skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an expression to describe problems that are only still problems because of the politics and incentives of fixing them.

"solving the problem is half the problem"
Nope. Quadriplegic.
My beef with touchscreen controls is the lack of physical feedback, such that I need to glance at the screen to know if the intended thing happened.

I much prefer physical controls on the steering wheel for anything I want to do while driving - media related stuff, cruise control, speed limit, flappy-paddle gears, that kind of thing. In an ideal world, this is paired with a HUD, but I'll settle for a small display in the console in front of the steering wheel.

When using satnav though, a touchscreen is so much easier to input, and use to pan and zoom around a map than physical controls - but I only ever do this while stationary.

A halfway house might be prohibiting use of the touchscreen while driving, but how do you differentiate between passenger and driver?

At the least, I'd like haptic or/and audio feedback when making a touch though.
It seems abundantly clear there should be a right for a citizen to communicate wishes to their elected representatives.

Corporations do not elect representatives. Lobbying companies do not elect representatives.

Seems clear which needs to be got rid of.
Over or under? Pretty simple to make one law that caps rents like they do in many cities in Europe.
I'm just surprised that file:// works better (when it's allowed).
No, they mean quadriplegic.

Please read the comment they are replying to. OP states they are quadripelegic. The comment you seem offended by is a direct response to that.
But we can and should have onshore mechanisms - convince a judge you need it, get an onshore anonymous trust whose details are sealed except to law/tax. Seems like a darn good idea, in fact.

(This is where a lawyer steps in and points out that something like this already exists, right? I know nothing about British law...)
> I wrote a blog post about it but it was used against me by an interviewer at riot games.

Honestly? That sounds like the system is working as intended. I'm not from the US, never been there, and I wouldn't want the author of such a post on my team either.
A more charitable interpretation would be that parent is replying to grandparent alone, having found the comment on 'new', and is unaware of the great-grandparent comment that prompted it.
"edit: as gambiting commented, the button I am referring to is the P button, it is located on a stalk on the right hand side of the wheel, which is dedicated to shifting P N D R.

It is not on the windshield wipers stalk. The windshield wiper stalk on this car is located on the left hand side of the wheel, above another stalk for the turn signals.

Driving this Mercedes was utterly confusing. "

I completely agree. As I mention further down, we had a E350 4matic wagon for several years and even after 3+ years of driving it regularly, if I pulled into a parking spot and needed to:

- Shift into park
- Turn off radio
- Turn off ignition

They are all identical button presses. I would often do them in a weird order or hit park and wonder why the radio was still on ... or worse, would need to quickly mute radio while driving and reach up to press P on the stalk since that's my muscle memory (I never actually did that).

I am neither a dummy nor am I uncoordinated - it's really striking how having a bunch of "stop actions" all be identical tactile actions jumbles up.

The primary drive interface for the automobile should be a different physical interface than the radio or the cruise control or the map screen. You should shift into gears/modes - not button press or gesture or voice into them.
Markets as we know them are products of regulation. That's why "free market" is such a useless term. It can mean anything one likes, including "no" regulation (for certain values of "no"—now let's have fun figuring out what that means). It can mean markets regulated to make them "more free"—greater information transparency and standardization, for example. Depends entirely on your perspective.

"Regulation" is another term that's been abused to the point of meaninglessness, for that matter. It's largely just a synonym for "thing I don't like" now.

[EDIT] it's a bit like "right", which is mostly a term of propaganda, too. Declaring something's a right is propaganda. Declaring something's definitely not a right is propaganda. It may be useful in that role, but it's not especially useful in deciding policy. And yes I'm familiar with from-first-principles attempts to distinguish "natural" rights from everything else. I've even read the Second Treatise. It's all just-so stories, not some law of reality.
You probably won't until the distro you use (or you manually) set up something other than the default OOM killer.

You probably have too much swap. More than ~10 sec * your I/O speed (so let's say 512M-1G) is probably the max for the reasons you mentioned.
Be, if applicable, proud of the things you did and where your heart was at when you did them. Nothing can take that away from you.
We had a milling machine that ran from Win95, and we had to discipline ourselves not to move the mouse when it was milling a complex shape. Otherwise the machine would stutter and give us a nasty finish on the machined part.
It isn't quite as simple as that. Congress needs information to create good legislation. That information has to come from somewhere. Ideally Congress would raise taxes to pay experts to tell them about things they have to regulate. Sadly, people don't necessarily like seeing Congress raise taxes to spend money on itself and this has proven an effective weapon that some politicians, especially Republicans, have used to overthrow incumbents. So at least in the modern era we don't do nearly enough of that and even before our current era of open primaries and ideological partisanship we no longer have that at all and didn't have enough of it, to be honest, even in the day of the office of technology assessment and such.

So we rely on lobbyists now to explain to our legislators when the "system of tubes" metaphor for the Internet breaks down. Hopefully we can get multiple competing groups in the door to prevent the advice from being too one sided but at the same time everyone presenting has an agenda. Which probably costs the taxpayer more than hiring experts would but that cost isn't obvious the way a line-item on the budget would be.

And as bad as the current system is having legislation just based on what representatives know would probably be worse.
Ya, totally. I just thought it was weird that the Bloomberg article contradicted itself about two sentences apart.
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>you don’t need a code of conduct to solve a problem with one or two people in your association.

You absolutely need a code of conduct (laws) to solve a dispute between two people. That's the whole point of rules.

>If you make one disparaging comment to someone, we can hope that they take that one comment in stride and move on.

This isn't behavior that needs to be tolerated, especially not when the goal of the community is to write software.
Will there be a win/linux version?
I’ve heard of the idea of baking expiation into any given law. Useful laws get renewed, useless ones get expunged.
This is not just about lockpicking, Youtube has a trully incomprehensibly vast amount of content locked into their platform. They can hold viewers hostage with it.

My opinion on the morality of the matter is that old abandoned and unclaimed content should be made freely available at least to an open data repository.

In reality, as automated and semi-automated censorship tools improve, less content will be available to you, more content will vanish without a trace, and some content will be restricted based on factors such as location, nationality, ethnicity, political affiliations and browsing history.
That's where I used it, although it was a while ago now. Processing results from EMI/EMC testing.
Ok so accidentally activating speed limit mode will disable cruise control and you'll immediately start decelerating? That doesn't sound good.
Maybe. Maybe not. I see it as another good reason to find viable and economical ways of hosting our own content independent of these platforms.
If I was Amazon, I would start tracking which vendor supplied a particular instance of a product. Seems less costly than dealing with owning the liability of third-party vendors.
One reason is that more women then men have children, especially at lower income groups and age groups.
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Civilization Is They Were Never Meant To
The test I like to use is "If I go into my bedroom and browse porn online, I expect nobody to know what I'm up to".

Today, pornhub.com knows I visited and what I clicked on. My ISP knows I went to pornhub. Even people on my local network know I went to PornHub. Through packet size analysis, all those parties even know what I typed in the search box at PornHub (each possible keystroke results in a different number of bytes of autocomplete Ajax).

TLS failed to achieve any of the privacy the user expected. The infosec community has missed the big picfure...
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Not accurate. Part A and B are paid directly to medicare.
> I'm glad that you agree that CA taxes and regulates real estate.

What kind of manipulative garbage is this? onlyrealcuzzo isn't agreeing with the point you made; you aren't agreeing with the point onlyrealcuzzo made; and the point that you're making is only very slightly and tangentially supported by the thing that you're pointing out that onlyrealcuzzo tangentially said. This looks much more like you're trying to play gotcha games with onlyrealcuzzo's post, rather than dealing with it in good faith.

Edited to fix the user name.
Couple interesting points.

1. const correctness is awesome. I miss it so much in C# which I happen to code a lot as well. When you have a function which accepts `const Grid<int>& grid`, you can’t call resize() nor change cell values. If you’ll try, the code won’t compile. My given name is Const so I have bias, but still.

2. asserts. They aren’t even C++, these are from C, but IMO they have better ergonomics than C++ exceptions. They compile into nothing in release builds i.e. don’t affect performance, but in debug builds they trap to debugger right away, showing what exactly is not OK. For production code, sometimes it’s a good idea to use preprocessor trickery to turn failed asserts into scary log messages, in release builds.

P.S. It’s possible to implement much better resize(). When neither old nor new size is empty, the version on that gist will essentially turn old data into garbage. A better solution for that case, make a new vector on the stack, write a loop to crop or expand the items (e.g. calling std::copy_n), then call vector::swap to replace Grid::data vector with the newly built one.
Openbsd has a code of conduct. It's been there a while.

https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html

only half joking
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I do. They don’t. Google does tho.
That's probably true, but it also limits the number of available contractors to the ones who know a particular city's processes. It would be harder for a smaller contractor to operate across multiple jurisdictions. So it limits competition, which drives up prices.
Regulation most certainly increases construction costs. Safety features will definitely increase cost. So does environmental compliance. I don't necessarily think those are bad things, but they definitely increase costs.

From the article:

"These energy rules reflect an important priority for Californians, but they contribute to staggering construction costs and, in turn, higher house prices. Affordable housing builders spend $400,000 per unit, on average, for new housing in Los Angeles, more than any other city in the country. State energy standards contribute to this cost."
If you've ever worked at a company whose bread and butter is hardware, you know many of them treat software like just some other line item on the BOM: Like a screw or nut that needs to be as cheap as possible and "meet the spec", however insufficiently defined that spec is. I'd be willing to bet that this attitude is what's ultimately behind crappy software in cars. They don't see software as value-add, they see it as a cost that they grudgingly must eat in order to barely compete with the other car companies who also have crappy software. Yet, these companies who are so bad at software, and obviously hate it, keep adding more and more of it into their products!

It was a lot better when you could just ignore the bad software and use your phone for navigation/music. Now you need to use the bad software to operate more and more essential things in the car. What's next? A big screen in front of your face with a 10FPS animation of a steering wheel that you have to drag around with your finger to steer?
Lowered floor with ramp conversion (lots of specialty manufacturers do this, mine is VMI), custom reduced effort (2:1 ratio) horizontal steering (like a bus, but 8 inch diameter), reduced effort gas/brake hand control (hand control is Menox, I think the reduced effort part is custom), Paravan Touch system for ignition/shifting/secondaries, tri-pin on all hand interfaces to hold my hands in place with special splints.

You can buy a van from the conversion companies pretty easy, my steering column was built by a specialty company in San Diego. All together it works very well for me.

edit: here's a picture of the setup, the steering wheel is elevated here but it normally sits right above my lap: https://imgur.com/a/qOSP5Dg
Doesn't seem like a big deal, because:

> In Wednesday’s opinion, Circuit Judge Jane Richards Roth, writing for a 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel, said Amazon may be liable in part because its business model “enables third-party vendors to conceal themselves from the customer, leaving customers injured by defective products with no direct recourse to the third-party vendor.”

Seems like Amazon can just force third-party vendors to reveal their full legal identity to the customer then?

I don't care who's liable as long as someone's liable and it's fully enforceable within the US court system.
Medicare part D provides prescription coverage for a fee. It's a negotiating block for cost averaging and leveraging with a pool of participants.

You clearly don't know anything about this and I recommend you just delete your comments.
Slowing down a project increases cost. Also if your total construction per year can’t keep up with incoming migration the net difference will be demand growth which necessarily raises housing costs.
Curiosity as a Service – Literally
Connecting squid's fins to an iPod causes changing patterns in their camouflage
Yeah I had some shoulder issues as well a few years back. An occupational therapist friend of mine was adamant that I avoid activities like pull-ups and hanging from a bar to try and treat the pain even though I'd seen evidence suggesting it was a viable route.

I ignored it since I wasn't convinced with her logic. Fast forward to now and I'm like you. I regularly rep 45-70lb weighted pull-ups and have gone as high as 90-100lbs. My shoulders have never felt better.
It's tracking without consent, plain and simple. Forcing users to choose between HTML email and being tracked is nefarious. Users by default do not assume they're being tracked. Just like unsub, highly visible opt out of tracking should be the law. Morally there's no question.
'Bout time someone held Amazon accountable. They have been abusing the system for way too long.

Would like to see some law firms file class actions against Bezos operation.
At the federal level, the money funds both staff — usually registered lobbyists, communications staff and administrative support — and outside consultants. Boeing spent $3 million on 16 different consulting firms. The other $12 million went to in-house staff and “lobbying-related expenses” incurred by staff. None of this money goes to politicians or to political campaigns — that is a completely different beast — and it does not include advertising or PR campaigns that obliquely influence policy makers.

The team of in-house and outside lobbyists do a number of things including monitoring legislation, writing internal position papers laying out the company’s arguments for and against legislation, briefing execs on changing rules, organizing visits from execs, and participating in strategy sessions with trade associations.

Most importantly they try to exert influence. The most direct way is through meeting with congressional staff and regulators. These meetings are fairly easy to come by — anyone can call a Congressional office and request a meeting on an issue(and more citizens should!), but in most instances you will get shunted to a low level staffer who politely listens to your plea and takes notes. But, in the case of Big Business, that $3 million you spend in consultants brings with it some very deep rolodexes. They can get meetings with Chiefs of Staff, Chief Counsels, and sometimes directly with members of Congress so you can go to a Senate office and have a deep discussion about a specific piece of legislation. You can articulate how the legislation will impact your business, the economy at large, or the Senator’s constituents. You can propose new legislative language. Your team of lawyers can show the underpaid, overworked staffer all the loopholes he’s unknowingly introducing. You can propose a “carve out” to protect some special group (e.g. “Companies that spend $X in R&D should be exempt from provision Y”).

There are many other ways in which lobbyists try to get the ear of Congress, but the above encapsulates a significant portion of the spend you see in lobbying disclosure reports.
Funny how technology keeps making cars in particular worse. I'll probably be sticking with 90s models for a very long time. My 99 JGC 4.7L has basically everything I want or need with an FM transmitter and phone mount added.
The longfin inshore squid has the largest axons of all animals (around 1 mm in diameter). They were crucial in understanding neurons and the mechanism allowing the signal to travel down the nerve. By connecting squid's fins to an iPod with wires from earbuds the scientists were able to initiate action potential in the neurons involved in changing squid's camouflage.

https://blog.backyardbrains.com/2012/08/insane-in-the-chroma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential#Experimental_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfin_inshore_squid
> Nor do you seem interested in explaining it.

The lack of questions and the relentless downvoting makes me believe nobody's interested in hearing my explanations.
I always wondered about this, so how do projects like CryptoKitties profit? Or do they give themselves the seed cryptocollectibles and profit off of those?
So, I've donated money to the Nature Conservancy and the ACLU both with the intent that they would engage in lobbying on my behalf, both of which I consider to be "good lobbying".
There are very few CEOs in this world, there are millions of men in prison though. I'm not sure how many homeless there are, but definitely more than there are CEOs. I think there are a lot of other things you have to look at but by your logic that's evidence of oppression.
You can supposedly opt out of co-mingling now, and I do wonder how much money they really save by doing it. A few expensive legal penalties might be enough to kill the program.
Isn't it just a design choice? It's called "MAT"lab after all.
It seems Stripe solved this problem with https://sorbet.org/ which is actually Ruby + types.
> The last KKK member of congress was a Democrat.

The person who was most recently a KKK member who served in Congress during or after the time of their KKK membership was a Republican at the time he served in Congress. The same is true of the most recent member of the American Nazi Party to serve in Congress. And these are the same individual, David Duke.

The most recent person to serve on Congress who had ever been a KKK member was a Democrat (Robert Byrd), but he left the Klan about 3 years before Duke was born, 5 years before Byrd first ran for Congress, 20 years before Duke joined the Klan, and 30 years before Duke was elected to Congress as a Republican.
No worries, I just wanted to make sure people wouldn't get scared off too easily ;)
It was very fast, at least for a while. It might be slow now.
One might also be outraged if a Supreme Court justice was married to a lobbyist who was paid to advocate for positions relevant to matters on the court.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/virginia-thomas-ext...
I'm addressing the original point, which was claiming that America (implication - in whole, or uniformly) supported Jim Crow. It did not. One party supported that, but the other did not.

I don't belong to any political party, mostly because of the point you are making, but I don't think it is fair to tar all Americans with what only some of us did. Many fought for years against it and credit is due to those who did, and shame is due to those who resisted the change.

Both main parties have moved past this, more or less, and it's great to see slavery, Jim Crow and KKK in the rear view mirror.

I do not agree that the Republican Party is somehow a racist party or that it has somehow "swapped" with the Democrat party on this.
The regulatory environment has been fairly easy going so far including allowing Tesla's autopilot although it's not terribly safe and Florida has passed a law allowing completely unmanned vehicles. I think regulators recognise that encouraging development now will probably save lives down the line. The bigger problem still seems making vehicles that work well rather than getting them past regulations.
No recent car UX I've seen has been worse than the Hyundai Ioniq. The button to toggle reverse is right next to the cup holder / center storage, and placed & designed such that it's easy to accidentally hit it as you put your drink down[1].

I took a sip of my drink while waiting on a red light. When it turned green I unexpectedly backwards and just narrowly avoided crashing into the car behind me by slamming the brakes. Turns out I'd switched it from "Drive" to "Reverse" accidentally.

Toggling that button requires about the same amount of force you'd expect from a button that turns on the radio in any other car.

1. http://www.cleanmpg.com/community/index.php?media/31669/full...
This mostly benefits new games. If you want to update to (for example) Metal-compatible Unity, that probably means updating to the latest release, and bumping forward from 2017 Unity to 2019 Unity often breaks games. It's a common problem for indie developers who have to upgrade every few years since Apple loves breaking old games.