skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason markdown checklists are not appealing to me is that:

1. Only the comment creator or a repository maintainer can edit a markdown checklist created the way you suggest. You may want to open a checklist up to an entire team.

2. The markdown checklist doesn't block a PR the way that a check does. This is because a manual markdown checklist is not canonical for a pull request. The checklists here are canonical (at least for the Bugout app). This is important if merging the PR makes a production change.

Please don't mistake me, not trying to push the app down your throat. I respect that this may not bring enough value to justify an app installation with access to your repos. Just want to explore your objections.
> Citation needed.

How Effective is Government Welfare Compared to Private Charity? [0]

“[Government] income redistribution agencies are estimated to absorb about two-thirds of each dollar budgeted to them in overhead costs, and in some cases as much as three-quarters of each dollar. Using government data, Robert L. Woodson (1989, p. 63) calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner (1996, p. 136 n. 18) cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.

“In contrast, administrative and other operating costs in private charities absorb, on average, only one-third or less of each dollar donated, leaving the other two-thirds (or more) to be delivered to recipients. Charity Navigator, www.charitynavigator.org the newest of several private sector organizations that rate charities by various criteria and supply that information to the public on their web sites, found that, as of 2004, 70 percent of charities they rated spent at least 75 percent of their budgets on the programs and services they exist to provide, and 90 percent spent at least 65 percent. The median administrative expense among all charities in their sample was only 10.3 percent.”

Later on Edwards adds: “In fact, the average cost of private charity generally is almost certainly lower than the one-quarter to one-third estimated by Charity Navigator and other private sector charity rating services…” and tells why.

The bottom line: Government spends about 70% of tax dollars to get 30% of tax dollars to the poor. The private sector does the opposite, spending about 30% or less to get 70% of aid to the poor.

[0] https://www.theadvocates.org/2013/06/effective-government-we...
I think your comment really helped me. I don't have anything against art itself. It's more about glorifying artists and artworks to level that just can't get explained.
Tesla could supply drive trains and batteries to other auto companies. They are likely getting the best talent in the space as well. Vertical integration is key as well. Self driving software is a good revenue stream as well, likely to be resold too.

That being said, 1000+ P/E seems insane
In theory yes, but I think the problem is that it will never be adopted. Too much of academia is built on the deep assumption that LaTeX is the only possible format that people write documents in.

You're not wrong, but then again, this is not the biggest thing wrong with a lot of academic publishing, and it wouldn't be the biggest tower that a lot of academics are trying to topple. Indeed, breaking away from TeX and breaking away from the traditional journals and the toxic model around publishing in them might be happy partners.
Welcome to the UK where the rules don't apply to the rich.
> If it helps ensure the diversity of ISP competition in the US market, then yes

The US ISP market is already fairly diverse. There are some 3000 ISPs in the US.

> $886m is a bargain if it helps meaningfully with that (assuming it's not a frequent subsidy).

Aye, therein lies the rub. Starlink will require a frequent and recurring subsidy, unless it can become profitable on its own.

Each and every satellite they put up will burn up in five years.

> There is a large difference between putting up a few percent of their constellation to reach initial minimum viability and putting up enough satellites to properly cover the rest of the world (a very expensive endeavor that will take years).

Maybe Starlink should have been required to demonstrate viability before allowing it to qualify for government subsidies?

> Plus, the US Government may directly benefit in a very big way from utilizing Starlink and that may make it a bargain compared to the alternatives. If US defense contractors were building that constellation, they'd be spending ten times what SpaceX is.
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> And that's before we get to the potential for intelligence gathering globally. The powers that be will be all over that, no matter what SpaceX claims to the contrary (SpaceX will have a gun to their head and will not have a choice, just as the Prism gang had no choice).

If the DoD wants Starlink then they should pay for it themselves.
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I think Loony Tunes captured this perfectly with the whirlwind/tornado effect around the Tasmanian Devil (Taz).
>Nobody really brings up that the bay area is one of few places in the US where you can live without a car

I'm not sure what bay area are you talking about. The SF bay area is absolutely unmanageable without a car, unlike Portland or Seattle.
Hey, a new option - thanks, must try it :)
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I'd guess that user oedoedxef is referring to running a customer-facing business (a diner, an auto repair shop, or whatever) out of a primary residence, whether that means living in a commercially-zoned property or doing commerce in a residentially-zoned property or perhaps eliminating the distinction entirely.
You've confused two separate concepts.

One is a bank defaulting on its obligations to provide you a certain number of units of currency regardless of their market value. This has not happened since the FDIC was created in the wake of the Great Depression.

Another is a sovereign default where the country decides not to honour its obligations to those holding units of its currency or its debts. This has happened ~6 times in the history of the United States, and I do include the cancellation of the gold withdrawal rights as a sovereign default. This has nothing to do with the FDIC or your bank.

I can't stress this enough, neither of these things matter to you if you do what you're supposed to with money, which is not keep your life savings in a mattress or a savings account, but use it as a temporary store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account and buy things with it. Gold, real estate, magic beans, I don't care. This is practically ECON-101.

On the subject of freedom, backing all currency with gold eliminates my right to choose what I back my personal economy with. A gold backed currency has strictly less freedom than a fiat currency. I can today choose to back my personal economy with gold, silver, platinum, magic beans (crypto) or Apple stock by leveraging a brokerage account and a credit card. If you believe in freedom, it's actually what you want.
https://archive.is/JXyMX
Until you get payment processors, mostly US based, which still don't follow the standards.

Have to click the dangerous sounding "Open card to ALL internet purchases for 60 minutes" button every time I buy a game on Steam, otherwise my bank simply declines it. All Stripe gateways used to be like that, but fixed it two years or so ago.

I think Amazon.se rounded it somehow, last time it worked without 3D secure, which was surprising since .co.uk and .de usually required opening the card. I'd guess they are on the hook if any fraudulent transactions would happen though. Amazon's interface for dealing with failed transactions at least used to be horrible since you would actually get past the checkout, but then be forced to somewhere in the lists find the order and from there retry the transaction, instead of simply failing visibly at the checkout like any normal webshop.
Great point! The reason behind my "Why" is that I would like to pick a book and read it as it might improve my thinking and help me make a better decision.

For example, I want to become a better manager and leader, and so I research which books might help me. And "Radical Candor" was the book I picked, and it did change the way I manage my team, improved my relationships, etc.

However, letting go of why and structure is important too, and I can see how "searching" works for you.

Thanks for the comment
At some point the basic maintenance of law and order (or conversely the refusal to do so) takes precedence over walkability or the local art and culture scene. As for tolerance, West Coast cities are rapidly developing a social and political milieu that is openly hostile towards the tech industry to a much greater degree than Austin or Miami (to name two examples from the article) are hostile to LGBT people.
> Nobody really brings up that the bay area is one of few places in the US where you can live without a car.

Is this true? I've only visited the bay for a total of 15 days but only SF and parts of Oakland seemed walkable.
>Not sure I see the point anymore though

That's interesting. What do you use in your projects now? Tailwind? Or maybe just plain old CSS?
I appreciate the back and forth on a contentious issue.

Drilling into the core difference:

> "When supply is limited and more people demand it, it’s value is going to increase."

> "Price of homes is set by desirability and demand."

> "HOW? Prices are not determined by Palo Alto residents. It is determined by the market by those who WANT to sell their Palo Alto homes to newcomers. Price of homes is set by desirability and demand."

> "Because they came in before you and built homes, took mortgages and didn’t die soon enough to have their homes sold at market rate for others to move in?"

I think the core element here is that prices are high because supply is artificially constrained by existing owners, if allowed to - the market would build a lot more housing and prices would come down a lot. Since the palo alto residents don't allow housing to be built, they are indirectly setting the prices to be high. I don't want people to die, I want people to allow more housing to be built.

The people who already own here don't want that.

As someone who would like to live and raise a family here, I do.
That's like saying "As a developing nation, I don't see why I should mandate fire code. Developed nations are where they are because workers burnt to death in gruesome preventable disasters."

And, mind you, in any developing nation, there will be people who raise these rhetorics and try to make it an issue of national pride or something. Because these people have much to gain by keeping workers in dangerous buildings, bulldozing national forests, or depleting fisheries.
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It comes off as condescending. Generally, being incredulous of the way someone thinks isn't a respectful way to engage with them (I'm sure most of us are guilty of it at times, but usually in frustration with people that we have a personal relationship with). If you're going to ask someone something that might offend them, I would suggest starting with a show of goodwill. Also, extensive use of hypothetical "thought-quotes" is very easily construed as mocking or belittling, even if you were just trying to be precise about your meaning.

A better way to ask might have been: "I'm curious, and I don't mean to be rude, but what caused you to post this comment here instead of searching for the answer?"
The subsidy goes to SpaceX, in exchange for offering service at the required locations at the required performance. There is no requirement whatsoever for SpaceX to pass any of it on to the customers, and in fact doing so would be against the spirit of the offering. It's meant for incentivizing the buildout of infrastructure, not for passing on savings to consumers.
Because not everyone has full freedom in deciding where to live, and access to broadband is a positive factor for financial mobility and economic activity.
This is because SSO lets you do it today (via keycloak or auth0 or whatever). 2FA here is effectively an optimisation for those not using SSO. Also, cross signing is effectively is a form of 2FA already.
"bullshit", unfounded accusations of bitterness, using "professional" as a euphemism for letting pushy people do what they want.
Most people I know would choose to live in a temperate climate with low humidity if they had the option. Detroit might have been economically useful due to certain modes of travel and location of population at the time, but that may not be relevant anymore.
> heat pumps offer an energy-efficient alternative to [...] air conditioners

What does that mean? Air conditioners are heat pumps. Are the two terms used for distinct classes of products in US, or something like that?
(I used Google translate to some quotes might not be 100% correct)

> "We therefore had to start developing the monitoring function"

Ouch, pretty hard to recommend a service that has admitted to building tools for LE.

> This should not change anything for other users; their emails should continue to be encrypted by default. Nevertheless, Tutanota sees a one-time bypassing of encryption as a data protection and security risk for all customers.

> As Tutanota emphasized, the surveillance measure only affects newly incoming unencrypted e-mails. The company cannot decrypt already encrypted data or end-to-end encrypted e-mails in Tutanota.

It's a bit unclear here if it only means plaintext, incoming emails are effected while in transit or if all new plaintext emails are/could be saved without encryption.
That's the beauty of the lottery from the article. I've done the math on my local games and it tips into your favour after the jackpots get high enough. The issue with my local lotteries is that the EV comes partly from the main jackpot, which is a very low occurence outcome. The article has the EV come from the smaller prizes which can be easily won.
Facebook Discriminating Against Whites, Males, Americans in “Hate Speech” Policy
PyTorch 1.6 now includes Stochastic Weight Averaging
We've got vastly different understandings of what is impossible.
Stovetop doesn't make much difference. I notice it with ovens though. I favor using countertop electric ovens much more because of this.

I'm much more concerned with central heating. I wish more homes had electric and radiant floor heating.

I have to crack the window in the office and put an electric heater near the window to avoid feeling lethargic from all the oxygen being depleted and replaced with noxious gases.
I don't understand, what do you gain from avoiding the discussion? Can't you just move on and not come back to this thread?

Maybe you're a mod, in which case I understand...
Those darn radio waves! Hold on I gotta take this call on my iPhone.
That's in an academically perfect economic system, and labor is not that. People have been able to get cheap engineering labor from India for decades and wages have still been climbing. Businesses choose who they hire for a variety of reasons and price is only a single factor.

Additionally, labor has a say in what they're paid as well and knowledge of what the average pay is for a given job in their country, region, or city. They can also talk to their fellow employees when they're hired and then push for a hire wage when they find out they're making less then everyone else doing the same job. Just because someone lives in Wisconsin doesn't mean they just accept any offer at a discount simply because HR has a bar chart says they should be paid 35% less then someone else.
Is there a good reason why we have a distributed platform for IM and other distributed platforms for e.g. social media (think Mastodon) that appear to work the same way except that the data types are different? Could this “distributed server atop HTTP/whatever” be abstracted out into its own protocol such that anyone could more easily build distributed applications for their own domain? Maybe there is more variation between domains than I am aware of?
One of the reasons is because they used the switch to ARM to lock the system down tightly. Mandatory secureboot that couldn't be disabled. A Windows system that's not as open to modification as the x64 version.

They did their level best to get maximum control and this was and is a huge turn off. If they made it as open as x86/x64, and pulled out all the stops to get software support equivalent to x86 like Apple have done with their system, then it would be a compelling proposition. As it is, it has woeful software support, and Microsoft did very little to address this.
There was no intention to give advice or teach anyone, I'm not an expert in this field. I needed a system to learn better (often times I forget great concepts from books), so I did my research and created a system for myself, and decided to share with friends and all those who might find this helpful.
> why the Outer Sunset isn't coated in luxury condos?

Because the Outer Sunset is cold, foggy and windy a lot of the time? Are the luxury condos are still going up in SOMA? It's definitely warmer there.
This is not logical at all and seems either completely hysterical or deliberately malicious.

If Google fires a janitor, does that mean they don’t care about a clean work environment? If they fire a VP of engineering, does that mean they don’t care about engineering?

No, it means that person didn’t work out. And considering how she is handling it by going nuclear with the press and the twitter mobbing, I for one am not the least bit surprised.
Yes, yes it has. The UI is still quite good, and doesn't seem to have the downsides that many Electron apps have, except for the amount of memory used by it (still much less than Slack or Skype)
Ok, the said article tells that it was not meant to be used in React or similar front-end stuff, but more in things like Rails.
But even disregarding that, you might want to have multiple places with lists, or other elements that I guess would not be 'big enough' to become components.
Do you get the music world and how it works? It's very similar, and someone who didn't get music could make the exact same arguments you're making.

The visual arts take a tiny bit more effort to get into but once you're over that hump it's very similar.
Most every cloud gaming is Chrome specific. Heck the Amazon cloud gaming doesn't even work on Chrome on Linux....
> You can burn the money in a furnace for all I care, as long as the ratio between the richest and poorest goes down substantially.

How does making everyone worse off make things better? For example, inequality skyrocketed in China after they liberalized their economy [0]. Why would it be better for everyone to be equally miserable and starving? I really don't understand this mentality.

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Yeah this looks terrible for $UBER.

Why did you write this as ATG equity? Wouldn't it still be their class A/B shares? Or is it structured as a separate entity?
App and subscription overload.
>How are you able to track that behind a CDN?

CDNs provide access logs.
That’s pragmatic, hope you find greener pastures
Not only that but any time any app gets your meter-accuracy GPS location, Apple also gets it to use for their AGPS service, and (unlike every other AGPS service I've seen) there is no way to turn it off. This information gets sent with an "anonymized" identifier to prevent spoofed requests, but this is easily correlated with the other Apple ID tagged requests they get from the same device.
Like I said that might be just me with a personal pet peeve

But it is crazy inefficient to pump heat into the outdoors. It's not as inefficient in most parts of california, even northern california. But when you move north it gets down under 40... (In the Midwest where it gets below 0, it's complete lunacy)

It's a weird thing to be simultaneously in favor of environmental controls and trying to raise awareness for climate change (and doing things in Seattle like banning the use of natural gas for heating?), while also being totally ok with heating the outside for dining.
If that wee true, since Starlink will reach everywhere, they would only need to fund Starlink. In fact the OP would be correct and no subsidy would be needed since Starlink is already being built.
Most of the others are providing gigabit versus Starlink's 100Mbit.
I wouldn’t characterize defense spending as waste. China is a significant threat, for example, and maintaining superiority over them is of national importance IMO.
It is intended for convicted criminals without a residence permit but who cannot be deported, for example because they risk torture or capital punishment if they are deported to their country of origin.

Not trying to justify the use of an island for this purpose, but they would be imprisoned anyway since they are disbarred from residing in the country.

It is not intended for regular refugees or asylum seekers.
What about structural stuff that just can't be hidden behind a feature flag?

What do people do in those scenarios?
Well, if you consider South Bay, that's not true. Spent one summer interning at IBM, living in South San Jose (capital expressway). Had an absolutely horrible time. Even getting a bottle of milk was 2 mile walk. Buses were once every hour.
> they're going to go for the absolute performance crown

Or, in Elon Musk speak, a "hardcore smackdown",
with x86 playing the role of the gas engine.
Indeed in its most blatant form it's called dumping. [1]

[1] https://www.iatp.org/news/us-dumping-corn-in-canada-growers-...
How much does your company pay?
Sure. If I were running a developing nation I would do precisely those things: burn my people in a furnace that accelerates overall development. Every single success story of the last century has taken this strategy. Because it turns out that the best way to make life better for future citizens is to throw some smaller number of present citizens in the furnace.

China didn't raise 400 million out of poverty by accident. Lives were paid. Intentionally.
Appreciation is not rent seeking though. Also, savings is what funds capital investment. There's no capital without previous profit.
> What business is it of yours that I might write my own?

If they're providing online servers for you to play on with other people, under the condition that you aren't cheating and they are responsible for stopping cheating for everyone, they very much do care and it is their business, if you want to use their servers.

Having custom drivers is how you get wallhacks or custom mouse control macros that eliminates some of the challenges imposed by the game (e.g. automatic recoil control).

For a single player game, I agree, who cares, but for online games that live and die by competitive play and stopping cheaters so people can enjoy it, there's only so many options of how to find cheaters and so much resources to put towards it, so you get stuff like this.
Don't use tinder.

There's multiple upsides: you don't become another slab of beef in the meat market. You don't get profiled and that profile sold. You can't be a target for mockery on Reddit/FB/etc.

I mean, I get it, sex is fun. But it's never required an app.
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In January, the US assassinated Qasem Soleimani with a drone strike. Is an autonomous machine gun appreciably worse?
Two issues with that. Deinstitutionalisation was not just an American phenomenon, with similar movements in other Western countries. Second, the timeline doesn't line-up. By the 1980s Deinstitutionalisation was well underway, and it wasn't necessarily a federal driver because the states were the ones running the system.

Deinstitutionalisation was a combination of changing attitudes by public (hollywood movies certainly did not help with movies like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'), activism, courts strengthening rights to the point where institutionalization was not possible, and yes, cost cutting by States.