skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If only the rich can drive then only the rich can commute. The city itself then becomes a haven for the middle class.

Real life shows us the opposite. The more expensive it gets to drive, the more the working class has to live farther away from the city.

Effectively, every dollar you take from people via commuting penalties, comes out of their housing budget. And since urban housing only ever gets more expensive, working class people just get pushed further and further away.
Sequelize is only for SQL databases. This is also for the front end and in the future also for Firebase and others like it. And there's more in the article about adjacent functionality planned, which is outside of the scope of an ORM. And yes, got my terminology a bit wrong: meant to say it's not ActiveRecord.
Not everything a worker does provides immense leverage like software development. Many times it is 1:1 with hours worked.
If I’m a small business making enough to employ myself and 2 other people, how very carefully would I think about taking on someone whom I might need to pay to not* work at my company for a year?
Basically, the answer is "Yes" as long as the routes and operations are reassessed to make them much more usable for commuting. The current routing is distinctly sub-ideal for Central Valley => Bay Area along with San Diego/Irvine => LA

If you want commuters to use HSR, you have to make it easy for people to use. This means the line from SF to Sac/Roseville being placed directly along the 80 corridor with frequent stops for locals as well as dedicated express trains. This requires sidings at all tops in both directions to enable passing, something not currently envisioned for 90% of the stops (iirc).

The biggest problem with CAHSR imho is that they started grading the RoW and laying track in the central valley before they had started on crossing the Tehachapi mountains. The highest long-term value to HSR is going to be the LA-SF route. The one piece with the longest build and highest cost is the route over the mountains (the existing route owned by the UP and with BNSF having trackage rights is 2/3 single track and completely at capacity, with speeds of less than 30MPH average).

There is no way that HSR will be long term viable without that route in place. Until they build that and rationalize the routes, it will be nothing but a faster and vastly more costly replacement for the San Joaquin corridor passenger trains.

I want it to be a success. I'm very pessimistic about that in the current state of affairs.
This is what I meant. Someone who takes a job that others may not view as "high-class" and just does a great job, is reliable, and people like them for it.
If Facebook knowingly refused to refund improper transactions, THEY are the ones committing fraud. Plain, old, "screw you, Facebook user" fraud.
Does it matter? I don't think Trump has read it.
If I was going to rent for any drive longer than 150 miles, I wouldn't own a car in the first place. Renting is a big hassle and multiplied by N trips sounds unpleasant. My trips are shorter and probably more frequent than your 620 mile multi-day affairs, though.
Ok sure, I hear you.

People who say "I don't mean to be racist, but.." almost always immediately say something racist, and never feel like it is racist. That seems exactly like "Not to excuse it, but.." - "Not to excuse it" comes out because your brain feels the need to say that, in the same way. Also I guess it's hard talking with people we don't know - assessing what to take for granted or not. Maybe you really did mean "not to excuse it"! Sorry.

I wonder what 'attitude' Feynman actually had. I've never heard of anyone actually doing what he does in that story, have you? It's not much detail to go on, but it sounds like he thought it was funny? Or enjoyed the humiliation, was turned on. He can't have thought it was appropriate. Can he? I mean, people never did that, even thousands of years ago. Just seems like an extremely gauche 'joke'...demeaning, insulting. So does that book shed any light? Was everyone like that then? (I don't think so)

[Disclosure: Besides his reminiscences, which I read as a kid, I've watched a load of his lectures, interviews and talks, (and introduced them to other people), as well as worked through as much of the 3 volumes of the Lectures on Physics as I could understand, a couple of times. He's one of my scientific heroes.]
Ah, sorry. Misread you.
Or.. you know... there was 40 years of case law that APIs were fair game, and you shouldn't need to buy out a competitor to leverage that.
Just guessing, but it could be that they are claiming that 200 million unique videos are recommended on a given day, with the number of unique videos being a proxy for how diverse they are. Perhaps before some of their recent changes, the number of unique videos was smaller. (Who can say for sure, though)
> implies that it's worse for a woman to be a full time parent than to be part of the workforce

For an individual, that might be the case. A mother who feels incentivized to drop out of the workforce due to childcare might later in life regret not having a career. A better balance of incentives that keeps someone working while ensuring childcare costs are taken care of (or at least subsidized) might make for a better outcome.

For society, well... who knows. You may believe that it's better for the kid to have a full-time parent in the home, but I don't think that's a settled argument with any degree of certainty. Certainly some amount of full-time parenting is great (some would say essential) for a kid, and lack of it can cause early development issues, but if -- just making up numbers here -- after 9 months, having a full-time parent only makes things 10% better for a kid vs. having a part-time parent and part-time third-party childcare, maybe that's okay?
Data hackers are like toilet ninjas
The Senate can override the President's veto with a 2/3rds vote. As a reminder, the bill passed with a 100-0 vote in December, so this was absolutely doable.
He thought he could heal his cancer with crystals, let's not hold him up as some perfect deity.
You're right, but I don't think this is quite what the quote is referencing. If payment details are stored and kids are merely presented with a colourful popup confirming they want to spend $99 for 2000 gems, it doesn't seem like a real transaction to them (putting aside the fact most kids have no appreciation for the value of money).
To enable end-to-end encryption, you need more than local storage, you need local computation using local execution of signed and reproducible code. Javascript in browsers is fundamentally not such a platform, mobile applications are - to the degree you trust Google, Apple etc.
Civilizations currently finds themselves basically over-run with people at the moment and getting “worse” every decade. I don’t think we’re headed towards any kind of insufficiency.
I'm on a Mac running High Sierra at the moment.
You're right, but I don't know how to fix that part so let's fix the part we can.

The relatively severity depends on the company and employee for sure. Software vs McDonalds...

Maternity leave has the advantage of a good amount of notice, which can give time to mitigate the loss from a missing employee.
> IRC isn't easy for newbies. I tried to adopt it at the first tech company I worked for, and our support folks had a lot of trouble getting the basics down. There could be a client that makes things easier, but I've never seen one as easy as Slack.

Years ago, I started out with mIRC on Windows 95. I didn't know many IRC commands, but as I recall, you could navigate through the menus to do things like list channels, join them, part from them, etc. So, I don't think that an application like that should be any more difficult to use compared to Slack.
TNCs are not the only ones contributing to congestion. Private cars do as well. We should address all road users and not just cherry-pick one scapegoat when everyone sitting in traffic is traffic. Congestion pricing is the solution here.
The important number in here is that only 16% of American workers have access to paid time off. Many people are considering whether twelve days is too much before the loss of income causes serious problems, debating the ideal length seems like a less important issue.
The way it's done in Sweden is that 3 months are reserved for the father, otherwise they're forfeited. Works wonders because initially, fathers had a very legitimate reason to take the leave, anything else would be giving up free money. But once it became the norm, it changed the culture. Now it's creeping upwards slowly, at around 4.5 months on average I think. Not amazing, but it's enough that it's harder to discriminate against women in particular, rather than perhaps more broadly couples in their early 30s... What I see though is that since everyone's doing it, there is a much bigger understanding in company culture that people may be away for a while and just find ways of dealing with that.
You are right, you should use an SVG sanitizer if you intend to inject SVGs that are not fully under your control. The sanitizer can be applied before actual injection takes place, so a mischievous SVG can do harm.
Texas Private High Speed Rail Between Houston and Dallas
CLoud bASH: tool for running bash scripts inside the cloud
Uh, no.

The US freight rail network is the most efficient in the world for ton/mile/dollars. It crushes long-haul trucks for bulk/unit loads, manifest, intermodal...the list goes on.

It is in no need of nationalizing, and if you did that you'd end up with a vastly slower network built for something entirely different than what you're talking about.

Build a totally new network on better alignments/grades with higher speeds for passengers only. Leave the freight railroads to their work.
The 'replicators' here are assuming humans are blank slates even though the best evidence is concienciousness is 40-60% heritable.

We also know people with high time preference/ delayed gratification are wealthier.

So now - what is controlling for parental wealth doing? It's removing this genetic component.

Social science is confounded by genetics all the time, once you start to look for it.
How does the work that would have been done by the person on leave get taken care of?

Does it (1) go undone, (2) do those not on leave have to do it in addition to their normal work, (3) do companies set their staff sizes so that they have extra capacity to take up slack from those on leave, or (4) do they hire temp workers to fill in until the person on leave comes back?
https://www.worldcat.org/title/selling-free-enterprise-the-b...
This amazing!! Better than podcast
1. Company is on the record as being aware of unauthorized use of parents' credit cards.

1a. Company is aware of channels particularly prone to unauthorized use of credit cards (with Ninja games being presented as the archetype).

2. Company creates a method for verifying the authority of purchase (and confirms that it works)

3. Company intentionally does not implement verification method, thus explicitly profiting from known fraud.

Now, I'm very much not a lawyer, but this strikes me as the sort of behavior we would seek criminal penalties for. Has there been any indication that this has been forwarded to the relevant parties for investigation / prosecution?
Agreed. In Canada, a woman or man can take up to 18 months of paid leave (although, if you take over 12 months, you'll be getting the same absolute amount of money but just spread over the extra months) to care for a new child. Your employer, by law, is obligated to hold your job for your return (provided that you were an FTE). The money you receive is simply collecting unemployment. It's money that the employee paid into the system, so it's hard to scoff at their right to utilize it. Like other unemployment benefits, you need to have been employed to access this money. To be competitive, some employers choose to "top up" the pay to a certain percentage of your full time wage (for some or all of your leave), but that's just a perk that employers can opt to offer.

I think this policy is entirely reasonable and entirely reasonable. The side effect is that there are often "matt-leave" openings at companies (i.e. covering for someone while they're away), which is a good way to get to know a job on a temporary basis and for employers to get to know a hire without a long term commitment.
Check out Shoshano Zuboff's new book - survelliance economy. pretty fascinating stuff.
> Passenger rail will otherwise always take a back seat to freight.

moving all the freight to something less efficient would 1) have significant environmental impacts and 2) raise the cost of all consumer goods, disproportionally harming the poor.
Reading your opinion (and not passing any judgment on it), I recalled this excellent sketch on BBC's Big Train comedy show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjOJy_54DM
Ah yes, Buzzfeed reporters, the finest and most reputable of journalists, the world is most definitely reeling from the loss of their jobs.
It's a bit disingenuous to toss out a hand-wavy 95% statistic and then similarly hand-wave away rebuttals.
> Type safety doesn’t seem to make a big difference. TypeScript proponents frequently talk about the benefits of type safety, but there is little evidence that type safety makes a big difference in production bug density. This is important because code review and TDD make a very big difference (40% — 80% for TDD alone)...

> TypeScript is only capable of addressing a theoretical maximum of 15% of “public bugs”, where public means that the bugs survived past the implementation phase and got committed to the public repository, according to Zheng Gao and Earl T. Barr from University College London, and Christian Bird from Microsoft Research.

The devil's in the details for studies like this and people ignore this to make it look like their opinion is backed up by science when it isn't. Measuring what percent help type safety gives in general is an impossibly vague concept while also very difficult to test, especially when making comparisons between numbers.

From the second study for example right in the abstract:

> Evaluating static type systems against public bugs, which
have survived testing and review, is conservative: it understates
their effectiveness at detecting bugs during private development,
not to mention their other benefits such as facilitating code
search/completion and serving as documentation. Despite this
uneven playing field, our central finding is that both static type
systems find an important percentage of public bugs: both Flow
0.30 and TypeScript 2.0 successfully detect 15%!

15% is a minimum from that study then and it isn't counting bugs that were caught from manual testing or otherwise before making a commit, or how much time was saved.

Quoting the study in this way is incredibly misleading in my opinion.
Have you run any numbers to back up your beliefs?
Yup - another corroborating factor.
> unpopular

Actually, it's the law... but nobody bothers following it because nobody bothers enforcing it.
When I followed the Valve game CS:GO a few years ago, I was pretty disgusted by the gambling done in that game. It made up an insane % of players, many of them children, who would bet weapon skins on third party websites based on ESports games. Valve shut those third party sites down but continued to market different kinds of skins such as gloves, music, etc. I wonder how much money moved to and away minors during that period.
A de facto standard is something that a community iterates on together. S-100, early iSCSI, etc. One company publishing specs and suing competing implementations is not a "de facto standard".
Actually I'm sorry for my tone up there when I clarified what I wrote. My first comment had a bad structure that was easy to misread.
Do yourself a favor if you havent already and go get TSA precheck. I havent shown up to an airport more than 30 minutes before boarding in years. Depending on the airport, I might not even show up until 10 minutes before boarding. Both SNA and TUS are both amazing for this.
As you acknowledge, it's usually the woman that takes the longer leave. Part of that is free choice. But part of it is also that women have lower opportunity costs to taking leave, and higher opportunity costs to staying in the workforce. A couple might realize that a woman will face additional headwinds to achieving seniority in her employment, since as you go up the ladder management tends to be disproportionately men. Moreover, a women will also face more headwinds for doing less mothering in order to continue in her career. Longer parental leave amplifies the effect of that pre-existing differential treatment, which is a downside to be accounted for.
You literally can't have enough plants in the house to compensate for the CO2 production of its inhabitants.

You would have to place water immersed algae farms on every open space in the house and keep them illuminated with artificial light 24/7, because plants will produce CO2 at night otherwise.

Like you said, good ventilation is far more effective than any plant.
One problem with the math for the ROI calculation is that catching a bug with a test is counted the same as catching a bug while you're typing the buggy code. Type checking lets you catch bugs sooner, thus more cheaply.

Another problem is that it focuses on bugs that make it out to production. Maybe for some projects production bugs are so costly that pre-production bugs are relatively negligible, but for most projects you can't treat pre-production bugs as 0 cost.
The kind of place that treats 10 hours this way is a kind of place that will treat you badly as employer. Same attitude will be applied in all aspects. The same very real considerations will be treated as dishonest excuses later on. Expect regular and long crunch and no control over when overtime.

Also, the assumption that forfeiting those 10h will make one financially worst off is likely wrong, especially in long term.

Lastly, we are not talking about 10h deciding, we are talking about 10h of a single take home assignment - there are more companies to talk with and decision making time is not in it.
For a front-end library like this, wouldn't regular GPLv3 do the same thing? I thought AGPL was mainly for server stuff.
I dont. cars are freedom, especially in the wide spaces of the United States. Sure its crappy commuting for 1-2 hours in traffic in the city but thats because you guys all work in one place and live in another. Public transportation can be shut down but a jeep can go anywhere.
I hope I’ve got this right, but if the author is comparing typescript to a modern tooling environment, while there are technical differences, I may not trust those maintainers more than Microsoft at language design and support.

I don’t think you can write off the cost of learning all of those different tools in the non-Typescript environment. Typescript at least centralizes everything and I trust Microsoft to do good language development because of C#’s legacy alone.
You can't build a lot in the bay area without affecting people who have a large personal stake in the housing market. That is the core of the issue in any major city with high housing prices. One of the few ways you can work around that is by building high speed transit. Since building in those newly connected locations will be in a different market or political region.
Service-Oriented Architecture.. Whatever that really means
So, it's been a while, but I have worked some of the jobs you mentioned. I didn't find management or coworkers substantially better or worse than in software/white collar. Not to say everyone was angels, I'm just saying it was comparable to software, which has its share of jerks (sometimes that has included me). Agree with you that power dynamic is different, as is corporate structure (intrinsically more site/region based) that also makes it harder to report an abusive person in the chain.

But it sounds like you had a truly abusive manager, and you still didn't ghost, to your credit.
Texans have been very dependent on cars, and I am happy to see this project happening. It services Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes, which is much faster than 3.5+ hours driving, or 2.5 hours(waiting + flying) by plane. Texans like myself will not have to fund the project which is very nice, and will benefit greatly from it.
Steam / Valve did this for quite a few years until they were taken to court in Australia for their unfair practices. A judge said their refund policy was criminal and intended to deny refunds and fined them a couple million dollars for an estimated 20,000 times. Steam drastically changed their refund policy and evaded fallout everywhere else, but it's probably going to be substantial for Facebook.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/350574/valve-fined-3m-in-australi...
"Friendly fraud" is not a Facebook-invented term. It's a term used and understood by card issuers, acquirers, and merchants.

Friendly fraud encompasses:

- Dissatisfied customers who don't find refuge in a refund policy/process

- Customers who are embarrassed by their purchases. This situation is commonly triggered when a significant other reads a credit card statement.

- Customers who spend beyond their means, and then look for a "solution" when the statement comes due

I find it weird the way Facebook seems to be using the term here. These are charges that were never contemplated by the cardholder. There is no "buyer's remorse" dimension.

Friendly fraud is specifically about charges that are agreed by the card holder, but they later change their mind and pretend otherwise.
Are you saying that his attitude towards unix is the same as "being asshole"?
Is the framing of this article normal in the US? Until a single paragraph at the end it reads like women are the sole parent. Also the complete lack of perspective of seeing parental leave as an end in itself, rather than some career crippling modernity.
Paid parental leave should accrue over time. That solves the issue in a way that is reasonably fair to the employee and business.

An employee with no interest in having children should also accrue parental leave, which can be cashed in in some manner. That keeps the system from being unfairly biased against people with no interest in having children.

The only alternative is to socialize the matter fully. Take the average salary from the prior N years and the government then pays for the parental leave out of taxes. That would also require all workers to pay into the system. One issue would be how to make it fair for people that never draw against that system. It would also take about five minutes before the first stories started showing up about how people earning $300,000 per year were being paid large sums by the government for parental leave. I suppose there could be an attempt to scale it based on pay as a percentage of income.

Entitlement systems are always fraught with edge cases though. Both of my parents died before they were able to draw social security, despite paying into the system for a combined ~70-80 years. That money was stolen from them by a flawed system.
Of course it takes less time and effort to write an APL interpreter than it does to actually learn APL.

I wish there were more languages like that.
Children will exist and be part of your civilization regardless of how much you spend on them. You'll be a civilization, just not a very good one.
We can also invest in public transit so that them owning a car wouldn’t be necessary
What I don't get is, why don't they make a study on how first world countries do it, see which ones are having trouble, see which ones are thriving (France I think), implement trials in a few states, see what's what, then go from there. Bill Gates' opinion on this shouldn't matter.
Those are heavily constrained envs that don't even always have a GC or allow 'long'.

SavaJe's whole shtick was it allowed full J2SE, and it's full J2SE that's intrinsically a battery hog.