skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're suggesting that preventing multiple replicas of the same job to schedule on the same machine as a good default. There's no evidence to support your conclusion, and my experience it quite the opposite. It is much better if people running batch jobs just schedule 100000 tiny replicas, and let the scheduler sort it out. This provides the cluster scheduler with plenty of liquidity. Multiple small processes are more efficient than a shared-nothing single process.
My point still applies.
I was just reading their docs [1], and I got two things wrong above:
- Schwab's overnight interest rate is actually ~1.8 bips. Alpaca's is even lower at 3.75% annual which translates into ~1 bip / day
- If you liquidate stock the same day, you pay no interest

[1] https://alpaca.markets/docs/trading-on-alpaca/margin-and-sho...
You are making what is sometimes called an "argument from incredulity". Just because you find it hard to believe doesn't mean it's true.

This issue parallels the foundational story of chaos theory. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory :

> [Lorenz] wanted to see a sequence of data again, and to save time he started the simulation in the middle of its course. He did this by entering a printout of the data that corresponded to conditions in the middle of the original simulation. To his surprise, the weather the machine began to predict was completely different from the previous calculation. Lorenz tracked this down to the computer printout. The computer worked with 6-digit precision, but the printout rounded variables off to a 3-digit number, so a value like 0.506127 printed as 0.506. This difference is tiny, and the consensus at the time would have been that it should have no practical effect. However, Lorenz discovered that small changes in initial conditions produced large changes in long-term outcome.

At the very least it shows that it's easy for intuition to be wrong.

Do you accept that "issues with random seeds and parallel floating point reductions are extremely widespread, and a great deal of science gets done with non-deterministic simulations", re-quoting Carmack?

That holds with my own experience.

You ask "How could you be sure the non-determinism multi-threaded is all from the RNG issue, and not from real bugs that show up only multi-threaded, like race conditions accessing shared memory?"

You cannot. Rather, how can you be sure that any program is bug-free?

The question is, can you be confident enough to use it to make policy statements? Eg, people use imperfect models all the time when making laws.
> some hard labor,manual work or low level trade jobs

That kind of work is still valued, just less so than before. It makes sense to supplement low incomes with UBI or negative income tax, so that no one is denied a tolerably comfortable life. Our social safety nets are totally unfit for the present world, they're still built for the assumption that high-paying manual work is everywhere.
Why are Monday/Tuesday unofficially reserved for people who really need the money?
Then the proper way to do this is list the sources at the bottom of each.
Cancelled: Ambitious Dyson Electric Car – 600m Range – 0-62 in 4.8 Sec
That's cool, too. The problem today is that if someone actually wants to have a job like that, it doesn't exist.
I've heard it said that the reason bits of the Roman aqueducts are still standing is that they were overbuilt by at least a factor of 2.

The craftsman often wants to overbuild something. It's part of what gets them out of bed in the morning, or lets them sleep at night.

What if you - or someone else - got your margin of error wrong, like the Citibank building? A little extra to deal with unexpected situations isn't so bad.
On Windows, the AirPods Pro maintain two connections with the PC, one using the headset protocol and the other using the better-sounding media protocol. It seems like they both work at the same time - I’ve had good experiences on video calls where somebody is streaming background music and it sounds the way it’s supposed to.

Also the noise cancelation definitely works although it’s impossible for me to objectively judge if it’s different than how it worked in the past (seems super hard to know without a blind test given how brains habituate).
panpsychism is the flying spaghetti monster.

with added pretense.
That's a completely groundless assumption.
Silicon Valley in the Pandemic
I once had a patio installed. It was to be elliptically shaped, and the charge was per square foot. The contractor staked it out, and ordered the materials.

It didn't look quite right. I finally measured the major and minor axis, and computed the area. Turns out it was 30% smaller than the square footage quoted. The bricks were stacked up, and a little math gave me the square footage of the bricks. It was also 30% less than the quoted square footage.

I brought it up with the contractor that the size seemed less than the quoted size. He said he'd made a mistake staking it out. Obviously, he had not, else he'd have had too many bricks.

He did a good job anyway, and I paid him 30% less than the quoted amount.

I suspect he had realized long ago that his customers were math challenged, and weren't noticing his oversized quotes. So he kept increasing the gap until it got to a ridiculous 30% overage.

My advice to people who feel that math is a pointless imposition on your time, you're going to pay for not learning it. And you'll never realize you're being rooked.
No, my question is more along the lines of this: suppose there's a 1% chance of getting COVID-19 by going back to work (either at work or on transit, or whatever), and a 1% chance of dying from it [0]. The state, then, is subjecting these workers to a 10 in 100,000 chance of dying simply in order to support their families.

10 in 100,000 risk of death ranks with the 20th most deadly occupation in the US: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-a...

This is not about "minimum workplace standards," this is about people who are now subjected to significantly more danger simply by going to work. Based on the list in the article, it would make anyone's job at least 10-200% more dangerous.

So, again, how do you justify that? Keep in mind, these are not workers who signed up for the 21st most deadly occupation in the US. Please try to actually answer the question rather than weasel out of it.

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[0]: 1% cumulative chance of getting the disease in the next year. Also, 1% fatality rate is an approximation. Let's not quibble about the actual number. We've already lost far more than 10 in 100,000 Americans to this disease. The fact is, COVID-19 makes going to work vastly more dangerous than it was 5 months ago.
If there’s one thing we need, it’s more satire about tech hotness and the relentless chase for the bleeding edge (yeah, just don’t mind that you’re bleeding).

The headlines on this site right now look good. I’d need to see more content to decide how good it’ll stay or how much better it can get. I hope the publisher is able to continue this and also get contributions from many other people.
The profit and loss sharing instruments used by Islamic banks are structured in such a way to be almost identical to charging interest.
Emphasis on NEO-feudalism. What this article fails to acknowledge or discuss, is that feudalism was actually BETTER for workers than the current arrangement. Workers were entitled to earn a living from the land they lived on, their lords had obligations to them to provide for their welfare. There was a hierarchy, but the workers themselves were empowered by the value they added to their lord's land. Serfs were only serfs of they lacked the skills to be free men or craftsmen. The craft and trade economy was far more self regulating and less exploitive.

What we have now is a Servile State, not a feudal one.
Is that really the case? I couch surfed years ago. From memory I think couchsurfing.com has a reputation system where if people stay at your house, you gain points that give you priority when staying with someone else. so it's kinda like a system for bypassing money in exchanging accommodation. Ideally, if many people start swarming the system looking for free places to stay, it will just mean they won't get chosen, and things keep operating as normal.
I find it amusing that I now consider it so wasteful to throw away all that rocket gear just to launch a payload :-).

I also wonder if they still have the "crew return" insert for the ship. Early in its life it was envisioned as a way to bring the full crew of the ISS to earth.
> I'm just trying to understand where it is that my family got lucky

Between the inputs and the outputs. For example:

> He came to the US and worked in the forges for Falk in Milwaukee. He didn't speak English, but he worked hard, lived responsibly, and paid for the education of his two children

Plenty of people at the same time put the same inputs of hard work and responsible living in, and got different outcomes due to forces they didn't control. The success of American elites (this is true of capitalism generally, and the greater prosperity of American capitalists compared to much of the rest of the developed West is due specifically to failing tomitigate this aspect of capitalism as much) is built on the precarious position of the working class.
I am curious about the story behind your username. I don't understand it.
Is my understanding that we already spend more in healthcare than military. What would you like to fix specifically?
I use windows (although not a heavy user, I mainly use Linux these days), and only outsider apps I have installed are lightweight open source ones and some "official" versions of software. You don't need an antivirus apart from built-in Windows Defender. And I don't notice any slowdown. I have a non-admin account which I regularly use and admin account is separate.

Arguably many users don't know how to use a Windows desktop. But that's not a failure of desktop; that's failure of Windows. They could have provided an easy way to install applications to a sandbox. On Android you can install from apk files and they are installed to a sandbox. If Windows had such a feature easily available, I think most of genuine desktop app makers would have migrated to it. This would have the advantages of the browser and no battery drain, no fan noise, no sluggishness.
People keep saying "consciousness" but it sounds like the topic is more specifically identity.

I have a brain, you have a brain, billions of others do, it seems like there is a reasonable amount of symmetry, but "I" look out of my eyes and not anyone else's. Replacing you with an AI is much more feasible from my perspective than replacing me with a program.
That’s focusing on AirBnB’s effect on the hotel industry, but I’m more concerned about AirBnB’s effect on the rent market. This is a subject that’s been pretty well covered here before.
This article is spectacular, thank you!

Joel explains that it's hard explaining Dev work to nondevs, e.g. the Business. They think the UI/screenshot is the software, which has a number of consequences.

As a DevOps, I also see a similar challenge explaining Infra/DevOps to Developers :)
> - I don't have to create a new account or fuck around with giving some restaurant my credit card

In case you need to in the future, i'd recommend privacy.com for merchant-locked cards.
Duplicate. See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182097
Which is the extraordinary one, my friend getting handed a massive bill or me getting a small one?

It's very possible he could have haggled it down but why should you need to? Especially in a vulnerable situation like after getting out of cancer treatment.

I can guarantee you I wouldn't have had the wherewithal to fight it in his spot. I barely managed to do anything for 6 months after getting out of my own cancer treatment (and for psychological, not pyshiological reasons).
>Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the parent company name for Google) together are worth more than most every country in the world (except the United States, China, Germany, and Japan).

Did the author just compare market capitalizations with GDP? What? It's hard to take some of this stuff seriously.
Beyond Computation: The P vs. NP Problem – Michael Sipser
"One of the experiments will test the effect of radiation on seeds and other materials."

Are seeds the baseline in testing biological effects in space?
Asking as I would of thought that testing seeds in space had been one of the most tested avenues and with that, a known consistent form of biological matter that can be compared with.

Certainly if you wanted to test a space shield, you could test with something that can contain a few seeds and see how the results compare. Though as one of the tests is for energy transmission, then seeing if such equipment increases biological impact in proximity is worth knowing for future plans. Seeds certainly robust enough and can crudly test them by growing them as well, so I can see many reasons for them on many missions.
Honda Telematics
Initially I thought this may have gone the other way, setup a business with no physical location, get on Doordash, and when you get orders you place orders at other restaurants not on the platform, then pick up and deliver their food, while charging some kind of markup on their prices.
Some of blame is to be put on modern development environments that pretty much require the latest best hardware to run smoothly.

> It's our responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint.

This, a hundred times.
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted since it seems to be a pretty genuine and relevant post.
I used to think this, until:

1. We had a child

2. We had multiple children

3. We realized getting children (who may be sleeping) into a car for even a 10minute drive becomes a big production

4. We got rid of our car

Also, other reasons:

A. It is 8:30pm, you're at the office, have another 3hrs of work to do and cant spare even 10min to get away. Very common in my Junior Analyst days. In fact, we had a company sponsored SeamlessWeb account that we could use anytime.

B. You are on a business trip at a random city/hotel w/o a car

C. Your car is in street parking and you dont want to lose the spot (wicked, i know...)
The famous realization of reaching the 400th post on reddit for the day...
You’re not wrong, but we’re talking about different things. Culturally YC is more associated with startup culture, even if their direct involvement ends after the seed stage.
Failure is the best teacher, in that things working out the way you want them to almost always has a lower probability than the other way around (i.e. you're very good at basketball, so you should have a good chance of being in the NBA right?) This is why easy success stories are so demoralizing to people; they are hearing about the few who got lucky vs the countless ones who did everything they could to succeed but it just didn't work out.
Named posting doesn’t need to expose one’s email address. You could just use the name. That was my point. There is no need to expose anyone’s email address to the world, be they technically knowledgeable people or otherwise.

I still believe your site is harmful to users unless the default is publishing with just the name and no email address, with an option of publishing with the email address if someone really wants to. The current defaults seem inverted.

I’ll stop with this comment since I’ve said enough.
> Even Audi has mayor problems manufacturing their etron.

The Audi e-tron outsells the Model X and the Model S:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/04/global-top-20-march-20...

And the e-tron is outselling the Model X and Model S combined in Europe:

https://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/04/europe-march-2020.html
>"If you work somewhere where they judge you for having kids then it might be best to move on."

For many, this may be viewed as a fairly privileged statement. Particularly with Great Depression-level unemployment, simply "moving on" isn't really an option for many (most?).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1080860/market-share-us-...

Looks like a split amongst 4 right now, as far as the big ones go. This doesn't include the smaller startups as well.
>I believe that having and even encouraging parents to strive, scrimp, save, and sacrifice for their children is an overall positive force for society

Compared to what?

Doesn't society most benefit from members who are fulfilled via actualization of their potential? Wouldn't that mean more content people and more contributions to society?

Is requiring parents to "scrimp, save, and sacrifice" really the optimal design for achieving this?
Yes, it's fraud.

In general, knowingly obtaining money, goods or services you know you are not entitled to is fraud/illegal.

Here's an example of someone going to jail for knowingly exploiting a glitch: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20071026_N_C_...
Yeah, Grubhub were touting themselves to restaurants as more of a marketing channel partner - find customers, advertise etc. Still, I'm not sure why that business service warranted a 20% commission fee in the first place to be profitable from.
It seems to be a recent cultural development though. It wasn't that long ago that a man or woman would not be seen to have truly come of age until having a family of their own, or at least marriage. Tune into any popular media today though and it's all bumbling dad and overworked mum tropes demonizing healthy happy families while our rates of depression and mental illness soar. Funny, that.

While the pro-family mindset is still embedded in the subconscious of practically everyone, it has become taboo to acknowledge it openly. There is an exclusive respect afforded (good) parents that fundamentally changes their perception; it signifies a maturity, and a contribution to society that single and childless people can never attain. (And, full disclosure, I say this as an as yet childless young man.)

I've seen the way parenthood changes people. Knowing this, you are absolutely right that it is incomprehensible to me how otherwise intelligent and rational people could wish to avoid it. There is nothing more important than family.
Related projects: http://tachyons.io

You can use it without installing any nodejs stuff.
Why not use Qt bindings for $YOUR_LANGUAGE_OF_CHOICE? https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings
Fire Code font version 4 released
Biosphere 2 had ecosystem failures which don't fall under that category. Like carbonatation of the concrete.
I’m referring mostly to drivers, but programmers and basically everyone else in the chain as well.

Let’s throw a stupid amount of (not our own) money and manpower at programming a solution to a well defined problem and then grab a bunch of low wage workers and milk them. We will keep everyone, engineers, drivers, restaurants busy all the time to make it seem like we are making progress but in reality we are just burning time, money, oil and the last mile workers to the ground.

With all this money being thrown around you would think they would be able to engineer a solution wherein instead of committing identity theft (which is essentially what the author describes) and exploiting workers, they are actually solving the problem in an honest way which also provides an equitable wage.

Enough with the unethical bullshit. If you have to pose as the business to “help” a business all while exploiting cheap labor you aren’t solving a problem and you don’t have a right to exist, no matter how much money you got from SoftBank.
It's a fact that human beings make choices other than those that optimize or even satisfy their personal self-interest. Sometimes we do it because we value something else more highly than our own self interest, sometimes we do it because we're mistaken or even defrauded. In the former case, maybe that's even laudable, in the latter case, it's human.

Perhaps you're correct those on the rural side of the urban/rural divide know their business very well. Maybe you're even right that some would consider it even more important to avoid affronting anyone's status by suggesting any other possibility -- though of course if that's true, it says something about the place that status as a value has in the discussion versus, say, actually articulating the picture of the business that they know very well.

Either way, no one seems to have challenged the fact that rural areas are poorly served in areas like medicine by the policies of the political faction they appear to support. Which people are free to do, naturally, but speculating about why doesn't make for condescension by itself.
There is an economic theory that's escaping me right now, but the gist is that with certain goods, the market will hover at the very edge of efficiency; they have to become just scarce enough to break a certain threshold, then the market will realize that they are in fact a scarce resource, then correct to achieve a high efficiency equilibrium.
I should've been clearer above, I meant the google RSS reader [feeds]. Either way, your point stands to anyone wondering about the identity of feedly :)
The issue is that there is NO job today for that immigrant who doesn't speak English--let alone one that supports a family in this day and age--let alone one that pays for college.

And why should you feel sour? There is nothing wrong with being lucky.

However, the problem is that too many lucky people assume that their result is due to work rather than luck and then attribute a lack of result to a lack of work instead of a lack of luck.

This is akin to winning the lottery jackpot and then blaming other people not hitting the lottery because they just didn't buy enough tickets rather than the odds being explicitly stacked against them.
> Are we somehow so de-industrialized that we're switching back to subsistence agriculture?

As capital grows it tends to become concentrated and inflexible, oriented more towards protecting itself than innovating. Capitalism is an unstable system, it tends to evolve in the direction of monopolies and hyper-rich 0.1%.
The "all things are nails, always use hammers" mentality is almost explicitly what I am arguing against.

My mention of SQL was particularly deliberate. It's an especially successful high level declarative language with clear semantics. Implementations provide sophisticated execution engines for optimizing and efficiently running queries. It is quite a lovely separation of concerns that gives you great flexibility and good performance.

Obviously SQL would be a disastrous choice for, say, storing the pixel data in your video codec. Meanwhile, hand-coded C data structures and algorithms would be a disastrous choice for an inventory management system. Tradeoffs everywhere.
Last time I looked, Thunderbird was about:

- 1/3 C/C++
- 1/3 Javascript
- 1/3 everything else (XML, CSS, etc) known to humanity
by saying sorry and trying to befriend the ardent supporters of FOSS , this sounds like one just a step in Microsoft's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish strategy.
More on the "power-beaming technology", https://www.livescience.com/microwave-beam-military-space-pl...

> ... test the idea of using microwave beams to send solar power to Earth from space ... Build a big solar array in orbit, the idea goes, and it could collect enough sunlight (unfiltered by atmospheric effects or clouds,) to generate a powerful beam of microwaves. A collection station on Earth would then convert that beam into useful power ... down the road he said he hopes it will lead to a futuristic clean power source that could benefit everyone — and give the U.S. a new near-monopoly over a global energy supply.
For those that had kids and said it was completely worth it, could you elaborate?
>>Sanskrit that was used to avoid (reduce?) the ambiguity that is common all natural languages

I did not even bring up any other naturally spoken language. The author wants to say that we have a subset in Sanskrit using which can be much better than a formally defined language. There wasn’t even an attempt to bring any other naturally spoken language in the picture.