skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only seen UWP versions of Microsoft products. Really, it's a way of keeping a foot in both mobile and desktop, when mobile-first has been embraced so widely.
But women don't have to have children, in fact it would be much better if they didn't. You write your post as if it's all miraculous conception.

Women can make a choice to do something that will impact their career negatively. Men don't have that choice.

People who don't intend to have children subsidising people who do (who are on average already richer and more privileged) is deeply messed up. This only makes sense from a very narrow middle class upper-echelon-gender-equality is the most important thing in society lense.
The difference between a total and partial eclipse is like b/n night and day
Yeah, unfortunately, short is relative. As I mentioned elsewhere, I was under intense work pressure at the time and everything else in life seemed far lower a priority in comparison.
If you live in the countryside with few or none street addresses and a really low population density (like a really big part of the african population) then you can.
Your "pure utilitarianism" is a complete straw man.

Killing someone to take their organs to save 5 lives is utilitarianism to only first order effects. We live in a world that does not terminate after one time step, so we have to consider Nth order effects to calculate utility.

For example, the second order effect is other humans' moral judgements. "How horrible, he murdered that man" is a valid moral reaction to have, and this is disutility that must be accounted for in a "pure utilitarian" world view. Third order effects may be the social disorder that results from allowing such ad hoc killings as means to an end, and so on.

The only thing preventing pure utilitarianism from being viable is a lack of compute power, and "rule utilitarianism" is a poor heuristic based approach for philosophers without patience ;)
House-level addressing is probably OSM's greatest weak point, principally because house numbers are insanely boring for volunteers to survey. Try entering the street/town name without the number.
In academia, some studies have shown than mandatory paternity leave may not close gaps in productivity:

The authors compared promotion rates before and after these gender-neutral parental policies were adopted, relative to trends in comparable institutions that did not alter their policies, while also accounting for an array of influences, like where each economist was trained. They found that men who took parental leave used the extra year to publish their research, amassing impressive publication records. But there was no parallel rise in the output of female economists.

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/business/tenure-extension...
Developing UWP apps is challenging though, it's not a straightforward experience and as a result many people hate it.

I don't know if you've ever had to debug a UWP app but compared to almost anything else it's painful. Exceptions don't propagate properly, and finding errors takes a ton of time. Development is likewise painful with elements of random things being required and the packaging and publishing process a nightmare compared to competitors.

UWP was made for phone and Microsoft then ported it to Core OS, but as a format it is not developer friendly. If you look at new Microsoft under Satya - and their goal of being developer friendly, this move makes sense. I wouldn't be surprised to see UWP and the current store deprecated entirely (as they are honestly failures).
This is a plausible story, but that doesn't mean it's true. Anecdotally I felt more productive living in a warmer place than when living in Scandinavia. I think it completely depends on your situation and an actual study is needed to prove it one way or the other.

I also recall Jared Diamond debunking this as a theory for why "the west" got ahead in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Your pricing page says this:

"We don't plan to offer a hosted version of Tettra in the immediate future. We believe that secure web services are the new standard for business applications and take security seriously."

Seriously, NO.

It has to work without an internet connection at all. That includes installation, updates, and help pages. People who care about security have air-gapped networks. To update software, we burn it to a DVD and then walk it over to the secure network.

I have a hard time understanding how anybody would tolerate their business secrets being on your servers. That is really weird to me.

It's also just slow.
I don’t see how increasing the birth rate of people making over $200k per year leads to a better tomorrow (not that such an idealistic notion even exists). You’d be increasing the number of mega consumers, international flights, mc mansions...

What you really seem to be saying is you’d like people who aren’t like you to stop reproducing and people who are like you to reproduce more.
do you remember your coordinates? a plus code is easier to remember, shorter and is in a "canonical" form.
The drawing makes no sense... there's a triple point in the blue boundary, so there are at least three regions, not two. But the article talks about "two sides".
Some of those questions already seem to contain assumptions about the answers.

> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive? [...] How much of the cost growth is unmeasured improvement in quality and how much is growing inefficiency?

Are there other possible causes as well? If the cost growth were 100% due to improvements in quality, would it stop being a problem worth thinking about?

> How do we help more experimental cities get started? [...] Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and others, have improved the lives of millions of people and appear much more contingent than inevitable.

To my knowledge (I have no citations though), the improvement meant that millions of people were lifted from far-below-western to only-sligtly-below-western living standards. Impressive yes, but how well is that even applicable to societies at our living standard. Also, are things like workplace security or environmental effects factored into the "living standard" here?

> What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved? [...] How can we help authors understand how well their work is doing in practice? (Which parts are readers confused by or stumbling over or skipping?)

Is this a thing we want? Would the benefits of this outweigh the costs of setting up the necessary tracking infrastructure?

> Being limited in our years on the earth, how can we incentivize brevity?

Is brevity a thing we should universally incentivize?

As a side note, what's with the humblebragging? If I get Wikipedia correctly, this guy is co-founder and current CEO of Stripe and has a billion in personal net-worth. His personal opinions and descisions influence the rules for a significant part of money transfers around the world.

Yet the website and bio read as if he were just a particularly engaged intern at Stripe.

If this is the meritocracy in action, I can see why so many people have problems with it.
> It's funny because the article says the exact opposite of these things.

It what now?

> In addition, the API is designed with TypeScript type inference in mind. The 3.x codebase will itself be written in TypeScript, and providing improved TypeScript support. (That said, usage of TypeScript in an application is still entirely optional.)

And:

> Top level APIs will likely receive an overhaul to avoid globally mutating the Vue runtime when installing plugins. Instead, plugins will be applied and scoped to a component tree.

And:

> We are breaking some internal functionalities into individual packages in order to isolate the scope of complexity. For example, the observer module will become its own package, with its own public API and tests. [...] Decoupling the observer and scheduler into separate packages

And:

> The new codebase currently targets evergreen browsers only and assumes baseline native ES2015 support. Most of the ES2015 features used can be transpiled / polyfilled for IE11

The above is exactly what I referred to and all taken verbatim from the article. It is Angular 2.x+ all over again.
Donald Trump would bring the same results even if he had a prime minister.
> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?
> Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?

These two questions, IMHO, are inter-linked. Projects are slower because things are more expensive in general. I think there are some answers to be found as well in the populist uprisings we've seen in the US and in other parts of the world. Here are some random thoughts that are all-related to these questions:

- We are worse off today than our parents were in the 60's and 70s - in terms of purchasing power and quality of life. See the trend of 20 and 30-somethings staying or moving in with their parents today. How easy is it for someone in this age group to buy a house in the USA versus back then?

- Wage disparity has grown immensely: the rich get richer - the poor move sideways or get poorer. Capitalism, though massively positive for humanity, if unchecked leads to social unrest.

- The US government was "richer" back then - or at least had more power to engage in bold new projects. See the American New Deal (WPA). NASA. Today, space exploration seems relegated to the whims of the new gilded-age billionaires (Musk, Branson, Bezos).

- Current administration will continue this shift of power away from govt into the hands of elite. Its not the government's job to dole out food stamps - let communities or society decide how to help the poor.

- Author cites rise of healthcare costs... See unfettered Capitalism comment. No govt checks on what the price of a drug is leads to silly games with insurance. Example: family member was once medivacced on helicopter for 20 minute ride at cost of $65k - but insurance only paid $5k and we ended up paying $1k of that. They're fine now - but why even propose a $65k price tag if you're going to be OK with a 90% price cut? Gaming imbalances between people who have power and those who do not - and also propensity to pay. Needs strong regulation to fix.

- In a similar point made by Author: 2nd Avenue Subway line is most expensive cost per mile of any subway in the world to-date. Why? See good NYT article on answer. Labor Unions. Hiring 30 people for a task that only needs 10. Why? Bad allocation of resources since you can't hire anyone else. This is an attempt at thwarting unfettered capitalism. On the other hand you end up with cheap day laborers (slaves) like the poor migrants who built Dubai. There's gotta be a balance in between. Govt needs to step in.
With 64 bits you can address every cubic centimeter in the entire solar system.

Probably not useful, but fun to think about.
There's just a ton of better projects out there solving this problem with a much higher focus on architectural clarity, running code, competing seriously with major platforms, etc.

https://decentralizedweb.net/
I agree with your first 2 paragraphs, but the third is being overly simplistic (or potentially just not understanding the trade-off at play).

The scenario is that (roughly) 90% of the hypergrowth-style startups which raise a first round will fail to achieve enough momentum to successfully raise a second. And due to the business model choices they've committed to, failing to raise at that point is equivalent to going out of business. A first raise is often too small to be able to do everything they'd like, so they suggest decide that it's in their best interest (long term) to forgo a salary where possible, in order to buy a few extra months of progress before you're forced to start shopping for investment again.

Of course, folks give advice based on their own experience, but it doesn't always generalise to folks in different situations, which is potentially why that would seem like silly advice in (what I assume is) your scenario.

(minor edits toward the end for clarification)
That's not what I'm suggesting though.
Besides being horrified at a forthcoming world where more businesses do this, I am also surprised there's that much money in in person advertising. If I had free coffee I would spend 10$ a day at least. There 10$ of advertiser value in 2 or 3 30 second spiels?
Exactly. So decouple the time off from the reproduction.
I suspect some of the issues you're having understanding my comments is I've assumed you had a working knowledge of RMTP.

Basically the protocol comprises of multiple streams of various bit rates. These streams are chunked into blocks of n seconds. This is often around 15 seconds or less. The client will hot swap between each stream if one chunk takes too long or downloads too quick. This ensures that the video quality dynamically scales to the best bitrate your bandwidth will handle and it does so quickly and with minimal buffering. It works for video on demand services but it also works for live feeds as well and the whole thing can be served over multicast or UDP for further savings at either the DC or across the wire.

Bittorrent is nowhere near optimised enough to compete on that level. The 2minute buffering you guessed at would easily look terrible in side by side comparisons with RMTP deliveries. Not to mention a whole boat load of hardware encoders (rack mountable gear used in broadcasters) are built for spitting out RTMP streams yet none (at least that I'm aware of) exist for BT. So you'd have to build your own gear as well as content delivery network. That alone would cost you far more than any savings P2P deployment might earn you.
Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook
I skimmed but too fast obviously
But it's not about that, it's about a proposed law. Anything to do with how to run companies isn't hacker culture, we don't spam posts about the best offshore tax arrangements and the advantages of different board structures. Company stuff is mostly to do with startups and this practise is both less relevant to and less favoured by startups.
Yes, that's a good point. I unit test all small functions that take no more than 32 bit in input on literally all inputs.
Just start with making it tax funded, not employer funded.

I guess it'd be good for small businesses, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about paying $40,000,000 a year to Larry Ellison while he was on parental leave.
micro-payment system

This comes up regularly. All the enthusiasm for micropayments comes from people who want to collect micropayments. Not from the users who would pay them.
Resolving Social Drama to Get Your Life Back
With cheap enough power, it might well be possible to desalinate water from the nearest ocean and pump it to wherever it's needed.

(Disclaimer: I haven't tried even back-of-the-envelope calculations about other costs of doing so, e.g., capital- and operating costs of pipelines, pumps, etc.)
The Elephant in the Room – HMM and AHA
That's actually a pretty clever idea, nice.
I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years and visited around 20 cities. Not only did I never feel uncomfortable or scared, I discovered many beautiful places I could see myself retiring in. When your expectations are very low about a place, you are swept off your feet when you see the amazing reality.

After my travels in Mexico and Latin America, I feel like statistics without proper context and sensationalist news do a big disservice to people. It's a lot more exciting and interesting to focus on pockets of areas where gang-on-gang violence is occurring. People would rather click on article to read about drug related news rather than a piece discussing the many great festivals coming up in Mexico City and around the country.

However, the reality is that life in the majority of the country is just like anywhere you'd imagine, sometimes fun, sometimes normal, and sometimes boring. The only danger being from purposefully looking for trouble or being very unlucky by being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

To put it in another way, someone can also ask why would anyone want to visit the US after all the news about gun violence? Why would anyone want to visit the US after reading about the crime in Detroit, Memphis, South Chicago, Baltimore, etc.

I've been to the US (including Detroit and Chicago) enough to know what it's really like and now understand the context better when reading news articles about crime and violence there.
There are plenty of places, such as western European countries and Japan, that have strong safety regulations and still manage to complete large-scale infrastructure projects quickly.

Another way to look at this is to ask why the United States seems incapable of even maintaining existing projects. For example, look at the current state of the New York City subway.

I suspect slowness in building new infrastructure, and poor maintenance of existing infrastructure, have the same root cause: lack of political will.

American voters don't expect their governments to be good at this kind of thing. European voters would vote politicians out of office if their transit systems got as bad as the NY subway has become. It would be seen as a failure to execute one of the basic duties of government.
Watching the beginning of Idiocracy might make the problem clear.

https://youtu.be/YwZ0ZUy7P3E
Why are you targeting net standard and core in your nuget packages? Targeting standard should be all you need to cover both.
It's terrible from a correctness perspective, sure. But from a business perspective, that could mean $50 million of revenue not-lost to a flaw you (as an owner/operator) can't do much about. Sure, it could lead to an exploit like this, but I'd wager a cost-benefit analysis for almost any organization (except maybe CIA/NSA types) would support this design choice.

That's not to say it's a good design choice, but it's certainly a defensible one IMO. You can have the most secure OS in the world, but if no one wants to use it, all you've got is a very secure waste of hard drive space.
Why not arxiv?
It pushes you towards having kids because you're effectively already paying for them. It wouldn't be enough to completely change someone who was very opposed to it but it's by no means neutral. The proposal the guy made in a different post of just enforcing sabbaticals is neutral.
> It claimed the exact opposite of the things said in the article

I'm not sure why you've created two comment trees saying the same thing, I responded to your other comment above.

> Your original comment was not in good faith.

My original comment was my opinion based on my experience and after having read the article. If you disagree, fine, but I don't think it is fair to question my motives. Simple disagreement doesn't mean the person you're disagreeing with is responding in bad faith; asking loaded "questions" which read as thinly veiled insulted however...
Smallest commercially made CRT in the world and it works [video]
Goodness: Docker for Windows and SQL Server 2019 for Linux
The Hajnal line is in Red. The blue lines highlight other regions, as described in the caption of the image.
That’s a fictional movie.
Great article. I am really curious, what's the theoretical position of using coroutines/green threads vs native OS threads especially in Linux as of 2018? Was Golang right in choosing this model or Linux has become very efficient when it comes to creating and scheduling threads?
> Following these instructions resulted in me connecting to the Haiku machine as root (named "user" but with user ID zero and thus root rights). I was able to "kill" processes run by the desktop user and so on.

Well ... yes, because you set the sshd to allow root login, and then logged in as the root user. This is the intended behavior, yes? You can leave that option off, `adduser`, and then log in as the new user instead.

> Even after creating a separate non-root user and logging in to that rather than the root equivalent user, I was able to continue manipulating the system in this way without trouble, at first removing documentation in the desktop user's language and then gradually replacing software with my own.

Hmm, well, that is a bug then; last I tried I thought this was impossible. Perhaps the directory permissions on /system/packages are incorrect.
> The dark blue lines show areas of high nuptiality west of the Hajnal line
Death rates are probably better than absolute number of deaths for comparison. Here are death rates per 1000 workers of some well known construction projects:

80 Transcontinental Railroad
80 Suez Canal
50 Brooklyn Bridge
17.46 World Trade Center
6.4 Sydney Harbor Bridge
4.47 Hoover Dam
3.37 San Francisco Bay Bridge
3.33 Eiffel Tower
2.67 Titanic
2.5 Sears Tower
1.47 Empire State Building
1.17 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
0.75 City Center Las Vegas
0 Chrysler Building

Topping all of those by a large amount are the Panama Canal and the Burma-Siam railway, which I did not include because I don't have numbers--they are literally off the chart. I mean that literally. On the bar chart I'm getting the numbers from [1] the bars for those are so big they are clipped and the number is not visible.

[1] https://www.forconstructionpros.com/blogs/construction-toolb...
The figure caption states that the red part is the Hajnal line. The red part has two sides.
Try offline maps on android.
I dunno, I wouldn't set foot in such a place.

It seems to me that this idea is a race to the bottom. If people continue to give up first level information (name, address, etc) it devalues it because that info becomes commonplace and widely distributed. So what happens then -- dig deeper into your life? Does the 2019 version of this cafe want complete access to your phone / laptop? What about the 2020 version?

The only wining move is not to play.
Underqualified to speak for Vue, but practically everything you're saying is addressed in the post in very simple terms. They are breaking bc because JS and browserland are doing so, and quite quickly. That is what major releases are for. If you never do that you sink in tech debt - you know, like angular.
There is a way to point out that some of those things should not theoretically be a problem without acting like they have no practical merit whatsoever and that anyone who believes so is an idiot.

I felt the original message had the same tone and thought to answer with the same. I shouldn't have. And I went further. And I just couldn't stop. I shouldn't be commenting when I'm this frustrated (unrelated to this thread).

Again, I'm sorry.
This is an interesting question which you pose very clearly. Because we don’t know the future and what opportunities technology may bring, it is prudent to hedge the risk with an insurance policy. Right now we aren’t doing that and instead are doing the equivalent of driving fast without either a seat belt or insurance cover.

I’m not quite sure how we would hedge against 70% acquifer depletion, climate change or soil degradation, but a more honest conversation about the need for a hedge would be a start.

And looping back to your question, how to tell the difference between the Malthusian and the correct...and realizing you are essentially asking how to work out who is right and who is wrong about an unknowable future...maybe we look to how honest they are about the inherent uncertainty in any predictions made about the future, and secondly about the need to take risk mitigation steps to avoid worst outcome scenarios.