skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Toba, Le Wik has this to say:

The erupted mass was, at the very least, 12 times greater than that of the largest volcanic eruption in recent history, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the 1816 "Year Without a Summer" in the Northern Hemisphere.[8] Toba's erupted mass deposited an ash layer of about 15 centimetres (5.9 in) thick over the whole of South Asia. A blanket of volcanic ash was also deposited over the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the South China Sea.[9] Deep-sea cores retrieved from the South China Sea have extended the known reach of the eruption, suggesting that the 2,800 km³ calculation of the erupted mass is a minimum value or even an underestimate.[10] Based on new methods (crystal concentration and exponential), the Lake Toba Caldera possibly erupted as much as 3,200 km³ of ignimbrite and co-ignimbrite.

I think its more likely your cursory dismissal which is failing to appreciate the magnitude of this event, than that the person who is actually crunching the numbers is getting it wrong. But what do I know?
Fairness is a legitimate end unto itself, an essential part of what makes a justice system 'just'.

If reducing crime is our only objective, we can do so trivially by indefinitely detaining anyone who ever does something suspicious. I think most people would find this system to be deeply unjust, even if it eliminated crime.

As a society, we have some tolerance for crime, preferring to err on the side of personal liberty against totalitarianism.

Asking for fairness in this recidivism model isn't a case of political correctness run amok, it's a reasonable request from stakeholders in the system it affects: Why should an individual be punished for the actions of others who happen to have similar identity markers?

You can say that a biased system will be "more efficient", but efficient to what end? A system that is unfair may reduce crime but it won't achieve "justice".
>Tinder settled a $23 million class-action age discrimination lawsuit—filed on behalf of some 230,000 people—in January last year, after it was alleged that the company charged users over 30 twice as much for its subscription services. As part of the settlement, Tinder agreed to stop charging people located in California, where the case was filed, different prices based on their age.

If I was King, I'd say this is perfectly fine as long as The Match Group ( Tinder's parent) clearly states the pricing tiers somewhere. My personal opinion is most people are better served by deleting their apps and being more involved in their community.

That said, this is downright illegal in most counties. You can't charge people different prices based on protected classes. It's like having a grocery store charge older people more since they tend to spend more time in the store.

Match's former parent IAC just spun them off. I reckon they know it's about to fall apart.

Anyway, I know I constantly meet better people once I went social media free. I'm much happier as well. Life is too short to spend it talking to bots on an app.
I don't particularly like MBDTF or Kanye for that matter but it was the P&J #1 pick for 2010.
The 'from GM' in the title is a little misleading. The manufacturer of this car, as described in the second paragraph, is SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. In this 3 way joint venture SAIC Motor, a state-owned Chinese company, is the majority share-holder, owning 50.1%; GM owns 44%. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling

[2] https://www.gmchina.com/company/cn/en/gm/company/about-gm-ch...
People really shouldn't have more than one sedentary day per week. It's quite dangerous for long term health.
For a price of less than two units of Brompton electric folding bikes you can get an EV car, really nice engineering there to get to the price point.

This can be a game changer in urban set up especially in my part of the world where it can protect the occupants from the weather that is either rain or hot.

It can also solve the last mile problem and hopefully they can ride share them at the Park & Ride LRT/MRT train stations.
Louis CK, Bill O'Reilly, Matt Lauer, Megyn Kelley, and several other celebrities come to mind.

While some may technically be employees, most were also executive producers and quite powerful in their own right.

Also, your source there isn't really valid because the author says at the beginning he is specifically calling out examples of regular people getting cancelled and rather than the rich and powerful.
That is not at all the spirit of that bumper sticker. It is saying if moving to Colorado from California then don’t bring California with you. More specifically: please adapt to the destination instead of trying to convert it into the thing you are so willing to abandon.
Why do you want, let alone need, to do that? Is shopping with your entire family really that fun?

Anyway, even if it is, I don’t see why the whole world should suffer so you can get your rocks off at Costco with your nuclear family.

For the record; I have a family. I don’t go shopping with them. That sounds like a waste of energy.
Another take on the same topic:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/lambda-calculus.html

Culminating in computing the factorial of 10 in pure lambda calculus on an actual computer in non-geologic time.
Gosling: Right. I mean, you can't sue a homeless person, right, which is, you know, he-- Yeah, he had sort of weird views on, you know, economic models at the time.

Weber: And personal hygiene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLMUL_instruction_set might be the closest to what you meant?

I just did some Google Scholar searches, and found a lot about FPGAs etc, but not too much about stock CPUs. But that might reflect more on my search skills than on availability of material.

Some standard CPUs now have instructions to specifically run eg AES.

https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/files2/files2/SDC20... was probably the most interesting of the bunch I found. It's about error correcting codes, not crypto. (Though interestingly, the holy trinity of error correcting codes, information theory and cryptography all flew once through the common conduit of Claude Shannon.)
Can you form abstractions without language?
I've already written a response to this elsewhere in the thread, but developers are not all equal.

You can't hire twenty developers that all have the same skill/inclinations, the same interests, the same experience.

That's not to say that a DevOps Engineer is some super 10x rockstar developer - no, they're going to have the same variations on skill, interests, experience, etc.

It depends on your environment, but there's so much different tech once you count the entire stack, that I don't think it's reasonable to expect any one person to be an expert on all of it, or even a lot of it.
Nimbus Sans L and its descendent TeX Gyre Heros are pretty close and suitable for your license requirements.
Yes. Of course, still an incredibly boring field.
I think showering has more benefits than just cleansing aspect. A shower with good pressure can be like a massage. A soaking bath is very primal and reminiscent of pre birth amniotic fluid. Water is healing.

All soap is made from lye. Any cleansing product should be bio degradable, safe for marine life and shouldn’t be laden with chemicals. Bathing can be great without the toxic soups we create in plastic containers that clog the landfill.

I love talking to older people and I am fond of taking notes of their grooming habits. That’s why some of my farm products focus on cosmetics that are also edible.

They used ground grains and nut shells for exfoliant. Herbs and oils. Plant dyes and natural fragrances. Milk and cream and yogurt. Honey. Turmeric and saffron and rose water. Corn cobs and luffa to scrub down. It’s not much diff from what we do except we have to wrap everything in plastic and use preservatives for shelf life.

Also..another thing I learnt about skin and hair care is that the inside matters. Make up and cosmetics may fix things from outside, but skin and hair are markers of diet and good health. Also circulation. Perhaps there was something to brushing yourself hair 100 times before going to bed. I also found that the women I spoke to always had grooming habits that they indulged in as a group. It was not a solitary activity. I found the whole thing fascinating.
The biggest difference between sales and engineering is the concept of closing.

Engineering or research work is never completed. We are always improving and perfecting the machine.

Closing needs to be thought of binary. This doesn't necessarily mean via contract. Good sales people will close the sale well before anything need to be signed. An expert sales person understands the customer's psychology and leaves them thinking of no other option than to purchase from you.

In technical sales it pays to be knowledgeable and understand the customer's objectives. But even smart buyers and not immune to subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, closing techniques. If you don't employ aggressive closing strategies at the right opportunities, your competition will beat you to it.

I worked in tech sales for couple of years and did just OK. My style was a little too far on the consultative side and I realised I lacked the killer instinct to close hard often enough. Possibly not all industries are as competitive as the one I was in (PCR equipment/reagents). But I decided my personality was just better suited to tinkering so I became a coder instead.
Some structures should survive millions of years in dry buried conditions. Like bank vaults made of thick stainless steel buried in Arizona.
>Tobar's work suggests that the disease would still escape some other way, through a different route or by a different method, removing the paradox. Whatever the time traveller did, the disease wouldn't be stopped.

At least scifi-plotwise, the problem with this model of time travel is that it assumes arbitrary events are marked as "important", but from the perspective of the timeline, all events should be equally important -- or rather, none of them are.

And if every event is important, and must happen (in some fashion, even if you somehow stop it) and must be maintained... then you can travel to the past, and do nothing at all. Because everything must stay the same.

If you imagine that some key events are so special as to deserve recognition for maintenance, then there must be some author to this grand narrative

IMO the only time structure that has a chance of a plothole-free narrative is multi-universe (time travel = pick a universe thats exactly the same but delayed to point of interest, out of infinite selection). If you want to get real fancy, homestuck-style multitimelines hopping back and forth between each other
Great book on this: Anathem
TBH, having witnessed the work of some great salesmen as a VPE of a successful startup, I think with training you could do a _passable_ job of it, but you're unlikely to be amazing at it. So do what you can in the interim, but spend an unreasonable amount of effort trying to find that magical sales guy/gal who can sell ice to people inhabiting the polar stations. Such salespeople exist, and they're worth their weight in rhodium.

There are two schools of thought, one says "work on your weaknesses", another says "play to your strengths". As I get older and gain more experience, I'm firmly in the second camp. Learn enough sales to have a good bullshit detector, though.
The "Shakti" open source processor from the Indian Institute of Technologies(IIT) is worth looking at for a comprehensive roadmap and vision based on RISC-V. Take a look at the available documents/software at https://shakti.org.in/
The spur on the uppercase G always felt out of place in my view. It's a shame they didn't clean that up while they were at it.
Your statement of disagreement is also an axiomatic statement. The laws of physics tell us that aliens that think would discover Pi, ergo, not a language in the normal sense of the word.
The main counterpoint is what do you do when the logging system goes down at the same time there's an incident? Do you then just rely purely on metrics/customer reports to try to debug?
You lost me here: “ Pi is a concept that is divorced from reality”
At least a generation and half would say no.
The IRS selects which returns to audit based in part on a statistical formula that identifies returns most likely to be at risk of having an error

So yes, you're correct. Analyzing whether or not someone is eligible for EITC (those making less than ~$50,000) can be automated and if flagged, a letter sent telling them they aren't eligible or asking for more information.

[1]https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-irs-aud...
A society composed entirely of selfless monks?

(Philosophers are definitely not self-abnegating. They are on a career track. Soldier do exhibit self-sacrifice, but quite a lot are conscripted against their will, and require a bit of re-education in boot-camp.)
That, and the real smoking gun: landfillite.

Some significant fraction of landfills are going to fossilize into a pretty distinctive sedimentary rock. I don't know what it would look like, but it would have, like, fossil Barbie dolls in it.

I don't think we'd have missed all of them if they existed. We could postulate an industrial civilization which just didn't make landfills? But we've only got ours to go on, and we really like burying trash. If our hypothetical forbearers were anything like us, we'd know about them.
Well, I’d argue founding a company is a little more than just “managed”

I don’t mean it as being malicious. Doesn’t mean I don’t have a different point of view on what happened but that is separate from my goal of becoming more informed
I'm not going to live long enough to see autonomous cars in the hands of regular people. And I'm not particularly old yet.

Electric, I'm with you. We're at 2 out of 3 cars in our household being electric.
Ask HN: What is your experience being aquired by Private Equity firm?
1. Were you senior management? Small/big startup?

2. Did everybody stay on the team?

3. Constant stress to deliver?

4. Did you get a salary bump and better benefits like health insurance, vacation days, etc.?

5. Did work hours become more reasonable or were you always on?

Feel free to skip answering sensitive questions
It's entirely possible that somebody at bay after the ceiling started caving in called them and gave them a check along with an NDA so there wouldn't be a civil suit.
AKL-PT1 2 GHz Passive Probe Operator Manual [pdf]
Good. I mean we need more such articles, so that just like the BBC could shame the Cameroonian government into action, we can shame tech companies into action too.
It’s not functionally required because there are multiple (infinite, even) ways of implementing the functionality of most APIs, and the specific choice of function names and types and such chosen is itself a creative process. This was the ruling the appeals court came to.
No. If that were the case, then some banker in NYC, making $1M a year, but no savings, living in a $2M condo with a $10,000 monthly mortgage and 3 kids in private school would be "working class".

That's a perversion of the definition.
I suspect the relation with algebraic topology is mostly an artifact of history.
C++ is a systems language, yet Qt seems to be quite a successful GUI toolkit.
I can’t say for the other features - I’ve never used Calibre - but if spaces were lost during the pdf conversion that means that the text layer did not have the spaces. Not much you can do in this case, really.
The "Shakti" RISC-V based open source processor - https://shakti.org.in/
You could update it with more accurate information
I wasn't trying to invent a dividing line, more trying to highlight how usage/understanding can vary. Here's some discussion from government statisticians:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/rur...

Large swaths of the US are what that page calls 'micropolitan', centered around small urban clusters, which are the areas I think cause the most confusion, built up areas that are treated as urban in statistics and conversely thought about as rural by lay audiences.
if windows was as secure as linux. + If I could have home edition, without forced updates which result in arbitrary restarts, then yeah I would move to windows.
Question: why HP-41 over other things, like TI's TI-89?

The latter has, among other things, has two properties which make it really useful for day-to-day engineering use:

- Large screen which shows which expression you entered. You can spot a typo easily, and then fix it!

- Unit support -- helps a lot, as it will ensure you are not adding meters to ohms. Or add meters and feet and it will just work.
Firefox's sandboxing incomplete or nonexistent (e.g. GPU process is not sandboxed on Linux).
Facebook has a corporate hierarchy, and there are a small number of people at the top who have real meaningful power, even if they can't micromanage every decision. Splitting up their power wouldn't magically fix any problems, but it would lessen the potential damage one person or small group of people could do.

It would also limit the damage an outside actor could do by abusing a platform, the same way America's "distributed" presidential election is safer than having one centralized election or one system that every state uses.
> In aggregate it isn't a lot of money.

You may be right.

Maybe my point is better made by saying that minor spending enforcing these taxes bring in a lot of money.

> Innumeracy among even educated people is why our policies are the mess they are.

I'd say it mostly just reflects the relative power of various interests.
So a FAANG employee pulling in $600k a year is "working class"?

Hell no. If you're in the top 1% of income (~$400k per year) you are wealthy.
Rainbow Tables are not just lookup tables of pre-computed hashes.

Pre-computation is obvious. Hellman comes up with chained pre-computation in the 1980s. Rainbow Tables are further improvement on Hellman's idea.

Let's use LM hash as the example, the core idea in LM hash is you can turn up to 7 characters of password into a 64-bit value. LM hash does this twice (so up to 14 character passwords) but we can divide it into two 64-bit hashes.

In 1975 LM hash hasn't actually been invented, but if you somehow went back and showed people from 1975 how it works they can pre-compute hashes. There are 2^56 possible hashes. So if you've got somewhere to store 2^56 hashes and passwords you can do the work and then reverse any LM hash. Hmm, 2^56 is a lot though. In 1975 nobody can store this data.

By 1995 LM hash does exist, and Hellman has proposed his chaining optimisations. So, you do 2^56 calculations still (this is a bunch of work but it's certainly possible) but they form long chains so now you don't need to store 2^56 answers somewhere. Maybe you store 2^40 answers, you need to do 2^16 calculations for every reverse and you need 2^40 storage and sadly your recall is now poor. Maybe it only works 80% of the time. Storing 2^40 answers in 1995 is expensive, you can't afford to do it, but the government or a rich company can.

By 2005 there are Rainbow Tables. Phillipe's idea massively improved recall. You can have say 99.9% recall, store 2^40 answers and do 2^16 calculations to reverse a hash. Also in 2005, storing 2^40 answers seems reasonable, you can just walk to a store and buy many gigabytes of storage space no problem.
Income taxes are a tariff on labor.
Helvetica praise always feels like wine commentary to me. 20% of it is probably on point, 80% is the reviewer stroking their ego. It's really boring. It's not even Vanilla.
Insights from the Past: Thucydides on Great Power Competition
> bright text over dark background is less readable

Doubly so when screen sharing over video chat.

Everyone at work uses low contrast dark mode with microscopic fonts and when you throw in video compression artifacting, it's totally unreadable.
I don't think so. Landfills are a source of many important minerals and energy. I'm convinced that we'll be mining ours in the next couple of centuries.
The example listing looks fantastic:

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/examples.md
You might be interested in an influential essay called "Higher-order truths about chmess" by Dan Dennett. Chmess is a hypothetical variant of chess with slightly altered rules. There are infinite interesting theorems you can prove about chmess. But what is the value of doing so? Are these theorems discoveries?

Pi is not calculated by running around in a circle with a string (nor by any other real-world measurement), it's calculated by setting up a rule-based system (math) and following the rules to derive its value. You can get pretty far in the real world by using a rational value for pi - ten decimal places should suffice for atomic-level precision, I believe.
Everyone could improve articles on Wikipedia ;)
Exercise regularly. Gym is not necessary but hour long walks daily will raise Testosterone levels considerably, add to overall calmness and dull your emotions.
Sure, but "not all developers can be devops engineers" doesn't necessarily imply "none of your developers should have server access".
When you’re tailing logs on a server there’s still a “logging system“ (your ssh connection, tail -f, a disk with finite space) that can still “fail”. Probably in either case you’d work to fix logging and you’d hope that the system is simple enough to fix.
Kennywinker, you’ve posted about a dozen times in this thread, you clearly feel strongly about it.

But no, you can’t haul your trash, or your ATV in that thing.

You certainly can’t fit a rear-facing child seat in the back with a passenger in front.

It’s a glorified golf cart. It’s illegal to sell in the US for good reason. You probably couldn’t even take it on the highway because it wouldn’t be safe at the minimum required speed.

Actual subcompact cars (that are relatively much bigger than this one) have been discontinued in the US because people generally won’t buy them.

People don’t generally choose a car primarily based on its acceleration, although it’s a factor. Decent acceleration can be a safety feature aside from being quite pleasant. And I would guess that most people have no clue what their car’s top speed is, let alone approach it. (Well, unless it’s the golf cart in question, then I supposed it’s highly relevant).

I was hesitant to reply from the onset because it seems to me that you’re making a caricature out of any opposing viewpoint and domineering the discussion.
Europe would be so lucky...
> Income taxes are a tariff on labor.

Payroll taxes are a tariff on labor, income taxes include non-labor (but “long-term” capital only at a favored rate) income, so aren't exactly a tariff on labor, though they also aren't neutral between sources of income.
I suppose it's subjective but driving a little penalty box like a Yaris on longer trips is a miserable experience, especially if you're tall. It's cramped and has poor NVH experience.
I go to help my wife (I enjoy looking around). We take my mother inlaw because she has macular degeneration and can't see that well to drive. The kids like to come for a slice of pizza or a hotdog and we enjoy being with them.

I'm sorry that offends you.
Well, according to Mass Effect, we should really be looking at mars
Then you missed a pretty good post. You need at most ten decimal places on pi to get atomic-scale precision in anything to do with reality.
> Given typical (pre-pandemic) traffic in most cities, much of that commute time will be spent in traffic congestion and very little will be spent at high speeds.

That is not factually accurate given your prior statement.

In my personal case I have to sometimes wait 30-40 mins in traffic to get to the freeway about 5 miles away but once there the remaining 40 miles of commute takes about 30 minutes. This about average in the super giant US urban area where I live.