skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually no one (or at least no one with any sense) is advocating for the elimination of automobiles anywhere aside from dense urban areas. This article is from CityLab, who are chiefly concerned with those sorts of areas, and the article only discusses city centers.

You are arguing against a strawman here.
Depends what part of Europe. Around the mediterranean, sure. But in the industrial north / Benelux - not so much to see, but the cities are gorgeous.
A compiler error if the code cannot be eliminated during optimization. Kind-of hacky, but it could be valuable as a new function.
Why? That is how everyone else does business, paying their suppliers and tooling.
$300 is a very reasonable amount for something that sounds like it could have fetched maybe 5-10x that on reseller forums. But I could also see how he views you as some sort of predatory opportunist trying to make a quick buck.
Non-disparagement agreements are a common thing in business. They restrict your right to "complain". I regret the conflict between my understanding of English and that of others, but I stand by my statement.
I stumbled upon Matrix the other day. The reason I passed it over was it sounds like all discussions happen in rooms, which made me think Matrix is basically chat room software. Is there a way to have a public discussion on Matrix with the entire user base like Twitter?
Sorry for being too direct, but for the sake of clarity, and coming from my experience communicating with agile coaches - I think it is bullshit. I wonder if others have a similar experience/opinion...
.... or have a functional mass transit network so that they don't have to live downtown.
I don't think they meant they are able to find 100% of those people. Just that they are able to find some, which is more than the none they could find before.
Apparently they will evaluate existing APIs: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766089353129984
My very naive understanding of ultrasound techniques is that they can work very well, but in cases where they don't work they end up creating a mess of things (scar tissue, etc) that make subsequent removal pretty much impossible as the surgeon can no longer see clear boundaries. That info is several years out of date and second-hand, so perhaps by guiding the process a little better as TFA suggests they can avoid making any subsequent surgery impossible.
That's assuming "passive funds" aren't what huge corporations hold their liquid assets in when they're not used for buybacks. At least 60% is less than ~100%.
Yes but counterfeit bills are very rare but broken Kong bills will be very common.

Counterfeiting a bill requires special technology and evading the police. Breaking a Kong bill requires putting it into a wallet with too aggressive a fold.
(Breaking out this sentence into blocks because it's very large.)

The specification as-written is really, really bad (though I don't think this is a fault of the protocol),

Synapse is kind of...and work on Dendrite seems to have mostly stalled,

the billion people signed up on matrix.org has allowed for a sort of de facto centralization (not a huge problem, though in practice it sort of is, given how much the server buckles under the weight of all of the users; might be solved if it's ever moved onto a more performant implementation?),

the lack of encryption by default is iffy (though done for understandable reasons).

To lend credence to the specification being bad:

"I tried writing a matrix homeserver but I couldn't figure out how the state resolution process works" said by the author of Audacious/one of the authors of Pleroma/much more, so certainly a person who should be able to understand something that simple:

https://socially.whimsic.al/notice/9oxtjVqQw8gRS6QDKa

I know multiple people who've tried to implement the spec but who have gotten stuck on things that should be simple but are unclear if going by the spec.
The meaning of words change. Selfie used to mean a self-taken photo of yourself. Now people call every photo of a person a selfie.

ASCII used to mean a specific encoding, but its most widely known usage was in ASCII Art. And so the meaning of the word changes: ASCII starts to mean “ASCII art” even when it’s Unicode.
“40 hours is what they are set up for and it is hard for them to figure out how to be flexible, even if they want to.”

I had the same experience. asked for 32 hours week with corresponding pay cut. The HR people barely could comprehend the idea and certainly didn’t have a process for dealing with such a request.
The only thing I’d caution you is that, in my opinion, starting a successful company is 90% about relationships, and you mention feeling “cemented” in your past work relationships. And there might be something there you need to practice, and improve on, before you start your company.

(I say, as someone who is currently staying full-time employed, paused on entrepreneurship, and trying, and often failing, to be better in my work relationships)

That said, best of luck to you. You’re clearly self aware, which will see you through a lot.
Curious why this isn't a priority for the Postgres team. Not my area of expertise, and even I know about pgbouncer. Now another tool, so it seems like there's demand for it.
The front end of an example full-stack app built using Vue and Node
Hikari is a Java ODBC connection pooling library, meant to be used in your apps. Most other languages/frameworks also have client drivers that implement connection pooling today, but that only affects that specific program.

Odyssey / PGBouncer / PGpool are all external programs that implement connection pooling so multiple programs and servers can pool connections to a single database.
At my first programming job, my performance suffered when management ran out of things for me to do because I was running the mobile department successfully while the web side of things was constantly on fire. When confronted about the lack of progress on my side, I explained that my sprint tickets were mostly pointless, with no business value. My manager said it's my job to do it anyway. Unfortunately I stuck around for a little while longer after that. I really shouldn't have.
Agree overall, one thing to note is that 737 Max already capitalizes on all errors corrected from 737.
Max is 20 worse with all off the old system being already excluded from possibilities of malfunction (as long they are not affected by mcas or other new additions).

> Put people in jail for negligence

The higher ups new this was a tragedy waiting to happened they just hope its going to be their successors that will have to pay. Negligence is definitely too light or a term for this. This is knowingly putting people lives in jeopardy in the name of extra % in profits.
I think University prices are like some weird mirror of airline ticket prices. Time was that airlines sold tickets at a premium but the service was great. Now you can get tickets at incredibly low prices but the service is at cattle car level. People complain but at a fundemental level - that's what they want.

The airlines say "If you want 60's service then fly first class and pay 60's level prices" And the response of virtually everyone is - No, thank you, I just want to get to wherever I'm going as cheaply as humanly possible.

It seems like the same thing in reverse happened with University. Have you seen or read about dorms in the 50's? Or all the ancillary things that went with going to a university? It was all crap. And it's like everyone went "I would like a very nice University experience. I want a nice dorm. I want a beautiful campus. I want a sports team that wins and gym to go to. I want administrators that will hold my hand." And the Universties resonse was "You go it. If you want the cheap version go to community college"

Now by bent I'm classically liberal. If you asked me why prices have gone up I'd tell you a tale of government action. Make student loans widly available. Making student debt non-dischargable in bankruptcy. You may not but I find the argument plausible.

What if that's not a root cause though? Because truelly none of that stuff happens by chance. It's everyone who votes putting people in government. It's everyone who votes saying- "These are my priorities" and then the people in government saying "this is how we're going to meet those priorities" and both walking away happy to some greater or lesser degree.

All of which indicates to me that free University for all isn't going to cut it. If it's publically financed it won't in the long run be able to afford what people seem to want to get out of University. If that's true then they'll all run to a non-free private system and get the politicians to help them to pay for it.
Several companies that friends of mine work at institute a 10% personal project time policy. Where 10% of their week is devoted to personal projects. They pick any topic of interest related to programing, learn something new, and when they are done they show the project to the team to present what they've learned. I don't think they have a time limit per se. Some people I know have done work with the raspberry pi, or learned a new framework, or implemented something they were doing at work in a different language. Leaving it open ended allowed for people to pick something that was of interest to them.

The problem with this approach I think is you get more buy-in, but might be arguably less directly applicable to work.
I like how a liberal arts education is "divergent from the norm" now. The primary function of university is to make people read for four years. Business degrees, CS degrees, essentially job training programs are a bastardization of the institution.
Simplistic software manifesto.

1. All software breaks, so let's avoid failure by not even trying.

2. Constraining the user to simple tools, because the user is an idiot.

3. There is only one correct way to do something, and it's mine. Coming up with one mediocre way to do things is already a great accomplishment; thinking about design tradeoffs is unthinkable. YOLO!

4. The dependencies of a system are not fun, so they are your responsibility. Good luck.

5. Standards are a source of inspiration, idiots (see #2 above) aren't going to run into interoperability problems, missing features, and other consequences of implementing only the "simple" parts of the standard.

The cproc missing features list is a brief but very insightful example of this way of thinking (I mean, this way of not thinking).
Plus they might chose not to get taxed by holding the stock.
From this thread the only conclusion I can draw is that Twitter is in the bottom five. Which is bad enough.
You are correct. But that also frees us to study what we want. Which is why some people end up studying Liberal Arts and have very little employable market demand.

When corporations start sponsoring degrees you will see a lot less "fluff" in those forms of higher education.
How about we just stop subsidizing the shit out of cars? Let them pay their own way.

Also, we do not need 'one size fits all' solutions for the entire US. What's appropriate for Wyoming might not be appropriate for the California Bay Area, which is plenty dense.
We’re not measuring income inequality. It’s the government that owes the money, not individual Puerto Rican’s, and GDP measures the tax base the government can tap for paying back that money. (The fact that Italy’s GDP is 20x bigger is also irrelevant. Italy also had 20x more people that the government must provide services for.)

As to the damages—a lot of the $100 billion in damages is lost income which is already reflected in lower GDP. Other parts are covered by insurance. Tens of billions more will be covered by Congressional aid.
For those claiming this can’t be done in the USA: the article talks about streets, not roads.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/street: "a thoroughfare especially in a city, town, or village that is wider than an alley or lane and that usually includes sidewalks”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road: "an open way for vehicles, persons, and animals, especially one lying outside of an urban district”

Street implies relatively dense building and, historically, implied people walked and kids played on them.

This doesn’t claim you won’t be able to drive a car between neighbourhoods.
> Puerto Rico's GDP is $100 billion. They need to repay $75 billion in bonds, and they have $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

This is not a great ratio. But it’s not unmanageable.

The GDP per capita implies there are tax raises and service cuts somewhere which would be feasible, alongside cutting debt and liabilities. Much of the population being in poverty is an inequality, not resource scarcity, argument.
I'm sure that is what they tell themselves at youtube HQ. But I'm not convinced. Why should one A.I. fit everyone? It just seems like laziness, ie. corporate inertia, to me. If they could open up an API for third party recommenders this would really be interesting.
No fail-over supported so far.
Mostly because it's a lot of work due to Postgres process-per-connection architecture and since these projects already exist, so dev time is better spent elsewhere for now.

PG generally depends on 3rd-party tools to complete and polish the experience for those that need it.
Three reasons why not: operational, business, and technical.

Operational: they don’t control features; adding them by contributing to the standard would leak planned features, and without contributing, would be seen as embrace-extend-extinguish.

Business: it would contribute work to their competitors.

Technical: implementing global search on it is implausible.
It is possible that Steve Jobs died from complications of Kaposi's sarcoma.

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hiv...

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hiv...

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_purported_HIV_medical_...

Release date
January 15, 2009
Summary

Two photos, purporting to be part of Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs medical file, show a HIV positive status. The two photos have been spread over email, and appeared in a number of Internet publications, including CNN's "ireport", which previously released a false death report for Mr. Jobs.

The results by HIV testing company SxCheck are dated 1 Sep 2004. Though SxCheck's website did not launch until 2006[1], its parent company Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation has existed since the 1980s[2]. It is thus plausible that the results are a re-issue of earlier tests associated with its parent company. SxCheck's website advertises "decades of experience"[3].

If Steve Jobs did have HIV, it is possible that his pancreatic cancer was a Kaposi's sarcoma, which are noted to emulate pancreatic cancer in HIV-positive patients[4]. Steve Jobs also follows a diet occasionally recommended to AIDS patients as an alternative therapy[5].

A close inspection of the second image reveals that Mr. Jobs personal details are slightly misaligned and do not follow the perspective of the surrounding text. "Born" in the "Birth date" field is also unusual, although not by itself a key signature of fabrication.

The social security number, on the other hand, is of a valid structure and was issued in California, although it is unknown if it is Mr. Jobs.

As Apple, Inc's stock price depends in part on the health of Mr. Jobs, stock speculators are motivated to introduce information critical of Mr. Jobs health.

Due to the contradictory dates, possible evidence of forgery, strong motivations for fabrication, and few motivations for a legitimate revelation, the images should not be taken at face value.
Me too. The company benefits in the long run. I've never had any complaints. In general I've found no one ever complains if you spend time learning.
Yes it is a huge red flag in general. If your company discourages learning on the job, you run, cause the company is only heading down hill.
So, I clear international freight through customs for a living. Maybe a decade ago we had this shipment from a now defunct website that was (I think, maybe it had the c) 'fuk.it'. In the package were various 'sexual toys'. Some sort of electronic shock device, some comically large anal 'toy' and a 'deep hole dick spreader' which was a urethral sound being marketed as a sex 'toy'.

We had to go to the website to try and figure out how to classify the stuff with names like the above and 'colon snake' and not only did they sell these torture implements but they sold a variety of -caine local anesthetics.

Humans never cease to amaze and confuse me.
Yeah, I live in Berlin and we have an increasing number of car free zones here where people can move around without being afraid of getting killed.

Even children play outside again in such areas without risking their life. Not to mention the lack of noise, pollution and clogged up space with parking cars.

Cafes thrive and people stroll around to spend their time and money. Businesses return from the outskirts etc. It's a dream for everybody. Also crime rates drop as drug dealers can't drive through anymore.
> The nation has rarely been this prosperous and unthreatened

This is not quite true. While the average income may be higher, the inequality is also much higher and quality of life has decreased for a large part of the population. On the politicians turning into bickering children, one can also blame the lack of oversight and flawed districting system that robs large populations of representation and removes a lot of accountability.

The country has also been continuously at war for pretty much all of this century - not quite war, but more like colonial policing, which is a political hot potato.
Bears are most commonly armed with 87.6 mm artillery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

It seems it's the author's brand name for software, and is a pun on the US constitution's second amendment:

http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/

We may thus infer that you would arm bears because of the threat of armed bears. After all, to stop a bad bear with a gun, it takes a good bear with a gun.
Ban suburbs, too. They basically mainly exist to give white people a place to move to, to get away from pesky minorities.
Facebook quickly copied the feature. You can put friends in groups and then limit your various activities to those groups.
I've read that, though never personally asked, people in manhattan rarely own cars and all the traffic is from outsiders and construction workers. I can't verify this but I suspect this is probably a pattern that is replicated in many major cities since most of the residents understand the functionality of the local public transportation system.
It becomes a 'right tool for the job' situation.

When we lived in Italy we:

* Walked to the grocery store, nearby pizza place, kids' schools, doctor and barber. Because it's not illegal (zoning) to build those things near where people live!

* Rode bikes downtown when the weather was decent

* Took the tram downtown with the kids.

* Took the car to go hiking in the hills or go visit my wife's parents in a small town 30 minutes away.
> Typing emoji is as simple as double-clicking on the character you want from the pane that pops down from the menu bar.

… Which means getting your hands off the keyboard. That is why I don't like being forced to type emoji; it requires a (physical) context switch.
Well, that's you. I plan entire vacations around the idea of not having to drive anywhere while on them.
All moderation is censorship, to some degree. Even a voting system like HN's has censorship-like qualities: it is specifically designed to make unpopular comments less visible than popular ones. And that is fine, I wouldn't want to only have forums or social media with zero moderation.

Censorship only becomes a problem when it is _unavoidable_, that is, you cannot choose to live outside of some entity's censorship influence. This is where things get complicated when you have giant entities like Facebook or Twitter, which are for many people difficult to avoid (and there certainly isn't an alternative to them).

The problem arises when these entities need to choose which messages to show you. Even without putting any conscious bias in this algorithm, there is a system there which prioritizes some messages over others in a completely opaque way, which is often game-able (bad-faith actors can abuse the system to spread their propaganda, for instance). So moderation is not merely necessary but _unavoidable_, simply because there is more content than you can be presented with, and unfortunately the huge power of moderating large social media networks rests in the hands of a handful of engineers.

Decentralization is an interesting solution here because it would make the social graph and the recommender system separate entities, with clients being able to choose which recommender/moderation system they subscribe to. The need for censorship wouldn't be gone, but with people being able to choose their own censor, the massive power imbalance is not quite as bad.
There is no such thing as an 'unknown packet'. Your ISP employs Deep Packet Inspection. So they can downgrade your game but not mine because I pay them to.

https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/deep-pack...
“I think the problem was that the short term opportunity costs were too high when everything was on fire (which was often).”

That’s such a sad way of thinking but pretty common. In addition a lot of people seem to be thinking that if not everything is on fire all the time they are moving too slowly.
Can 5G replace everybody’s home broadband?
Strongly disagree. My wife & I cycled from Copenhagen to Skagen to Amsterdam to Paris. We loved both the cities and the countryside.
Nope. He uses Some software available only on windows or MacOs for his podcasts.

I am also strongly considering to jump ship from Mac to windows now. However, I have some software licenses that won’t transfer so I’m waiting for the renewal periods to expire.