skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this argument more often and I don't fully understand it. No elected official (in a Western democratic society) wants lockdowns. The electorate does not want lockdowns. I do not want lockdowns. Nobody I've spoken to has said, let's keep lockdowns. Lockdowns are bad for exactly the reasons you've described. No elected official I know has said, well, the economy, children's mental health, education, joblessness - these are just minor issues, let's do lockdowns. Not at the county, district, state or national level.

We are currently in a loose-loose situation - either way people will suffer, and different (Western democratic) societies are sharing this suffering differently. E.g. in the US, the consensus has been to trade more loss of life for personal freedom than in European countries.

I do not want you to suffer. In fact, if you are in a state of distress through no fault of your own, I do want my taxpayer money to go directly into your pockets.
Santa Clara County in the middle of Silicon Valley aggressively enforced lockdown rules and fined hundreds of businesses. This wrecked many segments of the local economy, and drove people into poverty and hunger.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/28/why-san-mateo-county-...

Those of us fortunate enough to still be employed can help by donating to local food banks like Martha's Kitchen.

https://www.marthas-kitchen.org/donate.html
i dunno. autotools is hairy, but it also solved some incredibly hairy problems over an enormous breadth for a very long time in a very reliable manner.

portability across all the different unices with their weird c compilers and differing libcs that actually worked out of the box every time was a gargantuan task.
Yeah, I wouldn't count on people actually doing it, either. Especially when a large segment of the population is convinced that mask mandates are a form of tyranny.
I think a related factor is the shift from raw text to databases. Perl's text oriented tools shine (obviously) when there is a lot of text to deal with. There was a lot of that at the dawn of the web.

However, the rise of database backed web apps gradually removed a lot of the need for the special magic that Perl brought to the table.
Since 65-70% of SF residents are renters from what I can gather, how/why exactly do these laws keep passing that restrict housing and increase home prices and rent?
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Why is it that our Chicago buildings that keep collapsing?
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> Many Stock brokers like Webull let you buy crypto, but you can't transfer them to your wallet or use them to make purchases.

Fair, but I feel like most people I know aren't using crypto as a currency right now. They're more interested in holding or speculating on the price, so transferring to another wallet is a non-issue.

> Also, they claim no fees, but they add the fee to the spread (the spread is artificially increased to 1% both ways (2% total))

I'm not up to date on Coinbase's latest fee structure, but I think 2% still may be less than, or at least comparable, to what they are charging. Even if it isn't, the illusion of no fees will attract a certain amount of people.

> especially if you trade a substantial amount each month

Do people trade a lot using Coinbase (serious question)? I was under the impression that there were better platforms out there more suited to day/swing trading crypto.
Doors and corners...
>> if someone who is not a programmer but is an artist or a writer, dabbles in programming, it is often met with derision and extreme nitpicking by programmers

> I've honestly never seen this happen and have no idea what kind of person would react this way.

Take a look at some HN user responses to when the Google Will Eat Itself art project was posted here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwei.org

A couple choice examples of the kind of behavior I am talking about:

> I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to write a program that automatically generates modern "art" exhibit descriptions like this one.

> I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this is a stupid idea - or the background

And so on...
Better yet, no time zones. Just one clock for the planet.
"Life is simply much worse than most people think..."

What a weird statement. Your life is literally exactly as good or as bad as you think it is.
So density alone is not the answer, only ever-increasing density would be?

That seems an insanely dystopian outcome.
It's a tiny monumental lock dating back to the middle ages. It has a history going back to the 1300s, as do the buildings around it.

Adding a traditional fish ladder isn't really a realistic option at this location.
> Also, I don't understand how people use the `Optional <ErasedType>`..?

I may be misunderstanding your question, but in general you wouldn't be doing anything type-specific with an Optional's value unless you were in a part of your code that knows the type at compile time. For example, a data structure might return an Optional<T> from a get() method, but all it's doing is returning the T or an empty.

> Besides all references types are already nullable/(optional)... so what's the point?

1. It's nice to explicitly say if a value might not exist than to be unsure if a null object is meaningful.

2. It can force consumers of an Optional to deal with the empty case (versus forgetting to null check)

3. Null might mean something like "this value was accidentally never initialized" versus "I am explicitly indicating an empty value"

4. It can give better developer ergonomics with convenience methods or monadic style (such as with Scala's Option type, where you could .map() on an Option, or merge multiple Options together)
Who would it have hurt to have approved the request to put a camera on the box of ballots?
This is insanely fast, wow
Love the animation too
You can't trust it when it isn't either. Firms are not obligated to be "trusted" (although the argument to do so as beneficial for business is an easy one to make), and one should expect dirty pool at any juncture where the cost-benefit is seen as favorable.
How could these policies be disconnected from the average Joe's experiences?

They were agreed by our politicians and doctors who's kids tutor were happy to not have to commute to their suburban estate.
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Can't this just be solved by using a do/while loop?
Let me guess, you lived in Havana, the city in Cuba with the highest population density, the only city where public services are somehow functional.

What constitute basic mobility for you? I once had to travel from Matanzas to Havana in an overcrowded bus, standing, and with no ventilation because it was one of those buses that were supposed to have AC. Is that what constitutes basic mobility for you? I'm sure a great way to live your life is to always compare oneself against the poorest countries, that way you are always on top.

Did you wait days in a bus terminal? A lot of people must travel to Havana at some point because that's the only place in the country where they can get some kind of paperwork or surgery done.

I have multiple accounts, do you know why? I bet you have never had to thought about it? Cuba recently created a law that allows them to give you prison time if you post "anything" on social media that they might interpret as "damaging the image of the Cuban revolution".

Is funny how is usually the foreigners preaching the greatness of Cuba.
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The catch is that C# standardization lags behind language evolution. At the moment, the most recent edition is ECMA-334:2017 aka ISO/IEC 23270:2018. It corresponds to C# version 5.0, originally released back in 2012 - it was the one that introduced async/await, and it's still missing stuff like null chaining.

(for the curious, here's the complete list of C# language versions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...)
I wasn't advocating for it in preference to args, but there are circumstances where that's not possible, for example calling some CI/CD tool (say terraform, ansible, fabric, whatever) that doesn't consume the var itself but uses something that does.

It's also a more convenient/already generic interface for doing something consistent across multiple programs.
what was the trickiest part to build?
This does not appear to be an April Fool's Day joke or otherwise satirical. It is, however, hard to make seriously. If I'm understanding him right, the claim is that it is a moral wrong to being someone new into the universe and the supporting evidence for this is:

- The worst pain is more bad than the greatest pleasure is good
- Satisfaction is fleeting
- Lifespan is limited and bad things happen more than they ideally ought to
- Humans cause ecological and social damage.

What astounds me is that nowhere in this 3400 word piece does the author consider (a) the frequencies of pain vs pleasure, or (b) the good done by humans in the world. He notes that "daily life is filled with dishonesty, betrayal, negligence,... Of such harms, everybody is, to varying degrees, a perpetrator," but misses the obvious corollary: life can also be full of honesty, loyalty, love, etc. These too would not exist without people. This focus only on the debit side of the moral ledger of humanity is an oversight bordering on intellectual dishonesty.

The point about ecological damage, and the existence of adoptable children, are both more reasonable critiques of "natalism". That is a nuanced topic worthy of discussion, but this article doesnt add much to the discourse there, more adding them as an afterthought to the overwrought "existence is pain" thesis.

Edit: formatting and clarity
I hope the GME crowds short the living hell out this thing...
I’m trying to take the article seriously on my own terms, but it seems to me to fall short even then. It mentions that people suffer, and that non-existence may be preferable to suffering. Even insofar as that’s true, don’t people also experience happiness and joy, and isn’t that preferable to non-existence? Why ignore one side of the equation. Surely it’s the net balance that matters?

In polling, most people around the world rate themselves as “happy” or “very happy.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-30629478. In Africa, a poor continent where many people experience suffering, 83% of people rate themselves as happy or very happy. The simplest things in life, including having children and forming families, makes people happy, regardless of the suffering that might also be a part of their life.
The company has billions of dollars. I don't think a $50k-$100k bug bounty payout for them is a big deal. Even $1m wouldn't be a big deal to them.
>However if the discussion is whether you should just send plaintext emails or use a complicated and/or expensive tool to send out fancy emails then the more time/money consuming side has more to prove.

I am curious, how many plaintext emails do you receive as a percentage? I don't receive any so maybe my opinion is colored by that fact.

>Given that the first few replies I got were essentially "Well I assume somebody checked this", I'm not sure the assumption that fancier emails are necessarily better has been questioned enough.

I'm 100% with you that conventional wisdom should attract scrutiny from time to time, and I don't mean to discourage that. My only point was that there is nothing to "prove" here. Marketing styles/trends/methods are not linked so neatly and linearly that we can test individual elements by scientific method. There are far too many variables. I think it is natural that each company wants to be able to choose the font, add graphics to make the email attractive, add tracking pixels to measure performance, etc. Its sort of become the default. So maybe the question really is what do you stand to gain by removing all that?

>I'm also reminded of several articles where online marketing itself turned out to be nowhere near as effective as people think. [1,2]

Heh, maybe marketing was never as effective as people claimed, its that now we have the tools & metrics to detect just how bad it is. :)
DNS responses for our app servers in Azure were failing and now they are taking ~4000ms. They have a really short TTL too, which really exacerbates the issue.
Or even straight on top of IPFS since there are existing HTTP gateways for IPFS to access the content and most of the archive is static in nature. Provide a client which can be used to coordinate between the numerous volunteers to ensure a wide (ideally full) backup of IA distributed over IPFS, paired with volunteer pinning of specific portions by interest groups and individuals. Their self-hosted IPFS node(s) would become the permanent seeds for this system and broader use of IPFS would ensure wider (though not guaranteed sans pinning) availability.
Sure, it's technically less secure to have a password and a password reset link, rather than just the password reset link. But you'd think a password reset link would be the thing that would result in extra scrutiny and hoops to jump through (eg captchas, rejecting from suspicious IPs, etc). That it seems to be the preferred login procedure seems to indicate that something is very odd with their security model, likely due to worrying too much about people who reuse their password of "Fluffy123!" across every site.
Living and procreation are natural processes. All living things strive to survive and procreate. Morality does not apply to natural processes: an earthquake that kills people is neither moral nor immoral, it just is.

To call procreation immoral assumes some moral standard human beings have all agreed to, or one we are subject to whether we agree or not. No such moral standard exists. The dominant systems of morality throughout history have placed great value on life and having children, so on the whole it seems human beings have decided reproducing is not immoral. Hardly surprising since nature arrived at that “decision” without any moral question.

I have three children.
Does this have to be posted every time some cloud service has issues?

We, as in people in this forum, know that status pages are worthless. They’re tools with the explicit purpose of reducing the burden on tier one customer support. That’s it. They are not a public monitoring platform.
Kind of makes me wonder about local time on a space ship going some significant % of the speed of light. Time itself would be at a different rate than back home. Perhaps we need to introduce the concept of a space-time zone.
People forget why "just in time" was invented and why it became a religion...

I do not fault companies for not planning for a worldwide pandemic.
France used the decimal time for a few years beginning in 1792 during the French Revolution. It didn't go well.
Thanks for an exceptionally clear writeup. Pay that person their bounty!
Probably better to give them a placebo vaccine so we don't waste the good stuff ;)
This isn't really a problem.
Building new housing is illegal in 80% of San Fransisco anyway: https://twitter.com/erikbryn/status/1006159415970549760
Induced demand is predicated on the consumer not having to internalize the costs, which is the case for the poster child of induced demand--non-toll, public freeways.

The problem in the Bay Area isn't induced demand, almost by definition. Rather, the demand already exists, and that's precisely why costs keep skyrocketing despite very low supply growth. The only way out of the situation other than by increasing supply is to cut demand to live there by, e.g., bombing tech headquarters and unleashing roving bands of human culling robots so that people would have less motivation to move here.

An example of actual induced demand in the Bay Area might be homeless housing in San Francisco. Since circa 2005 SF has built enough units of homeless housing to house every homeless person enumerated in the circa 2005 homeless census. But the number of homeless on the street has stayed the same--which is to say, the total number of homeless has approximately doubled since that time, w/ half now living in city-built housing. Arguably this suggests that there may be something like a set carrying capacity of unsheltered homeless in the city, and no matter how many units of housing you provide, you'll always have that number of homeless on the streets.[1] Though, this is obviously just a conjecture. People argue vociferously about the origins and motivations of the homeless in SF. I certainly won't claim to have any concrete answers. But at least such a conjectured phenomenon would be consonant w/ the theory of induced demand.

[1] To be clear, the induced demand in this scenario is demand for the free housing units, not spots on the sidewalk.
I think the bull case may be more about their future sources of revenue. If crypto succeeds, exchanging it with fiat may end up being only a relatively small amount of the economic activity. Traditional brokers are not likely to be able to compete with Coinbase in those future markets.

Of course it's really hard to predict what those future markets might be or how much value Coinbase will be able to extract from them, so I have no idea if $68 billion is a reasonable valuation.
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Edit: it seems like it might be over.

So, the outage appears to be that DNS for `azure.com` and maybe also `windows.net` (blob storage for us, but I'm not sure) is not resolving.

So, the OP's link here is broken. Tweets indicate that it might be intermittently resolving.

https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1377737333307437059

> Warning sign
We are aware of an issue affecting the Azure Portal and Azure services, please visit our alternate Status Page here https://status2.azure.com for more information and updates.

Which is the link above, and is also down for me & many others.

Edit: seems hit or miss. A coworker got a successful resolution of status2.azure.com of 104.84.77.137 , so manually, I can get there now. They're directing customers to an all green status page, except for the "An emerging issue is being investigate." bit at the top… (I know of at least two services that are not happy…)

It had to have been less than a month ago that AAD caused a cross-service global outage. Now it's DNS. It's always DNS.
Well, content is targeted by audience type, and the headlines reflect that?
it's a link to a book
lol not 100% sure I follow but thanks!
This is hilarious, and clearly a joke, but it does make one think. I've always thought that it would be nice to have variables which you don't name, which only live over a couple of lines, where it's clear the variable is just for some plumbing and doesn't need a name. I wonder if there is actually something in these two concepts combined
Because a lot of people believe that if you're hungry, it's because you're stupid, lazy, or morally deficient, and thus deserve to be hungry.

I suspect you think I'm joking. I'm not. "Work is better than welfare" is a common refrain. Here it is on a state government web site:

https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/chapter-1-engaging-parents-workf...

It's widely considered that if you feed people for free, they will have no incentive to work. They will live off of your effort, have more children who will learn from their parents that work isn't required, and possibly commit crimes to obtain more. There is a genuine fear that they will literally lead more comfortable lives than you do by working.

Again, I suspect you think I'm exaggerating, or that this is an extreme minority opinion. This is a very common opinion among Americans -- effectively universal among conservatives, and significant among progressives.

We don't choose better because the things that you think of as "better" are supported by only a minority of Americans. Most Americans think it will make us lazy, weak, and stupid.
> If anyone has fiat lying around causing them problems I'd be happy to take it off your hands. I'm certified for proper fiat handling.

You can't be trusted not to manipulate the Bitcoin market, as you just got fined; your customer service is abhorant and you keep shutting down accounts and trades for no explicable reason. Why would anyone trust you with anything at this point is beyond me.

I want you personally to know that YOU and Coinbase (and what it represents) are the bane of Bitcoin and all of HN and YC should know that.
I'd argue that it's worse now. Where I live we have over 20% vaccinated right now and that number increases every day. This adds a bias for mutations that are vaccine resistant. A mutation that gives a slight disadvantage, but means the vaccine won't stop it, would have gone nowhere a year ago. Now that same mutation has a large population where it can easily outcompete the current virus.
80% with one dose seems right in line with 75% with one dose of J&J (in the US). For what it's worth, J&J is also now doing a phase trial of two doses, and I expect that to be around 90% too.

So yes, once you take into account the +/- 5% error, they seem to be pretty much equal.
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As an aside, without comment on this particular issue: we really need to stop using words like "crisis", "emergency", "justice", etc. I am very much desensitized to these words from their overuse, especially since very often the terms are used in a hyperbolic fashion for maximal effect when pushing political goals. I find them to be imprecise and unhelpful.
There's a reason access to capital markets is somewhat restricted. Investors are going to get fleeced.

I only wish the SEC (or the European authority) had more bite, as stokr absolutely deserves to be shut down.
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