skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd also like to think that "liberal" there is to Bretix and Trump supporters know this event might not be for them. Bad Joke.

"Liberal arts" is a term, it's not trying to say "art created by liberal people"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
They've been trying to get a pedestrian bridge built for ages. They keep having trouble getting permission for it. The tunnel is basically Elon saying, "screw you, I'll find a way around your stupid NIMBY nonsense."
"Technology alone is not enough. Technology must intersect with the liberal arts ..."

This was a quote by Steve Jobs if I remember correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlI1MR-qNt8
Tunnels are not a way to fix traffic - redesigning cities is.
Our cities, and the society in general is so inefficient that it borders on crimes against humanity.

What we need is smaller, more efficient, better designed cities.
بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة الهلال والخليج اليوم بث مباشر اون لاين
The GTA (I) style website looks pretty cool! I had to say it...
I had an issue where USPS was claiming packages were delivered to meet their prime contractual agreement then not actually delivering it until 1-2 days later. (So prime 2 day was taking 3-4 but marking it as delivered to my box on day 2 every time). I filed a complaint to USPS, and a USPS employee actually called and admitted that they were probably doing that to make their stats look better. I feel like any other organization admitting to contractual fraud like that would actually face consequences, but truthfully I don't think anyone holds USPS to a high bar.

Contacted Amazon and they claimed they prioritized UPS for my address. Seemed to work -- packages come via UPS almost exclusively now. Pretty good resolution in my book.
But it lowers property values close by, the noise is quite significant. So putting light rail in a tunnel would be the better option.

If Musk can really lower costs, London would be a good client. I'm sure that if he could reduce construction costs for new tube lines by 80% (costs are mostly tunnels), there would be at least 4 new lines that could be approved quickly. After that, they'd still have money left over from what they now plan to spend on Crossrail 2.
Some of of these books are not "open source" [0]. For example, "The Boost C++ Libraries" book clearly gives a non-commercial license [1] as does "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" [2]. I haven't checked them all but a lot of look to be under a free license [3] [4], so maybe the majority of them are actually under an open source license.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license
[1] https://theboostcpplibraries.com/
[2] http://greenteapress.com/thinkcpp/index.html
[3] http://opendatastructures.org/ods-cpp/About_this_document.html
[4] http://www.network-theory.co.uk/about.html
San Francisco-based Planet Labs says it now has the largest satellite fleet ever
Yes. The difference is the Python compiler is not optimizing out the float() conversion, so every time it creates the value 5.0 it is calling the float() conversion on the literal "5".

Different machine, so the timings are different from above, but here are some permutations:

Float literal:

$ python -m timeit '5.0'
100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0152 usec per loop

Integer literal coerced to a float:

$ python -m timeit 'float(5)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.146 usec per loop

Float literal coerced to a float:

$ python -m timeit 'float(5.0)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.143 usec per loop

Integer literal:

$ python -m timeit '5'
100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0152 usec per loop

Float literal coerced to an integer:

$ python -m timeit 'int(5.0)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.155 usec per loop

Integer literal coerced to an integer:

$ python -m timeit 'int(5)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.14 usec per loop
I don't see how that's relevant. The point I was making was that we have a hyper emphasis on science and technology and are careening down the path of technological advancement without taking the proper time to consider the ethical problems that we'll encounter. Maybe becoming "middle class" isn't as important as people say it is? The vast majority of the world lives their lives far, far below what we consider to be a middle class lifestyle here in the U.S., yet it is our upper class techno-elite that are deciding the fate of humanity.
> That leads dry, and not in a good developer dry way. Is this what Think Different looks like today?

This is a quote from Steve Jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlI1MR-qNt8
Bash is not idempotent, using a public CA has downsides, and MSCHAP has known weaknesses that make the crypto easier to bruteforce.
I was suspended from Twitter for being mean to Diplo
> Testing query plans that don't use order by have fun

diff $(sort output) $(sort expected)
I think it'll be neat to continue to use the word "earth" as a quaint anachronism in some long distant future. A great opportunity to explain to kids that humanity was once limited to a single astronomical body...

(The optimist in me is leaking out.)
It's about 40% of Earth's surface before accounting for the thinner atmosphere and about 60% after.
This doesn't just apply to politics.

That was probably my earliest epiphany as a founder: nobody knows what the fuck they're doing. Nobody.

That VP of marketing at a fortune 100? No idea what he's doing. That young startup CEO who's successful while being 10 years your junior? No freaking idea at all.

Even in areas where you would assume process and numbers outweigh the human element (e.g. finances), I was surprised to see how the sausage is made (and how messy it is).

Once you've internalized that truth, the world is a lot less intimidating, especially as a founder.
Cool. With tunnels we could have a fresh start and build the network with electric, automatic vehicles supported as first class (or the only) citizens.
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
I'm about halfway through 'Build You Own Lisp' and I'm really enjoying it. Each chapter builds on the last by adding something new to the same project (and thereby explaining some new concept). I find that the books I'm least likely to bail on are the ones that lead me through the building of one big project like this. What are some of the best titles in this little subgenre?
I've generally found, both with my own code and others' code, that `some-undocumented-special-form' is about as understandable as `some-undocumented-function' (and a similar equivalence for things that are documented).
We can't afford to maintain the surface roads & bridges we already built, and tunnels are more expensive and require more maintenance by like an order of magnitude. (I made that up, but I'm pretty sure it's right, to within an order of magnitude... but if tunnels are 1000x more expensive, then I'm wrong).

I can admire someone who has the resources to exclude himself from the traffic problem instead taking action to try and solve the whole problem for everyone. He could do what other billionaires do and buy a helicopter.

Still, the only way that tunnels can "obviously" solve the traffic problem is if they're so cheap that we can easily build more of them than we ever need -- and we can't currently do that with roads, even if we have the space. New York and Boston and other places have some tunnels, and also terrible traffic.

If we really do have the resources to take on an infrastructure project of this magnitude, wouldn't it be worth re-evaluating why we're driving, and reducing that instead? The problem with traffic is the traffic. If there wasn't all the traffic, there wouldn't be congestion, we wouldn't need more roads & tunnels.

The contractor end of a tunnel building project might be a good deal though. Convince enough people it's a good idea, and you've got big business for decades to come.
I've dabbled with programming off and on since the 80s, but never really did anything work related until I was 38. I got transferred from the NOC to a sys admin position just as everything here became devops all the time. Really focused on learning python, aws and Jenkins. Now 41 and I just got promoted to being a senior software engineer at a very large tech company.

I actually credit hacker news for a lot of it because repeating what I read here makes me seem a lot smarter than I am, I think.
I always wondered why git doesn't support hierarchic config locations…
My homedir looks like this:

~/code-repositories/
+---$company/ (my work related repositories)
+---private/ (my personal non-public repos)
+---public/ (my clones of public FLOSS repos)

So I'd simply like to drop a `.gitconfig` with the default user for all repos below this location into each of those 3 directories, but instead I have to make sure for every freshly clone/initiated repo to configure the author etc.
I guess their conclusion is that this is the maximum size for the goal they want to achieve. Can it be bigger without having an impact on the quality of the event?
I get the feeling we're supposed to be breaking up with Elon Musk. Slowly of course.
The article claims that they can hold you indefinitely if you do not turn over your password. What could happen if I smashed my phone?
Which anti-environment Republicans has he donated to?

As for the rest, look at what he (or at least his companies) have actually done. Tesla has succeeded in making electric cars cool. Their stated mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable transport, and given the many long-range EVs announced by major car companies in the past few years, I think they've already succeeded at that. SpaceX has succeeded in building a remarkably cheap rocket, has recovered them in a way nobody else has done, and is making great strides towards reusing them (although we can't count reuse itself under the "already done" umbrella).

Does he have some weird opinions? Sure. Does he sometimes do bad things? Yep. But who doesn't? Unlike your typical billionaire, he at least has some pretty awesome achievements to balance that out.
And before the nay-sayers come in - no one is proposing destroying entire cities and rebuilding from the ground up. Now that we have that straw man out of the way we can start talking about transit (rail, bus, bike, walk) and the immense amount of space dedicated solely to single passenger cars and trucks.
Do you hate JavaScript?
Which subreddits?
WeChat to roll out paywall for publishers
This means that only one line of further development will be possible, since a patent is basically a license for a monopoly.

Instead, we could grant subsidies and have multiple developments working in parallel.
Can someone clarify how if I can be compelled to unlock my password protected phone, they can't do the same with my social media, email, and other accounts? I feel like this author advocates for a stop-gap that may not even help in the long-run.
Didn't know that all companies need to be wet blankets about everything to be good at what they do.

Disclaimer: I don't know if they're good at what they do. I just think the 'everything needs to be boring so nobody gets offended' idea is crap.
I have the exact same issue with USPS. If I see Amazon shops with USPS, I don't even bother to look for the package until the next day now. The problem for Amazon now is if I need an item ASAP, I really can't trust their next day/2 day shipping so I will just end up going to a local store and buying it.
Acela Express is barely faster than the existing trains, because most of the track isn't high-speed capable. And I certainly wouldn't mind 1 hour service between northeastern cities... NYC to Boston is a bit shorter than the TGV main high speed trunk in France (Paris-Lyon, 300 km vs ~450), and DC to Boston is longer (630 km). Currently, Acela takes 3.5 hours NYC-BOS. TGV best case (300 km/hr) would shave a lot of time off there.

Amtrak is government supported to a very limited extent compared to road traffic. If rail maintenance was paid for by the government, like all road maintenance is, it would be substantially more competitive cost-wise with other forms of travel.

They're not terrible because they're sitting on a monopoly, they're terrible because their budget has been kept at barely life-support levels by congress.
The USPS will have gps coordinate of the scan made by the carrier on the street for delivery. --- If it made it to him or her.

The carrier will enter one or more dispositions such as delivered, damaged, attempted and 20 others.

It does happen where a delivery from another company for last mile goes "missing" and the entire manifest is reportedly "delivered" to the USPS. When in reality it never got there. This happened semi frequently at Christmas so the arrivals were not "late." the other reason is someone stole the parcel.

Almost always stuff reappears - but late. No company in the chain accepts "late" so they fudge the scans.

I would not assume that having just the label and no parcel means anything conclusive.
If you know 285 has an extra lane now, you'll go ahead and run that errand at a certain time that perhaps you wouldn't have otherwise. Fascinating stuff.
From the article (emphasis mine):

> This may upset Customs and Border Patrol agents, who are probably smart enough to realize that 85% of Americans now have smart phones, and probably 100% of the Americans who travel internationally have smart phones. They may choose to detain you anyway, and force you to give them passwords to various accounts manually. But there’s no easy way for them to know which services you use and which services you don’t use, or whether you have multiple accounts.

You can be damn sure the government has a list of possible email addresses associated to individuals. That'd be be the first thing any modern SIGINT program would compose so as to link accounts. Assuming they have that (which again I'm assuming they do) it's trivially easy for them to go from "John Q. Citizen / SSN: 123-45-6789 / Podunk, USA" to a set of emails to cross reference against service providers.

Add five minutes in a dark room with piece of hose and... well you know the rest.
Uh-huh. I'm kind of tired of credulous reporters puffing up every idea that comes into this guy's head.
The total number miles driven on roads will almost always go up when you build more roads, just like increasing the supply of apples will lead to more apples being eaten. (The rare exceptions would be if there are a fixed number of people taking a long circuitous route from A to B, and a shortcut road is built; then the fixed number of drivers would get there more directly, reducing the total number of miles driven.) What normally happens with apples is that the price of apples goes down when there is new supply, roughly analogous to a decrease in congestion (i.e., the "price", in their time, that drivers pay to use a road).

When people talk about induced demand as an argument for building roads, they are claiming that induced demand will mean that congestion on the existing roads will increase (or at least not decrease). Here you have to take into account that most places where you build roads are growing for exogenous reason, so it doesn't make sense to compare post-construction congestion to pre-construction congestion. You have to compare post-construction congestion to the counterfactual where no construction was done. When you do that, you find (my emphasis)

> for every 100 percent increase in capacity there’d be an eighty percent increase in travel, reflecting increased travel speeds and land use shifts along improved corridors. However, only around half the increases in speed and growth in building permits was due to the added capacity. Factors like employment and income growth accounted for the other half. Accordingly, the traffic gains that one can attribute to the added capacity is actually around half of eighty percent, or forty percent. This is substantially less than reported by past induced-demand studies.

http://www.uctc.net/access/22/Access%2022%20-%2004%20-%20Ind...

The answer to all of this is well known: dynamically price road usage to keep roads at max capacity without noticeable congestion. Then each new road built is pure benefit.
FWIW, in my country the historical ISP is pushing for a dedicated network for industrial and hobbyists connected devices. The pipes are already wired.
I assume you're talking about AzureML Studio. It's a pretty neat UI-centric tool for building machine learning workflows! It's great if you're starting out with ML, but offers little in terms of customizability. For example, it only supports R and Python, has no GPUs, no CLI, no container support for managing reproducible environments, etc. I think these are kind of deal breakers for doing deep learning :)

FWIW, I worked as a data scientist in Bing for 6 years and haven't seen/heard any other data scientist use it internally. We ended up building our own GPU clusters and going through the regular drill.
see the link in my comment.

Like PCR, CRISPR is a relatively simple technology. It doesn't require billions of dollars of R&D to make it useful. Less useful gene editing tech (Zinc fingers, TALENS) have already been used in clinical trials. So just like PCR or that blood Myriad Genetics gene patent on BRCA1, patents hinder progress, make research more expensive, and impair new companies from getting started.
Yes, those. The differences between standards aren't trivial, and often the older standards have to be maintained.

The standard already has lots of features, including a turing-complete sub-language.

It is difficult to write code to standard (nothing that works, but is undefined either), that is safe, no segfaults, memory issue, secure, and all within a practical budget/timeline.

Just being able to reason about the code more easily helps, or make strong assumptions (e.g. about safety).
You most likely will need your phone when you're traveling, an easier solution is to remove all apps and data on the phone and then reinstall when you get to where you want.
They've been repeating this mantra for years. It's definitely not just a single conference theme.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645825
> But before we do, take a moment to think about all the apps you have on your phone. Email? Facebook? Dropbox? Your browser? Signal? The history of everything you’ve ever done — everything you’ve ever searched, and everything you’ve ever said to anyone — is right there in those apps.

If you personally do not care about your privacy, why should someone else care?
I'd rather not name and shame, but suffice to say a quick test with hping shows this is currently working on a number of my servers, some on larger, some on smaller providers. And all it takes is 1.

You definitely have to hunt around if this is something you want and the number does seem smaller than I remember it being so many more are probably implementing it since I last checked, but still not all.
> "All that hype is not where the real work is," said Torvalds. "The real work is in the details."

That's where the real work is, in the details. I respect those who walk the talk and he's one among them.
> had the shipwreck not been salvaged, looters would have destroyed everything.

I believe the scientist's point is that commercial 'salvaging' is little more than looting, especially when it's done in a way that destroys the site.
In what sense has eminent domain been eroded? Given that the Supreme Court ruled about ten years ago that eminent domain may even be used to make way for private enterprise it seems to me that it is quite powerful.
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True, but there is a ton of open space on mars. They can just cover more area to make up for it. Plus the lack of real weather would make the solar panels more consistent.
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Indeed. My experience as an Indian grad student in Seattle was a miserable one to say the least; now I think of Americans as pretentious jerks who spare no moment to talk about "diversity" & "equality" and all these things, when in reality they are biologically just as "racist" as the red-necks.

I realized after a while to understand that what people really meant (in practice) was only that they were against the public display of insult, that one ought to be treated with a modicum of politeness. After the pleasantries, most folk just ignored you as if you didn't exist (or would talk behind your back). Some folk stood out and were just outright obnoxious for no reason.

Oddly, I developed a dislike for meeting the same non-Indian people twice. Meh. I wasn't annoyed because of these differences - I do believe they're biological - but I wish the discourse was more rooted in reality, which would've led to me to make better choices. I may not like Trump supporters, but hey I think they're atleast being honest you know. I now think of liberals as being hypocrites who use words to break apart communities and atomize people (more true of India than the US - but that's another story).

This is not to say that Americans aren't decent people - that they are - but there is a lot of pretension in that society. India is by comparison more than tolerable on that metric (if you keep away from the Westernized lot).
Behind the cynicism seems to be useful information. While negative attitudes are not helpful, they can often motivate people to speak up about things that normally would not be widely known. For instance, the gist of what this person is saying is that the released information probably has already been combed over. And that if you want to spend your time actually looking for something, there are better sets out there. But also be prepared to get behind entire teams doing the same thing. Not that you wouldn't find anything, but otherwise you get the impression that there's only a handful of researchers looking through this stuff. Therefore, I actually found the comment useful.
* lowers property values close by in some areas.

Here in Denver, property (and rents) near the light rail are very high value and expensive. I live in an apartment that is ideally located and let me tell you I could afford a very nice house out in the suburbs for the rent I pay.

edit: Additionally, the light rail here (very modern Siemens units) is orders of magnitude quieter than the major 6-lane streets and Interstate 25 running nearly parallel to rail.
I read a rant about having to shift all my stuff to the "JAMStack", because what i'm doing is old fashioned or something, but I don't see how that will shave 73% off my load time. I also don't see how a static site generator is good for most of my sites, seeing that they extremely dynamic applications. Also, the site talking about big pages being bad is pretty big.
It could be a sign that apple is aware that it needs to return to their origins