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>While self-driving cars are cool, I’d imagine self-driving subways would be easier. In New York, the f train in Queens hits a standstill because of problems in the d line. The air train at JFK has no driver. Why can’t we do this for MTA?

Technical debt. The system is 100 years old and MTA can't contain its contractors. At the current pace work to install communications-based train control (CBTC) on every line (it's on the L) will cost $20 billion and conclude in 175 years.

Oh, and rules require having two drivers on the self-driving train anyway, who occasionally have to drive to keep proficient.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...
Fortunately most countries don’t/can’t keep track of who the other countries have on their citizenship roster.
It says that some products can use it since it is not fully banned.

Do we know if any actually do?

When construction crews do work on more modern homes I don't think they do anything to check for asbestos in the US... that would seem to imply that it isn't a risk.
I think it would be illegal to run this without disclosing that it's an ad.
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Prey by Michael Chrichton is a nice predecessor of this as well.
This feels like you're using the specter of an economic downturn to push your views on sustainable lifestyles. You should just say, "Everyone should have a smaller house and electric vehicle, which would also help during an economic downturn."
How are you handling authentication? OAuth 2 with Spring Security, or something else?
Can someone please explain to me why this isn't a classic "correlation does not imply causality"?

This is not a randomized trial, which means that if there is a bias of "better athletes spend more on their shoes" then it can also explain the 4% increase of Nike Vaporfly.
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I'd love to see a situation where a small community actually gets together and "on good faith" (this is the nearly impossible part, if not impossible) agree to record their votes pre-voting, anonymously, and PROMISE to vote the same exact way when they officially vote."

I was going to suggest that such people could just film themselves voting. But then I realized that with today's technology that's easily faked.
For what two countries are you a dual citizen? Which one isn't worth the effort to keep up to date?

I'm a dual citizen for the United States and Mexico, and it's fairly easy to update my Mexican passport here in the United States - not sure if that's the case inversely.
Maybe start here: https://toool.us
I think you've entirely misread my post. I was giving a "cute" story concurring with the author that you can manage to be productive with duct tape and spit, and that it can be a learning period when understanding proper tooling, especially if one is coming in without any real oversight or mentorship at first; if you're reading this thread on HN you're probably far more exposed to CS than I was at that point. There's no "selling anyone" on anything.

I would however frankly say that I think the inability to recognize how intimidating git can be to an uninitiated was the _reason_ it took so long for me and many of my classmates; (this was over a decade ago, and I've been using vc professionally the entire interim) certainly far more damaging than anything you accuse me of propagandizing; It was extremely frustrating and dismissive to constantly be told by more experienced programmers that I should feel far more confident than I was about a tool that in hindsight, I don't look askew at myself for finding some aspects of unintuitive, and I'm a constant user now.

And, while I'm on this tirade, if you're addressing "working this way" as a negative to put unimportant toy projects on a heavily replicated and backed up server, I think you and I have different priorities in how we use our time.
One might contemplate the question of why people use config files in some cases and command-line parameters in others. Having a section for constants at the beginning of a script resembles a config file to some extent.
I wonder if anyone at the company had ever heard of the Hawthorn Effect [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Although this is true of stateful code, I think an even more fundamental, but related, reason to reduce state is this: code that is stateless always behaves the same way so it can be characterized and reused more easily than code that changes behavior depending on the state. This is the reason it is good for concurrent programming, but it also means it has a more concrete/consistent nature.
That looks pretty scary actually. If mishandled, it will enable someone to steal all of your information from all the platforms.
Oddly enough, sperm whaling peaked in the 1960s, following increased demand for heat-stable oils for automatic transmissions. It only stopped when the International Whaling Commission voluntarily enacted a moratorium in 1985.
I'm a PG&E ratepayer as well. I disagree that we should pay for it. PG&E is a publicly-traded utility. The shareholders should pay for it through reduced dividends. They're ultimately responsible for PG&E's management, who is responsible for the failed process that led to their culpability in the wildfires.

If PG&E doesn't have enough cash on hand, they should be forced to borrow it. If that wipes out dividends for investors for years to come, so be it.
> Countries such as the United States and Luxembourg (as the gateway to the European Union) agree that the moon and asteroids are “global commons,” which means that each country allows its private entrepreneurs, as long as duly licensed and in compliance with other relevant rules of space law, to go out there and extract what they can, to try and make money with it

Statist thugs, all of them.

If you accept that you need a state's permission to mine an asteroid, you have slave mentality.

Let's say I acquire all necessary equipment and want to create a Lunar base from which I launch asteroid mining expeditions. Later I sell such asteroids for Bitcoin and the exchange takes place on the Moon.

Why the hell would I pay a dime in tax to the thugs from the US or any other government?
It looks like fraud or money laundering or tax evasion.

Especially since you were raising a small amount, there was a single cross border transaction, and it was for $1337 for goodness sakes.
Seems directly related to philosophy via the Busy Beaver[1] function. Every statement about all integers, ie. Goldbach's conjecture, can map to a predicate P(n). P(n) is either true for all integers or fails at a least n. This least n must be less than BB(program_size(P)).

We can look at the predicates that don't fail, and take their negation also, ~P(n), which clearly does fail at n=1. These predicates are all P such that P(1) is true or ∄n P(n) is true. They take up a percentage of the space of all predicates (analog of Chaitin's constant[2]). Meaning that in the distribution of all possible predicates, a certain proportion are just (∞,1) and (1,∞) mappings, while the rest of the predicates have mappings bounded by their program size. It seems that because of the pigeonhole principle and the mappings already "wasted" on (1,∞) and (∞,1), the rest of our distribution gets restricted to bounded levels of expressive power.

The literal allowance of statements that are false trivially, or true for everything, limits the power of all of the remaining statements that now have to position themselves as finitary AND confined by that proportionality.

The universe is a very weird place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
"Why not just make the law available upon request at the office in charge of enforcement?"

Because plane tickets are expensive.

"pay a fee and order a personal copy"

That violates the notion that laws should be publicly accessible.
Ever increasing personal debt and decades long stagnant wages are themselves a warning sign. It doesn’t take long for debt payments to outgrow stagnant wages - and a new round of large scale bankruptcy.

There’s also the bit of wisdom I got from a professor: “The peak has come when the last hold out buys into the notion of permanent growth.”

Tariffs threaten to ignite a sequence of events leading to the dethronment of the US. If the worlds base currency changes from USD be ready for the US to quickly look like Greece or worse.

Lighting a fire under a hot market through continued low interest rates, increased government spending (even in the form of lowered taxes), and removing market stabilizing regulations (ala the consumer protection bureau or allowing large business mergers, and undoing net neutrality) leverage the market up to almost assure a breaking point.

The last I checked, the underlying issues that contributed to the 2008 recession were also still intact - ARM mortgages, seemingly inexplicable real estate price growths, lack of bank regulation, mortgage backed securities, etc. Wellsfargo even created millions of fraudulent accounts to prop up their valuation.

Just stagnant wages and increasing prices can pop a market. Here’s hoping this time the US takes on New Deal style projects to right itself. We need healthcare corrections, consumer protection, trust busting, and infrastructure. Fiber to the people.

Even the opioid crisis contributes to this. Heroin addicts don’t easily keep work and their spending gets pretty ... singular. It’s having a destabilizing affect on whole populations.
>If only 1% of people were allowed to move around with aided devices

A lot more than 1% of people would be unable to function in modern society if you took their car and told them to walk and run.
They should add a feature which allows me to delete my data from all the supported platforms.
Thanks, great question.

It's one thing to challenge institutions to be better, and another to write them off as bad. For instance, I want NASA's missions to succeed, and I want them to be more bold and think bigger and be more effective advocates for their own funding. I do not believe that they're plotting to conceal the truth of the moon landing, or are building and launching mind control satellites. I want the police to hold officers accountable for deadly mistakes -- I do not think that all cops are racist assholes who cannot be trusted.

> prove them wrong?

You're actually a space lizard. Prove me wrong. You'll find it's harder than you think.

What you can do, though, is ignore people who accuse you of being a space lizard. Space lizardism is not a harmful meme. When my friends spread more harmful memes, like 'you can't trust the government so it's time to build a bomb shelter and stock up on ammo' -- I don't write them off. I engage. At the very least, they should know that I strongly disapprove even of this strain of thinking/discourse. I don't want to hear it, much as I don't want them to come over to my house and rub their cold sores on my cutlery.
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Yeah, 2001 was a bloodbath - but the years leading up to it sure were fun!
I assume it requires credentials for each platform, so it doesn't enable anything that they wouldn't already have access to if they could log in to every single one of your accounts.
34 years ago ? he seems to be stuck in a world that no longer exists
I like the ram only aspect but I wonder if the risk of losing all that data in a power disruption is worth it? Seems like it would make a temptimg target for "accidents" in areas where many people vote a certain way and some group wants to disrupt this process. Voting in the US is already a huge ordeal of waiting in line for hours, a lot of those people probably can't / won't come back to revote if the volatile memory erases the machine data.
From a business point of view I'm sure they would prefer no minimum wage at all. But there are obviously more factors to consider besides business.

Obviously there is such a thing as too high of a minimum wage, that will severely dampen employment for lots of businesses. Jacking up the minimum wage in itself to an arbitrary value that is too high is pretty poor policy.

But in the current state, too often, those on full time minimum wage jobs are still below poverty level, and thus qualify for many government benefits. In effect, my tax money contributes to your low-wage employee. From a personal perspective, I don't really like your option 1. I'd actually ideally want that person who is only worth sub-minimum wage to linger in the safety net for a while and learn skills that will make them more valuable than below-minimum wage level. Such would be a far better value for my tax dollars than subsidizing low-skill employment.

Some economists feel that up to a certain point, minimum wage actually increases employment (in non-competitive labor markets, eg monopsonies) and increases aggregate demand enough to compensate for the cost effect (because low-income workers have a higher marginal propensity to consume, which would offset the cost effect). Of course, minimum wage is not the only anti-poverty tool out there and some economists feel it is too blunt. And the "correct" minimum wage probably varies hugely by location. As you say -- there are a lot of nuances. I'm just saying, there is more to this than just the employer perspective.
Because that would make voter suppression harder.
What are the chances of Apple joining?
I'm in a similar position. For whatever it's worth I applied for Startup School. My partners are in their 60's and have grown the business purely analog. 3-5% of TAM is about where we are as well. Cash flow positive for 9 years. Time to step on the gas.
That feature already exists for all the supported platforms.

Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046?hl=en

Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dea...

Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12412/microsoft-acc...

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/account/delete
The use of plus codes for addresses would simplify mail delivery and vehicle routing in many parts of the world. https://plus.codes/
Erm, nope. IFSMGR.VXD depends on IFSHLP.SYS still.

Everyone's favorite error message: the Microsoft Installable File System Manager cannot find the helper driver. Please ensure that IFSHLP.SYS has been installed.

This means Windows ME needs a real mode DOS helper for certain file system operations.

I can't remember whether the INT 21h function 55h (Create PSP) was still called as frequently as in earlier Windows and handled in DOS but I betcha.
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17574707

I must be pretty naive or I've been working with databases too long, but I seem to be in the minority on HN that's actually sort of excited about this project.
My guess is you're talking about biotech/medicine/health. This is the next sector poised to have transformative growth over the next 20 years.
> Is it equally obvious that lawmakers have the right to cite a copyrighted work and deprive it of copyrighted status?

In the case of federal lawmakers, yes, insofar as copyright is a federally granted statutory privilege that federal lawmakers can (under the US Constitution—international obligations are a side issue) limit however they choose.

For state lawmakers, probably not, because they can't limit federal copyright protection, so this would be a taking requiring just compensation under the 5th Amendment. But I have no problem with requiring state lawmakers who choose to incorporate a copyright-protected work into law to secure, at a minimum, the necessary permission for public unmodified copies, whether by voluntary exchange or eminent domain.
No, not a surprising result. A perfectly expected result.

Working 40 hours a week is too much. "Working" 50 hours a week is absurd. Occasional crunches are ok of course, but as a constant minimum, those are just idiotic numbers, and people who support this sort of work ethic should be deeply ashamed and possibly fired.
I don’t understand why you would in this comparison, as it’s the same for both WebAssembly and <js framework here>
No, when each different way is unique to the caller, it needs to be defined at the caller.

This is what lambdas are for. Going to interfaces just adds needless syntax sugar.
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Apologies, I must have worded that too vaguely. I meant the state should minimally pay people the amount they believe to be a livable wage.
Sure! At least it would be a clear, defined system.
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What data does Microsoft have that one would want to "transfer"?
I'm currently working with a driver developer. He doesn't have access to simple connections. (Everything is a linked list.)

Every single lookup was a copy & paste while loop with business logic inside the loop, and then a break statement.

This is a textbook example of when not to copy and paste.
I'm not sure I'm following this. The smell can't be that powerful as to stay in the car. It's not like the customer lights up joints inside the uber
> That seems a pretty low bar for Olympic quality equipment.

IIRC the issue was either that you can only use them once, or else that they weren't widely available. $500 wouldn't be disqualifying on its own, e.g. a good 8+ shell costs around 40k.
> A lambda function is the most general interface possible

A typed lambda function (i.e., with a defined arguments + return signature) is exactly as specific as any other typed interface, an arbitrary lambda function isn't, sure, but there's few languages where a static interface and an arbitrary lambda function are both available tools.
I think 37signals tried this about a decade ago. It's neither new or surprising.
The later whaling industry is depressing to read about. It was more grizzly than the Moby Dick era, with explosive tipped harpoons and faster boats capable of corralling whales into bays where they could be killed en masse.

By the way, as a New Bedford resident, my favorite travel writing about NB came from the New York Times' "36 hours in..." series. The biggest challenge was what to do with the other 24 hours.

It's all a little dismal.
What data does Apple keep that would be worth transferring?
in essence, the question is only whether people subject to US laws must pay to know what the law is.

I've always thought that, were it up to the Founding Fathers, the answer would be: obviously not.

I was always taught that 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' . However, as a kid, when I asked the librarian where I could read the law, she laughed. (Defeatedly, I suppose.)

And so, once again, the law is used to defeat liberty ... in the service of privilege.
Alfred - its workflow feature is amazing and there are so many out there that you will always find something great to use.

Magnet - window management app. I hate that I've to buy a separate app for snapping windows and managing them.. But this is a pretty great and simple app that does what it says and does it well.

F.lux is great for when I'm working on my side projects late into the night. Disabling it at night makes my eyes hurt so much.

iTerm2 - terminal emulator with lots of customisable options. I specifically love that I can use a hotkey shortcut to pull down a terminal window to run some commands and then go back to doing whatever I was doing.

Amphetamine - great small to use when I don't want my Mac to sleep for sometime.

Honestly, Alfred, intellij idea, iTerm2 and chrome/safari are probably my most used apps.
The Roku app is launched for Windows and is available in the US
Google [why not dane in browsers].
The current "data models" appear to be Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Photos and Tasks. That fits pretty well with the data from Microsoft Office 365/GSuite. Interestingly enough it doesn't have a model for Tweets/Facebook posts so I'm not really sure those companies are part of this unless there's something more planned.

https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...
Perhaps migrating between O365 and G apps (a nightmarish process I had the misfortune of experiencing earlier this year)
Cool! With my 2nd citizenship (italian) I get +Brazil, Iran, and Venezuela.. wait.

That said, always been planning on using my 2nd citizenship to live in Europe for an extended period of time. My wife is British, and pretty soon, might need the connection through me to have EU benefits...
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iCloud has a lot of similar data to what Office 365/GSuite has, so there's probably a lot that would be worth transfering.
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We've also been wearing shoes for at least 10,000 years, and have possibly evolved to a degree to wear them.

> It is thought that shoes may have been used long before this, but because the materials used were highly perishable, it is difficult to find evidence of the earliest footwear.[8] By studying the bones of the smaller toes (as opposed to the big toe), it was observed that their thickness decreased approximately 40,000 to 26,000 years ago. This led archaeologists to deduce that wearing shoes resulted in less bone growth, resulting in shorter, thinner toes.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe
Well, you still have to pay -- for internet access.
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Google maps, at least in the US, is pretty accurate about how busy an establishment is. I always end up checking it before going to a bar or coffee shop. If I don't find place to sit, I usually leave and try another spot.

I have honestly never come across a grocery store being too full
You're the MVP for digging through that package list :). Thanks for the answer, I guess that I was thinking about the other three companies social media platforms and not necessarily the data you mentioned.
Mostly webcomics, but also slatestarcodex, the comments page on the agent foundation forum, the miegakure blog, a variety of other blogs that update infrequently
Say you write some software that manages a shopping cart.

a) You can "store" (even if it's in-memory) just the products and their quantities. Then each time you need to display the cart you go and compute the corresponding prices, taxes, discounts, whatever.

b) You can store each cart line, whether it has discount(s) or not, as well as its taxes and the cart's global taxes and discounts and whatever else you can imagine.

Option "b)" is probably more efficient (you are not constantly recomputing stuff) but you will be better off in the long term by going with option "a)":

- Your cart management and your discount/tax computation are less coupled now (the cart doesn't really need to know anything about them)

- You have less opportunities for miscalculation because everything is in one "logical flow" (computeDiscounts()/ computeTaxes()) instead of being scattered (some stuff is computed when you add an item or when you remove it, or when you change the quantity, or when you specify your location, etc..). The code will most probably just be simpler with option "b)".

The article argues that you should sacrifice the performance in cases like this. I agree.
I uses to have a subscription, then I emailed them a complaint about hiring Bret Stephens for his disingenuous bullshit and they canceled my subscription - I was quite surprised.
I built a boilerplate for React+Firebase (including search, auth, and Stripe): http://getfirefly.org/
Sounds like chemical weapons which are forbidden in modern warfare, AFAIK. You don't really need robot swarms to deliver toxic substances, there are plenty of simpler ways.