skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much worse for the visually impaired are not cars but people on electric scooters going fast on the sidewalk.
If I were Delta employee, I would lose so much confidence in leadership over this decision. How can they so oblivious to outside optics?
I've got my finger on the pulse of spicy memes, and I've never seen a God Emperor one. Is this some kind of Trumpist thing?
Corona beer, the Delta variant. Now infused with real Corona virus Delta variant. Comes with a free Corona virus vaccine shot.
It's darkly funny, because "delta" was chosen in part not to label it the "India" variant.
I imagine Tim Cook is good, but that good? How much of the success is because he does unique work? I mean, I can understand maybe from someone like Steve who was a visionary, but Tim? It looks to me more of an executor than a visionary. I am not saying he is a bad leader or anything, but 750 million dollars is a LOT of money.
I wouldn't want to be in charge of that headhunt, for sure.
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It’s the same here in Washington DC: bikes are faster for most trips, especially e-bikes, unless you’re going all the way across the city (10mi square) on a handful of routes and have parking available next to your destination.

That last part is something which drivers usually leave out in their travel time estimates: off-peak, a car can often go faster to the general area but the time needed to find parking, pay, and walk back usually cancels any savings several times over.
If this was missed in the design of the study, why would it be good news?
It depends where the money landed, that's where the big fees would be made, but just shuffling it around, I'd be very surprised if it was more than that.

Look, you can bring up minuscule footnotes in Appendix F of what matters to the UK economy as much as you like. Yes these things suck. No they are not even remotely consequential to why a taxi driver in London, or Londoners in general earn what they do or how a modern economy functions.

The more time you spend obsessing over incidental edge cases, because they are things you can get enraged about and get a good adrenalin buzz over, the longer you will be mind blastingly uninformed about how the word really works.
Sounds like you’re pretty bad at writing stored procedures.
Oxford University has a covid risk calculator which might be compelling?

However be careful it may backfire because if he is healthy then his odds of dying of covid will be way less than his odds of dying in a car crash this year.

https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation
This is why I personally call it the "delta airlines variant" because the humor of there obviously being no such thing helps make the point that there is no such thing.
Would not be complete without a link to William Kahan [0]...

[0] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf
At least in Germany most electric bicycles are limited to about 25 km/h, which is about what normal cyclists manage on straight roads, anyway. It's definitely not unreasonably fast.

There's also the category of electric bicycles limited to 40 km/h, which are handled pretty much identical to motor scooters (require insurance, cannot use normal bike lanes, unless specified, etc.).
See https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video and https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011
I agree it is fishy, that is why I was nitpicking about it selling for ether and not USD.

I do not have any interest in figuring out if it was lots of buyers or 1 buyer, so I cannot address that.
12-year-old coder is set to earn over $400k after about 2 months selling NFTs
People are not disposable. The labour they provide is.
yea great pep talk, but go convince the various license and copyright holders to allow you to create a store to sell media on linux. this just isn’t going to happen. which means, we’re done here.
They don't need to learn if people keep using their products.
There was a thread on this earlier this (last?) week with a video of a Waymo car hesitating as a person walked near a cross walk.
As you can see from below, it's cultural.
It's also the reason why every Rails codebase turns really bad as it grows: metaprogramming keeps being used extensively instead of being limited. Modules abused, stuff monkey patched, methods creating other methods continuously.

The consequences are always: code unmaintainable over the long term.

Unfortunately to reach this disillusioned state you need to hit some really hard walls, which doesn't happen to all ruby devs.
I am using exactly that; the query builder goes on top of it :)
Looking at the site it’s not surprising that they’ve banned it but yeah you’re right. It’s completely hidden.
Compensation like this is considered regular income, so as Tim is a California resident over half will be owed as tax immediately.
Company with a generic name doesn't want other things to be called by the same generic name
It seems like nothing in this prevents a new rule, however, that says you can't sell it cheaper on your own website. Amazon has been doing this with Kindle indy authors for a long time.
Russia fines Booking.com $17.5 mln for violating competition law
What does being bailed out have to do with calling something by a certain name? How are they related?
big surprise the ultra right wing globojudeonatonalist HN is trying to downvote all the FB hate.
1000% chance. But there'll be some good excuse, like switching to a different system.
Here's another way to explain it:

Since string theory is extremely tunable, you can just overfit it to all the data we already have about how the universe works.

So the only way to get some certainty would be to have it make a prediction that we don't know the answer to, and then test it. At this point in time, we don't have the means to conduct such an experiment.
I remember this happening previously with a company named Isis Associates [1]. They opted for a name change in that case. Obviously, it wouldn’t get to that with Delta (their brand isn’t Covid after all). Still, interesting to see how global events can impact branding.

[1] https://paravispartners.com/news/isis-associates-is-now-para...
Solar has more than 15x the materials throughput per energy generated:

https://www.energy.gov/quadrennial-technology-review-0

Solar produces 4x more carbon than Nuclear:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/

The value of variable renewables declines with increased deployment:

https://neon.energy/Hirth-2013-Market-Value-Renewables-Solar...

Wind and solar combines receive 94x the US Federal subsidies and Fossiel fuels receives 2x (per TWh of generation):

https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/

There is also the fact that most wind farms use about 400x more land per TWh generation, and solar is about 150x. You can compare solar plants to nuclear on Wikipedia.

Then you’ve got the countless real world examples of where nuclear plants get shut down and the per capita emissions of that area shoot up, despite a bunch of politicians talking about renewables and clean energy (Vermont, California, etc.)

Nuclear isn’t hype. Look at France vs Germany for a great real world example of why nuclear is the better technology.

You talk about 50 years under delivering, but there have hardly been any nuclear plants even built in the last 50 years in the West, mostly due to public opposition to a technology that kills less people than wind farms.

If it’s so expensive why are places like Bangladesh, India, and China making massive investments in new reactors?
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How would you even compare that? How would you even measure your productivity? Lines of code? Tickets closed?

How would you measure your scarcity? It is similarly difficult. "Workers are paid according to their productivity" does not mean "there is a fixed mechanical pay formula based on lines of code or something".

> More likely, entrepreneurs would simply automate the shit of out of their work and outsource what is not automatable to other service providers. And all of the "workers" who can not think for themselves will be left jobless and crying for someone to help them.

If entrepreneurs can already do this, why the fuck are they paying so much money for engineers in the bay area? Wouldn't "can be replaced by machines" be the literal minimum possible scarcity?
> a large part

Yip, they sure stole a lot of stuff - as of course did the Mongols and the Aztecs who are now dirt poor. In addition, the Ventians and Swiss never colonised anyone and are/were dripping cash.

But your comment is already a lot more nuanced than the OP's lazy clichéd statements.

A hell of a lot of their wealth also came from, amongst other things:

- individual rights - e,g, Magna caerta - no theft involved

- invention of limited liability corporations

- cadastas and private property rights (no theft involved)

- common law based on precedent (no theft involved)

- investment in mechanised warfare (to keep what they made and stole, see Mongols above)

- etc. etc.

Once only has to compare Singapore (colonised by British and Japanese) with Ghana since independence in the 1960s. Singapore has no water, no resources, no power, is surrounded by hostile neighbours, but is absolutely loaded. Ghana is resource rich and dirt poor.

You can decide for yourself who implemented the list above and who did not. You can also guess who is going to keep digging the hole they are in.

But I guess in certain progressive circles, "they stole it" passes for a rigourous analysis. [ And they get the bonus of claiming the moral high ground of being the perpetual victim ].

The OP should read Hernando de Soto instead.
There’s only one Tim Cook in the world. But, there’s also only one me in the world.

CEOs don’t get paid so much because they are personally unique. Every human is globally unique; it’s a consequence of how complex humans are.

CEOs have artificial scarcity because of the hierarchical structure of companies. By definition, there’s only one CEO of Apple.

Does that mean that ONLY Tim Cook, out of billions of humans, could have brought Apple to the success they have today? Try this thought exercise: if Tim had stayed at Compaq in 1997 instead of jumping to Apple, what are the chances that he would be CEO today of a Compaq worth $2 trillion?

“How much of Apple’s success is personally attributable to Tim Cook” is a perfectly valid question to ask. Unfortunately, answering it is extremely difficult; you’d need to rerun history for each alternate person. But the weight of a process doesn’t guarantee that it finds an optimum.

CEOs benefit from a human tendency to attribute systemic qualities to individual things or people. It’s the same reason we say a jacket “is warm” even though all it is doing is trapping the warmth that we created ourselves. We say a “successful CEO” instead of “the CEO of a successful company.”

Tim Cook makes incredibly consequential decisions every day. But the reason they are so consequential is mostly because he is the CEO of a huge company.

The negative effect of the current thinking on CEO “scarcity” is visible in the absurdly outsized personal rewards that the CEOs of successful companies get. But it’s even more visible in what happens to the CEOs of companies that are not successful. They still get absurd rewards! Adam Neumann also became a billionaire.
No less than 5%, or 100 billion.
Documentation is time on task.
I have coworkers from Pakistan, only women who doesn’t wear a headscarf is very rich and lives in gated community. She told me she definitely can’t go outside that gated community or she would be assaulted. YouTube videos display mostly men in the streets. If I can’t go somewhere with my wife the way she is, guess what, I won’t be going there, nor western women should neither.
Huh, so $999 is the max -- and here I was all this time thinking the I Am Rich [0] dev had generously chosen an affordable price point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
Elementary OS version Isis got a rebranding a few years back. The WHO should start charging protection money to large companies to NOT name diseases after them.
What's wrong with the optics? I think their choice to not try and associate their company name with covid is... probably smart?
? is 0 or 1 instances of the preceding character, so referrrrrrrrrrrrrrer wouldn’t match /referr?er/, only referer or referrer.

Proof: https://regex101.com/r/s56ebD/1
Air India must have a lot more sway than Delta Airlines.
There is an argument for both approaches. I do remember Isis company changing name, because 1) ISIS became a household name 2) it was placed by OFAC on their lists. All of a sudden, doing basic transactions in US became difficult. Needless to say, name change had more of an impact on more than just branding here.

I agree that in this case, they should play it light.
That would just be a global method in ruby.

At the top of any file:

def Weeks(arg)
end
> I think the reason more people don't use the kind of bike lanes we see in the United States is that they're not safe. Cycling in the U.S. means riding on roads with vehicles that aren't expecting bikes and that can easily kill you if the driver makes a small mistake.

The problem is that bike lanes are retrofitted on roads that are really not wide enough for another lane. As a result, you get a substandard width bike lane and more narrow general purpose lanes that don't slow down traffic.

This results in close passes and less margin for error.

> if you're really lucky that bike lane will be separated from deadly traffic by a physical barrier

The problem with physical barriers is the fact that they don't continue through intersections. Cyclists are lulled into a false sense of security and don't pay attention to traffic as they approach the intersection. Motorists are likewise not paying attention to cyclists on the barrier separated path. Then both are caught by surprise when their paths cross.

The best option is to just take the lane and follow the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. You get noticed and you don't have conflicts at intersections. You don't need to be physically fit to do it (other than be physically capable of riding a bike).
I've built SQL query builders to get things done behind the scenes a few times. Users just love being able to search any field, and get their results.
IMO: he’s doing an awful job. His mismanagement of iOS will result in regulation that forces them to give up the abuses which made it (and by extension Apple) so profitable.
GC can be a good thing, when you want to quickly sketch a new program of simply want to act as a scripting language and do a task as quick as possible without too much thinking

That said, i'd still prefer a simple Reference Counting than a full GC as it's quite memory hungry and collections introduce pauses.. wich is not a desirable behavior at all, even though pauses can be solved, i'm no a fan of the idea that a language manage my memory in unpredictable ways

The reason i use D is because i can use it just like C/C++ (with modern niceties such as module, slices, metaprogramming and fast compile time) with my own allocators, completely ignoring the GC

But whenever i need a quick and dirty "script" (it almost never happen), instead of using bash or python, well i simply just use D with its GC, but again, as i said above, i'd prefer a simple RC instead.. but yeah.. it's no big deal since i prefer to manage memory my way anyways

A perfect language understands your intent without impacting your workflow with slow compile time due to heavy, restrictive and slow compile time static analysis (borrow checker for example)
Headphones don't work for me. First, I don't like having them on for a long time and, second, I find people constantly moving in my peripheral vision very distracting and stressful. I can't focus in such an environment.
Surely Blender's internal math is quaternions? Not that I can code those, but I didn't think gimbal locks were something that could bring down something like Blender.
String theory specifically fails to predict/explain gravity. Most versions aren't even background-independent, so they just assume spacetime is a thing.

So no.

This seems weird because LQG is at least trying to be background independent. And spacetime isn't just a thing, it's the thing that needs to be explained in quantum terms.

Concentrating on particle-ising (or operator-ising) gravity seems like missing the point to me.

But I'm not remotely a pro, so I could easily be missing something important.
There's a subtle distinction between these two statements.

Any theory that diverges from our currently accepted theories (like general relativity) will only start differing at sufficiently high energy. There's usually a dimensional analysis type of argument that will tell you roughly when that will happen. For gravity that's the Planck scale. Now, this is true for any theory of quantum gravity, including loop quantum gravity, string theory, or any other theory that you'd consider. There is just no way to distinguish the modified theory from standard GR below the Planck scale.

Now, this is the sense in which people say that string theory is untestable. But again, so is any other theory of QG. So, if your argument for not studying string theory is that it doesn't make testable predictions, you are actually saying that you should not study quantum gravity at all.

Interestingly, though, string theory (unlike things like LQG) is actually a theory of more than gravity. So, unlike these other versions, string theory at least has a hope of being testable. The problem that we're currently facing within string theory is that while there's essentially a unique theory at high energy, at low energies like the ones at the LHC, the theory has multiple solutions (sort of like a quadratic has two solutions). The issue is that the number of these solutions to string theory is too large to go through and check one by one (people throw around the number 10^500). I think this is why people sometimes say that string theory is more of a framework than a fundamental theory. It's possible that someday wed figure out which the correct solution is, who knows.

At the same time, constructing a quantum mechanically consistent theory of gravity is very very hard and, in fact, the only example we have of such a theory is string theory.

That's the sense in which people say that string theory is a successful theory of QR but still isn't able to make any definite predictions.
Doesn't this also point the way to how FLOSS can win? Go ahead and have a config file with options for everything, but out-of-the-box everything should work, be smooth, attractive, and a joy to use. Create a more comfortable environment than the commercial options. Actually cater to the lowest common denominator.
>The primary purpose of IPv6 was to expand the address space of IPv4.

I wish this were all it did. People can make arguments about IPv6 being "simpler," but it's often not simpler in practice:

- You still need to run dual-stack
- You need to re-learn a lot of your networking fundamentals
- Despite IPv6 being effectively infinite, most ISPs will not give you a static IP
- Most hardware is built for IPv4 and NOT IPv6
- Local subnetting is far more complicated. Not just due to the the length of the address, but due to the fact that you often need to work out SLAAC and/or have a local DNS service to handle the address changes.
> Would you also be opposed to a group of pensioners getting together and buying an apartment block, and renting it out to young people who have no savings?

Yes. Why should anyone have free income? That idea is backwards to a functioning economy.

> That way the pensioners have an income to live on — without slowly draining their savings — and the young people have a place to live without having to take out a huge loan.

Here's a better solution: group of pensioners getting together and buying an apartment block. Then instead of renting it out, they rent-to-own. Renting there builds equity. Moving out means an opportunity to sell the equity, with a guaranteed floor that the landowners would buy back. At some point the equity means you own your unit.
It's a matter of risk that I'm paying for to avoid, not absolute quality. I would not wager my life on a random doctor in Africa even while 90% of doctors there might be more skilled than in London. I'm paying to eliminate the risk of encountering the worst 10%. In that light, yes I would personally expect the doctors in London to be able to avoid the worst outcomes better on average. Whether that's warranted is another discussion.

This goes for loads of stuff. I would wager a $30 meal to be fresher than a $5 meal on average. I'm not saying there aren't any $5 meals that are fresher than some $30 meals, but just that the $30 has a lot lower chance to make me sick.
And then Gates fought against dropping COVID vaccine patent protection for months. Old habits die hard, I guess.
I think they are actually trying to be slightly funny about this, maybe it’s not coming across because corporate. But read some of their statements again in a different intonation. I mean, “We prefer to call it the B. 1.617.2 variant since that is so much more simple to say and remember” can’t be taken literally.
Ask HN: Any good audio recourses for learning new tech
I find myself constantly working and on the go, so I have a hard time allocating time for reading/learning. As a mobile dev by trade, I have this desire to learn a lot more about cloud. Not necessarily at the code level, but infrastructure related. The ultimate goal being to comprehend and talk about services outside of mobile land. Looking for comprehensive podcasts of lectures to lean on Thanks!
One of my favorites, from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Arcadia University, née Beaver College...

> The rise of the internet, with systems designed to filter out sexually explicit material, repeatedly blocked access to the college's website. Research conducted by the institution found that, because of its name, the institution appealed to 30% fewer prospective students. In June 2001, trustees voted to apply for university status and to change the name. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_University
There's a prominent Washington, D.C.-based nuclear nonproliferation NGO called the "Institute for Science and International Security".

Their new Twitter handle is @TheGoodISIS
What if the cause of the cosmological redshift is continuous photon decay? Not galactic recession, but photon hubbling, or tired light?

www.bigcircusmodel.org
> Corona beer sales increased because of the virus [...] many people bought it as joke

The “pandemic” ...
> “..I don't think its necessarily good or bad, its just the way the ecosystem works.”

Are you not referring to the “market” ecosystem?

You are flipping my lid, because in the earlier paragraph I read your comment about the largest patent holder in China being the state.

Is the conclusion not: the government of China funds R&D for those projects which the market is not an effective driver, but the project is determined to be important to the government (ideally, ‘the people’)

That sounds like what government is nominally intended to do. If that’s not the case in the US, and our best and brightest are maximizing hamburger delivery apps—-hot, fresh, cheap and profitable for all—-is this not a patently bad thing?
Cheap? May be. But the care is terrible too. Me and my wife pay upwards of 1500 EUR per month. We are healthy young people. My recent experience with public health care in Germany shows how terrible it is.
The expectation of comfort is why anyone pays for a service-and why people make them. What would you choose to do? Build all your furniture on your own, or get it built by a machine and pay for it?

That being said, I do feel that it does lead to passivity, particularly when there is a single dominant player in the market. Case in point: Office before GSuite.