skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's still a good place for a city bus.

Not if bus routes don't go where you need them to, they are late, congestion makes bus rides impractical, etc. Mostly this is perhaps outside of the center of a city.

Even in suburban areas where there is an influx of residents, buses are the last option because you could bike where you need to faster than taking the bus during rush hour. What if a short distance meant having to transfer? If the wait is 10-20 minutes, and if the bus comes too early, then that just compounds time wasted using the bus. If bus rides take a long time, nearly zero of them have wifi to enable work to be done. And if they don't drop you off or pick you up near your source / destination, you spend twice as much time walking. It's just impractical until localities start taking this seriously.

Cities and surrounding suburbs really need to increase bus lines (accessibility), and buses per line (frequency). In many places I've lived, buses were what the poor and disadvantaged rode.
Just tonight we briefly mentioned garage doors and remote garage door openers, and we got an ad on FB for remote car openers. We haven't looked up any of these things online or anything else, it was a brief discussion that lasted all of 1 or 2 minutes, tops. It's definitely not cross platform tracking, it's got to be microphone listening. I advised her to uninstall FB from her phone, because this is getting obnoxiously creepy.
That’s true for very simple products, the most extreme example being a commodity, but SaaS is very easy to differentiate via branding, features, service offerings, product assortment, etc. Carta appears to be a very high quality product that could command a premium over some other smaller cap table SaaS I’ve seen out there.

Also, sophisticated buyers that are not price sensitive will shop around to get the best terms. Very large organizations with big budgets will run through an RFP process where the price comes out anyway.

At the end of the day a price isn’t a secret. Hiding it just makes figuring it out more of a pain in the neck for a person evaluating a product.
This book was recommended to me by my step-father, who is mainland Chinese. He grew up during the cultural revolution and has plenty to say about it. He thought it was a good overview of the Party, and I enjoyed the read.

https://www.amazon.com/Party-Secret-Chinas-Communist-Rulers/...
It's a very fast, general-purpose computer; 1070 also can be used for crypto-mining, so when you aren't playing, it can run ETH/XMR/etc. mining and as it's pretty low power, you might even be profitable. Deep Learning model training can be done too if you have such a need as well. I bought it as I wanted to help SteamOS not to die and bought all AAA titles that were available on SteamOS.
yes, in SF a lot of drivers are from out of town: fresno, sacramento, monterey. i’ve spoken with them
"CA is also a democracy, so it's just one democratic outcome overriding a different democratic outcome."

So, then, is the United States.

Would someone like to bet me that there is nearly 1:1 mapping between (people who think CA should undermine local control over housing) and (people who think CA should exert local control over marijuana policy) ?

Of course that's true. Now defend the principle, and benefits, of local control in some spheres where it's convenient but not in other spheres where it is not.
It's a hip rebranding of "if you're not for us, you're against us"
The author, like most people who oppose common sense regulations like the banning of assault rifles, sees the world in simplistic black and white. There are bad guys who want to harm people, and who scoff at laws. And there are good guys, who follow laws, are patriots, and just want to protect their family and community.

Of course the world is a lot more complicated than that. Yesterday's good guy is tomorrow's school shooter. Domestic violence, alcohol, mental health disorders, theft, and accidents are all cracks in this simplistic worldview. No matter how you cut it, a world where all the good guys have assault rifles with high capacity magazines is a world where the effects of the inevitable -- the breakdown of social order -- are magnified. A shooting spree instead of a bar fight. A family murder-suicide instead of a black eye and a CPS visit. 20 school children dead instead of 10.

This is what NRA supporters don't seem to understand about the world. They're stuck in a comic book good-vs-evil story and they're the hero.
August Home really missed the boat:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3332326-information-amazon-off...
It also depends on what exactly Gartner classified as "Ultramobile (Premium)", which they apparently counted towards the "Total PC market" (262 million in 2017). Which one comes out ahead depends on the relative share of Windows 10 tablets vs. iPads in that segment.

In any case, that still puts Metal and DirectX in the same order of magnitude.
> I haven't used Lisp so I'm not sure of how similar they are.

As I said, I can see the syntax to be easy to grasp for anyone knowing any coding language. But Lisp fans would be in for a treat.

In very simple terms, a list function always had the function symbol or identifier as the first element of a list (everything is a list in Lisp), and any number of arguments have to follow after that.

Example of an add function in Lisp:

(add 1 2)

The same thing in Go templates:

{{ add 1 2 }}

> Org mode support seems to be interesting. I've always wanted to pick that up as well. Could you share some good resources you might be aware of?

If you use Emacs, the best Org reference is the Org Info manual. Do `C-h i` to open info within Emacs and jump to the Org manual. (You probably aren't using Emacs as you mentioned that you are not familiar with Lisp. So may be this tidbit helps someone else).

If not using Emacs,

- Check out the section on Markup[1] in the official Org manual in HTML.
- My blog source in Org[2]
- Source of ox-hugo.scripter.co website (100% of the content) from this one Org file [3]

If you don't want to get into too much detail:

* Heading level 1
** Heading level 2, and so on
*bold* /italics/ _underline_ +strikethrough+
- list item 1
- list item 2

1. ordered list item 1
2. ordered list item 2

But if you are really getting into Org syntax, here's the mega test file[4] for ox-hugo package that exports to 100's (literally) of Hugo content posts here[5] and gets rendered to HTML by Hugo on https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/test/.

The good news is that you don't have to use Emacs for Org mode, if you plan to use Org mode just like Markdown (and may be a little bit more). If you do use or end up using Emacs, then Org mode is like 1000x Markdown (or may be more :) ).

> Thank you for bringing this up! I appreciate it :)

You are welcome.

Hopefully this response wasn't too much of an information overload.

[1]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Markup.html

[2]: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io/raw/mas...

[3]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/master...

[4]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/master...

[5]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/tree/master/test/site...
I'm curious to know if anyone else has looked specifically at the stateless mode this script uses. I've pondered it a bit, and it seems reasonable to me superficially, but I haven't invested much time into deeply understanding ACME. I'm wondering if using stateless mode opens one up to any sort of risk that is not present in the other modes.

EDIT: clarification; typo
Those aren't contradictory, if people are taking cars instead of public transit, there will be more congestion. There's potential for improvement, if people took public transportation when possible and only used rideshares infrequently, and owned fewer cars overall, it could be a win. But that's going to take more focus than most cities have put into the problem.
> and even starting to resort to removing features.

I'm usually the positive guy when it comes to change but boy do I miss the headphone jack on my phone. Bluetooth is such a pain.
Solo-agent – Enable discrete SSH Agents to avoid leaking access across hosts
Counterpoint: be careful about going too far into the "cool" spectrum. When I've been hiring, the best-looking resumes were often the least qualified. If you're a visual artist, then sure, go nuts! But if you're a technical person then stick to the basics. Forcing someone to decode your pie chart to understand your skills is not a way to win points with a hiring manager. Go for bullet points, short sentences, correct grammar, and no spelling mistakes.
Tanker tows fighter aircraft over the Atlantic
At least in San Francisco, the old Taxi system was a deliberately undersupplied crony capitalist disaster.

It served to enrich a few Taxi medallion owners and left most people without any reliable way to get a ride from A to B most of the time.

Now that we have functioning ride sharing systems, people actually can reliably get a ride from A to B. So of course we do that more than before, and there is more traffic. This is a symptom of a better functioning society with a better life for its residents.
Houston Courts Scheduling Informatoin
William the Conqueror’s father was a millennial.
I dunno, that sounds pretty good honestly. The only info I have on AWS's service is testimonials, so I don't have anything concrete.

The industry we obsessively study/studied was hospitality, where service is literally the differentiator between the "pretty good" and the "absolute best in the world," and we've been pretty meticulous about iterating and building upon our service ecosystem (it's way beyond just one team at this point) like one might do with a software product. Most of our customers, from the small ones in the early days to the huge internet juggernauts we've had the privilege to work with use us as the standard to which all other vendors are measured, sometimes quite literally in a very odd way. So, I don't know if we got lucky with some stinker incumbents, or we stumbled on to something completely different, but we've got a good system in place that's built a pretty solid competitive moat.

I guess if folks on the thread are still reading and interested in replicating this at their startups, my advice is: study elite hospitality and restaurants, not tech. I'm very rarely impressed with the service ecosystem in the tech world, though it happens, but I can learn something massive every day from hospitality.
Tech Mogul Gets $13B Richer Just by Leaving New York for China
I think the metric they're looking at is total miles driven in a jurisdiction per capita ave.

As others pointed out, otherwise it's sucking people away from public transit and back into cars --which is counter to the design most larger municipalities want to execute.
Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (1980)
Launching those binaries (openssl, curl) seems like a point of failure, not to mention the cough unique challenges of doing simple things like managing an array of strings in a language like bash.

My idea of the simplest letsencrypt client is lego. One binary to rule them all.

https://github.com/xenolf/lego
That's the intro statement. That's like saying the Declaration of Independence is overly broad because it says that "all men are created equal."
True, but each rebuttal is another potential shellacking.
I like the little trivia that show up, although sometimes they disappear too quickly.

My favorite mentioned which Wikipedia article had the longest article name:

Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzukake_no_Ki_no_Michi_de_%22...)
It's a really small attack surface. Other than the tiny, basic mini CPUs what's even on the GPU? There's no OS to speak of, no privileged processes to poke at, etc...

Other than the framebuffer there's not even any data of worth on the GPU.

The attack of note that's been mitigated is DoS attacks through webgl, but GPU preemption is a thing now which largely solves the infinite loop in a shader to lock up the machine.
The only time public transport is efficient space-wise is during rush/peak hours. But the same buses/trams are used during off-peak hours. Haven't we all ridden nearly-empty public transport many times?

Maybe just restricting ridesharing during peak hours and reducing public transport during off-peak (even subsidize ride shares like has been tried).
If you want to do this comparison please do it right: The Diesel equivalent to the Golf GTI is the Golf GTD. There's more than just displacement that makes up an engine and the fact that is some kind of turbocharger.

Their difference in 0-60 seems to be 6.4s vs 7.4s according to what I find. Guess the difference in higher regions might be even less, because of a different torque profile in turbocharged diesel engines.
AI Algorithms Are Generating Videos Out of Thin Air
You're right. There is too much simplification going on, where people think they're the hero saving others when the truth is not so clear cut as they would like to believe it is.
It isn't (always) about some sinister revolving door. It's just that the people who enforce regulations and the people who manage compliance at regulated entities are experts in the same field even when they are not the same people.

Both sides can be doing their jobs entirely honestly, but still they will co-evolve in ways that make the system convenient for existing players.
> all those photos of super massive objects could be neutron stars

Not if they are more massive than 2.7 times the mass of the Sun. That's the maximum mass for a neutron star (more precisely, it's the upper limit of the range of possible maximum masses, assuming the stiffest possible equation of state). Most of the objects referred to in the article are more massive than that, in some cases much more (the black hole at the center of our galaxy is about 3 million solar masses).

> We do not have a theory on quark degenerative pressure for example, which could possible exert enough pressure to prevent black holes from forming

No amount of pressure can prevent a black hole from forming, if the mass is large enough. Even for hypothetical quark matter, the equation of state can't get any stiffer than the assumed equation of state that leads to the 2.7 solar mass upper limit for neutron stars. Relativity sets limits to how much an object's pressure can resist gravity, regardless of the source of the pressure. That's where the maximum mass limit comes from.

> There are also time dilation issues that might make black holes impossible.

No, it doesn't. It just means that light signals from very near the horizon take a long time to get out.
At the top of the readme

> This is a work in progress. Please do NOT run this on a production server and please report any bugs you find!

And it's been in development for at least two years per the dates on the files - with hundreds of commits made at a reasonably continuous pace judging by the code frequency graph.

Either that's a ridiculously conservative warning, or I think there is a problem with something in this approach.
"At the end of this process, your life has changed for the better."

Not really. Life would change for the better if the bad guys found it very difficult to obtain and keep possession of weapons, so the rest didn't have to play the arms race. Of course, since we don't know who's bad and who's good, that means everyone should find it extremely hard to buy and possess. Angry ex-boyfriends would then probably not be (fire-)armed unless they were, or willing to become, serious criminals.

The whole "responsible ownership", and "guns don't kill people, people do", argument also appears broken.
It is not legal to own a cruise missile for example, so clearly the weapons themselves are the problem, and there is a level of destructive power beyond which individuals should not be trusted.

IMHO that level should be drawn lower; everyone gets crazy or depressed sometimes, we should reduce the potential for severe consequences.

And even an AR-15 isn't going to be much help against an oppressive government, as the tanks roll down the street, so the whole 2nd amendment argument seems very weak too.
It reminds me black mirror. it's scary.
What I like about GDPR is that it might help change the mindset that storing customer data is purel an asset - it should be a liability. Hopefully other countries will ratify similar laws. Then something like the Equifax breach could go unpunished!
Community is the moat for crypto-currencies
Slowly boil the frog.
When I saw McDonald sign, instead of 2 humps, I saw 3
> While outfits like Uber are typically more efficient than traditional taxis, they both spend a significant amount of time milling about on the street as they wait for a fare.

Instead of just finding a place to park or wait? That doesn't sound right.
But at the same time value is the intersection of supply and demand. All else equal, an increase in the supply of money does decrease the value of money. Granted, all else is rarely equal.
Been using this for a new project for a few months [0]. Cannot speak highly enough about it - Thank you Anton [1]!

[0] specifically the react package https://github.com/lavrton/react-konva

[1] https://lavrton.com/
Fight Through the Pain: How to Deal with Technical Debt
I Abandoned IOTA months ago after looking at their Github issues page. https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues

Great idea, just a little too early for massive adoption.
The things aren't coming from inside the black hole. They're coming from a region near, but outside, the horizon.
Marshall Islands Preparing a Cryptocurrency, Two Officials Say
Hey, article author, please spend a few words at the beginning defining your product. I shouldn't have to read multiple screens or Google search to find out.

So, WTF is Carta? Could be a software, could be the name of a new bill, could be a company, maybe it's just a nice Italian lunch menu, a shopping cart brand (physical or virtual), or a competitor for Google Books? A modern day peace treaty?
Developers should already know the "legal and policy landscape."

Sending email? You should know the CAN-SPAM act. Do business with CA citizens? You'd better know about CA's privacy policy requirements. Doing ecommerce? You need to learn about sales tax and PCI requirements.
This reveals that people who were previously reliant on public transit are making use of newer, better options.

If cities don't like that, they should improve public transit.
> Benjamin spends an hour a day editing his videos and holds out hope his postings could become a career, even after he heard the odds. “I think if I keep uploading, there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to make it a career,” he said. He recently hit 100 subscribers, up from 71 at the start of the year.

So can he not do 3rd grade Math, or is he literally insane?
How is this law okay with international trade agreements? Why doesn't US say that this (rather fuzzy law) is meant to hurt tech companies which is disproportionally based there? In retaliation couldn't they come up with some law that impacts EU businesses?
this is one of the famous books

https://www.amazon.com/My-Country-People-Lin-Yutang/dp/80878...

but it was written long time ago. not sure how much is still relevant.
I have one created for one of my friend. You can download it here if you want. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjxj13z5j6ra2x2/cv.doc?dl=0

Sample [Image]: https://imgur.com/a/1Ldov
I think YouTube's recommendation algorithms are complicit in this, and I can imagine an alternative system preventing the divide between popular and unpopular content. Currently if you watch one video your recommendation feed gets flooded with videos from the same channel, which creates a positive feedback effect for big channels.

But I guess if the incentive for being a successful YouTube celebrity wasn't so great there would be fewer people trying to do it.
It's not just about price. It's also about speed and convenience. An Uber can go anywhere a car can go, and get there a lot faster. That's a better experience, and better experiences are worth more money than lesser ones.

My commute to work is about 7 miles. I could get there faster on a bicycle than I could on a bus.
That's not simply wasted congestion. Ride sharing provides better service than busses as evidenced by people paying more to use it. So that's a good thing - people getting what they want. Congestion is caused by all road users, not just the latest group to join, so it's not fair to blame them any more than the people who still drive the same way they always did.
Agree with what you say, but better be careful with the term "assault rifle", as the people on the other side of this issue will (correctly) point out that the military definition of an assault rifle includes that it has a fully automatic mode - and such weapons are effectively already banned in the USA. Also, another good one (that that you didn't mention), the weapon name prefix "AR" does not stand for "Assault Rifle".

What to say instead? Perhaps that semi-automatic weapons, and magazines over a certain size, should be banned.
Why do you think the "guns don't kill people" argument is broken? A gun is merely a tool that a murder uses to kill. After the gun control act in Australia the number of people killed didn't change much, just the method of killing them.
The problem with most gun control arguments is it ignores the fact that someone choose to kill someone. The fact they choose to use a gun isn't really relevant.
Ethics huh? What is it good for? – js.la January 2018
Lego + NGINX + Kubernetes works very well for most projects.
Wow! He is really want to suck as much profit as possible out of his position. No wonder people like him makes so much money.
It should still be said that if the availability of taxis matched uber/lyft, the fact that NO cash is involved. Meaning when you reach the drop off the riders can just exit the car, most likely saves an unbelievable amount of time and lane blockage compared to taxis.
Not to mention that the bus’s limited maneuverability and constant stopping, and pulling over (usually not out of the flow of traffic) to discharge/pickup passengers, means it contributes to traffic congestion significantly more than the equivalent number of cars taking the same linear feet.
"Depression" is used to describe any number of barely-related syndromes. The only way anybody seems to know to distinguish them, or to diagnose them, is by which medication turns out to help after it's been tried. That makes drug trials iffy propositions; if a drug helps only one per six patients, maybe they were the only ones with the kind of depression it's good for. (And of course some patients have more than one kind.)

Medically, it rivals unconsciousness for making the patient unable to seek help, with the wrinkle that others tend to blame the patient for failing to try hard enough.
> And I will casually remind readers of Southparks opinion.

Which is? I'm out of the loop.
Abstraction and Composition
That assumes ridesharing is worse than individual private car use. If it isn't, then why not restrict all car use equally, say with a congestion charge like London? I don't see why ridesharing should pay for everyone else's congestion.
> "...and there is a level of destructive power beyond which individuals should not be trusted."

What about hunters and people who use firearms to obtain some of their food? Not everybody lives in a major metro area with access to the latest food delivery startup.