skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eminent domain isn't "private companies getting property for free"--it's a limited exercise of government power to prevent what would otherwise be a market failure.

The key word there is limited. Eminent domain is supposedly limited to things in the Public Good. It's not meant to be a transference of wealth to private companies at the expense of the Public, and it's supposed to and does include attached riders on the usage of such eminent domain-appropriated properties. Such as required passenger travel quotas that were supposed to be applied to railroad companies as a public service.

> Privately operated toll roads are completely different. There, the operating company generally never owns the right of way to begin with. Even if they build the toll road, all they are buying is the right to operate the road for for some term.

It's not completely different. Obviously things varied hugely between different states, but some states did own their railroad right of ways as public goods (as they should have, and just as they generally do with utility pole right of ways, toll road right of ways, and interstate right of ways). It was only after the fact that many of the railroad owners decided they should also own the rights of way to avoid further regulation and abscond from original contract terms (such as, and most importantly, passenger travel minimums), and only then worked very hard (through monopolies and hard bargains) to purchase said rights of way from states desperate for quick cash or easily swayed by privatizer lobbies and deregulationists.

We do not vilify the early railroad folks as the "Robber Barons" for nothing, and it is incredible how much that history is forgotten or overlooked. It's also incredibly naïve to think that roads are immune from the same folly that happened to the railroads!

Indiana has a couple of toll roads today that are "in hock" to an Australian company that essentially wins the right of ways in the right circumstances of the tolls not paying enough for the loans that the Australian company bought from Indiana and the tolls are supposed to cover (just as passenger fares were supposed to cover railroad rights of ways and underages used to steal them from the public). It's amazing, ridiculous, and absolutely history repeating itself, because Indiana lost so much of its railroad right of ways in very similar overly privatized financial games.
I have been using TbSync and it works well. Even works for Google and iCloud accounts.
> Prior to today’s funding announcement, the company had taken just a $1.2 million seed round in 2014. Today, it reports 3,000 paying customers and that it has been profitable for the last several years

Well there is something you don't see every day.

I'm impressed by how far they've come. If in 2015 you told me you're starting a company that helps companies customize their API documentation, I would have marked you as a particularly shiny unicorn.
Not just a permission but a limit too. If I could set the limit to something reasonable, like 1MB, that'd be fine.
I pretty much can't stand them personally--except for the fries and maybe a couple of breakfast items. But I readily admit I'm a bit of a foodie. I'm certainly not going to begrudge others who find them a good value or even, gasp, like them.
Yes, this is what I meant.

To be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of intentionally being misleading. But consider this process:

1) Notice an inflection

2) Search through a near-infinite number of economic indicators

3) Select those other indicators bearing an inflection-point

This is very non-Baysian.
"I see stuff like this in statically typed projects, where integer enums are used when a string will suffice, and strings are used where booleans will suffice."

Typescript has proper enumerated types, so you really shouldn't be using either? Using magic number values for an enum is even poor programming practice in C.
You've already listed one reason why you'd use a proper enumerated type over boolean, the fact that NULL is not part of the type's domain. The other big reason is that it is semantically correct. You can limit the type's domain to only values that make sense semantically. No more comments like:
// A value of '1' means the missile is armed.
> "What about people showing off their car, perfect pictures of their vacations on social media, some set of achievements or trophies, their perfect "battlestation" computer setup, etc. etc. etc."

You know plenty of people don't do any of this stuff, right? I get the feeling you meant that to be a broad list that would have virtually everybody covered in one respect or another, but if that was your intention you failed.
A lot for a few MW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Di9g3Lc474
Once I've sent money to someone a few times it's typically instant, but it isn't always.
Well, read a book, then. The origin and purpose of the police is to enforce slavery.
> Moore's law is dying. Computers are not going to get much faster, or much cheaper.

Moore's law doesn't really matter. We're just at the beginning of computers, they will get much faster and powerful in the years - decades to come.

I just read this for example: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chip-carbon-nanotubes-no...
And those functions in C/C++ are not specified.

The python wrapper also does not specify in this case, so you should not use them for rounding, or you will have the same problem. No where on that page does it specify proper rounding will be cross platform.

Simply do it with floats. There are perfectly good, numerically stable, fast rounding methods, that avoid all this nonsense.
> Stop shitting on them.

.... no?

> We won the war. They’re mending their ways.

"We" (?) are either there or not. The half-measures of mending continue at the pace of their choosing.

> Even 10 years ago this would have sounded like science fiction.

A strong point in favor of continued skepticism.

Nobody is calling Red Hat's Ansible Tower or other closed-source products some change of heart in the company and this is no exception in the reverse.

edit: Always good to be downvoted when responding to a comment poisoning the well (and cursing) with a comment that does neither.
The whole "jailbreaking the phone" business gets suddenly a completely new meaning...
I just tested this on my iPhone and location works just fine in airplane mode, even with WiFi off.
Again, yawn. Now you are conflating embedded systems with other things. And resorting to ad hominem attacks assuming that all C programmers must be old, tired dummies. Pathetic.

Heard it all before, many times. C will be just fine whether you like it or not.

I also heard there's a new JavaScript framework out. Go fetch.
He also needed wood shavings
I started using https://histre.com/ a few months ago and I love it and would strongly recommend it. I can easily save information in notes, which has the option of being connected to a link or not. Then I can easily access the notes I created using tags I create myself (I love that it uses autocomplete!). Histre supports easily sharing your knowledge with others. You can share a single note with anyone, whether they are a histre user or not. You can publish a note just by tagging it with #pub (see https://histre.com/pub/valeriemettler/ for an example). You can also create a team and have a shared notebook where the entire team can have one central place to share and access useful information on any given topic. I recently got my team at work to start using it and they absolutely love it!
I quite like static typing, though with some caveats. I strongly believe automated testing is more important. And I am also not afraid to make something an 'any' if it's proving particularly hard to type.

Have you considered thinking of static typing as a tool? A kind of ESLint on steroids. The great thing about typescript (or checking JS with the typescript compiler) is that you can set the dynamic/static continuum anywhere you want, pretty much.
Well it sounds strange the way you say it, but video evidence of someone not committing a crime is often a pretty good alibi, right?
I thought it was for optical media only.

Yet, it seems there's no way to format to it out of box on macOS and support looks dodgy. I'm not willing to bet my data on an unreliable file system implementation.
Zoom out from specific circumstances and it seems like human misery is fairly constant.

Whether you're scrambling around the forest looking for berries and killing things to eat with pointy sticks or working an office job living in a suburb – I don't really think your emotional experience really changes all that much.

I think your misery and delight are driven by the best and worst things in your life and it doesn't really matter all that much what your circumstances are. When things get better you find new things to be miserable about, when things get worse you stop caring about the little things and your misery is driven by the new worst thing.

I don't see standard of living really driving all that much happiness. Maybe some, but much less than I think most people expect.
For those of us wondering what they meant by 16-bit RISC-V (as there isn't a 16-bit RISC-V ISA), it's just 32-bit RISC-V instructions operating on 16-bit data and addresses.
1) Log to local disk (most people will tell you this is bad practice and that you should directly log to socket or whatever, but it's more likely for your network to be down than for your disk to fail).

In Python, use the RotatingFileHandler to avoid running out of space.

2) Incrementally forward your log files to a server using something like fluentd that can pre-aggregate and/or filter messages.

Big advantage of logging to disk: if logging server is unreachable, forwarder can resume once it's up again. If you log directly over network, if things fail the very log messages you need to troubleshoot the failure are potentially gone.

3) Visualize. Create alerts.

I've evaluated a bunch of logging solutions. Splunk is the best, and affordable at low data volumes (they have a pricing calculator, you can check for yourself). It's medium hard to setup.

Sumo Logic is the easiest to set up, and at low data volumes, prices are similar to Splunk. You can get something working within an hour or less.

ELK stack is free only in bits but not in engineering time.

I've not actually tried Sentry.io but I saw it at PyCon and it looks pretty impressive. If you only care about tracking errors/events and not about general-purpose logging functionality per se, I would take a serious look at it.
First, you have to distinguish between intelligence gathering, which includes "spies", and covert action, which actively tries to do something to the enemy. There's an argument for keeping those separate, best articulated by Gen. Reinhard Gelhen in his memoirs.

In the US, only the CIA really does both. DIA, DNI, NSA, NGA, and the intelligence services of the military branches are mostly pure intel gathering.

On the active side are also the various special forces units, which the US has gathered up under the JSOC. They sometimes do intel gathering, but long-term covert is rare. Anybody in the field on the active side will probably become known to the enemy sooner or later.

There are historic successes in both areas, but not a huge number of them. The US put a huge amount of effort into assessing USSR military capabilities, and mostly got it wrong. Poor intel led to the "bomber gap" and "missile gap", and missed the USSR's A-bomb and H-bomb, as well as the breakup of the USSR. The USSR put a lot of effort into spying on atomic weapons, with some success (succeeded with A-bomb, failed with H-bomb), got spies into the State Department (useless, according to KGB archives released at the end of the cold war) and struggled to find out how the US made reliable jet engines, without much success.

There's a history of special operations, written for that community, for which I don't have a reference right now. They go over the major special operations of the 20th century. This was written pre-9/11. For each they ask "Was it a success" and "was it worth it"? The only operations for which both answers are "yes" were Eben-Emael[1] and Entebbe.[2] Only Eben-Emael changed the course of a war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Eben-Emael

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
Don't forget that they take google's money and put them as the default search provider in safari.

Apple loves privacy, but they love money more.
check out

Lecture 11 - Hiring and Culture, Part 2 (Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Dl8rZ6qwE

and perhaps https://www.infoq.com/presentations/stripe-culture-2016/ though that's more corporate.
What I don't really get is why American payment systems insist on including some way to pull money out of an account, which therefore requires massive amounts of trust.

The way the European system works is that there is one possible operation; the owner of an account can move money from their account to any other account.

If you want me to pay you rent, you provide me with a standard format bill, which includes your account number, the amount, the date to pay by, and an optional reference number (for use of the recipient to tell what I was paying for). To pay, I input those into my banking app (or more likely, read the barcode on the bill with my phone), verify that everything is correct, and press a button to transfer funds.

The point is, I don't have to trust you to do any of the banking right. I have paper trail from you in form of the bill you provided (which confirms that the numbers I used are correct), and from my bank that the transfer was initiated on a given day at a given time. There cannot be any error that I didn't make.
No, but see 1968.
Both Boeing 737 Max planes which recently crashed were also almost brand new.

I have flown Ryanair a few times, I’d rather not go than take them today though.
Complex behavior doesn't just come from simple rules. That only happens when the rules are nonlinear. Complex behavior could also come from very complicated rules.
'Petty' fails to meet my bar for 'evil', but whatever. Try your best then, explain to me in terms of game theory why I should want friends who judge me for not purchasing overpriced jewelry.
You can use posix acls whenever you want though.
Umm ... Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis are all minorities in India. India has it's own share of troubles in minority relations, but they are no different from the race issues dealt with in many western democracies.

Does the US count as a Western liberal democracy? Because the incarceration rates of Black people in the US would certainly suggest otherwise.

The biggest factor in how well off people are in any country is economics, so unless you match up the economic factors, making any comparison of this sort is not useful.

India's treatment of minorities is much better compared to the treatment of minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. While China is not a fair comparison because of different economic models, India does much better than China none the less.
There's also a growing urban homesteading movement that combines the benefits of density with some of the benefits of self-sufficiency, a reduced environmental footprint, and the added bonus of potentially living in a city filled with green stuff!
I wonder what happens when you Venmo a dead person.

Given other stories I've heard about the difficulty of resolving problematic payments over Venmo with no recourse, I bet they don't have much of a robust system in place for resolving that either.

Banking controls are expensive. It's cheap when you simply don't have them.
There are many nice modern languages that compile to JavaScript. Personally, I like [Haxe](https://haxe.org/), which compiles to many other target platforms/languages as well.

Here's a [comparison of Haxe and TypeScript](https://blog.onthewings.net/2015/08/05/typescript-vs-haxe/).
Wonder if someone suspected Feds would do this, they could ask their accomplice to take their phone and walk around with it in a different part of town. They would then have a
alibi and be discarded as a potential suspect.
Nice, finally, there are typed generators. That could possibly enable us to write something like do-notation in Haskell in a type-safe way.
>US GDP is around $20 trillion so 2% would be $400 billion.

Oops - correct :)

I mentioned Rockefeller's worth, not Standard Oil. Comparing Google to Rockefeller is apples to oranges. Standard Oil was worth far more than Rockefeller.

Google founders are each worth ~$50B, 0.25% of GDP.
The UI is open source, but the mailsync engine it uses is distributed as a proprietary, closed-source binary.
The problem with Dragon was that it was so inaccurate that a moderately skilled typist could produce final corrected text much more quickly than they could dictate text and then make corrections.

Looking online, this is a feature Apple is adding in this year's iOS and Google is adding to Pixel devices only so far, so I would expect to have to give them some time to get on device speech recognition working at all as a first step.
Personally I would (do) go with a free hosted service like Blogger which will handle big traffic spikes. But if someone is just wanting to push out a blog post or two a year, I'd be hard put to argue against Medium.
I think “debugging errors in prod” is not generally how I like to spend my working life, with or without excellent logging and tooling for surfacing errors.
<Humming the Jame Bond theme song> Yes, they are!
It is an existence proof that the security is good enough to get the job done and keep losses to an acceptable level. If it was truly "woeful" enough to actually matter then an alternative with better security would have displaced it by now.
It is a high indication of many people considering it secure enough (for their respective business case)
VSCode, exFat, and .Net core are not enormous. Their revenue streams are enormous and remain as close to their chest as ever.
Yep, still there in the latest perl5: Perl_start_glob https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/doio.c

It's somewhat messier than I remember, because it uses csh as the first choice and falls back to sh.
It is wrong to have a relationship with your direct report. However, I'm having trouble understanding why she intentionally became pregnant with her married boss. She was around 37 years old at the time. I also don't understand why he wanted to make her pregnant and have no involvement with his child. It all just seems bizarre. He didn't marry her or make any commitment. Clearly once the child was born from an affair that violates Google's rules she would have to at least switch departments.
No. He might be confusing it with WSL2 which uses VHD files with ext4 file systems hosted in them, but those are only accessed by a Linux kernel under virtualization, never by Windows itself.
Ok, this is the clarification I was seeking.
n=24, split into two 12-man cohorts.

Why do i feel like this lacks statistical power?
I did a ratner with a girl once. She said something like "well you have good genes anyway, right?". I listed a few of my imperfections. She said "oh", and went away.

It was a good lesson.
Oh I'm well aware, but word comprehensions shift over time and within the common American understanding using the word "liberalizes" seems to be intentionally slanted.
Wright loses big to Kleiman: judge rules Kleiman estate owns half Satoshi stash
Oliver leans towards "entertainment" than "information" in my experience. There's a time and place for entertainment, but I definitely need to double-check his facts before relying upon them.

Some of Oliver's arguments are "weak", feeling like he's sometimes padding for time. With that being said, Oliver is far better at this format than say... Bill Nye. (I was... saddened, by the weak treatment of subjects on that show)

Colbert seems to be focusing more on a typical late-night formula (talk with celebrities to promote books and movies, primarily on "safe" subjects: see his "Meanwhile" segments, which are hilarious but otherwise pallet cleansers). Colbert barely has much more than 5-minute talks on any political subject these days... a good thing for the mass-audience, but too short to really dive deeply into a subject matter outside of highlighting a few headlines.

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Overall, Oliver is one of the better shows in this category. But certainly has its flaws. No one really beats John Stewart, who really mastered the segment and earned my trust. (Stewart even had to do this in a far more difficult setting: once per night, 4 times a week. Oliver only has to prep for one segment per week). Stewart certainly had his mistakes, but he also humbled himself with constant reminders that Stewart was a "sad clown", reminding the audience that his skits were primarily driven for entertainment (even if large bits were educational)

The main difference between Oliver and Stewart is that Oliver seems to have fewer self-deprecating bits, or reminders that Oliver is primarily a sad clown as well. Entertainment outrage... relatively well researched, but still entertainment nonetheless.

Maybe I should watch Trevor Noah and see how he's keeping up the old Stewart timeslot.

> He's obviously too biased to have a fair view.

Stewart was biased, but overwhelmingly fair in my experience. Yeah, he leaned left, but no one can deny their own personal bias on political subjects, and that's fine IMO.

Oliver is biased, but IMO isn't as fair as Stewart in all subject matters. Fortunately, Oliver is "fair enough" and still has a decent show.
Startups need developers who can hit the ground running and solve problems quickly. Many bootcamps focus on bulletpoints, not depth.
I learned this when I was about five years old:

A cup is 8 ounces. Two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon. In other words, 128 ounces. This is of course for U.S. gallons.

A lot of things now measured in the metric system are still based on the standard U.S. system, just converted to metric. This is, for example, why whisky comes in 750 ml bottles instead of (say) one liter bottles. It was traditionally sold in fifths (of gallons); i.e., 25.6 ounces, which converts to 757.1 ml. It's also why there are track events of 100 meters, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1600m. They are near the distance of the old races, and it seems especially noticeable to me for the half mile and mile, probably because I ran those races when I was a teenager.

Thankfully there's almost zero chance the U.S. will convert to metric in my lifetime. I can feel miles and gallons and Fahrenheit in my bones. Metric, not so much.
I can see the mental gymnastics now:

"Criminals deserve just as much privacy and safety as anyone else. If the government violates the criminal's rights to solve, prevent, or preempt crimes, even more crimes have occurred (privacy violations, killing of the criminal, etc.)

There should be explicit modes for phones and browsers available to criminals that allow them to safely commit crimes without risk of their rights being infringed upon."
And FYI: they all "talk" SEPA. You can wire money anywhere in europe (+ switzerland and some other countries) overnight for next to nothing (<1 USD).
Simple to implement yeah, hard for me to do in my head hence the need for a tool :-)
This is not just a dump of soon to expire patent. The patent grant and their support and commitment to indemnify anyone who uses it through OIN proves to me, that at least when it comes to this, they are acting in good faith.

Listen, my first job outta high school was at Red Hat. For the majority of my life I hated Microsoft and everything they stood for. The bottom line is, money talks (the virtues or lack thereof of that are for a different debate) and they realized that people became familiar with Linux which was superior for most non-desktop use cases, enabled innovation at a greater pace and also was a path around all the Microsoft bullshit and customers were abandoning ship. Eventually they had NO CHOICE but to evolve or die.