skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. I think the spoke movement is probably the most likely to be able to work out who reached the actual finish first. That is based on the spoke patterns in this image: http://tglyn.ch/blog/images/amstel_Finishphoto_AGR21.png

The curve of the spokes should mean we can determine the distance the rider has traveled after the photo-finish camera.

I cover my other ideas in the 'Further research required section' about 75% of the way down the article. If you have any further suggestions please let me know. Tom
Blazor client-side (for dotnet) works fine with minimal asterisks, and even those issues are being slowly solved as WASM evolves with multithreading, GC, and DOM access.
Yet I have no such problems on Linux.
>I wouldn't want federal or even state run internet

How is Comcast or any other large ISP meaningfully different from this? At least you get a vote at the federal level, Comcast has zero reason to listen to you.
Nice start, onboarding needs lots of work.

My suggestion: have the users start with the big hitters (house, income, savings) and then add more and more. Users could see the model change as they go and the onboarding process itself would become informative as they see the effect of their various assets, 401Ks, asset sales plans, etc.

You also really need monte carlo simulation to elevate this far above 'pretty version of my excel spreadsheet' into 'powerful financial planning tool' category.

Lastly, there is one always overlooked part of retirement planning which is that spending plans should not be set-in-stone. For example, if you plug "spend X per year" into a monte-cargo retirement calculator to get a 95% chance of not running out of money you will need to have a lot. But, if you are willing to adopt a spending policy of 'spend X per year unless there is a stock market crash, in which case spend .75X for three years' you will need a lot less. If you are willing to modulate your spending in response to events you can be comfortable with a lot less.
One time I beat the CFO of Arthur Andersen in a game of Monopoly while in Antarctica.
If I question the legitimacy of Economics Explained, then I'll be forced to asses the value of the honorary PhD in economics that I gave myself from my prestigious, non-accredited university, and I don't want to do that.
I'm mid 40's, and really glad someone posted an answer, because that was starting to drive me nuts :)
Or: "they're a company that has been accused without evidence of cooperating with the FSB in attacks against the US government by US entities aligned to the US-based actors that they have exposed".

FTFY.
This paper had a good summary:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663584/
Tangentially, I ran into the bladeless vortex concept recently (https://vortexbladeless.com/), do you have a take on that?

It seems like all your concerns/critiques from above would apply equally, but then I don't have any real expertise in the area.
>I'm talking above about the first half of your previous comment, where you say that having operation names in the function names

I was addressing operation names in the function names in the second half of my comment, in the first half I was addressing breaking up specification into a state machine process like OpenGL does. State machines are another way of breaking up big functions with lots of options. They have pseudo default argument support as an advantage, and ease of implementation via static globals as a historical (before multithreading) advantage. State machines are kind of like builder pattern as a way to get named arguments and default arguments in a language that doesn't have either, except instead of the builder being a class it's a singleton (with all the attendant disadvantages.)
https://youtu.be/EM-gCvhQhPU?t=508

This lady says Betz limit doesn't apply to VAWT.
I have Raynaud's disease and cold weather alone isn't a trigger for me unless I am not wearing gloves and if I am holding onto something. A shovel when shovelling snow, or pulling a heavy cart. It has to be a continuous session not just one thing for a few minutes.

I've also been sitting quietly at home and suddenly half my thumb goes purple and the other half is fine.

You know it's Raynaud's syndrome because it feels like someone hit your hand with a hammer. It's not just cold hands it's the pain too.
Land usage, mostly.

Cell companies need space for towers and fiber to those antennas. It turns out that these don’t take up all that much space, so it’s trivially possible for multiple cell phone companies to setup towers covering the same customers.

Cable companies however have to deal with the “last mile” problem, which is both massively more expensive than installing more centralized infrastructure, but also involves installing infrastructure on much more restricted areas.
I use google cloud run to run NextJS website, I’m paying less than $2 per month for more than 1 million/mo page views.
Scopes don't handle 20 data lines at once.
A West African Window into Human Evolution
Utilities have government oversight. I’m not sure why they even bother with the distinction, since pricing and whatnot has to go through government approval. In contrast to internet, where Comcast and their peers can do whatever they want whenever they want.
This is really excellent work! I love the UI and the data points feel very complete but not overly detailed (it took me only about 15 minutes to enter everything and get to the projection charts).

Contrary to many other commenters here, I don't mind that this is a hosted service. In fact, I _don't_ want to download an application for this. If users are concerned they can just use a burner email address.
I started out using excel and quicken but at some point ended up using beancount, fava and python. There are so many variables like some investments are tax free, others are tax deferred, some are exempt from state but not federal taxes, etc. I didn't dive in too deep to the app, I agree with other comments here that it would be nice if he had some demo accounts with a few different scenarios, like single, family, different ages, incomes and investments to showcase how the modeling works.
You might be interested in this article [1] about the prosecution of an auto installer who specialised in fitting special compartments in cars.

Here's a summary:

The guy thought, much like a shop can sell bongs but only to customers who don't mention weed, he could install hidden compartments so long as his customers didn't mention drugs.

He gets some pretty big hints - like the customers' willingness to pay $5000 per compartment in cash, and unjamming a compartment containing $800,000 in cash.

Then the cops get wind of his business, tap on his phone and pressure him to help them spy on his customers; he refuses, fearing for his family's safety.

Then the cops catch a gang with one of his compartments full of drugs, and in exchange for a reduced sentence, one of them testifies they'd told the installer to make them a compartment for ten kilo bricks of cocaine.

Boom, convicted of conspiracy to traffic drugs. 24 years without parole.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/
Thanks! Will check it out!

Re Smalltalk, I’m 100% a Lisp man, so perhaps later, but not at the moment :-)
BTW, for those trapped in Windows land, there's an experimental port of the KDE Connect app for Windows that works surprisingly well. My wife was quite puzzled, recently, when a phone call cause video playback on our media PC to pause automatically...
Ask HN: How did you learn to touch type?
I can type about 60wpm, but I'm ashamed to say it involves several bad habits--I mainly rely on index and middle fingers and thumbs. I want to buckle down and learn to do it 'right', using all fingers. How did you learn?
JSCL: A Lisp-to-JavaScript Compiler Bootstrapped from Common Lisp
“fame”
The article has very good headers that you could scan in < 15 seconds, no guessing required.

1. Engineering part 1: station construction methods

2. Engineering part 2: mezzanines

3. Management part 1: procurement

4. Management part 2: conflict resolution

5. Management part 3: project management

6. Management part 4: agency turf battles

7. Institutions part 1: political lading with irrelevant priorities

8. Institutions part 2: political incentives

9. Institutions part 3: global incuriosity
There may be a duopoly, but I can still get what I want with jailbreaking or rooting (although that is getting harder over time). With ISPs, if they both suck, I’m SOL.
I love how Linus gave so much credit to Junio and downplayed his own personal role in the project.
The instant messaging market is such an utter failure of competitive market economics. There hasn't been a single worthwhile innovation in like 25 years yet there is intense competition over who owns the proprietary protocols. Text vs data is also an entirely contrived competition.
But if it's completed late and over budget, your company won't get the bid in the future because of your soiled reputation as long as there are enough competitors. Hence the reference to markets.
Assuming it was said by someone fin the USA, there's also utility in this framing. Remaining critical of your own government is pretty healthy for a democracy.
High Tech Genesis Inc. Is Hiring Application Architect Team Lead
Well, thank you.

The reliance on external "consultants" seems like a cabal, much like the ones you find in the Pakistani army. How rampant is corruption in the states?
The app taxes inheritance as income. No one gets inheritance taxed as income. Most people get inheritance totally tax free.
This viewpoint seems a bit defeatist. It's true that even buying local rarely avoids 100% of interaction with overseas companies, but there's a lot of room between 100% and 0%. If you just don't want to think about it, that's one thing, but if you do care, I don't think letting perfect be the enemy of good is productive.
The Car Models That Are Being Affected by the Chip Shortage
Capability and practicality are distinct concepts. Especially since it's fairly well known that Chrome will not align 100% with Chromium thanks to closed source additions and modifications, so it becomes a question of "what is different" instead of "are they different".

It's certainly not practical for me, when I can just avoid chrome for personal usage (and I'm thankful for the capability). Of course, I can't avoid it entirely, thanks to my company deciding that Chrome is the only supported browser for our product. So even though FLoC is a non-issue for me personally, it is still something I need to worry about professionally.
How to turn your OpenAPI spec into customizable OpenAPI documentation
Trying to copy an audiobook from my linux laptop to my android phone at the moment. I don't think I've ever been able to successfully pull this off before (possibly because last time I tried I was trying to copy files directly onto an SD card in my phone); but I've successfully done it now. Finally KDE Connect has become useful to me!
Well, you're missing my point, but since you're using phrases like "daft," "stay on topic," and "I thought you knew better," I think the productivity of this discussion has come to an end.
@amelius asked about phone operating systems. But your comment is a very good point about mobile phones vs home internet.
What you’d lose in diversity, you’d gain in focus. They are flip sides of the same coin. Some donor thinks a museum of modern architecture is charitable, which is fine but I don’t want tax money diverted to that.
I miss KDE Connect every time I'm on windows.

When watching a movie on the laptop, it's so handy to use the remote control to pause/play/change sound or move the timeline.

Now some stuff don't work so well: file transfer is flaky sometimes, sending a text from the laptop has a very primitive UI and I never seem to be able to share the clipboard when I want to.

But I love to ping my phone when it's lost in the house.
Do you actually think that’s a reasonable comparison? GNU Linux is not a consumer operating system used by billions of people on their phones.
Xournal++, a handwriting notetaking multiplatform app with PDF support
I think part of the disconnect is communicating what the app actually does vs. what the terms permit it to do in the future.

It sounds like you've put genuine thought into this, and your privacy policy is very readable, but it suffers from the generic "WTFPL" clauses.

For example, you clearly specify who the third-parties are and what data is shared, which again is commendable. But it's combined with "we may use your data for [any] other purposes", "we may sell and may have sold [extremely personal PII]", and so on.

Are you doing this? Doesn't seem like it. Could you? Apparently, and that's part of the concern.
Or less...

Did you forget the time when Apple deliberately made old iPhones grind to a halt so people would run out and buy new ones?
I was software engineer at Accenture for 4 years and you literally made the best description I have ever heard of the company.
And I want to add, forget any career progression if you want to stick with software development.
I may have missed it in the article, but as a sysadmin, i’m trying to figure out what I should do. It appears the CIA has created malware. I assume, if they have exploited some hole, others will too.

While I appreciate the heads up, Can anyone offer suggestions on how to mitigate this malware? What do I do? Do I have to rely on Kaspersky?
I see Drepper resisted the urge to pluralise futex to futices.
Ask HN: What should've been easily doable but is annoyingly difficult?
Love the idea, enjoyed the interface, but I feel my time was wasted when I only found out the US focus several clicks into the flow. Speaking as someone not from the US, I do wish more websites didn't just assume that all their traffic was coming from the US. You could alleviate this by having a flag on the home page saying "This is really more for Americans only".
This may be helpful then: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...
Isn’t there a spectrum license/conflict issue for mobile network operators?
Actually:

>Why would they be idle? They can pivot for a reason

It seems to me you are reading into the post something not there. The person I replied to, quoted above, did not ask what you asked, and actually stipulated that HAWTs do pivot to turn into the more favorable direction.
Ok, that's fair, I was painting with a broad brush. I acknowledge that yes, employers can pay employees more than the value they bring in, but it's likely that doing so isn't sustainable long term.

And I dodged entirely around worker coops and other arrangements where the excess value is distributed back to employees.
I seen a post on linked in the other day, where an employee of McK was using thier own child (~8 Yrs) to virtusignal McK (child had drawn some picture with, I "heart" McKinsey).
I immediatly wondered if the child was aware of this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55939224

While searching for this link, the next link google offered was this:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-s...
People thought that data is the new oil, but it turns out it's not. Data is the new uranium. Powerful, yet toxic and irradiates everything in proximity. You most emphatically do not keep large piles of it if you can help it, and if you do, you silo and audit the sh*t out of that to control access and prevent theft because the potential for abuse is very high.
Great question! I haven’t sharpened it yet, but it’s made from reclaimed agricultural discs which are known to take a beating.
Our records show that you’ve flushed your toilet more than 100 times this billing period. Each addition flush will incur an addition $10/flush fee.

Thank you for choosing Comcast!
Doesn't it take labor to facilitate the matchmaking, transportation, and transaction costs associated with barter?
Even famous libertarians like Hayek agree that infrastructure is a necessary duty of the government. To me, it's the plate on which the free market rests and operates. It is the wiring of the market itself.
You have no idea why Accenture is worth $140B because it seems like you have no idea what you're talking about in general. It would be a huge overstatement to say that the 500,000+ employees of Accenture are focused on creating PowerPoints(not that you would know how to do a simple task like that anyways).

Most consulting companies go to where the new money is and usually that's in buzzword fields like 'Blockchain' and 'AI'...these are 'important concepts' for many businesses right now, even if almost none of those businesses can figure out wtf it means. But guess what, many companies have more cash on hand but don't want to grow headcount 'just because', so the more expensive but less risky solution is to hire outside work to take moonshots on some projects. If it works, great, if it doesn't, next.

Congratulations on working for a subsidiary of ACN for a few years though, I am sure that was the peak of you career. I'm sure your 'interactions with the ACN folks' is a good representation of the 500,000 employees and business models of the company.
What we call alphabets, as distinguished from abigudas, abjads, and syllabaries, almost all derived directly or indirectly from Greek. Abigudas and abjads also almost all derived from Phoenician/Egyptian (from which Greek also derived). The independent systems of Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica all ended up no further than syllabaries. What Indus Valley Script is isn't clear.

So while writing was indisputably multiply invented, the alphabet (i.e., representing all phonemes instead of syllables) itself appears to have been independently invented only once (excluding perhaps Hangul, which is somewhat closer to a rigorously-construct syllabary than an alphabet).

If you're unfamiliar with terminology:

* Alphabet = Every phoneme (consonant and vowel) has a distinct glyph. Examples include Latin, Greek, Cyrillic.

* Abiguda = Every consonant has a distinct glyph. Vowels are indicated by systematic modification of the glyph. Examples include Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Devanagari, Ethiopian.

* Abjad = Every consonant has a distinct glyph. Vowels are indicated by (optional) diacritic marks. Examples include Arabic, Hebrew.

* Syllabary = Every syllable (or, more often, Consonant-Vowel cluster) has a distinct glyph. Examples include Japanese kana, Mayan.

* Logograph = Every word (/morpheme) has a distinct glyph. Examples include Chinese, although Japanese and Mayan also include logographic components. Arguably modern English with emoji. ;-)
When Bitcoin Top?
>.>

I wrote: whoeversethisupgof**yourself@gmail.com

and it worked! :)
This is far too simplistic. There are well studied phenomena by which people apply bias along the following lines (an arbitrary example chosen):

1. I believe a stereotype that Swedish people are more friendly than Scottish people.
2. I know this person is Swedish, so I will tend to judge their behavior as generally friendly when I would interpret the same behavior by a Scottish person as less friendly.
3. I tend to assume that Scottish people do better in this job than Swedish people, perhaps because I've seen more Scots and fewer Swedes succeed in the past.
4. I therefore believe that success in this job is anti-correlated with friendliness.
5. The person in front of me would perform poorly in this role - not because he is Swedish, but because he is too friendly.

Note that although in practise, I might reject a Swede and accept a Scot (who is exactly as qualified and exactly as friendly) for the same job, I don't have any dislike of Swedish people, nor do I seek to avoid hiring them. In fact I might personally prefer Swedes to Scots (because they are so friendly) and seek out their company, yet still behave as above! That's literally the meaning of unconscious in unconscious bias.
Took a page from PayPal's playbook there.
Revel Rideshare
I may not be reading this clearly, but how is the CIA involved in the assassination here? It seems like they had intel that it could happen but didn't order it, execute it or have any direct involvement.
Counter-opinion here: I am the maintainer of one of the most popular plugin for Next.js, and I am cruelly lacking data about how the users of my plugin use it, that would allow me to choose better defaults for it.

I don't have access to the Next.js telemetry data, but I could definitely need to ask the Next.js team from time to time: "so, are your users more using Yarn workspaces? Or npm link? Or something else?", etc.

For the same reasons some people complains about Ubuntu removing some features because they say "people don't use it", while people using those features tend to disable the telemetry. Sometimes, telemetry is useful.

It is not to spy on users, it is about making the best technical choices to ensure the best Developer Experience.

_edit: typos_
I think I need context on that last one.
AV company known to have ties to russian intelligence flagpoles when it thinks it found traces of US intelligence... color me surprised...
How to Create a Star Wars Themed Linux Laptop
Similar situation in Fort Collins, Colorado. Connexion (the city's brand for municipal ISP) is 60/mo for symmetric gigabit fiber, and for 300/mo can get 10Gb/s and near zero outages. Comcast and Century Link keep sending "deals" in the mail that are laughable. I am very happy with municipal ISP.

https://www.fcgov.com/connexion/residential-internet
If we can have Comcast provide service and regulate is aggressively as we do power companies, that seems like a great deal to me.
I'd argue your question is a warped framing that confuses the issue in an attempt to be leading.

iPhone sale to user is irrelevant.

Apple forces distribution via their store and they force companies to pay a cut.

I think this is bad, but at least it's across all people that participate in the store.

Then Apple itself enters the market via the store selling the same product at the same price, but without the tax.

That's cheating. It has nothing to do with the 'physical material sale' - it has to do with requiring store distribution and taking a cut of competitors margins, but then entering yourself. It's not Spotify 'getting more of the pie' it's Spotify not having to pay an anti-competitive tax to the platform controller.

They can either allow distribution outside of the store (which I would not want) or they can remove the tax on apps that they directly compete with.

I'd prefer they remove the cut entirely and replace it with some low yearly fee for distribution.
Take a peek at the Honolulu Rail Transit project on O'ahu. Boondoggle plagued with fraud, waste and abuse.
>We know very well that there are orders of magnitude more bureaucratic obstacles, as well as dramatically higher labor costs, when comparing any building project conducted in Texas vs. California. New York City's municipal projects are widely-known to have dramatically inflated labor costs due to various factors, not limited to rampant corruption within unionized labor.

Please read the actual link. This simply isn't an issue the way you think it is. "It's the unions" is simply being intellectually lazy because it fits your preconceived notions.

"I am not overlooking union power, I believe it is not an important factor, not when right-to-work US states have very high construction costs too while Scandinavia has low costs."

The problem is the quantity of labor. In the US we use many more people to operate a TBM vs what they'd use in Europe. On commuter rail lines we pay conductors $100k a year to collect tickets when in Europe they'd use a ticket machine. On the NYC subway they have a driver and a conductor when in Europe they'd only have a driver at best, or even some lines are being made driverless I believe. They're trying that in NYC too but it's complicated and costly because of how old the signaling system is, because it was too costly to ever upgrade.

The agencies should focus less during union negotiations on keeping salaries and benefits down and more on reducing the quantity of required workers. If they were able to do it in Europe, they can certainly do it here.