skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It indeed seems like the companies are playing dumb w.r.t. sidewalk riding and helmets. Are they really assuming people will be walking around with helmets just to ride a scooter for .5 mi? And it's definitely scarier to ride in the street compared to a bicycle.
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Microsoft is huge. Some parts of Microsoft got it, but some others are still in their old stance.
SF is a city thriving with homelessness, drug abuse on the streets, dangerous needles and human shit everywhere. Glad to see they are spending time on things that matter.

Among other things, on 6th street there are people sleeping in the middle of the sidewalk, peeing on walls, camping in front of liquor stores and barbecuing illegally on the sidewalk (!) in broad daylight. Yet the fabulous city administration considers electrical scooters to be the topic of the day.
SF is 7mi across, no one is suggesting you take the scooter to Tahoe.
Neuromancer gets a lot of attention because it was the first of Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, but for my money Count Zero is a far better book.
You can still have a sandboxed model with having the root user accessible, companies don't build that because they don't want the user to have any power on their machine but there's no technical limitation to do it.
Limited dollars you say? How are the limited for the most powerful country in the world with the strongest economy?
> Designers dropped the feature almost immediately after Negroponte’s announcement, because the winding process put stress on the laptop’s body and demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare.

Err, kids in poor areas have less ability to turn a handle than those in wealthy areas?
>Avoiding false negatives is somewhat less important.

that's kind of funny, given that its primary purpose is a secondary actor on the human's false negative
> There is a reason the Microsoft Store and Google Play are absolutely filled with trash

So is the iOS App Store. If you dig past the first few search results you find tons of trash. But I'm not sure it matters how many low quality apps there are overall, as long as the store does its job of showing me the good ones first.
> One box can’t be distributed across multiple racks in the data center to guard against downtime if a switch crashes. Never mind that—one box can’t be deployed across multiple data centers. If you deploy to multiple DCs you can fail over if one DC starts having issues.

Wouldn't you just have multiple NICs on one box for redundancy there? With any backups being sent a database write-log for replication?

> n any case, payments aren’t CPU intensive but it’s a prime case of hurry-up-and-wait. Lots of network IO, so while you won’t saturate the CPU with millions of transactions on the same box, I could easily imagine saturating a NIC.

If you're vertically scaling, wouldn't you just have the main database server host the database files locally, using fast NVMe SSDs (or Optame), in the box itself, instead of going over the network?

Enterprise NVMe drives can perform 500,000-2,000,000 IOPs, with about 60us latency. And Optane is about 4x faster. Why would a database server need to saturate network bandwidth?

Anyways, I'd love to see the actual SQL query for one of their transactions...
It's a two-sided coin actually. You cannot blame Youtube for people's choices to go fully dependent on viewer count revenues, it's irresponsible to say the least. But, you can blame Youtube for changing the rules whenever and however they sit fit without considering such grave consequences. This thing with Youtube demonetization is pretty messed up. In any case, would you rather invest in a Ponzi scheme? No, who would be that stupid, right? Right?
As much as I like Python for data analysis, I do not understand why a very high level language was chosen to write a GUI window manager.

Was Python chosen as the technology stack by someone inexperienced in developing operating systems?
I think the point here is either that

1) industries can evolve to no longer be predatory against their own customers/consumers of their services, or

2) just because one sector participant is behaving in immoral behaviour doesn’t mean all are, and labelling the entire industry as corrupt as a result may not be fair.
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It's funny how so many people don't know this. It is true of almost all major midwest to east coast cities.
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It's labour cost and legal cost. The actual construction isn't more expensive in the US than it is in Europe.
> Non-technical people don't necessary know that adding a Facebook button means tracking people.

They should then hire people who understand it, or not put these buttons on their sites.

Docs for FB pixel say: You can use the Facebook pixel to understand the actions people are taking on your website and reach audiences you care about. "Understand actions" means tracking. Who is doing the tracking? Well, it's called Facebook pixel, how many guesses does one need to get that one?

Pretty much all other FB gadgets download content from Facebook. If site owner doesn't understand that means tracking by Facebook, maybe they need to educate themselves or ask for advice before blindly copypasting third-party content into their site? Facebook button is way not the worst thing one may copypaste from the internet...

I think though they realize it and they are completely ok with it, in exchange for the traffic that gives them.

> Because it's the complete opposite of common sense,

No, it's not - if you put a Facebook button on your site, you are bringing Facebook into your relationship with your site visitors. Then you learn Facebook is part of that relationship - what a surprise! Come on. If you don't want FB as part of the deal, don't invite them in.
Really?

1. No money down: a decent bike is $700+, a bike share is $3 per ride or under $100 per year

2. No maintenance: someone else keeps the tires full and the chain lubed. If something breaks, you just park the bike and get another one.

3. No theft: bikes get stolen when they are parked. When a bike share is parked, it’s not your problem.

4. No parking hassles: finding a safe place to park your bike in the city is tough. Many buildings don’t provide bike storage. Try carrying your bike up and down from a 5th floor walk-up every day.

5. One-way trip: you rode to work this morning, and now it’s raining. No problem, take the bus home.

Don’t believe me, just ask New Yorkers, who are taking an average of 40,000 rides per day on the city’s 12,000 citibikes.
Yes it is - https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric
Really, I think its probably only a small fraction. Most residential neighborhoods have free parking, even many commercial areas. Do we have stats on this to be sure?
Thanks for summarising, because I can't see the actual article, because I applied the fb blackhole list to my /etc/hosts, for exactly this reason.
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Problem of KLEE is lagging behind the latest LLVM version , which changed and improved a lot meanwhile.
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"If you don't have any ideas and can't succeed, write a book about it" would be an awesome blurb for a book...

As for your TL:DR; i thought it was a bit unfair to the author... they write really well and I think there is a huge shadow side in terms of tech capitals impact on the culture that, by definition, if you're in it, you're going to see as them as "out group" ... "obviously they aren't a good X... they failed"... ah, the fallacy of ad failuralum non VC-ium. :) ;) :)

What sort of cultural valuea are there where the notion of being "uninvestible" can get your ideas crushed without question? Is not a culture that values high technology, reason or the plethora of values that make something worthwhile and good
What about using Signal? Will they do something else then using the Signal protocol? If so, this might be either pretty expensive or could go wrong.
People that break into cars and defecate in public have nothing to lose. These companies have millions of dollars at stake.
If you want to fill gaps, any typical undergrad calculus text will do such as Stewart's Early Transcendentals book. You do enough of those 8,000+ exercises and your highschool gaps will fill themselves. My favorite beginner math books are Thomas VanDrunen's Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming because it's entirely done in SML, and Apostol's Calculus because you end up doing so many exercises you absolutely will never make a silly algebra mistake in a proof or forget a trig identity ever again. Often Apostol will just defer to endless calculating in the chapter exercises if he doesn't have anything he wants to add to the material, this is really good practice if your basic math education is shit like mine was.
Google uses their AI systems for profiling where the sex of the people being profiled is a crucial piece of information and acts as a predictor for interests which is then further used in targeting ads. As long as it makes Google money, it's not a problem. This bias actually accurately reflects reality and the advertisers know that, otherwise they wouldn't be paying Google for targeted ads.
Having a dedicated line to travel on helps and preference at traffic lights helps a bunch. I think you underestimate the amount of delays buses have to deal with when they also have to be in traffic.
Subconsciously pressing the fingerprint authentication in your pocket is reminiscent of... the One Ring...

I can relate to your iPod story. For me, smartphone has been mostly for reading. I used Kindle among other apps on my phone. Having recently bought a Kindle my iPhone sits untouched in my pocket.
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I think there should be a footnote to all of this: the crux of the argument is as old as the humanities itself. He's disingenuous to pretend that political concerns were implanted into the humanities 30 years ago, when the truth is, the role and position of politics in the humanities is basically the inaugural concern of the entire field.

What's more, it's also disingenuous to characterize the scholarship of three decades ago as 'rigorously defined' - especially in comparison to contemporary stuff. New Criticism / Formalism etc. are in theory 'rigorously defined', but the reason why their 'rigorous definition' has been broadly abandoned was because it was nonsensical and arbitrary. Humanities scholarship is much more rigorous than it was in previous decades - it's just a shame that so few read it.
Profit motives in infrastructure don't necessarily choke anything. If you want cheap fares, ensure there is some competition. And if you really want to, you can subsidize fares. They don't need subsidies in Tokyo though, all of the companies running train lines are generally profitable.
Facebook is a proxy spy agency for the shadow government, just like Google, MS and Apple. Advertising income is just a front.
Explaining to grandma that she’s wasting money calling a premium rate number is relatively easy, and if she ignores you, the impact to society is minimal.

How do you explain to grandma that publishing photos of her grandkids is to the detriment to society as a whole?
Lets hope it's not as bad as this French government project:

https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-fro...
That's not a very good comparison. Sunglasses are a small item that's trivial to store and carry around, it weights almost nothing and doesn't need to be parked when you enter buildings.

Obvious use cases for bike sharing is when you only need to ride a bike one way (so not a return trip) which happens very often actually (i.e. I sometimes ride a bike to a shopping mall but once I do my shopping I have to carry 2 full bags of groceries and other basic items so there's no way I'm riding a bike back, I'd get a cab).

If you plan on walking somewhere for 20 minutes but once you're there you can take tube from there home as it's close to a tube station, another use case. People who live in apartments and don't have storage place to keep a bike. An so on, use cases are plenty which is evidenced by the fact that millions of people use bike sharing in Asia but also other places on a daily bases.
Is $100m really enough to build a state of the art boring machine and get all equipment/labour to actually build a tunnel?
This is very cool. I have used Tcl from R - but this will fit my workflow better - awesome.

(and thanks for posting all the interesting Tcl projects to HN - much appreciated)
I thought about that too...if their concern is that they want the server to remain on French soil could they not spin up an instance of their own Signal server?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Well looks like our government (I'm French) is having the NIH syndrome as well. Why not reusing existing solutions like XMPP + OMEMO? They can invest a few thousands euros in those projects and in a couple of open source clients. Plus this will also allow the citizen to have a nice, government funded, encrypted solution.

But hey, it's not "sexy" enough. So they'll drop some public money to a big company that knows "what they are doing" and deliver a crappy platform that no one will use :) It already happened too many times.
Right now I have Discord, VS2017, a Postgres IDE and a bunch of Chrome tabs open. Task manager reports for memory usage (descending order): Discord: 1168,4MB, VS2017: 463MB, Chrome tabs: about 300MB each, PostgresTool: 152MB and the rest below 100MB. If I dont include all the chrome tabs, Discord uses more memory than all the other apps together, and some of them are "big" apps.

So my 32GB RAM, high specs system, is able to run only up to ~ 30 instances of Discord, not counting even the OS.

Wtf. It feels like malware.
That wasn't the point. The point was that a beer or glass of wine with lunch every day isn't the norm in all of Europe.

Europe is not a monoculture, as some people seem to believe.
>Federal Government ministers all have their phone bill summaries released as part of public record with private information removed

Why?
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Oh yeah, I've heard spying is more memory intensive than running dozens of VMs!
Nice article but I would point out that many of the very long and/or deep tunnels are built for railroads instead of cars, precisely to lower the diameter necessary (no exhaust needed, no hard shoulder).
If you don't want unfairness, why are you denying anybody a loan? Maybe I'm bankrupt because of a one-off medical expense and now I'm healthy again, I want a loan. It surely won't happen again but the lender says no. That's unfair, isn't it? So the problem already exists and nobody cares.
I struggle to believe this.

I had 300 Facebook friends before I deleted my account a couple of days ago, and I didn't see that number decrease. Neither did I hear anything from the decent number of infosec friends who you would expect to be the first to delete their accounts.

Of course that's anecdotal, but 10% seems very high.
Actually you are sharing your beliefs, which are as valid the university students who believe in magic. We have those in Europe as well, that is also why there are religious universities in the US.

Cultural differences, and language barriers would likely have been a much bigger problem for a project in Africa compared to Canada. I can only look back at my time doing such project and think how stupid an naive I was, too much my way, but we did have some very experienced folks living in the larger cummunity who grounded the work.

Doing intercultural things is wonderful work, but sometimes you do not have the tools to handle it I know I didn't.
Agreed. The term you are looking for is called pervasive computing. Moreover when the so called "connected devices" can be mobile, then we are speaking about ubiquitous computing. IoT is a way of utilising pervasive computing through the internet. Unfortunately the media and therefore the majority of the tech community has wrongly decided to use IoT for everything which results in a lot of misconceptions. Probably a marketing trick, who knows.
Of course. Not sure why I was downvoted. I don’t agree with Russia’s decision a tiny bit.
> It differentiates them from "consumers" who watch the videos. When you have two different groups of users you need two words.

So the "consumer" is the viewer, and "creator" is the video maker/uploader.

Well, that make more sense when you put those two words inside the YouTube circle.

Thank you and corobo for explaining.
I was referring to software developers having greater leverage in the labor market. Writing useful software gives developers higher economic output for their labor than we’ve had in history. It also creates unique mobility opportunities for remote developers. It is changing the capital vs labor dynamic. This is true for a narrow part of the labor market, which is why I put quotes around the word labor.

Can’t edit my earlier comment but felt I should clarify.
Yep, I had both an XO and an EEE in that order. The look on the university help desk tech's face when I brought the XO (running puppy Linux at the time) in to get a network cert install was fun. I recall moving from the XO to the EEE mainly because the latter was faster and more pleasant to type on. There were few other competing net books at the time.
To repost an older comment of mine suggesting a new business model:

Mhh, why not go with a kickstarter style payment scheme? Have a campaign to fund the operating budget, another one to fund feature a and another one to fund feature b. You get user aligned prioritization for free while users are happy to be able to choose their level of support. Can’t believe I haven’t seen this model in action, yet!
OK, so, I showed the article to my dad. He wasn't surprised at all and told me quite some stuff. Here is the summary of the interesting points:

* It is normal that people have (paid!) vacation when there is stuff to be done where maintenance only works. It is called 'Werksurlaub' (roughly: 'factory vacation') and this you-have-to-take-vacation-period is announced in the beginning of the year and it has been like that since 30 years him working there.

* When they need to retool, if possible (most of the time) the new tool is put in line behind the to-be-replaced tool without stopping the production line and then they run-in the new tool with taking over cycles gradually.

* When there are 'incidents' or the production line has to be stopped, this is announced ahead of time and the production workers have to take a so-called 'Kollektivfreischicht' (roughly: 'collective non-working shift'), where the whole line works overtime prior to the incident and then take time in lieu collectively. There is also a funny German word for this 'taking time in lieu', it is called '[Überstunden] abfeiern' (lit: 'to party down [overtime]').

Also, he told me some not very nice things about the automotive industry. Especially when final assembly is standing still (unforeseen incident in production line) - that is, hundreds of people unable to work and costing money.
I interpret this, however, as general property of the (automotive) industry and you can read about it elsewhere.
That sounds really condescending, to be honest.
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> That you think Tesla is solely a money making venture via automobiles is telling

as opposed to you, who very rationally spews the cult of musk kool-aid.
If recent events are any signal, that won't happen for a while. Here's a good sobering reading[0].

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
Similar age group here.

As you remember the PCs were the outliers, everyone else was mostly offering the same hardware/software integration as tablets.

In fact Apple is the surviving company of those integration and most OEMs what to get back to it, because they hardly make any money nowadays just selling parts.

Had it not been for Compaq and a failed lawsuit, building our own PCs would have been an alternative universe, which I never bothered to do anyway (was more expensive than buying a full new PC on my region).
Maybe he's just Tired and Emotional.
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You’re comparing people with mental disabilities and drug problems to highly educated individuals who shipped a product to the public haphazardly to make a quick buck. They should have known better.
The interactive map that was way ahead of its time
Thanks for the info. I’ll run clamscan over it and if it’s what you suggest I’ll snapshot my Windows VM and give it a whirl.
You do understand that the Boring company tunnels will first benused by electric platforms rather then the hyperloop concept.

That's why the call it a 'loop' rather then a 'hyperloop'.

The tunnels however could letter be used for the hyperloop if the tech pans out.
Do you expect accident rates among manually-driven cars to substantially increase? If not, why do you expect insurance premiums to substantially increase?
I don't know if it still is the case, but in the early OS X adoption days Apple forums were full of people asking how to just run as root.

So....
> pay premiums.

When you buy the self driving car, the manufacturer has to put a lifetime insurance on the car. It's baked in the retail price unless they decide to rent you the right to use your own car (that wont be good press). So actually, you pay more for the insurance in the hidden fees. In that imaginary 25k there is:

* The hardware $$

* The engineering (past, present, lifetime codebase maintenance) $$

* Recalls because the LiDAR turn out of miss important things $$$

* Maintaining the mapping data forever $$$

* The forever/lifetime insurance if the car kill someone $$$$$$

* That thing called profit margins $ (or no $ at all)

* Buyback cost (because they really can't support it forever) $$

That is, of course, if they do the "right thing" and contractually agree never to choose to turn your car into a very large brick (agreed buyback if they decide to retire the tech). This assume a real self driving car, no steering or fallback.

Selling high tech full self driving cars seems like madness. Lane tracking and "cheap" camera tricks with "the driver has to be alert all the time, if he dies then go blame his corpse" are the only way to turn a profit on driving assistance techs.
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The article was pretty light on details, but isn't it more a case of "Not Hosted Here"? This is the only relevant parts I could find:

> We need to find a way to have an encrypted messaging service that is not encrypted by the United States or Russia

and

> The French government’s encrypted app has been developed on the basis of free-to-use code found on the Internet.

I'm hoping this means they are using a mature, open implementation for most of it.
Crestle (https://www.crestle.com/):
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o underlying GPUs are ok
- more expensive than others

Google Colab (https://colab.research.google.com/):
+ Free
+ Works as a plugin within Google Drive
- Very limited hardware
- Integration with data storage could be easier

I'm going to try Gradient as well. Paperspace has very competitive pricing and their new service seems to hit the nail in terms of ease of use vs control of settings. Any chance @dkobran has a coupon code to take it for a spin? :)
"driving 200 kph while overtaking through the middle" is reckless behavior, irrespective of the mode of transport.

You don't have a bike license, do you? Your line of reasoning is very consistent with car drivers who are a bit afraid of traffic, and very afraid of "murdercycles".
That’s a terrible idea:

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