skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vancouver has never legalized Uber/Lyft.

Vancouver has the highest gas prices in NA.

Vancouver's transit operator Translink is enjoying a big influx of funding from the government and is increasing service hours.

Unsurprisingly Vancouver transit ridership is experiencing record growth.

> Average weekday boardings on buses were up 9.5 per cent. Expo/Millennium Line average weekday boardings were up 9.2 per cent, while Canada Line’s boardings grew 8.1 per cent. On SeaBus, average weekday boardings increased by 13.1 per cent, thanks in part to increased sailings. Even West Coast Express ridership is on the rise, up 6.7 per cent.

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/transit-ridership-hi...
You would make the whole community overjoyed if you gave us sound arguments for why we don't have a problem.

We see it in the data, and do our very best to run simulations to predict the future of this chaotic system (we should have the main influences down), and it looks bad.

You can doubt the doomsday aspect of it, since that is determined by society's response and resilience, but more CO2 in the atmosphere increasing radiative forcing and thus temperature as a 0th level effect are very basic physics. The fact that humanity caused a substantial increase on atmospheric CO2 is very obviously true as well.

Anything saving us must be a higher level effect. The natural way of CO2 sequestration, rock weathering and subsequent precipitation into ocean sediment, takes at least 10k years to get rid of an increase.

Please tell us if there is something big we miss. Everyone could use some good news by now because the current state is pretty depressing.
I have a better idea than cleaning: build a machine that builds these so quickly and cheaply that you can throw them away every night when you're done.
Imho underpaid, heavily overworked, high chance startup fails. I don't think it's worth it.
>but being disrespectful is not

Nah. It’s fine. You might find it advantageous to navigate the world by humoring the people too full of themselves to realize they don’t deserve an ounce of respect. But they don’t, and it’s fine if you don’t want to give it.
I kinda see what you’re saying, but I think for the economics to work at scale (another person mentioned location) then the device should be small enough to fit in a food truck or a street vendor stand.

Once you have the size down to where you just need one person at a time operating it, I bet the big fast food companies will swarm all over the opportunity to create tens of thousands of micro-franchises.

Why drive for Uber when you could set up a mini McDonalds wherever the health department lets you get away with it?
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I want 7 extra hours in a day. 4 for of those would be allocated to sleeping.
The dark age really wasn't - not in terms of knowledge retention anyway. There was a decrease in population in europe which caused all sort of demographic maladies which caused the economic undevelopment we all associate with that period of europe, but the knowledge itself was preserved in books.

Yes, it's much easier to learn a foreign script than to decipher a forgotten disk format where bytes are nanometers in size - but given the vast utility computing devices provide us, we need to fall pretty deep and far from where the current historical development is taking us to forget computational devices as a civilization entirely.

If we have academia - and there is very little reason to think we won't - I'm sure there will be departments of digital information preservation who specialize in extracting cat videos (and probably digital physical simulacrums of the cutest cats) from the vast array of storage material our generation and the next will store.

The question is this: At which point will youtube seize to exist? If it won't there is no reason to think it cannot forward the data it stores to the future millenia. I mean, catholic church is over a millenia old with archives stretching as far. Is there some reason (barring some hollywoodesque global calamity) youtube could not reach the same age?
All of the modern buildings you mention had an immense budget and were intended to be great buildings for generations. This doesn't always work but most of the time it isn't even attempted. The facades in the article front buildings that would never and could never be in that class.

"We have a street frontage, people like the look of it, keep it." Seems reasonable to me when the alternative is "Can an architect with a cost-minded budget do something people will like better?" Because that answer is usually no. (Why? Is a good question to ask.) If people don't like the street frontage, bring it down, have a go!

There is rather a lot of preciousness in architecture and it would seem a contempt for what people actually like is in evidence more often than it should be. UX testing on architecture, is that even a thing?
Same here. If I start early (particularly due to a meeting), it's difficult to do any serious mental work for the rest of the day because I consistently forget what I'm working on. I can force myself to work anyway, but then I'm more prone to make mistakes. It's much better for me to ease into work.

I learned a few years ago that defying my internal clock even has physical effects such as poor digestion and terrible stomach pain. The popular advice to rise early is harmful in my case.
Charles Krauthammer, commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner, dead at 68
In March 2000, tech companies represented 35% of the S&P 500 by market cap.

Cisco was briefly the largest company in the world, with a market cap similar to Facebook today (taking inflation into account its market cap was similar to Amazon today).

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2000/03/20/story...

These were the ten largest companies in the S&P 500 in January 2000: Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, AOL, Oracle, Dell, Sun, Qualcomm, and HP.
I meant to add - Chrome has maybe crashed on me a couple of times in that same year (versus one or more crashes per day from FF!), despite arguably much much heavier use, including all of my Youtube, social networking with infinity scroll etc.
So what is the likelyhood that rich countries - not having the recycling capacity to deal properly with their own waste - find some other, much poorer countries (other than the ones mentioned) to use as their garbage dump?

Seems likely to me. Is this already happening?
> The difference in thinking is magnificent

How do you know this, having not experienced neurotypical thinking?
If they are I can't find where...
I thought macs gave up on subpixel aa after the advent of retina displays.
Good news, macOS isn't doing subpixel AA any more as of macOS 10.14! ;)

But seriously, if SIMD would be useful there, why doesn't it use it?
It's not a genetic test, and it isn't a test for something that defines autism, so you're begging the question IMO. Sure, human observers are imperfect, but that doesn't mean you can choose an arbitrary test that is precise and make it the standard just because. "We need something better than human judgement, and this is something, thus it is better"
It's still partially racist. Just look at Atlanta and Detroit's lack of regional transit.
How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff
May sound silly but could we send it into space instead of burying it? Surely it could be sent on a trajectory to burn up at the sun or another planet’s atmosphere. I guess the obvious issue is cost, are there others?
It is never possible to predict changes in perception or possible realizations one might have, even from personal experience. I think it is always good to have a fully open discussion.
Consulting using 40 years of experience is something that a young person generally won't be able to do.
Well then write an email to the authors and ask them about it (maybe not with that tone though). I'm pretty sure you'll get an answer.

Edit: Seriously, if you think we made a mistake we want to know about it in detail. Just consider that a lot of people independently analyzed the data for the publications, including idealistic students without agenda, who then all made the same mistake. It's not very probable, but.. it's not like is has never happened either.
The disparate impact doctrine is quite controversial, especially the ever more aggressive applications of it.

It has led to some unfortunate rules. For example, it’s (generally and presumptively) illegal to hire based on intelligence tests, but seems to be okay (in practice) to hire only from elite universities that select students largely on the basis of SAT scores, which correlate very strongly with IQ.
Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Reverse Type 1 Diabetes
> e.g. the Israeli military, which takes junior-officer autonomy to an extreme even by Western standards.

Sounds really interesting, any examples?
3 would be a source of political pressure for those jurisdictions to simplify tax compliance.
The problem is each government wants to make rules of their own and no one can agree to streamline. Then comes the issue with democrat and republican politics. Republicans will want low tax and little services while democrats the opposite. Good luck getting them to agree.

The end result is smaller busineeses get stomped. Only solution i see is to streamline it with software. Software is getting easier to use so hopefully it becomes less burdensome.
Some frameworks have started to move away from the separation. Bootstrap has these ‘style’ classes like “text-center” and “pull-right”, which is essentially no different than doing “text-align: center” or “float: right” in the style attribute.

I think a good developer will avoid being dogmatic about style and content separation. My philosophy has been simplicity above all else. I will use a style class if I can avoid some ugly CSS selectors, and if I see a tag with a million style classes, I’ll wrap those up into a single class instead. It takes a bit of iteration to reach a simple solution, but it pays off when you have to return to the code in six months.
No its not limited by that, philosphy is. Perhaps you should read a little up on postmodern theory then you would better understand the context this is debated within. You can imagine what you want that has nothing to do with what we are debating here.
In tech ... its a Nerf gun
I think great number of people who use those services can't afford 5 grand jacket. I am talking about people making 100-200k a year. They are really anally violated by taxes.
18 is when best prospects are recruited into the best leagues. They have played long time before that in the lower levels.

National teams are just temporary arrangements. Real growth happens in the clubs.
>impossible to cheat on PS4

Technically no: there's exploits for lower versions of the PS4 firmware. I don't think there's anything out for the Xbox One so you're still good there. The Switch is wide open but Nintendo are quick on the banhammer if you go online with a modded console.
And soon you'll get hit with a 10% tariff on it, as the phone most likely originated in Shenzhen.
>This is one way that rust is different than C++; the vtable isn’t stored with the data

Which “data” is the vtable stored with in C++? An object contains only a pointer to its vtable, not the vtable itself...
Microsoft to apply its AI technologies to retail checkout: Report
You know, I wonder if the "McMansion" style of mismatched ornamental elements from wildely varying eras is sort of an awkward unconscious pushback against that type of "Blorp" architecture
Anyone happen to know when inline asm will hit stable?
Sweet! You should post this on Product Hunt.
The question really is. Armed with that knowledge can you do any better without gambling?

If a basket of managed funds did the same or worse in that period then probably not for a passive investor.
I don't want to worry you, but on a mobile device with a screen the GPU is always spinning. That is where the pixels come from after all.

I get your point that there are energy efficiency tradeoffs to consider. However for massively data parallel tasks like image operations, 3d graphics, machine learning, vision etc, I haven't seen SIMD implementation come close to GPU compute in terms of efficiency. Perhaps short lived text pressing and file compression where data access is more random could benefit from SIMD.
People who feel they are better off welfare payments than work.
Search on YouTube for Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Study/Relax to . Works amazingly well for me.
I don't think thats the case, within the families. My experience is that parents who don't have college degrees are much less likely to financially support and/or push for college for their children. The idea that the only way to make it in life is to graduate from college is a societal view.

Now you'd think that someone who didn't graduate college would see its value, but they're probably less likely to be able to help their kids financially (especially in the middle-area where the parents make too much for the kid to qualify to student aid, but not enough to comfortably afford it). Also cultural differences - conservatives are pretty unlikely to want their kids to go to a "liberalizing" college institution.

"First generation" college students also go to 2-year colleges at a far higher rate, and are far less likely to go to a private college than students who's parents completed college, and were also far more likely to drop out because of economic reasons. 33% drop out within 3 years vs 14% of those with parents who went to college.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/02/08/students-post...
The computation is simple. Isn't the harder part the filing & paying?
It's counterintuitively hard to send something into the sun. You have to cancel out all of Earth's velocity.

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just...
Avalara has automated return filing.
I think it depends on the team.
The Jungle is fiction. Only 12 pages of the novel concerned anything close to food safety, and at the time there were already food inspections.

https://www.zeroaggressionproject.org/uncategorized/upton-si...
Do you mean eloquent, or do you mean persuasive?

There's a difference between writing clearly, and using rhetorical and psychological tricks to write persuasively.

For persuasion see books by Cialdini, Bernays (Propaganda), and Schopenhauer's list of stratagems.

http://www.mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm

It's worth reading all of these to see how these tricks can be used against you, even if you never use them yourself.

For clear writing I'd recommend Paul Graham's essays (I don't often agree with his ideas, but I think his essay style is gold standard), George Orwell, Carl Sagan, and the first few books by Richard Dawkins.

And it's easy to find tips online.
Not it doesent show that. The “conclusions” are more or less the same and non have had further developments inside their respective frameworks. I.e there isnt any critique of postmodernism that takes it further only back, there isnt any critique of zenbuddism that takes it further etc.
This is too far above my level to understand directly - has anyone got an example of an application that will be affected by this? I see some comments about tracing below.
Augmented reality will be as practical as it is playful
We need a field of AI that makes sure all other fields of AI behave nicely.
Microsoft launches undersea, free-cooling data center
The issue (iirc) with that sort of query is that it's essentially a join, so you'll get count(projects)*sum(length(regions)) intermediate rows that need to be grouped back together.
Animal Agriculture Industrial Complex I believe is the worse offender of our planet anyway. Then there's the threat of another H1N1, Avian Flu, Food and Mouth, etc. only a matter of time before they rapidly evolve and overcome anti-biotics and cause a worldwide pandemic.

So may I suggest we simply do what we can to reduce our consumption of meat. As it is simply not sustainable right now.

Instead, try this, Cauliflower that looks like Chicken! Taste is close too!

http://sweetpotatosoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Vegan-...

Or burger pattie that is made from Banana flower (i'm from the tropics).
> For instance, US law has "disparate impact" provisions at least since the civil rights act (a time which was probably not dominated by political correctness), which requires outcomes to be not too different between races or other groups.

That's not what “disparate impact” requires; it requires that acts producing differential outcomes for protected classes are demonstrably tightly aligned with a legitimate interest (e.g., in hiring, criteria with such an impact must be demonstrably tightly tied to job performance.)

Differences, even extremely wide differences, in outcomes associated with protected class are still legal, if they have a demonstrably legitimate basis.
> I and friends who're on the spectrum don't consider it a "mental disorder".

If you lack the capability to simulate the mental state of another human being based on observation, you're deficient in a key aspect of what we consider to be a normal functioning mind.

This is not a judgement on your character! Don't confuse the two. We don't think people with Down's or any other disorder are bad, or unworthy of a good life and plenty of opportunities to succeed.

But it is a disorder, especially for those who are much more profoundly impacted than yourself, and if it can be addressed with treatment or prevented entirely during pregnancy, it should be.
From the first article,
"In some applications, natural aggregate can be replaced by or supplemented with recycled materials, but the possibilities are limited. "

It doesn't go on to why that is, but the conclusion is that recyclable glass won't work(?).
They will just hire avalara to do it. Do you think a payment processor is going to hire hundreds of tax accountants to look all this stuff up?

Cheaper to just hire avalara to do it for you.
One of Nvidia’s Major OEM Partners Allegedly Returned 300,000 GPUs
Better to think of ATT as a national telecom. They are extremely close to government.

Remember Bernie Ebbers; I'm pretty sure if Google or whomever seriously considered it, there would be Words in Smokey Back Rooms.
I believe the Xbox Live criticism is unfair. The reason the service gained popularity is because it added value. Because XBL centralized the online gaming experience, a lot of benefits were realized including centralizing your multiplayer experience (community and content), and not having to maintain multiple subscriptions for different game services. That is and was worth the premium, atleast for me personally.
For Nintendo, I think your criticism is valid, but only first party games. In the case of Sony, they are blocking (what seems to be) Epic's intention of allowing cross platform. And this is different since it's a policy choice, rather than having to invest development hours or something.
The Problem You Solve Is More Important Than the Code You Write
OP is referring to the likelihood that a blizzard blows through the prep kitchen as opposed to the likelihood of a hard rainstorm on the 101 during the morning commute. Self-driving cars have to reliably cope with a wider range of uncertainties than a robot cooking burgers in a carefully controlled (by comparison) environment.
It's unfortunate that you're being downvoted. Suppose I have:

* A programming language

* It has values

* Those values include maps

Then it sounds like this technology would be able to print fully-formed valid modules for your language! A very cool thing that is worth investigating in more detail.
They're still not there with the Golang-style single exe for .NET Core. The default behaviour of the dotnet build tool seems to be to build a .dll file (!)
To obtain some market-based grounding in reality, I'd rather the universities be required to collect their fee as a fixed percentage of the students' incomes for a fixed number of years after graduation. Poor students wouldn't be handicapped by not having the money to pay for college, because the college wouldn't be paid until the student got paid.

The "epic amount of fat to be trimmed" from the universities won't happen until the universities get off the guaranteed gov't money gravy train and have to adapt to a system where their success depends on their clients' success.
At the moment, a big limitation of this approach is the input data. Images of tumours are generally very thin sections of a complex 3D tissue that is processed in a way that introduces artefacts and then stained with 2 colours.

To truly leverage the power of machine learning, an end to end solution where the tissue is processed in a more data rich manner would be better (eg spatially aware single cell assays, non destructive thick slice imaging). This would feasibly replace the current system entirely, as it truly would do something no human could do, not just do it more accurately.
The future of AI relies on a code of ethics
And yet US companies do homework assignments first round and 8 hour interviews second round if not even more.
I have had jobs offered after a two hour technical interview plus 1 hour hr interview in Germany.
> To me it's common sense to allow me to take my stuff from one platform to the other. Microsoft gets it, Nintendo gets is.

You haven't really looked at app platforms before, have you. If you buy evernote on IOS, you're sure not getting it on android.

MS is being friendly to it because they're behind. In the Xbox 360/PS3 days, it was Sony asking to do cross-play and Microsoft denying it. Its a PR play, and you're buying it.
You're getting downvoted and you used what I think is a "sarchasm" tag but this isn't a terrible suggestion. Lots of industries use disposable parts for sanitation reasons. Many of the instruments used for medicine and dentistry are now disposable. Food workers wear disposable gloves and food comes in disposable packaging. It's not unreasonable to think that they might use disposable parts for everything that touches food.
Newtonian mechanics is the approximation of Einstein's work to the speeds and masses that are accessible on Earth, it is not wrong and usually still sufficient unless you need insane precision or want to research large masses or speeds.

Warmer air can hold more water vapor. This effect is of course included in the research.
Grants, partial and full-ride scholarships, community colleges, etc. will all still exist, but while it will definitely limit the number of people taking out expensive loans to get advanced degrees for low-paying jobs, it probably would not exclude those who either had existing money, or who could keep the loan amounts to within repayable limits, by getting a cheaper undergrad, or what have you.
It also took some value that used to be free away. It was expected before Xbox Gold that you be able to play games you bought online.