skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act

A proposal to do exactly that. Critically, it phased out incentives available to corporations that provide employee healthcare in favor of tax deductions for individuals that purchase their own healthcare. During the transition period, employers would subsidize private plans purchased by their employees.
Even without outsourcing, there are challenges to stopping a genocide by strong military power.
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Finnish pendolinos have been running with the tilting mechanism permanently off for felt 10 years.
Many people don't know because of the shame, their parents never told them they or their parents were collaborators. After the war many destroyed as much evidence of their crimes and kept everything to themselves. In the Netherlands the death penalty was brought back for just for these crimes after not having been carried out since 1850 (officially abolished in 1870).

There was a strong desire for revenge in the first years after the war. That meant anyone who did anything 'wrong' was not going to talk about it.
"state actor or at least a large organization, and they also have cheaper and simpler ways to plunge a city into chaos."

I'm not sure that's true. If I were China or the US, I would totally be interested in an exploit that would allow me to hack even a single model across the entire country and set the accelerator to be unconditionally floored and the car no longer able to turn off. Heck, that second one is even optional, given how many people are going to panic. Getting multiple models would be an even bigger bonus.

As others in the thread point out, we have publicly-known instances of companies that collect vulnerabilities. It's hardly a stretch to imagine that state actors already have the vulnerabilities, or even already have this capability essentially turnkey for whenever they need it. I mean, fund a decent hacker group of ~10 people for a year and they could probably build "the button to crash every Tesla, Ford truck between 2018 and 2020, and all Volvos after 2015 on the road in the US"... our impression of how hard security work is is colored by civilian researchers who are incredibly poorly funded. How many of our reports of deeply broken things come from people working in their spare time? I wouldn't underestimate what someone systematically collecting vulnerabilities could do with not much funding, relatively speaking.

The problem is, it's not even that you can turn a whole city into chaos... you can turn a whole country into chaos for cheap enough that it's worth adding to your portfolio.

In my opinion, the only reason to be unworried about that is precisely that there are so many other things that can be done that this somehow doesn't even rate as "interesting" and that is far from good news!
How did you get that from the linked article? Or are you just shooting from the hip based on bias?
You can run verifier once (e.g. at installation time) and remember that code is good.
You should also suggest they remove their own garbage redirect tracking from the Firefox Addons site.

Any URLs in the addon description section are all tracked/redirected via `https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net`
> It can't exist in a free market or a leveled playing field.

Right, because free markets are not capable of pricing in externalities (and in fact they actively incentivize externalities). If they were capable of this, fossil fuels would be prohibitively expensive, and nuclear would be cheap.
Replacing Coal Plants with Renewables Is Cheaper 80% of the Time
EU Emissions Trading System

https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets_en
Congratulations on publishing! And on a unique topic at that.

I’ve built, and than managed teams building, apps of large scale and complexity. Your outline looks like a goldmine of practical and essential advice, especially for folks just ramping up on mobile. I’m excited to give it a read.
I don't admire Steve Jobs's personality, but I find myself talking about him all the time, for two reasons:

1) Steve Jobs had a vision for the appearance, function, and marketability of his products, and enforced his tyrannical will on his team until that vision was met, or at least it was impossible to enforce any more. The fact that his vision changed along the way or that he was inconsistent at times isn't as important as the fact that he was a central authority that was allowed to keep the resultant products consistent and stable. People who try to behave like Steve Jobs rarely have the level of vision that he did, and mimic his behavior rather than his principles.

2) Everything the teams under Steve Jobs produced has been cargo-cult mimicked ad nauseam by people today, to the point where every modern software looks like someone tried to redesign Apple software from memory. Unfortunately, it all sucks (compare Jira to Windows 95 Email in terms of form and its relation to function).
The fact that we have to post with throwaways should speak volumes about how toxic activists are.

No one wants their family to be cancelled because someone posted some wrongthink on the internet.
> I find that decomposing iteration into map and filter expressions typically clarifies my understanding of the problem and makes the resulting code more general too, and I just disagree that for-loops are clearer.

Agree to disagree I guess.

> Combining a map and filter into one loop body tends to create specific, imperative code that doesn’t need to be specific or imperative. For one, loops require mutation to have the same effect as filter and map, and as soon as you’re maintaining state, things get confusing.

I agree that immutable, declarative code is easier to reason about in general than mutable, imperative code, but it's not a binary proposition. I posit the cost of managing the tiny bit of very-local mutable state for a for loop is a lower cost than trying to model a problem in terms of map and filter. While I can appreciate the elegance in "immutable always", I think it's too puritanical for real world software development, especially in these cases which are simply expressed as for loops.

Note that languages like Python have strong support for immutable expressions and `for` loops, and it seems very common (even idiomatic) to use imperative `for` loops for anything more complicated than the simplest list comprehensions.

> In general though I think the functions used in map and filter should be total. Most languages are not expressive enough to handle errors fluidly in long chains like that, you can do it with monads but apparently everyone hates those except me.

I think it's just that monads tend to allow for very abstract code at the expense of understandability, and the abstraction that monads facilitate is often well in excess of what a given problem requires. If you're writing code to maximize abstraction (which is a lot of fun), monads (and map/filter/etc) are great, but if you're trying to work with a team to build software to solve real problems, you probably care a lot more about readability than gratuitous abstraction and the monad (/map/filter/reduce/etc) juice frequently isn't worth the squeeze.
Being ‘nice’ can hurt your career
How does shutting something down for 3 years to find out information we already know not count as censorship? The environmental claim only really applies to Bitcoin, and yet it's a full moratorium on all cryptocurrency, even those that use PoS.
That was an unconstitutional order.
You once again assumed the amount of variance matches exactly the amount of measuring error. But you didn't prove it.

In my book, the jury is out. We take the scientific approach, yes?

As for what particle physicists accept conventionally, versus what they claim is the actual nature of reality are two things. Again, a scientists to another, when questioned specifically on a topic, won't say "oh it's like that because we've universally accepted it's like that". Because they know history is full of things science accepted, and then was disproven.

Either there's sufficient evidence, or there isn't. One of the top ways we get stuck in science is when we confuse model and convention with proven objective reality.
for a moment there I thought well no wonder the kid got killed if he’s 500 pounds!
Cologarithms and Entropy
I also recall that when we [Timescale] first did our benchmarks vs Mongo for time-series, our use of MongoDB for time-series beat Mongo's own benchmarks :-)

That's probably not something most companies would do for benchmarking, but we take ours seriously :-)
Besides the material wastage you mention, also think of the habitat destruction this causes. One small nuclear plant can replace many acres of noisy, ugly, inefficient and bird-killing windmills and panels
Paper: https://energyinnovation.org/publication/the-coal-cost-cross...

Interactive data: https://visual.energyinnovation.org/coal-cost-crossover-2.0/
Any company running out of mainland USA is going to have serious privacy problems due to USA influence and their need to comply with both local laws and the government’s interest in influencing public sentiment.
Is navigation not part of the infotainment system?
I'm imagining a hack that puts the empty parked car into self-driving mode and makes it drive away, effectively stealing itself.
Would the anxiety of realising you're tripping way more than you intended not potentially result in the effects feeling a lot stronger than it otherwise would feel?
With a $5/gallon tax, you could pay $600/ton for direct air capture of carbon. This is the current price for small test installations. There are claims that this could decrease to as little as $40/ton with scale.
How to Be Psychic?
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I have a hard time coming to the same conclusion.

All of the problems with nuclear reactors have happened to plants which were designed and constructed in the 1950->1970s. As it turns out, we've learned a ton about safely operating nuclear plants. The problem is upgrading these old plants rarely happens and getting newer plants to replace them is equally daunting.

There are 3 examples of major nuclear plant problems. That doesn't seem like too many.

In contrast, there are hundreds of operating plants. The newer ones are particularly safe because they require positive input to keep the nuclear reaction going. Any sort of earthquake, tsunami, mudslide, etc that causes the plant systems to fail will cause the nuclear reaction to be halted.

Chernobyl, 3 mile island, and fukushima are all impossible in plants built in the last 25 years. (Gen III or newer)
That's a universal observation -- people do what they want until they are resisted
But those other political enemies aren't in the same position of power as Trump. It could be argued that Facebook's motivations are to ensure the presidency and congress are under their political tribe's control while giving the maximal voice to the other side so that they do not lose all those customers who disagree with their political views. It gives them all the benefits of aggregating power for their political tribe while minimizing loss in income and corporate value.
You'd be surprised, judging by the comments here. The Firehose of Falsehood has somehow worked on a surprising number of HN users.
I will definitely have to do something with it, at the very least photocopy it as another user suggested. It has luckily survived a fire, but I don't know if it'll be around forever.
As one of those devs in the 99%, I get that. But if you're okay with getting outside your comfort zone a bit, you can still find people to (at least informally) mentor you throughout your career.

For example, I volunteer as a mentor for Code Louisville, and we actively encourage students to stay in touch even after the program when it comes to job hunting, programming questions, etc. I've also managed to find experienced devs for myself through local dev meetups, but have also had luck just messaging people on Linkedin. Sure, not all devs are going to be willing, but a lot of people respond well to basic curiosity and humility.
You will find a lot of people (myself included) who've bet on InfluxDB and sorely regretted it afterwards. It's not even remotely close to Postgres and Timescale in reliability, and to be honest hardly production ready if you work with critical data.
> The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Resource Manual Section 941.18 U.S.C. 1343 cites these as the key elements of wire fraud: “1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money; 2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud; 3) that it was reasonably foreseeable that interstate wire communications would be used; and 4) that interstate wire communications were in fact used.”

So wire fraud is defrauding money. Most people consider fraud to be a form of stealing, although it is obviously different in the eyes of the law. Either way, it is getting money that is not rightfully yours.
Reddit's internal search is atrocious. It's much easier to find content appending "reddit" to your search on Google (or better yet, append "site:reddit.com").
Sticking with Alon Levy's usual act of just dunking on American rail designers, I always laugh whenever I pass over this stretch of the SFMTA Muni light rail line between Townsend and 2nd, where the track is banked as if the streetcar was going to go around it at 80 MPH, even though the track is posted as 5 MPH max for LRVs and Muni's average speed is, last I read, 1.7 MPH, or half a human walking pace. Riding the streetcar over this track, or coming to a stop there which is very common, you see all the passengers leaning to the outside to counteract the ridiculous bank angle of the tracks.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7811699,-122.3885358,3a,75y,...
Yeh my thought too there's a lot of shady shit that goes on in the VC world.

I think he could have done with advice from a mentor who wasn't at all involved with the vc side - even on how formal meetings like board should be run.

He is right about different cultures around how meetings are run though.
In the today's atmosphere, invention of AI would let the top few people (not percent, but people) absorb the entire wealth of the nation and have a completely loyal and merciless personal army powered by AI to cement their high status. Right now the too two persons in the US own more than the bottom 40%, but this status is shaky and depends on judicial framework run by people with their own opinions. AI would allow to remove this uncertainty.
What unions are involved in ethanol? That's primarily the corn farmer/big ag corps' interest.
> Real-world FORTH code has lots of non-trivial stack operations which are quite far from 'optimally' encoded, in fact they're quite unintuitive.

I guess it depends on what you consider to be "real-world".. but usually when I see a ton of stack manipulation, it's from a newer forth programmer who thinks that they should be programming that way, i.e. forth is stack based, so I should be putting everything on it.

I went back and looked at an old SHA1 implementation I did[0], and I think the "worst" stack manipulation was a -rot in one place, and maybe the handful of overs.

[0] - http://www.andern.org/alexander/sha1take2.txt
I feel the search is just as good, very likely the first listed link will be what I am looking for.

I'd say however the results have become more concentrated, like many others have said, these are concentrated around a few platforms. Another I'd say is maybe something bad has happened around SEO. I searched for something I wanted to buy the other day and every listing linked to the same website, even with different search terms, this is despite many online stores stocking it (I found many links on the manufacturers website).
Analytics-as-a-service platform StarTree nabs $24M
Not GP but I feel your analysis here doesn't follow.

> rather than being completely unaffected by S[n]? Is n here a discretization of time or a "meta-time" that captures state progression?

It would be remarkable if the "next state" of the universe did not depend or was so correlated to the "current state" that symbolically we represent it as a dependency. A ball only rolls downhill because it was once uphill, after all - one of the few things that unites various models of the universe was the existence of causality.

> If the former, then you are treating time as a primitive, whereas the representation or even existence of time can be part of state and vary over state changes, so this does not work.

This is interesting but I feel reductive. the "nth" state is not the state at time n, but the state that follows n-1 - it is dimensionless, but one might express it in spacetime if that is convenient. Nothing suggests it is uniformly sampled or even computable.

> completely independent from each other is indistinguishable from a multiverse with inaccessible sub-universes and should be called as such

No idea what this implies, but in a non-deterministic state machine there are multiple S(n + 1) for any given S(n).

> you are also assuming linearity and discreteness of state changes, whereas it could be a DAG or more complex structure.

GP does not suggest evolve(S) is linear or discrete (they suggest either continuous or discrete, actually). Neither of these imply anything about topology so I'm not sure what that has to do with a DAG. State transitions can encapsulate arbitrary topologies (and vice versa). They are duals.

> rather than a more chaotic or unstructured universe that behaves more like a disjoint set than an orderly structure

I feel GP covers this base by mentioning that state transitions may not be deterministic. Just because a system is chaotic or unpredictable does not imply we cannot formulate the nature of its chaos or unpredictability symbolically.
Or overwrite those data points.
Where are you going to get enough batteries?

If batteries were viable Elon wouldn’t just be talking about them.

Batteries are no where near the cost efficiency of, say, pumped hydro. Nor can batteries touch the overall capacity of pumped hydro. And pumped hydro can’t happen just anywhere - you need the right physical environment for it to be effective.

So yeah, unless you have something more concrete than “batteries, obviously” it is hand waving.
Oops :) You're right, fat fingered some quick calc
Obviously security bugs are bad and need to be fixed. But the point is that the security architecture seems to have made the right choices here. It's the same defense in depth strategy that puts reverse proxies in front of our web applications, or runs a database server behind a managed protocol such that SQL commands can never come from the front end boxes.

Or, for a glib answer: if you need to stop the car safely, engage autopilot and unbuckle your seatbelt. The car will turn the hazards on and pull over on its own.
Stack Overflow does something similar, and adds a user tracking ID to any shared link, though apparently it's possible to remove it without breaking the link[1].

I only noticed when I received a badge for how many times it was clicked, and even though it's not nefarious I'd still prefer it to be opt-in rather than done by default.

[1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/277769
With renewables your base load comes from stored power or potentially trade; that is, connecting Americas to Africa or Asia.

As long as you are able to scale your storage, you'll be able to fill it up with solar energy.
Hi John, good to hear from you! (And thank you :-)
Smell training – Regain a sense of smell by intentional sniffing
Proof? Besides, we've got to have some sort of skin tone to stand for skin tones that are absent or not given for some reason. It's got to be _some_ colour, and it might as well be yellow.
Say more about XOps? From where I sit, DevOps is "about" treating software product more like modern manufacturing products && tightening the feedback loops between development and operations... How does that translate to, say, Graphic design, Finance, X where X==$operational_unit?

> It helps to ask around

It helps whom to ask whom about what?
Whataboutism style arguments (which are always the knee-jerk reactions that show up) are wrong.

I wrote about this at length here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html and won’t rehash it again in the comments.
Thank you for the book, I really love your YouTube channel, very informative!
Agreed. The Internet is humanity's greatest invention, unlocking bodies upon bodies of knowledge to the world, and yet what do most of the people on it now do? Sit around and complain about the most inane trivial shit like emoji color combinations, or why a massive corporation's comic book movie franchise didn't have representation of some group or something.

It's disheartening that people ascribe importance to these things. Every little thing is a massive battle.
Sometimes I visit miilionshort.com to search for something when google isn't cutting it. They have options to leave out the top 100/1000/100000/1000000 websites (By Alexa rank I believe), so I will try playing with the options to get something useful. It's not always fruitful, but I've found many nice things this way that would've been buried on google.
I’ve yet to see any renewable plan that could cover big northern cities.

Where are we going to build a solar farm to cover NYC, DC, and Philadelphia? There is 9 hours of daylight in the dead of winter, and it’s not exactly known for being sunny in January.

NYC alone needs 11,000 megawatt hours per day. My back of the envelope fermi estimate is a solar farm covering approximately 16,000 acres. Forget the metro area, that’s just for NYC. Probably double if you include the entire metro area.

You aren’t going to find that kind of land within 300 miles of NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ag...

This?
Apparently I’m pretty much alone in thinking that Rust is a clumbsy, messy language. The syntax is all over the place. You get the feeling that there’s no design strategy and than anyone with half an idea is allowed to bolt on features.