skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put something similar on the ballot in California? or Silicon Valley? Hacker News readers can probably afford to fund the signature drive.

California: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/how-qualify...

Santa Clara County: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Info/Documents/County%20Ini...
I had always thought that quote was attributed to Robert Virding:

http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-...
The US also spends more on defense than the next 10 nations... combined. But we never talk about cutting the defense budget.
I have a similar situation with heating. Two months of sub zero C this winter didn't help either.
Goose & Maverick. Very cool.

I probably would've played more video games if I had known about these co-op modes.
If you're editing by hand then length prefixes are also broken easily and counting the length of strings is cumbersome unless you're using a "technical" text editor like VS Code in which case its just as easy to write a delimiter like \x1F (unit separator) as it is to highlight the text and look at character count.

Unless "editing by hand" means using something like excel?
If you only bother with what software people care about why allow installing code outside of the browser? That would much more effectively eliminate security vulnerabilities.
There has a been a lot of work in this area. Look up discussions around Net Promoter Score (NPS). There's a general belief that page load time has a rather direct relationship with user happiness and how likely they are to recommend your service. It's not my area of expertise but I think it's something like 2s on a decent connection. No action should take longer than that.

For example:

* Page should load to a useful state (could still be background tasks) in under 2s

* Clicking a link should take me to the next page and it should be useful in under 2s

* Making a change to a config item and saving the update should complete in under 2s

If your service can do that, you customers will feel like your system is fast. On the other hand, this is generally considered a technical crowd and we probably look at resource consumption. A site that eats 25% of one of my CPUs and requires 128M of RAM just to load is going to check my box for bloated.
While I am sure the question is sincere, it's notable that the question wasn't, "what businesses have they started," "what are they doing for passive income and investment," "what are they using for leverage," "how many people do they manage," "what university did they graduate from," "what products have they developed," "are they on the real estate ladder," etc.

When you exit the system, the status and meaning it promises doesn't doesn't have the same value. If you got kids to the level of basic analysis / calculus, traveller level in a second language, and passable in the reasoning and comprehension skills of the LSAT, they would be smarter and more capable than most university undergrads. If you add physical competence hobbies to that where some of those skills get applied, you get even more differentiated. Teenagers get amateur pilot licenses, so they are plenty capable.

A way to match home schooled kids with structured team or olympic sports and orchestra or dance programs would be a big opportunity. Maybe we're at the cusp of an edu-tech boom?
Nope, I'm just noting a failure mode.
IronPython also wasn't compatible with any python library that used the C API. Essentially we're back to the point that removing the GIL is 'easy' as long as you don't care about backwards compatibility.
I think everyone's opinion of how to achieve the greater good could be construed as just a "personal itch". I am not sure there even could be a singular "greater good" which would be best for everyone.

Furthermore it's often not obvious what the results will be until the design is used in practice. There are lots of decisions that Go has made where I don't see them as clear and obvious wins, but I could be convinced after seeing how developers incorporate the ideas into their code.

Newer languages have an advantage here, because if their opinions turn out to be unsuccessful, then people will just forget about the language. They won't feel like a language they previously liked was made worse, like some felt with the Python 2->3 transition. But as languages like Go age, there will be more people to get upset with each change. So I worry that simply switching to a newer language doesn't really solve the problem, even if you feel like its opinions align well with your own at the current time.
I downsized to one car during the pandemic. The only reason I had two cars was because we were a family of commuters. Now that no one in the house is commuting, there's little point to owning and maintaining multiple cars.

And the one car I do have could potentially last me the rest of my life because I've gone from commuting 12k miles per year (time 2), down to around 3000.
Funding is often not the problem. I believe it is Boston that currently has the third highest per-pupil funding (around $16k per student) and third worst outcomes among large school systems.
Almost certainly for backwards compatibility. Excel in particular uses the BOM as a single to open a file in a Unicode encoding, rather than cp1252 etc.
Stanford law student who made fun of the federalist able to graduate after all
But, again, IronPython does not have the same semantics as standard Python, so this would be a breaking change to adopt, and so would need to be Python 4.
https://www.cbc.ca/news
To be clear, my post was not written by me, but by Benedict Evans. I reposted it here as it felt like a worthy discussion point.

It might be interesting to see Benedict’s comments on Tesla circa 2005 to see how they compare to Boom today.
Depends where they are from. In the UK, liberals are what are called conservatives in the US, when it comes to economic stuff.
Fauci is a scientist, not a politician. His emails show that he follows the scientific method. This means conclusions can change as new, more convincing evidence is uncovered.
> how package management is a complete dumpster fire

Poetry finally solves all my woes. You can combine it with something like pyenv so you don't get confused with multiple versions on your computer, and then it just works.
$100 -> corp. $90 -> expenses, $10 -> profit. $4 -> corp tax, $6 -> shareholders dist.

$100 -> corp. $90 -> expenses, $10 -> profit -> shareholders dist. $4 -> personal income tax.

In principal it's the same. Path 1 is easier to dodge, because what constitutes "expenses" is hard to define, but distributions are obvious. And the numbers don't have to add to 100. So reality looks more like:

$100 -> corp. $95 -> "expenses", $5 -> "profit". $2 -> corp tax, $8 -> shareholders dist.

vs

$100 -> corp. $95 -> "expenses", $5 -> "profit". $10 shareholders dist. $4 -> personal income tax.

And this is why you want to tax at the distribution level.
> What's the point of an python:3.9 image, when it's never actually updated?

The library images are usually kept current. For instance, python:3.9 tag was last updated 6 days ago according to [1]. What's true is that you don't get those updates unless you actively rebuild your own images that are based on those library images. That's why you want some sort of continuous vulnerability scanning in your toolchain.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/_/python?tab=tags&page=1&ordering=las...
Yup. In between the waves of lockdowns, cities were actually more pleasant to be in than they normally are - with so many offices closed, there was a lot less people and cars on the streets, meaning less pollution and less noise.
Not every both the Guardian and BBC ( who also have a recipe site) are pretty OK.
Good to know. I’ll try and keep that in mind.
I think the cost analysis was valid in the 70s when CEOs and business users were not that different from regular users.

With CEO salaries and more generally inequalities having exploded in the last couple decades I think the business model might have become viable.
Companies pay, behind the scenes, another chunk of payroll tax that is roughly equal to what the employee pays. It doesn’t make the total 50%, but the taxes paid on your salary are higher than just 25%, even if it doesn’t show up on your paystub.
From experience, I can say that the amount of times I've heard those arguments also corresponds closely with the sort of code this article is about.

If you're using a language where all you have are hash tables (PHP comes to mind), then there's no way around it; but it's insanity to overlook simplicity.
NYPD Took Hours to Respond to Looting, Despite Quickly Cracking Down on Protests
In many cases, this is a power imbalance - the one paying you your salary makes the choices, so your choice is accept or leave.

Most people will accept it, so it's no problem to let a few rebellious apples out. But in software engineering, where there's a ton of job opportunities, the imbalance is smaller - many people can choose to leave and go work somewhere else. A company can't survive if all its employees leave, so they must make room for negotiations.

Therefore I expect that some WFH opportunities will stay - some companies will be happy to poach talented leavers.
How do they plan to deal with the sonic boom problem that relegated the Concorde to ocean-crossing routes? Or will this also be relegated to ocean-crossing routes?

What's the market for this? The Concorde was extremely expensive to operate and extremely expensive to fly on. Are they predicting lots of wealthy people looking for fast international travel between North America and East Asia?

> “The world’s first purchase agreement for net-zero carbon supersonic aircraft marks a significant step toward our mission to create a more accessible world,” Scholl said in a statement.

> Part of what made buying supersonic jets appealing to United is Boom’s plan to power the planes with engines that will run on sustainable aviation fuel.

How does a net-zero carbon aircraft work? What is "sustainable" in this context? Carbon credits?
Skepticism and Optimism Around Art NFTs
It's not that SNL is some strong influencer, it's just indicative that the current name will be an easy punchline and feed into existing fears.
Ah, the joys of demonstrative pronouns. The creator of Python 4.0 has decided he doesn't want to ship it after creating it?
Oh, my overall productivity is down quite a bit due to family distractions.

Once the new house is built, my office will probably be in a separate guest house.
“All my life, I’ve been in the top 5% of people who understand incentives, and all my life, I’ve underestimated it.” — Charlie Munger

Quoting from memory. It’s true that almost every time I see a really strange group behavior, it’s the natural result of poorly conceived incentives.

This is a problem that is likely to be with us forever.
> Why isn't this approach to calculus more common? Does it lead to more complex proofs or have any serious drawback?

Simply put, because there aren't more textbooks for it and because professors aren't as familiar with it, leading to a vicious circle where it's not taught because it's not as easy as teaching the standard way, and then it's not routinely learned because it's not taught ….

(The advanced logic that goes into the underlying constructions, but that isn't necessary to use non-standard analysis, also causes many non-logician mathmaticians to give it an unjustified bit of side-eye.)
We’ve known for a long time that biofuels are an unsustainable scam.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703574604574500...
EU needs to fix it's tax loopholes before slapping companies with rules and sanctions.
> simply enforce a global flat tax

Enforced by whom?

Why would a developing country want to tax companies at the same level if they're trying to attract investments? Anyway, why should any country listen to any other country on what the tax rate should be?

Why should a company be forced to pay tax on foreign income if the country in which they supposedly made that income doesn't want to them to pay taxes?

The worst part is that this comment starts with "simply enforce"
Ahh, the comments. This is where the nastiness comes out. If you don't want to steward things, don't put yourself in the position of being a steward.

Plenty of other languages have been able to provide real long term support to their users for decades.

This is why so many of us in a position to do something about it are ditching Python. No regrets.
I like how technology is making crime harder to get away with. CCTV has probably lead to convictions in 100,000's of cases over its lifetime and deterred many more. I can't think of many negative outcomes to society from CCTV systems. My hope is that AirTags will make petty theft harder to get away with too.
Why we need multi-line short closures in PHP
Just going off my purely anecdotal experience with being fired as an underperformer, most companies don't do well in the improvement/mentoring aspect with underperformers like myself. I think part of the problem is that many of these calls for improvement or churn come from HR and they're handled by folks who aren't trained in mentoring and skill training. I think if there was more emphasis on helping supervisors actually learn how to mentor and train to improve underperformers to get them up to the same level as the rest of their team then there would be fewer articles like this. But it seems like it's easier to throw people away than to help improve them.
Python and Perl really did merge!
At least 80% of the best public high schools in the US are urban [1]. You’ll also notice that many of the most urban of them have well over 1000 students while the best of the suburban ones are generally only a few hundred students.

The worst schools in urban areas (just like the worst schools in rural and suburban areas) need to be dramatically improved, but you do not help the situation by claiming all urban schools are terrible.

EDIT - If you have a California-centric view, it might be a little more understandable. Look at that list and you see that Los Angeles and San Francisco have 1 school each on the list. New York City has 12, Miami-Dade has 6, Chicago has 5, Houston and Dallas 4 each.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-...
I am not saying you are wrong; just providing another perspective. When every penny you *spend* or *save* is taxed, you end up paying more than 50% of what you made to The Man. Either tax the income or tax the spending, not both, is my argument.
Currently using grind setting 18, 68g beans (darker roast) for a full brew on the Moccamaster
Chinese DL model “Wudao” with 1.75T parameters
In the theoretical PDEs world, non-integer alpha represents a fractional derivative.
True. Updated to reflect your source
Kill Fauci!
Warning, the trickle may smell like urine. Don’t look up.
They create a PR boost for United. They can tell the business travelers that "Super Diamond Elite" business travelers will get first access to these flights (Dates TBD). Making those people more likely to go with United over Delta.
I learnt a lot in Math and did well but didn’t feel there was anything in the curriculum I couldn’t have learned independently. English had a lot of subjectivity and soft-skills that required some external calibration for me.
> It's much less likely that content is going to include ASCII 28 to 31 than that it will include a comma or a tab. But you're right, certainly not impossible.

Yeah, that's the same problem as UTF-8's almost-compatibility with ASCII. Things work, until they break spectacularly.

Ultimately, you either have to solve the issue properly, or keep it visible enough that people are forced to handle it.
yes, a certain amount of discipline is required to get through boring, yet important, stuff in life. I'm really not sure US grade school does a great job instilling that virtue though. the material is generally a complete joke for any student of above-average intelligence. I'm no genius, but I did all my homework during the class before it was due and rarely studied for tests. I was in for a rude awakening when I got to college, which is a pretty common story.
Amazon wasn't the first company to practice this and it's not the only to do so today. The tighter the bonds within a team, the more likely it will hire-to-fire. They hire-to-fire so as to keep up with HR policy while protecting the legacy team members. New team members are socially rejected from the club as there is no point in making friends with the temporary help.
They've tried this with under-performing schools (typically in urban areas). Throwing money at a problem doesn't make it magically go away. What works is breaking up the school and divvying up the students/teachers among schools that aren't under-performing.
Ponder this point deeply: "Freedom includes the freedom to make mistakes."
Thanks! Do you know of any source (textbook/paper) about this construction.
But you are basing this on your personal experience. I work remote out of state from my company (and did so pre-pandemic.) I would often travel and stay at the office for decent periods of time. During those periods way less work was accomplished for me, because I was socializing more with co-workers, took more snack/water breaks, spent more time at lunch. While WFH I will still go out to local coffee shops to work out of if I am lacking focus for the day.

Some people actually do work better in a distraction free environment, but it seems you don't believe that. I should mention, my company has an open-office floorplan, so the amount of daily interruptions was quite incredible...
>> then maybe this won’t produce doctors or lawyers

Isn't that a decision that the children should be allowed to make for themselves once they are adults? School should give them sufficient resources for them to attack any profession, from soldier to priest, pilot to surgeon. Asking a child to make such choices, allowing them to forgo certain subjects, harms them in the long term. It limits their potential options.

A few years ago I read that "social media influencer" was a more desired trade amongst highschool kids than doctor/lawyer/fighter pilot. Such kids should not be allowed to make educational decisions.
Fuck Fauci.

Shoot that nazi in the fucking head!
IMDB has been getting slower and slower with feature bloat, to the extent I avoid it for doing movie-info searches. Thankfully there's a nice app for that I wish more people knew about: Coollector. https://www.coollector.com
> Noise means you can't do US domestic

Part of that was also political. It's petty and I wish it weren't true, but a domestic-made plane making noise will be better accepted than a foreign-made plane making noise.
Natural Gas Pipeline Density Higher Overall in More Vulnerable US Counties
> I'd love a world where a guy doing this gets sentenced to community service and maybe Nintendo gets to take over the domain and make their case for not pirating or something

Most of europe
Oh geez, it took me almost 24 hours to get the joke.
You mean IRL crime, cybercrime is easier than ever to pull off.
Not sure what is standard practice but what seems to work for me is building it up in layers. Start with Alpine:latest install OS level packages tag that as baseimage:N. Use that image as the base of the development level Dockerfile. Then on a schedule build base image N+1, and run the tests.

That way if something in the base changes and causes a regression you can pin to the last known good until you can fix the bug.
This makes more sense and doesn’t dilute your brand, improves SEO, and helps protect against phishing by making your customers and staff look for a single known-good domain:

https://mycompany.com/join
Having worked for a Silver Lake funded company (I originally called a startup, but that's not fair to say anymore for a private company that now makes billions), I can assure you that they don't take a back seat to how the company is ran (that's not to say they take a direct hands on approach, either).
There's a difference between "take on this inconvenience and gain nothing" and "take on this inconvenience in exchange for solving this problem".
Maybe this is excessively YOLO of me, but I would be more likely to fly a plane called Boom, not less.
https://blog.boomsupersonic.com/q-a-with-booms-sustainabilit...

A lot of fluff but I would guess a good place to start to learn more
How to make users ask for more with Gamification
Thank you. Yes it is good to see some projects stepping up the fill the gaps. I only wonder as time goes on how well socialized these will be...and if people who suddenly find themselves in the position of maintaining an old Python code base will be able to find out what to do.
Ouch. Someone tried to force yammer on us at a previous company because of a Good Ole Boys Club relationship. It died loudly. I'm sorry.
Because they don't have to. They would go back to that in a heartbeat if they had to. It's about maximizing shareholder's revenues, post-tax.
NFTs are more like fine prints, which derive their value from the sticker that says "copy X of Y" than from the print itself.
> There is something to be said for forcing kids to learn things they hate.

There is also something to said for developing a kid’s sensitivity to and ownership of their individual intrinsic motivation. If using extrinsic motivation works for your kids, that’s great for you. Deciding on an approach for the child one rears out of concern for a lack of lawyers and doctors doesn’t sound like a sound decision process.
So I was interested in how well Boom was doing in keeping to its timeline, and found an article from two years ago:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/supersonic-passenger...

Some side-by-side comparisons:

2019 article: "Boom envisions its Overture airliner traveling at Mach 2.2." 2021 article: "a plane that could fly at Mach 1.7"

2019 article: "Its planes could be ready for commercial service in the mid-2020s". 2021 article: "It is targeting the start of passenger service in 2029."

The 2019 article also says that Boom is constructing a 1/3rd scale version of Overture that could be making test flights later in 2019. This article from October 2020 says that the 1/3rd scale vehicle was "rolled out" in 2020 and could be ready for test flights in Q3 2021. https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2020/10/26/boom-supe...
> "Then we find that there are game positions whose values are larger than all the integers. The obvious interpretation of this is that they are infinite, but are all part of a larger structure, one where addition and subtraction of these things still makes sense, and are still well defined."

But isn't this really more about notation than having "values" that are necessarily "larger than all integers"? That is, isn't this about needing a convenient way to notate something when we're already using integers for something else?

And/or do you know of any books or resources that go into more detail about this?

(As far as I can tell, the idea of surreal numbers still imagines a one-dimensional layout through which numbers are ordered. It's the adding of "infinity" and "1/infinity" to this line to which I object on nonsense grounds; using a non-integer symbol to represent an extension of some sort (non-spatially related) for some context still makes sense, I just don't think it implies a value "greater than all integers".)
2. is not accurate. Managers don't have to hire weak people to satisfy the quota. People are rarely ever put into PIP due to performance. Most of the times it is political.
What sites have done better after being sold after being already successful?

This is an honest question, theres probably some but I dont know. Most known sites seem to fade into obscurity after a high profile purchase.