skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but that's just the AWS expense. How much per ride does Lyft spend on it's own devs (and admin staff) and boxes (and electric and RE costs)?
Pig remains show extensive human mobility to sites near Stonehenge
Install a VM, share folders with the binary/source code.

You could keep it to .Net core, but this limits integration.

But the answer of RDP is not sarcastic... as it is probably the only way to get what you want.
30 days would be fine - but since it’s 30 days after the end of the month, it ends up being more along the lines of 45-60 days after the user has been actively using the service (and thus costing us money).
I think this is one of those cases where the analysis is waaaaay too smart for the subject material. There's a lot of stuff in Hollywood where it's just cargo culting something that worked once. We have good reason to believe this is the case because it also has a long history of anti-cargo-culting things that failed once. You can see this whenever you have movies that killed an entire genre for 5 or 10 years, only for that genre to explode in success later (superhero movies I believe have been through that cycle twice now), or for some really good movie to surprise its way on to the scene only to be followed by a ton of crap copying only the most superficial aspects of the successful product ("apparently, people really like found footage movies where you can't see anything, so shake that camera even more").

It turns out Hollywood isn't particularly good at understanding what the root causes of a movie's success or failure is, so there's a lot of cargo culting, and cultural shortcuts.

As for how it started, I think it was just a simple class signifier, used for incongruity's sake. (Itself something that Hollywood has cargo culted; incongruity is a powerful tool but IMHO it's more than just jamming things together that don't seem to belong, which is done a lot. There's thought that can be put into what is being incongruous and why.)

(Note this isn't a terribly strong criticism of the article, it's more a terribly strong criticism of Hollywood. Sometimes a subject matter just doesn't have enough strength to support a careful analysis in the first place.)
Assuming DV was able to save a good% of their money and get a reasonable return on it, their nest egg could easily be a couple million today. After taxes etc another 3 years might only grow that 10-15%.
It's innuendo implying that the Germans are nothing but American running dogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_dog
If you want to build the best code, you want it to be fast, correct, and maintainable.

If you want to build the best company, you might not care so much about these.

But then, not all of us are running businesses. And building your company on top of the best code isn't even a bad idea.
What if the device is a HSM? In that case not being able to execute arbitrary code is a feature for me.
It's ridiculous apple still forces anyone who wants to publish to its platform to have a mac. Had to jump through ridiculous hoops to get automated builds for an iOS app working since our build farm is all Linux (of course).
"As a prophylactic measure, they were drinking their Scotch mixed with Irn-Bru"

...and they asked these barbarians about whisky?!

I have never heard of anybody here in Scotland drinking whisky mixed with Irn-Bru, except as a dare. Expensive whisky is drunk neat, or with a bit of water; never with ice. Increasingly, nowadays, you get whisky cocktails. Cheap blended whisky is also drunk neat, or with beer (either side-by-side or as a boilermaker, with the shotglass of whisky dropped into a pint of beer), or with soda water or lemonade.

Irn-Bru is usually drunk with vodka.
I am not sure it is complete nonsense. But writing about all arts as a single entity is confusing. Even the art market itself is not a single industry. There is no satisfying definition of art. Is TV commercial art? In some cases, it may well be. Is the film industry only producing works of arts? Far from it. Why should starving artists starve if "arts" are doing so well? It must be because they don't do the kind of "art" that contributes so much to the economy.
Thousands of minks die after being set free (2017)
> So their choice on iOS is pay the tax or don't have a presence

If I want my music in the Spotify catalog who decides what's my cut and what's Spotify's cut of the money my music is generating? They have 100% control there so if I want to list my music there what are my choices? Pay up or not have a presence.

Apple's choice is to give them access to millions of customers with big pockets (statistically), maintain the whole infrastructure for this, not get anything because the app is "free" but actually not even be allowed to drop them? What kind of choice is that? Should an app even be called "free" if it offers nothing without paying? Isn't that like asking for tax exemptions for a nonprofit organization that makes a profit?

Would it be OK if Apple changed the rules so apps had to offer full functionality without further paid unlocks or simply charge for the app as a service in the App Store at whatever monthly price the developer chooses?

The fact that Spotify lied or misled about these details that are pretty obscure to most people (including me until I specifically read about them) kind of disqualifies them from playing victim in my perspective. They want all the benefits with none of the strings.
For those interested, the excellent History of Byzantium podcast[0] is covering the entire history of the empire, from the fall of the western empire, up to the sack of Constantinople. It gets pretty in-depth, with each episode covering a distinct event or topic, and stops every century to give a survey of what's going beyond the empire's borders and broad changes in the lives of its people and their culture.

0: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/
Turning the Yield Curve into Music
With enough effort pretty soon you have a good foundation of useful rubes who will repeat your claims ad nausea as fact. The claim that nuclear has mostly come to a halt because of fearmongering is one such claim, easily and completely disproven with even the most cursory of analysis. Somehow it comes back from the dead as if it's just those pesky fearmongers, and not nuclear's horrid history (not in accidents or deaths, where it has done spectacularly, but in pure economics), that's to blame.

Most nuclear builds in the west saw extraordinarily little opposition. Ever. We saw a massive spike in builds that went on for a few decades, but it slowly sputtered to a halt because of real-world economics and utilities becoming jaded. Economics that saw that nuclear was overhyped, and the process around it (a process necessary for a platform that can cause enormous economic and ecological damage if it goes awry) made it much less of a win.

Not one nuclear plant has been delayed or not built because of the Yucca Mountain issue (which is a classic issue where you're asking a jurisdiction to take the problems with none of the benefits). Dry cask storage is doing fine.

We're just entering the period where nuclear power plants are nearing end of life stages, where countless billions in costs are going to come due that everyone just whistled and looked the other way about. The massive nuclear hype was courtesy of the 1950s style new age everything is better enthusiasm, and was critical for building out the grid, and is still a very important part of the mix. However they aren't being built because of some soccer mom nattering about Fukushima, but instead because the people who run the energy grid are choosing much less expensive options. Wind and solar are much less expensive full stop, and gas turbines are cheaper because no one has to pay for the carbon released, which has its own problems that we're going to pay a heavy price for.
The fact that pilots have already warned Boeing does not imply that OP "has no idea what they are talking about."

Your reply was unnecessarily hostile and your downvotes are well-deserved.
> Not sure how to invest money

Low fee index funds
This reminds me of the time when my friends ran a fake contest on Facebook in the early days. Someone won. Then they told their local newspaper. Other small papers picked it up. Then it got picked up by bigger publications. Everyone treated it like it was a legitimate contest.

Sometimes a story is so juicy that even the big fish can't ignore it.
I think it's not as black and white. Amazon has all of that money because we as a society supported it's growth. We like Amazon, and we gave them our money. If the tables were turned, and you were a billionaire altruistic philanthropist, would you not attempt to do the same thing with your money? It's the same concept, just different side of the coin.

Lobbying is not an exclusive concept. I could right now pay someone to go lobby the government for me. Obviously I wouldn't get very far, but what if my neighbors and I pooled our money together? And their neighbors? And so on and so forth and indeed that is how many lobbying arms are formed outside of industry.

Ultimately at the end of the day, Lobbying is viewed with contempt because we have corrupt officials that weigh the opinions of certain lobbyist who are looking to corrupt the law for their own interests more than what is good for the general public. If you took out lobbying right now, you would still be left with corrupt officials that weigh the opinions of people with money more than the general public. But here is the kicker: you would do more harm than good, because now advocacy groups do not have a way to influence officials. Lobbying, however contemptible it seems to most people, exists because it does serve a purpose. Your elected officials cannot possibly keep up with the sea of issues in their constituencies. Lobbying provides a sort of self-selecting way for the more important issues to "bubble up to the top"

What is always missing from conversations on lobbying is the hundreds of other lobbying groups that have as their mission to serve to improve the general good or public and how eliminating it would impact the good that is done by them (as evidenced by sibling comment by mtgx).
>You still have to fight with borrow checking in Rust as in C++, it’s just not automated.

It's not that easy. The borrow checker gives you memory safety and thread-safety. In C++, you always have to worry about memory safety, so here the ownership model and borrow checker is a pure win. However, in C++ you don't have to worry about thread safety in a single thread...there's no barrier to passing pointers around and mutating things from different places in your code. In rust, the borrowchecker disallows shared mutable state...that's a huge win if you want to parallelize your code later on, but it also means that things that are trivial in C++ take a lot of thought and effort in rust, especially if you're thinking in a C++ paradigm (as opposed to coming from a functional language).
> The question is: If you form a contract for someone else to petition for a redress of greivances on you behalf, is that contract void?

I'm not sure that this is in the end a distinction that is useful. Even making such contracts unenforceable would not really change things. Neither party to the contract is in violation of the law. So if a group lobbies on my behalf, and I pay them, then all is well and good. If there's a dispute, and after they lobby, I refuse to pay them (even for cause) then the enforceability of the contract comes into play, but that's a little more rare and the extralegal system (like reputation) means that this will do little to curtail lobbying.
The components that are specific to the Mac, such as the GUI builder, are closed source. All the underlying tooling and technologies such as the LLVM compiler stack, Clang, etc are published by Apple as open source and widely used on other platforms.
Nice to see a non-US/EU contribution. What is the middle class cost of living in your area?
This just means that it's "pay to play" not "play to win".

There was a freshman congressperson who noted that during their initial, explicitly nonpartisan policy briefings that both sides of issues were represented by different lobbying firms.

Imagine if there was a policy briefing for Congress around encryption standards and the only voices in the room were vendors selling encryption software.

There's no space in that framework to communicate with our governmental leaders about things like open source / the benefits of non-proprietary standards, etc. And it's that way for every conceivable topic.
Oh so the NTSB report is out? Can you link it? Thanks.
> What happened after it was known that the NSA had tapped Merkels phone? Nada.

For understanding Germany, you always have to keep in mind that there is a deep ditch between the "political interests" of the government and the "political interests" of many citizens (that is also the reason why you will harly hear any German citizens speaking of "unsere Regierung" (our government), but of "die Regierung" (the government)).

The government is rather attached to the USA (that is why of course nothing happened after the NSA tapped Merkel's phone), while many citizens are deeply sceptical of it, be it for

- industrial espionage that was done on Enercon by the USA (see https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant...)

- very different beliefs on data privacy

- the Snowden leaks

- Donald Trump

- ...
One of the reasons the standard library has a lot of unsafe is that the standard library is small, but one of the criteria for being in the standard library is “uses a lot of unsafe.” We’d rather these things get massive visibility.

In all my years with Rust, the only unsafe I’ve needed in any of my applications is when doing FFI, and my toy OS. YMMV.
I am just a passenger without aviation experience. Nonetheless, how does your link invalidate my comment? To reiterate, I see following issues:

1) Software issues (e.g. MCAS), hardware issues (e.g. AoA sensors) -> Boeing responsible

2) Little to no training for 737 MAX, shuffling of known UI and UX of other 737 models -> airlines and Boeing responsible

3) Certifications for 737 MAX granted despite lack of sufficient training in addition to repeated warnings by pilots (your link!) -> Boeing and FAA responsible
I have no idea why many government websites (not just US) are like this; making things that are obviously not stateful (like viewing a report or search criteria) session-wide state. It almost feels somewhat intentional to prevent linking to resources.
That's fair. It would be interesting to find out whether it was an existing sensor, used on other aircraft, and what the reliability is like. But I doubt that information is readily available.
Cheapest available is the 48k~ but they will sell the base model at 39k.
It’s kind of a funny parrallel between this and the Qualcomm suits. How much rent can one company extract before the market adapts. E.g clearing subscriptions outside Apples channels, denying fees through major partners to Qualcomm.
I am also a fan of Yong, but "Upends what we know about virues" is a bit sensational. The article interesting for sure, but lately it seems that every book or study "turns Darwin on his head" or puts us in a "post-Pasteur era". I"m not even going to think about Cacner headlines. All overstatement of interesting science findings.

upend (ŭp-ĕndˈ)
v.To stand, set, or turn on one end: upend an oblong box.
v.To invalidate, destroy, or change completely; overthrow: upended a popular legend.
v.To win victory over; defeat.
Lobbying itself isn't bad & is needed to help disrupt things. Politicians require lobbyists & experts to explain different sides to them.
Automod is what I was thinking of when I said I thought Reddit has some tools to do this. The problem, like I mentioned above, is one of scale. Automod is not capable of making judgments about post quality; it can't do anything to enforce a "must be something someone said" rule, for example. Nor is it capable of flagging the many, many variants of the same low-effort submission we frequently get (not without a lot of false positives, at least). That's what my blog's curation team does, and what takes the most time. We can manage the blog's former peak submission rate of 25-35 per day, but given the nature of Reddit I expect that number would skyrocket, overwhelming the mod team.

Modmail isn't public, is it? It's only viewable to the sub's mods. If it isn't public, then it is not equivalent to asks.
Sure, they may not get their way 100% of the time, but studies have shown that corporate lobbying highly correlates with what U.S. politicians support or don't support. Meanwhile, what the People support has ZERO correlation with how politicians will vote for something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

Also, the U.S. system of "vote transparency" (votes are anonymous in almost all other cases, and for good reason) in Congress means that the lobbyists know which politician voted for what, and the politicians also know that the companies donating tens of thousand of dollars to them will know how they voted, too - so they will vote "accordingly" if they want that income stream to continue in the future.

This is a rotten/corrupt relationship/dependency that should not exist in a democracy that's supposed to listen to the "voice of the people".
Isn't this the point of politicians pressuring corporations? I remember back, way back, when Apple was caught off guard and "appropriately" stepped up with lobbying and political contributions.

It is hard for me to find fault with any company which lobbies the government because they have no choice. If they don't play the game someone else will and use their influence to get the power of government applied to their competitors directly or indirectly.

One way to fix it is not to prevent anyone from spending money on campaigns but to instead prohibit politicians, their immediate family, and relatives, from participating in any position that may have influence over a regulating body. It is very common to have family of politicians benefit by either getting jobs directly with a lobbying company or lobbying firm but the other method is through PACs which pay them huge salaries for part time work.

I could care less what they do before they are in office but once in it needs to be clamped down. congress and their relatives are more likely to increase their wealth by magnitudes than lose it, the reason is simple, they structured the rules to benefit them and make it nigh impossible to unseat them
A junior did an interview with us for a C++ position. At the end he recognized that he had a very superficial knowledge and ask to do the programming test in Java because “programming is programming” (using imperative languages). And then we have developers using C as FORTRAN, C++ as C, Rust as C++... and maybe this will be passable if you are a solo developer but not if you are in a team.

Then add knowledge of the ecosystem :)
Can we get electric tires then? (Or figure out how to fix tire noise)
I think this is the cleanest seam to cut on. If Apple had to compete fairly in the ecosystem the 30% cut would much more likely be something Spotify could stomach -- not an existential threat to their business, just the cost of doing business on iPhone.

As things stand, Apple has mixed priorities. They want to enable developers where those developers add uniquely to the platform, but they want to outcompete developers where they cannibalise sales from Apple's own products.

This dual remit doesn't help consumers. If Apple's music offering had to pay the 30% tax "for real", they might have to charge $13 too, and that might make the iPhone an expensive platform for music-listeners, and they might be incentivised to cut their margins to compete with other platforms. We could all agree, "Sure it's expensive, but it's their turf and they can run it badly (to their own detriment) if they want."

Not sure where you draw the line between first-party app and OS functionality though. I imagine in some cases it'd be less clear than here.
Are they? Tmi was before the red tape was excessive and Fukushima was a huge meltdown from a massive tsunami. How many people died from the radiation released from both combined?

The answer is zero.

I'm not saying we go non-regulated. I'm saying the current regs may be too much. I'd argue that climate change is now more of a threat than more carbon-free nuclear plants.
I used it until a few month ago: it worked better (lower latency and no need to specify the resolution) than VNC but clion doesn't work well with NX, so I switched to VNC.
They can refuse to serve you, however, they can't then turn around and claim that those who clicked "I consent" actually did freely opt-in to tracking because they genuinely wanted to be tracked - because, obviously, they most likely did not.

In essence, GDPR states that you're not allowed to violate the privacy of people unless they really want to (freely given, informed, narrow/specific opt-in consent) - and this time, all the oft-used loopholes to "extract consent" don't really fulfil the criteria, as forced consent is not considered consent.
> There's a lot of stuff in Hollywood where it's just cargo culting something that worked once.

> cargo culting, and cultural shortcuts.

You've just described "cliché", an unavoidable component of any industrial art.

The article explains that very same thing when it argues that Kubrick's "The Clockwork Orange" started the trend.
The fact that it's still impossible to discuss it without someone resorting to personal attacks indicates that this was the right decision.
Why can’t that happen for Telegram and happen only for Signal? Who can predict if Telegram would do under some “foundation” and get funded that way soon? My point is that singling out Telegram doesn’t make sense in this context.
CoinGecko's Guide to Consensus Algorithms
> Hijacking the word "conspiracy theorist" to mean nut job seems like exactly the twisting of reality you are advocating to avoid.

The term "conspiracy theory" has always always been derogatory[1]

[1] https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/nope_it_was_alwa...
4-D printing multi-metal products with a desktop electrochemical 3-D printer
I'm talking about anything and everything that the many choose to take from the few.
Pro bono, right? That’s very kind of you in this day and age of domain squatting!
"Production is expected to begin early 2021". So first major deliveries in 2022, I wonder how much excitment will be left at that point.
> Well, that's the same attitude ("the language is fine, you just don't know how to use it, that's why you have bugs") that led us to 30+ years of shitty unsafe C code.

You've picked a very poor example to repeat that tired old addage. You're using an example of someone who admits struggling with memory management issues who has just started learning a programming language which he doesn't master, and after he grew tired of having the compiler warn him that he was writing broken code he decided to keep writing broken code but this time in a language which doesn't warn him about how broke his code is.

How exactly is this case anything other than someone not knowing how to use a programming language insisting on writing broken code?

I mean, the rationale of switching to another language was quitr clearly how the programmer grew tired of the compiler warning him he was making a series of mistakes, and he prefered keeping making the same mistakes without being bothered about pesky memory access problems.
Exascale Computing Project Highlights Its 'Exaalt' Molecular Dynamics Effort
I know that car analogies for software is an over-done metaphor but while reading this article I'm thinking of heavy processes for software deployment that are hard to change and in my mind I'm screaming "this is what agile looks like!"

Processes and controls are very important for quality, but as business goals shift and evolve, the processes also need to evolve. But designing processes that can evolve gracefully is not a trivial task, especially in risk-averse organizations.