skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is even worse than that. If I was an Android user I'd probably think twice before buying and new Chinese phone. Today it is Huawai, tomorrow some other Chinese manufacturer. Even if this kind of thinking is unfounded, it will have chilling effect on Chinese phone sales overall.
Google has immeasurable money and talent; you can choose whatever you want in that arena when you're a software company that employs nearly 100,000 people. Needless to say, most companies aren't like this.

Note that I said "the most vanilla of ARM platforms." If you're using a Cortex R microcontroller like a TMS570 or RM4, using Rust means that you're now missing out on the functional-safety-standards-compliant diagnostics library and various other tooling provided by TI that is a key part of the product, but hey, at least you have a compiler. If you're using 8051, a lower-end PIC, RX, RL78, RH850, 68k, etc, you don't have a compiler at all. That's a pretty dire situation.

None of this is to say that the situation can't be different in 10-20 years, but Rust is nowhere near as universally useful as C is in the embedded landscape, and that counts for a lot.
I am interested in what the tipping point of density is - it is something I think Strong Towns idea has right but there are several factors (actual physical density of homes is key, but planning laws / zones matters, as does disposable income and actual physical built stock).

I would also ask if new cities (China, India) what their planning / zoning priorities are?
And then there’s NYC - The $20 City. Any time you step outside of your apartment, you’ll inevitably spend $20 on something.
Do you think this kind of deep-threading, or tree-nesting, encourages a forked conversation, with everyone in the discussion trying to respond to individual comments in an ever-growing tree, rather than responding to the current conversation as a whole? I find mailing list threads that are trees very hard to follow. It's probably a conscious decision.
The C# one must be trolling
I wouldn't say "behind" in that context. I do appreciate the convenience of 24h stores, but I don't see them as a progress for workers rights.
There is a beautiful oscilloscope shot, that shows it's a power delivery issue - the voltage sharpy drops and no software bug should cause it.

It appears to be a VRM issue, either a design flaw or incorrect setup by the BIOS.
Fair. I find that I naturally tend to think about the general properties of argument/return values and not just the types (or perhaps equivalently expand the meaning of "type" to encompass such usage) so I like the design, but I haven't yet used spec in anger and so might yet change my mind.
It amazes me that there's not a single word about Matrix/Riot.im in this submission or the blog post itself. If you want to resist control over your communications medium, a federated system seems like a no-brainier. And yes, the E2EE is there if/when you need it.
Lua. Very small runtime, fast, powerful.
Baidu uses autonomous vehicles to deliver meals to hospitals in China
If the company also actually grows and is profitable, there is also little reason not to give out cash, because the equity is more valuable than cash. Usually equity is given so that employees would work more like owners, taking care of the long-term value of the company. However I don't see this working for many people because many people just don't see the value of owning companies - they don't invest in stocks etc.
I live in Milan, 3/4 distance from the very center, and it's basically like that. I've got 4 supermarkets in 10 minutes walking range, metro station at 3 minutes, some healthcare within 5 minutes (but no ER), countless shops. Cinema and theaters at 30 minutes by metro. I'm self employed and working mostly from home so it's a very good experience.

I didn't enjoy it as much when I wasn't self employed. I've been working on the other side of the city for many years, about 1 hour either by car or by public transport. Where one works makes all the difference but (this is a tangent) also how one works. I've been working at 10 minutes from my home for a couple of years and it didn't feel much different. I was confined in my office all the day long. It's the normal experience for most of us but it would feel like living in a prison now.
I think you’re getting some resistance below because the answer to your first question is Yes.

Not just “Yes, they close at night”, even.

The entire American mentality revolves around everything being available all the time, so it’s really jarring to come over here and see the equivalent of a 7-Eleven closing for two hours at lunchtime, half of Saturday and all of Sunday and Monday, and calling it a night at 7 on other days. And the local versions of Ralph’s, CVS, and Walmart doing the same.

So no, essentially nothing is open at night here. And it has been this way for forever, so it’s built into the culture at the DNA level. You would never consider going grocery shopping at 9pm. One should do such things at the appropriate time.
Aha! That makes perfect sense thank you.

So the name biquadratic is analogous to biarc. Although the usage here is slightly different to a biarc because it's the same parabola each side of the vertex.

The choice of the name biquadratic is possible unfortunate because it is already taken for an existing class of algebraic space curves [0]

>Biquadratics are algebraic curves of degree four that are the intersection between two quadrics that do not share a common line (in which case the curve would be of degree three).

then

>See also Cartesian ovals, Booth curves (including the lemniscate of Bernoulli), the Külp quartic, the Dürer shell curve, the bicorn, that are planar projections of biquadratics.

which was the source of my confusion as I had assumed that raphlinus's reference was to planar projections of these classical quartic curves.

[0] https://www.mathcurve.com/courbes3d.gb/biquadratic/biquadrat...
Are you saying you paid someone to post for you on HN?
You can already do this with team discussions (which has been around for a few years).
Hmm maybe you are right.

I'd like to see one of these checkboxes though.
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Yes, been doing it for years. Just pay taxes on the extra money you make and all will be good.
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Perhaps, just perhaps he is considering their competence to help in end Google's monopoly, rather than their ethics - which is orthogonal and irrelevent to the task.
With illiquid/unlisted stocks it is not so much about risks but transaction costs. It requires much more work to purchase the stocks, and often you need also lawyers.

From stock market investors seem to happy to be paying a lot for companies that are unprofitable or turn out only small profit. For unlisted companies, if you are willing to scout around you will find profitable companies where employees are holding stocks that they don't really see much value in - or they would prefer to have cash in hand instead of the future dividends. For smart investors who are willing to do a little bit of snooping, leg work and negotiations, these situations can be sometimes quite fruitful.
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Put the valuable stuff into your trousers front pockets. I'm doing this for years, it works better than having anything in my back pockets. Though being 193cm tall might deter perps from trying something funny.
This also applies to "living streets": pedestrians are the primary users, but cars are allowed through at lower speeds (20 kph?). "Wait until everyone clears the path" means "forever", a typical livelock; the car needs to signal intent "I wish to move forward" while still yielding to pedestrians.
Clicking around, I am glad to see portability to non-bash shells covered in some topics, despite the name of the site.

It seems to me like sometime in the last 10-15 years, what we used to call "shell scripting" became "bash" in popular discourse. I myself learned to write shell scripts in times and places where bash was the most popular default, but I never thought of it as writing intentional bashisms, but a set of skills applicable to multiple possible implementations, so I find that shift in jargon a little disappointing or incorrect.
Les Tuileries are less than 1km from the Opera. Parc Monceau is 2km away.
Statistical distributions and methods were all designed by humans for a particular purpose. If you understand calculus, you can start with a statement of the desired goal, and then work backwards to derive the formulas you need. The final form you get then makes sense, and you have some ownership of it. In a pinch you can re-derive it for yourself, but even if you look it up in a book you understand what the parts mean.

If you don’t know calculus, someone has to tell you the formulas, which will seem like mysterious completely arbitrary magic. Memorizing them will be a pain in the butt. When you try to use statistics you will make small mistakes which will lead to wrong or even entirely incoherent results, but you won’t notice because you’re just following a recipe you don’t understand.

Of course, to do real statistics you need linear algebra as well.
> makes for pain when we go to merge duplicate threads

This was interesting. Would it only be an issue if the copied comment was a root comment of the article? Otherwise the copied comment would be under a different branch without possibility of collision with the copy under a different branch. If that the case?
I find it maddening that git hasn't added a standard mechanism for metadata.

Commit comments are metadata. Tags are metadata. Why isn't there a general-purpose metadata plumbing so we can attach issues, merge and commit discussions, and wikis, in a portable way?

No, being able to export from one centralized repository and import into another isn't good enough.
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I guess what I always find unconvincing about these kind of arguments is that they require 0-sum trades, and real world trades are positive sum.

I think this is more of a gambling simulation than an economic one.

However, even with positive-sum games, the nature of the transaction can have big impact on the wealth inequality. There's a great writeup on that in https://jasoncollins.blog/2020/01/22/ergodicity-economics-a-...
Their best move is to make WeChat the operating system. Hell, there are already >50 000 mini-programs that run inside WeChat.

Then get maps from the Europeans. Then sponsor the development of the top 20 local apps in their top 50 markets.

Then zero rate chat in selected markets.

And bribe every third world regulator. This is what the British keep the channel islands for.
If you have gone through a first linear algebra course (e.g. watched Strang’s 18.06 videos), follow up with Strang’s videos for his class 18.065

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Strange dream the other day... Green lettuce levitates out off the French dressing, shakes it off like a dog, bends spacetime and is gone.

I belive putting walls/stone/steel around tree roots is cruelty :(
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It is funny to compare that to traditional product design. Let's say your goal is to design a chair. The most important tools in your toolbox are variants and iterations. The worst you could do as a designer is constantly working on one (final) chair. Because every change that goes aginst the initial concept will have you saw pieces away and glue them to other spots till you end up with a completely irrational whole.

The problem is of course, that a low effort design prototype still looks and feels like a low effort design prototype. But the customer sees 5 variants of the low effort prototype and can decide which one is iterated on further.

If you program a low effort software prototype, it should still kinda work and this is where the customer would decide to run with it.

Also software (like graphic design) is a field where people without any skill tend to have strong opinions about how things should look or work, which makes manipulazing the customer into taking a decent solution part of the job.
I’m still my phone, hard to type a detailed response to your fair question. Was this a political post on my part? Well, taxes and politics are too intertwined. I don’t think even I can make that distinction.

Taxes in CA have been getting out of hand for a long time. For example, we (LA County) now have a new tax on every square foot of a property that does not allow rain to hit soil. For home owners it’s hundreds of dollars per year. For businesses, thousands to tens of thousands. You pay for your home, driveway, entrance path, patio cover, concrete patio, pool, carport, garage, barn, etc. Home Depot pays for their entire building and parking lot. Just insane.

Let’s take another one: I’ve been paying taxes on every gallon of gasoline for road maintenance for over thirty years. Our roads are an absolute disgrace. They slapped on yet more taxes recently to “fix” them. So, they tax everyone for decades, don’t do their jobs, hand out ridiculous pensions and benefits and then ask for more money.

This is insane. Political? Well, if it isn’t it means over thirty years of absolute incompetence and possibly even criminal behavior on the part of various agencies. And the solution to both is political.

So, yeah, I think you are right, it is.
Yes, in Germany for example. Some cities are experiencing drastically rising housing costs as a result. There was a bank in Denmark (not in the Eurozone) offering negative rate mortgages. In reality the bank tacked on fees so they weren’t paying people to take out a mortgage!
I don't think it is possible to compare hours worked 100 years ago and now.

Now, especially for developers and office workers, work is almost indistinguishable from life.

For example there is barely any time while I am awake that I am not thinking about work. (sometimes even my dreams are about work related tech topics)

Not to mention that modern management techniques are deeply psychological, and sophisticated propaganda.

TBH I dont think more work is being done, I just think the corporation organism consumes as much as it can.
These lectures are really excellent.

Packed with insight that would otherwise take years to pick up piecemeal elsewhere.
> you need to invest about ten hours of your time to get to the facts

Your comment seems condescending assuming I haven't researched this field. I have invested hundreds of hours. I have reviewed several IPCC report, have downloaded raw data and plotted it etc. A lot of the things being stated are blatant lies and easily disproven. It has been going on since 1970s.

Here's letters to the President back in 1972 claiming we are approaching an Ice Age, not warming:

https://i.imgur.com/Nd57TtC.png

The source of that letter is NOAA itself. They have since removed the page but internet never forgets:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081022084215/http://www.cpc.no...

After the wide consensus from scientists in 1972 of an "ice age" within 5 years in 1977, they suddenly started "global warming".

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Since you state Australia, I will guess you are referring to the fired from last year which media reported as the worst on record and 60 minutes did a segment with the same. They even had Michael Mann on who declared it the worst bushfire on record. But that's easily disproven. The 1974-75 is the worst bushfire. Here are 3 different sources:

https://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/6C98BB75496A5AD1C...

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/bushfire-new-south-w...

> In 1974-75, lush growth of grasses and forbs following exceptionally heavy rainfall in the previous two years provided continuous fuels through much of central Australia and in this season fires burnt over 117 million hectares or 15 per cent of the total land area of this continent.

As they state, 15% of the total land was on fire and 117 million hectares were burnt. The 2019 fire is only 18 hectares.

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Timothy Wirth, President of UN for 15 years and the senator who brought in Dr James Hansen (Director of NASA Goddard Institute for 35 years) back in 1988 which led to the formation of the IPCC is on record on how he sabotaged the air-conditioner the night before the testimony and also called the Weather Network to know when the hottest day would be to setup the testimony on that day:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/intervi...

The same Timothy Wirth is also on record from Rio Climate Summit:

> “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Archived from The National Center for Public Policy Research:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113733/https://nationalc...

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If you dig a bit deep into the data and IPCC reports you will notice that their "2016 is the warmest year on record" is a blatant lie too.
Hearing about this makes me want to go to Europe just to walk around with pockets full of rusty nails.
Providing predictions of ML model is not enough. We also need explanations
I've found trees encourage forked conversations in a good way. While I don't find them hard to follow, I do find revisiting them to be a bit difficult. While it can seem difficult to follow the overarching topic given a set of trees, it's near impossible to have any in-depth discussions about more than one thing in flat threads.

I have given these models lots of thought and have come to the conclusion that the success/failure of hierarchical conversations is determined solely by the presentation. Common mailing lists and email UIs leave the most to be desired, while HN, reddit, sbnation community sites, etc show a path forward. But nobody has implemented the view properly enough to let you see the forest and the trees at the same time (yet).
Other companies are working on similar services, and in places with neutral wired service, LEO service will be unappealing.
Wikileaks source giving it to them via USB makes a lot of sense, then the timestamps where altered after delivery if they were not placed there as a red herring

What does it make sense is the evil DNC murdering one of their own employees on US soil after a very public data breach.

If only we could think of a country that would profit from promoting this conspiracy theory! Then we might get closer to the truth.
Les Tuileries is not really a peaceful park, probably because it’s right next to the Louvre. It’s more like an open field.
Won't you be darling, and just

1. LINK the exact IPCC report you found blatant lies in

2. copy in your correspondence with the authors of the papers

3. copy in your own data that exposed the lies.

You won't, because you cannot.
Also the problem with Twitter although the boundaries of distinct conversations there are different. Trying to follow any conversation there is like a game.
Check that math
AFAIU that is done, though I'm not sure Forbes makes the list.

I have no idea if it's a list per se or of all sites get some weighting factor, starting with 1, and falling (or possibly rising) from there.

In terms of general reputation / link-worthiness, this is an interesting question/problem online. Also the general problem of assigning reputation on a site-wide or domain-wide basis. There are more and less reputable parts of, say, "facebook.com". I don't think all of "google.com" should be treated similarly (more a problem when "plus.google.com" was an active member of that domain, and not even a proper subdomain component). Wordpress would come to mind.

Which means that when you're assigning reputation(s), the assignable handle is an issue. Does it map sufficiently well to what it is you want to give a high or low reputation.

The problem even exists for individual people. I have friends I'd trust for book recommendations but not food suggestions, and vice versa. Scientists, philosophers, and politicians notoriously are highly reliable in some domains but not others.

The universe is complicated.
From the article:

> Resecurity also presented evidence that it notified Citrix of the breach as early as Dec. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.
Because Microsoft effectively building a monopoly on OSS. I'm happy now, because the product is amazing but it's always sain to have everything controlled by one company.
This is no secret to anyone who's owned a dog.
Because he's lost the keys - without the private keys, how will anyone access the funds?
Slightly off-topic: it was mentioned here earlier that the reason Norvig switched to Python (from Lisp) was because of his job (Google). But in fact he uses Python for most of his personal stuff as well.
Example from above:
Twitter.com/#:~:@user

This would behave differently if the browser's user is following @user than otherwise.

This convinced me not to dismiss the issue.
I'm not sure how that leaks over a side channel.
But i am sure there are governments who take active measures to shape the Internet to their liking - and twitter has played a significant role in the past inside countries governed by them to oppose these governments.
>DW's Jordan Wildon discovered the bug on Friday. "Your WhatsApp groups may not be as secure as you think they are," he tweeted

If a link to your whatsapp group ends up crawled by Google it's because you posted it in a public website, and then you clearly don't care how secure your group is
That is not how interest works.
There is a massive amount of material out there. The keywords that you might want to search on are:
MBSE: Model Based Software Engineering; MDD: Model Driven Development; MDE: Model Driven Engineering; generative programming. UML is also one of the core technologies.

Some tools to look at: MPS by JetBrains, MetaCase.

The website: https://modeling-languages.com is rather useful. The article: https://scihub.bban.top/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-012-0... is also very good starting point.
Here's a concrete example where I think it goes wrong. You say something, and two people respond. There's one thing to say in response to both people - maybe they both misunderstood part of your point. Which comment do you respond to? On places like HN people seem to feel the need to respond to both branches, which causes exponential growth if it continues, compared to if you could respond to the two comments as one. Maybe we need a comment DAG instead? Responding to an arbitrary number of comments? Maybe comments that aren't even siblings?
> Also software (like graphic design) is a field where people without any skill tend to have strong opinions about how things should look or work

Business too. You do not have to be a good strategist to “succeed” as a VP in a medium or larger sized organization. In fact, you can be downright terrible.
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