skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i read somewhere that tau shows up first, and that amyloid may be a natural response to the dysfunction caused by tau. tau is also implicated in several other degenerative diseases that lack amyloid abnormalities, like CTE and FTD. super interesting!
Global air travel is projected to significantly increase in the future without any obvious way to sufficiently reduce its carbon footprint.

The internet can be plausibly powered by low-carbon energy sources using present technology.

If you uncritically define negative consequences as “out of context” then every technology can be declared to be an unalloyed good.
Yet, farmers will keep voting against their interests and vote for a Republican who is being lobbied by these same companies taking away their right-to-repair.
Wikipedia has a pretty good article article on the phrase (and its sister phrase "Death to Israel"):

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

As a side note, its fun to see something from Language Log on HN.
And, at least in my case, he included a comic strip of a guy cashing a cheque at the bank, being asked by the bank teller what he got this cheque for. "Three dollars? You sure work cheap!".

I found that hilarious.
Probably because software engineering doesn't have consequences as impactful as those fields do. If your lawyer screws up, you could end up in prison (or worse). If a surgeon screws up, it could kill the patient. Same with policing and real world engineering, which have terrible consequences for failure (though the former seems to have a real problem with quality control itself).

Meanwhile if your average developer or software engineer screws up, it's usually not a big deal. It might be in a few specific instances (like if they're working with medical software or systems onboard planes), but in most cases it's just 'some small business' website goes down' or 'a video game crashes'.
Precisely my point - learning both together as they compliment each other instead of C abstracting the underlying computer away.
> People act very differently when they are being filmed. Go to the nearest largest city and start filming passerby in an obvious fashion. People will not appreciate it and act differently towards you (likely visibly hostile). That reaction supports the notion that something of value is lost when you blanket-surveil a society.

I don't agree with this premise. People act very differently _when they don't know why they are being filmed_. (Almost) every retail store in the world has had CCTV for 40 years now and people are not alarmed. They know why the filming is happening - as a deterrent to theft. I'd argue that the same principle applies to dashcams, stoplight cameras, helmet cams on bicycles, and, yes, porch or doorbell cams.

Once you start filming people _without_ an obvious reason, then they start acting differently.
I work remotely for Bay-area tech(not literal FAANG, but similar orbitals), and my pay is in no way arbitrarily multiplied for my location.

>Bet on it.

Where do I collect my winnings? :)
> they are carriers of diseases that can spread to humans.

However, this has nothing to do with why the city's ordinances require a properly maintained lawn.
This is how it should be; it’s how GDPR defined it to.

Instead, the rules weren’t tight enough to stop the current shitshow we now have. Your explicit opt in is a nice single button click, on a modal that fills the entire screen. It tells you nothing about what happens, it’s just easy.

Meanwhile, the rest is hidden away. And you still don’t know if those changes have any effect, especially if the tracking is also done server side. You’ll still get opted into all the emails by default, the needy ones that have to remind you every day that you made an account, and make you log in to disable them (to update their active monthly user count I’m sure).

Of course, it’s working that way because companies share your data with so many random third parties that opting in for each one would scare you away. And most of them do similar things, it’s probably different teams or departments insisting on using their own tools.

I don’t blame advertising for this per-se, I blame growth hacking too.
It's not hard to see which planes fly which routes.
Yeah was kind of surprised to see PA and NJ shrinking that hard, too. Like parts of both have had reputations as part of the Rust Belt or "Springsteen Country", but they both have a lot of large metro areas.
> A ticket that cost $600 in 1980 dollars goes for $300 today.

I'm not sure that is a universal positive.
I heard that one of the Russian words for a train station comes from a misunderstanding. When a Russian delegation came to London to see the Victorian train network they were taken to see Vauxhall station. They asked what it was called (the station) and were told "Vauxhall", so in Russia stations are called "вокзальный" which sounds something like we in England would say Vauxhall.
If you already have a degree, in the UK, you can get a law qualification equivalent to an undergraduate degree in a year:

https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sec...

A bit longer than a typical bootcamp, but not a long time.
Using a library puts the responsibility on you to ensure compatibility.

With SemVer the library maintainer tells you "here, let me help you". With CalVer the maintainer says "fuck that, I'm out". None changes your responsibility.
If customers don’t want this stuff, why isn’t there a competing company offering non-DRM tractors?
yeah, I totally get that. I keep toying with VSCode for the same reason. The problem w/ gui based tools in general is that they don't usually follow unix design principles. You end up making lots of little compromises just to integrate into your editor.
Ha! I met him once IRL. It took him two sentences to insinuate that I might be an asshole.

Me: Something about FOO.

Jed: "Most people I've met who are into FOO are assholes."

Me: ...

Nevertheless, I find him entertaining, and he definitely will cut through the bullshit.
My understanding is that farming equipment is quite specialized, but I fail to see how no entrepreneur has capitalized on making "old school" tractors today. The immediate retort is that John Deere's approach is maximally profitable-- but is it? Sketchy websites host hacked firmware giving farmers the freedom to work on their own tractors anyways. The equipment manufacturers have lost their goodwill with farmers. From the ashes could rise a new firm that doesn't try to act so, well, crony. Even if they didn't end up as big as the incumbents, there's no doubt a profitable business exists with ephemeral sales of farming equipment that don't mandate expensive maintenance from your company's people.
That's your understanding based on what, exactly?

Because I can see in their financial statements that their R&D spending is decreasing over time, and that their investment is actually below what is required to maintain plant and equipment depreciation.
If something is a game to you things become way easier.

You can tap in to that feeling even when something is more serious.

Especially useful for job interviews, salary discussions, not taking a business emergencies too personal, but also for flirting (though especially in love the "seriousness" of the situation can overwhelm you).

Sadly I have no secrete for you on how to experience this view or feeling a first time.

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Professionals are not as perfect as one might think.

Helps with imposter syndrome, with understanding how much more you know about your body than your doctor and with seeing the value in a plurality of expert opinions.

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It's OK to be "mediocre"

Another one to cope with success stories of the lucky and privileged ones everywhere and the expectations of others towards you. Success would be nice, but there are bigger joys in life and the cost/risk/benefit calculation for making it big just doesn't cut it.

And having no picture book career doesn't mean to be normcore¹ either.

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Sophistication in taste can make it diverge from what is purely pleasant

This one is a more personal one and more the revelation of a dilemma than a revelation itself. I think if you are really in to art/music/food there will be less overlap between tickling your brain and soothing pure aesthetics/pop/kitsch.

I think this also drives many good artists out of pop culture and in to obscurity.

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¹ Good (arty) article about it:
"It used to be possible to be special — to sustain unique differences through time, relative to a certain sense of audience.
As long as you were different from the people around you, you were safe. But the Internet and globalization fucked this up
for everyone." https://khole.net/dl?v=4 (pdf)
One of the highest paying companies is stripe. They recently annouced that their fifth hub would be remote.

https://stripe.com/jobs/search?l=remote
No, because the US doing bad things doesn’t change whether or not Iran is doing bad things.
The idea is the contexts in which such a statement is chosen to be uttered is important, and not just the possible interpretations of the statement given content: just as how the Iranian taxi driver says "death to traffic" offhandedly, so the US driver says "fuck this traffic" offhandedly, and just as the Iranian says "death to the US" offhandedly but not "death to traffic", so the US citizen says "fuck the government" offhandedly. In any case, neither mean to literally destroy or bugger the nation.

So to the extent that "death to X" conveys a strong hatred with probable signification of action in English, it is a mistranslation, since "death to X" in Iranian conveys a frustration that has not been analyzed much or that belies an intention for planned action, which is more similar to "fuck X" in English.
Oh that makes sense. Idk, I think that's actually a good deal simpler than oauth. With a single request you get a token that says emauth.io verifies that at X time the owner of this token had control over Y email address. Anyone can then use emauth.io's public key to verify the claim. This makes the "email whitelist" use case trivial to implement on the server. You just have to have expiration logic.
Not exactly a good comparison if you don't generate the data the same way for the test setup. Your generated data is more compressible by clickhouse, that skews the comparison. Would have been better to not change the test data if you wanted to do a comparison.
Tech is clustered around a few areas in the US, driving tons of population growth and money to those areas causing other areas to depopulate (directly or indirectly). the irony is those places receiving the growth want it the least, at least if you ask their indigenous populations (most CA voters are extremely anti growth, for example).

I think there would be a lot to gain by incentivizing growth to occur in a more balanced way across the US. there's so many second order industries (like construction and countless others) that would benefit massively from this, along with the populations they support as well.

Currently, all that tech wealth just gets dumped into higher and higher real estate prices, not really benefiting anyone much. it could be put to so much more productive use in states/cities that actually want growth.
Unlimited PTO is not unlimited. It's a financial sleight of hand to reduce the liability on the company's books.
There are many houses just east of AP to the airport in the 1.2 range, and they are not in bad areas
I thank freeCodeCamp for my career too. I spent around 3 months in 2017 studying full-time solely through freeCodeCamp. Then another 5 months building my own products based on tutorials and official documentation. Then got a good job as a frontend developer.
This comment demonstrates a lack of understanding of both company's business models.

Here's the two company's R&D spend:

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/r_and_d_expense

https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/r_and_d_expense

Amazon: billions and billions. 9 Billion this quarter alone, which is more than Tesla has spent on R&D in their entire existence. Tesla? 300 million this quarter and trending down.

Amazon was generating REAMS of cash flow, for 10 years before they earned a profit. Billions and billions of dollars for investment. Tesla is regularly cash flow negative, almost half a billion per quarter on average:

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/free_cash_flow

https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/free_cash_flow

So can you explain how these "models" are at all similar? Do you think all unprofitable companies are like Amazon?
It does, but individual investors can already buy leveraged ETFs, buy out-of-the money options, and put all of their money in one stock. In futures markets they can take even more risk. State governments encourage people to buy lottery tickets. I don't see investing in start-ups should be tightly controlled, given that people are allowed other things that are just as risky and probably have lower expectancy.
It didn't go well.
How much real world experience does any new grad have? Unless they happen to have internships, I suspect even most top CS school grads would struggle a good deal with that.

Mind you, the college grads have had 4 years to tinker with side projects in the framework of a traditional college experience (winter breaks, summers, etc). Most of the bootcamp grads have had much less time to do ambient programming and probably have more "real world" obligations.
The downvotes on this are pretty funny, the highlight? I'm relaxing on a beach, you are not XD
Is anyone else just completely flabbergasted at the performance levels we're seeing at the top end of these benchmarks? 880k requests per second, with each request handling a database query? 7 million requests per second without database access? All on a single 16 core server? I don't even know what to think anymore.
Because the bigger companies forced them out of business or acquired them.
I’m curious - what’s up with the scarves these old timer adventurers wear under the shirt. Is it fashion or there’s some practical aspect to it?
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I think people overstate the problems witr Democracies vs. Republics. Looking at the history of the U.S. there is very little evidence to suggest that Republicanism has resulted in a non-tyranical majority rule. In fact, the only thing I can see that has maintained any rights for social, political and racial minorities in U.S. history is the Bill of Rights Andrew that frequently ignored or tempered until the post WWII era.
Because there is no competition in the US.
Arson as origin was always a possibility, (same situation in the case of California) but the hypothese gained a lot of support in the last days with 24 people detained accused of deliberately starting wildfires. It seems that Australia has waked up finally.
>that there is a very large segment of the US who really ought to know better

My take is not so optimistic. Intelligence is roughly normally distributed, and the fat middle, 100±1 stddev or so, simply does not know better, and does not have the requisite brainpower to think past social conditioning, whether from friends or propaganda. Particularly when the average person has a life to live and won't spend much or any of that time verifying anything. At the very least the capable among us are better able to prioritize which facts to take time to verify, while the average person probably doesn't verify anything rigorously at all.
> Given how much fraud is happening with customer data (that is: it being acquired under a pretense and then used for a different purpose), I very much doubt it.

Sorry; I was unclear. More prone to fraud against the loyalty program, i.e. customers buying the appropriate stamp and photocopying a dozen instances of the card to make "every 10th visit" into "every visit."
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I've heard of farmers going so far as to make their own GPS guidance systems, enhanced before they were widely available and reasonably priced. I'm not sure how accurate and repeatable they were.

Going to any farm that's been around for 20+ years, you'd see so many custom solutions that are really functional.

Farmer one-off solutions are kind of like homebrew Excel applications - they're infinitely customizable, the end user knows exactly how it should work and can reasonably make it happen, and it's a small fraction of the cost of a commercial/IT SOLUTION. It may not be as reliable, but it's good enough.
Because the shortest path to fixing anything is always electing a politician who knows nothing about that thing, in order to have them approve legislation written by other people who know nothing about that thing, that demands that companies do a thing. That always works great.
Yeah, a gold rush, and old SF hands know the way to cash in: stay in town, sell shovels and Levi's.
What you're saying is that people voting for the same party for 30 years, regardless of the political program, are satisfying their interests?
That remains to be seen, but if all that's on offer are corporate-backed candidates then the Republican strategy of focusing on cultural issues will definitely win in rural areas.
Farmers are doing the same thing, especially big midwest grain operations.

The family farmers are dinosaurs that will be out of business anyway. The regulatory framework, market consolidation and finances work against them. The only way to thrive is to be really big or really small.
Do you know how many years of experience these companies need to place someone in these levels?
At least for close(), I'm very much in favor. Maybe that would push more languages to implement automatic destructors.

(More realistically though, it'd unfortunately mostly result in mass renaming to .destroy())
Right to repair laws need to be put in place.

American corporations are trying to reach a point where you don't own products. You are merely long-term renting or leasing products from them. And any alterations or repairs will come with a heavy price.

It's already hard enough to repair your own vehicle without taking it to a dealership. How long until small car shops can't even fix any cars if they don't have the tools or software.
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I've always found it a bit difficult to fully trust the manager because of the power differential. So that way I've often not done a lot of talking driving the conversation.
I did not know about the rear third being more survivable. Do you have a source? Not doubting, just curious why.
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We do a tremendous amount of testing to ensure real-world reliability, and our customers' results bear that out. Full functional safety certification is slated for end of this year, which means it's already well underway.

We make a point of this because legacy spinning lidar is unreliable. But it's unreliable because of the analog design, not because spinning is inherently unreliable.
On the other hand, the new pricing structure means some airlines shut down and other airlines cut out unprofitable/less-profitable flight routes entirely, making it more difficult for some people to travel. ️

https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Southw...

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Routes-Southwest-Alask...

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/07/03/jetblue-is-canceli...

Reportedly a lot of this is because deregulation eliminated many requirements that previously forced airlines to service less-profitable areas, in a similar fashion to how the USPS is required to provide service to Anyone instead of just people in profitable areas.
Am surprised no one yet cited Elon saying "this is fool's errand" because of price, complexity, etc. I think LIDAR will improve significantly the safety of vehicles (autonomous or not) because it can definitely see better and deeper, even in damning weather conditions (rain, fog, haze).

Alas, the price of these devices has to come down at least one order of magnitude. Maybe even two. Still, I am really thankful that other companies (since Tesla has no interest in it) are considering and further developing LIDAR.
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