skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see what impact this all has other than raising money, which I hope will actually go to improve public transit.

Driving in manhattan is already such a miserable experience, I'm not sure that $10 adds enough extra misery to significantly reduce weekday traffic, but I could certainly be wrong about that (and hope I am).

I haven't seen any real breakdowns on "who is driving around manhattan on a Thursday" but it seems to me that it is mostly taxis, car services, buses, and commercial vans/trucks -- almost all of whom can absorb or pass on the costs.
This was my first year doing my own Swiss taxes (US citizen in CH). Even though I only know German to an A2 level, the free software provided by the Canton and the instructions on how to fill out the return completely guided me with no problems, even through the additional forms. In addition, as a side effect I have accurate numbers for my income, my interest payments, my wealth, and my debts.

The US side of things has been... not the same experience.
It's wrong to assume your client is good, doing good things, and not hiding anything, like they are taking all the credit, and putting all the blame on you.

It helps if the client is another programmer so they actually know what they are asking for.

Too often clients ask for way too much. Ask for one thing, do it right, make money, and come back for more features.

The big trend I am seeing with designs are "time bombs". You get deep into what they want, and find out they hid something that makes it 100x more complicated. Why? !!!
I'm wary of running anything with data I care about on a device without ECC RAM.

From the docs:

> PostgreSQL does not protect against correctable memory errors and it is assumed you will operate using RAM that uses industry standard Error Correcting Codes (ECC) or better protection.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/wal-reliability.html

Re: IS ECC RAM really needed?

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20070526145214.GA21290...
Vague, but hardly meaningless. Most people have a concept of a "geek".

A more valid criticism might be that the shared concept is harmful to the discussion of people, as it doesn't fairly communicate a reality of their personality, like the concept of "monsters".
Everyone in the West knows MIT. That's a clue the Reuters headline target audience is in the East.
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Thanks a lot. Appreciated.
> People vote with their feet. People make decisions to buy bigger vehicles so that's what is manufactured. If there is increased demand for compact cars the manufacturers will make more (like they do outside of the US)

Yeah and people are irrational and wrong, that's why the right incentives must exist so they are more incentived to buy smaller cars such as single-person or 2 person cars.

> Either way you seem to completely miss the idea that alternative methods of transportation like mass transit

I did not, of course better transportation its the solution in long term but in the short one we need viable solutions as well.
What does this mean for Apple? Could we see a 5nm Arm MBPr from them in 2021?

I would really love to see this and a macbook which finally does not throttle under load and is really quiet.
Right, but if you're making a word processor or a web forum or a registration form what you want might be "Well, I don't speak languages that need complex scripts, but I'd be happy to support other people's scripts if it's easy"
Tax prep lobbying at work. I’d love to know how much H&R and TurboTax spend on keeping things as is.
At least two cliches per paragraph, buried lede some 500 words in on what "packaging," actually is and why it's bad, voice changes mid paragraph (first, second, third), to start. If these didn't merit a "Good God, my eyes," by themselves there are some great resources online about how to write.

For a topic like the ethical (fiduciary?) obligations of agents to the people they represent, the issues above raise doubts about whether the writer can think clearly enough to represent a credible and honest case.

To triple down, when you are a pro writer, producing ostentatiously poor work is a forfeit and an expression of contempt for readers.
Mad Mike Banks and Richie Hawtin literally made my head turn into a small puddle of goo at Glastonbury 98, I honestly think I left a couple of drops of my soul in a field that sunny afternoon.
Thanks for those, I hadn't seen them. The Ritzau paper indeed appears to be doing something very similar, where in 5.2 he describes "inner references" whose lifetime is bounded by the outer one, I call that "borrowing", where the outer definition (the owner) gets locked from mutation during the borrow.

What I do is a bit more involved though, as for every language construct I indicate if it wants to own or borrow its children (and wether it wants the parent to own or borrow), to remove maximum refcounts, also for cases which are not simply variables. Again, I will describe this in detail.

The second paper I don't see how it relates to what I am doing.
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Didn't Tesla already open source all their patents?
Gregory,

In your paper, you erroneously claim that the MCAS system creates forward pressure on the control column ("pushes the pilot's control columns in the down direction".) This is incorrect. MCAS only acts on Horizontal Stabilizer Trim, and doesn't work at all when autopilot (which does provide control column forces) is active.

You also claim that the 737MAX doesn't have "mechanical connections between the pilot's controls and the things on the wings, rudder, etc." when the 737MAX does have full mechanical linkages between the control columns and the flight control surfaces. Those surfaces are normally hydraulically actuated, but if all hydraulics fail there is physical manual control of the elevator and ailerons, also known as "manual reversion."

Because of these glaring errors, your paper loses much of its credibility in critiquing Boeing designers.
I'm not sure that is such a sure outcome.... or that people wouldn't want that.
Ford, GM and Toyota collaborate for self-driving safety rules
It is tragic that this was not adopted as the Standard encoding for C++98. It probably could have been, if the right people had known its properties, and we might have been able to avoid standardizing wstring and all the basic_* templates.

It still could be the Standard encoding for C++20 if the right people could be persuaded. In practice, that would mean that whatever other execution encodings any given Implementation supports, it must support a Standard mode with a UTF-8 encoding assumed for any output from the program that is interpreted as text.

It would mean that downstream programs that need to know the encoding, such as terminal emulators in some Implementations, would need to have a way to recognize or designate non-Standard programs and their encodings, and interpose appropriate handling for them.
There's also IOPS for random 4k block access, which is usually way below 25MB/s. Typically around 2000/500 r/w IOPS for regular A1 cards. With expensive cards you can get to 2500-3000 range.

Read queries will be cached in RAM and fast (for <1GB database), and write queries will be limited to 500 IOPS, and heavily dependent on how you use transactions and write queries in your database.

Also disabling statistics collecting is the first thing I do when putting a postgresql db on an sd card. Because that causes a lot! of writes.
You guys don't really see the big picture here. You're hung up on minutiae. And it doesn't matter. Because there are other people who'll read this. People who understand how seemingly useless data can tell you so much. Data the human body and other physical objects "stream" every time they move. Data that pops into existence and is gone in an instant, so no one cares about it. They "get" it ;)
> There's no way to know which exceptions can be thrown from a function just by looking at its code, nor looking at the called-functions code.

But is this different from error codes? Does seeing a file open tell you every error that might occur from that?

If you're arguing that you could just look at the file-open code to see the errors it returns, couldn't the same apply for seeing which exceptions are thrown?
I actually doubt they will replace the loader. Not until they having something as dexterous as a human hand. Some functions, such as belt splitting is already replacing humans but there are no plans to replace the loaders. It requires too much human intuition at the moment for the machines to handle.
New cities would also require the friction of moving cities to be as low as possible.
"...and Republicans’ long anti-tax crusade."

That seems like an uncharitable characterization of a group that has argued for a simpler tax code with generally fewer loop holes (as opposed to an elaborate tax code that no one can understand, with a pre-filled form that in theory one could double check but in practice few would check).
Exceptional non-answer
Haha indeed, but you can't just submit any document and have it considered a primary source on the site. For example, if you're making an assertion about a piece of legislation, the primary source is that legislation hosted on that government's website. If your assertion is about a regulatory action, the primary source is that action hosted on that regulatory agency's website, etc.
I would respectfully disagree. Introduce enough noise into the system and the cost of verification becomes so high that doing so is unrealistic for many or most people.

Also, on first glance the app looks great, well-polished, and the UX of reading an article and looking at sources for claim is nice :). Thanks for working on and sharing this!
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you asked that we "not over-regulate everything" and you couldnt come up with a single example of over-regulated things and then brought up one issue in an app you made as why you brought up that "everything" is over-regulated?

This logic makes me really sad. You're complaining about overregulation when under-regulation just killed 300 people because you had to make a few changes in an app once. Please think about this more deeply than, "I know a few hundred people died, but lets not respond too harshly and have me spend a few more hours on my apps".

Please do that next time.
Yup, I screwed up with that title! See the discussion at https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/1113774985116434433
Open data policies make DC’s scooter market more competitive
They know MIT in China too. They don't read Reuters much though.
> As of March 2019 Reddit seems still quirky and interesting though...

This can be read as a searing indictment of reddit: it's quirky and interesting, but its value ends there. There's no real discussion to be had and most topic-specific subs are wildly uninformed for most of the things I have any personal experience with. This is certainly not limited to the tiny slice of the world I know well.
>You should not use candidates address or commute as criteria in hiring.

Why not? You claim it like a truth without justifying it: A person living near a restaurant that want a job there should get it over someone just as qualified in the opposite end of the city.
Had you experienced anger issues for no reason? is a common symptom. Miscarriages and premature births are another common problem with lead.

Lead can be the cause of mental retardation and blindness in toddlers and babies also.
Sure if it's still as difficult to file as it is now. I'm not talking about a literal tax
Done that, too.

I actually tried a startup in the monitoring space, but sadly failed (it was great fun losing $100k or so, tho... well worth the experience!). But the automation needs problem is more a consultancy thing than a product thing. There are lots of products. Teams buy them, with the best of intentions. Lots of management wants to believe they can buy their way out of the hard problems of not having any discipline. Sigh.
Yes, that is exactly my intention, for the majority of code this compile time reference counting is good enough.

You can of course use Rc types in Rust, but that is verbose, and throws all ownership out the window, unlike Lobster.
I actually built this specifically for the breaking up use case. It was called CleanBreak. I forget the numbers, but at least a few hundred people used it. I think it'd actually work if you started locally (e.g. get covered in a campus paper).

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/4287xp/i_built...
The one thing that the Internet changed in a very negative manner that ultimately brought us here is -- the expectation that everything is/has to be free. No one wants to pay for anything anymore; people don't want to pay for information; paying for correspondence is just a terrible idea; and so on.

You could control who you interact with, only so far. When no one you know reads the newspaper, while depending on 'social media' for all their opinions, you're going to run into a lot of noise. There's just no escaping it, unless you use this same social media landscape to join some nice new group of intellectuals that actually meets offline.

We just need to start paying for things.
Anybody who doesn't support the Buffett rule isn't anti-loophole imho.
We fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes
I hate filing taxes so much. I wish we would switch to purely sales tax and corporate tax. I know the arguments against them, but I just don't want to do paper work.
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Not fair.

A lot of people are not comfortable with confrontation in the first place. And it is entirely normal. It just how people are wired and expecting them to change themselves drastically is not fair on them. It should be a gradual process and a thing like thoughter is a great use for "getting started". End goal is of course to confront.
> Then your server should crash! Take it out of the load balancer, stop the damage! If you truly can't classify it, it's truly unknown or exceptional, abort!

What if all the servers have the same bug? Should they all crash or should they alert and allow an operator to chose how to handle? If it is a rarely hit error case, staying up is better than creating a complete outage.
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Plaintext Budgeting
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Yes. Fair doesn't necessarily mean equal. A 10% tax could eat up literally all the disposable income of someone who is barely scraping by, but is hardly noticed by a person who is bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
As an introvert, I completely understand where this is coming from. What you are trying to create is a way for people to signal intent in an emotionally safe way. But I think this misses the mark (by substituting technical infrastructure for quintessentially human interaction; by encouraging "someone is" vs. "I am"). There is an art to "working toward" a discussion or disclosure (which many people are not good at, and many situations make difficult). To help someone find a way to say something (difficult or risky) to someone (who may not be receptive), and to allow the other party to reverse-signal gently (possibly by "affirmatively" ignoring) would be valuable, but as complex as the varied use cases. I think a system that helped people work through what they want to accomplish and possibilities for achieving that would be useful; the infrastructure for communication is already there, we just need to think about how to use it better (think guided workflow, decision tree or expert system). Having a mechanism to "buffer" between the sender and receiver might be helpful (ex., sending someone flowers or a card/letter vs. speaking to them) to overcome emotional resistance, but shouldn't substitute for thinking through <your state> + <situational state> + <other's state> => <appropriate action>.
> If you don't finish planned work in a sprint, that is a planning success...

In practice, most companies don't do this. They mark it as a failure and put it in red on the the big screen for all to see. Too many reds and there's disciplinary action.
The concept of ownership is not necessarily the same for digital content. Streaming services for example extended this idea and I don’t believe this is a bad thing. It gives us access to more content for less money. Yes, someone can take it away from you again but there are many advantages to this type of distribution that you could not enjoy if there was a guarantee for lifetime ownership.
The point is making valuable software in reasonable time.

Agility is a way to deal with the fact that the idea of what "valuable" is changes constantly.
"Overreaching" might be a better word. Overtraining would be doing that kind of workout every week instead of every few months.

But yes, I'm probably making mistakes. I've never trained seriously until very recently. I reached my current level of fitness more or less by accident with a few thousand miles of hiking.
That's called brown-nosing and it's not attractive.
Your rent just pays for a place to live, while your taxes pay for many many things all over the country.
I'm taking Yale's class on happiness
As a matter of government policy, all Chinese companies are government operatives. The Communist Party claims "overall leadership over all areas of endeavour in every part of the country".
Revisiting the Rendering Tier (why we're rewriting using CSS-in-JS)
Sure, it just feels wrong in this case. Who wants a Tesla without autopilot? If they're trying to sell as many as possible, give the software away for free.
maybe just speak for yourself? the seniors i know walk more than the juniors i know.

senior folks will happily share their opinions with you, so no need to speak for them.
Ehhh, I have an issue with black boxes. Yes, custom code creates a technical debt; so does code written by someone else.
I live in Detroit and buy a vehicle that's produced at Jefferson and Connor, five miles from where I live. I feel good about that.

The 3.6L V6 / and ZF eight speed transmission are battle tested - we're five years into the current Grand Cherokee iteration, they've mostly worked out the issues. The volume of TSBs (technical service bulletins - http://wk2jeeps.com/wk2_tsb.htm) are way lower vs. the launch model year.

I haven't had any quality issues, although it's early. I would never buy the first (and maybe even second) model year for any OEM, but especially FCA - that part I would agree with. Wait until year three.
So these "alerts" are coming from Microsoft's cloud-powered anti-malware service? It's kind of disturbing that they have enough data on Microsoft servers to conduct such an in-depth after-the-fact investigation of events on an endpoint machine. Are businesses really OK with sharing telemetry on this level?
Some people interact with books differently than you do. You might be ok with the refund. Others aren't. But everyone is forced to take it regardless. Maybe just accept that people have different points of view on this, instead of feigning disbelief that this is even an issue.
I fully respect the honest reply. That is surprising and refreshing. This is the point that most people begin to engage in mental gymnastics. The one thing I'd clarify is that I'm not critiquing what your opinion is. Everybody is entitled to their own perspective on issues, and like you implied many of those those views will, and should, change over time. Imagine if you held all the views you did when you were 16, or 20, or so on upwards, depending on your age. That'd be quite the underdeveloped individual!

The only thing I'm critiquing is how you came to your view. It's a rationale that, as illustrated, leads to views you'd obviously never endorse. So should the views of masses of people mean something? Of course my opinion on this is clear, but I think if you want to argue that it does surely you must be able to find some form of logic or evidence to support the view. Alternatively, you might even focus on how Linus' behavior is likely harmful to himself. I think it's extremely likely that he changed his views not because he changed his actual view, but because he got tired of years of harassment because of his behavior. But of course such harassment is to be fully expected when you act like a dick. Catch more flies with honey than vinegar, and all that. I don't really agree with these notions, but they are at least reasonable and mostly logical.
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Oh wow, you're way overdue for new shoes. 300-500 miles is the usual rule of thumb[1].

My personal rule of thumb is 500 miles minus moving weight. So in my case I'm 225 lbs, I usually have 10 lbs of water/layers/kit, so 235lbs moving. 500 - 235 = 265 miles max per pair of shoes. I replace sooner because technical terrain trashes the lugs on the soles.

[1] https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a20806543/running-shoe-que...
The best reason for a ceiling IMO is to avoid tainting public perception. If the signboards are showing a price of $65 when it's usually $2, people might feel like they are being gouged and sour on the toll (& vote it out). Like what happened with Uber's surge pricing.
Should it matter? You can analyze this disparate piece of evidence independently of the agenda. In fact, you might even say that by putting the cards on the table, at least this source is transparent about which stance of the topic it is taking, giving you opportunity to take care when evaluating single pieces of evidence.. this is possibly better than sources which purport to be fair and balanced and go to greater lengths to obfuscate ways they are tacitly pushing an agenda.

I don’t agree with the concept of forming a high-level conclusion about the general nature of a source of information, and then using that to argue that you should not separately carefully analyze disparate pieces of content from that source.
Just because I'm pretty stunned. The answers to the above question of "what are some things that are over-regulated?" in response to "everything is over-regulated" are:

From the OP: "I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING"

"Haircuts seem overregulated"

"The drug approval process might move too slowly"

So on one side we have "planes not crashing", "electrical codes being followed", "air quality not as bad as in Shanghai".

On the other side we have "haircuts are over-regulated".

Hmm, not sure which side I'm on here...
I think we have something great here where you can travel nice countryside settings in a car and it would be a terrible shame to give that up or price the poor out of it.
Not sure if you can solve this at all. Because thoughter will be used for a reason that it isn't meeant to be used for.

So correct me if I am wrong but I think thoughter is most useful when you almost "know" that you have a thought resonating with somebody else and you want to confirm it. Its not for making wild hits at people. Right?
I think the reason why no-DRM approach took off in Poland is because Amazon has been slow to enter the market. None of the competitors were large enough to develop and maintain a DRM ecosystem (with reading apps, readers etc). I'm sure they would have liked to (corporate brainlessness knows no limits), but they were not able to pull it off.

The result is indeed great: E-books are reasonably priced, they get auto-delivered (as "docs") to your Kindle if you wish, or you can get an ePub version if you prefer. You really do own them: the publisher might disappear, but if you keep your files, you keep the books.

I don't think piracy is a factor. It's way too easy to buy the real thing at this point.