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What is it doing here? The same thing that everything else is doing here: someone submitted it. And enough people find it interesting that it makes the front page.

Some of us want to live, not just code. We care about how we live, not just what we write.

Mind you, I myself don't find these strongtowns articles particularly compelling. But enough people do for them to "keep showing up on HN". And I'm not going to say that those who find them interesting are wrong.
Just something that scales more smoothly. The price difference between the lowest (by price) and next lowest is $117, but the difference between that and the third lowest is only $19. I know that the difference isn't the same (more CPU and RAM, vs only more disk space), but it just seems like a big jump.

I could very much imagine that I might outgrow the $49 option, but not to the point where I'm willing to pay triple that amount.

I'm not necessarily saying you should change it, maybe its just messaging and targetting. I guess on HN you just get a load of us who are interested in using it for smaller projects (where the 49 option might be perfectly fine, of course).
Decent question, I'm not qualified to answer. Few, (none?) companies have 1M employees, how do they/insurance do it?
Holy bike shedding batman. I can't comprehend our inability to focus on the important things. Toronto's Port Lands need to be revitalized [1]:

> Waterfront Toronto has received $1.25 billion to clean up and protect the Port Lands. Federal, Provincial and City financial contributions cover the total costs.

> ...nearly a century ago the Don Valley became heavily industrialized and the river was re-routed to enter the lake into a concrete channel. The new project is intended to create a new opening for the Don River.

Spend some time in Google Maps [2] and explain to me why this revitalization project has to be framed in terms of smart neighbourhoods, affordable housing, and digital privacy. The plan only has to be slightly smarter than 100% condos which seems to be the default for Toronto waterfront development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Lands#Recent_history

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Port+Lands
Validation rarely happens nowadays for many many results.
I don't get the aristocratic supremacist thing, the person hailing the ride is the one who is coming from or going to the "dangerous" area, clearly they are not a beneficiary of the aristocracy.
If you want to drop data after a retention period, TimescaleDB is also great here. If you're going to delete millions of rows from a standard Postgres table, it can take a long time and require a lengthy vacuum to recover space - with TimescaleDB it's almost instant, since behind the scenes it is simply deleting the files (chunks) that fall within the time range.
Where "young" is defined as anyone under 55, sure.

Creating a retirement community just falls into the umbrella of creating a dedicated subdivision for people like her though. There's probably not much demand for that in college towns?
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3.5 years on my prediction holds well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811365
This is what my company does and it works well enough, though your site would need a reasonable amount of traffic or industry clout before an ad-buyer would take your email/call seriously.
Makes sense, the app is all about exposing peoples’ personal information online to shame them.
> the CHAZ/CHOP shooting

The one where a man drove into protestors and shot one of them, or one of the four non-related-to-protest shootings in a neighborhood that had been suddenly abandoned by police and already had a high violent crime rate compared to the rest of the city?

> people beat up the car as it drives through

That's an inevitable result of somebody trying to push through a crowd that won't move. If you sit there, nobody moves out of the way, and you hit the gas anyway, people will inevitably try to damage the car to make you stop again, because you could kill somebody doing that.
Which, while terrible to see the loss, gives me some hope that we have less power over nature than we think. A housing suburb is undeniably a less wonderful place than the forest it replaced. But life will inevitably find a way to colonise that suburb. Black birds and Camel crickets bring me hope. But I wish we would stop burning down rainforests and building boring suburbs.
Putting aside open vs closed source, what is the difference between Uber and the new service you are describing?
Looks good. Just wondering how is this different from a mindmap. Is the multimedia ability the differentiator?

I hacked together a simple textual mindmap with colors, fonts, etc on a canvas that I use for personal thinking. Just wondering how this improves the process.
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Overreach in what sense? What's... I dunno, standard-length reach for labor action?
How do you handle the uber drivers that do it as a little side gig. Like less than 10 hours a week?
Democracy means you have to contend with the whole community. It's not just the rich who get to vote on tax policy, not just the manufacturers who get to vote on environmental regulation, etc.
Read it as Pipes of Fantasy.

Years ago I remember reading about miles long test tracks being built. I haven't been following developments surrounding this at all, but as far as I can tell there are still no serious test tracks, why?

The ones that are out there are supposedly too short to get to full speed (or anywhere close to it!).

Given the hype surrounding it I have a hard time believing money is the limiting factor here. Sounds to me like the tech just isn't there and won't be anytime soon. And having a full test track would simply kill the deal flow.

EDIT: so just to make sure I'm not misremembering anything, here's a story from 2015 https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873014/hyperloop-technol...

"The near-term goal is to construct a 3-kilometer test track to conduct a full-speed prototype."

And it appears to me that what was supposed to be this 3km test track is a 500m Virgin Hyperloop test track today at the same location with some of the same people involved. So they might have land secured for the original length already.

"That startup has plans to build an 8-kilometer in Quay Valley"

"he expects to conduct the first test with live passengers in 32 months"
The most interesting case of this I encountered was for photo 'timestamps' on a global sharing site. UTC was being used and I was proposing a change to local time. There was great debate as many drank the UTC juice and stopped thinking.

It was when I showed them that we also have a 'shot at' location then proceeded to show Christmas eve photos showing the UTC time converted to the viewers local timezone (not always evening, not always Dec 24) alongside where the photo was taken. Just as in space-time a photo needs both a time and a place.
I take it that's 60K USD per year, but not adjusted for PPP? Adjusting for PPP that's $140,000 per year.

> Of course, the few real know how holders are kept loyal at just any cost, and I heard rumours of 7 digit incomes for those few.

That's pretty true across any industry. These nominal-to-PPP adjusted salaries are roughly in line re: base compensation for what I would expect a good tech job outside the bay area to pay. If you got a job at the upcoming TSMC fab in the US, $140K would be about right.

Converting using exchange rate isn't the right way of comparing compensation as you're not trying to buy something in the US with your Taiwanese compensation. You're trying to determine a compensation figure in the US that gets you as much in the US as the Taiwanese salary gets you in Taiwan. This is when you use PPP.
The speed is supposed to be even higher than maglev, so it can compete with planes over longer distances.
But yes, any kind of high speed public transport would be great.
clarification - I read actual science and large, sourced reports routinely. I also read the history of science obfuscation paid for by companies facing new, legal liability, btw. I don't mean to suggest "ignore science" .. I mean to say "I think I will announce prima facia suspicion and get on with other tasks now"
this looks nice but.. starting from $1399?
This seems priced at twice the value that would make sense (an iPad pro is $799), I don't really understand why.
This technique worked fine for me for decades, until semi recently.
Feel free. Different strokes. I spent 3 years of my life professionally gambling as one of my full-time jobs and lived more in those 3 years than most do in a lifetime, and founded a company with an eight-figure valuation that is a lot of fun to run. If I worked some boring desk job that I hated, sure.

Besides, my best years are ahead of me. I'll be in great shape in my 50s with nothing but time and options. The idea that your 20s and 30s are the best years of your life is a very antiquated concept.
Ordering parts, dispatching jobs, looking up service manuals, applying for permits...
Maybe the water hardness is set incorrectly or the salt hasn't been added? A dishwasher doesn't need pre rinsing.
Thanks for all your answers. It really helped to create a framework of what legal mumbo to put where.

We've decided on the following stack:

- General Terms of Service. This will describe what benefits customers can expect from us and by which general means we deliver this e.g. our core service but also support, the amount of effort, etc; what requirements customers need to fulfill before we can deliver our service (like a working internet connection), that customers may only use our service for what it is meant for and shouldn't try to hack our shit; that customers will have an obligation to pay for these deliverables and how long we are willing to wait for payment, what we do when they don't pay and other nasty stuff; How we communicate, where you can find pricing information and what happens in case of disruptions and calamities, what liabilities we accept and how we promise to handle complaints and disputes; other stuff that needs to be said like how we handle privacy sensitive data and which legal jurisdiction applies.

- Terms of service concerning generics for a certain type of business model. This can be quite short and wil lay on top of the general TOS.
E.g. in case of a subscription model, how subscriptions can generally be started, how we prolong them and how customers can cancel. Which requirements a customer should fulfill before a subscription can be delivered. (like a working internet-connection) Where to find the equipment that can be used to receive our service.

- Customizable customer contracts for different target markets and business models. Again these lay on top of the business model TOS which lays on top of the general TOS so this can be really short for a simple contract and expanded at will.

I'm convinced this is a very workable method for us and will give us the flexibility that we need in this phase while still adhering to our lawyers advise.
> "Mozilla is committed to your privacy"

Yet Mozilla Foundation has a contract with a trillion dollar search titan who isn't "committed to your privacy".

No thanks.
>They are being forced to plan for the next 75 years now.

I'm reading that ALL pensions offered by private companies in the U.S. must be funded out for 75 years. I presume this is for good reason. Why should this not apply to the USPS or other local/state/federal/church employees?

I might not follow your reply, but you seem to be under the impression that the USPS is having to do something different than every private company, but that does not appear to be the case. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...

EDIT: with the exception of medical coverage, which is handled differently than private companies as per congress.

>in 2006 They were given 10 years to have the money needed for all pensions up to 75 years in the future.

That would seem to have been a heavy burden. I don't know all the particulars, but they seem to be past that now, right? Is this ten year catchup period still relevant to the conversation?

>Nothing was being pushed off to future generations.

Then why does the government mandate this same pension funding for all private company pensions? I assume it is because there were problems with bankrupt pensions in the past.
3D homes that take 24 hours and less than $4k to print
After 3 months without Uber/Lyft - yes, they definitely will.
MFCCs: Engineering Features from Sound
We use advanced ads pro for Wordpress and it seems to work well enough for serving self-hosted ads.

What are you looking for that it or others don’t offer?
Your daily reminder that we should be embracing decentralized protocols for media, communication, and commerce.
This. Having been in a similar scenario, the most frustrating part is hearing "there's a problem, it's bad enough that we're disabling your account, but we can't even give you a hint what the actual issue was. We hope you can figure it out, maybe we'll eventually re-instate your account".

In my experience, you can usually find something that COULD be the cause by digging through analytics/reports, if you can demonstrate that you took positive action on this, and get it infront of the right support people, they can sometimes help you out and ask for your account to be re-evaluated. You will never, ever find out if this is the reason they disabled your account in the first place though.

Then, prepare for your account to be paused again.
Grafana is meant to run as a single instance. For monitoring multiple servers, you need to get the metrics into one data store, from which Grafana will read. That's Prometheus' job. These pieces should not be on the same servers that run your product. For HA, you can run two or more Prometheuses as duplicates, so you can switch to another one if the main one is down.
Why Invest in IPOs?
Decoupling is well under way.

No surprise.
> Becerra said in an interview on CNBC on Tuesday that he was unconcerned about the potential for Uber to leave the state as a result of the order. “Any business model that relies on shortchanging workers in order to make it probably shouldn’t be anywhere, whether California or otherwise,” he said.

This type of attitude drives me crazy. These companies have paid billions of dollars to drivers, who voluntarily decided to work and earn this money. If drivers felt the arrangement was unfair, wouldn't they do something else? How is anyone better off by these companies being legislated out of existence? They're already hemorrhaging cash as is.

It's astonishing to me that government leaders believe workers are better off with fewer options, regardless of the perceived quality of them. Or maybe they don't actually believe it but are willing to inflict the damage anyway for the sake of virtue signaling.
Yes it will, because that’s how immunity works.
Sanitize mode on Bosh gets to 155°F, They claim it kills 99.9% of bacteria.
I disagree. You code your algo for one input, come up with a corner case, write a failing test, refactor, repeat.

For an algo, let's say it operates on a list, I'll start with test f([]) == 0, and implement f to output the constant 0.

And then go from there.
How would that help Mozilla financially?

I'd guess most of the FF iOS users don't even realize it's not Gecko under the hood, and don't even know/care what Gecko is.
I think the title of this paper does a real disservice to the much more carefully written abstract. The abstract is very careful to point out the limitations of this study and flesh out why the main conclusion should be considered cautiously.
Counting distinct values across rolling windows in BigQuery using HyperLogLog++
I am in a very similar situation (and I think even age/life experience)

I don't have any public words to say to you, but I would love to chat a bit if you ever want to.

My email is brunomtsousa @ the biggest search company email service.com
For 6-8 people in a household twice a day is unreasonably frequent. Most of those people are probably kids so it's not like you're racking up tons of wine glasses. So, while it's nice to use an environmentally friendly detergent - the most environmentally friendly thing you can do is just reuse dishes when possible - did you eat a bagel on that plate? Give it a rinse and use it again!
Fair enough, but let's say the goal isn't to kill everything, but common bacteria that causes problems, such as salmonella and e coli. 60c is enough to handle that.
> specialize more

With how rapidly the web changes, I would consider specialization a wart on your resume. Web developers have to be generalists. I'd keep doing what you are doing: learning new things.

I'd learn some other back-end language. C#, Java and Rust come to mind. You're very strongly tied to the scripting/dynamic ecosystem.
Are you under the impression that Facebook doesn't have privacy guidelines and strategies for its users just because its privacy goals don't align with yours? Just because they aren't the bastion of privacy doesn't mean they disregard privacy completely. Simple example: If I set my profile to be viewable by friends-only, that is a privacy feature. There are 800 more examples like that pertaining to protecting user data.
The letterbox might have been a competitive advantage when people weren't accustomed to having stuff delivered to their porch. Not anymore. Ditto for a first-class mail monopoly - advantageous when people actually wrote letters, practically useless today.
This is evergreen when talking about Hyperloop: http://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/gadgetbahn/

The problems with building this have nothing to do with technology but with right-of-way, investment, and politics. If those factors were solved, we'd already have high-speed rail in places where Hyperloop has been proposed. The fact that we don't says that Hyperloop is unlikely to be feasible as well.
Why the only alternatives to capitalism that come to mind are always China and Gulags? Is there absolutely nothing else we can imagine?

(Maybe if we had some more leisure we could become more imaginative)
> In the case of C++ template libraries then it's in some cases even impossible to replicate functionality.

Rust has procedural macros that can replicate anything C++ templates can do, often more cleanly. And C/C++ are hardly immune from logical bugs.
I believe that both capitalism and communism are broken because of broken brains of people who are "implementing" them. We need enlightened, self-organized people (no "leaders" or "representatives") as a starting point for any successful implementation of a Utopia (whatever -ism you like to call it). But no current system is going to support enlightenment of people because it would mean its end.
This is such an amazing finding. The data from Europe is really scary, so having such a positive finding from the USA is dearly needed, good news.

It's a shame that there seems to be some valid criticism with regards to the paper, I'll have to dig in further.

I hope we get more data soon so we get a fuller picture of where we stand in matters of insect population and diversity.
I've been bearish on Uber recently when they fleeced me with their credit card rewards recently. That barclaycard used to offer straight cash back, 4% at bars being the big one, which made it one of the best credit cards out there.

Then one day I checked my rewards balance and lo and behold, it was converted into useless uber bux that I can only spend on uber eats, which I avoid given the premium, or rides, which I am not going to ever do unless I've been inoculated for covid 19.

Very slimy anti consumer and anti driver practices, and I hope this statewide pull out means the writing is finally on the wall for Uber. I lust for the day ever since they ruined my favorite credit card.
> In case of taxing A and C, C's freedom as a group would be compromised.

True. That's why targeted taxes (eg carbon taxing) are often a good idea. However, if we as a society vote to do things that seriously harm a subset of society, then we as a society are partially responsible for that harm.

> In case of taxing only A, the cost would be prohibitive and could discourage A from wanting to do its thing in the first place.

I think it's entirely reasonable to price externalities into the cost of an action.
> "When he lifted his arm and draped it low across her back, Leoti had enough. In a move that would thrill victim of modern-day subway harassment, she reached for her hatpin—nearly a foot long—and plunged it into the meat of the man’s arm. He let out a terrible scream and left the coach at the next stop."

Although what the man did is inappropriate, stabbing him seems excessive. She could've first asked him to stop.

> "A Chicago showgirl, bothered by a masher’s “insulting questions,” beat him in the face with her umbrella until he staggered away."

Again, seems excessive. Why not just tell him off and walk away?

> "Such stories were notable not only for their frequency but also for their laudatory tone; for the first time, women who fought back against harassers were regarded as heroes rather than comic characters, as subjects rather than objects. Society was transitioning, slowly but surely, from expecting and advocating female dependence on men to recognizing their desire and ability to defend themselves."

I would say this is more than self defense. The examples given are overreactions that would be prosecuted as crimes under most circumstances.
To be fair if they really are the cream of the crop, an O-1/EB1A would be the path forward.
This is also how racketeering works in some places. "Your club needs to hire our guy and we'll leave you alone."
> I've always been curious about "content moderation." Theoretically, if you could perfectly allow only content that was Legal in the jurisdiction, wouldn't every website allow everything Legal and be able to just point at the laws and say, "if you don't like it, change the law"?

No. Many websites would want to be environments with different standards than the minimal legal one. In the same way that you see different types of discussion and language in church than in school than at work than at home. Of course, none of those places have to try to do it at scale... but should anyone try to do it at scale?

Do we need that scale?
But a shop opening time is not a timestamp, so I think the original advice is still good. A timestamp is the time at which some event happened, which is different than a date/time used for specifying a schedule.

For example, if you wanted to track the history of when the shop actually opened, it would make sense to store a UTC timestamp.