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A private pilot's license is a privilege, and being somewhat resistant to panic is one of the prerequisites of that privilege.

When you're in the air alone, there is no one to rely on but yourself, and failure to exercise proper judgment can kill people on the ground. So the FAA has broad leeway to determine that you don't have the right mindset for a private pilot's license.
Does Vale’s parser tolerate syntax errors well?

Keywords are great because they provide redundancy in the grammar that allows for good syntax error messages and recovery.

I recently lamented the absence of a let token in Ruby while working on making Sorbet’s parser more tolerant of syntax errors. Consider this Ruby program:

x.
y = 0

It doesn’t have a syntax error. Ruby treats this as if the user had written

x.y=(0)

But because of how the line is broken, probably the user meant to have two separate statements, and is in the middle of inserting a new call like

x.foo()
y = 1

Or consider another:

class
y = 1

The syntax error Ruby reports here is “class names must start with a capital letter.” It then fails to produce any parse result because there is no end keyword to match the class, throwing away the (properly parsing) `x = 1` subexpression in the parse tree.

In these cases it’s frequently possible to hack around the issues with weird contortions. But in basically every such case, if Ruby had used an explicit let keyword it would have been much easier to for the parser to both report syntax errors in places that might otherwise be ambiguous as well as produce some parse tree for the ones that don’t parse.
> As a kid in the 90’s, I didnt want to be inside. It was boring.

Exactly. We had Super Nintendo, which was great, but you were limited by the carts you owned or rented. You had to sit down in front of the TV at a specific time each day to catch the show you liked, and that was it—one episode, now go find something else to do.

The Internet is an infinite supply of everything. You can watch an entire season of your favorite show nonstop in one sitting, or download ROMs of every SNES game ever created and play through them one by one. And as soon as a kid figures this out, it’s game over.
Out of curiosity, what did the cap table look like when they suggested that? Was there a good chunk of equity floating around your current/former employees?

I know some VCs have dilution/ownership thresholds and they might have been trying to find a way to get in on your raise without bending their own rules. But it is really offensive to your employees, I know if my company did that I would walk.
For anyone else like me who was curious as to the utility of having a fire extinguisher on one's person when deliberately crashing the plane, the speculation is that

1. It would be useful to fight fire at the wreckage if attempting a recovery of the go-pro footage from the plane

2. To limit a bush fire from spreading (and national park blowback) around the wreckage, although those tiny extinguishers would probably do diddly-squat if a bush fire actually started
> free community college is already a thing, it's called 'Pell Grants'

Hell, when I went to community college in the early 90’s it was basically free — $6/credit with a $60 cap.

Since then California changed priorities or something, haven’t lived there for almost 25 years so don’t care what they get up to.
>people do say some strange and ungrammatical things to virtual assistants

with virtual assistants and the likes appearing more and more around one can wonder whether a new language/dialect can emerge for that setting.
The US already has 121GW of solar installed the majority of that being large scale Grid solar. Which shows the transition is already happening at current prices.

A major part of that equation is there is a lot of land in the US available for under 2,000$/acre, however spending more is a tradeoff to reduce the need for longer distance power transmission etc.

PS: 10B for 100GW at 30% capacity factor for 20 years is 10,000,000,000$ / (100,000,000kW * 0.3 * 24h * 365 * 20) or 0.2c/kWh ignoring interest. So, I think you messed up your estimate somewhere if you think that’s uncompetitive.
>I tried getting a rental property by just offering 6 months rent up-front and a large deposit in a major tech town, because I had it in cash and didn't want to share more info than I needed to with the homeowner: they flat-out refused and demanded to see my pay-stubs and banking records for the last 2 years if I still wanted to move in.

Trying to solve your problems with money and failing is not evidence that it's expensive to be poor; it suggests you have blinders preventing you from doing the normal thing.

Within a few miles there are/were apartments that you could move into with two months' rent in cash up front. That would not be more expensive than the kind you're used to.
"people exposing themselves has been around for a long time"

well that is the harm many parents are trying to avoid. you can say it hasn't had a negative effect on you, but that's subject to debate. nothing personal.

speaking for myself, I would say there is nothing good, and some definite bad habits, that came directly out of what I saw as a middle schooler in my city's local red light district.
The felony will be under reckless endangerment or some other statute for people who intentionally do criminally stupid things that could or have caused serious harm/damage.

You’re not getting off on some technicality where there is no specific law against a specific action. There are broad statutes to specifically nail people who think like that.

Edit: There is a lovely idiom for this—“play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.
That's anyones guess.

I doubt that by the time he got too the plane there would have been anything left worth extinguishing?

Perhaps too prevent a forest fire? Although that would've been equally futile.

Maybe someone who intentionally crashes a plan for a few YouTube clicks isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier after all.
Who is your utility and what part of the country? My panels are earning me about 12% per annum post tax, low risk, with insurance against capital loss (home insurance in event of hailstorm, hurricane.) I don’t see stock market investment opportunities competing.
JFYI for those who may not be aware: this is WallStreetBets, where people wager average to fairly atrocious money on call or put options in the name of "YOLO" (You Only Live Once) and brag about their six-figure gains and losses -- yes, they celebrate 6-figure losses -- publicly.

Some of these posts are Photoshopped but the mods and community are usually quick to figure the fake ones out.

In this case, given that Netflix stock cratered by more than 20-30% after earnings, I have no doubt that (a) a WSB-er actually put up $5K in put options and (b) they won so big.
would you be able to offer some examples and some discussion of how to choose?
Honestly, that's the part of the story that I find most interesting. Private planes are not exactly free.

This guy has some bumping around money if he was willing to sacrifice a plane for a YouTube stunt.
No, having too much power without storage is exactly as bad as not enough. That's how the physics works. It's a zero sum game or it's lights out for the grid. It takes a lot of smart people and simulations to do a semi decent job of walking that tightrope day after day after day. Overproduction is a huge problem, as evidenced by the frequent negative power pricing of CA solar
Here's an idea: government backed loans for tech companies, and if they fail, the government gets the IP and releases it under some kind of FOSS license. Seems like a win-win.
Maybe in US but not in eastern Europe. Speed limits and road restrictions are significantly hardened last two decades, as well as casualties per capita.
California (rightly) prices in externalities of power generation

https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP294.pdf
Great, will do. Let me put my ideas together.
It’s not so crazy. People commit crimes all the time because they think they can get away with it.
That is absolutely ridiculous. I'd love to know which investor that was so I can avoid working with them, if you could let me know I'd be very grateful (mail in profile). If not, I understand. Kudos for making the right call anyway, and that VC deserves to lose each and every deal they look at.
While there has been a rise in violent crime in the last few years, which is bad, Seattle is still less violent than it was historically. Right now, we're at approximately 2006 levels of violent crime:

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/wa/seattle/crime-rate-...

so while its not good, its vastly oess apocalyptic than folks seem to portray.
Seems unfair to compare a utility covering 18 square miles to one covering 160k+ square miles across some of the harshest terrain in the country. But I agree that PG&E charges way too much.
Just Eat Takeaway is exploring a sale of Grubhub
I think your #2 is unjust and illogical given the lack of harm caused by the stunt.
Almost certainly anger at himself that then he transferred onto others.
One thing I'm wondering about is, what's with the cursive-ish font? It seems like a very bad time for coding. Doing some searching now I can't seem to find a reference (hard to know what to search for, Google thinks I might mean recursive). Does anyone have an idea?
It's beyond despicable to try to get a company to renege on their prior agreements in order to satisfy your own arbitrary rule set.
You argue that most murders are criminals killing each other. Suppose you're right. So let's look at robberies instead. Those are primarily directed towards random people not towards other criminals.

The safest US city in that respect is Irvine with ~20 per 100k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...). Irvine is indeed a very safe city, and I doubt parents would be concerned too much with letting their kids walk to school (if only the school was within a walking distance away).

Tokyo reported 224 robberies for 14m residents (https://knowledge.insight-lab.co.jp/tableau/opendata-crime-t...), or ~1.6 per 100k. So 10 times less than Irvine, the place that everyone considers to be basically completely safe.

Now move out of Irvine. Pick a city. San Francisco is ~360, NYC is ~160, Seattle is ~210. Even Mountain View, near Apple, Google, and many other high tech companies is ~60.

And btw, people in Tokyo generally do very little protect themselves from violent crime, since it's so rare. They walk around late, alone, often drunk, paying no attention to their surroundings. I'm pretty sure if people behaved like that in SF, the robbery rate would jump significantly.
Difflens (https://github.com/marketplace/difflens) is a step in this direction. It produces syntax aware diffs for TS/JS and CSS at the moment.
> I found that salt enhanced the headache potential a lot

wow, same here, i really wonder what it could be

> so perhaps its a trained sensitivity?

interesting...i grew up in basically suburb, so not sure, but perhaps there are some other reasons... it would be a great research subject for sure
It's also normal when people choose the riskier path and people who choose the safe path profit more.
If the company went bust after 4 years, everyone with worthless stock options would be made at the guy who managed to cash out a higher salary.
You can frame-by-frame on YT by pressing '.', but yes, still an amazing catch by parent
[crickets]
I think that as long as your post does not get tons of attention or upvotes, you'll probably get sensible answers. It's really when a post hits all or popular that you get the batshit insane stuff
Well, then as they say "a sucker is born everyday"
The reason is that you have two chunks of code (possibly arbitrarily delimited).

You know from the regular two-part conflict marker that developer A wants the code one way, and B wants it some other way. Often that is quite easy to understand and resolve.

But sometimes it's useful to know the original: what is it that A and B started with, to produce those divergent sections of code?

That may be helpful.

It might not. For one thing, suppose the rest of the code merged. That means that in the rest of the code you don't see anything original.

You could end up with:

<<<<<<<
new_function_x();
========
new_function_y();
||||||||
function_that_no_longer_exists();
>>>>>>>>

OK, the original was a function that no longer exists; and since this is the only conflict, you can't find that function anywhere unless you go digging into history out-of-band.

A and B both deleted the function, and that didn't conflict. Nice to know, but the definition of it isn't present to know what it does.

In other kinds of situations, it may be useful.
Light hearted fun: Upload (Amazon), Space Force (Netflix), Mr. Mayor (NBC). All involve Parks and Rec, Office and 30 Rock creators.
Starts at 15:28

Sorry guys. It looks like Hacker news cuts off the url parameters that jumps to that portion of the video. Lesson learned.
I've mostly worked on continuous high-dimensional problems (and not as high-dimensional as large neural networks), often times grounded in physical situations, where one can anticipate reasonably convex behavior close to the optima -- things like bundle adjustment, different kinds of generalized calibration, etc. In all these cases, (approximate) second-order optimization methods have worked great (Just throwing out a few non-MECE names eg: Conjugate-Gradient and variants, Levenberg-Marquardt, BFGS, etc.).

In the context of probabilistic modeling, my experiences with belief propagation have been good, but somewhat mixed. Sometimes it feels like mean-field methods could give more bang for the buck given how much less memory they use.
I'm sure it has everything to do with unsafe self-driving and nothing to do with the source of his wealth, Green Hills Software, which competes on software for autonomous vehicles.
Oh good. As a PPL working on an instrument rating this gladdens my heart. The aviation community isn’t just pilots. Many folks contribute to safety including ATC, first responders, SAR, aerospace engineers, investigators and many more. If you’d like a sense of how invested some of these people are in flight safety, listen to ATC recordings of incidents where you can hear back chatter between control facilities.

This guys actions show a lack of appreciation for the work these people do and the care they put into that work.

There’s also the risk of forest fire.

I think the cherry on top would be if the USFS got him for littering.
You don't know the entire common base; only small windows of it where merge conflicts occurred. Elsewhere, a machine automatically merged it. That machine prudently had the common base, but didn't understand any of it.
The Boring Company raises $675m Series C at $5.7B valuation
I know of several large retailers that allow their employees to be paid via a debit card.

If you don't setup direct deposit before your first paycheck, instead of mailing you the paycheck you get a debit card. You can then withdraw the full balance out of it every two weeks without any fees.

This doesn't help with all of your banking problems, but it's a good start.
The article suggests a good first step, but I recommend using a 3-way capable merge tool for an even better experience. 3-way merging with a reasonable UI should be the default, I don't really understand why it still isn't. It makes large and complex merges easy. My merge tool of choice was kdiff3 for the longest time, though these days I'm using Beyond Compare which is a commercial product.
> Don't underestimate how complex this stuff is for many people - if they're even aware that it's possible!

If pluging a monitor to a laptop is too complex, how would pluging/synching a VR headset be simpler ?

I see benefits to VR, but I don't think it will have mass appeal or bring productivity gains in any simple matter (put differently, "no pain no gain")
What was Griddy telling gullible people that wasn't the truth? As far as I've seen, they've been completely honest about their pricing.

> [Griddy] does warn customers, however, that the wholesale price is capped by state regulators at $9 a kilowatt-hour. [1]

It's not Griddys fault that Texas doesn't prepare for winter storms that hit the state once per decade. Griddy doesn't produce electricity. Griddy doesn't build power lines. Griddy did however get customers power and thats why many of them were upset about how much the state set the wholesale price at.

[1]: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2...
Singapore had some 60 year leases expire and it went as expected - residents left and the land was returned to the government.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/all-191-units-at-geyl...
As a rule of thumb, I devote about 0.5% of my engineering org to cost optimization. At about 200 people it makes sense to invest a single engineer. By the team you're approaching 800 it makes sense to have a team dedicates to it.

Though cost opt generally involves way more than optimizing code. It's normally about auditing things, creating budget tooling, right sizing, broader architecture redesigns, etc.
It's much more complicated at scale. Many conflicts can come from things like backporting or working on a feature in a codebase that deals with a lot of churn (like some drivers or the Linux kernel). Some open source projects have internal versions of the code within the company that eventually gets upstreamed after internal validation takes place, but that version of the code may not rebase for a while for some very good reasons (unresolved instability on the main branch, for instance). In that case, the code base is now both significantly ahead (with internal changes) and significantly behind (due to the other changes that have come from other massive organizations working on the same project). I have published on the topic of merge conflicts a couple times, and even I didn't understand how inevitable massive merge conflicts can be until I joined a kernel integration team at a large company.

Open source is a helluva drug :)
And ',' to go back a frame, for those that didn't know.
> Dutch infrastructure as the gold standard

I don't think it's really a "gold standard"; it's more that everything else is so unbelievably atrocious that it looks like a "gold standard", but it's still incredibly car-dominated. I watched the video and it's not wrong: it's extremely common for children to cycle to elementary school on their own and it's mostly safe, but it doesn't really "prioritize pedestrians, bikes, transit, then cars, in that order"; cars are still very central in most traffic.

Things are very slowly beginning to change, in some areas, sometimes. But it's very slow progress.
Julia (and the Gadfly package, which it's worth noting is not a standard library or anything like that) have come a long way since 2014. JuMP too. Julia was indeed "not ready" in 2014; it wasn't anywhere near the 1.0 release. We're now on the 1.7.x releases: stable and guaranteed backward compatible since 1.0, and a lot of quality of life improvements between 1.0 and 1.7, including much faster compilation.

If I'm solving an optimization problem for personal curiosity, a blog post, etc., JuMP is the tool I reach for. :)
I know, and I hadn't appreciated all the ways that doing something less CPU-efficient was actually faster due to the way the hardware was architected.

I just actually shouted when he said that if you simply compiled for release mode it ran 30% faster.
The fact that the social classes here happen to line up with political power does not change the fact that there are two social classes being treated differently as well. There are other posters in this comment section talking about how even when the engineers are domain experts that are needed by the business, there is a knee jerk reaction to deny requests for this sort of information when it is expected to be handed over to the investor class.

If these weren't social classes then you wouldn't see resistance to changing the formula in the face of market pressures and you would see easy movement between investors and engineers instead of them being gatekept along connections and rituals.
Nice. Enjoyed seeing your collection.
Your first 2 options are entirely at the discretion of the government.

The default is - the land goes back to the government and you get $0.

Some areas are being selected for lease extensions and other en bloc development (but that happens well before the lease is up).

But the government has come out and said “there will be few leases where that happens”.
This article quotes the following:

> While this will eventually reduce workload for boot/installation components (grub2 reduces surface area, syslinux goes away entirely, anaconda reduces surface area)

For heaven sake please stop using grub, it's a nightmare. You need multiple levels of scripts/programs to take your confusing human configuration & kick out the verbose complex full grub.cfg, which you then need to run another tool to install onto the drive. It's absurd, it sucks.

Systemd-boot (nee Gummiboot) is just amazing. There's some very very simple text files, on the EFI partition, that you can freely edit, and the bootloader will work with. There's a live editor you can use if things go wrong.

The much loved Pop!OS uses systemd-boot if it detects UEFI. Let that be your guide for what's good for users, I swear, it's so much better. I'm not sure whether I support abandoning legacy boot yet- I hate to just drop support quite so soon, but really, support in hardware has been quite awesome, albeit not quite for a decade yet. But moving to drop legacy support would be a great step, some day, and will make moving to systemd-boot an obvious & vast improvement over horrific terrible grub2.

Hearing that OVH & many many Amazon instances use legacy BIOS is cry-into-your-hands sad. This is like IPv6 transition hard: there's just such a huge userbase that'll never be incentivized to move on. Woe.
I think he crashed in the middle of an unpopulated desert-ish area. I'm not sure what's the criteria is for reckless endangerment though, and maybe the intent matters more than the end result.
I have seen nobody mention it, but is "Z" by any chance associated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film) ?

I was thinking perhaps Russians are thinking of the opposition being zombies in much the same way as right-wingers talk about NPCs.

Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
> Marmite vs Vegemite is a niche holy war of emacs vs vi levels

I'm deeply offended by this.

I started to write up a comment in my head about how this is a completely false equivalency, Marmite and Vegemite are basically the same thing: two brands of yeast paste while Vi vs Emacs are two very distinct editors with very distinct features. I was going to indignantly point out that while a Vi user put in front of emacs would be hard-pressed to see ANY similarities a vegemite fan given marmite probably couldn't tell the difference!

Then I realized: I am the problem and decided to adapt my comment for fake internet points.

Vi is definitely better though.
I didn’t work on Mario 64 but I did work on other N64 games years ago. And yes I did have that reaction :)
Walking with the kids? Not a problem.

But the thought of letting my kids (5 and 2.5) run errands by themselves (in a city like Berlin with its abundant number of homeless and mentally-ill people everywhere) gave me goosebumps.

"It's only one block away" and "most homeless people are harmless" would never be words of consolation in case of any calamity.
In an 8-Hour Day, the Average Worker Is Productive for This Many Hours (2016)
All exponential functions in nature are really S-curves. Slow-downs could absolutely be the result of corruption, but could be natural limits of whatever process enabled the initial growth
I see they went easy on you. Just marketing?

Where are the armies of on-retainer lawyers?

If they paid a million dollars in marketing, what are they paying for ongoing lobbying? Telecoms knows that this is war, you just won a battle.
Because it's reckless to crash a plane. You can kill people on the ground.