skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suburbanites hate cars too, and that’s why they’ll never let you have mixed use. It would perhaps eliminate the snarl in commercial areas, but it would also bring some portion of that traffic into what are now quiet residential sanctuaries.
Apply this to software, and everybody will be forced to pay the Office Pro price when they only need Office Home features.

For a certain price, you can buy an Intel CPU with certain known features. For a higher price, you get more features.

This is a concept that’s used in many product classes. The fact that it’s also done for HW is just an irrelevant detail.
Coronavirus has herpes?!
To visit my uncle who was diagnosed with untraceable stage 4 cancer, assuming they open the borders up.
Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
You must have missed the comment elsewhere in the thread where I explained that I do believe in property rights.

I'm making an abstract point about the form of the argument the other commenter constructed upthread, not advocating that property rights aren't real.
How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century
There are definitely ways to make value in software, the examples you give are about the technology, and not the end-product, so it's tough to gage from those details what impact you may have had.

I built an ML system for a drop-ship retailer which took over a miserable job which was done by 20 people, and turned it into a part-time job for 2 people. It was meaningful, not because of what it did directly, but because it took a horrible, and somewhat meaningless job for a human, and replaced it with a machine that could do it much quicker. The two people who stayed in part-time where really happy to not spend all day doing data-entry, and they picked-up other work in the company doing more interesting things. I don't know what happened to the people who were laid-off, but I hope they went on to more interesting things.

My co-founder and I come from a research oriented world (CSIRO) and my co-founder, in particular, is used to working on early deep-tech. We were working in telehealth years before that was a thing, but we're still feel that nobody really WANTS to do telehealth, so we're happy to not be in that field anymore.

At our startup SoundMind.co we're working on improve sleep performance for millions of people (though starting off with thousands). One of the things my co-founder says he loves about what we're doing is that he can see and measure the real-life impact we are having.

Of course, I've also worked on things that I don't make a difference, like an app for the local pizza chain, a scheduling app for shift-workers that never went anywhere, and more.

You also mention that "It's been a blast!" which is great. What percentage of people can say that about their job, and take home a good salary?

Software can definitely be more than just moving money from one person to another. Sometimes you also have to look at the bigger picture of how the software you're writing is being used. The janitor at the hospital isn't just cleaning the floors, he's making the hospital germ free so people don't get sick. Sometimes it's a bit about how you are framing the job.
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I can't possibly sing the praises of Cider loudly enough. Emacs is a hard sell, I get that, but Cider is such a nice way of working with Clojure.
It's mostly a case of people not knowing what they really want. Demand-driven economy has a place, but it's definitely not something to accept simplistically.

Famous examples: people wanted better horse-carriages and didn't anticipate cars. People wanted better keyboards on their blackberry-style phones, not an iPhone. Etc etc.

Nobody who experiences life in the Netherlands where biking and walking is actually safe ends up wishing they could return to stroad-style car-dependency. Everyone who says they prefer it is just saying that they don't know any better.

And any appeal to saying we have to keep making dangerous garbage sprawl because that's what people demand, that's disengenuous nonsense.

Strong Towns actually has the answer to this, the one that doesn't involve being condescending to people in sprawlville, USA. They point out that EVERYONE when you ask them about their priorities, especially for the streets where they live, they always say they care about safety, capacity, cost, and speed, basically in that order. But engineering assumptions put it more like speed, capacity, cost, safety.

(Wish I could give you the optimal link, but the one thing Strong Towns is weakest at is making it easy to find the right links in their enormous backlog of articles; the site search tool is really annoying; I know the concepts I'm mentioning are discussed multiple places, including in their two books)
But you can get the property back or be financially made whole in a variety of ways.

This really is a bizarre line of reasoning.
Needs a (2017) in title. This has been a very important article/concept in US planning circles. Personally I don't really like the street/stroad/road distinction but prefer the Transport for London 'movement and place' approach [0] which is clearer on necessary compromises. The end goal of both of course is to ensure traffic engineers (trained primarily in efficient car movements) take into account pedestrian considerations where pedestrians need to be, which have taken a back seat where there is any conflict with cars over the last 50 or so years.

[0] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/rtf-report-chapter-2-part-1.pdf
Python is a very sound environment, with fantastic libraries and documentation. The tooling is superb. The resulting code is poetry, readable and expressive.

I personally have moved on to a Nim + Lua combo (depending on use case), because I can see your point. But I will always love Python.
Yes, they are in fact innocent: they are of course “free from legal guilt or fault” but it’s the second definition from Merriam-Webster that really sums it up, “free from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil”.
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> algebraic effect handlers probably have the most ergonomic implementation of async I have ever seen (looking at the OCaml multicore previews)

Just dropping in to say strong agree.

The biggest stumbling block for me has been that the effect handlers are captured as part of the continuation; I was expecting them to need to be manually re-established every time the continuation is resumed. The way it works makes sense when you always `continue` within the body of an effect handler, but it feel a little unfortunate that there's no way to change the handlers for future resumptions.

Other than that, the possibilities for userland coroutines, dynamically-scoped variables, and centralization of state (like `ref` but provided by a scoped allocator) are incredibly exciting. I've wanted a system like this for a long time, and for some use-cases (scheduling of concurrent simulation tasks) I had to abuse threads and thread-locals to get the separation I wanted.
Just piling on, the big thing that I note is that it's not just stuff for the poorer people in society. It's their livelihood. If you screw up someone's car, you are taking away their ability to get to work, to drive their kids to daycare, and so on.

I'm privileged enough that if someone puts my car out of service, I can swear gratuitously, call my boss to tell him that I'll be late to work, and get a rental while my insurance handles my car. As frustrated as I might be, it's not a life-and-death situation for me.

By contrast, Jimbo the night-shift line cook at Waffle House has significantly less margin for error. If he doesn't show up to work, he at best doesn't get paid and at worst gets fired. If he gets fired, he's now behind on his rent, plus he has to fix his car with money he doesn't have. He might need to take out a payday loan, or sell something important, or borrow money from family who is just as poor as he is.

With this in mind, I'm not going to say that Jimbo is morally justified in whacking a criddler who's messing with his car, but I'm not going to say he's not, either.

You see the same thing in action with immigrant-owned bodegas. It's just entries on a spreadsheet to Walgreens and CVS, but that's rent and food to Mr. and Mrs. Kim's family, and it's not surprising that they're significantly more inclined toward the shotgun-and-bat approach to loss prevention.
Yeah, it was the only thing that came to mind that I could be reasonably sure everyone would have experience with, and that I could just dump examples of the learned/built-by-use aspect.
They seem innocent to me. They’re very likely not aware of the pain they cause. They don’t weigh up moral dilemmas and discuss them. They also have no ability to choose. They can’t code for a living, can’t play piano and be vegan. They just do what instinct and physical ability does. Evolution chose what they do and they can’t interrogate it.

Experiments could probably be set up to test this but I’m not sure it’s worth it.
Well you can just short Softbank itself directly. It's publicly traded. But I assume a certain level of management incompetence is already priced in.
In your definition of speciesism, you are doing exactly what you accuse your-defined "speciesists" of. You are manufacturing ("try to find some") a definition of speciesism to paint other-people as the bad guy. Your comparison of their actions with slavery is just to demotivate any response.

In animal kingdom, animals kill each other ruthlessly. African dogs and other animals eat their prey from back-to-front while they are alive. Are all animals speciesists? Are all animals committing an act equivalent to slavery?

Humanity survived on hunting for tens of thousands of years. So the only reason we survived is because we were "speciesists"? If that's the case, then I am okay with being a speciesist.

We have to value our species over other species - if it ever came to choosing 1 human being or a million <insert animal>, we would always choose a human being (given that killing those animals won't destroy the ecosystem, thus harming human beings).
I moved recently to where everything is a car drive away. The constant in an out of the car is exhausting. Not physically but mentally. Conter-intuitively because cars are also weather proof and comfortable, I felt a lot of the inertia is actually in getting out of the car. I found myself just waiting a little while before getting out. I am a fit and healthy individual and it is draining.

I tried the ride on and it's about an hour one way to work by bike, so I think I will get an e-bike. I have other physical training to do so I don't want to completely deplete myself by riding, but I still don't want to use the car.
I've found the 3-in-1 Creator kits can provide more play opportunities for kids.

My 9yo son will regularly dismantle and rebuild sets, but also make random things. Sometimes if we're playing together, we start with a 4x4 plate and make micro worlds with various themes - a snow scene, lair with lavafall, space tower, forest setting. Or we pick a colour scheme and each make little robots or mechs. Or make an alien in each colour.

A fun game we tried recently was to isolate all the pieces from a set. Then I was blindfolded and my son faced away from me with the instructions and had to describe the instructions/pieces well enough for me to make the set. Good team building game. Yet to try reversing the roles.
A steam bath was considered to be one of the most painless forms of suicide for Roman patricians.
Your claim about running Vmare into the ground deserves a bit more explanation.
I don't understand the appeal of domes compared to cylinders and other rounded extrusions. You still have the complexity of round interfaces but at least the outer surface has zero Gaussian curvature (you can wrap it with a sheet). Negative curvature (hyperboloids) can "cheat" and use a net of straight lines, so that also has nice properties. But, positive curvature surfaces (spherica and geodesic domes) require compound curvature everywhere.

See also the complaints elsewhere about space utilization.

I guess they look cool, that is their main feature. They also seem good for tensile structures (inflated domes) and massive self-supporting spaces. But you can also get most of those properties with extrusions, which are way simpler to fabricate.
While octopi dates back to at least 1834 per the OED, can I put in a vote for the plural of octopus to be hentai?
Are we really saying “speciesism” with a straight face, now?
There are people who live on roads in rural areas (typically at the end of a long driveway that functions as a street, effectively).
These aren't desperate people trying to feed their starving infant babies; it's organized crime. Their get away vehicles are often nicer than my car.
Manytimes you just get replaced in the project, when you stand your ground on security or debt.

It takes time for well maintained project to detoriate bad end enough for debt to impact business.

Even when it does , both the biz and new tech leaders are likely to refuse to acknowledge debt is important factor or blame it on you or start a rewrite without understanding what is going wrong to build on top of some shiny new tech everyone wants on their resume.
But this is worse because the interrupter may be doing it in good faith, as in, "I already predicted the rest of your paragraph, let's save 50 seconds of our lives."

edit: unless they're a "serial interrupter" as in sibling comment, we have one of those
I'll go further: there are no poor innocent carnivores or omnivores. All are brutal killers without regard for the suffering of others. Nature is struggle, awful, awful struggle.

But humans have the capacity to be more...humane.
The :: syntax minimizes the pain, but the fact you have to do it at all is still irritating, and IIUC it incurs a small runtime cost due to the intermediate object that's generated to convert between the two interfaces. I recently cleared out some of these intermediaries in a hot area of code and got a small but significant performance boost.
The preferred price is about $0.9 (I heard it's been like this for the last 2 rounds). Does that mean the current valuation of the company is $49M?

The parent comment is also correct. We've experienced a down round due to the pandemic.
It only happens when there is not robust competition (even 5-6 big players is not enough), which is the case in pretty much every non-commodity market today.
See nociception. It’s basically the scientific study of “are we being cruel when we harm or kill X?”
Uh. What?

> The function of a street is to serve as a platform for building wealth

> the function of a road is to connect productive places

Is your house located on a street or a road? If it's on a street... how is wealth being built? And how is it not connecting productive places (your home to your office) ? And how is connecting productive places not building wealth?

This concept just doesn't make sense. Roads and streets are synonyms. Yes, I get that they have different definitions, but separating their usage actually leads to more problems than solutions.

"Make sure you look both ways when you cross the street." - So, I don't need to look both ways before crossing the road?

"There are so many potholes on the road." - So, are there none on the street?

"I think I will be late to work because of all the road works on the way." - So there's no works being done on the street?

"Kids, don't play in the street!" - Gotcha, we will just play in the road.

"No street level parking." - OK, but can I park on the road?
I have dozens upon dozens of notebooks filled with ideas, some of them good. Each year I produce a couple more. If companies were willing to pay a "good profit" for ideas I'd be rich.

What actually matters is the nitty gritty of turning an idea into a real thing. People will pay you for doing this work. Otherwise, they might as well just iterate on one of their own ideas and keep all the profit to themselves.

As mentioned upthread, if you successfully patent your idea you may be able to get some company to pay you licensing fees if they are working on a similar idea. This is just a hedge for them against the possibility of being sued by you.
It's JIT support for the OpenPOWER architecture, which is interesting, but as far as I can tell isn't exactly in wide use right now. At least not where you might need Firefox. https://openpowerfoundation.org/
Indeed, letting individuals decide who does and doesn't deserve to live, is how we end up with endless blood feuds. "They killed my brother so their life is forfeit."

I've read a saying that a government is an entity with a "monopoly on violence." I think that however imperfect it is, giving the government this monopoly means that there's an objective process for deciding who deserves to live, and who doesn't. Personal satisfaction as a criterion is always going to produce outcomes that are massively disproportionate, and will simply shift the dissatisfaction to someone else.
It's an open question whether prescribing emotions to plant-life is appropriate, but it is a common model used to explain plant behavior. You could argue botanists are anthropomorphizing their subjects...or you could fixate on the overlap of plant and animal behaviors in response to similar conditions.

But for some science showing botanists using emotional language for plants in action, here ya go: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/scaring-soybeans-def...
Ah that explain it. Thanks.
Malicious Python packages caught stealing Discord tokens, installing shells
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> If it's that vs living in the wilderness

That seems like a false dichotomy considering farmers aren't going out and rescuing cows from the wilderness and giving them the roof and food they didn't have on their own. An alternative is to not breed them in the first place.
Ah yes, the theory that since bad papers exist all papers are bad. Reading one study is not the same as reading (and then citing) many studies. Common sense is frequently wrong, for a lot of well-studied reasons.

There's also a large difference between one lone study which finds a thing using dubious methods and a cohort of studies which independently replicate the same results.

There is no shortcut for actually reading and understanding studies if you want to learn what a study does and doesn't show, but discounting science because some history is paper are bad is... tenuous.
>But you can buy a used bike for less than $50

Yeah, I wonder where that used bike came from. Some other poor sod had his bike stolen.

>and typically your homeowners/renters insurance will cover it (and a stolen phone) anyway

If it does and if the insurance pays out. You're still out the deductible and anything you had on the phone. Even now I don't think I would hand over my phone to a thief.
If you don't have TV what is your couch pointed at!?!?

Lots of people put their couches etc straight against a wall pointing to the opposite wall where their tv and credenza is rested against.

But when one looks at published interior design or people's pinterest dream boards you'll see floating couches, arrangements around the center of a space, etc.

Though I'm sure that pedestrian layout is partly a cost thing if you have very limited space. Or hell even a bunch of cheap furniture doesn't even have backs or it looks like cheap particle board only crap.

That New Yorker cartoon saying something about you have to be really rich to afford this much nothingness.
How long until Intel microcode gets cracked?

(Yes, one Atom processor got cracked so far.)
I've enjoyed the Journey into the Microcosmos Youtube channel - This one is Titled "Making Decisions Without a Brain" (subtitled poking protists) https://youtu.be/1LyeWQZ7ZR0
The only other time I have heard that was during my driving test on small town California
Looks like I'm wrong. They changed pricing and limits.
Sure that's the original topic, but I thought this thread was relatively deep down a more general tangent. Regarding whether or not it's justified to shoot someone making off with an automotive part, I personally wouldn't consider that inherently just, but it depends on the details of the scenario. If the car was parked on the street, then definitely not. If the car was in a closed and locked garage and the thief broke in, then the owner caught them in the act while armed with a firearm and the thief did anything but lay down on the floor or dart out of the door, then shooting them is probably justified. If the car was jacked and taken to a chop shop with the owner's toddler in the back seat, then I personally would be fine with a "Liam Neeson" level of response.

I think the earlier poster's question about the legality of defending property with force in Texas is interesting. I also think the subsequent poster's belief that society would benefit from more readily shooting criminals is a rational claim rather than an unhinged one, whether or not it's a good idea. It's certainly true that there would be less theft, whether it's because of deterrence or by the simple fact that thieves would tend to get shot. There's most certainly some complexity and nuance to appreciate there. Singapore canes people for overstaying their travel visas to discourage illegal immigration, and unsurprisingly it seems to be an effective deterrent.
> big software has to be formal to live longer and stay healthy

Can’t disagree, but where are the languages for little software? For example, I write lots of small (100-1000 LoC) command-line tools. I’m not a full-time programmer, so I don’t have time to learn a complex language - what I ideally want is executable pseudocode.

Are there languages that fit that description? Python used to, but even it has now become very complex - because its designers are all employees of big companies working on big software.
I never heard the term until I did it to someone. He said I nerd sniped him, but now there is an algebraic constraint solver written in Rust on github. He wrote a decent blog about it too.
Any host that doesn't allow proper dns to be setup is a worthless host. The www is essentially a cname and not needed at all in a properly setup and configured dns server.
That logic wasn't meant to be exhaustive. Even an irreplaceable thing can be recovered from a thief. A life taken cannot be.

FWIW I don't believe that even making the comparison is valid. By the time you're weighing up stuff against literal human life, you've already gone wrong.
EDITED: derp, confused: There are POWER Workstations from Raptor Computing Systems (https://www.raptorcs.com/). Talospace are POWER enthusiasts. Thanks amock for the correction.
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Rome is an active fault zone. And the Romans knew how to build earthquake-proof structures.

The Colosseum fell because people stole the lead rebar--not because of the concrete.
It is a completely sensible assumption that the full domain name will be visible to users at all times, but it is not a completely sensible assumption that even if it were the case that the whole URL were visible ithisn chrome, that it would solve the issue.
There's a simpler explanation : Conway's Law.
How many men on death beds have you met?