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The problem is that we decided to inflate education prices while deflating labor prices. You can't do both at the same time and get sane results, because each individual needs to make their labor price correspond to their (former) education price.

So you wind up with Biochem PhDs working as programmers. Neither biochemistry nor programming is for stupid people, per se, but programming hires loads of people at salaries actually commensurate with the monetized value of the time-investment spent getting a doctorate, while actual biochemistry, the field of the doctorate, has emphasized cheap labor.
yeah the govt seldom builds anything. it just contracts it out. A federal prisons may be staffed by govt. employees but otherwise privatized in every other respect such as construction, surveillance, and supplies.
This conversation is no longer of any benefit, but for the sake of you and your co-workers... Saying that C is predictably inferior, more expensive, and less maintainable shows a blatant amount of incompetence on how either languages operate. C++ only offers abstractions to (debatably) more easily allow for an object oriented design for codebases. Semantically everything that you can do in C++, you can do in C.

There are plenty of features in C++ that are beneficial, particularly the handful of mechanisms that allow you to move away from #defines, but to compare performance between C and C++ simply shows ignorance.
"Coalition of fee-only planners wants the rule amended so RIAs aren't undercut by brokers held to lower standard of care" https://www.investmentnews.com/article/20190910/FREE/1909199...
> "too many" people having too much disposable wealth.

I don't think this is the problem at all. The world is huge. There are millions of tourist destinations and plenty of room for people in all of them.

The problem is with distribution. Social media creates power law distributions of attention. There are a few pieces of writing I wish every human on Earth had read and this is one of them:

http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

Instagram has caused these power law distributions to escape media onto the real world. While there are millions of delightful vacation destinations, most people never hear about most of them. Instead, a tiny minority of the most photogenic one (like Trolltunga, mentioned in the article), consume almost all of the attention and then net a huge, unmanageable number of visitors. For every Everest, there are a hundred mountains that are 90% as beautiful but only get 10% of the visitors.

I believe this is one of the fundamental, structural problems of the modern age. Most of the information we consume — literally the knowledge we base our worldview on — is now brought to our attention based on social media sharing and aggregation. The nature of those systems takes a linear range of "relevance" and distorts it into power law that no longer matches reality. But because this is our window into reality, we then take the result of that distortion at face value.

I would love to see more systems engineered to try to balance that. Perhaps a Twitter-like system that capped the number of followers you had. A recommendation engine that subtracted out the effect of popularity when ranking. But so far I don't see many. I'm not sure if it's because it's not what people want, not what advertisers want, or what.

(The great thing about knowing that this effect happens is that you can often easily acquire a better-than-average experience by deliberately stepping a little farther towards the long tail. The third best restaurant in a city is usually almost as good as #1 but noticeably cheaper. The second-most popular hike will give you 80% of the view with 20% of the crowds.)
I'd speculate that they exist as some unobservable component of reality, considering we see no hard evidence for it with our existing tools. I'm no expert on string theory, but as I understand it predicts a large number of dimensions, if we think of these as arrangements of data in memory, perhaps this information could be encoded there?
My high school AP Calc BC was good and prepared me for both getting a 5 on the exam and the subsequent classes. Letting high schoolers take college courses should be much more of a thing than it currently is. There is some dual enrollment, but we have a situation where there are large number of students ready for college courses at the beginning of high school. The local Basis Independent school has all students take AP World History in 8th grade.

We have a thing called "high school" that is completely unstandardized. How someone as smart as Paul Tough really believes that GPA from one school can be compared to GPA from another is beyond me.
For people who are REALLY into bikes, a "rinko bike" helps with this. For general use however, I'm convinced about using a scooter as described above by the GGP.
As I'm reading the book I put small sticky notes on paragraphs or sections I like or want to remember. When I'm done with the book I go through each sticky note and transcribe the section with the page number(s) into Evernote. Sometimes I'll add my own comments or notes to each section or about the book.

I do the same thing with articles in Instapaper except I highlight sections and then I can export them. This is really the only reason I use Evernote.
I spend absolutely no time making decisions on what to wear. I decided a long time ago that I don't care about fashion, I just want to look acceptable and be comfortable. So I took a bunch of company swag shirts so I wear the "same" shirt every day essentially. I have a bunch of pairs of the same jeans. One belt. One pair of shoes. I got a couple of identical hoodies if it's cold. Everything fits well and looks pretty acceptable. I have absolutely no decisions to make, always look the same, always ready to go quickly. Some of my friends and family find it a bit odd, but it saves me money and hassle on dealing with something that I do not enjoy. I also like that I don't have to worry if a shirt or something gets messed up. I just toss it and pull another out of the closet.
There is nothing really strange about this new project, this is how most big cities in China were developed. The government planed future economic growth and then setup areas of development for each city.
While probably a good idea, I fear somehow the execution will be butchered by incompetence and then blamed on cops or racism. Issues have a tendency to go left unsolved when maintaining a narrative takes precedent over actual problem solving.
Yeah, the worst part is that these jerks would be out by now if they kept their mouths shut--they should rot permanently.

Thank God they opened their mouths, pissed off the judge overseeing their plea agreement who then yanked it, and got sentenced to about 3 times the jail time they would have had otherwise.
I'm building that right now, and an looking for more beta testers. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

Your photos and videos remain on hardware that you own (or rent). It's designed to scale to millions of photos and videos on limited hardware (I run it for my family on a raspberry pi with a big external hard drive that sits next to my router). The browsing experience is fun, both on a 4k display and on my iPhone SE

The only cloud service I run is my licensing storefront, and delegate error reporting to Sentry, which you can opt out of.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder and developer.
>I’m staunchly opposed to national borders...

Not sure what that has to do with this at all? It definitely sounds like bourgeoisie/boutique political signaling though. Only those with a certain level of privileges can make platitudes like that while the rest of us deal with the real world ... where borders clearly matter.
also visible in Apple Maps. Definitely in 3D, but only just in 2D. I.e. in 2D at maximum zoom there is a light spot where the car was. 3D lets you zoom in closer, and you can see the rear end of a car even more clearly than the picture in the article.

3D: https://www.ianitor.com/img/3dcar.png
2D: https://www.ianitor.com/img/2dcar.png
In Dallas (and other southern cities, Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix etc) your evening commute might involve 20 minutes of walking in 100F/37C which is rather unpleasant. You are drenched in sweat if you're wearing a button down shirt and slacks. I put up with this on a bicycle in my mid-20s but now in later years I would rather just call an uber than be totally miserable.

In July-August-September it can be over 90F/32C in the morning commute, with 90%+ humidity.

Breezing along in 100F on a scooter at top speed you might still sweat a little bit from the sun, but not much.
How is this different than what for profit airlines, hotels already do within the tourism industry?

Less wealthy travelers go at odd times, they live in hostels and have "worse" experiences.

The only difference in this case is that the country is also directly profiting from this demand.
...and had some means to determine that it was happening.

I don't see a way where the incentives to cut corners vs the cost and effort of monitoring to deny the effects those incentives would actually work out.

Competitive capitalism is good at being efficient. It is NOT good at avoiding examples of negative results. Even if we say "here's the desirable target" and enforce it, the incentives will be that a large number of the participants will go below that desire in their efforts to maximize profits.

If we want them to be exceeding the targets for things like safety, recidivism, and humane treatment, we can't set incentives that are "profit = how little can you do", even WITH a minimum required.
The fact that you're suggesting insurance and registration are to be expected for any class of vehicle short of a moped is completely foreign to me.
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In Hong Kong 20 years ago maybe, but today the number of mandarin speakers is much greater. At least in the core downtown retail industry, you won’t even be considered for a job if you can’t speak mandarin, while anyone under 30 has gone to school in all three languages for their entire lives.
> ICE detainees

> release all the prisoners

ICE detainees aren't prisoners. ICE are facists holding people in concentrations camps. They should absolutely be released.
EDIT: Ha, no one replied to my comment here either. Guess I'm a sad motherfucker after all. Onwards!
The aid system is all messed up. I looked at going back and am wondering why I'm considered to the IRS, but not schools
immigration detainees and prisoners are two different groups.
Maybe dont submit articles to predatory journals. Many such requirements are now going away (even at some elsevier journals) as a direct result of pressure from people refusing to play by their rules. If your field has an equivalent of the arxiv, there isnt much a journal can do if you post your preprint prior to submission.
They probably need to do some type of multiplexing/sharing broadcast time because they're on a fixed frequency. More tags means each can broadcast less frequently. If you divide the single tag freq by 750 or 9000 you'll get the same results.
Start your own business, work fewer hours, and take the cut in pay. That's what I did, and I have no regrets. It's the best decision I ever made.
Sorry to hear - it's really taken them a long time to do this, but I'm pleased with the results. I've been using Stylish + Slack Dark - have you tried that?
https://userstyles.org/styles/160324/slack-dark-mode
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I found a skateboard in a smaller bayou this past weekend in fairly good condition. I can’t imagine what else is down there. There is also a very surprising amount of fish in the bayous, including loads of plecos (aquarium sucker fish).
Hate to be that nitpicky guy but O(100) isn't a thing. You'd write O(1) or O(N), O(N^2) etc.
Whats your point?

“Better for you and the planet” IS a health proposition.

If only the planet part is true, then half of their benefit proposition goes away. Half the value proposition of any product is a big deal for that product.
Yeah, seems there will just be frequent bribes for court ordered private facilities. Or lobby (bribe) to have maximum occupancies in state prisons reduced in order to make over crowding more likely.
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The right thing to do here is generally to avoid dealing with strings at all: you only need it to parse input and print/log output, beyond that everything should be using integer identifiers and handles.
Handsome brother (or pretty woman) is more of a countryside thing. It isn’t uncommon to hear it in the big cities, but it immediately flags the speaker as a bumpkin.

For us city folk, you hear it more often when touring (either from the local tour guides or between us ironically, but then I’m speaking as a foreigner).
Have you used volt? How do they compare resource usage wise? https://volt-app.com/
That's not what I took away from this at all. They specifically say that Lite mode started out as a way to reduce memory consumption at the cost of performance. Execution time jumped 120%!

Then they figured out how to get the memory improvements without the performance hit. The only place where they actually removed optimizations was in generating stack traces, and that wasn't a gain in performance, it was just considered acceptable for that to get slower.
Wow bad faith all over the place... People do see problems with all of those, but the only solution to people making a profit from supplying prisons is for there to be no prisons (or for the government to make all the food and clothing soup to nuts, but that'd be crazy). Same with the others the issue with post prison jobs is that they're not enough so hiring them is good and a step down the road to a solution.

Reform is a step by step process, getting people used to the idea of thinking of rehabilitation and reintegration instead of the gut instinct to punish takes a lot of time and in the mean time address the worst abuses of the system. In the mean time make sure you're not setting up systems that will fight for their own survival and demand (in some cases by contractual obligations for the state to fill X number of best!) to be fed.
"Preemptive defensiveness" hits the nail on the head for me. It's most problematic when it's the first thing in a comment, and makes it difficult for me to take the rest of the comment seriously, no matter carefully worded it is. I find it easier to write off as chatty if it's later in the comment and / or more offhanded like "... although I know that's not exactly flavour of the month on HN." The fact that it comes first carries a subtext of "I'm not really going to phrase this carefully and I don't care what you have to say," like they're already writing off anything critical that others have to say.

How about something like:

Don't try to preempt reactions by starting "At the risk of being downvoted..." or "Unpopular opinion here..." State your case clearly and let your ideas stand or fall on their own.
I agree, and that reality, that many people partake to vote against killing animals, scares the shit out of meat "farmers", who have tons of money (government subsidies too) to fight plant-burgers in a full on media war.

At least that seems to be happening.
I am suspicious of the IR/depth capabilities that will allegedly be on the new Pixel 4 for this reason. There's not a huge user demand for depth data, but there are great reasons Google might want to collect and process that data from its users.

This, along with the previous changes to make the photo capability be a short video capture that gets sent to Google, make me very suspicious about what they are doing with all of that data.

Things like the facial action coding system for microexpression analysis have been around for decades for anyone with a college library card. It's just been very difficult for software to parse from video. I can definitely see the camera changes making this a lot easier.
California has been busy the past couple weeks, they passed the rent control law, a labor law about contract workers(mainly about Uber and Lift drivers), and now this.
There's absolutely things that can be done that don't involve authoritarian dystopia. Access to contraception and family planning resources. Education. Better childhood healthcare. Improved rights and economic independence for women. Decreased tax incentives for having more children. Improved economic systems that don't rely on endless population growth.

Population growth in most of the developed world is already below replacement once you exclude immigration. So we've already arrived at a successful formula that solves overpopulation without limiting personal freedom.
Note that it wasn't _found_ with Google maps, it's just that you can see it.

From the article ..

> *it was a neighbour who reported the sunken car and was not aware of reports that Google Maps had been used."
Research the interstate highway system: completely funded by the US government, paid by taxes.
I've been mulling over trying to build one for our cove/neighborhood.

Ring/security cameras are fine but being able to pinpoint a handful of plates to the wee hours of the morning would allow theft issues to be handled pretty easily when cross referenced with camera tech.

Ex. Right now you get a description like "Older white 4 door" or "White Nissan Sentra"

Bounce that against plates from that time and you've got a good match to work off of, especially if the owner matches descriptions from cameras.
I have no idea what Classic is, but maybe it's not the thing you'd want to do so much of. That doesn't mean there isn't anything, or any combination of things, that you could do.
In addition to the other things mentioned, I'll just add that once you graduate you'll have a whole new environment with new opportunities to make friends. In particular, if you go to college I would recommend living on campus: dorm housing tends to often be a built-in group of friends. (And if you don't like the crowd you end up with, you can always move for the next semester.)

More generally though, you're still young and have lots of new opportunities to make friends ahead of you. So while I definitely agree with some of the other replies, if you find yourself struggling still, just remember high school isn't forever and there will be new opportunities in the future; you just have to be ready to take full advantage of them.
These things COULD go through a functioning legislature. Functioning being the key word. When you have one party who outright states that they will stop any and all work in the legislature just because Obama is president, and the citizenry continues to re-elect that party, what else do you do? What else SHOULD you do?
It's a pretty hot take to suggest that counter-cyclical spending isn't a very strong response to recessions - this is classical economics in a nutshell. Just because the US is too politically paralyzed to spend at the same level doesn't mean that it's an ineffectual tool.
I see a constant drumbeat of these kinds of stories/columns, and I've been wondering why. I guess there might be a few shills and short-sellers, but that can't be all of it. Ditto for the "contrarians" trying to get clicks or feel smarter by defying what by now is conventional wisdom.

The one group who really seem to take it personally are the long-time vegetarians/vegan advocates who would prefer that everyone switch to a completely unprocessed fat-free salt-free diet. Yeah, sure, wonderful, ain't gonna happen. It's almost like they feel they'll lose their identity if they allow these mere "vege-tourists" to enjoy their Beyond/Impossible burgers, so they do everything they can to maintain some separation and the "it's not really healthier" schtick is just a means to an end.
Depends on the scooter. On the Xiaomi in question, yes, I've found it to be problematic. The solution is the Masterlock handcuff lock. One end around the tube between deck and bars, the other end around a post.

The Boosted Rev I have now has exposed frame rails so you can use your favorite bike lock.
> It's less about the technology about license-plate reading and more about what people do with the data afterwards.

As someone who cares very much about probably I think this is a point that cannot be stressed enough. It is mostly about storage. Storing things is the major danger. Of course there are use cases too, and I would feel uncomfortable with the police tracking every car on the 5 freeway, but tracking requires storage.

Honestly I think your parking garage example is a great use. I can think of others. A notification of your friend or family member pulling into your driveway. Have your house do things like turn on the lights or give you a notification. It could be a good way to do parking meters. I'm sure people could think of more. Technology always has two sides to the coin, it's always a balance of using it only for ethical things. But that requires nuance.

Edit: a cool way to use these might be like we use passwords. Your license plate is a password (or let's say username). OCR is used to identify the plate, then it hashes it, checks the hash with that in the database and bingo, door opens. I think that's a level of privacy most of us are comfortable with. There's no retention of the license plate, no good way to identify who's it is, and if the database is hacked the attacker doesn't get your plate.
The problem of course is that it's cultural.

Interviewer: So how did you enjoy your time in school?

Interviewee: Oh Cambridge was a great place!
Well right now I'm more likely to break some asinine law than get kidnapped so I'll have to pass. Unless footage can't be used pre-emptively or something.
Google has two sets of base images. I usually prefer the plain 2D images, but you can get their reconstructed/interpolated 3D view with false color by toggling the "Globe" option in Google Maps, or the "3D Buildings" option in Google Earth. At this particular location, the 3D view has higher resolution.
In my mid 20s I got rid of my car living in suburban Dallas and switched to using my $150 used bicycle. As a single person with no kids this worked very well for me. Right off the top I saved $1500 a year in taxes and insurance and another couple hundred a month on gas and maintenance which I was able to use to fund quite a bit of travel. Doesn't scale out well to having a family though.
I never understood this, people who don't eat meat because of ethical reasons but still like the taste... assuming it's done out of compassion, maybe also work on changing your TASTE for animal flesh! If replicating meat was easy, i would understand, however the extent to which the fake meat industry goes to repicate animal taste suggests that the demand is high.
At least this is cognitive dissonance since there is compassion and empathy towards animals while at the same time a high demand for the TASTE of the flesh of an animal. A creature that is supposedly precious and should not suffer or die for the sake of becoming human food... with one small exception: it tastes great so let's ignore that detail and keep loving how these poor creatures taste.
You can always change your password.Your fingerprints and face are another story
There was a brief period when the Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt. Hezbullah controls a big chunk of southern Lebanon. Hamas controls Gaza. Maybe the facts are getting in the way of your point a little...
A large part of Florida is the combination of coastal and at sea level.

People want to live there, so they actively and continuously drain the swamp and build wherever possible.

Sea level rise is posing some expensive problems for them, obviously.
Please support your argument against correctness by providing an example where an INVALID string as input to a suitable modified generic string function would result in a valid string.