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> Uber says the service is intended to reduce travel times, but when Reuters tried Copter on Wednesday, a trip from its Midtown office to the airport took 70 minutes, including a subway ride downtown and two Uber rides to and from the heliport. That’s about the same time it would have taken by regular taxi in moderate traffic.

Helicopters are the beasts - mechanically, operationally and humanly. We need to invest in quad/hexcopter style autonomous point-to-point person-carrying flying vehicles. That could enable ability to fly out from nearly every building roof top with fraction of a cost. The 10-minute flight is also easily achievable with electrical UAVs.
Mediumwalled - i can't read this without signing in to something. Does anyone happen to know if there are cookies i can clear to work around this?
Or they just want you to think it does
But my experience of the site (as an experienced long time user) is much more negatively affected by the “active moderation” than it is positively affected by it. I’d rather have ten duplicate questions for every question, than a race to ninja-downvote or close anything that is tangentially related to an existing question. The struggle to maintain quality in the content of the site appears to be destroying the quality of the experience of the site. In the end, if the experience is not good, nor will the content be if people stop visiting. I’m sure 99% of the negativity is coming from non-admins. The ninja downvotes and closevotes are coming from regular users.

I still visit but I basically stopped asking and answering because it’s just not worth the stress of having to defend my question or answer. I have a 10k rep account and I’m an experienced dev with a decent grip of English as a second language but I still never felt once that my answer was welcome or my question was good enough for the site. I can only imagine what a novice must feel when using SO.
I understand, and it's difficult to deal with criticism when it's both rude and correct. However, it's important to consider how something is said is just as important as what is said. Take my OP for instance: I still think they're correct, at least partially, but how they wrote the first half was perhaps too brash. (I don't know if that's how diminoten intended the statement to be interpreted.)

The reason I say this is because, quite frankly, if you hadn't taken what was said personally, internalizing it as thus, you would still be writing and none of this conversation would have taken place. You disagree, and I understand; however, recognize that as an outsider looking in, I think you're too dismissive of the impact this interaction had on your work (you stopped writing). It doesn't matter whether the person was right or wrong: The fact they said they didn't trust you because of a single mistake was demeaning.

For what it's worth, I still stand by what I said earlier: If someone isn't willing to write constructive criticism, preferring to resort to negative language or insults, then nothing they say matters. If they're right, they're right, but the best you can do is just ignore the negative sentiments and move on. It's not easy. You'll second guess yourself (as you're doing). And you know what? That's fine! You'll be more cautious next time, and you'll have the added confidence that you can deal with similar responses in the future (I'm serious).

To put it another way: It's not so much that the individual in question was correct that dinged your confidence--it's how they said it. I'm almost certain had it been written differently you'd have thought nothing more of it; e.g. "Hey, I think you meant to write 'certified' rather than 'certificated.' Just thought I'd let you know."

Think for a moment on that. If this were written instead, would you still feel your confidence had taken a hit? I'd wager not!

Chin up, my friend. If an asshole is right about something, it doesn't make them less of an asshole--they're just an asshole who happens to be right.
California has really serious problems. Their housing policies are an issue statewide. I ultimately left the state get back into housing.

I spent over two years in Fresno which has housing costs more in line with the national average than is typical for most California cities. I still couldn't find housing that worked for me.

And that's partly because low end housing in Fresno is often a trailer in a trailer court. For health reasons, I'm unwilling to ever live in a trailer again.

I lived in a trailer for a few months in my twenties. It was horrible and I was deathly ill in it.

We no longer want SROs in the US and the reality is this means a lot of poor Americans are living in trailers which are such lousy housing that you have trouble financing them because their value goes down, not up, over time.

The widespread use of trailers is testimony that if you try to zone "affordable housing" out of existence because poor people shouldn't exist or something, it just slips through the cracks in the system and calls itself a vehicle or whatever to get around that.

In fact, the Tiny House movement probably goes back to some guy who literally put his tiny house on wheels and called it a "trailer" to get around housing regulations because it's not legal in most parts of the US to build a really small house.

And these rules go bad places on a regular basis. Apple Valley, California is full of mansions with crazy large yards because the town set some crazy large minimum lot size intended to "preserve the character" of the rural small town surrounded by farmland and not have it become suburban sprawl. It became suburban sprawl anyway, just on steroids.

The real way to preserve farmland is to create multifamily homes and set aside actual farmland. There are institutions that have studied this. A lot of well-meaning policies don't do what they were intended to do. They all too often do the exact opposite.

Policies have to be more than well intended. They gave to also be well researched and we'll designed.
I am a developer (20 years professional experience) and I have both the 2015 Pro and 2018 Pro.

You do get used to the tactile-less-ness of the touchbar for the escape key. And I've yet to find a use for the function keys. Can't remember a single case of needing a function key in the last 5 years at least.
Looks pretty neat. One thing that could be useful would be to able swap between metric/freedom units.
I've come across so many questions closed as dupes for answers that are years old. The tech has changed, the answer is not the same. The question is a duplicate, sure, but the correct answer is now different.

The mods are ignorant and quick to act poorly. StackExchange has sucked for several years at least.
You talk about governments as if they were an alien sentient life form ("governments ... feel entitled"). They're not. They are groups of people who serve constituencies. You could tell the exact same story in reverse: the lack of surveillance technology made people feel entitled to anonymous financial transactions. The feelings of entitlement (if you want to call them that) follow the available technology. But ultimately these decisions are always trade-offs between one feeling of entitlement in one constituency and another feeling of entitlement in another. In this case, one side feels entitled to privacy, the other, to security (or the illusion of security, which some people find valuable even in the absence of actual security).

I point this out not because I disagree with your baseline position that privacy is valuable. I don't. I point this out because i believe that arguing for it on the basis that government feelings of entitlement are somehow less legitimate than the feeling of entitlement of non-governmental constituencies is not going to be an effective strategy because it's based on a false premise.
I've seen quite a lot of electric cars in Barcelona this summer. Mostly Teslas, BMW i3s, and some Renaults with the plug hidden behind the front logo. The main street, the Diagonal, has charging stations, and often I saw plugged-in cars charging there.
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In your quote, you conveniently left out the part about cognitive dissonance. That's what answers your question. It's possible that you personally don't feel this cognitive dissonance, or that you feel it but it simply doesn't bother you. People's subjective experiences can be quite diverse, though, and you need to accept that.

Let me put it another way. Person X asks person Y to take person Z's feelings into account. Sounds reasonable, right? But what if, in doing so, person X doesn't take person Y's feelings into account?

I'd say that'd make person X a hypocrite. There are different goods that need to be weighed against each other here, and person X pretends that this isn't the case.

This is what's happening here. Z = (some) transgender people, Y = (some of) the people expressing concern about pronoun enforcement, X = people taking your current position in this discussion.

In the weighing of different goods against each other, you can reasonably come to the conclusion that person Y should just suck it up because person Z's feelings are simply more important in this case. That's fine, stuff like that happens all the time in society, though you'd be wise to use more reconciliatory language when talking to an actual person Y.

You need to be honest about what you're doing. What isn't fine is to essentially "erase" Y's feelings by pretending that you aren't overriding them for Z's benefit. Because that is what you're doing. (Or maybe you aren't even aware of person Y's feelings. I'm not sure what to consider worse...)

(And yes, the hypocrisy is genuinely what I find most grating about the position you're taking here: the position is often taken by people who claim to champion diversity, inclusiveness, and the equal validity of people's subjective experiences -- but then turn around and selectively decide to not take into account others' subjective experiences when they happen to be inconvenient, and in doing so essentially exclude those others.)
> they’re trying to equate what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust to what happened to Poles during the Holocaust.

Well, Poland lost 6 million citizens during the WW2 and Jews lost the same amount - the tricky part is half of Polish casualties were of Jewish origin. So I don't believe anyone could equate these two - not to mention the fact that being Jewish meant you're practically dead if you couldn't find any helpful Poles, whereas if you were a Pole you had some chances of survival.
From what I understand a large segment of child exploitation happens in the living room, and involves family. It's horrible but I don't think the solution is to put a government backdoor into a mandatory listening device in every household.
Second Whistle-Blower over Trump and Ukraine Comes Forward
The children argument is an emotional argument, not a technology one. For thousands of years people watched over their children, now they want to outsource this to the govt because they are too busy. The EFF could only respond with an emotional counterargument, about how self-censorship stunts children's mental development or sth.
I think you still need to pay. Data is brokered through the official bitwarden servers (I think), so things like teams will still require payment to use. I'm not 100% sure though, so I could be wrong.
Uber Copter is just the beginning.. I’m on the Uber Elevate team developing this. Our primary mission is Electric VTOLs.
Those wikipedia articles defend the distinction I'm making.
You have to try to see things from their perspective. Any option they could choose is going to be bad, so they're incentivized to choose what they perceive to be the least negative one. Sexual/gender groups tend to be hyper active on social media and organization - they are also extremely vigilant in trying to socially damage any perceived enemies. Had Stack Exchange chosen to not act they would likely be facing an angry mob of people who are hyper active on social media hounding them about not being inclusive, engaging in [--]phobia, bigotry, etc.

They probably simply felt that firing one moderator was easier than dealing with what was likely to become a deluge of public relations damage if they did nothing. Depending upon the laws in New York, there would even be the potential of them facing discrimination or other lawsuits. Regardless of the merit of the claims, it would be enough to severely hurt the company. For instance see Ellen Pao vs Kleiner Perkins. Even though she decisively lost every single claim, their company's name and image was dragged through the mud for months in many major media outlets that draw tech oriented readership. And that's a company that doesn't, in the same way, rely on general populace brand value.

The solution, like many things, is to never put yourself in this position to begin with. And that starts with paying for your labor.

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As for the mod selection process itself, it's the same thing everywhere. In general moderators are hired from the community. The problem is the people you don't want to be mods are the ones that'd be most interested in such a position, whereas the people you do want are generally not going to be willing to do it without compensation. There are some exceptions of course, but I think it's becoming increasingly clear that they are indeed the exception.
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Instead of trade barriers exclusively based on place of origin, you could have food safety rules that enforce animal welfare standards before the product can be sold in Canada. The U.S. also produces higher quality hormone-free milk just as good as the Canadian one, but the artificial trade barriers put in place by Canada make it almost impossible for foreign producers to sell it here, regardless of its quality. It leads to higher prices for final consumers, and at the end of the day only benefits the local dairy industry and the few families behind it.
There are already all sorts of controls over what people can and can't say in professional settings. You can't use the N-word or keep asking someone out after they've said no in a workplace environment. These controls exist for reasons that should be obvious with a moment of thought.

This is different from a public space where the rules are more relaxed (but there are still some controls). And you're welcome to be as shitty as you want in your own home.
Trans and Gender Non-Confirming != Trans

Using that article as a source for trans population is like saying 40% of the US population are people of colour, therefore 40% of the US population is black.
It's not that they got used, it's simply because they can do it with today's technology. They quickly got to using all sorts of atrocious things such as poison gas and nuclear bombs as soon as they were possible. Same with street surveillance. The cat's out of the bag now, can't turn time back and pretend we can't track every message anymore since we had cheap storage, cameras, internet and AI to sort through the collected data.
I live in Munich. People bike here all year around.
> If the semantics change, why do you need a “-2”?

Because the API may serve the same purpose as the original, with some modified semantics.

> Also, why is it versioning?

Because the API may serve the same purpose as the original, with some modified semantics.

Sharing a common name with versioning helps identify the relationships between the versions. It also avoids polluting the API namespace with a set of different names for different versions of essentially the same operations.

> Thinking in “versions” is not an accurate/ergonomic mapping of the domain anyway; we’ve just been tricked into thinking that way because... anthropology something.

It feels to me like you're trying to hard to be contrarian, or perhaps you're dealing with some special case scenario where your strategy makes sense.

You'd need to explain the argument in significantly more detail to have a chance of making it convincing.
And the price for the most missleading headline this week goes toooo THIS.

This is a TeX-manager/workflow automation/MikTeX+parrot clone. It's not a TeX-Engine, e.g. parsing TeX, and being extensible and faster than the alternatives (classic TeX, XeTEx, LuaTeX). To add insult to injury: writing Rust into the headline for me triggers a "better, faster TeX"-wish - went there, curious how much of TeX they already supported, came back a little disappointed.
Agreed. If you're the author and Alice and Bob are the imaginary characters in your example, then you get to decide their gender.

Same as an author who is writing a novel, is free to invent characters and assign gender, sexual orientation, and any other character traits they want.

It's your story, they are your characters. You decide if it's a he, she, xe, or whatever.
AML laws are nuts. They operate on the presumption of guilt. That is, the burden of proof is on you to prove the money's provenance is not illegal. It's pretty scary. I have some BTC I mined back when they weren't worth much and those AML laws make me worried to cash out.
One of the newer titles, EXAPUNKS, is a cyberpunk-themed programming game. Music is extremely good, levels were pretty hard, the zines were well written, and the "home screen" of your system has a chat client open where every few levels there's a short conversation. It is probably my favorite game released in the last few years.
It's the result of automated c2rust[1] conversion. Of course it will be cleaned up. C2rust itself provides handy refactoring tools scriptable in Lua language. A lot of the code will be removed, for example image handling can be done through image-rs crate, etc.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
I’m not sure I understand, what’s the difference? I’ve never had any problems using go programs’ command line flags myself.
Had you considered respecting other people's requests about how you refer to them? Is that _really_ so hard?

The right way to stop this is for everybody to start saying "Ummm, that's not cool - don't do that, it's disrespectful and rude." to their friends/coworkers/management/children whenever they continue to use pronouns they've been specifically asked not to use.
Didn't the re-write happen around the time that Apple released and shifted to APFS? Not defending the new app, it is a huge misstep in my book, but it makes sense that there was a major overhaul to the Disk Utility app when they were introducing substantial new features for something as important as the file system.
On one of your links she writes the following:

> In my email I said clearly that I'm on board with "use preferred pronouns when using pronouns"

I think this rules out using singular "they" if the person would rather be referred to by "he" or "she" for example. At least I hope so.
> I’d rather have ten duplicate questions for every question

Sure, unless it really happens. I'd been burned by over-moderation as well but when I look at the process I think it's not arbitrary. There are controls and voting by more than one person. Remember, there is nothing a moderator gains by doing any of this.
There are two ways of avoiding dealing with gender in written communication in English. You can use singular "they", or you can write in such a way gendered pronouns or singular they are not necessary. The author seems to prefer the second one as a stylistic choice, expressed that preference, and apparently this was what got said author fired.

The way this decision and surrounding information about the new CoC can be read, is that it's no longer about avoiding misgendering people. It's about having to pay fealty. Writing around gendered pronouns means weaseling out of having to make a stand on the issue, which labels you as the enemy.
What do you think about parallels between the EFF and NRA? They're both principled and wouldn't budge one inch on their respective issues.

Full disclosure: I donate yearly to the EFF, this is just food for thought for those who support the EFF and not the NRA like I do.
Users will eventually switch to services that offer end-to-end encryption, and Facebook won't have a choice.

Some governments will eventually try to shut down such services.
Using now for about two years and happy with the integration with Chrome & iOS.
It seems pretty simple to me.

If you don't know what pronoun to use then the correct one is "they", and if you do know then using the wrong one or deliberately going out of your way to avoid one is just rude.

Obviously, lots of answers will flow perfectly naturally without using pronouns and those should be fine like that.
Zsh also lets you configure, via the `remote-access` style whether you want to allow it to make remote connections for completion to begin with.
Show HN: Sundance – A HN Wrapper Graying Out Stories You Already Saw
how many Chinese people have you ever talked to before you say "most of them are brainwashed"? If more than 1 billion people are brainwashed in the era of Internet, either 1. it is a huge success of Chinese government or 2. it's not the truth.

As we all know, VPN is very popular in China. It's just an easy job to access information out of Great Fire Wall.

thinking critically, could you be "brainwashed" by some degree when you assume more than 1 billion people got brainwashed?
What I love about Opus Magnum is how cool the solutions look. Optimized assembly code can be satisfying to write, but it'll never have the visual appeal of a tightly-designed alchemical machine.
This looks like a copyright nightmare.
Creator here.

I Refresh HN a few times a day, but the frontpage doesn't completely change in a few hours. Which means I see many stories multiple times.
But not all of them are interesting to me, and if one is, I put it in my reading list immediately.
That's why graying out the ones I already saw is helpful, so I don't have to look at them a second time.
Usually there are only ~5 new stories for me, and it's amazing to see immediately which ones those are.

It works by putting the ids of the stories into local storage and comparing them on load.
For the first load all of them will appear normally, if you refresh immediately they are all grayed out.
The main problem I’ve had with recipe sites is that phones and tablets do not mix well with kitchens. I end up printing everything out anyway and then no matter how organised it is online, I end up with a pile of paper. The paper gets wet and the ink runs in critical places.

Anyone got a solution to that one?

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People do deduplicate files to save on space, except it's usually based on exact byte match using md5 or sha256. Some don't due to privacy issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438181 (e.g., MPAA can upload all their torrented movies and see which ones uploaded instantly to prove that your system has their copyrighted files)

There's no way to make the UX work out for images that are only similar. Would be pretty wild to upload a picture of myself just to see a picture of my twin used instead.

But I do wonder if it's possible to deduplicate different resolutions of an image that only differ in upscaling/downscaling algorithm and compression level used (thereby solving the jpeg erosion problem: https://xkcd.com/1683/)
That's such twisted logic. Are you saying I'm doing unpaid work for my social group when we have a conversation? Jesus Christ not everything needs a dollar symbol attached even if it benefits a company.
It's not that "the government" feels entitled, but rather that surveillance - even and especially the very limited, court-approved, kind - is essential to law enforcement. As in dismantling organized crime and preventing terror attacks.

For me it feels too easy to say "the government" has no legitimate interest in intercepting communications.
Start advocating the other way: one pronoun for all and if anyone demands their own special pronoun, ask them why do they feel entitled to some kind of special privilege.