skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least in most of the US (can't speak for all 50 states) vehicles are taxed based on weight- a 1 ton pickup will cost more each year to register than a compact car or motorcycle

Registration fees and taxes are frequently based on weight; and tolls are frequently based on number of axles.

But the relationship between weight or axles and fees is generally linear, while the actual wear and tear on roads is quartic (to the power of 4) in the weight per axle, times the number of axles. If taxes and fees were properly proportional, there would be a much bigger difference in price between a motorcycle and 1 ton pickup truck, let alone an 18 wheeler.

> Do you really want to have to log every mile driven, and submit it to the IRS?

You can use odometer readings that you collect at annual inspections. I realize that not every state does this, but every state I have ever lived in does; you have an annual vehicle safety and emissions inspection, and at that point they can check your odometer too and include that in the calculation.

You could also use the current automated toll collection systems, which are based on transponder or license plate for those who don't have transponders, for highways and congestion charges for cities, if you want to be able to charge different rates in different areas, and just subtract those numbers from the odometer readings afterwards.

Metering EV charging separately does't really solve the problem. Gas taxes are not in proportion to actual maintenance costs of the roads, and are currently a fixed amount, not tied to the price of gas or inflation, so they don't cover the full costs. If you just applied the same kinds of laws to EV charging, you'd be left with the same kinds of problems.

By not charging proportional to road wear and tear, there is an effective subsidy of those who drive larger vehicles, and in particular commercial cargo transport on the highways, by those who drive smaller vehicles. If you were to change the way vehicles were taxed, the larger vehicles would pay more of the burden, which would mean they might switch to alternatives like train transport, or moving production closer to consumption, or the like.

A similar problem exists in cities and on busy highways used by commuters, where congestion is a substantial externality. There it's the square footage of vehicle footprint that makes the biggest difference.
Rapid development of performant get/post web interfaces. Ruby is nice but runs a lot slower. Python is better in a general-purpose sense, but every file will have a preamble of includes for things that are just built-in to PHP.

As a general purpose language, PHP is weak. As a web-form DSL, it's great!
It has a very clickbait-y title but the article itself is interesting. Especially the idea that jobs with meaning are culturally/economically devalued. Not sure that idea squares with the idea of the vocational developer...?
HeliosBurn – REST fault injection platform
I was about to prove you wrong by demonstrating that couch fires are still a fun student tradition in NZ, but googling shows the very opposite. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/heat-out-couch-burning.

Only 11 fires in the first three months of last year, a massive 65% drop on the previous low of 31 for the period.
Google’s the Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video) [video]
You're welcome! I have read it a dozen of time, I never pass an occasion to post it :-)
> "For a while, there wouldn't be link to RSS on the page, but you could still find the .rss or .atom link in the HTML header. But a lot of times that's not there anymore either."

Most blogs that I visit will highlight the RSS ("Subscribe to this page") icon in Firefox's icon bar. (The RSS icon is not present by default, but you can add it via the Customize dialog.)

For Chrome, there might be extensions that implement similar RSS auto-detection functionality.
This was the granddaddy package manager. Before gem or npm or maven or pip. It was the gold standard for sharing open source libraries and was the best reason for using Perl for a long time.
What is China's answer to Tesla?
Or, if you lived in Eastern Europe, The Bat1[1] - and it is still actively supported!

I switched to Opera Mail because it was convenient to have the browser and email client in one software (which is also freeware), but that went with the Chropera move.

[1]https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/
Lol I'm with you on this, I struggled too
I’ll disagree. It’s been however many years since Google Reader shut down and I haven’t replaced it with anything.

Don’t really feel the need to add RSS back into my life.
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Template strings loses all the actual benefits of JSX, in that you can have your editor parse it for validity and type hinting in the same way as if it was all createClass class (but more convenient).
Emulating the AT&T 3B2 Computer
Jumble code and markup together in PHP, and you've only got one language to put on your resume.

Jumble code and markup together in JSX, then you can put JavaScript, ECMAScript, React/Vue, npm, node.js, babel, and possibly webpack on it.
Not as easy as application code, but easy enough with a good migration tool.
Exactly. And a lot of people still spend tons of time in what amounts to a standard desktop environment. I switched from cloud audio players to QMMP and have been looking to do the same with RSS.
Google spent billions to develop the huge data processing systems and algorithms to eventually leave Yelp behind, like a freight train leaves a horse behind.

Yelp missed the industrialization of their industry by machine.

Knowing what you're doing isn't monopolistic.
Maybe its like how much of one's software creativity has to do with the programming language one uses and how much of it is the programmer herself.

Yo! Oistrakh. One of my favourite violinists. I have noticed the following with my 10 year old's violin teacher (who is a really good violinist). To show him a certain technique during her lesson she reaches for her instrument instead of his. Especially for a bit challenging violin part, I guess she can confidently show a technique better on her own familiar instrument.
> It's a shame that the focus is always on the capital outlay and not on the cost benefit potential to be realized (both economic and non-economic). This sort of spending should always be seen as an investment.

Every major city hires economists, often from universities, to do cost/benefit analysis of major capital projects. To say the focus is always on cost is nonsense. I've had to do cost-benefit analysis work before on earmarks. One of my professors did cost/benefit in Nashville for bringing the Titans to town in the late 90s. He recommended against it, in fact I think most economists on the board did...but they ignored it because cost is more often ignored or understated (by politicians,) contrary to your post. Look at the "big dig" in Boston for instance, or the California high speed rail, both exploded over 5x their expected budget.

Those are just examples, there are many others. I am willing to bet this number is a low ball, especially when contractors, regulators, etc get involved.
Not the origin but a decent definition can be found in http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html
Respecting Foreign Judgments and $79M for clicking “I agree”
That's talking about bank risk. The upthread point was about the government guarantee mucking with the market. And I pointed out that we're mucking with the market in much worse ways already. Leave the students alone.
At the upper end of the scale (300k events per second, PBs of data per month) the pricing on Pub/Sub begins to get insane. We'd be at something like $500k-$600k a month.
Interesting, and agreed.

Vocational Developer is a bit too meta here :P
Daniel Cook: Game Design Theory I Wish I Had Known When I Started
UPDATE: Firefox 60 ESR showed up on one of my corporate laptops. Unfortunately, it's 32-bit. ;_;
I think he's talking about the media/politicians/pundits that talk about it, not the people actually responsible for making and analyzing the decisions.
I would expect that someone in his position would know all the strategies for qualifying their statements, 'based on our current understanding to the best of my knowledge' etc.
James Clapper blatantly lied to Congress and hasn’t even been indicted for anything as a result. These guys do this shit all the time and just get away with it.
Certainly from a utopian/socially progressive standpoint, it would appear good. From a geopolitical standpoint with the current aggressive politics from China and Russia... I'm not sure it's so good.
Yes. Because of a naming … inconsistency … several core developers and major CPAN contributes have moved the 5 into the name of the language. So Perl5 version 9.2 or Perl5 version 28.0-rc1. Because we are often quirky nostalgic humans we usually leave the 5 where it traditionally has been at the start of the version string.
I’m not a fan of marketwatch, at all, but I do agree. I’ve been noticing way too much stupid money being thrown around at tech lately. Too much hype. Too many over promises for really immature tech. Too many firms are constantly doing pr announcements of funding rounds, like bleeding money is a good thing.

I’ve been thinking this for about a month on my own. I’m not smart enough to venture a forecast when, but I won’t be surprised if it happens by the end of the year. Honestly, I hope I’m wrong and it never happens. I’m not an expert either. Just bad gut feeling.
The Eudora Email Client Source Code
nutrition is a relative concept. Cornmeal and skin milk are not going to produce amazing result by themselves.
When you disincentivize something, you get less of it. Cities are also full of condo conversions and units left empty because their owners responded rationally to society’s cry of “if you don’t like it, don’t be a landlord.” Not all, obviously, but every unit suppresssed costs something, and those costs have to be weighed against the benefits of the regulation.
> But if you are going to tax me heavily for that then no, I'll probably just stick to what I am doing and not bother.

That’s fine. Since we have a free market economy, someone else who wants that money more than you will do it instead.
If you aren’t a D.C. insider you will be persecuted for this. But if you are, and especially if you can claim to have something to do with “national security” it seems like you can basically get away with doing whatever the hell you’d like.
Apparently they would like a financial crash and a violent revolution?
Apple Watch has found a surprisingly useful home with service industry workers
The relevant patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5255452A/en
Says "The requested article is not currently available on this site."
Swedish Speed-Camera Pays Drivers to Slow Down
I don't, I have AMD :) And I agree, Nvidia lock-in is as bad as others.
You seem like you would know.
I think GA is great at pointing out models that are overfitted and/or undertrained (not enough perturbed input in training, for example.)

However, everyone who says "this shows deep learning models can't work," or draw a similar conclusion, is missing the point.

More training data and more stretching of existing data will increase robustness. Ideally, models will be measured on robustness against attack as well as precision and recall.
Testing your front end code – A four-part series (2017)
10 year old legacy apps that no one has touched in 5 years were written after S.C.O was let go. 10 year old code in any language kinda sucks.
Also, the stability that you are asking for may be impossible to attain.

Consider the simple one-to-one matching case, between {A, B} to {1, 2}. A prefers 1, B prefers 2, but 1 prefers B and 2 prefers A.

No matter what assignment we come up with, either A/B will want to trade, or 1/2 will want to trade.

In your world, how do you solve this dynamic cyclicality?
I'm not sure if this estimate includes police and judicial resources as well as missed tax revenues, but it should
Considering what odd ball things happen on our trains, I'm glad they're around.
Not necessarily a bad thing, the unicorns are privately held and all of those businesses are quite superfluous.
The article is about congress using NASA to send money to their districts by building out the lift program.

Thats Congress being dumb. NASA may have become a jobs program, but it isnt supposed to be, and Musk is a response to that, in my mind.

"A surprise billion dollars may sound good. But while adding money to “Space Operations,” the Appropriations Committee also cut $660 million from NASA’s science, aeronautics, and space technology programs that build the telescopes, observatories, planes, and landers that make the agency so beloved. In justifying this decision, the committee wrote that the rocket “is the nation’s launch vehicle that will enable humans to explore space beyond current capabilities.”"
His proposal, which hasn't been fully released as of this writing at least, seems to have other modifications as well. The article mentions at least bathrooms and elevators.
He also plans to complete this overhaul in 5 years - previous estimates had suggested it could take 50 years. That sounds ambitious, and i'm guessing there must be significant cost associated with completing it relatively quickly.
"Every major city hires economists...but (the politicians) ignored (the advice.)"

I think this is what he's getting at.
Look at the number of people that collect all kinds of crap: DVDs, video games, stamps, baseball cards, in-game virtual items, comics, art, etc. You can argue that some of it has more utility -- art is culture! you can watch a DVD! -- but the mindset of collecting goes beyond that, and certain utility, like games or trading cards, maps just as well to the crypto collectible world. Cryptokitties is an early example, but I am 95%+ confident something like it will be a HUGE hit within the next few years. So yeah, why not use the crap you already collect to secure a loan?
You might want to try NewsBlur.com - it's quite similar to how Google Reader used to be. It has a free version (64 RSS feeds) and a paid version (unlimited feeds).

(I remember trying Feedly when Google Reader died, but ended up going with NewsBlur instead.)
Or that currency I used to buy my first space ship. In eve online.
To be fair this was just a search engine for the package archive. The archive, it’s several clients, and alternative search engine, are still doing fine.
In postgres you can handle this using the "returning" syntax for updates; then as long as the trigger runs before rather than after the update you don't have to lie about anything.
Even better: instead of serving the generated for, point your RSS subdomain to your favourite CDN and only update your files when the site changes. That's likely to save you some money.
No, that’s just bullshit. It’s very easy to write Modern Perl, and most companies with large Perl codebases break their codebases into service based architectures and then rewrite them bit by bit.
It does. The New York comptroller estimates that tax revenue alone would be ~1.3B per year. I couldn't find a good estimate on the judicial costs though.
Laws that “lock up” value and create impossible-to-terminate relationships discourage people with potentially rentable units (especially ADUs, in laws, spare rooms, etc) from putting them on the market. Extracting concessions in this way may be worthwhile, but it isn’t free. Each time you add risk or take away return, self-interested actors become less interested in the activity. This is a problem of the activity is something you need and aren’t prepared to replace.
Engineering roles: Software Engineers
It looks more like Elm
When I started, I was well aware of:

"Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8joT0oFuGoI

For a language without a megacorp pushing it, D is spectacularly successful. Consider:

1. It's developed by volunteers who work on it for the joy of it without remuneration.

2. People who spend the effort to get past the learning curve find it very pleasing and productive.

3. Other major languages have been continuously copying D's features :-)

4. Corporations that have adopted it for mission critical use have told me that D is their "secret weapon" that allows them to out-maneuver and out-innovate their competitors.

It's like the music business - you don't have to be the Beatles to have a very good career.
Say what but not when and you can't be "wrong"

Who will be the next myspace? the next LookSmart? The next Google? The next RedHat? Startups which have had massive growth will fail. Big established companies with decades of profitability behind them will also fail.

All booms will bust this boom is not different. The fact that people say "this boom is different" is how you know it isn't. It has the "this boom is different" commentary in common with every other boom in history. Really.

Rain is wet and sugar is sweet. Picking winners is hard. Timing the market is hard. The dumb strategy of getting exposure to all of it so you're fully diversified has worked for some in the past.
It wasn't my point to suggest that poverty is not a difficult position to be in, my point was to suggest that there is a serious problem with shrugging off the role of personal responsibility. I am very aware of what it means to be broke, you often don't even know where to begin. I'm not saying that they're poor because their situation at birth was necessarily fair, I'm not saying that nobody should change anything to help remedy their situation. What I am saying that in this country, at this time, the reality is that if 40% of the country does not have $400 saved for an emergency, given all of the available social services, there is a serious problem of priority and character.

There are obvious exceptions for individuals suffering from unavoidable medical circumstances and the like, and I am fully willing to criticize our existing healthcare system's failings in providing suitable mitigation against such circumstances. But we're talking about 40% of the country.
> Apple Inc. has more assets than BB&T.

it is Apple own assets, not deposited by somebody. Apple also is the biggest by valuation and in the first 10 by revenue worldwide. Not a good yardstick to compare with to showcase that somebody isn't a big one. I mean it is like saying that USS Enterprise isn't a big one because Caribean Princess is bigger :)
Please do, I personally often read the comment section only, and something tells me I am not alone in this...
In NYC it isn't a question of whether the technology exists - everybody knows driverless trains have been possible for a long time.

Most importantly, most of the lines are using signaling systems installed decades before computerized signaling existed so currently operating them without people is impossible. Much of the current system is so outdated that even the human dispatchers don't know the precise position of any given train without radio contact with the onboard crew. The upgrade project that the article in the link talks about would move towards enabling this at a technical level.

Secondly, because the trains _have_ had human drivers and conductors for a century, the union representing them is extremely powerful and there are many political considerations that go into getting humanless train operation. A newer system, which was built fully-automated and never had a motorman or conductor's union in the first place, has it much easier in that regard. Its a classic legacy problem, building anew doesn't involve any of the hassles of upgrading an old system.

(None of these problems are unsolvable, and all the fixes are waaaayyy overdue... but these are the cards we're playing with here in NY. There are a ton of entrenched interests and a few decades of technical debt to pay back.)
You should really read https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0... -- whether you agree with the author's politics or not her numbers are in fact right. There's no way to pay for the sort of expansive welfare state some people want solely by additional taxes on "the top 1%". There just isn't enough money there, it turns out.
I would put up big money for a shirt that said "Run DMC++" and had the Digital Mars icon on it.
Really? That's a huge oversight.

At the very least, none of the original new mail images, sound, etc (all PCT, SND resources). I miss hacking Eudora with ResEdit.
I’m still looking for a reader that can crawl the web and find articles based on specific keywords and exclude sites of my choice. I want to follow certain topics in a particular niche but the best solution is setting weekly roundup with google alerts in their news which only includes those that are part of “google news.”
code removeability, or, write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co...
Pictures Reveal the Isolated Lives of Japan’s Social Recluses
I always wondered what happened with that?
I learned C++ in 1989 using one of his earlier compilers!
Sure. Probably would work well with name+newsletter@example.com type filters.

I just like to keep them separate, I suppose. And, I just naturally prefer to consume news through RSS feeds. Every newsletter or RSS feed I read is ephemeral, disposable, and I probably only ever read 1% of the content (if that). Email (for me) tends to be the near opposite, and anything I can do to keep the noise and cruft out of my email, I'll do.
Relevant CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/22/health/michael-jackson-da...
Kafka is "free", it's scales much better and it's quiet resilient. It's pretty light on the servers resources like RAM and CPU.

The downside is kafka doesn't provide guaranteed delivery out of the box, the producers buffer messages and that's when the loss can happen - if you need guaranteed delivery then you need to write extra code.
In fact you can have case-sensitive Common Lisp packages that are completely backwards compatible with case-insensitive CL code by settings readtable-case to :invert[1], and this works without any problems for interfacing with external case-sensitive environments.[2] Allegro's modern mode is what you would get if you assume case sensitivity as a default, but portable Common Lisp can handle case sensitivity perfectly fine without breaking backwards compatibility.

[1] https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2011-09-20-common-li...

[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/reference.html#s...
Andy Byford failed in fixing Toronto's transit problems although I don't think it was his fault and more likely a dysfunctional city council and an uncompromising transit union. Hopefully, he can help NYC fix their problems.

I just got back from Tokyo. What an incredible network of trains/subways. I know every city has its own challenges but if there are any questions, ask the Japanese because they seem to have figured it all out. Moving 10 million people a day in Tokyo is a testament to their know-how.
Didn't that transition not go very smoothly? I seem to remember having nowhere to download packages stuff at work when they turned the old system off (I think due to the new system not being able to handle the load, but I could be wrong)
Disagree on B. There's always opportunity for consulting and integration. Not everyone wants to be in the cloud and not everyone can be in the cloud.

And you know DBs always need tuning.
I took GP's comment as somewhat tongue-in-cheek
>Every major city hires economists, often from universities, to do cost/benefit analysis of major capital projects.

To be clear I was referring to how the greater public are informed on such matters by the media / politicians.

I'm well aware of the projects you mention. I'm a consultant on capital program / project governance but not sure I understand the relevance, I wasn't really talking about the validity of estimates at any stage, just the focus on them.
That's... exactly the opposite of true. Newspaper industry profits peaked in 2004.