skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general a lot of these cities in the US have a tacit agreement with these kinds of businesses that they are allowed to violate labor regulations, health regulations, immigration regulations, wage regulations, so that they are able to provide lots of labor intensive services in high cost regions.

If the municipal government wants to shut down any restaurant in the city, they can under a panoply of pretexts. If the Federal government is allowed to enforce the various Federal laws and regulations being ignored, it can also.

A vibrant restaurant culture is a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

These municipal leaders cannot talk out of one side of their mouths about the wonders of a well-regulated economy and then out of the other side demand the privilege to apply those regulations inconsistently in a corrupt fashion.

Considering that there are too many restaurants in many of these cities with failure rates in the stratosphere and profits questionable except at the most hyper-successful locations, this is not a bad thing for such an industry to contract to correct the oversupply.

Notice in the article itself that it talks about restaurants turning to 'unconventional' labor pools like ex-addicts, ex-cons, underemployed veterans, and people they have fired before because it is no longer so easy to violate labor and immigration regulations with impunity. Is that so bad? Does this not solve more general problems internal to our society rather than trying to paper over them by importing more people?
The bottom section is intriguing..

> Pocket calculators! Now there's something.... has sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms ... It translates from one language to another.... It is, in fact, a multiprocessor system... It has a full color, wraparound wide screen, liquid crystal, three-dimensional holographic display.... Its audio facilities include Dolby Digital Decaphonic surround sound. On the way here I watched "The Labyrinth" on it.

Meant to be tongue-in-cheek in 1984, but sounds surprisingly like a smart phone.
It's a dying art because now even the cheapest SoCs are capable of running full Linux with a big stack like Node. The Pi Zero is $5 and capable of all these things.

Perhaps the last refuge is battery-powered microcontrollers.
World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
The correct course of action is to follow the NTSB guidelines for participating in a probe, and to not continually attack the accident victim in the press.

Tesla could survive this accident easily if they handle it properly. Keep mishandling it, and Tesla could be in a world of hurt.
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations” (attributed to Orson Welles)
It's frustrating to see that car companies see themselves as "partners" to the NTSB or other investigators.

Self-driving car companies should have only one obligation: provide all the relevant car crash data to the investigators, then step out of the way, and keep its mouth shut until the investigation concludes.

I've been warning since a couple of years ago that this is going to be an issue if not solved early on and that self-driving car companies need to be liable for car crashes (the one who's found at fault by investigators). But we haven't even established this.

Also, I think it's inevitable that all "self-driving" that isn't guaranteed by a government body to be Level 4 or higher should be banned from public roads. Sub-Level 4 self-driving is just not safe, and the very situations in which carmakers argue it would help reduce accidents are incompatible with these companies' own ToS.

For instance, let's say someone is drunk and has a Level 2 car (like a Tesla). According to Tesla, such a person should enable self-driving, as that will on average reduce the likelihood of crashes compared to if the drunk person drove themselves home.

But Tesla's own ToS says such a person would need to be constantly vigilant and with their hands always on the wheel, not fall asleep, and so on. How likely is that going to be with a drunk person? My guess is not very likely.

If the Autopilot malfunctioned like it did in the latest crash, that drunk person would die, because there's no way a drunk person could take the wheel and drive safely when even sober people can't seem to do it when they stop paying attention for a while.
The aesthetic serves a purpose though. Hi-fi 3D game assets take orders of magnitude more work to create than low-fi 2D ones. I agree that nostalgia and familiarity are what allows gamers to accept NES-style graphics as a valid form of low-fi 2D art. The creator of Stardew Valley mentioned he wouldn't have been able to finish the game had he had to create 3D assets that looked as good to people as the current 2D art.

Having people accept NES-style pixel art is a boon to indie devs. Games like Super Meat Boy have higher res 2D graphics but is still a similar aesthetic. Low-fi poly is also a retro art style. However I've noticed that low-fi poly games are still rendered in high resolution and using more advanced lighting techniques so still requires more work than low-fi 2D.
Not if you include those that did not survive in your sample / analysis. From the link "concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not".
Is there a prominent ideology that hasn't lead to murders?
I'm not sure it makes any sense to talk about a video being in 4K resolution without talking about the resolution of the data that went into the production of the video. I could make a 4K video of the moon right now (or when it gets dark) by sticking my iPhone out of my window. Presumably it's the source data that is high resolution in this video, not just the video itself?
"You Won't Believe These NES Homebrew Games!"

"Crazy! The NES Homebrew Scene Thrives Like You Wouldn't Believe!"

"When You Read About These NEW Homebrew Games, You'll Never Game the Same Again!"

"I Played NEW Homebrew Games - What Happened Next Blew My Mind!"

Now they'll read it.
> "Before computers existed it was impossible to make exact copies of something at zero cost. Therefore, stealing was morally wrong because if you take one of something, the person you took it from will have one less of that something."

I know this wasn't your main point, but I think it's worth rethinking the basis of your (or possibly, just this essay's) view on copyright.

A "copyright" is so named because it is precisely the right to prevent other people from making copies. When it originated (in the 1700s), its goal was to prevent the copying of books, even though copying--then and now--did not deprive the owner of their own access to the work.

What has changed is not the invention of a new fundamental concept (making a thing like another thing), but the ease with which this can be done by the unscrupulous. If you really liked a poem in 1720, wanted to be able to read it, but didn't want to buy a copy, you could get it by copying it word-for-word from someone else's version. The effect on the author was no different from copying a friend's MP3 file. The only difference is it feels like "a smaller act," so it can't be "a big deal."
Wow I always assumed plugin batteries would be the only way to run electric cars, this is great.

Also searching I saw these trucks using overhead electric lines, also in Sweden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27100u7IcII
I had to hunt for the article URL from the linked page, so c/p the actual article URL here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/12/non-profits-...
There is cost the individual user of an open source project has to consider, and there is cost the community of that project as a whole has to consider.

So from your perspective, just keeping the old version might be "the right thing to do", and at the same time the decision of the community to not support it anymore is also "the right thing to do" from their perspective.

As the community does their work unpaid, it seems you have no right to impose your perspective on them, except if you pay money for the necessary work. Which you are free to do.

I guess what the parent posters point out is that this will usually shift your own cost/benefit ratio in a way that upgrading becomes "the right thing to do" for you, too.
How to Evaluate and Find the Best Customer Segment for Your Startup
I live in Seattle. Prices for food have indeed gone up a lot. There are clearly still a lot of people here who can afford it, based on how very busy the (good) restaurants still are.
I think many people would, depending on the price. But I think the other big thing is, "Will my friends be on it?"
As financial analogy, I've seen a piece (linked on HN a few years ago) comparing technical debt to unhedged options, meaning you can get a benefit and you might or might not get bitten by it.
Week 15 in Information Security, 2018
http://bgr.com/2017/01/19/tesla-autopilot-crash-safety-stati...
> One time I got really mad at it. Like all computers, it knew precisely what I wanted it to do. It knew exactly what I MEANT. So why does it have to go and DO what I SAID?

> How do you get even with a dumb machine like that?

> First I tried slapping it around a little. I pushed its buttons a bit hard. I threatened it. "How would you like a busted display" I said.

> But it did no good. It just said "I am virtually unbreakable - and I'm not going to take any notice till you enter the data nicely, like you used to do."

This is beautiful. I loved how it explained processing delay with "real" world examples. Funny and interesting speech.
This is also why calcified pineal glands and fluoride poisoning may actually be a big deal. Sadly, not enough serious researchers want to consider pineal gland health.

I even saw one researcher who published one paper advocating global fluoridation of community water supplies and another paper investigating problems associated with melatonin deficiency. But they didn't have any papers investigating the relationship between these.

In case you are curious, fluorine ions have an affinity for highly mineral rich regions of the body, and easily precipitate calcium, which is why fluoride is used for calcifying teeth. The pineal gland is the only organ in the brain that is directly exposed to the bloodstream, and is a kind of mineral sink. Pineal calcification is epidemic in adults, but is not popularly considered a "disease." This organ is totally unappreciated by mainstream "science based" medical culture.

The pineal gland is responsible for melatonin synthesis and harmonizing the circadian rhythm. It has cells that communicate with light receptive cells in the eye. Indeed, this organ evolved as a light sensitive organ. In many animals, the pineal body is still directly light sensitive.

I have a very strong feeling that this important gland is being overlooked by the medical establishment, but that it will be impossible to ignore its importance in times to come.

Here's a little experiment you can do in your kitchen. Take some egg shells. Boil them to sterilize them. Then crush them with a mortar into a fine powder. Mix them with vinegar (acetic acid) to create a calcium salt (calcium acetate). There will be bubbles as the acetate precipitates calcium. This powder substance is a calcium salt which can be added to fluoridated water to neutralize fluorine ions. The fluorine ions which will have a much stronger affinity for the calcium than the acetate.

If someone is really good with chemistry, maybe they could figure out the exact amounts needed to needed to adsorb all of the fluorine from a liter of water!
In one study, 60% of the people who died of Hep-C were between 45 and 59: https://www.hepmag.com/article/death-risk-24659-138388084. More than half of cases aren't the result of intravenous drug use: https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cl....

> In any case it's nearly irrelevant because this was completely post-hoc rationale for pricing this drug

Drug development, like tech startups, is high risk, but every now and then creates a lot of economic value. To make the system sustainable, there must be a way of capturing a significant chunk of that value from those "unicorns." So yes, it's post hoc in the sense that you don't know until after you roll the decide whether a particular drug is going to create a lot of value or not. That's the case with most high risk investments.

> Forgive me for thinking you are defending the wrong system.

Forgive me for thinking that people are completely nuts for thinking it's a good idea to lower the potential rewards to investment for industries that are "more important." It's completely ass-backward.
What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?
So what happens when, for example, a US court or a court of some other jurisdiction in another country rules that their free speech laws say that a court cannot legally force them to pull results globally? What do they do then? I assume that since the US/other court wouldn't be forcing them, they would default to pulling it since Canada can apparently force them to do so, so pulling the data is mandatory in Canada but "voluntary" for the rest of the world.

Far more importantly, a single country is now censoring the speech of companies globally. That's a truly astounding verdict to issue in a court of law. What about the sovereignty of all other nations?
Please don’t use code formatting for quotes. It makes the content unreadable on mobile devices.
OMG, no. This is ridiculous and I love Canada.
So does that mean that we should punish Google when it pulls our YouTube video due to trademark concerns valid only inside US and videos with pro-Russian, pro-Chinese, pro-ISIS political slant?

Or does this your idea only work for US cultural norms? Should we then start processes of getting Google out of EU, Asia? After all, a media service who distributes illegal content inside your borders, spreads US propaganda, bans your propaganda ... is dangerous right?

How do we reconcile the fact that those are global services?
They don't? Shit, there goes my master plan.
I don't follow your reasoning. It might work for some genes, but a very large part has no meaningful significance at all. If we were to simply take the majority allele, that would eliminate all blonde people, all redheads, everyone who has any form of biological talent for anything whatsoever; you'd even get rid of white people altogether: after all, they are the minority. Taking the majority would mean getting rid of all variation. To me, that is not at all what I would call a huge improvement.
I could be wrong but it already exists and it's getting traction: https://www.vero.co/

It's not perfect, nor does it hit all your points but it's a start (of a trend at the very least)

http://www.adweek.com/digital/this-ad-free-social-media-app-...
Having worked in the restaurant industry (Bus boy, expo, and server) for 5 yrs from HS to College to shortly after there has always been these problems. People think the grass is always greener at another place an will switch jobs after 2 months, maybe even only a couple weeks, well before they have built up enough institutional knowledge (menu details in order to effectively sell, ways to ring up common and edge case special preps, where supplies are in store, build rapport with frequent guests, etc.) to make them truly effective at their job and make consistent money. Restaurateurs complaining about their servers bad service is a failure of management to adequately train (seen this is action), albeit I've seen long time servers who had plenty of the institutional knowledge to do their jobs but refuse to do simple things like pre-bus a table.

Edit:
Forgot to mention. This is maybe the 2nd or 3rd article where I've read that towns/industries have looked to recruit out of prison/jail. This imo is a good thing.
I mean eating out is a luxury, right? Better to be paid a decent wage and have the option to avoid the luxury than not to have the money in the first place.
Chinese subsidiary, Chinese buyer, US citizen.
Google does not sell your personal data. They do use to Target ads but does not leave Google.
I'm not surprised, I've had mostly negative experiences with Ember. We wrote a pretty small web app and several of my colleagues had immense problems getting into it and making changes. (People who had JS experience and had used other stuff in the past.) We ended up rewriting it completely in a week (as I said, it was small) into AngularJS and no one ever complained again.
> Macs are popular in companies that are still small enough to have people manage their own machines.

140,000+ employees in this company. Macs outnumbers Windows boxes. Pretty much the only place you see Windows machines are in the various accounting departments, and in the call centers where they're just used as terminals to big iron.
After reading all the answers, have an observation. Not many startup founders have replied. Most are FAANG employees. Some similar roles in other product companies. One/two consultants. And one hedge fund guy.
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This goes from bad to worse for Tesla. It's all related to the original PR statement, but I'm guessing that Tesla have made further actions to anger the NTSB.

I don't understand why the change. They've already co-operated with the NTSB in the first Autopilot death (back in 2016) [0] with a much simpler PR statement [1] that didn't upset the NTSB.

[0]: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2016/INCLA-PE16007-7876.PDF

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss
It's not impossible, just stupid.
No it is not enforceable and rather silly.
What savings account, if you don't mind?
I liked this video explanation of NES scrolling ("The Nintendo Entertainment System's Loading Seam" by Retro Game Mechanics Explained) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfrNnwJrujw
But without raising it, the people making minimum wage are struggling to afford the costs of living as is.
Given the zooming that takes places and the fact that the entire moon was mapped (not just the places shown in this video, except perhaps a handful of ultra hi-res pieces), it's clear that the resolution of the mapping far exceeded the resolution visible in the 4k video for all but the closest shots.
100 years ago there wasn't any income tax at all? I think the opposite is actually true, Tax is very easy to apply now and with the crackdown on offshore havens its harder to evade. Top rates are lower than they were in the 70s, but the total tax take isn't low.
> One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns.

The actually do, that's inherent in the nature of sovereignty. You can eliminate the practical effect of that by adopting a single shared global sovereign regime, but that idea is controversial even in the abstract, and in concrete detail even moreso, as those who agree that such a thing is desirable disagree violently on the character that such a regime should have, and mostly view not having one as better than having the wrong one, so we are stuck in a system of multiple sovereigns.
The point I was trying to make is they could already be doing programming bc there are so many jobs and improving their lot in life but they aren't. Freeing up more people to do programming won't change the job equation. There are already openings to dev.
Android users: I build some tools to Rsync your iTunes library to your phone over WiFi and it's absolutely bulletproof, works great!

https://github.com/jakecoppinger/android-itunes-rsync
This reminds me of Mr. Fart’s favorite colors. https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177...

> By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess. When your giggling date pokes you in the side and asks your favorite color, you shout: “WHO WANTS TO KNOW?!”

> But at work, you’re in good company. Your peer code reviews look like a meeting of the Flat Earth Society:

> What if they steal our data using electromagnetic waves or focused ion beams?

> What if they cut power at the exact instant our security kicks in?
Yes, the Canadian courts understand precisely how the internet works... through Canadian ISPs who can be forced block traffic from some companies and not others.

The point of the ruling could be summarized this way: "If you wish to do business in Canada, with a web business that's visible in Canada, then there are certain practices you can't be guilty of elsewhere or in general."

This isn't new. For example, it is commonplace for governments to forbid domestic contracts with businesses who, elsewhere in the world, employ bribery in their ordinary course of business. Same general concept here. Don't be too surprised if tactics like this emerge elsewhere to combat online gambling, for example, since gamblers and online gambling companies have been adept at getting around superficial blocks.

It's also commonplace to allow lawsuits in the U.S. that seek to penalize governments and other institutions for conduct that happened outside the U.S., but affected people in the U.S.

A previous parallel issue in Canada concerns the publication of Federal Election results; I don't know how energetic Canada has been in enforcing it lately, but the idea was to not allow Canadian media or ISPs to facilitate publishing any election results outside a given Province until the whole country had voted, since voters in the West might not even go to the polls if they knew that the election had already been decided by votes in the East. (Canada spans a lot of time zones.)

Given the difficulty of limiting information exchange over the internet there aren't many alternatives to rulings that take into consideration a company's conduct elsewhere before allowing them to freely communicate in one's own country.

Whether you like the specific reason (trigger) for this principle being invoked is an entirely different question I don't address here; but yes the principle is logically coherent and enforceable.

It's also interesting to think about the controversial Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act in the U.S. in this regard.
That's the beauty of open source, just like with Laravel, Adonis can have a fork if the main dev just up and disappears too.
It seems like it’s becoming more and more toxic. It’s a place to get your product or project criticized and reduced to the sum of its parts, rather than support.
Does Apple announce each model's end-of-life date (in terms of security maintenance) in advance?
You need to do a bit more reading. The latest Hep C drugs have cure rates of over 99%. Even NICE, the UK's cost-effectiveness committee said that Sovaldi is cost-effective.
Hopefully they feel like they should be cooking at home more often instead of eating out.
So a completely dry salad, not even a bit of olive oil? Yeesh.
Sure, Download the source from https://source.android.com/setup/build/downloading. The driver is in kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen.

Unless the Pixel 2's touchscreen is so weird that it needs a new driver, this will work for everyone.
It's a bit like pornography - we know it when we see it. But, even if reasonable minds disagree on where the line between "equitable" and "not equitable" lies, that should not preclude a conversation on the topic.

Can we at least agree that the distribution of wealth has changed dramatically in the last few decades? That the middle class is shrinking? That income mobility (in the US) is worse now than in the immediate post-war years?

If we agree on that, can we next agree that the current trend is likely unsustainable? Either because market forces will correct it, or because of some form of revolution, or something else?

The question then becomes "should we intervene?" The answer to that would seem to depend on what you consider the likely outcome lacking intervention. Is it a massive and disruptive market correction? Is it an actual guns and tanks revolution? Something else?

I don't think anybody (at least not anybody reasonable) is calling for text-book communism or anything close. Only that we consider what it means to us, as a society, that some families have this unfathomable wealth, while other families should be homeless and starving.