skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My feeling on this sort of thing is that you can find a real person who supports virtually any political position. In opinion polling, 40% of the state’s voters support prop 22. That’s millions of people, and it shouldn’t be hard to believe that some of them are are techie Lyft drivers commenting here. Accusing them of being shills is bad argumentation and violates the rules of the community. They did already explain that they are driving for these companies, which is a good explanation for why they would know stats that the companies are peddling.

Mindfully exercising theory of mind to figure out why someone might honestly have a different opinion is always a useful practice. In the context of a debate, it will help you argue more convincingly. If you’re just trying to understand what’s happening in public opinion, it helps develop a more accurate world model.
for future reference McMaster-Carr (https://www.mcmaster.com/) sells almost any mechanical thing a DIYer could ever want. Shipping on big items might be prohibitive but the selection is vast.
I’ve lived all over the place in France and also in London and I’ve only seen this in Paris.
That's what I learned today, thank you
I think we could've 2 backends if possibile. Interpreter for prototyping and compiler for production. I usually don't want interpreter in PRD and don't want compiler when prototyping. That's why TS is sucessful IMO. You can just test stuff with using emit only while still having pieces of code highlighted that don't make sense yet.
Does it have to be aluminum? Looks like it could be replaced with thin PVC (or other plastic) sheets, which is cheap and also used in advertisement banners in most of the world.

An induction motor works as a generator, a couple of old washing machine motors can work well. Some people made wind turbines out of LG washer radial motors.
YT music is so bad. I switched from Play Music to Spotify a few months ago when they killed it cause I couldn't deal with YT.
Their big advantage is that they do not need to be pointed into the wind, and appear conceptually simple, they also have their generator on the ground which is an advantage. But they suffer from oscillation and vibration and such low TSR designs as the one in the article will suffer from shading. The concept can work, but typically the machines end up requiring a lot of maintenance and extremely careful design.

The biggest of these, the Cap Chat Aeole ran for an embarrassingly short time before destroying its main bearing.

http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=506

It was a most impressive machine though.

A more successful project was run in the Rocky Mountains where a number of such Darrieus rotors were in operation for quite a while. Even so, the concept is problematic and will likely never see widespread use, even though you'll see a flare up every couple of years when people new to the matter think they have found gold.
I tried out Stoplight Studio last year as a GUI for creating OpenAPI specs, and was pretty pleased with it:

https://stoplight.io/

I've also written a small custom JS script that generated an OpenAPI spec file by reflecting over some internal data structures, so that's an option as well, and there's lots of tools out there for generating OpenAPI specs based on code (Java annotations, Python models, etc).
The biggest problem with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is that in order to get a majority of the electoral college delegates into it, you would need states to sign on who benefit from the existing arrangement. You can't get the swing states because the existing system makes them the focus of national politics and you can't get always-red states because the party that controls them benefits from the extra two delegates per state which go predominantly to that party. And together they're the majority of the electoral college delegates.

What you could do is do something like national popular vote weighted by electoral college delegates, because then you could get everyone but the swing states, and that would represent a majority. And then you're not disenfranchising half of both California and Texas.
Even if they know what they are getting into its minimum wage, not suggested minimal wage.
I'm a broadcast engineer with 15 years of experience, and before that experience doing web broadcasting before things like youtube existed.

I still get confused by the terminology.
Ah, my bad. I was reading the page for the company not the product.
You're correct about the EU decrees; I should have mentioned those as well.
That's great! By the way, on a similar vein - I finally ditched QuickBooks / Quicken / all that crap and moved everything personally & for my consulting company over to hledger (which is just a slightly fancy version of ledger).

Turns out, everything I hated about QuickBooks for all these years centered around its inability to bulk-edit transactions or categorize/recategorize things en masse, leading to countless hours wasted clicking or, worse, those bulk journal entires to move things from one place to another (which forces you to follow a breadcrumb path of asset movements, which is a nightmare).

But when everything is just a list of things in a text file, you get the power of every great text editor on earth (vi, emacs, or whatever) and can make mass changes trivially. Life's much much much much better this way.
The companies aren’t unprofitable by design, that has been repeatedly disproven. Their service is profitable in many cities.

Prop 22 makes sense exactly because those things shouldn’t be tied to employment. The state should tax businesses more and offer the benefits itself.
Run a loop on all the takeout e-mail and send them to your new e-mail address, spoofing the headers for each e-mail?
Website is not mobile friendly.
Google translates Biden Lost into Win
What's your preferred tool for generating TS API clients? I tried the official `openapi-generator` tool last year, but was horrified to see that a fairly small API file resulted in 5000 lines of boilerplate TS code that was trying to provide multiple levels of overrides and abstraction for configuring the calls.
> I doubt that apple can keep its brand relevant without opinion leaders like design professionals.

I know a fair number of developers and most of them still use Macs. Not because they are fan boys, but because MacOS still sucks less than Windows.

For me and likely many, OS choice is a pragmatic thing and for the moment MacOS is the least bad option. It's going to be interesting seeing what happens with the new CPUs which have the potential to push the Mac ahead of the pack in terms of price/ performance as well.

> I mean, c'mon, even Ive left.

Ive is 54 years old. He's was at Apple for ~26 years when he left. I have no idea how wealthy he is at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's a billionaire based on his position and likely large stock option grants in the 00s.

You are a designer, how many years would you put in cranking out designs for mass consumption consumer electronics after you were a many times over millionaire? How many black aluminium iPhones would you design? Another 40 years worth?
+1. I'm far from an Apple zealot, but Tim Cook added $1.7 Trillion to apple's market cap since taking over as chief executive. He certainly isn't the product visionary that Jobs was, but a rare few are. IMO Cook may have even been a better executer than Jobs, even if his decisions are more risk averse. And he has still taken a few notable ones – e.g. Apple's recent shift to services revenue (news, music, card, etc) was a surprisingly smooth & fast success. Barring some huge future misstep, I'd be surprised if he didn't go down as one of history's most successful company leaders in his own right.
Now instead of atomic individuals try to think in terms of bloodlines.
If cryptocurrencies are private enough to obfuscate transactions to the point that authorities can’t monitor illegal financial activity, how can the system also be transparent enough to effectively tax users? Isn’t taxation a centralized financial construct, in that a central authority (government) assesses taxes? If the coins built today become the mainstays of crypto transactions and don’t have a concept of a transfer tax, how will one ever be added to the system? The entire system seems to be built from the perspective that it’s “our playground, our rules”, but why governments ever allow that?
> Payments couldn’t be processed in different currencies
> If the delivery system is offline, the code wouldn’t work
> Users with deactivated accounts could still access the system
> No automated testing
> And this, my friends, is what we know as Technical Debt.

I do not describe that as technical debt. That are mostly lack of features. The code could be fantastic and it is just that to support different currencies, disable accounts or similar things new code is needed.

The lack of automated testing is more in line on what I think that it is technical debt.

Details aside it is an interesting read.
This so much. Apocalyptic positions, while usually coming from a good place, are actively counterproductive.
Tech companies might not be upset by the message but I can't imagine that all of their clients are Silicon Valley tech companies.
Very true. Ballmer didn't make Microsoft cool but he left a very healthy, highly profitable company with plenty of reserves. I wouldn't call what Nadella did a turnaround but just a change of direction and focus. I am not too impressed either with what MS is doing with Windows right now. The Windows 10 developer story seems pretty confusing and I am urging my company to go away from Windows for our devices.
My apologies if I came off unnecessarily reactive.
It could be because I live in Seattle, but this seems completely untrue.
Hi HN! this is Sina, the intern who worked on this project; I would be more than happy to answer any questions here!
Community moderation > Automated feeds.

Does anyone have an example of an automated feed proving more useful to them? The closest I can think of is play next while listening to music on YouTube.
What is 19/20?
They predict my state will vote biden which...baffles me. My state has only voted blue for obama the first time he ran. Other than that, since bush, it has been red. I'm assuming they are either polling white liberals in the major cities, or they just ignored the electoral college voting records. I really think they have a bias that a democrat governor got elected somehow means people don't like trump here. No they just hated the republican governor who treaded on his own constituents and sold out a significant amount of our budget for the worthless foxxconn deal. People didn't want change, they just wanted that bourgeoisie moron out.

I mean trump flipped an affluent blue white people electoral vote. I can assure you these aren't the people unemployed due to covid and that they are still voting red which basically means trump will win my state again.
> it's so ironic that people would have fallen prey to a disease that is so easily mitigated.

Actually the root cause was not discovered easily due to a number of confounders. In fact it was discovered, then forgotten due to confounders, then eventually "properly" discovered again.

I can't remember the source, but I read somewhere that certain types of plants don't have the necessary vitamin C to protect you, so when ships were loaded with the wrong plant, people thought it must not be that. They spent their time looking at other potential causes before someone narrowed it down.
It's mostly just dumb little things. You can transform elements using exact numerical values in some contexts, but sometimes you just get a drag handle and can't be precise. You can put tables in a document as standalone frames, but you can't include them within your text story so they reflow properly. This is basic stuff for graphics and DTP software respectively, yet Affinity can't do them.

But then again, for a very long time very basic search and replace options were missing in InDesign, so as I said before, it's not as if Adobe's software hasn't had its share of bizarre limitations over the years as well.
This is good. Now if only they'd stop trying to wall off the podcast market.

glares angrily at Joe Rogan
I’m imagining a collector plate the size of my dining room table, with a staff of crazy-haired scrawny physicists clambering around some sort of neo-Victorian rube-Goldbergesque X-ray source — like a wine-barrel-sized copper anode and a small nuclear power plant for the arc.
No. Facebook container is basically a fork of multi account container that only quarantines facebook. It's meant for less technical people who might not want to set up their own filtering rules on multi account container.
My definition of a "useful" email signature varies highly from anyone who thinks that a list of upcoming events belongs in them. What a waste of bytes.
ETH2 Medalla Validator and Network Health Deep Dive
I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but I think the answer is basically: yes, but only by making a lot of breaking changes. Which sort of leads you to Deno anyway. My take is that we probably won't see a wholesale change to the way things like file/network access works, package manager centralization, etc. anytime soon.
From what I've seen, the "unplug" command is supposed to allow you the ability to temporarily unzip a package so that you can do the traditional "hand-edit a file in a dependency" debugging approach.
First: There are lots of "shy" voters. I'm one. I do not have time in my life for every opinion poll that calls me to take 5 or 10 or 20 minutes of my time. Even more so when some of them are push polls. No. Just go away. You'll find out what I think when I vote.

Now, do people like me lean one way? "Get out of my face and leave me alone" people might plausibly lean toward Trump, but I wouldn't be dogmatic about it. Even more, I wouldn't claim that it's statistically significant.

Second, you said:

> It is completely unreasonable to postulate that the effect would be drastically bigger this year, after four years of Trump actually being in power and normalizing his status.

Um, what? We've had four years of the media relentlessly telling us how stupid, evil, and wrong Trump is, and how stupid and racist all his supporters are. We've seen the media twist the facts to support this narrative. (Yes, Trump does so also. That's not the point.) I would be astonished if there aren't a bunch of Trump supporters who aren't going to tell pollsters what they think. (No, I can't prove it. Even if it's true, I can't quantify it. But I bet that they're out there, and that there are a lot of them.)
So Nadella is half as effective as Cook?

More seriously, I shouldn't have put the comparison to Nadella in there at all. They are both great CEOs.
Many of the fabrication techniques rely on sharp angle bends in the sheet, which would not be ideal in plastic.
So Many Notebooks, So Little Time
PIOPS is the same price whether it's attached to an EC2 instance or an RDS instance.
Game Trends #2 – Korean MMOs Venture West
Feminism has the same PR problem as veganism: They're granfalloons. [1] They're hashtags. We can't kick people out of a hashtag, and it's not even clear what ideas fall under a given hashtag.

We could have productive discussion about ideas themselves:

* Should the government subsidize dairy?

* Should the government pay for maternity leave? Should employers?

We can talk about what works in Europe, whether money is really fungible, and how to provide welfare without distorting the market or accidentally causing hiring discrimination.

But it's less productive to discuss people:

* Is Contrapoints right?

* Is Joaquin Phoenix right?

You get sidetracked with "Remember that time she hired Buck Angel? Remember that time Joaquin starred in Joker?" That's not discussion. That's a fan-made tabloid.

And it's useless to discuss hashtags:

* Does feminism??

* Is veganism???

"Remember that blog that said hetero sex is inherently bad? Remember that time a PETA employee killed someone's pet dog?"

Now we're 2 cuils from changing minds.

I am guessing this is a problem on HN, because it's a problem everywhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon

Edit: Formatting trouble. I'm new here
In my experience, I have seen much more problems because of over engineering by well meaning people than because of technical debt.

Simple but under engineered systems are much easier to rewrite than to simplify over engineered ones.
Subjectively comparing to other threads, this thread has 2 standard deviations more pro-Uber comments than would be normal for such a thread.

I would bet 2.5 to 1.5 that Uber PR is at work here :)
Four features that justify a new Unix shell
Beats + AirPods, the two most successful headphone brands in the world

How are you working out "most successful"? Beats aren't rated particularly highly apart from by label-followers; while blinkeredness has always been a notable criticism of Apple product appraisal, it did in the past occasionally lead the field - that's not at all obvious with Beats etc.
I don't see how this is interference but certainly could be considered an in-kind donation, which does carry with it certain regulatory obligations.
Did you work with Bernardo Kastrup?
The control panel is just a big mess of old and new with a set of overlapping functionality. You need to know both because some features are in the old control panel and some in the new. It's hard to comprehend how a multi-billion dollar company hasn't been able to straighten this out since Windows 8 release in 2012.

The search function also still basically sucks.
V8 Release v8.7
The controversy surrounding the megabar was awkward. Despite all the people clamoring against it, Mozilla would not budge.

It wasn't until someone with epilepsy made a case that they allowed users to make the change from the about:config page.
My anecdotal experiences have been that police haven't done anything to help or protect me every time I have asked for help. Your anecdotal experience seems to be different. Do you have any data to support your 99% claim?
Wait.

If the website is still up what communications was banned?

Is Discord required to host content? If I was Discord, Inc. the last thing I would want on my website is a bunch of conspiracy nut jobs planning to take down the NWO.

I don't understand why people think they can require private entities to publicly disseminate their message for free.

If I submit content to Hacker News and they remove it because the administrators of Hacker News decided it is not a good fit for their website, can I sue them for violating my "RaIgHtS"?
Just sounds like people have't been able to walk a mile in anyone's shoes
A lot has been written about this. Here is a good recent article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-pollsters-have-cha...
Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?
The "I refute it thus" is one of the funniest episodes in the history of philosophy (next to Diogenes plucked chicken)

For the unaware:

> “After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, ‘I refute it thus.'”(Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, quoted from Wikipedia.)
Turkey::Thanksgiving !!!
As I was trying to clarify in my first reply to you, I was not taking the OP to task for expressing an opinion. I was taking him to task for making a factual claim without evidence, a factual claim that also happens to part of a PR campaign funded by one of the parties in the dispute. That makes the claim a priori suspect, and repeating it without a reference subject to valid criticism.

I will own the fact that I phrased my criticism inartfully at first (it was late), but I stand behind its substance as clarified here.
How is this not an utterly shameless clone/duplication of https://getcssscan.com/?

The colour scheme + UI of the tool is almost identical, the first heading "The fastest and easiest way to check, copy and edit CSS" on the homepage is identical, chunks of other text is the same, FAQ questions are identical etc.

I can't understand why anyone would put the work into making something like this and not make a minimal effort to at least write their own marketing text and change the colours.
> > Or adopt D.C. statehood

> That would only add two, unless you also had a reapportionment act.

Absent a change to the fixed number of seats of full House members, it would subtract one; D.C. currently has zero Senators out of 100, zero members of the House included in the apportionment of the fixed 435 seats (it has a delegate, which is separate), and 3 electoral votes. Absent a change to the legislated size of the House, with D.C. statehood it would have 2 senators out of 102, 1 member of the House within the fixed 435 total seats, and 3 electoral votes. The total size of the EC would be reduced by one seat.
Eric Weinstein on Facebook's Cancellation of Bret Weinstein
No, just happen to be a friend of theirs. More specifically, I know the artist, not the person who made it a meme. It's been very strange seeing their art evolve from doodle to meme to merchandise to whatever this qualifies as. Derivative work?
This sounds like a lot of axe grinding without much evidence or a logically consistent argument.
The title the author chose does a bit of injustice to the contents of the post.

The post uses a lot of words to describe an understanding that experienced engineers and managers should have. Technical debt is a trade off. It exists in nearly all software of decent size as it's being developed. It is vital both for management and engineers alike to keep it at a reasonable amount, or you'll wake up one day with something that can't release new features, function, scale or be maintained.

It is also worth stating that tech debt can have little to no siginifcance to the success of a startup.
IIRC, he had insulinoma, which is a rather slow cancer. I’m not sure if treatment beyond surgery would have prolonged his life, as 10 year survival is around 30%.

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the fast killer.
Or is it just a matter of market share ? lots of people use telegram, it's encrypted, 'strict' government decides to block it because they don't know much else about the field.

Let's see how long until they hear about signal
People not liking electron isn't an affront to the people who do. Let's not police people's speech.
Such a great idea. Good luck.
Yeah basic block parameters are especially useful when doing data flow analysis
Hi! Nearly all of my music is on Spotify, I don't have MP3s or WAVs of it.