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I was a fulltime ruby developer before I became a full-time .NET developer (usually by accident). And things like Linq, Visual Studio, and Resharper ultimately allowed me to create code that was highly organized, while never sacrificing productivity or performance.

The thing I always hated most about the .NET ecosystem was having to run on Windows Server, so that's definitely a welcome change with .NET Core.

But C# has always been a wonderful language to work with. And you never really feel the static typing slow you down, yet get all the benefits of not having to write a bunch of useless tests that replace what a compiler should do in the first place.

(Not trying to make this a dynamic/static flame war by the way. I'm a full-time elixir developer nowadays, so I'm still in dynamic-land and enjoy it. Just not dogmatic about any of it)
Do you yourself drive? It's easy to make these demands when you're not affected by the resulting inefficiency.
One thing that is unclear is that the two independent images, one showing an individual using a phone where they may be personally identifiable and a second showing the car's license plate. So they fine the registered owner of the car for the driver being distracted? What if I'm in a car share? Do they subpoena the companies records or just fine them and have it passed on a la rental cars and speeding tickets?

I think distracted driving is a real problem but just like photo radar this punishment weeks after the fact when you get a fine in the mail will have very little impact on the underlying behavior. It's like watching your kids do something unacceptable and then grounding them a week a later as punishment. If they wanted to really change behavior they need to get in the faces of drivers like drinking and driving check-stops; pull them over, ask them if their using their phones, warn them of the danger (they could check for impaired driving at the same time). The problem is cops on the ground costs money; this makes money.
We are talking about vaping and not smoking. Also, objectively drunk drivers kill more people than smoking/vaping drivers.
This reminds me of http://txti.es/ (made by the people behind http://motherfuckingwebsite.com).
> Trump Plaza

Privately owned. Can't use it.

> The people of the United States should shoulder thay cost

> "I think I get to say what's done with the money of others"

Fixed that for you. Not your nation; not your choice.

> Tax the rich

Well that told me you were sweedish faster than anything you said

> Figure it out

No. Not your nation; you have zero say in how America is run. Pay to fly them over to sweden if you really want.
Near infrared light is of lower frequency than visible light, so it can penetrate matter more easily. UV light barely passes through more than a few layers of skin cells (thereby potentially overloading those cells with a lot of energy, causing DNA damage), while visible light can go millimeters deep, and near infrared can go even deeper. Near infrared can be used to measure bone density. This would not work if bone were fully opaque to IR light.
> I'm not sure we can say it's damn near harmless at this point.

Compared to what? Harm isn't measured in a vacuum. In the comparisons that make sense (e.g. vaping vs smoking american cigarettes) vaping is in fact damn near harmless in comparison, even if harmless is not the term I'd use for a vasodilator as potent as nicotine.

All of these "well we don't know vaping is harmless" monologues are coming from bad faith where you compare it to breathing "air" or something. Even that comparison doesn't really work because city air can itself be on the order of harm of a smoking habit—wouldn't it be funny if simply existing in SF turned out worse for your lung health than vaping?

https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/08/13/air-pollution-can...

So... of course we don't know what the harm of these things are, but we do know the harm of cigarette smoking, a factor that seems repeatedly absent from calls for regulations of vaping. Why aren't people banning cigarettes?
Was CSS even "meant" for layout initially?

To me Flexbox is still pretty natural. Names might be weird but there's not a great deal to know and it was the first CSS layout that actually IMO checked enough boxes not to be maddening.
Percentage wouldn't necessarily be so bad, except that there's a certain base cost to setting up and running all of those systems. At some point getting someone to up their spending 10% has very little incremental cost. It would be far cheaper than trying to reduce overhead.

So now you have perverse incentives on perverse incentives.

And if you don't look at it too closely then you can feel good about all the money you're making helping people slowly self destruct. Your parasitism is perfectly justified by the mad stacks of cash you're making.

There's only two ways to get that much money. Do something really really good (at which point you probably will give a lot of that money away), or do something really really bad. If your company has to talk about 'evil', it's probably in the latter camp and always has been.
// @see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052134
Right. I'm sure the language of laws in many regions suggests that using tap-to-pay with your phone at a drive-thru is technically illegal, but I'd be curious to see if anybody has actually been ticketed for it or if this is just fearmongering.
> It sure feels like humanity is painting itself into a corner along

it's called capitalism, and "increasing shareholder value". This is why large corp lobby in the USA, this is why big pharma bribes anyone with a stethoscope, this is why big oil is trying to stop/slow/control progress of solar/wind.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children"
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/22/borrow-earth/

Edit: for many people, today & money is far more important than tomorrow & children. I hope that humanity proves me wrong, but it will get darker before it gets brighter.
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You are missing facts indeed, see my sibling comment.
heaven for bid we impact "driving efficiency" for something as low-priority as public safety...
Then maybe the incentives are wrong? If I ever move to another country, I'll pick the country based on the culture, not just on opportunity. It's too important not to think about.
Who is ‘most’?
In general or on HN? In general - damned if I know. On HN? We've been having a climate story on a front page pretty much every day for a while now.
People who don't drive new enough cars to have integrated GPS buy a suction cup mount for their phone. It's not 2012 anymore, everyone has smartphones, nobody but truckers uses standalone GPS.

I know this crowd is too high class to know what it's like but something like using your phone for GPS can be the difference between leaving a fishing stop with a warning or a ticket depending on what kinds of citations the department is trying to prioritize.
I recently did a live coding tutorial on using SIMD intrinsics which is one of the big new features in .NET Core 3.0. It covers the basics of what is SIMD, what are intrinsics, and I do some live coding/benchmark examples in C# where I cover how to lay out data and use SIMD effectively:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/482930779?t=00h09m01s
I am genuinely impressed how capitalism can solve a problem that never existed before they started solving it and then forcing that particular and often quite expensive solution on you.
Never needed calculator until advanced statistics where calculations became monotonous and no longer instructive. Before that, actually, use of calculators was explicitly banned both in school and uni.
Please don't dismiss Raptor over this. I've had nothing but a great experience ordering from them. I do not have a Blackbird but my Talos II Entry system (1-cpu slot vs. 2) works flawlessly.
Docker is a better way to distribute apps than Electron, in my opinion. From a developer point of view you just build a regular web app, so better than Electron. From the user's point of view, Docker is better because of isolation, and because there is nothing to install. You run just one command to download and run the image. If you want the app to have its own window then use Chrome's "Create shortcut" command. This is indistinguishable from an Electron app, but better. See an app written in this fashion here: https://hub.docker.com/r/eurekasearch/eurekasearch
> What is being asked here is "how do we dissociate ourselves with this specific harmful action" which is a much, much lower bar to clear.

Trying to live by a practice of avoiding any specific harmful actions can easily compromise ones ability to pursue more general goals. CBP does important and essential work combatting human and drug trafficking, and handling what remains of the good parts of their imigration management mission that ICE has contorted. This choice will limit their effectiveness. Degrading the efficiency of an organization at this scale has meaningful costs; 1% of 100 people saved from trafficking is an entire person. Will the degradation of capabilities here effect CBP in this manner? I am unprepared to speculate, but it seems worth factoring into an ethical decision about whether specific activities by ICE make ICE+CBP intolerable to work with.

Moreover, down the road this is probably the end of any business arrangement between Chef and US Government agencies. Administrations change, and if Chef can be expected to end contracts over public pressure like this then it cannot be relied upon to be involved with any sort of system that is going to need to last across multiple administrations, which is most of them. Minor degradation of efficiency across the whole US Government has very meaningful costs in human life and suffering.

I think the forest has been missed for the trees, and I'm not convinced that from a utilitarian perspective those advocating against Chef's contracts with CPB+ICE aren't also in the moral wrong.
I work mainly in multi-project F# solutions. VS Code Ionide plug-in seems pretty solid for single project F#, but every time I've tried to use it for multi-project I run into some sort of situation that sends me back to Visual Studio.

VS has had it's own F# problems. The latest Preview edition is pretty solid, with one annoying bug. Almost every time I open my big multi-project solution I need to rebuild to get Intellisense to eliminate the red squigglies, and then close VS and re-open. It's a known issue. Hope MS fixes it soon.
A lot of the low-level behaviour is hard to control, at least in terms of having a well-known public interface. E.g. transaction isolation level is database-global, limited control over when updates to indices happen, limited direct control over MVCC. The internals of MySQL or Postgres look a lot like Kafka, but the event-transforming parts are hidden inside a black box.
I’m not arguing against the wealth transfers, simply stating that the OP comment that “the gov’t is for the rich” is wrong.
Hi olibaw, could you provide a bit of context here around what you found interesting on this post and perhaps the kind of discussion you had hoped to spark here? I thought it was neat, but I think I'm missing some connection.
Chrome recently broke the fingerprinting being used.

Firefox hasn't yet, to my knowledge.
Mass, uncontrolled immigration is great if you're a billionaire or a corporation, but not so great if you're a regular citizen. No other country on the planet has been more tolerant or generous than the US but we pay taxes for ourselves first and foremost, not to invite all the world's problems to our door. I see it up close and personal in my kids' schools where ESL has soaked up so much funding that gifted programs and even Special Ed are cut. How much will I have to pay in property taxes to invite all the world's children to the USA? Are you aware that it can't become 100% of my income? It's not even close to that elastic. The people who paid taxes have a social contract with local and state government to provide school services of appropriate agreed upon quality. I would prefer we focus on that and leave all the woke, virtue-signaling bs behind.

Oh and also: I refuse to live as a planet 'citizen' where the baseline level of individual freedom for me is China! I might as well revolt because some least common denominator citizenship status as "world citizen" is equivalent to "nothing at all."

Those who do support our nation will set up separate tech, separate finance, separate banking, a whole separate Internet if need be. And we won't forget all your derangement, either, so beware.
Tomato, tomato. At least it was put to good use.
ASP.NET MVC was much easier to work with, and WebAPI was even easier (especially with annotation support). Each time, you had even less boilerplate code.
Have just one experience with an inattentive driver for you or a loved one and then tell me the priority should be "driving convenience".
It's my money, why do you think the gov't should get it early? You're coming at this from the wrong perspective.
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No, radiation is not strong enough to have a significant effect, according to Prof Hamblin. Locations that are higher up (mountains) are better in that regard.
There may be fossilized Sleestaks et al. ready for us to discover. However, it's almost 900 degrees on the surface. Making a multi-day fossil-hunting bot that can handle 900 degrees would be a huge technical feat: big AC with a powerful/big fuel source.
>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok?

Yes. How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders?

>They certainly benefit from all the European infrastructure and academic research that they are not contributing back to.

Sounds like Europe has tax problems then. Pass some laws.
Opposite story here... I still use my TI-89 (or my even older TI-86) from time to time, even when sitting in front of a PC that has R, Maxima, Gnuplot, Axiom, Sage, etc. installed. There is something about the format of those old TI calculators that I find oddly appealing for whatever reason.

That said, when I don't have a hand-held calculator handy, I usually just fire up bc or R when I need to do some quick calculations.
There are a lot of people out there who will oppose any relatively harmless thing that gives people a small amount of pleasure, just on principle.
Through which mechanism?
I've noticed in my experience that the Big Endian approach has been less successful for me in work environments. Another wrench in the system is that when you want to get things done, especially at a leadership level, you will come to realize that the whole system in this article goes out the window if people aren't honest when they don't understand something.

I'm often thinking ahead in conversations and in a company hierarchy where people some don't want to admit not knowing or not understanding, I noticed people would nod or agree, but no actions would be taken. I though about this for a while and came to the conclusion that people simply need an explanation, but don't want to admit not understanding. SO what looked like agreement was facade to hide the confusion. It took me a bit, but I learned to move away from making a statement and waiting for questions, to leading into a conclusion so that everyone has more context with which to ask questions, or feel more comfortable asking a question because "hey, I understood most of that, but he/she lost me at that point"
The fact seeds can even be patented is absurd. Nice to see others agree.
Does it matter in which country the robots are doing the work? Ultimately that's the future we're shooting for, so this appears to be re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
I drive 2+ hours round-trip for work every weekday, and my work often has me visiting client sites during the week. I find nothing difficult about setting my destination via GPS before I begin my drive, and I find that my attention to what's going on around me is significantly diminished should I attempt to modify my route while driving. An inconvenience of, say, 5-10 minutes to find a place to pull over and input new coordinates is absolutely worth it to prevent an expensive collision or running into, say, a motorcyclist I haven't seen because I'm staring at my phone.

I cannot believe people are arguing for "efficiency" over traffic safety.
They sure nickel and dime - but still, even after that, I can't believe how cheap flights can be. And if you buy tickets in advance then (compared to US) it feels like a rounding error to my spending, impossible to break even - there is no way you don't cost more than $5 bucks to fly.

I always wonder, are they really masters of profitability or some sort of scheme going on.
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> owning a truck for use as a commuter vehicle (rather than a utilitarian vehicle) is esteemed for some odd reason

That seems like an odd way to put it. I drive a truck as a commuter vehicle because I can't afford to own and insure a second vehicle as a 'utility' vehicle, nor can I afford for my only vehicle to be of low utility
As other commenters have pointed out, it's as much about limiting the capabilities of these devices as it is about anything else.

Teachers don't want students to have unlimited power to solve equations, etc. They want students to do some of these things manually, for learning purposes. You don't necessarily want your students using whatever top-of-the-line devices/software that can make some of the coursework utterly trivial.

Is this solvable in software? Sure!

Students could run tablets running approved calculator software, and teachers could disable/enable features at-will at test time. This would of course rely upon students running some sort of verified software/hardware combo.

Has anybody solved this particular challenge yet? Not to my knowledge. I think they may need to think about this, if they want to unseat the TI (a worthy goal)
> In a good, free society, maybe anonymity isn’t important

There is something of a Catch 22 here I think. A society in which it's difficult or costly to be do something anonymously is essentially a society with total surveillance.

And it seems intuitive that a surveillance state is not good or free.

So there is an argument you can make that good and free societies should allow anonymity even if they are the sort of society where it is least needed.
"There'll still be a lifeless ball of rock left" isn't the comforting point you seem to think it is.
i wont claim to be a serious badass, but taking these exams without a calculator is very doable when you consider how the questions are scored. I forgot my calculator for ap phys C and just left all my answers in symbolic form without numerically evaluating them. If your steps are correct you get the vast majority of the credit regardless
What evidence is there that pulling over and then re-entering traffic is any less dangerous than adjusting your GPS at a stop light?
Who said it was? You can go to any ____legal____ port of entry of the United States and apply for asylum. There is 2.3% chance for a Mexican to get it granted (based on 2015 data). The problem is when people try to cross the border illegally (which is a crime) dragging their children along. Not too surprisingly this is what the US CBP people want to stop.
> there was an unprecedented rejection of the ‘free-floating’ model from the people. This was due to operators dumping too many bikes all at once, resulting in cluttering, but also lack of direct ‘community’ benefits. In order to fix this and to re-align the incentives with the citizens, we decided to make them a part of pony by creating the ‘Adopt-a-Pony’ scheme. This scheme lets users ‘acquire’ a pony and rent it out on the platform.
They use the same principle yes. Hair growth seems to be a mixed bag for near infrared though, it works for some people but not all.
Owning the rights to ideas isn't a sustainable future unless you also have the influence or the power to force people to respect your imaginary property.

If ultimately the only thing you end up owning over others is ideas it becomes increasingly attractive simply to opt out of such rights.
I'm not sure about your quantification of the overhead, I think you can have wins with severless there, but the other side of it is that you can make your server management a source of strength.

This is becoming unfashionable because it is arcane, but *nix (and Windows I'm sure) really provide some rich functionality and tunability that can let you move fast or reach performance/scale challenges that are very expensive or perhaps out of reach otherwise.

Of course, at one point I was told the same thing about managing your own hardware, and the thought of dealing with the jumpers on the back of the harddrive fills me with the same sense of frustration I'm sure a newer developer would feel when learning their disk is out of inodes for the first time.
> China buys airplanes from the USA because no commercial airport (including the ones in China) would allow a Chinese-made plane to land there.

This is a ridiculous assertion to make when there are indeed Chinese planes landing at Chinese airports.

It's true that the majority of airplanes Chinese airlines currently operate are manufactured outside of China, but this is not the reason.
Being addicted to nicotine isn't really a problem, it doesn't give you cancer or other diseases. The problem is all the other unpleasant things in cigarette smoke.
I'm proposing a reason, that's all. I imagine whatever antiquated electronics they use are readily available at their scale on eBay. Like if I want a Commodore 64 for some reason, I can probably have one tomorrow. But if I need a thousand of them, that will be more difficult. Compare that to AWS, where if I need a thousand of their computers I can have them in 20 minutes.
No single number will tell the whole story about a country's debt. GDP today is not a perfect proxy for GDP in 10 years (Japan's will probably be about the same, the US's will probably grow a bit, China's has a decent chance of growing a lot.) GDP today is not a perfect measure of economic activity today (Ireland has a really high GDP because companies are incorporated there but don't really pay much in taxes or do much to benefit Ireland. Actual Individual Consumption may be a better measure of a country's wealth. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2017/04/consumption-vs-gd... ) So Debt/GDP isn't nonsense, but it also could be potentially misleading.

Current interest rates can give a somewhat distorted picture for the US. Banks buy US debt because they have to due to regulation, other countries buy US debt as part of their economic policy, the net effect is that the US government is able to borrow money more cheaply that it should based purely on credit risk. Even so, the US is able to borrow money at historically cheap rates.

My understanding is that if current trends is health care costs and economic growth continue then in the long run the US will be unable to service its debt and maintain its current spending programs without raising taxes. Most spending is on the military, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, so there will be some difficult political decisions. However, that doesn't mean the US is close to a debt crisis today.
There was a lot more content to that response than the simple fact that the practice has been going on for a while, and I think that your response demonstrates bad faith.