skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nevada's been overrun with authoritarians too (especially ones that want to escape what authoritarianism has done to California).
> Let's say a ride is $10 if you drive in a car alone. $5 if you share with another person and $3 if you share it with 2+ people.

This is overly complicated, hard to implement and to prevent abuse. There's a much simpler way already in place - tax on fuel. And it's much harder to circumvent or abuse. You can hope they won't catch you driving alone and paying as if you drove with 3 people in car. You can't hope to drive without fuel.

Increase the fuel prices 10 times and people will be much more efficient with their use of transportation. You use almost the same amount of fuel no matter if you move 4 people or 1. And public transport uses slightly more to move 20 or 50 people. With high enough fuel prices we can reduce traffic jams to 0.

The problem is - it will suck and people will complain. Ultimately people spend time in traffic jams because that's what their least sucky option is.
At this point there are enough wifi tethering capable mobile phones all over the world to run a mostly decentralized internet.

Also Lightning network is capable of sending messages, but the infrastructure is just being built. Without micropayments the incentive structures wouldn't be there to build the decentralized internet (which of course means mostly centralized in practice, but increased fees instead of disrupted network in case of government action).

At the same time Lightning Network needs people to adopt Bitcoin, in which the adoption is about 10M people all over the world, which is in the 0.1% order. At about 2x / year growth, it will take about 6-10 years until it gets practical.
Is hackers news really censoring and deleting comments ?
Separating HTML from CSS has no basis, they are both concerned with the visual organisation of information. I feel that the real problem is not with CSS, but with how HTML forces you to jointly specify the semantic structure
of data with its layout.
Nope, well out of warranty.

Ultimately, they missed out on a lot of work. Actual issue was a broken exhaust valve spring.

Indy got the same notes as me, immediately did a compression test and easily knew it wasn’t plugs/coils.
> Why would Tesla sell a car to you for $10k profit if they can make $70k profit?

Because there is a niche that is profitable and if Tesla doesn't fill it, someone else will? After all, Tesla has had no motivational difficulties trying to fill that niche right now, so someone will be willing.

I also question the 70K profit part. Assuming robotaxis actually become a thing, why do you think the cars will make much profit at all? There will be a race to the bottom. I know a lot of Model 3 owners trying to justify their FSD purchase by suggesting they will eventually make back all of that money and more, but I can't figure out why they think this time they will be immune to market dynamics.
Other way of putting it: tech people do their job.

I mean, if an engineer is assigned to a project, what else is he/she meant to do?
Don't use them then.
Wouldn't that be a trip that someone would normally be driving anyway? Also wouldn't it make sense to have a store deliver to lots of people on one circuit, this reducing traffic?
The emptying out of retail showspaces, whether mass-item stores, or specialty high-ticket retail such as furniture, is frustrating.

One trend I've observed is that consumables are often not available. The office-supply store which carries pens, but not the ink refils, stylus caps, rubber/erasers, etc. The one which boggles my mind is literally the razer/blade case: selling the razer handle, but not carrying the blades. This for a product I've searched for across multiple stores, for years. It's beyond comprehension.

Across the spectrum, from high-ticket items to low, you often simply cannot see, examine, or touch the merch in person. The whole online order/return cycle is one I especially loathe.
Well, RepRap has the philosophy that self-replicating systems such as hedgehogs and raspberries need some definite set of “vitamins” available prefabricated in their environment for self-replication, and RepRap chose things like threaded rod, NEMA motors, hotends, and Arduinos as their vitamins. This was extremely successful at making 3-D printers mainstream — every popular 3-D printer out there derives from RepRap designs — but not at producing an exponentially growing quantity of 3-D printers printed by 3-D printers.
I’m a C programmer, and I don’t really see what adding this additional complexity will really bring to the language. I always think of C as half typed. I get all the benefits of static typing where it makes sense, but I’m also not afraid to do some casts and throw around some void pointers. Go has it so much better with the underlying type attached to the interface.
Grammarly – do you use apps like this?
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> Ubuntu app has crashed

Try disabling apport in /etc/default/apport

Or with the command: sudo systemctl disable apport

Yes, it sucks having to do that.
Dark themes have been around since at least the windows 3.0 days. I worked for a company making a "mobile" client in that time-frame that ran on laptops of the era. We had a button in our application that fliped the global windows theme between a high contract day look, and a dark night theme. IIRC both were default windows themes at the time.

And frankly back then I don't remember any applications not actually following the windows theming. It was only later in the late 1990's that I started to notice a lot of applications failing to follow the UI theme settings. Initially that was one of the big problems with java applications, they didn't look like windows apps, and they didn't follow the color settings.
I moved to Joplin from Evernote a little over a year ago. It has had ongoing development and new features being added the entire time. The development is very iterative, and functionality comes before fashion, but the UI has been getting improved too.

The backup/sync system is great. Fully encrypted and numerous cloud configuration options. I use it with Fastmail’s $5/mo. service and it’s very easy to setup.

The iOS app could use some more improvements but far better than not having one at all.

Overall Joplin is highly recommended because of it’s compatibility, flexibility, privacy, and no-frills functionality.
So we all just need to compress our cities until they achieve NYC density?
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Friend of mine went to the doctor after tearing her meniscus. Doctor said she absolutely needed surgery and it won't heal without surgery. She said "thanks but no thanks."

It healed on its own.
Well... those Bell Labs types were polyglots. They tried a lot of things in a lot of languages. Does that mean that Rob Pike knew about sum types? Not necessarily, no. But it gives you two possibilities.

1. Rob Pike spent all that time at Bell Labs, with all these CS experts, read and wrote all those papers, and never heard about sum types. That's... possible. It's not the way I would bet, but it's possible.

2. Rob Pike knew perfectly well what sum types were, and left them out of Go, because he thought they didn't fit with what he was trying to do.

To me, the second is both more charitable, and more in line with what I think Rob Pike's background and experience would have exposed him to. crimsonalucard obviously disagrees. He seems to think that sum types are so obviously the right thing that Pike could not have possibly not put them in Go had he known about them, and therefore he could not have known. And that is in fact possible.

But it seems to me to better fit with Pike's background, as well as with the principle of charity, to assume that he knew. And still he chose to leave them out.

Now, he could still be wrong. And we can discuss whether sum types are really a good fit for what Go is trying to do. But the assumption that he couldn't have known, or he would have done it the way someone else thinks he should have, is what grates on me.

For what it's worth, the Go FAQ (at https://golang.org/doc/faq#variant_types) says that they considered sum types, and didn't think they fit.
I disagree. Generating code at runtime like this is a giant can of worms. The right fix is to have a calling convention that allows closures to be passed a context parameter, so a closure would be a function pointer and a data pointer. Basically every reasonably modern language can do this. GCC’s hack to shoehorn closures into C couldn’t.

If GCC had a special function pointer type for closures, they would have worked just fine.
Read John Sarno's work, also David Schechter's.
This comes off as a rather long-winded summary, and it neglects to mention one of the core principles of the method, which is that you must physically touch the object you are deciding whether to keep or discard, not just look at it. Make piles on the floor and hold each item. I would put that in a 50-word summary. :D
This is so much hyperbole, typical of manifest destiny escapists.

You start with a pop-interpretation of an edgy existential statement. The point of Sartre's "No Exit" was not to glibly quote the punch-line, it's to think about the logical implications. Probably something about learning to live together despite our flaws/sins.

About escaping the state, the Book of Genesis figured it out long ago: humans behave badly (aka sin) and were thus cast out of the only place they could live in peace--in other words, some people ruined it for all the others. And because of bad behavior, humans need to follow laws; and who makes the laws is what has created (and continues to create) history. So it was never possible to escape the laws/state ever.

To dream of running far enough away to a mythical place where you alone get to make the laws is just futile escapism. The Amish and the Mormons just moved with their laws to a new place, and if you didn't agree with their laws, you still got kicked out.

Now for the hyperbole: the "underwater continental shelf" and Antarctica are not "trivially accessible", they are some of the most unexplored and hostile environments on Earth. You'd have lots of trouble establishing a livable base there.

Why does it have to be defensible? Is this some sort of Fort Laramie you have to steal from someone else? Leave society, live off only what you can make or grow, have no contact with the outside world. Find a lake in some remote mountains or an island in some remote sea, sneak out there and never come back! What? You still want the amenities, energetic resources, trade, and communication with the rest of the world? Then you're going to have to deal with other people and THEIR laws.

"basic human upgrades" "just an engineering problem" fit a factory in a human-sized body??? Why that should be as easy as a CRUD app on a virtual server with some rented storage.

Face it: for all intents and purposes, the world is full, nobody is escaping anywhere, and we all have to learn to live together.
Poor prioritisation doesn't excuse poor systems design.
How do I find the best co-founder?
I want to develop a product and I know that my chances for achieving the best possible result are vastly increased by finding the most suitable co-founder to compliment my abilities. What advice can this excellent community provide on the best way of accomplishing that?
Self driving cars seems more realistic
I think this type of pen-testing is asinine. A big part of why is that they are providing information that isn’t actionable, and it isn’t necessary to burgle a building — just do an audit.

The other is that the many of the companies in the space suck. Coalfire didn’t have an attorney worth a nickel. No competent organization in their right mind would accept a contract that includes illegal entry into another party’s property.

Maybe if the people who hired the per-testers were interested in an outcome (good security practices), instead of attention and shaming a business partner, you’d have a different outcome.
vulnx now has an interactive mode to easily interact.
If you include slang usages there's also jack off (jerk off), car got jacked (hijacked), he got jacked (muscular), doesn't know jack (jack shit), jack in (term from megaman battle network)
Have you considered Emacs + Org-mode? Works wherever Emacs works (Linux, Mac) and there are apps for Android and iOS. Org files are basically text files that you can commit to git or sync via Google drive, Dropbox, OneDrive etc. Not exactly markdown but GitHub renders org file pretty well.

After trying out multiple note taking apps this is what I settled on. You can use it as simple as a note taking app or configure it to do lots of complicated things like managing your to-dos, appointments, agendas. And my favorite feature is inline code-block that I can execute.
linkage?
Parsing Malformed JSON
I think it is because each comes with its own opinionated workflow, and missing features. Each has a way of writing markdown/connecting notes that is novel, which means each other option is missing that feature.

A take away from this scenario might be that this design space is wanting for a meta-editor. Some tool which allows feature creation in the same context as these markdown/note tools. An analogy might be that this meta-editor is to digital note keeping as racket is to programming languages.

Of course all the obvious requirements apply. Has to be usable out of the box, has to just work, has successfully convey it's ability to be changed to the end user.

I think emacs is such a solution, there are no features in the list of hn posts under the search "markdown" that it doesn't have. But emacs is missing all the requirements. It is not usable out of the box.

I think this meta editor could best be built on top of emacs, but this will require a lot of work. I have been playing around with this idea for a couple of years now and it's slow going but fun to think about.
The bonded wire strain gauge was invented in 1937 by Edward Simmons at Caltech and independently by Arthur Rage at MIT a little later. Simmons fought Caltech over the patent rights and won in 1949.

This made Simmons a lot of money.

Much later, he become rather odd. When I was a student at Caltech in the late '70s and early '80s he was frequently around campus sitting in on lectures or using the library. Most of us students and even most of the faculty and staff had no idea who he was but since security wasn't chasing him off or circulating warnings to avoid him no one minded.

By odd I mean his typical attire was purple or pink tights, a tutu, slippers, sometimes a garish multicolored sweater, and a beret or sometimes a turban. People called him "Renaissance Ralph".

Here's a couple photos of him [1] [2].

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79907149/edward-e-simmon...

[2] http://archives-dc.library.caltech.edu/islandora/object/ct1%...
Important note:

The SC has already denied to hear on whether APIs' SSOs are copyrightable, suggesting that it agrees with the Fed. Cir. opinion that they are.

This hearing is about Google's Fair Use defense.... and I don't expect Google to win on fair use unless the SC intends to really break new ground on fair use analyses.
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> But without a C runtime library function to allocate executable memory, the compiler is a bit stuck.

Whilst this can't be done in a platform-independent way, C does allow you to do this, doesn't it?

void* virtualCodeAddress = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);

(Or by mmapping and then calling mprotect).

I believe these appeared at least in glibc 2.27 (and POSIX 2001), if not earlier, and they run at runtime.

I'm not sure how legal it would be for the compiler to handle things in this way (apart from in "implementation defined" areas), but there isn't a technical reason they can't allocate executable memory at runtime.

(I also believe Windows handles things similarly with VirtualAlloc & VirtualProtect).
That doesn’t always mean you should have the surgery any time soon.

Suppose that surgery can be put off for 10 years without any loss of effectiveness or short term risk of death. Now you’re going to wait even if it’s eventually a good idea. Some people that either have the surgery or waited are killed off by other issues, making the waiting group have a higher expected life expectancy overall.

That’s just one example where seemingly useful treatments are less useful than initially assumed.
I use DevonThink. It's great-- excellent capture-from-web features. It has See Also, and folders.
The study selected participants that already owned cars.
Typora: Format a paper

iA Writer: Write something eloquent
I own a couple 2 seaters, and even that amount of reduced functionality with similar emissions seems dumb. This would only work if you did not value proximity to your friends and family.
Sorry, but this is idealistic to the extreme. You are completely dismissing the results of education research by saying that every educator is incompetent, despite almost all of these people having far more education experience than both of us combined. Your proposal to fix education is apparently to hyper-focus on a few technical points, like friction and the Sun's color. I don't see how this will help; have you actually spent time teaching intro physics?

In practice, high school and even college introductory classes have a hard time making the basics stick -- stuff as simple as just F = ma. Redirecting half the time you spend on that towards an exquisitely detailed model of friction is not going to produce better physicists. On the average, it's going to produce students that understand F = ma even less, but can recite a couple friction-related buzzwords.

There is no magic curriculum fix that will suddenly make mass education easy. Everybody who thinks about education starts by imagining there is, then reality hits.
This subpackage called Webclipper would be cool for parsing articles like Instapaper but instead of a better web version it saves to a markdown file than opens in Vim (or similar).

For some reason I like those old long readme.txt files from the 1990s. The ones formatted with max 80-120 characters wide per line, black background, etc.

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/master/readme/clipp...

I haven't tried this one yet. But the biggest problem with that approach is the links typically don't work, nor will citations render properly for Wikipedia. So maybe it's preferable using Lynx or w/e just for long-term reading or articles on news sites with disaster web design.
Exactly, Manifest Destiny is over, the world is full now and we recognize we can't just take land from others anymore. Time to learn how to live together without depleting or destroying our biosphere.
> on September 11, no less. We have two unknown people in our courthouse—in a government building—carrying backpacks that remind me and several other deputies of maybe the pressure cooker bombs.

What a sad existence to be ruled by such fear, living out some constant delusion of being attacked like the mass media spectacles. Then trying to push that fear onto everyone else to validate their own overreactions.
Its crazy that the arguments against microkernels were basically 100% its slower.. Which these days is completely batshit insane because we are running software in VM's eating 10%+ system performance, written in languages like Java/Javascript/etc which eat another 50% before the cowboy coder comes along and imports 2GB of libraries which effectively trash the caches/tlb/etc at every opportunity due to the difficulty of creating caches with massive associativity. Which is how we get chat apps written in electron eating up a couple 4+Ghz cores and multiple GB of memory just to display what was basically possible in with mIRC and 64k of ram 20 years ago.

NT tends to be conceptually about the right trade-off (micro-kernel design, but no context switching) but then they go do stupid crap like this.
"If a procedure has a 10% chance of killing you, and a 90% chance of extending your life by 30%, it's a net win."

I think it obviously depends on the specific probabilities and your current life expectancy, not to mention whether you are risk averse when it comes to the possiblity of immediate death.

For me, based on actuarial tables, I should expect to live for 36 years more. So the net expected gain with your example numbers is (0.9 * 10.8) - (0.1 * 36) = 6.1 years more. So that's a net benefit of ~17%, at a significant risk of dying right now. If it was normal to like that kind of deal, why would we buy insurance?

Also, there's something fishy about the problem statement in the first place, because a successful operation doesn't extend your life by 30%, unless nothing else was going to kill you before your originally anticipated lifespan.
TL;DR pentesting company gets a poorly defined and contradictory contract from the state judiciary the county uses it as an opportunity to pick a fight by pressing charges against two pen tester that were trying to break into the court house.
Strongmen don't avoid deadlift. Robert Oberst was on Joe Rogan Experience and suggested that people that aren't doing deadlift for the sake of the deadlift should look at other exercises because they are safer. Strongmen can't avoid it because in almost every strongman competition there is some sort of deadlift event. It has carry over into other events like the farmer's carry as well.
> instead of working to improve it, they work on another desktop manager

If only it was that simple. Turns out nobody wants your improvements and can't even understand and be convinced they are improvements, unless you follow their vision and policies and try to change your use cases to adopt to that and work on their idea of improvements. And then there are corporations, like Red Hat, that want to control linux desktop and are spreading this bullshit how linux desktop is bad because there is choice and not a single desktop environment they control.

> Linux on the desktop is a sign of someone who doesn’t recognize that a solution is good enough and accept it.

It's the other way around. You really have to be able to recognize and accept good enough to switch to linux desktop, because this is what you will always be after when using it.
Nix, similar to Bazel, Buck, Pants, and Please are very close to what I'd like but doesn't cover the exact functionality I'm looking for.
Maybe you shouldn’t trust an operating system that doesn’t properly sandbox apps or an ecosystem where the operating system maker doesn’t have control over it.

Even if the software maker is “trusted” they can still be incompetent.

First example Fortnite:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...

Second example Chrome itself. If you turned off System Integrity Protection on the Mac, a Chrome bug completely hosed your system:

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en

This is the year 2019. Apple has proven that it is possible to make an operating system that sandboxes apps so they can’t do stupid stuff. If an app can harm your mobile operating system or can install malware it is a system vulnerability.

I’m not claiming that iOS doesn’t have any security vulnerabilities but Apple treats them as a bug not as designed.

That being said, the only phone on the list that anybody in the US should even think about trusting are ones from Sony.
The protests are too widespread to be classified as just a 'rich-people's thing'. The regime would not have bothered to suspend the internet if they were so limited. I guess the poor may pay less, but they can afford the hurt less too.

In Chile, protesters have a slogan: “This protest is not about 30 pesos, but 30 years”. I think this is the case here. The Iranian economy never did very well, and limiting one of the few things the regime gave to the people was bound to lead to a reaction. That said, these types of protests usually produce little political effect.
TL;DR: Just another `Hello, world!` in JavaScript
So you want to work in Sports?