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I should be allowed to take mushrooms. Telling me that someone needs a credential to give me mushrooms is a violation of separation of church and state. It shouldn't be that legislators and law enforcement can only learn obvious things from dickheads in labcoats or in the media.
It probably depends a lot on your specific use patterns, but I expect for most people this was a change that basically fixed a bunch of bugs, introduced negligible new issues, and had an identical interface.
I wanted to play and I got hacked
I can attest to a similar experience asking someone from China. The idea of being "happy with the government" implies there is something to do about being not happy with the government. It's a little like asking someone if they're happy with the position of the continents on the planet. Sure, you can wish that Australia were in the northern hemisphere, but that's sort of "besides the point." There is not a sense, in China, that any individual or group is in a position to seriously change how the government runs the country.
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'all over the place' - what do you mean by 'place'?

If we fast forward to a world where the majority of vehicles are electric, this would mean vast parking areas with a smart grid underneath that meters charges to users. (Once ICE has been vanquished vast tax revenue will be gone, someone has to pay for the power, it will be you).

In an urban environment presumably every lighting pole will have a charging point since they are on the last century grid.

Typically there are approximately 10- 15 cars between posts. For lucky people with a driveway they can install a charger, for everyone else this is a very intractable problem.

In rural areas 'all over the place' could mean anything. Some people drive 200 miles a day just to get to their place of work and back in a heavy duty vehicle, where would they find these 'places'...
And plenty of others concluded that calling Farmville gambling is absurd stretch.

Besides, I found that Overwatch, FIFA 18, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive at considered "game of chance" in Belgium, because you place bet and win or loose.

Not clickers like Farmville. I did not found a single article that would implied so.
Plane crash deaths rise in 2020 despite Covid pandemic
I run a paid addon for local e-commerce platform(with 25k shops build on it). It all started about 15 month ago when i was still working in a web development company. The platform owners came to us and offered us a partnership. We would develop some new addons for them, run them, and split the profits(80% for us, 20% for them). As i was the one most interested in this i got the first project and developed and supported it for about 9 month. I saw it could have a nice future and bought it from the web development company and quit the job. Now i run it by myself and i love it.

The addon provides an easy way to print paper labels for products and other things listed in the shops.
> If Zuckerberg, Sandberg, et al could improve Facebook's behavior without putting the business at risk, they would do it in a heartbeat.

Based on what evidence do you make this assertion?
> the many companies trying to dislodge Facebook from its dominant position

Such as? Can you find me one company that provides a similar feature set to Facebook (cross-platform messaging & calling, personal & business pages with unlimited media uploads, groups, marketplace, dating and the network effects of everyone you know already being on it with their real name and no usernames to worry about)?

Furthermore, if Facebook stops or tones down paid advertising and unpaid spam/clickbait it will be yet another reason for users to prefer them versus the competition.

> Facebook's users are addicted to the social-media-crack

Are they? Facebook users are primarily there for keeping in touch with their friends, and happen to get sucked down the rabbit hole of bullshit by Facebook's algorithms which prioritizes engagement. Removing the engagement-generating crap won't suddenly remove the need for people to socialize.

> many of Facebook's customers -- advertisers and propagandists -- want Facebook to continue to modify user behavior on their behalf; and if Facebook stops doing that, those customers will migrate to the competition.

These customers want to go where the users are. If Facebook stops advertising but all the users remain (partly because of the lack of advertising), advertisers do not have a magic wand to move people across to another platform where they can advertise, short of paying those people to move (in which case it would be a win-win situation as people would be compensated for their time & attention).
Most answers will focus on safety, but setting that aside, there's one thing Rust has which AFAIK C doesn't have: fat pointers. They're the implementation detail behind both array slices (keeping together the pointer to the first element and the length) and trait references (keeping together the pointer to the object and the pointer to the vtable).
I am happy to have left the industry but would not have done so over an IT fad. I left as managing an IT infrastructure takes up a lot of headspace. Even if you aren't working all the time stuff is on your mind. I'm very happy in the education sector now.
What‘s needed is regulation. A lot of regulation that is not questioned based on some free market fundamentalism.

That‘s all. Given that, capitalism works fine.
That's like finding $20 you left in your winter jacket but better. What company was it?
This is believable if you remember that complication rates are a variable independent from a virus's infectiousness. The more aggressively it spreads, the more likely at least one person will need hospitalisation, even in a virus with a very low complication rate in general. Or, in other words, there are so many children getting it that the 0.002% complication rate or whatever it was starts showing more.
I wonder what prompted the author to remove the article.
Gocardless is built specifically for recurring payments. Former YC company.
I'm pretty sure they could recoup the cost if they made sure their installer could install on ChromeOS's Linux container. The number of Chromebooks out there is staggering, and is starving for great graphics software. This would also be a great way to get ahead of Adobe in the education space, as it appears Chromebooks have taken over education (at least k-12 in the US).
Interesting, thanks for the history! I personally qualified for/lived in an affordable housing unit for a few years right after college. The income limit for a single person was 95k at the time

What I find interesting about many of these units is how the net effective rent is still typically 40x annual income for people in that bracket. If I hadn’t switched jobs and gotten some significant raises in the process, much of my salary would have still been going to housing in an ‘affordable’ unit.
In reality a bad year is just a bad year, and many investors are (imo perfectly rationally) expect the market to return to normal soon.

The 'investor class' often gets derided for being short-sighted, but this is nonsense. In reality there are plenty of long-outlook investors who recognize this is a temporary set-back, and even then only in certain industries.

Even companies that had to essentially write '0' for revenue on their last 3 10-Qs are typically only marginally down. [1][2][3].

When stocks go up, the narrative is 'look! all the rich are getting richer!'

When stocks fall it's 'Those greedy millionaires are short sighted, look at what happened to everyone's pension!'

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/dal
[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ual
[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ccl
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> Your bill exempts every nominee or person paid to form the business

Yes, we already know who the legal owners of entities are.

Under this bill, if you pay a registered agent to form an LLC you control, your name is recorded. That is not presently done. It’s been pushed back on, particularly by the real estate industry, for decades.
Are your outlets continuous?

I’ve heard of ones that cycle through different chunks of the lot, so half (or a third or 2/3) are powered at a time.
Upcoming Ruling in Assange Trial Threatens More Than Just Freedom of the Press
The words "Facebook" and "integrity" in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
So charge your vehicle at your workplace, or at the shops, or at a dedicated charging station?

In the medium term, if this becomes a real problem, properties will be devalued and owners can decide whether it’s worth contributing to the cost of installing the infrastructure.

In the long term, most people won’t have private vehicles, so there won’t be any need to store and charge them on public roads.
"... or as well as any compiled language can."

Some syntax is close to Python so some mental load is minimized, i.e use of snake_case, self, None and type annotation syntax, dict unpacking.

Some lines read like sentences i.e. for loops, single line if statements, impl Foo for Bar etc. Some design choices also read better I think, for example, let reads better than var.

Of course such preferences are personal. I've read other comments that mention that the tutorial covers only basic Rust features and it can get much more complicated when using more advanced features.

Edit: Added sentence about advanced features.
He must be a Facebook employee that ate the pudding.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It is deeply concerning that there isn't a general consensus that you are correct.

It makes me think the great filter theory is true and we are going to destroy ourselves because a very significant number of people are incapable of basic reasoning, and the number seems to be growing...
The same holds for a lot of other rules, from public transportation tickets over legal fireworks and drinking age to softer drugs and taxes. Society as a whole seems to be generally fine with smaller infractions and I consider this a good thing, tbh. I would be perfectly fine with a similar scheme for traffic laws.

The thing with speeding cameras is that they could easily be adjusted to allow for 20% (say at most 20kph) margin (which would be perfectly fine for me even on the German Autobahn), but drivers would learn that fact and adjust perfectly to just 1kph below that limit. This would then enrage puritans that would DEMAND that these MURDERES be PUNISHED. Sadly for some reason traffic law is an area of zero tolerance for some.
This is the solution. Power doesn't have to be free, but it should be everywhere.

It's like all the EV charging networks try to replicate gas stations. It's stupid. Nobody wants to take their car to a charging station, pay by the minute, and park their car somewhere else when it's full.

People just want to park their cars wherever, and plug them in when they know they'll stay there for some time, and just pay per kWh, and they definitely don't want to go park their car somewhere else when it's full.

The nice thing about electric is that you could theoretically charge cars pretty much anywhere, outlets would be cheap to install almost anywhere! And cars are parked somewhere 90% of the day anyway. So you don't need fast charging.

I feel like the guys trying to build infrastructure for EVs in most cities are fucking stupid.

You don't need to build 20 fast charging stations. For the same money you could probably install 2000 standard outlets, controlled with a relay and a phone app for payment.

That's something that would actually drive EV adoption.

Right now the only people who buy EVs are people who have a house where they can install an outlet for charging. People who live in appartments are stuck with ICE cars...
> And yet there's a chasm of capability between programmers and users, and it's actually true that what programmers do isn't something most "normal people" will ever be capable of. But is that because programmers have some wildly special form of intelligence that most people don't have, or is it because our tools suck?

Every time I used a "No-Code" solution it got me 95% where I wanted to be. The remaining 5% took twice as long as the first 95% because now I had to "go behind the scenes" and figure out the custom API exposed by whatever tool I was using. And then figure out a workaround that would inevitably break with the next version of the tool.

And even with the No-Code, it's still being able to decompose a problem into smaller sub-problems, find the similarities and make sure they are well defined. I think there are a lot more folks with these abilities but you'll find them in math and engineering departments mostly.
So I'm going to hell for this comment but could be a premature death for older, sick people be a good thing for the economy in the long run? Maybe future medical bills would be lower. A redistribution of wealth from older people to younger people with more opportunities for growth. I am not calculating the emotional toll for these deaths. It is not a friendly comment that I bring up easily, but it is something that must be considered. Please convince me that I'm wrong. Let me say that I am not an evil person and do not wish death upon anyone.
Theories about conspiracies that turned out to be true are not conspiracy theories. The main characteristic of a conspiracy theory is that it cannot be disproved.

(It is unfortunate that the term "conspiracy theory" adds another meaning to the already confusing word "theory".)
This goes for computer security as well, but in practice without at least a voice in the management security will get axed on every turn because it is seen as all cost without benefit to the company. This is changing slowly, mostly on account of the GDPR, but it is still the prevailing view.
I've shipped relatively lots of code in Python and a little bit in Rust.

For any project where performance or correctness are significant concerns I'd much rather use Rust than Python. It provides a lot more tools to help you write correct code, and express invariants in a machine-checkable way. This means that they are maintained when the code changes, even when multiple contributors are involved. I'm must more confident in my ability to ship correct code in Rust and maintain that correctness over time.

Rust also doesn't have the performance ceiling (floor?) of Python, either for single threaded programs, or — especially — for those that benefit from concurrency or parallelism. Of course for some progames there's a clear hot loop that you could implement as a native extension in Python, but other workloads have relatively flat profiles where the performance bottlenecks are making allocations or similar.

As well as the actual language features, the commitment to backward compatibility from the Rust authors means that you don't get regular breakage simply from updating to a newer version of the language. I think Python 2 being 2.7 for such a long time gave people a false impression of how stable a foundation Python provides and the fact that point releases of 3.x often cause problems feels like it causes a lot of unnecessary makework for Pyton users and is rather offputting.

That doesn't mean I'd always choose Rust of course. You do require more upfront design to get something that works at all. Some projects also benefit greatly from not requiring a compile step and making use of the ubiquity of a Python interpreter. And I think I'd find it difficult to justify using Rust for a typical web backend that's mostly composing together various well-tested libraries to provide an API on top of a database.
> Humanity has literally only one way to gain knowledge about the world: Making a testable prediction and then testing it (The Scientific Method).

I think Popperian science occupies too large a place in your epistemology. "Science" has come to mean two distinct things: any procedure for arriving at highly reliable knowledge, and one specific procedure for arriving at highly reliable knowledge. The latter is constantly threatening to crowd out the former.

The scientific method itself, for example, would be valid even if no science had ever been done. It is not at all the product of empirical analysis, but of deductive reasoning.
There's a difference between having a speeding camera every now and then on the highway or consistently enforcing speeding limits.

I don't have a statistic on this, but my gut feeling would be most speeding happens in residential areas with low speed limit, and enforcement in many places is basically nonexistent.
Spain is the closest country to some parts of Italy. So, they limit each others economic exclusion zones. That said it’s close to 400 miles between them across open ocean. Further economic exclusion zones are a fairly recent and thus an arbitrary thing.
> greater tracking on who owns what

This is transparently the intent of the bill.
Why should products be either beautiful (like an apple) or functional (like Linux)?
Which of the mentioned claims do you think need more open-mindness?
The target customer does not care.
I agree, and I also know that you have to deal with the world as it is right now even while you work to make it better.

If you have to use Jira or Confluence at work, you probably want to know how to make that as useful as possible. If you're working at Atlassian, you probably want to make your customer's experience as enjoyable as possible as soon as possible. Ideally you have a great product and great documentation and all happy customers. If that's not the case, you have an opportunity to work on a number of fronts, including improving documentation and the product, and help current customers with the product as it is. You can and should be doing all of these things.

Piling on doesn't help anything.
Welcome to Hacker News, home of the orthogonal response.
If he’s concerned about it why would he pick a successor that doesn’t share his concerns? He still controls the company.
As would I. I see this becoming a pain for the operator of the build systems in a mutli-team environment.
> business coffers

That’s another way of saying that it was used to pay employees.
Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing it!

I'm used to thermal cameras being so lo-res you can barely tell what they are.
See red light cameras. You recieve a ticket through the mail and you get pictures and a video of the violation. There is a lot of people against it and some governments have legistation against the use of it.
DOS 3.0 comes to mind as well.
You are assuming that this is about dependencies. OP's example is explicitly "gdb crashes when opening on a malformed core dump and can be used for DoS". If you were working on GDB and got this bug report, would you consider it a fire to be put out immediately? Or would it be a low-impact bug to be looked at when someone gets some free time?

The OP is complaining that, if there is a CVE associated for whatever stupid reason, the bug suddenly jumps from a "might fix" to "hot potato".
she left a week ago. See this dupe, which is flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25613717 for a tweet.

There's no way that Github would ever entertain this idea.
Mine is this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23100864

dmoreira 12 hours ago [-]
doing it consistently over a long period of time. It took me years to realize that all nighters and overwork were a big mistake.
What truly works is to show up everyday consistently for years.
Like Bill said, “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
The 21st century is barely 20 years old.

And we seem to have a contender for Obama's supposed results, from the other world superpower.

Also, are you counting Bush's invasion of Iraq as something Obama started? Where are you getting those numbers?
> Presumably that would be better for a model where you want people to stick around and buy things, not worse.

Gas stations occupy an interesting place in American life: some stations - often those in urban areas - are designed for “get in, grab a pack of peanuts, get out” transactions, but others in rural areas serve as a local gathering area. Pre-Covid (and, let’s be honest, even post-Covid) the gas stations near me are full of people sitting at tables eating hot food and passing time.

What is amusing is that the same gas stations that encourage to have people sit and stay a while tend to be located in areas where EVs are extremely uncommon.
They're referring to artillery sound ranging. (Using sound to triangulate the position of enemy artillery batteries.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_sound_ranging#World_...
> That is one shitty site.

Yes, I don't think it gets much attention - I should probably have pointed at the github org which is reasonably active. https://github.com/verapdf

> That's not really how PDF-standards work.

Well, it is how the standard works (don't make me dig out the relevant bit of what's publicly available from the standard) - the issue is whether common PDF readers actually do what they're "supposed to" or whether they just try and interpret as much as they can.
Might been different a tough question to answer because it's hypotheticals all the way down. There is a different version of history where Macromedia's two biggest products, Flash and Dreamweaver took a different route, and neither died an ignominious death. Flash could have become an open web standard, driven by a programming language that isn't javascript, which we're all now forced to use due to browser support. Instead of using CSS for layout, we could be using something else. The cross-platform smartphone app ecosystem would look a whole lot different if iOS and Android both had built in Flash interpreters.

Does this all sound like a fantasy? It should, because it is. Absent the history of it actually happening and being able to point at that, the question is akin to comparing two sports teams across history, eg the 2014 Golden State Warriors to the 2002 Mavericks and trying to talk through which team would win.

Could an independent Macromedia have been better stewards of Flash than Adobe, leading to a world today where Flash wasn't deprecated? Absolutely. Would it have? We'll never know. Flash had a number of issues that lead to its death today, and it's not clear if an independent Macromedia, with a different internal developer and business culture from Adobe, could have fixed all of them resulting in a different future, or if they even needed to be fixed for that future to happen.

Looking at Adobe's poor stewardship of PDFs, however, it's hard to see positives to Adobe-owned Macromedia and Flash.
2020 Secret Sauce? Effective Crisis Communications
There's been plenty of very different approaches on gov and company levels, but I feel like this summarizes the key points pretty well.

"Responding quickly establishes you as the trusted authority and shuts down any rumors or misinformation."
Read up on SELTIC (the Service, Efficiency, and Lower Taxes for Indianapolis Commission) and how their privatization initiatives dramatically improved Indianapolis.

https://bg.hbr.org/1997/05/can-business-really-do-business-w...

https://www.govtech.com/magazines/gt/Indianapolis-Mayor-Step...

https://fcpp.org/2018/05/04/the-indianapolis-champ/