skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know that DriveFlow exists but it's exactly what I've been looking for in a service to replace car ownership:

-No manufacturer lock-in (different manufacturers excel at different things)

-No maintenance burden

-No long/medium term commitment to a single vehicle (maybe I want a minivan for a long summer roadtrip but not all summer or all year)

... but the cost is truly eye-watering.

I had my first kid last year so I got a more family-friendly car than the little coupe I'd been driving. I struggled to decide between a midsize sedan (cheaper, more fun to drive, easier to park, suitable for 95% of the family's driving tasks) or a larger SUV (generally worse, but suitable for 100% of the family's driving tasks).

This would have solved the dilemma for me ... except I think I could just own a decent midsize sedan AND a decent larger SUV for $900 or more per month.
> you're conflating "people caught infecting deliberately other people" with the totality of the HIV-positive population

Nope. I'm not saying that. Read my post again
Today I Learned, thanks!
I really don't know what to think about healthcare expenses... Like, dying pennyless makes sense! Why wouldn't you spend all your money just to prolong your life a bit longer? Obviously, our (civilization's) resources are limited, and we need to make decisions how to allocate them... EU countries decide by fiat (government says, we'll spend this much taxes on healing kids vs that much on healing old people), whereas US decide by market (rich people, young or old, can spend more on their own health). Personally, as technology improves, I really don't see us spending less on healthcare... after all, it's literally life, the most (individually) valuable thing there is!
Avast Online Security and Avast Secure Browser Are Spying on You
I think that realistically, the only person who could fabricate a repository commit structure in a way that wouldn't be clear that is what they had done, would be someone who can program. If I am taking a working program, and slowly breaking it up into pieces starting with tests, and simpler components, fabricating the addition of new components each commit. That is work in my opinion, only an actual programmer could falsify, and if they are an actual programmer they would have actual repositories.
Bingo. TS 3.7
> Popular Scientism

Heh.
I don't think that's true and there appears to be room for both. I read both, one is good for quickly understanding what's happening / happened and the other is a much richer and interesting story. Twitter can exist in the same universe as novels you know.
In what way is the article biased? Why do you think that patio11 is part of the "incumbent financial system"? Do you refute any of the evidence?
> high pressure insurance pitch

Them: would you like to purchase insurance?

Me: No, I have my own thanks.

Them: okay.

Maybe since I rent almost exclusively from airports, I have a biased experience, but I don't think of rental insurance as being high-pressure.
Idiomatic Data Fetching with React Hooks
Thanks for correcting me, I actually wasn't aware of nil coalescing in Swift and guessed it meant the same thing as optional chaining. The nil coalescing operator seems to correspond to Haskell maybe function, that is, a ?? b is computed as follows: if a is nil, the result is b; otherwise a must wrap some actual value c and the result is c.

Is that the one you had in mind?
This can be done entirely with CSS or even HTML. Disabling JS only mitigates this, it isn't a solution.
Yeah, it's not like any programmers have ever come up with bizzare and useless names for abstractions.
The testing story just hasn't been well documented yet in the official docs. I have documented both unit and end-to-end testing with Svelte here: https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/july...
> You want to start hiring more juniors because juniors slow down the pace of new growth and you want things to slow down.

First time I've seen someone so accurately nail this effect of hiring junior engineers. I think this one is counter-intuitive to management, it's commonly believed that hiring more engineers leads to more manpower which leads to more work getting done and junior engineers are the ones that can be easily hired very quickly. I'm sure it's great for the careers of everyone involved, but it's awful for company productivity in the medium term.
Describing this entirely as "the declining authority of statistics" is like saying the WTC towers suffered "declining structural integrity" before they collapsed - there are people behind both...
I have the Sony 1000XM2 headphones. They are fantastic at noise cancellation and audio quality, but I feel your pain with the bluetooth pairing woes.

Whenever switching between my mac, PC, or phone, I have to repair the headphones. Very annoying.
SIMD for C++ Developers [pdf]
They already killed all their integrations, and since I exclusively set my multiple zone temperatures by voice with Alexa, when they killed the partner ecosystem I sold my Nests on eBay and bought some Ecobees that still connect with everything.
I was mainly responding to the statement:

> More government involvement is seldom the right answer

Are there workable solutions to negative externalities other than government involvement?

Obviously, regulation doesn't always work perfectly, but until some other way of handling negative externalities is discovered, it seems we should focus on improving how regulation is done those cases.

There are other arguments for government, but I find this to be the simplest and most compelling.
It's much more ecological to recycle a battery than to recycle a 100% working product because the internal battery died.
I understand if you really want TypeScript support, but why do you feel the component model is hacky? I find it beautifully simple.
Wrote a programmer’s guide about x86 SIMD intrinsics. The documentation available on the internets only has reference of individual instructions. There’re no high-level articles telling why and how to use them.
you're still not thinking in the 21st century mindset: the data is what has the value here, not some mediocre optional hardware. read the thread - people are recommending just the app, which still fulfills the purpose of "hoover up valuable data"
Isn’t headgear a requirement in all schools now? Or was this really long ago?
Maybe it’s just the choice of words, but a failure that presents an opportunity to learn is great! But it’s true that there are many kinds of failure where that attitude is completely impermissible. You know, the life or death stuff, or the illegal stuff.

In the cases where the stakes aren’t so high, then we’re just talking about compassion and not being a complete jerk to someone who fucked up.

But it’s absolutely necessary to come up with an actionable follow up if you do this. That’s where the success is. Just throwing up your hands and saying “awww gee, I done did it all wrong!” and letting the opportunity slip by is a great way to encourage even more failure, and not the useful kind.

That is to say, it’s gotta be failure with some self-imposed accountability.
Stripe is only loosely synonymous with Authorize.net

Your missing the part where Stripe also bundled the payment processing (Stripe uses Vantiv AFAIK) and the merchant account (which you need to get from a Bank). Stripe's innovation was to simply flatten the stack across gateway, processor and merchant bank account.

Stripe has an incredible API, but it's only one half of the equation here.
I'm not an expert, but I think this comic does a decent job of breaking down a few of the easy, popular misconceptions, provided you don't get completely lost. You're not going to gain any real understanding from this comic, it's not intended for that. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to have any deep understanding of quantum computing without sticking your head in the numbers.
Either their storage systems and file formatting philosophy are too sophisticated for me to understand or they're intentionally delivered in a way that requires moderately advanced data processing skills to use.
3600 seconds a day, or 108,000 seconds a month, but the point stands.

That would be 1 cent per 108 seconds, so listen to an 8m35 version of American Pie and Don McLean gets 4.75c. Listen to Heartbreak Hotel, 2m08, and Elvis gets 1.18c. Listen to a 1 hour podcast of "The Infinite Monkey Cage", and the BBC get 33.3 cents

If you listen 24/7, or 2,592,000 seconds a month, then your $10 means that Elvis gets a mere 0.05c
Viruses Like Herpes and Zika Will Need to Be Reclassified, Here’s Why
You can export all your data and delete your Fitbit account at any time.
Thank you Jontas for reading my previous article. What Success is may vary from one person to another. For me, this project is clearly a success but I understand if others do not feel that way.
Absolutely agree; having spent the better part of 2 decades imagining, architecting and testing alternative solutions to global-scale monetary system problems -- the operation of central-bank money is essentially incomprehensible to most people. Including most "nerds".

This appears to be, unfortunately, by design.

The blaring fire-alarm klaxons are going off, all over the system. "Whistling past the graveyard" is only going to serve us for so long.

It will be considered sad, I think, that so many smart "nerds" spent their lives optimizing click-through rates, instead of helping empower the world to have reliable, globally available solid money.
I've been writing poetry for about a decade and a half now and have published three collections so far. It's extremely therapeutic, helping to deal with depression and anxiety, etc. If I go too long without writing these days I can tell emotionally that I haven't been taking advantage of some kind of meaningful creative outlet. If anyone is interested, here's one of my ebooks:

https://www.amazon.com/That-Which-Gets-Way-Langston-ebook/dp...
I can't decide if I want to be analyzed or not - on the one hand, I feel like the expectations that are put on me are often ridiculously unrealistic, so it'd be nice if there was some analysis that suggested so. On the other hand, I'd hate to find out that I'm just not that good compared to contemporaries...
Testing for Svelte does exist!
See my writeup on it here:
https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/july...
> I agree it's a somewhat moot point, which didn't really click with me, either, as the argument assumes that these anti-ICE protests are carried out by non-engineers, which given the latest Chef and GitHub stories, isn't necessarily the case at all.

The protesters stood up one at a time during the keynote, yelled "Cut ties with ICE", and were escorted out. Then a couple minutes later the next one would start. I don't know whether they were engineers or not, but there was quite a bit of awkward clapping for them, and it cast a shadow over the rest of the event. I spent about half the event googling for what they were talking about, then for AWS alternatives to what I'm using and making plans, and I doubt I was the only one. It was extremely effective.
You just don't depend on weird libraries that mess up your preprocessor state. Then you make sure that even your static (file local) variables have unique names. And then you concatenate all the header and source files.

It shouldn't be very hard, but most projects fail already at the dependency stage.
Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
I frankly wouldn't trust the numbers of any device that can't keep the time. Have you tried to verify them somehow?
I use gitlab's issue.

yes, helpful. I need to prioritize the issues.

Sometimes I get unmotivated on my project. I found setting a concrete and small goal and focus on the goal can help me make progress. I force myself to check off 3 bugs on the bug board everyday.
Yes you can, I didn't say otherwise. (I did criticize Vue though)

My point is that Svelte stores are tedious and ironically seem to go against Svelte's filosophy of lean code.

Here are the docs if anyone wants to take a look:

https://github.com/sveltejs/rfcs/blob/master/text/0002-react...
There's quite a bit of build management going on with sqlite. Apart from that script, Dr. Hipp wrote his own source code management system[1] to fit his need and if I'm not mistaken they don't write headers by hand[2].

[1]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/

[2]: https://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/
Is it volvo?
Didnt know it has unlimited and allowed frequent swaps.
If you want white, that's Apple. If you want another color, that's Beats.
Are the Pixel Buds bad?
I work in the software dev industry, but not as a developer. I do some freelance and hobby development. I've made prod apps with AngularJS, Angular, and Vue. My view on development is much more from a business owner and creator perspective than a career developer. So, take that for whatever you want.

I've used Svelte (with Sapper) for two production apps. One is a small e-commerce app [1] and the other an NFL stats app [2]. They are both static sites, but I won't really get into that. There is a tweet I detailed out a little bit of the second app [3].

Personally, I find Svelte to be the best dev experience I have had and it's not close. To me (like a said, a novice dev), I find myself tripping over frameworky things all the time. The only thing is that before Svelte, I didn't really realize that is what was happening. I just thought that was how web dev was.

However, when I played with Svelte, I instantly felt more productive and confident in my ability to create what I wanted. The main benefit that I have experienced is that it is so simple. There is just less to learn because it builds upon your knowledge of the basics (CSS, HTML, JS). To me, it just organizes these into a nice single file and throws a touch of template markup at you to give you what you would expect from a framework. There's more to comment on, but for brevity, I won't.

I also am just a huge fan of the compiler approach. I know that bundle size is a rather debatable topic as to what matters and what doesn't, but if I can have a great experience building a site AND I get smaller bundles (in most cases) for free, then that is huge to me. I think it is going to allow some cool features in the future, too. I just think it makes a great deal of sense to build things in this way.

The only con I have ran into, which isn't really a knock on Svelte itself, is that the community is tiny (relative to the others). The community that does exist lives on Discord, which is awful for searchability of questions. That said, the docs are great and I have had to Google far less things than I have in the other frameworks I have used, so it is less of a ding than it would otherwise be.

So, Svelte is my new default. I'll continue to fanboy over it to my developer coworkers who love React. They will roll their eyes and become filled with contempt and pity. I'll insult their intellectual capability. We laugh. All of our apps remain in React. Life goes on.

[1] https://bigcreekbarkery.com
[2] https://quickfantasystats.com
[3] https://twitter.com/pjbrown_11/status/1186012274164752388
I see, I misunderstood what you meant.
So what would the "responsible" message be, in your book? "If you get unlucky and have bad boss, family problem, health problem, etc, too bad, sucks to be you!"?

Cause trust me, people who have bad stuff happen to them already know it sucks.
Wow. I had no idea, thanks for this!
At one point does policy targeting a statistical measurement render that statistic useless? I’m looking at you, CPI.
Little known fact. Weinersmith. I went to high school with Kelly Smith who married Zach Weiner. They created Weinersmith.
I absolutely love Svelte ... and Sapper too!
Here's a talk I gave recently on Svelte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOE7oZyaBA
I suspect that the pre-employment drug screens are to test who washes their hands.
I worked at Salesforce then and we had this from an acquired company: https://web.archive.org/web/20140625063431/https://goinstant...

A lot of folks were using it to add "Multiplayer" to our apps.
For nice t-shirts without logo, check Muji (their bio cotton collection) or Uniqlo (their Supima cotton collection). Less than $15, great fit, good enough durability.
> the world you fantasize about would result in far more cases of HIV.

I think that the opposite is infinitely more probable. Less new cases when people has the knowledge to take reasoned decisions. The right to african wifes to know that her husband has become a carrier should prevail over the right from those men to hide the disease and remain silent for convenience. African doctors should assure to inform the wife by default in their protocols, because this people have rights also, and the number of cases are all except "tiny".

Desestigmatisation is exactly the opposite to hiding the disease, that is what we really are doing (and is not working).

And I say that is not working because still there are thousands of new cases in the world each year with the difference that nobody cares yet. Young generations do not developped the danger sense about HIV that scarred older generations in 80's and 90's. Some of this adolescents are being caught in the most stupid way (And good luck telling some people that must buy and use a condom every time).

Being transparent and loyal to your partner and society about the condition is a first requisite for desestigmatisation.
Ah yes, hardcore Forthers do seem to take pride in finding the absolute smallest number of fundamental building blocks.

There comes a point, though; where pretending everything is the same complicates rather than simplifies.
Safety, as having large quantities of cash in transit, at homes, or at business is risky and dangerous. Even banks try and avoid this as much as possible.

Convince, as writing a check or using a bank card allows for large and specific transactions. Paying rent every month via check for 1234.56$ is easy, with cash you need to count and recount etc. This is especially true for transactions over the internet.

Scale this up and you get into Logistics for large transactions like buying property. Verifying a 1,000,000$ Bill is not fake is one issue, as is trying to get change for huge denominations. On it’s own this would creat an ecosystem of bank like entities such as money exchanges with associated fees.

Efficiency, banks make use of deposits for loans which allows them to offer services at a discount. Remove that and people end up directly paying for this stuff.

Banks provide other services like transactions between physical and digital currency at ATM’s. The large unbanked population ends up paying high fees for many services banks provide.
that's $69 PER bud
I think Tcl strings aren't exactly what Perlis was talking about. First, the language knows how they're used, so there's a JIT (or whatever) behind the scenes eliminating the literal deserialize-process-serialize pattern you see in shell scripts. Second, a lot of Tcl data types (hash tables, sockets, etc) can be represented by strings but the string is just a simple reference to a rich internal structure. It's almost more like a pointer than a string in other languages.
In more concrete terms, I'm quite persuaded by what I read and see about emacs, but 20 years of vim keeps bringing me back.

I mean seriously, emacs lisp looks so much more sane than vimscript, I've been telling myself to switch for 10 years now...
Any particular model number you can point to?
And you still are having to throw away the batteries - the most toxic part of the device. By mass, the three batteries are most of the mass.
Considering about 1/2 the VPN companies are owned by the Chinese, they are fronts for the Chinese government.
As someone who has owned multiple Fitbit devices that all stopped working within the first year, good riddance. The only thing that's still working is our Aria scale and that's basically worthless now that Fitbit holds that data hostage and you need to use third party apps to sync it with anything useful (like MyFitnessPal, Apple Health, or anything else).
What to ask before accepting a job offer?
That doesn't make much sense to me. If they don't want to hire older people to save money, can't they just offer lower salaries and let older people self-select themselves out of the job?
Odd that this is being posted now. The article is a month and a half old and comments on the proposed regs were due nearly 2 weeks ago. I was actually thinking it's weird that I haven't seen much talk about this here - it's a huge issue, but has barely gotten mainstream discussion.
Well, but my point there isn't nothing, there are alternatives, which can (or at least nix can) generate docker or OCI containers.

Docker is trying to sell itself as something more than it is, in reality it is just an overglorified zip file.
Want to binge watch? New streaming TV services will make you wait
I don't think you fully read the comment you are responding to. The point was that WeWork actually isn't undercutting its rivals.
Working in elections I am very skeptical of this. The reason is that electoral systems support the transition of power by creating a publicly trusted mechanism to measure support. People have to believe their votes are being accurately tabulated for such a system to work. Introducing software to the electoral process-- any software -- undermines public trust in the system because most people are not software engineers and are not personally capable of verifying code.

Most computer scientists who study elections are personally opposed to even electronic voting and prefer paper ballots, which I do too. That's because they can be physically counted and intuitively understood in a way that software cannot be by most of the population. That simplicity is a strength in building trust.
Do things that don't scale [1]

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
“Right now there are no mandatory federal cybersecurity standards for elections...”

And that's a good thing. Each state/county/city can implement the election however they want which makes it practically impossible to rig the vote. If we all used the same system/procedures/process then hacking the election could scale much more easily as the same tricks that works in Manhattan would work in Montana.
"Dig" implies malice, I think 'poke' or 'rib' is more precise.

</pedantic>
When more than 50% of the mass is the battery?
I think the important part is the "spooky factor" of "this highly maneuverable space plane can stay on orbit for two years doing who knows what".

The implication is that the US military has a vehicle that can stay on orbit for as long as they want and move around to do anything from deploying secret satellites to spying to disabling enemy spacecraft without anyone else necessarily knowing what happened.
As usual, the title's description is wrong, and the real news is buried and overlooked in the story:

"People assume that the numbers are manipulated and dislike the elitism of resorting to quantitative evidence."

If people don't believe that something is useful, it doesn't matter what that "something" is, it will start to have a diminishing affect our society. It goes for statistics and liberal democracies just as much as ancient gods and ancient languages of yore.