skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, it’s a good system for engineers and travel hackers but bad for the common person. The credit card processors are raking in fees, though. It also provides lots of opportunities for what is essentially legal low-level embezzlement for anyone who can expense things to their employer (especially folks who travel on their dime). Way too comfortable a system for anyone to change it.
Ride sharing companies have it pretty good now. I'm not sure why they would even want to get rid of Independant Contractors?

1. They get desperate people to buy specific four door vechicles, and don't even have to worrry maintance costs.

1.5 Driver pays for fuel.

2. They don't pay for insurance.

3. They don't have to pay for liability.

4. They pay a Independant Contractor a percent of sales.

5. Most countries have a burgeoning sector of low skill help whom that are begrudgingly copacetic with being exploited. (This I find this very sad, especially in a country I used to love. For decades there wasen't a lot of takers for shit jobs. Now there's a line.)
Fuel is still wayyyy bigger than the driver.

Both would be valuable - but a truck that is 30% more fuel efficient is probably going to save more money than one that doesn't need a driver (but still needs people more loading).

There are different estimates everywhere - but I usually see 20-30% of trucking costs are drivers. In other freight industries (cargo ships, trains, etc.) it would obviously be less.

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/infographics/cost-of-truck...
>I remember once finding a story in the international news section about a legislator in some other well known country that all of us kids would have heard of who had yelled during a session that some other legislator was a son of bitch, and then a fistfight broke out between them.

Was it Australia by any chance?
Apple should bring the same Touch ID-enabled power button to the iPhone that they have on the new iPad Air. That would make both the Touch ID and Face ID folks happy.
Very strange to me that the name of the responsible company (Montrose Chemical Corporation) is nowhere to be found in this article.
Karmada: Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
Constant propaganda by who? Where? And for the last 50-100 years?

That sounds absurd and conspiratorial. As I said above, I think the loss of trust in expertise is probably just a natural consequence of the Internet, combined with very real actions by specific institutions.

I used the example of the printing press because a similar situation happened with the Catholic Church.
UK student "loans" aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy either - legally they're a tax rather than a loan.
Lithium ion jumper batteries have already made them obsolete.
That's conflating two concepts. Survivor bias means assuming what you did is "why" you survived. Evolution is survivor results. Survivors stay alive but no one is claiming anything about why they stayed alive, only that they did.
that is a rather defeatist attitude. just because one person won't have much effect at changing a large group of people, doesn't mean their effort is worthless.
(besides, it is also not correct that he didn't manage to change anything. read the above linked wikipedia page. he dismantled the kkk in one state. when a new leader emerged, he converted that person too. if a few more people do that all over the US, keep it up for a generation or two, the kkk could be gone)

there is also quite a difference between people who socialize in kkk circles, and those who befriend individuals with the intent of changing their mind. the latter, for certain will not only socialize in kkk circles but also in other circles where they get the necessary grounding for their work to change those people.

i understand your point. from your perspective it makes sense. but i think you are missing something. pretending to agree does not make me believe what i pretend to. but i also think that pretending is not needed here, but rather it's important to empathize with my opponent, and then gently educate them to point out the flaws in their argument.

if i am working with someone to educate them and change their mind, then i am not joining their bubble. i am not giving up on my other circles either. rather i am breaking out of my bubble, and i help others break out of theirs. i end up with a better understanding of why they have their beliefs, and they hopefully get a better understanding why they might be wrong. we both gain something.
> Uh... wat? Model 3 sales are growing very rapidly! Trying to argue that they aren't because the category they are being compared to is not is... somewhat weird.

I mean, kind of? It's much more complicated when you look at market over market. Tesla sales in the US haven't really grown much since the summer of 2019, and that's despite releasing a whole new model in that period. They've definitely been selling more cars, but the majority of that growth is fueled by entering new markets, not growing existing ones. That's important, because both types of growth have different levels of sustainability.
Pomodoro Technique seems to work brilliantly. There are many desktop apps like "Be Focused", you can actually do a lot more in a short amount of time using it and don't really have to work that much all day.
They were tried in the past, culminating in the CODASYL data model [1]. The relational model was a vast improvement in reliability and maintainability then, and it still is now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
Get out.

All your reasons for staying have to do with the company; not you. Unless -you- want to see it to completion, that is not a good reason. You do not owe the company anything.
This really depends on the credit card and bank. My old French credit card that was supposed to be great for traveling had 2.5% conversion rate plus 0.30 euros fixed fee.

My US amex is usually only 0.1% more than current market rate and so better than any debit card I have by far.

In my experience, European countries are by far the worst when it comes to exchange rate and added fees. One hypothesis is that interchange fees are capped so credit card companies can't make as much from the merchants but even before that happened, I remember the fees being very high.
No, not at all. They're still point samples. You still deal with aliasing and all the learnings there even talking about rendered color buffers.

No, LCDs are not crisp squares. Pretty much every screen type is still RGB in some kind of array. RGB stripe or Pentile are most common. You can also think about things like VR or a projector where your screen in transformed through a lens.

Everyone has to constantly compensate for this fundamental thing in computer graphics to this day.

Edit: As other things come to mind with how relevant this paper still is...

>antialiasing techniques, and image resampling seems to "mostly" assume that pixels do represent the average color over a square rather than a point sample. Not perfectly, but as a reasonable first-order approximation.

Not in the least. For example in texturing (wrapping images onto meshes), mip maps and bi/triliner filtering are very common. Assuming average color leads to a jagged (if you mean avg over one pixel) or blobby (if you mean average over several) mess. Mip maps are essentially point samples of a texture taken at different sample resolutions that are then resampled at runtime to form the best approximation. Essentially no one uses "average color."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear_filtering
> Shareholders don’t care about the reputation or quality of service of the company? That seems a stretch.

Not a stretch at all. Proven time and time again that shareholders focus on short term gains over long term.

When hired CEOs pay is tied to equity (i.e. shareholder) they make decisions based on how it affects the share price during their tenure, not after. GM after Jack Welch left is a good example.

Shareholders can sell their shares anytime. They care about the horse winning current race more than the next because they can bet on another horse next time. So they only care about the horse as long as they are betting for it.
That's not inconsistent with what I said. The Carboniferous lasted 70 million years, the fall was gradual.
>that is not reasonably interpreted as bearing the school’s imprimatur

Schools are involved in so many things, I wonder how anyone could interpret that.
It's worth noting the current rule set is trying to optimize for spectator moments, safety and budget constraints. An F1 series unruled at this point would be a case of biggest pockets wins, and the racing wouldn't be close at all. I like to think of F1 as just a big go-cart race. The cars are obviously on the edges of performance inside the rules, but the cars are still homologated.

The really interesting racing has been in Time Attack and grassroots leagues in my opinion. I forsee an end to F1 soon enough, the budgets are big and it's no longer a good platform for R&D given manufacturers will start to ditch consumer ICE anyway. Whereas Time Attack and other leagues are more about developing enthusiast level performance fabrication shops and parts which is something that will go on in to the future.
> "It'd be great if we could get to substantive debate..."

We've had substantive debate after substantive debate on this issue. The "thought-terminating cliche" of "Who gets to decide" really is the only sensible conclusion to this issue. The ability to be heard is to wield political power. "Big Tech" organizations understand this. I don't believe for a second that the concern-trolling that follows this topic around is ever in good faith. The movement for so-called "anti-misinformation" is an application of political power. This debate has been forced on society by online platforms who have become a bottleneck on the proliferation of information, and are using it as a means to protect their own interests.

> "I think the institutionalization of lying is anathema to a free society, because honest people waste valuable time debunking liars, and it's faster to spread lies that truth."

Every side of a political debate thinks that the other side is either misinformed, or dishonest. The interests of political entities with diametrically opposed views cannot be reconciled. The SPLC and someone like David Duke (I had to grasp for an example here) probably both think that a great bulk of their effort is spent debunking the lies of the other, and what can we conclude from that? Is there any empirical proof that either is lying and that the other is correct?

> "A moment's thought will suggest a range of possible answers, and one can then advocate for one's favorite"

What happens when all of the answers support incompatible, irreconcilable worldviews? (see above)
> His statements were not false and not about a company or stock. It is debatable if they were even positive.

Correct, it's not about a company or a stock, which is something I led with in my initial reply ("In any other asset class this would be..." -- which I have since learned applies unevenly to security types although for the record I was talking about stock). I haven't said he committed a crime, and I do not believe he has committed a crime.

I think it's pretty distasteful however to take advantage of the crypto community he claims to champion. Your claim he's not actively working them into a froth is certainly at best a generous take. [1]

> ...not about a company or stock.
> There is no "exception" here.

This I do not believe to be entirely true. Some of the rules I linked, specifically the Securities Exchange Act, are written to apply to securities, not stock (which are of course a sub-type of security). I believe, and IANAL so this should be taken with a grain of salt, that security tokens should be covered by at least that law.

How about cryptos that represent stock, like the Tesla-stock backed coin Binance launched? That might just be a job for a judge to sort out.

> This is a hallucination. I didn't accuse anyone of anything.

I was making reference to past times you've specifically accused me of not understanding crypto. With that in mind, I read "nothing here would be significant if the other side of the equation wasn't people soaking up the slightest drip of nonsense and turning it into a frenzy of something they don't understand" as referring to me. If it did not, I apologize for misreading.

However, your characterization is once again neither charitable, nor particularly civil.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2021/02/21/how-elon-...
Not necessarily. If you mean by a "we were running against the wind" sense, sure, but if you mean in a "what should the valuation of your company be" sense, no.
First hardcore rant about the CEO Jamie Dimon I’ve seen. I agree with what you say about general OPSEC towards bitcoin is frightening by many and everything else downwards but the CEO chatter seemed particularly harsh. It’s likely that you know a lot more than me about him but he appeared quite well on the David Rupenstein Interview and he has a 94% approval rating on Glassdoor. I have a buddy that works at JPM too and I could ask him but I’d bet he has a neutral or positive opinion of him since I haven’t heard him speak negatively like that. Since I agree with a little more than half of your post though, I’ll hand you an upvote.
> But today... aren't they, at least as a first-order approximation? (With some further adjustments to avoid antialiasing artifacts, desired sharpness, and so forth.)

It still depends on what you’re using them for. Image that will be rendered straight to a webpage? Yeah, it’s probably a fine first order approximation. But that’s not the only context that gets rendered on a modern screen.

Say you’re using it for 3-d scenes. Yeah you absolutely should pay attention to what the paper says about footprint and sampling and filtering because, when you render it onto the screen, all of the processing steps between pixels on a texture to pixels on a screen require awareness of pixel footprint.
Looks like a very useful machine. It seems awfully bulky, but then the CO2 tubes used in 150 watt lasers are probably around six feet long, so that kind of sets a minimum size for the machine. A 74 horsepower generator sounds like overkill, though.

I suppose they probably use galvanometers for aiming the laser? Galvos are very fast but they tend not to be terribly accurate. This device isn't for precision machining so it's probably good enough. I'd also expect the vibration and jostling of the machine to be a problem, but maybe it stops momentarily whenever it does a laser sweep.

I'd think that they really ought to have some kind of shroud draped around it during regular operation to prevent eye damage if someone is too close (especially if there's a risk of shiny metal objects lying on the ground). CO2 laser light is invisible; generally, you just see a white flash when it burns things because that's the light given off by the heated material.

There'd also be an obvious fire hazard, though in practice a well-focused high power beam can often just vaporize a thing before it catches on fire. Cutting paper and cardboard in a laser cutter is usually fine; it's wood that tends to burn. (Especially oily wood.) At any rate they'd probably be restricted to using the machine when fire risk is low.

I wonder how well it copes with weeds that are growing right next to desirable plants? As the crop plants get bigger, it must get harder to get the right angle to burn the weed without hitting the plant.

I also wonder how effective it is at actually killing weeds. Maybe if it can get them when they're small, it can linger the laser over the site of the weed long enough to cook the root.

I'm hoping this sort of thing catches on and becomes more advanced. Near where I live we have a huge park that's being overtaken by English ivy. It's very hilly and forested, so any ivy-killing robot would probably have to be something like a hexapod, and lasers are kind of questionable in a forest setting except maybe on wet days.
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Thats likely because 80% of sites are wordpress. If you sorted by usage its probably only wikipedia on the top 100.
Malaria hasn’t been endemic here for probably 100 years. We poisoned eagles because it was cheap and legal to dump into the ocean. How is there a tradeoff?
I use nulls or undefined in javascript as the initial state for most values for this reason, it's explicit in that it's unset

Ditto for database design too
Well, as horrible as that viewpoint is, at least you have the self-awareness to admit that you actively approve of authoritarianism and forced servitude. Many do, but won't admit it to themselves.
Or a prius prime, if you want something reliable. Wankel engines are pretty notorious for burning oil
NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution
Microsoft pushes MVPs, influencers to spruik Azure in lead up to AWS re:Invent
We're not very well-equipped to handle volunteers right now, but we are releasing more data and open source software every day, and would be happy to see contributions from the community.
They could also want to live undisturbed in their bubble, unchallenged as to the power and privilege they exercise daily.

Could be both.
That question doesn't really make sense in the context of a US workplace.

The employee:HR relationship is fundamentally adversarial over here. HR's job is to protect the company, including from its own employees. They will throw you under the bus if it benefits the company.

Most people won't run into issues with them, but if you think that someone important to the company's bottom line is behaving inappropriately and you go to HR about it, how would you expect them to react? It's a matter of incentives.
You mean like a bribe offer?

I think investigative corruption is a pretty good analogy.
ah didnt catch that
> We introduced 360s, which required peers to provide feedback on peers. The problem is, peer feedback is often positive and reassuring, which is fun to read but not very useful.

The whole point of 360 reviews is to collectively confront management when doing so 1-1 would be too awkward and risky. This list of changes here is honestly pretty suspect, and seems like the owners are trying to recentralize their power.
> And as they said, they hope Model Y will hopefully be the best selling vehicle globally next year.

It's very important to wonder "how much of this is EV demand" vs "how much of this is car specific demand". Tesla's Model 3 sales basically declined in lockstep with Model Y's rise: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/02/15/tesla-model-3-model-y-o...

It will be interesting to see if Tesla can grow them simultaneously going forward, but it hasn't really seemed to be the case. This doesn't make me bullish on any prediction that the Model Y is going to be the best selling vehicle globally.
What’s underestimated is attitude. Same situation, 2 ways of looking at it:

“Our codebase sucks, we’re constantly running into issues, can’t change things. We’ll have to rewrite it all. I hate this”

“This codebase allowed our company to scale to XXX $s/users! It served us well but now’s a time to rewrite it to fit our new needs: reliability, scalability. This is a great challenge and opportunity for those working on it. I love this”
But that's a different protocol than the signal protocol. And Signal encrypts your SMS at rest should you choose to use their app to do so.
Greeks were into beards big time.
Seeing as we've wiped out multiple viruses completely, but have yet to eliminate any bacterial diseases, I believe there is an important difference between vaccines and antibiotics.

Perhaps viruses are simply more specialized, so it's easier to eliminate anywhere to hide by innocculating affected populations, while bacteria are more general purpose and can survive even without living hosts.
From their blog: “ There are two major problems with .io domains:

The first is that the islands which should own the domain suffix, don’t, thanks to a wonderful piece of modern day British Imperialism. If you ever feel the need to donate to us, please give it to a more worthy cause.

Secondly, there was a security issue with the .io domain. In 2017, a researcher managed to take control of four of the seven authoritative name servers for the .io domain. We accept that mistakes can happen, strong processes limit the chances of them happening, but they still can.

However, the domain administrator made no attempt, at any time, to communicate with anyone about the issue. We’ve no evidence to suggest there is anything to be worried about, but the complete lack of communications means we have lost trust in whoever controls .io domains.”

https://www.diagrams.net/blog/move-diagrams-net
There are some open source funding links here:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
The way I heard it that makes sense is that to be optimally productive you need to be "hungry" in the sense of wanting more and not being complacent. But you don't want to be starving, generally.

For the same reason, some say the worst addiction is a steady paycheck precisely because it makes you complacent.

These sayings are probably half-motivational with only a kernel of truth. If you are an heir or heiress you will have a big advantage, even if your motivation is less. But there are other metrics than just money, of course. If your point is to achieve excellence or greatness, or operate at the peak of your abilities, then possibly there is such a thing as being too comfortable.
3:1 of the gross goes to the driver. Much less after driver expenses like wear and tear, gas and insurance.
Lesson: never store musics to cloud locker unless you accepted locked in.
It seems like a bad business practice, because it screws the resale value of any current owners. People want MSRPs to remain relatively consistent to their purchase, and greater uncertainty also generally makes lease rates higher because they need higher prices in order to justify the additional risk they take on.
> The easiest and simplest way is not the most secure way.

No, but the next simplest (using prepared statements) is. Why do you immediately jump to something so much more complicated and full of abstractions instead of the next simplest thing?
caniuse.com reports whether something is too buggy to the point of being unusable in a different color, and has footnotes for whether something has some quirks/caveats but is otherwise usable
Hmm.

> When hitchhiking, look like the person you want to pick you up.

Who has gone hitchhiking in the past 20 years, honestly?

> almost all breakthroughs are made by those who lack money, because they are forced to rely on their passion, persistence and ingenuity to figure out new ways. Being poor is an advantage in innovation

I mean, define "lack" here. Because actually poor people don't become inventors.

It's a list of platitudes. Old platitudes too - was there a reference to Mother Teresa in there??
Fixed in the blog post and the example project.

Thanks!
I Hope One Day
Thanks for posting. Any remote opportunities? I’m located in ATL and not able to relocate.