skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear - I'm not 100% opposed to tolling. Around here in NYC there is a plan by MoveNY to institute tolling on all East River bridges which I think is a great idea for raising revenue and reducing congestion.

But the trick is that NYC has multiple competent alternative modes for people to fall back to - the train (both commuter and metro), as well as an extensive bus system - not to mention the ferry system.

But more often than not tolling is proposed without reasonable alternative modes. The poor can take the bus instead of paying the toll - if the bus system was good enough to get them to work on time... If it serves their neighborhood at all.

I'm not sure if the article you linked to is specifically in regards to a specific proposal in LA - I agree with its conclusions, but I don't think you can take a "tolls don't hurt the poor" conclusion from it. Heck, the very bottom of the article literally admits "Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor".

Specifically, the UCLA graphic claims (IMO correctly) "tolling hurts less than a commensurate sales tax increase". This is absolutely correct - sales taxes are regressive and tend to impact low-income people much more than wealthy people. Tolling is the lesser of two evils here, but we can and should do better than just those two options.

There are more ways to fund transport infrastructure than just tolls and sales taxes - property and income taxes, for one, which are progressive and do not have the disproportionate impact on low-income people. Property taxes in particular help the government realize the gains produced by infrastructure investment - a new transit center leads to rising property values, leading to more revenue that can be used to maintain or expand said infrastructure.

In any case, I'm actually for tolling, but only if reasonable alternative modes are already in place. Unfortunately this means I'm against tolling in (most) parts of the US, because frankly alternative modes are either non-existent or so marginal that they are not reasonable fallbacks to driving.
Honestly, can you think of a more appropriate platform to host a COBOL compiler? Google Code maybe? A Gopher site somewhere? Telnet into a BBS to download it?
If you are interested the same is possible with https://link.fish/hn-early-access/ which has a Zapier integration. It allows to send an URL and it then returns its data.
However, you would have to send me an email to info@link.fish because the integration is still in beta mode and so only available after invitation.
Misguided nationalism has many adherents.
A hurricane isn't a thunderstorm, and has very limited vertical movement in its airflows. The hurricane hunter P3s do it.
This is a worthwhile analysis - interesting to see the graphs and breakdown along different angles.

But I don't see the "big flaw" exposed. You've democratized movie rating and got an accurate reflection of the polarized feelings on the topic. Are you arguing people should be "objective"? Are they objective about any movie?

People voting before really seeing the movie - a problem yes, but the outcome wouldn't change much. And it is an implementation problem, not a problem with online rating per se.
He was willing to (personally) buy the Washington Post, but I agree that it doesn't mean politics will factor into his decisions at Amazon.
That would be great! However a number of companies (like PayPal) cancelled their plans to move to the area last year because of the HB2 debacle. Not sure how Amazon feels about that. Good thing is that the situation seems to have normalized now with a democrat governor and some big companies (like HSBC) moving here this year.
Quassel (a bouncer/client combination) has that included.

A one-click setup powers my IRC clients with multiple devices and logs even when I’m not online, powers a fulltext search ( https://gluu.kuschku.de/dl/videos/2016-09-16_04-03-36.mp4 ), powers a fully public logger https://gluu.kuschku.de/logs/ and much more.

All this exists, is free, and just works.

And there’s many more such systems that provide this functionality. From IRCCloud to many web clients.
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If there are better ways to generate it, then I'm sure they'll come to the fore. I agree that the practice is unfair and the government should pass some laws preventing it, but for the cities themselves, there's no better way to generate such job/tax growth.

If you've seen Amazon's crazy hiring for the past few years, you wouldn't doubt that they'll create a lot of jobs.
They haven't been getting a pass, criminalization is just totally ineffective at dealing with the problem. As far as disproportionate enforcement goes, rural and suburban Americans haven't been murdering anyone at nearly the rate of inner city gangs, which is a big part of why there's more enforcement in urban areas.
I really hope I can soon replace

add_compile_options($<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:-std=c++1z>)

with

set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)

Note: we had a green field application that started with an empty Emacs buffer so figured we could go straight to C++17. I doubt this is a particularly common case right now.
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I see Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Solar companies as being quite synergistic over the medium term...and especially in application in space.
FWIW, I use finch (https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch) as my client and it's great.

No emojis, no gifs, etc. is awesome. It gets the job done, and gets out of your way. It's not trying to focus your attention on chatting instead of doing your job.

I still really don't like having chat go to an external party, but if I have to, it makes it easier to use.
They've done #3 before. see: floppy drives and ADB -> USB.

"What about my legacy media/peripherals?"
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>> I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run?

They may or may not have volunteered for the flight, but they do get the final decision to go in or turn back once the airline OKs it.
Who was on the arrival flight?
Can someone explain why this three-page article has 72 "authors"? That works out to about as much writing per author as this comment.
The following explanation is probably implied but I still want to mention it: When a movie (or any form of media really) discusses such a polarizing issue like climate change doesn't the rating always lose its meaning? When a film, book, etc. treats a polarizing issue, most people probably abuse ratings as a (binary) vote on whether or not they agree with the narrative. And not whether it's a good movie based on film theory (ie. characters, visuals, story arc, etc.). Does this issue have a name? We see it on HN too, where people use up- and downvotes for agreeing/disagreeing, rather than separating informative, from non-informative comments.
"When a developer is negligent and user data is compromised, do they take responsibility? No."

^ Well, replace "negligent" with "makes a mistake", and I've taken responsibility plenty of times. Situations happen. You do your best to mitigate mistakes in code within the constraints of your situation, but you don't always catch everything. Corner cases arise that you did not foresee, etc.

I have missed things that have caused user data corruption (or a similar problem) before, and when it was discovered I apologized to the user(s), fixed the problem and moved on. It's an imperfect world and I'm not omniscient. Yeah plenty of developers would just patch it, move on and not tell anyone, but there are a lot of us who care about the people we write code for and do the right thing.
Specifically one good size capacitor would do against it. or a slightly more complex tiny filter.

Unless said "ultrasound" is just high audible data, in which case I'm not impressed. (Similar to "ultrasound" audio Doppler used in some cellphone apps.)

Very loud ultrasound carries badly through air and produces nasty effects in dogs, cats and some people.
can we send messages through it?
> Tuples are ordered though. I don't usually think of structs by the order the properties are declared - I usually think of them by name.

Think for instance of a 2D point structure. There are tons of implementations, all with different naming conventions ; or sometimes storing them in an array. This allows to just do :

auto [x, y] = someRandomLibraryPoint();
You need to consider that a coder most oftne self evaluates performance as time spent writing code. If he spends 50% of his time planing, learning, comunicating, and 50% coding he will consider it a 50% performance drop.
That is mostly what happened. Some French company wouldn't play nice.
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Yes. Chomsky knew him when he was at MIT and has come to his defense.[1]

I admit my initial reaction was "of course this guy's a charlatan," and read 10 things that seems to support that. For example here is a review of the development of e-mail primitives prior to Ayyadurai's work.[2] It starts out pretty level headed, but later on in the updates to Ayyadurai's responses it gets more defensive and flustered in tone, and the technical arguments become impenetrable -- which to me are signs that there's more substance to Ayyadurai's claim than you might think.

The heart of the matter is that many of the primitives of what became e-mail developed in the 70s, but the question is what constituted a fully integrated user-friendly inter-organizational system. Ayyadurai's showpiece of evidence is that Dave Crocker stated in 1977 that "At this stage, no attempt is being made to emulate a full-scale inter-organization mail system" that confirmed to the "cognitive model of a regular office-memo system".[3]

Crocker has since walked back[4] that claim and said his report doesn't say what it says... It's very odd. It very clearly states, right in the summary, that the "cognitive models" and "psychological aspects" did not yet match what "typical users" expected of messaging systems.

And looking back through [2], I see a lot of words but no evidence that there was a functioning, user-friendly system that addressed these "psychological aspects" prior to Ayyadurai. So basically, it does seem plausible that he brought these concepts together in a way no one had quite done before, in his basement when he was 14 or whatever, and him being all self-congratualtory about it really pisses the "establishment Internet guys" off that worked on all these primitives.

Maybe it's me, but honestly this all smacks of the classic "engineers don't appreciate UX design" conflict. "Oh you just figured out some UI stuff.. that's not real engineering..."

[1] http://www.inventorofemail.com/noam-chomsky-on-invention-of-...

[2] http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai

[3] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3318894-R2134.html#d...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/shivas-war-one-m...
> * /whois and /away are poor replacements for user status tracking.

That’s why IRC has away-notify, which does exactly what slack and co do for status tracking.

> * DCC is a a poor replacement for video chat, screen sharing, or file sharing.

That’s why people are working on an RFC for WebRTC negotiated via IRC.

> * Always-connected clients are poor replacements for message history and push notifications.

That’s why message history and push notification RFCs are being worked on, and already implemented in some IRCds (Snoonet transmits the last 5 minutes before login marked as such, for example, others transmit everything you request)

> * Service packages are poor replacements for fine-grained permission controls and registration.

That’s something that I hate, too, but some modern IRCds have far better permissions systems nowadays. Oh, and registration and login happens via a standardized SASL anyway, so you can also auth via OAUTH if you have to.
Because many movies are actually screened months before the official release date in film festivals and the like.
Criminalization is not what I'm advocating. If Sessions and Trump are fighting the legalization of medicinal cannibis what exactly do you think are the chances of decrim or state funded medical treatment for opioid and meth addicts?

>rural and suburban Americans haven't been murdering anyone

Those drugs are brought into the US by very violent gangs and I certainly can grow pot peacefully in my home. Ignoring the trafficking of these drugs is morally inexcusable. How many of these addicts make their own opioids or meth? Meth linked crimes are a huge number and almost always violent. Opioid withdrawal brings in a great deal of crime too. Those rural towns that have fallen into opioid addiction are crime hellholes for this very reason.

Heavy opioid use is linked to crime, unlike some drugs:

>(2) heavy opioid users committed crimes significantly more frequently than did moderate opioid users, non-opioid polydrug users, cannabis users or alcohol users

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2790266

Also:

>Methamphetamine was the only drug use variable that was strongly correlated with homicide.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18936516

I'd much rather work with "urban pot" users than rural meth and opioid addicts, and so would you. Why the former is more under attack than the latter shows our systemic problems with race in this country. Remember sentiment like this is why pot is illegal, from Harry J. Anslinger, the founder of the war on drugs:

“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
Mid-late-: the average of 1995 and 1999? :-p

And #5648, but I was a lurker for some time before a friend convinced me to register.

EDIT: but yes, lisp hate meme was probably firmly late 90s
Alright, I did it, based on OpenFlights route data (https://openflights.org/data.html). The list is:

Albuquerque, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, St. Louis, Toronto.

Both Chicago airports are on the list, as are Fort Lauderdale (FLL) and Long Beach (LGB), but this is about metro areas, not airports. I also manually filtered out Honolulu.
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Flying into a hurricane involves a lot more than just horizontal wind. There's convection, turbulence, wind shear and heavy precipitation. It is not uncommon for hurricanes to spawn tornadoes.

NOAA has been flying aircraft into hurricanes since the 1950s. It is not inordinately dangerous, but it is not just another flight, either.

https://www.wunderground.com/resources/education/hugo1.asp
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>Kafka is not a messaging queue. It's a log.

Kafka bills itself as a "messaging system".

>The same underlying structure used within our RDBMS to provide all the guarantees Kafka provides.

Is there perhaps a reason that people use the RDBMS scaffold atop this "underlying structure"? The point I'm making is that Kafka is not safe for use cases that demand robust data storage and integrity, at least not in comparison to the standard of safety set by the traditional systems of record for important data (RDBMS).
You are not the city you live in.
While I'm not familiar with SJU, my guess is an airport terminal is likely one of the more sturdy buildings around, and is likely to have some pretty robust structures you can take shelter in. Most commercial buildings are sturdier than the average house, and I'd rather be at an airport than at home in a storm that levels buildings.
Its a focus on stability and we don't want you to be thinking about Vagrant either when you upgrade. We just want it to work. :)

However, I want to be clear its not a marketing tactic in any way (re: hosh below, with an excellent comment!). It ends up being that implicitly but we waited and developed Vagrant 1.x for 5 years prior to calling it a 2.0 because we had a lot of goals we wanted to achieve: multi-provider, fantastic Windows support, stable installers, etc. We feel we've now achieved that in a very stable way, so its time to call it 2.0.

This breakpoint for us allows us to begin planning and executing on larger changes. Of course, we'll do all of this thoughtfully since Vagrant is definitely a tool you want to "just work" today and not think about breaking your envs. I admit this does happen from time to time though and I'm sorry about that, but we're getting better.
A surprisingly common argument against veganism is "but plants feel pain, too," based on interpretations of articles such as this one on Vice [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd74nd/we-asked-a-botanis...]. I suppose the argument is that, if there is any amount of cruelty in our consumption, then we may as well surrender to this fact and eat whatever we want. (Also, haha vegans are dumb.) I'm sure this study will be added as support for this perspective.

But it should be obvious that even if plants were proven to be sentient, vegans would continue to eat them. Our primary directive on this planet is to survive, just like every other organism. Once that's settled we can focus on doing so with as little suffering as possible, to the best of our ability.
> Why wouldn't they rather spend the money on things that mattered? like shelter/rent or food.

Get hooked on opioids and they ARE the only thing that matters.
Take everything Jordan Peterson says with a massive mound of salt. He has a long history of spouting off controversial opinions on topics without much (if any) evidence backing those opinions.
Is it Electron based ? :(
Your comment is gross. It is the exact opposite of charitable interpretation.
Afaik in GitLab Wiki you can mention issues to link to them (same as in merge requests and elsewhere). Is that what you had in mind or is the integration in Confluence deeper?
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This seems like making your own wine. Fun, but less practical than going down to the store and choosing from a large variety of professionally produced products.
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Why a new format ? Why couldn't protobuf, hdf5 or the Apache Feather/Arrow format (which counts Hadley and McKinney as contributors).

I understand there could be something unique in this format, but really keen to understand what.
I'm on the fence about him myself but do you not see the irony in your comment?
Why would you want to pile another black box on top of the black box?
Perhaps many years ago? Eastern Kansas has a pretty massive tech sector now. So do some parts of Kansas City metro.
"We can't publish right now because the database had to enter an unplanned maintenance period" is a lot different from "our authoritative archive is gone and we have to try to rebuild it from all these separate 'materialized views', woops."
Given the long lead time on orders for, what, nearly a year now, it seems likely these are not trivial to manufacture.

And these are really tiny computers and highly optimized batteries, so I'd be surprised if the BoM is that low, but determining that is definitely not my strong suit.
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Good to know! Thanks!
Without Al Gore's name nobody would have noticed. There are a lot of people who throw a fit when they just hear that name. Now imagine if Hillary Clinton did a documentary. That would probably be the most rated movie ever.
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I'd say it would require extremely good placement of the emitter and knowledge of exact microphone mechanics to pull it off anywhere else than in the lab.

I'd be impressed if it even worked in a lab.
> To directly export this code, ONNX would have to support conditionals [...]

Does ONNX aim to serve as a human-readable and human-maintainable network description for experimentation and research, or does ONNX aim to serve only as a model export interchange format (primarily to be machine-interpreted)?

This could serve very well in the latter case, but would be quite problematic in the former -- where conditionals, for loops, etc. are essential to a compact and readable representation of many network architectures.

Reading a static neural network architecture descriptor of a very deep neural network is akin to reading assembly code from a compiler that does loop unrolling. Static network descriptions work great when pushing a model to production, but are much less suitable for the research and development stages (IMO).
I think it isn't in theory (jobs! tax revenue from families!) but how often do these things play out?
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Good write-up. And it kept him off the streets.

Many moons ago when a US Robotics Courier modem on a leased analogue line was still bleeding edge live IP provision in the UK, one of our pages got featured in "Mirsky's Worst of the Web" and our line was just maxed out for days. Divide all the CPU and line speeds by a few orders of magnitude and it all felt much the same getting what would become known as /.-ed... B^>
Not sure that follows from my definition of coercion.

Certainly coercion is a deterrent to theft, but most people don't steal because they're socialized when they grow up to believe that stealing is wrong.
As an Atlanta resident, I find it a terrible place to visit but a great place to live.

Great cities have (1) cool places to visit; and (2) lots of hidden gems - parks, restaurants, etc. - that take years to discover. Atlanta lacks the first, but has plenty of the second. That combined with good weather, great housing options and a Delta hub make it pretty nice to live in.
Personally I found that the times I am most in a long term lull of procrastination, is when I am not getting enough sleep. It's sort of a self fulfilling cycle. I stay up late working, next day I try again, but I am too tired to focus, so I stay up later but get less done, next day I stay up late with even less productivity, etc. If I just break and get sleep, I am more fresh and ready to be more productive the next day. Also keeping organized, setting small task goals, eating healthy, and staying hydrated are all important for productivity.
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Which means they're not using the membrane but the crummy amplifier electronics. Fixed with one or two capacitors.

Alternatively they're using almost deadly signal levels to overdrive a microphone at a distance.
Fake news is an even bigger problem than opioid use?
It's a nice touch that the website itself is horrific to negotiate, at least on mobile. (Yes, of course when I zoom in on a picture I want all the non picture stuff to expand and cover all the pictures. Who wouldn't want that?)