skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm relating to the original post, the commenter said "Omaha is blue but everything outside is red". This is also true in California. Metropolitan areas are going to be blue, rural areas are red.

> Unless seeing a Trump bumper sticker ruins your day it doesn't really affect anything

No, but walking into a bar or restaurant with my girlfriend and having everyone there stare at you and treat you differently is a thing. Only saying that you're not entering some blue paradise in California.
They have become the showroom for new or high-margin tech like Oculus, Dyson, 7K refrigerators etc and they collect a hefty margin and shelf fees for the effort. They make more money B2B than B2C probably. On smaller stuff their markup is ridiculous ($40-50 for an iphone screen protector that you can buy in a different brand in a pack of 3 for $10 on amazon).
You don't know enough about my products to be so certain about my payment practices.

First of all, our backend is extremely complex and our frontend isn't. Our backend devs need a lot of legal and financial training. Other companies will have an inverse situation.

Second, there's a glut of frontend devs (at least when I look for them) because bootcamps seem to produce people who are better at frontend than backend.

And third, our frontend devs just don't have as much work to do, so they're idle a lot more often.
A comparison with [Factor] would be very welcome.

[Factor]: https://factorcode.org/
Ooh, didn't know that! Either way, I do find it a better service for books in particular.
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“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

Moving the actual pieces of paper around is more expensive than moving bits around. This should be obvious. Sometimes you're paying an armored truck to move cash or somebody to count it. Other times you're accepting that tonight's deposit was stolen from you on the way to the bank.

I'm all for physical currency and we should vote and campaign to keep that part of our financial system but this isn't a conspiracy. Cashless will out-compete cash almost every time. The only exceptions are local businesses trying to avoid taxes.
Lots of data here: http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/Pla... to answer many questions about Vancouver housing. They average about 20,000 new housing units per year.
> Oh yes, lets turn one of the last Bay Area counties that isn't urban sprawl into another vast wasteland of concrete and strip malls. Redwoods are overrated. Wetlands are just swampy land that need an In-n-Out. Mt.Tam would be so much nicer if it had some restaurants and gift shops.

You just described my impression of what Marin County already is. No exaggeration. The thing about Marin is that all the sprawl and strip malls are hidden behind trees and hills, but aside from the Federal park lands it's really no different than most of Alameda County or San Mateo County.

That said, Marin is Marin. I'm a homeowner in SF and I absolutely support increased development here. What Marin does or doesn't do is irrelevant to whether SF needs to densify.
It's funny because I started hearing about "post punk" in the early 80s. Sonic Youth, fIREHOSE, et al.
I guess what meant here is that one should never make mistake of assuming that a highly reliable system can be built. As you start to approach near 100% reliable system, you start experiencing failures that are caused by minute disturbances/flaws in underlying dependencies(hardware, physical location) which can't be controlled. This is what they realized while trying to push the limits to build highly reliable system.
>Google didn't even develop Android, they just picked it up and filled it to the brim with their software.

What Google initially bought was no where near a commercially viable product and any remnants of that legacy code probably don't even even exist in the Android code base of today.

>only IMHO worse because Google didn't even develop Android

Sort of like how Microsoft bought MS-DOS, the foundation for Windows 1.0, from Seattle Computer Products. Except for the part where Microsoft then tried to screw them over by suing them and ultimately settling out of court.
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I have heard before another reason is that it can help keep you from rotating into a different position. That's why I do it. Without the pillow I have 0% chance of staying on my side.
No one is going to buy a fat Macbook with giant fans. They will buy a $3000 laptop with a CPU that can't run at full speed that looks cool. There is no magical cooling system that takes up no space that would allow that processor in an MBP form factor to run at full turbo all the time.
I picked up a t460s for $200 the other day to test out before getting some real horsepower. Absolutely loving it. Running Ubuntu 18 with i3-gaps.
Relatedly, in case you don’t know this, never think you can call a marine a sailor based on the lineage you’re discussing here.

As an Army veteran (who doesn't really like announcing himself as such when doesn't add to the discussion), quite well aware. I do-however make light-hearted jokes about Crayons from time-to-time ;) It's a fun sibling rivalry we have, the Army and the Corps.
So you don't have a logical reason people couldn't make that claim. You just want them to provide some evidence to corroborate it?
Sorry, your use of "even" made it seem like you were trying to be contradictory.
I am not judging, just saying there are obvious trade-offs as well as different common visions of a “good life”. People live in different places brcause they enjoy different things.

For schools, in my experience (outside of the US if it matters) primary to middle school are easy to have close. High-school is tougher to get in the neighborhood, university will usually mean moving far far away.

Except if you live in a megacity, where you’ll have better chances to get top level universities at commutable distance.
>You realize that a lot of our communications satellites already have solar panels attached to them, right?

Hence why I said (e.g. our communications satellites), which in English means communications satellites are examples of useful things with solar panels attached "floating" in space...

> And you do realize that a Dyson anything is an engineering project that far exceeds anything we have yet attempted. If your plan begins with strip mining a planet 48 million miles away with an army of self-replicating robots, you've obviously skipped a few steps of the process.

I already mentioned that's a strawman. A Dyson swarm is an orbiting collection of artificial satellites, orbiting the sun. It captures all or a good deal of the energy radiating away from the sun - but it's built incrementally and a single satellite can be the start of a Dyson swarm - so we have the tech now.

> You're asking skeptics to prove that we will never reach that level of technology rather than answer the question of why do you think we will. You're the one with the actual claim here, back it up.

You're deluded if you think you can get random people on HN to defend their statements to a level you'd be happy with. Honestly I don't have the time, and even if I did I don't care.

But since you've got me to engage this far, here goes: we have the tech to build solar powered satellites and launch them into orbit around the sun. So we could start building a Dyson swarm today.

The reason we don't is because it's very expensive, and we suffer a chicken-and-egg problem. There's not much demand for industry in space because we don't build anything in space. The inputs and outputs would have to come from and return to Earth. There's no demand for habitations in space because there's no supporting infrastructure, food, water, jobs, etc. Not to mention the long term health effects of living in space seem problematic to say the least. But it's not unforeseeable that something could change that situation, be it overcrowding on earth, demand for space mining, demand for zero-g manufacturing, space war, government programs, etc.
That does not include Google's services and only includes a handful of sites.

I also see nothing about not still collecting information about you. It appears to just remove showing you some ads.
> it repeated the SQL mistake of exposing a query language based on text, not data structures. Now we have to write queries as templates instead of assembling them programmatically.

Out of curiosity couldn't you just treat queries as a composable AST and "compile" the query text from that?
Over the last few months, I decided to try and reduce my Amazon.com shopping as much as possible. As a result, I have been doing my item finding on Amazon and then going out and buying the item at a brick and mortar. I find it to be an interesting reversal. It has also been pretty shocking to see how much money I save when I don't have a Prime account. It turns out that most things I want are things that I don't actually need.
Not to continue this too far but ditto. Completely fine return experience. I also don't have to worry about fakes nearly as much at brick & mortar stores. That said I still use Amazon extensively, for better or for worse.
Here in Canada Apple charges about $250 CAD to change the set of battery/topcase in a MBP Retina 13 from 2015. I think that's not a bad price considering you get a new keyboard, casing, and trackpad.
Why not try a president of Python every 4 years with no term limits? Similar to BDFL, except there are chances for change and a consistent voice throughout a term. Voters would consist of core devs and PSF.
hard to imagine landing a car there
In both instances, there was a civil war with one side having the royal family arrested, and the other side fighting to free them and reestablish the monarchy. Eliminating the royal family imply there is no going back possible, which must erode significantly the will to fight the civil war, no?
And, oddly, with sneakers and similar, I've found it is majority snake oil. I've been ridiculously soured on consulting experts for any sort of consumer item. :(
Sorry, but the 1960's were over 50 years ago--approaching 60. The locals who loved it for its character half a century ago will be dead by the time the "tech bubble moves on to the next hot location," if they aren't already.
Is it time to have a Pluto moment for moons? In the end, all such labels are arbitrary, but an calling an object of 2 or 3 km radius a moon feels wrong to me, somehow.

Plus, without a lower boundary, pretty much every single chunk of ice in Saturn's rings would count as a moon, so having a formalized definition might come in handy. ;-)
Moving every time someone else decide you have to would sux for anyone except very young people. It would also make it even harder to keep social ties and networks. In particular those people who care about elderly or sick relatives who live nearby. It is also pretty cool when your kids can have stable set of friends, stable school and what not.

Having to pack everything and look for new place to live just because some asshole decided he wants your living place now must be real pleasure.
Well, growing up you have no guarantee your life is going to be 100% sunshine-and-bunnies, and indeed it rarely is.

And yet you live.
I have a $700 dollar phone I bought from Google with apps made by Google and Gmail search hasn't worked in weeks.

Don't know if I got feature flagged or what. Unaffected by clearing data, clearing cache, or signing out of my account.

Search just returns nonsensical results.
I prefer my type errors at compile time.

You have to reason about types in any language because passing the wrong type to a function can result in errors. You have to do all of that mental work by yourself in a dynamic language because there isn't a system to do it for you.
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Your graphql library will handle that for you. The server defines data as it knows, the client asks for data that it wants, and the library does the transform work.
I'll trust code over an anonymous comment any day. But maybe I'm biased. If you see speculation in a Fuchsia Friday article that you disagree with, I'm always open to intelligent discussion.
Sure they can land by themselves as long as nothing important breaks on the airplane during the landing sequence. If something does break then the pilot may have to intervene at a moment's notice. The pilots aren't just kicking back, they're actively flying the aircraft even though they aren't directly manipulating the control surfaces and throttles. That's why aircraft carrying paying civilian passengers will continue to need a rated pilot onboard for many years to come.
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What? A vaccine is nothing if an outside stressor on the immune system! It is designed to provoke the exact immune system response the real virus would, so it can react more quickly to future infections.

Unless you mean that the upper respiratory tract inflammation itself is what would cause the beneficial effect?
Smart people always vastly overestimate the technical interest level of their audience. Even in audiences composed exclusively of brilliant, technical people, the average level of commitment to whatever you're saying is damned near zero. Accordingly, you must keep your message exceedingly simple. Thinking is hard for everyone, and you have to persuade people to do it. It doesn't come for free.

You may not like "marketing", but you're giving a talk to sell a vision. Always. Once you win people over, they'll seek out the details for themselves.
Radiation hormesis is taught to basically all X-Ray and CT techs (and I assume lots of other specialties) when they go through school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
3. Shelf life, which means no spoiled food and lost revenue for the stores.

4. Marketing / Branding, you can market packaged food and build a valuable brand. Hard to do that with fresh produce since you can't really control the supply.
Yes I'd second the comment on local inventory control in general - unlike other box stores with "fuzzy" inventory listed online, Best Buy seems to have a very accurate representation of what is in each store. If I want an item now I have high confidence that when I go there it'll be there for me to pickup.
It's not just about google play services. Once manufacturers are free to custimize things as they want, why will they not want to install something like UC browser by default which may pay money. Similarly for a mobile assistant of their own. I know people who had mywebsearch as their default search engine and didn't want to change it to google as they didn't think their was any difference. Given that all of these are solid monetisation opportunities, why would any of them bother to install google apps? Not saying this is bad in itself, but the fragmentation is going to happen.
interestingly, it looks and feels like an electron web-page. They're all following their own little paradigm now..
All I ask for is attribution ;)
I'm really curious to hear from people dealing with massive JSON (or XML) responses via REST. This is where REST really falls apart with complexity that is much worse than trying to learn the complexity of GraphQL.

See: https://brandur.org/graphql

"In GraphQL, every contract is explicit and observable. Providers can use something like a canonical log line to get perfect insight into the fields that are in use for every request, and use that information to make decisions around product development, API changes, and retirement."

You simply cannot know with a REST API what to remove if the decisions on what to return for a request are largely made by the server side team. So, you end up with massive, clunky and confusing responses. GraphQL forces the client side users to understand how to use it, and because of that you get so much more.
Yes, it is almost an opposite form of abuse and definately worth consideration. I do not think abuse is a good idea in any form.

Another form of abuse is exploitation which is closer IMO to our current economic situation. Less powerful earners do not usually have an opportunity to negotiate terms, they are take-it-or-leave it options which is not necessarily the case with more powerful earners. I routinely negotiate contracts to get the best possible terms for everyone, I wish I had that option earlier in life.

This is earily similar to Terms of Use and other agreements between consumers and large tech companies. I wonder when this trend started.
One question I have and for my general attitude towards new web tech for the past 5 years... why would you think it would be better

These type of opinionated takes on old tech are mostly hype and rarely offer something truly new. If you are an engineer and were forced to take this on you should ask yourself if your team really cares about good engineering
I think the y axis: "% Bugs" in Fig. 1 has an incorrect scale. It doesn't add to 100%.

Also, it doesn't seem consistent with the claim: "Bugs discovered through Instabug are most likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported"
Permutation City is still my favorite from him, which is a little disappointing since it's one of his older books. It touches the most subjects and makes the biggest sci-fi leaps. Diaspora scratches some of the same itch, going further with some of the ideas, and Schild's Ladder is in the same bucket. Distress and Incandescence are both something different, but Incandescence's subtlety took me a while to appreciate. Zendegi ... skip it. It seems to be written with outright disdain to sci-fi fans with weird author tracts and caricatures, and it doesn't really tread new ground otherwise. Is Greg Egan getting sick of the fan mail he's getting?
Prawn is nice, too bad it's incomplete though, I wish Weasyprint was there but you just can't guess when and how it will fail on you. At least Puppeteer is predictable that way, it's good for invoices, short reports and other small stuff, it's not really suitable for anything bigger.
Ah. I misread what you were talking about -- I though you were implying that the cask itself imparted no flavor for some reason. You were instead saying that with ex-bourbon casks, the previous spirit content imparts very little (if any) flavor. I agree!

From what I understand, Bourbon casks are also often re-conditioned and re-charred, which further supports this point.
How does this work? The old art still exists but how does it avoid exposure? Why is exposure only relevant at the time of creation? Will old paint used in modern times display the isotope?
> Interfaces within linux change regularly, but only drivers that are checked into the main tree are updated.

This is why all of the Google's code sits in one big repo (reportedly). It allows them to refactor all dependent code at once when changing interfaces.
I exchanged an item at Best Buy about 2 months ago. Took about 5 minutes. Forgot my receipt, but they were able to find it with my cc. They opened up the box to make sure the original items were inside, and brought me a replacement while I was at the counter.

Still not quite as good as Costco or REI, but at least with BB I know I'm getting the good I actually purchased and not some cheap Chinese knockoff.
>Most bugs are reported from iPhones

So this means kibd of that there are more iPhone users in Instabug? Like let's say population is 100. There are 70 iPhone, 10 Samsung, 10 LG, 10 Nokia. 70 iPhone users have 70 bugs, that is 1 bug per user, and similarly 1 bug per Samsung, 1 bug per Nokia. But 15 bugs for 10 LGs. That is 1,5 bug per LG user. In short; 70 bugs in iPhone is actually same or may be better than Samsung. It really makes no sense expet that there are more iPhone users. The only useful information is that LG has more bugs per user. In other words the most useful information is persantage. I'm sure you don't have any Statistician in your work envirement because if you had he would say "let's remove that 'Most bugs are reported from iPhones' part because it makes no sense'. Guys don't hire computer science graduates as statisticians (buzz word: data scientist), hire statistics graduates as statisticians (buzz word: data scientist).
> From 1856 until the mid 20th century, steel was produced in the Bessemer process where air was forced into Bessemer converters converting the pig iron into steel. By the mid-20th century, many steelworks had switched to the BOS process which uses pure oxygen instead of air. However as both processes use atmospheric gas, they are susceptible to contamination from airborne particulates. Present-day air carries radionuclides, such as cobalt-60, which are deposited into the steel giving it a weak radioactive signature.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
The staples are effectively made in a factory as well, or at least industrially processed. You don't just hand people a bunch of wheat.

While it's true that a lot of processed food is sweetened, if you look at the caloric density of traditional staples, it's usually pretty high. No one would have planted those crops otherwise.
For reference we’re switching from the non dogmatic get/post requests over http to graphql and it’s been equally good for us too for different reasons.
Had a client just last month that were doing SOAP wrong somehow...

To be fair, I'm not sure there's any other way.
TypedRuby: gradual static type checking for Ruby (implemented in Rust)
"hardly a significant risk"

Android is a massive, massive undertaking by any measure, and it doesn't matter that it uses Linux and other things.

"Manufacturer's like HTC and Samsung invested far more in making Google a success than Google did"

I totally disagree (edit: I disagree that they are spending 'massively more' but it's of course a lot) as most of what they are doing is commoditized, and the hardware aspects that they are actually competitive on ... those are differentiated in their models and they can capture the surpluses generated by that differentiation, which is to say those competitive aspects are not going back into 'Android' or any 'community' etc..
All property owners in SF are retroactively NIMBYs trying to keep young wealthy white and asian programmers out. Even though until 1974 the National Association of Realtors' Article 5 implicitly made it a code of ethics violation to move black people into a white neighborhood, and HOAs were originally called White Homeowners' Associations and their only purpose was to legally insure that all home sales in the neighborhood were to whites.