skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mars at its best is far less hospitable than the most inhospitable places on Earth. With that said- Earth is still only one planet and it would be wise for us to spread out for survival and resources.
This is so freakin' fascinating. The only reason Apple can get away with this is because they are making devices that large numbers of people actually want to own. The software has gotten quite stable over the years and I am happy to use and develop on the platform.

Should developers stop writing software for it, or should the public stop buying the phones, Apple will relent and open the store and devices up. You can see a similar thing happening with Microsoft. They've been in the room screaming, look at me, and people just walked by. So now they're opening everything up and loosening their grip.

Apple did the same in the late 90s and early 2000s when they were about to lose their biggest developer, Adobe. Suddenly they got Open Source and created an open platform much to the surprise of everyone. Originally the BSD/Unix layer was an optional add on to OS X, and then they hired the creator of FreeBSD and just started including it by default.
> Can you go to Netflix and just download a .mp4 of their latest show? Nope

You're fundamentally questioning the need for DRM - which is naive. Netflix AND the studios would go out of business in no time without the ability to protect their work.

I'm not sympathetic to the Studios who've historically been sharks, but Netflix (with DRM) is an equitable model - stream anywhere for a fixed monthly fee.

FYI - you can save Netflix shows for offline consumption, within the app
Yes, you don't want to create an environment in which people don't want to ask IT/opsec people for help for fear they will be getting themselves in trouble.
Each time IIHS adds a new crash test, OEMs have to redesign their cars to pass
I'm unsure where you are getting this from. If you watch their presentation for their test tunnel unveiling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIzsMlwMUY), it is fairly explicitly communicated that what they are attempting to do is increase the speed at which you can bore a tunnel, thereby decreasing tunneling costs. The rapid production of the tunnel is the product here.

The video linked has Elon saying specifically that they have an industry-standard TBM that they used for the Hawthorne test tunnel. There is no improvement there. They have 2 more machines they are building that are expected to be large improvements over the tunnel status quo for that given size of tunnel they are constructing.

Again, the improvement is not in the tunnel size... they are building their own TBMs, trying to get them to be faster at tunneling than the existing machine that they have.
I never thought of it that way. I always think of it like the A thru F grading scale back in high school. But from your girlfriends perspective, nobody gets a 5 unless they went out of their way to make the ride special. I actually like that much better.
Personally, I don't possess a drivers license - while the DMV would happily grant one my lack of peripheral vision in the left and poor depth perception make me extremely uncomfortable on the road. I rely on public transportation and services like Uber/Lyft/local cabs to get around when I travel as a result.

I'm not particularly fond of traditional taxi services due to a lack of fare transparency and ease of use I expect from "ridesharing" (can we replace this term someday) services, so my rider rating is fairly important to me.
I'd like a tutorial on getting wireguard running with systemd for debian/ubuntu based systems!
I actually get really annoyed by the misnomers! Just because you think time is irrelevant doesn’t mean it is. Without it there would be NO movement. Btw, space and time aren’t separate. That’s why we call it space-time.
I think the point was even if you disable JS in your browser to be "safe," there's the possibility of some nasty CSS on the page as well.

Turning off JS does not make you safe.
> Two complained about my taking work calls in the car.

That's insane. Do those drivers think that it's part of the deal that you should be entertaining them?
Nearly every municipality in the USA has local monopolies on utilities and it hardly causes an issue. Monopolies can't always assumed to be bad for the consumer.
Blocking a user agent? Oh no, whatever shall we do? Thankfully, we can still just change it, though I suppose a really insidious web site could use feature checks.
Chromium is still controlled by Google. Exhibit A: this ad-blocking API issue, where Google decisions will affect all Chromium browsers. (Sure, they can maintain patches against upstream, but over time that becomes non-viable.)

If Google's behaviour concerns you, you need to use Firefox or Safari.
> His girlfriend is trying to make the system useful for communicating both great and terrible service while everyone else has gamed it down to a reporting mechanism. His girlfriend is right and everyone else is wrong.

However, Uber doesn't value star-ratings the way she does, so she is wrong.
Really.

Let's look away from the light and into the shadows ... where the @sshole billionaires live. It's not all glory and progress in billionaire land.
When I see one of these, I actually do go onto my Corp iPhone to delete the email instead of Outlook/Windows.

It may not be a perfect approach since we do use it for MFA...
Because being a multi-planet species is required for long term survival. Could be tomorrow or a hundred years from now, sooner or later there will be fifty mile diameter asteroid with our name on it.
Las Vegas is hoping that it will be worth at least $50M of publicity.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – By Isao Hashimoto
> especially now that they've added HKTs

Hmm .. as far as I'm aware, they haven't added this yet:
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1213

Note that higher-kinded types (though I'd rather call it "higher-kinded polymorphism" or something—type-level functions are not really types) would allow code similar to this:

function foo<F, A>(f: (v: A) => F<A>, v: A): F<A> {
return f(v);
}
Did you miss the part where these Google decisions affect all Chromium browsers?
> It's a fair system in that way.

It's only fair if the expectations were made known before you ordered the ride.
Do you have a CRM that you prefer? Back in the day when SFDC took off like wildfire, the choices were essentially Oracle and Siebel (who came from Oracle, just like Benioff did later).

Unlike the top-down Enterprise sales approaches of Oracle and Siebel, there was a fair amount of bottom-up marketing/sales effort targeting individual sales people who could put $20/month on their credit card and expense it (regardless of what their retcon'd history book tells it).

I guess that these days we have NetSuite (Oracle, again) and HubSpot. Are those any better?
I hadn't really thought about that before. But I still think the sudden, cataclysm still could render humans extinct on Earth even if Mars is a more difficult climate. Mars dwellers would have had a great deal of time to prepare for that environment. On Earth, it would be suddenly thrust upon them. This is also assuming that the Mars colony was at a point where it could exist without supplies from Earth.
p = 0.021

"Aquatic lithium has no significant effect on incidence of self-reported psychosis."

As I understand it, there is supposed to be about a factor of two difference between the dose that actually does any good, and acute toxicity. So trace amounts are not expected to help those people who could benefit from lithium medication.

Please correct me if I have misunderstood this.
Hopefully Brave, Edge, Opera and other derivatives continue to support the more advanced API.
Nearly all of them are tech companies trying to sell me stuff because I once bought something from them, tried their service or briefly thought about it.

As I’m the head techie (by dint of been the only techie) , I’d be the one purchasing from them in the first place.

I find a filter that sends everything to Marketing/Hardware and marks as read fairer than flagging them as spam.

If you filter out all the people telling me they’ll be out the office, birthday announcements etc, all the vendors trying to sell me stuff and all the automated stuff (which I do automatically), I get less than 5 emails a day (I put my boss on Trello, it’s just better for what we need) which I check once at 11 and at 10 to 5.

I’m ruthless about my time since I’m the only programmer.
Lots of good clean fun in this article. My one question: would continuation marks avoid all of the `set!` messiness?
Now that's an advantage my non-tech family and friends will appreciate if it gets implemented and ad blockers stop being efficient in Chrome.

I'll install Firefox, they will see things are better and the switch is done. No need to talk about Quantum, freedom, etc.

Mozilla should be sending one of those cakes to the Chrome team.
They’re probably not that advanced with it. If anything, you’ll upset IT with extra paperwork to grant you the exemption from the hit.
>"they're just not a skill you need in day-to-day software life (for most people)."

I mostly disagree. You won't need to implement them, but a working knowledge of the basics is the basis of any performance analysis and can make a huge difference in system performance in day to day programming. At some point all the small inefficiencies also add up.

I would go so far as to say that data structures and basic algorithms (e.g. Dijkstra) are more important to become a competent engineer than any of the practical tools he listed. It's like the difference between a mechanic and a mechanical engineer.

There is also a reason they are taught very early in a computer science degree.
This drives me crazy - and it happens far too often!

Even worse, Google sometimes shows results that don't even contain text you've specified an exact match for with double quotes, e.g. "find me"
Forgone bonus was just an example. It could be any sort of penalty or loss of perk, and my question is directed at the stead state equilibrium of the job market, not at behavior given whatever contracts are currently signed. E.g., instead of offering someone $85k, offer them $84k plus a $1k bonus if they avoid phishing attacks. Or give a bonus vacation day to each employee who passes the test. Etc.
Sourcehut – The Hackers Forge
It was absolutely worth it. I've visited that area back in the early-/mid-00s when the highways and construction were still there, and recently (was just there a few weeks ago, actually) after completion. It's night and day, and the new space is a huge improvement over the old.

Comparing skyscraper build costs to tunnel build costs is meaningless.

Noise isn't the only factor. The bigger issues are division of the city, and the urban blight that is common under and around elevated highways.

The cost overruns were due to the usual things: mistakes that were expensive to correct, graft, and corruption. If you can solve those things, great. But I don't think the presence of those things should invalidate the need for truly valuable projects that make cities much more livable.
I've just checked Firefox 67.0 source code and found no evidence of hw-accelerated decoding. Firefox uses part of FFmpeg source code under the name "ffvpx", for VP9. There are some remainders of such decode-and-then-download-to-CPU-memory code there, but actual part interfacing with VA-API or any other hw-accelerated API is removed.

Although it's possible to utilize hardware decoders with FFmpeg, frames need to be shown somehow. Downloading decoded frames back to CPU memory just to copy them back to GPU to display is not a good idea. Generally graphics adapters expect a lot more data coming to them, not from them. It may be so slow, that it makes the whole idea infeasible. To make hardware decoding actually useful, one needs to figure out how to combine everything together on GPU side. It's harder to do it in Firefox than in a video player, since browsers have a complex rendering model. And now even run in multiple processes.

> My laptop is usually noisy when the CPU is in demand.

Not only software codecs are highly optimized, CPUs are also power-efficient.
1080p VP9 decode on my Skylake laptop doesn't produce enough heat to start the fan.
From my experience, I was much more defined by having a job than I realized. I quit a contracting job. It lead to awkward conversations with people ("What do you do for a living?") and some odd soul searching (what is my place in society?).
Is this supposed to be an indictment of her character or something? Perhaps you're suggesting she's a hypocrite?

In any case, care to elaborate?
Building diversity in tech with Black Girls Code: interview with founder
At lot of online newspapers here only allow comments from 9 to 5, for moderation reasons.
Will probably migrate to Edge, Brave or Opera before Firefox... I just prefer the UI.
Uber has went from something magical to a pretty stressful experience filled with paranoia about how two people are silently judging each other for perceived transgressions that don't fit with unstated and unwritten expectations.

For instance, maybe a year ago or so, one day driving back from work my car was acting up. I decided to avoid driving it for a day or two until I could get it into a shop to be inspected. So the next morning I used Uber to get to work. Now, I don't live that far from work -- it's maybe a 3-4 minute drive. Evidently, some Uber drivers get pretty upset about short rides like that. I got what I assume must have been a 1 star rating from the driver based on the large impact it had on my rider score.

This and similar "incidents" have dropped my rating to 4.69. It was actually lower not too long ago, at maybe 4.66 I believe, but I've been trying to get it back up by giving oversized cash tips (I've always tipped in the past, just usually digitally and in an amount that was more proportional, say 10-20%). Given that 4.6 is the apparent cutoff, I suspect I'll be avoiding Uber as much as I can going forward. I've always been nothing but kind and respectful -- though also quiet and reticent -- and I don't feel like worrying about this anymore.
I happened to interact with Erik Demaine via an open source project(KaTex). It was my first OSS contribution and he was very welcoming and friendly. Of course, I was also humbled to read about his work.
The Art of Thinking Long-Term Even When Money Is Running Out
The smart home security boogeyman could be real
Maybe wrap Firefox startup in a shell script that backs up your profile data before starting the browser, and then when the problem occurs send a bug report and work with the developers to give them the information they might need.

These bugs suck for everyone and I'm sure Mozilla developers would appreciate any help they can get to track it down.
This technique (which I almost commented on in my original comment, but didn't) is brittle in a different way (making it so that attempts to search for the URL have no well-known canonical representation), and quite simply totally undermines the entire argument being made (which is why I didn't comment on it) that someone can use the slug of a URL to decide whether or not they want to click on the content: you can change the URL to say anything you want. At this point, there is no value in bothering with having done this: it is just extra text in the URL for no concrete benefit.

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148454/why-does-stack-overflow-use-title-slugs/
I think the issue isn't that the techniques used for tunnel boring are so expensive, but that other issues (mismanagement, corruption) end up costing a lot. I don't think The Boring Company is going to solve those problems. Certainly reducing costs through new technology is a good thing, but it's not the whole picture by a long shot.
> Acceptable behavior won't need to be hidden

There is plenty of acceptable behavior that people, quite reasonably, don't want to be tracked or widely known.

> The particular problem the author mentioned was marriage.

I understand. I was speaking to a larger point, not about this problem in particular.
> It seems if someone who works in IT and is very careful fails it, this is an impossibly high standard to meet.

It's the same reason you automate things. People make mistakes. It's not about messing up once. It's about always being absolutely positively sure that you aren't making a mistake.

If you've ever clicked on a link from an email, you are vulnerable.
If she breaks up Google Search and Gmail, and Google decides to shut down gmail, she'll not have an email service and lose all her email.
Look what I found Flixtor.to has more Movies and Episodes than any on other site
I pay Netflix for convenience. I most certainly would not cancel my subscription if they removed DRM. In fact, I'd probably pay a bit more for the ability to download content for the rare occasions I want watch it on a different device.
Other states are even worse. In New York, teachers are required to get a Masters degree within 5 years.
What sets ROC apart from an AES67 stack?
Browsers could have said no to Netflix. Netflix/Amazon/Hulu could have written native apps instead of shoehorning DRM into the browser.

I'm pretty sure nobody at Netflix has illusions that DRM actually works; it's checkbox security. Hollywood requires them to have DRM so they have DRM and everybody moves on.
Hiring a high school student to tutor a kid in math is not a "1%er" solution. Maybe 50%er?
Right? I'm wondering this the whole time I'm scrolling down.
The unsubscribe link is more effective at stopping unwanted emails.

I automatically unsubscribe people who mark email as spam but lots of marketers dont do that so you will still receive emails.

Most legitimate companies will respect the unsubscribe links as that is required by law and they invested more infrastructure around that functionality.

I wouldn't click on links from phishing attempts or emails from sketchy services I never signed up. Anything semi-legit is better handled through the unsubscribe link first.
I love Chicago's elevated trains. There are plenty of people who live around them. I grew up next to a freight train track out in the boonies. You get use to it.

They are way cheaper if you can build them. Look at how long it's taking Seattle to build ST3 (although it's going to be amazing when the Redmond corridor opens; I agree).

America needs good transport now, in many more cities. Musk's tunnel ideas are just really impractical and will cost the tax payers more than the benefits of other types of standard/existing rail.
This is the kind of shit that Democrats focus on that loses elections. Why is this a big campaign issue? Why not break up Walmart while we're at it?
From the original article which that page links to [0]:

The breach centered around a hacker getting hold of a Microsoft customer support worker’s login credentials; from there, the hacker could dive into the content of any non-corporate Outlook, Hotmail, or MSN account

This is a security concern for any mail that an administrator can read, although it isn't at the same level as being compromised just through parsing an email.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwndwn/microsoft-outlook-...
An anecdote is irrelevant. There's vast amounts of peer reviewed research that supports the need for DRM, and unequivocally proves the financial harm piracy can inflict on content creators
OCaml/Reason have discriminated unions, which means that you have to explicitly specify which variant of the union you're using, such as

type union = Bool of bool | Char of char | Nothing

let (x, y, z) = (Nothing, Bool true, Char 'x')
Ah gotcha, yes we're agreed then. The underlying commits are supposed to be tied to your @google account (though a not insignificant number slip through)
Very smart people are often smart only within a somewhat narrow field. I imagine they are often lacking in general experience and wisdom.
Just tell the investor: give us the money within the next 5 days or you are out. you broke the contract, so I can kick you out easily and undo it. you back own 100% of the company and can continue with a serious investor.
I would add to the list of falsehoods:

- customers are always searching for a specific item, rather than an entire category

- customers know that a search engine for one kind of item (e.g. products for sale) won't also search the entire rest of your website
Uber could certainly be doing more to give an operational definition of what the stars mean.

It's a difficult UX and communication problem, I'll grant. But I saw several unforced errors on their part, like (from memory) marketing copy about "Uber only allows exceptional drivers on our platform". Um, no dude. That sounds nice, but it doesn't lead to usable ratings.
MS had a monopoly on x86 operating systems, Apple does not have a monopoly on ARM operating systems.
I don't disagree with the stupidity around the rating system, but honestly... what would a driver have to do in that world to get a five star rating? Serve you drinks and rub your feet?

It's a car ride, not a movie. A perfect ride... is still just a ride in a car. If they get you there without incident and don't annoy you too much that seems like a 5/5.
This is wrong on so many levels. First off, everyone at Netflix knew that DRM wouldn't stop piracy. They knew what Bittorrent was after all. Google didn't sell Netflix anything. Netflix does care about cross browser experience. But you know who doesn't?

The content owners. They wouldn't sign contracts without DRM, because for some reason they think DRM works. Or at least it stops the causal pirates. The ones who would just do a Save As...

And before anyone goes down the "well why isn't Netflix's originals DRM free?" road, for one, Netflix doesn't make those, other studios make them and then sell it to Netflix exclusively, so once again, it's up to the movie studios as to what goes into their contracts. And secondly, even for the stuff Netflix makes itself, the entire streaming infrastructure is set up for DRM. It would actually be really complicated to offer just a couple of items DRM free, with lots of if/then code branches.

Disclaimer: I worked at Netflix but this is all my own opinion, not the company's.
Could this fly with GDPR in Europe?
Uber's only able to set that cutoff because everyone rates 5 no matter what.

If people provided informative ratings, the cutoff would be adjusted. Uber's policies can't make the rating system worthless; the raters are doing it.
Thanks for the info. Now know to steer clear of NF.
From a previous thread, YouTube movie rentals (that everybody forgot exists) do require DRM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19554594
Or Dante for that matter.
Because it's less healthy for capitalism, and the government cares how the economy does.
I'm en-gb native and I pronounce both of those pretty close to "played" though in the case of the political party it's quite near to "plied" too, think "played" but in a Brum accent.

"Plad" [ie tartan-y cloth] is USA pronounciation to me; which I assume is what you mean in your second sentence?

"Played" of course also means "to be conned".
Yes and Chicago's stock is super old. The Orange Line is newer and is also much quieter and smoother. New rail in America, elevated, can be pretty quite and enjoyable. I like living near trains personally. It's relaxing to watch them go by in the evening, while sipping on some whiskey or wine.
Well I hope giving that 3 makes you feel really good about yourself when the guy did his job and you're just hurting him for it. You know how they are judged and you do it anyway out of some misguided notion of what the rating system _should_ be and an insatiable urge to always be "right".

It makes you a jerk, nothing more really.
If you're talking about the issue Mozilla had with add-ons at the beginning of May, yes! Everyone did, haha!

All my other settings seem fine, however.
Personal opinion, Elon believes that the earth is going to be uninhabitable by us in fairly short order. Mars is a fantasy to develop life support tech for earth, knowing full well saving ourselves would have been out of the question.