skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to do the same thing as your other replies. This is fun:

>changing words to alter a particular sentence lets the governor legislat[e].
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As a pedestrian I look at their eyes. If they're not looking at me, I get way off the road.
Being a drunk pedestrian is one of the leading causes of dying in a vehicle accident. Just because you're not in a car does not make you immune. In some ways it make you more vulnerable.

Studies have shown that pedestrians should wear helmets when walking to increase their rate of survival, but good luck getting that to happen.
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Yes! This applies to pedestrians as much as cars.
> it's incorrect to state that Google was doing Android in response to the iPhone.

Yeah sure, but pre-iPhone Android phones looked and worked very differently from modern Android phones. Google knew it needed to get into mobile phones; it's just that at that time it thought its competitor was Microsoft with its Windows CE phones, or BlackBerry. Google had a major pivot in Android development in 2007. Take a look at what Android phones looked like before the iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HTC_HT722G700375_20080211... This was the "Sooner" phone built in 2006–7.
1 in 10 cause accidents. Most of the distracted drivers will (fortunately) not cause an accident.
Daily mail? I'm going to need some more sources for whatever it is they're claiming.
It’s about process + team and not about individuals. Far too many times I’ve seen companies over praise/reward certain individuals at the expense of demotivating the team around them that makes things possible.

I’ve found a lot of things solved by a decent review and deploy process.

My precious company just went through SOC2 certification. SOC2 is mostly about change management. Who can make changes to prod? Is every change approved by the right personnel? Is every change auditable? Etc

Mostly boils down to using git(hub) properly and having a sane deploy/monitoring/revert system.

Doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO or a VP or a yolo manager. You can’t deploy things without oversight. If you want to deploy on the weekend you need approval from the opslead for that system who is responsible for keeping things alive.

On the weekend, no one should be working, even opsleads should only work if they are paged. Only broken things that really affect customers are fixed on weekends. No new features. Period.
Congrats on shipping, this looks really cool. Do you want to write an editorial for the next edition of my Lua newsletter? Would love to feature this project.

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> Party A takes control of the governorship with 50.1% of the vote. Party B wins 65% of the seats in the legislature.

The implication being that the will of 65% of the electorate's is stymied by a weaker 50.1% of the electorate? You can't actually conclude that since roughly 15 percent appear to have voted both ways, making their will in this conflict ambiguous. Perhaps they support the gov they voted for so there's actually only a minority of the public who agrees with the legislature and their law. I say "roughly" because gimmicks such as gerrymandering, but these would not affect the governor vote.
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Wuhan is a city of 11 million people. New York City has a population of about 8 million people. In 2010 NYC saw an average of 144 deaths per day (Table P3). By those numbers you'd expect to see around 200 deaths daily in Wuhan without any added pressure from a pandemic.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/6551as_2010_final...
I don't think it could work due to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284623
"Lowest common denominator" argument in our industry is a false dichotomy. One should try different things and choose whatever makes them happy. Fortunately, our field is so deep, there's always stuff to choose from. If you don't like Vim/Emacs/VSCode/Atom/etc. - fine, use something else; If you don't like Javascript - there are multiple ways to transpire/compile into it, choose the one you like; don't like OOP - try FP; etc. Doing something because most people doing it, using tech-stacks simply because they are popular, choosing QWERTY layout and not trying other options, etc. - hinders self-growth of an individual and stymies innovation in general.
Order from Uline instead. Those guys are probably just reselling Uline.

Compare the Uline box ordering page [1]. Looks rather similar to Packaging Wholesalers, doesn't it? Order direct from Uline, and you'll probably get a better price.
It's hard to tell, because "Packaging Wholesalers" won't show prices until you log in, while Uline has theirs visible.

Uline only sells shipping and warehouse products. They're #1 in North America in a dull, boring, and essential business. No way will you get granola. If you're ordering in industrial quantities, order from an industrial supplier.

[1] https://www.uline.com/product/GuidedNav?t=184360
This is a great resource, even better for having been honed by actual teaching experience.

I was actually about to suggest added Kleppmann to the list! I think some of the earlier chapters of Kleppmann might actually be good for the databases section as well. Probably the best discussion of transaction isolation that I've read anywhere.

Another recent book that's good for databases (and that might replace or complement the "Architecture of a Database System" paper) is _Database Internals_ by Alex Petrov (O'Reilly, 2019). Like Kleppmann it also covers distributed systems; indeed it's getting harder and harder to separate the two areas these days.
Interesting sorting algorithm I haven't encountered before(even though it seems to be from 1998) m, but one that actually makes logical sense.

However, my first thoughts it does seem (from its concept) not so easy to implement(?). Additionally I would have concerns with regards to how much an overhead this calculation adds compared to just a “simple” comparison.

Maybe the calculation is worth it if the comparison is costly enough? My guess would at least be that we would need fewer comparisons in Flashsort as we should have a higher chance of “knowing” where things should go.

The Wikipedia article shares no plots/data (guess I should dig deeper for that), but would be interesting to see how well it fares against more modern and/or optimized versions or Quicksort as it is unclear if the claim that it becomes faster than Quicksort is correct :)
What about reducing your chances of killing other people?

As a somewhat jaded motorcyclist (though not in the US) I'm unsurprised to see no mention of us in the article. Not sure of the US stats, but in Aus the biggest dangers to motorcyclists are (a) other drivers not seeing us [1] then (b) our own stupidity.

Not much for anyone but motorcyclists to do about (b), but I would make some appeals to car drivers:

Think about motorcyclists at junctions - we're not actually invisible, and what you miss seeing is primarily a function of your own inculcated habits of observation.

Don't tailgate motorcycles. It's frightening and forces us to deploy more attention behind us than is safe.

On undivided roads, stay to your side of the road on bends, even if there are puddles or potholes.

Thanks.

[1. known here in Australia as a SMIDSY - 'sorry mate I didn't see you']
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That's an impossible number to calculate. Just today, in fair but flowing traffic, I noticed a vehicle braking constantly and erratically. The person behind them apparently had enough and swerved to my lane to pass them, nearly causing an accident that wouldn't have involved the other driver. Sure enough, it was a middle aged lady staring at her phone.
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Seeing the lack of sidewalks in the US I'm not surprised?
If you get your hands on it:

Rohrer & Klingner dokumentus or sketch-ink

First one is certified document proof, the others work the same, just that the used pigments are not as hardened against chemicals to allow strict iso certification.

They are both fast at drying and once dry, won't give a inch to water. Not even coloring the water and marking the rest of the paper, where it flowed.
I have to wonder how much legal alcohol limits reduce/increase death rates.

Go to any sufficiently large party and there'll be some guy who's drunk after an all nighter and ready to hop in his car, asserting that it's okay because he's not drunk anymore. The dude's still drunk, but once you get worn out and start coming down, you just kind of feel done. It seems to me (in my uninformed view) that legal limits let these guys feel like they have some leeway and they're probably legally safe to drive (which, honestly, they might even be). It plants an idea that there's a reasonable threshold of drunkenness in which driving is still okay, which I don't think is a good idea.

I'm not generally a supporter of zero tolerance policies, but I think leaning that way is possibly better.

As a person who almost never drinks, I feel pretty off and goofy halfway through one beer. I'd probably be under the BAC limit but there's no way I'm fit to drive. I don't have confidence in my drunk driving abilities, but plenty of people do and they think they have a legal basis for it.
For sure. If you had to sort a list of words, most would put ones near the top of the alphabet (like c, d, f) at the top, the middle like o,n, p near the middle, and ones from the end like t, s, v near the end, before putting them in the correct order.

My latter two examples weren't even in order, I was just recalling my impression.
I love to see this, and of course the early shoutout for pjax.

Another library worth checking out if you're interested in this type of site is intercooler.js (https://intercoolerjs.org/). It's all about using minimal DHTML/AJAX to use server rendered partials.
That's fine because it isn't contagious. If your rulebreaking bites you, the entire company's customer base won't even know.
Absolutely no chance. NASA spent 20 years designing this new super rocket, never even built a single one of them; so it only exists on paper, and when you look closely at the design it is basically the Saturn 5 with some slight modifications.

The reason so many engineers jumped ship from NASA and went to work for SpaceX is that at least Elon is doing something with some alacrity. NASA is just a bunch of paper shuffling time wasters at this point (especially at the top). People forget that they subcontracted most of the Apollo project. Having civil servants who never get fired is not the way to achieve excellence in any product or service!
A funny thing about the "DROID" sound effect is that it was just using the Mac OS built in voice called "Cellos"

Put "say -v Cellos droid" into an OS X terminal and you'll hear the exact same thing. (Might need to go to Accessibility > Speech > System Voice > Customize and download the Cellos voice. Doesn't appear to be automatically included anymore.)
Indeed, I'm most worried about other asian and african countries where they can't muster the money, manpower or the coordination that the chinese gov't has done in order to contain the spread.
But not the only instance of the only visible barcode - Aldi products are covered in large barcodes so scanning them there are no wrong sides https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/aldi-has-very...
It works. We have had many sales come in up to a couple years after ghosting.

People get busy, initiatives change, management teams change, company gets bought... newbie shows up, gets excited. Anything can happen.

You just never know.

But, what you can know is your pipe. Build it always, have a simple, honest process for managing who goes through it.

What you can also know is people really do buy from who they like too. Those long term, "thought they were gone" sales came in, and many of them cited the news, well wishes and friendly engagement as factors.

They remember who took the time to both understand them and treat them like humans.

Honest approaches can really help. The sales process is not a bad thing. Letting people know it is OK to navigate it, communicate, etc... means more of them will.

Where that happens, your time is spent more efficiently, and that leads to more deals / person.

People are where they are. It is actually rare to "drive revenue" without ugly tradeoffs like devaluing the product, or turning people off.

In almost every case where revenue is driven this way, one could qualify people better, handle them in an honest way process wise, and a bigger pipe outcome is the same or more revenue wise.
The AT&T exclusive period was in return for giving Apple control of the device, iOS, and the update process.

It's important to remember just how much control over third party devices the carriers once had.

Even after the period of exclusively ended, Apple didn't add other carriers until they were likewise willing to waive their prior restrictions.

The ability to control the update process remains a competitive advantage today.
After reading the last thread about it I tried to do a "real-world" test to see if these benchmarks mean anything for me.

Have a simple vue-cli app (think webpack) that takes roughly about 3200ms to compile on the first run.

So I first installed Linux mint on my laptop (asus i5 8th gen) and tried it. The time was always about 3100 to 3200ms.

Then I erased it and installed Clear Linux on that and lo-and-behold the time was just 2000 to 2100 ms this time.

So it effectively gave me a boost of 34% by just installing a different distro. Not bad I would say since I didn't change anything else.

Unfortunately, I found this distro to be quite alien since it won't run cinnamon or apt or anything I'm familiar with. But I definitely believe their speed claims now.
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I love your advice. I also hate driving very much. But current city planning isn’t for pedestrians. Distance to office is 2 miles, it takes me 40 minutes to walk there, 20 minutes by car and at least 45 minutes by bus and subway. I would love to have an office, I can reach without driving in 30 minutes, but it is extremely seldom and expensive case.

Let’s talk about vacation. Going to neighbor warm country costs 200€ by car, 180€ by plane (plus rental car) or 540€ by a night train. I’ll take night train once to experience this, but other times I’ll take the car.

My factor now for choosing a new job is days I can work from home and 99% time it is zero. Companies suffer heavily from “general wants to see his army” syndrome (in Germany?). Home office could reduce driving easily by at least 20%, but companies have no benefit from it. Office rent will be paid anyway.
I was surprised by how many people in Amsterdam would text message on bicycles. Many times without helmets on.
Nearly 40,000 infected,
Approaching 1,000 deaths,
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Elsevier Inc. is pure evil and greedy scum.
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Welcome to the future indeed :) This sort of thing is somehow going to end up getting someone killed.
There's still a shoulder. They walk in the lane, not on the shoulder. (This happens most often when they are two or three walking abreast.)
All my life since I was a wee lad I dreamed of owning a car and driving. Now that I drive a 589 HP supercharged V8 with a manual transmission, there's no way I'd move to anywhere where I couldn't drive to work! Every day is celebration day now.
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It seems to me that you can’t conclude that speeding causes accidents from these statistics. If people speed 30% of the time, then accidents will involve speeding 30% of the time if speeding doesn’t influence the risk at all. I would also expect the amount of speeding to matter a lot.
>Companies suffer heavily from “general wants to see his army” syndrome (in Germany?).

Can confirm this. But I've usually been able to get 1 day working from home a week. (I think home office is a Denglish word btw, not sure if others will understand)
Absolutely. To answer your question, both. I think people realize there is some inherent danger, but don't care. Partly because of the 'itll never happen to me' thought, and partly because humans have been driven to isolation so much as to see other drivers as not human, but merely obstacles. Depressing truth.
> Taika Waititi is an amazing director/writer/actor

First of all - he is a vampire. And then all the other things you've mentioned.
NOKIA had N9, the only phone that was well-received by US reviewers, quite few calling it better than iPhone, yet Elop killed it off by not allowing it to sell in major markets (e.g. Germans had to buy it in Switzerland).

NOKIA was used by Microsoft's investors as a way to get MS back into mobile game, unsuccessfully. It was an internal coup. With the revenue and world-wide market share they had, they could have survived for a few years, finally going full speed ahead with MeeGo, at the cost of never making it in the US, but continuing their dominance in the rest of the world.

There seems to be some foul play involved in ruining NOKIA as Elop had a bonus for the sale of a company in his initial contract and the chairman of the board publicly distrusted his own engineers as unable to compete with Silicon Valley.

Finnish economy is still in shambles from NOKIA's downfall and only Google/US profited from taking over the fastest growing market segment at that time from NOKIA. EU lost its only competitive tech company.
The download option wouldn’t work in a zombie apocalypse because if you don’t connect to the Internet for a few weeks the song stops working on Spotify. I know this because I’ve tried it.

In other words with no active Spotify service even downloaded songs simply stop working.

I was even thinking of writing an open letter to Spotify to allow the user to choose 10 zombie apocalypse tracks that would Always keep working no matter what.
This is probably my biggest gripe as well. I’d like to play all songs ranked by plays. Otherwise I don’t have too many issues with it.
I used to sell stuff on amazon--they do specifically tell you to remove or cover any other barcodes on the box when doing fulfillment by Amazon.

Sadly that leaves me to believe the sellers will have to eat the cost in these cases, which leaves relatively little incentive for Amazon to improve vetting.
Crazy how relevant this article is to what I have been reading this past week. I was recently doing some research into reducing my personal existential risk, and I concurred putting more energy into reducing/mitigating the baseline risk factors in automotive crashes and road safety in general is a worthwhile effort.

Also recommend reading this insightful article on LessWrong by an anonymous user [0]; has a few decent actionable steps one could take to reduce the risk on the road, aside from a nice collection of most risky habits one should AVOID doing to reduce their road death risk exponentially.

Additionally, I'm considering using local public transport more, and even thinking of moving to cities with better, safer public transportation as there's a MASSIVE difference in fatality rates of folks using private vehicles v/s folks using public transportation. [1]

And, QUIT using motorbikes. Exponentially higher chances of a fatality on a two-wheeler than on four wheels. [2]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7XbcDaeigMaxW43EB/how-to-avo...

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/01/car-bus-safet...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/culture/commutin...
Why would you count YouTube as part of GCP? YouTube presumably make most of its money through advertising.
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I think Theo is notorious for this.
As I learned many years ago in the Boy Scouts, walk facing traffic so you can see what's coming.
Clever; this should be put in everywhere. And I'd make the fines at least three times as high and equal for both drivers and bicyclists.
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I've been assuming that her blog posts are very detailed, but then have any identifying information carefully removed. Hence talking about specific (companies|teams|coworkers|services) but only by vauge labels.
Not in the article scope but something worth considering if automotive safety is truly a top concern... I'm under the impression that placing all occupants in rear-facing seats reduces fatalities. This extended claim is often made when reading about infant and child automotive safety. If true, all passenger vehicles going forward could be built this way. (And when Level 5 automated driving is available, drivers become rear-facing passengers.) Cars, vans, buses, ... starting now.

OTOH, "the view is worse" sentiment may be culturally strong enough to cast a blind spot, so to speak, over such evidence.
I think the computer aspects are not the most difficult part of the tech stack when dealing with space flight.
Since the lander and gateway are yet to be built let alone tested (at least Wikipedia still has them as a "concept") it seems too soon to say what the final cost will be. By way of comparison the first full Apollo stack flight was 20 months before Apollo 11, which puts it close to the 60%-spend point, and that was some five years after the LM contract was placed.
"Home office" is a fairly normal word in American English usage, though it's more likely to refer to a room in your house (where you work) than to the activity of working at home.

For example, there are tax advantages to having a home office (the room), versus having the entire value of your house be considered personal non-business consumption.
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> NFSv4 is nice

Wow, never thought I would see this. Are you saying that based on experience or just looking at its feature set?

I used to work with NFS performance on NetApp filers at NetApp, and NFSv4(.1,.2) we’re god awful. I used to see almost 1/3 of v3 performance in simple read and write ops. On top of it I need to align all planet to get it to not fail with (EIO) during the test. Is that not the case anymore? Did somebody do some magic I missed in the last couple of years?