skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>: they’re paying their mechanics to be present whether or not they’re actively working on a job.

Usually this is not the case. Google "flat rate pay", it is the norm for automotive shops. As you get into more specialty stuff (commercial truck and heavy equipment repair, pure body and paint work) hourly pay is more common but still not the norm.

>Also, mechanics in the US usually charge book time instead of actual work time to customers: you pay for the hours that the manual says the job should take regardless of how fast or slow the mechanic actually is. So, more efficient mechanics prefer labor-heavy jobs because working faster than average effectively brings in a bonus.

This is correct but what you're missing is that because of how flat rate pay works the shop rate is XX and the tech gets YY of that so the incentive for both the shop and the tech is to work as fast as possible without doing so bad a job that the customer comes back telling you to fix it.

It's also worth pointing out that labor and parts pricing schemes is one of the back end things shops tweak in order to differentiate themselves and/or obtain competitive advantage so that adds a whole 'nother layer of incentives on top of the incentives provided by flat rate pay.

Parts markups schemes (if any) vary wildly from shop to shop. Some shops have a couple suppliers and order everything for them. Some shops stack up two weeks of work and have the service writer spend their afternoon ordering stuff through the same eCommerce channels consumers use. Some shops try not to stack up future work, have accounts with all the local parts stores and get stuff delivered same day. Some shops vary the parts markup by part class (e.g. one markup for body parts and a different markup for brake parts). Some shops charge the customer cost and make their money on labor to incentivize customers to splurge for "while you're in there" type repairs (e.g. rotors to go with pads).

Some shops proudly discount the labor (lower shop rate) and try to make it up on parts.

Labor cost to the shop also varies by tech. The guy who can re spray a bumper is gonna make a higher fraction of the shop labor rate than the guy who can only install a bumper cover.

The service writer can also have their pay tied to incentives to sell parts, or maybe a class of parts, or maybe labor, etc. etc.

Depending on the specifics of the particular shop slapping on pre-painted bumper covers may very well make the same amount of money as a proper re-spray. There's so much variation it's hard to generalize.
> The UK does an extremely bad job of teaching its historial "religious" conflict, which was rarely about doctrine so much as temporal power-politics.

I disagree. There really is no way to understand the English Civil War without understanding the religious disputes at its cores. Yes, it was a power struggle. But for the most part, many if not most of its major players were fighting out of deep-seated religious convictions. This most certainly includes Cromwell.

The reverberations of this conflict still color our modern-day ideological conflicts. The Royalist strongholds during the conflict are still the areas of England with the highest Anglican identification. Anglican identification is still the strongest predictor of Tory support. The Red/Blue-state divide in America is largely the same map of what areas were settled by Cavaliers and what areas were settled by dissenters.
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It's only unnecessary once there is healthy competition. Which there almost never is.
Torrents don't work well with mobile devices, multicast could be implemented more efficiently at the physical layer of a shared medium. Torrents also have higher latency and you're at the mercy of the aggregate upload bandwidth of the swarm. On a good day they can be good enough for VoD style streaming but that's far from assured unless the distributor at least keeps some backup bandwidth ready if demand exceeds supply (which sounds a bit like a CDN). For realtime streaming IP-multicast would still be the ideal solution.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802087 posted earlier.
exactly what I feel
I have bounced off Lean a few times. What I wish I was able to achieve with it was to derive new and useful conclusions in mathematics. I can never seem to get past the "variable is an integer" examples. I realise that the objective in using these tools is exactly the problem in formulating your expression. I think it would be awesome if tools could generate novel mathematics. Where we could express "P=NP" and have computers just churn on that for a few thousand CPU hours.
Curious about 7 Languages in 7 Weeks. For a reader new to all its languages, is it actually readable in seven weeks, and if so, full time?
Wouldn't free markets also have this issue? What stops coca cola to stop catering to establishments who carry their competitors? They've got the mindshare because they have spent a few billion in marketing, so you have to carry what the public want. Now the choice is either coca cola or anything else. How will free market solve this problem?
Just boring data science stuff. Don't read it!

https://medium.com/@romanorac
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Is Zoom safe and can it be hacked?
I feel so related to the third point.
Project-A open sourced their BI infrastructure under the Mara brand: https://github.com/mara

Repo: https://github.com/mara/data-integration
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Parsec – 60fps interactive streaming for gaming and work
For the best Sokoban implementation on Android, go to "Soko++" by Joris Wit.
This post exhibits a lot of the problems with long emails in that it doesn't get straight to the point. People don't have time to read your prose when they simply want the relevant data. Get to the point immediately.

Top posting won because of M$ Exchange.
A link is to a blog post if and only if a) the linked-to page contains a feed autodiscovery tag and b) the autodiscovered feed contains an entry for the same page and c) that feed entry is at least half as long as the page (in words).

That test isn't quite right. The false negatives include links to old blog posts, and the false positives include the honourable few sites that provide full-textish feeds of something other than a blog. But it's pretty good if you want to filter away content marketing and read tech blogs.
Security leaders consider AI-charged cyber-attacks inevitable: survey
Good on her! In the UK, Tivos are tied to a specific cable service. I don't think you can get a standalone box over here.
A Tracking solution where data never leave the device – by WeTrace and æternity
https://pawelurbanek.com ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I wonder if there's an "optimal target" for the number of layers up and down you'd ideally be aware of. It has to be at least yours, and ones immediately above and below, but I see innovation coming from people with unusually keen insight into layers further away--eg. people making brilliant architectural decisions because they really, really know what the consumers of an api need and how those people think about the domain. Or vice versa, someone making something radically better or faster in a web app because they really get how the linux kernal is implemented.

It seems like cases where that deep knowledge is an advantage are rare but also very high value. I wonder how the EV pans out, both for individuals and orgs.
This looks fantastic, I'll definitely be reading through this. Already really enjoyed two of your posts.
Lots of 17th century writers are held up as republican heroes, but usually not Cromwell himself (Levellers/Diggers, Harrington, etc).
Psst, dude, i recently found out there are conversion tables for Freedom Units!
https://geewaan.netlify.com/

https://geewaan.netlify.com/index.xml (RSS)

It is a blog written by a fictional alien who is amazed by our evolution. Due to that, it is trying to help us understand the intrinsic motive of evolution and everything else. It is also talking about its own 'weird' evolutionary path for comparison.

I am trying to give an out-of-the-box view on what I have learned as a frequent reader and amateur thinker on these topics. However, I didn't attempt to write something like this before. It may have a lot of structural errors. Also, I am not a native speaker (which might suit the role-playing though)

It may end up gibberish at the end. But, it is OK. I have realized the beauty of accepting failure recently. https://osaatcioglu.netlify.com/posts/accepting-failure/
A corollary to this I include in my life is "Do your worst." I get stuck a lot creatively: this feature I'm building is too hard, this design in my head is too vague, my article idea sucks, my video isn't going to make sense, etc. What helps me break through that, is just put the crappiest version out on the page. No edits. Radical self-acceptance of whatever I put on the screen. Often the whole thing gets a huge refactor. Yesterday's architecture document I was working on started this way and I ended up throwing the entire first version out. But that crappy first version totally unblocked me to get something I'm now proud of.
Some Indie games are just great on it too. I played through Hollow Knight, Blasphemous and Dead Cells far more than I would have done if I got them on PC or PS4. They were fairly cheap too.
“New” a hundred years ago, yes. No one has been happy with our model of gravity since Newton’s time, and people were only happy with it then because they didn’t know any better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
Author here. There are more conntrack stories to tell...

In this one I tried to do a quick "what happens when table is full", and ended up with a rather rich and complex blog post. In it I discuss:

- EPERM

- implicitly dropped packets

- weird kernel behaviour on loose=0 and ACK being dropped

- iptable policy counters having their gotchas

- problem of syn floods and conntrac

and more.

It's not that this is super breathtaking, but modern deployments depend on conntrack (I'm looking at you k8s). Even though conntrack is notoriously under-documented and misunderstood. I hope that the linked scripts would allow folks to try to reproduce the weird conntrack behaviour and spread the knowledge of underdocumented corner cases.
This is especially prevalent for simple questions that would normally have simple answers.

I'd like to know when to water my mint plant without reading about the whole history of mint.
> Such compiler would require solving halting problem.

Wrong: Because of the finite memory instead of an unbounded tape (among other reasons), computers are strictly less expressive than Turing machines.
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Good coffee, nice people. They're my neighbors in Amsterdam.
> We can't even predict many of these subsystems with any degree of accuracy so we are hopelessly inaccurate at the higher level.

Or do we? This sounds like a Fermi problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem#Explanation

I may be wrong, though.
Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it
This is like a mini-abstract. Human nature is that you only scan the first few lines and if it's too long (and you're not my boss) then it'll get tossed aside.

People who want long emails are in the wrong business today.
Yes: "Stop Starting and Start Finishing"

just write it down somewhere in plain sight.
http://giovanni.curlybrackets.it

I'm documenting the process for creating an adventure game on iOS and tvOS using SpriteKit.
That’s because most of those aerospace jobs are defense related and need citizenship and security clearances to work there.
http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/

I basically just write about whatever I'm interested in.

Here's a sequence I did on rocket engines and what is fundamentally different between chemical propulsion, electric propulsion, nuclear propulsion, etc.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2015/03/rockets-some...

Here's something I wrote on how language can influence and distort our perception of danger. It got picked up by Atomic Rockets.

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2019/06/sometimes-yo...
“Irish slavery” is usually a sign someone is a racist asshole who has no idea what they’re talking about.
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https://petermolnar.net

Tech entries (mostly howtos to myself) on *nix finds; photos (places, landscapes, etc); random mutterings and thoughts when they really want to come out of me.

Though the domain has changed, my site has been my online home for over 20 years now.
Hey! I write a blog on the shift university students need to do when moving into the industry. The posts are written as conversation starters, not as tutorials. The idea is that you read them and then ponder for yourself for some time.
You can find it here: https://why.degree/
Strictly speaking real computers are finite state machines and are trivially decidable from the halting problem point of view. The problem is that it just takes long long time.
I recall wanting a chumby, but never got one. I have no interest in the new devices like Amazon, Google and Apple have come out with, however.
Edited to reword title.
Assuming you mean the Indian soft drink, IIRC it's actually "Thums Up" (no "b").
On the latter topic, one of my favorite ever weblogs was that of Nat Friedman, now CEO of GitHub. Excluded from the Wayback Machine and gone forever (unless he kept a personal archive, I guess), but a lot of the stuff in the 2000-2010 era covered some very interesting technologies he was involved with building.
We use Plural Sight and CBT Nuggets, well the IT people do, not sure of others. At various times people have had to stay at home, kid issues, wife having baby etc. During which time people can work from home for up to a week a year, learning online.

Company rules are each person is supposed to make a list of what they want to learn (develop) in the year, but it is rarely followed.
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Your personal ignorance makes a poor argument.

Not only do I know several devs doing cool things with namespaces and cgroup, but I myself have done cool things with namespaces and cgroups.

I played with Docker briefly, but it has no real practical application in my line of work.
You are probably thinking of galaxy rotation curves which do not agree with theoretical predictions that assume only visible matter exists.

Gravity not following the ISL at large scales would indeed be a possible explanation for this. However, most alternative theories of gravity clash with other observations, such as the motion of binary pulsars or gravitational waves, whereas (unmodified) General Relativity is in excellent agreement. This is one of the reasons why the existence of dark matter is considered to be a much better explanation for the deviation of the rotation curves.
Start by measuring it over a few cm. Their setup is "the same" setup Cavendish used in the 18th century (a torsion balance). Read about it here: http://www.michaelbeeson.com/interests/GreatMoments/Cavendis...
or watch this beautiful video explaining the idea:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NTp_zR8Gl7VTJ2aU55cWQzd2s...

That will give you a flavour of the difficulty involved.

Below those sizes, electrical forces start making your experiment very difficult (electrostatic, van de Waals), and any vibration will pollute your data. This is where the "can't do it at home" starts to read its head (something to compensate the vibration of buses driving nearby, a lab with no static electricity or magnetic fields anywhere, etc, etc)

Beyond ... the Casimir effect places a limit to the lengths you can reach.
Educación lo mantengo hace muchos años https://acercadelaeducacion.com.ar

Y otro más centrado en tecnología y educación
https://alvarmaciel.gitlab.io/cyberiada
I see a large population of SE Asian students at a university nearby. I honestly have no idea why they are here. The university is an expensive, private school. The campus isn’t particularly beautiful. Just an office park. And it’s not even ranked that high. I’m befuddled why anyone would choose to go to a low tier university in an expensive city.
The only thing that comes to mind is getting an American visa. Because simply having a prestigious degree from a no name uni does not make sense.

Many years ago a friend’s family offered me $30k to marry her so she could get her green card. If students are spending upwards of $200k for a shot at a H1b than that marriage would have been a bargain in comparison. She’s happily married now with kids. And her spouse did not magically become $30k richer for it.
This pandemic is going to provide some great cover for some terrible executives.
Yes, even though I am a very active reader, I felt that I almost had a month worth of reading every week.
Universities should not be responsible for both education and assessment.

All of this disappears in a moment if those two are separate.

But universities would resist that kicking and screaming to high heaven. Because it would not only undermine their 'great institution' claims, but educational routes that aren't universities would trump them (in terms of cost for attainment) in very short order.
https://yozy.net

The most interesting parts are recipes for quick bite. Otherwise I post solutions to coding problems I had and didn't find good write-ups for at the time.
I recently started a new blog: https://www.thecomputation.com

I simply write about anything I find interesting, and want to learn more about. Topics are mostly from computer science.

I try to refrain from 'Intro to x', or 'X 101' types of articles as much as I can, instead focusing on other aspects. It can be the historical background behind a certain topic, its implications, or a more higher-level treatment.
A rocket- according to US employment policy- is a missile fired in a funny direction. So you need to be a citizen with a security clearance to work for any US aerospace company. This makes the cold shoulder a little more understandable, because they couldn't legally hire you even if they wanted to.
The official ING Tech Blog : https://medium.com/ing-blog/tech/home.

I started this a year ago. We are a bank, but we also have a lot of cool stuff happening internally. It's nice to be able to show that banks are not as boring as they may seem. In some areas we have similar problems than other large techs :).
Yes, I'm actively using Codeberg for my OSS projects (I still have some on GitHub, too), e.g. https://codeberg.org/hjacobs/kube-web-view/

Some functionality is lacking compared to GitHub, but it does what it needs to do for me.
Basic probability will really grow your understanding of a lot of things. I would follow that with a standard statistics class. I am surprised as a 'business professional' you did not have these. For economics I really enjoyed macro economics. Mirco econ I did not hate, but macro was almost fun. But definitely AFTER probability.
If only companies had a way to escape the arbitration system... oh wait, they self select this system even though there's nothing forcing them to !

Arbitration is a tool, but it's totally unfair to say it's used by anyone else than the company choosing it.
My comment relates more to irl conversations. I'll freely admit to not reading up too much on British republicanism.
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A girl and a baby girl. I'm learning about my patience and how to cope with my anger on limit situations. ️
Azorian is not news though, even in 2017 it wasn't :)
If we want to go to extremes, it's even worse than the halting problem. Godel's incompleteness theorem shows that, assuming your system is consistent, there are truths that don't have a proof at all, which is even worse than not being able to compute that proof.

Still, the only impact this has in practice is that it tells you languages or programming styles amenable to automatic verification must be very limited in their expresiveness/flexibility.
My personal blog : http://lengrand.fr/

I don't know if it's 'awesome' but it seems some people at least like it :). Mostly Elm and Java related things, or more social.

The most visited page by far is a list of all Computer Vision companies I ever came across that I maintain for 10+ years now. https://lengrand.fr/computer-vision-companies/
https://darekkay.com/

Recently I've been focusing more on git, web development and web accessibility.

https://dashboard.darekkay.com/docs/blog/

For the last year, I've been developing a dashboard wep app as a side project and I'm blogging about the process from the beginning (approx. once a month).
Hello Jppope.

I have only just start blogging. I wanted a detailed guide on various things to do with startups, marketing, sales, validation, etc, that covers in detail and takes into account context.

There are very few blogs that I like, most are SEO rubbish, but occasionally I come across something where I respect the time, insight and disposition to freely share knowledge. A place where I plant my flag as well.

So, only one proper article at the moment: https://startizer.com/guide-to-landing-pages-part-1-the-foun...

Cheers, Ace.
If half the houses on a given street have at least one room available to rent at all times, renting a room on that street should be cheaper due to plentiful supply.
I read it over a couple of weeks of sitting out in a pub beer garden on evenings I wasn't doing anything else.

I almost certainly didn't learn everything there was to learn from the book in the process, but I definitely felt like I'd got my value for money out of it.
We've updated the app so that it searches more broadly (10 store instead of 5), let me know if that helps! :)
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