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How do I get a noise ordinance enforced, when the noise is 2 minutes of people shouting and clattering luggage down the stairs at 4am on Monday, to get their cheap Ryanair flight home?

My neighbours are much more careful at 4am, and each might only leave like this a couple of times a year. An apartment on AirBnB has this pretty much every week.
The nature of the javascript type system means that large software systems written in it are built on very shaky foundations.

This means that it's very easy to build a framework but also that it's very likely for a framework to break and under sustained, real life use cases.

This led to a cycle whereby javascript developers would get excited at the potential of a new framework, use it IRL and then get disillusioned before getting excited about another new framework.

I think this also drove the average age of javascript developers down (older developers were less patient with this pace of change) and this cycle sort of fed on itself too, as younger developers are more likely to jump on something new.

And, a large part of it is simply that javascript is an incredibly popular (possibly the most popular) language.

From what I understand this cycle has kind of come to a halt now and most people seem to default to react and the type system is getting a little less train-wreck-y with stuff like typescript.
For an example see https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-...:

”I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and Nasa said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. Midcourse on the very next mission – Apollo 8 – one of the astronauts on board accidentally did exactly what Lauren had done. The Lauren bug! It created much havoc and required the mission to be reconfigured. After that, they let me put the program change in, all right.”
> I am not sure. If I want to live without a child, I would probably not spend money on a second bedroom.

I would. I've rented 2BRs my entire adult life. I needed an office--that room's for work (even if that work is my side projects or whatever), the rest of the house is for living. We bought a 3BR and collapsed a wall to make it a 2BR. One bedroom and one (very large) office.

> There is also a chicken and egg problem: the fact that new developments target childless people is one of the reasons raising a child is expensive.

New developments mostly target people with disposable income. That rules out most families.

I am, to be clear, in favor of subsidies and policies to encourage urban families; I think having kids in neighborhoods is a good thing for the neighborhood as a whole. But you're ascribing intent where none seems to exist.
That image is still highly misleading, you can see from the overlayed optical image that the CPU is not coated.

Ideally you'd want to coat any metal surface with black epoxy, and set the IR camera Emissivity Coefficient to 0.9 (the coefficient for black epoxy).
What "forcing"? This is the international equivalent of, "Hey, Bob, you're kind of an ass---- and we don't want you coming to the softball league anymore".
A lot of the garbage content is designed to look like real content and it can often take 10-20 seconds to figure out that the generated content is just fluff and offers nothing new or useful. That’s probably long enough for google to accept it as good content.

In gardening this is especially true because one could simply copy the text on the back of a seed packet and add filler words to make a paragraph. For a lot of these types of topics and blogs google should really look at re-engagement scores.

How many many times the user comes back to the same page, how many times it’s bookmarked and how often the user views other content on the page.

That being said I think google is probably complicit in reducing search quality because doing so Allows them to present many times the number of ads. If it takes 20-30 websites and multiple searches to find a decent article on growing strawberries then they would have generated that much extra ad revenue. There isn’t an incentive to get search right, just right enough that they are better than bing and that’s not a hard metric to beat.
Well the alternative is exchanging data, not code. Actually this was the initial idea on the web, hyperlinked data. Look where that brought us. Maybe we could devise a better model with a client (code) that is simple enough and universal enough, and the server providing/receiving only data and not code? That is, instead of me running the publisher's code on my terminal, i run my code on the publisher's data, exchanging data with them. I am not aware of anything to that effect that is universal enough to replace the web. Thus, sandoxing untrusted code as being the way forward.
Same here. when I read/see IoC my immediate thought was Java/Spring. And yes, for the most part IoC as a concept is dying. More and more developers want to hold a function that returns hammers. They don't want a hammer factory factory factory anymore.
This. Going from JS to strict TS eliminated a large portion of bugs, that with a strict state flow (redux in this case) it eliminated 95% of the bugs we encountered in the past.
Majority of autism risk resides in genes, multinational study suggests
Javascript was never designed with the intent of ever being anything like Java is terms of reach and magnitude though, that's a hindsight thing.
That's not the only reason. You're trying to conform your neighboring country to an acceptable global standard. It's not just the feel good immediateness of "I'll take a censored Google because fighting for open access Internet is too hard" It's about that influence that will begin to dictate googles policy as more of their revenue comes from China. It's about changing the way China acts towards its citizens and adjacent neighbors. They are a power that can not be ignored. Their influence and policy progrogates through all companies navigating international business. That in turn effects societies they come from. Additionally they represent a HUGE chunk of the Internet and its hardware and on the topic of information security China definitely plays an important part on the way the global community thinks about policy going forward.
This article is terrible. It tries so hard to paint Pinker as some sort of evil guy with the main argument being (what seems to me) how Pinker unintentionally helped Epsein a long time ago. They think somehow bringing in unrelated criticism of Pinker's work helps their case? Ridiculous.

To be very clear : Epstein is obviously guilty of some horible crimes. Pinker, seems like he crossed paths with Epstein and now people are out to get him.
> the compiler is free to assume that it won't be changed asynchronously.

This seems like it might possibly have been a reasonable assumption 30 years ago, when multi-processor machines were tens of thousands of dollars; but now that your watch has 4 cores, non-local variables changing should be considered the norm.
I don't really have much of an ax to grind with Pinker as an academic but I do find it very sad that he chose to use his considerable intellect to intervene on behalf of an (alleged) jet-setting billionaire pedophile sex trafficker. And I think that reflects poorly on his character as a person.

The Epsteins of the world will always have a tremendous amount of legal resources at their disposal. I wish we lived in a world where the people like Pinker would lend aid to those wrongfully on Death Row or perhaps the economically downtrodden, rather than ultra-wealthy college donors who got jammed up in what looks like, if not for their tremendous wealth and legal resources, something that should be a slam-dunk case.
Because it comes off as snarky and provides little value I would guess.

I would say that due to jQuery's explosion, framework writers went from geeky technical people to being looked at as heroes. Back in 2007 there was actually a big javascript framework war between jQuery and MooTools. Technical blogs left and right on why jquery is bad, or why mootools ecosystem sucks. It was weird to behold. I don't think I have seen in any other community such rivalry. Even later, when angular vs react vs ember became a thing, people had overly heated arguments about them. That's so odd. In the non-js world, people usually welcome the new approaches provided by new frameworks or question the usefulness of yet another new framework - and it stops there. I suppose framework writers are not rockstars in those communities :)
I'm 31 and would certainly rather be a Youtuber than an astronaut.
When it could've been taken by either a local or a tourist, undetermined.
Because the JavaScript community is HUGE.
This was exactly the segue my colleague would use when speaking to school children about computer science.
Amazon a investi 700Ms de dollars dans Rivian
Overview of EY Nightfall
I agree with you on level 3, but why do you consider levels 1 and 2 to be worse than useless?
We buy CPUs which can perform so many quintillions of operations per second, I don’t get upset when a program tries to utilize all that computation power for a cutting edge user-serving purpose.

If nothing ever spins up your fan, you wasted a lot of money on a new computer.
In defense of women, my wife's an angel and I believe most/many women are much better conversationalists than OP's ex
Statistically, hiring minorities who are being underpaid is the most cost effective decision. If market pay for job X is $M, and a woman makes 11% less, therefore, hiring women at $M will result in 11% higher quality.

Ideally, I'd fill a team with women and other underpaid minorities. Add in some old people and you've got a hell of a team.

Plus with a team of minorities, it's easy to get underestimated by the competition. "Oh look that team is full of old ladies who code in PHP!"
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The OC said, "the system breaks the social contract".

> the owner is potentially breaking the social contract by maybe allowing someone without respect for others to stay in their home

And a person walking around the gas station with an open flame is only potentially a fire hazard, because they may very well get lucky and not set any fuel fumes on fire.

Reality doesn't work like that. You drop the "potentially" once the risk becomes predictably high. The owner is breaking the social contract by putting their neighbors at very high risk of dealing with guests who don't respect other people.

> though ratings systems are generally used exactly to allow this type of vetting in advance

Ranking systems are trivially gamed. One would think everyone knows this by now.

> But the guest is not automatically breaking the social contract by staying in an AirBnB

No, they're not. But if they behave as if they were in a hotel while in a residential-area AirBnB, they most likely are. Maybe they should know better than to behave like that. But AirBnB should know better than enabling this problem in the first place.
In 2011, I went on a search for the "perfect" chair. Want to know what it is? :-) There is not one!

Of course I bought the Aeron because the internet told me to. In less than 8 hours I was really hurting and had to return it. Today, I use something from neutralposture.com. However, what is "best" for you depends on your body type. The most correct answer is "change your chair, sit and stand, move around" throughout the day, weeks, and years of your life. The desk is super important too. I use a very flat desk. I wished it could raise and lower on demand.

Today, I need to change my chair because I've had it for so long. I think you'll only find the perfect chair if you make it yourself. I really wanted a combo of the Aeron and the Neutral Posture 8500 for my body type and work habits.

I wish I had, but did not, explore all of these options. I wished I had tried the Humanscale. Please do and tell me how it works out for you. Options: Herman Miller, Nuertral Posture, Steelcase, Humanscale.
I'm sad about the case too, it needs some extensive Dremel work to allow prolonged database queries or movie transcoding or basically anything I'd like to use it for
I'm sure 4GB memory helps a lot.
I don't know the nuances of the new ownership laws but the 51% rule no longer applies. The Tesla gigafactory in China is wholly owned by Tesla. These protective measure is unnecessary now that China has grown so much economically.
Paradigm Shifts by Ray Dalio
It's adorable!

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k1aQeM...
Yellow is can't be determined (because they haven't taken a picture anywhere for over a month).

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-rise-of-the-accidental-sensor/
Agreed. Navigating the world is basically an AI-complete problem; we don't let 12-year-old kids drive and these current enhanced cruise control systems are nowhere near the AGI of that.
My understanding is that you can make a list of female developers and contact them to ensure that there are women in your hiring pool, but you cannot rely exclusively on that list to find candidates because that would amount to excluding men from consideration.
You can say the exact same thing about property rights or the non-aggression principle.
I've often heard "fair" being referred to as "The F word" in communications circles. The reason is that the word will have many meanings to many people, with all of them being "correct" to some degree. And many of those meanings will be contradictory to one another.

The only meaningful response I can give to your questions is that "No. A fair solution to the problem is not possible". You have to pick what you are optimizing for. Whatever solution you come up with will have elements of unfairness.

The major concerns here are:

1. Whether it's OK for people to jump the queue (current system)

2. Whether diversity is important (currently, yes).

3. Whether it's OK for someone who has contributed with advanced degrees to the country for over a decade to find him/herself without a job and being booted out of the country. (currently, yes - putting the US in the same category as a bunch of Middle Eastern countries).

You're not going to devise a (simple) system that solves all 3.
Google, with all its brilliant engineering will be left far 3rd in the cloud race. AWS and Azure will eat into its existing clients. And not because they have superior tech, but they know how to work with non technical customers. I personally like Google cloud a lot
This is my preferred approach
1) I think it’s effectively a medical opinion. It’s implicitly a broad-brush diagnosis.

2) I would call the office - or drop by - and speak to the practice manager. Doc on the clock usually doesn’t have time to take a dump, and the front desk staff don’t really understand anything beyond “make an appointment.” *

* corollary to all of the above: front desk staff nearly always suck because we can’t reasonably invest in better. Since physician revenue is strictly number of patients per year * whatever the average reimbursement rate is, and since price caps mean our waiting rooms are basically always at capacity, ... a 40k/yr front desk means precisely the same as a 80k/yr front desk to our revenue, but that extra 40k comes straight out of our pockets. Thus, our staff is generally bottom of the barrel. At least in private practice, what little of it survives.
Much has been written about TV being a passive stimulus for the brain with hypothesis being that the lack of active stimulus causes atrophy of the brain. Reading doesn't have the same effect because the brain has to actively process the written glyphs to language and abstract concept so there's more processing happening than when you're just watching something.
Or they are just much more intelligent these days and are attuned to what they want.

Do you want to spend months at a time in a soda can that can explode at any moment surrounded by vacuum? Or be a modern day bard?
> I wanted to be a garbage collector,

Did you have a poster of John McCarthy on your wall as a child?
Kids used to want to be movie stars. Has anything changed?
Thanks for the substantial comment!
This is exactly the point: you see the problem in the present state and also can envision (and like) the state where this problem is solved.
The tricky part is usually how you get from NOW to THEN :).

There are some other ways you can pose this question:
1) Can female gender be seen as an additional advantage by the hiring party?
2) Do women developers need any extra help to eventually get parity with men in the software development industry?
The author, Virgil Goode, is best remembered for this incident. It may help in understanding his motivations in opposing high-skilled immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_...
I'd also like to see some data on the loud and unruly complaints. Of course those that have had problems are going to be the loudest voices, but it's anecdotal. I have friends in a nearby suburban neighborhood (we live in a heavily seasonal tourist area) where, amazingly, the HOA allows vacation rentals and they have the opposite impression: they have told me that they have always heard that vacation renters are loud and annoying, but have never had a problem in their neighborhood. Also anecdotal of course. But makes me wonder if there's really anything to it.
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The western world has had a negative birth rate for quite some time.
So, I think the right to be represented for many lawyers is like the right to free speech. If you're not willing to defend the worst, then you're not defending the right at all.
With Uber, I need to have an account, the driver needs to have an account, we need to find each other in the app and both agree to the service, etc. With taxis, they have a license to just pick up any pedestrian and end the transaction with cash.
> EU is trying to milk US companies

You know, if those US companies would pay the tax they should, similarly to the small companies, these may not be necessary.
> It's a feature of open source.

There are lots of open source languages out there that haven't displayed this pattern. After their initial burst of frameworks, most FOSS language communities ended up coalescing around one or two -- Ruby around Rails, Python around Django (and to a lesser extent, Flask), PHP around Symfony and Laravel, etc.
Thank you, I'll try it out.
You are absolutely right that we should be cautious, but caution has already been taken by the scientific community. The public is not aware of the work is all, and understandably there is frustration when the only reason to hesistate is because not all the public have informed themselves.
This bill does not add one single green card or H1B visa, so I have no idea what you're talking about. Giving green cards to people waiting in queue for a decade will actually make it more likely that they will switch jobs or demand better salaries, which will make it more likely for companies to hire others. Plus immigrants are more likely to start companies which increases jobs for everyone.

>My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all fought wars...

So your forefathers did something great so you're entitled to untold riches? What if your forefathers were slave owners or serial killers? Should you be thrown into jail because of that? How about we judge individuals on their contributions versus their forefathers?

>Hey just wondering what Indians are giving to the US' native population that built the country giving them jobs?

Things like this: https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/08/news/economy/immigrant-doct...

Not to mention several inventions and contributions in the tech sector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Americans#Scien...

Plus, if work immigration is restricted, the jobs will be offshored. It's already happening in some form. There are some tech sectors with zero unemployment like security, and there are millions of job openings. There should be strict laws which are enforced against ageism which is a big problem.
Yes, and if few successful startups have employed this strategy, it suggests that there may not actually be an 11% penalty for women when you control for all relevant factors.
>You said they have constant breaches, then immediately recanted when asked for details

No, I didn't, go back and read again

>Your argument which got no reply was an idealogical argument which appears to be constructed to shut down debate

It wasn't meant to shut down debate. If he wants to argue the ethics of spying on people and using psychological tactics for financial gain I'd be more than happy to discuss

>You even threw out the casual line about them not having poor security and breaches, invalidating your argument in the post they replied to

Again, no I didn't. I never said google had poor security or breaches, and I clearly stated that was just a generic example I used which brings attention to the wrong things, as demonstrated by you focusing on "breaches" rather than the point I was really trying to make and elucidated in my reply.

>In other words, they seemingly care about whether the technical argument has merits. Once it's clear that there's no technical substance and it moves on to your personal crusade against modern companies, people lose interest.

That's the entire point, and why I regretted saying "breaches". You are focusing 100% on the wrong thing. The problem that I have is not a technical argument about whether or not breaches could occur
Non white countries have white populations.

How many whites vs blacks get visas in South African historically?
Are ubuntu's snaps supposed to be similar to this?
The fact that the the thing allegedly being monopolized, and the monopolization mechanism are "data" makes this interesting, and potentially informative.

On another thread about Google's search monopoly, the consensus (or whatever the nearest HN-equivalent is) opinion that data (past searches and user behaviour) is a major moat for Google.

In a lot of senses, data is a new type of capital, a new type of IP. It's ownership is still in debate. Some recent legislation attempts to give us a certain level of theoretical "ownership" of "our personal data," but ultimately... data isn't really data unless it's aggregated. What it is, and how useful it is depends on having lots of it.

Being "intellectual" property essentially means that it's ethereal property. It isn't exclusive by nature, only by law. If a court finds that Amazon using its extensive market data to monopolistic advantage... What's the fix? Could it be make data public? That's an interesting discussion to start having in the context of a competition investigation.

Say we put privacy questions aside for a start... what's the public downside to making such data public by default... over a certain magnitude.
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Thank you!

This is exactly the idea
Good points. Sorting waste and other stuff in a controlled environment is a problem domain that will provide huge increase in productivity and material efficiency when it becomes common. There are companies working on it.

https://zenrobotics.com/
Adia Benton, an assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, said that beyond Pinker and Dershowitz, “I think there’s a tendency for men to overlook the foibles of their acquaintances and colleagues. The shunning of assholes and creeps is just not done. Especially when it comes to sexual misconduct and misogyny.”
Exasol Breaks TPC-H Benchmark Price-Performance Records on AMD EPYC Processor
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> much less be able to replicate human cognition that goes into operating heavy machinery in a busy multi-agent social context

This holds if you expect self-driving cars to be able to work like humans in picking up "body-language" cues around other drivers. But we can also approach the problem the other way around and set better fixed rules for how driving needs to be done and adjust the road and car infrastructure to make the problem simpler. Human drivers get away with breaking so many rules that the problem becomes much harder than it needs to be.