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> Insulting people, however, tends to derail any useful discussion.

She didn't insult anyone, please explain how you got that from the text of the comment.

Most likely HN users are fearful of retaliation from the mods for participating in a discussion that will likely be deemed "political" or a "flame war".

I suggest you not reply to this or else your account might get shadow banned.

YC is heavily invested in Palantir and many similar "defense contractor" style firms, so it's reasonable that the mods try not to let content exist that might agitate investors.
That just delays the CO2 release. Furniture breaks. Houses get old and get demolished. Even if it takes 100 or 500 years, it will happen.

You need to store wood long-term somehow. Or burn it and store CO2 underground, turning it into rock.
NYTimes: 8÷2(2+2)=?
I don't have a Tesla and so don't know how AP is used day-to-day, but I'm assuming it's frequently activated while driving at highway speeds, even amid traffic – similar to standard cruise control? But you're saying that drivers should never activate AP while driving, if any vehicles are also on the road within 5-10s of traveling speed?
Somatogravic Illusions
Thanks for trying, but neither link worked for me.
That's easy, .NET using C# entity framework.
Yep, that's why they just announced a $25 billion buyback.
*Whom
Musk is Tesla's worst enemy here - first in naming the thing "AutoPilot" and then in doubling down with his absurd claims about "Full Self Driving" within a year. What the general public thinks "Full Self Driving" means is Uber - I get in a car, I set a destination, and it goes there as if a human driver was at the wheel - I can browse the web, take a nap, whatever. We are a decade from that, if not more. But as long as Tesla insists on calling it "AutoPilot (now with Full Self Driving!)" they will keep getting sued when an unfinished technology encounters a problem.
I would not want a house I own or rent to have microphones and or cameras installed "for" me.....

Forget the math about rent, they're bugging my house.
Most construction trades are fast paced and fairly demanding.

Are you considering general contracting? Commercial? Residential? Perhaps a particular trade?
Much like the lauded “success” of the 12 step program. Those program all claim high success rates as long as you adhere to the rules of the program... which means not drinking/drugs. Eg “falling off the wagon” means you stopped following the program rules and so don’t generally count as a “failure”.
I wouldn't call anyone "doctor" in normal conversation. Also, at least in my experience (several friends/family are professors), it can be seen as disrespectful to refer to a professor as "doctor" because that is the title that you get when you finish your PhD, but before you have a job as an actual professor.

For reference, I live in Palo Alto and went to universities in the US.
These things all keep well, so I just keep extras and order when I have to start using my last one, so it doesn’t really matter how long shipping takes. For me, the worst part of dashes was that Amazon didn’t keep the exact same thing in stock for the exact same price, and sometimes it’d be a very different price if it had to fall back to a 3rd party seller. So I usually ended up checking and then ordering on the computer anyway.
>but receive free Chex-mix for life

I might make that deal...
I’m somewhat against this tech. But if it means stopping drug traffickers and illegal immigrants I’m all for it.

I have a similar stance on border checkpoints 100 miles inland from the border - it’s a mild inconvenience for me but I’m more thank okay with it if it stops criminals or those breaking the law.
Nah. Need to factor in investment income.

Plus modern retirement isn’t necessarily “never work a job again.” It’s more a freedom to do what you want (income generating or not) without having to take a job simply to cover your cost of living and retirement savings.
Like, minimum, or maximum?
Doesn’t have to be solo :-) But yeah, I hear you, I did a solo thing for 5 years, probably wouldn’t do it solo for that long again.
Possibly related to the Biophilia Hypothesis [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis
Wow, this is brilliant.
I’ve always wondered what Apple does with all the cash it has and this seems like a great place to ask. What do companies do with it all? Is there an article that goes into the details? Is it invested? In what? Hoarded in a bank vault? What precautions are in place for such large amounts?
What on earth makes you think anybody 500 years in the future will give a shit about any of us?
According to angel.co there are 88 startups in London alone using Java. Whenever I attend London's Silicon Milk Roundabout bi-annual jobs fair the dominant languages are Python and Java. Java's status in the top 3 programming languages worldwide cannot be explained away by its dominant position in legacy enterprise software. What about Android, for example?
> then shutting up for matters of grave importance. You all deserve the tyranny that is coming.

Rather than whining online about surveillance, it is more effective to build your personal defences and do your research on OPSEC. It is perpetual cat and mouse game.
Greenland's ice sheet melting has caused sea levels to rise 0.5mm in a month
I think the OP may have a point, though. You can have an area with lots of big buildings, take one lot and make a "greenspace" with it: some grass, a fountain, some bushes. But to make an area with trees (especially plural), you need some place fairly wide, that has light, and has enough ground water to support the trees. An area that supports those trees will have to be less built up than the average area that can support a lawn (which just needs a patch of light and a sprinkler) for instance.

From that perspective, I wonder to what extent the studies (which seem to be based on Australian cities) is biased by the types of environments that generally have trees in Australia. If you have have an avenue that is totally canopied by 100 year old trees like in some US or Canadian cities, is that enough? Or do you need a fairly large green space that also has trees? I wonder because I always found residential areas with old trees on relatively small lots to be really claustrophobic (but I know people who love them, of course).
Heroku Postgres + Heroku + Any framework that you are comfortable with

For me, it's Play + Vue (shameless plug: https://github.com/GIVESocialMovement/sbt-vuefy).

The real time sink is not development. It's ops. Configuring server, making sure it's secure and online at all time, rotating logs, backing up database regularly, no-downtime deployment.

I'm using SQL because it's more flexible than a NoSQL solution. You don't need to plan in advance how to model your data. Just add a new index, and it works decently enough. I can also modify data without building a specialized admin UI.
The Medieval Ages ended in the 15th century[1], and slavery didn't really start to end until the 19th century [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
You accept that a greater number of people with a 1-10k illness die than whatever the current rate is.
Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph
- Web hosting

- Write rich, good quality articles comparing services that pay recurring comissions. I made $1000+ on one lousy blog post like that. One service keeps paying me monthly recurring commission for the last 15 yrs for referring them few customers.
I would definitely want to know so I could make sure those 20 years were spent making sure I felt I lived a full life. When you have a clock ticking, you can't just put things off anymore.

My grandfather died around 70 or so from Alzheimer's, and my friend's dad died a bit earlier. (50s). Both would have done things differently to prepare their family emotionally and financially.

It would certainly be scary to know, but having that information is more useful than not.
> Who wouldn't want more transparency in what products are owned by which companies?

The people who "fear that the existing communities etc. around Instagram and WhatsApp might take a hit"

> I would expect this to drive users away from Instagram and WhatsApp.

Right, and this particular population probably doesn't care about transparency in this specific regard all that much.

It may sound like a great outcome to you. It does sound like a great outcome to me. But there are many, many millions of people who don't share our perspective who feel like they'd be losing a community rather than gaining freedom by leaving.
Your examples are garbage logic because array overruns are so harmful that they should be hard errors. Of course, this requires a runtime cost, that can be elided in most cases by the compiler's optimizer. But even low level languages nowadays can be safe by default (see Rust) - the unsafe behavior should always be a conscious, well studied decision by the developer.
I think the idea that they sacrificed slaves (exclusively?) is a bit overhasty of a conclusion, the Spanish reported that when they "freed" many "victims" waiting to be sacrificed by the Aztecs, they were indignant and demanded to be returned and sacrificed.

A different time, and a different culture, but with a huge amount of similarities too.

Perhaps people viewed it as their sacred duty to be sacrificed?
Exactly - I love how people think these scooters are “clean” when piles of them are ferried around in gas guzzling cars every night (farther distances than the scooter should themselves cover “under electric propulsion”).

I have an electric unicycle I absolutely love and recommend the use of personal electric transport to everyone. But scooter sharing is dumb and makes cities look trashy.
At the library! E.g. http://datarama.dk/Anatomy%20of%20Lisp.html from the 1970s. You had to keep looking and be open to works not in C, but they were out there.
From a PR standpoint, how is it advantageous to Tesla for laypersons to be told that Autopilot, which is ostensibly safe enough for hands-off highway driving, can't recognize what is to every human driver an unambiguously dangerous situation?

In terms of overpasses being falsely identified as the broadside of a truck, this explanation feels more and more confusing to me as Tesla doubles down on vision-only self-driving (as opposed to LIDAR-assisted). Why would a camera and computer-vision algorithm ever falsely identify an overpass, which in normal weather is viewable and trackable from at least a mile away, as a broadside of a truck suddenly running through an intersection?
It's not that they've run of ideas, it is that they've run out of market. There's only so much resources you can pull out of the set of people browsing the web. That set's size has stabilized. Its resources have been divided between largely online shopping and (indirectly) advertising, and the flow paths have been laid down and also stabilized. There's only so much new market every year, and there's only so much they can compete away from the other players, who are also in a similar position.
> Every action you take in your life adds wild positives and negatives to a fantastically complex and intractable balance sheet of funny money, credits, discounts, loopholes, taxes, rebates, free services, restrictions, obligations.

You might enjoy the TV show The Good Place.
I would prefer a system where they charge everyone the same amount. It wouldn't surprise me if the insurance companies would be in favor of that, the whole price negotiation overhead goes out the window.
Are they fungible? Do secondary markets exist? The whole promise of money is that you can just add and subtract the value of all those things to get a number in a reasonable range. With money you can meaningfully compare "a pound of gold" and "two pounds of silver," and you can settle a debt you owe Alice via a debt Bob owes you instead of keeping both imbalances forever.

Maybe this is me being broken by working in finance (even if just SRE for finance), but your example doesn't seem too far off from the problem of valuing ETFs or options or currencies or cattle futures (in theory, if you buy one and forget to sell it in time, some cows show up at your office...).
Permian–Triassic Extinction Event
If that "toaster circuit" is protected by a GFCI, it will indeed trip with only two wires. The GFCI is sensing the imbalance between hot and neutral (the rest went through the bath water). Both currents pass through the same toroid, but they are in opposite directions and normally exactly cancel, so no flux is induced in the toroid. If there is an imbalance, a current is induced in a secondary winding. This will trip the GFCI internal breaker. Note that this does not involve the green wire.
Which methods specifically do you feel leave a lot of room for improvement?
References?

The hey day of African chattel slavery followed medieval period, a project of horrific proportions carried out by the society that followed medieval Europe.

As I recall Slavery was legal in medieval Europe but not as widely practiced as serfdom at the time but both were forms of coerced labor (serfs were "slaves of the land" - couldn't leave and had to provide labor or goods). I mean sure, the particular institution of chattel slavery was dying out but this more a matter of "we need something simpler" than any impulse to improvement or any actual improvement.
Porn, advertising, social media. They're all detrimental to society (imo).
Presumably you are being sarcastic? There was no way he wasn’t going to get caught eventually.
Well, it _was_ brilliant, but the alleged perp got caught. Good luck now.
I'm all for good documentation, because not everyone learns in the same way, and if you have a product as broadly used as Jira, I think its user base deserves it. But in the basis it's just an inefficient, after the fact attempt to mitigate poor UI/UX. Which could EASILY have been clearer about the access rules, and they could (should) have defaulted to a more restrictive setting. First of all to protect users against the clearly more damaging of the two extremes (too restrictive versus not restrictive enough) but also because it better fits Jira's nominal use case.
Gilder's Law
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the end of Roman slavery. Slavery was the foundation of the Roman economy, which wasn't true of Europe's economy again until the colonial period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe
Hello gug
Buy all food, toiletries, etc. on Amazon and it's probably hard not to meet such a quota
Show HN: JEML – Just Enough Markup Language
Maybe MQTT protocol can help you
Except for the part that leaves an obvious paper trail.
> It also strengthens its hold on those properties and makes it more part of one company. Harder to “break up” a company that is deeply intertwined

I don't get this logic. I'm old enough to remember when both Instagram and WhatsApp were independent companies.
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Have your test and not write it too.

Very appealing, but one problem I've found with this general idea is equivalent but non-identical results. A simply-solved example is a serialized set: different orderings differ, but are equivalent. You can get more complex ones, such as ASTs ax+bx and (a+b)x.

Such cases should be pretty rare, but they come up for me all the time.
Illegal immigrants in the midwestern states, crossing state boundaries?

The article notes there is no known operation nor investigation this effort supporting (drug trafficking or otherwise), its a surveillance experiment.
Right now, Spotify and Apple Music and Google Play are holding on to recordings, in hundreds of replicas, of garage bands who've only been heard by 1000 people in their whole history. If one of those services goes out of businesses, there are others.

Archivists like the Library of Congress use in-house solutions comparable to S3 Glacier or Google Archival Storage, where use of longer-lived media and copying to new media is cheap enough to preserve fantastic amounts of information.

A caveat - though the risk of losing art due to loss or destruction of physical media is lower than ever, we still have to contend with intentional destruction of copies by the creator, for business or security reasons.
> This year my middle son won, at 11.5 tacos

OMG that's crazy!! I eat three or four and I'm totally stuffed. No way I could ever down that many, so that's so awesome!
The OP has references but not concrete references or scientific evidence. It's narrative or fairly tenuous relations (soap makers became a guild at some point, etc).
I don't think so. I think he's suggesting something fundamentally different. Note that he specifically calls out keeping around a reference implementation indefinitely that he implies will never be called by a code path (but is continuously maintained) as a subcase. That's kind of hard to square with feature flags.
The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction: Half Century of Research [pdf]
I'm not sure I really agree with the analogy, but there are other approaches that don't involve assaulting my senses. For instance, they could just flat out charge money for it.

On a tangentially related note, I think there's a special place in hell for the engineers that created gas pumps that display ads while fueling. Those things are pure, unadulterated evil.
This finding fits in with other research that trees absorb fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). PM 2.5 is a hazardous air pollution from burning coal and many other sources.
This would ideally be policed by Google since it ruins their reputation and steals time from them too.
Is the allegation that Github was just supposed to know about this? I am sure it’s plenty busy trying to keep up with reports, less proactively seeking out questionable content. What’s next, should there be lawsuits against Pastebin sites?
The guidelines literally consider politics contrary to intellectual curiosity, and in the category of cat photos and disaster videos. As someone who studied political science in school, it's an abomination of a guideline. The mixing of ideology, politics, and technology is obvious, and the ensuing conflicts are inevitable, and HN guidelines say take it elsewhere, this is not the place for those conversations. Meanwhile, objective trash ends up on the front page all the time, and stories involving technology used to subvert human freedom routinely gets rank demoted contrary to the HN community's votes.

So I think it's possible your complaint is really not with the community but with the guidelines. If people don't care for an article, they don't have to vote for it. If people don't like heated debates, they don't have to participate in them. But the guidelines make that decision for the community.
Glad to see my post brings a nice trip to you.

From the comment sections, it appears to me that Hacker News has no shortage of hobbyists and professional electronics engineers, but when I search relevant terms like "Tektronix", "oscilloscope", "spectrum analyzer", or "SPICE", there's no much information here, only two or three top articles. I guess it's unfamiliar to the Silicon Valley CS majority who doesn't have enough appreciate of hardware engineering. I'll try to post more of them in the future.
It’s not entirely about profit, but I would argue you have to show a profit, or, demonstrate you could show a profit like Amazon has, to be considered a “top company” in any sense.
Except there will be no imbalance if there is no other path for the current to travel by...

The geometry of the electric field in water should probably be similar to that in air (mostly contained to within the case), just don't drop both a toaster and a waffle maker in at separate ends.
https://archive.fo/UvEKU works for me.
Sure, but the end of Roman slavery was just the collapse of the economy. No one bought slaves any more so slaves became serfs - no longer sellable people but people tied to the land and coerced to work. That's hardly a sign of marvelous progress.
*Serial is still alive and well on raspberry pi and other embedded devices; rs232 is a more specific protocol which defines voltage levels (higher than the 3V of the RPI), flow control, line length etc.
MSnet: A Bert-Based Network for Gendered Pronoun Resolution
Check out Braeburn Capital:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
Most websites and their owners on the internet are broke.

Github is flush with cash ( relatively speaking ).

Makes sense why they would go after them ( Microsoft ) , not that it will stick.
This type of article keeps on being posted in HW and immediately someone posts something about how it can't be true since he/she sees elder techs all over the place.

They don't realize that they are seeing the Survivorship bias in full force. To all those that doubt the validity of the article, keep in mind that eventually, statistics will prove you wrong. Good Luck!
It was also reported that Zuck was insecure about IG founder Systrom getting press.
Are you sure you’ve explored the whole thing? The crowded lawn is certainly one part of it but there are whole swaths up near 110th that are much quieter as well as large dense tree sections e.g. near the zoo.
Sacramento has the "City of Trees" nickname.

https://medium.californiasun.co/sacramento-city-of-trees-207...

IMO Sac is the best location in California if you're a outdoorsmen but need to be close to a city. I live 30 minutes east in the mountains and work from home.
Hopefully not trying to work out what caused the collapse...
I convert epubs to mobi and read on my Kindle. PDFs are horrific on a Kindle.
Pelosi is appeasing a dictator? The current POTUS can't get enough of blowing kisses to the world's dictators.
Sounds like the American drug market.

Another HN commenter wrote about how if you use a Gilead card they will pay the deductible for their HIV medication.

They wanted insurance to pay the high discounted negotiated price of their high price HIV med.
r/datahorders would like to have a word with you. Also the internet archive, the Google art/book projects, Wikipedia, etc.
Please, god, no...
Obligatory "you're granting GitHub keys to a tool on the internet and should proceed with caution (and only give read permissions), lest something go wrong and you lose all of your data" warning.
It is already happening. NYU Langone has been pushing hard on people to 'see' the doctors online for small stuff like allergies and fever. I wouldn't be surprised if this practice eventually extends to replacing doctors with a semi-automated (human-computer based) system .

For what is worth, a physician assistant can diagnose quickly (and they can be assisted with a ML/rule-based diagnosis system that is trained on something like "Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital", which is what most doctors in training use as a handbook) and escalate the difficult ones to the specialist doctors.