand, rises, and MCD buys Boeing, variation of the MAX8 still happens.

Boeng's MCD buyout doesn't happen, industry keeps going where it was going, Boeing adapts, tightens margins, still builds MAX8, same deal, except we still have MCD floating around as another minor player in the market (or MCD just goes out of business).

It's weird to blame it all on MCD's executives taking over Boeing and turning it into a margin-driven company, when that's just where the market was going in the first place, and it's likely that any airplane manufacturer would have to make the same choices in order to stay relevant. Perhaps the root cause was deregulation, or something else.
I thought the nuance here was the land was titled under Spanish/Mexican land grant which predates the California constitution. Interesting to see how it plays out.
Curious about what Google does in this area?

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/11/procella/
Haha, no. The more elite the institution, the more money you are expected to bring in. It is compensated somewhat by the fact that a big name institution will give you an advantage in getting grants.

There is a bit of a difference between working directly for a university and working for a research nonprofit, like Dana Farber or MD Anderson or whatever.

If you work for a university, and you don't pull in a lot of money, what will happen is that you will be expected to teach more hours to "make up for it". You are less likely to be fired. At a nonprofit, if you don't cover your own salary and expenses through grants, you will quickly become unemployed.
So he's either got to foot the bill to keep it looking nice, or end up with a garbage beach.

AFAICT, nothing about this has changed since his purchase of the property, and therefore should have been a consideration before purchase. Arguments to the contrary, such as the owner is currently making, reminds me of people who move next to an existing motorsports raceway and complain about the noise (which has been documented to have actually happened in several locations).
Back when I lived in Pescadero years ago I'd drive past this place very often, most of the time the gate was locked shut. It seemed completely random when it'd be open.

My understanding is that his guy is a Grade A douche bag.
Thanks! Looks like the only downside is that, as it returns rows as results, you end up getting a lot of duplicate column data back and need to "nest" the nested buckets yourself.

For example, a result like:

topic;time;count
news;2020-01-01;44
news;2020-01-02;31

Now you have "news" repeated, and to group this into buckets for rendering summary tables and such (with sub totals at each level), you need to iterate through the flattened results and generate nested structures. This is something Elasticsearch gives you out of the box.

Last I looked at Clickhouse, it had master/slave replication only, and if you want shards of data distributed across a cluster it's something you need to manually manage?
Or better work on gpl code, then it's s win win I think.
That's my current approach, but I'm not as disciplined about writing them down as I should be.
i was curious where this came from too. is he latching onto one single hearsay experience or is this widespread. nobody i know that went to a bootcamp was hazed.
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There are LIDAR units that can see through fog. If you get data from multiple returns, not just the first, you can tell the difference between fog, rain, and solid surfaces. "First and last" is a big win. A solid obstacle in fog looks like a repeatable "last" (furthest) return, while rain and fog look like random disconnected points.

I think Google's own unit has 8 stored returns.
> I wonder how much we have to blame ITAR restrictions on >1555nm lasers ...

I tried looking up information about this (restriction details, otherwise feasible uses beyond that wavelength, etc) but it's hard for an outsider to quickly make sense of. Any chance you could elaborate?
Bill Clinton did pave the way for HMOs. They were a punt, but it was progress in reducing healthcare costs.
> It's basically charging those with the least money more tuition.

It's charging those who are less risk accepting more money, but risk aversion is a reasonable thing to pay a premium for. Its perfectly reasonable to view $48,000 if it gets me a job paying $60,000 a year for four years as being a better deal than $10,000 unconditionally.

OTOH, a high ISA multiplier should be a sign of a low expected successful placement rate.
That still very much fits the 'it's not gone' definition.

Evaporated water will come down again as precipitation.

Your example (cotton) is a truly horrendous crop / textile, but that story sounds like a combination of very poor crop choices for the environment and spectacularly poor resource management.

Also, if you apply water at or beneath the ground/mulch layer, overnight, then your loss to evaporation is very low. Similarly, even suspended drip irrigation (think grapes or other trellis grown plants) versus mist or sprinkler systems.

Lawns, coming back to TFA, are almost exclusively irrigated by sprinklers, and because they're primarily residential (ie. no automated irrigation systems) they're often watered by hand during the day -- so incur a high evaporation loss.
Sort of related, there's a great cycle-accurate (well, that's the goal I think) emulator project for the 6502 recently discussed here:

https://floooh.github.io/2019/12/13/cycle-stepped-6502.html
My normal process is to join a company, do good work so that I get a good performance review and likely promotion in max 2 years. If I really like the job I stick around for another year so 3 in total. I then leave and jump on another company and do the same. Sticking with the same company for more than 3 years does not gain you much in terms of other promotions or salary/bonus bumps. Loyalty is not your friend.

Try to take advantage as much as possible from the current job market for as long as it last ... and care only for your personal career growth and money. Everything else is corporate bs.
Push-down operator algebra, taken to an extreme...

https://www.yellowbrick.com/
>I didn't drink often, not more than once a week. But it was usually a binge episode, having at least 10 drinks.

Just fyi, i think most people would consider having 10 drinks in a single session, once a week, to be "often"
> Consider that some operating system code may be run a million times per second, on a million different machines (e.g: block system IO on linux). We very much want our assembly to be pristine in this case.

I would believe that most of the time of a processor is dedicated to run userspace code, not OS code (regarding to the work that must be done). At the end of the day, the OS is "only" a scheduler to share hardware resources between unrelated tasks.

> I like that zig focuses on optimality.

Optimality isn't required in many real world businesses. Optimality is often a tradeoff : with optimality you lose in flexibility. An optimal program with SISD instruction set isn't optimal anymore when SIMD instructions are introduced. Your "optimal" asm program is still optimal on x86, but also totally obsolete because it cannot use the latest NEON instructions from ARM or 64bit instructions.
You can't ban the ban's... they're the favorite way to virtue signal your higher morality from the top down.
you have that without fiber? without DSL?

anyway most users don't have such a high bandwidth...
If the website uses SSL, would it be possible to prove that the server signed the particular sequence of bytes you received? That doesn't prove that nobody modified the data but it does prove that anyone who did was able to sign things with a key that nobody else should have access to.
Here we are, in a time when the shortcomings of centralization are rabidly apparent -across the board-. Counting that as some kind of win can only appeal to those who believe they are winning. For all the rest of us, the cheerful irony is more than a little disarming.

Efficiency and longevity can be inversely proportional. May the reductionists alone reap their crop.
MCAS was “elegant”...? Where did you get your engineering degree?
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