skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've served on councils like this before and if anything unexpected comes up, the default answer is always going to be "uhh we're not sure but we'll address it at the next meeting." Sometimes someone may know the answer but more often than not the manager or solicitor will get the answer before the next caucus meeting and they'll formulate the actual response then.
I think you're missing a key point here: this bridge is maintained by PennDOT. That's not federal, that's state. PennDOT's own report, according the article, showed that the bridge was in poor condition. It's a failure on PennDOT, a local bureaucracy, not the entirety of the "richest country in the world."

In the U.S., different pieces of infrastructure is delegated to different authorities. It's up to those authorities to maintain those pieces. They choose how to spend and where to spend. Now, the argument could be made that funding is an issue, and in some states it is. Hence the latest bill to fund more infrastructure repair. But it's not such an issue in many places in the country. Anecdotally, growing up in a Northern state, we would always complain about how much better the roads in our neighboring state to the South were. And they actually were, because the folks who ran Ohio's DOT straight up managed it better.

I now live in the South, and I'm very pleased with how the State and Counties here manage and maintain roads, bridges, and rail line crossings.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to test this with a few cars in different places rather than dump 1000?
It stops being healthy skepticism when you start to immediately dismiss things. There is potential in NFT's, Web3, Metaverse, etc. just like there was potential in the dot com boom. People laughed at pets dot com but look at Chewy today.

There might be something revolutionary in some of these emerging concepts, we just don't know what it could be, if any.

I think a true industry changing tech could emerge if it is driven by technology, not marketing. Linked MMO's is how I think of the metaverse where avatars can "travel" from one MMO world to another, conceptually similar to Ready Player One. If some parties want to define technical standards for storage, 3D rendering, scaling, licensing, transport (across networks and 3D engines) of digital assets (music/audio, textures, avatar skins, etc.) that could go a long way towards letting creative people (not marketing) create worlds that could be linked into a metaverse. Maybe that is what Web3 could be, maybe not. Commercial paths would be easy to identify if such a tech standard was in place. For example, an indie clothing designer could release virtual and real world editions of a new piece of clothing simultaneously.

If you leave it to marketing to define a metaverse you end up with a grocery store chain creating virtual supermarkets for you to buy bread using a VR headset. Yawn.
Yep. Some features are complex and cannot be completed in one sprint. On the other hand, we have constantly changing front-end code and leaving code in a branch too long might make it drift and might get broken in a lower-layer change because constantly syncing gets annoying. The other case is when the front-end is ready but the back-end is not or there is a public announcement that is scheduled for a later date.
Two sides of the sword: The reason China got nuclear weapon so fast is that USA pushed the top nuclear scientist back to China. This could happen to semiconductor or other fields.

I don't see any solution though, if you don't control, you will lose valuables faster, if you do, you will overdo it sometimes.

Nothing is perfect, if things went too far in the process, let's trust the legal system to sort it out.
There are large groups of people who do care about their own’s and their kids’ mathematical education — some in North America and other continents and a huge number in Asia.

An example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/south-korea-te...

“Teaching pays: Cha said he earned $8m last year. “I’m madly in love with maths,” he said, looking the height of trendiness in his crimson shirt and trousers and tweed jacket, in his office in Gangnam – a wealthy part of Seoul famous for its conspicuous consumption and featured in the song Gangnam Style.”

There is a reason the PISA results of some countries stay consistently near the top: https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-sc...
Investing in a startup, or pretty much any business that isn't public, requires a significant amount of due diligence on the part of the investor. Even then, more startups fail than succeed. Retail investing directly into startups, like how we can buy stock, would essentially be gambling.

IMO, it makes sense to do this through a proxy, like a mutual fund or other kind of investment vehicle. The investment vehicle would need to do a lot of the due diligence. Perhaps someone could do the due diligence before putting startups on their page to solicit investment?

Even then, motivations must be questioned. Sometimes startups only exist to be sold to a larger company; but once the acquisition goes through, there isn't much left.
I apologize for the miscommunication. The prices in Finland will NOT increase. Some customers with servers in Finland mistakenly received an email, and we have since sent another one out correcting this mistake.
Affected customers also have received an alternative offer recently. --Katie, Hetzner Online
There's another quick and dirty option that works effectively - convert them back to text sequences, for example `:smile:` or `:)`

Here's a quick guide:

https://towardsdatascience.com/converting-emojis-to-text-a28...
Yes, a good commit message should be a few concise paragraphs.

The subject describes what is being affected (think easily greppable keywords)

Then, then body should go into detail about the contents and rationale for the changes.

Use specific terms like “add” or “remove” and avoid subjective descriptions like “prepare” “clean” and “fix”

For example this patch says:

> Clean up consistency of tabs/spaces in include_directories.

Well, what does clean up tabs/spaces actually mean? Saying “remove tabs in favor of spaces” is much clearer.
> All systems of justice contain false positives. There is no escape from it.

They should inscribe that at the entrance of court buildings. Really drives home the aspirations of the justice system.
Unacceptability in the present isn't a reliable indicator either. For example, it is today socially unacceptable for me to be friends with most of my extended family because they are republicans. But that doesn't mean it's right.

Besides, what's with this tendency to escalate way beyond the topic at hand? We're talking about professional pranks and suddenly...racism?
It only goes over a little creek. Not even a river.
Wow what is even holding that up (well of course nothing anymore)? Its purely planer apart from those stilts, did the bridge just give out or did the stilts lose a footing?
Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd edition (free; 2021)
It's usually not federal money that pays for this stuff though (at least directly).
I can assure you "the past two years" are irrelevant, I've been involved with politics at various levels since 2004 and local politics are almost exclusively the domain of people unqualified and uninterested in anything else.
Not to justify how completely terrible it is, but you can click the accept once and never see it again.
Move to Gettr.
Not too strange if Apple wants a competitive development environment.
> The dismissal is a setback to the China Initiative, an effort started in 2018 to crack down on economic and scientific espionage by China.

How is this a setback? The goal is to prevent espionage, not harass and punish people for being Chinese.

Honestly, what has happened to the NYT? When did they get so bad at this? They were the most well-regarded newspaper in the world and now they read like madlibs.
The argument is it could or should be. It has in the past.
LOL, you're replying with this stupid comment on every comment without realizing that the 15% came AFTER the lawsuits so Apple could save face.
Development of a lithium-air battery with an energy density over 500 wh/kg
Ask HN: FOMO by working in startups only vs. Big companies
Hi HN folks, I can't think of a better place to ask this.

So I'm not a software engineer but robotics, and my masters degree was more of an "jack of all trades, master of none" in Robotics (but more towards software side of it)

I've now worked for about 3-4 years, so still a junior, but mostly at startups (and in my 3rd one).

Hitting my 30s last year and recently talking to a person slightly younger than me with similar background I got the sense of FOMO. this person had a similar degree and first job out of college at an (now failed) startup, but just recently landed a SDE job at Amazon.

As I haven't really worked at big companies, I've always had this nascent feeling that I never really learned "the right way" to do things. I often feel like a "patchwork engineer", learning how things work only sufficiently to make things work in a smaller scale without understanding important big project/organization principles. (or maintaining stuff)

How much of this is valid, and how much is just the misconception "the grass is greener" at big companies? Is it valuable to try to apply to big companies to get a good foundation in "the right way" to do things? I feel like I've also cornered myself with my resume / experience by only working at startups, and might not even be a lucrative candidate for larger organizations. (30s crisis not withstanding)

Any insight is much appreciated!
What I dont understand is why these companies are debasing their products integrity to scrape in more users.

What Reddit doesn’t seem to realise is that right now there is a primed opportunity for a competitor to take its market share.
Right, but where real estate costs are high compared to labor costs you will restock more than once a day to save on real estate. Where labor is high compared to real estate you use less labor.

Note that compared is key above. Real estate and labor are both more expensive in dense cities, but comparatively real estate is more important to optimize and so you pay the higher labor. Even though labor is cheaper in suburbs you sill optimize that because real estate is so much cheaper.
If those were meant to also serve as spots for scuba divers I guess that they are not safe?

A thousand cars seems like a large number so I just went to check how many subway cars does NYC has in operation. Here is what Wikipedia says "As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 cars on the roster."[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway
Hmm that's a tough question. I am not sure I trust most local municipalities to fund infrastructure properly. I would much rather have the Feds capabilities and funding.

How do you land on trusting the municipality?
Related cool table:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/what-is-the-embodied-energy-...

Various industrial metals are recycled all the time at scrapyards across the world. For example, school buses in USA are commonly reprocessed at end of life.

The problem is that it's a low-margin business in most places and it quickly can become economically unfeasible. 1,000 subway cars is a tall order for any scrap yard with a lot of 'overhead' involving specialized disassembly that would eat that margin real quick, I presume.
Lots of Chernobyl/Bhopal moments in the US lately.
Of course I agree you shouldn't ignore election law. I was commenting on how everyone is so sure they know exactly what the motive was.
Tech isn't very alien to us, but for the average Circuit City or Best Buy customer, that's another story.

Or take Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace Hardware, and the now defunct Sears. It's nice to have people on the sales floor that know about the various tools, paints, and home improvement projects. Even in the YouTube era where you can get project ideas and tutorials, having someone physically present to ask questions or bounce ideas off of helps tremendously.
I just went over to the Penn DOT website to see how many other bridges around the state are in "poor" condition. Answer: 4,157. :-O. There's even more local bridges in "poor" condition than in "good" condition.

Screens of the report (server is slow):

https://ibb.co/YjZDSWr

https://ibb.co/zFCtmCp

Tool links:

https://gis.penndot.gov/paprojects/BridgeConditionsMap.aspx#

https://gis.penndot.gov/paprojects/Reports/BridgeConditionsR...
These SV companies would have a lot less power over us if we all judged and acted as if the personal information whywhywhywhy is complaining about having to give away as being more important than reading some forum post, or watching some video stream, or some other transient dopamine hit gone in literally seconds vs. the near-permanent and very difficult to remove little tentacle the company gets to stick into your life now. Each one individually is no big deal, but the whole is.

Adopt an abundance mentality. Our world is awash in transient dopamine hits. Why do you need this one, when there's so many you can have for truly free, or for small amounts of money, or via any other mechanism that isn't trading such a transient personal value for some quasi-permanent cost?
I mean, building all that car-centric infrastructure was always going to be unsustainable in the long run.
This idea has also existed for at least 200 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
BBC article mentions 446 bridges in Pittsburgh, Wikipedia mentions 2,496 bridges in Hamburg, with 1,172 road bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Hamburg
Check out this 2018 photo of the footing... spooky! https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569?s=21
> Newer licenses like ISC

I'm having trouble pinpointing an exact introduction date, but judging by the text of pre-MPL dhcpd and BIND licenses (https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/-/commit/5d0ff7ea7c... and https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/0c27b3fe7... respectively), I'd guess that the ISC license has been around since at least 1995. This predates the MPL 1.0 (let alone 2.0) by 3 years, every GPL-compatible version of the BSD license (i.e. every version that's not the problematic 4-clause BSD license) by 4 years, the Apache License 1.1 (let alone 2.0) by 5 years (Apache License 1.0 released the same year, but it was basically a modified 4-clause BSD anyway), and the GPLv3 and AGPL by 12 years.

Needless to say, calling the ISC license "newer" than more popular licenses is pretty misleading. Lawyers have had nearly three decades to scrutinize it (and scrutinize it they have - hence the move from "and" to "and/or" back in 2007).
Also teddit.net, which I find even faster and lightweight without JS.
If you do decide to explore a career in DevRel, I maintain an spreadsheet of Developer Advocate opportunities: https://ayewo.com/exploding-career-opportunities-in-devrel/
McCarthyism led to the persecution of anyone with socialist political sympathies. It was an attack on unpopular economic beliefs.

Let's McCarthyism what it is: Unamerican.
I could name two dozen Linux distos that can support a 4g modem, a touch screen, a desktop environment with an app launcher, a web browser, and the capability to install arbitrary software packages. but it would be a waste of time because anyone reading this is probably already familiar with several popular Linux distros. PinePhone is the proof of concept that first comes to mind and there is no reason it’s software for SMS/telephony cant be ported to most any other disto.

> usage with popular apps and services

Isn’t a fair question, because the onus of supporting these “popular apps” isn’t on the operating system maintainer, it’s on the app’s developer to release packages that are compatible. There’s no real reason popular app (Facebook, WhatsApp, Netflix etc) maintainers can’t release a working version for Linux, they just choose not to.
> Now consumers have two companies to choose chips from instead of one functional monopoly due to a trade secret moat... Win for consumers.

If we were considering this purely from the lens of consumer choice, allowing IP theft seems like a no-brainer. But it's pretty clear from the last few years how important supply chains are to the countries they reside in (and how their absence is strongly felt). To phrase it another way, suppose IP theft makes an industry outright unprofitable in a country and those jobs disappear in that country. It can take decades to spin that stuff up again and the consequences can be disastrous. From that perspective, it's understandable why governments would want to tamp down on IP theft. That said, the story described in the OP is tragic and reflects a perverse situation where someone who came to America seeking those things we promise to the world was considered guilty for chasing the American dream.
Phew. I assumed this was gonna be another catastrophe. Like Osborne Reef, where some yahoos dumped TWO MILLION car tires into the ocean and just hoped for the best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef

First try a little, see what happens, then maybe do more.

Someone should have dropped 5 subway cars in. Then checked back in a few years.

Worse than scream-and-leap policy making is the utter refusal to do any kind of follow up assessment. (Perhaps you've heard of the opioid crisis? Best intentions leading straight to Hell.)

--

Tangent, from the OC:

> ...artificial reefs were designed to boost recreational fishing, which in 2011 generated a whopping $15 billion in state and federal taxes.

We should ban commercial fisheries.

In my state, every salmon caught by a commercial fisherman costs the taxpayers $1.

Whereas anglers make the state money.

If this doesn't make sense to you, you simply don't understand Freedom Markets™.
Exactly, only some models from the Server Auction were affected. So we only sent emails to customers with those servers. --Katie, Hetzner Online
By the "any accident caused by something in the traffic flow hitting something jumping into that traffic flow is the fault of the former object going too fast" logic that is wildly popular on any discussions of traffic/transportation on HN you are not at all wrong.

That said, I think that sort of logic is deeply flawed and the people peddling it to be asinine. Traffic participants have an obligation to not obstruct other traffic flows (like opening your door into a bike lane, or pulling a car into traffic at insufficient speed) without appropriate care to ensure it does not require other traffic participants to take evasive maneuvers.
Emoji support is currently the top requested feature for Windows Terminal.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...
I can hit F12 or Ctrl-Click to navigate to definitions and I get a back button to return to where I was across those navigation operations. Yet it still sucks to bounce through all those files. And it's usually not just a matter of drilling down through the calls, but also moving back up to find out how a dependency of a class that I've ended up in is initialized.
People used to be better at dealing with "obvious distress." Seriously why is this argument worth 80+ comments? I agree with jacquesm -- HN (in this thread) has lost its way.
As a motorcyclist I welcome any rules which make drivers more aware.

Side note: I live in Taiwan and you wouldn't believe how stupid some of the rules are here, it annoys me everyday as it's needlessly dangerous. Some red lights you can drive over, if they are flashing, I believe. And the worst for me is when pedestrian crossing is on green cars can still drive through it so you get drivers needlessly pushing to go over a green crossing even when pedestrians are crossing.
I must of missed the actual argument because I can't find where it was made other than complaining about a 3% allocation which is explained due to the large state & city budgets for this type of thing.
While it wouldn't be what springs to mind when you think of a mall, this video shows an interesting repurposing of a mall to become residential space: https://youtu.be/HmL2l-bcuUQ
The opposite of 'wacky' - key R&D and especially know-how is critical to the development of specific industries and in some cases, it should be guarded.

It can take decades of effort, R&D, product development to develop the key understanding towards making for example, jet turbines, high speed trains, chip fabs etc..

Economic espionage is real and part of China's industrial strategy.

It should be noted that 'everyone else' will also steal R&D to the extent that it's related to weapons, but generally not industrial information.

That said - probably most research isn't that important, and this kind of thing can easily turn into 'Witch Hunt'. Paradoxically, the CPP will also use an overbearing posture by the US on this issue as part of propaganda efforts.

The CCP right now is fighting a 'narrative war' with all the touchy issues: they are circulating information indicating that COVID started in Europe, and in response to stern words by Canada PM Trudeau, China is telling it's citizens the a recent outbreak is due to 'frozen food from China'. Controlling information means being able to tell their citizens whatever they want and having them believe it for the most part. That a few independent thinkers want to 'VPN out' and form their own opinions isn't that important if you can tell 99% of people what the truth is.

CCP is playing 'full court press competition' - they are engaging and comprising students on campus [1] , seeking information from well placed ex-patriots [2], planting spies everywhere [3], grabbing people and re-patriating Chinese citizens abroad by force [4], running disinformation campaigns [5], compromising state officials [6] and more.

So it's important that our 'values' of true justice, equality, transparency etc. are not compromised, and we don't want to regress to early 20th century racism, but at the same time, it's a 'war' of sorts and it's incredibly naive to operate on the basis that this is not happening and affecting everyone.

Probably it will take more than just a simple plan, but a major new way of thinking about China, and a whole series of changes in that regard.

Even things such as governments new 'Trustless' IT policy published here yesterday, are a step in the right direction.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china...

[2] https://www.csis.org/programs/technology-policy-program/surv...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/explain-the-chinese-...

[4] https://thethaiger.com/news/world/china-forced-nearly-10000-...

[5] https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/chinas-disinformation-campai...

[6] https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Barbara-Boxer-China-...
They are compensated. I was also on a council at one point, not even 30 minutes from Silver Spring, with a population of less than 3,000. I had 802 constituents. We were paid $50/mo., which calculated out to about $3/hour with the lengths of the various meetings.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52970/is-the-du...

tldr; indeed not completely clear why it is called the Dutch reach
But the user is not interested in posting (or they would have an account already). They are only creating an account because twitter is making them.

Twitter doesn't seem to have an option of a read-only account, where a phone number is only required to post.
Oh you are not missing anything great at bigger companies. There is no “right way” there either. But I think you have to experience both sides yourself to understand. I can predict the future: you will go work for a big company someday and then go back to a startup.
My point is that extra space to move (wide aisles that can handle multiple carts across or space around an in store display or other empty space) is much cheaper in the US, so you can just afford it. But the cost of devoting 100's of sq ft of space to mannequins on pedestals might not fly in a Japan (Walmart equivalent)
I said it before but got downvoted at the time [0], now that Jack is gone it's likely going downhill from here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29503384