skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA is effectively becoming an innovation black hole from all angles of late. I predict people moving away until only the ultra right remains.
I don't ride the scooters but I ride the gobikes. The main advantage is that I don't have to bring it into the office, and I don't have to worry about bringing it back home when i take it out.

If I have to do that with a bike or scooter even once! in those months you mention it takes to pay itself off, then it's not worth it.

I don't want to have to carry my scooter into a crowded Illy just to meet someone for coffee.
> But you do pay the water company based on how much water you use.

Yes, I do as the consumer of that water. In this analogy Netflix would be the dam operator, so why would a particular dam pay more to the pipe company than another dam?
"I'm considerably more pro-privacy than I was a few years ago. A few years ago, my position was closer to "in a well-running society it's probably optimal that everyone sees everything, the value for privacy tech for ordinary people is (i) to let them buy weed, put up beds so people can sleep over in offices, and otherwise circumvent silly regulations, and (ii) to maintain a healthy balance of power, because even if more transparency is good, the government only having the all-seeing eye and everyone else being in the dark would give too much power to the government".

Things that changed my mind, and made me believe that even in a hypothetical perfectly equal and fair society people having some privacy is a good idea include:

- Reading Robin Hanson and others' literature on signalling, and seeing just how large a portion of our lives it still is. Basically, I see privacy as a way to prevent signalling concerns from encompassing all of our activity, and creating spheres where we are free to optimize for our own happiness and just our own happiness, and not what other people think about us.

- Having a deeper understanding of the ways that it's possible to make other people's lives suck even as a law-abiding private citizen, and realizing that privacy is an important self-defense tool for those situations.

- Realizing more deeply that "the people" are not always virtuous, and that social pressure as a mechanism for influencing people's behavior doesn't always lead to results I approve of (see: recent string of internet mobs leading to people getting fired for political views). Realizing how bad mainstream media is even today, which makes me more understanding of people's desire to protect themselves from them.

Mass surveillance is problematic because (i) I don't trust governments and large corporations to have interests that are aligned with us, and (ii) it creates points of centralized data collection that could get hacked, leading to everyone getting that data even if that was never the original intention. That said, in the physical space it's pretty unavoidable, so we should at least work hard to make the internet a more privacy-preserving place."

Vitalik Buterin
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8m3wj1/rothschild...
Unfortunately it might work. With today's news cycles, an average consumer may have noticed the headline about Intel's 5GHz 28-core monster, and that's it. Follow up articles aren't as interesting.
The AEAD bit is just as a baseline of performance - look how fast you can make this go if you had to do all the work to be an AEAD scheme. For 'merely' a CSPRNG, you can go faster. The argument is, for lots of typical applications that require randomness, you might as well go with a CSPRNG because it will be fast enough.
> I've stared to resent a little that even though I'm Mexican, I'm not considered Western. […] about the culture

Don't worry, you are part of Western high culture. Anyone who would not acknowledge this as true is quite ignorant of history.

Many of my thread neighbours are astonishingly unable to provide an accurate definition of our culture or have the wrong idea in their head. The toilet and eating utensil preference is not important, but the shared values are important: guarantees of civil and human rights, living in freedom, rule of law, equality, individualism, tolerance, practising liberal democracy, society implementing market economy with free wage labour and historically shaped by Christianity and Enlightenment.
I'm convinced that "privacy tools" have become the homeopathy of computers.
I’ll just sit by and wait for Facebook Amazon Netflix and Google to “do the right thing” and subsidize my internet for free. I’m sure that would be a welcome plan at their shareholder meetings.
I don't think I'll ever really understand this law. If you invite someone into your home for a meal (that you don't charge for), you're not subjected to health department regulation. How exactly is it different to prepare food for homeless people in your home? What if you invite them for dinner instead of taking it to them? Why are you subject to regulations in one scenario but not the other, given that the end goal is identical - to give away food to people who want to eat.

Genuine question... I don't get it.
Yes, it does feel that something is wrong somewhere, but I can't find out where. Nobody would be using the idiomatic goroutine-per-task with that kind of overhead, yet it's one of the most common building blocks of golang projects.
I have only used it on Win 10, yet on Steam they claim OS X and Linux compatibility:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/
A scooter folds up and is very easy to carry around. It is nothing like a bike in terms of parking it.
I feel quite ashamed of being an English teacher too. Whenever I meet someone at a party I always say I'm a software engineer, even though I know that's not really true.

When I write my resume I just don't write the months on so it appears I was working at the companies for 1 year instead of 2-6 months. That way I can claim I wasn't an English teacher.
Bridging the design resource gap for early-staged startups
My favorite is business upgrade. Start dropping VPN every 5 min or so, force you to buy business class service for remote work etc.
There are plenty companies using Mono for commercial and in-house software though.
Not sure they are arguing the same.

"Editorial process and basic standards of journalism" is not "cultural elitism" — it's what we had, lost, and now desperately need again.
The whole situation around packages was kind of a pain in the ass, so that was a pretty immediate turn off.
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Or he's fallen into the trap that popularity (and popularity=revenue) is an adequate signal for quality, if third-party sellers are bringing in adequate sales loads then there's nothing to fix.
There may be fewer children than at some point in the past but let's not get carried away
Hey everyone. We're experimenting with Startup Packages, where we offer our design services at a bundled discount for early-staged companies.

This is our first go at making design more accessible to startups. What we’re offering here is the result of speaking to early-staged companies and understanding their budget and needs. However, we’re not expecting to completely hit the mark on the first try. If you have any feedback, please let me know here.
"Its chairman has long argued against the rules, pointing out that before they were put into effect in 2015, service providers had not engaged in any of the practices the rules prohibited."

That begs the question: Why then do they oppose the rules if only to start engaging in the practices they prohibit?
I have a mouth guard that keeps my mouth open and pulls my jaw forward (via rubber bands connecting the top and bottom pieces) that helps cut down on snoring. It works less well once the bands are stretched out a bit (you can swap them out though), but overall it's helped improve my and my girlfriend's sleep considerably.

I have one that was custom molded but it looks like you can get OTC mouth guards as well.
The icon might have parts where the stroke should be the primary color. Variables abstract away the details.

They also inherit through shadow roots, while selectors don't.
Just so we're clear, we're talking about a virtual coin flip here, right? Anything else would require trust. Even if you tried to use an API that checked the scores of a sporting event.
The more I learn about machine learning, the more I learn its really all training. After training and a model is available, it seems ready to be commoditized to me. ML as a service seems the only reasonable way the industry can evolve.
Where are you riding your scooter? Because I ride to coffeeshops, or the ferry building to catch a boat, or street festivals around town, not just the office. You want to carry a scooter through the Haight street fair?
Yeah, Making use of Graal’s polyglot interface would be better, but I did not have much luck to compile Go to LLVM, as I am not so familiar, but would try that soon more intensely.
And we all know Czech is the trendsetter for all things technology.
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> Musk has shown that the key to making space flight affordable isn’t breakthroughs in engine performance, and its not reusability, at least not yet. Before SpaceX ever landed a booster they were 30x cheaper than the Shuttle, and 20x cheaper than the SLS. How did they do it when the Falcon 9 engine has very average performance, and when they didn’t reuse any of them?

> The reason is same as Henry Fords, assembly line manufacturing. They mastered making Merlins cheaply by building them in high volumes and constantly improving at it. Nine engines per rocket made that possible, just as it’s a key to their making reuse work.

This is one ingredient, and may be the largest, but there are several others as well. To start with, engine R&D costs were significantly reduced because Elon was able to build atop a well-established foundation by Tom Mueller whom he hired from TRW. That's not a dig - it has proven to be a very smart move. Vertical integration, and not having to pay Aerojet Rocketdyne their margin on each engine also helps.

Another is that a lot of his initial R&D was done via the Falcon 1, sponsored in significant part by DARPA.

Yet another is that the legacy rocket companies do business with the traditional "Mission Assurance" mindset that accompanies national security space missions as well as high-value commercial missions (e.g., GEO sats). Starting in the late 2000s free of that legacy enabled a completely different culture that was far less plodding, risk-averse, and legacy-driven. Additional mission assurance was then driven in after failures (like the early Falcon 1 flights) and more when SpaceX put themselves through the USAF launch certification process.

Don't underestimate the impact of the legacy mission assurance mindset. The US has a major Federally-Funded Research and Development Center, The Aerospace Corporation where likely the largest component of its income is being involved in DoD mission assurance.
> How does the pricing work if they are just monopolies.

City granted monopolies. Here's how your plan would work.

>Comcast increases prices 500% (we'll ignore everyone cancelling their service).

>People complain to the city, and they realize the city contracts that allowed them to do this were voted for by the politicians.

>All public officials get replaced next election. Comcast contracts get nulled and they lose their monopoly.

The key to raising prices is to do it slowly enough that only a small number of people are angry at any one moment. You raise prices, then wait till anger fatigue sets in, then raise them somewhere else.
Why so black and white? There are many incentives at play, and many ways to contribute to solving real world problems.

I’ve spent time in both academic research and industry.

Research is not supposed to be immediately applicable. The goal is to produce new knowledge - more importantly shared knowledge. Publishing is not a bad measure of that. Additionally, ability to secure grants provides incentive to focus on problems others want solved.

No incentive system is perfect, but I don’t really see how this is any different from any organization. And I don’t think it’s fair to judge an entire discipline by the negative examples.
AMD's forward compatibility is one of the most amazing things to me, so much so that I still can't believe AM4 is going to remain viable for future CPUs for a while hence despite its age.

It's also a big reason I'm not going with Intel, since I know I can upgrade to something significantly better without having to get a new motherboard.
Look at TechCruch's[0] weak argument against this (#4). They even have have to admit that it "potentially" does hinder competition, but claim temporary exemptions negate this. They use a single small ISP from SF (which has more resources than any other town in the world) as an example of it not being an issue.

You may not agree with either conclusion, but you must admit that it is the most weakly dismissed argument against added regulations.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/19/these-are-the-arguments-ag...
Doubtful. You underestimate the inertia of resources. Wages for tech are more competitive in the US. I also bet if your prediction started to become true then lobbyists would push regulations to reduce the brain drain.

That being said I'm a US citizen that thinks about moving increasingly all the time.
The term I think you're looking for is "regulatory capture":

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/22/155596305/epis...
Another month, another ridiculous issue involving NPM that has no place being in software with millions of weekly downloads.

It really is never ending amateur hour in the NPM community.
This is very near impossible to implement, isn't it?
It's somewhat taboo to mention that though. Reminds me of a Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, which merely pointed out that various races have differing average intelligence. Despite clarifying that the standard deviation was much wider than any of the differences (so you cannot judge an individual based on the results), the author was shamed, blacklisted, and threatened for his work.

Some people just like to live in a fairy tale where how everyone should be treated is the same as how everyone actually is.
What stops Netflix from getting ISPs to slow access to other, smaller video players? It's not like the customers have a choice.
There's also a mistrust of airlines themselves at play. Many people refuse to check their bags unless they absolutely have to, out of fear that their luggage will be lost. It's never happened to me personally, but I've heard enough stories from people who have experienced it to be fearful myself.
Could be a reputation system implemented, I'm guessing each scooter has a unique identifier, folks could report a scooter left imporperly. This would hurt the user whom left it there's score.
For someone living in a town that is still scooter-free at the moment (Chicago) can someone explain to me:

1. Wouldn't it be a great business for thieves to specialize in stealing these and finding out a way to fence them in large quantities?

2. How can it be economical to pay people to lug these to their homes and charge them on a regular basis?

3. With tires that small, and with many riders riding them that are not experienced with skateboarding and other small-tired vehicles (which can get viciously trapped in crevasses/potholes while driving full speed) isn't the risk of injury pretty high, far higher than a bicycle?

4. What is the reliability like on these things? It seems like it would be a device with pretty frequent electrical problems and loose connections.

I'm mostly a fan of the idea BTW, I just am unclear of the economics...
WhatsApp is proof that they’re off by at most one order of magnitude. I’m sure others can come up with solo founders who made really impressive things. Plentyoffish and Minecraft come to mind as not necessarily immensely technically complex but having created huge amounts of value as one man shows.
You mean like being jailed for your dog giving a Nazi salute, or becsuse you blogged on some rapists and mentioned their religion?

Yes, American system is vastly preferable to that.
Reference counting has pauses, as object deallocations cascade. You can address this by having a deallocation work list that runs a bit at a time, but then again there is also a large body of work on other kinds of GCs that address pauses.
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It doesn't necessarily — see the classic game Lemonade Stand.[0][1] But powdered lemonade is probably the most common form of (non-alcoholic) lemonade consumed in the US nowadays.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand

[1] http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-lemonade-stand
I actually vaguely recall an SR paper put forth by a relatively famous physicist that actually took the view that time was 'longer' in the past, to the point of being infinite at the big bang. This would mean the universe had always existed. IIRC, the model was mathematically valid and actually explained some observations well. Unfortunately, it did not match other observations.

While I think the OP is being, perhaps, unfair to Glass, I think everyone is being unfair to the OP as well. There are people who believe the perception of time speeding up is objective, for the reasons Glass mentions. I'm not convinced these are Glass's original ideas. And while Glass may not be a physicist, nor is Jenny McCarthy a medical researcher. And yet people still listened to what she had to say to great harm. So I can certainly understand why someone, especially someone recently exposed to people who really believe this idea, might be concerned with someone famous espousing those ideas in the way Glass has done, even if I can't see any harm myself.
Does anyone else worry about their SMS getting MITM'd? Particularly for 2FA.
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The argument goes that ex-ante regulation imposes unnecessary costs in the form of regulatory compliance for smaller businesses, erecting a higher barrier for entry into the ISP market. Or something like that.
Because priority in a network is a scarce resource and there are situations where people would like to pay for it -- VOIP, video calling, gaming.

If turning on your faucet took an average of twenty minutes before the water showed up you'd probably want a high-cost low-latency spigot in case of a fire.
I see dead people. (In other words: every time this is announced, users take it at face value, ignore the small print that says "um eh well not really, actually not at all," and people die, directly from that. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257239 - I do not believe that a software update can go from this to that under half a year. Sorry for offending the technooptimists.)
How would ISPs differentiate between VPNs over something like HTTP traffic?
How do you plan to do this without breaking other laws? I.e. if Blackmail is not an option? I say this because Blackmail is only an option for a very small set of actors.
If you leave a car “laying around” in a spot not designated for parking a car then it’s likely to be towed, or at least ticketed. This works because the car usually has a registered owner who wants it back.
I wrote a comment further down, but I wanted to say that I've gotten a lot of advice from business owners over the years. I have many family members, and my own great grandparents all the way down my generation were all business owners, including many, many relatives.

I've had multiple business coaches and personal advisors as well, and across the board, all of them would tell me that you need to have a full and complete plan before even starting out creating a business.

I did it by the seat of my pants and paid dearly through some near disasters. But I never had 50k invested up front. If you had a viable plan to make this work, you just need to work your plan. If you don't, you should seriously consider pulling out as much money as you can and take this experience as a solid life lesson.

Those that won't quit don't really talk like you are right now in your original posting. My sense is that you have skills, talent in other areas and were trying to get happiness through an area of life you don't excel at.

I hope you figure this all out, all the best to you.
If you want exceptions, use 'value()'. If you want minimum runtime checks you use operator*/->. This is perfectly consistent with the spirit of C++ to give you maximum control over your code.
Is the example really indicative of output?

Are American tech companies really paying people with 0-3 years experience $100K?

No fucking wonder so many startups “run out of money” if you’re spending that much on people with no fucking experience.
Problem is: if New Mexico passes a Net Neutrality law but all of the Netflix data centers are in Arizona it's suddenly going to be "interstate commerce"
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I think good part of complexity is not understanding something as much as you could.

On projects Ive worked with for a long time they don't seem as complex as when I started them, And when I refactor or rewrite, I am usually taking a more streamlined approach as I now understand the what it is I am actually tracking.
Barbara Liskov, who won the 2008 Turing Award for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Her work at MIT on the CLU programming language influenced many modern languages, interfaces, exception handling, abstraction mechanisms, etc. She was my undergraduate thesis advisor in 1974.
Food regulations are for health. When you feed your own family and friends, fine. When you ramp up to feeding dozens or hundreds, then you can make a whole community sick with one mistake in the kitchen.

Its a practical threshold to help avoid spread of disease. Not an ivory-tower absolute. Local municipalities can and do vary on the details.
> It might be good to replace "up to 75Mbps" with "guaranteed 50-75Mbps and 5-15ms ping to nearest public internet junction, 95% of the time during peak hours.

Hell yeah. I would happily pay extra for a decent service that advertised it’s minimum speeds instead of its maximum because in reality, the theoretical maximum speed of my connection is really not a useful metric unless I’m hitting it 99% of the time. I have a fast connection but I still typically get a good 50 Mb/s less than advertised (which luckily still leaves me with 200 Mb/s or so) making the advertised amount completely inconsequential and useless. Telling me the lowest I should expect, on the other hand, is actually helpful and allows me to do some rudimentary capacity planning to see if it’s suitable for me or not.
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Don't forget the just-as-bad-but-maybe-worse version for the generic Unix[0] platform. The Mac OS X version[1] is equally bad.

Ironically, I don't see this problem in the Windows version[2].

[0] https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/blob/dd079620d11c9...

[1] https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/blob/dd079620d11c9...

[2] https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/blob/dd079620d11c9...
Electric scooters are still rather large and bulky. By no means an easy carry.
Good point - not sure I thought it through to be honest.
Because of the use of "bcash" and "bcore" which are both considered derogatory terms for their coin on either side.
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I agree there's a problem there: we seem to have more capital than we need, yet we also have less savings (in the sense of people deferring consumption) than individuals need to have a comfortable retirement, for example.

I have yet to see good solutions for this problem.