skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professional engine mechanic I would also say Italians have a sterling tradition of turning complex engineering into a rolling dumpster fire of repair and maintenance issues. Beautiful? yes, but not long for this world.

Fiat seems to have outsourced their 500 abarth design to the devil himself with intercooler,turbo, and thermostat placements that seem to actively dare the customer to try to service these parts without removing the engine.

on the other hand Maserati decided engines are just too hard, and outsourced the whole problem to Ferrari without any thought at all. a Primo engine mated to garbage undersized Hydraulic mounts and cheap stamped pot-steel tie rods.
If you ever wanted a Ferrari experience well youll get one after about 40k miles as the idle will be as rough as a 458 on a cold track day due to the use of a cheap variator.

And if you've got the dosh for a modern Ferrari theyre no better. the 599 eats belts, the F12 belts are routinely known to just fall off, and the knock issue in the 488 never saw a proper fix...you were just expected to have an engine crew that would replace your spark plugs when knocking occurred. all of them.

EDIT: oh hey i forgot about the F430! the car that would eat its clutch if you ever drove it at an incline in reverse. about a six-thousand dollar part, and again your engine team was just expected to replace it as a consumable.
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We've wrung our hands for more than half a century over an exploding population, hoping the curve would peak before we overrun our own instinctual bad behavior. Now it's happening, we can fear this, too. Yeah, it means a lot of old people. The math has always been the same.

"Oh no. If I draw this trend out in a straight line, it crashes against limits!"
RetroArch for Apple Mac M1 softlaunches today
It's part of the trade agreement with the EU.

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun...
And ‘Yes Minister’s take’ on the UK’s foreign policy: https://youtu.be/ZVYqB0uTKlE?t=106
> Your goal should be to use only sargable[1] operators, and eliminate any functions, in all your WHERE clauses and JOINs.

Or just use indexes properly; it's fairly common for modern databases to support indexes on functions of column values; using an indexed (deterministic) function in WHERE/JOIN criteria isn’t problematic. The Wikipedia article you link addresses valid concerns, but the specifics it suggests don't seem accurate for the features of modern RDBMSs.
The UK tax system is also hostile to families. No joint tax burden in a family makes it really tough. Lots of policies would have to change to encourage people to have children. Cost of going from a 1 bedroom apartment to 2-3 bedroom flat/house is also a large jump.
“semiotics”, which predates it in depth and knowledge by some years.
Depending on the level of electronics background, I have great luck have people fall in love with the subject using Forrest M. Mims III authored books.

Specifically with the "Getting Started in Electronics" and his "Engineer's Mini-Notebook" series.
I understand how this will seem to be a screwy thing to say, but it is a reality and is something any parent deals with when their child grows old enough.

Once puberty hits children engage in some amount of sexual behavior, and that is natural. Many parents have to explain to their child not to masturbate in public for example.

What I am saying here is that telling your child "masturbation is sinful" is unhealthy. It is also unhealthy to tell your child "masturbate any time you want!" It is sort of like eating dessert in my mind. Occasionally, with moderation, is acceptable. All the time, incessantly, is problematic.

I am not, by the way, suggesting that adults become involved in the sexual activity of anyone underage. What I am saying is that parents should help their children ( by explaining things to them ) to be balanced and not fearful of their own sexuality. Life is difficult enough without being raised to be disgusted by your own feelings.
This seems like a culture-war projection, rebuttable from the difference in fertility rates between places like the US (high divorce, expensive divorce, minimal social safety net, higher fertility) and places like Japan or low-fertility European countries.
Eh, we've long had a supply glut, and labor glut in particular. I think this won't be as bad as they say, based on the out of date theories based on a more supply-constrained past.
Declining infant mortality rates are a big factor, too. People used to have big families because you could expect a third of them to die.
Wish this were easier to download since it's more common to use Brew now.

Very excited at the idea of having fast fuzzy switching of tabs. I wish more things operated like that.
From the article, it's interesting to note that D utilizes Thread-Local Storage (TLS) by default and that OpenBSD does not has support for the feature [1].

[1]https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-linux-programming/9...
That 2. contradicts the common knowledge that it is impossible to make the right amount of pasta.
Sure, but French uses the Moroccan† system wholesale, a consequence of developments predating the French colonial era. So Moroccans writing in Arabic have been using the same numbers known from French-language publications for some five centuries longer than the French-language publications have been using them, and some seven centuries longer than the cultural hegemony of French in the country. There wasn't some time in between when Moroccans were using Eastern Arabic numerals or classical Greek numerals or something.

Suppose you find that an Italian professor of computer science has published a computer science paper in Italian using Knuth's cmr10 font from California. Moreover, he has previously published papers in English, some also using cmr10, in part because he wants people in California to be able to read them, and Italian is mainly treated as a language of speaking and non-serious writing — or at any rate not for computer science.

Would you therefore say, "Italy today doesn't use its own native Latin alphabet that diverged from that used in Greece; it uses the Californian system borrowed wholesale, not just local glyphs that bear a great resemblance to Californian glyphs"? To me this sounds absurd, even though the cmr10 glyphs being used were designed in California.

(Perhaps the answer in this case is too obvious because "cmr10" is an abbreviation for "Computer Modern Roman 10 point", and Rome is in Italy, but on the other hand, we are discussing a system of numerals almost universally known as "Arabic".)

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†At the time that the French adopted it, political boundaries in the Maghreb were of course very different, so at the time Fibonacci might have said his numbers were the numbers used in the Almohad Caliphate; but before the Almohads conquered the Maghreb and al-Andalus, they were the Berber rulers of Tinmel, so I don't think it's a stretch to call them Moroccan. The numerals were already in use throughout the Maghreb before the Almohad conquest, though.
Y Combinator Application Change
How can you make changes on your ycombinator application when you have passed the deadline and your application has been submitted
Thank you for the link and extension recommendation.
1 pint of beer will have 2-3 units of alcohol. That’s equivalent of 2-3 shots of hard alcohol, which is what you would get in “two cocktails”.
Absolutely. Rampat progressivism is yet another major factor without a doubt.
What surprises me about habits like watching news or scrolling Facebook is that people don't get bored by it. Because this is our failsafe mechanism for not falling into repetitive loops.

And I get the appeal of most of these things. When I was an adolescent I had this or other 24h info network on most of the time on a tv in my room. I spent nights arguing with people on Usenet.

But after a few months or maybe a year or two, I would get bored with them. Yet people can keep going for decades. Why is their memetic immune system not firing up?
It seems remarkable that a short post with a shallow opinion, which only serves to confuse people who do not have a good grasp of themselves and others, is getting so much traction here.

Note to self: avoid it.
"Inferior" in the sense of less highly paid - well, yeah. I don't think this is a gendered thing, simply the fact that people pay you to do work but not to have kids. Nobody can afford to have kids on a single parent's income anymore.
If you can just find a young person and a rich person, you'll be sorted.
Looks really nice but the price of 99 EUR for the pen with eraser seems exorbitantly expensive.
FactSet and CapIQ have the capability to do this. A lot of this job is 'automated' to a certain extent, so it's not like the hours are being driven by antique software. There's just so much bespoke / custom work that goes in the PPT decks that makes full automation hard (and I'm talking about non-sexy stuff like rearranging logos or data entry...it just takes time). There's already a good amount of automation in banking between software vendors and the use of template presentations / excel spreadsheets. Any incremental bit of automation will not reduce hours for junior bankers, it will just create more work product, more meetings, etc. Blackberries, software vendors, etc. have all made bankers more efficient, but it just increases the work output, not the amount of input.

Every time IB work hours comes up in a forum of 'outsiders,' people always point towards 'more automation' or 'hire more people' as panaceas for the terrible work-life balance. But when you are in high-profile, white-collar client service, there's just no pushback between senior bankers and clients. If you are giving a presentation to a F500 CEO, you're always going to solve for the quickest deadline, and that means 100 hour weeks for the junior people. Only solution is a huge top-down cultural shift amongst senior bankers and executives.

I think there's two things that could change this: (1) the job gets such bad press that junior talent gets worse or (2) clients start pushing back on bad work conditions. But on (1), the job is so mindless and repetitive that a degradation is talent is not that big of a deal (especially compared to engineering). On (2), clients would never do this. Clients pay large fees for this work, being a banker is still perceived as a prestigious job for juniors, it's flattering to think that someone is working 100 hours a week for your company, clients don't see the pain amongst junior employees, etc. - there's so many reasons why clients wouldn't push back.

The saddest part of all of this is not that some people are highly compensated yet miserable. The saddest part is there's still hundreds of college graduates who are chasing this dream because they think it will pay dividends in the future, but most of these kids get burned out and exit to 'generalist' jobs that they really have no passion for. They could have been building a product, adding something new to society, etc.
Connection refused is likely that the site was "nullrouted" (not really, but don't have a better term) by a hosting provider after HN hug and not crumbled under load itself (usually you experience very long response times, which would then often be a 5xx error). Wall of shame: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/#search=apxhard.com (Dreamhost).
Looks like qutebrowser in many ways. https://qutebrowser.org/
Interesting model. I have found the meme model a useful thing in the past but have not distinguished things except by their transmissibility and energy consumption. The meme parasite model is an interesting way to distinguish "harmful" memes from good ones.

Currently, I suspect parasitic memes have lots of room to flourish because we keep people alive who are hosts. There is very little selection pressure.

But that is because we are in a time of unbelievable prosperity, a Stable Era. I believe that as other countries catch up, we will enter a Chaotic Era. The real pressures will pop up then and either a massive gap will yawn between those with many meme parasites or the ones with meme parasites will follow their directive to eat those without.

Not to sound like an accelerationist but since I'd prefer that parasitic memes die out, I hope that the chaos comes fast, so that even if I am heavily infected the coming purge wipes me so that Clean Humanity may survive. If we wait too long, too many of us may be infected, and we may win but doom us all to a local optimum.

And as Toby Ord argues in The Precipice, that would be a terrible end.
Possibly, but if you have a separation of duties with the manager and HR tasks, you’re more likely to have someone go to bat for you when one gets out of line.

When it all goes through a single person, there’s less of a balancing force there.

Both obviously can be abused.
From what i’ve read, whatsapp is doing just what youdescribed for group chat, and it’s working fine... now maybe you’re talking about groups with hundreds of people ?
"Billy" has donated over $50 billion (that's with a "b") dollars to charity, a good chunk of that to health care both at home and abroad. If that isn't putting your money where your mouth is, I don't know what is.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fac...
Small, but some growing/large tech companies.
Canva, and SafetyCulture are probably the highest growth, Atlassian is already public and doing very well. Google has a Sydney office, Uber has some engineers scattered around.

Hopefully the government realizes they need to incentive tech workers with company share tax schemes, and startup tax cuts.

I know a few roles going in some of these companies; Python, Java, JS, Infra. Reply with an email address and I'll send through some contacts.
> Nobody can afford to have kids on a single parent's income anymore.

What? My wife hasn't worked in 15 years and we have 7 children at home. I'm not rich, we just budget.
pretty much the reverse is true. Families are large in countries that are broke and have weak states (the only ones still growing) because family equals insurance and welfare. This dynamic is also true within rich societies. (marginalized migrants living outside of state support systems have large families, educated affluent citizens fewer)

In countries with extremely supportive states and low inequality like Finland the birth rate is very low still. (1.4). It's simply a matter of choice.
Generalized Dollar Cost Averaging
Manager Tools has a whole pot cast on how to pre-wire meetings

https://files.manager-tools.com/files/private/podcast/mp3/ma...
I’m kind of self-trained in EE. It is important to have basic courses in Signals & Systems and logic design. The former, in particular, is not something that you are likely to acquire on your own. You and I share a love for Purcell. However it has little to do with EE. It is a physics book, and EE is not physics. You will never use or need to even know that the magnetic field arises from a relativistic transformation of the linear charge density of a current. I have a recommendation. Become an expert in LTSpice. Also, for about $2k, you can assemble a nice lab of Chinese scope, power supply, multimeter, soldering station, selection of ICs, resistors, caps, and a power supply. And if you are going digital, you need to learn VHDL.
That would usually mean birthrate goes up; fertility tends to decline both with overall prosperity and, at any level of prosperity, strength of social safety nets. Both collapsing would not explain declining fertility.
I'm impressed you can still get all of the components to populate the board. I'd expect a bunch of the support components to be basically unavailable by this point.
How does super glue work? (2011)
I get that they are not necessarily a part of their community, but the responses to my comment have been that he is necessarily not a part of that person's community just because one is homeless. What about the area in between? Like couldn't a person befriend a "random homeless person", and then that person becomes very much a part of their community?
> You can see a similar dynamic taking place in South Korea where unification is broadly supported by the younger population in the face of titanic security and economic concerns. German unification has been supported for hundreds of years for comparable reasons.

The younger population of South Korea is generally opposed to reunification: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pyeongchang-olympics-korea-unif...
> I think most website owners don't care about that, but they do care about earning money to actually run the website.

Again -- the GDPR recognizes the right to data as a a fundamental right, and thus the ability to earn money with a website comes second to user's rights.

Argumenting against this is a bit like Big Tobacco complaining that they're not allowed to sell cigarettes to children.

> The GDPR says that if the user asks to use your service then you have to offer them the service regardless whether they're willing to pay for it or not. You cannot not show content to users who refuse to share the data. Effectively, everyone else has to subsidize them.

Sure you can. All you have to do is offer two models: (a) a model where the user pays for the service, and (b) a model were the user receives the service in exchange for a agreeing to tracking etc.
> In the final version of Windows 3.1, the code was disabled, but you could easily enable it by changing 1 byte

Why would a user do that, and why should I be mad if they did?
>"FDA emergency use aka unapproved" vaccines

Isn't FDA emergency use still an approval?
Memes are arguably topics of semiotics, but the mere existence of the word "semiotics" doesn't mean we don't still need "meme". "Memetics" would properly be identified as semiotics, or at least a not-particularly-distinct subfield thereof.
Yes please! I yearn for a CiV VI AI that can play competently through all of the eras without cheating. It's a masterpiece of a game, but the AI can't keep up with the mechanisms introduced.
Unfortunately, you're trying to reason with someone who has abandoned reason in exchange for an impossible ideology and a strong cognitive dissonance.
I learned from three incidents.

One fictional, watching PCU and having a "haha that's funny oh crap" realization. One personal, when my HDD (in a circa 2000 PC) failed catastrophically (came to a grinding halt), fortunately I didn't have anything critically important on it at the time. One collective experience, a recreation of the PCU incident at a programming contest in a makeshift lab. Fortunately my computer was fine, and my team came out ok (3rd or 4th, memory fuzzy now) thanks to that and my then habitual use of C-s. My teammates' computers were also fine, but apparently they thought they only needed to hit C-s every 30+ minutes and lost a lot of work.

Of course, I also grew up with more unreliable systems (ever had someone put a magnet near your floppy disks?) so I'd already internalized a lot of the idea of being conscientious of my backups, but it still took a couple near catastrophic experiences to turn it into a true habit and routine.
He makes small batches of them at a time. Some of them depend on old ASICs from companies like DayStar digital, so I think supply is sometimes constrained by ability to acquire those old chips.

The best way I know of to get ahold of him is to become a member of the linked forum.
I use a Oneplus 7T, and will probably upgrade to the new Oneplus 9.
Google drive upload script in Bash
I don't know anything about car design, but always assaumed that crumple zones mostly protected passengers rather than pedestrians. Is that not the case?
SUVs and Trucks basically don't need to be safe for pedestrians or cyclists. It's really pretty fucked up & has def caused excess death.
We don't do this right now - optimising for incremental changes is actually better done by maintaining forward-chaining inferences (like the OP) rather than backward chaining, and then invalidating and updating just the inferences that have modified dependencies.
Which you want depends on use case often: if you have often changing data backward chaining is generally better, but if it's largely static you can get large performance wins by materialising all the inferences, once, via forward-chaining.
The intent was to cut demand, presumably. If a GPU can't mine ethereum, then ethereum miners won't be competing with gamers to buy that GPU.
Experimenting with different doses of psychedelics can give some insight into differing states possible in your own mind, which may be somewhat of a proxy representation.
Please do not link to a 2nd part of a series without getting the link to the first part and that's just bad form on the Authors' part to not link to the first part!
In the solar industry, lenders will cut off a contractor pretty quick if there are any issues. The amount of due diligence done by the lender is a pretty solid guarantee to the customer.

Our dealer fees are between 21-30% of the total loan, but the term is usually 20-25 years long.
There were some ex Tesla people posting online about how things ran in the beginning and possibly still are like that. For example Tesla rolling out updates same day that bricked cars then having to undo this via remote ssh access that they have/had to all cars.

I would hope they have good security but with all the stuff you hear from the factory floors about missing safety protocols and people getting hurt. I would not be surprised that the same kind of stuff goes on in the software department when it comes to practices and security.
> Retrieving both employee and customer meal items

When you're getting two separate sets of things in one query you should expect to use union. This isn't so much a performance optimization as just expressing the query properly.

Imagine starting with just this weird SQL that gets both employee and customer meal items using only joins, and then trying to infer the original intent.
You're not wrong - the other big difference between datalog and prolog is that datalog is a subset of prolog's functionality that enables forward-chaining to be safe (gets trickier with negation for example). I was mostly referring to the fact that Graql implements datalog semantics/capabilities, plus negation - but the execution strategy is backward-chaining.
Chopstick are better suited for eating noodle shaped noodles. However in China there is a lot of variation on that form and also there are many shapes of filled pasta.
Sure, I'm open to that - so back it up, please list 3 equivalent widely held political views as far out there and unsupported as Birtherism, QAnon and election denial.
You're assuming they:
(1) have/had a choice of schools
(2) policy didn't change while they were there
(3) the students can afford alternatives outside a computer/research lab
> YMMV, but I tried to self-study out of "Art of Electronics" and I ended up giving up because I didn't feel like I was getting the fundamental basic circuit analysis skills that I needed to actually comprehend everything they were doing. The difficulty level ramped up very quickly, at least for me.

Same here. "Practical electronics for inventors" ended up being way more approachable.
I intend to work on a graphical output.
Super interesting! May I ping you about the results in a few months? Best of luck!
You forgot the "I don't think" part of that sentence.
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