skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the state.

The city proper (served by the subway) represents about 20% of the population.

The metro area including parts of Connecticut and NJ (not represented in NY State gov't) is about 20M people. Even if they were all in state, that's still a bit under half the state's total population. And the metro area outside the city proper is still heavily dominated by car culture.

NY State also has several other much smaller but still significant population centers, including Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. These areas are not served by the MTA and are also automobile-centric, despite having been founded and initially become boom towns in part due to the Erie Canal (that is, before the railroad dominated shipping and travel, let alone cars).

Some things the city gets its way about, especially when its interests align with those of its suburbs or the smaller urban centers of the state. When it comes to non-car-centric transportation initiatives, however, it generally doesn't.
So, that's 25% of people having no rent to pay.

Then an additional 50% who have a home but still a mortgage to pay. The statistics don't say when mortgages will end, so we can't do any meaningful analysis on the majority.

There are more people on the low side, not WAY MORE contrary to your statement.
My battery is at 87% of its original capacity and the phone runs at 50% of its original CPU speed.

ETA: Point being, this doesn't appear to actually be limited to batteries that have seriously degraded.
> money-without-banks

Wouldn't most of the history of commodity money be exactly that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money
Should be a switch in the settings. Prefer battery life or prefer performance. One more setting won't kill anyone.
> It absolutely does. Shutting down the subway overnight would cripple the entire city. Even though overnight service is limited compared to daytime service, it's an essential part of the city's infrastructure.

> Moreover, eliminating overnight service isn't actually necessary for providing the improvements that the subway needs, so talking about eliminating overnight service is a red herring.

I see statements & 0 facts...
Please check your references and come back with data.
Why can't this just be rolled into "Low Power Mode" or something?

I have a charger at work, at home, and in the car. I'm used to having to charge things. Just having a reduced battery life is fine with me.

The reason why they're taking the "reduced performance" route is that it is planned obsolescence. It drives sales of new phones in a world where the actual phone, if well-protected, could last a decade. In our current world where smartphones have plateaued for years and Moore's Law has stagnated, it makes business sense to artificially induce a marked GUI performance difference between an older and newer phone. But it sucks for the consumer, and this sort of intentional downgrading should almost be illegal.

Glad to know I just have to change the battery. ~$40-50 at a local shop.
>If you're convicted of pedophilia (or rape) in a country, you should not be allowed to be alone with kids (or women) in another (like Polanski in the western world, but other examples exist). Should you?

No, but what does pedophila or rape have to do with software? You don't let convicted child molesters hang out with kids for obvious causal reasons but no such relationship exists with software.
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes
I don't think it was this change that put that to rest. I doubt Satoshi ever foresaw that BTC transaction times and fees would grow so large that you essentially cannot use it for everyday purchases. It is still not feasible to regulate BTC itself. They only really only regulating the exchanges.
FOSS projects are usually not businesses and are not held to the same standards.
If you bought a car and it stopped working after a year because the battery failed, you would expect to be able to change the battery yourself.
This dominatrix makes men mine cryptocurrency for her – she now has over $1m
The semantics of many languages' for loops are explicitly designed to avoid this problem: for example, for-of in ES6. Generally, modern language design considers the interaction between loop iteration variables and closure captures. It's reasonable to criticize Go as a language for not addressing this problem rather than users.
But you have the monorail from Seattle Center to Westlake :-)

Skytrain is a big bet transit system. Enormously expensive from a capital perspective, but offers a qualitatively great experience, and with pretty fixed operating costs.

Busses done well can offer great performance characteristics at lower costs (with the added benefits of resiliency though rerouting and service refinement).

But there seems to be something psychological about a choo-choo that gets people fired up for transit in a way that busses typically don’t. I think it’s because we have North American examples like Seattle’s Rapid Ride line that in the end didn’t deliver a train-like experience that we were sold on. We watered the BRT concept down so far as to make it meaningless.

Meanwhile, Link light rail is being delivered at high cost, but they aren’t cutting corners. Thus Link feels so much better than Rapid Ride.
It's interesting medicine would pursue this symptom in determining brain and nervous system problems - inflammation has been linked to depression, suicidal thinking and other mental disorders in recent research.
The whole point of Mastodon is that it's open source and decentralized. Anybody can run an instance any way they like. There are no global rules that apply to everybody. There are already many instances with wildly different rules and demographics.

The barrier to running your own instance is pretty low nowadays as hosting is becoming very cheap, and Docker removed a lot of the hassle associated with setting up an instance.
I didn’t know this existed, thanks for binging it up.
Only the centralized exchanges at that.
ISPs would have to block all crytocurrencies for that to work.

That would work, I guess, but that is a huge step to make and governments aren't currently talking about how they plan in banning all of Bitcoin.
> Government does not need to have it's own currency for exist or to do it's job.

Please provide evidence for this. It seems like most successful governments disagree.
I also wonder how this will deal with crypto coins that are specifically designed to avoid monitoring.

Seeing as it's insanely easy to set up an alternate address in any coin, and that whatever the US government knows of my coins could just be a tiny percentage.. how would they know how much to tax me on?

It seems so difficult as to be almost useless. Makes me think they'd be better off just considering it a foreign coin, and only tax what goes into and out of USD. I dunno, clearly I'm out of my element haha.
You can export the video from YouTube, just like you can export it from this application.
Tesla slightly understates battery capacity from the factory - to give future headroom and the appearance of less battery capacity.

In this case, are they 'guilty' of leaving extra performance/range on the table when the vehicle is new?
That seems like a major obstacle to mass adoption. The average HNer will understand that, and be willing and able to do it, but the average person will not.
Emulating Neo4j Graph DB Nodes and Edges in MongoDB 3.6
Here's what I don't get. I got back onto facebook about six months ago after deleting my previous account. I was using the account to auth into news article commenting systems.

Within 24 hours I apparently had ticked someone off who had reported me, because my account was locked until I scanned a photo ID of myself and uploaded it.

If that happened to me, why isn't it happening to _everyone_?
I find it weird how producers still insist on shoe-horning CGI humans into movies even when the technology clearly isn't there yet.

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Snoke is entirely CGI for no discernible purpose, and it's uncanny valley hell every second he's on screen. It's all in the animation, of course; the rendering itself is great, but there's something really off about his movements and facial expressions. What's odd is that they could easily have produced this character using a real actor in prosthetics, with some subtle CGI augmentations.

Tarkin in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is even worse, like something out of a video-game cutscene. I don't understand why they couldn't just have used an actor.
I disagree - people do notice their phones gradually slowing down. They just live with it, because there's nothing they can do about it beyond buying a new phone, which is a large purchase best postponed (that is, if they're not on a contract - if they are, the burden is much worse).

This behaviour adds significant stress and annoyance to lives of millions of people. In my book, it's just evil.
> publicly available evidence

What are some examples of what you would consider evidence?
>every nation on planet earth basically uses monetary policy

Not really true, if you consider all the countries that use the currency of an other. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution)
From what I've been able to tell, plugging the phone in helps in some cases but there are a lot of cases where it does not help.

(That's from reading around on the internets. I only have direct knowledge of my own situation, where plugging my phone in did not help but replacing the battery did.)
Sure. From the top of my head:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-authenticator/

For all of these - and I suppose this applies to most other WordPress plugins as well - the source code can easily be inspected.
> Did people expect the dotcom bubble?

Yes, people who worked in dot com expected it. Those who did not thought they were smarter than us. Going to coffee shops was surreal - there were people who were telling us what our companies were doing.
GCE is a hosted k8s. Google does the maintenance for you, to my understanding.
One nice thing is that this image makes it easy to support various VPNs out of the box. Though mine (ProtonVPN) isn't supported, so I had to use CUSTOM and fiddle a bit.

I made a setup using Transmission + VPN and NZBget, automated via Sonarr (for series), Radarr (for movies), and a few other software such as Muximux (for abstraction) and Emby. You can find these and a lot of other interesting images under the linuxserver.io flag [1]. As soon as a specific series (episode) or movies on my watchlist is released in the wild (ie. leaked from scene) I will get it. Automagically. So the other day, I suddenly had Dunkirk available.

I also learned about this software via HN so I guess I'm giving back this way directly. Or parroting, depending on your PoV. smile

[1] https://hub.docker.com/search/?isAutomated=0&isOfficial=0&pa...
ominous warnings from moderators, no matter how urbane the tone

Not once have I seen moderation based on viewpoint (and I do have showdead on). Without fail it has been because the poster repeatedly been an assclown in tone and wording, including when that moderation has been turned on myself. The fact that the moderated holds an unpopular opinion at times seems to be coincidence. There might be a correlation there, but it’s not with the moderation.
I suspect Microsoft. I've heard more than one young white person complain they don't want to work with "old" people. I don't think this is a tech thing as much as an American society thing. We are too biased against older age groups.
This is a good example, I agree that such a person probably isn't welcome - with a few caviats:

- Small (and well scrutinized) patches from this person are fine

- At some point forgiveness is due, maybe 3 years is at that point depending on the severity of their backdoor
>> But I think Apple needs to have iOS alert you that it's slowing your phone down because the battery has degraded.

I see so many Mac laptops with the service battery warning on. People won't replace them until they have to, even to the point of the laptop needing to be connected to the wall outlet to run.
Turning low power mode on or off makes no difference in this area. My phone runs at 50% speed, regardless of whether Low Power Mode is turned on or off.
I would rather figure out who the writers are and send them money directly . Maybe then they could feed their family.
I don't know how he didn't expect that. Isn't it designed in the system such that you can calculate the maximum transactions being handled?

I've seen some people blame the miners for the fees.. but when you have such a massive backlog, the variable fees are the only way it's even working at all right now. If not for that, it would be a lottery whose transactions actually got through.
Of course everyone knows it is Emacs EWW.
Nothing stops anyone from doing that. But you’d now have a 3rd party saying you own the bitcoin but your ownership is not recorded in the blockchain. So do you really own it? You could get fancy and issue another cryptocurrency backed by bitcoin too. I think the recording keeping just gets difficult. There are also forks of bitcoin to introduce lower fee and faster transactions but who knows if they will take over. For bitcoin to continue you need miners to validate transactions and they will only do so if it makes economic sense.
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>> and even though the first explanatory clause is invariably ignored by gun activists

It is not ignored, it is misrepresented and misunderstood by anti-gun activists, but I am not about to go into all the details of that here...

> Incidentally, after McDonald vs Chicago it's likely that ALL cities including New York may eventually be forced by the federal government to allow open carry and concealed carry on the street!

People with Licenses are not a concern, and should not concern anyone. Gun Violence against others is committed by criminals. Most "Gun Violence" committed by Legal Gun Owners is suicide which I believe should be legal anyway and not considered "Violence"

> I would make it illegal to carry guns outside the home / firing ranges / etc. because then we wouldn't have gun homicides the size of the Paris attacks every 6 days in the USA, even so.

Once you account for other sources and caused of Gun Violence (i.e the War on Drugs, and other government actions) the "threat" from legal gun owners is a statistical abnormality

If you want to reduce gun violence focus less on the tool (i.e the gun) and more on the causes of violence in general. Put that effort in toe Drug Abuse reform, decriminalization of Drugs, better mental health systems, reduction in poverty, inner city out reach and educational programs, about 1,000 other things that would be more effective at ending a lot of violence including gun violence than attempting to ban guns from law abiding people
Discussing a "circle jerk" (not a term consistent with the standards of discussion here) amongst an unnamed deluded majority that "seems to" exist is a rhetorical strategy that I will downvote, despite my generally vegetarian/sustainable meat consumption leanings
I also have been a bit confused by the usability of BTC for ordinary people, due to the units of measurement. The fractional nature of BTC and cryptocurrency seems like it would not fit the necessary ease of use for most non-digital, day-to-day transactions. I think ordinary people would find it hard to buy bread if it cost 0.000127 BTC ($1.99 USD), for example.
Bredesen has published about the reversal and with the small sample of 10 patients showed full reversal in 9 patients. There is no doubt at all when you read that patients were extremely forgetful, unable to do their job and unable to learn a new language were completely opposite after the short treatment: good memory, able to do the old job, and having pleasure learning a new language. Bredesen followed the 9 patients for 4 years after the treatment and there is no new decline. The treatment is a true cure.

There is nothing magical. Inflammation makes a mess of a brain and a healthy body is able to recuperate from almost any disease.
There's true, false, not proven. It (claim to be 120+ years old) is not proven. Necessarily, it's not true. If it becomes true in the future, the studies would be interesting. That's obvious. Basing any sort of continued argument or worse, research, on wishful thinking is something left up to you.
Mom and pop insider trading? How would that work, exactly? Or was it intended as a joke?
Dear one of the richest damn companies on the face of the earth:

MAKE . IT . EASIER . TO . REPLACE . THE . BATTERY !!!
Devil's advocate on this - what if the general population of your customers don't want to support a company that pays the salary of a murderer? Then it affects your bottom line. Would you still be ok with it?
One can argue that replacing real-life relationships with digital ones is unhealthy.

And digital lives are more easily monitored by governments -- not just the American or European governments, which is already bad enough. This too is dangerous.

Being able to go into a community of like-minded people translates in the meat-world to meat communities where your neighbors might have a completely different perception of reality than each other. This too is problematic.

I understand now that there is no company behind it. It's open-source and developed with good intentions, but as the saying goes, the graveyard is full of good intentions. I deeply distrust anything that entices me to reveal personal data in a medium monitored by the secret police.

How much these objections weigh for you depends on your priorities. Non-corporate, open-sourced social-media isn't significantly different for me to assuage my very real Internet privacy terrors.
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. I always thought I was going crazy, thinking my increasingly "old" phone seemed slow. This is really irritating and disingenuous on Apple's behalf - as said above, they should at least add a switch.
Honestly, that sounds like a dream scenario for creation of a new, better, fully distributed internet. This is my favorite timeline.
You've raised some excellent points with regards to firearms, though I had never considered them in this context as comparable to other minority groups, you have changed my mind.

One thing though, having recently been in the Portland area I can tell you firearm rights are not as badly abused as the general Portland stereotype would suggest. Portland itself has a few silly gun laws, but Oregon as a whole has a decent CCW law which overrides those of the city. It's a surprisingly gun friendly place to be.
You might like it on Mastodon, then. I could point you to some folks who are hard at work on reanimating gopher on from-scratch computers. :-)
They would need to regulate every ISP in the country to block the protocols, and then go after every website just using those protocols under the hood (and most of these would not be in the USA).

I can't see that ever happening especially because these protocols would have non currency uses as well.
This article reads to me as if Tumblr had renamed itself "Mastodon," as the cultures sound so similar.

Both entail the notion of instances, Tumblr with subdomains (.tumblr.com) and Mastodon with users on one's own or another's instance (@*). I wonder if there's a sense of ownership entailed in that that leads to greater personal disclosure, which Twitter hasn't brought out.
I am not sure about this. Swift for example also has `defer` statements but its behavior differs from Go's. Swift executes defer statements at the end of the block, not the end of the function. And AFAICR Swift doesn't evaluate the parameters right away like Go does. If you have already read how defer works in detail in Go, you probably already know this. Devs new to the language or those that haven't used defer in those cases might still be surprised when this shows up.
To be explicit I think this was done to limit the scale of the recall. I think the design flaw exists in all the phones not just the subset they identified.

Apple knew the peak draw of their SoC (they designed it). And they knew the capabilities of the battery. Under sizing the battery is exactly what I would call a design flaw.
No, the studios want returns on their investment, at least enough to recoup costs and the perception of realism, to an audience, is not realism. What an audience thinks is real is often not real. Audiences love to hear sounds in space movies, yet that is impossible. Audiences think that spies have techno baubles and cool stuff, but they mostly have budget rate bureaucracy. Audiences think that we all live happily ever after, but we all know that's not reality. Movies aren't documentaries, they are entertainment you pay for.

Also, a realistic T-Rex may never survive in our modern atmosphere. Those lungs are so large because O2 content was about half of today's (http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/atmospheric-oxyg...) and the mix of dinos they have in JP is just a mess of evolutionary reality.
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This is where the magic of crypto money starts falling down. Normal money is legal tender, commodities are not.
This is rich coming from someone who has been banned from as many communities as you have. I've seen at least 3 cases of you joining a community and then getting banned for poor behavior and would think no less of any community choosing to prevent you from joining in the first place.
Daylight-Twilight-Astronomical Maps on the Soltice
The deal's not done till it's done.
It goes without saying that this is a false equivalency, and yet here I am.

There is no way someone's skin color, in isolation, can impact me. If I know someone's views though, that means that they must have already taken some action that expressed those views.
Usually pointing at private land or with signs if they can move. There's also number plate recognition on major roads and services. I don't really get the fuss, it's more private than having a security guard watch you. And they work at preventing crime and tracking people who commit them.

I'm surprised people from other countries aren't more turned off by our speeding cameras. I don't like them.
"Safari ships new features on a much slower cadence, but they’re usually solid and always perform incredibly well."

I really don't agree at all with this, Safari is the new Internet explorer ...

https://www.safari-is-the-new-ie.com/
Mere opinions do not cause harm. The idea that mere ideas can be literally harmful --- that speech is violence --- is at the root of much of the social acrimony of the past few years. Long experience shows that attempting to police thought and speech generally backfires, and dressing up the idea of censorship with avoiding "harm" doesn't obviate these lessons. Every censor everywhere has done the job in the name of the good: that doesn't make the action beneficial.
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I got down voted to hell trying to say this here on hacker news. On a side note, does anyone else feel as though there is a lot of astro turfing going on here?

A few commenters owe me an apology.
Totally. The resistance to switch to a universal currency would be astronomical just based on that it would overexpose the money supply to foreign manipulation. The South Korean government has already voiced concerns about this with respect to the wealth of their citizens and they aren't even using it as a national currency.
Modern "western" meat is very lightly processed compared to what we were eating a hundred years ago. Refrigeration has removed the need for carcinogenic preservatives and has nearly eliminated stomach cancer.