skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1820s and the 1830s, after the opening of the Erie Canal, there was serious competition to figure out which Ohio River city would be the western terminus of various eastern seaboard cities. By the 1840s, however, it became clear that the answer to transportation was going to be the railroad, and terminating at the Ohio River made no sense; the real target was the western entrepôts such as Chicago.

From the perspective of the major NE railroads, the New York Central traveled through the same Mohawk Gap that the Erie Canal uses, and then travel along the south bank of Lake Erie. The Pennsylvania Railroad followed the route of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal system, that traveled Philadelphia-Pittsburgh via Altoona.

The B&O (originating from a state that had no access to the Ohio River) tried playing off Virginia and Pennsylvania against each other, but Pennsylvania stopped playing ball when it committed to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Virginia forced the B&O to pick Wheeling over Parkersburg to make it harder for B&O to bridge the Ohio River and push on to Chicago. (The B&O would eventually reach Parkersburg, cross the Ohio there, and continue to Chicago, but this happened a generation later).

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was based on the route of the South Pennsylvania Railroad, which was never built.
True soda is plastic in Europe too. But I'd say beer is mostly glass still, though that greatly depends on the country.
> This might not just be a disaster for Google - it could be a disaster for software everywhere.

This case has been a ticking time bomb, where the law is to decide whether ideas are patentable. Extremely scary news, seeing it go badly.
Is Vue faster to learn and get something solid working, than react would be? I have some react experience and understand all of it, but i'm more of a backend engineer.
Yep! Well put too. You should reach out, I don’t see contact info for you but I’ve been exploring a version of it I believe has potential to work.
They're all only useful in certain circumstances.
A deposit/tax system on plastic containers would likely end most plastic packaging. Consumers tend to prefer the metallic/glass/paper packages when given the choice. to enforce reasonable economics on the recycling side the deposit would likely need to be an order of magnitude higher than the cost of the plastic.

This may provide incentive for either biodegradable or clean burning plastics in the market which could have lower taxes/deposits.
Justice Ginsburg was known as an authority on intellectual property rights, her voice is missed here.
But the [Secret Manger](https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager) from google is also easy to use and specially firebase environment config is exactly like the demo. Best wishes ...
This is very fair criticism for standard jobs like a regular software developer.

For a role like this, where outsized skill of someone who is and needs to be elite should be rewarded with enormously outsized pay, I think this a good model.
I dunno, those just seem like the sane choices for those four. Twitter, Facebook and Google are closer to being "one big app" than Amazon.

Google is probably the only one on the fence, and yeah they are suffering in the way you suggest.
If that happens the bits will be on alibaba before the product is shipped to media.
> The problem is that it's so cheap to make new things that recycling is almost never cost effective. I think I lost faith in the concept (at least in the current economic climate) right about the time I found out that old glass isn't re-melted for use as new glass items, it's just smashed up and used as aggregate for road beds.

Yes, this is correct, although, it is also important to note that the reason why plastic is so "cheap" is because the externalities of it are not captured in the price. To put this in a different perspective, it is best to think of plastic as having a price that is below its costs. Plastic today has a low price. At the same time, the world is becoming filled with it. This accumulation is developing severe and systemic long term consequences. Reverting the damage is extremely difficult, expensive, and some damage may be irreversible, such as the loss of life and ecosystems. The externalities produced by plastics can be seen as a form of long term debt. In this way, it makes it clear that plastic is not all that cheap. In fact, it's quite expensive.

So how can we alter this behavior? I'll venture on my own here by suggesting a similar proposal by Professor Nordhaus and his book The Climate Casino, which is to capture the cost of the externalities into the price through the use of taxation. Carbon taxes is the most supported form of reducing carbon emissions by economists. I wouldn't be surprised if the same support exists for reducing our plastic production. If the production of plastic is taxed at the bottom of the supply chain, thus making it more costly compared to alternative materials, then we should expect an automatic market restructure that will naturally phase it out.
Sorry but no please. I am already irritated by library in typescript that uses any everywhere :/
We’ve been using Doppler for a few months in development so far, and I can tell you, it’s a game-changer. The thing that stands out is that Doppler is a technology in its own category — analogous to what Airbnb is to the travel industry or what Uber/Lyft is to transportation. As far as I know, nothing else exists like it, and yet it’s incredibly useful.

Have been in touch with one of Doppler’s co-founders and he’s been extremely helpful in integrating Doppler for us to use with NextJS (hosted on Vercel). Way to go on giving attention to your customers. We’ll be using Doppler for life, that’s for sure.
Yes, but that would damage the narrative, so no.

Regardless of whether in actual fact the murder has anything to do with the leaks, the claims that an absence of evidence is evidence of absence serve only to promote an evil purpose. We will likely never know the truth, and the narrative that this couldn't possibly be related to the leaks is a major part of why. The answer to cui bono [from the narrative] is therefore "the murderer, whoever that is, regardless of whether there is in fact a conspiracy". Why then do so many support the narrative?! Why has the murderer been deemed "part of our tribe" and thus worthy of plot armor, as it were?!
viridian says "Personally I think swords are an over-romanticized weapon, and almost wholly inferior to spears..."

Yes, and even inferior to the staff. Here is a (1599!) plea to Englishmen to cease wastefully killing each other in duels (esp. with Italian mores/swords/styles) b/c those swords/styles are unsuited to generalized warfare (and thus provide no useful training for the common defense) and also are inferior to other more common weapons/styles, esp. the short staff, in single combat:

"Now for the vantage of the short staff against the sword and buckler, sword & target, two handed sword, single sword, sword and dagger, or rapier and poniard, there is no great question ... the short staff has the vantage against the battle axe, black bill, or halberd: the short staff has the advantage, by reason of the nimbleness and length: he will strike and thrust freely, and in better and swifter time than can the battle axe, black bill, or halberd, and by reason of his judgement, distance and time, fight safe. And this resolve upon, the short staff is the best weapon against all manner of weapons, the forest bill excepted...Also the short staff has advantage against two swords and daggers, or two rapiers, poniards and gauntlets(19)...

From George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html

wherein Silver analyzes the interaction of various weapons in great detail, underscores the advantages of the short staff in most situations and in doing so presages Theodore Roosevelt:

"I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far!'"

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/speak-softly-and-carry-a...
But scroll down. As you scroll down, the line of minus signs grows. When you are 6 comments deep into a conversation (where each comment is a reply to the last. The comments are all indented to the right), there is a line of 6 minus signs at the top left (------).

If you click on the second minus sign on the left, it collapses the conversation up to that parent without having to scroll up to that level.
Design specs like door sizes, sink arrangements etc are not copyrighted.

You're probably thinking about the reproduction of the design document, not adherence to the specifications that document describes.
> The police are under immense pressure to put somebody away or else they're basically telling the public "we have no idea who did this crime". They need to find and convict a suspect to instill confidence from the public that they're doing a good job, in order to keep their jobs and their funding. This doesn't mean they need to find the actual criminal, only that they need to appear that they did.

they don't even have to put the person away necessarily. an important metric used to evaluate police departments is the clearance rate, which is just the fraction of crimes where they found someone to charge. whether or not the charges stick or get thrown out entirely does not affect this number, and would more typically be used to evaluate the state/district attorney's office.

so really all the police need to look good is to collect the bare minimum amount of evidence to charge someone in a case and then move on. if the conviction rate ends up being low or a bunch of charges get thrown out, they can just say the prosecutors are lazy/incompetent. at the same time, the prosecutors can point the finger back at the police and say they throw out so many charges because the police don't collect evidence properly. as long as they drop the weak cases, plea out the middling ones, and take a few slam-dunk cases to court, their numbers will look okay too. all the links in the chain only get examined together in the few high-profile cases that linger in the news.
Mutually Assured Destruction from the fallout of a terrible decision that forces the SC to re-evaluate (through another case etc) is better than letting something like this settle.
Effective Shell – Understanding Commands
"meaning they forced people to pay dues" ; there are nothing about this specific point in what I read.

Money helps, but union main strength comes from number of member and support. So paying for it or being member is in all case 2 very different things. And it seems workers are free to join or not, and most of them decided to join.

I don't know the situation of all European countries, but in France, unions gets some money from their member, but they also get some money from the state (ie taxppayers), and some elected union/worker representatives have some work time paid by the company to work on workers representation and union stuff
Not even remotely the same. Screw threads, hole sizes, width of timber etc ie. specifications are the same.

People make a big deal about beautiful apis. Almost all apis are simply functional. The complexity lies in the implementation not the specification.
> Those websites may not be SPAs but they still contain big JS payloads.

Probably, although my question was not about the bloat but the claim on the article that users prefers the UX of SPAs.

> my guess is that if Github were created today, most of it would probably be an SPA

Why is that?
Or, because they are two independent games, the host can flip different goats for different people. You would have to add an element of "no screen peaking" where the contestants cant see which door opened for the other person.

So you have Player A who chose door 1. The host flips the goat in door 3.

You have Player B who chooses door 2. For them the host flips open the goat in door 1.

Player A should switch, and wins the car. Player B should switch, but had the car and loses it. The right move in both their cases was to switch.

Really, its no different than playing two separate games. Unless, like you said, you somehow change the rules and limit someones choices, in which case Im not sure why its a part of the conversation, other than being introduced through confusion.
You know that Facebook is private and can do whatever they please as far as content goes, right? Use a different platform if it bothers you so - free markets!
I also translate my name into a more pronounceable string of letters for English speaking people's sake; forcing a different language on people is disrespectful. We don't disagree there.

However, I don't see how if a person has no first/last name, and expects to be referred so, can be construed as disrespect to the English-speaking culture. There is no need to learn another language; all it takes is to "know" that the person has one string as a name.

You said it helps with sorting, and that is exactly why I said cutting a foot to fit a shoe. It's asking people to change their name for the sake of paper work.

I don't expect to show up and make a country change, for the sake of me. My name is already in first/last form.

I wish countries, and systems (frankly many of which are expanding to be used worldwide) to change, because I believe it to be the right direction, and in the end will save everyone's time.
But we have been "sinning" against nature, eh? I mean, the record of human history is the record of the destruction of the bounty of nature.

In the USA we had herds of bison that took days to pass by, clouds of birds that blocked out the sun, rivers so thick with fish you could walk across them, trees so huge they break the mind, and all of it was destroyed with hardly a thought. We took the Great Plains and made the Dust Bowl.

Today our industrial agriculture creates dead zones in the oceans, our energy system is toxic, oil spills regularly destroy life over vast areas, we are fishing the oceans to death, and about to start mining the sea floors, our topsoil is blowing and washing away, I could go on and on.
The fact this post differentiates between Machine Learning and Deep Learning (Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning) is rather silly. Also early on it states "Usually, deep learning is unsupervised or semi-supervised.", which is false? I would not upvote, seems pretty questionable...
This is the most intuitive explanation by far. I'd even say 1 million doors to really drive the point home.

You choose a door with only 1 in a million odds of it being the door with a prize. Monty Hall know where the prize is and will only open the remaining doors he KNOWS doesn't have the prize. If he then opens up 999,998 doors without a prize behind them and asks if you want to keep your original door or switch, you'd obviously know that Monty's last remaining door must be the one with the prize.
I don't know what quote you are referring to as no quotations are involved in this discussion.

The post I was responding to said:

> Growth means that economically you can outspend
> your "budget" every year and still come out ahead
> because that spend this year makes next year's budget
> larger."

I pointed out that's not different between a household and a nation, both can do this.

Yes, nations are very different from households. And yes, you shouldn't run their economies the same way. But to make that point you really need to point to criteria that differ between households and nations, and not to things which aren't actually fundamentally different.
I don't believe git is a good tool if you have more than 50 developers. It doesn't scale well enough.

Yes, i know that Microsoft made it work somehow but I'm not sure if i would like to replicate that.

Even with shallow clone and sparse checkout, you have to download at least the HEAD of the repo completely.

Git cannot restrict read access within a repository.

Branches and tags are global and visible to everybody, so you cannot have many of them.
The American right in it's current form tends to treat everything as property and is very supportive of defending all things copyright related. A lot of this has to do with the waning influence of libertarian thought on the American right and it's drift towards a more corporatist philosophy. The American left is better in this respect, but has likewise become more corporatist in it's outlook over time.
Those are common things which are excluded. So maybe Google has some argument on the parts... Oracle has an argument on the whole.

https://www.aia.org/articles/26591-understanding-the-scope-o...

To quote:

"""Under the AWCPA, an architectural work is statutorily defined as “the design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans or drawings,” and “includes the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design, but does not include individual standard features,” such as common windows, doors, and other staple building components. Accordingly, per the definition, while individual standard features and architectural elements classifiable as ideas or concepts are not themselves copyrightable, an architect’s original combination or arrangement of such elements may be."""
>It is usually in the interest of the designer of the API to have as many users as possible.

When they first design and publish it yes, but Oracle didn't design and publish the Java APIs, they bought them after they had becomes very popular and widely used.

At that point they don't need to care about making it popular, it already is, all they care about is milking that existing ecosystem for every penny they can get. If future API publishers care about this they can just license out their API spec, but right now Oracle just wants to be able to squeeze whoever they can until the pips squeak.
In mono/mulirepo debates, I frame this as multirepos make hard, scary things hard. Monorepos make it easy to introduce changes that break APIs at deploy time, but are hidden by the atomic commit actually being OK.
Imagine where we'd been if Google just paid Sun a couple hundred million dollars, and then put it's weight behind Java...
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That's a very good way to look at it .

With Rust do you need less Unit testing ?
Yes, this is all true and good to keep in mind. Thank you for raising that point.
Nice helpful project, I think I may have used it once while in Romania. Yeah, for small static data it absolutely makes sense to embed it in the app itself. But imagine your app was world wide or it needed to account for dynamic data, not sure it would make sense to ship a few dozen MBs all at once.
Chance is also a simple way to explain the ubiquity of neutral-fitness viral fads, or at a smaller scale, the power of superspreaders.

Mi finyish kom unte mi ta vide walowda ting ere da belek: fashwala im na tili ganya da chesh; durawala im na tili ganya da kombat; xunyamwala im na tili ge fut; sasawala im na tili ge meyo; amash da tim unte da shāsa imalowda tili du terash kowmang. -Da Fewawala 9:11
Logically complementary, but you've always gotta choose which good ideas to build and focus on and which ones not to.
Facebook.com/RSS is a user's profile
> BUT if Russia (or just pick any foreign govt agency that is capable of this, pick your favorite enemy foreign or domestic) can do this to a HUGE number of people, this makes us all less private/safe/secure.

How?

It doesn't. Russia doesn't care what a huge number of people are doing; trying to keep track of them would do nothing but waste their time and resources. They want to target a few specific people.
> This is not going to end well

relax, its 2020 so now lets just enjoy how "crazy" this whole thing can go to and finally if Oracle wins... we RIOT, won't end well alright
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I tend to agree. There are a lot of different aspects of market economics and environmental issues at play.

The hyperloop, as a concept alone, has value if the marginal cost over conventional methods is supplemented by the increased efficiency in transportation. It will only make sense where predictable constant travel occurs (i.e. NY to DC). The is the same for trains or any other communal means of transport. I primarily don't think it should be a passenger driven technology. The issue with passengers is they don't travel consistently for 24hrs a day.

I honestly think a vacuum train for commercial logistics has far more economic viability. A tube from LA to KC,KS or one from KC to the east coast would drop transportation time and labor cost significantly. This is obviously a huge endeavor but, something along this line would allow product to ship half way or completely across the country in less than an hour[1] with availability 24hrs a day. This would be a huge boost in productivity and resource availability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain.
Other than "it looks like maybe it made up some of the compile time loss from LLVM 10," I'm not aware of anything specific.

In general, we update regularly to gain access to bug fixes and because upgrading regularly makes each upgrade easier, so we don't need something specific to trigger an update.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Things you mention have been reported by NYT pretty clearly.
Yeah! That South Pennsylvania Railroad was only going to happen because Vanderbilt felt that the Pennsylvania Railroad was stepping on his turf in New York. Interesting stuff.
Drag (physics): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physics)

TL;DR: velocity is a killer
The healthcare industry (and the CDC) and (almost?) every qualified expert is arguing that we are not doing enough testing. And we aren't. Part of the reason we are not doing enough testing is that we simply don't have the capacity and Dr.s' are being told that capacity is restricted and tests should be carefully considered on a case by case basis. The above is non-uniformly distributed in that there are some areas of the country where there is sufficient capacity and others where capacity is woefully deficient. Some sort of competent federal leadership on testing capacity/distribution would help tremendously.
> car passenger

Driving on weed sounds like pure hell.

I think you read past my statement and went directly to the outrage. And to vmception: No! Operating any form of dangerous equipment while less-capable than some threshold should be illegal.
We use it for many projects at Cloudflare. My team, Argo Tunnels, uses it for our backend and our end-to-end monitoring/healthchecks.
All I can do is repeat my original comment. If you think I said the opposite of what I meant, the problem is with you.
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> Glass doesn't decompose in a landfill

Why would you want it to? Being inert is a good thing if you put it underground: no water contamination, no gas being released. But why put it in a landfill when you could reuse or recycle it?

> and has limits on how often it can be re-used as well.

What are these limits?
The Model Y performance is 0.2 seconds faster to 60, and slower in every single other performance metric, as well as has pretty low range. I wouldn't call it faster than the M3, unless all you care about it is pulls in a straight line, which is indicative of not really being the target market for an M3.

As for the Model 3 performance, I agree.
Yes, you are correct. We know that what is marketed as damascus steel today is not at all the same.

"Damascus steel" today is mostly made for visual effect and the name is used for marketing purposes. I personally think this is ok, since there is no competition with actual damascus steel.