skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who are those insurers beholden to, what are their incentives to represent the consumer in any way?

Their incentives to represent the consumer are rooted in the fact that the consumer can switch to another insurance company. Which means that if one has overly strict requirements without charging correspondingly lower premiums, nobody will use them. Then you get the incentives you want: People prefer both lax requirements and low premiums and the insurance companies have the incentive to find a better balance than competing insurance companies.
I find the biggest demotivator for me is alcohol.
worked flawlessly in firefox (80), with ublock and dns adblock enabled.
Blame the doctors is part of the campaign to influence public opinion to save the Sacklers from the consequences of their actions. Find a different enemy to blame for everything. Just pay attention to the way the argument percolates through social media.
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I saw Concorde taking off a few times up close at air shows when it was still in service. It was significantly louder than any other aircraft I've ever been near (it had 4 enormous engines with afterburners - not that surprising I guess). Takeoff noise really was a big issue.
I agree, go after the deep pockets. I sympathize with patients who became addicted to oxy, while at the same time I'm convinced that opioids should be available to those who need them. I'm glad I got some Demerol when I needed it. I even sympathize with physicians who weighed their patients' needs against the risks of addiction, carefully followed up on their oxy prescriptions, and still had some patients succumb to addiction. I don't sympathize with blanket statements like "doctors just trusted Purdue". Any physician who refilled an opioid prescription without asking the patient some blunt questions and being satisfied with the answers is a piss-poor physician.
+1 for Noller. In a previous life, I worked as an undergrad in an RNA lab (remains the best job I have ever had) and we studied Noller's work closely.
Moses' innovation was getting the poor to unwittingly fund the segregation, looting the cities to fund the suburbs. An innovation then copied nationwide.

I'd only be guessing, but I think the highways and freeways were then defunded in turn because those same financiers couldn't figure out how to profit from further investment. Or maybe they decided to end their partnership with organized labor. Or maybe cashing in other rent seeking opportunities, like ending usury protections enabling explosion of consumer debt, were more promising.

Who knows.
Along with Henrietta Leavitt.
I was replying to a post explicitly suggesting that the APIs and UI for accessibility should be standardised. In that context I think trying to refute, er, the suggestion actualy being made, is reasonable.
Areas where it is profitable to do this are areas where housing demand is increasing. Which means that anybody who owns property in such an area can sell it for more than they paid for it, move somewhere else and have the significant monetary gain to compensate them for their trouble. And the gain wouldn't exist with stricter zoning because it comes from the fact that your property is worth more when somebody can buy it and build twice as much housing on it.
That's insufficient to address the pollution from the aircraft. There is also water vapor, black carbon, nitrous oxide, and sulfur oxide that would need to be mitigated: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-climate-...
There won't be local demand unless the charge points are already there. If you rely on on-street parking, and your neighborhood doesn't have chargers, you're not going to buy an EV and hope someone installs a charger. Maybe, you'll buy a plugin hybrid for other reasons, and there might be demand that way[1]. Of course, if you do have an EV already, then you have a lot harder time finding a new rental.

[1] although, my plugin has very good range on gas, and next to nothing on a full charge, so I really only charge if it's free, gives me good parking, or to exercise my backup generator.
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Easy publishing has removed a few kinds of signaling that we used to have.

An article in the Wall Street Journal (chosen at random to have a proper noun) had a different gravitas than the hand-stapled 15 lb paper booklet the scruffy guy shoved at you in front of the market. Now the scruffy guy got shave and a haircut, has access to equipment that is almost but not quite as good, and the "WSJs" have reacted by engaging in a race to the bottom - more ads, less attention to detail. The signalling is gone.
Really cheap heavy-lift launch capability would be a big help. Developing that capability is exactly what Starlink is intended to fund.
Tesla is one of the most overrated persons in history. Edison is better in every regard, except for killing an elephant
I was explaining this to someone the other day, the unions enable the blue wall and they make it virtually impossible to remove the bad seeds.
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iOS has many ad blockers which work as well as Ublock. 1Blocker for example. On top of it these blockers don’t need to read contents of the site to block ads.
Industry groups like RIAA obviously massively overstate their case when they claim every pirated mp3 is a lost sale, but Napster et al. did cost the music industry dearly.

If you look at a graph of music sales over time, you can see that the 1990s were a great time for the music business.[1] CDs brought in increasing revenue until the early 2000s, when they precipitously declined. Legal downloads did not make up for the decline in CD sales. Streaming eventually halted the decline, but revenue only stabilized around 2010-2015. In other words, the music industry had a really tough decade.

Of course, the music industry also has itself to blame. CDs were expensive, and who wants to pay $20 for an album that only has one song worth listening to? The industry only embraced downloads and streaming once they had no other choice.

There's a good documentary on this: System Shock.[2]

1. https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/files/2019...

2. https://vimeo.com/336427561
Yes, there was one family of jailbreaks that worked like that, but you'd still need to hear about that and have some reason to want to do it to your phone, and I suspect a very small portion of iPhone owners did that. It would be a lot worse if Apple were forced to allow anyone to make what are essentially jailbreak app stores like Cydia, then one of the biggest video games ever told all their players to go install that so that the video game company can sell digital items at higher margins.
It's interesting to speculate about what a ticket might cost and what would be worth it to you. Instead of a non-stop almost 10 hour flight to west coast to London at $1,000 (9:20 hours), where my company gives me an extra $500 for an upgrade in class because it's so long, I'd pay an extra $500 of my own money for a 4 or 5 hour trip probably. But I'm not paying $5k more for that quicker trip.
Yeah, no.

When I was a teen and wanted pirated games I had to put a lot of time into it (downloading/getting the CD's) then hunt for working cracks and then later deal with the consequences of installing cracks. My time was free but as an adult now I could never justify spending evenings to make pirated games work.

Today's piracy is way more easier than piracy 15 or 25 years ago.

The key selling point of piracy is that it's free.
Wow, White Supremacist much? Defending one's home or property or feeling entitled to "Safety" from "Crime" is White Privilege.
Apartment buildings and complexes.
free != quality

ads == worse quality
On Facebook, information that users voluntarily and explicitly provide is fair game for targeting IMHO. The rest should come from the content of the page.
I wouldn't say its unloved or on a side track, it's baked into .net as a first class citizen and has dedicated engineers at Microsoft working on it.

When I started I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to download .net core on a mac and not do anything else to use F#.

Its less popular than C# so its there's not as much documentation from 3rd party sources, youtube videos, etc, but you can use any C# modules in F# so you'll get used to reading C# docs.

I would highly recommend this overview of the .Net ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfBfBQq7EE

I really like how it showed a preview of "modern C#" at 12:20 which is being influenced by F#.

After that, this talk opened my eyes to the power of f# philosophy and type system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB1_e5wZmU
Write a test that:

1: Stick an entity in the database
2: Try to get the page for the entity without logging in. Verify the error page
3: Log in as someone who doesn't have the entity. Try to get the page for the entity. Verify the error page
4: Log in as someone who can get the entity. Verify some basics of the page contents

Write a test that:

1: Posts the contents of the form without logging in. Verify the error.
...
4: Log in as someone who can post the form. Post the contents of the form. Verify the contents are in the database.

Tests like above meet the higher-level post's definition of a "unit test" and are rather easy to write. You don't even have to be in the same language as application. They're simple enough that developers can write them as part of their workflow, and simple enough that developers can run them to ensure no regressions.

Trying to do something like that with a thick UI application is much, much harder. Possible, but not easy.
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If it's done correctly we will be able to install apps from anywhere, like just selecting the iOS build on GitHub. There is no inherent need for anyone to be gatekeeping and observing the software we install and use, just sandbox it and throw up a warning.

If we could install apps from Github it would be better because predatory pricing and invasive data collection has the upper hand on the iOS store. Many common utilities are charging ridiculous amounts of money that they could never charge on Mac or Windows because of high quality, free and open source software on Github.
I wonder if FB tried to negotiate and Apple's response was "For a small fee, merely 30% of your company's ad revenue, we can remove the permission requirement.."
> Why would SpaceX care about shading the satellite if there wasn't a movement raising its voice?

Because the idea that companies care about NOTHING other than money is generally false with exceptions of a few companies that think like that. (Notably they're not pubicly held, they don't have public quarterly revenue targets and they're not required to make profit for investors.)

SpaceX wasn't aware that they would cause an impact. SpaceX started working on solutions as soon as they heard issues. Companies are not omnipotent. Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
OK i 'll build one
> But that's the goal!

This is incoherent. Beating peaceful protesters doesn't serve the goal of deescalation. Every single time, it resulted in more anger and frustration. Water bottles being thrown.

> When the police are worried the crowd might escalate, they preemptive action to end the situation before it can happen, because crowd-initiated escalations are much more destructive and deadly.

End the situation? It escalated every single time, exactly how you'd expect. Cops becoming aggressive and violent against protesters is not going to cool any heads. They teargassed kids, you know. In what world is that considered a way to "end the situation"?

> Once protesters are shooting at people it's too late to step in.

This is part of that dangerous warrior mentality, treating every group like an immediate existential threat that must be neutralized with violence based on nothing but speculation.

If you're justifying police violence and aggression based on what you imagine might happen, you're part of the problem.
I don't think New Zealand has a "Congress"?

You're not trying to say USA has the right to make laws in other countries are you?

I mean I know USA does this, but it seems indefensible?
At one point, I wrote a script to crawl developer documentation at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, and compare vs. the previous day so we could know ahead of time about breaking API changes.

So yes, it's funny to me that Facebook is calling out Apple for changing their platform when Facebook does it all the time.
Would you say that's the norm? One au pair is a luxury, 3 seems lavish.
> Alas, the direct question to the answer why are true and false so large? could be, because there are not anymore so pressing reasons to care about their top performance...26KB for the kind of hardware we have nowadays is insignificant. Space is not at premium for the typical server/desktop anymore, and they do not even bother anymore to use the same binary for false and true, as it is just deployed twice in distributions using coreutils.

As a web developer on HN, I'm experiencing some schadenfreude right about now.
We have chosen Estonia E-residence program. Very friendly, filing taxes is easy, and one can hardly beat 0% tax on corporate income.
> Traffic, street parking, and public spaces all get more congested

A proper transit network and walkable design ensures that this doesn't become a problem.

> Plus a neighbor building a bigger building impacts my views and the light that falls on my property.

People get so hung up on this, but that's just how it goes -- cities change. Just because you bought a place doesn't mean you're entitled to the exact same view forever.
American progress invented the vocabulary you are using to denounce it.
Rosalind Franklin definitely belongs on the list. However her not getting the prize has a simple reason. She died of ovarian cancer before the prize was awarded for DNA, so couldn't have been considered.

Ironically her cancer could well have been caused by the research that she was not publicly recognized for.
Or we'll shift back to an internet where people make things because they enjoy making them, not because they're trying to get a million clicks on blog spam. I'd be happy if the internet as a whole was a less profitable place.
A history of Libra predecessor Messenger Pay: the first version of Facebook Pay
Isn’t this really a complaint about population growth rather than development?

Blaming development for your changing city seems a bit passive aggressive.
Recommendation: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid

This is a fork that seems to be popular (enough to show up first in my search).
It looks and feels like the Firefox I lost with 79.
Firefox Sync brought most of my data back in minutes.
One doesn't need to have detailed knowledge of the implementation, but merely if provided initial state creates invalid output then we can write test for that. Though yes, having knowledge of implementation allows you to define the state that produces invalid result.
The full story, not without irony, is that the mansion Dotcom was renting was then purchased by a family whose entire business fortune evolved from the facilitating the mass production of plastic children's toys based on US movie IP.
Would it really? Subsonic airliners already fly high-enough to kill passengers if they depressurized. The oxygen masks that drop are only a stop-gap to give the pilot time to drop down to a safer altitude (and the pilots have an independent, superior, source of bottled oxygen.) Humans can survive a hard vacuum briefly, if they're repressurized promptly.

Perhaps putting the pilots in pressure suits would be sufficient. I think it's a matter of how quickly pilots could descend with the plane, which is probably a complicated question for aviation engineers to solve. This all said, only pilots getting pressure suits probably wouldn't inspire passenger confidence.
Does seem like the rise of the Uber-wealthy/shipping-magnates that act independent of any specific nation has made the idea of states-as-actors kind of obsolete.
> It gives a great justification for other countries to block American social apps for similar reasons.

That's up to them; when it comes to PRC at least, banning American social media is the norm.
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I can't wait until the violent marxist terrorists kill you and your family. You seem like a weak coward, do you think you'll watch when they rape your children?
? Pretty sure Reddit and Twitter include sexual and violent content. The guideline you’re referring to states that an app shouldn’t solely be used to access pornographic content and services. Last time I checked none of the apps you and I mentioned are used exclusively for porn or violent content
Seatbelts. Safety glass (not sure if that was gov reg).

Little is ever black or white. Some things are best implemented by gov, some by the marketplace.
Should have been called Ctrl-Shift-F
The most glaring omission in my view is Fred Hoyle.

Read https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fred-hoyle-missin... for more.
Sitting in their high castles then.
run-away queries become a problem when direct sql is exposed to public.
> Auditing code that you don't have the source to is like an order of magnitude harder.

If you don't have code you can't audit code!
Human eyeball is not impacted. These satellites are below the limits of human observation generally, even in dark skies.
A: 2+2=5

B: Yes, and I believe it's 4.

This is a mutually respectful dialogue. You don't pretend to know better. You're just each sharing your ideas, and if they conflict, you'll open a dialogue into why they think it is 5? And here's why I think it is 4. And then you can both try to resolve the conflict and see why you think differently and what the correct answer actually is now that you've considered both.

In your example, it might seem a bit silly, because of how certain we all are that 2+2=4. That said for anything less clear cut, you can really see where saying "Yes and" is better.

A: Unit tests are more important than integ tests.

B: Yes, and I believe integ tests add more value than unit tests.

That said, it really depends who you're talking too. If someone is super open minded and welcomes disagreement and are constantly trying to test their knowledge, you probably won't need any of this. But if someone is less receptive, less confident, has a big ego, etc., Then you do need to manipulate their emotions to have them be more receptive.
They look and feel quite similar. Both use a declarative approach to UI development.
I think there are fundamental changes under the hood, though. For example, SwiftUI uses structs(value types) to build views but Kotlin only has classes which are reference types.
Well there are many great scientists that should won Nobel Price. My favorite was Antonin Holy [0].

Very humble guy who invented a lot of modern drugs, but who didn't like to go conference circus road which is required to get the prize (paraphrasing his words). He worked in the lab till his dead, lived in cheap house and commuted to work by public transport even after earning hundreds of millions, or more, in fees for his discoveries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Holý
Look into studies that evaluate self-reported crimes or violence, etc. Not police stats. Police stats are highly unreliable for drawing these kinds of conclusions a lot of reasons before you even consider malevolence or corruption.

Nearly all crimes that are policed are crimes of poverty. Rather than focusing so thoroughly on punitive measures, it is far better for everyone to focus on the root causes.
Smart Electric seems as small as always. Goes about 65 miles (plenty for a suburban living needs, not going to work for travel of course).
Makes sense for a physical good whose condition deteriorates over time.

People making capital gains on houses (whose values are determined mostly by local government and corporate investment relative to the national average) has always struck me as a sign of government being insufficiently aggressive about a) capturing the value it creates with infrastructure investment and b) wringing subsidy from high-paying corporations externalizing the problem of housing their work-forces.
> This has nothing to do with 'taking to the stars'

Actually it does, because Starlink is intended to fund Starship development and Mars colonization.
> squander and choke new technologies and scenarios, also doing so on an economic model.

If they do so then said technologies were not real opportunities. If they're opportunities then competitors will generate more value and/or less cost.
Then the people who can afford to adopt early get charging stations and the blue collar neighborhoods don't because they don't have as many EVs and then of course the politicians pile on by passing fuel taxes or registration surcharges because a) they're largely unaffected b) the state loves money and c) "only backwards hicks drive ICEs in 2030 anyway" (or something like that) and it becomes yet another regressive tax.

I think the sentiment is good but I see it going wrong quickly unless you have some way to ensure that every neighborhood gets at least enough charging to adopt EVs in the first place.
That's a very interesting question! I think it shifts the goalposts a bit from what I've originally replied to, but I say that as a good thing, because it makes the discussion even more interesting and it allows me to better explain what I believe.

I believe that we should live in a society with much better education. An essential ingredient of that education -- much more important than the mere learning of facts -- is the understanding of how to approach a discussion, how to think logically, how to question things, etc. A crucial element of that "essential ingredient" is the understanding of the importance of context and of being informed.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that someone in Brazil should be taught, as part of their standard education, about the US constitution. But that puts the onus on them to get informed about the topic of the discussion before jumping into a discussion of it. And when participating in such a discussion, they should also probably indicate that they might not have the same understanding of the context that everyone else might have.

In short, I believe that we should all receive the education that teaches us not only the relevant context of the things we are expected to be dealing with in the future, but also that it's our responsibility to be informed when participating in discussions.
> Other companies take it as a feature demand. I find this bizarre, because I have barely (or never) used their product.

This is something that I've seen constantly from the PMP/offering manager/product manager types and have been in the room where it happens. The thing that is utterly baffling is that it's usually a vague intent from an interested but not current user but then the person writing down these imagined requirements asks zero follow-up questions in a complete disservice to the user. So for example 'does your product use AI' or 'do you have a slack integration' open ended questions turn into firm requirements 'to close the deal' internally but with a completely headless goal. When I am usually in the room I at least give the customer the dignity of trying to work out what their idea/perceived benefit is with them so I can accurately transmit the knowledge to the team. Often someone more experienced with the product's offering can solve the real customer use case with existing features that just doesn't have the same label.

My favourite firing of a software company was when they expressed that they were refocusing from clear stability initiatives to machine learning driven analytic dashboards. This was even though this was a customer retention meeting company to company that was spawned over threats to not renew... because of stability issues.
Just FYI Firefox Focus is also on iOS. (And it also acts as a third-party content blocker for Mobile Safari, though it’s no uBlock Origin.)