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>As Juvenal asked almost two millenia ago: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Part of the last 2000 years has been the attempt to development systems of government which inherently reduce the importance of this question. For example, by enforcing churn on "custodes", by creating a culture in which radical transparency is the norm, by encouraging highly participatory democracy.

Now, I will concede that these efforts have not born much fruit. Certainly not enough fruit to make Juvenal's question moot. But we are now in a situation where we may be faced with "draconian authoritarianism" because of the social and psychological impact of social media and its manipulation, so I'm not convinced that this "free speech vs. draconian authoritarianism" dialectic is really useful in an analysis of this issue.

Asserting that there are only two ends of the spectrum: free speech or draconian authoritarianism is very typical American thing to do; other cultures have a much easier time dealing with the idea that while the slope may be slippery, we can choose to take some steps down it and then stop.

(I'm not saying that I know you're American, merely that this sort of perspective is much more typical in the political and civic culture of America than most other countries in the world).

And frankly, I don't think your arguments are sound, because they hinge on a hand-waving claim:

>Disinformation -- to the detriment of the public -- is a price we're willing to pay (barring some narrow cases)

You (and I, and the rest of us) don't know what that price really means.
The people absolutely required for Amazon to function are actual employees. Remove drivers and Uber’s business instantly shuts down literally that second, but Amazon can keep selling until their inventory runs out. Amazon.com sells inanimate objects or intellectual property which can’t be employees. Uber sells rides which require a physical person to preform them.

So, I really don’t understand what your trying to convey.
Their profile description says they are W3C staff, and this can easily be confirmed by googling their name.
very well said. upvoted.
Its speculation. Cost of benefits/rent/etc is expensive in the Bay Area, but no one is getting $25k worth of dental insurance or anything.
That's a legitimate point of view but that in no way or case justified what Uber did. For context[1], when NYC passed legislation that would have adversely affected the business, they put a "de Blasio's Uber" button into the app encouraging people to contact the mayor's office, basically spamming the office with mail. And before you think that's because they're staunch believers of civic protest, as the article points out in China they did the opposite and discouraged drivers, as to not anger authorities.

A private company trying to sort of ddos the mayor with spam mail is ridiculous, regardless where you stand on the politics of the particular case.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-16/uber-inje...
If you look at the number of chip companies in business starting 30-40 years ago to today, you'll notice that the trend has been one of consolidation.
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By "rendered graphics" you mean "place characters on screen"? If the bottleneck for that is a 9600 baud modem throughput, there's not a lot you need to optimize, even on a 2MHZ CPU.

Also, having programmed more constrained systems decades ago doesn't magically make you knowledgeable on performance on modern hardware with completely different capabilities. In fact, it's probably what causes you to develop a "computers are so fast now, no need to think about performance"-mindset, because everything you want to do could be done in an arbitrarily inefficient way on modern hardware. Performance doesn't matter to you anymore.
Ruby became niche long ago, just have to accept it. It doesn't mean you won't find work in Ruby if that's what you want, plenty of companies depend on it. Rewrites in different stacks are quite impossible sometimes.
Wholeheartedly agree. What you're describing is like the ideal mysql use case. Also, even the most basic next steps performance-wise will probably tithe you over well into the TBs of data. The headroom for mysql is quite a bit higher than most people think unless you're operating at facebook scale.
But... that’s just like shuttle taxis on the airport. Except underground.

Guess boring technology triumphs again.
Rideshare was preferred for two reasons:

1) It was VASTLY cheaper due to VC cash subsidy attempting to become the single monopoly. That's not an "efficient market"--that's predatory--and eventually the cities will have to deal with the aftermath in the cab system when Uber/Lyft collapse.

2) My feedback could hit the driver directly--so the failure modes of cabs were prevented (not picking people up, taking too long to pick people up, not driving them where they want to go, taking stupid paths, etc.).
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Scientific research coming from the US, country of all climate-change deniers and big corps.

Yeah, I'll pass.
The anxiety of not knowing when or how you're going to be able to support yourself and/or your dependents can have a pretty chilling effect on one's openness to experience and idle creativity. It's very easy to get yourself into a cycle of existential paralysis where you can't/don't allow yourself any opportunity to do something normally considered "frivolous" despite the fact that there's no real opportunity for you to do something normally considered "useful".

Even though the actual opportunity cost of doing something "frivolous" is zero given the circumstances, the self-imposed perceived cost could feel much higher. There's a difference between not knowing what to do with oneself and feeling like one shouldn't be doing any of those things.
This sounds very politically incorrect.
This is not about the title but about a post and its replies though.
If that were true, conventional rail would be built mostly in tunnels.

It is very much not.

Tunnels are used only when absolutely necessary to deal with terrain.
>Why the only alternatives to capitalism that come to mind are always China and Gulags? Is there absolutely nothing else we can imagine?

This is precisely Mark Fisher's argument in Capitalist Realism. Capitalist realism dictates that the majority of people have become incapable of imagining something outside of a kind of binary choice. There can't be an alternate future, because we can't imagine it in the first place. This was bessed summed up, rather ironically, by Thatcher: "there is no alternative".
The mere fact that Musk is pushing it makes me very wary of betting against it. Sure he's not Tony Stark...but doesn't seem that far off either.
Not the area, the drivers.

Boston is incredibly segregated and in the area I live in is less than 10% white. It's not a coincidence that this is the only area in the city I've ever had trouble getting a ride to (roughly 200 total rides).
Fine, let me reword it as a non-question.

Anyone can make a page with guidelines. If I say someone "photoshopped" an image then I'm violating Adobe guidelines. If "subject to" means I'm acting inside that scope, then I'm subject to them. But if "subject to" means they can do anything about it, then I'm not subject to them.

The way you're talking about the policy isn't making it clear which meaning you intend, but it's very important to distinguish between those meanings.

There's no need to be stubborn about clarifying what you meant. If you use a term, and someone asks what you mean by that term, "I don't need to answer that" is a very strange response.
I'm an American who worked in Germany. I interviewed in the the Netherlands, but was horrified by how low pay was in the industry.
I'm 2 weeks into learning programming and I couldn't imagine life without MDN. It's fantastic.
It's not that I disagree - but I know some incredibly smart and educated people who are fully invested in conspiracy theories.

Whilst I'm sure there's probably something in it, it's definitely not always the case.
The animated boat is immensely cute. I have a lot of respect that you cooked this up in one night, it humbles me.

Props to even come up with the idea.
> belorussian language, which is just redneck russian

Just like Poland, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, right? This is BS, I've been there and it does not fit "East Slavic languages are brothers, others are not". Each language is quite different yet similar, just like Ukrainian vs Russian. A lot of shared vocabulary, but base is not the same - sounds, stress, short-long vowels, hard-soft consonants

доброе утро (RU)
добрий ранок (UA)
dobré ráno (SK)
dobro jutro (HR)

And Ukrainian and Russian are not single entity either, each region has its own dialect, 100 km is enough to hear (Kharkiv-Poltava, Belgorod-Kursk).

Authentic language is beautiful [1], interviewer language is bastardized. They should catch pronunciation not vocabulary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlu4lf5P4x0&t=7m20s
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What do you feel the ideal neutrality for this topic looks like on HN?
For people interested in philosophy, I'd say the concepts of "Ressentiment" and "Slave Morality" from Nietzsche (from the late 1800's no less!) are super relevant today and can be applied to the left or right political camps.

> The revolt of the slaves in morals begins in the very principle of resentment becoming creative and giving birth to values—a resentment experienced by creatures who, deprived as they are of the proper outlet of action, are forced to find their compensation in an imaginary revenge. While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what is "outside itself," "different from itself," and "not itself": and this "no" is its creative deed. This volte-face of the valuing standpoint—this inevitable gravitation to the objective instead of back to the subjective—is typical of "resentment": the slave-morality requires as the condition of its existence an external and objective world, to employ physiological terminology, it requires objective stimuli to be capable of action at all—its action is fundamentally a reaction.

—Nietzsche in The Genealogy of Morals
(source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm)

Here is a video comparing Nietzsche's "Ressentiment" and Dostoevsky "Underground Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmgI08iIAg
You're not arguing against the post you replied to. You say "Mill says ideas are not dangerous". The poster said "I think Mill didn't know how dangerous they can be". The poster has already acknowledged what Mill's position was, and has said that they suspect that his position is wrong.
Kinda surprised about the hopscotch and ball games...
If nothing else, I would have thought they'd be ok as 'exercise' and co-ordination drills ?
On-call? Do you get on-call pay?

If not, have you asked for 3x normal salary, since they apparently think they own you 24/7?
Why not? It’s all just compensation.
> So for me it just a daring publicity stunt (a borderline scam IMHO), something that Elon Musk is also known to be good at.

I think this is a very unfair and cynical way of looking at it. How it is a scam? He said, he thinks its a good idea and he released basically a little concept whitepaper on what his ideas are.

He has never attempted to make any money from it, and he clearly just thinks its a good idea and that's why he put the idea out.

There is every indication that he still thinks its a promising technology. He has hinted at this but clearly Starship, Starlink, Cybertruck and so on are priority for him. From a Boring perspective the non vac tunnels, ie Loop rather then Hyperloop, seem to have a more direct opportunity in the market as these require far less technical innovation.

I for one would not be surprised if Elon tries to take to actually take this on in 3-5 years. I for one would enjoy going insane speeds from city center to city center.
WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram.

Preferably only Telegram, but I don't have a choice.
Dishwasher three times a day???
> We're building a visual pipeline tool for data scientists.

As a Sr. DS/ML Engineer, this doesn't speak to me.
They're not suggesting that another injustice might not exist in higher education, more that it has nothing to do with the hypothetical of a dating app charging more based on race.

Just because there's publicly funded precedent, doesn't mean it's not something that should be tackled and fixed.
do you normally just have cage matches with straw men in public?
> A housing suburb is undeniably a less wonderful place than the forest it replaced.

Agreed, though with the notable exception of my own housing suburb, which I prefer over whatever it may have replaced.
Between us, 80% of the reason I started this was a cute little red panda in a boat seemed fun to draw!
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Crime in my city (and most of the country) is lower than it's ever been. I've literally never been denied a ride by traditional cab drivers.
Its almost like using mass produced cars in simple tunnels are cheaper then low volume subway systems.
I have wanted something like this.

Julia support?
If you want nonsense, go to an actual news site. This site was created for a specific purpose.
The explanation I've heard it's that it's an SEO thing -- if your page isn't "unique" it gets nuked in the rankings, so recipe sites need to add a long preamble to distinguish their otherwise-identical recipe.

Another explanation is that longer articles mean more time spent on the site, i.e. it pumps up those "user engagement" metrics. Plus more space for ads.

The saving grace is that most recipe sites have a "Jump to recipe" button. They know people don't want to read their life story, but they can't jeopardize their SEO.

EDIT: more well-informed speculation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/3gkzog/comment/ctz...
This seems worse than a subway in pretty much every metric, unless if you happen to be same person who's selling the cars that it's compatible with.
AFAIK it wasn't going to be a condo-like development, with restricted access to residents-only, so anyone could walk within the Sidewalk area, and potentially be tracked, willingly or not.
Except I don't think racketeering is even what google aimed for. Just too much lazy automation.
First step would be to embrace working from home everywhere it is feasible. Then convert that massive amount of unused commercial space to residential living. Problem Solved.
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No, it's not. I just finished reading a book where the author talks about growing up in the late 70s, early 80s, and one night his father started beating his mom with the buckle end of his belt. She managed to hit the panic alarm at their house, and when the police showed up, they police didn't even talk to her, even though she was standing there with blood running down her face. The father just told them that she got out of line, and he had to teach her who's in charge, and the police nodded and chuckled, then left.
Most of the also-run ad networks do that, yes.
If I had an ex-wife that made that claim then I would sue for slander. That isn’t free speech or free thought - it’s an attack designed to damage a persons reputation.

Maybe it isn’t working - but why should I trust your alternative of deciding what’s ok and not ok to talk about? Why are you the authority? Why would I be?

We have laws - fire in a theatre, slander, etc. flat Earthers, holocaust deniers, climate change skeptics, etc all can say what they want. Provide the evidence they want. And I can disagree. I can vote in a manner that squashes their ideas from having any real power.

But here is the rub - just because I’m certain they are wrong doesn’t mean I automatically get my way. We need to be ever vigilant in defending what we believe to be the truth. In the end what works will win. What’s the alternative? It’s violence. History has proven this.
I am currently using MongoDB to store Ethereum tick price data. I'd like to switch to Timescale, but wondering if there is a supported Node.js API client?

EDIT: Looks like the documentation recommends using Sequelize ORM.
Without paying US prevailing market wages to the contractors.

Also, all the materials used on the Hawaii rail line have to be shipped in - literally, adding expense.
I don’t know why not. That’s what I’m asking. Is that what they do? If Google pay you $200k plus $500k stock do Mozilla pay you $700k cash instead. Maybe they do. Just seems doubtful somehow... seems like there must be a reason Google prefer to put it in stock.
> You forgot the tens of millions killed deliberately by the USSR itself, fir one example.

Please keep in mind that the current, mainstream political Western discourse is seriously contemplating whether or not we should re-open, sacrificing a few million people on the altar of economic growth.
I don't really want to go Godwin on you, but do you really think that you can justify allowing the demonization of (e.g.) Jewish people because the eventual genocide perpetrated against them is "the least worst choice"?
Or better, have all your bills paid automatically.
I said control, not support. The argument here considered is about the government controlling broadband, not giving subsidies to broadband companies.

The government does not control food or housing supply and there are very few people who would advocate that they adopt that role. That is my point.
The UI is constantly getting better and its way better than where it was a few years ago. Its at the point where I find its usable but not as nice as things like telegram.
I just use the word as shorthand for “it just works in all aspects”.
I would think that one would be on the Daily-Double for $2000.
I would call it wire rope, or a support line. If I worked with it often enough, I'd probably refer to it by size or construction (EHS, 7x7, etc)

I'd argue that a Bowden cable (eg a clutch cable) is primarily carrying a signal... really though, just thinking through what defines a cable.

By contrast, rope and line are terms with fairly specific meanings.
> Nb., I’m not sure why it doesn’t depend on the material the plate is composed of, but I imagine it’s smooshed into the dielectric constant if necessary

It isn't smooshed into this. Capacitance is the Charge per Volt. Hence, capacitance says nothing about the total charge or the total voltage (which depend on plate material), just the ratio of these for given plates.
common misconception.

Hyperloop tubes were never meant to be fully evacuated, they operate at pressure differentials with air bearings (imagine a cylindrical air hockey table).
> only a single subgroup

Is it supposed to be obvious who this subgroup is? I can't engage with your assertion that it's going to change "out of necessity" without knowing who we're talking about…
There are other communities with very similar content that have fixed this problem.

See: https://lobste.rs/ and https://tildes.net/
I'd just like to point out that while Uber may argue that they are a tech company first and driver/delivery second, the judge ruled that they are the opposite. The judge isn't arguing anything.
Some people obviously do and they're welcome to it, just not everyone, everywhere. No one comes to Hacker News for puerile humor and racist edgelord shitposting, and when it shows up here it gets banned.
One problem I had as a founder was that it was difficult to raise little money early. There are not enough angels around here. People wanted to push too much money on too early, so "seed" was not viable. There's nothing wrong with having extra money in the bank - the problem is that a lot of VCs expect you to spend the money you have raised, which often meant scaling before hitting PMF.
Wouldn't this get annoying when you go to select part of the URL? Hovering changes the text shown so you end up selecting different text than you wanted.
Given the "impossibility theorem" headline, I was hoping for at least a sketch of a formalizable argument. I wasn't really expecting one, and maybe this is a silly thing to be annoyed about, but I think it's better to be clear about what exactly you have backing up a particular argument.
I don't know Michael Chastain, but I know people who fit your description, and, unlike the generic Fred of the article, they are not slow to deliver useful software - quite the opposite, in fact.
I think anaconda is mostly used in the data science community, so if that's the kind of work you'll be doing it's great for that (notebooks and such).

For everything else I think virtualenv is fine, bit unintuitive but fit for purpose (more or less).
Enemies to Taiwan? Sanctions? Your understanding of the Taiwan-China relationship is overly colored by Western perspectives.
And - somehow this installed Python 2 in 2020.
Awesome things happen when copyright isn't in the way.
Every time 'Element' (The Matrix chat app) gets a mention, it resorts into questioning the name or a disambiguation.

The technology, product and pricing with the deals they are making with multiple governments and businesses is an excellent source of revenue and is very competitive at striking those deals. However the genericness of the name will be a problem with non-technical users and will always be an issue with Element which is a problem the parent has highlighted.

The SEO on the name is terrible and doesn't come up on Google, Bing or DDG. The fustrating part? They were so close on deciding to rebrand everything and have ruined it on the name (for now).

It's not too late though. I guess they will have rename Element again in order to expand into becoming a true WhatsApp alternative mindshare-wise. Right now the name is quite frankly unappealing, but everything else is the gold standard.
The multiple dept. heads case.
Interview with Max Altman, co-founder of Apollo [video]
One of the ideas in the talk I link is how you can represent typically non-commutative data (like averages) in a data structure that does support commutative operations (numerator/denominator pair) and to take advantage of generic analytics infrastructure.
Ah yes, Rust - that easy-to-learn world-renowned language for data science, machine learning and web dev.
If you just print it then that defeats the point. They don't care about individual copies, they want to find who is stripping DRM and posting books on torrent trackers.
What kind of pre-wash routine is factored into that 5x number? I completely buy it if you just chuck the dirty dishes into the dish washer, but in my experience getting good results from a machine requires pretty extensive rinsing at the very least.
Masnick responds to this in the original post:

> There is the argument (that I regularly advocate) that pushing out the moderation to the ends of the network (i.e., giving more controls to the end users) is better, but that also has some complications in that it puts the burden on end users, and they have neither the time nor inclination to continually tweak their own settings.
that's half the point though - the pandemic means we're all locked away as individuals, roommates, or family units, with few exceptions.

I'd love to go jam with my band, but we're all in lockdown mode. I'd love to go to the playground with my kids, but they're all closed. I'd love to have a playdate with my friend's kids, but everyone is self-isolating.

These are not normal circumstances.
I have a name for this. Contrarian theory. Contrarians are superficially similar to skeptics.