skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I used to think this. Then I discovered how quickly Caltrans was able to fix that tank truck destruction of the highway in the East Bay. And then I looked at the stuff and realized something: America doesn't actually need the infrastructure. It's all a jobs program. Because when America needs it, it comes fast as fuck. But the truth is that America doesn't need it. You don't need high-speed rail (planes are better). You don't need that road to be resurfaced (the loss of life and property over the period in question is minuscule). You don't need the Central Railway. You don't need more interstates. It's okay to allow some bridges to fall killing some people.

Almost all American infrastructure is either a vanity project, a jobs project, or a political quid pro quo operation to an ally to get some other thing done.

The problem is that once you get really used to this mode of operating, you kind of forget that there are sometimes things that really do matter. I think America has a picture of the things she already knows of: crucial highway collapses? gotta fix now! But the ability to recognize new crises goes away without novel crises.

So America can't build ventilators in an emergency, can't train nurses in an emergency, can't do anything new. But I think America can deal with the old things just fine if she wants to.
there are 6 balls drawn in the example, which would drop that number down to .26%, which would be once every 400 years. I didn't check the rest of your math though.
HTML generators that work on trees. They do exist, and they're very popular in Lisp world, though they also exist elsewhere.

So instead of reading a template file and interpolating it with strings, you'd write something like (using JS / PHP syntax):

const html =
['form', {action: myHandlerUrl, method: 'post'},
['input', {id: 'key', name: 'key', type: 'hidden', value: randomKey()}],
['button', {type: 'submit'}, "Send!"]];

OutputHtml(html);

With OutputHtml() being the replacement for templating engine. The above structure is semantically a tree, and you can't in any way screw it up as to leave tags incorrectly nested (it won't compile/interpret). It's composable too - you can concatenate a bunch of such representations and always get a result that represents a valid tree. OutputHtml() is relatively easy to write even by yourself, because at any given time, when turning a dynamic value into output HTML, it's apparent how the value has to be converted (and/or "escaped").

SQL also has its equivalents of this idea. The most basic of which is "prepared statements" - an API in which, instead of:

query("SELECT foo, bar FROM baz WHERE bar = " + userInput
" AND foo > " + anotherInput);

you write:

query(build("SELECT foo, bar FROM baz WHERE bar = ? AND foo > ?"), userInput, anotherInput)

which against gives the API the most basic ability to recognize and encode interpolated values correctly. There are of course more complex libraries available, which let you parametrize any part of an SQL query, while making the generation template respect SQL's semantics, and that use composable representations.
Sony Patent for Dual GPU Console (PS5 Pro?)
It's a technology that mostly gets out of the way and allows you to get stuff done, even fairly quickly.
It is 42, but in our Visible Universe it's 137.
This assumes Google can't figure out crawling SPA.
But even if you dont stay in the house, the next owner can use it. I expect most houses will be lived in for atleast 30 years if they are getting mortgaged.
I often hear engineers rave about lisp. Is that really such a superior language?
Seems like unless there is some magic here the idea of a patent on using more than one GPU has some prior art, just maybe?
You are correct in understanding that the Gates foundation should clarify their timelines. I am not sure why you have been downvoted for this. The economic and health impacts of malaria versus sickle cell diseases ought to be decided by the individual. If the person has no plans to immigrate and if his or her country is stuck in a perpetual resource trap with no ability to combat malaria, then the cure (eradicating sickle cell anemia) may be more harmful than beneficial.
The 12-factor app has been around since at least 2014. Why do you think "containers" are "enslaving" you?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273716.
Google: /starts playing Einstein on the Beach, the 9-hour version/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_on_the_Beach
Hydroxychloroquine bad because orange man took it, and orange man bad. Never mind other countries are using it successfully if given early, not the near-death application used to ban it.

Ivermectin has been shown to work much better, but that will become banned too. If the government gave a damn, they'd be recommending everyone take 5000 IU vitamin D.
2020 likely world's second hottest year, U.N. says
How seriously am I supposed to take a language that executes after numerous syntax errors that should be fatal compile/runtime errors in every other language? It keeps on trucking no matter what "code" you give it.
Just curious, but are you White? No need to answer, but I do see some bimodality in the opinions expressed by people I trust about AR, so I guess if you're not it'll provide some downward pressure on that certainty.
I think it really depends on the legacy. I mean...how many of the misty eyed people commenting are doing the same thing one of their parents do/did, or wishing they were? I certainly am not.
That is exactly how it works.

I've changed every contract I've ever signed like this.

Usually those bullshit lines about employer owning all code I write, even on the weekend type stuff.

I've only had to walk from one job over it. Bullet dodged.
A lot of renewables are connected into the distribution grid and the markets in general run on the transmission grid. Every jurisdiction is different, but in general the transmission system is run by a neutral party who is usually known as an "Independent System Operator". In contrast, the distribution system is run by the local distribution company (LDC) that supplies power to consumers. The LDCs have traditionally not run their own markets but that is starting to change. At my day job I built a distribution level market that is being deployed in California [0]. We've developed a method of pricing the energy from DERs to account for the local benefits they can provide to the grid at a micro level.

Shameless plug, but if anyone is interested in these topics we are hiring for a number of roles [1].

0. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/opus-one-tests-...
1. https://www.opusonesolutions.com/careers/
So basically German "failure", but global success?

And everyone else who tries it will do better because Germans ate the costs?
I can verify. In the ED I work at, we recently "upgraded" our monitors for vitals in every room. The new system has insanely ill-thought-out defaults that cannot be changed - the settings revert with every new patient. A patient moving a little and thus creating artifact in his/her cardiac rhythm frequently triggers a "v-tach" alarm. It sometimes signals the v-tach alarm even if the patient is in normal sinus rhythm with a slightly widened QRS. If a patient removes the pulse ox for just enough time for the machine to alarm, but then puts it back on, the machine will continue WAILING until somebody can shut it off. Unfortunately, if that patient happens to be a COVID-suspected or positive patient, we do not just walk in the room and fix the issue. The respiratory rate measurement takes its measurement from the cardiac rhythm signal. It works sometimes, but I never have found it to be reliable or accurate. However, the machines default to sounding the exact same loud alarm if it thinks somebody is apneic (nevermind an SPO2 of 100% with a good waveform). Since there are so many rooms being monitored at the staff station all at once, the exact same alarm goes off almost every minute for one thing or another.
Ok, here is the point of my agreement with parent - the usual alarm tone went off on a patient with an all-too-familiar "V-Tach" message. I hit the button to silence the stupid thing and found a button to "view event". I hit that button (feeling very annoyed again) just for the sake of never having seen that function yet (like I said, the system is new). What do you know... the patient was in a run of v-tach for several seconds. Pretty useful diagnostic information (and if they never converted, pretty damn important to know to keep them alive).
Ancedotally, I have yet to meet a someone whose Macbook didn't break before it became obsolete.

A quality product shouldn't be so fragile to component failures. Bad RAM shouldn't entail an entire motherboard replacement.
I would mention that you're not bound to a single language so writing the guts of the business logic in something like PHP, Ruby or server-side node might be fine - you'd just hook up the performance sensitive bits up to a library written in a compiled language.

In fact I think there are certain organizational benefits to partitioning your language use by skills required to maintain that section of code. When you're a startup there's no benefit at all, but as companies grow you can use that to smoothly transition into separate teams with different expectations around testing and feature flexibility.
Also: would the clapper ad activate nearby clappers??
Castles in the Sky
COBOL.. lol so spoiled. It's machine code or gtfo! /s
That's pretty normal, at least in tech in CA. Every job I've taken in the past 15 years has had documents I was required to sign on my first day as a condition of starting employment. Most also had some other documents I had to sign to accept the offer, but those were not comprehensive.
Regardless of how you choose your number sequence, buy two of the same sequence. If it's a split, you get twice the share.
I think you can trigger Google assistant by using "OK Boo Boo". It works on the Google Home and on my Android phone, and is actually easier for toddlers.
And here we have why they have two options.
The "safest and cleanest" chart is VERY misleading when in comes to nuclear.

It completely ignores the LONG-TERM risk for human survival: catastrophic release of large quantities of active fuel or waste (due to events like war, terrorism, natural disasters).
arma.exe is not responding. The plot thickens...
Cool, as a rough approximation, it is close to (1/50)^6, right? But couldn't the first ball be any ball? That doesn't really matter. So wouldn't it just be 1/50^5 for 6 balls?

And wouldn't the odds really be: p = (1/49 * 1/48 * 1/47 * 1/46 * 1/45) for the balls to be drawn in order in one lottery?

The odds for them not to be drawn in order are then: 1 - p.

If there are 1000 lotteries per day, the odds it doesn't happen in a year are: ynp = (1-p)^(365 * 1000).

The yearly probability would be: 1-ynp.

If the balls can be drawn in any order, but they have to end as 6 ascending balls - then I think the probability is much higher, right?
I'm far more practical, I use my own phone, or I can use work phone me for personal use without restriction and without rootkits.

If you require rootkits then the work phone is now a desk phone.
> Honestly, the fact that she has the gall to complain to the NLRB about this firing is pretty despicable. Google should be suing her for defamation.

This is such an ill-informed understanding of how labor law works I'm not sure where to even start. You have a legal right to assert your legal rights, as was done here. The NLRB is akin to a trial court that makes the determination and issues judgements.

Winning a legal case is not "defamation".
I already have the landscape version (from their previous kickstarter) and this was an instant-buy personally: https://twitter.com/wildpeaks/status/1136597740710977536

I love this kind of screens because it has a physical volume that makes it believable that it's a real object inside a glass case.

Of course it's not immersive like VR, and doesn't augment the entire room like Hololens, but it doesn't require wearing special glasses, there is no friction to see the 3D effect. And it works for multiple people at the same time (unlike ones based on eye tracking) and it doesn't require you to be standing in front at a specific position (unlike stereo screens).

However the one limitation I had in the landscape version is the effect is only horizontal because it works like the lenticular printed holograms you'd get as a kid.

But for something that sits on your desk or in a storefront, you don't really look up and down the screen, so people don't notice that it's only horizontal.
The argument that you don't have to restart the server after editing a file? I mean I've used a couple of web dev environments and I know for a fact that Rails, Django and Express all come with some sort of automatic reloading in development - provided by the framework itself or by a library. Quite sure there is a solution for most environments.
See links below.

https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees

https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/about-s...
I honestly see more of that on reddit. 90% of reddit users seem to treat every conversation as a debate they feel compelled to win.
Absolutely. I think that’s why it’s so vital to combine both qualitative and quantitative data.

I doubt there are too many people in tech making this mistake, but without numbers there’s a good chance you fall prey to people’s inaccurate perceptions or explanations for their own behavior.

On the other hand, without those first-hand accounts, it’s all too easy to tell a mistaken story about your numbers. In particular, your users’ sentiment towards their time spent in your app is a guess, unless they tell you.

I think timescale is another crucial dimension to evaluating time-in-app, and whether it’s a positive indicator for your business.

For instance, driving up engagement has doubtless been good for Facebook’s financials in the short- to medium-term. Arguably though, that relentless focus has led to the present political climate where they’re fighting off regulation. Whether that’s an existential threat is yet to be seen (one can only hope), but it certainly casts the metric in a different light.

As you say, it comes down to the fact that there is no silver bullet metric; there’s no substitute for thinking about and dissecting the data you collect.
From the outside looking in it seems romantic, having the opportunity, safety net, and shared experiences of operating a family owned business sounds pretty amazing.

Realistically I’m guessing it’s more complex than this, depending on the family and what the business actually is.
When our visible Universe will drastically change, this constant will change too.
0.101001000100001... is irrational.
Its constituent companies were older, though. Hollerith's original Tabulating Machine patent was filed in 1884, and his machines and punch cards were used for the 1890 census.
It's a high risk and very high variance bet. The odds are terrible but for 99.999% of people it's the only bet you can make with "instantly project me into the top echelon of wealth" levels of upside. There's value in that which is not captured by the negative expected value.

Finance professionals have access to this kind of bet outside the lottery via leverage and complex derivatives and they place bets all the time. Earlier this year Bill Ackman made 2.6B on a really wacky bet against corporate debt [0].

The lottery is absolutely a waste of money for most people, but if you're rational about it you can see it as an opportunity that has no replacement.

0: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-ackman-billionaire-made-2-...
What exactly did Google do? I can't find it.

Do note that one of the fired people installed an web interceptor onto all employee browsers, injecting content when certain websites were visited. Basically installed malware in the workplace.

I cannot think of anything less ethical to do when gives such access. If they were my coworker I would never be able to trust them with access to anything ever again.

To abuse such huge power for something so obviously ineffective and will-obviously-get-you-fired also shows a great lack of judgement. It was, bluntly, fucking stupid.
There’s a guy who recorded a 90 minute training session by Gatto in 2000. In 2017, he still was flabbergasted about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yjoBZei2xmY.

Original video of that session at https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtsaTMdKVTM.
The fact that the people who get that value may not be you and that the employer may take value away from you to make up the difference.
Most people haven't really thought about the problem space in a comprehensive fashion and don't see the interconnections. The modern view tends to be "What pill/medical treatment fixes X disease" and looking at it in a larger context of how that disease even occurs to begin with flies in the face of those mental models.

Throw in words like ethically questionable and some folks will probably hit the downvote button in knee jerk response to perceived "SJW" stuff without trying to understand the point of the comment.
"Signed" isn't what you think it is. You can sign the offer letter, and possibly a couple other things, but most companies will also have more documents that you must sign on your first day of employment, and won't give them to you before then.
Better yet, just pipe all your data to /dev/null it supports sharding. Sharding is the secret in the webscale sauce.
Here's a refutation: Microsoft spends $250k/employee/year on stock dividends and buybacks. That's quite a large slice of the pie the union could negotiate for.
This is a phenomenon (harsh in the case of Jiro's son amid modern sensibilities about free will and obligation), which is said to have fueled some aspects of human exploration (and also unfortunately the bad aspects of it) in history.

The 2nd son didn't inherit under the doctrine of primogeniture, leading the later sons to be the (often) neglected or less favored / wealthy, motivating them (for better and worse) to set out on their own and prove their worth.
Probability it happens is 1 in 50c5 (the number of ways to choose 5 balls out of 50.) So probability it doesn't happen is 1-1/50c5. Probability it never happens in a year is that number raised to (3651000). That gives 85%, so there's a 1-.85 = 15% chance that it does happen each year:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281-1%2F%2850choose5%...
We’re talking about depositions, so the knowledge of an investigation followed by destruction of the data (whether intention or not) by handing the device over would be a crime. I can’t hand my phone over to the police and remote wipe it with iCloud, for example.

Destruction when handing to a mugger is still ok.
Any combination of numbers has the same probability of showing up in a fair lottery. Why would you choose something like 1 2 3 4 5... that has basically same chance of happening but almost guarantees you will have to share the pot with a bunch of other people?
You really don't think Google doesn't test in other huge markets? A study a couple years ago found that Google did awfully well with English speakers from the US, India, and China. [1]

From a quick search, it looks like national accents are less of a problem, and the real difficulties like in dialects and foreign accents (e.g. a Spanish person speaking English).

But the idea that the training corpus used for speech recognition models is all "20-30 year old white male techbro bay area" guys is ludicrous. Where are you even getting this? Speech corpuses used for testing are put together by people who take demographic diversity seriously. On the other hand, they are sometimes biased towards a single mainstream national dialect. (E.g. "standard" American English, as opposed to a thick Boston accent.)

[1] https://voicebot.ai/2018/09/13/google-assistant-takes-lead-i...
Well, widen your horizon then, read something completely different. Alternate history, real history, a classic or 2, hard science (without the fiction part), some philosophy, etc. I tend to move from genre to genre to avoid getting stuck in a rut, something I started doing when in primary school after having read half a bookshelf of adventure/western style books and getting thoroughly fed up with the genre...
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't. Services that came after MySpace aren't like MySpace.

Switching from one dominant service for posting your meal photos to another dominant service for posting your meal photos is relatively easy. But if a web tool you depend on decides to finish their "incredible journey", you're likely to remain without an equivalent replacement (VC subsidies making it easy for few players to suck out oxygen from a market segment), and you end up having to adapt your workflow to whatever remains or comes after.
If Jeffrey Snover says they made a "screw up," the actual question to answer is how did this get approved in the first place? Thankfully we have privacy activists looking at these shady products.
The thing about juggling is that technical difficulty doesn’t map super well to how impressive the tricks look to untrained crowds. Beyond a certain point the extra difficulty is only really noticeable to other jugglers.
That's got Western Union beat by a few years. WU was founded in 1851.

On the other hand, Western Union is still trading under its original name.
Pretty great with https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet tbh. But yeah, different runtime. Ratchet is built on top of ReactPHP which is an event-loop runtime (think nodejs).

It's helpful to be able to reuse some domain code between the two if necessary, but IO cannot be done the same in ReactPHP because it needs to be async. Good news is ReactPHP has a ton of really great async libs (mysql, redis, etc.) https://reactphp.org/

As others have said, Swoole is also an option, it's more like Go (coroutine style). Personally, I think it's super cool, but not something I want to use, because the majority of the userbase is chinese and the docs and ecosystem suffer from the language barrier.
I don't think that the email controversy mattered very much for the 2016 election: I think many voters simply didn't like Clinton, and the email issue serve to support preexisting beliefs rather than swaying anyone. And yes, jailing her would be rather extreme step, as the practice does appear to be rather common, if not exactly "best", like you describe it (there were explicit laws against precisely that). However, this is just another example of the fact that among the elites, legal system is just an extension of politics, a tool used to achieve specific political goals. That does not give it much legitimacy in the eyes of the common folk, who see that they are simply lied to when they are told about "equality under the law".
For the same reason HN hates humor, insightful commentary here will be downvoted.
It's not much of a "negotiation" when the power imbalance is such that the employer can say no to your every request, but if you say no to any of theirs, you're unemployed.
This just reiterates what the parent comment said. In this case up to 49% of all workers who did not want to use tabs will be forced to.
Isn't at least the system for past flights public?

Flightradar24 has the information: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa9750/#26332420