skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes you think London is more liberal? Most of Europe is more conservative in many respects than the U.S. in terms of transit funding. For example, for the most part trains in the U.K. and continental Europe are operated by private companies that are expected to cover their operational costs. (Though the government often covers capital costs.) By contrast, transit in the U.S. universally runs at a significant operating loss. Both London and New York, for example, cover capital costs for their subway. But the Tube runs at a slight operating profit, while the NYC Subway only recovers about half of its operating costs. (Tube fare, for example, starts at higher than the NYC subway fare, and for longer distances is almost three times as much.)
Ctrl+f "iot"
Ctrl+f "Mirai"

Oh, it's a joke. Got it.
I'm not a fan of electron, but it's possible to build fast apps with it. Teams who build slow apps with electron will likely build slow native apps as well. Slow software is usually not the tech stack, it's the team.
The FAQ on the auction page clearly indicates that users will be able to select whatever search provider they want, after device set up. This just affects the options that are shown at device setup. Google is using a price mechanism to determine who should be included in the pre-installed set of search providers, essentially.
In your final example, the cyclist is justified because drivers are supposed to wait for cyclists when they make a right turn, just as they are supposed to wait for pedestrians.

Most of your examples are of drivers making mistakes and, when drivers make mistakes, the odds are higher that a large mass of steel will hit people at high momentum. This is not the case when pedestrians or cyclists make mistakes. We should focus on why we have so many cars on the road and why they are driven by people who are not responsible.
Strange times for Berry Club. https://www.mrlovenstein.com/comic/643
That is not true. I had to work with WordPress years ago, and one of the reasons it was so terrible is that it went to great lengths to mix view and business logic by interspersing PHP with HTML all over the place.
What’s most scary is this. If the food can still be produced in a climate we have injured, will it even be nutritious? The answer is unfortunately no in most cases. Over farming leads to soil being turned over too much and plants that do not produce fruits and vegetables with vitamins. Another bad finding is high atmospheric carbon levels drive rice malnutrition. If rice then what else? And now a worsening climate is leading to plant extinction also. This is double bad news.
This is kind of a lot of work when there could be a protocol that I can use instead. Like OSCORE with EDHOC. Sure I can go gluing things together but that's more work for me and my people. We have other things to do like build kick ass network management tools etc.
I'm honestly curious how part of the turbine melting and falling off in flight can be other than catastrophic.
the rat race (material comfort) is addictive. money works wonders.

and it's easy to get stuck in a local minimum. (mortgage, kids/family need a lot of resources)
I wholly agree with you in sentiment that context matters, but how the hell is that article equivalent to the one here lol, I have to ask

Your article has to do with white farmers specifically targeted by the black government of Zimbabwe, literal racism, so the race of the farmers is actually relevant.
Maybe. I have very little faith that sailors "who were once users of the systems" who've worked their way up inside the military to decision making roles have _any clue_ how evil and deceptive and persuasive the sales teams from companies like Adobe or Oracle or Palantir or $touchScreenVendorDeJour can be...
> all the major scripting languages (PyPI, Ruby gems, and npm) have had malicious packages inserted

None of those package repositories are maintained by a limited set of curators.

Debian's repositories and other linux distributions repositories are curated.

Uploading a malicious package to npm is as easy as typing 'npm publish'.

> "reflections on trusting trust"

It's a very useful piece of art and a thought experiment.

In practice, it's not interesting for the average package. Very few packages are self-hosting and in such a position to leverage that sort of clever trickery.

A good debian maintainer will also review code of their packages and make sure such trickery has no chance to be afood (e.g. by preventing a gem from downloading a custom ruby interpreter to bootstrap itself, but rather manually bootstrapping up themselves).
Unless it doesn't have your password, and sudo is configured to require auth to elevate. This is the STIG requirement for this exact reason

Edit: of course, it could just manipulate the path to include it's own evil sudo wrapper, but the chess match always sounds like this.
I'm sorry but you've got to at least spell check if you're going to put something on the internet for others to read.

Regarding the content, "It can take half a day because of all the fiddly little options that are so easily forgotten". What? If you've really been a "long time" Outlook user, then this is 10 minutes. Half hour tops. But a half day? This makes me not take anything you say after that statement seriously.

And your complaints about teams are related to admin policies. Believe it or not enterprises actually have admins and policies regarding their desktops and tools.

Unfortunately this represents what I've come to expect from medium content.
I never realized you should moisten the end of a toothpick to soften it before use - the instruction instigating Wonko's asylum.

DNA is one of my favourite authors, but seems I'm on the wrong side of the asylum door...
> when my wife and I went to apply for a mortgage, our agent at the bank told us not to even bother including my name and assets

I think there exists a difference in what the author is communicating happened here and what actually happened here.

I'm presently in the process of applying for a mortgage. I'm married. My wife will, pretty much inevitably, be told not to bother filling out her half of the application. This is not because the loan officer, a commission-seeking sales employee of the mortgage originator, believes she is unlikely to be approved for a mortgage. This is because the loan officer is accurately advising the juice is not worth the squeeze.

The loan officer sitting down with my wife and I is going to say "Mrs. McKenzie, your situation is complicated to explain. His really isn't. Do you want to spend many hours documenting it in a fashion which will not change our decision on how much house you can afford or what your mortgage rate will be?"

I understand that this is not the way that people are socialized to think about credit, but understanding the business process here would cause one to have a very different understanding of the amount of actual damage sustained here.
A car enables cities in less hospitable environments to be inexpensively populated. Where I live it’s regularly above 110. You’re not cycling in that. Population density is too low for light rail, and only the mentally deranged and hopelessly poor ride the bus, making a greater disincentive for anyone else who wants to bear a 15 minute wait in 110 degrees.

For actual numbers, my commute is 20min by car, 2.5hr by public transportation, or 1.2hr by bike.
Public transportation would need to be no more than 40min for me to consider it, and I’d only consider it because I wouldn’t have to drive. Once self driving cars arrive, I’d never consider public transit, even if driving were twice as long.
Yup! Even with a full time caretaker, I can’t get much done at home.
This has been discussed many times here... of course running a Chrome instance is inefficient but in some cases that's acceptable. Especially for the gains in cross-platform compatibility and reliable user interfaces.

Almost no other platform can guarantee that a UI elements will look pretty much exactly the same on all different operating systems.

Most people don't mind the extra RAM consumption for some applications... as long as the app works!
I'm not sure if it's just poorly written or just what.

I'm a woman and handicapped. I kind of get where she's coming from and I've read better pieces that make the point much clearer that when tech is designed almost entirely by able-bodied white men, it is designed with a great many built-in assumptions that cause problems for almost everyone else, even if they aren't handicapped.

I don't really agree with using the word accessibility to mean inclusiveness as she appears to be doing, but I only skimmed it and only because your question piqued my curiosity.
Rich people tend to congregate in blue cities and states, but on the whole they suffer from massive domestic out-migration (more residents leaving for other states than residents of other states coming there). New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois are all losing large numbers of residents to other states: https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5a57cab528eecc1d008b4....

> I don’t even know of any non liberal cities.

Phoenix, Arizona, the fastest growing large city in the U.S. As to states, the 10 most popular governors currently are all republicans, while 7 of the 10 least popular are democrats: https://freebeacon.com/politics/10-most-popular-governors-in....

This is not really a broad political point, but a very narrow response to the idea that infrastructure and public services suck in the U.S. "because republicans." When you live in a city like New York, DC, or SF, where 80% of people vote for the democratic candidate year-after-year, you can't really blame Reagan for the fact that the schools suck, the transit is falling apart, etc.
It had been slowly declining for some time, sure. Then it suddenly dropped by well over 50% in a month and stayed there. That seems clear enough.
> Can you not just refuse to give out your SSN and still get on with life in America? (I get on OK without one)

That's really strange, is it because you're not employed in the US?

I am not a US citizen but I have a US SSN because I lived there on a work visa (multiple times). Employers have always asked for my SSN to check my work authorization through e-Verify. Every time.
> Synchronous or asynchronous is something up to the caller to the decide – not to the function itself.

This doesn't work with Rusts implementation, because the functions have slightly different semantics and limitations.

E.g. an async function can't be recursive, since that would lead to a Future type of infinite size.

Async functions also don't necessarily run to completion like normal functions. They can instead also return at any .await point, which are implicit cancellation points. That means if someone just adds an async modifier to a function and some .await calls to methods inside it the result might not be correct anymore, since not all code in the function is guaranteed to be run anymore.

The cancellation mechanism was an explicit choice of the design - it would probably have been possible too to make async functions always run to completion and to thereby avoid the semantic difference.
The specific reason is that it's part of a series entitled "Black Voices". The general reason is that Huffpost fetishizes people of color in order to appeal to their target audience.
Domestic surveillance by ICE of everyone, both citizens and those without papers, wouldn't even be necessary if either the border was properly controlled, or if employers were made more liable for employing workers illegally. But somehow we simultaneously have these billions of dollars in surveillance, associated chilling effects, the whole police-industrial complex, and no effect at all on the rate of illegal immigration, which is higher than it was under the Obama admin by some metrics.

Sometimes it seems like the purpose of these contracts is just to give taxpayer money to contractors to put a boot on said taxpayers' faces, rather than whatever is listed.
> Finally, it’s likely the vehicle is not going to park, but rather off to pick up its next ride.

Yeah, a managed fleet system could have very different congestion characteristics, but the proposal was specifically that self-parking might be a game changer on its own. At that point it's basically valet parking, and you still have to stash the cars somewhere, and they still have to go back and forth between that somewhere and wherever the passengers got out.

You get rid of the circling but I don't think you get rid of queuing and grid backups.
The linked website doesn't point to anything else but that they're allegedly planting trees for (an unknown percentage of the money collected by) showing ads to users

I don't really care what Ecosia's motive is; I never even heard of it before now. What Google is doing is simply wrong. Anyone who can't see that has been in the SV bubble too long.

"Oh, the EU says we have to give people a choice to promote fairness and competition? Let's figure out how to make money off of it!"

It would be interesting if none of the other search engines participate in this auction. Then what is Google going to do? Ignore the EU and suck up another billion dollar fine?
Once students learnt the NET SEND command, the school was plagued with popups... IT security is an evolving thing I guess.
> Embedding PHP business logic in HTML makes it much easier to accidentally dump confidential state into the response.

There's no reason confidential state will get dumped into the response unless your PHP settings are completely misconfigured.

There was a time when PHP had very insecure defaults and that sort of thing would happen regularly especially in shared hosting environments where you had limited control over the configuration. That was a long time ago.

I haven't worked on a PHP project in about 5 years, but I have seen well maintained PHP code. There's a lot of reasons to gripe about the language but this isn't one of them.
Under normal load and conditions the Volts are both primarily serial hybrids. There are only a few specialized situations where they include the direct engine connection to optimize output.
U.S. Consortium Pulls Ecosystem into Quantum
I think the way to solve it (it’s contributing to climate chaos) is to make local travel, as inside the state, something cool, something only those with real class do

Let the unwashed yokels and barbarians keep flying. They’ll come around soon enough
There was a specific example that is indicative of why it costs so much here. He said, hypothetically, that a road project may have to purchase 5 additional feet of land for the right of way in order to meet some standard like 12 foot lanes, doing this without thinking at all. That 5 feet may not have been needed if you sized the project to 11 foot lanes, but now it must be purchased from a variety of landowners, and each one knows that they can hold out for top dollar. And it's probably low-value land to them anyway if you're building a 5-lane road through it.

This sort of thinking gets in the way of a lot of projects. I read at the time that Acela was proposed as a 180mph train, but the difficulty acquiring and building more right of way to smooth out turns, and the requirements for heavier parts to meet some safety regulations, meant that it could not approximate the speed of TGV. Instead, it goes 150 on some relatively straight sections and usually goes somewhat less. The special trainsets also cost more than European HSR trainsets.

Why do government software systems cost so much? Many of the same reasons, and as the article points out for infrastructure, the players have a desire to fund big projects and act like they're "done" instead of funding little improvements all the time.
It's a shared code base with the web application.
Shitty that an accountant policy is hurting a city.
It's a funny thing. I'm almost certain I came up with that dyslexic agnostic insomniac dog joke. I thought of it while delivering pizzas in my uni years around 1989.

Would be happy to be proven wrong though if someone can find an earlier reference to it.
Who cares if an application's UI elements look the same across platforms? I want it to work on the platform I am using. I simply do not care what it looks like on someone else's platform, and I especially do not want to pay a performance penalty so some designer can have a virtual feather in their cap over it.
It’s weird how much Dyslexia and ADHD overlap. Looking at the symptoms of Dyslexia https://www.dyslexia.com/about-dyslexia/signs-of-dyslexia/co...
But they're only performing a public service if it gets fixed -- which there's no indication in the article is happening.

And frankly, why would it? Different government agencies likely have zero reason to cooperate on it. Especially if, say, the DMV is responsible for the error, but the courts are the ones dealing with the cost.

So unless this guy has a reason to think it will get fixed because of him... he's just wasting his time, no?
I only now have realised it's "drunk" spelled backwards. And probably reads the same as "nerd"
It was huge for LGBTQ people. There was nothing else like it, and now there's just nothing.

But hey, I guess they were all just "blogging about genders."
So how many months/years until the same technology gets used against a group PT regrets, and we hear a repentance speech?
It’s a “dog bites man” story because the whole point of Palantir is selling this sort of service. Whereas when Google or Facebook does something “right-leaning” it’s more fundamentally unusual and thus newsworthy.
I prefer native widgets to whatever application-enforced fad of the year is current.

Apps are lauded for providing "dark mode" now; when ten years ago I simply switched GTK themes.

To say nothing of accessibility.

We've gone way backwards in UX.
that’s inspiring.
In practice the added complexity of hybrids does not make them less reliable than ICE vehicles. They spend of lot of time on EV mode. Plugin hybrid only use the gasoline engine rarely. When the gas engine does run, it does so at an optimized pace that doesn’t stress the engine as much.
I do see other types of bananas for sale occasionally. Little cluster types and the big plantains for cooking.
This is how I predict it will happen.

On January 1, 2020 will happen ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

It will be gradual, as long as you're developing more and more packages will refuse to work. If you realize there's a bug in one of your dependency and the fix is in a version that doesn't work on python 2, tough luck you either will have to backport the fix or migrate the code.

As time progress it will be more and more work to deal.

And guess what, some packages didn't even want to wait they already dropped python 2 support: https://python3statement.org/ (look at Projects Timeline) so it is starting happening right now. I'm wondering if pip will decide to drop the support in 2020, that might end up being the biggest hit.
Out of curiousity, what issue do you have with matlab under linux? I have found its linux version to be one of the most stable commercial/nonfree programs I have used under linux (ubuntu/centos).
align these ideas and check out the autism spectrum and get ready for your mind to be blown.
It might be urban legend, but apparently banana-flavored candy imitates the flavor of the Gros Michel, which is why it doesn’t really taste like a “banana” as we know it.
How is it the opposite effect? I’m merely saying that such well-meaning polices can have other consequences. Perhaps it’s still beneficial to society overall but I don’t like to pretend that we can get something for nothing.

In general, I’d like to think we could define generous parental leave policies that a) don’t achieve their ends by forcing consequences onto businesses and the labor market, b) don’t tie parental benefits to insurable earnings.

Seriously how messed up is (b)? Sorry, you had a hard time holding down a job last year, so we’re going to give you much less than the person who doesn’t need it.
Leaving your door wide open isn't anyone's fault but your own. All the configurations and procedures for secure devices were there but manufactures couldn't bother.
> This also causes lots of people to dislike him for no good reason

They're certainly not a "good" reason to dislike him, but the reasons are very real and significant.

In the case of the VC, Chomsky spreads ideas that would destroy their economic power and give it the the people. People with millions of dollars in wealth are terrified of anarcho-syndicalists like Chomsky.
A much repeated myth regarding the Gros Michel is the reason that artificial banana flavoring tastes so "strong" to the point of being "obviously fake" to modern consumers is its basis on the flavor of Gros Michel, vs the much milder Cavendish they are accustomed to. This is apparently just a myth, but regardless I guess some say Cavendish tastes like artificial banana.

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/was_artificial_banana_flav...
Renault-Nissan (Motor)-Mitsubishi merger with Fiat-Chrysler will create a megacorp or "alliance" with almost all terrible vehicles.

^- Something I hope Scotty Kilmer might say

https://www.youtube.com/scottykilmer
Human Interest (YC S15) raises $15M Series B and is hiring product, data, and more
Yeah, except they have nationalized health care.

Much different bucket than America's contracts without bennies.
Should you really be installing programs that are impossible to build? Also phantomjs is discontinued.
Honestly, we don't even know that it is, not in the same sense that we think of physical illness. There's a really good Philosophy Bites on how applying the conceptual model of physical illness to mental differences is problematic: https://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categori...

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that X is or is not real. It's more the point made by George Box: "All models are wrong; some models are useful." The traditional medical model has helped plenty of people when applied to mental issues. But it definitely made me think there are less wrong models still to come.
Are you sure they weren't cooking bananas (plantains)?
remember how terrible search engines used to be? Do you remember how terrible email was before Gmail? How awful MapQuest was before Google maps?

You seem to be under the impression that Google is the only company that could have achieved this. Fastmail is proof that this is simply not true. Google was the leader, and used slimy tactics to kill competition wherever it could. That's not innovation, that's monopoly.

Here's the corollary to your statement:

"Remember how great the internet was when there were lots of choices for services? Remember when web sites competed to produce the best content in order to attract readers, instead of gaming Google's SEO? Remember when sites didn't have to make separate AMP versions of their content? Remember when you could surf the web and not be tracked from site to site to TV to store? Remember when your credit card purchases were between you and your bank, and not handed over to a Mountainview advertising company? Remember when you bought into an internet service and it would keep running until it went out of business, instead of just being randomly terminated for no reason?" I could go on.
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Yes. But employers still generally provide dental and drug coverage.
Interesting, I was just going to say how varied and incredibly tasty the local Lao bananas are. I wonder if we have different taste or you've tried different ones than I have.

The ones I like best are the very small "good smelling bananas" (ກ້ວຍຫອມ).
I had some really nasty RSI a few years back. This website saved my career:

https://www.painscience.com
The author has a lot of good insights about the tends in mass media. However, there are lots independent artists who support themselves through live performances and selling cd's.

Another route is youtube and patreon. A good example is the young drummer Sina, who has over 600,000 subscribers and definitely makes melodic music. https://www.youtube.com/user/sinadrumming