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Agreed. Incentives are not aligned. It seems the unnamed "War on Homelessness" has just created an industry not actually interested in solving the problem.

This recent Hoover Institution article had an interesting take seemingly aligned with yours: https://www.hoover.org/research/backwards-economics-san-fran...
Good call. Just updated.
Because both times I bought an AMD (ATI at the time) card, it failed prematurely (out of warranty, but < 2 years of life) and the drivers sucked balls.
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You may be onto something, but I am not certain it is just a quality of govt employees. BSA depts seem to house a lot of people, who would love nothing more than to expand those laws even further. I am not saying you are wrong. I think it is just a sad reality that people push in the direction that benefit them most.

edit. added not. completely changes the ending. sry
You’re forgetting that most of Strava data comes from Garmin or similar devices.

Strava can’t pretend to be a hub and then claim they own the data. Hoping Garmin, Wahoo and others who actually produce this data clamp down on Strava too.
The “how” is that places like this (Seattle, SF, Vancouver BC) have very good municipal support for the homeless, and have pretty good welfare laws at the state level, and have climates that won’t kill you if you sit outside all day. So homeless people from everywhere else in the country gravitate to these places.

These cities don’t have a municipal homeless problem; they’re sacrificial goats for entire nations’ homeless problems.
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The problem with bikes is that you get incredibly sweaty even in the winter. I'm sure there's solutions to that as well but I would prefer not to have to towel down or change clothes after arriving at my destination.
If you look at the richest people in the world, particularly those that are American... they are all introverts. As much as we used to fetishize celebrity, we now love wealth more. And the wealthiest of us have been made that way due to sitting for hours alone behind a computer. You have to imagine, there have always been these kinds of people; the general culture just didn't give them the space in the narrative of the past ( I remember my great-grandfather would hike 20 miles in the snow both ways to completely alone to read or something... These are rare stories of the past).

This is less a binary question than a, can we provide outlets for both ways of thinking, kind of question. Of all the a-la-carte subscriptions many extroverts pay for (Netflix....), I bet they would be willing to pay for a "I don't want to be lonely" service (whatever that looks like).
I don't think Microsoft is doing incredible things. They are baiting the developers and just use the strategy of locking people into their constellation of spying services. Acquiring GitHub they got access to all private repositiories and insight to what other companies are doing. This is despicable.
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Nope, I've never had that problem with any of the Logitech mice I've owned. Which model has that issue?
It was a "build VM" running the client edition of Windows. Do you install Ubuntu Desktop on your build VMs and expect Firefox not to be bundled?
Thank you for the notes — I will update!
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I think it's necessary in the long run. It's the only way anything will ever change. And bandwidth is a finite, shared resource. You also pay per electron that flows through your blender and drop of water you drink from your faucet.

Right now the internet is basically built on a bunch of "gentlemen agreements" to play fair, all the way from BGP down to ISPs ("please filter egress, pretty please!") to end-users ("please don't actually use all of your bandwidth because we're overprovisioned!").

Of course, the fee has to be tiny. For example, you don't reconsider hydrating yourself to save some money. But you may reconsider leaving your heater on 24/7 when you can just wear a jacket indoors. It would have to be priced similar to that. Though other things will have to change as well, like we'd need the ability to shop between ISPs in a region.

Most people are already paying per byte, but in the most roundabout marketing-mislead way and I see that as a problem that only really helps ISPs. Imagine if it was a fully commoditized utility instead.

On the other hand, look at the effects of the status quo. People have so little insight into their usage that you can buy enough residential botnet egress to take down any site for $5 which empowers centralization like Cloudflare DDoS protection. I suppose you either don't see this as a problem or you can think of other solutions.
Cannot reply to sibling... Nvidia doesn't have simply the best OpenGL implementation, it has the fastest and most forgiving implementation. No argument about speed (or Cuda), but by being forgiving of code that shouldn't work according to spec, it creates lock-in and makes more conformant implementations look bad.

Also, on Linux, AMD's OpenGL implementation - which is just Mesa - is very high quality.
Not before wikipedia existed but I did lose myself countless times on this website. The most impressive side of it was the ratio of information over presentation. It's confusing to follow the discussions at times but you will make the effort without hesitating.

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My guess is that it's because not everything was down so it wasn't a total outage. From the post mortem:

> Stripe splits data by kind into different database clusters and by quantity into different shards.

So in theory any request that didn't interact with the problematic database should have been OK (I don't know if the offending DB was in the critical path of _every_ request).
We don't have barcode scanning yet — it's a bit tricky to pull off as an iOS PWA.
I've been using windows for the past 15 years. First 6 as a normal user/gamer then as a developer with php then as .Net developer. I do use linux but only on servers/vms. I've had the occasional issues with windows, not gonna lie, it's far from perfect. But i've rarely seen CPU hogging when idle. One time i can recall is when the windows update service was doing something and for few hours i had 80+ % cpu usage then it updated and it stopped. And one time something was wrong with the search indexing service, rebuilding the search cache fixed that issue.

As for ram, i have no problem of windws/apps using all the ram i have available, that means they will hit the disk less often and be snappier, in most cases
I sure hope that someone will. I do not have access these devices, neither do I have any inclination to buying their commercial product in order to verify their claims.

Maybe their product is brilliant, and/or maybe they did a lot of manual verification of their automated scans, in which case their report could be accurate (though still hard to verify).

That said, my experience with both static analysis and runtime security scanner is less than stellar. They are without a doubt useful tools, if not indispensable. But they usually generate more leads for further (manual) analyses, rather than generate (accurate) final verdicts.

Granted that pen-testing is a different animal (but one I have more experience with), I often have had to explain to customers that the reports they got from security auditing companies were full of false conclusion. More often than not because those companies were relying/trusting too much on automatically generated results, in addition to them trying to sell additional services. So, forgive me if I'm skeptical.

That Finite State apparently has a stake of their own here (promotion of their product), which makes me only less inclined towards giving them the benefit of a doubt.

As I mentioned before, this is of course all speculation on my part. Still, until Finite State publishes their factual/detailed scan results, I believe I have every reason to consider that this might be either a political motivated report, or more likely be an attempt to use/abuse the current political climate to promote their own product and services.
100% agreed. How he is not questioned for foreign influence on our election is beyond me. I'm somewhat saying this tongue-and-cheek but for the amount of 'Russian Collusion' that warranted the last 3 years of hysteria, he should've been questioned.
Because "A substantial majority of API requests during these windows failed. " implying that there was not a complete outage.

I don't understand why people demand the usage of incorrect language.
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Have you been to SF or LA or Seattle? The crisis we are experiencing isn't because rents are too high. That's a separate crisis affecting a different set of people. The crisis this article is discussing, the really really bad homelessness problem, comes in two forms: drug addiction and mental illness. These people could not stay in an apartment if it cost $50 a month. Their problems are far, far worse than poverty.
> Oh and for gaming there is consoles of course, which crushes the PC gaming market in pretty much any discipline.

PC overtook console gaming in terms of revenue over five years ago. There's a vastly more players on PC nowadays.

https://www.pcr-online.biz/2014/04/25/pc-games-have-surpasse...
No matter your feelings on the political alignment of Sinclair, Seattle is Dying accurately captures the severity and magnitude of the problem, the program was balanced, and didnt advocate for one solution or another to the problem. I feel a whole lot of the people who have criticized this program have not watched it, or live in the parts of the Seattle area not effected by the homelessness crisis.
Is suspect we're referring to different types of proof here. The sort of formal proof I refer to guarantees that the software will never display unspecified behaviour; your procedures are now backed by mathematical definitions with known properties.

It's not about security. It's about the software functioning correctly so no functional updates are necessary, diminishing the need for remote updates and all the security problems that bring along.

Even if remote access is needed to conveniently store various data in a different location there is no need to run everything on the same level. Smartphones are mass-produced computers that separate concerns with having a baseband and a main cpu. There is no reason a medical device could not have such a separation. One OS to keep the device working correctly under all circumstances, one OS to slap networking and interfacing on.

I don't expect the medical technology industry to change quickly, but as things are they are adopting bad practices of software development and moving in the wrong direction.

"If problems pop up, we'll update it later remotely" should not be an acceptable mindset for some classes of computer equipment.
To understand why people appear to not care you have to imagine seeing that grinding human despair twice a day, every day, on your way to and home from work. The only way to deal with it is to ignore it, because it's so horrible. Then you have to imagine occasionally (or regularly) being accosted or physically assaulted by some fraction of the homeless population, and you can see how people become hardened to it. The visible homeless problem, as it's described here, is almost entirely caused by mental illness and drug addiction; usually both. People ignore it because they literally can not do anything about it as an individual. The worst cases you see on the street have intractable problems no amount of money can solve. The only way to end the homelessness epidemic in coastal cities is to rebuild the mental health care system, and allow limited involuntary committal.

My Brother lived in Seattle and had severe psychosis for several years. Cutting holes in the walls to find the hidden cameras, refusing to eat because the food was poisoned, etc. The rest of the family lives out of state and no amount of begging the police and social workers would get him into a stable environment. I was told that there were only 80 beds available for in-patient mental health services in all of King County. Multiple episodes of self-harm and threatened suicide had no effect whatsoever on the treatment options available. He would go into a meeting with a case worker raving about gang stalking and CIA assassins, with words carved in his arms, and they would just tell him to come back in a week for a check in. A person in this state does not believe that there is anything wrong with them, and will not seek or accept help. The only way we were able to get him treatment was to physically fly out there and force him to leave for Illinois where some family members live. Now, imagine a person in that condition who has no one that is willing or able to intervene, and you can see how complicated this problem is.
I know it wouldn’t fix the leak, but files like those would be extremely simple for Google to filter out of their index.

For github/gitlab/etc links, they probably also could inform project owners about the problem.
I can think of several reasons

1) compelling if it all works out. Invest clear-eyed and hope the founding team figures out the roadblocks.

2) Pattern-matching / top-down portfolios. Mobile apps. Sharing economy. Subscription businesses. Electric Vehicles. Internet of Things. A lot of investors decide on themes for portfolio before they look at investments. Scooter sharing ticks a lot of boxes.

3) Adverse selection. It's a simple idea - anyone can grasp scooters as subscription. So the simplest-minded investors chose this rather than more subtle ideas.

4) as another comment suggested, investors are playing a game of musical chairs between funding rounds. Chamath Palihapitiya claims this as the reason his firm is stepping back from VC -- so he's walking the talk here https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/start-up-economy-is-a-ponzi-...
>There is no way where Bird becomes a viable business that grows into its absurd valuation.

I was recently chided and reproached by the HN mods for knocking scooter companies (even got the old “this isn’t personal, but don’t...”).

the point is with any SV funded company you don’t need revenue or even to be a viable business. You just need SV money (I think Bird has already burned through $415M and now asking for this $300M) to launch the business and “grow” the user base and/or metrics(someone here once fittingly described the model as selling $5 bills for $1).

So now you raise $500M sell $5 bills for $1, the startup staggers their sales so they show constant growth month over month, in reality you raise additional rounds to get more VCs to buy in and help market the company, then finally when you show tremendous growth (metrics), show revenue of $100M, then you file for a IPO and explain away the losses of $400M by saying at any point you can “flip the switch” and cut costs by no longer reinvesting in growth but make profits. Then at IPO you cash out and dump the shit company that’s never made a dollar on the public because all they see is the media pushed by SV/VCs with the media contacts, the big SV investor names, 100% growth month over month metrics, and the hope they to will get rich.
I went ahead and burned the data: for Science! After the dependencies were all downloaded, it works correctly and completely. It's a fairly nice ebook reader application, and it only took three days and replacing my operating system to get it.
Garmin LiveTrack is the same as Strava Beacon. But it might not be a "good" alternative. Many users have reported that LiveTrack fails to start reliably, or cuts out in the middle of activities.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=HbqxxbiBGA3mDhlLX4GUw8

I haven't tried Wahoo.
Hi. Ben from 1Password here. We've posted an official response to this concern here: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/515669/...
I can't believe I'm jumping into the inevitable 1-based indexing discussion, but I'm surprised to see you say that one-based indexing results in "less "+ 1" or "- 1" things in your code". Most arguments I've seen come out to "it's fine" (certainly) or "it's more comfortable for mathematicians" (which I can't speak to).

Besides Dijkstra's classic paper[1] showing why 0-based indexing is superior, in practice I find myself grateful for 0-based indexing in Python because of how slices and things just work out without needing +1/-1.

I'd like to understand. Could you give an example of when 1-based indexing works out better than 0-based?

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
Sure, in general, don't try to fix the user.

In our context, we use Excel as a team in a work context where our rules make our specific tasks easier. It is much easier for people joining who are already proficient with Excel to follow some formatting guidelines than to invent a custom tool and learn to use that.
Unfortunately, the site in question requires JS; without JS, it displays nothing but a blank page with a spinner. It doesn't even have a <noscript> element.
A cursory glance at that data tells me it makes no sense. They cite several industries with failure rates substantially below 90%, don't give a single instance of a failure rate greater than 90%, but tell us it averages out that way.

Also real estate businesses only have a 42% failure? So I have a greater than 50% chance of becoming a real estate mogul? I just don't buy it, and I don't believe those other numbers either.

And the only source they cite on the website, http://www.moyak.com/papers/business-startups-entrepreneurs...., doesn't really lend any explanation to their numbers.

I think their data is wildly skewed by sampling bias, as they claim to get their data from interviewing failed founders. Welp, they never interviewed me - how many other people have they never interviewed because they simply never knew the company existed? How many founders, after failing, go out of their way to talk about their failure?

VCs have a strong incentive to create a story that starting a company has a greater chance of success than it does, because it's low-risk for them and they want a churn of potential investment prospects.

I think 1% is a much more realistic number than 10%, unless we're limiting ourselves to Sequoia-backed post-Series A companies.
Despite of having a smooth upgrade/update from 1803 to 1903 (which for first time in my case carried group policies and tweaks done with 3rd party tools) I also still had to do the various tweaks in registry, mostly with help of rights elevation tool because with standard administrator I couldn't do a literal, pardon the word, shit because MS has decided I shouldn't tamper with stuff, settings they decided are best for me.
I'd agree, it was extremely balanced and touched on the nuances of the problem, and the fact that there are no easy answers either - it made the case that just throwing people in jail wont do any good either.
Oh I 100% agree. We deinstitutionalized for good reason. I will say two things however. Medical ethics and legal protections have come a long way since then. You wouldn't see doctors straight up experimenting on people at least not with legal sanction and the state now has an obligation to provide people attorneys. So using your own lawyer to get aunt Elsa committed while she just at the mercy of the system wouldn't be so easy.

But I would hope that with knowing what we do now about mental illness we would have many layers of intervention before we get to that level.

Imagine if theirs a kid getting into trouble regularly at school because of their mental health status. Rather than wait until that turns into a violent episode that gets the kid in jail or committed the court could assign that kid a mentor. Someone they have to spend 10 hours a week with and who they can call on for anything. That can change the trajectory of a kid's life. We know this because the number one difference between people with mental illness that succeed and those that fail is whether they have a support network.

Court mandated mentoring, support networks and counselling before, not after a major incident are all relatively low touch interventions that would be hugely beneficial. And we do some of this now. It just mostly comes after the criminal justice system has already begun to see the person as a criminal because it usually follows a significant crime.

Of course this cuta against the American psyche. We want to have 100% all our rights with no government intervention until we've proved we shouldn't. Then the government should have radical powers to shape our lives.

But maybe if we could come to see government more like the way doctors see medical treatment. The more unobtrusive it is the more we should allow. And the more intrusive it is, the more we should be nervous of its application.
On a different note -- I refuse to take these scooters around any typical city.

You are one pothole or crack in the road from being knocked on your ass under a passing bus. And given the state of our US city roads, this not just a remote possibility. The size of the wheels is just not safe at high speed + you being able to avoid situations like this. Don't even try it at night -- very dangerous.

Ride a bike.
Mozilla's rr is made for exactly that.
It seems we're reading different blog posts. Under the "What went wrong" section there are 11 points, all with differing levels of responsibility and ownership. He did well to identify the collective nature of this failure.
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