skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost me £1700 (about €2000). High-end Mid-drive motors pushing 75nm+ are expensive. Bosch Pro CX line and Shimano Steps are the other two types available. If you start looking around, you see the cheaper mid-drive, i.e. Bosch Active Line starting around £2000 and are suitable for lighter people. The high end motors are usually combined with high end parts and bigger batteries. Thus you end up with bikes costing between 3-4k.

It's saved me an absolute fortune. In fact after owning it for a month, my wife wrote off my car. We just took the insurance money and didn't buy another car going down to a one car family.
The model of how the init scripts worked is terrible. There's no cross distribution bug fixing of those scripts. It's something added by the distribution. If there's an upstream script, it's often buggy. Or it didn't integrate with the 'speed init scripts up hacks' that various distributions were doing. Huge time sink for no particular gain.
not necessarily true. Uber is developing relationships with the regulators in all of their markets, a highly local endeavor. It's possible, even likely, that they are going to use these relationships to their own advantage when launching self driving cars in different markets.
You missed the fact that the README points to this fork, which was updated 3 months ago:

https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong

There is also an extant issue regarding Racket 6.3 support that HN readers might want to address:

https://github.com/soegaard/whalesong/issues/48
Ugh fields (2010)
Does anyone know how the constants in xoroshiro128+ were chosen?
>everybody wants to work more hours at the restaurant, but nobody wants to go out to eat—and therefore something has to give

Ideally the restaurant would lower wages until fewer people want to work there, and lower prices until people want to eat there. Decreasing the value of money feels like a dirty hack that benefits the richest at the expense of everyone else. Remember before we adopted these policies recessions used to be really short.
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From the linked article:

> ... poor households, with annual take-home incomes under $13,000, on average, spend $645 a year on lottery tickets, which comes to about 9% of their yearly income..

$ echo 13000*.09|bc
1170.00

$645 is ~5% of 13k.
Numbers today are all well and good, but goodwill and rate-of-change indicate future trends. People will tire of $3000 laptops with nonfunctional WiFi and Apple Authorized Service Centers voiding their AppleCare warranties.
I would buy this if it was significantly cheaper than a phone and made it easy to adjust those tuning parameters. I prefer to keep my phone protected on the bike in case of a collision / fall.
It also assumes they can make more using it for ride sharing themselves rather than licensing it to everyone.
Am I correct in understanding that "waste reduction" (breeder) reactors essentially burn more (most?) the fuel in the core, without that external re-processing?
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I'm interested in how the tipping will enable Uber to really focus drivers on service. Tips are likely to be a pretty strong indicator for what customers want, and may be optimized by Uber should they choose to do so. I assume that 100% of the tip amount goes to the driver, but is that actually true? Uber does have an expense in adding the feature to it's app & operation.

Uber will collect a lot of data that they can share with drivers regarding what they can do to increase tips. Basics like keep a clean car, or how much to chat with customers, or perhaps even customer-specific services like 'don't speed at all', or 'get out and open the door' for them, or, 'likes the car temp at 80 degrees...'.

Moreover, it can indicate what cities or localities tip best, what time of day, what types of people tip well, ...

I am trying to think of another platform better suited to recording this type of data, but it's not coming to mind. Will Uber use it to benefit customers and drivers, or, abuse it for it's own gain?
Fair enough.

The first one, for the memory comparison, is indeed from 2015.

The second one isn't -- 2015 desktop/server GPUs didn't have good half-float operations yet, as that hadn't really been a market. However, the first-mentioned GPU from 2015 has 8.6 single-precision TFlop/s, which is also more than 2x higher than their comparison baseline for GPUs.

The gaming/server and especially the ECC thing is pretty moot. First, while I'm not sure what kind of server SKUs were available at the time, it hardly affects architectural results. Second, even market availability shouldn't matter much. They're Google. If they had wanted different SKUs in volume, they almost certainly could have gotten them.

I mean, it's clear that a special-purpose chip is going to beat anything else at a task like this. It's just odd that they apparently felt the need to make themselves look better than they really are when the result is impressive enough with a real comparison.
So we all have to get out and walk?
Keywords "Looking at." I'll take that as a datapoint.
Your instinctive reaction is probably correct. Gotta get them young to indoctrinate them.
+1 for dismantling government bureaucracy

-1 for deceiving us about global warming, maybe
I'm not really qualified to assess this piece, which suggests the brass ring isn't what it seems in any case:

http://thebulletin.org/fusion-reactors-not-what-they%E2%80%9...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-...
Can someone who has written novel-length fiction give an explanation of why you need specialized software? I've never written anything longer than a short story (on MS Word or Notepad) back when I used to write fiction. So I am not aware of the problems that accompany a longer work. I always thought if I started writing again I'd use vim or Sublime Text.

I've heard things like being able to do outlines or charts or whatever. But those things seem to lend themselves better to handwritten notes or hand-drawn diagrams.
I wrote a book to teach JavaScript to sound artists that is is loosely related.

http://javascriptforsoundartists.com
Maybe ISPs would get around to fixing their network if hundreds or thousands of people had it running.
especially if you enter that market later with a better service. let the uber investors train consumer to jump in random cars while you perfect autonomous driving... save your capital for manufacturing cars... and Uber will be left with a very nice database... a pretty app... and no cars or drivers.
It's really telling when computer experts are the ones most scared ahout electronic voting, software lotteries, etc.

Even the best BitCoin experts seem to recommend burying your bitcoin key in you yard or storing it on paper at the bank.
Canada has had Environment Canada's weather reporting for a while:

February 8, 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100208180217/http://www.weathe...

Today: http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-143_metric_e.html

As a fun extra, I just found an Apps Gallery that uses open data: http://open.canada.ca/en/apps?_ga=2.119480777.1582349726.150...
I made the initial version of https://seekbeak.com after about 3 or 4 months. It's been updates and additions for the past year now.

I'll echo the rest of the folks in here: Launch early, and add features as you go. I'd rather launch at 85% than never launch at 100%

Also, there is a fine line between an initial launch which is missing a few fancy features, and an embarrassing clusterfuck. So make sure that the site/app is totally functional, and as bug free as you can be. Then you can get to work on adding all the bells and whistles which are buzzing around your head!
Because there goes their margin?
"The inside of the Petten test reactor where the thorium salt is being tested is shining due to charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light in water."

What I thought that wasn't possible? Or is this just the speed of light in water, so the particles are still moving slower than the speed of light in a vacuum?
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I happen to know those intersections. They could have improved that wiggle route simply by rating the intersections. I'm not sure but it looks like they were not doing that.

The old route crossed two stop signs and did a left turn at a traffic signal. Left turns at traffic signals really suck.

The new, proper wiggle route is two left turns and a right turn, all at stop signs. Left turns at stop signs are not that much worse than going straight across -- and vastly better than a traffic light. Right turns are practically free.

So by simply rating the difficulty of intersections using a global metric, it seems like they could have made the same wiggle improvement without getting into rating each section of street. My point here is not that assessing things like accomodation_factor and road_stress are useless. Rather it appears that they've overlooked the much simpler, global improvement of rating intersections.
Tesla is not allowing their vehicles to be used outside the Tesla Network e.g for Uber. It's already in the fine print.
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> Even crazier is that the people who really wanted to string Snowden up by the neck were the conservatives

I strongly feel that this had bipartisan support across the aisles. Obama supported it, despite his pledge to protect whistle blowers. Hillary was no different.
Maybe if they were the only ones working on autonomous vehicles plus they may not come out well liked... it's not looking like they will in my opinion
Uber loses money on every trip but makes up for it in volume.

It really seems like an underpants gnome situation.
Yeah, it even happened to me in progressive utopia Olympia, WA.
For me the best was Richard Matthews reading "A Short History Of Nearly Everything"
He only regrets it because he got caught.
There's less affordances for touch-typing based on the shape of keys like Lenovo or older keyboards for boundaries of keys... it just makes typing harder unnecessarily to shave a few millimeters.
Even Excalibur can be used to mince garlic, and even a supercomputer can be used to play Zork.
Web merchants routinely leak data about Bitcoin purchases
About bloody time. Excuse the pun
Touchbar is definitely a no-go, requires looking down and breaks flow.
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> What I thought that wasn't possible? Or is this just the speed of light in water, so the particles are still moving slower than the speed of light in a vacuum?

Good question! It's the latter - the shining is due to Cherenkov radiation [0], "electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Has the waterline changed:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/AK/3_rid/waterfront_at...
Probably the only tech video I have watched completely in the last 12 months (I hate video--it's such a slow way to transmit information).

While it clearly is a bit of marketing for his own baby (tokamak with modern superconducting magnets), it has a lot of good technical points.

The big one being that tokamak is the only fusion technology anywhere near being commercially feasible--by several orders of magnitude.
So this person's crime was being against CoCs? I seem to remember the Ruby community being similarly against this...
There is also an IPSec example in the tests, that we should move to the examples, and vNAT implemented. More is coming. If you are interested in a particular one, please write, maybe we already have done it.
This is absurd, who could have ever thought it is a good idea?
If they're not training autonomous systems for these extremely simple use cases, I'd imagine there wouldn't be much confidence in what else will be missed by the "autonomous" system.

Out of the infinite number of possibilities one can encounter while driving, can the systems be trained to apply common sense? You can't program an infinite number of if-then conditionals for every possibility. The system has to be able to "think" and apply reasonable interpretation, like any human would when taking in any visual or audible input and converting that into a vehicle maneuver.

The data today suggests that autonomous vehicles get into less accidents per vehicle mile than human drivers, which is promising. But who knows if autonomous vehicles are being used in complex situations representative of human driving conditions: poor weather, non-highway driving, etc. If we're putting them on the 101 in sunny weather, then yes, I'd expect them to perform reasonably well and definitely better than the average human.
I think they don't know when to stop. Fleeing the country would put an end to their criminal career, and they continue to see dollar signs. By the time they realize that the authorities will put a stop to it anyway, it's too late.
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I mean, if you're worried just buy some really far out put options on the S&P 500. If the market crashes you can offset your employment instability. If nothing happens you're only out $20k or so.
> I would much rather the driver make a fair wage

Never in anything I have read about Uber has there been anything more clear than the fact the Uber drivers make a pittance -- nothing near a fair wage.
This reads eerily like a press release for GCP...
Thank you, this was excellent and very informative.

You weren't kidding about the lambda calculus definition!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus#Formal_definit...

With that said, your comment seems quite technical, about the single point of simplicity. You don't talk much about Go at all, and although the other poster has also answered, I'd be curious in your answer as well (if you've worked with Go):

You've given a definition of simplicity (correcting mine). Did you find Go simple? What other thoughts did you have?
It's a prisoner's dilemma type problem. Unless you can get everybody to agree then the rational thing to do is to use as much carbon as you can to stay ahead of the other guys.
Fully autonomous cars that don't require a driver are decades away, Uber may not have that much time. When they do arrive there's sure to be a lot of competition in that space.
For those who don't want to do the decoding, the first letter of each paragraph reads IMPEACH.
> scroll position is lost when visiting another page and going back

Who ever thought that keeping scroll position was a good idea anyway?

Use #s if the position is relevant.
>> And given that the average electric drill is in use for just 15 minutes each year, and is kept in storage for the rest of the time, it’s clear that many “household” items don’t really need to be owned at all.

Owning a drill is convenient - I don't want to rent or borrow one to drill a single hole to put up a new dishrag holder.
Note the word "under."
Or don't let them see the tips until clearing finances at the end of the week.
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Have you tried the documentation for google's sdk? I stopped in disgust trying to track down what I needed and then trying to manage through multiple different admin interfaces.
Hi, Obie! :-) If I hadn't discovered Python first, I probably would have been a Ruby fanatic, too. But yeah, I mostly do JavaScript now.

Ironically, I've a got a theory (I did confirm parts of this with Martin years ago, though), that it's all Martin's fault. Before Martin was into Ruby, for a brief period of time, he was a Python fan. But by the time we wrote Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, he was full-on into Ruby. Then DHH came along and wanted to implement one of the first patterns listed (Active Record). DHH wanted to to step away from PHP and write his new code in whatever Martin's favorite language was. And the rest is history. But within a small window of time, DHH's project might have been called Python on Rails. So, it's all Martin's fault that you (or DHH or half of ThoughtWorks) never became a Python fanatic. :-)
It's like he didn't want to hide he's anti-science and was on the globalist payroll. Good riddance.
React: components, props and state
It really does require a lot of discipline to stay focused nowadays. In my personal life I'm terrible at it. I wish I read more, like I did before the Internet are my life.

But at work, I HAVE to be disciplined. I start my day with 1 hour of communications catch-up, including stand-ups and slack. Then I turn off slack, and get to work. My phone is set to do not disturb automatically starting at 10am. I check messages when I'm on a break, going to the bathroom, on lunch, etc... But the messages are never allowed to interrupt me.

Works for me, at least.
I believe your objection is that widening heavily congested roads doesn't help, and that only widening lightly congested or non-congested roads improves traffic conditions, yes?

In that case, the linked-to report gives tepid support for that possibility, saying:

> This (admittedly weak) trend downward suggests the conjecture that more roadway can lead to a more than proportional increase in traffic when roads are not congested. Alternatively, it may be that the most useful highway segments are developed earlier and receive more traffic. This second conjecture is consistent with John G. Fernald’s (1999) conclusion that the productivity effects of the US interstate system show a marked decline over time.

Do note that the concerned cities are already congested, so your objection is neither here nor there.

The economics model is not complicated. People are willing to spend a certain amount of money to commute. If the cost of travel goes down, they are more likely to travel longer distances because they can use the extra money on, say, a larger house. The question is, what is the shape of the demand curve? The linked-to paper tries to tease out those numbers, and show that increasing capacity doesn't meet the increased demand.

I'll try to extend it to your web server analogy. People are willing to wait 0.5 seconds for information, and it's not linear. That is, people don't care if it takes 0.01 or 0.4 or 0.5 seconds, but they do care if it takes 1 second and really care if it takes over 10 seconds.

(See https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-... )

If you increase the capacity of the system which can respond in 0.5 seconds, then you can give a response in 0.3 seconds. Or, you can add more functionality and data in the same 0.5 seconds.

Thus, it's possible that adding more capacity results in saturating the new capacity.

(This isn't a great analogy. What makes it worse is that most people don't expect to pay for, say, Facebook. While the roads are paid for mostly by the users of the roads, through taxes.)

In any case, what is your interpretation of the increased congestion of the 23-lane Katy Freeway after widening? "But no matter how wide it gets, added capacity just induces further flung development and more peak hour driving, with the result that the freeway is even slower today than it was when it was widened just a few years ago." I think you are suggesting it should be widened again? No other city needs such a wide freeway.

BTW, when you write "I'm suspicious of ..." and present a conjecture about why a blog written by expert in the field, backed by a scholarly paper in the field, is incorrect, well, I can't help but wonder why you think your untrained intuition should carry any weight for other HN readers, or why you decided to not read the supporting documents.
It's not quite that simple here in AU. But I hope this takes off!
They address that right?

> The idea is to stick to standard materials wherever possible and therefore the tubes are made of ordinary stainless steel. The suitability of steel remains to be determined. Corrosion may be a problem, and it is not yet know if it can be controlled by managing the salt chemistry. The high temperatures in MSRs might also be problematic, even if the pressure inside the system is low.

And

> For SALIENT-02, a different material mixture will be used that contains beryllium, forming a mixture also known as FliBe.
Further experiments will focus more on the interaction between the salt and the containment materials. Corrosion resistance is very important for those materials: they should be mechanically strong, and able to resist chemical corrosion and intense radiation. This corrosion resistance will be the next focus of the experiments with tests for 316 stainless steel, Hastelloy, the nickel alloy that ORNL used in the 1960s, and TZM – a titanium/zirconium/molybdenum alloy. Molybdenum has the potential to neutronically be much more attractive but there is no history of testing it at these temperatures.
As someone who would definitely be grouped into the 'alt-left', I don't let it get to me. It's just a word used to describe my views, which is attempted to be used as a prejorative. We should judge people by the views they hold, not the names we give to them, and I think that goes for everyone. When someone is described as 'alt-right' I have little idea what their positions are, so I feel it's not right for me to judge them on that.

Similarly, when I'm called 'alt-left' without having expounded my viewpoint, why should I take it to have any meaning? I could be a Communist, democratic Socialist, syndicalist, Communalist, an anarchist, or even a national Bolshevik or social democrat.

Just like the groups I associate with have turned round 'commie' to mean something neutral or even positive within their groups, the same might happen to 'alt-left', and I think that's the best way to go about it.

Another example is when Left-wingers were accused of calling each other 'conrad'. Now we call ourselves 'Conrad', and it's great fun.
He would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids.
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The "inelastic" might have been a shot at AWS. When pressed, the AWS people do use phrases like "pre-warming", "over provisioning" and "advance notice" around their ELB/ALB setup and ECS.

Google's cloud salespeople pitch that they don't require any of that.
I wouldn't call the stereotypical government site a "nice layout". It seems like more often than not my experience with government sites is that I have no idea how to find the data I need.

Try finding a campground in Washington in the early spring. Is it open? Do they take reservations? Are they required? Good luck.

Agreed that trendy and usable are unrelated.
> Then they get downvoted by people who think "TL;DR READ IT" is a masterful blow against everything wrong with Kids Today

How many articles are released every day? The sheer number of words published every minute, all with titles designed to demand attention, is truly staggering.

Assuming that everyone who wants an abstract/tl;dr is lazy is ridiculous (though, as always, not completely inaccurate). Anyone who enjoys staying up-to-date on a broad set of topics can hardly expect to maintain a functional lifestyle without some help in picking which articles and reports get read in-depth.

On a separate note, the bigger problem with Kids Today (imo) is the pursuit of arbitrary social points (karma/upvotes/likes/retweets) when engaging in discussions online. This seems to drive the trend toward low effort memes, jokes and pop culture references which decrease the signal/noise ratio.
> I wouldn't call "shitty" something with a nice layout and readability.

Yeah, me neither.
I was a pretty heavy user (1-3 trips a month) for about a year after graduating high school, and I still take it about once a year now. I disagree that it has all the answers, psilocybin does not reveal any great truths or break down the mysteries of the universe.
That said I love it and just did a light trip for the eclipse, it can bring calm, peace, love of nature, love of self and others to you, but it is not some magic path to god.