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I never understood why in a democracy those votes for small parties are allowed to go to waste.

They should be able to give there "dropped" votes to a bigger party for a legislative period, for negotiated terms.

"If you promise to push opticfibre to all homes in these citys, you can have our voters voice for the next 4 years."

This would solve the problem of unheard voices and- allow actual negotiating politicians to be trained and get busy.
You don't even hear about the Turing test anymore. The orignal turing test was an AI algorithm fooling a human that it itself is human for ~5 minutes. One.

The reason you don't hear it anymore is that it's obvious that algorithms are doing this on the phone for commercial purposes constantly.

It's ridiculous how far the goalposts have moved.
Well said. Unfortunate a lot of the 'college students' you speak of are now policymakers with the same ethos of entitlement, arrogance, and most importantly, a lack econ 101.
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Exactly. I can just push another corporate social network, do a few beautiful videos about all the collaboration, but why bother thinking about why nobody is using it?
The idea that ideas don't matter is an item of faith on HN. It needs to be taken round the back of the chemical sheds and shot.
Is anyone passing out bidet's for free or low costs?? Don't think so...
This isn't a political problem, all problems are technical, because we are only ever going to solve problems politically.
I've been on both sides and it's not as simple as "bare metal saves you money." It really depends on the company and the type of applications being hosted and where the business is growing (or not growing). An established company with an established workload, especially if it's simple, will probably do better on bare metal, but cloud is popular in the Valley because ideas are still being developed and iterated on heavily where you don't want to be stuck on multi-year hardware leases that might not sync with what that future business looks like. Lyft is probably in that in-between stage, but I still think it's an enormous undertaking to become an infrastructure company over simply being able to hire full-stack developers, which is a lot easier and cheaper. Right now their time is better spent elsewhere.

I remember how hard it was to hire senior operations people. There are not many of them, and there are not many of them at the level of being able to deliver something amazing. The ubiquity of the cloud has only made these kind of experts less common.

Every place I've worked that did bare metal was always drowning in maintenance instead of working on the next big thing. And no big surprise, our internal infrastructure was nowhere near as high quality or capable as AWS. And most of our developers had experience working directly with cloud providers, without ops people, so we were delivering them a worse experience and slowing them down, and we required more ops people to help them and maintain it and keep everything online.

Also, a move to IBM's cloud isn't the greatest example. I had hundreds of bare metal servers in an IBM-owned datacenter and their cloud offering was consistently behind AWS/GCP; if anyone recommended IBM cloud to me I would have laughed at them. It seemed to me that IBM was trying to up-sell on the "cloud" buzz word without actually delivering anything except higher prices, just like how they're now trying to ride the buzz of the blockchain.

Dropbox is a good example of a company that took quite a while to move to their own platform, away from AWS (and they still have 10% of their stuff in AWS to this day). Dropbox is basically a storage infrastructure company, unlike Lyft, but it still took them years to invest in the development (and migration) of that custom platform to replace AWS, an investment that not many companies are going to want to gamble on, especially if their primary business is not storage:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...

And I think it's telling that Dropbox started on AWS, grew the business on AWS, and moved to a custom platform once their business model was perfected and they wanted to cut costs prior to going public. If Dropbox had started on bare metal from day one, would they have been able to pull it off?
The city, no. The state, sure.

Let's also set some things straight.

First, those numbers only make sense if you assume the land in LIC would remain undeveloped, and the city's $3 bn left unspent over 10 years. Obviously there will be other development in the area. LIC is already white-collar yuppie colony and tech companies are still coming to NYC in search of talent. Heck, Amazon already had plans to move to the city.

Second, "average of $150K" is meaningless. Does that include or exclude Bezos' salary? What's the median number? What's the 25th percentile?

Third, how many of those jobs will go to New Yorkers, versus be imported from other cities? What is the cost to other residents? Who, if anyone, will need to be compensated? Nobody has done any of those calculations, to my knowledge.

Fourth, has Amazon made any concrete commitments to transit development on paper?

The list goes on. There's a lot more at play here than the "sticker price".

Also leave AOC out of it. Blocking this deal wasn't her idea, she's just the one who posts on Twitter too much. Look to more reasonable (and powerful) politicians like Michael Gianaris.
I've recently been re-watching the show, and it stands up pretty well, especially the VFX. The two weaknesses I've noticed are the look (which is often dated to the '90s) and (ahem) JMS' writing. The plots are good, and stand against ST-TOS as actual science fiction, unlike many other SF shows, but the actual writing...well, yeah.

Speaking of ST-TOS, B5 doesn't look too bad compared to the remastered (!) ST on Netflix.
Clojure and Clojurescript DO have access to a lot of the same libraries.

There are also conditional reader constructs so that a library can, when necessary, offer different implementation details between Clojure and Clojurescript.

Ignoring libraries completely, Hy doesn't have the most important things that set Clojure apart. (As another poster points out.) Especially immutability.

This is nothing against Hy. I'm sure I would like it when I want a Lisp in a Python environment. But there's no good reason, and it is even misleading, to try to conflate it with clojure. It seems like it stands on its own strengths well enough.
I was a great example of the Peter Principle in action. I had climbed through the ranks of software development to become the director of software engineering at a mortgage firm, then after less than a year moved on to director of business applications at another mortgage firm. Besides the headiness of the role, I was of course attracted to the money. My parents were impressed - I was really going places. Fast forward a year, and I was dealing with entrenched employees that challenged me at every turn, a non-stop pace of enhancements to the software that left us little time to optimize the software (so it was running ever-slower with all the bloat of additional code), users that had a direct line to the CEO - who would run to me with every complaint, and favoritism shown to other managers that often meant we were serving several masters at once. For my part, I didn't have much experience with pushing back or protecting my people, so I don't believe they trusted me all that much. We committed to too much. I fell into a funk, and began feeling that whatever I did didn't matter. My work began to suffer and I was forgetting stuff and making mistakes.

My boss was sympathetic, as he was dealing with a lot of the same challenges with other department heads and the CEO. When I finally announced my resignation, he told me he didn't blame me, and that he had told the CEO he was leaving within the next couple of months himself!

I've since gone on to be a manager at another, much smaller company/start-up. The hours are longer sometimes, and I feel like I'm running in a lot of different directions. But the pressure has reduced quite a bit, and I'm liking the culture a lot more. I think I'll stay at this level for a while before I try and move up again. Sometimes it's good to take a step back and re-assess instead of blindly charging ahead and getting yourself in even deeper. For now I'm just focusing on upping my value and taking care of my people. And just putting in the work without worrying about if it's "perfect" or not. That's all I can do.
I'd advocate for UBS (Universal Basic Stuff) versus UBI and a Universal Dividend. In highly simplistic terms:

For UBS - as stuff gets increasingly easier to produce with automation, the stuff that gets included will grow (Free access to clean water/air, health, housing in a non overpriced city, free online MOOC education).

The Universal Dividend drives the annual UBS allotments - basically if the country as a whole is profitable and there is money left over - then the whole country is rewarded and the amount of UBS given to each person is increased for that year. Hence people will be incentivized to reduce spending because it will effect their UBS.
I do plenty of that, and AutoML could help with a small fraction of that.
Perhaps they are referring more generally to payment processors refusing to work with companies that provide services related to things like pornography? Technically legal, but ostensibly morally distasteful?
Compare it with Lost.... :-)
I hope my pedantry (pedanticism?) isn't too inane...

Or, you surreptitiously hope it's much too inane, much as people do with puns. What should we call those who secretly love pedantry? "Pedantophiles?" Oh what a difference one syllable makes!
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PG&E's retail rates have been regulated by the state for a long, long time, since they provide a utility which is vital to the public interest and past deregulatory efforts have immediately resulted in market manipulation and energy crises [1].

However, this doesn't prevent PG&E from performing the appropriate maintenance on their equipment. That fault lies with the policies of upper management. CPUC is well aware of PG&E's obligations to maintain their equipment and regularly audits them and has made hay in the past about PG&E's reactive approach to maintenance [2].

The people who bring up the regulation of retail prices tend to be the ones who have an ideological love for deregulating everything. That's the wrong hammer for this particular screw and hasn't worked out so well in the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

[2]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-cited-for-...
Are you sure, how can you be sure?
I reckon not (and they couldn't anyway). And I've no illusions that all the protections that I've evoked/implemented myself against Google et al would add any meaningful protection either.

Methinks, the only way to bypass governments would be to delete one's ISP account and throw away one's PCs and smartphones.
The credits? Nobody, they're tax credits and not free money to Amazon. Its a drop in the bucket considering all of the income and sales tax people will end up paying.
I thought they didn't go with 16:9 for the remaster because all the shots had to be framed for 4:3 for TV, and it was awkward having a bunch of "empty space" around the wider frame. But hey if 4:3 is good enough for The Maltese Falcon, it's good enough for me.
It's one thing to state that "the homeownership rate which is significantly lower" and another to point out the systematic housing discrimination that has taken place across America for more than a century and which is certainly not over.

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

Think about it - in most cities the entire shape of our urban landscape is defined by the movement of white people to avoid living near black people. Similarly, the reason public transit in most of the US is near non-existent is b/c people do not want buses and trains bringing 'other' people to where they live.
Rolex makes some pretty high-quality watches.
I think Venezuela is looking for new citizens...

You may fit in well there. Just saying.
Generate secret colors for emails so your users don't get phished
We've already started the reversing effort:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A
Yes, it's wrong to say "we can spend that $3bn elsewhere".

That said, the $3 billion is not the full price tag (externalities, etc.) and the $27 billion is not the whole story (can we see your raw data please?).
TLDR: It's a huge sunfish, but not the species of sunfish they first thought it was. Turns out it's a "Hoodwinker Sunfish", and this is the first known sighting in North America -- they're usually found in the Southern Hemisphere.
For video game streamers a lot of people diversify into a mix of twitch streaming, youtube videos, and patreon subscriptions, but it's not obvious that this is a viable path for the majority of youtube content creators.
While I can understand where you’re coming it’s probably much harder to brush something off that’s been recorded and passed around vs. being recalled from memory.
> That argumentum ad populum does not invalidate the offered justification.

That "offered justification" doesn't refute the original point, which is that exists solely as away to have an elite minority subvert or disregard the will of the people.

The irony in pejoratively using the term argumentum ad populum in a thread that is literally about popular vote is not lost on me.
> There's no filesystem journal

That's one that has been sticking out to me lately. Both NetBSD and OpenBSD, as much as I like them, lack a modern filesystem..
How do you know it would be less tax income than would be created by other businesses moving into LIC? You don't -- no one does, because AFAIK that analysis hasn't been done yet.
> The problem is that Amazon's end of the deal involved a lot of ill-defined promises

For example?
It’s because Toyota couldn’t make a promising navigation system. They tried things like Scout GPS, “embedded nav”, and SDL.
What’s a BTC machine? What happened to the money the poor souls dumped into it?
If the vendor is free to set the conversation rate, and it is generally acknowledged that the value of the Papiermark is falling, they will require more of it for the equivalent of a dollar. The aggregate effect of everyone doing this may inflate the Papiermark out of existence, but it has nothing to do with Gresham's law. In fact, it's the opposite effect, since the dollar would remain in circulation.

If the vendor had to accept the Papiermark at a 1:1 rate, then nobody would pay with the dollar and then it would drive out the dollar. That would be Gresham's law.
I'm not a doctor, but we know about the negative effects of light on sleep. Our species evolved with little nighttime light, and we know the mechanism by which our circadian rhythms are tricked by artificial light.

Most sleep experts (including pediatric sleep experts) recommend blacking out your room, removing all electronics, etc.

Perhaps an expert in this area can chime in, but I don't think light during sleep is positive.
However, if you have japanese customers, worry about future year numbering in your program.
Why corruption?
I take the secret from the initial signup (2d-barcode/hex string) and encrypt it with my public keys (private keys are on 2 different Yubikeys) and then distribute them to 3 different computers. Overkill, especially given that encrypted local iPhone backups store the GoogleAuthenticator secrets, but it means I won't lose my 2FA secrets if I lose my phone.
The accessible (no registration/subscription required) article:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132190-300-the-true...
Yes, the best way to get the correct solution to your problem is to post wrong solution on the Internet and wait for people to explain why you're utterly wrong.
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>Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Made in 1977 and we can already comfortably go two orders of magnitude larger. Not bad.
Thanks. While I'm ambivalent to Amazon in NYC reading this reminds me of Wal-Mart and their tax incentives to open stores in communities to "bring in thousands of jobs". Is there more thought to this than the financial incentive of a 9x return on taxes?
> Without being purely "conservative", i.e. it was first done on phones therefore it should stay on phones, what are the actual arguments for one vs the other? What do phones have that laptops don't, and vice versa?

People are away from their laptops and exposed to risk of then being stolen without immediate knowledge of that fact more often than the same is true of smartphones, which makes laptops somewhat more of a security risk.

Though, I thought that now TOTP in general, on any platform, is at best a second choice after U2F hardware tokens.
It's a bit disingenuous to just say "locals" when you're talking about "PG&E employees".
The trouble is their employees don't seem particularly bothered by the evil they do every day. if they did, they'd leave.
This is a huge improvement. Supports unittest, pytest and nose.
Those Japanese luxury toilets that many Asians and some Western celebrities and rich people use might actually be the most environmentally friendly choice.

https://www.totousa.com/products/neorest
A blockchain is a modification of a hash chain to make it usable in cases where different transactions conflict with each other. In the case of TLS certificate transparency, Go packages, etc., a log entry "This object with this hash was published" does not conflict with a log entry "That object with that hash was published." You can append them to the chain in either order and it's fine. For a financial ledger, "This money was moved from A to B" conflicts with "This money was moved from A to C," and so one needs to be applied first so that the other can be rejected. If both transactions are signed it doesn't matter which one (for the correctness of the system, at least), but all users have to come to consensus about which of the two is accepted. Otherwise you have the "double-spend" problem.

Bitcoin's blockchain solves this problem with "proof-of-work," i.e., making it computationally difficult to add another entry to the hash chain. Because it's difficult, it's unlikely that both transactions will be accepted at the same time, which serves as a publicly-verifiable way to arbitrarily pick one. There is a small financial incentive for the network entity that successfully solved the computational problem, hopefully offsetting their expense in "mining" the "block." (As a further means of making sure only one is accepted, even if both are mined in quick succession, it's common practice in Bitcoin to wait for a few more blocks to be mined before B or C accept the transaction, which forces the network to accept one chain or the other.)

Satoshi's innovation was that proof-of-work can be used to allow arbitrary / anonymous entities to participate in this system without risking someone creating several thousand anonymous entities voting in their favor, or creating one view of the hash chain for B and another for C to convince them both to accept the transaction. (Satoshi's innovation was not the append-only cryptographically-verifiable store; that's just a hash chain. It was securing updates to that store without a central trusted coordinator.)

There are other ways to arbitrarily pick one transaction or the other, e.g., using a distributed consensus algorithm and admitting participants based on "proof of stake." Or you can redefine the problem to allow double-spend to a limited extent and make A responsible for paying out both B and C - this is roughly Stellar's approach.

But if you don't have a double-spend problem (or if you have a central trusted coordinator), you just need a boring old hash chain, which can be implemented much more efficiently - and possibly expanded to a hash tree, as described in this article.
The problem is that the right sees another sort of polution- produced by humans - just beeing humans. We consume alot of stuff- and if we dont get that lot of stuff- we blow society up.
We are not peacefull. Not never ever. We do not hold back. If we get ten years without economic growth- we go full weimar republic, take me to africa ape-shit.

So its having to choose between two evils. Stability or Poison. Stability will kill you now, poison might kill you tomorrow, or might even be solved.