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Interesting survey, but some points to keep in mind:

This is a survey of all tech workers in the US. It's not focused on Silicon Valley, and it's not focused on startups (in fact they only surveyed people in companies with 500+ people). Of course the tech giants + startups are not all of tech, but on the other hand, a lot of press coverage of tech is of them. The difference matters here - for example, people in the top tech companies are much more left-leaning on average than the people in this survey, since many are in the left-leaning Bay Area and Seattle, and we have political donation data on them confirming that.

And to be specific, just 20% of people surveyed are in the West (which would include the Bay Area and Seattle), while 37% are from the South and 20% from the Midwest. So over half are not from the stereotypical "tech industry" that the media covers.

Also the survey shows that many tech workers have mixed feelings about the media. The article tries to explain it by right-leaning politics (that the media is too liberal, a backlash against feminism, etc.). However, the article states,

> women in the tech industry are less likely to hold a positive opinion of the media than their male counterparts.

The article spends only this one sentence on that topic. But it may matter quite a bit, since women tend to be more left-leaning in their politics, and make up almost half of the people surveyed (44%). Given that, the article's explanations don't seem sufficient - there's something else going on here.
Past is better. Not great, but better than more. Thanks for listening!
Windows 2000 is literally NT 5.0 (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_ve... for a mapping of the widely used names to internal NT versions).

Edit to clarify: all versions of Windows, server and consumer, are NT, they just stopped using that branding.
> you grant us a worldwide

So if we were to colonize Mars, Twitter wouldn't have rights to the content there? What about Earth orbit?
I wrote a fairly large code base that started from an empty buffer in c++17. I don't really consider C++ an OOP language, though it can be used in that way if you wish.
I don't have direct experience but libphonenumber looks pretty comprehensive: https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber
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C++ predates Windows.
One of the early uses of type systems was about performance of memory allocation, which brought massive performance improvements. Folks quickly realized that they could be used to enforce invariants, which they're also really good at.

Those benefits are orthogonal to dynamic vs. static type checking. Even with a dynamically typed language, you get massive performance, security, and correctness guarantees vs. an untyped language. There's huge merit in having a type system that provides all these benefits but still doesn't guard against runtime errors.

Which brings me to my point: this person is clearly confused about the benefits of type systems, which don't require static typing to add incredible value.
DSL is more like a generalisation of config files.
Don't neglect the possibility that there is no solution. Market failures happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
One distinction I should have drawn is between running an Airbnb with a landlord's permission (or as a landlord yourself) versus doing it in violation of other agreements you have (like with your landlord or co-op board or whatever). If you're violating contracts, then yeah, you shouldn't be doing that and other people in the building have a right to be upset.

But if you own the building and are running it as an Airbnb hotel, I don't know that it's a self-evident fact that you're putting significant negative externalities onto your neighboring buildings. I can imagine negative externalities, but I can also imagine plenty of positive ones. These are exactly the kind of calculations that regulators are empirically horrible at making, even when they have the best intentions (and often they don't have even that going for them).

The ban on short-term rentals is a ban on a use of property which is provably very valuable to the people on both sides of those transactions. Banning that use destroys value for both those sides. The objection is that short-term rentals divert housing stock away from long-term renters, but that's not a problem with short-term rentals (which are, as we can see from the fact that they're so popular, an even more in-demand use of the property than long-term rentals), it's a problem with the low supply of housing. Which is a problem caused by the very regulators who are riding in to "save" renters from Airbnb.
Or: insult to injury in the ongoing mass extinction. This is fighting fire with fire.
Trust me, once I have enough teams to make using AND logic a good user experience, I will!
Apple's move to make expensive crap that I don't want to buy anymore creates uncertainty.
> What about the Google jobs? Do those count as infinite return? If so, more infinite returns, and less 9:1 returns, please.

I could give you one cent tomorrow in exchange for nothing, you will have an infinite return in a day. Or I can given you $2 tomorrow in exchange for $1 today, a relatively modest 100% return in a day.

End of the day you either gained one dollar or one cent. The dollar buys you more thing. That's the difference between a handful of Google jobs and tens of thousands of Amazon jobs.

Could you repeat the one cent thing? Maybe a few times but it will also take a few more "days", and probably won't reach one hundred repetition any time soon. This is a shallow and/or low-throughput well, only so much water can be drawn from it.
Not sure what your inputs are, but perhaps a rule of thumb (if not there already) is to generate a list of attractions sorted by quantity of reviews on (eg) trip advisor and then compare that result with #of people who actually go there.

It could give you the chance to rank 'must see' weighed against 'off the beaten track'. (Oz has heaps of 'off the beaten track' that the hordes of tourists don't know about)
Well, an event in a far distant future is always valid if none of the paths leading to that event contain any code that raise an exceptional condition. That’s it.
Because self-replicating nanobots is the definition of Grey Goo?
CouchDB is a great choice for distributed databases, it's extremely easy to sync them. It can even run inside the browser, which makes creating offline SPAs easy.
The problem is old, going back, one example after another, continually to a famous quote of Jefferson about sewage news at

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_spe...

So, for a fix, first, mostly ignore the newsies (a word from a Bogart character in the movie The Maltese Falcon).

Second, much of politics is trying to get votes from name recognition from shocking statements based on gossip, lies, distortions, made up nonsense, etc.

Well, then, the newsies and the politicians have a strong interest in common: For name recognition for votes the politicians want their shocking stories told, and for ad revenue from eyeballs the newsies want shocking stories to tell. There was a similar remark in the movie Lawrence of Arabia.

So, the second step is mostly to ignore the politicians.

A third step is, for information that might be in the news, fall back to and insist on at least common high school term paper writing standards, rational, responsible content with thorough references to objective, credible, primary sources. With this third step will entertain:

Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see and still will believe twice too much.

Measure twice and saw once.

Essentially everything you see in the media was put there and paid for by someone who wants to influence your opinion (Sharyl Attkissson).

It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you do know for sure that just ain't so (In the movie The Big Short and there attributed to Mark Twain).

Will conclude that for nearly all the news, printed on paper it can't compete with Charmin and on the Internet is useless for wrapping dead fish heads.

A hope is that the Internet will enable many more new information sources with some with lots of credibility and narrow specialization and that the best of these sources will help the US and civilization.
IPFS is running directly on the device. As soon as we add the sync capability, the user can run more nodes by installing AirSecure on more devices, or they can run a desktop peer with https://github.com/textileio/textile-go and pair that desktop to their account.
Is it an example of perpetual energy?
Well Julia sort-of does have interfaces, it’s just that those interfaces are protocols and only conventions (ie there’s no way to say “my type will implement Foo interface”). There is an interface for iteration. If you want to implement it then you just have to implement the iterate function for your type and zero and 1 parameters. Similarly the way to say that your type has a length isn’t to implement the HasLength interface but to just implement the length function.
Look at a couple of the books/articles/interviews by JJ Virgin to start... there's many more references that will spread out from there. I'm sorry but I've done a lot of reading over the past couple years mostly to expand personal knowledge, I'm bad about remembering all the individual articles to cite and mostly rely on google for what I can remember.

Tom Bilyeu and HVMN channels on youtube also have some great content. DietDoctor.com is another good resource.

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLHIpELaHyVsSaQPJnL0n3w

- https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/modern-wheat-health-nig...

edit: if someone could explain the downvotes?

edit2: you know, I didn't have a lot of time to look up a bunch of stuff... I provided what I could... I didn't mean to link to the image, but an article with it, and in the end, whatever... the vegetarians have spoken and down modded anything disagreeing into oblivion without any counter argument with citation, or any actual experiments confirming their own bias.
Technology takes time to evolve.
- Doesn't compile to native code (there are ways to do it, but too complicated and there are caveats).

What do you mean by that? It absolutely is compiled to e.g. x86_64 instructions by default, going through LLVM. Do you mean no standalone binaries? If so, that's actively being worked on by e.g. PackageCompiler.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
If the genetic modification is to make it glyphosate resistant, there’s a higher likelihood that the corn will have glyphosate in it.
What’s with the macros? With Python you can build fully-featured DSLs without needing macros by simply overriding standard operators.
Yes, although Python feels more suitable for OOP for some reason, not sure why... perhaps it's the object.method() notation. It's often more natural and readable and allows better autocompletion in an IDE. Also, I prefer that methods are defined inside of a class, it's immediately clear what is a top level functions and what is a method belonging to a class or struct.
Congrats again on a stellar performance!

My 2 cents: back in a day when I was going to Angelhacks frequently, we would show up early and go through all the sponsor booths. The idea was to find a sponsor that is relatively small (and thus really cares about adoption) and that has a large prize ($1500+), and completely commit to building on them. Spend time at their booths, understand their API to the lowest level details, and build a hack that showcases their strengths.

Since most of the other teams usually just plug the sponsor APIs at the last moment, someone who was committed is more likely to win the prize.

I won this way $1500+ on 4 different occasions.
Not doing something can't be tested against the test of time. Hygiene and antibiotics obviously improved our lives. So did cooking food and building civilizations. But if red meat was eaten for 200K years, we've very likely adapted ourselves to benefit from it... not only not get harmed by it. (Obviously in the right quantities.)
> For Fargate, this meant deploying 50 instances of my container with pretty beefy settings — 8 GB of memory and 4 full CPU units per container instance.

This is for hello world application. This is insane. Single EC2 HVM instance would have better performance.

> Something that is 2x the cost, and 10% 'less performant' - but is very easy to use, requires minimal devops focus, and can enable feature iteration and easy scale - this is what most growing companies need.

Cost is close to 50x and Fargate is not necessarily lower overhead. Terraform + Packer + EC2 vs ECS + Docker + Fargate is pretty the same for me. You still need to build images and manage the deployment lifecycle.
I'm all for having social contracts granting those who make (or synthesize from the ideas of others) new "creative content" time-limited monopolies, but I've never understood the idea that compensation for "creative work" is somehow a natural, inalienable right. It's a good bargain for society to have a construct that creates compensation for "creators", to be sure, but I just can't buy the idea that there's some quasi-moral component it.

(I do strongly get behind the idea that falsely claiming credit for the creative work of others is immoral, but that's a different thing than being somehow "entitled" to compensation. That's a completely different animal to me.)
Give Rust a try. People like to complain about the Rust learning curve, but comparative to the language it's trying to replace (C++) it's actually quite simple and the compiler/tooling will hold your hand compared to the conventions you have to memorize to use C++17 safely.
The A12X is already comparable to some Intel CPUs in terms of performance. Yet its power and thermal budget is tiny. The Macbook Pro 13" has an 83 Wh battery [1], while the iPad Pro 12.9" only has 36 Wh.

What I like to imagine is an ARM Macbook with the equivalent of two A12s. That will give you an outstanding performance with better battery life. You'll also get further growth potential that Apple has demonstrated year over year, compared to Intel CPUs, which have stagnated.

I'm terribly excited about this. And yes, getting your Docker images to run on ARM will be a bit of a drag, but in the long term, this sounds like the future.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/apple-produc...
Aside from paid shills of the sugar/soda industry and a bunch of junk research from the 60's, there's a pretty solid concensus that refined sugars (especially at modern diet levels) and in particular fructose is pretty damned bad for you.
As someone who has been roadtripping Australia for 20 years, multiple times a year, this is a really great resource.

Plugging in a few family-fav trips and it seems to hit most the major points I would personally recommend.

I like that each place links to Wikipedia, but I don't think that was obvious at first. I actually only noticed on my re-visit of the site to see if the places had a "more info" link or something, and completely missed that they were links on my first look through.

I would probably add links to Wikitravel over Wikipedia, but maybe that's just me. I like how it summarises the key tourist attractions and eateries and stuff.

On the final version of the site, I would definitely consider pulling in some photos of the places when you expand the breakdown. People who travel/roadtrip generally like visuals, which is exactly why so many of the roadtrip guides look more like photography magazines. I'm not sure how you'd do that and keep it looking so clean/minimal (which I quite like), but I do think it's important.
Long Island City is not Manhattan. They do benefit from giving incentives as they are not a robust, energized area. Thus the plastic factory/ superfund site with no jobs.
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There are probably multiple ways to reverse proxy, it’s just that CF workers are versatile to handle many use cases. You don’t have to lose the caching benefits. You can still pull your assets through Cloudflare CDN since workers operate at the request level (afaik).

In fact it can be even more performant. You can use Workers KV to cache as well. So a request comes in, check KV store, return if found. If not, pull from asset CDN.
Those locations are definitely present in our knowledge graph. You wanted them proposed by default, without explicitly entering them? Katoomba pops up pretty frequent in our lab (but Jenolan caves don't). I promise if you specify Katoomba and Jenolan caves as start or finish or travel-through points, you will get good routes via them all.
C++ compiler authors must practically be gods to translate this stuff. There are so many parsing problems — quantum mechanics is child's play.
I wouldn’t call it healthy. Every time I have an inkling to run k8s on my rpi cluster I find out that there aren’t arm images for many of the tools I want to use, and many of the arm images that exist are hard to find (Docker hub doesn’t/didn’t support searching via arch) or aren’t actively supported. It would be great if everyone did make arm builds for their software, but that’s not been the case in my experience.
Most likely not being enabled in the software for entertainment purposes, these aren’t a surveillance tool if the airlines wanted to have security cameras they would’ve installed them already and not in a place that is easily accessible by the passengers so they could cover them.

This is utterly useless for anything but to make video calls or for kids to play stupid games with.

Many infotainment systems already have had microphones in them even on older planes with international flights you had the ability to make calls even in coach.
Oh I've never heard of that!
English is not my first language and maybe I misunderstood you. But #3 is net positive only for USA. Of course, if you live in USA and watch and read only us media, it's self assuring to believe "we do it for greater good". But it's not.
Beneath the jargon, the UN's report on climate change was radical
Can you show me some evidence that the gene drive affecting that species won't affect other species?

From what I've read, hybridization does occur between mosquito species.
I'm not. Just like I'm ok with VHS and scan lines becoming niche markets, we need to push forward in programming language design. We've come a long way in the past 35 years; lessons have been learned, the field of programming language theory has progressed, and we're ready to iterate. C++ has been retrofitted, but like Java, it's commitment to backwards compatibility has ballooned complexity to an unsustainable point, and there are simply too many things that will never be fixed, and C compatibility will never be dropped.

We need to forge forward, and support the next generation of programming languages.
I noticed three main misleading arguments in the blog post:

* That the SSC survey tells us anything about the CW thread. Since per his own survey few of the SSC readers read the CW thread why should we expect that many of the CW regulars took the survey? More than twice as many SSC readers indicated that they were aware of the CW thread and choose to not read it than indicated that they read it, which you might take as evidence that the CW regulars are unlike the survey respondents as a whole in at least some ways. Even if you did establish that the readership was broad spectrum that wouldn't tell you anything about the absence of toxic garbage there. Most people are not comfortable engaging in a forum where harmful views 3-sigma outside of their overton window are taken seriously, even if they're only 1% of the posts in much the same way that most people would be uncomfortable accepting an optional blood transfusion where only 1% of the bags were contaminated by HIV and HEP-C.

[Here is the data on the survey respondents readership of the CW thread:

3175 (42.7%) "No, I don't want to read it", 2346 (31.5%) "No, I didn't know it existed", 1425 (19.1%) "Yes, I read it", 369 (4.9%) "Yes, I comment there", 118 (1.5%) no answer.

I don't want to assume bad faith, but I think it's really suspect that this wasn't mentioned in the post. I think it would be very surprising to the people arguing about the CW thread here on HN on the basis of scott's politics graphs.]

* That complaints are from Bay Area liberals that have never interacted with conservatives. As others in this thread have noted here the racist/xenophobic/misogynistic positions that have people shocked are views that wouldn't be presented in polite company pretty much anywhere in the US. Scott is unintentionally using a "motte and bailey" where he pretends that the complaint is merely conservative views, when instead what people get worked up about is stuff like forced sterilization.

* That the incident is an example of deplatforming or otherwise obviously related to trends that suppress public discussion. At least in so far as I am aware the well known examples of deplatforming looked nothing like the harassment Scott reported. I've seen no evidence that any well known deplatforming event was related to harassment by third parties. The CW thread itself was a move from the SSC subreddit to its own subreddit, not a deplatforming and has clearly radically increased its visibility.

And based on the commentary on HN, I think presence of these three fallacious arguments has significantly undermined public discourse on the subject. There are many thoughtful and interesting comments on HN-- expressing concerns about politics in the bay area, or about deplatforming-- which are essentially disconnected from SSC/CW thread specifically because these arguments served the rhetorical purpose of substituting the issue at hand with a largely unrelated one where the readers already had preformed strong opinions.

Scott would probably have done himself and the public a favor by making his post on this subject an adversarial collaboration.
Sorry, can't resist to leave an obligatory note mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines.

Nonetheless, a genuinely interesting article.
It's a nice trick sure, using machine learning (I assume) to build 3d geometry from 2d satellite images, but it's nothing compared to the quality and fidelity of the images taken by low flying airplanes that Birds Eye in Bing actually used. Made house/apartment hunting a dream!

Looking at 3d google maps a bit more closely, it does seem they are capturing the sides of buildings that are not visible on the top down image. Still nowhere near the quality of Birds Eye, but I'd be interested in what other image sources they are using besides top down, and how they are captured.
> Why is it morally better to get 100% of nothing than to participate in a project with incentives that give you 9 times return plus create 24-40k jobs?

Because people who rail against deals like this take zero responsibility for any of the consequences. It's all of the fun moral policing and none of the downside. It's great to be an activist.
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Yes? "As dictated to them" is a weird way of putting it, since they were the ones making the demands.
Can't one use one of manned spacecrafts being developed in USA to get to Hubble? Soyuz is out for other reasons.
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The letter says the next biggest company deal with jobs was 1,000 people. So no, there aren’t many other compnies bringing 25k jobs. Especially ones with average incomes of $150,000.