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I ask about efficiency because I'm interested in whether more money is a good investment.

I don't really care if the government or private contractors are doing the work. In either case, if the work being done is extremely inefficient, I'm less likely to vote for a candidate that wants more money to spend on roads.
> If anything, to get the big money from the state or the fed, they have to let it fail so that it looks really bad and becomes a genuine priority or safety issue.

That reminds me of DB, the german railway company, sometimes trying to get bridges demolished and rebuilt from scratch instead of renovation, because if they are rebuilt, the federal government pays for it while a renovation has to be paid by the DB. The funny part is that the federal government owns 100% of the DB shares.
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> In most cases no, but then again in most cases you would be perfectly happy with all your traffic going through a http(s) only proxy.

Not at all--end-to-end encryption is still a very desirable property. I certainly don't want a consumer router decrypting my browser traffic even if it is re-encrypting it to send to my device. I'll tolerate HTTP proxies on the server side when I'm administering the proxy and I need layer 7 routing, but I want to avoid it wherever possible.

> The two biggest use cases for direct p2p connections are multiplayer games and video calling.

You still have to punch a hole in your firewall either way. The only advantage ipv6 has is that you can have two hosts listening on the same port (whereas port-forwarding in a NAT context only works for 1-host-per-port).

Tangentially, I was never a big fan of player-hosted games anyway because they tended to be more vulnerable to cheating and the host always had an unfair advantage (or else a dramatic penalty in the case of lag compensation). Moreover, it's much easier to send a malicious packet directly to another player than it would be to send it to the server and convince the server to proxy it through bit-for-bit (although a poorly written game server might still do just that).
After the Irish Potato Famine that George Boole lived through, he worked on a paper named "Origin of Evil".

His conclusion was: Absolute evil does not exist and pain is an instrument of good.

I can't find it online, my source is the documentary "The Genius of George Boole" [1].

Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death [2] could be a related reading too.
I remember that I enjoyed it in a fun way.

Also a dumb theory of mine is: suffering is the proof that you are still alive.

[1] https://youtu.be/Hljir_TyTEw?t=1855

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sickness_unto_Death
What's the difference between learning a library providing functionality versus learning inbuilt functionalities?
The law interprets "jury of ones peers" differently than that. It specifically doesn't want them to be subject matter experts since each side will bring their own expert witnesses. It instead simply wants them to be ordinary, unattached members of the public rather than judges, prosecuters, politicians, or the victims themselves.
For concrete comparison, nginx backs something like 40% of the top 10k websites. Caddy is a fraction of a percent.
>doubting a god's existance is a major no-no in most popular religions

This is certainly not true of the Christianity that I've been witness to all my life. In those circles, doubt is a given - an intrinsic component of the inquisitive human mind - and doubt is basically the core of all faith. If there's no room for doubt, there's no room for faith.
In my experience the productivity of American construction workers seems to be shockingly poor.

A few years back a small single-story structure (~5000 sqft) was built near me. Every workday a plethora of workers would show up and make noise 8-5. Somehow took them the better part of a year to finish it. Really beggars belief.
"...requires many safety features for new cars:"

> "Making them mandatory saves lives."

Alternatively: making them mandatory raises the price of new cars and pushes more consumers to buy used older cars, which are generally less safe for a variety of reasons & often worse for the environment.

Economics is always about tradeoffs. Not saying this one isn't worth it, but you're not getting a free lunch here.

source: have not bought a new car despite being in the market for one since 2020 because prices make it a bad decision. Have added an additional 20k miles to existing car.
Kinda random, but is wine the only expensive alcohol “normal” people are willing to buy or something?

I als because I could walk into a liquor store right now and see all sorts of wines varying in price between stuff I’d think twice about drinking and stuff I’d think twice about before paying for.

But I’m always disappointed by the liquor selection. Sure it offers more than a typical bar, but they seem on par with some l fancier cocktail bars I’ve been to. They tend to have a lot of different drinks, but outside of your typical liquors, there’s maybe only one or two brands of anything, never particularly expensive or cheap. But there’s never really much expensive liquors (at least compared to expensive wines, which get locked up)
Thanks! My first thought was, y'know, funny video, but "how did they build a working keyboard that a 600 pound animal could stand on on a tourism video budget" was second.
For me personally, my preference primarily comes down to extreme differences in low-intensity/idle power usage of Ryzen 6000 vs Intel 12th gen. There aren't true "apples to apples" (same chassis/model, but AMD vs Intel) comparisons yet, although those should be coming in the next month or so, but here's an example of how efficient the Ryzen 6000s are: https://youtu.be/3bSetglEPOY?t=170

For people that need to use their devices on the go, I think it's a no brainer to prefer a Ryzen 6000 vs Intel.

The RDNA2-based Radeon 680M iGPU also significantly outperforms the (admittedly, much improved) Intel Xe iGPUs in 3D rendering. In synthetics, the new Radeon iGPUs are going head to head with Nvidia 1650 Max-Q dGPUs. This probably doesn't much matter if you aren't doing any gaming, but if you are, it means you can play most modern titles reasonably on the road in a thin and light form factor without giving up any battery life when you aren't.
2008 was an accounting and leverage problem.

Every product in 2008 was completely viable which is why the Federal Reserve bought everything.

Only 7% of the borrowers defaulted by then, there wasnt mass irresponsibility on the people with mortgages as suggested, this alone blew up some institutions because they were leveraged nearly 50x and one month of missed mortgage payments would cause a massive drawdown on their portfolio.

Without leverage, a portfolio where 93% is going to pay a lot in interest over 5-30 years is a good portfolio.

So there is no reason to get uncomfortable or anxious by seeing the words “subprime” “CDOs” or more, as it comes down to whether the accounting is done properly and the leverage is low. Which, I believe is being done. The "big crash" always comes from a different and unexpected (or less expected) angle, where some completely different sector has too much leverage and flimsy accounting.
Oh no. I own all of his albums, including many bootleg issues. He was productive right up to the end, though; his last album came out in July of last year.
looks intimidating
Yeah, you're right, I'm confused between users. I don't do well in warm weather, sorry mate.
What a talent.
I started playing regularly about 5 years ago after a New Year's resolution to break a video game addiction - I figured I would play it when the urge was too much and that either I would stop playing games entirely, or come out being decent at a timeless game that is at least considered a respectable pastime...

I started playing 5+0 rated on Lichess (which if you've never been to, you should check it out right now as an awesome example of beautifully designed, open-sourced software) . Right away dropped to ~1000 elo which was like the bottom 10-15% at the time but kept it up and have climbed as high as 1900 recently. I always thought chess was so boring but I realized I always just hated waiting for the opponent to move so Blitz was perfect for me. And, believe it or not, it'll get your heart racing just like any other high-stakes game.
Also keep in mind that if inflation is 9% and your gains are 10, you’re not paying taxes on the difference (1%) you’re still paying taxes on 10%, so your net gains might still be negative
I don't think anyone is suggesting anything different, only that a change in law would be much stronger effective defense and something to also strive for (despite also not being perfect).
I went through 2 ARMs between 2013 and 2021. In both cases the 7 year ARM was at least 1.5 % below the traditional 30 year I could get. Between lender rebates and such, in both cases we had essentially $0 out of pocket and in both cases a moderately. In the last couple years, the ARMs I looked at were less than a single % from a traditional 30 year. I had last 3% ARM was adjusting in mid 2023, and I refi'd to a 30 year @ 2.75% last October. Holy tamole things have changed since then!
Creating an array, populating it with however many elements just to be able to call some methods and destroying it immediately afterwards. And doing it all over the app, just because it's syntactically convenient. (all while you already have an iterable collection in the form of NodeList)
I'd hope for a thicker laptop frame, then.

I think a frame thick enough for PCB + Chocs would then allow both a premium mechanical keyboard in a standard shape, as well as allowing for swapping this out for whatever more niche arrangements.

Whereas, for a thin, non-mechanical keyboard, the manufacturing cost would be too high to be feasible for anything but standard, presumably.
> who determines "good faith?"

In this context, it's the DOJ chain of command. This sort of memorandum isn't something that will impact a person's day in court directly should they be prosecuted; it indicates to prosecutors what the Executive branch would consider a "career-limiting move" to waste public resources prosecuting.

Compare with the Obama-era guidance about federal drug law enforcement in states that had decriminalized marijuana. Technically, marijuana never stopped being a (federal) controlled substance, and every state grow operation and distribution center is in violation of federal law. Obama made clear that enforcing that law in those states would be a great way to send a strong signal to one's boss "I'm comfortable at my current level of achievement and feel no need to ever be promoted in the future," and that policy basically hasn't changed in the intervening two administrations. But the federal law is unchanged on the matter.
I write a lot of ruby, I guess...
Global Type Inference for Featherweight Generic Java
Ticktick for todo list. Notion for note taking.
He was a very unique, visionary talent. To back that up, beyond his scores, take a look at the following video to get a glimpse of how he worked.

https://youtu.be/GWggDMDhwIA

There used to be some forum posts detailing the custom MIDI controllers and setup more, but it looks like a lot of it has been deleted or removed. I found this though:

https://www.synthevolution.net/blog/2017/5/22/the-devils-wor...
In a lot of regions, "farming" sea salt basically means pouring sea water on top of plastic tarps and evaporating water. Over time, the plastic degrades and you get microplastic particles in your salt. You also need to rake these salt fields pretty heavily, which also generates microplastic particles.
Sure, but none of these affect the Framework Laptop. This computer does not have discrete graphics.
Loved the guy's work for many years. Inspired so many other artists. I listen to his work and variations inspired by him, on YouTube while working. Rest in Peace.
Standard Oil never was a monopoly, and never was convicted of being a monopoly. It was convicted of restraint of trade.

SO never had a market share that exceeded 90%. Throughout the years-long anti-trust trial, SO's market share declined, as competitors had learned how to compete with SO.

During the height of SO, the consumer price of kerosene dropped 70%. There is no evidence SO harmed consumers or charged monopoly prices.

As for Microsoft, they never had more than 90% share, there were always alternatives consumers could buy (Linux and Apple), and their market share has slipped quite a bit since the Justice Dept took no action against them. There's no evidence Microsoft charged monopoly prices - they charged with giving away free copies of their browser! They still give it away for free.

Nobody ever demonstrated any harm to consumers from Microsoft.
Chariots of Fire is iconic of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo

I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio Gallo wine commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE

Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.
It’s fun seeing so many parents at 40 jumping into chess personally and with their kids. I’m doing exactly the same thing and it makes me want to take lessons to step it up :)

Since you all have more experience than I do, does anyone have a sense of what rating is reasonably achievable with daily effort? Perhaps this is the wrong approach, as we obviously want to be as high as we can, but just curious if 1800 or 2000 is out of reach for most people or not? For context I can beat 1500 bots, but get crushed by a 1700 (though it isn’t clear if bots are accurately rated or not, so maybe I should use a different metric?)
No idea about Mobile (I'm on Airtel). I have all the three connections bonded/balanced for my home connection using a very simple router. I stumbled on Jio being IPv6, so decided to check the others and they weren't.
You're too focused on the 70% used for effect. The point is to make a single cut that puts the company profitable, so there is a chance to survive. And even then it's going to be hard, but gives the company a chance.

No person should have assumed stability in a company that was not yet turning a profit. I'm not saying they are bad companies to take a gamble on, but understand they were/are a gamble. VC money suddenly drying up was part of the that gamble.
Yeah - whenever somebody makes a good thing and people use it in cool ways, that's submarine marketing for that thing.
But in that case, the app creator would have a list of domains which I think is objectively worse from a privacy perspective...

I'm honestly a bit annoyed that OP is the top comment on HN when it exaggerates the impact of this feature.
Paragraph three:

> “It’s like working for Steve Jobs. He can be brutal,” said one scientist. “But why would you want to work for anyone else?”

And then the rest of the article argues how he was not brutal-- a consensual relationship, fun office parties, etc.

Why didn't Weiss ask a simple follow-up to the one scientist to give a few examples of what 'brutal' means in this case?

Compare:

"Oh, I mean he demands excellence at every turn professionally, both of himself and his colleagues, to such a degree that it's difficult to keep up with him."

"Oh, I mean he is a megalomaniac who speaks with complete confidence about things he is just plain wrong about."

Edit: clarification
What about machine learning for trading didn't you like?
Note that the underlying cause for his termination was that he had a relationship with a "coworker." As he was head of the lab, it is clear that this "coworker" was actually a "subordinate."

That relationship violated MIT's policy on employee relationships (and generally would violate most workplaces' restrictions on employee relationships), and he would have been fired from MIT on those grounds even absent any claim of sexual harassment. (It's not clear what Whitehead's policy on this was and it's not clear whether the relationship or the alleged harassment was the driving force behind his termination there.)
Is the SEC Unconstitutional?
> I remain convinced that the whole Result concept was just created by people butt-hurt over the concept of exceptions

I wouldn't use the emotionally-loaded dismissive language, but, yes, Result is a solution to the same problem as exceptions that deals with several problems of exceptions, including:

(1) Unchecked exceptions obscure what is going on, and frustrate analysis because things remote from the code may bypass it in the call-stack without any evidence visible in signatures.

(2) Checked exceptions are clear, but create a separate syntax for expressing type-like constraints, also limiting what you can do around them because they aren't the same thing as types.

Results are basically cleaner checked exceptions.
50 Years of Title IX: How One Law Changed Women’s Sports Forever
Good info, thanks! For better or worse, it had already shipped.
Meh, seeing the reaction to NFTs makes me feel like it will be a big failure.

They are going to replace or compete with NYSE? With what? I am so confused.
The layman's definition doesn't matter in the least. What matters are the jury instructions, which you can look up. The court system does not in fact leave it up to whatever definitions of a crime happen to be bouncing around in the jury's heads; the conditions required to find someone guilty of a crime tend to be spelled out in great detail.
The way I view this is that there's no such thing as idle brain time. When you take away focused conscious thinking, the brain is built to do background problem-solving on its own. (This also makes sense if the purpose of dreaming while asleep is garbage-collection of unresolved thoughts and anxieties.)
The phrase "Don't break the web" is a bit newer, but it's basically the sentiment that lead to WHATWG forming 18 years ago, and one of the big defining goals of HTML5 was to set a foundation for expanding the web platform in a backwards-compatible way. HTML5 has been out for about as long as the invention of the web to HTML5.
I lived in Bengaluru for several years.

In the U.S. we expect to be able to drink the water that comes from the tap, cutting off entire parts of a city for a day or more from the water supply is largely unheard of; same for electricity. We expect actual storm drains and sewage works as opposed to streets just flooding every time there's rain. etc.

I'm not trying to be "down" on India but - having lived with both systems - the U.S. experience is objectively better from every point of view other than price.
A free market comes with it government protections against use of fraud and force. Fraudulently misrepresenting your product is a crime and is actionable in a free market.
The rebar is totally rusted. Last properly inspected maybe a decade ago. It takes time to get to that state of deterioration.

Also a hazard to traffic below from chunks falling off.
i mean CA duck is already there, but no serious storage/conversion problem.

Maybe in 20-30 years it will be solved, but what is the point adding CA solar NOW?
Trackpoint really is damn nice. I also find it hilarious when I disable the trackpad in the bios to avoid any accidental brushes and then someone else tries to use my laptop - its like watching a deer try to walk for the first time!
^ this has been the case for other Coursera classes I've done recently
I don't understand why he doesn't just go to another country that's isn't so crazy over political correctness.
Typing words is faster than symbols for most folks even without an IDE. Typing `&{% takes way longer than “static long foo”.
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But if you are working in a startup you will hardly be poor esp with a comp sci degree.
I also live in CO, and know of specific cases where someone got popped for obviously too broad of a range covering most of the income percentiles.

I agree that there's still room for discrimination, but it's a step up from what it was, particularly on the lower end of the scale. I know of a lot of people in the 50k-60k range that were able to increase their salary because of this law.
> In case you thought they took the easy way

Alright, fine, but where's the API?
The framing of a house is strong, too, but you can't live in it. Our society and economy are mind-boggling complex compared to the state they were in 1789. Whether you liked the renovations or not is immaterial, they serve a function. Unless you have a plan to replace that function (other than just hand-waving "send it all to the courts"), it will be a disaster.
I thought 2008 was because 'D' grade mortgages were repackaged into 'AAA' grade securities. When the 'D' grade folks missed payments and defaulted, it brought everything down because their securities had tainted so much of the landscape.
The policy, linked to the bottom of the press release you're commenting on, goes into depth about what "authorization" means, and, more importantly, what it does not mean.
Then you haven't spent enough time in the cryptocurrency space.
I confess that I don't have a clear understanding of why browsers never seem to count in privacy discussions.
I think a lot of potential car buyers are waiting for the price crisis to end. My comment was made in a more general sense.

Note that the price of the non-optional features is lower than if it were an optional feature thanks to economics of scale. So making them mandatory reduces the costs of the features.
My favorite was Opera Sauvage. It had a flow and consistency that was, for me, unique in his works.

He will be missed.
The hidden prices of everything you do
Seriously - or at least a mod kit to get it working with the existing keyboard. Hell there could even maybe be a universal mod kit to add to any laptop keyboard that is removeable and has the space!
Yes, the role of government in a free market is to prevent the use of force or fraud.

Note that this does not involve forcing anyone to do anything. It just says what people cannot do.
> to get the big money from the state or the fed, they have to let it fail

Same thing with schools. The state won't pay for updates or maintenance, but they will for an entirely new building. School districts deliberately set up their budgets to maximize the state contribution, which means foregoing obvious updates and maintenance until the buildings become run down enough to capture those sweet sweet state dollars. Even in very affluent towns. That's how two out of six elementary schools in my town got replaced with buildings worthy of a FAANG campus. It's why people applaud the school board's decision to teach high-school classes in converted trailers through my daughter's entire time there, and now the state's going to pay a good chunk of the cost for a nine-figure replacement (that she might never even see). It's really pretty sick.
Cannot read your mind but I'll make a guess based on the fact that you are comparing it to a tech stock and the fact that most people on this website make this mistake: You are viewing Bitcoin as a technical project rather than an economic one.

Bitcoin is not technically interesting - it is economically genius. Undergrad cryptographers have learnt enough to re-implement the Bitcoin protocol, but understanding the genius of the composition of those simple primitives is a practice of game theory and economics. Historians of money who know not how to program have far more authority than a bitter techie when it comes to analyzing Bitcoin.
> Does Python handle matrix math as well?

If you're playing around interactively, it's a bit easier to write (in Matlab)

m = [1 0 0 ; 0 0 -1 ; 0 1 0]

than (in Python)

m = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 0, -1], [0, 1, 0]])

Also a bit longer example:

m = rand(3,4)
a = [0.1 0.2 0.3]
m \ a'

versus

m = np.random.rand(3,4)
a = np.array([0.1, 0.2, 0.3])
np.linalg.lstsq(m, a.T)
wtf?
google...
fine!
a = np.array([[0.1, 0.2, 0.3]])
np.linalg.lstsq(m, a.T)

But if you're developing software, you can't really easily and reliably deploy Matlab or Octave to run in the cloud in your production systems, whereas Python you can.