skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drivers don't have right of way either. Both are expected to take care, and expect hazards[1][2]. In the case of a junction, where a car has turned onto a road a pedestrian is crossing, and at marked crossings the pedestrian does have right of way. There is no such thing as jaywalking in the UK.

If a car hits a pedestrian the starting presumption is a) driver is at fault and b) avoiding action should have been taken.

[1] Pedestrians - general: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedes...

[2] Drivers (Rule 146): https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-t...

There are many other parts of the Highway Code that reference pedestrians, in multiple contexts. The general tone is "expect the unexpected and to find a pedestrian, or child chasing their football, everywhere except motorways and restricted carriageways (e.g. some dual carriageways)".

[3] Right of way crossing at junctions https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-...
> If you allow future street/recreational drugs to get a free pass (and tax them), you're opening a loophole for new pharmaceutical drugs to make it to market without due approval and safety checks.

I'd love being free to buy pharmaceuticals without the approval of my government and doctor; that's a feature, not a bug!
Kurzgesagt has a pretty great video[0] about organic food, and goes a little bit into what the definition of "organic" means. Digging through his citations[1] (which is awesome, btw), as far as American legal definitions and pesticides and the whatnot are concerned, the relevant law[2] says that pest and disease problems can be controlled using "non-synthetic controls, such as...repellents", meaning that pesticides can be used, as long as they're also "organic" (which, he notes later in the video, there are slightly less, but still non-zero traces of, and not necessarily safer[3])

That being said, there really shouldn't be a worry about traces of "chemicals" on organic OR non-organic produce, as the FDA has very strict guide lines and testing procedures that produce sellers go through[4] before sending out produce that almost everyone is well under.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es
[1]: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesorganic/
[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/205.206
[3]: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.aces.illinoi...
[4]: https://www.ams.usda.gov/datasets/pdp/pdpdata
The leveraged funds like TQQQ reset their leverage on a daily basis.
The specific bit where it is allowed on hydroponic farms:

> glyphosate (an incredibly toxic herbicide that is absolutely prohibited on organic farms) is being sprayed on fields prior to constructing hydroponic greenhouses awaiting organic certification. This is done to remove weeds from the greenhouses.
In Japan, A. mellifera is not viable because susumebachi (sparrow wasps -- insanely huge) invade the hive and they can't protect against it. Local honey costs about $20 a lb here as a result.
> the usual C++ quirks like why is there both data and c_str

The usual C++ response: for backwards compatibility, because data was not required to null-terminate prior to C++11.
I'm aware but it isn't hard to interpret this as "they lost nothing more than the use of some number of $1 patents and the time it takes them to go find more $1 patents".

That doesn't seem like that big of a setback.
Oh okay, I didn't realize that the Roman Empire covered the whole world and everyone lived in Rome during Pax Romana. Thank you for correcting me.
https://doc.qt.io/
How about, the larger the company gets, increasing the tax bracket/percentage?

The problem today is that the larger a company gets, the more influence and power it has - both in financial and political terms.
Yes, here are some I’ve read in the last year:

Bartleby y compañía by Enrique Vila-Matas, on why writers give up or why they may be reluctant to write. It’s a mixture of fiction and biography, hard to tell which but fun searching for authors who may not exist.

Las Constelaciones Oscuras by Pola Oloixarac. I think many in HN would like her work, this novel in particular.

El Ejército Iluminado by David Toscana.

Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti

La Casa Verde by Mario Varga Llosa
Are you saying Tether isn't run on a blockchain? Because it most certainly is.

The SEC crypto tsar recently had quite negative comments about MakerDAO at SWSX, as in they may be in breach of securities law. Something to note.

The decentralized nature still makes it far less riskier to the end consumer.
I also generally have trouble taking anything from Bloomberg seriously after the chip story.
One definition could be that you become a public square when you benefit sufficiently from the society in which you operate that you must correspondingly take on civic responsibility to that society.

In terms of Facebook: they rake it in because millions of us chose their platform, over many others, for posting our cat photos. Accordingly, Facebook must pay something back to society. (Though perhaps the “pay something back” merely needs to be covered by corporation tax, rather than anything more special.)

If the local pub becomes the de facto meeting room for the village club, and makes a killing selling them beer as a result, maybe it should be obliged to provide free parking?
Considering the size of the spread on most options, why would you focus on commissions?
There are many possible reasons:

1.) Orions value rose because he is about to walk out the door with all sorts of important information in his head. Often times, a counter offer is made to lessen the risk of information loss, with longer term plans to move Orion out of the company, or lessen his impact.

2.) His boss looks really bad if he quits, especially if he is a high performing employee. So the boss has every incentive to keep him on.

3.) Short term high profile project has a huge business cost if not completed, Orion is not worth that much, except for in the next few months
Some of us who purchase organic foods don't care about the impact on the food, but rather on the farm ecosystem. Pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers impact insect popuations, wash into rivers, and so on. It's nice to have an option to vote with our dollars in favour of more sustainable practices, even if the food isn't any healthier or tastier to eat.
I'm curious why this always gets downvoted on HN with no comment. That's quite a bit of disconnect with other groups.

Is it because a difference in terminology? On HN, meditation seems to mean 'relax and do nothing'. Elsewhere, it seems to mean 'concentrate on only one thing', which usually makes people recall traumatic situations.

Or does it come across as too prescriptive with little evidence to back it?
Where do the potatos grow? Same soil isnt it? Isnt this a childish way to argue about it?
My only immediate problem with this design is that AES-CBC doesn't provide authenticated encryption. AES-GCM would be a better choice.
Sounds like a LinkedIn premium feature. Should we apply to YC?
That’s overstating it too. In the US they don’t just spring on everyone who crosses the street without a crosswalk/green.
Managing Feature Flags with Terraform
Fireo is now under Apache License 2.0
The day after our company Christmas party in 2017 I had to take an uber the next morning to go pick up my car. I was anxious mess like I had been for the last 3 weeks riding the insane wave up on a mish mosh of alt coins. Phone clasped hard in my hand I couldn't go 5 minutes without checking the market.

My uber driver, a middle aged black women cheering about her Christmas plans and whole family coming to visit, suddenly breaks off track and excitedly brings up bitcoin. Her and her husband got their account set up and were putting "all their money" into it. "I don't even know what the hell it is but people are making money left and right!" I told her that it was probably a terrible idea.

The next day I liquidated all my holdings.

I did miss the final run up, but I came out a lot better than most.
>What if instead of using money as a means to an end, people use it as the end itself

This line got me thinking about so many things from my own life. You opened my eyes to another view point I had missed for the past 10 years. I am truly thankful to you for posting this comment.
The use of ?? and ?. for null coalescing and null chaining comes from C#, and predates Dart.
> I realize this is a bit off topic but I get so bitter when I heard about other countries converting to electric.

Which country is converting to electric?
Yeah. It certainly appears to invalidate the entire article.
The fact that backups can't be accessed and modified easily for a long period of time is a feature, not a bug, regardless of the actual mechanism of implementation (like tapes). That's what stops e.g. ransomware from affecting backups in addition to the primary storage.

A backup that can be edited to delete data like an encryption key instantly when the user tells it do is also a backup that can be easily lost or corrupted.
"That's different to the US, where if you try to cross the road at all, outside of a crossing, you're a 'jaywalker'."

This is incorrect. In the United States you can generally cross at any intersection if there is no marked crossing available. In low traffic areas, people often cross the road at will, after checking to see if any cars are coming. 'Jaywalking' is barely a crime and is only rarely enforced.
I'll climb on the soapbox. Glyphosate is great stuff. Good on sandwiches too. Hell, even Patrick Moore[1] does shots[2] of the stuff and he's almost perfect.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(consultant)

2. https://time.com/3761053/monsanto-weed-killer-drink-patrick-...

Edit: original comment was abridged by the benevolence of Verizon and their warm wireless affection for rural vermin. Rather than rewrite it, I'll capitulate and admire it as 'is'.
India retains third spot in global unicorn list
If someone gets a lot of leverage, makes a wild bet, loses, and then there is an uncollectable debt, then someone out there made a lot of money that Robinhood is possibly out, and the recipient probably wasn't poor beforehand.

Robin Hood of myth was not a person known for being robbed by poor people who gave his wealth to the rich.
I’m not at a computer now, but you can explicitly define a tuple type like:

type Tuple<T, K> = [T, K | null];

Which is my first thought, but I can’t test it against the compiler at the moment and I’m not sure if I’m missing something.

...JavaScript would allow you to extend that list during runtime (unless you freeze it)

type Tuple<T, K> = [T, K]
const Tuple<T, K> = (x: T, y: K): Tuple<T, K> => {
const tup = [x, y];
Object.freeze(tup);
return tup;
};
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant Can Be Hacked Remotely with Lasers
I know it’s a ceaser but I’d love to hear how a robot describes it.
> 'Jaywalking' is barely a crime and is only rarely enforced.

...but it's there, ready to use against you in a headline when a car hits you and you're killed.

'Jaywalker killed' - your fault.

'Person trying to cross the street mown down by car' - different kettle of fish.
I still remember the first thought that went through my head when it hit $30...

"Well that shit is gonna crash tomorrow"
From my perspective, watching the markets since 2013, the 2017 boom was caused by Ethereum. Before Bitcoin shot up, Ethereum had shot up from $8 in December 2016 to nearly $50 a couple months later.

Now, Ethereum is a novel innovation on blockchain tech. The smart contract hype was very real at the time. (For the record, I still think smart contracts have tremendous potential) ETH had navigated a fork, secured corporate alliances, setup several foundations to promote work and was starting to generate a lot excitement around projects like Augur, Ox, etc. Then on top of that, the ICO boom happened when several projects raised tens of millions of dollars. That caused a run on ETH.

ETH boomed and then BTC followed, at least for the 2017 boom. And then the speculators danced between altcoins, Tether, Bitcoin and ETH, trying to maximize their returns while paying little attention to fundamental adoption.

I think we've seen certain technologies take over markets very quickly in the past couple decades, like desktops and wifi and mobile and then smart phones and social media...that we've gotten used to rapid disruption in tech. However, with financial tech like blockchain and crypto, it necessitates slow adoption. Why is this? Because it's real money on the line. It's cool to move fast and break things when it's an app or a fitness tracker, but when it's significant amounts of money on the line, maturity, trust, and security are tantamount.

I still think blockchain will win in the long run against legacy tech. But it will be a slow disruption.
the leverage amounts typically "reset" daily (not always; read the prospectus) so if you lose 10% (say $100 => $80) at 2x your day 2 base is $80; a 10% gain that day would average out to 0 on net but you would gain 20% of $80 => $96
A few years ago they did a military exercise where France, in a state of civil war/secession following a government bankruptcy, used its military to try and loot Swiss wealth.

French authorities were not amused.
Curious, what's the underlying persistence. Are you actually using a graph database?
The guide seems to have been written a while back by someone from Argentina. Is it possible that the concerns you raise here are geography/time dependent? E.g. maybe Argentina doesn't have much of a parasite problem, or that when the guide was written a few decades ago pallets weren't treated with insecticides.

(the author seems to have a following and be somewhat respected otherwise, so I'm curious)
I'm happy about this like about a child’s first step.
Organic is a marketing term created by organic companies. Growing things without herbicides and pesticides is very difficult.
My struggle book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Good, though I think I preferred the earlier books. It's still very compelling, but a little too much Hitler in this one

Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane. Poetic landscape history, reminiscent of Sebald. Good stuff.

Click here to kill everybody by Bruce Schneier. Scary.

Machines like me by Ian McEwan. First McEwan I read for a while but I liked it more than I expected. I thought the AI bits were quite good.

The deep history of ourselves : the four-billion-year story of how we got conscious brains by Joseph LeDoux. Bit disappointed in this one, it seemed like there should have been a better story here.

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life: David Quammen.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. Makes CS careers look less appealing.
Similarly, in June 2018, I was chatting with my Uber driver and I told them I was interning as a software engineer and the driver started asking me about the AI/ML usage at my company (without me starting that discussion). Even before then, I thought AI/ML was overhyped. That interaction just confirmed it for me.
I wonder what your motives are behind your comment. Why would you try to downplay this issue? What do you have to gain by it?
As someone who has known about Perrone and his hives for a few years and has tried to follow his plans and directions, there is a key piece of information missing from most of his literature. The bees that Perrone has are Africanized and therefore way more aggressive and industrious. For those of us with standard European honey bees, the cavity sizes are just too large.
Radioactive Uranium Preconcentration via Self-Propelled Autonomous Microrobots
>> "spot the bunker/fallout shelter" with my friends

Shouldn't be too hard!

When I was young they had a law that every apartment building had to have a bunker / cellar stocked with provisions.
I don't have an opinion for or against use of glyphosate with "organic" food and share the general cynicism of the thread about the "organic" label.

But this site has a strong position on glyphosate (in accepting the premise that it is a "probable human carcinogen"), which is worth staying aware of. That position is probably totally reasonable for their audience, but keep in mind that it's automatically being recontextualized by being posted on HN.

So on this site, it's worth keeping in mind that glyphosate's status as a human health bogeyman is, at least, debatable. There is a huge amount of controversy over the manner in which IARC came to its conclusion, other health agencies have sharply disagreed with it, and, perhaps most importantly for this article, the exposure scenarios connecting cancer risk to glyphosate probably aren't relevant to food consumers.

Since part of the point of glyphosate is to reduce application of stronger herbicides that are more biologically active in humans, and those herbicides are generally neither known by name to consumers nor banned from agriculture, it's worth splitting hairs here.
45 miles is like what, a 35 minute drive in a rural area? Costco runs in Westchester NY took about that long when we depended on public transit.
They ran the complete opposite article yesterday.

Fake news
> the potential of gravity is higher than on the outside, so clocks run slower

Correction: the potential of gravity is lower inside the sphere than outside, so clocks run slower.
There’s an initiative for Rust-like editions, but I think it’s a controversial topic within the C++ committee.
Right. To attack the incumbent you have to hit where it cant defend. For example, hit it on the edge, where its investment are in the cloud.

Or, you can commoditize its offering (for example a multi-cloud solution). You cannot compete with the incumbent on its own terms.
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The Russian Peasant Algorithm [pdf]
As you said, there are exceptions. I accepted my current employer's counter offer which was less than the new job. I'm still here over three years later and have been promoted and am dramatically over what the original offer from the other employer was. It worked out doubly well for me as the other employer later folded and my equity at my current employer has been life changing.

You have to evaluate the reasons for why you would leave or stay beyond just a paycheck.
You mean like downtown Minneapolis?
https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-s...
Uber thinks it’s a ‘good thing’ for cities but cities are having second thoughts
Where and How to Spend Bitcoin
Smaller diameter rockets have a much worse fuel ratio (because of fuel tank geometry issues), so there’s no way they’ll ever be cheaper than larger rockets. They fundamentally must use more fuel per kg of payload than large rockets because fuel tank wet mass to dry mass ratio increases linearly with diameter.
I have a feeling that would be a breach of contract due to fraud. I also think that since you were able to come up with it, other smart people would be, too, and some of them would be people drafting these income share agreements.
"on their way to ending car ownership, Uber and Lyft got sidetracked and ended up clogging cities with more traffic. Between 2010 and 2016, traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent, and Uber and Lyft were responsible for more than half of that increase, according to a study published this year. Another study found that Uber and Lyft have added 5.7 billion miles of driving annually in cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC."
Yes — we are definitely considering remote devs for this position.
Well the Tether transactions are run on a centralized blockchain, but the underlying value of Tether is based entirely on trust in Bitfinex backing it with actual dollars.

As for Maker, I really don't know how the SEC would begin to shut it down if it wanted to. It's entirely smart contract driven and it's live on the Ethereum blockchain, which is truly decentralized. Surely we need to update securities law for the 21st century as I'm not sure the Howey test had blockchain era in mind.
Interesting! Didn't know about this.
No, that's not true, it's the strongest USDA mandated and certified food standard available in the USA. The USA standard is far weaker than EU's organic standard, which is weaker than the UK's, but it is still the strongest defined standard in the US market.

Not only do those standards limit pesticides, they restrict frequency and amount of what is permissible. The European standards have additional rules around animal welfare (I'm less sure about the US here) - which make organic the most animal friendly way of buying food, regardless of whether or not you care about organic's aims or use of pesticides.
Right, which is why every other company uses two safety drivers so they can cover for eachother when distracted
To clarify further, the exact phrasing used was "roughly 100 partners", as in roughly 100 external legal entities. Each legal entity could have any number of software developers.
Hey, serfish is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
Right, which goes back to the question shtylman asked about why doSomething couldn't be part of the try block. I'm tossing this form out there in case it helps. People sometimes forget that await can go wherever an expression goes.
Bitcoin has smart contracts, and has for many years now. Ethereum's marketing for the phrase is kind of misleading.

Why the downvoting? Apparently a number of people haven't heard of Bitcoin Script, or are upset I pointed out this very factual item about Bitcoin? Seems somewhat odd.
Cyberpunk Is Dead
> Imagine if every highway in the Bay Area were a publicly-traded company. Accident happens on I-280 due to a pothole. Shareholders panic and short sell I-280 stock. Accident never gets cleaned up. Pothole never gets fixed. Because they don't have funding to fix it.

I occasionally hear this argument about "the roads" mentioned, but I'm genuinely curious if there are notable real life examples of this scenario.
It's essentially saying that local communities should decide how flammable they want to be
For some reason, I don't think this is surprising.

Within the tech industry, specially Hacker News readers, we know that Facebook does a lot of "growth hacks", "gorilla marketing", "Microsoft way of doing things - Bill's era (remember Netscape vs. IE?)". So, even if FB Internal docs are released, the real surprising fact will be that end users are not going to simply stop using FB, IG, WhatsApp and we get mystified about "WHY"?! Or just "accept" that's always the case.

At the end, the users are either not interested to follow what FB does nor they have access to the truth. With those Billion of users, most of them are outside the sphere of influence of American media. Each country shows its most interesting news, a combination of top current world and local news. The current ones would be "Climate Change", "Hong Kong Protests", "Trade war US and China", "Something in the Middle East", "Something about US Stocks", and maybe: something about FB.

If we imagine ourselves as news writers, it is not easy to convey the nuances, calculated moves, and strategic choices that FB is doing to control its market to the general population. Thus, there are many barriers to really use this information to change FB behavior. Perhaps I'm pessimistic about it.

So at the end, it will only be surprising if the users understand and FB get huge pushback from its user base.
Maker is run on a centralized blockchain. Ethereum is pretty admittedly centralized on the Infura node-as-a-service platform, which in of itself is hosted on AWS.

https://www.coindesk.com/the-race-is-on-to-replace-ethereums...
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