skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see it in auto sales rules against Tesla, alcohol and zoning restrictions that aren't subject to votes, grandfathering old businesses on all sorts of things like parking lot regulations to denials of permits based reasons like too many restaurants in the area, etc. Some may seem reasonable, some may not. The point is in a transaction, neither side has to accept concessions they are uncomfortable with. Quite often cities make laws that harm or destroy business. Even in cases that are subject to citizen vote, the tyranny of the majority can occur. That's what makes bargaining on both sides of the compromise entirely reasonable.
I'll take any chance I can get to up this Lydia Davis short story, called "new year's resolution"[0]:

I ask my friend Bob what his New Year’s Resolutions are and he says, with a shrug (indicating that this is obvious or not surprising ): to drink less, to lose weight… He asks me the same, but I am not ready to answer him yet. I have been studying my Zen again, in a mild way, out of desperation over the holidays, though mild desperation. A medal or a rotten tomato, it’s all the same, says the book I have been reading. After a few days of consideration, I think the most truthful answer to my friend Bob would be: My New Year’s Resolution is to learn to see myself as nothing. Is this com¬petitive? He wants to lose some weight, I want to learn to see myself as nothing. Of course, to be competitive is not in keeping with any Buddhist philosophy. A true nothing is not competitive. But I don’t think I’m being competitive when I say it. I am feeling truly humble, at that moment. Or I think I am—in fact, can anyone be truly humble at the moment they say they want to learn to be nothing? But there is another problem, which I have been wanting to describe to Bob for a few weeks now: at last, halfway through your life, you are smart enough to see that it all amounts to nothing, even success amounts to nothing. But how does a person learn to see herself as nothing when she has already had so much trouble learning to see herself as, something in the first place? It’s so confusing. You spend the first half of your life learning that you are something after all, now you have to spend the second half learning to see yourself as nothing. You have been a negative nothing, now you want to be a positive nothing. I have begun trying, in these first days of the New Year, bur so far it’s pretty difficult. I’m pretty close to nothing all morning, but by late afternoon what is in me that is something starts throwing its weight around. This happens many days. By evening, I’m full of something and it’s often something nasty and pushy. So what I think at this point is that I’m aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

[0] https://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lydia-davis-...
I shouldn't have used religious, I only had buddhist contemplation in mind.
It’s a good question.

I think at issue is which killings are acceptable under “normalcy”. Obviously soldier/spy deaths are OK, sex workers are OK to kill since they’re by definition sinners, work-related deaths are OK for low wage workers as long as the injury is not acute, accidental military slayings are OK outside of developed nations because of the “we tried” doctrine, black kids are OK because black folks have “opted in” by choosing to commit more crime than whites, First Nations people are ok because they opted out of U.S. sovereignty...*

I think some people feel journalist killings are fundamentally a violation of normalcy.

* not saying I agree with any of that, but this is the mainstream consensus
Happy for your friend. My brother died from Ms. It's a far far worse disease than AS and if I had it I would have already gone for this treatment no questions asked.
If I remember correctly, the entirety of that quote is really more about being a well-rounded person than about the best way to make a living. I'm betting Robert Heinlein didn't make his own clothes and shoes, though maybe he could have.
It is also true in older literature that writers were paid by the number of words and naturally you'd get a very descriptive styles, lots and lots and lots of details
If you see a white person say something
because tomorrow your bank starts to only have a cert from some CA you didn't trust before.

having to manually select/add CAs is akin to not having ssl and using pgp everywhere. and you know how well that works out even for technical folks.
The most misread poem in England is William Blake's Jerusalem. It was written two centuries ago and put to music a century later. It is the unofficial national anthem and you can hear it everywhere that English football, rugby and cricket teams go. All three of the main political parties sing it at their conferences. It gets an airing every time there is a royal wedding. It was the first thing one billion people got to hear at the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games - a solo performance by a child who happened to be born with only one hand.

This poem has an extraordinary story, Blake was not famous in his time and only thirty years after his death did someone come along to write a biography of him. There were many other happenings that had to happen before Jerusalem became what it is today.

The words appear to be patriotic but on further examination and with the right education the poem can be understood. It is an anti-capitalist, anti-church, anti-establishment masterpiece. Yet vast crowds of people can sing along with it, knowing all the words. It is in a different league of being misread to anything else. Study it.
Microsoft is in the Linux camp now because the Windows camp is dead for serious enterprise uses. Windows objectively failed to keep pace with the cutting edge. To Microsoft's credit, their leadership sees this and is working to build a viable replacement business model through the combination of Azure and data harvesting.

Reality is that the raw technical reality has forced MS to the open-source table. The fight played out and Windows lost -- Microsoft lives on.

Perhaps neither camp is happy with the situation, but if we're being honest, there's probably not anything that anyone can do about it.
>reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history

As I understand it, only about 2% of our species' history.

But I would give anything to know if there are undiscovered enormous innovations on that level and if so, what they are.
Advocating for the user and serving self interests aren't always at odds. Can you propose an alternative?
Agreed. It certainly seems like this is the case and the end result would be both cities lurching towards becoming massively under Amazon's powerful thumb and dependent on it in the long run (think the Walmart method of dealing with businesses but... slightly bigger).
>liberate most of Northern Europe

You mean liberate them just to enslave them again?

You list many achievements of the USSR that are certainly impressive, I just don't think they matter on the whole to the people who lived (and starved to death and were murdered) in the USSR.
Almost certainly not Plan 9, because that was written in C.
Also, there's no way they gave them a billion dollars for development of a research OS. :)
That article you linked to is about neurogenesis in hippocampus only.
> The i7-7700K is a desktop CPU drawing at least 45 watts of power and clocked at 4.5 GHz when running a single-threaded workload; in contrast, the iPhone was unplugged, probably doesn’t draw 10% of that power, and runs (we believe) somewhere in the 2 GHz range

A12 runs at 2.5Ghz, and draws ~3.64W of power. I also think the actual power draw of the i7-7700K may be north of 45W, Anandtech claims 90W (with a TDP of 91W).

I bet if you could pop a heatsink on the A12(X) and overclock it/up the TDP, it would come very close or beat intel at most single-threaded applications.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
Flutter unit, widget and integration testing with IOS/Android emulators in cloud
>To be clear, hustle isn’t just hard work — it’s showing that you’re working hard.

I often find that the people that try the hardest to make it appear they're working hard are only working hard at maintaining that appearance, and are often doing only the basics of their job.

If you're trying so hard to prove it, it's coming at the cost of actually doing the job you're trying to prove you're working so hard at.

The double-irony is that in many cases, this over-proof effort is needed because of Managers that are dis-engaged from their subordinates and only notice the sizzle, not the steak, because the Managers Manager is the same, and so on up the chain.

In time, the side-hustle will be all that's left. Which could already be the case given that people now live off their earnings as an "influencer", and if they have a day-job then that's just their side-hustle.
No way I'm risking my health with those class of drugs. All or nothing for me. I do have a rheumatologist but he is not very helpful unfortunately
Not meta enough. The lesson from 2016 is a bullshit social media campaign in Russia is enough to whip US media into spending billions of dollars of air time sowing doubt and confusion about an election result.

Not only were no votes changed by anything Russia did, it is highly dubious that any opinions were changed by what Russia did.

Trolls on the Internet are not, in fact, the most persuasive advertising force by orders of magnitude that the world has ever seen.
Homophobia didn't end with gay marriage. Sexuality is not a federally protected class in housing, employment, services, etc. What good is the fancy new headquarters and the six figure job if you can just get evicted on a moment's notice because of your sexuality, or if you can just get your face bashed in at the bar on a night out with your friends? http://www.keranews.org/post/how-texas-does-or-doesnt-deal-l...

If you're an employer, a great way to pre-emptively shoot yourself in the foot is to make yourself unattractive to employees and shrink your hiring pool in such a tight labor market.
Mobile PDF tools won't strip all the metadata and comments out but almost every PDF reader not from adobe or chrome ignores all the dumb parts of PDF like running js, having network access or restricting you from printing without a password.
FaceTime: Heap Corruption in RTP Video Processing
18 years now unfortunately. Only just diagnosed though
From TFA:

"Hannah Fry points out something interesting about the phrase “Hello World.” It’s never been quite clear, she says, whether the phrase—which is frequently the entire output of a student’s first computer program—is supposed to be attributed to the program, awakening for the first time, or to the programmer, announcing their triumphant first creation."

Did she try asking programmers instead of guessing?
Thanks for that, it is really good if you just need to 'see' what is what and get images out of a PDF.
very smart promotion, I strongly advice people stop trust what you say, after you put this link here.

Because if you wanna help people, how the hell you put a sth to sell? Why not put the whole script, your paper, your rewrote script down here, for free?

No way man, you are kidding with other people' health, this is shit.
It's been over 10 years now. Is there a good post-mortem on the outcome of the switch away from 6.001 and Scheme?
Sarcastic comments are unsubstantive and generally not appreciated on hacker news.

I do concede your point that greater centralization isn’t really in the consumer’s best interest. I stand by my point that it could be on apple’s radar for ways to continue growth, in its best interest. My parent comment is not a consumer wishlist but that of a (rookie) investor.
Does reading HackerNews count?
> I know it sounds like conspiracy theory bullshit

That’s the clue you should rethink this.
That's being generous: if I'm tired I may not notice an error message is fake.

The typical tell I look for: is this window right for my OS? (Windows dialog on Android)
Is the version right? (XP styled dialog)
Can I tell which window it can from? (Move browser to sanity check where I am)
The problem seems to be less that the governments are being “strong armed” and more that the people running the government are incentivized to satisfy their own interests when dealing with the corporations, and those interests do not necessarily align with the constituents that they supposedly represent.
Totally fair. The original name was ".NET Standard Library" but we were too lazy so we shortened it to just ".NET Standard", which then ended up becoming the product name.
> I think it's controversial because of the implied assumption that given equality measures, there would be basically equal outcomes ... and that if we don't see that, then for some reason should be skeptical. I don't think we should be. I think we should mostly trust the data.

I'm curious: do you know what these metrics actually are? Have you investigated how they are defined or what they're measuring? If so, do you find them sufficient? I ask out of genuine curiosity, because I'm having a lot of trouble fidning metrics that are not ad hoc or that don't have a lot of tricky assumptions about household income.

> I think we're probably going to have to accept that the world is gendered, and that this will mean some deviations here and there from a specific kind of aesthetic egalitarian which is neither possible, nor in the case of most people I think even aspirational.

One of the reasons I'm making a point of objecting to this is that folks like you are essentially reading this as a confirmation of a whole host of biases, which will subsequently (and have historically) been used to disadvantage a bunch of people. There isn't a question if "the world is gendered." In fact, the only people who assert this are in fact trans-exclusionary radical feminists and they're quite radical indeed.

So the question is not, "Is the world gendered?" But, "Are the measures we're taking sufficient to assure that talented individuals in any given field are not unduly coerced by social pressure to give up that work."

> I think most fields that women want to actually break into, they'll be able to do that in sufficient capacity even if it's not 50/50. But I also believe that in 100 years, the vast majority carpenters will still be men, that women will still be choosing to be primary caregivers to children more of then than men, and that we'll probably still be arguing about this.

This does seem like a significant simplification of the argument at hand. It's somewhat misleading as it stands to suggest that we should actually see 50/50 splits, and again in fact very few people suggest this. They suggest that systemic biases actually impact a variety of people to coerce their behavior in order to cater to these patterns. For example, women are multiply penalized by their choice to have childbirth, and men face systemic disadvantages if they want to be primary caretakers.

I'm not sure who you're retorting with this, but it isn't a common sentiment that the world is not gendered, just that gender is more nuanced than folks like to admit. I don't think anyone genuinely expects to see 50/50 splits in every profession, but we might expect to see more than 0.05% representation in boardrooms while also facing a storm of controversy about how male executives receive millions of dollars for sexually harassing women and abusing their power over other people's jobs.
You depend on a company for a product/service that they provide. Therefore, you can dictate the terms of how they provide it?
Whatever, MIT dropping lisp looks unbelievably weird.
So when I say "I believe freedom is better than slavery" and "I believe 1+1=2" that they are two distinct, possibly incomparable forms of belief. Maybe.

>I think that the idea of a singular thing called "truth" is actually fairly harmful.

I disagree with that.
Glaciation is most strongly dependent on Milankovich cycles:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
- http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_4/milankovitch.htm

Plate tectonics and volcanic activity have also influenced climate in the past, e.g. the closing of the Panamanian isthmus, or the formation of the Deccan Traps.

Interestingly, the original paper proposing AGW (in 1896) was actually intended to explain Ice Ages:

- http://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
Ever watch security footage that overlooks people using iPhones? It's amazing how many sites display the plain-text password on the screen briefly even when using Keychain.
By the time you are a zombie, your board could still be populated by members that want a 10x exit, not long-term profitability. The internal conflict between "should we continue growing at a healthy rate" vs. "what can we do to find a buyer or position for an IPO" can still ruin a company.
You might not need kubernetes
Someone measured serverless cold startup time a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949694
Homes appreciate on average 3-5%, where as the money saved on rent - taxes, interest, and maintenance is somewhere between 3-5%.

that's 6-10% (which is about the best you can expect from stocks over the long run)+ the other benefits of owning a home. I for one rented 2/3 of my rooms for an additional 12k$/year income (60k over 5 years).
Homophobia went from the mainstream view to a tiny fringe in 20 years. Even Trump isn't homophobic. And even California is home to a fringe.

What's the end game for "I refuse to deal with those people"? Permanent 60 R senators?

If you wouldn't live there, who should?
At the end of the day neither Google nor Facebook are monopolies, you can opt to search via DuckDuckgo, and many have opted to leave Facebook. Many people have no such choice with their wired ISP. It's either the ISP or nothing for internet access. Network effect "monopoly" is nothing like physical monopoly.
Chinese startup Makeblock is bringing robots to classrooms
> I disagree with that.

Duly noted.
Reminds me of the other usage of hustling which is an incongruous clash with the macho image - male prostitution mostly to other men and the occasional older women. Not judging either and I fully understand that it is a serious situation - just noting the inadvertent humor in linguistic drift.

Technically I believe it often meant any odd job to make money whether legal, illegal or a grey area. So selling weed, shoveling a driveway, and busking where you could get kicked out at worst all count.
Can't wait the battle for Amazon HQ3.
Floating Gate MOSFET
Eh, I'm all for this one. I don't use Chrome (I prefer Safari on my Mac), but I think it's a reasonable response to increasingly terrible, malware-spewing ads.
Death only hurts once, but success feels good forever. So, in that sense it’s worth it to take the bet.

Optimality is just maximizing your upside and minimizing the window of exposure to oblivion. I don’t think there’s any “avoid oblivion at all costs” strategy that comes close to “court oblivion once” in terms of the total expected utility.
I. Need. More.
I think surprasing facebook, snapchat and instagram in monthly downloads is still impressive. Maybe you just mean that it isn't impressive enough to have you believe that TikTok is going to dethrone FB. I can get behind that. But if I were the founder of TikTok, I'd be well impressed with myself at the moment. :)
"private social media companies, hosting services, domain registrars, payment processors" - interesting how all of those on your list require me to use an ISP first. in my town there is literally one ISP option. I have used several different providers for every service you listed. there is a big difference between a near/effective monopoly and literally one option or no service at all.
Because it takes effort and CAPEX to deploy it and most ISP are for-profit entities.
Go to get a test for hla-b27 gene and inflammation makers at a hospital. Try get a referral to a rheumatologist. They will do the tests and also send you for xray of critical joints that are affected.
Unfortunately they need to fill out forms for puzzled investigations as well.
World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince
> Until we actually observe brains solve uncomputable problems

Brains can obviously provide answers to uncomputable problems.

I'm not sure how we'd be able to observe they they were “solving” even if they were to do so.
Amusing bit of hyperbole in the very first line of the article:

“San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally. “

Nowhere in the article is it explained how they “literally” are laying down the law.
What I'd really like is an option to auto-decline all requests to allow desktop notifications.
GPS software will then guide you to the nearest HQ2 via anycast routing.
I looked at this originally, as well as GitHub's Project Boards and GitLab's Issue Boards. I was hoping for a solution in one of these to save having to have another service to use and maintain.

The boards are not really designed for general todo-ing, and the task lists require editing the markdown file and committing to update it I believe?
NYC Cars to Talk to One Another Under Traffic-Safety Pilot Program
For a utility like water or gas for which there is only a monopoly company providing it then yes, there are basic standards set by law because society recognizes the economic inefficiency of putting in duplicative physical infrastructure into that last-mile of linkage, as well as the economic difficulty of maintaining non-extractive prices without fundamental competition.
This is a place where you’d expect people to know what TI actually does, not just the calculators.

“Ever heard of X?” is an idiom that means something like “here’s an obvious example you should already know about.” It doesn’t imply that knowing about it proves something. It’s a perfectly fine argument that just says, “TI exists and attracts educated employees.”
I'd definitely believe that cache plays a big role -- while I don't know nearly as much as the author about how SMT solvers work, I've seen how much Z3 bogs down when two instances are running in parallel. That's quite consistent with the cache explanation.
Can't you just set them to blocked under "chrome://settings/content/notifications"?
Just to expand on this a bit. The load dump is not directly caused by the inductance of any component. That would only produce a very short voltage spike that would be easy to suppress. A load dump can involve greatly increased voltage for up to half a second.

Alternators tend to produce a constant current in proportion to the field winding current (the variable the voltage regulator controls). When you disconnect the battery the alternator attempts to maintain that current by increasing the voltage. The voltage regulator has to reduce the current in the field to close to zero to stop this voltage surge. The field has some magnetic energy (inductance) that the voltage regulator has no good way to get rid of quickly. So the output voltage zooms up to maybe 10 times the normal voltage for an extended period and any electronics in the car might be very sad.
Yup, this definitely exists and misrepresentation is a real problem in all legislative contexts. We can only ask their citizens to care and make change (assuming elections are run legally). Being able to affect this change locally is very important and why these abatement decisions deserve to remain in their hands.
> How those bits go to human cognition is not a matter of physics

That the bits we know about are even everything that goes into cognition except how they hook up is somewhere between exuberant optimistic speculation and rank hubris.
This is easy to fix for motivated parties though. Imagine that pro wrestling circus but with fish and water and better staged.
It’s insulting.