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> Great, so if we can't all have something, none of us should have it! Forget the fact that the vast majority of families own and benefit from personal transportation, the important thing is that we're all equal, even if the equal case is on average worse for everyone, right?

This is entirely the opposite of what the car-free movement is trying to accomplish.

Car-free is strictly concerned dense urban areas, where private automobiles pretty strictly work against the common good. They are noisy, dangerous, polluting, and fail to create efficient transportation networks. In such places, there is very good reason to believe that car-free would improve quality of life and median welfare for residents.

Obviously car-free is not a realistic option in suburban, semi-urban, and rural areas. No one who is advocating car-free is suggesting we do it there.

Any increase in equality that comes along with it (honestly I'm skeptical it would make much of a difference) would be purely incidental.
it's weird that when i search for "cafe dictionary" in google all the dictionaries except the Oxford Learner's Dictionary spell it as "café"
Which is not the norm in any developed economy where the average person can even consider owning a car.
That's downright insulting! I'm from Edmonton.

Yeah, I fear we have too much snow - while bicycles can still be used by the most stubborn, electric vehicles can't summon up that curmudgeonly spirit that will get them out of every second snow drift.
This is a misleading comparison. When you spend money on R&D, it's spent. Somebody is actually consuming man-hours to do work that then can't be used for something else. When you "spend" money on buybacks, it's just moving money around. No scarce resources are consumed, it's just a meta-determination of who gets to decide how to actually spend the money.

And moving the money from huge risk-averse corporations to investors that may have a higher risk tolerance may increase investment into innovative new ventures.
Why would Riot give this network to competitors? Only to make money. If that price gets too high. You, as s small indie developer, have just been driven out of the market.

That's the logic of the above post. The answer is NEITHER "outsource it" NOR "do it yourself". Instead, if the public offering is good enough, you dont need either option. That's how the internet has worked and grown so far.
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Ironically enough, it's on her LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briannekimmel
I'll see what I can do for flex. I already have the GNU perms.

And no, libtools cannot be removed. It's still required for any cross platform tool with shared libs
It's not that simple. You have also half blocks (U+2580 UPPER HALF BLOCK, U+2584 LOWER HALF BLOCK) to deal with.
Hi, Chris Webber here. You're quoting my blogposts out of context.

Yes, the standardization process was a difficult one. Standards efforts often are, and social web ones especially. Nonetheless I think we did a good job.

The purpose of those posts is to ask people to stop fighting each other and try to work together; it feels highly ironic for you to quote them to increase division.
> You don't know what was required to get it approved. It might be allowed only in certain areas of town by right
I know that it wasn't prohibited I. The cities in which it was approved and built; the claim was that it was prohibited in most cities, not that it required special permits in most cities outside of limited predesignated areas.

I'm simply not going to treat a Twitter thread making claims about what is prohibited in development in most American cities that provides no evidence of this widespread prohibition seriously when several of the things it points to are clearly not prohibited in most cities in the region notorious for being unusually restrictive about what is allowed in development.

Now, sure, that's not disproof of the claim, not have I claimed that it is. But it is more than a sufficient to demand evidence before granting it credence, and when even those trying to defend the claim have to shift the goalposts far from the actual claim, I think that's a further indicator of it's shaky ground.
other options in USA are

1. Being abused by TSA

2. Take amtrak and get left middle of nowhere at 1 am , 2 days late.

3. Take greyhound/
Not sure why it should be the case that you are allowed to defer these taxes?
ActivityPub literally isn't a viable solution to this because it isn't decentralized. It's federated. There's a big difference.
It is unethical, but the entire article is designed to convince people LinkedIn is outdated. It’s written on a blog that has 0 other submissions to hacker news. It was obviously a fluff piece written by someone trying to disrupt professional networks.

It doesn’t change the quality of her argument.
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the wealth is not there - that's the point I'm making. Hurricane Maria cost $140 billion. Puerto Rico's GDP is $100 billion. They need to repay $75 billion in bonds, and they have $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

Using GDP per capita (which is the wealth per person) is a very poor measure for the overall size of the economy.

This is akin to saying a SV silicon valley engineer who makes $250k a year should be able to pay his $2 million mortgage when he all of a sudden gets hit with $300k in medical expenses because he got hit by a bus while riding his scooter without a helmet - fuck it, he's wealthy. He just needs to budget better.
The name is likely to be changed when it returns to flight. Some undelivered Ryanair 737-MAX have already been painted with the model number 737-8200.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/boeing-737-...
> F# proves otherwise

Not really...F# has a "slow" compiler too.

Any advanced type system, whether F#, C++, Haskell, Scala, Rust, TypeScript...is inevitably going to have a significantly slower compiler than a more basic system (Go, Java, C).

That's just part of the tradeoff; though obviously you can optimize within those bounds.

It's about as universal as the runtime "rule": compiled perf > interpreted perf. Not technically inviolable, but practically so.

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P.S. And while the F# compiler is indeed faster than rustc, it's not apples-to-apples. F# compiles to CLR; Rust compiles through LLVM all the way to native. If Rust deferred work to runtime with an LLVM interpreter (http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html ?), it would improve compile-time performance, at the cost of runtime overhead.
If it's a city I'm flying into (or taking train to), sure. I don't want to drive in a city, especially one I'm not familiar with, when I don't need to.

But a nearby city I'm driving to from home? I'm far less likely to go in for the evening if there aren't good parking options. I'm even near a commuter rail line which works pretty well if I have a daytime event. But it doesn't work for evening things.
Is all of Photopea static besides things have to do with the account management? How do you go about hosting the site? I'm always curious to hear about these things from people who obviously know what they're doing.
Because the billionaire owns (at least a share) in said consulting firms, and isn't constrained by tax laws and borders in the same way that the underclasses are?
"What are the elements of higher-level cognition? Causality is one element of it, and there’s also reasoning and planning, imagination, and credit assignment ..."

I don't think we have any clue about the answer to this question. Reasoning and planning, etc., it's just epiphenomena of consciousness.
That makes a lot more sense! Actually rings a bell from when I ran in to the same wrongly-remembered wording in uni.

I'm not sure why, but getting back to the right terminology/vocabulary just to get back in to the basics of mathematics is a lot harder for me than it was 20 years ago.
When the author writes:

"Even if face recognition can match a face with 99% accuracy, the sheer amount of faces available in police databases makes false positives inevitable. (The 1% error rate means that, if 10,000 people who are not wanted by the police undergo face recognition, 100 will be flagged as wanted)."

The author is not being fair.

Usually with technologies like these, developers will not aim for an accuracy of 99%, but a precision of 99% (that is what we do with Congestion Charging in London, where the ramifications of FPs are much lower [I work in Transport for London]). That means that for 10,000,000 people undergoing facial recognition, only 100 may be flagged as wanted, and only 1 will be a false positive. If we were talking about 99% accuracy, that doesn't necessarily mean what the author claims either. Accuracy is (TP + TN)/(P + N), meaning that the decrease in 1% from 100% can be in any of:- a lowering of TP or TN; or an increase of FP or FN. There is no reason to think that the 1% will all mean false positives.
Racket is a Lisp. One that facilitates building other languages.
Waze adds unplowed road reporting feature
Car-free is about dense urban centers, not transit between them. That's an entirely different problem (or potentially not a problem at all).
>He made a fortune in distressed sovereign debt, purchasing bonds from countries that appeared to be in financial trouble, watching as they defaulted, then suing in court for full repayment.

Amazing. I want to bet in shit games like roulette, inevitably lose my money, then sue the casino and get it back.

Fucking parasites. A we know the only way to deal with these people. It's clear that "peaceful protests" can simply be ignored.
I have really liked driving in Europe. The true benefit of driving is seeing what is in between cities.
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Except ... cars do solve every use case. Suboptimal, yes, but I can get whoever & whatever I need to practically every square kilometer of this country (4200 x 2500) within 50 hours (5400km). Public transport simply can't, because it can't have stations within anywhere close to each of 10,500,000 square kilometers - and even where it does, I'm waiting (maybe hours) for service, and am severely limited in cargo options.
If you're referring to "...investors have been cashing out of US stocks at a record pace", than to further clarify - investors are divesting out of the public stock market entirely. They're not selling their Apple stock in a buyback to invest the proceeds of the sale into an exciting IPO, or a deep value small cap. They're just taking it out of entirely.
Think what that implies about the macro structure of a "market economy" when the majority of new money going into stocks is executive/company initiated stock buy backs, and not "investment".
Thank you, Paul, for taking the time to explain this.
I can't help but think there is nothing altruistic about this.
Support a landlord near you!

(Just kidding, you can't afford to. Enjoy your hike! Maybe in 30 years they'll get public transit working where you need it. You'll promptly get priced right out again, but at least you'll know your taxes went to a good cause!)
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> Personally, I know at least a few people who do not have a Facebook account at all, but they do have a LinkedIn, because that’s where the jobs are.

I’m one of those. I’m on linked in because that’s where I can connect with others in my industry. I don’t care what they do for vacation or their political views but I am interested in their take on issues we’re mutually encountering.

I’m also not looking for work for me but I’m on the lookout for talented folks and former members of my team. If they need a role or if something sounds like them, I can link them up
I think one needs to be careful with this sort of argument. Do you completely understand an algebraic structure by writing a bare-bones implementation of it? Absolutely not. Do you completely understand an algebraic structure by proving a few exercises in a book, or all of the exercises in a book? Also absolutely not.

All either of these does is change the balance an infinitesimal amount between what you do know about the structure and the vast, staggering amount of things you don't know about the structure. Getting paralysed by that vast, staggering amount out there doesn't help anyone. Instead, take tiny nibbles and build confidence—and if your implementation in a programming language of an algebraic structure helps you to do the proofs, or even just helps you realise when the structure might be appropriate in a programming task, then real progress has been made, no matter how much you still don't know.
As a consumer there is no way I will never book a flight on a 737 Max (even if those planes are allowed to fly again), and if I have the choice between flying a Boeing and an Airbus, I will buy the flight on an Airbus. Boeing clearly needs to get back the flyers trust.
There's the bit about 60% of money being managed passively, and these passive funds will buy Microsoft stock at $100 or $1M (proportionally). The stock buybacks shouldn't affect the market cap (it's just moving money). It's impossible to know if the buybacks have actually affected market caps, but consensus seems to be that it's increasing market caps. That means you're getting free money from passive funds. Seems like a problem for pensions and most 401ks.
Not entirely true: https://www.boredpanda.com/students-bicycle-school-winter-sn...

However I think below zero is better for biking than near zero to avoid remelting.
GP was merely refuting the one point made by GGP, that a lack of cars would somehow widen the class divide.
The earth can sustain much more than that, we even have the beginnings of the technology needed for that now. Indoor farming can produce the needed food, providing we can produce enough energy - which requires a lot of renewables and some breakthroughs in nuclear fission and fusion. Desalinization can produce the water, with the same energy requirements. In the end everything is an energy problem, which is why nuclear fusion is so exciting.

We're actually limited not by space, water, or arable land, but by thermodynamics. At some point we'd overheat the planet directly from our own waste heat. We have to get off the planet to continue growing the population.

Once we do that the limits on human population are so high as to be mind boggling.
There is a high 8/low 9 digit inventory of private student loans, not held federally.
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I got the same idea during my last team lead gig.

I introduced a "interests & responsibilities" matrix, supposed to align team members skills with their interests.

Goal was to:
* ensure all needed skills are covered within the team
* foster collaboration between knowledgeable persons and those wanting to gain more expertise.

But it's quite hard to use if you don't tie it to the team processes. It has to be visible and integrated to the team's workflow.
We don't need a new tax, just a fix to an old tax- tax all capital gains the same as normal income. Even better if we enabled a refund of some sort in years with negative capital gains to act as an automatic stimulus.
I can open the link right now.
Accidental typos (better yet, missing space after a period) also triggers some clients to send HTTP requests to the pseudo-URL to build up a quick view, which sounds like a potential security problem.
This is an external pool, rather than an internal one. That is to say that it runs as a separate process that re-implements the Postgres network protocol to accept incoming connections. The use-case is that it allows you to share one pool across multiple application processes. Depending on your architecture, it can actually make sense to use both an internal pool to reduce connection startup latency and an external pool to reduce your total number of connections.
Ten minutes? Wouldn't it take you about thirty minutes maximum to walk in that case?

You can go a lot more than 1.5mi in 10min if there isn't bad traffic. If 3/10 of those minutes are on a highway that's probably an hour or worth or more of walking.

>If the walk would be unpleasant or otherwise not viable, can't that probably be blamed on car systems as well?

Houston will be hot and Detroit will be cold for several months of the year with or without cars. Having air conditioned boxes that can do last mile transportation is part of why the southern US is as developed as it is. Obviously there becomes a density point where it makes sense to offload a lot of the transportation needs onto public traffic by many cities and suburbs are not there yet.
> Don't stock buybacks basically transfer wealth from the company to the shareholders?

That is to say from the shareholders to themselves.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437938 you wrote (8 months ago):

The fault doesn't lie with the engineers who built the system...not to mention I would be very surprised if they were professionally certified.

It lies with the managers who wrote the specification that
said that for business reasons the new plane must not require any additional training or type certifications, and cut costs by implementing the required systems with a non-redundant sensor.

(I agree.)
Mastodon launched in November 2016 and fully switched to ActivityPub in October 2017.
How does this compare to pgBouncer?
As a non-native English programmer, I disagree. I love ASCII despite it lacking many characters from my own language. Sometimes Instead of the Ç I expect, I'll get a Chinese character. What do you do then? Well you switch to an ASCII-only mode and debug the encoding by looking at the bytes. You go one level of abstraction lower than the unicode.

The ability to do that is precious.

> If your app has no issues rendering हैकर न्यूज़ (Hacker News), then it should have no issues rendering Emoji

First, that's not true. Many fonts have partial support or an app may have an issue with displaying mutli-colored glyphs. There are many possibilities for this partial failure.

> then the problem is your app and not Unicode.

Yes. Precisely. I don't think unicode or emojis are problematic per se. But they belong to a higher layer than the one a lot of (non-web) programmers spend their times in. Unicode support is HARD. ASCII support is easy. Making ASCII tools is easy and promises an ecosystem full of useful tools.

> This is one reason I prefer using GUI applications over CLI applications: Unicode support is terrible across terminals and CLI apps, while most of the commonly used GUI frameworks are okay.

And that's fine, but realize that by doing so, you depend on a layer that relies on an ASCII layer. Tools that require unicode can't be used there.
I'm very sorry to hear that! coming from a Vancouverite.

I spend a decent chunk of the year in Calgary for work and last year they kept the Lime bikes during the winter and on non-snow days, it was actually useful for getting around downtown. But this year they got rid of those too. Car2go is no longer in Calgary either, so transportation options are super limited.
> Webber's trashed it (the initial author) and is working on a way to mitigate the problems of it by implementing incompatible changes,

This is not true on multiple levels

Webber has not trashed ActivtiyPub. I'd love if you could provide some evidence.

And the updates, in the form of OcapPub, are not at all incompatible with the current AP. They're an optional add-on that has a good default behavior.

Source: I worked on the same paper where Webber talks about improving ActivityPub, I presented my own white paper about ActivityPub. I gave a talk about these possible upgrades at the ActivityPub conference and I do a podcast with Webber where we talk about ActivityPub.
Interesting. So it's likely there was some kind of warning/alert to the pilots for this incident?
We should improve public transit and urban design so that walkable places aren't in such short supply.
That takes a lot of courage, kudos. I've been in tech since 2006. I started out as a min wage tech support agent and worked my way up to a lead software dev position now. I do both back-end (C#) and front-end (Vue, Angular, React) development. In the last 3 months, I've switched jobs twice in a fruitless effort chasing that sense of passion and excitement I had a decade ago.

I have it great; I make a 6-fig salary, I work remote full time, and never more than 40 hours. I feel guilty for complaining, but the work is just damn boring. I would rather be a janitor than code anymore. Some days I sit and just stare at my screen for an hour depressed as hell wondering how I'm going to get out of this and still provide for my family. We have chronic medical issues, so the insurance alone makes it hard to escape. The great recession also left me with severe anxiety about being broke and unemployed.

I recently rebuilt a manual transmission with minimal prior experience working on cars and it made me feel so damn good afterwards, so I really respect your decision to work on cars. I agree, it feels great to do manual labor! I spend my free time doing manual work around the house like yard work or building things like a green-house. I'm learning a lot and having a great time, but when I sit down at the desk it makes me even more depressed about coding.

I hope it all works out for you.
Impression of the "car free" movement is complete elimination of vehicles, urban and rural alike. "Move closer to a train station" seems axiomatic.
And most people I know in Europe--especially those who are not just out of school--have cars. Europe is hardly some carless utopia even if public transit is, on the whole, better than in the US.
As was mentioned in the article, monitoring isn't the only concern. Personal data stored on your work computer may still be problematic if your employer is involved in a lawsuit for instance.
HN is definitely not a representative sample of the world population. But HN is definitely not all single, young people trying to start their own businesses.
But that's between cities. Fwiw, I'm in Berlin by train. But by car would have been an option, too. But in the city? There are so many better options!
Is this an alternative to PGBouncer, and if so, how do they compare?
The thing making me want out is having to change jobs every few years not to fall way behind on current pay, and having, for interviews, to prep for a series of goddamn pop-quizzes in a high-pressure environment, which could cover material from any or all parts of your education or career, plus a bunch of stuff you may well never have encountered in either, at practically any difficulty or granularity level, with, usually, no way to narrow the field you need to prep for down meaningfully even if the roles you're applying for are pretty specific, and usually with no clear understanding of how your performance will be judged. It's the only thing I've encountered in adult life that gives me stress-dreams like school did. "Normal" job stress, even when shit's on fire, is about 10% as stessful, at worst. I hate, hate, hate it.
That's right. Implementing multiple cursors in X-Windows, Windows or MacOS is anything but "prettymuch trivial". You basically have to re-implement parts of the window system and user interface toolkit yourself, and throw away or replace all the (extremely non-trivial) services and features of all the code you're replacing (including extremely tricky bits like input methods, internationalization, drag and drop, cut and paste, etc).
Can it do load balancing and failover?
This is a very pessimistic world view. I found in the engineering faculty that the subjects we were taught were very broad. However, I continued to learn on my own in my free time after I got my degree. I've been doing this consistently for the last 8 years or so. I now have completely new skills and much more depth on knowledge on CS topics than I had coming out of university.