skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total output is what really matters, not just the per capita. The earth has a carrying limit for total emissions.

The EU has nearly 200 million more people than the US, roughly 60% more, squeezed into an area less than half the size of the US. Whose fault is that population density? The total EU emissions are ~80% as high as the US in ~45% of the land area (a drastically worse rate of emissions per km2), due to that population density. How do you think that emissions concentration impacts the local environment? Population matters, it's why we wouldn't have to care much if Iceland had 2x the per capita emission output of the US.

If your nation has three billion people - ie vast over-population - you shouldn't have the same per capita emissions considerations or concerns as a nation with three million. I understand that sounds unfair. The earth sets the real limitations and it doesn't care about perceived fairness.

If a country like Nigeria or Indonesia somehow rapidly expanded to five billion people, would it be acceptable for them to have the same per capita emission output of the EU? Obviously not. It'd be an environmental disaster for the planet due to the overall output. Population is the other critical factor in emissions (eg in China's case their emissions would be catastrophic at US per capita levels with 1.4b people in that small of an area).
With Go: every release. Free performance improvements and backwards compatibility. It also doesn't require anything installed on the server, so it's just updating a ci script.
Ah no apologies necessary!

I can definitely attest to refreshing HN and Reddit too often to the point it was causing anxiety....

I don't know why I do it? I keep refreshing the page for some new comment and keep tabs on my karma points....
Why 40 hrs? Try 24-32 and you might find the pace suits you better. This might work for a small org that needs a tech person but can’t support a FT tech person.

Ideally you’ll be matching your needs/wants with an employer’s needs/wants. So be more aggressive in searching for the right situation, and you might not end up needing to hurn so many bridges.

Also, evaluate why you desire to leave. Is it boredom? Difficulties working with others? You might find you can address your malaise from this end at the same time.
Is a license for 2500 scooters worth much, startup wise? Pulling numbers from this:

https://medium.com/13-notes/unit-economics-of-the-bird-scoot...

To maintain a presence of 2500 scooters for a year, you'd need 2500 * (365 days / 50 days (scooter lifespan)) = 18.2k scooters. That's 18.2k * $600 (lifetime cost) = $10.9 million in capital.

Each of these scooters generating $14 in revenue a day is $12.7 million in revenue a year, for a profit of $1.8 million and a 16% return on capital. If we assume a San Francisco quota was rolled out to the entire country, that'd be (325 million / 880k) * 1.8 million = $664 million in profit, at best.
Honestly I don't know. It feels like littering. If the company suddenly closed - what now? Presumably they're unusable without the backend.
Android is quickly moving away from Java to make Kotlin the default language nowadays, it's probably in part due to the Java lawsuit (and in part to add language features quicker without changing the VM).
And how do you propose they do that?
I think you could buy an anonymous prepaid/gift card periodically, though I don't know if there's any restriction that prevents you from buying certain things (probably you can't use it for airline check-in). Wish this kind of things could be done more easily in future.
Playing devil's advocate here (which is my way of saying "bring on the downvotes"): because what they build can still generate negative externalities that affect their neighbors. So even though a 50-story building might be in compliance with zoning laws, it still blocks neighbor's access to a valuable, albeit non-essential resource (sunlight, cool ocean breeze, etc.) that probably factored into the price the original owner paid for their property.

In other words, you are free to build whatever you want on your own property, as long as its effects don't negatively impact the value of mine. (I personally will never block developments, but I think I would have a right to be pissed off as hell if something like that happened, still.)
As a non-adult, doing programming, cyberpatriot, and school...
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neumann
Plenty more security vulnerabilities in Intel ME to be found. It’s now a well known attack surface full of goodies to plunder. I’m sure AMD and ARM have similar excitement in store. This is in addition to what has already been found.
What do you like about large cars? The ability to haul cargo? The style? Are you problematically tall?
"Now that I live here, nobody else can."
I doubt there is any affirmative set of rules about dumping thousands and thousands of vehicles on city sidewalks and streets.
Dang, this sounds like a great idea and maybe I'm just mega-jaded, but I feel like the places where this would be most helpful are also the places least likely to:

1) Do this at all

2) Do this in a way that doesn't invite retaliation (basically trying to de-anonymize the poll)

3) Do anything about it even if everyone says "1" other than pay lip service to it
Same for us for Go. The releases have never caused any trouble and the performance improvements are nice to have. For us it’s just changing one base containers version.

That being said we still use mostly Python 2 for our Python services.
Imagine you owned a home and somebody wanted to put a nightclub on one side of you and an abattoir on the other. Do you think that might affect your quality of life at all? I mean hey, it's their property!
> The only concern I have is the experience they are earning. In a "traditional" summer job (car wash, manual labor, cashier, etc.), you gained experience in something I'd call "grit" - harsh work conditions, people yelling at you, etc.

This is a positive? O.o
I've been repeatedly contacted by Google over recent years (supposedly because of the work I've done) but I've always felt uneasy about them and hesitated to respond. This additional layer of tracking and the recent revelation on location tracking regardless of explicit settings both seal the non-deal for me.

The soul of that company is to turn the human experience into a vessel for the paid delivery of ads, nothing else matters. Of course I'm sure that one can join many interesting engineering projects there, with suitable blinders. Even when they introduced their AR glasses, they had to show virtual billboards assaulting one's field of vision. What you are to Google is a recipient for ad delivery -- not a customer, not a respected human, not someone to trade with.
Imagine you are a software developer that sells a hospital management system built on Java. You need to prove your software is built on secure technology. So if you are using Java 11, and suppose it is known that there are no more security updates, you cannot claim security.

What I understand from the article - Oracle is not supporting it Oracle 11 after 6 months, but other still will, so nothing to worry about.
Building permits have constraints on the height of various structures in a given zone.
Yeah you can opt out of the water utility too, if you don't mind going without.
> Build OpenJDK yourself. [...] I suspect this not a very realistic choice for most companies.

Are they saying that most firms don't have the ability to build software themselves, or is this a situation particular to Java where they don't backport security patches and most firms aren't on the latest major?
You are absolutely right. Dockless mobility uses public space for the benefit of a private corporation. I cycle to work and there is not a single day where I see an OfO bike or Grab bike parked in the most annoying places. Maybe "society" is not ready for dockless and we need to create norms and rules of behavior (i.e., enforce that with fines)
That was negative coverage of Trump. Perhaps what 2016 proved is that there really is no such thing as bad publicity.
Indeed. Harvard's legal argument isn't that they are racially discriminating and that it's legal. They know it's not.

Their argument is what you'd expect from an institution that is racially discriminating, but trying to weasel out of its culpability: they try to hide their systematic bias in the most subjective and ambiguous candidate score - the "personality" ratings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/harvard-asian-ame...

> The report by the plaintiff’s expert witness, the Duke University economist Peter Arcidiacono, revealed that Harvard evaluated applicants on the extent to which they possessed the following traits: likability, helpfulness, courage, kindness, positive personality, people like to be around them, the person is widely respected. Asian-Americans, who had the highest scores in both the academic and extracurricular ratings, lagged far behind all other racial groups in the degree to which they received high ratings on the personality score.

> “Asian-American applicants receive a 2 or better on the personal score more than 20% of the time only in the top academic index decile. By contrast, white applicants receive a 2 or better on the personal score more than 20% of the time in the top six deciles,” wrote Mr. Arcidiacono. “Hispanics receive such personal scores more than 20% of the time in the top seven deciles, and African Americans receive such scores more than 20% of the time in the top eight deciles.”

> Even if the very worst stereotypes about Asians were true on average, it beggars belief that one could arrive at divergences as dramatic as the ones Mr. Arcidiacono documents by means of unbiased evaluation.
Because that is in nobody's interest. Your neighbour would also suffer if you decided to set up a poultry farm on your property.

You can't live in a happy, healthy community without giving up a little bit of control in favour of the common good.
Draw an infinite chessboard in perspective view, by hand
That's such a weird arrangement from a people perspective, but if that works out, it bodes pretty well for the longevity of Java
Nice idea on clarifying what the word "free" means in this context (gratis, not libre) by prefixing it with a dollar sign. This is the first time I saw this, is this usage widespread?
The team spirit hyperparameter is a crutch they've introduced themselves. Ideally it should be one. In Dota there is only one objective for the entire team and that's to win the game. The fact that they shape rewards is an implementation detail and doesn't change the fact that Dota 2 does not require cooperation, because there's no cooperation game being played. It's a purely zero-sum adversarial game being played between two teams.
When I say "submit", I mean "submit a FOIA request over email with some SQL, then prey that the FOIA officer will google 'SQL' before flatout rejecting your request". :)
IMO California suffers from pride/nationalism on a state level. I grew up there, and everybody took it for granted we were the best at the environment. The most efficient, the most conservation minded, the works. But I left ten years ago and as I travel the states, I realize CA is not always the best. Not even most of the time. But due to this mindset, CA is never challenged to up their game by the good work other states do.
Not that I rush into using the newest C# language features... But C# > 3.5 has some great changes that are very easy to learn and worthwhile. The new string interpolation feature is so good I don't even allow old-style string.Formats in code reviews.
That's kind of the point of zoning. If you didn't know what people are allowed to build when you bought your condo, I don't know what to tell you.
I was burned, badly, when try to port a huge ERP from .NET 1.1 to 2.? (if I remember the numbers correctly). Other projects get the slowdon, but that was truly a nightmare. That my brain trauma make forget much of it.

After that, I move very very fast. I prefer to hit "small" pains in short-term that try to do a huge jump later.

This mean that as long as I'm coding in a project (I'm contractor and do freelancing) I upgrade to whatever stable version my tools trow at me ASAP. And even minor versions or sometimes betas.

Not only language(s) - I keep at the same time different codebases in different languages, one main active plus maintenance-, I try to move everything: OS, RDBMS, IDEs, Editors, Frameworks, Libraries, etc. I probably hit "upgrade" every few days per week!

ONLY after the project stabilize and I do a few changes per-year, I stop doing that. And if the project somehow accelerate again I try to port ASAP.

How crazy is this? If the ecosystem I'm doing is nuts (ie: js) very clearly this reckless behavior show that.. QUICKLY.

...and then I need to pay more attention to my depencencies (keep them small) and choses only stable stuff.

I hit breaking changes not as often. And when see something painfull then I pin versions and keep them for a while.

This mean that I move ASAP and stay current as much as possible. I slow down when enter production, and slow down/stop again when the customer(s) stop requesting work.

This demand to use logging and have some testing, fast deployment/rollback, automate backups and use source control, very soon in the project, but this is good things anyway. (and maybe have a few VM or dockerized stuff but not as many despite more than 20 years doing crazy).

So far, this have work great for me, and never get stuck for months in rewrites like in the past. I get use to rewrite fast, that compensate to the fact that I'm a slow developer.
Robots Are Now Bringing You Sushi in Japan
The 1.2TSI is presumably designed to replace a naturally aspirated 1.6L or 2.0L, not to compete with the 1.0L.
As long as they follow the noise and disturbance ordinances, then sure.
It’s not better, SG is helpful but sloppy and airlines have no problem swapping to a different plane without telling you until it’s too late to change plans.
I wonder if the source for the DOS tools will ever be released.
If I were foolish enough to buy property next to a lot zoned for a 50-storey apartment building, then, yes.
Right, and that's why zoning boards should stop your neighbors from building poultry farms in their backyards.
The problem is that you are regulating a proxy rather than the externaility.

Having laws about quiet times and public smells prevents the nightclub and abbattoir from locating there without blocking usages.
Improve your loading speed by reducing server requests
That's blueseed - https://blueseed.com/ . They could never get the funding needed to make it happen.
Actually, bunks with some sort of safety netting, and all the other surfaces padded may well be safer. My understand is that most injuries during turbulence are due to flying objects, not the actual motion.
Did they learn the definition of "long term support" from phone manufacturers?

.net 1.1 (I looked this up when I had to install it earlier this week...) was supported for 10 years until 2013 and as part of Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) it was supported until 2015 so it looks like they're going backwards too.
Collecting and copying the ID in Singapore will be illegal from Sept 1, 2019
No, why should they?
unfortunately the city itself - for example streets, sidewalks, etc. - also wasn't designed in the era of these scooters being a thing.
Updated guidelines are at the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission website [1]

[1] https://www.pdpc.gov.sg/pdpc/news/latest-updates/2018/08/upd...
You underestimate how much efficiency we've gained. Have you looked up what old fridges used to use? Or compared a 56% AFUE furnace against a 96% unit? Trucks used to get like 6-8mpg, now some get 30mpg.
Very little moving to China according to that aticle

> Bird could buy a fleet of 500 scooters for $137,500, or 0.1% of its total funding
Politicians shouldn't be picking winners or losers as this can lead to corruption and regulatory capture.
Firefox is an OS
Wait until they figure out what “The La Brea Tar Pits” translates to...
How Singapore Fixed Its Housing Problem [video]
How do "transportation" companies (dockless scooters in this case) have network effects? The automobile industry, which is about as mature as markets get, has seven companies in the US with at least 5% market share and the leader (GM) has merely 17%, and is largely bereft of command-and-control economic policies.
This is a brand new business category and no one has any idea how much demand there is and what rules are needed or are reasonable or are sufficient to prevent problems like blocking sidewalks.

What you're describing might be possible for a mature business category.

The free market doesn't always magically work.
At least in America, food is basically free. If you are fine with eating the same food over and over again and have time to cook, you can eat for $10 per week in most places. Rent and higher education, on the other hand...
>ask for forgiveness rather than permission

Do you genuinely think it's good for society when businesses do this?
Turn off JS - Done!
I've never seen it either and found it to be immediately clear. I wonder what similar prefixes could be used for "libre not gratis" and "libre and gratis". I know that "Free" could stand in for the second, but it's more ambiguous than "$free" was in this article.
Deploying and Optimising HTTPS for free
> Business permits should be shall-issue: if an applicant adheres to a set of rules known in advance, the city ought to have no power to deny its permit application.

The problem is that the named companies already have shown their willingness to use their VC backed resources to stomp over local regulation.

These companies were jerks who basically said "Nya. Nya. We're too powerful, you can't regulate us. <middle finger>"

To which SF replied: "Nya. Nya. Yes we can. No permits for you and now we can fine the snot out of you if you disregard us."
If you think about it, Uber and Lyft literally built their businesses on breaking taxi laws of every city they operate in.
Dear Mozilla:
I hope your browser have all the internal data flows accounted, i.e. how much of your cookie, location, keystrokes, files goes to each site should be presented to a user. This can be complicated due to cross-site login credentials and whatnot, but it can be visualized nicely in a graph format. This would probably require engine-related changes and affect the performance, but definitely a direction I'd like to see in future.
Exactly that. I was reading today that ~66% of Seattle's residential housing is single-family homes. Boston by comparison is 14%. It's absurd.

And then so many people in Seattle want to complain about plunging affordability.

"Seattle homeowners have vigorously fought changes to zoning laws that would increase density on the grounds that it would alter the character of neighborhoods filled with picturesque (if small) craftsman-style bungalows."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-30/how-big-t...
.Net Core. It’s maintained by a company that actually knows how to support a platform.
You just need to look for flight sales (like you would for an economy ticket).

Example:

JFK to FRA, business class, A380 lie flat: $1,996USD

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/premium-fare-deals/1894422-s...

That’s only a 2.3x multiple of the $875 economy fare.
If the area is zoned to permit such facilities then perhaps having a house their isn't the best idea. Areas zoned residential don't have such issues.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
By the way, I've never read something in The Economist that contradicted my personal knowledge and experience. They're worth the money, I think.
"Corruption" has a meaning, and there doesn't seem to be any mention in either the article or this discussion of anything that would be corruption.
Echoing the other comments, freelancing does make sense in your context. For the legwork of selling yourself and managing administrative stuff, there's https://gun.io as a freelance collective. I'm pretty sure there should be other parties offering that kind of arrangement, but I'm not aware of specifics.

Note: I am not related to gun.io, just saw what they were offering through the CTO's Zappa docs and thought it was interesting.
https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
It feels exactly the same to use krypton. You pop up the website that wants auth and your phone dings and you tap a button and there you go. Compared to say, Blizzard's authenticator for battle.net, it does the same thing. You try to log in, it pushes a message to your phone you get a ding tap a button and you go.

As far as UX goes it's identical to the user.
> In other words, you are free to build whatever you want on your own property, as long as its effects don't negatively impact the value of mine.

That is nowhere near a good enough rule. What if I buy commercial retail property in a bustling district, but over a few years the bustling industry shifts half a mile away, leaving my district with less foot traffic and thus negatively impacting the value of my property? Have those developers harmed me in a way that should be illegal?

You may be tempted to say “well, no, obviously that’s different.” And indeed, it is obviously different. But the challenge is coming up with a rule that actually works without needing you or someone to decide on a case by case basis what is “obviously” an exception.
People want to use upzoning to change permissable uses after people have bought. That’s the problem.

So you’re either arguing for zoning to remain static to maintain the property rights of surrounding owners, or someone’s getting screwed when zoning changes.

The equitable solution would be to compensate surrounding owners for their property losing value or them losing enjoyment when zoning changes (similar to eminent domain), but if that makes zoning changes prohibitively expensive (or owners turn down the offer entirely), we’re back to square one. Someone is losing something.

I would rather try to cure cancer than fix land use and housing in California.
I support not virtue signalling. I would be happier if people said what they meant and didn't virtue signal. I do not virtue signal; I don't care much what people think about my political opinions. I think I'm internally consistent in this regard.
If you don't bend like a willow, you'll break like an oak.
SFMTA has published the detailed feedback[1] and summary ratings[2] for each petition. Although the actual applications are not published, it really looks like Bird did a poor job on paper. For example, most of the companies relied on swipe-through screens in apps to remind people to use helmets, which the SFMTA deems insufficient. I have to agree, as I have rarely seen someone on a scooter with a helmet.

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

[2] https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

Also, note that Scoot already has an arrangement with the city for the red electric mopeds they rent out.
I'll say it:

With "shall-issue" rules there is no one in city government to bribe and/or make special deals with.

That's not how SF likes to operate.
One comment regarding the "embedding". This is similar to the Toyota concept of the gemba, or being where the value is produced. For automobiles, that's the factory floor. For software shops, that's with the developers, testers and BAs.

You want to be able to understand the work flow of your staff in order to catch opportunities for continuous improvement, and the best way to do this is to observe the work being done, but in a respectful way, that is, respecting the staff space and making them comfortable that you are not there to observe them, but the work.

I really don't understand why a manager would want to have an office in the 21st century.