skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the opposite PoV: you bill Bay Area clients with Bay Area rates.
>I don’t see how you can make a good faith argument the confederate flag is any different from a swastika

The stars'n'bars is a relevant part of automotive history, see the Duke brothers, history of NASCAR, etc. Banning players who display it is similiar to banning players who stick swastikas or iron crosses on their Panthers and Tigers in a video game about tanks.

Culturally convenient or not it is part of the history of the subject matter and likewise it should stay.
Go's GC has always had pretty low throughput compared to a JVM, but with value types (which Java doesn't have yet) it can be faster if you manage to keep everything on the stack.
This is the end of the 747-8F. There's 16 orders (all 747-8F) in the book, and the last one is rolling out of the factory in 2022 and the line is being decommissioned.

I presume if someone really wants to rush and order a few more the run would be continued slightly, but this is unlikely...
I think advice like this is unfortunately just bullshit. It’s similar to cases of treating depression with drugs when most major depression is actually just a biological response to real, actual sadness and external events.

See for example: https://grasshoppermouse.github.io/2018/12/16/seven-reasons-...

Of course there can be many reasons for depression or unhappiness. Some people sincerely can benefit from medication. Sometimes therapy is the right option.

But quite obviously the biggest factor is going to be circumstances. Happiness _should be_ a response to circumstances and improvement. It represents increased utility and benefit for you as a person and obviously the biggest part of that is your circumstances, physical, material, getting needs met, having resources and opportunities.

Some part of this can be about contentment or “zen” mental clarity or whatever, but clearly not the majority, or even a large minority.

I feel advice like this is meant to placate people and make them docile and capitulated to their circumstances and borderline lobotomize away their drive for things to be better by trying to change happiness from a fact of circumstances to an “attitude adjustment” - which is awful, no matter what positive spin you want to put on it.
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The Birdsong that took over Canada
Unless you are drunk in California. Then it is illegal to drive even on your own property.
Let's not forget the massive protests. No matter if you agree with them or not. Thousands of people together on the streets with no security distance between them makes things worse.
I watched the video. It sounds like their system solved a lot of inequality problems.

But it sounds like it introduced a lot of problems too.
You're talking past the point. You assume some idiots with slavery icons can't be embarrassed and shamed out of their views.

Where does this conclusion come from that rationality is so weak and our tolerant views are on such shaky ground that we have to prevent people from expressing intolerance?
> they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app"

I would agree with this one most of the time, but even their desktop web is horrible in Firefox. It wouldn't load the pages/header with buttons, wouldn't show new messages from time to time.
> While technically both terms refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Confederate_S.... (and earlier variants)

Well, the Confederate Flag refers to that and later national flags (the Stars and Bars is the first Confederate national flag, the Stainless Banner—with the battle flag in the union and a solid white field—and the Bloodstained Banner—adding a broad vertical red stripe to the Stainless Banner) were the second and third.

Not merely pedantic, it's worth noting that the Battle Flag is a key element of the later national flags, though not itself one of them. (Though what is often flown as the “Confederate flag” isn't the square battle flag, either, but closer to, if not exactly, the Naval Jack.)
The walls on either side of the 85 freeway (as an example) in Cupertino have occasionally set up a resonance, which when the fog as come in over the Santa Cruz mountains creates spots where you can stand and hear very odd "oooh-waaah-oooh-waaah" noises. The first time I heard it I hypothesized it was a didgeridoo being played nearby, but you could walk 100 yards in either direction and the sound would fade, only to pick up again another 100 yards or so further away.
> I'm sure suicide rates and alcohol consumption are going up as well.

Many of these overdoses surely are suicides.
Texas is rapidly running out of capacity to treat patients. You're saying it's a good idea to 'open back the economy' knowing this?

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/01/coronavirus-texas-ho...
I did install it but just to see what all of the fuss lately was about.
I didn't "reverse engineer" it but instead used XPrivacyLua permissions manager to log the permission requests and NetGuard firewall application to log all network traffic (these are FOSS android apps/tools).

I spoofed all of my device information such as IMEI, clipboard, phone number, location, ssid and so on and then opened the application and used it for a bit.

It is true that the app requests/uses almost all permissions regularily but was that surprising? Not really... I'd say it behaves about the same as the WhatsApp application, which seems to have a much better reputation.

I was surprised about the fact that TikTok has no login gate though. Videos and comments can be consumed without an account. Even reddit these days is forcing one to either log in or download their mobile app.

Would love to share my results/logs but I don't have a blog or really any internet presence for that matter. If requested I would be down to analyse some other apps as well and compare the results!
Deaths are down in GA, but cases are on the rise which means that deaths will probably start rising again over the next 2 weeks. They've had 3500 new cases just today.
REPL-centric development is something that has caught on a lot lately and is something that I find myself gravitating towards more and more. For 'production' the eval() might be able to be cast off, but for development the REPL is indispensable - if not a first class requirement.
If they owned it before it started increasing in value at the beginning of time, but how can you make money by buying something that is increasing in value in a perfectly predictable manner? Isn't the seller going to charge you enough to balance out the potential profits, on average?
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“[For a 737-400] takeoff, climb, and landing burns approximately one third of the total fuel” [0]. A 747 is a different aircraft, but I’m comfortable assuming this is a directionally correct estimate.

Regardless, fuel burn is certainly a factor to consider when looking at savings and there are interesting studies on it (See “Fuel burn implications“ for an idea of factors [1])

[0] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/eller1/
[1] https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nextrans/assets/pdfs/08...
It's Time to Stop
The rich and powerful attack those who attack their interests, but now they are more unified.

Notice that there is actually very little concrete criticism of the media, instead you get abstract assertions ("hit piece", "fake news"), ad hominems and so on. When pressed the elites say that the reporting isn't wrong but that they should still be portrayed in a positive light. Obviously journalism can't work if they got their way.
>In some places, you can be prevented from saying something that others do not want you to say.

Not really. The consequences in some places are just so severe that it might be one of the last things you say.
In a globalised world I don't think PPP is good measure personally but thats just my 2 cent.

Also from 1998 is bit hard cause germany was moving from a way lower base. Germany just became a whole country in 1990. The east germans had to do with a lot of that growth because there was basically so much to improve.
Interesting they use eval(), I wonder if their implementations could be changed to not use eval(). I guess in the end you could just use actual classes for these cases, but I sure do like namedtuple and dataclasses.
This is what I hope the future of Wikipedia looks like. If all "facts" are stored in Wikidata and pulled from there by individual articles, it would be simple to keep things up to date. I'd love to see Wikidata grow to encompass all sorts of things - citations would be especially interesting and it could potentially solve the problem of an article citing the same source multiple times.
Close, but IMHO it's the Apollo program.
If that flag is so triggering then you should probably avoid any history book, especially the ones about the UK, Spain or Portugal.
Don't Blame the Fed for the Robinhood Trading Blitz
Likely spam originating from AWS IP addresses.
But this isn't unique to monarchies, this can be true of even the most democratic societies. With enough apathy among the people, the leaders can get away with anything. The fundamental problem appears to be that the users (constituents) either don't share the same values as you do, or they do and are simply apathetic.

That Facebook appears to be impervious to its users can just as easily be explained by general apathy of your average user, rather than a lord/vassal relationship.
fwiw, the article itself with the bad headline says the freighter will continue, which is why I called it a bad headline.
Pasting to the clipboard into a standard widget is different than reading/writing it. Hopefully in mobile OS as well.
We're really just talking about deliberate communication here, and like with all communication, context is important. In general, the color of someone's clothes isn't communicating much, but it might be at a sporting event.
Of course it matters... If art has any utility at all, then its impact must be factored into utilitarian calculations about suffering / opportunity costs and so on.

Whether the suffering that's alleged to have taken place in its production was 'worthwhile' is an open and complex question, and its a perfectly valid moral position to believe that it was not. But to suggest that behaviour should be 'divorced from outputs' is not a logically consistent position.
Software engineer for a large financial company.

I don't really have the option to change. I became an expert (acting tech lead) in our Filenet based application, then they outsourced it. Then I worked with a Neoxam application including ASC work for a couple years (terrible management). I'm on an AWS team working with Python (sort of). The work is boring, the business can't describe their business process well, and we spend more time doing reports or troubleshooting than building anything.

The company doesn't follow it's own policies. I see people get promoted because they meet diversity metrics and work 12 hour days (policy is 7.5 hours). I put in extra hours as an acting tech lead, got my masters, and I'm still a mid level after 8 years. I feel this same sort of stuff will happen at other big companies as the one I'm at is ranked in the top 20 Computerworld best places to work. I'm a mid level developer and would need to find an entry level position. I have a kid now, so I can't afford to take a lower salary. I'm stuck.
There are medical consequences to the lockdown also. Things like all the cancer screenings that didn't happen because people weren't going to the doctor. And the people who died from heart attacks because they were afraid to go to the ER.
> Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind -- unless the mind decides that it is a problem

Sickness can affect how mind works very significantly just because of blood chemistry.
To be fair, one does get a flavor of Tramiel's character in On the Edge, despite the elision of this incident. I am always bemused when I come across some sentimental "tribute" to him somewhere on the internet, produced by some Commodore fan (and there are a few).
So you basically only pay based on amount of queries? Dataset size doesn't matter? We have an expensive elastic search setup. It's expensive because of the amount of data it contains. But we don't run a lot of queries. So with algolia this would basically be free and potentially faster?
Flash worked like this natively.
Since at least some of those companies were insolvent, the US taxpayer would have been better compensated if the companies had been nationalized instead. Wiping out the existing shareholders avoids moral hazard in the future as well.
It doesn't make sense to me to blame the Fed; obviously everything is not attracting the same investment. When the stock market bounced back recently, it's not the same stocks. There was a huge amount of reallocation of anticipated future value due to the epidemic.

I believe biotech is the best area in the long run, but the fundamental cause of a bubble is that people start believing something is always a good buy at any price, and that always means the price has to go up enough to change minds.

The more you believe something is always good, the worse it has to become to change your mind, which is pretty scary to me.
This is a bit different. My understanding (but I'm not an expert) is that Chicken uses the stack effectively as the thread allocation buffer, which is clever because it's already thread-local using an existing register, and it's already in cache. They then evacuate from the stack to the old generation (or a separate young generation? I'm not sure). This isn't what is being done in the work referenced in this article, as objects are known in this case to be long-term safe to allocate on the stack - it's not using it as an allocation buffer.

But my understanding of Chicken is limited - maybe you were asking rhetorically and you knew more?
A dollar for 1,000 queries. A million queries costs $10000 dollars?

For that money there are so many better options.
They've had one order from UPS this year (though also two cancellations).
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I'm not a fan of the Edge browser.

I migrated away from Chrome -to Firefox- over a year ago and haven't looked back. I don't want a re-skinned Chrome browser. I don't want Chrome. I don't want Edge.

Please Microsoft, listen to your users and stop trying to shove your products in our faces. If we want to try your products we will. If we don't want to use your products, then your own guerrilla-style tactics are only hurting your marketing efforts.

When people feel they have a choice, they're more likely to be satisfied with the outcome. When people feel they're cornered, the experience is less than satisfying and is almost guaranteed to backfire on the one doing the cornering.

I hope you're listening Microsoft...
Alternatively, encrypt the contents of the clipboard at rest.
That's a good way to put it :)

Unfortunately, I didn't think of that :(
There’s Still a Gaping Hole in the Economy
Compare not absolute numbers but the quality of life - aim for the equality of it.

E.g. if you pay local market rates for someone based in Seattle and another one based in Zimbabwe - I'm pretty sure that former's quality of life will be much better.
It doesn’t have to be China-style brutal. It can also be strict and effective, like what was done in much of Europe.

With a competent western-style government you can have great results. See New Zealand. What matters is not how authoritarian the country is, but how seriously the lockdown is taken.
> The cars themselves have difficulty lasting 2 or 3 years without requiring serious maintenance

Do you have a reference for this? Most of what I've seen from owners comments and CR, not to mention the 400k mile Tesla X, suggests the opposite.
I can't help thinking I'm missing the point of your comment, but taking it at face value:

The second paragraph provides an example to illustrate the first paragraph.
So the government is just punting on problems, again?

Serious question. I fail to see how bailing out mismanaged companies is worth more than an equivalent sum straight to people. Companies can be nationalized if they're essential. Can't raise the dead. Can't squeeze blood from a stone.
fortran - one of only a handful of languages that natively supports multidimensional arrays, maybe the only low level one?
As long as it's not written in JS,right? Your friend's solution to the problem,while quite hilarious, shows a complete lack of understanding of how the world works among some techies. That's why we end up with AI based dog leash, remote juice press,or watches that do everything but show time...
For Vancouverites, you can get free take-home drug testing kits, here:

http://www.vch.ca/public-health/harm-reduction/overdose-prev...

There's not a whole lotta point, since everything has Fentanyl in it these days, except pot (probably)

And free Naloxone (Narcan) kits at Shopper's Drug Mart, London Drugs, and other places:

https://towardtheheart.com/site-finder

They only ask your age and whether this is your first kit. No ID required

There were 131 overdose calls in Vancouver yesterday
tbqh, why would that be a bad idea? It's a minor feature from a technical standpoint.
No, this is about the facts of the organizational structure, not about shared values or passive consent. Users are not Facebook's constituents, they are its subjects. They have two choices: submit to Facebook's board of directors, or leave. The authority of the board room over the users is nominally absolute. There's no representative body that is accountable to the users, there's no ownership or stake in their own data or in the assets of Facebook itself.
I beleive that is actually not what is happening, Discord would show the same, but the reason it happend for them was that they were checking for null value to see if there was a image in the clipbord instead of using a boolean which also is there. https://twitter.com/lolpython/status/1276235830692941829
>But as a web-dev I dislike Apple/Safari. They have become MS/IE 2.0. My not so generous assumption is that they try to restrict the web to make their app platform more appealing.

Whatever Apple is doing with Safari, it seems much more resource efficient than Chrome on OS X. (Firefox is somewhere in the middle). Chrome can become unusable under a normal load, while Safari almost never does no matter how much I abuse it. Safari seems to hibernate background windows and tabs much better.

If the tradeoff for accomplishing that resource efficiency is not supporting all of the edge case features Google puts in its browsers, I'm ok with that. It's nice to have that option.
> we set up memorials to our own bad acts as a nation so that we can't erase them from memory or hide from them.

They will all be hidden soon.
A pair of lawsuits highlight the decline of public order in SF
One thing that stands out in TFA is the photo of the cabin mock-up:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ijEVXdL5LsC...

What's the biggest difference? No overhead bins! It looks positively roomy in there.

I wonder if the overhead bin model is really the best one -- it feels like a huge bottleneck. Reduces headspace, slows down load in and load out dramatically since it essentially requires that every passenger be able to military press a 20lb+ weight (or have someone else do it).

I'm not sure what a better plan would be though :) Maybe raise the cabin slightly and have the bins be built into the floors below each seat?
It's also somewhat delusional to think that things will change if you just vote really hard and tell your friends to vote really hard.
> A sufficiently well functioning government is necessary for a market to be well functioning and vice versa.

But "well functioning" in this context only means something like "efficiently prices externalities" and doesn't require the government to e.g. build housing projects, as opposed to just not passing zoning regulations that make the market price of housing unaffordable to begin with.

> The only reason there are places where people are (close to) guaranteed to live decent, free lives is based on decades of activism, unions and governmental action.

This is frequently claimed, but there is a long history of laws being passed requiring something right after the major players in that industry already agreed it was a good idea (and then started lobbying for it instead of against it because it would increase compliance costs for smaller competitors).

> Mostly projects and services which are very long-term oriented such as education, police, military, infrastructure, public transport, foundational research etc.

I'm inclined to think that these things would happen more often in the private sector if people weren't constantly kept on a treadmill of ever-increasing costs for housing, healthcare and education which require people to work long hours just to survive with no surplus.

If more of people's time was their own then they would experiment on their own without need for external funding, and have a surplus of wealth to pool and invest into those types of endeavors. It's what some billionaires do already, but can you imagine how far we would get if the resources of the middle class were allowed to go to that instead of just keeping ahead of artificial scarcity?
If you're maintaining it, then I think you get a fair vote in it's architecture going forward. Things that are plainly problematic now didn't seem that way to a different group of people in a different context before it was even created. Perhaps it was a cascade of poor choices, but regardless, identifying problems with the architecture in the context of today gives a huge advantage over those who were putting it together under who knows what conditions (at work or elsewhere).

Just like the never ending "turn this Excel workbook into an app" stream of work, refactoring older apps will be a constant. Focusing today's conversations on yesterday's mistakes only detracts from the work left to do (which is to say if your architecture change arguments are valid, there should be ways to justify implementing them today outside of "it should've been done this way in the first place because then we wouldn't have had those problems that are now solved anyway")
> Does DMCA really require them to do so? Doesn't it fall under fair use?

Yes, if they want to keep their safe harbor protections. If they think it's fair use, refuse to comply with the DMCA notice, and it turns out it wasn't fair use, they're now liable as infringers.
FTA: "Meanwhile, as a recent article in City Journal notes, San Francisco is “surreptitiously placing homeless people in luxury hotels by designating them as emergency front-line workers” and has spent $3,795.98 to buy guests alcohol, ostensibly to encourage them to shelter in place. The city has also provided complementary cigarettes and marijuana."

If true, this is bizarre indeed!