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I doubt most if not all exploits would work in lynx/links.

But your point is spot on, don't take it upon yourself to do things that aren't in your job description. Otherwise you become that person who takes it upon themselves to "fix" things and makes the problem worse for the people responsible for fixing things.
Typically, TypeScript type-checks `lib.d.ts` every single compilation which can add at least half a second of build time. It will also do a full check of `.d.ts` files in your dependencies, which can also be pretty heavy.

We're considering ways we can avoid a full type check: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31417

In the meantime, you can try out turning on the `skipLibCheck` compiler option to see if that helps at all, but be warned that it might not catch conflicts across multiple files.
It could be great, but it could go the other way too - drivers giving low ratings to minorities, or folk that live outside of the urban core.

One of Uber's selling points was that it avoided the kind of discrimination that taxis were famous for.
great product from technical point of view, no product/market fit.
I don't identify with my job, but absolutely with my profession. I'm a developer. Given the extreme level of specialization one needs to reach any heights in a profession, you kind of need to commit and go.
Oh wow, this is really neat. Pretty useful, and cool implementation, I like that I can also use it with LXC!
The alternative is protecting and even strengthening estate taxes and perhaps something like Bernie Sanders' wall street high frequency transaction tax idea.
What is the path for redemption?

If you have a low rating, you become banned for life?
Obviously if you have a low rating you will work to improve it, but if you are banned, how can you improve it?
It sounds like you basically dropped all other costs but teacher salary and found STEM professor salaries to be 10% higher

(Facilities dropped, same cost per student on dorms + maintenance, building capex dropped)

You really need to do a per-student cost analysis - e.g. if there are 500 STEM graduates and 2000 liberal arts, the costs are not evenly spread across the non-academic staff, and you need to account for the separate facility costs (e.g. a computer/science lab is much more expensive to maintain and stock than an english classroom)

And There are also lots of intangibles to factor in -

-How many of the alumni contributing to the endowment and paying for academic buildings are STEM vs. liberal arts graduates

-How do graduation rates and job outcomes differ between STEM vs. liberal arts, and affect the college's KPIs (e.g. 95% graduate on time and 80% get a job within 6 months making a median $70k, for marketing)

Also presumably your school has an endowment and investment managers, which is the largest source of revenue for top tier schools (Yale's endowment of $27.2B returned 12.3% in 2018, the school spent $1.4B of that return on operating costs making up 34% of the university's net revenues [0])

So really in the grand scheme of things, most major universities are safe investment vehicles that are (1) extremely marketable to wealthy alumni (2) have great information networks and (3) generally enjoy major appreciation on their real estate value, making the comparison of STEM vs. liberal arts salaries pretty negligible

[0] https://news.yale.edu/2018/10/01/investment-return-123-bring...
In California, summer tires get the best traction and all-seasons are generally worse (many people mistakenly believe that all-seasons perform better than summer in the rain, I suppose because winter is the rainy season here).
Heh, you could make a phishing attempt that looks like a really bad phishing attempt, and inside of it have a link that says "CLICK HERE TO REPORT SUSPECTED PHISHING ATTEMPT TO IT"
> Just make the question "would you do business with this driver/rider again?"

FWIW I’ve heard that a rating of 3 or less for the driver ensures that you are never matched with them ever again.
I am getting 404 when I click on linked images.
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Very interesting article. I see someone who won the lottery. They have built a huge house and family, based on the single skill of showing up for work, and having the right father. While this happens, this person thinks it is thier right, and they will fight politically with every ounce, wrecking whatever institutions and future health of the political system, to keep the privleges they inherited. No sense of altruism or giving back, just keeping what is theirs, justified as there is a child invoked.

The profile is very insightful, but depressing, as how can we have anything but a selfish fight of selfish people, is that what democracy devolves to?
Getting help is tricky. States with good programs don't want freeloaders to move in. They often require you to be a resident for a while before they will help you - the idea being if you come with the intent of not being a freeloader and something happens it is bad luck. It isn't unheard of for states to pay to move someone to a different state just so they to get that person out of their system.

I can see both sides, Mr. Marsh is caught in the middle.
What I am saying is before or when a national UBI program is created, a national law making things like zoning restrictions illegal would also need to be implemented. Kind of like japanese zoning:

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

A couple of other (bad) examples is how national health plans are implemented in other countries, making things like being exempt from the national healthcare system illegal. Or the insurance mandate from obamacare.

I'm not saying UBI shouldn't be implemented in a why bother manor, I'm saying you need both if it's going to be an effective system. If you don't, you will significantly reduce it's effectiveness.
I think I'm a pretty technical guy. I'm fairly certain if my job was more dependent on email, I'd get phished eventually. If the IT department hasn't made a move towards using 2FA, it doesn't seem right to punish employees with termination.
I'm not a taxi driver, and I don't know any but I'm not sure how widespread toxic riders is.

I've heard of taxi drivers complaining about drunks, people with food and stuff, but AFAIK taxi drivers in the UK are allowed to refuse service for things like this.
We try to avoid it in the US because it costs us 5-10x as much money to do it. If it cost Madrid $4.5 billion to build a two mile subway extension they wouldn’t do it either.
Ask HN: Have you ever integrated RFID / BLE tags in your software?
Hi HN-

I'm the founder of Gingr (gingrapp.com). We're a SaaS product that is geared towards pet care facilities which helps small business owners operate more efficiently. Think a POS+ERP+CRM for a specific niche industry.

We recently thought up a new feature that we want to implement. However, it requires a hardware piece. Basically, we want to add a feature where:

- The business issues a tag to their customer

- When the customer arrives at the business the tag is read

- When a tag is read, it notifies our software with the tag ID

- Our software will locate that customer in our system and bring up their record for easy access at the reception desk

Range is key here. Would definitely need to be contactless. Ideally the tag could be read when the customer enters the parking lot, before they even step foot in the building.

The problem is that nobody on our team has experience working with RFID/BLE/NFC/etc.. technology. I'm wondering if anyone here on HN does have experience in this realm. What technology did you pick and why?

I did find a company called Kontakt (kontakt.io) that sells BLE readers/beacons. My concern is that they may be a small company that could disappear tomorrow. Does anyone here have experience with them?

Also open to paying someone to consult with us on this project- specifically around identifying hardware to use.

Didn't know where else to reach out, so I'm posting here! If this is against the rules, I'm sorry and please feel free to delete it.
Music streaming looks pretty producty to me. If anything, the issue is that too few things are considered independent products: In the case of Spotify, the client really should be a separate product from the service. No one would use that crap if it weren't tied to the service.

The broader issue here is that if you tie bundle things together as features of a single product, a for-profit company has little incentive to improve them. We don't get the best product/feature possible but the worst one whose lack of quality can still be compensated by other features/products.

Saying "they're a feature trying to be a product" instead of properly regulating the market does not result in a functioning market but in WeChat.
You can tweak FF's scrolling, etc. to behave more like Chrome.
That's not true. Nostrademons [0] explains it better, but in short, trades occur atomically, so the assets never leave your possession.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044091
> It can be overridden, yes, but releasing the switch also resets the MCAS activation timer, resulting in an activation 5 seconds after the switch is released.

That's why I suggested in this thread to activate the cutoff switches when the trim is in the correct position.

The electric trim switches are a hold down => motor moves. It's not a MAX specific skill. Neither are the cutoff switches.
I imagine this is fairly common actually.

If it is, it's not difficult to introduce a system to deal with it (and they may already have such a system). All it'd need to do is normalize ratings or at least reduce the weight of negative ratings if the rater always gives negative ratings.
Can you explain more how your first link relates to the emergence of consciousness? I skimmed the linked paper and it didn't seem to be drawing any links with human history or evolution. I find both psychedelic drugs and the "hard problem" of consciousness to be deeply interesting, but I've never been persuaded by the Terence McKenna-type arguments that try to connect the two.
To my knowledge ublock origin/umatrix do not spy on their users in this manner.
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On Chrome, you can hit CTRL + G, which does the same as CTRL + F, but is not hookable by web sites
> 'x' as 'x'

As others point out, 3.4 added `as const` which is more powerful and more generic.

> Add to that, in many cases being unable to import a JS library in that doesn't include typedefs, and I fail to see how TS can be considered a superset of JS. It's certainly sold that way, but it's clearly not totally true. TS+React requires --noImplicitAny, which cannot be worked around (it's labeled as being required due to a platform limitation).

No implicit any just restricts the type system from falling back to `any`, it doesn't stop you from explicitly using `any`. Most places where you get a noImplicitAny error you can add an `as any` or a `: any` assertion nearby. Explicit `any` is still often useful, even if only as a TODO marker for that day you can search for `any` in the codebase and try to remove it.

There's also `as unknown` or `: unknown` type assertions as another option for `any` in some case (`unknown` is stricter than `any` and implies you are going to be testing the value for runtime type information).

Use an explicit `any` applies to modules too. That problem with importing a JS library but getting a noImplicitAny error can be solved with an explicit `any`. That's where one particularly useful real world case of `declare` comes in. Add a file called something like `modules.d.ts` (the `.d.ts` is a convention that it won't have actual TS code, just declarations) and then to add explicit `any` for any module you want to import is as simple as:

declare module "modulename";

`declare` is how you write type definitions for JS code. The simplest declaration is that a module exists and could be anything.

> I also find Microsoft's documentation of TypeScript to be very poor

There's a better documentation site being built with better search and with a lot more interactive examples. I don't know when it might be expected to be released, but BUILD talks seemed to indicate that Microsoft is aware that Typescript's documentation hasn't kept up with its release cadence and needs love.
I do have "monitor" as a keyword, too. The thing about "tracker" that makes it so valuable is that it comes up as predictive text. If you type "weight loss" in the search bar, "weight loss tracker" is suggested, and "weight loss monitor" is not. PS: Thank you for proffering a helpful suggestion!
I really hope this is an allusion to that Portlandia Episode

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6459136/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9C4DhTnuQQ
Congratulations, you found a reason to hate the statue of liberty.
I don't know if it's annoying for the driver but the only time I would even consider thinking of sitting in the front seat would be if I was in a group and we needed to use that seat to fit everyone.

Driving around even casual acquaintances (e.g. friends-of-friends) is a totally different dynamic where it would seem a bit odd for them to sit in the back seat as if you were their chauffeur even if you sort of are.
Honestly, if these make it to users it’s a sign IT issues. Training users is good too obviously.
It's complicated, but this is explicitly not recognized as a defense by courts. If Alice tells me "Bob says that Charlie started the fire", whether or not that statement is defamatory depends on whether or not Charlie actually started the fire, not on what Bob actually said.

The more likely legal defense is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online service providers for liability for hosting online content from third parties.
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That is not a valid answer to a question starting with "why".
You don't have to be a religious fundamentalist of any type (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc.) to be deeply offended by the political indoctrination in the history and sex-ed classes. Atheists and agnostics are not of one mind on those subjects.
>Use a service that doesn't micromanage its customers

Lyft is still doing the same sort of micromanagement (you just have to jump through more hoops to see your rider rating, just like it used to be for Uber), and arguably has even more holes for drivers to abuse the rating system against riders (AFAIK, Lyft drivers can manage to correlate tips against specific rides, and have a 24 post-ride window to go back and change ratings for riders).

>taxis, city transportation services. Or just (shocker) get your own vehicle. If you're travelling, rental cars are also an option.

These aren't necessarily realistic alternatives in all cases.

In many second or third tier metro areas in the US, Lyft and Uber have completely destroyed the local taxi industry, to the point where taxis simply aren't a resource that can be utilized without booking far in advance, and even then their success rate for pickups is questionable.

As for public transport - not a realistic option for general use outside the largest metro areas in the US, and even many of the largest (e.g. Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas) have systems that are nearly useless for those traveling outside of very small portions of the metro area, or aren't commuting into central business districts from suburban transit centers.

'Getting your own vehicle' isn't necessarily economically viable in all cases, or even a usable option for those that face challenges related to driving ability.

And rental cars? Aside from making zero sense for certain urban destinations, employers increasingly require business travelers to utilize rideshare services while traveling for work.
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I mostly follow mass transit and railway projects, so that's where my numbers are derived from. Considering that Loop is pitched as a new mass transit system, it makes sense to compare it to costs. Especially because Musk loves comparing it to the obscenely overpriced NYC Second Avenue Subway extension, so it helps to understand how much it actually cost.

The Boring Company claims in its FAQ that the Second Avenue Subway cost "more than $1 billion per mile" (it doesn't mention it by name, but it's the only thing it could be referring to). The actual cost (from http://web.mta.info/capitaldashboard/CPDMega.html) is $415 million for 2 miles of 2 pairs of tunnel, with track work being another $364 million. The three new stations cost $649 million, $802 million, and $821 million--each more than the cost of all of the tunnel work.
I'm going to say yes. You should be just as suspect of health claims and sustainability claims of a plant based burger. But there's generally science to back up that a plant based diet it both better for the environment and better for health reasons than a meat based diet. Does that mean you shouldn't eat meat? I mean, you do you, but if you care about the environment or health generally the veggie burgers are more likely than not to be more supportive of your belief system. If you don't care about either of those things, then I suppose you would choose on taste and that's a personal preference.
Going as planned I presume.

Step 1: Enable "Built-In Ad-Blocker"

Step 2: Disable all other ad-blocks from store for some reason

Step 3: Allow only ads from Google ad-network
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So the example of `false | 'x' | 'y' | undefined` turning into string is invalid?

I feel like I'm missing something.
Yup it is still a thing!

https://www.metrotransit.org/guaranteed-ride-home
Ask HN: What’s the consensus on Paywalls?
Now that New York Times limits free reads to 10 a month, I find myself avoiding their articles. What is your view on paywalls? Good practice? Will it last?
Yes, virtualbox works under genode and has for years.

What's not there yet is support for the cross-microkernel abi, as that only works with virtualbox on NOVA currently.
This is how all pyramid schemes work.
What exactly does 'pass authentications' mean?

Apple has app handoff which does this. Or do you just mean keychain/password sync? Which most if not all the major password managers have.
I had to take a security training class because I failed to report a phishing attempt. Didn’t click the link and likely ignored the email altogether. My boss was confused why they contacted him. I don’t work there anymore.
The incredibly frustrating reason is that the US does not have have the English Rule, which requires those who sue in court to cover the expenses of those they're suing unless they win.

The lack of this rule turns our courts into a lottery.
yes. https://www.inverse.com/article/34451-elon-musk-s-tunnel-pro...
I’ve lived in 3 different states and 4 different places for work, in 5 different industries in the last 15 years, while having 4, now 5 kids. It’s not something everyone can do, but it’s not impossible. I have no idea why anyone would care so much to stay in a specific place and work in a specific industry.

Obviously, if you have sick family or other challenges I get it. I’m assuming able bodied and normal ties to places and things.
That's a different argument and more about Apple Maps, Mail, etc being the "default app" (which is an option on macOS). That's something I'd like to have, but like I said I don't have a strong legal/moral opinion either way.

They're talking about the lock-in of the App Store and competing with Apple Music. Your argument sounds more applicable to music purchases than a subscription service. Especially with a subscription, it seems more similar to the independent butcher/bread maker competing with a grocery store analogy brought up elsewhere in this thread.

I'm a bit lost on the house analogy and how that applies to Spotify and Apple Music.
I'm really interested to know how many have bought the $9/month Premium plan. Doesn't seem that expensive considering you can enroll as many as 3 whole websites! ;-)
https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/872144967350632448... comes to mind
> I would be very worried for some innocent to be wrongly tagged by the system.

You should. Law enforcement in particular doesn't think that false positives are that big of a deal (after all, they argue, all that would cause is a cop to talk to the wrong person). They prefer to accept more false positives if that means fewer false negatives.

I disagree entirely with that.
> The idiots that don't take their kids to the doctor...are idiots.

Do you think that being a teacher is easier than being a medical doctor?

I know somebody who is a primary school teacher in Northern France, on the border with Belgium (a disadvantaged area for France, but no worse than some parts of the American South), every single year she has to deal with medical or social issues that would have gone otherwise unnoticed: abusive families, contagious diseases that went unnoticed, kids who were not eating healthy at home...

My point is that it is often thanks to public schools that we don't need forced doctor (or god forbid social serivices) visitations.
"When" they do that, it will be because they have judged that they have, by then, thoroughly extinguished all competition. If you (the royal "you") want there to exist an alternative browser to which to jump to when the time comes, then consider making the jump today, when your influence might still make some small contribution to the competitiveness of the browser market.
No kidding.. I had to scroll back up to the top to make sure I wasn't on The Onion.
lyft has ratings, too
I think it's more than a back up. A lot of the problems, like the original poster pointed out, to survive on mars, are solutions that'll greatly benefit us on earth.

You cannot name one endeavor to get to Mars that doesn't have immediate byproducts that are incredibly useful to everyone on earth.
Indeed, great story. I'd love to have seen the face of the person who finally figured it out.
There are large parts of Nevada that could be 'reclaimed' (in the Bureau of Reclamation sense) without too much effort -- just a couple of well-placed dams, berms, and canals. Large parts of the state are in closed basins, from which the water just evaporates anyway, so using it first within the basin would make sense. Extensive projects like this were once the norm, but fell out of favor as the 1970s transitioned into the 1980s, feeling the impact of the environmentalist movement, the opposition of Jimmy Carter, and the failure of the Teton Dam.

Some big urban areas already need to rely on interbasin transfers for their water supply: LA, NYC, San Diego, Mexico City, SLC, Denver. Tunnels for water would actually be a sensible and 'boring' pivot for the Boring Company.
>Bars presumably are free to use this system or not, and no one really needs to go to bars anyway.

Until insurance premiums require the service if you want to be able to afford to operate a bar.
I'm glad I already made the switch to FireFox. I only use Chrome to access Google apps, because for some strange reason they work a lot better in Chrome...

The only thing I miss is a Session Buddy equivalent. When my computer crashes, it's nice to be able to restore all my tabs and windows, and also it's nice to be able to close a bunch of windows when I travel and then go back to my tab state from three weeks ago.
I'm not the one firing anyone. If Uber makes the absurd decision to fire someone before they have a 4.2 rating, that is entirely on them.

If I tell you to sing the National Anthem all day and all night, or else I'll kill my neighbor, would you be at fault if you opt not to and and as a result I choose to kill my neighbor?
I mean you get best practices for the small part React is focused on. Angular is a full type of ecosystem, like your Ruby on Railses, Djangoes etc. in which you can install it and then create a full website directly without any dependencies other than what you get.
Some foods become harder to remove if they've dried. Doing a first initial cleaning speeds up the second cleaning.