skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one bike-and-ped bridge I used to cross for work, and as a cyclist I did find pedestrians very annoying--they take 90 degree turns across the trail without looking at all -- but that's only one very crowded section. (and as a pedestrian, the cyclists were never a problem for me there.)

But that's one crowded bridge. On most roads, people walking in the roads instead of the sidewalk wouldn't matter to me. You could 10x the number of pedestrians and it'd be fine in most of my city (Austin TX). Maybe that'd change if it were pedestrian-friendly and we ended up with 50x the number of people walking, but this is a problem I dream of.
Yes, they do. People will ship applications in, well, anything :)

WASM is definitely suited for some applications (see Figma), but you have to have a use case for it, and prepared to work really hard to make it work for you (once again, see Figma). Just compiling something down to it and pretending that's it, well, isn't it. And the vast majority of examples and experiments with WASM are just that: "let's compile something to WASM, yay, awesome".
Depends on the state. Some are more business friendly than others. Michigan's LLC annual fee is $25. Arizona has a one-time LLC formation fee of $50 and no annual fees or filings. Each state is different.
Unfortunately, only "top tier" companies really care about your data. I get where you are coming from, I just wish we'd also pass legislation that did something about negligent custodians of data.
I think it really depends on what definition of death we are talking about. If it's the act of dying, I can understand the comparisons to starvation and loneliness, because you are still alive and are actively experiencing death, starvation, and loneliness. However, I think this guide is talking more about death as the state of being dead, i.e. being without life. Without life, you cannot experience starvation or loneliness.
You've made a compelling argument that Apple should be allowed to, in their freedom, do whatever they feel appropriate with regard to their own App store. The we each can make the right choice about whether or not we as individuals should do business with them. We should allow them that freedom. I'm convinced!
I have the same feeling but on the other direction. I
mean crossplane is the OAM implementation, but it doesn't provide any app level abstraction as OAM promised. The message really need update like crossplane supports OAM as a feature or sth else.
> Well, can we come up with a more constructive and friendly way of doing this

That's what the article is doing. Lots of people commit crime because they are homeless, or in financial struggle. If you allowed for zoning that would bring down the cost of rent, and therefore the cost of living, more people could get themselves off the street, and more people would have more money (from spending less of it on rent). That in turn should lower crime.

I think this is a very different approach from subsidised housing and other such strategies by the way. Because those just concentrate poverty in one area, without actually lowering cost of living. Instead it can make things worse, by keeping people who can't afford the area living in it.
As a US Citizen living in the US, I've created ~5 LLCs in the last fifteen years.. 2 with Stripe.. I didnt really see an advantage of Stripe over doing it myself. A decent CPA seemed to be cheaper and more personal.

That said, only the Stripe ones were created as Delaware corps which was probably unnecessary for both of them, but made them infinitely more complex.
The case of the person that got reinfected is grossly exaggerated. Don't you think if this was really occurring frequently there wouldn't be only one or two reported incidences of this world-wide? Asymptomatic carriers do definitively infect others. Just because you personally are not sure of things, doesn't mean that they are not known. And this "do nothing" approach you are advocating for- which is what happens if you wait until everything is fully and definitively proven- has resulted in the disastrous results the US has had so far. Also please explain "suggesting cataclysmic shoot-from-the-hip solutions"- I don't think anything I suggested comes close to that. I said that we shouldn't reopen colleges in places with rising cases. That doesn't seem cataclysmic to me.
That was the first thing I noticed. I guess it’s the New New Math now. I wonder what he’d have felt about Common Core.
There are other options like Singapore and Estonia, but the last time I checked, you had to travel there to open a bank account.
The USA is definitely very litigious, but I am not sure that Canada is similar. Cultural explanations are interesting, but they can be molded to explain almost anything. I could for instance say that US doctors are motivated to prevent overdoses, as their patients are a source of recurring revenue, whereas Canadian and European doctors and systems see their patients as cost centres.
It also doesn't help that half of 2020 has been stuck indoors. We're all taking a skip year, but we just didn't know it.
If you don't have a garage, a decent attic, or a basement--and maybe you don't have great closet space--you're now possibly talking about taking up a "bedroom" as a storage area. And, to another comment, I generally like the main area of the house being fairly (though probably not 100%) open. But having big bedrooms and bathrooms may or may not be something you value, but they're not generally super-efficient unless, say, you want your bedroom to also be your office.
Major cost is reliability. Also design for deployment is complicated. Spitzer telecope was expensive for foldable mirror.

Cheap rockets with fast deployment would be game changer.
Obesity 'increases risks from Covid-19'
There was a big story a few months ago about the feds going after international phone scammer rings with a bunch of arrests. Also a big Nigerian scammer ring last year. They also include indictments of people mostly overseas.
I think it's named after the joke that says only thing that would survive an apocalypse would be cockroaches and relational databases.
My ancestor died in the Civil War, on the Northern side. Other of my ancestors moved from nice safe Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Lawrence, Kansas, at a time when it was "Bleeding Kansas", to try to keep it non-slave.

Explain to me again why I should feel guilt for my ancestors?
Dexamethasone and other medications and the evolving practices you mention are nothing to... sneeze at
https://youtu.be/U_DUaYKJCAA : Who’s next covers accents from a clutch of nations.
> In attempting to fix a bug, that could cause another "internal" test to fail and expose a flaw in your bugfix that you wouldn't have caught otherwise.

If an external test passes and an internal test fails, the external test isn't really adding any value, is it? And if the root of your issue is "What if test A doesn't test the right things", doesn't the whole conversation fall apart (because then you have to assume that about every test)?

IME this is a common path most shops take. "We have to write tests in case our other tests don't work." Which is a pretty bloaty and wildly inefficient strategy to "Our tests sometimes don't catch bugs." Write good tests, manage and update them often. Don't write more tests to accommodate other tests being written poorly.

> I mean, running internal tests is cheap.

Depends on your definition of cheap, I guess.

My last job was a gigantic rails app. Over a decade old. There were so many tests that running the entire suite took ~3 hours. That long of a gap between "Pushed code" and "See if it builds" creates a tremendous amount of problems. Context switching is cost. Starting and unstarting work is cost.

I'm much more of the "Just Enough Testing" mindset. Test things that are mission critical and complex enough to warrant tests. Go big on system tests, go small on unit tests. If you can, have a different eng write tests than the eng that wrote the functionality. Throw away tests frequently.
I would guess so, although the size overhead for an optimized Flutter release build is now down around ~4MB, so not a determining factor for most use cases anyway.
A lot of what you're describing is better solved by training interviewers on a standardized process, and having both the recruiter and interviewer set explicit expectations around communication. It's true there are good and bad interview questions, but candidates should be encouraged to ask clarifying questions. To alleviate a candidate's fears about doing so, this encouragement should be made explicit throughout the hiring process.
Presumably they would also like veto power.
I've probably spent more total time in the rigamarole surrounding legitimately purchased games (DRM incompatibilities and performance issues, activation servers being down, make and account and log in and click through our EULA, etc) than I have with issues surrounding cracked games.

Cracking games from a user standpoint is usually a process of downloading a torrent, waiting a bit, then replacing a handful of files in the install directory the first time, and then you're usually not bothered again. Some include an installer that handles this for you.
>By opening the platform to other app stores, developers will benefit due to choice and competition on fees and descoverability, end users will benefit from encouraged innovation, Apple will be forced to compete on convenience or features instead of letting it stagnate while they collect buckets of cash... it would be good for consumers and the ecosystem.

I think the only group that will benefit from 3rd party app stores on iOS is developers. I don’t see end users benefiting at all. The simplicity and convenience in downloading and discovering apps is gone. You said you have trouble discovering apps now with a unified store, so I’m not sure how discovering apps on multiple different app stores will be any easier. Frankly I’m sure it will become much more difficult and complicated for end users. Also I’m not sure how much more convenient Apple can make the App Store for iOS users. Payment information isn’t being shared between multiple parties. Switching payment info doesn’t involve going through each service. Receipts are automatically sent to emails. Automatic app updates. No confusion when it comes to where to download an app.

The App Store consistently brings in more money than the play store each year, despite Apple and iOS having a much smaller market share than Google and Android. I attribute this to Apples guidelines and developer tools, but also because of user confidence in the App Store. More people are willing to scan their face or use Touch ID because how simple and convenient IAP is. That and users are aware their payment info isn’t being sent around to multiple parties. I believe everyone arguing for 3rd party app stores on iOS aren’t thinking as the end user. at all. You said that allowing 3rd party stores will benefit end users with innovation, but innovate what exactly ? How much more innovation does the process of finding and downloading apps need?

>Microsoft got into trouble for bundling a web browser, where they didn’t directly make money, Apple should get into trouble for the App Store, where they do directly make money due to their artificial lack of competition.

Why should they get in trouble? Let’s not forget that Microsoft only developed one part of the final product(the OS). In Apples case they created every part of the product. The hardware , the software and the market on the software. I think they’re well in their rights to decide what and how 3rd party software gets on their OS..
>I said we should work to prevent death.

But we already are, in the sense that medical and safety research is constantly being conducted and there are professionals whose job is to rescue people from fires and similar disasters. There's always trade-offs though. A lot of death could be prevented by banning motor vehicles, should we do that? Of course not. In some ways, it could be argued that we're already going too far to prevent death, for example by banning doctor-assisted suicide.
The developer chooses if the price should be different or not. In that case, Youtube decided that the users should pay the 30 percent Apple tax.
right-click -> view-image gives a .png of your created image to save. Nicely done.
That's likely to cost more than $800
Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
I like this way of thinking of it...Mark Twain quote: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Of course you can argue that it could be different after, but still.
Airlocks are actually rather dangerous. Things can go wrong very quickly. An accidental rapid/unplanned decompression, even only across a few feet of pressure, can do real damage. Then there are the issues building the doors, which hold enough force that should they pop open they could kill. The biggest advantage of the moonpool approach is having the entire complex at the same pressure, with the pool acting as a passive safety valve against wild pressure fluctuations.
Anybody can sue for any reason.

I can't think of any basis on which they wouldn't be quickly dismissed, though.
Does the 70mph have an effect? In ICE, there is an MPH window where the engine is most efficient. Driving outside of that window will lower the miles per gallon and the total miles per tank. Is there a similar sweet spot for EVs?
I actually rather like Pollock. And the paintings really are something that needs to be seen in person, not unlike a large Monet water lily canvas. But I still find it hard to believe that Pollock was once a student of the American regionalist Thomas Hart Benton. No two could be more different...
Perhaps an opportunity to cultivate some empathy and listen carefully to people whose relationship with computational devices is very different from yours. Telling people that their concerns are imaginary isn't a good way to persuade them.

I know people who break from what you call the practical options in both directions -- some who reject smartphones altogether and live their lives without them, doing all their digital work on computers that they have full control over -- and some who use only the stock apps on their phone and wish that app stores were not a thing. They want an entirely managed experience.

Neal Stephenson's essay In the Beginning was the Command Line gets at some of this nicely. Some people are, as he says, Eloi and some Morlocks. That's OK.
> * This DSL: `describe(){ it "should work" { result.should eq true } }`, is nuts and counter productive. People are already not writing tests and you are adding another friction?

Completely agree.

I have no idea why test libraries are so intent on making the test names readable as english sentences, it feels very awkward compared to just naming test methods.
> the startup would essential need to do disclosure as though it were a public company

Not quite that onerous. But the start-up and investor would each need to spend at least $5,000 on legal diligence. This would likely be true with or without the rule—if you don’t understand the preferred investors’ terms, you aren’t qualified to invest.
Raymond Damadian.

The Nobel for inventing MRI went to Lauterbur and Mansfield, even though Damadian played a major role and is recognized by many as "an inventor of MRI". Full page ads ran in newspapers at the height of the controversy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Damadian#Nobel_Prize_c...
wtf is a natural person?
I agree with your first two points whole heartedly. But I think we got into a r-v-l place where the public has lost all trust BY paternalism. Trust means giving people the truth. And my theory doesn't hinge on people behaving responsibly at all. If people are irresponsible- this ends sooner with more death. The theory is the same either way- the timeline and number of deaths just change a bit.
Importantly we also implemented several new schemes to ensure that we were better able to evaluate illegal and non-rule-following activities after 2008 as well.
> this thread started with the blanket statement that we should all just steal it

No, I said that the choice to "pirate" was always available and that the way the copyright industry was trying to remove that choice was problematic.

> The less-than-optimal implementation of copyright doesn't justify theft.

Copyright infringement is not theft. Prevention of copyright infringement doesn't justify abusive and invasive DRM technologies either. The copyright industry should not gain full control over what software is allowed to run on people's computers just because they're losing money.
Copyright law has a place, but as it currently stands, it doesn't protect independent artists sufficiently, while giving large media firms disproportionate power. This ultimately hurts small content producers a lot more than it helps them, because they have to compete with companies much larger than them that can afford to use their economies of scale to bully independent artists into submission.

The fact that it's so much hassle to buy something just goes to show that Google has no incentive to compete on product, where the product is the marketplace itself. Piracy is an indication that the market has failed to produce a satisfactory distribution mechanism, and allowing large corporations to use legal action to shelter themselves from having to improve their offering hurts both consumers and small businesses.

"Piracy is a service problem." - Gabe Newell
So now you have replaced the magic number with a public key stored somewhere in your wallet together with the CC...

Benefits?
I don't really fear dying, I also don't fear being dead.

But the fact that I won't be anymore, FOREVER: that is what literally gives me the chills everytime I think about it.

God, I really hope there's something after death.
LFP has poor energy density compared to LiIon. It's great for static installations (powerwalls etc) but putting in cars, phones, drones etc is a fools errand.
Three points:

(1) This issue isn't going away, no matter who wins the next election.

(2) Data collection is not the only goal or threat. The article mentions other critical systems: energy, financial, healthcare, transportation, military. Even agriculture is heavily software dependent now[1]. Also, once you depend on a cloud service, the open source used by it is brought into the attack surface.

(3) Open source is theoretically reviewable, which is good. But even if resources were brought to bear to review it at scale, you'd need to do it continually and track what has passed. This brings pressure to fork. Worse, because review is imperfect even with the best people and tools, it will never be enough by itself to establish that a system doesn't contain malicious code. Current program verification technology is simply not up to the task of formally verifying the behavior of large scale software systems. Maybe it could be used for smaller libraries.

[1]: https://www.deere.com/en/technology-products/precision-ag-te...
Short, Painful, Worth it: My brief stint at Twitter
Aren't cams totally dead? This was mostly DVD prerelease, which happens long after the theatrical release.
Contact tracing is only useful at the very start. We are way past that point.

You aren’t going to contact trace or shelter in place away a virus that is already widely out there.

Even though futile, it does let government claim to be doing something. Nevermind that in just doing something - anything - there are all kinds of other very horrible and nasty implications too. Don’t pay attention to those. Just comply.

Never thought I would see what’s been going on the last six months in America, of all places.
Exactly.

Successful startups are analogous to surprising research results in academia, in the sense that we have much more information on them and therefore we can draw better conclusions about these entrepreneurial/academic successes.

Today, every good scientist is aware that having plentiful information on unsurprising research is almost as equally important, for many obvious and non-obvious reasons. This has resulted in journals created exclusively for publishing unsurprising research. [1]

If the most rigorous among us w/r to taking care of our collective body of knowledge are only starting to do it seriously, we can have hope that the industry might ramp up its capacities in this regard at some point - I wouldn't hold my breath that's it's going to happen soon though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229269
Do you know anybody who works in the creative fields? I do. Nearly all of them -- aside from the programmers -- favor strong copyright and even DRM. And to them, large piracy networks are as much organized theft, and do as much harm, as the Mafia robbing banks. The MPAA and RIAA are not evil to them, either, at least not in the sinister cyberpunk megacorp sense favored by hackers. Creative people see them as the means to put food on the table by doing what they love. They see pirates as stealing food from the mouths of their children and themselves, and as vicious a criminal as any bank robber. U.S. law provides the means to prosecute them as such.
me: "ug, I think I got the group permissions right but not sure why that user still can't read it. So irritating. I'll sort it out but, ug, maybe it's not so bad to procrastinate a bit on hackernews. "

hackernews: "here's some more reasons to fear death"

me: man chgrp
Jeff Bezos Becomes the First Person Ever Worth $200B
They haven't burned down yet?
It's not a bigger battery. It's a more efficient battery.
A lot of this is more the result of poor planning by the city, and shouldn't be the burden of the property owners to resolve. Congestion is largely the result of over-reliance on cars for transportation which is inefficient. Rather than put limits on how I can use my land, the city should be planning infrastructure that supports more dense use.

Portland has reasonable public transport and fairly good bike/ pedestrian routes.
I wonder how many people are going to be shocked at the invasiveness of Facebook that will only come to light as Apple (and others?) start to block things that Facebook does.

More shocking to me is how many people know and don't care.
I agree that the presented view does little to calm me. Yet, while I am an extreme proponent of life extension, death will still come to all.

At the tail end there is only so much energy available and I am pessimistic that basic physics, like heat death of the universe, can be overcome.

However, we don’t even need to reach this tail end. Extreme events happen all the time and on a long enough time scale they become certainty. Maybe we can conquer aging but we are still physical bodies, which will forever be fragile (on the cosmic scale of supernovae and formation of compact objects, but really even on the scale of planetary calamities like sufficiently energetic asteroids or super volcanoes).

Heck, even if we spread everywhere in space, without ftl travel, which I am somewhat comfortable will never happen, we are stuck with the destiny of Milky Way, and that’s a very finite destiny.
Wouldn't this also be a win for real estate developers and property investors?

- Purchase old home or lot.

- Tear down old structure.

- Build new 4-plex or 6-plex.

- Sell/Rent 4-6 units on a plot.

Example: "ABC" owns rancher on a single plot. Rents out rancher for $4000/mo. Current revenue is $48000/yr. "ABC" turns rancher into modern 6-plex on the same plot. Rents out each of the 6 units for $2000/mo. New revenue is $144000/yr.

Of course, capital required to build a new structure will erode returns for initial years, but as long as the demand to live in Portland is still high, it seems like a more profitable strategy longterm?

Unless I am totally off-base with these assumptions.