skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined Signal and maybe 5% of my contacts are on signal as of right now. I don't think the critical mass is there yet, but I hope more people make the switch. I effectively cannot use Signal unless my main contacts are on it, which they aren't. The best thing I could do is try and convince all of them to move to signal so we can group chat on Signal instead, but it's a hard sell, despite the fact that most of the people I actively talk to are in tech or academia.

I think many people are probably fine with moving from Android messenger or WhatsApp, but it is going to be extremely hard to convince the Apple folks to stop using iMessage (or whatever they call it). Apple has also been working hard (e.g. green texts) to ensure that people stay on or convert to iMessage.
If having a lot of cars with sensors collecting data doesn't help, why did Waymo build so many?
If there weren’t stiff penalties for drunk driving it’d be rampant. The fear of being locked away for 20 years most definitely acts as a preventative measure.
We choose the world we live in? Since when?
Ethan Couch (affluenza teen) killed four people and is walking free.
We had fines for latecomers and people that talked too much at one of my last companies, like $2 or whatever that goes towards end of week beers or the Christmas party. People pulled into shape real quick.
It existed... in Europe was the 'Vendeta' system... this was in the Balkans (Albania), and parts of Italy.

You steal a sheep, I get something in return. You kill someone, you die... or someone else from your family is going to pay for it...

In some other places it was protecting your honor by duel, ettc...
Pirates were hanged, together with members of the ship that mutinied.
In some places people were exiled/shunned from the community

etc. etc.

As, you see, it was an eye for an eye, where death was a common punishment, then it was financial retribution, or banishment/exile

As you see, a world without prisons was a harsh one. If you were a weak person, without a large family, you were toast.
People are driving far less in general, and I suspect fewer people are road tripping, so range anxiety, and rechargeability becomes less of a problem for those who need to buy a new car.

But there are also more people replacing plane with car travel, which increases the numbers of people driving, but I presume that's much lower than the number of people no longer road tripping. And some of those people might decide it's worth it just to rent a car if they need to do that.
They differ a lot. Email is more like a letter and is a killer app unto itself, chat has proven to be a thing that gets bolted on to something else. No chat client to date has ever been able to stand alone, and none of the early leaders ever amounted to anything.

Hell, Yahoo had entire verticals like ocean shipping self organizing around Yahoo Chat back in the day and never figured out how to monetize. Slack is going to be another salesforce widget.
As I've mentioned in numerous other comments, there is a well-recognized and codified difference between manslaughter and murder [0].

He was also not charged with murder, but with "Operating While Intoxicated Causing Death" [1], which I believe is a manslaughter charge.

[0]: https://quinnanlaw.com/criminal-defense/murder-vs-manslaught...

[1]: https://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumb...
> A fast low-level program was re-written in a high-level language to reduce maintenance costs.

And as a side effect make it faster on average. Very cool!
This is true, but at the same time the guy killed two people. Those people are never coming back.

Of course, harsh sentences don't always cause a drop in the rate of the crime being committed.

This is an awful situation.
Welcome! You'll be glad for it (and cranky about it). This sensation is what many of us feel when we find the incidental complexities of things designed to be simple. Once you find enough you start to spot them yourself, and then you see them everywhere. The ugly part is... you see them everywhere. The beautiful part is you don't just get pattern recognition, you get a familiar solution mapping.

I felt this way as a young programmer really getting my teeth in. I was also self-taught, so I didn't have familiarity with some things that would probably be considered basics/fundamentals.

My advice regardless is: when you get this unsettling mind-expanding feeling go research prior art. Go find out how other people solve problems like it. Even if you come up wanting more/better, at least you have a lay of the land. And learn the terminology used describing the problem space to expand your hunt. You'll be amazed what you turn up!

Edit: since this is on the topic of JSON (de)serialization, while I’d love to tout the very good pattern I see in my usual stack (TypeScript) where I’m working on an offering in the space, I’d actually recommend looking at prior art in a very different stack with very different goals:

- Transit[1] which standardizes type metadata within JSON (but leaves type resolution up to producers/consumers).

- EDN[2], which is the philosophical basis for Transit, written in Clojure syntax. It’s demonstrably worse for performance but syntactically a nicer format/DX if you have tooling to deal with it, and it’s nearly tooling-free if you use the stack.

A lot of efforts to standardize rich data type representation in JSON unfortunately do it very haphazardly, so I wanted to include examples that come from the “pattern recognition/solution mapping” side as an example. Both have downsides, but they’re exceptionally well designed for what they are and deserve to be part of this discussion.

[1]: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format

[2]: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I'm not sure how well this would work unless you also remove social programs designed to raise the standard of living.
Very sorry to hear your story. Human curiosity - How do you earn your living?
It's more like Mask Fatigue is already in full affect.

In a high profile case Dave Ramsey had a holiday party and told employees to not wear masks .

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/caterers-finance-guru-d...
This is unabashedly great news. For those debating if it is a sterilizing vaccine, if it’s perfect, what it means, etc, I point you to the following chart from Moderna’s trial:

https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/images/share/mRNA-1273-trial.pn...

I think this pretty much says it all.
That doesn't make the two people any less dead.
> We use ISO8601

Ah yes, the old "stringly typed" data model. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...

Application developers aren't trying to model the entire world, they are trying to model their domain, and I'm sorry, but primitive strings, numbers, lists, and maps are the building blocks of a domain model, but they are not sufficient. See for example https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ddd/
Add payment info to your profile and I'll chip in.
It sure would be a fix for the man from the anecdote. It sounds to me like there is a starving man begging for a morsel, and you're saying to him "No, just wait until society can develop a system to keep all people fed. Feeding you isn't a fix for the real issue".
Best Practice: Application Frameworks
A good rule of thumb for how people categorize levels of tragedy is how much "potential" is being wasted.
Why do you want people to stop using iMessage?
> Zoning was a progressive idea! Zoning is a child of the administrative state.

Well, like I said, upzoning is still not super popular with progressives as in American progressives, because of the leftist crossover and social justice angle there. But I still think it’s correct to describe it as progressive in the context of contemporary urbanism.

We just have to accept that these terms are overloaded and make sure we agree on what we’re talking about. “Conservative” has the exact same problem—there’s what the encyclopedia says it is, and what American conservatives say it is, and what American conservatives actually do (not such big fans of small government after all, I think).
We had a client doing an "agile transformation" corporate style, ie they pulled the entire floor in to talk about everything for an hour every morning. Imagine 30-40 people, all from different teams, all huddled around a whiteboard talking about their work. It was a shitshow.

I think we need to just kick all the suits out of the engineering process, because they insist on stupid shit like that and never address the core issues.
I also served a prison sentence.

When I was 19, I didn't have a father or mother to send me books, but I managed to barter with other prisoners to get books to come in from the outside.

My primary focus was computer science rather than mathematics, and even though I didn't have a computer to work with, I wrote out all my programs on paper. Learning was slow, very slow.

When I got out, it took me 8 months to get a computer. I couldn't afford to buy one, so I bought it part by part and built one myself, even though I never had done it before.

Fast forward 20 years, I'm a multimillionaire, successful startup founder, and two IPOs deep. I think my success came from the anger I felt in prison. Nothing could be worse than serving time, I told myself, and it made me very ambitious because of it.

Reading Travis' letter and seeing his DOC number at the bottom of it made me feel all those painful, frustrated moments I had while serving time.

Best of luck to Travis. I will be contacting his father and sending what is allowed.
GPS or not, offline maps are available. Digital Thomas Guide. Although, I do miss flipping through that and trying to memorize the directions while planning a route.
>>The judge did not wish to send him to prison (she said that in court) but the prosecutor insisted that the prosecution would appeal any non-custodial sentence.

Prosecution optimizing for a kill count is another problem in this system. In case of minor victim less offenses some thing like community services, fines and warnings should be the maximum punishment.

When you punish some one for life for a minor offense, then you are basically telling them they are better off trying their hand at a full time criminal career. Now every one suffers.
People should be responsible for their actions and held accountable when they do wrong.

America is not failing to prevent drink/drunk driving. Many places allow you to drive with a bit of alcohol in your system.

It's up to the individual to be an 'adult' about their decision making/risk assessment.

No point wrapping everything in bubble wrap to keep everyone safe. Accidents happen and people selfishly go against what they should do
When the president is cheering you on why would you stop
To add to your points - it puts a framework where both parties can engage in judicial review and present their case / defense.

Judicial system is amazing. What we need to do is to make it more precise by reducing false negatives and false positives.

Just because of a few failures of the justice system (the stories of failures you read in the news) does not justify getting rid of the entire system.
> "supply me with the name of a machine to do the compile on"
Is it possible to create clearly defined criteria when there are such large error bars and so many unknowns? Throw in varying climates, urbanization levels and other factors and I don't think it's reasonable to pick an arbitrary point. Re-openings in most of the world have been staged anyway.
Both manslaughter and murder count as "killing." Not to mention, the dangers of drunk driving are well-known by now, and he still decided to drive drunk. Actions have consequences, and now two people are dead due to his entirely voluntary actions.
Well I guess that depends on what you mean by “true immunity”. If you mean not a single cellular infection, then that is ridiculous since true immunity doesn’t exists.

If instead you mean that you develop no symptoms, and cannot pass on the virus, then they indeed can and do (which is why r naught drops).

Now obviously if your “high viral load” is being literally bathed in viruses... then ok. But for many situations, typical viral load and even high viral load situations as seen in health care settings, many vaccines would qualify as giving large percentages of people “true immunity” in the sense of no symptoms and no viral shedding.

Another thing vaccines can do is prevent illnesses caused by toxins. In those cases antigens of toxic compounds generate antibodies to incapacitate a toxoids effect on the body, for example the tetanus and diphtheria vaccines or vaccines against rattlesnake venom.
> Signal has gained 7.5 million users globally

It does not mean they use Signal. Because of the bubble, many of my friends have installed Signal, including myself, but continue to use Whatsapp.
I personally use whatsapp only for very close people and I don’t want to break the chat history so switching to any other app is a bit disconcerting.
Zoning was introduced to California literally for the purpose of making white-only neighborhoods. You can even read them discussing it in Berkeley city council minutes.

In particular “residential” zoning was because Chinese were known for running businesses like laundries out of their homes.

However, the left wing boomers currently running cities came up in the 60s when opposing construction like freeways and urban renewal was the activist thing to do, since they intentionally placed the freeways to tear down black neighborhoods.
Similarly, "basic programming" is a spectrum that starts at simple Excel formulas.
I believe "Mens rea" is where the legal community draws the line. Would you consider operating a vehicle under influence as intent or negligence?

I'd say it is only negligence if the driver took every precaution to avoid the accident (well maintained vehicle, no drugs/alcohol etc.).
I disagree, largely because you've cherry-picked parts of the overall strategy. The world is obviously not going to go from purely human driven to 100% autonomous overnight. There will be an intermediate phase where initially some few cars will be autonomous and privately owned, and for those owners making use of the car's full lifetime to serve as a taxi would be a no-brainer. It could pay off your (very expensive) Tesla in the matter of a year or two.

After the market for on-demand autonomous taxis is oversaturated, Tesla's plan is actually to stop selling vehicles altogether, or reduce it drastically. Musk has said that FSD vehicles will likely not be for sale after this point, so the "consumer-operated robotaxi" is inherently an intermediate solution.

Vehicle ownership will drastically change in nature after the advent of AVs. Tesla isn't going to be unique to having to adapt to this.
What should I tell my elderly relatives who are so creeped out by this fascist, disgraceful fiasco, that they will refuse a vaccine even though it has a decent chance of doing some good?
I don't understand why it's legal. How can it be allowed to send out uncertified software to cars on public roads? Aren't there safety standards that need to be met? I thought that safety critical products where better regulated than this.
All that means is that the rich should be held accountable too, not that we should start letting people off the hook for fatal DUIs.
> Shutting down restaurants was the right call.

Upon what evidence do you base this assertion? My feeling is that closing indoor dining may have been a good idea, but closing outdoor dining and telling people they couldn't meet their friends (distanced) in public likely just caused people to have unsafe indoor gatherings in their homes, which is worse.

I of course have no hard evidence for this either, but outdoor dining was open for months before the holiday surge without a significant uptick in case rates. That would imply that the surge was driven by the holidays, with people traveling when they shouldn't, and hosting people outside their household for holiday dinners. Neither of those things has anything to do with outdoor dining.

But Newsom had to be seen to be "doing something", so here we are.

> But it should have come with a complete shut down of rent obligations as well.

I'm sympathetic to this idea, but landlords need to eat, too.
And? The progressive movement was extremely racist.
Thanks, though I remain curious what's being used here. Looks too small to be an STM32: https://i.imgur.com/vHpcp39.png
I’d think the felony conviction has a lot more to do with employability, to say nothing of professional consequences for breaching trust (i.e., there are exceptions to asking about criminal history with respect to breaching fiduciary duty).

I am still sympathetic to your position, but I can’t see why a judge would be sympathetic to your father.
I'm guessing it's not economical or they would be doing it, but I don't know.
Who the fuck cares?

As a daughter of one of these useless degenerates, I'm more concerned about people who have so little regard toward human life that they'd casually endanger others for little to no reason than those who deliberately plot to kill someone else for personal gain.

Of course, there's overlap in those two groups too...
Because of the crazy power hardware has now, developers have no incentives to optimize code.

Modern code SUCKS.
Accidental diversion is putting it mildly. In 1905, a very wet winter, a very heavy snow melt in the Rockies vastly increased the flow of water down the Colorado. This is pre-dam, mind you. The result of this heavy flow is that levees along the river as it flows to the Gulf of California were quickly eroded and finally breeched. Water flowed out this breech for 18 months before the they could be repaired and the flow stopped. Think about that for a second. The full flow of the Colorado running through the levee for 18 months. The result, of course, was the Salton Sea.
> It takes a hundred practiced bad decisions to eventually decide it is okay to drive drunk. At that point you are essentially gambling with people's lives.

True, but Alcoholism is a disease and can be treated. I don't subscribe to the, frankly, beastly view of my government that the poor and imprisoned aren't mostly determined by their nurture rather than their nature and "decisions" (We don't live in a vacuum).
But the lake wasn't taken away from anyone, it's still safe to swim and boat in today.

No, it's not like Gell-Mann amnesia at all.

It really feels like you're pushing a particular narrative, facts be damned.
You're right that it'll impact long-term incentives, however - short-term vaccines are supply-blocked.

A bidding war (probably) would be profit capture for those selling vaccines, but won't actually raise the amount of available (in the short-term).

Since most timelines are less than 2 years, the time to build a factory can be around that in the States (or even more).
and Larry Ellison, Elon Musk was still too young on the scene in 2008, and not the celebrity he is today.
The problem is, most of those complaining have never tried to understand the complexity (and why it exists) because they've never built a highly complex frontend application! They're degrees removed and just throw stones from their glass houses.

Guess what, I'm not picking Spring to make a simple REST api when it takes 5 lines in Expressjs. Why? Spring is complete overkill. So along those lines, should you use React/Redux/Redux-{Thunk,Promise,Observable}/Navigation/etc if you need a simple 2 page site? NO! Jesus christ, you pick the right tool for the right job.

There's a reason though, when you have a highly complex app with insane business rules (that could very well be hidden from the airmchair HN crowd) where you need that complexity. And guess what, if you're highly versed in these "complex" frontend tools (spoiler: they're not complex), then it makes building sites, generally, very easy.

So go ahead, believe what you want and continue to parrot the "the frontend ecosystem is hopeless, needlessly complex and godless" while the rest of us continue developing with these "complex" tools because they make our lives as developers easier.

I'll sleep happy while you wait that one more second for the page to load.
EV AWD is really good, FWIW.
This depends on the plugin or cache system being used, but it can be done ahead of time, yes. Generally, the cache is created on the first visit and purged when a change occurs. Highly dynamic pages can be excluded from the cache by default, like the login or the cart page on an E-commerce website. Some solutions even allow to change the caching period for specific parts of the code, on the fly (fragment caching).
The tech industry is extremely apathetic to local politics and mostly loses fights they try to get into.
No, the draconian and graphic punishment is intentional - how do you even reason with someone who prizes his own desires above the lives of all others he encounters? This kind needs to be removed from society, expeditiously.

I am a chemist and we take safety extremely seriously - if we didn't property damage and casualties would be a regular occurrence. It's immaterial if you are reckless or clueless, what matters is that you are a danger to everyone else around. Nature doesn't care about your intent.
>...the objective evaluation of large numbers of wines as currently attempted at wine competitions is, he asserts, "beyond human ability".

Wine experts also can't tell if they're tasting 3 glasses from the same bottle.

I don't mean to say you can't stuff up a batch of wine, but basically everything that made it to the store in the current state of quality control is good enough to not be told apart by anyone.
No, of course not. Our previous President not having taken more decisive action on the COVID pandemic doesn't make 400,000 people any less dead.

But this is, in my opinion, more a tragedy of circumstance than anything else, and that's what our court systems should be working to mediate. This guy, with a strict halfway-house counselling & treatment program, could be solving mathematical problems at a top 10 university right now. Instead, he's locked up in prison for the foreseeable future — what good does that do for the two dead people, for society, or for him?

Prisons should be there to house people who can't be rehabilitated, and to punish those who've done things seriously wrong (which may include him, but I would err to think not).
Show HN: Twitter bot that forecasts herd immunity date based on current rate
That you don't want them to get it and die, like my grandma did?

I'm not quite sure how you can convince someone to get a vaccine if they don't trust the science on it.
“It should be”.... not exactly the lost reassuring response on a common failure mode of a safety critical system
Eh, I've seen accounting rules of that sort worked around with relative ease. It's not difficult to find ways to spend money that send value back your way, and even when you're in that position it's always the right move to ask for more. Budgeting incentives 101.
La Costeña is now further down Middlefield in the shopping center at Whisman. They’re no longer a grocery store, more like a regular taqueria. They still make decent burritos and similar food.
We Need Better Masks and Origami Might Help
It's pretty popular in South Texas. Beef is King in Texas and the parts of northern Mexico that it borders that may have something to do with it. There is also "barbacoa" which traditionally is a whole cow head slow cooked in the ground - tongue, cheek, brains and all.
I personally think it should be longer than 15 years. Taking away 2 lives (which would have lived much longer) should have a retribution of more than 15 years.

Have you contemplated the insufferable loss of the two people's families? For no fault of their own, their child gets swiped away by some drunk driver who happens to be smart at math?
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Is it really the same person?

- Coder/programmer (L1)
- Software Engineer (L2)
- Entrepreneur [in the software industry] (L3)
Call grandma. Clean the litter box Pibster helps manager recurring tasks