skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They racked up more than 471,000 parking violations last year...

I knew someone who owned a trucking company. They had a lawyer on retainer and every month or so they would gather all the parking tickets, go to a judge (or city official) and cut a deal to pay a fraction of the actual owed amount for all the tickets. This is because, if they did not comply, each ticket would be fought tooth and nail, and the city would be wrapped in legal red tape forever.
This describes part of why I thought Steve Jobs interviews at the D conference were so interesting. Nowadays interviews with Apple executives are them just sticking to a PR script and pretending competitors don’t exist, except maybe if it’s with Craig Federighi.
> You do the math.

Nice.
That's with virtually every thing in the world. It's never a true single man show. The great thing about jobs and similar people is that they can effectively let people work together with all having a common shared belief.
I would guess because it was a lot more difficult and costly to handle those threat 10 years ago.
It only makes sense to use the term allegedly when something isn't yet proven.

I'm curious how you believe either of those statements are anything but fact given what we now know.
Well, tens of millions of tax payers consider Fox News not a News network at all, but a propaganda agent actively involved in to the coup attempt of a loosely coupled conglomerate of foreign-nation stakeholders and private domestic stakeholders (of which one of them happened to become elevated into presidential office by a minority of the countrys' voters) against the Constitution of the United States.
At this point, you might be right this is a better solution, but it is hackable. Add or remove paper ballots, mark existing ballots with your own pen to change or invalidate it. But at least the physicality of it creates some limit on the scale of fraud.
I'm curious if anybody has practical experience developing a reasonably trafficked website in a similar manner.

I wrote apps which consisted mostly of oracle stored procedures when I first got out of college, and it was a pretty awful experience, but it was also at a place where the development knowledge was minimal.

I've since been getting closer and closer to writing postgres in this way. My current app (which I architected) sticks close to postgres and uses many of its features like custom types, enums and json, but we don't rely on it for stored procedures at all. Instead, all application logic lives in the go API app.

I've been considering moving some things directly into the database, but I'm nervous about it because the app runs well and I like the data/logic division. Also go seems easier to learn for new developers than SQL, and it's a lot easier to deploy a new app server than it is to reconfigure a database server.
You asked for opinion and here’s mine: leave the team or leave the company.

With the limited amount of info that you’re providing, it looks like you’re trying to fight a decision that upper management made. Not only you don’t like this person, but you crave his/her position. This won’t end well IMHO.

Specially, if you’re in a corporate environment, you’ll most likely achieve nothing and you may demoralize yourself further.
> What do I do?

Get off your high horse? Frankly, you come across as a Machiavellian but otherwise clueless person.
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> where in the f-series Graham’s series lies

that is actually explained - fω+1(n) is grahams, because of the way grahams defines as iterated versions of up-arrows.
You can see that they where successful in their mission to spread FUD about climate change in these very comments.

Pretty scary for a supposedly educated crowd.
>which puts music fans at risk of being unjustly detained, harassed, judged, or even deported.

Lost me at deported. Why is this hypothetical music fan in this country illegally? And why is it so important to allow him to stay?
These sorts of self-referential statements are actually forbidden in the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory because they require unrestricted comprehension [1]. ZF set theory specifically restricted comprehension to avoid Russell’s paradox [2] as well as countless other statements, like these, which lead to absurdities in math.

Fun stuff anyway!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_schema_of_specification#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
> The Max was certified under the old rules.

There's no comfort in the fact that regulatory capture was working well even before these changes. One can also ask if the law was a factor in the inadequate response to the first crash.

> Overseas regulators (certainly the EASA) will never just rubber stamp the FAA again.

Until the US government starts a trade war over the issue. It will not be quite that blatant, of course: it will be positioned as an unfair trade practice. Ask Canada about Bombardier to find out how that goes.
how everything you said "It’s not really worrying"?
Not what I think it is? It's a capability secure microkernel, that's literally all I've ever claimed. I'm not sure what you think I've been saying.
Patent trolling, for example, is less profitable due to reforms around the edges. We've seen an almost shocking level of legal innovation in many backwaters, from pot to legal opiod to climate change. The ground is shifting and a company that controls 40% of the nationwide market for anything is (or ought to be) subject to a higher standard.
I’m all for anything that will get bikers off the sidewalks.
I can’t see how the org would choose to use facial recognition.

I can see how they would not explicitly ban participants from including it in art. New rules can take a while to be formed and it is only if there is a real need.

I can also see LE using it or requiring its use—but that could happen at any of these events.

This is sort of an alarmist site / concept given only five out of the large list “might” use it.
People ignore the idea "let's not have growth" because it's a bad idea. Here's a quick two-question quiz to determine whether you're in favor of economic growth:

- Do you believe wealth and income should be distributed equitably around the world?

- Do you want to live on more than USD 17.3k per annum?

If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, then congratulations! You're in favor of economic growth. The average global income per capita is USD 17.3k per annum. If that number goes up, we call that "growth". That is the definition of growth.

Of course you can get into population control, but if the alternative to growth is China-style population control -- necessarily more severe than just handing out birth control -- then bring on the economic crises, I say.
Yes the ban will happen. You work for the damn FR industry, get out of here with your fear tactics.
Jobs on several occasions ended keynotes by mentioning the various teams and leaders involved in the announced products. I do see though the perception of it being a one man show, as he spent so much of the time presenting.
There is an increased risk of an accident with reduced reaction time and any accident may be worse with more velocity/energy at play.

Ask a paramedic whose worked in a big, commuter city about their experience.
If you use only HTTP/2 and only TLS 1.3 then most of spam crawlers won't reach to your web site.
I believe Mickey Mouse law must be curtailed. Copyright is retained for no more than 20 years after movie is released, then it transitions to public domain. In return, I can agree for a copyright for different merchandise to last indefinitely.

Then, there are books. I don't really know what to do with them. Since books are work of a much smaller group of people (most often, 1 person), maybe it's ok for them to retain rights till their deaths.
> In practice, people won't write valid XML. We had a lot of cargo-culting, people putting self-closing tags into HTML, but people weren't using XML editors.

That's probably the most popular argument against X(HT)ML and in favour of HTML5. In fact I think among the popular programming/markup languages, only very few are so forgiving. Namely it is HTML(5), JS, CSS and perhaps Shell script and Perl. But even in these cases following best-practices and using Linters has become extremely popular. On the other hand you have strongly typed languages or even languages like Python or Makefiles that even make sure you use consistent whitespaces.

I think nearly everybody uses quite powerful editors with a load of plugins these days because accelerate editing and also do autoformatting.

> Sites now really do work the same across browsers, and WHATWG deserves a lot of credit for that.

On the other hand there are just 2 popular/"usable" browser engines left. I think XHTML is far more modular, maybe it would even be possible to outsource some browser rendering tasks to XSLT transformations. HTML at one point became a messy standard through the Browser competition and then WHATHG somehow manifested that situation I guess. Now there's a massive monoculture of Browser engines.
You’re going to want to change your mindset from “I want _their_ job” to “I want to be a tech lead”. Some things that you can do:

1. Observe and understand what the mistakes exactly are that they are making. Note the consequences. Understand what types of “mistakes” are high-impact versus low-impact. Be humble and approach with an open mind, there’s lots to learn about yourself and understanding what are mistakes with remedies and what are stylistic differences.

2. Offer assistance to the lead and do your best to make your team successful. A rising tide lifts all ships.

3. Make your career goals explicitly clear to your manager. Find ways to work together collaboratively to make your career successful and mutually beneficial there.

To reiterate — be humble. “No amount of coaching” has classically not been true in my experience. Usually what the case ends up being is that the organization has multi-layered problems and people are stuck in unsupported positions with less control than you might think. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way — I too started moving into tech lead roles with a similar mindset. Defeating that mindset is absolutely a prerequisite to being ready to be a true, good lead.
Are they in the Schengen? A quick Google says no, but maybe it is somehow inherited from Italy?
If your colleague doesn't want the role, and is struggling, just go talk to them. Maybe it's some sort of sharing of the responsibilities of the role between the two of you. Maybe you both work with their boss (your boss too?) to transition them out of the role. Maybe they tell you "no, I got this", which informs some of the next steps you need to take.

I've seen the exact situation you're describing a few times, and in each time the person was happy to abdicate. While that's not always going to happen, sometimes people are happy to get the relief of not carrying that burden anymore.

Best of luck!
It's "cheating" a bit, but Postgrest is interesting in this space: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
Right. Is it really accidental complexity? This is the implementation detail that the users of the language doesn't really need to know as they would just write 'async fn' (and #[async_trait] while waiting for the issues mentioned in this blog post get solved).
> nor is my browser usage predominantly about just sharing/receiving information.

What do you use the browser for then? Do you primarily play games/music/movies?

You mention applications in your comment; if that's not sharing/receiving information, what are you doing in them?
This reads exactly the same as "I want this girl, but she has a boyfriend". And the answer is exactly the same: you likely can't -- maybe you can, or maybe you can't, but you'll end up wasting a whole lot of time and effort on something that is not worthwhile.

There are other fish in the sea. Time to start looking for a new position.
As I understand it, free markets determine preferences based on price. However, the price someone can buy something for includes both their desire to pay and their ability to pay. Therefore, I'm not sure that price is always a good metric for allocating resources.

Do resource zero-sum, free markets still reliably experience growth from the perspective of someone who doesn't view price as a good measurement of value?

If so that would potentially be useful because it could allow more progressive leaning and more libertarian leaning people to find some common ground.
I agree. I would say schedule a skip-level meeting with his manager and express your concerns. Ask him to be open and honest. If his manager does not recognize or is not willing to make the change, then either leave the team or the company.
Yes, our models were inaccurate for the oughts and early 2010s. There are tons of positive and negative feedback loops which our climate models are probably very badly calibrated for. But those models did have accurate predictions of what the temperature would be for 2019 so you have to give them credit for that.

But honestly it's the inaccuracy of current climate models that make me so concerned about global warming.
Yeah, that headline is atrocious. And quite a bit of the content of the article is about the 2018 law which is basically irrelevant to the flawed approval of the MAX.
That downside can be resolved by turning your phone off or putting it in another room while the film is playing.
This is way too kind. Once upon a time there was a school of important, economists who were literally Austrian -- Menger, Bohm-Bawerk, Hayek -- who had certain commonalities. Mises and Rothbard turned it into an ideological movement that deliberately did not engage with anyone else's ideas. A healthy intellectual movement doesn't need to be convinced to pay attention to empirical evidence.
SAP - Price for the base package of a couple million. Price of customization can bankrupt international corporations.
The Kindle system was innovative at the time with most books accessible within a minute. Yes, closed formats and systems prevent bottom up innovation which is what the Internet was originally about. I'm waiting for common sense and regulation, and if that does not happen I might buy the books again in epub format (~250)
What is vague about misleading consumers, misrepresentation of product, fraud, carrying out greenwashing campaigns and generally lying to the public to maintain a marketable position?

Capitalism is about leveling the playing field. Not enabling crony assholes to play by their own set of rules.
The West has always indulged somewhat in this form of celeb culture, now rendered absurd with actual celebrity culture, along with startup and political deity worship. It partly ties in with the insistence of knowing so many simple facts for exams of yore who, what, where, when and not so much of why.

With the Columbus myth I always thought the best part of the tale was not his supposed discovery, but his ongoing insistence for years that he had not found America, but Asia by another route. Which is presumably why America was named for Amerigo Vespucci. Though I thought the Viking and Asians getting there first was fairly well known now?

As for Edison's patent mill, well who knows how many of "his" inventions were from one of his many utterly forgotten researchers. Unlike Newton, he made no mention of seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants. Mind you, that famous Newtonian quote wasn't, it's much older - it may have been parallel invention as he thought it a cute phrase.

TL;DR the whole patent system is broken, and we should be far more aware of the sweep of history than the individuals. :)
If you are in Europe, how can you not be aware of undocumented refugees from North Africa and Syria? What you are saying is completely delusional.
Am I skimming this too quickly, or does it actually say sub-seabed/subduction sequestration is one of the few options that actually works - it's just not currently possible because of international "dumping at sea" treaties?

With such a small volume I think 'do nothing' is fine at the moment until we can find an economical use for it (fast breeder, traveling-wave etc, etc), or agree the best way to dispose of it - 20,000-year managed repositories don't seem viable to me.
As someone who has watched The Turin Horse on his home cinema about once a year since it came out (glad to see another Tarr fan here on HN), I have never had to pause and ruin the mood. I definitely understand what you mean when you say phones can be a distraction, but then why not just leave your phone in the kitchen or bedroom for the time you are watching the film?

The walls won’t reflect too much light if you take adequate measures so that they are not pure white and uncovered. For me, the challenge of setting up the home cinema was not the reflecting light of the walls, inasmuch as they could be covered with bookshelves. Rather, it was the acoustics when I have large windows in the room – I could cover them with Ikea’s fully opaque curtains so that light isn’t a problem, but the glass of the windowpanes still has a detrimental effect on the sound.
While taking action and changing our ways and the use of some products to prevent further damage to the ozone layer, and even reverse damages.

It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Agreed. The current culture of consumption leaves much to be desired. Too common is the disconnect between what can be easily attained and their
imperfectly unaccounted-for externalized costs. For better and for worse, this breeds growing expectations while the memories of once never having enough fades, along with certain modesties and the sense of vulnerability; we've become slightly more ignorant of how resources are made available to us. All while the desire for more continues to grow.

Somehow, we need to start making decisions with an eye closer to the long term.
It's insane that people will go on about how important it is to treat people equally regardless of their race, gender, skin colour or sexuality, but also argue it's perfectly fine and moral to discriminate based on place of birth. Because people clearly have a lot more control over where they're born than they do over their skin color or gender..
Could you point to some references for further reading?
That is not the case in the us, and moreover there are people who have lived in the us since they were babies or small children, and have families and careers or even served in the military who are still at risk of deportation to country they don’t remember and where they don’t even speak the language well or at all.
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If you're so inclined, can you comment on what you think Ron Paul was getting at when he used the phrase "Honest Money"? I'd like to hear what an Economist has to say about this.
Trying to ban FR seems to be a solving the privacy problem in the wrong way. Instead of banning FR, what should be fixed is the misidentification problem or the issue that come out when the FR become public.
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So you are saying we cannot rely on personal choices but need to use regulation? I agree.
With a larger item, seems plausible.
I disagree that the user of the macro needs to understand its output.
The output of a macro is an implementation detail, and the documentation of the macro should be enough to use the macro without even looking at its output.

For example, no need to understand the magic behind the 'quote!' or the #[async_trait] macros to use them.
> afaik it dates back at least to Ancient Athens and was one of the tenets of their democracy: rich people were excluded from the political process entirely.

Source please.
Recognized by whom?
> Hammett, a pragmatist? Wasn't he a Marxist?

Because you cannot be both?
>This reads exactly the same as "I want this girl, but she has a boyfriend".

This is exactly how it reads -- OP sounds like he has a streak of arrogance and entitlement.
You may find Graphile interesting

https://www.graphile.org/
Let’s chat outside HN if you want to know (see profile), don’t want to tangent any further than I have on this thread.
yes! I've seen that and I'm considering writing some sort of similar postgres -> protobuf layer so that I can automatically generate my grpc structs from postgres enums.

Right now a pain point for us is that we have a generated database layer, a generated protobuf layer, and we have to do lots of fiddly manual database -> grpc struct translations. Too easy to get off-by-one errors (because you usually need a null enum element in protobuf that you don't need in postgres, particularly)
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Exactly. So they had orders of magnitude fewer customers with orders of magnitude higher prices than Apple today. But by the time WebObjects became a thing NeXT was out of the workstation business so the price was purely for the software.

The good news is that in the talk, Steve mentioned that the Enterprise WebObjects (probably the one you needed: EOF was for WebObjects what Cocoa was for OS X) license was $25k so it had started to drop. Even back then free was tough to compete with...
It’s worrying because Disney lobbied over the years to increase the length of copyright.

They perverted the intent of copyright, which is to encourage the arts by providing a temporary monopoly: After which artists are expected and encouraged to freely borrow any bits of the work and create their own.

Now they’re outright restricting even viewing of famous works. Disney is terribly corrosive.
How is this remotely true?

Lots of C's were very, very wrong about the future.
Look at yummyfajitas.
One can create the stored procedure and store it in an .sql file which can be version controlled like any piece of code. These can then be deployed in a number of ways.
I think allegedly is correct in that there is an expected court case, and the terminology can be switch if the case finds these statements to be true.
Time to revise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum
> Nice that you brought up Bose, because I was under impression they were a premium quality brand, in a similar fashion to Apple - i.e. extra overpriced on top of above-average quality. So you're saying, I shouldn't really buy into the "above-average quality" part with them?

Bose is above average in their technology but not their quality or durability. For your $400 you will get some very fancy tech, both nothing near $2000 IEMs.
I suspect in the next recession, municipalities are going to grasp for revenue from fines and fees. Traffic & parking violation escalation will come easy at that point.

I’m particularly alarmed by the rental trucks being used in Manhattan for Amazon deliveries. Who is driving them, how much experience do they have, and do they care? The first thing I think about when I see one is the Oklahoma City bombing.