skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't tend to have detailed roadmaps because it risks setting people up for disappointment when schedules change. But what's roughly happening right now is:

- Extension members are basically done and out the door. (See: https://medium.com/dartlang/extension-methods-2d466cd8b308)

- Non-nullable types are well underway. All but a few corners of the design are pinned down, much of the static checking is implemented, the core libraries have been mostly migrated, and we're working through the runtime implementation, migration tests, etc.

- Next up after that, the current plan (which may change) is control over variance and stuff around pattern matching.

We're working on it.
The counter argument is: If a widowed elderly woman lives in a 900 sqft home bought in 1963, how is it her fault that the world went crazy and values it at $1,200,000+ today? Have you seen a 1963 house? They’re a fire hazard not worth 1.2M.. And yet, you want her owe tax on that crazy value, yet she is stuck with a static retirement income? Where should she go? Idaho?

I’m for increasing tax on income earners, but not on retired elderly who just want to die in peace. The younger generation could move to other geographies much easier
hetrixtools.com is a great option for monitoring and real-time notifications
By not starting #metoo.
> I don't know that it's more "unfair" to the younger generations to not increase property taxes than it would be to the home owners to do so. Why would someone who bought a house for 100k be expected to pay taxes on 2M years later? A lot of these people probably had normal jobs and incomes, they didn't chose for Google/Apple/Facebook to move into town and send the property prices sky high. Yes, they benefit as owners but this rule only takes effect if they don't sell their house and continue to live in it.

I've always found it weird this dichotomy that seems to exist where so many people (who aren't even home owners) find it "logically" inappropriate for home owners to pay any increased taxes based on returns on housing (via prop 13, capital gains exemptions, etc), yet find it completely reasonable that those who earn more money working should pay not just higher total dollars in taxes, but also a higher percentage of their income to taxes, and are outraged at any suggestions to the contrary.

Higher earned income is typically a result of some combination of investment in education, risk taking, and hard work (things that actually require effort), whereas noteworthy returns on real estate, at least for the average Joe home owner, seems to be typically little more than just being in the right place at the right time, doing the same thing that most anyone does: buy a house and live in it.

Rewarding dumb luck and "punishing" hard work seems like the exact opposite of how a society should be run.

As for what to do with all these complexities that have built up over time in our societies, I increasingly think we should look to China and see what they do, because from all the Youtube videos I watch on that country (aka reality itself, or at least a portion of it, whereas reading books and news articles can easily give completely polar opposite impressions of reality), because whatever it is they are doing certainly seems to be bearing fruit that is extremely beneficial to broad society, across all income classes.
So much this. The fusion projects are all huge and expensive. Compare this with the relative ease with which viable fission reactors were made. The first useful (designed for plutonium production, but could produce power) reactor took only a year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10_Graphite_Reactor
"Our own Daniel Herriges will be weighing in on the role speed plays in the alarming increase of pedestrian and cyclist deaths"

In my town, cyclists don't follow any road signs and weave in and out of traffic. If you are going to share the road with cars, you will need to follow the same rules.

Pedestrians are often on their phones and not paying attention..and many people don't follow the lights/crosswalks.

I've noticed that in all of these discussions about cars, cyclists, and pedestrians, the cyclists and pedestrians bear no responsibility. They are part of the problem.
Sure, but do they? Can we really know with such different sample sizes?
> government shouldn't be forcing me

See, here we go: he says “X is bad” and you immediately respond with “what do you mean the government should outlaw X?!” Nobody’s talking about government intervention - he actually spends a lot of time explicitly saying he isn’t.
I'm stunned than no one is facing jail for this.
Extension methods are coming to Dart
Right. I know that it does. Or at least, I recall seeing studies about that. But it's been too many years, and I didn't retain any records of that life.
I think it basically came down to NASA not wanting them to test it on NASA flights.

SpaceX would have had to do their own launches and landings to verify the propulsive landing system, but they wanted to test it out on "production" cargo missions they were already doing for NASA.
It's not really a clear distinction, though. I have a laptop that has a touchscreen, but also a regular touchpad and sometimes I use an actual mouse with it. Sometimes I touch the screen if it's easier even if I have a mouse connected. I also sometimes remote into it. Then there's my tablet: I can use a bluetooth mouse with that if I want. Or an external touchpad.
And buyers can be shrewd in their calculation.

I founded a company that, in the 1990s, was implementing a Visa/Mastercard/(Amex, IBM, HP, Sun, RSA, Netscape) backed "Standard" for credit card payments. IBM had "invented" the spec's predecessor in Zurich Switzerland.

We were in Austin, Texas. Tiny, but scrappy. Our first customer was the largest card payment processor in Zurich Switzerland (blocks away from that IBM R&D lab!) and they were an IBM shop.

Somehow, we beat IBM in our toe-to-toe attempt to sell into that account. (Less marketing, and more sales "grit"). I asked their project leader later - "Why?". He said that at the end of the day, they knew that they were one of 100 IBM banking customers. And that they were our "first". When deploying "new" technology, they wanted a vendor that will kill themselves trying before they let the customer fail. They knew, simply, that we wanted, that we needed, their success more than IBM did...
I keep this resource bookmarked. It lists a number of the most popular JS/HTML table/grid components many of which implement the UX guidelines in this article.

https://jspreadsheets.com
I never said shoot at cops. Just hunker down with a big sign that says "OAKLAND COUNTY IS STEALING MY HOUSE OVER $8.41". I guarantee the media would cover this.
I have worked with both and i find Gtk+'s C API to be very bad actually, much worse than Win32. Sure, it looks more consistent but that doesn't help when what you want to do is done in a hair-pulling way. It is also much more verbose, though it hides that because it is overall a higher level API than Win32.

The issues you mentioned do exist but they are just minor nitpicks - at the end of the day it doesn't matter at all if the dwExStyle parameter is at the first, fourth or at the last (my guess was that is first to allow for a quick textual search and replace in code to "upgrade" from "CreateWindow(..." to "CreateWindowEx(0, ..."). This is the sort of stuff that will never cause any sort of issue in practice.

Also there are no confusing random parameters in CreateWindow if you actually read the documentation. The menu parameter for a button isn't used for a menu but for an identifier that allows you to distinguish that button from other controls in the window.

Finally your winproc's switch can actually call dedicated functions. You can even write a couple of macros that do that for you so you do something like

static LRESULT HandlePaint(HWND hWnd, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
static LRESULT HandleSize(HWND hWnd, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

BEGIN_WINPROC(MyWinProc)
ON_WINPROC_MESSAGE(WM_PAINT, HandlePaint)
ON_WINPROC_MESSAGE(WM_SIZE, HandleSize)
END_WINPROC()

which is pretty much the same as what you'd do in other toolkits with setting up event handles such as

gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(widget), "expose_event", (GtkSignalFunc)handle_expose, NULL);
gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(widget), "configure_event", (GtkSignalFunc)handle_configure, NULL);

(or your favorite toolkit's equivalent)
Top Traveler Behavioral Trends in 2018
My bad, people commented too quickly for me to delete it when I realized it.
The insane and arguably negligent part of this is that in a situation where false positives result in braking and false negatives result in death, that as an engineer you don't go with braking
You needlessly brought a divisive politician figure into your argument, while conveniently omitting the current cost of healthcare, statistics about how often and to what magnitude peopledo not recieve care, common knowledge stats about the inefficiencies of our current capitalist system. Do you want to debate the the alternatives to our broken healthcare system killing countless people or just make a vague cherry picked point about how the combined wealth of the richest Americans "isn't that much?"
Huh. I thought that the submission system automatically redirected you if there was a recent post with the same URL.
More Housing is no solution. That's compounding the issue at hand. Lower Property taxes plus value adjustments for areas based on median income could help ensure you don't price residents out of their areas and ensure healthy participation in the rest of the economy.
California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas
The IRS could actually write the software themselves and fully integrate what they already know with the option to fill in what they don't.
I am really impressed that we are able to fly safely at all if a tiny little piece of debris like this can cause plane crashes. Debris is a fact of life. Things fall apart, small pieces come off whatever substance or piece they were attached to. Are maintenance crews constantly just taking aircraft apart and vacuuming every surface they find?
Bystander Effect
The original post seems to be gone, but here's the best summary I could find of the accusations:

https://betakit.com/anonymous-medium-post-raises-allegations...

(from link)

In the Medium post, Jane Doe alleges that they began interacting with Wickware after expressing interest in video and marketing at Planswell, and began pitching ideas to the CMO.

“My interactions with Michael eventually led to me being sexually harassed by him,” the Medium post alleges.

Wickware, in a position of power as a co-founder and C-suite executive, “consistently pushed boundaries in an effort to get closer to me,” asking if “I wanted to sext with him,” and refusing to “leave me alone when I asked him to on numerous occasions,” the post alleges.

Feeling pressured into appeasing Wickware, Jane Doe claims that the two entered into an affair.

“I so deeply wish I was in a healthier mental state to understand what was happening and to have put a stop to Michael’s behaviour in an ethical manner,” the post reads.
1. That's an Op-Ed, which isn't really relevant.

2. It completely and totally misunderstands what "ok, boomer" actually means. It's -not- about
mocking older people who are unable to retire and have to work to make ends meet, etc.

3. The "ok, boomer" phrase has nothing to do with upper-middle-class, wealthy youth. It's a generational frustration.

This op-ed is completely, woefully out of touch.
Maybe he could get his way with a gun, but then he'd have to carry around a gun all the time. And then what happens when the friends and lovers of the people he's hurt catch him without his gun? Or what if they get an even better gun?

Big gun diplomacy is a problem, not a solution... unless you're an arms dealer.
Now, now, frankensteins monster could hold its ballance and had two sensors to sense the pitchfork wielding crowd.
I would suggest going through similar newsletters and blogs, collecting their sponsors and reaching out to those companies:

"since you've been sponsoring X, you might be interested in mine too"
Yeah, those are definitely some weird tiers.

The beauty of these services is that I can toss a couple bucks a month to projects that I use. I don't want my name in credits, I don't want a dinner with the author, I don't want sneak preview access to whatever. I just want an easy way to support something that brings me value.

Not even my total monthly contributions hit $50.
If you owe 1,000 USD is there ever a situation where you should forfeit an asset, have it liquidated, and then regain none of the proceeds over what you owe? It says in the article they found that they were received over 40 USD for every 1 USD owed in taxes. It's not a couple of mistakes. It's blatantly doing the bare minimum to ensure that you can pad a budget deficit via forfeiture.

Sure, if someone has an asset that they aren't paying taxes on you can put a lien against it or maybe even take it in forfeiture. You absolutely can't keep the entirety of the proceeds from a sale above what's owed and maybe the funds for running an auction.

In the end I think they have a fair legal case for recourse. There's no criminal violation and a civil violation isn't enough for complete asset forfeiture.
> You absolutely need Spectre/Meltdown mitigation

The article context is HPC - it seems very unlikely Spectre/Meltdown fixes are needed for HPC loads (no browser, no VM sharing).
Node.js database migration management for PostgreSQL
Because the criteria for deciding what speech gets censored is always subjective.

Sure, we can probably find one statement that most contemporary people would agree is wrong and shouldn't be allowed to be said. Like 99.99% of contemporary people.

But what percentage do we cut it off at? 75%? 30%? And why is it a popular vote to begin with? Is morality or ethics something that is relative to popular ideas or are there some concepts that are just plain right or wrong?

I'm not afraid of people saying stupid stuff. I'm afraid of people with the power to curtail speech. Because that invariably gets used against the public.

And "the freedom to do what is right" is not really freedom. You must have the freedom to do something stupid.
- Or take something of the similar value from the property. A toaster or whatever and auction that off.
Only if it's recent. After a certain amount of time, the software will allow reposts.
The table goes into more detail. Each time the classification changed, the history for that object was essentially deleted; since there's only one data point, the system predicted that it would "continue" to stay stationary, even though the pedestrian was walking at a steady pace.
This gives strong flashbacks to the dot com boom and bust. Folks were going through ISO codes looking for new B2B marketplaces to launch.

Start with an end user need.
Currently they seem to be the "we aren't those jerks" sort of alternative to a competitor with a bad reputation. Just like how Uber gained over Taxis - and ironically Lyft to do the same to them over assorted shadiness and scandals.

Of course to sustain that effect they not to gain a bad reputation.
No, its the irrational level of fear.
You can get a VESA mount Mini-ITX[1] case with a current-chipset (X570, etc.) motherboard, as well as all the other Mini-ITX options like monitor-mount base cases[2].

1. https://www.amazon.com/Antec-ISK110-VESA-U3-Mini-ITX-Compati...

2. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQQB9...
I see (at the time of this post) a regional person and a techno-geek respond to your comment, trying to disqualify it as not being universal (sorry globalist techno-geeks!), even though it is, measured by global magnitude.

But I am baffled by the reference to the toy maker? Who is that? Unless you mean Apple?
Do you have citations backing that up?

It's not unusual in my experience to see tax sales go for below fair market value.
A lot of these products probably made sense in an era where there was a massive amount of undeveloped farmland suddenly available to build houses on and connect via road - if undeveloped land is cheap, the costs of a new house can't rise significantly above the cost to build a new house, so offering incentives to homeowners makes some amount of sense.

This doesn't happen anymore as most cities are at "peak suburb" - the undeveloped land that still exists is so far out that nobody wants the insane drive into the city (and rightfully so).

But yeah in the 21st century where everyone is competing the afford the same few properties in the same few neighborhoods, subsidizing homeownership is just subsidizing bidding wars. There's no productive economic activity being subsidized like it used to be (construction of new homes on undeveloped land yields more living space for the city, which I would consider productive) - a bidding war just leads to the previous homeowner getting a fatter payout.

In theory, if prices were kept to reasonable levels via sufficient construction, I could get behind (toned down versions of) prop 13 and rent control. It's just clearly they exacerbate price issues, and to say California has a price issue is an understatement.
Millionaire Helps Poor Man Get Rich in 7 Days Through Property Freedom Challenge
Too bad they didn't do that after any of the previous 33 times it crashed into a vehicle
Ask HN: Why don't streaming services make use of P2P?
Wouldn't this drastically reduce their bandwidth costs? I would imagine the majority of people streaming HD/4K Netflix don't have bandwidth caps to worry about, so it wouldn't be very noticeable to the end user and be largely beneficial to the streaming service. Why isn't this more common?
Heh, nice try, FBI.
Airbnb intends to verify all listings following shooting and scam report
"bbc.co.uk" vs "bbc.com" in this case.
> But I don't think Americans are punitive.

I don't think this is a remotely justifiable belief. We have the highest prisoner rate per capita, we sanction anyone the second they step out of line, and the entire two prior decades have been shaped by a collective trauma that pushed us into seeking retributive justice against anyone--regardless of their actual role.

I fail to remember which Puerto Rican uprising this was during, but there was a mother who was jailed for the crime of making her husband and children breakfast. When slavery was finally ended, the 10 years of reconstruction was met immediately with horrific acts of terrorism and reactionary violence to reassert white supremacy.

Punitive Justice is a core tenet of the American civil religion.
> * The proliferation of Linux filesystems such as ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, reiserfs, JFS, JFFS, bcachefs, etc. If any of those filesystems were truly adequate there wouldn't have to be so many.

While I get your point, I would like to point out that ZFS was developed by Sun (now Oracle). I've used ZFS for years from a data-integrity and array-mirror perspective and love it. No other file-system you mentioned next to it gives me the confidence that ZFS does (maturity, stability, etc).
MY favorite is how they rejected a payment on the outstanding taxes.

Most municipalities in Canada are required to accept payment up to, and including the moment the auction begins. If the payment comes in, the property is off the block (in most auctions, the list of properties being auctioned end up being a fraction of the list that was printed the morning of).

Slumlord or not, the municipalities are clearly being malicious in their handling of the appropriations.
Why are we bending over backwards to appease them though. Renters have to leave their residences all the time due to rental increases, often after being financially stressed to a limit. The home owners could at least take out credit against their property to pay for the taxes if they don't want to move. In fact I think that's a good thing! A large number of California home owners all needing large lines of credit backed by highly valued properties could devalue the properties or cause a crash.
Interview with Intercom CEO on finding an authentic leadership style
The basic problem with the US legal system is that it operates on the wording of the law rather than the spirit of the law.

Unfortunately, making the spirit of the law overrule the wording is subject to even more casual manipulation and corruption.
> we don’t want politics.

HN doesn't ban discussion about encryption, which is a political topic. HN doesn't ban discussions about non-state-approved search engines, social media, and VPNs, even though in some parts of the world they're so "political", that they get people sent to "re-education camps".

Twitter's ban on political advertising suddenly reminded everyone how many things besides wars and elections are political. You can't advertise switch to green energy now, because that's about climate change, and that's political.

In practice "politics" ban means you still allow things that are political, but only ones that are ideologically aligned with the status quo.
This website is completely unusable on mobile. It’s worse than a pre-smartphone site because it disabled zoom out so the content is just cut off.
Right, but as the article mentions, each time it got reclassified, the tracking history gets wiped, so the car doesn't know that the object is about to enter the path of the SUV. It just sees an object that's in the other lane and assumes it's going to stay there.
Even if the current owner doesn't personally use the facilities, like a neighborhood pool, the house is more valuable with the community facilities.

I think a lot of the regulations they tend to want to impose are crap and busy body meddling but gathering funds to maintain community facilities is one of the legitimate reasons for an HOA.
UK is a bit different, but I think OP is referring to the fact that even Cambridge isn't much better than, say, UIUC.
> If you were in his shoes, would you go back and do things any differently?

Maybe not hire a famous DJ for the announcement of layoffs.
Propulsive landing is awesome if the surface can stand up to it. Propulsive landing on mars with only a crew capsule is a little bonkers.
Keto did wonders for my depression.
I was stuck with paranoia as well until i also cut out vegetables and all sugar.
Today i'm feeling productive and worthy.
> " and Vasquez took the steering wheel, disengaging the autonomous system"

> And then top it off with systemic issues around the backup driver not actually being ready to react.

It's even worse than that! Once the human does take the wheel the computer stops doing anything.

So from when the human is alerted and grabs the wheel, until the human can react, the car isn't even slowing down!

That's like the worst of both worlds.
Haha I must admit I have run Slack inside Firefox for the past 3 years myself.
No, in the many discussions I've had with Oculus, they've not given me a solid reason. If you talk to other developers, it is apparently their policy not to give feedback.

My game embeds a full browser, and can navigate to YouTube pages - it really is a full browser though, showing ads and dutifully registering tracking impressions and everything. But the browser is actually just background noise, the actual challenge is a motion captured artistic performance, and that drives everything in the game - this is well-protected by fair use.

The browser state is just made to sync up with that performance, and the side-effect is that, if the creator of the mocap moved reasonably in line with the music, you feel as if you're moving to the music too, when in fact you're actually interacting with the motion capture.
This is why I will never use any service from Uber ever. I may be insignificant but at least I know I am doing my little part to not support this disgusting movement of "Move Fast and Break Things" which includes actual casualties.
Everyone involved except the lowest pawns get away with it so the next company can do it even worse.