skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The danger of this pricing scheme is that people that can't travel on their ideal commute times hit the road earlier in the morning. They then realise that if they set off another half hour earlier they would breeze in on practically empty roads. So then a lot of people start doing this, leaving the house at 6 a.m. for some epic 50+ mile commute. So then the next step is to leave a 5.30 a.m. to beat the traffic, the traffic that people of their ilk generated. What next, start your working day at 3 a.m.?!?

So this means everyone has neighbours banging car doors, revving engines and doing disruptive stuff at some very early hour. The whole world gets noisier. And all so that some people with cars can sit at their office desks doing stuff they could have done at home.

If a bunch of homeless drug addicts made a similar amount of noise at such anti-social hours then they would be dealt with by the police, the police would make it clear to them how anti-social they have been. Office worker, with some spreadsheets and emails to do, they are given a free pass on the noise and other pollution at an un-godly hour.

Another thing that any big city should do is get people to swap jobs for something more local. I personally work local to my home and ride my bike in, but there are plenty of colleagues who come in from the far side of town, they have to go through the city centre or round some ring road, taking more than 3 hours out of their day, every day.

My bike ride home is so enjoyable I have no idea how long it takes, never had the need to look at the time whilst on the commute, no need to look at a phone either or read one of those 'free' newspapers. I wish more people could have a commute like mine, which is a gentle saunter along the river bank with the joggers, dog walkers and other people 'not imprisoned by the commute' and actively enjoying the great outdoors.

So how could a city get more people like me able to live and work locally, never adding to the burden on the roads or trains? Job swaps. There is probably someone doing a similar job to oneself a short distance from home. This person probably lives on the far side of town where you work. So what if you could swap jobs with that person, so both of you get 2-3 hours of life back, every day?

A city with all the records of who pays what taxes for what could do the match-making, saving everyone who takes up the scheme a lot of time, giving their lives back.
The way this was made clear to me was to use 100 doors instead of 3. Hall opens 98 doors when you make your initial guess. It's much clearer to see how information is added to the system with this many doors.
> By making it cost prohibitive for the poors to move around

Am I the only person who found the phrase 'the poors' offensive? I'm genuinely asking.
The same holds true with APIs: too many concepts make a hard to understand API.
3 Reasons MSP Need IT Automation
Ryzen is highly-efficient up to 3.3GHz:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technica...
The long tail very often has to "ride on fumes" until payday. Unless the tolls are literally cheaper than the fuel cost of idling in traffic, the result will be to punish those uppity poor for imagining they could afford a car (which they could previously afford, if just barely).
>Is this just an EC2 problem, or does it affect any Xen/KVM guest?

Looks like it's how the Xen hypervisor works.
//OT::

Your user name: a fan of the cre-lox system, or the enzyme itself?

Cool uid!

In my past life, I've used flp/frt & cre/lox; and studied mismatch repair enzymes. And topoisomerases.. :)
Writing good technical articles: if a part is probably the most important part, put it first (or nearly first) in the doc & don't waste the readers time congratulating them for spending 2 minutes reading.
And still no support for <input type="date"> . I just can't believe Firefox is behind Edge on this one. I'm using Firefox as main browser for years now, and it feels so bad when I always need to use a polyfill when developing a form with date field - to support Firefox. It's embrassing that Chrome supported it since... Chrome 20, in 2012.
Ultimately we pay for the roads regardless. The point of a toll is simply to make that payment a visible use tax. You can pay at the pump, pay on 4/15, pay with your Fastrak, it's all the same and then all taxes are fungible.

I would like to but I do not think this will improve LA traffic. It will divert it somewhat. Improving infrastructure won't help either; as the opinion piece points out, that's been tried.

Ultimately, LA has to either get people out of their cars or they have to get more people into their cars.

One thing I'd love is an Uber quality app for transit. It would unify transit systems. Maybe it could tell about overcrowding (6:30 first train out of Fullerton to Union Station was packed to the gills). Maybe it could be unified with Uber/Lyft/Yellow.

Metrolink is not that app. SmartRide is not that app. Amtrak is not that app.
This is pretty awesome - I really want to replace Filepicker as it's way too expensive for what I need. But I really like their embeddable widget that I can embed with a button click. Also I like all the sources for files rather than just a drag/drop or click upload. Can you support any of these features?
Did anyone else find it difficult to read this due to how broken up the text is?
yes correct. I was specifically talking about creating something and not just investing money in a fund investment.
Stanford’s TETRIS Clears Blocks for 3D Memory Based Deep Learning
Some good previous discussion: Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11992684

My comment there is still relevant here:

I've noticed recently that especially in online discussions, the term "cognitive load" is used as a catch-all excuse to rag on code that someone doesn't like. It appears to be a thought-terminating cliché.

There's definitely room to talk about objective metrics for code simplicity, which are ultimately what many of these "cognitive load" arguments are about. But cognitive load seems to misrepresent the problem; I think it's hard to prove/justify/qualify without some scientific evidence over a large population sample.

With that said, the article presented fine tips, but they seem to be stock software engineering tips for readable code.
Why do they make such monumentally short-sighted, clearly bad decisions? Is it weak technical leadership (weak political or just old fashioned weak)? What is the internal logic these people use to justify pure folly that's probably done more harm than good even to their own interests and goals? Baffling.
I'd guess because people would rather have the certainty of getting to work in 1.5 hours, rather than wait for a stranger to pick them in a semi-determined block of time (or pick up a stranger in the same) for a 1 hour commute.

Waiting and hoping that the person who promised to pick you up will actually do so seems annoying and nerve-wracking. "Sorry, boss, I know I'm late again, but a complete stranger was 30 minutes late picking me up today, and then decided to stop for donuts on the way to work."
> I think I once read that only an exponentially small fraction of binary strings are valid BLC programs

This is true for the encoded lambda calculus prefix; but
not for the entire BLC program in which you can embed arbitrary binary data.

> In theory this means you could create shorter programs

Not really; BLC is universal, so program sizes are optimal up to a constant. In other words, for any language L, there's a constant c_L, such that for all x,
the complexity of x according to BCL is at most a c_L larger than the complexity of x according to L.
Less so than existing mechanisms for paying for roads http://www.its.ucla.edu/infographic-road-pricing/

Added: that's exactly what the article links to, oops. I read the article in reader mode (because it blocks adblockers) and failed to notice.
I think you need more information about the code and what situation it's in. Illegal index presumably means trying to access part of the list that's no longer there. If it's a shared data structure, perhaps something is popping the list while another is trying to access the last element. But without anything else to go on, who knows, maybe you accidentally stored the length of the list in a data type that could overflow?

Though in the first part of the question (ignoring the next bit), is the answer anything more complex than import random; random.choice(my_list)?
This is double speak, charging someone to use something is not a tax.

The fee to ride the bus/train is not called a tax, why would this be any different?

Roads need to stop being subsidized, it's the only thing that's going to give mass transit a chance to actually compete.
same here -- I've downloaded and have been using it ever since. It is very similar to Lark, the chatbat as a personal weight loss coach. I really like the general "nudge" approach that both apps are taking.
How can one not have a whole giant mountain of cynicism with all we've become aware of in the last few years? We could just as easily turn the tables and call you irresponsibly naive.
nobody outside of LA knows that there's a functioning metro now.

i see no real point in trying to convince them otherwise, since... you know, they don't live here.
No, they're a criminal organization that took over for another criminal organization. It's true that in the end, two wrongs failed to make a right, but there's no need to demonize the notion of upending the disgusting monopoly taxis have enjoyed.
Yeah that's what I say when I'm downvoted too. My voice of freedom must not be silenced etc.
The Perfect Media Server with Docker
1. Search for "aspect-oriented programming".

2. http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers
I really, really hope this happens to all of LA's freeways (or really all highways in the world)!

It'd be cool if they could even do different pricing for different lanes (e.g. Left lane is $X/mi, 2nd lane is .6X/mi, 3rd lane is .3X, the rest are free).

I also wonder what the algorithm is they use for pricing. I remember reading something about the 110/10 HOT lanes that they were targeting no slower than 45 mph or something? It might be smarter to target max revenue instead though. Like every 30 minutes you raise or lower the price depending if you made more or less money in the last 30 minutes after doing the same thing.
Piggybacking on the discussion about reasoning: I found the recently proposed 'argumentative theory of reasoning' quiet insightful and provocative with significant implications for belief formation (as well as scientific methodology).

Here is an excerpt from the researchers who proposed the theory:

> the argumentative theory of reasoning—proposes that instead of having a purely individual function, reasoning has a social and, more specifically, argumentative function. The function of reasoning would be to find and evaluate reasons in dialogic contexts—more plainly, to argue with others.

Citation: https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/theargumentativeth...
Is the Brazilian "security" plugin an NPAPI plugin or a Chrome extension? Chrome doesn't support NPAPI plugins, so these banks either have non-plugin solution for Chrome or they don't support Chrome.

Many Chinese ecommerce and government sites require their own "security" NPAPI plugins. These don't work in Chrome, but the large majority of users in China run hybrid browsers that use both Blink and Trident (IE) engines so these sites that require NPAPI plugins can be seamlessly loaded in a Trident tab. The user doesn't know the difference.
What about the poor? LA for most parts, against popular belief, is a pretty homogenous city when it comes to wealth, sure you have Beverly Hills and Malibu but LA is so vast that majority of it doesn't feel secluded. Now if you toll the non-wealthy (the rich will not notice the toll) you remove that dynamic, that headline should really say let's remove more poor people from the freeways.
For some of us in Bay area, we pay $5000 in rent, utilities, day care etc. I, by and large can't optimize on these things. I can only optimize on groceries, restaurant eating, vacation/weekend outings and few things like that. So, I hope these personal finance apps remove rent, utilities, day care etc from their analysis.

Also, one feature I would pay for is this. When I am entering a Walmart or Target or Whole Foods, it should warn me that I spent 'x' amount on groceries last week and that I should keep my spending below $y to stay within budget. Somehow, I see this feature missing in all apps I see so far.
I've heard OpenAI isn't actually open source. Is it?
The issue is the dependence of code completion, google, and IDEs that writes boiler plate code for you, and companies just use stupid services like hackerrank to test algorithm implementations, which has to run and compile properly u see that environment.
Public transportation should always be improving, but so should the road system.

> Public transport is the only effective approach

I think that is going to change very soon. If you had some lanes dedicated to self-driving cars, that convoy could vastly increase traffic density.
I don't think they're unstructured; rather, I know they're arbitrarily structured, usually requiring a great deal of ad-hockery to deal with them. A standard structure means a lot less work for data consumers and producers alike.

This comment is structured in the sense that it's two paragraphs of more-or-less-correct English. That doesn't make it useful to tools that don't understand English. As far as a tool like 'rm' is concerned, it might as well be unstructured.
The article says:

// This was useful in C to avoid accidentally
// typing variable = null. These days it will
// confuse most people, with little benefit.

The use of "was" and "these days" in the link shows that the author of this piece is in a tiny little bubble of development, and is far from being able to give general advice for programming. C is not past-tense. C, C++, Objective-C, these are all still widely used today by modern professionals. I'm very tired of articles and authors which claim to be representative of all programming or programmers, when they're isolated to a tiny little bubble. Especially when they only know JavaScript.
Why do only few people realize that bots ARE NOT(!) the problem! Our f*cked up economic system is! If we would live in. better society in which capitalism is finally known to be horrible by a majority of people, everyone would profit from robots and almost everyone (except those mind-sick workaholics) would be happy. We just need to finally acknowledge, that capitalism is bullshit, period.

P.S.: I hate communism more than capitalism, so don't dare to accuse me of being one of those who my family fled from...
>I can argue that they shouldn't break the law.

And if you had done that, I'd have never responded. What you said was:

>You're advocating for wealth being over the law.

Which no one has yet done, not even close. Justice, according to the law, is being served. You can argue that the penalty is unjust, which you have failed to do so far.

You can also argue that it's wrong to break the law, which is a new argument in the thread starting with your "over the law" comment.

Saying an entity isn't subject to the law because of wealth and saying that an entity shouldn't break the law are two completely different things. The first argument doesn't work because the companies in question are proving they are subject to the law by paying the fines. The second argument is new, nebulous, not particularly substantive, and otherwise better left ignored.
What's the memory footprint for Zstandard (vs. zlib) for compression and decompression?

The article goes into CPU usage (which seems awesome...) but I don't see anything about the buffer sizes for either. It just mentions them as knobs that can be twiddled.
Agreed, zstd is probably one of the most exciting new developments in compression.

However this worries me:

https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/PATENTS

---

The license granted hereunder will terminate [...] if you [...] initiate [...]
any Patent Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or
in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of
its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating
to the Software.

---

Not a lawyer, but I would guess that's makes it a non-starter for many situations. You sue them, now your customers' data, your code repository, or backups have to be decoded with a software for which don't have a license to use anymore. Am I crazy, and this is not a BigDeal(TM)? Or does anyone else have an issue with this?
I'm not sure what you believe the phrase "rule of law" means, but it seems to be something other than its common definition.
I've been completely impressed with zStandard. I tested it when 1.0 was released, and I was blown away by both its performance and compression ratio, especially on multi-core machines. I'm using it in a project at work (prototype stage at the moment) and I'm confident we'll ship with zStandard as the default compression method.

FWIW, I'm using this Go library: https://github.com/DataDog/zstd

I've made some contributions and the DataDog team is very prompt at reviewing merge requests.
This is super interesting. I guess one of the reasons why Uber has been so successful in taking on powerful regulations and a lot of push back from different players is BECAUSE of their super aggressive business cultural.

And I could easily see this "fuck the world, we do what we do" attitude creating a hyper-alpha atmosphere where sexual harassment is scoffed at.

So, one could argue that without this attitude, Uber would have run out of steam or lacked the hustle to take on the Taxi companies and government regulations.

Still, regardless of the success that this culture has achieved, you can't treat your workers like shit and ignore sexual harassment.

I could easily see Uber being replaced by another company after Uber does all the hard legwork of taking on the Taxi companies and governments.

Especially if Uber lacks the ability to fix its' image.
For anyone looking at the mentions of KVM "under some circumstances" having the same issue and wondering how to avoid it with KVM: KVM appears to support fast vDSO-based time calls as long as:

- You have a stable hardware TSC (you can check this in /proc/cpuinfo on the host, but all reasonably recent hardware should support this).

- The host has the host-side bits of the KVM pvclock enabled.

As long as you meet those two conditions, KVM should support fast vDSO-based time calls.
> almost always better to just write `if (variable)`

Close enough works for horseshoes but not for C. It has to work 100% of the time to be acceptable (int variable = 0;)
I don't think anyone has any issue with having to physically use a marker on a whiteboard during an interview. What else would you use for a system design question?

What is insane is expecting a candidate to be able to navigate a million state modification and off-by-one gotchas using only a marker and their short-term memory.
To me white boarding is no different from public speaking. Each person's skill is at a different point in the spectrum. It has nothing to do with the skills involved for software development itself.
>Where it lands for me: If the CEO wants to disclaim responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down as incompetent.

If the CEO wants to take responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down for running an institution that routinely breaks the law. (There's a legal term for that...)

Watch him aim for the middle ground... weaseling and PR with the fervent prayers that attention will shift and he can keep eating the sweet cake he gets to keep. When most people can't formulate or even understand the logical proposition you're offering, heartless people are left with amazing leeway.
The bastion of socialism, France, has mostly-toll freeways (they also have non-toll routes nationale and routes départementales in addition to more local routes communales)

Of course, they do also actually plan their roadways nationally and region-wide whereas in the US, it seems "city planning" is an oxymoron.
Firefox is basically the first port of call for running web tests on buildservers. Run Firefox headlessly in xvfb, then throw Selenium or similar at it. It's a pretty mature setup.
Except that Chrome manages to do this, as do all other linux browsers.

And Mozilla, which explicitly writes

Out of Scope
- Linux testing

On their QA pages in the wiki regarding this, well, doesn’t inspire confidence. I'm still using Firefox, still supporting Mozilla, but I'm disappointed nonetheless.
I would love to see some reporting on this statement
he touched on that

> the most common complaint being: "Oh, so only rich people can drive?"

> This critique ignores the fact that working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. Working-class parents who are late to pick up their kids from day care, for example, often pay severe financial penalties. Having the option to reach their destination quickly could actually save them money. In fact, experience with dynamic tolling in the United States has shown that people of all income levels use these lanes. This objection also ignores just how inequitable and dysfunctional our current system is. Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads.
Is that because the workloads are fundamentally unsuitable for current GPU architectures or because no one has took a good stab at it yet?

I know very little about computation genetics/biology but it sounds interesting.
I'd certainly classify a driver license revocation as "harsh". Even more so if it's complex/impossible to get it back...
I believe this also occurred during the recent raid in Yemen. Seems our secret helicopters are one time use only...
Here is the article covering that:

"Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads."

It then goes on to sort-of suggest that despite this new pain the net benefit will be better for "working-class" people......somehow. No thoughts were offered on how to keep the toll revenue from just padding out civil servant pensions and benefits while the traffic and roads muddle on.
Then the interviewer should explicitly say he wants to know your thought process too. 99% of them just say code this and let me know when you are done
Tolls are a monopoly granted by the government, which makes it the opposite of a free market. The real result of a free market would be private roads or highways that would compete against each other for tolls. Neither are a great solution. Simply throwing more public transportation at the problem isn't going to help either.

If LA wants to improve their traffic problem, they need to address the root cause: bad urban planning and zoning laws. Where people work and where people live are in completely different areas of the city, requiring you to commute. They need to make local traffic easier (ie: not force you onto the freeway) and they need to reduce the need to drive all over the city every single day.
I know it's not exactly the same thing, but reminds me of this video from a while back:

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNgsU9o4ik