skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now, EVs are absolutely creating an regressive tax situation with regards to fuel. Those who can afford to buy newer, efficient cars can usually save money on tax over those who can't. For electric, it was worse - because they do tend to be more expensive to purchase up front, and they paid no fuel tax at all.

Encouraging the adoption of cleaner but more expensive technology is always going to be regressive, no way around this.

A lot of environmental regulation has strong regressive effects, it hits coal miners much harder than people sipping 10$ coffee on their macbook.
i love bikes and there are many reasons to get people on them, but assuming the 4th power claim is correct you are right. road damage isn’t a reason. math checks out.
Mobile is just the name of the game. I don't get it -- I can't stand browsing the web on mobile versus a laptop -- but when you look at the metrics, it's hard to argue against optimizing for that channel.
Americans are primarily disagreeing on how to finance these ideals.

They are also afraid of the following things:

- Consequences for using free money the wrong way. We've already seen people imprisoned for using stimulus money[0] that was freely given out with no real checks. And that was from a completely right-wing administration and Department of Justice! People know they'll take the money, they just don't want the opportunity for the state to judge them for its "generosity". It's either no strings attached or not done at all.

- A diminishing set of options. People don't like consolidation of control when the state nationalizes an area, distorts a market with its unlimited resources but is also not very competitive while retaining its ability to imprison and kill people. So people are afraid of that.

Underneath all the arguments about empathy, redistribution, how it is actually financed or expropriated, are those concerns.

[0] site search of doj.gov "ppp indict" https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk009z-HSGv1tJet83_Rj...
https://github.com/santinic/how2 does that with StackOverflow answers
No what you are saying is not true or rather it's a deliberate obfuscation of the leading cause of the fires- climate change.

Rainforests that have not burnt before, burned last year.

The fires that exploded across Australia were unprecedented and never burn so rapidly and so hot.

Former fire fighter chiefs saying the opposite of what you are saying:

"Just a 1C temperature rise has meant the extremes are far more extreme, and it is placing lives at risk, including firefighters"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/forme...
At that point you’d be better served by looking at one on the various 2d layouts.

Those would be very difficult to implement on an acoustic piano though as they have multiple keys triggering a single note.
What a time to live!
It is relevant because the limitation to our measurement capability means we can't know most of the digits. We can't confirm experimentally that a given mass can be composed of "multiple possible combinations of objects whose masses can sum to that same mass". The mass number for an object can exist and yet it may be impossible to duplicate it with other objects. Imagine every object having unique ID with infinity of digits.
> IMHO every human being is a blank slate of infinite potential at birth

I respect that and principally agree on the ideals. And I don't think that's a complete picture. I ask you to consider the disabled and the aged as examples of what I'll call 'shaped' potential to distinguish from 'infinite' potential. I hope you would make the distinction between the availability of education and the requirement for its use. To demand 'infinite' growth from 'shaped' potential is cruelty, not generosity.
From "Down with meritocracy" (Thu 28 Jun 2001 21.59 EDT):

The book was a satire meant to be a warning (which needless to say has not been heeded) against what might happen to Britain between 1958 and the imagined final revolt against the meritocracy in 2033.

Much that was predicted has already come about. It is highly unlikely the prime minister has read the book, but he has caught on to the word without realising the dangers of what he is advocating.

Underpinning my argument was a non-controversial historical analysis of what had been happening to society for more than a century before 1958, and most emphatically since the 1870s, when schooling was made compulsory and competitive entry to the civil service became the rule.

Until that time status was generally ascribed by birth. But irrespective of people's birth, status has gradually become more achievable.

It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.

Ability of a conventional kind, which used to be distributed between the classes more or less at random, has become much more highly concentrated by the engine of education.

...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
I never said I had any "principles" that were at play here. I left a reply above that fully explains it. In the future, maybe give people some benefit of the doubt that they're not coming here in bad faith.
Rent control is keeping rents high in San Francisco
> As the vote count currently stands he’s going to be the president

Actually the president is not chosen by the popular vote. You may not like how our democracy chooses presidents but that doesn't change facts.

> There’s no reason to think the vote totals are going to change. In 2016, Trump was also referred to as president elect at this point.

In 2016 the other contestant had conceded.

> Or were you very careful to correct anyone that said Trump had won in 2016 and pointed out that it wasn’t actually decided until the election was certified?

I'm pretty sure I asked what makes him President-elect. Do you have an answer?

> Trump has been claiming massive voter fraud with no evidence since 2016

What kind of evidence would you accept?

> He started claiming it a day after the election and has yet to produce any evidence.

Videos of ballot fraud and sworn affidavits are evidence.

> While every Secretary of State says there’s no evidence of massive voter fraud. And pointing this out and that trumps claims are baseless, which is all purely factual, has somehow become biased.

The bias is insisting that there is no evidence when there is evidence.
Not necessary, interviewed for a Sr Engineer role where I clearly impressed the CTO, but didn't do that great on a stupid coding exercise. And that was not even a requirement for the job, and I told them that was not my strongpoint. I'd done my homework on the company, they had bottlenecks, which I suggested a solution for, and they were pretty blown away. But like other folks here pointed out, all companies want are folks who can crack the coding exercise, everything else is a hogwash.
I think the movement is about standard not just one or two, a bit like 4/4 1/4 etc size of violin but not just for kids.
I think that's because a) a lot of people nowadays think their feelings hold more importance than somebody else's facts (outrage is a terrible advisor) and b) the facts themselves have become less tangible because there seems to be a myriad of sides to anything, with so many sources putting their spin on things that even just arriving at a neutral base for an argument takes more effort than people are willing/can afford to expend. Especially because that effort has to be expended against the pull of their own biases, which have gotten pretty entrenched thanks to the online echo chambers. Cognitive dissonance is exhausting, so people often just shut down and go into emotional combat mode when faced with opposing views, even when the views are presented in a sensible manner -- and mostly, they are not, because why bother if the gulf is already so large and the people on the other side are clearly idiots.
Is there any data on U4 rates based off age demographics?
Mac Mini M1: Audio and Plugin Performance in Logic Pro X
No one has made the claim that it would be fine if only men with small hands were negatively affected. The focus is on women in this instance for one reason: the data gathered and referred to in the comment you so disingenuously took offense to shows that women are disproportionately affected by this issue. Are men with small hands also affected? Yes, but that is not an identity half of the people on this planet identify with. I'd hazard to guess there are not a great deal of people who feel defined by the size of their hands (or discriminated against systematically).

Fortunately breaking down this barrier benefits everyone, regardless of sex. Feminism benefits all.
Women on average have smaller hands than men. And yes, there's also variance, so it affects men with small hands too. If it were corrected, men with small hands would be able to compete, and even more women would be able to compete. It would disproportionately help women, and it would also help men with smaller hands.
Here’s the design doc: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
Got it, thanks! Makes perfect sense to me (to have those assurances).
Right, that's what I am getting at. If it is as good as automatic, why make a mathematician do the transformation themselves? Why make them look at and manipulate all the transformed statements when they're working out a tactic proof?

Whether or not a proposition is constructive is not something I've ever heard any mathematicians in my department ever worry about. I have only ever heard about, for example, showing a certain bound was "effective" after showing that there was a bound at all. Effective means that there is some procedure to construct the number -- but no one cares about whether the argument that shows this number is an upper bound is itself constructive. Lean with its Prop, Type 0, Type 1, ... universe hierarchy is sort of well suited for this.

I'm sure that there are interesting questions that hinge on constructibility in a proof, but again, mathematicians I talk to have never seriously thought about these things. In my field (topology), we do worry about constructing objects and invariants (and sometimes we even care about the complexity class), but at the proof level everything is classical.

If you're involved in developing proof assistants and you want mathematicians to use it, then I would suggest making it so you can change the "reasoning monad" in a file. If you put it in classical mode, it should look like you're able to use LEM, etc., and the goal window should show only untransformed statements, but then when outside the classical monad a constructivist would see the transformed statements. This would be sufficiently ergonomic.
Could you tell me what courses you took ?
The people buying pianos are not typically the players themselves, but performance venues, teaching studios, etc. Even for kids, when a kid outgrown a 1/4 size fiddle, upgrading to the next size doesn't require a truck. Making multiple sizes is only one facet of what amounts to an infrastructure problem.
Yeah I know, I called them out as an exception, PBS is decent too. I was referring to "American [mainstream] news." I recognize I wasn't clear, so my bad.
Ruby's flexibility makes it great for going fast and hacking things, but oh my god can it lead to monolithic spaghetti.

Magical eager backfills, mysterious action at a distance method_missing dispatch, crazy class hierarchies and transclusion, endpoints with reflective behavior, nonsensical tests with horrific abuse of rspec, ...

I've spent engineering years tearing down Ruby crud others have built, and it's led me to have a distaste for the language like no other.
I can ship few cards to Hawaii. The plants and follows most likely won't regrow next year. Your idea about the trees. Is pure amazing.

Can you review my site and tell me what you think about it? So i can greatly improve it!

Thanks.
As a pianist with relatively small hands I understand the motivation behind this.

But:

1. At the vast majority of gigs I play (cocktail piano, big band, accompanying singers for auditions, etc), I play whatever piano is available. If I had spent my practice career on a smaller gauge instrument, I would be hobbled on any house piano.

2. I believe one can be just as expressive a pianist with smaller hands. There are several amazing smallhanded pianists to prove this. Keith Jarrett comes to mind. Sure, maybe some Rachmaninoff is out of reach, or Teddy Wilson's walking tenths, but there's effectively an infinite selection of other music to play.

3. If smaller pianos become popular, how long before modern repertoire starts including 13ths and other fiendish intervals?

Last year I was in a church basement in Greenwich Village and encountered a Steinway Model B (my alltime favorite instrument). It was humiliating: I could barely play without fumbling and hitting wrong notes all over the place. I soon realized that the piano was small-scale like those mentioned in this article. While it was fun to suddenly be able to reach any tenth with no effort, otherwise it was not really enjoyable to play at all.
Since the article provides numbers with limited context...

Number of US deaths for leading causes of death:

Heart disease: 655,381

Cancer: 599,274

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 167,127

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 159,486

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 147,810

Alzheimer’s disease: 122,019

Diabetes: 84,946

Influenza and Pneumonia: 59,120

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 51,386

Intentional self-harm (suicide): 48,344

For 2018.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

80K flu deaths for the 2017-2018 season

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm#deaths
RTTY art started in the 1920s, used to be stored on paper tape. Some of the images shared between operators during Xmas holidays were amazing. Here's a bunch stored in the .pix format: https://rtty.com/gallery/gallery.htm
No, people will read it as a variation on jupyter, as intended, and jupyter is pronounced (by pretty much everybody) as jupiter.

So Jupystar is pronounced like Jupistar.

Jupis, like lupis.

People try to be too clever with these portmanteaus, and end up with either something unfortunate or unpronouncable.
Nah.

The US has pursued a spectacularly inept constellation of policies that have killed granny and created an economic disaster.

The economy can't recover until the pandemic is controlled. Doing nothing about the pandemic to 'save the economy' will only make both the pandemic and the economy worse.

Making enough N95 masks, and forcing people to wear them, would have both kept granny safe and saved the economy. But, that didn't happen, so the US is stuck with the worst of both worlds.
They might hide the URL, so I can't see where the link led me. Or they might disable the usual browser menu, preventing me from bookmarking a page. Or they might have the "close tab" interaction be in a completely different location, breaking any muscle memory.

If I'm following an HTTP(S) link, it means that I want to view it in a browser. I don't want to have some in-app view that can only return me to gmail, or to discord, or to google handouts, just because that happened to be where I clicked the link from. I don't care in the slightest whether the rendering engine is the same as the default browser. I care whether the user interactions are the same.
Just to add another data point, I had a 2005 Mazda 6 V6 Wagon and I tracked the fuel usage for an entire year. Ended up a 10.2L/100km. Something I found was horrendous compared to my friends' Corollas and Civics.
I'm not going to downvote here, but please don't take a comment on gender differences to be inherently sexist, or assume that a comment has to be written in a way that is defensible to any argument that can be thrown at it (like men with smaller hands).

Saying that women, on average, have smaller hands than men is as sound as saying women, on average, have a higher likelihood of getting pregnant during sex than men.
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How to build your own Zapier alternative for free
Apple said to be among US companies lobbying against Uighur forced labor bill
> The majority of hopeless people are a long way from retirement

Source?
It’s a revenue share rent model. Kinda like if a commercial office lease based the rent on the revenue the law firm tenant makes every month instead of rent being a flat monthly payment, say 10% or so vs $2500 /month.

The idea is the posh lifestyle image contributes to the public persona a social influencer has, thereby increasing reach and effectiveness of the advertising he/she makes and resulting in higher revenue.

For the influencer (typically not cash rich), it’s a way to up their credential and daily lifestyle without needing the up-front money required.

For the holding company, I presume they forecast the return from the revenue split of one or many tenants in the house is a multiple higher than if they just leased the property out at whatever market rate.

It’s a terribly toxic model for all involved. I suspect it won’t last long as a profitable arrangement for anyone and when it no longer is, lots of damage will occur to all parties.
Covid is down/non-existent in counties in Western Kansas too where nobody is wearing masks.

These "studies" are worthless because they contain so many lurking variables. They do more harm than good because they distort reality and "cry wolf", weakening the public response when compliance is needed elsewhere.

I'm not saying don't wear a mask. The best studies we have so seem to suppport they slow disease transmission. But we shouldn't let bad science get a free pass.
Might work in a startup but senior leadership at enterprisey companies will not accept that as an answer.

They love metrics and that sort of thing, that's why it's hard to quantify even though it's clearly valuable.
They just lost me a hundred dollars worth of steak tonight. Their service has become increasingly incompetent in recent months where >50% of orders arrive cold, because it sits at the restaurant so long waiting to be picked up. Now with this service outage the service has grown from incompetent to incapable. Support small businesses and don't go through the middleman. Restaurants will love you.
Dr. Dobb's Interview with Alan Kay [pdf]
>John maneuvers easily around a slippery deck, his only helper his son Sam, 72, who often comes along as his dad’s sternman.

It's a funny sentence, when you hear about a son helping his father out in his fishing business I don't think you often imagine someone who is already 70 himself.
Did you intentionally or unintentionally paraphrase Ebenezer Scrooge just then?

If unintentional, perhaps you should consider your life and behavior in view of the three ghosts referenced in that novella.
It’s seldom mentioned when talking about unemployment. Particularly when it comes to titles, so it’s fair to say excluding the hopeless from unemployment makes it a misleading metric
Yeah, the browser itself is an automation feature. It automates the downloading of a file over HTTP, downloading of any dependent resources, managing of caches, and rendering of the result. That these are so frequently done that this automated pipeline is referred to as "a browser" doesn't mean that this isn't an extremely automated system.
If all you're looking to do is verify the USB storage, sure. But USB doesn't have to only be a storage device. You can include all sorts of other evils in a USB payload.
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I just listened to a great interview with Joel Greenblatt[0] on the subject of education. It's really worth a listen. I think the solutions are within our reach with just a little political will.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-economics-of-commo...
Just going to say - for those that don't know Keith Jarrett.. go listen to the Koln Concert. When listening, remember that he improvised - meaning made up on the spot - every note that evening.

One of the most powerful moments on the piano, at least to me.

Amazon link to Koln concert: https://www.amazon.com/Koln-Concert-Keith-Jarrett/dp/B000026...
Because there is political value in supporting people's freedom to choose and rejecting totalitarian actions of political adversaries.
My college degree was in piano. My hand size is average, I can comfortably reach all ninths and most tenths. (F# - A# pisses me off.) It always bugged when my teachers would take umbrage about hand size complaints, they always had some piano pro to point out that had smaller hands than me. Yeah, I get it, I can arpeggiate, but you still can't make me learn Rachmaninoff.

There's this Brahms 2nd rhapsody that I just love, but the climax of the entire piece is this chord that I can only hit if the stars align, and it just hurts my heart to arpeggiate it.
Just curious, how did you make the career transition?
Great-grand-parent, to whom you were responding.

A couple of thoughts: of course some people will be in a hole so deep they cannot dig themselves out. But I suspect that is rarer than you expect (look at how we went from mental illness in general, to schizophrenia, now to coma patients).

Unless you’re intimately familiar with someone’s situation, how can you judge?

I’ve found it more helpful to focus on how one can succeed, whether for myself or loved ones.
> Consistency in how statistics are measured is important. You can rag on the methods but without consistency it’d be meaningless.

Is it meaningless? Isn't it important to get as accurate an assessment as possible of the current situation? Arguably that's even more important than historical comparisons.

> The majority of what you term as “hopeless” is seniors that are let go and eventually decide to retire rather than entering the work force at wages less than they earned previously.

Is there a citation for this? Millions of people are newly out of work now as a result of pandemic-related shutdowns, so it seems highly unlikely that primarily seniors are affected by an inability to find work.
First thing that occurred to me was WebRTC for P2P chat using an IP address in the STUN fallback list if DNS fails? As in https://github.com/michal-wrzosek/p2p-chat
Regulate universities to reduce what they can charge for education. Federally kill teachers unions that have caused rot in public education. Do NOT forgive student loan debt as more than 50% of the debt is held by "high net worth" [0] individuals and graduate degree seekers [1]. Bailing out student loan debt without regulating what colleges can charge will only make current issues in education worse.

Smart people command more value than dumb people - it's a sad but true reality. Educate your kids!

[0] - https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/which-households-hold-most-...

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/graduate-student-loan-debt-n...
Please, kys
Some libraries let you "check out" ebooks virtually, with some sort of DRM thing I guess to prevent you from keeping it. The waiting lists tend to be absurd for common books but maybe it's worth trying?
At this rate I would wager that hoop height will be under fire at some point if it isn't already.