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> JS was dog-slow at a point and was not really capable of doing the cool object oriented stuff you could do on desktop apps.

Absolutely wrong, Javascript was always fast enough to make web applications that had the responsiveness of desktop apps. The problem is that nobody was writing desktop apps in the browser; they were writing server-generated web pages that offered the users some extra interactivity via js. So they had to look for elements in a static template, and hook into them or perform transformations on the fly, instead of generating everything programmatically as it's done now.
it is definitely valuable and worth doing when the economics make sense.

Tautologically so.
"For a regular user", Chrome can only be considered reasonably secure if extensions are disabled. While doing regular support for ordinary users, I usually have to purge Chrome of piles of malware that have read/write access to all websites users are visiting, and they were distributed straight from the Chrome Web Store.

Firefox is capable of the same problems, but I rarely see malicious Firefox extensions in the wild, I assume they do a much better job policing their store.

Chrome may be better at fighting arcane sandbox escape exploits, but that's not what gets the regular user into trouble.
>How a decades-old reality TV show distorted America's view of policing

This article doesn't even attempt to support its thesis. "COPS" presents a distorted view and does it in shady ways, true, but the article made zero effort to show that it actually had an effect on the opinions of the American public. COPS airs in over thirteen countries including Canada and there's no information or data referencing "America's view" in the article, so the title would be baffling if it weren't exactly the kind of "Criticize Americans to make ourselves feel better" hit piece I expect from Canadian news outlets.

It's a particularly lazy one, too, since I'm fairly sure the claim is in fact correct and it probably wouldn't be difficult to back it up, but they didn't bother.
Are they as rare as the 52 Hz whale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale
Bullshit. A huge chunk of the world used to not let people vote on their governance, or basically gave no rights to women. Turns out that declaring war against England solved part of that, and other actions have made huge headway around the world. The civil rights act had huge effects, despite it being a big problem in many other places.
Seems like that only makes it 3x harder.
This March. I wasn't able to use Suica for the Osaka busses.
Logical fallacies alert! "Slippery slope" leading right into a "hasty generalization" right there if I've ever seen one.
> This seems to be a strawman to me. I've never seen it argued that UBI should come with any kind of requirement that it be spent in certain ways, or that further monitoring would be required to ensure that people didn't do stupid things with it.

Given that UBI replaces most other social programs, you'd have to consider if you let people who waste their stipend go hungry or not. If a single mom waste's theirs, do we now introduce SNAP/WIC back into play to cover that? How about disabled people? In my mind all of these programs will slowly be reintroduced to cover edge cases and then we are back where we started.
I recently went to a talk at my university on microcombusters but the professor (I cant remember his name off the top of my head) was also working on small insect like drones. There were videos of nitonol powered beetle crawling and a non flying prototype of a bee drone with nitinol wing flappers. Rather cool but he said they are incredibly inefficient compared to traditional electric motors.
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Very nice and unintuitive main finding. I wish there was a separate condition where they sent a second experimenter back to the location of the hand-in to ask for the wallet. Just waiting for a contact leaves some room for unpredictable effects: perhaps with no money, the person can't even be bothered to deal with it. With money, there is an incentive to try to contact in the hope that if no response is received within a short period, the money can be kept.
It is also one of the most abused rules, often used to justify extremely sloppy "big picture thinking".
"toxic masculinity "

Why make this a thing about gender? Abusers can be found in all genders. Making this about males is counterproductive.
That description probably applies to several computer architecture books, but the one I read was like that and called "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface".
I have worked in Liberia (in fact, I just returned from a four month stay today) and since the public power company is so untrustworthy, NGOs and offices usually run their own power off diesel generators. It's common the generators are shut down at 5:30 or 6. Works out pretty well.
If it is insider access they will be caught.
They talk about Pixle/Chrome OS "tablets" but not Android, which is what I actually want.

Please make a follow up to the Nexus 9.
Yeah, we’re at opposite ends of the spectrum here :)

I hate all that stuff. I hate spending hours at Home Depot trying to find the right parts and tools to do things.

I just hate dealing with hardware in general.
Do you consider that for people with full-time jobs now?
>The kids could inherit the homes, but that will still leave a flood of houses on the market. It will be interesting to see play out.

Investors will buy them, and get the city/county to rezone those properties for multiple houses. They will tear the house down, and build N houses on it and sell it.

In the short term, there might be a local HOA that will fight it. But when the oversupply gets large enough to really impact everyone's prices, the existing owners will favor this solution, as it will raise the value of their own mansion.
Right so the $ in PHP or @ in Perl would be a sigil, (and even the $ and % in QBasic, am I dating myself?) and the # in this example and all C code and some Swift code would be a pragma. Seems pretty cut and dry.
Locking security bugs from wide internal read access has been SOP everywhere I've worked for decades.
>communication skills are always the bottleneck

Conway's Law[0] says that communication will have a huge impact on most of the architecture design and roadmap itself, not just as a bottleneck.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Sounds like phones should have cracked-glass (etc.) sensors.
The very long term house/condo appreciation will always match incomes. Don't expect SF real estate to appreciate the way it has in the last 40 years.
React containers, some assembly required
An English pretrained model is available. Also, the SQuAD2.0 EM numbers are higher than the BERT results published in the BERT paper. Subsequent work has improved on these and no doubt XLNet will see similar activity.
Intel hasn't manufacturered bespoke chips for some years now, which is why all, but one, mainstream consoles have been AMD.
If a single mom wastes their SNAP/WIC now do we give them more SNAP/WIC?
Senior leaders and people that want to get there take note: cognitive load is the base problem one solves for when scaling development organizations. This article is a pretty good introduction -- especially building with empathy and emphasizing "what" over "how". But one can also look to any tech company that provides an API devs like (my fav: Stripe) as an example of what low cognitive load relative to the problem looks like.

Truly talented leaders tend to realize that high cognitive load comes from lots of places besides technical considerations too. It can be hard to think about a problem when you're also dealing with a toxic team member, untrustworthy leadership, lack of organizational focus, shitty HR policies, feeling unsafe at work, etc. Unfortunately, fighting against those elements is a never-ending battle.

Leaders that mix low cognitive load with clear direction and an interesting problem start to approach that highly-sought-after "early startup productivity" that so many companies can't seem to figure out. At least until a re-org, acquisition, or change in the c-suite comes along and blows it all up.
No clear mention of whether those impacted will be notified though.
What is it about Chinese society that makes you say that? Not having a go here, I legitimately know nothing about it. If stranger-trust is so low, what societal branches does trust hang on? Is it family, business, political, local..? Is it mediated through technology like WeChat?
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A little bit of discrepancy to the article, because Netflix often claims a movie or series is "A Netflix Original" when it's anything but. This could have easily given some a wrong impression about who made the series. Still, personally I think shows like this do more to focus on religion rather than to take focus away - seems silly to protest something that is promoting at least in some sense the things you like, just because it doesn't represent it precisely to your liking.
You're comparing the total annual loss rate, which was apparently "slightly above average", to the loss rate just over the winter, which was 40%.

This article about the 2017 honeybee season mentions the difference. That winter, 31% of honeybees were lost, compared to ~28% the previous winter.
https://www.farmprogress.com/crops/annual-honey-bee-colony-l...
Same. I just wrote in another comment in this thread that I hate spending hours at Home Depot searching for tools and parts. I find the whole world of home repairs hard to navigate. I watch a video on YouTube on how to repair X, and they talk as if things are standardized, but then I try it at my place and everything looks completely different and I don’t even know what those things are called.
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The alternative interpretation of what you have said is that $16B is actually too low and that Slack is undervalued or at the very least it has a lot of room to grow.
Huh? I'm not comparing the size of hello world examples.
Personally, I just find the lack of being able to declaratively pass state and/or event handlers to child components painful. Not to mention that testing with a full DOM (virtual or real) is really slow by comparison.

React + Redux + JSS just really matches how I've always conceptualized about building web based applications. I absolutely favor material-ui as a component library. I've been building web applications for almost two and a half decades. React is the first framework that felt "right" to me, and still did after using it. I've used a LOT of options over the years.

I do think WC can be used with React in some cases, and that it's probably a better approach if you're building mostly static content and wanting to add additional interactive features outside of core display.

I also think in 5+ years there will be a couple library options that makes using WC a better option for application style development.
I like this: 'When I first joined Varo, I was warmly welcomed by the quote “The mission of a DevOps team is to eliminate itself “ at the top of our confluence page. We all knew that asking people nicely to follow the rules would eventually no longer be an option, and tools and guardrails need to be constructed and maintained. Tasks that were once easily handled manually by an individual will inevitably grow in frequency to begin to exclude work on long-term projects. The goal of a Devops team in this stage is to ensure that efficiency stays constant and that observability doesn’t decline with their increased scale.'
Dear god I thought that video would never end... Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds, Turn off for 2 seconds, Turn on for 8 seconds......

My Sengled bulbs just require I essentially strobe the light like 5 times or something like that which isn't great but it's better than this.
But film crews don't have to invent a vocabulary for each film. The special terms used are all the same.

Developer teams juggle multiple special-purpose vocabularies specific to the technology stack they use, the techniques they employ within the technology stack, the language of the domain they are encoding in software, and the language of the software solution itself.

The set of vocabularies gets expanded or swapped every time you add a person, a technology, or a new project.

Of course we're "bad" at communicating! It's a harder cognitive problem space to convey meaning in.
If you are in the USA look into Series I savings bonds. They both earn interest and are protected from inflation. Minimum term ownership: 1 year. No early redemption penalty after 5 years. Earnings exempt from state and local taxes but subject to fed tax. The only drawback is you can only buy $10k of them per year per SSN. Much of my E-fund is I-bonds.
Post WWII, Japan was in the position of "work like crazy so that we don't all starve". So their culture became "work like crazy". That position ended perhaps by 1970, but the culture survived.

There may also be other factors, but I think this is one.
I think this is more of a difference in recognizing an emergency and dealing with it. If I’m driving and suddenly blinded, I am going to try to do something, immediately.

If my car is on “autopilot” and it seems to be getting ready to leave the highway in the vicinity of an exit, it might take me a while to figure out that the car is not doing what I expect it to do.

Nobody expects a laser, and nobody expects their car to drive off the highway. But if you trust your car, your reaction may be delayed by the cognitive dissonance between what you observe and your belief that the car will do what it has always done under what you believe to be the exact same circumstances.
You really didn't answer my question though, and now we're on a different, tired series of questions that always get asked in regards to UBI.
Dramatization of the after prison time is also grim - I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melmoth_(comics)
Which is surely an argument in favour of UBI? No tragedy of the commons, or scope to "abuse" it - you exist, you get the UBI. Should work at any scale, no? No need to claim insurance or welfare if shit happens - that safety net stays. A baseline below which it's not possible to sink. Which was the original intent behind welfare etc.

The possibility of having small communities joining in once again, in addition would be great. That would require unwinding much of the neoliberal Thatcher/Reagan view of things though. Community or collective bad, "there's no such thing as society" as a matter of dogma.

We've all been made economic individuals, everything should be paid for individually, community and cooperation is old tech to be eliminated. No wonder there's a crisis of loneliness.
There is a direct connection between the ascendence of this kind of "predatory" model and people expecting to pay indie-level prices for AAA level features.
i agree with your sentiment, but i don't think that rent control is a federal concern. we need to hold our state legislators accountable here. living in CA frustrates me in that regard, because we cannot pass a single f'ing bill about housing affordability generally, even though democrats have a super-majority and every politician and news outlet talks a big game on the topic. i'm ready to vote against every incumbent at this point.

in any case, part of the solution is to equalize the capital gains tax with income tax rates and have the capital gains tax escalate with the number of homes owned (but keep a small tax advantage for long-term owners of a primary lived-in home). and get rid of 1031 exchanges for investment property, which greatly advantage large capital holders over the average citizen.
Focus on the structures, leave the algorithms for later. Seek out and study the papers, and build each data structure one by one. You'll know you understand it when you can build it, when you can see its structure. There's a master key hidden embedded within the structures too. Pieces of the key are distributed among them, waiting for its fragments to be connected. Its secrets revealed and retrieved by a select few. One of the secrets you'll discover on this quest is this: Once you get the structures, you get the algorithms for free.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20047607
When overtime starts getting budgeted the employer doesn't care so much. Usually they've done the math on if hiring people (with benefits, etc) is better than spreading the hours out as overtime.
the only non-shocking thing here is an American trying to claim moral superiority over the rest of the world. :)
Todd Humphreys and other UTexas researchers spoofed a ship with a human driver:

https://news.utexas.edu/2013/07/29/ut-austin-researchers-suc...
Didn’t they stop/restart once before? Sounds like history is repeating itself...
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The 4 persons in the team are full time employees, partial time or freelancers? Are they getting paid in money too?

Do you have users/customers?

You can try contacting the YC team by email: info@ycombinator.com
> I think the world is beautiful. I love nature and everything in it. What I don't think is beautiful is the destruction of this world by overpopulation and selfishness.

Isn't it also selfish to prevent your children from experiencing its beauty? To smell a flower, to touch and be touched, to experience love, to feel the joy of truly understanding something - the list is truly endless!

Besides, our primary job is to ensure the continued existence of the human race, and the first and most important step in that process is to bring new humans into this world.

Yes, I agree: there are other factors to consider when making this decision, and honestly, I don't judge you either way.

The way I look it is that if we cease to give birth to new humans, we are guaranteed to go extinct, but there is no guarantee (yet!) that overpopulation or environmental abuse will cause a world ending event. The earth has gone through far more destructive eras and yet here we are!

Ultimately, it is indeed a philosophical argument: does the risk of potential suffering outweigh the joys of experiencing life? I don't think so, at least not yet.
Isn't the newest USB standard just Thunderbolt with different name?
Same. I'm looking at buying here in ~2021, and I'm looking at houses that are ~half the size of the one I grew up in on ~half the land for 2x the price. Shortly after I moved here I rented a 450 square foot condo that sold last fall for around the current value of the house I grew up in (2800 square feet, 1 acre, creek out back).

That said, those exurb mcmansions (particularly those featured in the OP) do push the boundaries of the wildland urban interface, and while their lack of density might not have the same impact on housing prices that you see in urban areas, they more or less have the same environmental impact.
I do similarly with sms/iMessage. It’s actually a great way to keep in touch and seems more “real” than Facebook because it’s me directly and specifically communicating with my friends and the public “performative” aspect is absent.
I don't deny in my comment that they do good work. It's absolutely a double edge sword and not an easy or clear cut case of what's right versus wrong. It's well within their rights to choose how to spend their money and I wasn't attempting to assign moral or ethical judgement, just to bring up the point that if it's a concern then your money and time might be better directed elsewhere. This isn't a case of some monolithic evil organization demanding intolerance on high, but as part of their belief system it has led to multiple occasions where people have been thrown out of facilities, denied services, etc. It's up to everyone to find the line with which they are comfortable, especially in areas like this where the best use of resources might actually be giving to a cause that could be antagonistic to another cause one supports.
"I once heard it said that employee overtime was like morphine for employers, because it masks the pain of organizational dysfunction. It's important to let your employer feel that pain so that they can become aware of what is wrong and fix it.
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One of my jobs in Germany had a strict 35 hour week. No overtime allowed unless paid 2x and even that was very difficult to do. Management was definitely much more decisive and we worked most of the 35 hours. With my current employer I am pretty sure I am working less productive hours but I am in the office more. Meetings, meetings, conference calls, more meetings and no clear decisions.
You must of got one hella of a deal!

For CA: "Based on where you live, insuring a single-family house can cost from $2.50 to $5.50 per thousand dollars of coverage"
.25% to .55% That's quite significant.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/california-earthquake-insurance...
I literally wrote your rebuttal in my third sentences.

My intro was just a humourous answer to the parent comment

And I'm pretty sure you're actually overestimating the required technological competency we'll need to start these simulations. Most of the actual blockers such as General intelligence, realistic physics and free thinking aren't necessary to create a program that mimics a human to a degree to be useful in a simulation. Even scale isn't necessary, as "real" interactions aren't required and the memories can be "mocked"
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> Although the car was three miles away from the planned exit when the spoofing attack began, the car reacted as if the exit was just 500 feet away—abruptly slowing down, activating the right turn signal, and making a sharp turn off the main road.

Designer fail, why is navigation system explicitly trusting GPS signal while the car has multiple sources suitable for dead reckoning(1)? ABS sensors alone (distance) would tell you something was wrong (being teleported 2.5 miles forward), then you have accelerometers, compass, cameras supposedly able to recognize side roads. Tesla needs to work on their kalman filter implementation.

1) Etak https://patents.justia.com/patent/5948043 dead reckoning patents expired by now.
Well, yes. That was really the core of the complaint, but nobody would read complaints about The Almighty Dollar then, any more than now, so it had to be wrapped up in techno-morality.
Why did you choose python 2.7?
I'm the reporter on this article. I can tell you that the US government did not pay me or pressure me in any way. And other journalists who worked on this piece are in fact Chinese. Skepticism is healthy but don't let it get in the way of learning the truth.
I think the point here is "to each their own", and there shouldn't be such a thing as "the" American dream, or rather that the American dream is for every person to live their life exactly as they want.

My wife and I would not give up owning our house for anything, and would never go back to renting. I pride myself in being able to make minor repairs to all kinds of things around the house, and seeing them as fun engineering challenges rather than burdensome responsibilities. My wife loves gardening and needs plenty of yard space for planting.

Most of all (and I may be in the minority here), I really value peace and quiet, and true peace and quiet can only be achieved in a detached house, and preferably even with some generous distance from the next house.
If I think back to living in an apartment, I was super easily annoyed by any noise made by neighbors, including pounding footsteps, loud music, screaming children, barking dogs, etc.

Of course the house we own isn't exorbitantly large, or not larger than what we need it for, but even if we'll need to "downsize" at some point in the future, it will be to another detached house, and not an apartment.
are you sure? That's almost 5-10 times cheaper than the averages posted, above.