skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe theoretically possible if we have exceedingly cheap nuclear power. Fill the coasts with reactors that are optimized not for power generation but for transferring the waste heat to desalination facilities.
There are euphemisms for everything.

Senior citizens, defense department, correctional facility, adult entertainment...
oh wow, big wall street is dumping coal. clap clap
B is solved by a legal market and framework that we already have for tobacco. The problem is treating vaping as worse than cigs, which have an absolutely stunning amount of evidence against them, in particular with tar and a laundry list of additives you won't see anywhere else. You're telling people to stay out of the shed when their house is already on fire!

Harm minimization is the key to A. Is the system better or worse with regulated (sue-able!) market? Studies seem to show that we generally over-restrict relatively safe substances.
In my opinion the departures from the Jurassic Park novel were not just incidental.
I enjoyed very much the Jurassic Park visual effects, but I despised the script as one of the most disappointing adaptations of novels, because it completely failed to convey the message of the book.
The central idea of the book was that there are things so complex, i.e. chaotic systems, that regardless how good you are and how great are your efforts to control them, unpredictable failure is unavoidable.
I did not see anything of that in the movie, where the failure of the park was just the consequence of stupid mistakes made by a bunch of morons, not the consequence of objective laws, as in the book.
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This is exactly what I thought. Sorry to not be able to comment more usefuly... I was looking for a comment already stating my idea before writing it down and i found it here.
I already did!
Supplements may be a short term option to increase levels but there should be no need for any supplements with an adequate lifestyle.

Spending time outdoor is one aspect. Adequate diet, especially during darker months (depending on where you live) is another.

In food, vitamin D is found in oily fish, red meat, egg yolks, cheese, and, I believe, mushrooms. Not too many choices for vegans...
Agreed - "Customizing ERP" is just a euphemism for "Breaking it in such a way that version upgrades will never go smoothly, ever."
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I actually count English spelling as a strength and not a weakness, otherwise we'd have the situation of multiple semantically distinct and unrelated words being spelled the same[0] while at the same time having to maintain distinct orthographies for every minor dialect[1].

[0] https://ko.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%88%98%EB%8F%84_(%EB%8F%9...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_differen...
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Is this in reference to a particular named theory or just a random musing?
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What makes the gitlab database loss worse than cloudbleed? (Both occurred within the same month.)
nah, I just whipped 10 line userscript to fix it back
Wow, seriously? Do you think people run coal power plants to generate profit? Profit doesn't matter. They run it for 24/7 stable energy.

>hurr durr coal is unprofitable we need to build solar & wind and close down coal plants

God, the press really overestimates peoples' ability to decode facts.
Obligatory "What if English were phonetically consistent":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
> I've met many people that dislike reading because they find large words complicated to comprehend, their spelling is usually atrocious also. I also know a few heavy readers with terrible spelling because they never learned properly. Their pronunciation of large words is usually atrocious.

None of the people I know who grew up in highly literate families with parents who read with them several hours per week up through age 7+ ever had either of these problems in adulthood. Including the dyslexic ones.

I am highly skeptical that your acquaintances dislike reading because the spelling of long words is too complicated. More realistically they find long words hard because they never did enough reading to become fluent. Nearly everyone can get at least 90% of the way to reading arbitrary English text with about a year of appropriate reading instruction at age 6 plus a few years of regular practice.

As someone who never spent any effort on spelling in school, big words are fine to read and spelling is no trouble. I also dislike and disable autocorrect. I’d happily put my pronunciation of arbitrary English words up against anyone who isn’t a professional linguist.
The place with a driver on-staff has to actually make sure they're paid for the entire shift.
if quantum theory can make predictions about the patterns in the CMB, can it also anticipate these structures?
Which is the means to make money in this case. I don't get how you think you are contradicting me here.
This is basically what email clients have been settling on doing, recently—though they have the luxury of working with a static resource, and not needing to handle any dynamic stuff.

https://litmus.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-dark-mode-for-... is a good article about this. We just released this sort of functionality for Fastmail’s webmail within the last few days, too, matching what Litmus calls a partial colour invert. We find that it doesn’t satisfy quite everyone, but the overall experience is much improved. I myself use light mode for my work email and dark for my personal email (partly to distinguish them, partly so I’m testing it—otherwise I’d prefer light mode), and this general approach has produced very good results in all but one case I’ve experienced so far (and that one was still acceptable).
He bought the title of founder in title in a way that the original founders couldn't use it so saying he bootstrapped it is a bit much same with saying it's the first electric car company.

He has a knack for attracting nice attention and generally is a great marketeer for his brands and himself as a brand.

He's also great at extracting government funds.
How much of the internet is hosted by Amazon?
Aren't these the same VCs espousing China style 9:9:6 work hours [1], promoting myths of 10x-ers who only sleep once a week, and demand from their portfolio every last breath of effort, or esle ...

Please, apply some of that 9:9:6 to your VC workflow, don't sleep and definitely try to be a 10-X investor. And definitely turn up the paranoia on FOMO - not because it yields dividends, but because every VC peaches it, so practice what you ...

Those Billions won't earn themselves

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
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No poems, Faramir is pretty one-dimensional with no scope whereas in the books his character is much more nobler.

And the worst of all - they left out Tom Bombadil. His character showed what state you need to be in to not be affected by the ring.
I heard that, especially with spectre, most of the cost of context switching comes from messing up your caches + TLB (https://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-m...). There's a graph on Dan Luu's blog about how it takes 14,000 cycles to get back to full performance after a syscall: https://danluu.com/images/new-cpu-features/flexsc_ipc_recove....
Imo big infrastructure needs like roads and subways shouldn't be done on a project basis at all. For instance, NYC shouldn't bid and build out massive contracts for a few km of subway. They should own a boring machine and add 10-100m of tunnels a week, every week[0]. (numbers arbitrary) You can shake so much overhead around project start-up and shut-down and it will be a long time before NYC (nevermind someplace like SF) has saturated the demand for public transit.

[0] Best example of this sort of logic that I have seen implemented is painting the golden gate bridge, just one properly sized and experienced crew painting from one end to the other and back again without the boondoggle.
A long time ago I was working at an observatory searching for new asteroids. For cloudy nights, they had a large library of paperbacks and I read LOTR twice through. Because of this, when I got to name a newly discovered asteroid, I wanted to call it Tolkien. I wrote to the publisher and got a wonderful short letter back from Rayner Unwin, who talked to Christopher Tolkien about it - here is the letter:

https://imgur.com/a/XDGwOl6?
Brave isn’t making an OS or network (yet), but the browser is still critical, to the degree that bigs spend billions on their own, and now privacy law and user blocking demand are reshaping the $330B+ online ad ecosystem. That is a good place to start fighting for the user, imho.
That's the charm of it. The ring has not effect on him because he doesn't covet anything, only see things for what they are.
"Change blindness." It was mentioned upstream in this thread [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064787
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Great work! I have to try this out soon to finally put my ESP32 boards to work
Efficiency is not the factor when considering energy source. People pay money for stable electricity, not cheap electricity.

>b...but we can store energy!

No we can't. Energy storage systems are catching fires like Australian wildfires and until it gets solved, no dice.
I wonder if it would be possible (& worth doing, since it would require cross cutting work) to enable saving and loading cache hit profiles
On FirefoxOS, of course gal cjones shaver & I launched it (not quite with all the other execs on board) to address the next billion internet users. I’m glad it worked out but sorry the place and name are KaiOSTech — it was Mozilla’s to see through but they faded.
There was an HN comment a while back about how hard it is for most creatures to evaluate exponential growth. About how a petri dish colony took 2 weeks to get to 50% full but then they all died off in the next 2 hours because their growth was exponential and the environment static.

Once the climate starts worsening visibly, it will get much worse quicker.

The world is literally on fire now (california, australia, the arctic) - guess what's lined up for the next decade.
I don't know about that. I've never seen the same driver twice...not from Doordash and not from any other delivery service except the two that have the drivers as actual employees.

I'm sure the churn is huge because the pay isn't there.
> Refraction was kind of irrelevant to it

That is incorrect. It's directly relevant. Redshift is measured and there is a willful disregard for the refraction that is inherent and a statistically overwhelming effect, given the distances and known matter in space. Redshift exists after a megaparsec in any direction, so it's not surprising that it's the farthest thing we see given we're seeing some amount of mass in the far distance from any given angle.
Why can’t we have normal businesses where you employ your workers and charge your customers the real cost of the transaction ? If that is not viable, don’t start the business to begin with. Let’s just go back to first principles, can we ?
A great recent example of this is Ronan Farrow's account in Catch and Kill of the pressure he faced to back off from the Weinstein story, and then to refrain from implicating his employer, NBC news, in the cover-up. Interestingly, though, it was Rachel Maddow who got him to open up about the pressure from NBC, on her MSNBC show.
I've not seen any estimates that Google employs 1000 devs to work on Chrome. Only that in the more than decade long history of Chromium 1000 Google devs have worked on it in total.
I've worked these gigs before, and so have friends of mine with advanced STEM degrees. Sometimes you are stuck between a rock and a hard place (usually you are, if you're low income) and your current dilemma is between not being able to afford your rent tomorrow or food tonight, and working some exploitative app gig like this. So cool the condescension. Poor folks -- even those with really low numeracy -- are generally extremely aware that these gigs are exploitative and not sustainable income sources in the long run and see the scam a mile away. In my experience it's folks who haven't been poor who don't have a good sense for how expensive it is to be poor, for how difficult it is to make long term decisions, and the intractability of problems you have to solve just to get by sometimes
If you prefer to term Eru, together with the Ainur, a pantheon that would be more appropriate. The Valar are more like the Olympians as the subset of this pantheon most relevant to Arda.

Also, I don't believe it's said that Men join Eru in death. Just that they will take part in the music after Dagor Dagorath. I think you're sweeping numerous other mythological influences under the rug if you choose to view that as predominantly Abrahamic in origin.
What source would you trust, though? People will just go after that source, to get their misinformation validated there.
The more shady stuff Google pulls the less inclined I am to even consider using them.
Yes. But "computer should wait till high school" and "this is bad curriculum" are not the same complaints.

And also, basic knowledge of word will not harm them. They are not taught word in deep details, they basically learn few basics - that files exists and can be opened with it. For many kids it is first encounter with anything remotely like that.

Again, it is stuff that programmers kids just know by osmosis living with parents, that is why it looks pointless to teach. But many kids simply dont.
Thanks for doing this analysis!

After riding other transit in the US (NJ Transit, LIRR, Amtrak, BART, misc Subways), high speed rail in China and Japan, and trains in Europe; Caltrain stands out to me as the most jerky train I've been on. Often times high speed rail in East Asian countries are so smooth that you can balance a coin on its edge without falling. Comparing apples to apples, even NJ Transit and LIRR are noticeably smoother than Caltrain. It would be interesting to see what the difference is between systems.

> Looking at data from a few different trips, Caltrain does a good job subjecting passengers to no more than 1g of roughness in any direction.

This at first to me seemed like a low bar (relative to other trains out there), but then I forgot about the sudden jerks and direction changes the SF Muni and NY Subway often subject passengers. 1g in any direction I suppose is good for subways, but still poor for trains overall.

Unfortunately I doubt Caltrain's current Electrification project won't solve any of these issues, given that it seems like more issues with the track, not with the power source. Perhaps the new trains might help?
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I sometimes switch to light mode when working in bright sunlight. Otherwise (especially at night) I prefer dark (pitch black with high contrast!) mode.
That domain name though!
> The ideal way to teach spelling is (1) get kids to read a whole lot, (2) show students their mistakes in context when they make them on as short a feedback loop as possible, without judgment.

Speaking as a dyslexic person this is garbage. Learning to spell required weekly word lists, spelling tests and hours of study. The memory skills this built have seriously helped me in my life.
I agree a fundamental thing is missing. Just like how during dinosaur times atmospheric pressure was so much higher that if a humans traveled back in time they would die almost instantly. [1]

I'm not knowledgeable enough to guess the fundamental issue in this case. But IMO if quasars can be linked across billions of light years then it's just as plausible that our observation that those quasars are far apart is an illusion, as it is that there are superstructures spanning the entire universe to link them.

[1] - https://gdesilvestri.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/was-the-atmosp...
Not as hot in the summer for east coast commuter rail.
all tunnels are below grade
There are many more. It would be difficult to enumerate them all. Nearly anything that causes an exception is easy. Examples:

The 0xf1 byte, an "icebp" or "int1" instruction

In 32-bit code, use an FPU stack underflow

In 64-bit mode, access a non-canonical address

In 32-bit code, use the "into" instruction

Write data using a segment selector that goes beyond the LDT limit

With the alignment checking enabled, do a misaligned memory operation

Of course, we can also do system calls without causing exceptions. Examples:

Write the system call number to a well-known memory location that the OS will poll

Modulate the CPU temperature by running code. The OS decodes the signal. Use message passing that involves OFDM, LDPC, ASN.1, and digital signatures.
That’s what Grubhub does
Nobody is suggestion autocomplete replaces basic API knowledge, reading the docs, etc. What they’re saying is autocomplete saves having to remember every facet of the API precisely.

It’s like a rounded edge on plug pins, you still have to know where the plug socket is to plug something in but the rounded pins mean You don’t need to be millimetre perfect when inserting it because the plug will slide along the curve and guide itself into the socket.

That’s the point of autocomplete, it’s about enabling developers to focus on remembering the important stuff while the IDE helps guide them around the more granular bits that are still syntactically important to the compilation of software but don’t really matter to the logic you’re writing.
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Passion and vision are a part of it, but the reality distortion field encompasses everything good, bad, and ugly about musk that he offers to the public, unsavory tweets included.
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The problem is that you don't pay for the slowdown you cause to everyone else. You're offloading that cost, so you keep choosing to use the road well beyond the point where traffic should be increasing.

To make up for that, we can charge people at the entrance point. But charging people time is basically impossible, so money is used instead.
This ^^^^ is the core issue. It's insidious that LONG_MAX is too big to be exactly representable as a double.

The answer by ambrop7 below solves a different problem but appears to be correct. The reason escaped me at first and is super subtle. The trick is that LONG_MAX is 2^63 - 1, not 2^63. And the subtlety is that 2^63 is guaranteed to be exactly representable in IEEE double because it is an even power of 2, which 2^63-1 is not.

I don't care much for runtime ldexp() anyhow. So I'd be tempted to just pre-compute the exact limits -2^63 and nextafter(+2^63, 0) and encode them as doubles manually (omitting some #if method of portably determining the width of LONG):

#define FLONG_MIN 9223372036854775808.0 // exact -2^63
#define FLONG_MAX 9223372036854774784.0 // exact nextbefore(2^63)

if (value < FLONG_MIN || value > FLONG_MAX)
return(0);

Then the UB is avoided. I think the rest of the module works as is. Now, I question whether the author really wants integers between 2^53 and 2^63 to sparsely return true. So it might be better to just change the whole design to use +-2^53 as a hard limit, for trivially guaranteed round trip of the entire range and dispense with these nasty edge cases.
Why would you even mention this as a problem when the real problem is that kids are sitting in front of computer screens instead of running around and playing and learning how things work the real way instead of a completely false game version?
One of the ways that many operating systems (I'm fairly certain that Windows did this at one point) implemented syscalls long ago was to execute an illegal instruction, because this was the fastest way at the time to transition to kernel mode. x86 even has a specific opcode that is guaranteed to never be used aka always be an illegal instruction
I mean the idea is that you operate at a loss until the economies of scale catch up and you begin being profitable. Starting with the low price let’s you maximize growth, and you make it up on the back end. That’s not a problematic system. What is problematic is if there are no economies of scale.
> FWIW it seems like these services are pretty generous with refunds/discounts when you have a bad experience if you contact them. I've only had to do it once, but my sister has gotten $5-15 refunds from services like grubhub or doordash multiple times when a delivery goes haywire.

I bet the refund comes from the delivery person's pay.
I wonder what that 12.6 billion market valuation will drop to after the crash
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Businesses used to be a part of their communities.

We’ve suffered a breakdown of the sense of community, and a failure in education resulting in growth in the number of people that continue to believe the fallacy that a business primary function is to maximise value to shareholders.

A business is ultimately a collection of people coming together for mutual benefit. If it stops being mutually beneficial and/or only becomes beneficial for some people if some other people are exploited, it probably shouldn’t continue to be.
But I guess, now that I think about it, that with a shortage of teachers we must get education out to the kids somehow..
Regulate the same way the FDA regulates all other products.

As someone outside the US who has to work with the FDA, Americans should be very proud of how thorough FDA inspectors are at auditing and how good they are at identifying non-conformances and just plain criminal lack of due diligence.

There is a database of 'offenders' that are no longer allowed to sell their products it's seriously scary what some companies/people are willing to do for a quick buck.

You could argue that in the US there is a considerable amount of lobbying and influence that defeats the impartiality of some federal bodies but overall they do an amazing job at keep everyone safe.
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Scheme has been the 50th most popular language for 50 years running. It has never been the best language for any particular use case, but it has been good enough to inspire a community to keep it running and relevant all this time.

If you made the same kind of list of 4 languages that dominate all use cases back in 1990 (say), Scheme wouldn't have made the list then either; BUT the 4 languages would be different than they are now. If you want the most frictionless and popular language for the tech stack of the moment, use the trendy language du jour, but you have to live with neverending churn. If you want a language that is perpetually "good enough," use something like Scheme.

There are use cases where longevity and inoffensiveness are important. Embedded scripting, the original motivation for Guile, is one of them. Scheme is my go-to for little personal utility programs. After a long day of dealing with headaches from trendy environment du jour, I want to come home to something that's bulletproof, just works, and I already know. The minimalism and clarity make it a good first learning language. It seems like it'd be good for code "for the ages" like reference implementations and government software, but AFAIK there hasn't been much of that.
It's categories like illegal immigrants, DUIs or otherwise lost drivers license, can't pass the background check, etc.
The article says that two one-mile lengths will be constructed and that now they have completed more than 6 football fields (say 600 meters). That is not quite 20% of two miles, so the math may be more leading edge than the shovel. The article also says that the equipment has been underground "for months," so it doesn't get me thinking that tunnels are ready to conquer widespread problems on a large scale soon.
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She's giving Elizabeth a run for her money