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The paper straws really are terrible. They've started popping up here in Vancouver even though I'm not sure the ban has fully taken effect yet (I still see plastic straws some of the time). They're bad enough that my response is just to stop ordering drinks that need a straw (anything with a lot of ice in and other cocktail type ingredients like fruit). The idea of reusable straws is so laughably bad I wonder how anyone can seriously propose it as an alternative.
In other countries suburban villages have been growing for centuries before cars became available (at least in parts of Europe). So, one can live in these villages without a car and can expect some level of public transportation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523329
1. How would the file path type differ from a regular string? Would you want specific semantic validation for each platform?

2. This is still a big question, and we've been having a robust argument about it on GitHub [1]. It's a problem that so far has evaded an elegant solution, but usually when that's the case, it just means we haven't been creative enough about it yet! Or did you mean versioning of the data IN the config file? Can you elaborate?

[1] https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/522
Because compostable materials taste terrible.
If the situation were reversed, how would you handle it? You run a service that connects two parties, something happens, and there is a dispute. Do you ban one of the parties, or both, or neither? Do you force them to go to arbitration? Does this scale? How much time, energy, and capital is appropriate to expend on this situation?
I am currently doing it, near to the forest & foothills of a small mountain south of India. Also, I travel to SE Asian countries to places which are not so urban. While there are many advantages, I see myself travelling to Bangalore quite often to feel the developer vibes and talk to like-minded people to beat loneliness.

After spending enough time in Bangalore and then in Cebu (Philippines), With the convenience of remote work, it influenced my priorities to clean air and water than meetups and people. Work-life harmony is much better, while the work-life balance is out of question currently with the workload. I find myself not spending money, there is some energy left in the evening to read, I go walking near the mountains and meditate every morning. Life has turned out to be better overall.
Yes, probably one of the first intoxicants of some schoolkids - you'd get your face down low to concentrate and see where you were applying the stuff (Tippex in the UK, 1980s) and get a good nose-full.

That ranks along with "banda" toner from fresh duplicates. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator).
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Not a lawyer here, but wouldn't the author have a case for a libel suit? Especially if he can prove that the host made false statements.
You could still vote against it. I was only implying that generally rural areas are less stringent.

I was think more like people living near farm land than rural areas where folks live in town.
It said “after booking the weekend, we were told we needed to vacate..”

So it seems like they didn’t agree to such nonsense. It actually seems that the host ought to be the one kicked off AirBnB for not providing the room being rented for the entirety of the agreed upon dates.
It's not always a choice. I'm in currently Canada where the term "Engineer" is protected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Canada. So I'm a developer here.
Originally, I was fully on board with the homogeneous array requirement but its recently started causing me pains.

Homogeneous arrays can come in the following forms

- Shallow, literal type (a list of lists, regardless of the nested lists contain)

- Full, literal type (a list of dicts of strings)

- Logical type

There are many times where a list is the best type for my data but I want to take advantage of logical types for easier configuration by my users.

Below is an example of what I mean by "homogeneous logical types":

`Cargo.toml` has you specify dependencies using a dict

[dependencies]
foo = { "version" = "1.0" }

but allows a short-cut syntax where a string value is assumed to be the version value in the above dict.

[dependencies]
foo = "1.0"

Generally this is done in Rust using Enums

enum Dependency {
Version(String),
Specification(HashMap<String, String>),
}
Can you start with taking some time off to get your bearings, even if you need to take some unpaid?

And not sure if it’d help with your level of anxiety, but a few of my colleagues have told me CBD helps them relax without clouding their mind.
> After being in a remote dev job for a while and being confident I can find others in case this one go bad, I moved to a cheaper and smaller city in my country.

This is basically what I did as well.

I grew up in Harrison, AR. There is only one employer here that has anything resembling "tech" jobs, and I'd worked there for seven years and climbed the ladder as far as it made sense to climb - I was at the point where doubling my salary was a matter of competing for one of a dozen or so management positions, which would take probably a decade or more at minimum.

I moved to Charlottesville, VA in 2013 to work for a startup there. That alone was a ~60% raise, and in the five years I was there I built a professional network and worked my way up the pay and seniority scales. After moving to a remote position, we terminated our apartment lease, bought a house in Arkansas, and moved back.

About two weeks after moving in, I was laid off. I was able to put that network I'd built to work and found a new job in a few weeks, with a modest pay increase to boot!

Internet access is a big deal here - a lot of properties have only 8Mbps available at any price. I went by the cable company's office while we were shopping and asked to speak to a field tech. He gave me a service map that was accurate enough for me to use as a guide during our home search. I have 300Mbps cable, for which I pay ~$180 / month including removing the data cap.
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Thank you for clarifying.

EDIT: even so, it's still a direct quote of one of the researchers, and indicated as such in the title. Clickbaity, but not misleading.

Plus, adding up all the issues raised about how urbanization has been measured so far, all the in which ways politics muddles up the data, and the resulting gigantic error in measurement together, the problem does seem so fundamental that I don't find the quote that overblown either.
I disagree. The way JSON and YAML nest data with indentation forces data to be disconnected from it's property chain when there are multiple large items at each level. TOML seems to provide a solution to that by allowing deeply nested paths to be declare explicitly at the top level for each item. You get to choose how to split the paths into containers instead of being locked into a 1-to-1 tree structure.
OneDrive - a client and an api. Decendent from Windows Live Mesh, and tacked ontop of Document Libraries. OneDrive is how you either access or sync documents to your client device. On Windows its a system tray sync agent that adds virtual folders to File Explorer. On Mobile its an App. In Desktop Outlook its a Button that exposes content available to you from SharePoint. In a web browser it is a javascript based web client for accessing stored files (like Google Docs.) ((tangent, google docs/maps gets credit for this, but microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest and reloadless pages for OWA.))

SharePoint - a server. SharePoint lets people make Team Sites, little sub instances of SharePoint. Team Sites have different types of sub-modules. One is called a Document Library. Document Libraries hold files and folders, but also have version control (you can see any iteration of any file ever.) By Default, each Office 365 Group has a Document Library called either "Documents" or "Shared Documents" depending on how the client renders the name. If Microsoft had a modicum of respect for the english language, they would rename "the 'Shared%20Documents' Office 365 SharePoint Team Site Document Library" to be called a Group OneDrive. Other major Office 365 Components stored on SharePoint include OneNote and Planner. (exception to this rule, the SharePoint iOS client. This product has no reason for existing, all its features should be a part of iOS OneDrive. Unless SharePoint=Intranet, OneDrive=DocumentLibrary, in which case file access should be stripped from iOS SharePoint.)

The line blurs when you have a 365 Group Document Library. On the web, accessing it calls it part of SharePoint, in Windows accessing it appears to be through OneDrive. If you can remember that OneDrive is one of many ways to access a SharePoint Document Library, analogous to Chrome is how you get to Google, you should be good.

Teams - a web app that replaces Skype and OneDrive. It embeds a SharePoint (Word Online, Excel Online) iframe, anytime you click a file stored in a Document Library. No Syncing, all streaming.
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> All of the material (minus solutions) is available online for both courses.

I can only find lecture slide when looking at the course site.

Are there no readings or problems?
I've done it twice. If you're experiencing significant growth or change in access patterns, you may for example go from Postgres to a KV store.

In one of the cases where I had to switch, we swapped from Cassandra to S3 for 100x OpEx savings since C* couldn't scale cost effectively to our needs, so we rolled a database on top of S3 instead that well out performed C* for our use case (e.g. need to export a 3B row CSV in a minute?).
If you like Firebase, I'd like to give a shout-out to Sanity [1]. (Disclosure: I work part-time on the backend, but I'm not an employee and I don't work on the product itself; but call this a shameless plug if you will!)

Sanity is a headless CMS, but the API itself is like a souped-up Firebase and can be used on its own without adopting the Sanity UI. It's got many of the same features -- web API, change watching via WebSockets -- but adds support for joins, fine-grained patches (CRDT-like but not actually), transaction history APIs, fine-grained document-level permissions, and many other neat things. We are particularly proud of the query language, GROQ [2], which is a very powerful superset of JSON that allows you to express transformation pipelines over structured data.

Sanity is hosted on Google Cloud, too, so performance when used inside GCP should be great.

[1] https://sanity.io

[2] https://www.sanity.io/docs/data-store/how-queries-work
As mentioned in the source link, the INI format is not standardized. This is an attempt at a standardized format similar to INI.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a
It seems like this has some overlap with the recent Supreme Court bakery decision. Do you have a right to get a cake baked? To stay in a hotel? To get electrical service?
I don't think even luck and charisma would make a difference. Humans just don't deal with change well, and "you're going to change the character of my neighborhood" is going to make a large subset of any neighborhood violently angry.

Look at the backlash over 'gentrification'. No, we like our squalor just the way it is!

What we really need to do is force every resident abroad for a year so that they can see the alternative to "life as I've always know it".
Yes, if you're interested you can look up hospitality law or innkeeper law. Airbnb and others attempt to replicate existing services while sidestepping the regulations in place, which of course makes them cheaper / faster because they don't have to deal with the regulatory burden..
Many locations sell the $2 reusable cup - it pays for itself after 200 uses. And they can be found on Amazon at various prices[0].

But this is incompatible with online ordering, and who has an extra 10 minutes to wait in line? Could they have some kind of reusable cup service, where you could get a reusable cup with your order? Then return it next time - kinda like milk delivery.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Starbucks-Reusable-Travel-Coffee-Gran...
I think "changing the DB" likely referred to schema changes, not swapping out the DBMS.
As someone who helps teams with security, please don't take dependencies that haven't been reviewed. If you speed is more critical for you, do not expect your software to be secure and __ALWAYS__ have a incident response plan. It should have a way of informing dev teams, management & customers about what happened, what is being done and how soon.
Yeah -- the original intent behind Manhattan's grid system was not some sort of usability or urbanist thought, but to "open up" the land for real estate speculation. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811
Here's an example customer receipt from Model 3 service posted today - the fact that the "Services and Other" costs have been rising combined with the differing pay types on customer receipts is what really gives me pause

https://twitter.com/kkandyrocks/status/1014812194297573376 "Pay type: Warranty"

https://twitter.com/kkandyrocks/status/1017651046376706048 "Pay Type: Goodwill - Service"

I think that a blown pyro fuse within the first couple months of ownership should be a warranty cost.
The common law of nuisance handled the negative externality situation just fine

Isn't specific standards of property care, basically a more formal codification of nuisance law? Subjective laws being a pain to apply consistently, I was under the impression we frequently did this- some objective rule is established under the rule of an existing subjective rule, to improve enforcement & fairness.
I would not have gotten it otherwise
Yeah, TOML is definitely INI inspired, but there is no canonical INI spec. I wouldn't say that TOML is INI, though. INI files still exist in their variously poorly specified ways.
thin bamboo straws may be the answer (and a nice startup idea)

...oh never mind a google search shows someone else is doing that :(
Imagine a world in which Experian or Equifax would only fix a mistake on your credit report if you had enough followers to embarrass them on social media. This is where appropriate consumer protection laws come into play. The whole idea feels intuitively like a silly overreach to me since I watched Twitter, Airbnb, and these other services grow from nothing and so I take them less seriously, whereas banks and credit bureaus have existed as giants since I was born. On the other hand, one could imagine GDPR adding a rule that users must be provided with a detailed explanation and an appeals process before accounts can be deleted, and it wouldn't seem too burdensome when compared with the rest of the regulation.
Well you could change culture. In my country straws aren't used much. You don't need a straw to drink. In fact I only see expats drink coffee with a straw.
> People often don't realize that the US has a dual-sovereign system where States and the Federal government share soverignity. This is a critical factor in "freedom".

Every complaint about the Electoral College is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of this aspect of our system of government.

Living in NYC now after 30+ years in Missouri, I'm more convinced than ever that this is a critically important check on mob rule and that the implementation of a nationwide popular vote would be a disaster for our democracy.
Explain how that would work. People who want detached homes with big yards wouldn't be able to buy them because developers would only build multi-family dwellings? Despite the majority of people wanting detached homes?
Would that be hard to implement for npm/yarn? I'm sure that transforming TOML to JSON on the fly could be added as a step somewhere, resulting in changes to the package manager or just a wrapper command.

Stylistically, I agree with you as TOML is clean and well thought. Moreover, TOML has support for more data types that JSON lacks leading to ugly workarounds (floats as strings anyone?). The main advantage of JSON is that its encoding/decoding is included in JS as it is, and it's generally deeply ingrained in the Node community.
Nah, Lehi is a mass of urban sprawl these days, with piles of traffic and office buildings. I'm down in Spanish, a few minutes out of the canyon.
The article "addressed" it with a misleading statement. It said that much of what Californian residents put in the recycle bin isn't recycled. That's because they throw nonrecyclables (like used pizza boxes) into the bin along with their recyclables, and most waste management companies won't separate these items, choosing instead to discard the batch. This is the wrong evidence to give for two reasons:

1. Commercial waste management is different from residential waste management.

2. By removing nonrecyclable plastic straws, Starbucks removed a source of contamination for their plastic recyclables. Thus, the percentage of their plastic that is recycled would have gone up even more under the assumption that their commercial waste management company wasn't already filtering out straws.

This is no small error. The author should have known to delve into this more because increasing recyclability was the whole reason Starbucks removed straws with a big hullabaloo.

This is par for the course for the poorly named "Reason," which pushes a wishful thinking philosophy that unregulated markets solve all problems. https://reason.com/blog/2016/11/18/is-climate-change-already...
BTW, although XLISP-Stat is mostly of historical interest now, it compiles quite nicely on modern UNIX-like systems (even OSX, which didn't even exist when it was last updated)

There's also a homebrew/Linuxbrew package that I contributed that makes it even easier to install. It's still fun to play around with, and some things like the spin-plot are still impressive today,
Thanks for response. I edited my response to be less snarky. Good job and thanks for the moral of the story.
> is this all part of an ongoing trend, toward something like the Chinese Social Credit Score system, where the consequences of not maintaining a high rating are socially crippling?

Yes, except that at least with the Chinese social credit system you presumably know what your score is and what rules you are supposed to follow.

I expect that Airbnb, Facebook, Google et al will find it highly profitable to maintain and monetise lists of how credit-worthy / reliable / conscientious / conformist people are. Their neural nets' verdict on you will be both opaque and unchallengable.

> We’re becoming increasingly dependent on a handful of major tech giants to get through our basic daily routine. Imagine waking up one day and no longer being able to check your Gmail, buy things on Amazon, or book an Uber.

Quite. Do anything the new corporate oligarchies don't like, and you're an unperson.
A much older Atlantic article argued for exactly the same point: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/follow-...

A sample:

But not everyone has the potential to be Steve Jobs. Not just because most people are rather more ordinary, but because there are a limited number of jobs that are really fun, greatly admired, and fairly well remunerated, which is what most people want.

The problem is, the people who give these sorts of speeches are the outliers: the folks who have made a name for themselves in some very challenging, competitive, and high-status field. No one ever brings in the regional sales manager for a medical supplies firm to say, "Yeah, I didn't get to be CEO. But I wake up happy most mornings, my kids are great, and my golf game gets better every year."

That's most people. But what does Steve Jobs have to tell them?
> “We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,”

Brute force. That's my kind of math.
If you haven't taken time off with vacation days. I suggest you do for at least week to relax.

Take a step back to relax and think about yourself. Understand what's going on with your life and important to you.

I wouldn't quit yet until after you think about the situation.

Open yourself to people close to you. It might be hard, but I am sure they care for you and will listen to what you have to say.
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Whether one think it’s a viable complete solution or not does not mean efforts are feel good charades. They swapped a thing that is not recyclable with one that is. The people who made this decision are solving one problem. The recycling industry being crippled is another problem that is not yet solved. There’s no need to throw our hands up and say “this didn’t even save the planet! They are such fakers!” It’s a good effort, and fixes one problem they can solve, that’s how things get done, people keep fixing the problem in front of them until the issue is actually resolved.
He actually has a lot of really awesome oral history/lecture videos on that same channel. He's an incredible "casual oral history" storyteller.
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>4) Users who are tech savvy take to social media or use personal networks to get special dispensations (see: every time someone posts on HN about a problem with their Google account and gets special intervention).

The only reason I maintain a Twitter account is that it seem to be the only way to engage the "good" customer support at so many companies these days.

When I was having trouble with my U-verse TV box, AT&T sent me a new one and then scheduled a tech to come out a few days later to "install" it. I plugged it up and called AT&T to have them activate the box, but they refused to let me give them the relevant serial number from the box to activate it over the phone and were adamant they had to send a tech to do it. I complained into the void on Twitter and AT&T replied asking me to DM them the relevant information(account number, serial number, etc) and they got it turned on in five minutes. They still couldn't/wouldn't cancel the tech visit so he showed up and we told him he wasn't needed.
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> This seems really suboptimal and the OP's comments on power imbalances seem on target.

There is an easy solution: Tell all your friends that they should avoid companies that have such a policy in their terms of service and create a public blacklist of such companies including an explanation what policy in their terms of service justifies putting the company on this blacklist.
For sure you can do that in Hawaii. It’s actually quite awesome.
Isn't AWS expensive in the long term? I want to have a 1080 Ti but I don't even have a desktop to begin with.
Bad Blood is crazy stuff. Stayed up reading it last night after seeing the recs here.

Not sure what I learned other than people are carried away easily, but it was very entertaining.
yeah.. but you can actually use a mouse!
The lambda syntax is not what makes it less nice - it's the fact that they are limited to a single expression. Being indentation-based has nothing to do with that restriction: Nim manages to use indents and to have multiline lambdas at the same time.
There's nothing you or I could do about it in any case - other than to put your best foot forward as a global citizen and be as good of a friend and family member as you can, so why stress out about it?

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but it's just kind of dull...catastrophic stuff is happening as we speak...