skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my one case, I act as the custodian of the mobile internet provider. the more people I have on my plan, the less everybody else pays (plus much higher leverage w/ the provider). I pay the provider directly, and every individual is expected to pay me their share (including any installment plans on phones).

Instead of manually typing out and sending a response to everybody. Now I can just setup this automation and it will send out my reminder every month. That's 6-7 minutes I save every month just for this use case.
I don't understand the term "American news constant".

I'm assuming this means number of sides in a debate? Like the left/right divide for example and no other sides exist?
> if you do have one, does it make you an enemy combatant

Yes, that's the whole point.

> a precedent that licenses american civilians to be terrorists against other nations

What does "terrorist" mean here? Ordinarily it would refer to someone with a political objective, but letters of marque exist to promote a military objective.
Not really. It sort of needs an account for it to work. If you create one you will see what I mean.
If somebody explains a concept eloquently and uses good logic, you should consider what they have to say, even if they’re a dog or a cat and not a famous programmer. You shouldnt ignore arguments or explanations from people without glorious careers

To use a games example, the game programming patterns gentleman is most famous for his book, not for his game engines - yet the book is extraordinary and anyone would be poorer for skipping it

Uncle bob has clearly articulated a number of ideas I’ve found useful over the years, and so what if he also said some things we don’t agree with? He’s human

That said, the opinions of accomplished people like carmack and blow are definitely worth listening to. They are eloquent and have very interesting opinions
The press needs to convey that not everyone who gets cancer is going to get an 11th hour miracle treatment, really?

What exactly do you think the average persons impression of cancer prognosis and treatment is exactly?
Ah, if that is the case, I apologize for my completely irrelevant tangent, lol. I don't know anything about BNSF and won't comment there. Sorry about that.
Yeah. In restaurants it's also to increase table turnover.
There are parts of Chicago that are really nice, but also parts that are notably worse than the “bad” part of most cities. A lot of the area around UChicago itself was very sketchy compared to any other university area I’ve been to. This was about 5-10 years ago. Maybe it’s improved since although I’d be surprised. It’s not random happenstance that people who have never been are more likely to be afraid of Chicago than New York nowadays.
I think it is probably a good thing that we did not, for example, give letters of marque to somebody like Erik Prince.
> I'm sure McDonald's play-tested this a lot

They must have made some serious effort, but it is also a pretty complex problem (they’re trying to address literally everyone in reading age) and McDonald is not known for pouring money into solid customer interfaces. I haven’t tried in a while but their mobile app was even more of a sluggish, hostile at every corner, trash experience.

I kinda feel like they went in from a “we replace the cashier” mindset, and not a return to first principles of why the customer came to that place, and how to satisfy that goal.

PS: also people just adapt. I had coworkers just remember step by step the screen sequence to their usual orders, and they basically blindly tapped the screen only registering the page changes. If McDonald was to change the menu tree now I’d imagine them getting pissed in reaction.
Unregulated fractional banking, what could go wrong.
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Enjoy every moment. Kids grow up fast. When they need your attention focus on them. Congrats! And just when you think you can't handle it the kids evolve (or well you do). Lastly, trust in the vulnerability.
I wasn’t aware Sweeney spoke about software design. Any recommended articles?
hey guys, im a genius lol. its ummm weird i guess
Backbone and Marionette were MVC for the web, and they have basically died out. React is a child of the Flux architecture philosophy, also developed by Facebook. [1]

[1] http://fluxxor.com/what-is-flux.html

EDIT: I lied, React came first. Still, they have a lot of similarities, being developed by the same company.
Of course I am - intentionally so! Who cares? You made a sweepingly broad assertion about the nature of male desire, which was simplistic and inadequate. I demonstrated as much by describing my own preferences, as several others here have done. The nature of my social bubble is irrelevant, because I made no claim beyond the bounds of my personal experience.

You're in a bubble, too, whether you see its boundaries or not. In order to speak meaningfully about what the "vast majority" of people want, we would need some actual research.
> we're all winging it

My mother has a PhD in child psychology from Harvard. My dad did psychology at Harvard too. They never quite figured it out. The science gets the phenomena accurately - terrible twos, babies worried that their parents have disappeared, etc.

But it doesn't do a good job od telling you what to do. I think the theory actually gets in the way, because there are situations where something applies to 95% of children, and your child is part of the significant 5% which it doesn't.

But it's helped a lot to know that someone as educated as my mom can get it tough, that means winging it isn't so bad.
UC Berkeley used to have a research reactor that was located where the computer science department is now. My friend said that they used to joke about having a romantic date lit by cerenkov radiation.

They cleaned the area up and now there is a sign that says Berkeley is a nuclear free zone.

Just just down the street is where plutonium was first synthesized and purified, which was another mess to clean up.
Well, the role of Controllers in (real) MVC is actually pretty limited.
Cyber Security Assessment Netherlands CSAN 2022 [pdf]
“What do you mean that Mathias is on holiday?”
something to question, is that level of cardiovascular health necessary though? you might add 2 years to your life, but also means you're spending x times more of your productive years exercising

Driving a car to get around gets me much more time with my friends and family and myself.
I don't have an association of tattoos with abuse, but I certainly do with crime.

Tattoos are so common now that I have to consciously tell myself to ignore my association, but it's not something that will go away.
Chinese hackers kept up hiring drive despite FBI indictment
Yours looks like selection sort but with more swapping.

The one in TFA isn't, for one crucial reason: the comparison is the other way around... And yet, it sorts.
Uber was mainly successful by just ignoring the regulations nobody liked and hoping it’d work out, though. It really looks like they just managed to convince everyone that taxi routing is hard and can only be done by hiring 1000 geniuses to write 1000 queueing systems in Scala.
I'd say it's most likely that they paid a fortune to a friend, family member, business partner, or ex-coworker of the people responsible for awarding the contract. The tell will be if they react viciously to criticism, because they're afraid of investigation.

Being incompetent will get you mildly reprimanded. Self-dealing might get you jailed.
React is an implementation of the Flux architecture model, which is different from MVC. [1]

[1] http://fluxxor.com/what-is-flux.html
Microsoft declines new cloud customers after promise to Ukraine
I don't think your story should lead you to conclude that his theories are BS. Like clearly a lot of pain has a physical basis. Sarno's argument was that there is a fair amount of pain that does not have a physical basis, and that once structural causes are eliminated one should consider emotional/mental sources for the pain. The fact that you had pain with a structural basis doesn't really suggest that any of that is untrue.

I'm pretty skeptical of what he says, but there is definitely enough smoke that a fire is possible.

No horse in this race, by the way. I've never had chronic pain, I just think the topic is interesting.
They have a bunch of different watches with varying battery capacities and with or without solar charging. The one I linked above could potentially run forever if you don't use the smart watch features much and expose it to a lot of sunlight. But realistically most of them can go for more than a week with normal use (including heart rate monitoring, phone notifications, GPS sports activity tracking, etc.).
Imagine an AI with the power of computation and prediction such that it could centrally plan an economy better than capitalism, communism, or anything else in between or more extreme, by whatever measure you pick. That same predictive power would let it compute price movements in an open market better than humans too. By doing so it could accumulate the financial, and then the political power required to in fact control the economy. So if an AI with such power comes to exist, whether we choose to let it distribute society's resources may not matter.
They might be self-reproducing at an uncontrolled rate.
Especially the first few months! At that point, you're their whole world. They'll be fascinated with your hair and fingers and such. After that, they play with toys and TV.
Doesn't cast iron have issues with iron leaching? Not to mention though how much worse Non stick and any other forms are. I've only found ceramic to be better, but can't send it through high heats.
If you want to signal poor social skills, by all means.
I'm incredibly confident that OP has already seen a doctor.
I was in bad health, i.e. raised adiposity (which is a beautiful euphemism, I might add), for a while and it's because I spent so much time working to pay my bills. I had almost no time to exercise. That is especially true when I spent my free time with friends or working on hobbies. The additional stress of work and lack of time drove me to drinking which messed up my liver (was diagnosed fatty liver) and added to my bad fat metabolism. Recently, I've been taking a break from working and have had time every day to go running and go to the gym twice a week and I've dropped 7 pounds in 2 months and feel way healthier.
Problem is, not everything that can be done can be afforded (at least, not all at once).

Or, to put it in Thomas Sowell's terms, economics is about the allocation of limited resources that have alternate uses.

You want the government to print a bunch of money? Great. Now we have a bunch of money. We don't have any more actual stuff to buy with the money, though. Are we any better off? No. Is science any better off? Maybe - depends on what we do with the new money. Are the poor and disadvantaged any better off? Maybe - it depends on how much money is created, and how that money is distributed.

Sounds like what you really want is to smooth out who has access to how much stuff, and also support science better. Printing a bunch of money (and distributing it) might do it, but it depends a great deal on the details.
This reminds me of the podcast called "The Program".

Without giving too much away, it's a very entertaining, dark-humored work of fiction. Think Black Mirror but kind of funny.

It focuses on the topic of humanity overseen by a mysterious AI entity.
There are (where) a bunch of scummy companies (dating sites, magazine subscriptions, ISPs) that have (had) an easy onboarding process, but you needed an notarised letter written with your own blood, send to them only on at full moon to end the subscription.

If we only now could get the cheaper mobile plans new customers get, that would be nice. I really hate to ask once a year "Can I get the new plan?" "No, ok I will cancel my plan." Only to wait for their call back where they give me the cheaper/upgraded plan.
My question was more around that it would have to replace existing code, so you'd need to advocate for it and come up with some way of incorporating it in the build. I'm not all that familiar with the development culture of the kernel but I imagine that large changes like this would have to be introduced slowly
The author writes: "Is there a hypothetical world where I would be an academic working on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture right now? Sure. It's probably a world where high-flying students are given, upon graduation, some sort of "mini-Genius Grant". If I had been awarded a five-year $62,500/year grant with the sole condition of "do research", I would almost certainly have persevered in academia and — despite working on the more interesting but longer-term questions — have had enough publications after those five years to obtain a continuing academic position. But that's not how granting agencies work; they give out one or two year awards, with the understanding that those who are successful will apply for more funding later."

These awards certainly exist; the Miller institute at Berkeley, the Simons fellows in NYC, and the Clay Fellows are a few examples. (Some not quite for 5 years, but more than 2. Also, the pay is more like 90k.) The NSF math postdoc is also close to this (2 years full funding if you elect to not teach those years, plus a third year where you have to teach.) Regular NSF grants and NSF CAREER awards are also longer, IIRC, though perhaps less relevant to fresh PhDs.

So, in fact, these "mini-Genius Grants" do exist.
You can send updates or a cancel message after the fact still.
> my pet peeve is that operator== is even defined for floats

I fixed two bugs at once in a softsynth caused by this stupidity. In the envelope generator code, which loosely modelled the ADSR circuit in a synth which charges and discharges a capacitor, there was an integrator implemented like `env = ((target - env) * timeconstant) + env`. The `target` value was set to 1 to allow the "capacitor" to "charge" at a rate set by `timeconstant`, and when it reached the top it would be flipped to 0 and `timeconstant` changed to the decay rate.

It failed about one go in ten, with some fudges to set `timeconstant` in odd values. It turns out that they detected the "capacitor fully charged" state with something like `if (env == 0.999) { dostuff(); }` and for some values of `env` and `timeconstant` it might never hit *exactly* 0.999 if you got it exactly wrong.

It was logically wrong (detect a precise float value) and functionally wrong (envelopes switch over when the cap is about 2/3 charged). Changing the "flip over" condition to something more like `if (env > 0.999)` and changing the maximum value of `target` to 1.5 (mimicking a circuit running off 15V and trying to it a 10V output, like a real analogue synth) cured all its problems.

Well, all its *envelope* problems. There were more, but they get into scary discussions of poles and zeroes and negative frequencies, and you don't want that at this time of night.
I've heard this is because homes in the UK are comparatively smaller than in the US, so UKers go to pubs and other Third Places while Americans meet at their houses.
It seems to me that the vast bulk of their business is made possible by the fact that our alternative is to dramatically improve our diets, sleep, and exercise regimens.

Studies seem to show that each of these often have meaningful effects on preventing, stopping and even reversing common diseases.

This is all really hard for people to do, though. There’s a lot working against us. It’s hard to see why we should do it at the individual level — it’s hard to believe these changes will make a meaningful difference.

But you’re right that there’s no financial incentive there. Not at all. There is for each of us, and here in Canada there is an incentive to reduce medical spending, but pharmaceutical companies stand to gain nothing and lose so much.

It’s hard to imagine this changing much, but what a difference it would make. Life could be so much different for so many of us.
I agree. I didn't know about those at the time though, and ended up with a custom solution for no reason other than because I could :P
It would get a laugh; unless you absolutely smashed the rest of the loop, it wouldn’t result in an offer. IOW, it would be a huge negative EV move for most candidates.
1 kitten has starved to death.

Brutal
It should ring at least a bit of nonsense when something that was already perfect gets better every year and grows more methodics around it non-stop.
Vineyards don't seem such a stable long term investment anymore...
Isn’t it fair to say that most of the biggest open source projects and/or most useful projects are developed by people employed by either universities or companies?

> And just to put it at scale, the engineers of Apollo were so early before our times that they had to code the timestamps in negative.

I don’t understand how this relates to the scale of open source software or Apollo software engineers. I guess I know the Unix epoch is 01/01/1970, but how does that relate to Apollo and negative timestamps? Those timestamp definitions came after the first several Apollo missions, didn’t they?
One obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese.

I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.
> it's offensive in any context

What about black people calling each other that? What about it being used in rap?
That's pretty weird, because just a couple of days ago I thought to myself that this exact connection surely exists.

It was just an observation about myself and many people who I know well enough to make a judgement about that particular thing.

You can probably correlate a dozen more things with childhood abuse.

Alcohol and substance abuse, academic underachievement, depression, chronic illness, incarceration, accident proneness, anxiety...

Some psychologist whose name I can't remember once said that if childhood trauma was understood correctly, the DSM-5 would shrink to the size of a small pamphlet, because 95% of all mental illness is merely a symptom of childhood abuse or neglect.

Especially the effects of emotional abuse are grossly underestimated in western society. We are so entrenched in it that we can't see it anymore. Like fish don't see water.
You’re describing how statecharts model things. I’ve used them to describe and implement user interfaces for at least 15 years. Works great, easy, very few bugs.
It's astounding how long the Met have apparently kept a continuity of corruption over generations. From what I've read I doubt that this can be seriously uprooted.
If you're fit exercise is a pleasurable activity, and the side effects of feeling better and looking better are pretty awesome too.
not parent but Garmin has many solar watches, some of them could be used indefinitely without ever being recharged, depending on your lifestyle and how much time you spend out in the sun, e.g. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/775697

But in other solar models, the energy consumption is greater than the energy produced, so the solar charging feature is just a way to extend battery life. In that case you will have an indication of how long the battery lasts, for example in this model it lasts 2 weeks https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/702902
Nothing. You’ll do fine.
> Broadly any organisation which most of its business is taking deposits on a short term basis and lending them out on longer, fixed terms can be deemed a "bank" and analysed as such

uh. no, it really can't. you can't even do this with a credit union.

if you think the major purpose of a bank is to store deposits, you don't understand what banks are.

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> But the business is definitely bank-shaped.

holding deposits is not "being bank shaped"

many, many things in our society hold desposits, from insurance companies to blue chips, to stocks and investments, from annuities to rollovers, from awards to grants, from credit accounts to coupons, and even the local layaway

none of them are even slightly banks

the purpose of a bank is to give certainty by being bound to specific laws

i know, when i put my money in a bank, that it won't be invested by the bank in specific dangerous ways. i do not know that with a credit union. i definitely do not know that with some coin dot com that you imagine to be bank shaped.

this post is about coin holders learning one of the many differences

many banks - more than half - don't take deposits at all

this is a deep failure to grasp what a bank is, and why this isn't a bank

the crypto community is about to start learning about bank bindings around leverage that emerged in the 1920s

afterwards they're going to learn about floor limits that were set on actual banks in the 1930s, and why

after that, they're going to learn about the fdic, and that it doesn't apply to things that fans believe are "bank shaped"
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Having lived and grown up in this business (above a pub since a child) -- you're right.
At that point you're defining MVC so broadly as to be meaningless.
a couple things

1) Everyone says it, you won't believe it, but time goes by so incredibly fast. take pictures, take vacations, don't miss game and concerts. no amount of success will purchase those memories back.

2) let them stay up an extra half hour every night, but only if they read books. Buy they as many books as they want no questions asked. it will help their grades immensely. when they are too young to read, let them stay up only if you can read to them.

3) open a custodial brokerage account and deposit something every month into a broad market etf. it will make a nice nest egg by the time they are 21.
When startups fail, VCs lose a bunch of investor money. When crypto products fail, a bunch of retail investors/users lured by Super Bowl ads lose (sometimes) all their savings. The difference is stark. Having 90% of crypto projects fail is going to leave a trail of human misery.
For me it was kids. Love them, but they're sleep deprivation and stress 24/7. Better now that they're older but the weight has been hard to lose.

If only there was a magical food that gave you energy, satiated hunger, tasted like pepperoni pizza, and had no calories.

Life's a bitch.
I don't see what the discussion has to do with communism unless you consider anything but the laissez-faire approach to be so. I felt that the main point of my comment was that we need to engage in "Creative destruction" earlier in the lifecycle of these de facto monopolies in order to encourage more innovation and healthier markets by cutting back on rent seeking and anti-competitive behaviour. Allowing Intel/IBM/Microsoft to coast by on rents for years while maintaining market dominance by strangling likely competitors via acquisitions seems like the worst possible approach.

> The damage you refer to is simply free markets being a chaotic system.

That damage has real effects on society. Markets are a tool we shape in order to benefit society. Take restrictions on anti-competitive behaviours, the 40 hour work week, or outlawing child labour as examples of how we've moulded that tool to improve society while keeping it useful.