skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a citizen I HATE dockless rental bikes. No wonder city councils start to throw them out again. Worst case they clog up bike stands, worst case they clog up entries to parks, get thrown into rivers, etc. It seems they attract the least disciplined kinds of people.
Bird seems destined to fail to me. I've seen these things left all over the place, e.g. they're supposed to be in Santa Monica but I've seen them all the way in Manhattan Beach (>12 miles south). How are they supposed to get charged and placed in convenient locations?
On the one hand I am glad they are continuing to enhance TypeScript. On the other hand I am concerned that TypeScript is becoming a very bloated language. If you have seen the latest edition of Stroustrup’s C++ Programming Language book you know what a bloated language looks like. Is that where TypeScript is headed?

Programming languages are not like your Word or Excel where more features is better. Some programming language designers take pride in how small the language is, for example Kernighan and Ritchie. I worry that as long as Microsoft has Program Managers and Development Leads assigned to TypeScript and their job performance is measured by the number of features they add, TypeScript is going to get more and more bloated with obscure features.
My 2014 Moto X did this. When I switched to a Nexus 6P I was bewildered why I could no longer pick my own phrase.
Intel and Nvidia have gross margins of 58% or higher. Other semiconductor companies like Broadcom are around 50%.

34% is better than the 30% of last year, but it's still really bad.
I wonder if there was ever a discussion that definite assignment assertions should have a strict mode flag to disallow. They seem like something that can be abused to escape the static type system.
Hume's point is much more fundamental: you can't know if the world is indeed governed by 'natural laws'. Maybe the sun will just not rise tomorrow, ignoring all of the causal relationships we think we 'discovered'. There is no way to prove it will.

Or in more modern terms: we didn't discover anything inherent in nature, we invented models for prediction. Which are very useful, but don't tell anything about how the world 'really is'.

And, to be very explicit: this includes probability theory. You can prove that a series of observations from the past follows some pattern that matches the definition of probabilistic causality. But you can't prove that the events in the future will continue to fit that same pattern. So again you cannot prove anything about how the world 'really is'.
I remember seeing on cooking shows for at least the past decade that the preferred, humane method of killing a lobster or crab is a swift knife cut through the head.

I had thought that that was the generally accepted method, so I'm surprised that live boiling is still done.
If you think about where mobile tech is 10 years from now, I think the direction makes sense. It's likely most people will be using some form of augmented reality + voice assistants, in which case locating a bike won't be very cumbersome.

I think we should/will end up with lots of "virtual" parking areas, e.g. one on every block. It would be similar to the virtual commuting "bus line" type routes Uber and Lift are creating, which establish some day-to-day stability, but can easily be updated every few months according to demand. Virtual parking areas would keep things less cluttered and easier to locate, but can still be distributed closely together.
Actually the rescue procedure is straightforward https://www.deeperblue.com/rescue-procedures-for-freediver-b... so if there is a trained buddy watching your back you gonna be fine.

PS you don't need CPR to recover from blackout.
Financial forecasting with probabilistic programming and Pyro
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#what-other-firmware-exists-ou...
Or this is plan B if it becomes clear that SDC is a pip dream.
dockless is the only future of bike share. the one way fan out of morning and then night commute ensures transport hubs will never have enough docks to scale.

if 600 ppl take a train to a station with 20-50 bike slots there’s no way you will have reliable access. i think most of your comments are FUD. people are inherently good
This can be great if they start putting bike racks within hotel properties, which would be great for them too as there is a) easy access to people that do not have vehicles, and b) hotel properties use to be "reasonably" safe for parking.

In any case as someone mentions here, it can canibalize its own business we hotel residents tend to use Uber-like services a lot.
I'm specifically referring to the use case of creating explorable apps. Most data scientists I know would love a way of, say, building a map with a few input controls that alter the data or presentation (colors, layers, filtering, aggregation).

I'm currently working on a JS-powered geospatial exploration app that is meant to be run either standalone or embedded into a Jupyter notebook. We often run into questions around how much the embeddable app should be scriptable or how much user control to allow. This would seemingly solve many of our needs.
The Blackbird from the Mill[1] does exactly this. Designed to be used in shooting car commercials without the actual car.

1. http://www.themill.com/portfolio/3002/the-blackbird%C2%AE
Correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe the carbon dioxide you exhale comes from the air you inhale. No air in, no carbon dioxide out.
Dockless bikes in Seattle, in my experience, are a net win.

The downsides really are only haphazardly-parked bikes and large aggregations of bikes in popular destinations. When those aren't problematic, it's great.
You should be worried for these reasons:

1) Google (and other SV giants) share data with the NSA.

https://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance...

2) The NSA in turn shares information with law-enforcement agencies. ICREACH contains information on the private communications millions of American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-made-its-own-google-to-help-shar...

3) The DEA (and possibly other agencies) uses this information to target Americans, and then lies about the origins of the information in a process called "parallel construction."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...

It's not difficult to see the potential for abuse in a shadowy process that surveils the private communications of Americans, applies unknown selectors and data mining algorithms, and then reports the results to law enforcement.
If everyone is super, then no one is.
I’m quite amazed we’ve made it to 33 comments without somebody complaining it the project hasn’t been retooled with Rust/Clojure/Node.js yet.
It may be a fashion faux-pas, but tucking your pant cuffs into your socks when in a tick infested area will make them easier to spot and pull off.

Doesn't help if you wear shorts or go barefoot of course
Meet the 10 startups that made the Techstars Dubai Accelerator opening class
Judicial review was invented by Federalists specifically to subvert Jefferson really. It's in some sense an antidemocratic institution.
It's not ironic, it's just smart. Carrying just the bikes is much more efficient than carrying humans, since they're lighter and slimmer (a single van can carry dozens) and don't have fixed schedules, so they can be transported outside of rush hour.

Some places have incentives for users to ride bikes to certain docks, but it's not enough to fully balance it.
It's not about nice, it's about structure. What sorts of development are they encouraging? Is the main street an endless series of the same chain restaurants, or does it have a livable core? Are they encouraging rental properties to make the it easier to live there? Are they promoting high-priced condos instead to get quick hits of cash?

Policy is a highly subjective thing, but it also takes decades for it to make an impact.
What does 'dockless' bike sharing mean in practice. Where do you pick up the ebikes? From the previous rider directly? How does charging the bikes work (or do they self charge via friction)?
They provide free services. What do you expect? The data they have collected is so lucrative for them that they would never offer Facebook, Gmail, Google Search on a premium basis to daily consumer. I mean I would take premium package if they guarantee that they will not parse my images, parse my emails, parse my searches, connect dots among my social peers in order to help train their AI bots. Which/whenever they will use in the future to come up with better products or improve their existing products.

Sure there are problems associated with it. One of them is when malicious players like foreign govts get hold of such data and use it to their advantage.
Their solution currently is to have people drive around at night and corral the scooters, bring to a charging warehouse and then redistribute in the morning. Quite an expensive process that they need to streamline. They are attempting to crowdsource the charging by paying people $10 a night to charge a bird at their home (or anywhere)
Nociception /= pain
On that request - I would try contactually. Pretty good on that front.
Regarding B I just checked iFixit for Radeon and found 2 (two!!) guides for graphics cards. One for reapplying thermal paste, and one for fixing a noisy fan with I think tape. All the other guides are for laptops specifically. If you know any other good written guides (pref not videos) available to clean and/or replace fans on graphics cards I'd like to learn about them.
Maybe it charges under braking only.
Much like casts and nonnull assertions. The general consensus is that you can enable a tslint rule to categorically forbid them.
I'm not from London, not have a used mobike, but one of the criticisms of obike (one of the schemes started here in Melbourne) is that they've apparently dumped a supply of bikes that SEEM like they were designed for a population of much shorter people (the assumption is east Asian populations).

Either way, when half the male population is 6ft or above, it seems the bikes are just generally too small, even with the seat extended to their maximum height.
In NYC, there are precious few objects to lock a bike to at street level. Locking your bike to a street sign is illegal. I have no idea where thousands of Uber bikes might wind up.
Senses are not the same as what we call feelings. And consciousness can be very basic -- merely responding to sensory input.
"Boris Bikes is still the best, but restricted to central London and can't unlock via phone."

Not true! The official Santander Cycles app lets you hire a bike via your phone. Works well and saves a huge amount of time compared to using the kiosks.

I agree that the current Boris Bikes are the best, though they have a new lighter, smaller bike model which feels a lot more like a Mobike/ofo to ride. Not as nice IMO.
the consistency of walking to a known location near my house and grabbing a bike that I know will be there.

Unfortunately docks don't really provide that, I've had the misfortune of finding an empty dock more than once. It's one of the reasons that drove me to buy my own bike.

Still, it probably beats dockless.
This link wasnt loading on my phone but apparently JUMP is a 'dockless' service. Not sure if they even have typical racks of bikes like other bike share services.
It isn't a question of 'tone', but of content. If you take out the uncivil and/or empty content and replace it with substance, then you'll be raising the signal/noise ratio instead of lowering it. That's what we're hoping to see.

"Calling out"—sort of a dubious phrase from internet shaming culture to begin with—doesn't really enter into it. Signal/noise ratio does.
The main problem with the Byrd scooters is that the users turn them into safety hazards after they use them. Every time I see one of those Byrd scooters blocking the sidewalk, I physically throw them out of the way. About half the time, they form safety hazards blocking the sidewalk (and in rare cases, part of traffic lanes).

There were two blocking the Metro station last week. I threw them in the bushes. The sheriff at the top of the stairs gave me a thumbs up and said he wished he could have done that.

The City is currently in the process of evaluating restrictions on where the Byrd scooters can be dropped off, to avoid safety hazards like that one.
I think my comment went over your head.

Whole Foods started in Austin and has been buying real estate for decades. They famously purchased land based on the percentage of college graduates in an area. They purchased land in urban areas. I don’t why you would assume otherwise. They purchased land and held onto unused real estate to keep their competition from building new stores.

They own a lot of land in prime locations. Often they’re the landlord of all the other business near them. Ever wonder why you see natural pet food stores and eco-friendly dentists next to a Whole Foods? It’s because they own the block.

Let me know if I need to explain this further.
1. They're hoping that FileCoin will resolve that issue. Akin to Storj and Siacoin, people will offer to host (aka pin) content on their IPFS gateway node in return for FileCoins, and the market will decide the price.

2. In the meantime, you can set up a script to update your DNS TXT record to point to the most recent IPFS hash. I've got a static site generator that does this upon the completion of a build.
Yes, this is a problem with the scooters too. I think there is some volume limit to the device, smaller is better for the reasons you state, which is why I think the scooter it ideal to the bike in this regard.
Predictive modeling of LTV
I'm not the parent commenter but it's probably finance or CAD modeling, environments where soft bit-errors (ones that silently and unpredictably cause data corruption rather than hard-crashes that are reproducible) can lead to nightmares.
As a citizen of an ex Eastern Bloc country I'd rather not have any other humans co-opt me into another helping of true communism™
True, but that is solely your own responsibility. And lawyers can't do it just because they stumble over your website. Usually it's a competitor who comes after you. And even then its a civil law case - there is no threat to the hoster.
I want to contribute, experienced senior web dev. Where do I get started?
Perhaps that combination is used in case of the chatbot being aware that one is wanting to take dramatic actions from mental health side affects (hurting one's self or others).

At least with a name (maybe) and a number they have a way to contact you. Or the police. Or anything that will take you off the brink.

Also, poor sap down the road who wants to try it but gets your random number will be devastated. Hypothetically, could have been their last resort.
You've probably heard this from other people, but I recently switched from a Pixel to a Pixel 2 and was worried about losing the headphone jack as well.

Surprisingly, it hasn't bothered me at all. The battery life is long enough (and fast chase is fast enough) that I never need to charge my phone and listen to it at the same time, and I haven't noticed any difference in sound quality using Google's provided dongle.
Maybe instead of trying to influence the market, he's trying to have an honest discussion about the viability of GPUs used for mining?
Looking at the final diagram in the article, though you've achieved your aim of redundant backup, it certainly ISN'T any simpler. If anything, it's a LOT more complex than simply buying dropbox storage and dumping everything there.
The trick with Twitter is that basically these bots are invisible unless you search hashtags or read the replies to a popular person who is spammed by them. It's not like anybody sane would follow these bots.

Twitter's model is basically "shouting at the universe" but if nobody listens it doesn't matter.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271229
I left mine U-locked in Chinatown, DC in the middle of the day on 4th of July and it was stolen in less than 3 hours.
> it's part of a carefully-constructed system that leaves New York residents with truly no control over our government.

That’s an extraordinary claim. You’re essentially arguing that democracy has failed in New York and that there was some conspiracy to undermine it.

I only skimmed but your linked article seems to focus on filling vacancies in the middle of a term.

Has NY done anything to prevent candidates from getting on the ballot in regular elections?
https://runkit.com/ is a similar tool that lets you import packages from npm.
And at one point Oracle was just using open source software, adding on some things and calling it something with a $10k/cpu cost. They may still do this.
I am a huge Honda fan, particularly of their vintage vehicles. I used to spend hours navigating their Japanese website. I don't know any Japanese, but somehow I could still find my way into new parts of the website and get around. The site complexity goes way beyond just the front page.

The entire thing is massive, it's full of tons of stuff that you wouldn't find American corps even bothering to put up there. There are tons of articles, facts, diagrams, fan sites, historical information, photos. At one point they had games with little virtual cities. So many cool, and fun things.

The US site is nothing but marketing. It's so boring, I never even bother going to it. There's no hidden stuff, nothing interesting, just a very sales-centric site. It's like anything that doesn't directly make money isn't bothered with... while the Japanese developers are having fun putting together cool things.
Efficiently loading inlined JSON data
People mostly lock the to meters, poles or bike racks.

I use the app to tell me where I can find one near my house or office.
They lock themselves when you're done and just sit on the street. You're supposed to put them out of the way of pedestrians. But the next person could come any time afterwards - they'd see the location of the bike on their app.

"Rebalancing" trucks go around and move bikes in bad locations, bottoms of hills, bushes, etc.
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Yes and no. Yes, these people may come from a biased starting point. But North Korea is objectively horrible, no matter what your ideological starting point. When you start from a biased starting point and it's bad enough to shock you, even though you were biased in the beginning, then it's really bad.
How is a response about what communists did relevant to a critique of capitalism?

Except if one can't think of any other alternative or starting point from which to criticize capitalism but communism (and even more so, how some specific regimes practiced it).
I'm addressing comments that the solution has to be housing in San Francisco itself, rather than outside the city, such as:

> Only housing near economic opportunity means anything.
Seems like it would make sense to convert 1 in X parking spots to bike-only parking spots. Now they're off the sidewalk yet there's still the convenience of being able to park very near your destination.
The H-1B visa problem will Not go away
Thanks, it wasn't possible a while back when I check, I removed that from my comment.

Might look at installing it again, despite its glorious 2.2 star rating :)
You're right, I found this article [1] which actually mentions that the bike company sends out crews to pick up bikes with low battery and takes them back to their office to be recharged.

1: https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/01/11/san-francisco-issues-p...
Well, other members of ex Eastern Bloc countries disagree, so?
I had the same experience with UHC when I was forced to switch to it for a job. Numerous surveys, even by third party companies, that eventually resulted in them denying to pay for treatment when they really were my only provider. They kept claiming we had KP when we didn't, and claimed the claim had to go through KP first even though it was an in-network UHC provider, which is completely inapplicable to KP and would have no way to submit a claim to KP anyway. So even if we had KP and KP was primary UHC would have still had to pay, they just knew no one could successfully put the paperwork through to get them to pay.
1) it is showing pictures of a human riding a bicycle with a helmet. Please don't promote helmets on bikes: they reduce safety (for people 12+ yo).
2) I get a 404 (NL)
3) JUMP is not linked - I don't know what it is untill I reach the bottom of the page.
4) Although it is mentioned on the page, it is not very clear this is SF only.
I use it to follow artists, local media personalities, local journos, etc. to get live information from them.

This is particularly relevant for hyper-local media which basically has zero media footprint outside of dead-tree newspapers and talk radio.

Basically: follow your city councilor on Twitter. Start from there.
You don't need an invitation. I got the JUMP app from the app store and was good to go.

Their app is really good. I don't know why I'd want to use the Uber app for this, but I joined the waitlist to try it.
I have a machine which randomly zeroes blocks of 32 bytes in HTTP downloads [thought to be a cache-related fault] and TCP doesn't catch this.
Were there objections by collaborators or in your own mind, of whether enough people would abandon Jupyter Notebooks to use Observable?

Or was it just not an issue, because you figured 1) not having to installing anything and 2) reactive would be enough to win converts?
Fair enough.

I had nothing interesting to say about the new GDB release, but the checksum used surprised me. Hence the question.
That's true, but also changing, with the AU getting increasingly willing to send in joint AU forces to stabilize countries, or pressuring various governments to hold elections. That the AU is taking a more active role in curtailing dictators is quite ironic given that one of the drivers in getting to the Sirte declaration that laid a lot of the groundwork for reviving the work on the AU was Gadaffi...
true -- it's more complicated. However I wanted encrypted at rest documents (and that's hard with Dropbox), and I need backup - not just sync, so Dropbox can only provide half the solution.

There's an opportunity for someone here...
proof for #1?
EDIT: I meant CPMC in Pacific Heights (Upper Fillmore), not Nob Hill. Judging by the people coming and going, Saint Francis on Nob Hill seems to mostly serve the Tenderloin.
Make a few parking spots bike-only; no additional infrastructure required. Racks can be added later, or by these companies.
JUMP appears to offer electric-assisted bikes, which is different than CitiBike/GoBike.
In that regard C11 is also much more than K&R C, and C20 is on the horizon.
Yeah. I'm real.

I get a lot out of reading others' comments here, so I was glad to have a chance to write about something I've been using and thinking a lot about.
Want to know how bad the SF bureaucracy is? They have a budget of $305 million per year to service an estimated homeless population of 7500 people[1]. That's $40k each! It's a staggering amount of money that's not making enough of a difference.

1: http://sfgov.org/scorecards/homeless-population
sure, it's nice to be outside of adverts... but using gSuite always feels like pretending I'm not being farmed out to the gov't
Roadmunk's lessons after 5 years in SaaS