skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've given up arguing.

I truly think some people just don't learn from history, and look for easy targets. Targets they don't truly understand, but come of the tongue easily?

I would love to bar hedge funds, and wealthy non-citizen foreigners from buying our homes.

Put it into a Proposition, and you got my vote.

I have tried to tell young people how bad it was before prop 13, but I guess it's an easy target.

On my block, we have three homes out of twenty that are benefiting in a large way over prop 13 protections. Two of those homes rent rooms out to tenants. The rest of my wealthy neighbors don't need to worry about property taxes, or roommates.

The wealthy do not rent out rooms. They can pick up and leave whenever they want. So a large portion on my neighbors are paying not being served by prop 13, nor do they seem to need it.

In closing, and I'm getting tired of defending a prop, if CA residents ever lose their rational minds, and repeal prop 13; you got what you asked for. The wealthy, and Blackwater hedge fund types would love to snatch up those homes, and politicians would like those war chests they used to have access to in the 70's.
Did anybody really, honestly want this, seriously?!

Did anybody want to pimp their car out for night rides to strangers who dirty the interior and wear out the car?

Did anyboby consider that if your car is driving 75% of its duty cycle that parts like battery packs, tires, suspension, bearings wear out faster?

The idea of robo taxis was always a pipe dream. Cars are not software. The more they are used the faster they depreciate.
Search that broke Google Search
I think they're a private club - but nobody needs to shop there.
Terms in common use are CRT, DEI and D&I.

Because of the Marxist origin of CRT, some people are re-labelling CRT as DEI.

(Or US Marxists conflate CRT with "presenting a more accurate version of history.")

It's not about "usually white males in the US tech sector."

It's about "white supremacy", which is all white people.
I'm not even sure if it really fits my case, since the editor would need to be able to create Vue components which maintain the reactivity. TinyMCE breaks all reactivity as soon as it "wraps" it all in the editor. CKEditor apparently has a way to do this (up- and downscaling), but there is the very unclear licensing issue. One active user is a user which has used the editor once in a month. So, for example, one which just signs up to check out the service and then does nothing with it ever again and doesn't subscribe.

So if I invest my time into learning this upscaling/downscaling issue, which can get complicated with a Vue component, all this in the context of prototyping the entire app, where the primary functionality gained by CKEditor the ability to enable drag and drop (move) of components as if they were pictures, it seems like overkill, since directly manipulating the DOM to move elements appears to be a a much more simple task.

I've made a test wit ondrag, ondrop and what JavasScript has to offer and it mostly works, but there are some small issues which I just can't resolve and don't know if I can resolve them if I invest more time in that direction.

So currently I'm checking out drag and drop libraries, which mostly seem to fit the purpose, but also have issues.

This is what I was getting at with my initial comment, that it's so hard to make these decisions if the outcome of the paths is so unclear. It's all a struggle between decisions and their tests which need to be made.

Assuming CKEditor would solve the issues for me, then the initial cost would still be to high. That would be different with a stable stream of income, but new services usually don't have that.

Free for up to 5 active users per billing period? This would be take 5 users to just check out the service and then that's it for the rest of the month. 37 USD for 25 active users per billing period? Simply not doable for me in the context of a startup.

> What is the minimum length of subscription-based software licenses? 12 months.

That's 444 USD for 288 potential users which wouldn't get charged more than 2 or 3 USD per month.
Apple's own UI is far from consistent either. They're always breaking their own UI guidelines. And many apps are electron which don't integrate well visually either.
"Mere bytes on a device I own are stopping me from repairing it"
The tying claim eventually got dropped from the case, though, since the govt couldn't prove that the harm to competition outweighed the benefits of having a browser built in to the OS.
Yes. Many respiratory viruses can be deadly. This is why we vaccinate for influenza every year. Some are much lower risk. This is why we don’t vaccinate against rhinoviruses.

Your claim about risks in children is almost certainly wrong. This will be borne out by the data from vaccine trials in pre adolescent children.

But even now, it shouldn’t take much more than a quick back of envelope estimation (# of exposures / # of cases) to convince yourself that even in children risk from COVID >> risk from vaccines. The numbers become even more ridiculous when you consider the safety record of vaccines in general over the last 5 - 10 (or 100) years.

And just for kicks can COVID cause myocarditis or trigger other chronic conditions (i.e. cfs/me)? What are the rates of long COVID vs lasting side effects from vaccines?
That seams more reasonable, or analyzing you script AND understands it then gives you optimizing changes.
> They are trying to blur the lines by saying family and its complete bullshit.

Agreed. It's a psychological tactic to make their workers work harder. If your real family asked you to do a task that needed you to go out of your way to perform, you'd do it, because it's your family. Companies that try to push the 'we're like a family' angle are aiming to leverage you the same way.

No company does something for nothing. If your employer offers you something unexpected, always ask yourself, what's in it for them ?
Unfortunately, once they are here, we will have a very hard time to push them out again. They will destroy their passports, lie about there identy, their countries of origin won't take them back etc.

If we do not want them, closed Southern and Eastern EU borders or rather closed North African borders are our only courses of action. We can try to work with North Africa and Turkey to handle asylum processes over there. Of course this does brings some moral problems with it and will be opposed by the left. Children drowning is the ultimate bad publicity for your political stance. It comes down to what we are willing or feel obliqued to take responsibility for.

People, who are already here will stay anyway. That ship has sailed, we should start integrating asap.
I wonder if there is a correlation between having an internal monologue and higher levels of social inhibition.
You can only explain this by corruption. I think three letter agencies slept on that one...

Edit:
Not sure why accusation of corruption is downvoted? It's a very difficult crime to prove and requires resources to pursue, so there is no appetite to prosecute. Big companies and civil service know that. If these companies pay off developers, they would have no reason to pay anyone else in their way and that would unlikely result in any consequences.
Why? Natural boosting is totally legitimate, look at the rotavirus strategy in the US for example. You get the vaccine three times soon after you are born, and then never again after that, because your immune system matures and you get infected (without severe symptoms) many times.
Were you driving a nicer car?

those are some bad numbers…
Marketshare. The law sees marketshare.

* Google and Apple compete against each other, so there is no monopoly.

* Microsoft had no effective competitors.

You don't need a monopoly for antitrust, but it sure makes for a stronger case.
Playing with a distribution for 10 minutes and then installing another one is not going to make you understand it. It took me a while to take to KDE too. After you start actually working on it you'll find things that annoy you, start looking and find that there's actually a wealth of configuration options (which macOS absolutely doesn't have).

If you want something more Mac-like, Gnome is a thing of course but it's too opinionated like Mac for me.
Is "exposure" a continuum (e.g. virus units/day)? If it is, then does everyone with anything over a certain intensity of exposure start developing antibodies without necessarily being symptomatic? IOW do immune systems develop background protection or does it take becoming symptomatic in order for the immune system to become sensitized?
Waiting on blockchain to finance an OnlyFans alternative since that's literally been the poster child problem for DeFi to solve.
Economics does not explain high percentage of international students in PhD programs, which are mostly sponsored with research / teaching assistantship.
> Basically, through Uber’s greed in the proposition by writing in the provision about legislators not being able to overturn Prop 22,

That wasn't it nor was it referenced by the judge. The issue was the part of Prop 22 that says that app-drivers can never qualify for workman's comp, regardless of any future law passed. The California Constitution gives the legislature power to modify workman's comp laws to apply to whomever. Therefore, that part of the Prop cannot be a legal law, therefore the whole thing is out.
> We already have the technology to send people to Mars.

Not for live humans we don't. The record for landing on Mars is around 1 ton for >$1B, this is too little for a crew cabin and ignores the life support requirement for months spend in space.
Lines of code is a complete red herring. It takes me less time to read and review 500 lines of Go than it does 100 lines of JavaScript.

Sometimes - especially in other languages - you see a piece of "elegant" code that does something complex in line 3 lines, and you think "hmm, this is a puzzle, and I'm going to be staring at it for 20 minutes before I'm convinced that its 100% correct."

We actively tell our engineers not to be clever. Write boring code that is obviously correct, and don't worry if your boring code is 25 lines when the elegant code is 8. It takes you longer to write the elegant code, and it takes the reviewer longer to read it, and often times (though not always ) it's also more difficult to test.

I love Go because of how boring and consistent and easy to read it is. The language and the task of "programming" melt away and instead you get to focus on solving problems.
This is a very poorly written blog and I believe it is only being upvoted because the title appeals to the HN crypto-hate set.

That said, his whole premise is flawed because the independent judiciary in the US is strong and tens of millions of US citizens own crypto. A total ban IMO would be unconstitutional although certainly the relationship with the banking system could be constrained. There is political force and legal force helping keep crypto allowed in the US. We saw the power of the crypto lobby during the infra bill.
It seems the newer variants like delta are more contagious yet vastly less lethal, so if it continues this trend then yes, we're past the optimal time period for vaccinations.
I don't know any of these people (ouside of NASA) but when you've got engineers who are actually capable of getting to space, those are some high-performance operators.

No doubt about it.

When engineers like this get a new or changing CEO or anyone in a leadership position having strong impact, the person can become widely disappointing if the leadership positiion is not occupied by someone actually up to the same level of excellence.

Different consensus can be built that these are some low-performance operators or executives.

No doubt about it.

Except the engineers who depend on the situation for their income regardless don't talk about it.

The rest leave.

When you get somebody in a leadership position without the specific leadership ability necessary, they might as well not have any proven leadership ability at all.

It's way worse if the position is occupied with someone having the opposite type of ability.

It can be death to technology before they ever had computer technology.

There will be a force at work which brings the remaining engineers' achievable level of technology down to that of the lower capability of excellence imposed from above.

Even Elon Musk seems to generate a degree of disappointment, so there is always going to be some room for improvement. Maybe he sets a higher bar by being more widely recognized as a high-performance operator himself. You would have to do the math.
> Via simulations and calculations you can be fairly sure that everything you've thought of will be fine, but there may be things you haven't thought of, and they may prove fatal to the design.

I don't deny that, the theorical approach will surely not be 100% accurate. Still, I expect that I would give me thousands of time more confidence than a 3D printed replica.

> How do you know that your model accurately represents the earthquake ground vibrations?

Because I expect the earthquake simulations in architecture CAD software to be made by physicists that spent time carefully modeling the realistic and complex set of forces that a structure would feel during an earthquake.

> How do you know that your model accurately represents the friction?

Again, because architecture CAD software are specifically crafted for that purpose, and can theorically simulate the friction and adherence of various materials much more realistically than a mockup 3D printed replica.
At a certain size, your org should be a resale partner with whatever cloud service it is, so the end customers are getting their own accounts. This varies by size and $$$ spent.

Credit cards should never be linked across accounts thanks to PCI-DSS complince

Same IP ban is also not likely unless you are actually doing nefarious things across multiple accounts. I am also making the assumption you are connecting from some business account and not a residential ISP, though that is changing thanks to covid. FWIW, I have worked at many companies where offices of 300-500 proxy outbound traffic to a single IP, that’s why I don’t believe this is a concern.

The ultimate problem is when you have several logical partition but no billing partition. Also the large marketing firm I worked at had zero phone support with Facebook and Google, yet we did this all day (with a single IP address).

This all boils down to one common thread: you should be taking advice from a lawyer on whether the terms prevent such actions and to have a business continuity plan. If the vendor does something egregious, like shutdown all accounts, then your lawyer can ship them a nice letter which will get their attention
Same as with the error messages. Almost every MS app has removed the messages that actually tell you what's going wrong and replace it with something like "Oops!! Something went wrong!" that tells you absolutely nothing. And some stupid "funny" picture.
Good read. Thank you.
I'm just not that good a programmer, but I still feel the need to program so I tend to take print debugging to absurdist levels, if I start a project that i anticipate is a stretch for me (not being that smart), I make sure that debugging strategies are there from the start.

One particular knotty routine for me was a small synth, I knew I had neither the math ability or c wizardry to develop complex things easily so I made sure there was plenty of scaffolding to assist me. For each 1k of audio output, there is easily 1m of debugging output that I would then "query" with perl, pagenate each step that I could page through, etc, debugging was put in from the start.

Allowing flexible debugging strategies that I could adjust for the difficulties at hand just seems right for me and I find often that different programming constructs need different debugging strategies, and I just don't think debuggers are agile enough to let me adjust.

Its really that I'm just too dumb to get benefits from debuggers, although I'm guessing they may be just perfect for folks smarter than me.
>Getting a booster shot every few months for the next 10 years is always going to be the best option — Every Vaccine CEO

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> we should be vaccinating people to discourage spread

Vaccinations with current vaccines don't stop infections/spread at all - it's very obvious now with the Delta variant in countries that are already massively vaccinated like Israel and Island.

In fact, vaccinated people can apparently carry just as high of a viral load as unvaccinated people (while vaccinated people will likely experience less symptoms). So the virus will happily keep infecting as many people as it can regardless of the vaccines.
In this very document you have Google and Apple claiming that they effectively do not compete in terms of app store pricing policies.
They use chlorine.

The liquid oxygen is used to produce ozone, which, in addition to solving their taste and odor issues, is a potent disinfectant. However, ozone doesn't leave a detectable disinfectant residual in the water like chlorine does. Testing for that residual allows you to show that at any given tap in your distribution system, the water remains disinfected.

By using ozone for primary disinfection, you can greatly reduce the amount of chlorine you add to the water before you send it out into the distribution system, so you end up with fewer undesirable disinfection byproducts. Orlando's problem seems to be that they don't have the capacity to adequately disinfect the water with chlorine alone.
I've grown pretty pessimistic about the prospects of the Internet as a motor for entrepreneurship. Today it is theoretically still "free" but wherever you go you'll find gatekeepers like Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft that keep a tight grip on who is visible on the net and who can offer a service or software product on a given platform.

In my view, the market dominance of the big players has led to a new type of hidden taxation and a "winner takes all" Internet economy. Almost all digital markets require you to pass through large companies to get visibility or offer your services, and they get increasingly good at extracting every bit of profit you make. This really needs to stop.
Same here. I browse with JS disabled by default using uBlock Origin. I only rarely have to whitelist a site to make it work (as in this case)
it uses the [0]File System API of emscripten. i think it is possible to pipe via stdin somehow but i have no experience with any of this stuff but am interested to do something similar myself. although i don't want to transcode but repackage input streams for browser consumption. I also found [1]this which implements various filesystem backends in a compatible way afaict although the XHR backend [2]requires some index file i would like to avoid and its also not clear to me if this will actually stream data and/or use range requests.

[0] https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/Filesystem-API.htm...

[1] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS

[2] https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/blob/a96aa2d417995dac7d37...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28256065
The interesting question is whether voters can pass laws that are straight up unconstitutional. The courts are an important check on the power of legislators, but if they don't apply to the people, there may be some really interesting ballot initiatives in the future.

CA's ballot initiative process is democracy taken too far. It is close the point where democracy becomes the tyranny of the mob.
I think it's an open secret that charities tend to be tax shelters for wealthy individuals.
How are these vaccinated counted? Is this the federal government or the state? I heard the state is delaying giving out infections and deaths by weeks making look like it's not that bad. If the state is counting the vaccinations I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers are also inaccurate.
There are two meanings of "type erasure". One concerns the user, the other the compiler writer.

When most users people ask about type erasure, they ask whether types are erased when compiling the reflection information for polymorphic values (like Java does). Go doesn't have polymorphic values, so the question doesn't apply.

Type erasure means something more general than that to compiler people. Type erasure refers to whether you can compile code while erasing its type, and it's generally a useful property. In general statically-typed programming languages are implemented with type erasure, while dynamically-typed languages are not. Of course, since Go has reflection, it can't do type erasure. Interfaces also conflict with type erasure somewhat, though as expected, during the code generation types are erased as much as possible.

As a comparison, Rust does type erasure fully.
Uh, you did get vaccinated and still have these symptoms. You could also fairly end your TLDR with 'did get vaccinated, this sucks'. It seems we are still learning about the efficacy of the vaccines, and the nature of the virus. From this pov I understand why some are hesitant to be vaccinated in this phase of the pandemic
People would love to do that much more in for-profits too, it's just that reality kicks in faster. As a director or VP or [insert role] your influence is primarily counted in the number of people that report to you, and only then in the actual output that they deliver. It has always been the case and probably always will be.
This isn’t true at all

CA and NY will likely peak in the next week or two and their curves look nothing like the southern states.
On Intel: Works pretty well. No longer a need to have special ISOs like Ubuntu used to have. You do have to turn off the "secure boot" on newer systems with T2 chip (using the startup security utility in recovery mode)

On M1: Still in progress. Linux boots but the kinks have to be worked out. Not production quality yet.
Then they need to stop claiming to "sell" you something when clearly they are renting it

Of course no one in their right mind would pay the retail prices for a "rental" so screws the business model, but honestly, they need to pick one, either they are selling products or renting them

This mixed model where they try to have the best of both has got to stop, if you ban my account you need to refund me, done want to refund on ban well do not sell me things, rent them to me under a service
> But you can already get both pieces of information through the user-agent

This is why I have the `resistFingerprinting` flag set to `true` in Firefox
Works in Safari on macOS. It's mostly just a solid black page, though.
Not over the long term (multiple years, decades), we don't.
Reported your comment for misinformation, this is untrue.
You definitely want to optimize for people who are new to a codebase. Over enough time, the codebase grows to a point where essentially _everyone_ is new to each area of the code, because nobody has touched that code in 2-3 years and the person who wrote it may not even be with the project anymore.

Even for your own single-person projects - if you get fancy with the code, 6 months later you find it's a lot harder to get back into and mess around with than if you had written the code as though you were presenting it to a beginner.
Falcon Heavy was 5 years late but it's operational.

Being more than 5 years late on coast-to-cost self driving does in fact seem reasonable.
Absolute nonsense though, as proven by looking at literally any of the diseases we have been vaccinating people for decades. Polio vaccine hasn't caused super polio to emerge, just like vaccines haven't caused super variants of hepatitis B, tetanus or whooping cough - all things that children are vaccinated against.

Even the flu vaccine doesn't cause new variants, and that has a spotty coverage at best.

Like, what you said sounds scienc-y enough that a lot of people seem to believe it, but it's literally not true and has never been true.