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That looks like a pretty good state to me. Not perfect, but nothing is. Certainly not cause for such an inflammatory article.
When you buy a car, you buy it once. The dealer does not continuously give you the ability to run people over. When you post political ads, facebook runs them until your ad spend is done.

When you run someone over, there's no question about whether you did something wrong. But when you run a fake news political campaign, people may land on both sides of the fence.

When you drive a car, nobody but you can turn the steering wheel. When you buy a political ad, Facebook is the one that deploys it.

These are very different subjects.

These are in fact, so different, that you can look at the valuation differences between a SaaS company, and a traditional manufacturing company.

And if the actual products are different, the delivery method is different, the ROI is different.... Let's not make this comparison again. No fault to you, of course.

And back to your point: a background check makes sense if the deliverable is done once, like a car. A content filter/fact check/etc that happens before each post makes more sense in the context of a continuously-delivered model, such as paying for multiple ads.
"Area man who thinks he's business guru outs self as generic seo spammer"
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I suspect Randall may say "challenge accepted"...
It would give Facebook way too much power if they could decide what is true and what is not. Better allow lies than to block free speech.

I wonder if this open letter by employees advocating for more control over content combined with Mark Zuckerberg's 'hands-off stance on political ads' are just a coordinated act of 'good cop, bad cop' designed to manipulate the public. Also, my cynical side thinks that maybe some of these government authorities are in on this charade.

It seems like a show to make people think that the good employees of Facebook are on the public's side. Whatever the big mean Zuckerberg wants must be bad for everyone.

Facebook must have a PR team the size of a small country working for them by now. Of course everything they do is orchestrated. We have to be really cynical to see through the BS.

The government is completely under the thumb of these big corporations. Many of the regulations that are coming out of Washington are carefully crafted by corporate lobbyists to superficially look like they're bad for corporations and good for the public, but in reality they're intended to give corporations more power and to create a moat around their monopolies. The government and corporations are on the same team; their common objective is to fool the public into slowly accepting the erosion of their most basic rights so that corporations can have more money and governments can have more power for themselves.
It's really a question of whether or not Facebook should submit to FEC regulation or not. Other media outlets that run political ads need to submit to FEC regulation. Why does Facebook get an exemption? Newspapers literally have to run political ads by their editorial board and TV has to do something similar. It's one of the reasons why political ads are so bland and content-free: they don't want to make any claims that could be evaluated as true or false.
Hey is not exclusively used when annoyed. It's very commonly used as an informal greeting.
No, you are oversimpifying by assuming mutual trust between processes, which is not a suitable assumption for a system-level message passing system.

> process shares fixed ring-like buffers with the kernel where it can put messages

I am making a claim like "Turing machines can't solve the Halting problem", and you are saying, "If you put a limit the number of computation steps, then the Halting problem is decidable". But such a system is no longer a Turing machine.

What you are describing is not asynchronous IPC. With async IPC, you ought to be able to send a message at any time without blocking. That's what async IPC means.

If you must sometimes block or throttle before you can successfully send a message, even if only in principle, then it's no longer async IPC. It is instead a mixed sync/async system, which invariably becomes necessary in order to address the inherent limitations of async IPC.

> messages it can't put there it either accumulates locally until it can or just drops

So DoS against the sender, like I said. Try assuming a less liberal threat model and see how far async IPC takes you.
Most system administrators prefer firewall GUIs over CLIs
Didn't the Vision Fund invest $10.5Bn already?
If it's not snowing or raining, I'll bike in the winters. It's not too bad if you have the right gear to stay warm.
Checkout the Tech Workers Coalition!

Edit: https://techworkerscoalition.org/
I find this topic fascinating. Here in Brazil, anyone that dared to oppose voting machines was called anti-democratic and conspiracy-theorist by the mainstream media and public officials.
He should not have allowed political ads in the US election. I dont' remember what was his excuse for allowing them but it sounded like a bad decision. There's just no winning in that game. He allows himself to be used as a scapegoat.

Of course then they 'll go on and ask for facebook to censor all user posts , but that will probably hit free speech protections.
This article was already talked about six days ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21320814
Just put a heavy crawling international distress orange outline around political ads with a watermark saying "not fact checked".
I still appreciate my Pebble watch
Excellent reference. Did you poon anyone on your way in?
I don't think the machines matter as long as the vote can be replayed/recounted without ambiguity.

An idea: https://medium.com/@dotnetmike/touch-screen-voting-should-be...
I doubt it.

> To gain Mr. de Blasio’s support, Mr. Johnson’s office agreed to push back the start date for the first streets plan, from this month to December 2021, around the time the next mayor takes office. Until then, the city will keep its current commitment to build 30 miles of protected bike lanes each year.
It is a factor of how safe it is. Weather is not the limiting factor.
We need compulsory licensing at a statutory rate for movies and tv shows. Fine, give them absolute control and negotiated rates for the first decade. But after that, let anyone show them for a reasonable fixed rate without needing to arrange explicit permission. It works for music.

That way, all streaming services would have full access to all back catalogs, and could compete on price, features, catalog size, etc. Not the current situation where they need in-house originals and exclusive arrangements, and many many shows are simply unavailable for any price.
GitHub issues.
RISC-V OS Using Rust: Page-Grained Memory Allocation
Just ordered Deliveroo. Currently they are still a marketplace, but I wonder when they will go full "Amazon Basics"? They know what people want when, what prices they want to pay, what quality they expect, how long they are ready to wait.

with all this data its just a matter of time they offer they own kitchens that create 20% of the products that fullfil 80% of the market need for 60% of the market price.

wonder why no delivery company has done this yet?
Quite right. Also, trying to prevent harm through prediction is vastly more expensive than trying a product out in the market, and gets more expensive the more harm you try to prevent. It also causes product development paralysis, as deeper predictive scenario analysis results in longer design times and design lock-down ahead of product release, reducing agility.

While we might want all products and designs to be safe, in reality, we can only economically do so much before the cost of predictably assuring safety becomes exponential. See NASA.
Well NYC is a city for pedestrians primarily, and for drivers only secondarily. Vastly more people walk through a midtown Manhattan intersection than drive. So yes -- unless a car is immediately coming, you and everyone else will cross the street regardless of the signal. Cars are the minority in what is primarily a pedestrian zone, numerically.

LA is generally the opposite -- it's a city for drivers, not for pedestrians. So the norms are different.
Monzo and Starling are startup UK banks and I think both spent under $10M to get to the "minimum viable bank" state.

With that said, money is not the problem here. If Bitfinex had wanted to start a 'narrow bank' just to hold Tether, they would have failed:
1. Because they would not have been given a license
2. Because existing financial institutions would have refused to deal with them, as happened to Noble.
3. Because you cannot actually just park billions of dollars in the national reserve bank and collect interest on it.

So although such a business is probably viable in theory, it isn't possible in practice.
They had the exact problem I was looking to avoid -- the SNK games were giant ROM cartridges, up to 41MB. Later larger.

Chopping up the data and loading just the graphics needed for each fighting game match is what created the loading times.

The devs decided load times weren't a big deal if the matches looked and played great. They were wrong. Loading times are just something game designers have to accommodate, cut back the graphics as needed.

Being able to start with a back catalog of SNES games, enhance them, then publish on a medium with better margins like CD would have been very attractive to publishers.
And the cops. And the firefighters parking outside the fire station. And when a car does hit a bike and NYPD shows up... well... https://twitter.com/joemewler/status/1177042296900071425
Wrong. Money sitting in a bank account is loaned out by the bank to people who will use that money profitably. The only place that money can sit without contributing to the economy is in a piggy bank or under a mattress.
What you say is true, however, I think it's less about loyalty and more about risk mitigation. Companies don't want to take chances that the super-star programmer they just hired is a renegade cowboy. I get that. But no about of LeetCode prep will dissolve that preconception.
I see everyone bringing this up, but what if they’re taking them back to their shop, repairing them and selling them as refurbished?
I signal turns with my arm when biking, especially left turns. Otherwise I would be slowing and moving unpredictably, which doesn't seem safe. Unfortunately this isn't common behavior in NYC - even cars often fail to signal their turns, let alone cyclists.
You're being down-voted for the tone of your post I think. But I think it's an interesting point. If there is evidence that US bikers have a culture that does not following traffic laws that can and should seriously impact policy decisions. It's possible some of the great suggestions here that work well in other cities wouldn't work in the US for this or any dozen of other reasons.

Not saying that there for is such a culture, only that it is certainly a popular complaint, and if there is truth for it we should factor that into our decisions.
And I would humbly ask for someone to think again about the regular people on a more pragmatic or tech-savvy end. My banking is relatively simple, and yet many of my needs are not covered by any existing solutions. The absolute basics I want is an API access to my current per-account balance. Another step would be programmatic access to per-account transaction history.

I don't want to use banking apps and sites daily, they all offer garbage UX that's designed for upselling credit cards, consumer loans and other financial product. What I want is simple API access. I can take it from there, and do a better job than banks do, because my own incentives align better with my own interest.
> it’s below sea level.

Sea level has nothing to do with it. Orlando is 82' above sea level.

Average July temperature in Amsterdam is 54-68°F. In Orlando, it is 76-92°F. It feels good to be outside in the Netherlands. It definitely does not feel good to be outside in Florida most of the year, unless you're in a swimsuit in the shade.

As far as water goes, as I said in my comment, what matters is rain. Peak precipitation in Amsterdam is December, with about 2.4 inches accumulating in the month. Peak in Orlando is July, with 6.0 inches accumulating.

But the important number of urban planning is peak rainfall. Florida has a monsoon season which means intense but short-lived rain. You can get flash-flood levels of rain and then have it sunny two hours later. The highest single-day rainfall in Orlando was 8.19 inches. In most places, a couple of inches of rain in a single day is a 100-year storm. In Florida, that's a Tuesday.
S&P 500 is at record high
I remember buying a digital tablet of sorts at that time..I can't remember the name of it. It was a startup that sold them as a glorified web browser (and eventually went out of business because many hobbyists did just that and got rid of all the advertisements), but there was a way to root it and install Linux.

This device had the ability to order pizzas through Pizza Hut. I tried it once and it worked pretty well.
Curious, why do you say that about honeycomb specifically? Not that I've heard of them just seems pretty random.
Is the tagged @nytrafficpolice official? It’s suspended.
That's not democratizing GPU computing, that's "democratizing" Nvidia lock-in. Totally different thing, so their claim was hypocritical, since they made it sound like a general thing.
I'll take 100 cyclists gliding through a red over a single motorist doing the same. While not literally impossible to kill someone else by using a bike wrong, it's orders of magnitude less likely than with a car.
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In this case, someone else's boat has been ramming ours while some of our ship crew conveniently looked the other way. People have been shouting "foul" on China for a while now but it was the greed of many members of American congress and financial elite who were profiting from business deals with China that caused them to look the other way. Thankfully, we've gotten to a point where people aren't willing to put up with China's antagonistic behavior any longer.
IP is not enshrined in a UN charter and is not a human right. There is no reason to believe every country should respect it.

Using it as a cause to impose sanctions would be highly illegal.

Combined with the blowback you'd get for imposing sanctions on Somalia for trying to feed kids, I don't think it's a realistic possibility.
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They already do have a portion of the business that does that.

I worked for them for a few weeks in London as a way to get paid to work out. There was a sort of container warehouse in Battersea - basically food trucks that you're ordering from.

You might also appreciate this:

> I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
Nothing to do with json, if someone wants then data can be always represented in hard to understand formats.
> As an individual I don’t feel like I can do anything about this.

Welcome to living in a liberal democracy where we don't get to force someone to stop saying something because it makes us mad.
I hated chm because the spec wasn't open. With only 1 reference implementation, it was user-hostile. Unless the spec for helpinator is open, I don't see myself using this.

reverse engineered chm spec and the complexity boggles my mind: https://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/latest/
"How popular is biking in New York"

You can have a sense of it by checking with Google Maps street view on different places in Manhattan. It seems that there are way more cars and pedestrians than bike riders in most places.
I worked for a startup that had a similar business model: some car dealership has a fleet of cars depreciating in value (last year’s models, loaners, trade-in cars) and they provide their inventory to the rental startup to partially cover the losses.

And it seemed like a great idea, at first. Customers had an option to either pay 2 to 3 times less for a normal boring rental car, or… to pick up something nice that had a V8 and leather heated seats in it. The other part of the equation was the customer service: in order to compete with Hertz, Avis and others, it had to be exceptional. And it was.

There was only one problem. Renting out used cars was only a temporary and partial solution for the dealerships. Eventually, all these cars had to be sold. But, as it turned out, if you’re a dealership and if you’re renting out a car for 2/3 of the month, you’re constantly losing opportunities to sell it. Unsold used cars depreciate in value for evenn longer periods of time, take up more and more space… and those rental earnings no longer make financial sense.

Hopefully it won’t be the same case here.
Volvo is Swedish. :-). It is BMW. See https://go.accessbybmw.com/justink9917

* Full disclosure, above is a referral link. Though I can provide a promo code to waive the activation fee.
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Thanks, I'll steal that.
Do you want to get CDA 230 repealed? Because this is how you get CDA 230 repealed.
The biggest offenders are actually cops and delivery vehicles, both of which are legally allowed to park wherever they want (the latter due to contracts with the city).
Do any specific interviews come to mind? I'm curious what sort of questions you asked, since I am a specialist :)
I actually thought it was weird OP mentioned those things, even when they are exactly prime example of the people the article and many of us are talking about.

You see them, for example, at College/University (in my country, at least): They are single and have to keep their parents so they have to work at the same time as they study; or they have families so they have to go to night/weekends school and they manage to overachieve and graduate while working and having that family; I have a friend with short arms, like a T-rex, and he works right next to me (he sets up his own environment so it’s more ergonomic for him), and he goes to parties, drinks, plays soccer with us and he has a family.

My own experiences are not that... how to say it, bold, but I have my fair share of setbacks, but when you see these people, and while they are not the majority, at least here in my country you see a lot of them. Some of us suffer health or family problems, but at some point you realize that's life and simply try to tackle such issues however you can while keeping sanity. The first examples I mentioned... I don’t know how they do it, but I guess that’s what the article is trying to say.
I commute on my bike in NYC daily and I am far more terrified of pedestrians and other cyclists than I am of cars. Cars for the most part pay attention and obey traffic rules. Cyclists less so and pedestrians ignore rules entirely and frequently aren't even aware of cyclists.
Yeah. Painted lanes slapped on the edge of a road are often worse infrastructure than just a few "cyclists may use full lane" signs and "sharrow" indicators center-lane, for exactly the reasons you point out.
do they market it / present it that way on their website?
Is this backwards compatible with Ligma?
Ummm Mark Zuckerberg has a billion times more power than I do.
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A better pespective: people are people. They aren't drivers or bikers but just people. And the same person is a driver on one day and a biker on another.

Guess what, drivers are also notorious for not following traffic rules -- not using blinkers, not stopping fully at a stop sign, driving above speed limits, running a light after it's already turned red -- thereby endangering the lives of others.

It's not about whose fault things are -- it's just people being people. It's about designing a system and incentives that saves lives overall (driver's licenses, bike lanes, speed limits, ticketing, etc.).
Frankly I can't imagine why someone would stay in Bay Area if they can't land at least a $80-100/hr job. How do you pay $3K/mo rent on $22/hr? How do you buy that $5 gallon gas or pay twice as much for utilities?

MS is a waste of time IMO, and I say so as a MS myself (my alma mater only offers 6-year MS degrees, so I couldn't bail; if I could, I would). I got zero benefit out of my master's, and I'd be further along in my career (as well as monetarily) if I studied 2 years less. In fact, I'd say I got zero benefit from my degree period, other than to serve as a confirmation to the potential employer that I can survive at the toughest tech school in the country. That's worth something, but I wish I could be done with this hazing ritual in a year or two. Everything I use day to day I had to learn myself, school was barely involved.

70K is where things _start_ in the software industry nowadays, for the bottom of the barrel candidate who's still able to code somewhat competently. Talented grads pull $100K+ right out of the gate pretty easily. FAANG will drop $120-150K on you like it's nothing, and if you don't suck it goes way up from there. Quite obviously, these numbers are US-only. Few people in Europe make this much even at the more senior levels, let alone as a fresh grad.
> That is, if everybody makes the same mistake

Who says it's a mistake?

It has nothing to do with the signals and everything to do with the pedestrians. If you actually want people to respect the signals, place traffic police on every corner in Manhattan and issue jaywalking tickets to absolutely everyone, for months on end, and you'll see it. (You'll also see a backlash.)

Other than that, it's not happening.
Could you maybe make the fonts bigger or bolder? Also maybe increase the contrast, It's pretty hard to read the contents
As an avid cyclist in NYC, this is a huge step forward into cyclist protection. I can't tell you how many times i've almost been hit, or doored, by a car. Sometimes, it's a lot safer to run a red light to get in front of a car versus waiting for the light to turn- but of course that's not legal.

Honestly, as huge and condensed NYC is, I am surprised this hasn't happened years ago. It's much, much more efficient to get from Point A to Point B on a bike vs taking the Subway, bus, or car. Would love to see something like the 14th street car ban to allow buses and cyclists only more widely adopted across the 5 boroughs.
This is why sys admins are out of style - check your firewall/switch configs into git, version them, code review them, automate their deploy to your fleet.

Firmware as well...
The old Pebbles can do sleep tracking and integrate with relevant apps. The Xiaomi Mi Bands do sleep tracking as well.
> you can’t really blame the pedestrians of ruling this system as stupid and opting not to follow it.

Sure I can, they have a shit culture with little regard for traffic signals. My city has the same problem. I'm the odd man out for waiting for a signal, and am mocked for it at times. Nothing wrong with the signals or timing as a pedestrian (as a cyclist that's another story), but people feel they are more important. That they're 15 - 90 seconds is worth more.

Similarly, had a man recklessly pass me in his vehicle while I was biking to work yesterday. He went fully into the oncoming well above the posted speed limit, and cut me off as I was turning from the forward-moving lane into the left-hand turning lane. All to get around me to a red light.

Some people feel their 15 seconds are more valuable than others safety. In the case of pedestrian jaywalking, that their safety isn't worth the inconvenience of using the nearest crosswalk.
How does that work if the cyclist is going straight and cars are turning across them (e.g. Making a right turn).

Does it not make it harder for the traffic to see the cyclist?
>Heart rate is simple. How can it mess that up?

You might be surprised: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/23/study-shows-fitbit-trackers-...
It needs a paper record, this needs to be the source of truth.
No good options. Based on media coverage about the company, it's either this or Fitbit dies