skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But other cities, like Plano, Tex. — where more than 4,000 residents have mobilized to overturn similar plans — have taken steps backward.

I take issue with this. I grew up in Plano, Texas. I loved it and I loved the people. This article is a negative comment about those people "taking steps backward", when they are really mobilizing themselves to take part in local politics and democratically help make the city how they want it to be. Is Plano perfect? No. But the people there do believe in being active in local government and in trying to make changes that the people in the community _want_. It's a special kind of place, and they care. They've done this again and again.

> As a zoning official, I’m usually the last person to advocate for federal intrusion into local decision-making. But the problems of housing inequality and segregation are too big for localities to tackle piecemeal.

That last excerpt is simply an emotional appeal "acknowledging" the author's supposed credentials of opposing big government---- while supporting it. But zoning laws are one of the most impactful things that a local government actually manages, and why shouldn't you be able to help shape your community, especially when we usually want people to participate _more_ in local politics, and zoning laws are one of the ways you can make a real difference in your community. But if you take away any really meaningful power that a local government has, why would anyone care at all to participate?
Careful with that. I had the same thought, but was proven 'wrong' because my SO did not want anything but diamond, just because of the 'tradition.'

No amount of reading online would get her to change her mind.

She was worth it though.
As usual in this kind of articles, the logout process is left out...
Except demonetized channel videos don't show ads.

This whole conspiracy falls flat when Google doesn't generate revenue off of demonetized video ads.
That doesn't accurately characterize voter motivations. Many long-term renters also oppose loosening zoning rules due to quality of life concerns (traffic, noise, crime, pollution). It's not always just a money issue.

Furthermore, many renters believe that if more housing is built it will only be luxury housing that they couldn't afford anyway. Sure basic economics tells us that increasing supply ought to drive down prices for everyone, but at the individual level it's tough for people to make the connection.
Recommendations for secure applications development with Rust
The amount of silicon legacy code takes up literally decreases non-linearly with each process shrink.

The amount of baggage x86 is carrying around now days long ago shrunk to the point of not mattering.

And sure, if some ancient compiler spits out some opcode that Intel long ago stopped optimizing, it may take 10x the clock cycles it used to take back in the days of 386s, it is still going to run 100x faster at the end of the day.

> We don't yet consider ARM CISC, right?

I think ARM64 was an attempt to prevent that from happening! I haven't looked into it at all so I am not sure how successful they were. But it was starting to get pretty close there for awhile.
"I disagree with the premise of the question."
Giving advice that turned out to be wrong is a long way from proving legal malpractice.
And the real perpetrator is never caught.
Does that matter? The concept of collective bargaining still applies.

Obviously anyone replaceable has a bad position to bargain, so it becomes a question of how replaceable YouTubers are. Clearly there are plenty of people who want to fill that role, but I don't know how the average user interacts with YouTube.

For me, if the creators I watch were striking and trying to force change, I'm not going to bother going on YouTube. I have no idea if "watching a specific set of creators" is a significant enough part of the user-base to really hurt YouTube enough to comply, or if most people would just watch other videos.
You lost me at the resolution. 720p is ridiculous in 2019.

Also 32GB of internal storage is extremely restricting (even with the SD card, apps like to install on the main storage).
The Asiatic lions did inhabit Indian sub tropical forests not 200 years ago.
Beyond the horrific conflict-side of things surrounding this industry, it is this artificial market inflation and artificial scarcity that really bugs me. If there's anything that i think should go the way of the dodo bird, its this industry. Bleh.
Bizarrely, I was at +4 moments ago and now sit at -1
> Most extension developers are not getting any significant income from their work, despite serving millions of users, and until browser vendors do not start to recognize the value of that labor and provide better tools for sponsoring developers, we will continue to be vulnerable to such offers.

Any ideas what specifically could be done to help? You can integrate your own payment systems into extensions and there's some ad vendors that support browser extensions.
roll out an update that quietly adds a backdoor.

You can turn off automatic updates on an extension-by-extension basis.
I can't speak for Lambda, but this is also how AppAcademy in NYC operates. I used to work for a consulting company that hired multiple AppAcademy graduates and paid them $90-100k starting salary. Before that, they were making half that money, and we never would have hired them without the skills they learned at AppAcademy. The skills they acquired were worth vastly more than the tuition. They didn't have to go into debt to get the education. And had they failed to score a higher-paying job with a company like ours, they wouldn't have had to pay anything. This is a win across the board for them, and it's a pretty typical result.
I am so called self taught developer.I learned how to write software out of boredom at work. Subsequently,I wrote some parts of the system,my current employer uses,that range from 'nice to have' all the way to 'mission critical'. I allowed myself a lot of freedom in terms of errors, mistakes and etc. The company provides training to people,so the worst that can happen is someone may not get a correct email or internal user won't see an update on training they were expecting.Now if I were working for Boeing and had to write code that'd go into production,aka a working plane,I'd probably either say I couldn't do it or do so many iterations that they'd would sack me...I couldn't sleep for the rest of the life knowing that I pushed some update that ultimately controls some parts of the plane and that it can go wrong any time...
Can we mine enough uranium to produce this much electricity?
I would think solar and wind for opportunistic CCS would be a lot cheaper.
Seems like archive.is is using DNS-based load-balancing/fail-over. My best guess is that the person/group that's running archive.is is having some operational issues right now and you caught that issue.

For the record: from GCP (using default resolvers, e.g. Google) region europe-north1-a... archive.is resolves to 46.45.185.30.
it's all about context. You're not asking for a job at the local donut shop, you're specifically getting involved in an organization that preoccupies itself with threats to the nation-state, internal and external. Kinda makes sense that they'd be intrusive. I'm not sure what the line of unreasonableness is in that context. You have no inherent "right" to work for the National Security Agency.
Excellent intentions, but technological garbage.
I completely agree. I've gotten to work with both of these at my summer job and it's been an absolute pleasure.
Anything by Tobias Lütke ( https://github.com/tobi )
How is solar/wind + batteries cheaper than nuclear? Any numbers I saw omits batteries which would be an unfair comparison.

EDIT: I had asked the opposite question of what I intended.
This is about a re-release of the first Doom game from 1993, not the recent reboot from 2016 with the same name.
Natural diamonds have been the most shamelessly wealth-signaling purchase a person can make, ever since the artificial process was perfected. As far as I know there is literally no difference between an artificial and a natural diamond except the fact that the latter is more scarce and harder to get, and therefore more expensive. Unlike other traditional wealth-signal purchases, there is no pretense of utility or even pleasure or fashion. It's purely to say, "I can afford this."
Humans are not scaleable.
Why ask three people when you can ask a million?
I wouldn't pre-order something like this because I don't yet know if it will be reliable. I see the value in what they are offering but it isn't battle tested yet.

I don't want to relive the early smartphone days where the phone crashes when I'm trying to answer a phone call.
Considering lie detectors are inadmissible in court, probably not. Being the cause of further investigation on the other hand...
> What makes you think they want Mr. Cosmopolitan who lunches with Erdogan's third cousin and breakfasts with the Pope?

Maybe this person has a better understanding of what's going on around the world and how different cultures work, possibly speaks multiple languages, and it might be a good thing to welcome their knowledge instead of scaring them off?
Then you must like the gamble many young people make: becoming a professional athlete.

First you must spend years, to the exclusion of much else, to even have a chance to become one. And even if you succeed you're very likely to be just an average athlete. Most won't earn enough money in their ~20 year career to live on for the rest of their life, so you still need to make a big career shift late in your life.

And you're always at the mercy of facing a career-ending injury, similar to how Google can wreck your channel for whatever reason.
> I'm pretty sure he dug through my history before making that comment

yes

> and is downvoting any comments that are negative.

no
> If the PLA move in, the wealthy elite in HK will start moving their assets out

I would already start moving my assets out right fucking now. No, yesterday. The window in which you can move your assets and leave is closing as we speak. It's not gonna get better. People who don't want to get fucked by an authoritarian, socialist government have no choice other than fleeing. Singapore is authoritarian too, though.
As a married millennial, my wife and I both were against buying any "new" mined diamonds. Her engagement ring was actually a vintage ring and the wedding band had "lab" diamonds inlaid. Thinking back at our friends who married, many that decided to bought new diamond jewelry made it a point to mention the diamonds were "ethically sourced" in one form of another. Two other trends I've noticed: diamonds seem to be both less popular on engagement rings and smaller when they do make an appearance. "Large" diamonds seem gauche.
I don't use that service, but it looks like they have a player for the web browser, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.
The tiger to be afraid of is the one stealthily stalking you because it's starving and looking for prey it doesn't usually go after.

One with a fresh kill isn't going to be very interested in you unless you come too close to it or its cubs.
"Synthetic stone" is another bit of marketing the diamond cartels have come up with to combat the fact that they're losing market share from artificial scarcity - imply that the man-made diamonds are somehow inferior to natural stones.
Pylint catches lots of semantic bugs, far from just syntax.
You can look to Houston, TX as a control group of what development and urban growth looks like without zoning laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States#Ho...
wedding industry is another pricy gesture of commitment
We'd prefer you to stay! It's just a matter of not lowering the signal/noise ratio.
You can do service discovery with a k/v store like etcd, or consul, which is how Kubernetes does service discovery. In fact, Consul very much positions itself as a service discovery tool.

I'm not sure how it would be possible to do it in a "library" (without external centralized storage).
Generics are generally speaking a bad idea. I would rather have a language with a coherent type system (polymorphism, dependent types, type constructors). I don't know what's the difference between subtyping and having a subset feature like in Pascal.
PDFium has a Skia backend, where Skia is used to do the actual drawing. Interactivity happens at a higher level.
Does that apply to the rest of paper as well?
I'm a big proponent of no-till farming. There are some interesting experiments with intensive small-scale farming with introducing compost and mulch to more or less barren areas, which provide enough nutrition to grow 'compost crops' which can supplement the soil further. It might be an interesting place to try carbon-recapture projects and build a microclimate.

I don't know enough about Montana, but I'm mostly worried about what monoculture farms are doing to the fertility of the Midwest.
I'm not sure why the reply to you (from someone else) has vanished; perhaps that poster deleted it to redraft it. But your description of the case is, well, a little facile. This is the case of the Trump-supporting high school student who felt he was being unfairly portrayed in a confrontation with an American Indian activist in January, and indeed, it was dismissed last week.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9844670-181/judge-dismiss...

The original reply to you said it was dismissed because the statements accused of being defamatory were mostly opinions, which is true, but in context, they weren't even the Post's opinions: they were statements by others, including the activist, the Post was reporting as having been said. The statements by the activist that he felt threatened are protected because, as opinion, they're not subject to libel laws; the Post's reporting on the activist's statements appear to be accurate.
Perceptions of what's "constantly upvoted" are in the eye of the beholder. People notice and remember the things they dislike. Since (I'm guessing) you dislike that attitude, you're more likely to remember such cases than, say, the GP comment, which is heavily upvoted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
That might be true even considering a large scale nuclear accident (think Chernobyl).

Still, if we ignore the deaths for a moment and focus on the monetary damages - I don't think the nuclear industry is ready to compensate New York inhabitants in case of Indian Point, for example. What is the combined value of all the real estate in Manhattan?
Or imagine someone comes into take a polygraph and you search their shoes and find a tack. You can be pretty sure they came in expecting to tell some lies, and had a plan for "beating the machine".
> I mean, is a university education not a sort of scam?

Whether or not "college education" in general is "a scam" can be debated for sure.

But we aren't talking about "college education" - imagine paying for "college education" but it's a scam so you end up with less money and no education.
Diamonds and weddings make you poor in the process of showing off how rich you are; why not cut out the middleman and do things that show you're rich and still rich after having done them?

If the culture shifts to buying your girlfriend a car or a down payment on a condo or paying off her student loans, I will be so much happier.
Times Tables, Mandelbrot and the Heart of Mathematics [video]
The latest version of NetNewsWire is a nice example of a modern MacOS application codebase.

https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire
> I'm surprised by that language as it seems to be targeted at a Western, potentially even Coastal US, audience.

Not at all. If a government institution or company in China makes an unpopular decision that leads to large protests, the government will usually issue a statement that condemns the protests as "riots", but simultaneously promises changes that basically amount to fulfilling the protester's demands, i.e. they do some "summary and reflection".

The government's power isn't threatened by the occasional protest succeeding, but by those protests growing in scale, either by making more demands or by inspiring similar movements in other parts of China. That's why they censor all news about ongoing protests, arrest any leaders they can identify and send in riot police to stop the protesters reaching any place where they can get more attention. But those measures aren't effective at stopping a protest that has already started, they can only prevent it from spreading. In the end, some actual change is necessary to convince protesters that there's no need to keep protesting and they can go home.

So basically the central government is criticizing the Hong Kong government for not acquiescing to the demands quickly enough and letting the protests grow to this scale, where they can't be kept out of the news anymore.
People in their 20s as well.

There are end of life issues beyond languishing in retirement (or a lack thereof) and loneliness. No matter how much money you save or how well your physical body holds up, eventually your mind will dim. If you're lucky you'll just slowly fade away in pain that's really only obvious to those close to you, if you're not you'll go the way of the late Sir Michael Atiyah.

At least for me, spending time with people in the final stages of their lives has made me believe that euthanasia may very well be the more humane way to pass. The thing that was the actual person is very often long gone by the time their body ceases operations.
They say hardware kill switches.

0: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
I don't think I said it was bad. I was reacting to a comment suggesting that including energy bars as high processed was erroneous.
Yes. Reactor technologies have advanced, we just haven't built enough. We can actually reprocess the tons of old fuel we have for trillions of MWh.
there's no time to ramp up on solar unfortunately. solar requires a massive amount of area and should ideally also be built for purposes of reuse, as they do expire and need to be replaced.

there's not enough solar and batteries that exist today to capture the needed electricity. and we need energy today - not "sort of in the future" - or else there are likely to be mass deaths starting in 2050 or so when clean water is due to become an issue, assuming status quo until then (which is highly unlikely as well)
I like the headline from Rock, Paper, Shotgun better; it's "Rockstar North operate within capitalism, says report". But they have free reign to be a lot more cynical than the Guardian.
Very true. And let's not forget Android and Adsense. It's scary how many developers, publishers, and creators depend on Google for revenue today. A tiny change in Google's opaque algorithms can and will affect many's livelihood.
Ask HN: How does your QA process look like?
Hi,

We're currently trying to build a proper testing process.

Just having some unit tests and running the app a couple of times before shipping to production doesn't cut it anymore :)

How do you organize the testing process in your company?

What tools and procedures do you use?

Thanks
There is definitely a wave that is happening on other video sharing platforms but I suspect that it won't be a big sea change as the content on YouTube is deep and embedded so the YouTube still casts the widest net. Tik Tok and Astronaut.io are interesting but as I type this post word from a 15 year old teenager says that the alternatives are boring so the attention span required is short. The alternatives are entertaining but will really only be a threat when learning takes place on them. The demographic is different and learning will need to take place it 15 seconds or less. It might also be interesting to note that there are approx 200 variables Google looks for when deciding who rides the wave or not.
Making an Exact, Working Replica of the Apollo 11 Moon Camera
And then we can aggregate those, put it on a website and post affiliate links gradually becoming the go to source for book lists and then sell spots on the list and then people start publishing their own reading lists and someone aggregates those and...
War against people's sexual choices? Like, with bombs and guns, or a figurative war?

It's interesting to look at Jesus's actions in the area. A mob brought him a woman caught cheating on her husband. Asking, should she be put to death? They wanted to trap Jesus: if he said "Yes", he would violate Roman law, if he said "No", he would violate Jewish law. Jesus said, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her." (John 8:7). After that disbursed the mob, Jesus told the woman: "Now go and sin no more."

There's nothing harder to convince a man of than the fact that he's a sinner. And yet, when I finally realized that fact and asked Jesus for forgiveness, it was more liberating than anything else in this world, more liberating than I could ever have possibly imagined. When you experience something like that, you realize: the kingdom of heaven is near.
You don't need batteries with nuclear, at all.
There's also less habitat destruction, less issue with bird strikes, less people falling off towers, less issues with "view obstruction".
Anyone who's had to analyze complex systems at a high level will recognize that this is a pattern that often emerges in some form. The over all pattern happens in game engines, plugin systems, UI frameworks, in service buses, all over the place. It's just now at the code level. It's a good observation, though it seems the author has arrived at the correct conclusion/analysis and tried to shoe horn it in to fundamentally lacking systems (i.e., other languages/stacks that are inherently not functional, have side effects, and do not work off "events"/sync points).

My thoughts on this are: append only programming is less effectual than having an over all append only system, where many programs take input (including the original source "message"), then hand off the out put to the next program in line. Which programs get run depends entirely on that run context's configuration. When you have disparate programs working towards a final goal, and these programs are defined in a readable configuration it gives you quite a few benefits. Good clean logging structures, easy to reason about, easy to change (feature toggling, data migration points, etc), and easy to clean up when required.

I call it unix'ing your systems.

There's a lot of comments calling this silly but please attempt to give it a few read overs and apply it to systems you've worked with. Hopefully they've been large enough to draw similarities to what he's talking about in a very clean, academic manner.
Why don't they pay for the 500,000 views after the video is re-monitized? This doesn't seem like a hard problem for Youtube to solve.
Reminds me of a time in Eastern Europe where my ESL cousin asks me: "What is the place called where two walls meet?"

me: "The corner?"

Cousin: "Yes, the corner. We are going to the corner bar".

I'm like... close enough.
Zoning laws enacted after a property purchase can infringe on property rights. Zoning laws that exist prior to a purchase merely form the foundation upon which you should expect to exercise the property rights in your purchase. (Just as you are prevented from operating a junkyard on your property, your neighbor is also prevented from operating a junkyard on theirs, protecting your property rights [assuming you don't want to live next to a junkyard].)

If you want unencumbered use of your property, buy out in an unincorporated area with no zoning laws. When you do, don't be surprised when your neighbor decides to start a pig farm...
It will take a language deciding to remove generics before I believe this is anything but stubbornness.