skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
despite all the theoretical work, it's not physically possible to bias a coin to any notable degree. Unlike a die you can't weight one of the faces, you can bend the coin but it takes about a 90 degree bend in a coin to be able to say that a coin is biased with statistical confidence. Or in other words, if the coin appears reasonably flat, it's fair enough that you won't notice.

https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...

I get the idea as shorthand for a binary outcome, but the way you make a coin fair is to flip it.
Interesting. I guess maybe in a different geographic location than me since I've never seen the 1 per room thing around here.
I think there is obviously a balance. The problem is how it is being done. Currently Marin is going through something they call a housing element. They have hired a consultant group from LA to find lots they think would be good and are just rezoning things with a broad brush. I don't think the planners have even been to the county, let alone the town. The plan literally takes some of the vacant parts of town and encourages high density apartments.

The prior affordable housing has also backfired. They did a development 20 years ago that was meant to provide local housing. But, because it had federal backing, it meant anyone could apply. A large number of people who live in the project are people on section 8 and disability with no ties to the region whatsoever. They don't work in or contribute to the community, but rather just get free apartments.

To add insult to injury, many of the homes that were made under the original development became vacation rentals about 10 years after they were built (some expiration on deed restrictions or something).

Here is an example: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19192461?guests=1&adults=1&s=67...

Clearly this is not what was intended. There has to be a better way.
Getting the kids to adapt sucks, but my kids are considerably more cogent when they wake up and it's not pitch black out. I don't see next school year going well if the sun won't come up until well after they've started school.
My internal compiler rejects that syntax. It's not uncommon but reading a headline like that does tend to make me less confident that whatever is in the page is worthwhile.

If he doesn't even proofread his headline, how sloppy will the rest of the site be?
This post was flagged by the car industry?
No more than would using a GPL-licensed linker, such as gnu ld or gold.
He was the guy that let the car drive into the pole. That completely goes against what everyone agrees to when joining FSD, and probably what employees agree to. Fact that he even posted and and tried to capitalize on it really shows...

https://electrek.co/2022/02/04/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-...
> An O-ring would just confer water resistance, not water proofness.

The comment you replied to explicitly said:

> > an o-ring, you know like the one that keeps the water in the pipes.

> You couldn’t really submerge it and expect it to continue working. There is a huge difference between hermetic sealing an an O ring or a gasket.

No, there isn't. O-rings and gaskets are exactly what one uses to make stuff waterproof.
To be precise, the bill [0] does not “make DST permanent”. It eliminates DST and redefines the standard time zone offsets. (Possibly an important distinction in software…)

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
Bitcoin's blockchain is plain text too.
What about countries with short sun lights during the winter, and large sunlight during summer?
I'm not sure why people are surprised why someone would be fired for making their employer look bad? If you publicly badmouth your employer you can get fired for it if they want to. This is not something abnormal.
More than these exceptions, gadgets nowadays like to be IoT's and use internet time servers. The blast radius on things made since 2007 is likely smaller than you think.
A single engine GA aircraft can become a glider and safely land but while this is the normal behavior for the glider it counts as an accident for the plane. I'm not sure how you separate these categories without a tremendous amount of analysis.
Nice tips!

> How are you going to split up the money? 20% to each partner? Based on who does the work (with maybe a fixed percentage going to shared expenses like marketing)? Have these conversations sooner rather than later.

Very good point. I've tried partnerships in the past but not really worked out. In my current setup I've got a freelancer soon to be permanent, a friend of mine that has its own consultancy and some trusted developers as freelance.

Structure is more loose but gives the advantage of keeping costs down and having good cashflow.
Among other trends radio stations stopped giving large numbers of DJ’s freedom to select individual songs and thus allow for organic growth in song popularity across regions. While susceptible to a payola it did introduce people to a lot of new music from relative unknowns.
You're not wrong, but as someone who is forced to share the road with FSD Teslas, I'm happy that he was willing to show what one is capable of doing without proper interference.
> In what way? I recognize that the remarks Terry A. Davis made were not his fault, it's the mental illness.

I don't think mental illness really changes whether or not you have a good heart. I've met many people dealing with mental illness who are gracious and compassionate to all people no matter their race. Though it's possible his views might have been informed by his upbringing or his environment. Perhaps mental illness impairs self-reform or the capability for better judgement, but it can't be said that the mental illness, in and of itself, was the fault of mental illness.
This to me is a typical case of POGTFO
> It's 6 AM in London. What time is it in Denver?

> The way things work now, it's approximately midnight in Denver, or close enough that the safe answer to the question "What is my business partner in Denver doing?" is "Sleeping" which neatly answers the question of what their likely response will be were I to call them now.

Memorizing a timezone offset is basically still what you'd need to do. To know that it's approximately midnight in Denver, you have to have that memorized or look it up.

Once you have that 6 hour number, in a single-timezone world, you'd simply say "ok what were people here doing 6 hours ago?" and you'd have your same answer.

Of course people would still publish those sorts of "conversion tables"/offsets, because people would still have that exact problem! But they'd possibly be a bit more precise than historically - with current computer tech, it might actually be more accurate, e.g. using actual GPS coords instead of broad swaths, so it would be like "Denver is 6.24 (or whatever) hours behind your current location." Let alone how much better that might work for cities in single-timezone China, say.

(I'm personally against this idea, anyway, but that particular argument has never satisfied me.)
Putting yourself in a situation in which the public might assume you are speaking on behalf of your employer is unwise, unless speaking for your employer is your actual job. And even if it is actually your job, it's just common sense that you shouldn't publish content that makes your employer look bad.

It doesn't matter if you have "permission" or your managers are "aware of it." Permission can be revoked. Managers can change their minds or be overruled.

This is just how the world works. Maybe it's not how things should work, but it's reality. This guy learned that lesson the hard way.
Bitcoin uses almost as much energy as all data centres combined
Classic survivorship bias?
I'm saying that it's silly to argue that Tibetans don't deserve their own government because ancient Tibetans were horrible people, when the current alternative is Tibetans being ruled by China with its own horrible ancestors.

Ancient people were horrible everywhere. It's not really an argument for anything.
> In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of more than 185,000 people from 1995 to 2012. They found that the fall transition to standard time was associated with an 11 percent increase in depressive episodes, an effect that took 10 weeks to dissipate. The spring switch, by contrast, had no similar effect.

Yeah, I've seen that before, and I've always found it incredibly unconvincing. The thing about the fall is that there's also less sunlight in general, at any time of day, and DST won't change that. I'd be very curious to see a study conducted before/after temporary all-year DST in the 70s, although it probably doesn't exist.
That doesn't work out so neatly for people affected by the sun's cycle.

The sun affects not just when people prefer to sleep, but also quality of sleep, duration, how refreshed they are, and during the daytime the profile of energy levels, hormones, brain function through the day. Just going to bed earlier doesn't compensate for that.
Aside from movies that are set in those time periods I doubt it.

I don’t think the Beatles or the stones resonate with millenials and younger much. I’m in my late 20s, grew up on classic rock and still fairly fond of Pink Floyd and Rush. I’ve seen Keith Richards perform live. By all means the songs are good but they mean very little to me. I’m probably top 1% in terms of classical rock knowledge within my age peer group.

Franchise movies made by or targeted to boomers, sure, but I think it’ll slow down quite a bit over the next couple decades.

When I was a kid, I learned about classic rock through the radio because that’s all my dad played on the radio. This isn’t the case anymore. Now you aren’t limited to a few stations all favoring the most mainstream subsets of music.

And that’s cool. Music has never been so diverse. The accessibility of artists is so strong and there’s lots of great talent
https://cdn.gamer-network.net/2021/articles/2021-01-19-20-13...
That'll have to wait until the next release when the standard library gets updated... But soon!
What about them? (Sorry, not being coy, I genuinely don't understand where you're going with the question.)
Two things... I think (?)

- declaring `adminUsernames` and then using `userNames` (but I assume that's not what you're talking about because that won't even compile)

- you're making an array with its length N instead of length 0 capacity N

(I totally agree with your point, I just like looking for bugs)
Posting unbiased full length videos of FSD was much more informative than self-censoring for Tesla, or "capitalizing" as you call it. The fact they removed his access to FSD makes it likely the few with access to FSD will feel the need to self-censor issues in the future.
>provide the public key

Which format?

What algorithim?

How do you prevent it from being sent to the wrong domain and enabling MITM phishing?

X.509 has a lot of issues but they've thought through a number of things. Whatever you replace it with would have similar problems. Even if you "just sent a key" it would have to be parsed in some way (Say it's RSA, you'd still have to pull the module and exponent out before you could do anything with it, if the channel is text you'd probably do some base64 decoding etc.)
I hear there were some huge mistakes the populace of Germany made. However, this time is different and the people of the US should accept no learnings from that situation. Is that right framing?
What is the distinction between them? I always thought they were the same thing.
We shouldn't forget the Jackson Five hit where they say "A B C, 1 2 3". When it's pop, especially bubblegum, the lyrics tend towards being a bit dumb and repetitive.
"intents and purposes" ... I think I was saying it your way until at least age 30.
Yuan jumps after report Saudis consider its use in oil deals
A better question is - which countries that did sign the Rome agreement will conveniently back out when one of their own citizens is up for charges that they don't agree with?

The ICC is no different than the UN - an international body that is a convenient cover for powerful nations to cloak themselves in.

Charges against African despots? Well Europe is on board for that!

Charges for war crimes during the Afghan war? Whoa there! We never agreed to that!
You can plug a monitor, keyboard, and mouse into the DevTerm.
> X.509 is literally a non-practical academic idea

Non-practical but https has been running on it for decades now?

Yeah there are issues with it and as someone that's worked with it a lot at the profile design and issuing level, I think it's high time we came up with a replacement and ditched ASN.1 entirely. But ...

It's hard to see it as a non-practical, academic idea when it's out there, deeply embedded in the internet, everywhere.

> just make the user provide the public key

Doesn't solve the problems X.509 addresses. There's a lot more going on than a method to exchange keys.
I get all my plants at Walmart, the fake ones from China. They're really cheap!
He made a very early call on Covid being a serious threat and promoted masking. Recode then wrote a piece about "Tech bros too afraid to shake hands" and since then his relationship with US media has deteriorated:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228447944287932416
If you talk to the people who grew up here, even the ones who were forced to move due to costs are not supportive of the current affordable housing plans. They want to come back and visit the town they grew up in.

For example, I have a caretaker on my property who lives in a trailer and even he doesn't want the plans to go through - he wants the town to stay rural.

I'm also on the village association and while almost everyone agrees there should be more affordable housing, we are almost all opposed to the broad brush stroke way it is being done. Huge apartment buildings in a small town is very different than doing things like limiting vacation rentals and allowing ADUs.

I suppose my main point is that there is a lot of nuance involved - it isnt as simple as NIMBY bad YIMBY good.
How to transact crypto when the government disables internet access?
This has ~5 syscalls written, almost everything is "undefined", not sure why it got posted.

If you want an actual complete tiny WASI runtime in TypeScript, Deno has a full one:

https://deno.land/std@0.127.0/wasi/snapshot_preview1.ts
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Meeting
The international conference will take place in Chicago next week with 35,000+ ortho surgeons and companies from around the world. Quite a sight if you are in Chicago.
"Tibet has an estimated population of about 6 million Tibetans and 7.5 million Chinese settlers." [0]

This is using the Chinese definition of Tibet, which is less than half of the historical Tibet. Han Chinese are encouraged to move into Tibet (and Xinjiang) to dilute the indigenous population.

[0] https://unpo.org/members/7879
Similarly there are some video games you can't buy anymore because music rights have expired. It's more common in racing games. The Forza series tends to go on sale dirt cheap before the music license rights expire and then can never be purchased legally again. You can still install and play the game with that music, but no new sales.

https://mspoweruser.com/forza-horizon-3-no-longer-available-...
Everything I've seen about Terry Davis suggests that he was consistently gracious and compassionate to pretty much anyone, other than perhaps those pesky glow-in-the-dark folks...
Because even the biggest music stars right now are nothing compared to the reach of even the middling music stars from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It's not even close no matter how you count it: touring numbers, sales numbers, broadcast numbers, etc.

Think about the command that groups like Van Halen, Journey, Depeche Mode or Metallica had at their zenith. Nothing comes even remotely close today--and I'm not counting groups like the Beatles, Queen, or Led Zeppelin that are absolute legends.

And it's not like these groups were a rare occurrence.

Personally, I think it's just a matter of too much competing entertainment rather than the modern musicans sucking. Video games were compelling when you had to go to an arcade and pump quarters into them. Once they entered the home there was never any question that they were going to absolutely devour the spare time of teenagers who were always the primary driver of pop culture.
yes, this is a very big problem for devs who practice tutorial oriented programming and store and transmit local times.
The other thing Apple got right and PCs screwed up: the bumps on the home row used to be on ‘d’ and ‘k’. That way, even if your right hand was offset one to the right, you’d still feel the bump and notice it was under the wrong finger, which is much easier than noticing that you don’t feel a bump at all.

I don’t recall whether other vendors got that right.
It's bad enough that we have the DST clock change, but the fact that the UK and US does the change at different times truly drives me insane.
I grew up there in the 80s and 90s. It is a really tough challenge. It is important to note that almost all the people, even those forced out due to cost, are opposed to the current affordable housing plans.

The statewide legislation is a very blunt instrument. It doesn't work well for small towns.
He broke the terms of the FSD program. That should, for the safety of everyone on the road, lead to revocation. I'm part of FSD, I don't self-censor. It's terrible right now. I'm more worried about youtubers letting the car make mistakes just for the views. And honestly it's not safe for people to be trying to talk while paying attention to a car that constantly does dumb things.
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So while you refused to answer the question about how you would solve the problem of online financial privacy, your statement that regulation is needed juxtaposed to what looks like excitement that the first thing to be banned (which also BTW ignores part of the challenge you were given: exactly how does one truly ban a private system? at best you are also going to have to ban Tor, which you seem to claim an interest in existing... though I frankly don't believe you anymore) will be "privacy tokens" betrays that you don't give two shits about online financial privacy :/.
I thought Musk is constantly railing for free speech on Twitter (he inserts himself into any major event, trucker protests, Ukraine). Awaiting his commentary.
You seem to be totally stuck on insisting, against incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, that waterproofing small electric gadgets while still retaining repairability and user-maintainability is some huge insurmountable problem. Even in the face of myriad examples of cheap, reliable, long-existing solutions.

Why is that; where does it come from? Is it some weird fetish you have, or what?
What? Why??
Why? If you know you wake up at 3am to get to work at 4am and get out of work at noon, then go to sleep at 7pm and you do this every single day then who cares that it doesn’t line up with some magical other numbers?
The Spirit of NFT: Cans, Frogs, and a 15-Minute Hero Dream of Everybody
I remember reading this finding it really interesting the techniques the lengths they went to to emulate generics in Kubernetes. At least that was my understanding of it.
Patreon is introducing better integration with things like Discord, I wouldn't be surprised if the vimeo solution is also more sophisticated now (though with youtube it seems to still be just an unlisted video you can share around as you like)
China, yes.

India, no.

Most of the water entrapment areas of India are within India's borders.

And, the rest come from the Himalayas, where it isn't easy to divert the flows, and most of those mountains are under Indian control. See: https://www.thetibetpost.com/en/features/44-environment-and-...

The real threat is China launching attacks from Tibet, against India.

Why? Because much of Chinese trade goes through the Indian Ocean, where India has negative control.

So, it is easy to see China getting wary of India and launching a territorial war from Tibet, in order to gain dominance over India. And, of course, Pakistan would join in.
The Francis Ford Coppola streak in the 70s will never be matched by anyone IMO. He made 4 absolute masterpieces in a row:

The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather II (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Really wish this was the top comment, It would save at least 90% of the comments in this thread.
> And even if it is actually your job, it's just common sense that you shouldn't publish content that makes your employer look bad.

Given the output of the CEO of Tesla I feel like this would be a pretty amusing argument to make. "Do I make Tesla look worse than Elon does on a regular basis?"
Sampling is extremely common. A minuscule proportion of 60s songs will be sampled in a meaningful way.
A similar cute trick for making a coin with arbitrary bias p out of a fair coin: go through the (possibly infinite) binary expansion of p, flipping once for each digit. If you flip tails on a 1 or heads on a 0, go to the next digit and repeat. If you flip heads on a 1 or tails on a 0, stop and take that as your flip. (And if you get to the end of the expansion, you can think of it as only 0s now, so interpret it as tails)
For the fun of it?
Not to mention, who cares? Do the thing or don’t be president.
I just don't see how you could follow his channel and watch that video and come to conclusion he let that happen for youtube views.
> What we see in software (and other technical roles) is that most people picked for management

i think instead of being picked, it's more that the management track is the only real way to gain higher compensation. There's a glass ceiling for IC (individual contributors) in terms of compensation - sure there will be the occasional principal developer (or some such like "architect"), but even then, those roles tend to turn into a managing role; you're herding other people and writing proposals and to convince upper management that such and such ideas for the product or system is good.

If such a person was just given the authority to dictate - or is working alone - they'd just _do_ it. They'd be able to accomplish far more in the same amount of time (provided they do have the skill and execution chops). But that's exactly what a high-performing person _is_!

Unfortunately, even if such a role was created and the person given the space, the compensation is not matching unless said person had equity holdings (such as being a technical founder). So to reach a level of compensation commensurate with such skills and capability, you end up needing to become part of the management - paradoxically removing the use of the very skill that would make you worthy of such compensation!
There's no takedown request on the videos.

You just can't be an employee that violates your NDA by giving insider scoops.
"Sorry" how? Don't feel sorry for me, I'm happy to remain American and will also always be considered so by my fellow countrymen.

But the point is that using these words, "American" and "anti-American", to refer to how people across the world choose to bow down -- or refuse to -- to the way things are handled by the US, is absurd. If you don't look up to the US you're not anti-American.

Nobody is "anti-American" just because they don't think the US is (or even should be) the guiding light of freedom and morality in the world. Nobody is anti- or un- American because they think the US is not above the rules.

"You're either with us or against us" -- a ridiculous and jingoistic mindset.