skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In "As We Go Green", the guy who founded Formula E made it seem like there was some internal politics among FIA leadership that was resisting green tech for whatever reason, and now that Formula E is a thing, it doesn't make sense for F1 to try to catch up.
They might not need to. I couldn’t pass an interview at Google. But I’m an average worker and most companies just need average workers.
As a one time payment, maybe (though as noted above Canada is offering the equivalent of $1400 USD every month).

Yet most other wealthy countries opted for a recurring payment or subsidy of some sort -- on top of an expanded social safety net, which, by and large in Europe, were already much more robust than the US's to begin with.
Don't forget a lot of government investment.
This is a variant of the "if I don't do it, someone else will (and things will be the same)" hypothesis, which... you might want to question.
Remember that guy that died over bootleg cigarettes?

Everyone loves to say their pet favorite law is lItErAlLy WrItTtEn In BlOoD but laws are enforced in blood too. If someone isn't dying for lack of a law (at scale) then someone is gonna die when the police go to enforce it (at scale). It's important to remember this when deciding what issues are important enough that we feel like forcing other people to behave how we want under threat of state violence.
I can't wait to use XCode on Linux, but that's probably overly optimistic...
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It's worse than what AnthonyMouse said. Cancelling rent isn't "taking all true profit", it's "taking all the revenue".
I think at-will employment in the US is key to their startup ecosystem. It makes their market very "liquid", as you can hire fast and fire fast.
I think there problem is that it's just boring to watch because they are so fast - it is extremely hard to pass without hacks like DRS, which makes F1 races really boring to watch. And I'm sure most fans would much rather switch back to the v10 engines even though they are more "obsolete", a conventional powertrain doesn't make them any more boring to watch (it actually makes them more exciting imo).

And if battery technology is ever good enough to last a full F1 race without adding tonnes of extra weight, I'm sure they will switch over to electric. Powertrain isn't the main focus of F1, teams are quite limited in what they can do there.
At least for popular brands of jeans, the "inch" measurements have succumbed to the exact same nonsense: https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a8386/pants-size-...
> I get a lot of comments saying they look like "gunner" glasses.

"Gunnar" is a semi-popular brand of blue light blocking glasses.
Please take an economics course at the earliest opportunity.

Rental housing is a business. If the marginal return to capital of providing rental housing goes up relative to other investments, then more capital will be invested in providing rental house, until equilibrium. Likewise, if the marginal return to capital of providing rental housing goes down, capital will be moved out of rental housing.

If the risk of being a landlord is increased, then a small landlord has a bit of problem in that it will be hard to diversify their portfolio. They will need to enter into some kind of risk-transfer transaction. The simplest would be to purchase some kind of insurance that pays out in case of government-mandated rent moratorium. Insurance company actuaries would work out a reasonable premium, and that premium would be added to the rent required of tenants.

All-in-all, that would be a reasonably orderly solution -- with the net effect of raising rents to cover the insurance premium.

Of course, we can all imagine a world in which we have both rent control and government-mandated rent moratoriums. In which case, the return to capital in rental house goes down and the supply dries up. Which means instead of an orderly market, rental units are transferred based on non-monetary consideration. I don't see how this world is better for anybody.
So... built-in system utilities.
yep, this is a lot faster to digest and still juts as clear
Woo this is my new favorite whiteboarding tool! I love how I don't have to log in and that it works with my ipad pencil
> I wonder if it's actually not that good for business

It's actually pretty bad for business. Like European football, it's basically a money pit that generates good indirect returns only to the very top teams. That's why it struggles to keep 10 teams on the grid every year (of whom 3 are effectively "B-teams", one is half-owned by another's boss, one is driven by pilots managed by that same boss...).

That's why manufacturers as massive as Honda and Toyota never stick around F1 for long: they come in, realize how much money and time they will really need to waste to get any hope of winning trophies, and just pull the plug.
Yes, if the amount of traffic stayed the same, having all self-driving cars would be a big improvement. But what I'm saying is that a lower cost of commuting (in terms of attention, effort, and danger) would induce demand. People would hate commuting a lot less, and therefore more people would do it. To offset that you'd need to either increase the speed dramatically or do something else so that more people can fit on the roads. Maybe smaller cars. Maybe pack self-driving cars automatically into trains. Maybe build a lot more roads.

But whatever it is, you need something major to counter the increase in commuters or else the road system will get swamped.
that was a joke.
I think the exam for TJ was relatively well known; but one thing I'd be interested in seeing is how much of kids attending TJ also attended a GT middle school, and how many also attended a GT elementary school. I have no numbers, but having gone through these systems myself, it seems like a lot to maybe even most. It become like a conveyer belt, and parents who understand the long term ramifications of these programs try to get their children on as early as possible.

Here is an interesting page I found on the history of the GT program for Fairfax Country Public Schools at elementary and middle school level:
http://www.fcag.org/gtfcps.html

These are the names of some of the previous tests:

- Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale form

- Naglieri Non-Verbal Abilities Test

- OLSAT

Obviously we can't go back in time, but it would be interesting to know what kids at the testing eligible age thoughts/knowledge/understanding where around these tests.
Observation by one of my dads friends. If people truly understood how little control they have over things they'd go mad.
Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
But that doesn't indicate automatic infringement if used. The current decision in Oracle vs. Google says Google's implementation of Oracle's copyrighted Java APIs is fair use. Oracle is appealing, so maybe that will change, but the point is "copyrightable" still comes with "fair use."
Somewhat related, predatory pricing violates antitrust laws in order to prevent monopolies from forming in markets. Can one consider "excessively generous compensation" to employees a form of market manipulation?

Much like predatory pricing prohibits other players in the market from operating competitively, generous compensation to potential employees would prohibit those organizations from operating competitively if they don't have the revenue stream to support those salaries, and thus making it more difficult to retain talent. In other words, FAANG exists by name for a reason. Those organizations provide higher compensation (or above "market") than the general set of other companies in their space.
As long as you're OK with being self-reliant when the hungry homeless come to move into your home and loot your local grocery store and raid your local hospital, sure, self-reliance sound great. Or did you mean self-reliance for the poor, but not for the rich?
My Linus story from this era: my brother had a brand new 486, and when he got it, he managed to convince my parents to get him a second hard drive, so that he could run Linux. We did not understand the idea of disk partitions at the time, and I don't even remember the exact details--I believe we booted from floppy to get into Linux.

After spending a couple of days on tech support figuring out how to set the master/slave jumpers on the drives, we felt like we were making good progress. That's right, not all drives labeled their jumpers, and given that the web was a few years from being invented, there were not any support websites on which we could look up that info, so phone was the only way.

Next, we spent a week going to the UIUC CCSO computer lab and downloading slackware floppies. We installed them, and managed to get everything up and running... until we tried getting X to run. We had a strange 800x600 monitor, and getting the dot clocks right was another week of trial-and-error.

The dot clock hurdle surmounted, another problem: almost anything "big" we did under X would pretty quickly cause a kernel panic.

So what did we do? We followed what the README file in Linux said to do: we emailed Linus Torvalds the panic message. A few hours later, we had a response. Linus noticed that the crashes were all with pointers with a value of 0x08000000 (or whatever) which most likely was supposed to be a null pointer, but one of our SIMMs probably had a bit-stuck-at-1 error. He apologized for not being able to tell us which SIMM in the system it was, but encouraged us to swap hardware.

The local computer store sales guys were unimpressed that LINUS TORVALDS HIMSELF had told us we bad memory, but we eventually got them to do a warranty exchange, probably just to get us to go away. And I'm 100% sure those modules found themselves in the next system they built for a different customer. New SIMM modules in hand and the problem was resolved!
A his property so he can license at whatever price he wants.

B it's not clear from your description that you are obligated to continue to work at a below market rate. Why not quote your current rate and accept he may not hire you. Consider setting a rate that you are happy if you get the work and not unhappy if they choose someone else because they won't pay your quoted rate.

C. This is a negotiation. Quote a rate that you are happy if they accept your bid and not unhappy if they are not willing to pay it.
Most of the Xcode build system is non-gui. Having things like xcode-build, codesign, altool, etc. running on a non-mac would be great for continuous integration purposes. (If it didn't violate some arbitrary Apple rule.)
Considering this is both a sport and one of the most heavily rule driven sports currently in existence, I’m really not sure the value you’re putting into the loopback consumer product cycle is really that high.

There’s far more to the sport than a grand R&D experiment (the value of just being “in it” within the grapevine of other top end machines, the marketing, the fun and prestige. Prestige is massive in F1). Especially considering how slow and incremental the new tech addition rules are added to the vehicles and how much the rules neuter the cars on purpose.

This is probably just down to the team/human capital not being super interested in investing the time and energy to play in the top league.

Honda still has a very large presence in the Indy series which arguably offers plenty of the more consumer oriented R&D bits in the short term.

Additionally the non committal F1E stuff makes the consumer R&D argument less persuasive.
Btw, I was being sarcastic...
Geneva adopts the highest minimum wage in the world at $25 an hour
As soon as he starts claiming (with zero evidence) voter fraud and instigating insurrection against president elect joe Biden, I guarantee Twitter will be ban him before Biden’s swearing in.
I would like to add Google App Engine CDN to the list. It is easy to use with Single Page Apps and also works with regular static websites. We have both use cases in the company I'm working at, and it works fine.

However custom domains (i.e. not appspot.com) have an increased latency that can be a huge issue in some regions, like Oceania.
Don't worry, I don't think these lessons were forgotten -- we've made your way back full circle already with "serverless functions" if you squint a little bit.
Great explanation. A couple of things. So in C

-s == 2⁶⁴ - s

? That seems very strange!

Also, there's still a modulo in there, (-s) % s; does the compiler not use a division for that line or something?
You might have gotten it right. I believe the major cause of redout is blood rushing into the eyes/veins in the eyes bursting. The head is still more or less level, even if the body isn't. So it's still very much "eyeballs out" G.
This article triggers my Scrum™️ PTSD. The Way of DevOps? Am I going to have to fight off DevOps™️ certified consultants for the next five years now?

By the way, I would recommend not trying to make your systems clever and “learn”, as the Third Way™️ suggests. Keep them dumb and understandable. The last thing a critical service needs is mysterious, unpredictable, unexplainable behavior. This point alone is a huge red flag for me, brace yourselves for five years of over-engineering as people blindly latch on to advice like this.

I suppose this is the next round of silver bullets after “microservices”.
I'd guess that poor kids are likely to be more expensive to educate, but maybe it's a toss up. Some factors I'm aware of in my locale:

* Poor kids are more likely to require special-needs programs and other kinds of extra attention.

* The district has different maximum class sizes for lower and higher income schools.

* On the other hand, the system lets teachers apply for transfers while keeping their seniority, so the higher income schools (where it's easier to teach) end up with higher salary costs.

So I'd have to see a breakdown on actual costs to know whether the general level of funding is actually a measure of whether rich and poor schools are receiving comparable funding relative to their actual needs.
Although overconfidence and sloppiness likely play some role, please entertain the possibility that to err is human and many healthcare providers are doing the best they can considering the time and workload they are given.

Most doctors are horrified at the thought of their mistakes harming a patient, and if you had a cool solution or idea to reduce that, most doctors would love to hear.
It's uncanny but I literally looked at this an hour ago (prior to seeing this posting on HN).

Thanks for the comments/annotation!
it would be really nice to be able to debug safari from linux actually. the other day I had to fix a safari bug by relying on friends to test things for me, because I didn't have access to a recent enough apple device
> The reality is that research type jobs are not that numerous for a reason... The reason why industry pays more is because that is what society needs.

That's clearly false. Industry/capitalism/profit-seeking by definition makes it incredibly difficult to do things where there isn't a large expected monetary return. But profitability is a poor proxy for whether a thing is useful to do or not.

For example, there are quite a few diseases/conditions that affect a decent number of people, but we don't find cures because the return on that investment would be too low, or often negative.

Capitalism suggests that the only thing that matters is having more money; I believe what truly matters is having better lives for everyone.
Netlify results seem disappointing, I say that as a happy user of their service.

Netlify is an outlier in this comparison. For them, static site hosting is their core product, bread and butter if you will. To have such mediocre performance, as well as a relatively bad time to first byte is quite surprising.
Any good books on F1 technology, data processing or otherwise?
they seem to have their own fork of it, as the original appears to be dead:

https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-cocotron
The Database Is on Fire
> yet all of us do -- it's hard wired.

It's important to note that we're hard wired because it was evolutionary beneficial to "push out" people who look bad/incorrect/not-normal. If you have a gene that mutates then it's possible you could have other mutations that make you not suitable reproductively so it became ingrained to avoid those who look bad to get genes that would produce more fit offspring.
This is nice. Bullhorn offers similar: but the benefit you have is that you're giving a fixed telephone number, and fixed code.
I used @dataclass in almost every python project I work on. It's one of the most valuable additions to the language I can think of.
There has been lots of government investment in many areas - the question is why was SV different.
In theory, yes. In practice, rising real estate prices even in the absence of rent or price controls has not seen corresponding increases in construction, the effect of which would be constant housing costs, adjusted forbinflation.

The business of real estate is not to increase housing supply but to increase housing value as an asset class. And, given an inherently inelastic supply and rising demand, the best way to do this is by artificially constraining supply: keepin unnits off-market, limiting construction, density limmits, setbacks and separations, height limits, restrictions on multuple tenancies, and some aspects of building codes.

This isn't new:

When recently the mechanized industries, particularly in metal, entered the housing field with the production of “prefabricated houses”, they were met by the resistance of property holders, especially of the banks, who hold mortgages on about 58 percent of all 1933 value of all urban real estate, and who fear that an influx of cheap modern dwellings would subtract substantially from the market value of existing structures. These banks and loan companies have been unwilling to finance prefabricated houses except in rare exceptions and then on a limited basis.

-- Bernhard J. Stern, "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations", 1937

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...
Where, pray tell, do you live that bullying is nonexistent?

The surveys that I've seen show that bullying is pretty universal. About ⅓ of students worldwide are bullied at some point in their education, and these rates don't change all that much from country to country, although the form of bullying does have drastic differences. (Notably, Europe and the US tend to have less physical bullying and more psychological bullying compared to the rest of the world).
> give an IQ test

tho it doesn't have to be an IQ test. It could be the same sort of examination a university would administer for their degrees for their field. Except the result of the test is independent from the degree, and you can take the test without having paid for a degree (you just pay for the test - or the bill is picked up by employer, or whatever arrangement the market settles on).
Indeed. I don't understand it. The only time I take photos of myself is when I use it in place of a simple mirror. (For example taking a look at the skin in some part of my body I can't physically look at normally (my back for example).
Prehistoric Spanish Massacre Rewrites the History of War in Europe
Your understanding is correct. Lemire's algorithm is not an RNG, but a way to map uniformly random bits (from some other RNG) to a non-power of two[1] range 1..N (or 0..N-1) efficiently on average.

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[1] Well, it works for power-of-two too, but you certainly wouldn't use this if you wanted a power of two range: you can just extract the required number of bits directly.
A couple of months I did a similar benchmark of static hosts. Instead of relying on Pingdom I used Pulse by Turbobytes (which now seems dead) so the results were provided from end user networks all over the world.

https://www.pierbover.com/posts/static-hosting-benchmark-202...
It’s 255:19AM. Do you know what your validation criteria are?
So your company engages in sales practices that would be foolish without IP. That doesn't prove it is the only way to sell, or that it true for all fields. For that matter, why are the big fish able to continually have so much margin in the first place except for patents? Microsoft has made how many billions over control of a narrow programming layer to run other tasks in a loop that's been covered in sophomore year of college since at least the 80s? Competition should destroy their advantages once the market gets so big and mature. Instead such companies capture a market while it's still small, then pivot from hiring engineers to hiring lawyers.

Seems to me that certain industries like software are able to have so much startups and innovation because the legal system is just less effective at capturing and crippling them, despite heroic efforts.
You should try actually watching Formula E.

They have continued to open up the car each season, and there are real differences between them.

The "Mario Kart" style boosts serve a functional strategic purpose that is similar to the strategic elements involved in pitting in F1.

FE is the racing series driving things forward technologically now. This is why F1 can't attract new manufacturers to the series, and why FE has attracted several. There is a serious interest in EV tech now and the EV tech lives in Formula E.

Also the racing is just flat out better in FE. The last 5 years of F1 have been largely a parade. This year has been more interesting to be fair, but still, the racing just isn't as good.
As a counter-example, a master carpenter need not precisely measure every single rough-cut with a machinist's micrometer.

Sometimes bonking the knee with a gizmo is just as good as bonking the knee with your hand, especially if you've spent the past 30 years bonking knees for a living.
> The labor friendly laws were created as part of California trying to nurture that success.

Which ones? Because California has banned noncompete agreements since the 1800s, and that is a big reason Silicon Valley ever got off the ground. Fairchild was literally founded by people who left their employer to compete with it directly, and they definitely took their knowledge with them.
Some fuel efficiency race exists even by honda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Eco-marathon

https://global.honda/about/sustainability/environment/face/c...
Bit rates are usually in the 2400-4800bps if I remember right so Opus is still a bit too large.
That's too clever for me to parse.

One of the first ways Bob Moses (cite The Power Broker) exfiltrated money out of the city was jacking up the subway fees to finance his Long Island parkways, creating the original auto centric suburbs. Once he figured out how to continuously roll over the debts financed by the bridge tolls, things really took off.

The burden of the tolls and tokens were mostly borne by the middle and working classes.

Everyone today moans about how terrible mass transit became. But no one reports that those services were looted, denied investment, and those resources diverted to highways.

At the same time, the working class neighborhoods went without many other needful things which those monies could have paid for. Hospitals, schools, police, fire stations, and so forth.

In an alternate universe, today's level of urbanization would have happened decades earlier, by simply building more urban housing, and using city revenues to pay for city amenities. Sure, some sprawl would have happened. But in addition to, not at the expense of, city development.
I'm sure this comment won't get noticed but my thesis is that it won't matter if it's a lottery, the kids who attend will still succeed; it's still self selecting. It's more about the education. From my anecdata the International Community School in Kirkland Washington is also a lottery school and has a very good track record of success from it's alumni. It's notable that sports are extra curricular only and are not a focus at this school. I guess I just wish there were more schools like that.