skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Eastern Europe and Russia the oligarchs had nothing more than others nearly 30 years ago, they were as rich or poor as the other citizens plus or minus a VCR, a car or some cool trinket. But they indeed took advantage of lawlessness and confusion and the current situation is far from fair, looked at in a certain light is worse than before the curtain. And of course looked from another angle is better. And lots of psychopaths, lots of psychopaths raised to the top. They recognized the game right from the start and got good at it while the rest of us naively hoped in miracles.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, regardless of how wrong or annoying you feel another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even more readable code without if-else
It's so infuriating to see big cities completely incapable of dealing with homeless people as if they are delicate creatures that can't be touched, and then have the majority of people ignore them even though they are assholes that make a scene every single time. Most of these people act that way because no one has taught them any better and therefore they have no incentive to act otherwise.
Many places nowadays seem to have card readers that accept swipe, chip or tap. Yet many of them don't seem to have tap activated, and if someone else handles your card (very common in bars and restaurants), you can be sure they will swipe it.

I was in NYC for a week and had to swipe my card at least 6 times during that period. I imagine the rest of the country isn't leaps and bounds ahead.
I think exactly that happened in the last Washington state election. The state legislator put on the ballot a measure that would limit the amount the state could tax each car owner. Proponents would claim that the tax was going towards public transit infrastructure (like Sound Transit 3) and that it was unfair to tax car owners for that.

The measure was approved.
I think the concept of a smart TV is a good one its just the implementation is always awful. It is useful to be able to stream content directly to your tv but every single smart tv I have seen has a slugish UI, is awkward, has random bugs, becomes unsupported by the OEM after a few years and is now insecure and gets ransomware. And then OEMs crap it up themselves and fill the OS with adverts and tracking.

After all that its just so much simpler to buy a tv thats just a dumb screen and plug in a smart layer on top via hdmi.
Amazon: Hey, we'll give you a free upgrade to same day or next day delivery!

Also Amazon: takes 3 days to deliver.
it's true that public transportation has a net societal benefit, and that portion of the benefit should be paid for by all (through taxes or whatnot). however, fares shouldn't be zero.

riders should pay too, not just because we should bear our portion of the direct benefit (we should), but also because it gives us a sense of ownership for the system. those fare revenues give transit agencies funds to improve service, and riders legitimacy in demanding better service. public transit needs to get better in every dimension: frequency, timeliness, coverage, capacity, cleanliness, etc.
So much of the modern corporation has been outsourced...including nearly all research. Most animal research today and Phase II trials are done...in China/India.

The evidence that these studies are largely faked due to the pressure put on the staff and management there has been piling up for years. I would recommend “Science Mart: Privatizing American Science” by Philip Mirowski for more on this.
Researchers Create Ultimate Non-Stick Coating That Repels Viruses and Bacteria
Amazon is pulling a fast one here, and The Verge is letting them get away with it. Here’s the key part:

> it’s also been building out a network of its own delivery drivers under the Amazon Flex platform, which is a kind of on-demand contract network similar to Uber and food delivery companies like DoorDash.

So, in fact Amazon is not delivering their own packages, they are employing an ad-hoc network of local truckers to deliver their packages. This is in contrast to FedEx and UPS, who employ the men and women who leave boxes on your doorstep.

This matters because:

> (Amazon Flex has been plagued by damning reports that the high demands it places on Flex drivers have directly contributed to automobile fatalities.)

I’m sure Amazon intends to build out a full shipping network, which is the only way to optimize both quality and cost in shipping. The reality is, they are still a long way from doing so.
Unfortunately they're all busy radicalising people on twitter and supplying them with evidence to later make a big show of arresting them and saving the day.
I assumed the author dismissed it for the same reasons as USB-C that it requires active negotiation and isn't "simple" enough.
> They need to be governed, otherwise they will infect your government in order to produce a reality that is better for their existence.

Indeed. I feel people learn some things in school that are essentially "fixed points" of economics - like supply/demand balance - and internalize the view that markets are static. They're not. They're dynamic systems. They optimize their own environments. It's as you say - corporations (and businesses in general) will happily make the legal system change to favor them. It's what markets do. Anything that can make improve profits is sought - whether it's a better product, a better marketing lie, or a change in laws.
> Transit investment has a LOT of catching up to do to even get close to the types of subsidizing and handouts we give drivers in every corner of this country.

That’s completely untrue. Yes we spend more on vehicles than transit. But way more people drive than use transit. There is not even a comparison.

In 2016 federal and state spending on road, transit, and water infrastructure was $416 billion: https://www.bidnet.com/resources/business-insights/us-govern.... Water is about 1/3 of that, leaving $276 billion for transportation. Spending on transit was $65 billion, or 1/4 the transportation spend.

Transit, however, accounts for just 5% of commutes: https://www.bts.gov/content/commute-mode-share-2015. 85% is driving alone or in a car pool. So we spend 3x as much on road infrastructure, but 17x as many people drive to work as take transit.

If you run the numbers on a cents of subsidy per passenger mile basis, busses and subway trains come out to $0.50+ per passenger mile. Roads are just $0.02 per passenger mile. Even adding in CO2 footprint and pollution (assuming that cars are all ICE) puts you at about $0.25.

Transit is incredibly expensive.
Not really. There are two outcomes that are more likely to happen than others, both of which are terrible for consumers.

In one scenario, Amazon utterly destroys the ability of others to sustain their business, and then raises their own prices dramatically: a fairly typical monopoly scenario.

In another there are two tiers: Amazon and everyone else, which is only marginally better.

In both cases competition is reduced and the consumer suffers.
And as long as they don't try to connect to any public wifi they see...

https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/network/map?zip=87111
Baltimore essentially has no-fare public transit. Anyone can get on the light rail without a ticket, and inspection is spotty at best. If you're caught, you just wait for the next train.
I rely heavily on the "snooze" feature for email. I try to keep my inbox completely clear, and if something comes in that I can't deal with immediately, I snooze it for when I have time or it becomes relevant. I basically see emails as tasks, and they are completed (archived) when I've both performed the required action (maybe just read it, or sometimes also do something else) and responded if necessary. They can also act as reminders, such as maybe I have a meeting in a month, so I'll snooze it until a week before the meeting. This way I never miss any emails and respond in a timely manner to urgent ones. Snooze acts pretty much as a (sorted) queue.
Migration to chip cards started in 2012. US retailers other than gas stations had to convert by 2017. Gas stations got 3 extra years. Now that time is running out. Many pumps can be upgraded. Here's a migration guide.[1]

This is classic gas station operator whining. Back in 1984, US gas stations were required by the EPA to install double-walled tanks and leak detection. One in four of the old tanks was leaking. Gas stations got 15 years to do it. At the end of 1998, many were hoping for a further extension. They didn't get it. No more fuel deliveries, and they had to go out of business.[2] That's also why, for some years, you saw recovery systems at former gas station sites, trying to suck the gasoline out of the soil.

[1] https://www.gilbarco.com/us/emv-migration-guide
[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-25-me-35989...
At it's base Kotlin is a nicer java. But it's much more. Simply looking at the syntax comparison is only half of the story. The focus at the recent conference was multi platform and concurrency.

They are making concurrency a first class citizen. With items like Go channels, Observable etc. This is baked into the language. There are a number of new frameworks utilizing these patterns. Resulting in less code, and more performance. At the cost of sometimes more difficult debugging.

The bigger item to me is multi platform. I'm working on a micro orm. That reflects your schema automatically generating types for NodeJs, Native, and JVM(Graal/JDK). It can then be run on any of those platforms. An example is libpq for postgres allows streaming and observing rows on update. This is not in the DB libraries that I've seen yet. I can have an actor run natively on LLVM, talk back via grpc/rsocket/tcp/etc. To a JVM/JS service. All while adhering to the same interface / method description.

Besides that. There are scripts for kubernetes, react/angular/vue, etc. Dukat is coming to automatically convert ts.d files to kotlin description files. For me I can have one language, one IDE, for every part of my product. From deployment, back end, data handling, front end, and mobile.
Absolutely wild how people are all in favour of Either/Result, but still look down on checked exceptions.
It seems unlikely, at least to me, that Boeing will ever restart 737 Max production. The decision by Boeing executives to bet the company on this deeply flawed aircraft will have serious economic consequences for the employees, suppliers, and investors who trusted them.

For the rest of us, no big deal. Airbus will happily take up the slack.
I wonder what the total worth of tulips during tulip mania were worth.
The FAA needs to stop hemming and hawing, being unclear about what they need, put in some overtime and get things done.
If all the resources quit, they cannot be replaced. There is a point between "one" and "all" where it's not worth letting them quit.
I would love to live in your bubble. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, depends on what point of view you refer to, as freelancer in past 10+ years, real life is quite different.
> Now I understand why UPS is delivering so late in my area, including having guys hanging out of UHaul trucks.

That's normal. Although at least here, it's Budget trucks. I must say, it was not very fun driving over 100 trucks from various Budget locations to the UPS depot, with 4 people.
And even when they find out they don't really have other options without a lot of hassle and research. This is why I think the GDPR was great. Its not just "We are spying on you, if you don't like it then turn off your tv" It requires that you have an option to say no while still using the product/service.
I am living in Bratislava, did not emigrate. It feels like living in story, where despite most of the best and brightest people saying "fuck this imma out of here", the potential is still there and nothing is firmly decided even after 30 years.
Arh, is this why why people in US hate public transport and prefer to drive themselves or go by taxi?

For those of us living in the "outside" world where public transport are the norm, it is sometimes hard to understand why public transport is treated so differently in US.
I think a weight loss factor could be added to legal antibiotics to remove the benefits of their overuse.. Caffeinated cows on a rampage might correct the industry.
Join local startup groups - Meetup, Facebook, Slack...and just check these daily and you'll soon come across a company who needs help.
Intellij driven development.
Hi, although it works with phones, would you be interested in smart home/building applications? We build open-source smart switches/outlets/modules (https://crownstone.rocks) and would love to integrate with your product!
Meditation as regularly as possible, whether it’s 3 minutes or 30 minutes.

Has helped digest conscious and subconscious thoughts, occurrences throughout my day, and emotions. My family and friends have mentioned a noticeable change in my personality as being much more relaxed and insightful no matter the circumstance. That’s without them knowing I’ve been meditating consistently for the past year.
It will be difficult for Boeing to walk back the public opinion of the 737 MAX for what they have done.

I know plenty of airline customers who intend to never fly a segment that utilizes one.
Politically I will always be against policies that attempt to reduce unemployment. It's counter productive. Jobs is not a good metric.

There are way too many subsidies to sustain wage slavery. I'm not against capitalism, but fighting unemployment has not reduced inequality. The UBI, even at a low amount, would enable a much more virtuous labor economy.
I leave it to the reader to decide whether the advantages are clear or not.

For instance, in Kotlin you can perform operations on collection without converting them to a stream first, and collecting them with a certain collector afterwards. So in order to perform a single filtering operation on a collection, you need to do three steps in Java and just one in Kotlin.

Another advantage is coroutines, which not only allow you to write asynchronous code in a common, synchronous manner, but also get rid of shared mutable state, since coroutines can send/receive shared state through channels.
Even the simple if/else approach can be done more cleanly (i.e. without repeating the fallback call):

boolean success = false;
if (nullableVariable != null) {
success = nullableVariable.someMethodCall();
}
if (success) {
return success;
} else {
return fallbackIfNullMethodCall();
}
OpenCV. Automatic cropping and image warping
`URI.create("https://example.com")`
Frog realizes pot is boiling. Film at 11.
That statement is the equivalent of inserting “just” into technical advice, as in “It’s just code” or “Just scale out.” If it was that simple, the problem would have been solved.

Here’s the laundry list of things Seattle has tried and is trying: https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness, https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/addressing-the-crisis
> They're presumably way better at it than I am.

That's laughable.
I tried vertical merge with 2 files that were each a single column of items (no header). The resulting file was 3 columns wide, 1 file in first column with second and third columns blank and then below that the items from the second file were in the 3rd column with columns 1 and 2 blank

I was expecting a 1 column result file with both files items stacked
Neither of those loaded. Not tricked.

/s
Especially if you’ve been kicked out and think the company is going the wrong direction.
Cutting down production, especially for a major product like MAX, will hurt the supply chain and anger the labor. But for MAX I think this is the best decision.
That's true to an extent, but unfortunately unions (at least in the US) tend to end up mimicking the same corporate behavior they are supposed to be placing a check on. The get bigger and more powerful and they start to take and take with no concern for the fallout, and like corporations, they get politicians to do their bidding at the expense of the general population.

There are towns near me teetering on bankruptcy, while the police and firefighters can retire after 20 years of service with a pension equal to 80% of their last 3 years of pay. Any effort to reform what is obviously an unsustainable agreement that never should have been struck in the first place is meet with a wall of resistance and veiled threats to public safety.

In the private sector, unions have had a long history of opposing environmental regulations out of fear that it would affect employment in heavy manufacturing. Auto workers unions have repeatedly opposed any effort to invest in public transportation and reduce auto dependency.

I've heard that Scandinavia has had better luck with unions, but here in the U.S. unions have been every bit as self-serving and bullying as the corporate overloads they're supposedly a counter balance to. I'd love to see better restraints on corporate power, but I'm not holding my breath for unions to be anything but one more moneyed interest.
Might as well call this a comparison of Kotlin and an arbitrary old version of Java then.
So I'm assuming you'd write the application as a a collection of CGI programs? Either that or does OpenBSD's websercer support developing handlers as sort-of extensions like ISAPI with IIS?
I want to bolster the reply you already got. Regularity Is everything for little ones, and it was hard for us to get in a good rhythm with sleep.
My wife lead the charge ( as she was the one our LO wanted at night, even after being well fed before bed ) and read a lot of material on sleep patterns. She started a routine of dinner - bath - reading - bed, with a target of 7:15 for bed. the first two nights were hard. building the pattern means sticking to your guns, making sure he -really does- have everything he needs, getting him tired and then not getting him out of the crib. Having your kid wailing in the next room is the worst thing in the world, but knowing that you're working on something that will help everyone is the only reason to let him "cry to sleep." We did 5 - 10 - 15 minute interval checks to soothe him, remind him we were still there, build confidence and independence, and on day two he "got it" and went to sleep after the second check. Now he's down within 30 minutes of 7:15 and sleeps really well. He still gets up in the middle of the night, and being sick or cold throw it all off, but he gets back on track. He's 16 months now and has been sleeping well for four months. Its a life changer. I hope you get some sleep.
Can they though? What do you have in mind when you say they can think of good uses for the money?

The savings we are talking about here are really "funds looking for yield", in fact must be because Western monetary policy punishes cash saving through inflation. And finding great investments at scale is definitely hard. I doubt you know lots of people who can do it.

Bear in mind by this definition houses and corporate balances count as "savings".
DDG has a theme that makes it look like google. there's also stylus (NOT STYLISH, they track, & sell users search history.) See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/styli...
> without expending all that money

You are assuming that this is some large amount of money for a streamer. It is not.

It is possible to outsource your entire YouTube presence to a company, that will merely take a cut of the profits. So there would be no risk, if you give a company a percentage of the revenue.
The closer companies squeeze just-in-time logistics to the limit, the more they are increasingly reliant on a flawless demand model.

It's the biggest reason I've stopped shopping at Walmart in recent years. I can't rely on being able to go to the store and expect that everything is in stock.

Let's dust off my old binomial probability skills:

Assume Walmart's just-in-time demand model is accurate to the extent that 1% of items in the store were misjudged and are out of stock. Let's say I go in for a shopping trip of 30 items. I'll have a 26% chance of being disappointed that one of the items I needed was out of stock, and I'll have to go somewhere else now.

Those are completely made up numbers, but it demonstrates how a seemingly small error can be a big inconvenience for someone.
That depends on several factors. The database you might want to run may not be available for instance.
These hospitals are uninsurable. They'd balk at the cost that the insurance companies would demand they pay for enhanced network security.
My house has the same street name and number as another house on the same block, across the town line (it’s about 15 houses away). UPS and FedEx drivers rarely mess it up, but Amazon contractors drop my package at the wrong house about 60% of the time. I always dread ordering from amazon for this reason.
I had a lot of fun reading the book and thought it was influential to my view of the future and VR. It's an easy read (I finished it on a long train ride) but certain parts stuck in my brain ever since. Much different and more mature than the movie.
This is getting really hard with some devices. I got a bose soundbar at the start of the year and it comes with a remote that has a few basic features but it is almost impossible to use properly without configuring it via the app and the app demands that you first create an account and then give the device your wifi password.

In the end I eventually caved and installed the app and connected it to the internet to configure and then blocked the device from my router.
Asking for upvotes is against the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Soliciting booster comments is even more against the rules.
So they have decided that it's cheaper to scrap that particular model than fix the issues, likely more reputation than technical.
I've seen people speculate about homeless use of transit as a deterrent to ridership, but I've never seen any actual numbers on that, and I think it's mostly overblown.

Either way, homeless people making homes on transit isn't a transportation issue, it's a law enforcement/social services issue.
Maybe they can let go of the CEO and some other administration too. If they get the top pay, they need to be willing to take the top responsibility.
Instead of criticising Amazon for being able to achieve next-day delivery why don't you criticise FedEx for not being able to achieve it? We want to select out badly run inefficient businesses, not support them artificially. If there's a monopoly developing it's because everyone else is incompetent. Tackle them!
Coroners must be legally qualified solicitors or barristers, or a Fellow of the Charted Institute of Legal Executives, and must have 5 years worth of experience [1].

They are appointed by local authorities with the consent of the Chief Coroner and the Lord Chancellor.

For oversight, you must submit a judicial review to the High Court. A senior judge there will decide the lawfulness of the coroner's actions [2]. You used to be able to appeal to the Chief Coroner instead of seeking judicial review, but this mechanism was removed by the Public Bodies Act 2011 [3].

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[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/13/section/2

[2] https://www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/office-c...

[3] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/40
HAHA!! "We can only place an order with you if you can do it at this price." Let's not kid ourselves here. We here in the West are every bit as guilty.
I wonder if Java's speeding up of new language features over the past several years, after many years of a stagnant feature set, is a direct result of pressure from the likes of kotlin.
That's a relatively new feature (from November 2018... wow, has it been a year already?). My guess is that they implemented this stuff before that existed or maybe near to its release.

I have not used origin failover either, though I'm pretty sure you're right that this is its exact use-case.