skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to me that a more likely outcome is that people will build defenses to protect existing cities

Honestly, this part right here is what makes me very skeptical about the magnitude of the problem as it’s communicated to the proles. We’ve heard countless times how Manhattan will essentially be underwater in XX years, a foregone conclusion, yet no one has made a serious proposal to build sea walls around it or other valuable coastal areas.

That and the fact that the US is obsessed with importing countless numbers of foreign citizens who doubtless would produce far lower carbon footprints in their home countries than they would in the US. I mean it would only make sense to limit third world immigration to first world countries as long as possible if we’re concerned about carbon footprint, wouldn’t it? The population decrease in first world countries would be an added bonus as far as climate change goes. Yet we do the complete opposite. Curious!
> So anyone who put the term "growth hacking" on their resume will now get publicly discredited as being underhanded?

Yes? "Growth hacking" has always been basically a euphemism for saying that you're willing to do unethical things for growth.
Yes. After seeing what the Nazis had done, those that fought the Nazis would have been justified in exacting immediate justice by killing all of them.

Thankfully - they didn't.
> The inability to discharge tuition via bankruptcy has become a moral hazard that society needs to deal with.

Keep in mind that society != government. It's government that is enabling nondischargeability; and it's not in the best interests of the political class to change this situation.
I think the real revelation comes in understanding that the grass will always appear greener on the other side, regardless of which side you find yourself on. That is a hard thing to understand without having gone through that.

Edit, such this additional advice:

• If you can avoid seeking approval of others, your power is limitless.
Well compare to mathematics for example, you could wait until kids are good at using a pencil and paper to start teaching them mathematics. But there's really no need, with modern iPad apps you can teach addition, subtraction, multiplication and some of the associated reasoning skills before kids have the motor skills to be able to write numerals well. Do they need to learn math this early? I don't know, why not try? If you can get kids to like learning things then why not.
> Lambda claimed this thing wasn't dischargeable in bankruptcy, the state of California says actually it is. Okay, fine. It doesn't mean Lambda was doing something malicious.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if someone were in the unfortunate position to be considering bankruptcy, wouldn't knowing whether this loan is actually dischargeable or not be a big deal to them? It seems like it would be.
Thanks for sharing this!

If the numbers hold true, you could actually use a separate database for each test, which could be hugely beneficial. It's way to easy to cause some unintended interaction between tests if sharing a db.

On the other hand I've seen quite a few bugs caught in testing exactly due to the lack of isolation between tests, because the same ones would have shown up in production...
Possibly San Stephenson? Their Twitter is currently protected, so it’s hard to tell.
The article says that rents in SF are down. Housing prices are up. Anecdotally, almost everybody that I know that rents in the City has moved, because they were able to get a better deal.
OK then, let's not put it into full scale production until all types of driving are an order of magnitude (10x) less.
I dunno, I've seen the Domino's [Nuro](https://www.nuro.ai/) car roaming Houston and it seems to be doing okay and I haven't heard of any issues... If it's good enough for my pizza, it's good enough for me -I'm mostly pizza anyway! :P
Democrats are committed to the idea that politicians shouldn't choose their voters. They have fought in court over it and the SCOTUS decided gerrymandering is fine, even many egregious examples.

The GOP has always been on board with this. Why I'll never understand. The only excuse you ever get is "Dems do it too!"

As if Democrats should just lay down arms and not participate in the practice and let the GOP gerrymander every state to oblivion out of principle or something.
RAM is a cache for the disk. Disk is a cache for the network.
I think people get confused because many on the right use cancellation to refer to both firing people who have done something that's truly vile, as well as those who have been fired for simply having an unorthodox opinion. E.g. Harvey Weinstein vs. James Damore.
Dolby NR was intended to be that way as well, but turning Dolby (type C) NR on removes tape-hiss from non-dolby tapes while also as GP said fading certain frequencies.
Yes, and this is true in both markets, real estate or stocks. In the stock market you have up to 5 days to service the debt, and may also get liquidated instantly if the broker feels threatened. In the real estate market you have months upon months and maybe years, before your property is taken away from you.
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Dinner parties aren't the only kind of gathering you can plan to socialize with people you know, they're just a common format.

You can meet a friend for coffee just to talk and catch up. You could even just schedule a phone call, so you don't even have to be physically together. Many people will play online multiplayer games together to have an excuse to talk with friends.
I can try to explain:

- Ideally in a shared ride what happens is that instead of 2 drivers, driving 12 miles for passenger A and 14 miles for passenger B, you have 1 driver who drives 15 miles for both passengers trips.

- So 1 driver to pay who is now more efficient, and 2 paying customers. You charge each customer X% less, pay the driver Y% more, and theoretically you could keep your margin the same but now fulfill more rides (another driver is free now that you put two rides in 1 car)

- However, now let's consider how much cheaper it can really be...

- Sharing a ride for a cheaper cost makes sense when you and the person you share with have a generally overlapping route. The discount you get as a customer is a function of how likely you are to get matched with someone.

- Turns out there aren't a lot of rides with good overlap (airport rides might be the best type of ride tbh). Thus the discount is quite small. If the discount is small it means you have less people using it. Less people using it makes the discount even smaller! Eventually you have no discount and no incentive to use the service.

- To keep users incentivized to use the shared mode, Lyft and Uber have to subsidize the pricing to make sure that match rate stays high. Every "shared" mode ride that has only 1 person in it is a big loss, but incentivizing more people to use it can result in a smaller net loss across the marketplace
https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/notes-on-some-postg... - Be aware that there is a very bad performance cliff in postgres when using savepoints.
It's a dynamic equilibrium. The constant is bullshit, but the means of delivery vary.
I'd like a lawnmower sized one for my yard!
Maybe I’m crazy but if you’re really lonely I don’t know how planning an event nobody will show up to because you have nobody to invite helps.

That just seems like bad advice. Or even if you do have people to invite if you’re not super close it’s likely nobody will show up, or at least that’s been my experience.
This response just appears disconnected from reality. It's like watching somebody talk about how getting punched in the face was a wonderful and purely positive experience. It's just baffling.

There are options other than being weirdly positive and ranting. They could not say anything at all. They could give one of several varieties of mea culpa. They could simply state their intentions going forward.
Demanding a button on the remote is different from paying for advertising.
> Yeah, this robot is an example of tech being utilized to extract value. The ML, CV, and robotic tech tickles my inner geek, but tech was not designed or deployed in a regenerative way. There are many things we can do to have more resilient, restorative, regenerative agriculture ... that often don't involve much high tech at all.

I have this struggle often. Before software engineering, I was working on permaculture farms and apprenticed as a natural builder (cob mostly).
That I can't answer. The most recent version of macOS I've used for any length of time was High Sierra, because even Mojave broke something essential for me—Apple Events need to be authorized once for every combination of (1) the app being controlled and (2) the app sending the event. Combined with the fact that my authorizations were often reset when I edited a script, this made most of my Applescripts effectively useless.

But it's a very different problem from Gatekeeper. And from iOS, where the user legitimately has no control. If SIP is turned off, you could write an app that strips out every macOS behavior you dislike, because without SIP apps can patch whatever they want.
> Be strict with yourself and forgiving of others. The reverse is hell for everyone.

I think this is generally good advice, but it's equally important to not be too hard on yourself. You have to learn to forgive yourself for mistakes.
So the bet is that Ethereum has a lot of room to grow, and you want to be in that space, right?
Exactly. The fundamental problem with the phrase "misinformation" is that what is or isn't "misinformation" is subjective. Truth and reality aren't subjective, but people's beliefs about the nature of them are, very much so. It's impossible to solve the problem by asking "The Experts" to adjudicate what is and isn't true, because The Experts have become too mired in corruption, greed, political intimidation and so on. They no longer represent anything even close to an impartial party, and thus are not useful tools for discerning reality anymore, at least in the traditional way of asking a question, getting an answer and accepting it.
Sure, but (ignoring the Constitutional decennial mandate, which also requires Census subjects to be defined 3 years before the actual counting [0]) what's a cost-effective alternative? The budget for the 2020 Census was $7+ billion [1].

And while the ACS annual surveys are considered accurate, what would be the right period for changing Congressional seat counts? It obviously can't be annual (since House terms are every 2 years).

[0] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/abo...

[1] https://www.census.gov/about/budget.html
I didn't actually say it was likely, just more likely than a gradual upslope migration in advance of any danger, which seems contrary to all human social behavior that I've ever witnessed. When major storms come through and wreck places that are bound to be wrecked every time the water rises, the political drumbeat is to rebuild. To give up on those places would be to show weakness (See "Jersey Strong / Stronger than the Storm" slogan after Hurricane Sandy).

If we could somehow build strong enough defenses to protect all the major coastal population centers from rising waters indefinitely, that would be great, though obviously very expensive. I'm doubtful though. Lots of money and effort was poured into protecting New Orleans, and, in the long run, it didn't work.
I think it's remote-controlled though?
Language semantics matter. If a language doesn't place very strong meaning on certain things from the get-go, no amount of static checking will ever be able to guarantee certain traits of the code written in it, because it doesn't have enough information to work off of. And I'm not just talking about undefined behavior.

People have been writing safety checkers/linters/etc for C and C++ for decades. Many of them are very impressive and useful. None of them can ever be totally sound, as a fact of the languages themselves.
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I kinda made it explicit with myself (not with my colleagues of course, duh).

I'll fuck off most of the morning, well aware that I'm doing so, and I'll work non stop in the afternoon.

Some important things though: during the morning I mostly spend time on stuff I find interesting, usually tech stuff not directly related with my job. A few times non work stuff. But seriously, it's a joy to be able to spend the morning to get better at something about your job.

I spent last week mornings playing with the kubernetes APIs and the client-go libraries, with only vagues ideas. Turns out, a colleague is findin one of the toy tools I've written useful. Wasn't expecting that. Last month I spent another week mornings diving into AWS IAM and now I finally finally understand stuff and I'm reporting problems to our head of it security, and we're fixing stuff before they become problems.

The key, imho, is to be self-aware: I'll fuck off in the morning, and I will work in the afternoon, no interruptions.

Important edit: I might be slacking, technically, but I always keep an eye on the company chat. If anyone or anything needs my attention, I drop my slacking off and be readily available (most often you only have to be able to hear the Slack client beeping)
>Rather than eliminating everything but the monocrop

No one is suggesting this be done. Fanatical monocropists don't exist.

Your argument is based on a false dichotomy. We can make monocrop farming more efficient and environmentally friendly (eliminate pesticides) while also exploring other systems.
I bet it could also be tuned to zap destructive insects without need for pesticides.
Surely that’s exactly the same thing Friedmam was saying. According to Friedman managers spending company money on social causes are spending other people’s money, the same phrase Smith used, when they had no business doing so. In saying that the firms responsibility is to its owners, Friedman was addressing precisely the concern that Smith was worried about.

Of course in Smith’s time joint stock companies were a relative novelty. We have a lot more experience of them now and have developed standards, checks and balances to try to maintain discipline in managers in the intervening centuries. Friedman was simply attempting to bolster that effort, but Smith was writing about exactly the same concern.

As it happens while I’m a big fan of both men, on this issue I think Friedman is too much of a purist. Some social spending can just be good business. It promotes the brand, buys political friends and can even reap commercial benefits down the line. Donating or subsidising computers in schools for a company like Apple for example.
It definitely helps me to have at least some working in the office. I can work on something that is cool/exciting from home no problem such as implementing new features, learning some new API, etc. from home no problem, but going back to the office is very helpful for stuff like going through email.

Also, thank you for speaking up! I feel like a lot of the discourse for ADHD folks has been how freeing it has been to get away from the distractions at work. For me, and it sounds like also for you, working from home often doesn't have enough structure.
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It's not a loan, it's an income share agreement. Someone facing bankruptcy is unlikely to be making enough income to be subject to ISA repayment which only comes into effect if the student is earning above the threshold for it.

I really don't get why some people dislike ISAs. They're way better than student loans.
Probably not. The headaches from crappy tenants/contractors/property managers/equipment failures (choose any combination) can easily dissuade even the veteran landlord, let alone a fresh new one.
Does the average driver even look both ways at the railroad crossing? I do every single time. Such a low-cost preventative measure that could very well end up saving my life one day.
Just use a new transaction for each test and have them all roll back when the test finishes. It leaves the db in a clean state for the next test
Ok, they didn't Google their name, but instead clicked on their profile and researched them "only within the HN web domain." Still feels personal and unnecessary.

Edit: nevermind, they did Google him.
Even custom scrollbars work everywhere with different prefixes[1]. It just needed a couple of extra (unprefixed) rules for the missing firefox support:

.tile--custom-scrollbar {
scrollbar-color: rebeccapurple gold;
scrollbar-width: auto;
}

1: https://caniuse.com/css-scrollbar
Thanks for pointing this out.

I just noticed that these links [1][2] point to the same article.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/full-facebook-s...

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ryanmac/full-facebook-stop-the-...
None of those companies are likely to uniformly count all of the things that the Census purports to do, such as race/ethnicity and housing status.
I don't speed. Look up what a speed trap is. As an example, one that got me was a 50 MPH speed limit going down a mountain that twists and turns. The last dozen or so yards of the mountain, and around a turn, it suddenly becomes 40 MPH with no warning or time to slow down. Cops camp out at the sign and pull over people with out of state plates who are slowing down from 50 MPH to 40 MPH all while going downhill.
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I really don't see the friction in using an unbundled service like Revolut for the tasks you mentioned. Care to explain?
A research grant application maybe? :-P
The point is that Java doesn't seem that much more type safe than C.

I don't see how external static analysis tools are that relevant when we're talking about type safety.
> they were trying to mislead people into not understanding that bankruptcy is an option

It’s exactly this. Lambda School customers tend to be young and financially ignorant, with very few resources. If a graduate is in a position where, say, they can’t find a software job, they could be functionally bankrupt, and their dwindling income/savings will still be going towards outstanding Lambda School payments.

From this perspective, it’s extremely shitty for LS to deceive students that they would have to make the payments, with no legal options, even if they were stressed about rent and groceries.
That is much slower for any test of meaningful size.
One of the eye-opening things about the wikipedia statistics is that advent and universality of mobile phones at worst caused a very small uptick in fatalities. With all the bullshit you see with on the road, somehow people manage to mostly avoid death doing it. My guess is people can pull attention back to the road at moments it's really needed.
What do you think those churches do with the money?
It is more like opening a folder to look for evidence and encountering a spring-loaded creme pie that hits you in the face and knocks the contents and all the folders in the room onto the floor in one big mixed-up pile.
No. There are some interesting conundrums one might imagine but not the example you give; that's straightforward.

You can't be fired simply for belonging to a religion.

However, belonging to a religion doesn't legally excuse your other actions such as harassing others based on their religion/sex/whatever.

So, you can belong to the Church of Satan, and even tell people that you belong to it -- that's your business. But you can't harass Christians for being Christian. That's their business.

Similarly, you can believe there are only two genders and those who transgress those boundaries are wrong. That's your business. But you can't harass coworkers based on those beliefs. That's their business.
I was spitballing but sure. It obviously shows how powerful Apple is and how locked their platform is.

And don't get me started on choice. It's a step in the right direction but Apple doesn't give a shit about choice or they'd allow multiple App stores, side loading, browsers, etc. They wouldn't be fighting with repair shops.
I gave it as an example of one way it can complicate a higher perf design, and why it's stuck on new ISAs. There's a lot of choices old school RISC made that happen to still be valid at much higher gate counts, but for different reasons. Three address is one of those. "Why do we still have it?" is the more interesting question compared to "why did we do it in the first place" IMO.

You can see CISC archs hacking in the "xor REG" instruction as 'erase dependency in OoO hardware' to get around the dependency issues I talked about. Three address doesn't have that root issue because you can always specify a destination that wasn't a source.

Additionally, it's not a case of exposing the CISC internal datapath as RISC instructions. CISC vertical microinstructions tend to be two address as well. The horizontal microinstructions can't really be said to have clear source and destination enough to be either two or three address.
What if they charged you a "hefty" one time fee, and then every month that passed, they gave you back a % of that fee, until you got a match? Their incentives will then be aligned. The problem there will be to know when someone got a match.
I wonder; could one project a horizontal line on a disc, a camera at an offset angle, and use the apparent deviations from a straight line for digitizing a record? I know there are full-analog laser players, but a full-digital solution might let you do fancy tricks to remove dust, particularly if you used multiple wavelengths of light, as slide scanners do.
DSP in this case is a demand side platform, it's an ad tech term.
It's important, I just mean that the law isn't obvious here, so we shouldn't jump from "Lambda made a false statement about the California law" to "Lambda is maliciously trying to mislead students".
Sealioning...
TBH this article makes me more confident that Lambda is overall Good. They found a single program that was substantially deficient, some disorganized operations, and some exaggerated marketing claims.

It's starting a new form of education! There are going to be operational headaches and a few misses! While the referenced cases aren't good, we can assess Lambda on their overall contribution, not their mistakes alone.
The IEEE has a good article on how quickly Phoebus failed: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t... If not for Pynchon, no one would have ever heard of Phoebus - it's not even one of the successful cartels.

One amusing tidbit not mentioned in the IEEE article I noticed while looking at some congressional testimony: the Scandinavian competitors apparently did not just undercut Phoebus, but signed up first to get Phoebus to bankroll construction of their lightbulb plant and then began undercutting them with it!
All of those examples could be invalidated with new information.

As inconvenient as it may be, truth is transitory and progress toward it is frequently made through invalidation. It's more prudent and useful to assume facts don't exist.

As for "fact-checkers", who fact-checks them? (Etc...) The notion of visiting a webpage authored by God-knows-who to check whether what's on another webpage authored by God-knows-who is correct or not is absurd.

And we haven't even gotten into subjectivity or nuance.
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The other problem in my experience (as a parent and math nerd) is that the whole math teaching area is full of people who don't know math, so coming in and having a math person teach math means you have a huge number of arguments you'd have to have.

The only way I know of is to just get after school tuition and ignore the school. This is difficult though - why do I have to do maths after school? no one else does.