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Comparing grocery store discounts to prostitution is silly.

By your reasoning, basically any kind of offer for almost anything can be construed as exploitative, because your working assumption is that a certain class of people is incapable of saying no to any kind of money or discount.

Even if this is true, that's an underlying problem with the system, not with any one actor.
Regardless of the reasoning, if the US cant keep a site operating for even 100 years, how do we expect it to keep functioning for 10,000?

Storing nuear waste is a complete non-starter for me simply because of the timelines involved. Nobody can guarantee the safety of anything for thousands (!!) of years, when the USA itself is only ~400 years old.
Back in 2000-2005 I worked on the SQL Server documentation.

If I remember correctly, when we instrumented the docs we found that the VAST majority of users skipped over all the descriptions and parameter definitions, and jumped straight to the examples of usage. Turns out observation is the fastest way to learn/remember. We redoubled our efforts to include examples of more obscure usage patterns, rather than relying on wordy explanations.
It seems like housing demand is almost entirely a function of population growth. Supply is tied to a finite resource, land. We cannot do much to increase supply. The conclusion from this set of facts should be obvious.
> Tesla has gotten big enough so it is pretty unlikely to fail. Customers love the product, there are several "it is the future" features. People want to own a part of that.

Wasn't that also true eight months ago? The stock was trading then at $180 rather than $590.
> The maintainers would be thrilled to have them.

Would they?

The tldr.sh site prominently offers a sample of usage examples for a command; tar specifically. If one checks the tar man page there are no examples. This is policy, apparently promulgated by GNU et al. in favor of "info". I haven't the time right now to hunt down the official position, but here[1] is a SO discussion.

Should this TLDR thing correct that long standing mistake I'm all for it. Also, info is one of the most hostile TUI programs I've ever encountered and I resent using it.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/306189/why-dont-man...
The Evenflo Tribute LX is a very reasonably priced car seat (~$60), that has very high safety ratings, is parent friendly, and doesn't take up too much space. I regretted buying a much more expensive Nuna after we bought an Evenflo for travel.
Limbo essentially became Go, gaining a competent corporate sponsor along the way.
IntelliJ-Based IDE Features Roadmap for 2020
The open-source (self-hosted) version of Fathom is dead. The only commits they have been pushing to it in the last 12 months have been upsells for their closed-source & centralized paid offering.
Perhaps let the portion work from home that wanted to.
Agreed. I think it's important to include safety in the conversation when making comparisons between today's vehicles and those of decades past. It's apparent that pursuing safety over things like "max # of canine accommodations" has yielded positive results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Small Modular reactors like SVBR-100 fit your model better - that's 100-600 MW that is inherently safe (even if you rupture the reactor vessel), doesn't use much cement (it's mostly metal construction) and is quite small and can be well distributed.

Main issue is that they consume a lot of bismuth, which unlike lead (other important ingredient in SVBR-100) doesn't have high production as is.
Sure, so regulations that focus on transparency would be good. That's different from saying that trading privacy for discounts is inherently exploitative.
They're often used, but I suspect most people who read them don't know how to write or even modify a man page. (What format is it?) Also, Stack Overflow probably gets more traffic.

Whether documentation gets read or not probably depends on its Google ranking more than anything.
While I agree with the sentiment, sometimes people just need jobs to survive. I don't think the burden for keeping tech companies ethical should be placed on young people who just want to eat
> housing as an investment

It's just a meme that needs to die.

A primary home is an asset, not an investment.

Home prices were stable (in real dollars) until Greenspan kicked off this train of asset bubbles in the 1990s.
Ask HN: Is it always hard to find co-founders?
Even for those who have worked at big tech / FAANG?
> Swift and Objective-C are pretty easy to work with

> and get quite close to the performance of C/C++/Swift.

In some cases, identical performance. ;)
People complain about SUVs with a lot of apparently unnecessary capability (4x4, holding lots of people), but the nature of car sales is that you kind of have to buy one that covers all use cases, because it's the only one you're going to have. I.e., maybe most of the time it's just you in the car, but you want to be able to haul you and your spouse and your parents around when they come to visit. Or you mostly commute to work, but want 4x4 for when you go skiing.

This is why long term, we need to move away from car ownership and toward something like Zipcar for all. In that world, you would just rent whatever vehicle you needed when you needed it. Step one is making it not just possible, but preferable to not own a car.
That's true, so now it needs all new running gear, and becomes an insane labour of love like the Eagle E type.

Still fancy a try though. :)
> #2 to #1 in the list of Google results.

My user interface is very different from Google's, so different there's no real issue of #1 or #2.

Actually that #1 or #2, etc. is apparently such a big issue for Google, SEO, etc. that it suggests a weakness in Google, one that my work avoids.

You will see when you play a few minutes with my site after I announce the alpha test.

Google often works well; when Google works well, my site is not better. But the post I responded to mentions some ways Google doesn't work well, and for those and some others my site stands to work much better. I'm not really in direct competition with Google.
None of that matters to someone learning how to implement a stack, a linked list, quick sort, etc.
"Snug" tends to mean "limited crumple zones and side airbags", which tends to mean "death trap" in a significant accident.
The thing is - I don't want to go to some website or pour through pages and pages of documentation when I want to do one specific thing. I want to do something and move on with my life. My job isn't learning every command line switch under the job.
> For the BYO - all we need is the database connection string.

Then this means that the database should be publicly accessible. Many would not accept this from a security perspective (regardless of the use of SSL and even certificate authentication only).
The new keyboard design was meant to solve problems that keyboards have not specifically addressed before. It was a failed design, absolutely. But 99% of the time the keyboard works to my satisfaction, so I do not understand how you can label it "barely functional". "Barely functional" means "it rarely functions as intended", which is so obviously not true in any case.

Does it fail more than the average keyboard? Yes. Am I pleased about its failure rate? Absolutely not. Would I rather have a different keyboard? Uhhh probably? I like the way the keys feel, such as the fact that they don't wobble in place like the previous generation, and I find that I do not type any slower or make more mistakes than I did previously. Probably this keyboard was designed for somebody who types like I do, and perhaps this is not the way most people type. (I say this because most people complain about the reduced travel, about the keys not registering presses all the time, and other issues.)

So my point is: the keyboard is bad as measured by multiple metrics, and Apple should feel bad about it, but there is no conceivable definition of "barely functional" that applies to this keyboard. Most of the time I have not had to worry about its failure rate because it does not affect me on a daily basis, even though I use it for typing everyday.
I wonder why they didn't just use Lazarus. Open source Delphi.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
The article says that a large portion of material use is in construction, so if you've moved into a newly-built home that will have used quite a bit of material to build.

13 tons is also a mean - don't read too much into it. Some people will have very lavish lifestyles, creating tons of waste, and others will have more spartan lifestyles, creating much less waste.
Ask HN: How much are spending on Firebase per user?
How much are you spending for each user on your app/service? I'm curious how the costs of using Firebase, Amplify, etc for user-centric apps compare to standing up your own DB, VPS, etc and whether it changes how you approach your monetization strategy.
At the expense of increasing pedestrian fatalities.
I agree, though I think the important comparison point is not necessarily inflation rate, but wage growth rate or similar.
tldr doesn't remove man pages. You're free to check the man page for what whatever flags used in a command in tldr mean.
Some reasons I think people like housing as investment: They can use relatively safe leverage to increase the return on equity by three or four times. There are large tax incentives. There is the time value of money aspect where you pay off a fixed amount over 15 to 30 years. Also, housing is a hard asset unlike stocks or bonds.
So if you could take a job as a slave trader, you would do it then?
Solely building housing isn't sufficient: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22068372
Every Tech Startup Founder Should Know This
i think they were being sarcastic, because slack is JavaScript in a VM (Electron) to run a chat application.
I think I had to grab a specific version for a game
This was about your post saying you can't do anything with only JS and me disagreeing, not on how sensible language X or methode X is for anything.

Nobody would write a php app without js today and you can use js server side with nodejs, same as php and php fpm.
Yes, this is absolutely a fair take. I've heard from multiple people that they seem to make more mistakes with this keyboard, and other people say they just don't like the way it feels.

Personally, I find it to be an improvement over the previous generation in almost all respects except for, obviously, the failure rate. I hate that I am expecting the keyboard to fail again within a year or two, but perhaps I will be surprised and this particular one will last long enough that it won't be a problem for me.
If you're using WordPress, there is https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/. Open-source, self hosted, no external services & very performant.
What a silly take it or leave it response. Are you really intending to engage them in a serious discourse?
> general AI will allow non-programmers

Sure... when general AI becomes available, flexible, and has solid usability for something like this. Which will be about the time that faster than light stardrives become common and our meals are materialized out of thin air on demand.

Despite perceptions, the last few years' "AI boom" is mostly marketing. Advances in processor power have made deep learning algorithms practical outside lab settings, but we're not even close to a "generic AI" that can think as well as even a dog can. That's decades away at the earliest.

Right now, we don't even understand how our own brains work.
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My point is that we don't need to speculate about what will happen to Volvo when they start selling around their dealers. They already did it with the Polestar 1, and they did it again with the Polestar 2. AFAICT from taking my Volvo into my nearby Volvo dealership, they're still selling and maintaining Volvos.

They haven't staged a mass protest, I am unaware of any lawsuits. I do not believe that Volvo dealers here in Canada are lobbying for it to be illegal for the Polestar vehicle to be sold in Canada.

I can't saw what goes on south of the 49th parallel, but what I can say is that from what I have observed, if Volvo has dealership baggage, that baggage is lightweight and compliant.

Which is my point. There may be baggage, but it might not be the encumbrance that we have speculated about. That may be uneven: Perhaps the "Big Three" have an albatross and an anvil around their necks, while (relatively) smaller brands can be more nimble.

Recall that the comment I replied to said that other companies can't catch them. I doubt Volvo will catch Tesla, but Geely certainly could, and clearly not all companies are following Nissan and BMW's example: Volvo did not launch Polestar in their existing dealerships.

p.s. That being said, Volvo just announced the XC40 P8, which is a "pure electric" model, so they are having it both ways: You can buy an electric car from Polestar, over the internet, or buy an electric Volvo from a dealer.

Is that a superior strategy? I doubt it, but it is a way to harvest revenue from "legacy customers" that want to do business with a dealership they can touch and feel.

Will Volvo "beat Tesla?" I doubt it. They might not be able to, and for that matter, I doubt Geely even want to try. They have a portfolio of brands, and each one has its place in their strategy.

All I'm saying is that I don't think the dealer network is the thing that will ensure Tesla's victory. At the moment, I think it's their supercharger network, their technology around range, and their brand cachet.
It's less about Apple here and more about the government forcing their control. Apple, Microsoft, and many other companies have gone to congress to try and keep them from controlling encryption. At the end of the day they're a company and they need a certain level of cooperation from the government to do business.

THIS is why open source matters. The government can't control people when money isn't what motivates them.
No, they serve two different purposes.

Man pages are a reference/spec on all options and parameters, aimed at those who already have use a tool/technology/concept.

This is something different. It's a tutorial of how to do the most common things using that tool.

It's a bit like learning a programming language: would you read the formal spec, or would you learn from code examples?

Unless you've read formal specs for other languages with a similar paradigm before, it's way easier to learn from examples first, which gets you to the level of understanding where the formal specs start to make sense.

Improvements to man pages should be made, but not at the cost of beginner-friendly projects.
The dangers and observations of just driving the speed limit
Hi! Author here... actually it does use unicode (which we'll use to mean non-ascii at the moment, even though ascii is part of unicode (pedantry, pedantry)) for the starfield at the moment, those are braille characters so that it can have "smoother" and more fine grained movement of the stars. The frame around the game also uses non-ascii characters. However I'm planning on adding two modes: one that uses no unicode characters and is pure, and one that uses more unicode for a larger variance.

I tried being moderately conservative for the moment because I'm not sure which terminals support what! (Admittedly the recent addition of starfields in git master stepped away from that a little)
Hopefully remote work, low orbit sat internet, solar efficiency, electric & autonomous cars will all lead to further

Technical solutions to people problems.
My home will not depreciate much relative to other homes I could have bought. Yes I'm forced to sell during a downturn it's not good, but once the market picks up it's almost certain my home will increase in value as well.

Harder to have the same confidence that the stocks I picked will survive a downturn as well as my home.
Yeah, no. The use cases for man and tldr are completely different, and trying to convince every single project to make their man pages more friendly to people who just want to get their work done is just ... well, an impossible amount of effort. tldr coalesces a community around a common goal, and they can work towards that goal without fighting hundreds of different maintainers on making man pages more accessible.
getting warmer =)
Email Startup Front Raises Rare $59M Round Led by Other Software Founders
what bewildered me at the time was that they never did a google search for it before publicizing their chosen name. Or that maybe they did and said "screw it. who cares about smalltalk. we'll steal their name"
In general, I think Apple's former ideology was "the computer was the hub" back when the iPod was popular. At least 10-15 years ago that's transitioned towards "the cloud is the hub" (I can imagine a bunch of reasons). The old behavior has stuck around, but not really added to and I wouldn't be surprised if it was soon dropped. I think the discontinuation of "Time Capsule" is an example of this.

As another example, you can do backups via iTunes. Generally this was done when you plugged in your device. They did add syncing over wifi, but it's never been very rock solid and afaik you can't automate it since your never plugging in your device. Every time local backups get brought up people say, "but not everyone has a computer" which reenforces the focus on cloud backups.
True in some cases, but I think most tech workers at Palantir or Google or whatever can easily find an enjoyable, well-paying job at a more ethical organization.
There are plenty of companies that fulfill the needs of their employees and manage to somehow make money ethically. By all means, if someone has no other option than to work for Evil Inc. or otherwise starve, they shouldn't starve. But as software engineers we generally get our pick of where we want to work and in those cases should use it to make the world a better place rather than worse.
Housing may not depreciate like cars but it doesn't always appreciate at the rate in many areas that justifies keeping it with all the costs. In my neighborhood (with a decent school district and safe/no crime area), housing market has appreciated like 3-4% at best in last 7 years. I like living in my house but looking at it purely from an investment perspective, the returns are terrible because If I sold it today, I don't know if the 3-4% gain would be enough to offset the costs of repairs/taxes etc. that I have spent in last 7 years. And I live in NJ, the highest taxed state in the nation when it comes to property taxes. Sure I could stay in another 5-10 years to find out if appreciation rate goes up but it is more of a gamble then since I am spending tons of money every year to maintain the house in addition to mortgage payments.

Housing is NOT always a good investment from an economic perspective. It depends on the location, market events and most importantly what price you bought it at.
I'm so glad this message is being given more credibility. I made a similar plea in 2016 at the end of the only conference keynote I've ever been invited to give. https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/fitbit-api-strategy-and-pr...
> a primary home is an asset, not an investment.

so weird that this venn diagram only has one circle on it
There's one problem with `npm ci`: it deletes the `node_modules` directory, thereby thwarting attempts at caching it between builds. As a workaround, we use `npm install` followed by `git diff --quiet package-lock.json`, which will abort the CI process if npm installing changed the lock file (i.e. if someone forgot to commit changes to it after adding a package).
For comparison, the stock market has done 9.1% during that time. $40k in an index fund back then would be worth around $390k today.

Leverage is the biggest benefit, I would imagine. Although paying half as much in rent sounds really nice these days :).

Glad it worked out for you.
/ = or

As in C or C++. I didn't mean it as its own language. And C++ has plenty of issues where I'd consider it equally unsafe. Unless you're a god tier programmer, and even then, it's impossible to write safe code without insane amounts of effort that can't be expected in most projects.
From that: “However, this does not imply that improved fuel efficiency is worthless if the Jevons paradox occurs; higher fuel efficiency enables greater production and a higher material quality of life.”

Good link, thanks.
That's less of a business model and more of a marketing campaign. As a business model, enhanced privacy sucks bc it yields reduced profits until the day a significant portion of the money-spending population decides to make decisions based on privacy.
I find it interesting how vehemently folks will argue about hypothetical legal issues with licenses like EUPL, when we have actual real-world examples of companies taking advantage of liberally licensed software projects at the authors' expense.
Or I just use node on the server side and write the server part also in js?

This was not about building anything sensible, but just to counter the point that js allows you less than php.

I think today the only big language with is a pain to setup is perl, java and sometimes python, the rest is just a matter of ecosystem, needs and personal taste.
My point is that yes, you do have a responsibility to do good and not just leave it up the tech company or lawmakers. And no it is not silly.
Bottles and principles. How to better organize CSS
Common LISP could certainly generate assembler for Arduino and other MCUs, but there's no way you're fitting that fat old beast (whom I do still love) on one . :-)
> So if you use either modern incarnation of C++ or Rust, you will get same safety guarantees. Just with C++ you will not have to climb the mountain of learning just to do simple things.

This is absolutely, completely wrong. If you want to write safe C++, you must follow a very strict discipline, essentially equivalent to appeasing the Rust borrow-checker. The main difference is that straying from this discipline in Rust leads to a compile-time error, while straying from this discipline in C++ leads to unsafe, but probably working, code, that you will only discover is unsafe after much work.

And in both languages, you sometimes need to drop from the safe subset to do some things. In Rust, that is signaled explicitly with `unsafe`, in C++ it just means using more C-like constructs.

It would also be very interesting to see what subset of modern C++ vs Rust could be used for safety-critical code. Given that several C++ idioms like RAII depend to some extent on exceptions, and those are not permitted in safety-critical code (per Bjarne's own standard), I would not be surprised that Rust will become very attractive in this sector once it matures.
Fukushima was built in early 70's. Needless to say _a lot_ of progress has been made since then. Today we have reactors which can't blow up, and work on nuclear waste. Russia has been operating one since 2016. China is building one as well. The US? Our great environmentalist Obama has shut down the program in 2016 due to "cost overruns", according to Wikipedia.
This is a weird rule. Why those six nutrients? Was it just meant to catch a large number of junk foods without having to name them explicitly?
The free market is not what is creating sprawl. Sprawl is created by policy effectively outlawing anything but cars. Also, cars are convenient when everything is designed for them and pretty much them alone.
> require significant time investment to even start approaching Google Analytics.

I think that for a lot of the "alternative" analytics tools, feature parity with Google Analytics isn't necessarily a goal, so this may explain your disappointment. I think the only exception here is Matomo, which is the only "advanced" OSS analytics as far as I know.
HL was a delicious escape from studying for me whilst at uni, which consumed pretty much all my other waking hours.
That's an interesting thought. It seems Delphi dates to 1995, and gcc to 1987. (Also original vi and Emacs are both from 1976.)