skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High throughput and low cost are not the only metrics that commuters care about, clearly, or else they'd be riding public transit. If you offer to PAY ME a dollar to ride on BART next to a smelly, loud homeless person for an hour, versus me PAYING $10 in gas to drive to work, I'll pick the latter without hesitation.
As a beginner currently going through this tutorial, grasping the how is vastly less difficult than knowing when to use. I noticed last night that I was spending too much time going through the tutorial (and the examples) without actually practicing what I was learning. I realized that I wasn't exactly sure when to use Flexbox in this simple page¹, or why to use it at all, if I should stick to directly customizing elements or how to divide divs (header, presentation, button). The editor tells me that the universal selector (*) is slow, what should I use then? I want to use best practices, but I have no reference since it seems that CSS has many ways to achieve the same result. Well, I think I'll have to grok it for now.

¹ https://cyberneets.neocities.org/
This. I never understood why he even included it in the article. Did he get his company to pay for the trip as well?
I've always been in awe of Alex and thought, like the others in the "peanut gallery", that there must be something different about the way his brain functions. Very interesting to find out what that is!
The main issue is that the people can not live near the place they work.
Right, I’ve had that setup in the past and I wouldn’t disagree with that but I’ve also seen a netapp choke on lots of tiny files over NFS.
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I have taken the same stance. Have had lawyers tell me that I am wrong. Have had other lawyers telle the opposite. -shrug- when it specifically lists IP address as an example of PD in one section, the fact that another says things are only PD if you can identify a person doesn't NECESSARILY over rule that.
This is a brilliant article. I would just like to add that it seems to me you can summarize what fascism is by saying it is the attempt to impose premodern, tribalistic social forms and ways of thinking on a modern, industrial society. This is not workable, and so I think it accounts for the many ideological contradictions that Eco points out.
> But unfortunately my experience is industry tends to not agree with us. They are like 'cool you know fundamentals, now do this take home project that requires x programming language with m framework'. This isn't too nice for new hires that learn just fundamentals and not the tooling and frameworks industry expects new grads to have.

I think the idea is that you should be able to pick up the language and framework as you go, if you do actually have the concepts down. If your generalised knowledge isn't to the point where you can apply it to some arbitrary framework/codebase in some arbitrary (imperative) language and start being productive more or less immediately (with documentation open in another tab), then your generalised knowledge just isn't at the level where people care about it, yet.

edit: That generalised knowledge they're expecting absolutely might go beyond what you're shown in school (it depends on the school). If you draw the line of "fundamentals" at "what was in my curriculum", then that's an arbitrary line you're drawing, and it's not the line that most of the industry is using (even if people are using their own coursework as their meter). If you consider (eg, in a web dev context) HTTP requests and MVC "fundamental", then you should be able to pick up Rails or Django or whatever without much trouble. Whether or not your school had classes on that doesn't really matter to anyone.
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The institutions give you cheap loans in exchange. This has opportunity costs. Giving you cheap loans is not free for these institutions. They could be investing their money elsewhere instead. They would do so if it wasn’t for the fact that having this information about you reduces the risk just enough that they prefer giving you the cheap loans to investing their money elsewhere. People who are offered these terms are offered a fair deal that is a win for both parties and that they are offered a fair deal is exactly the reason they accept it.
javascript:

> 1/(-0)
-Infinity
> 1/0
Infinity
> Object.is(0, -0)
false

Of course = doesn't actually test equality in javascript. == reports -0 as being equal to +0, but Object.is reports them as different.
That's not what GP is saying. GP says that public transit is transit with your neighbors. If your neighbors are smelly junkies, then something is wrong with your community. Shoving people into cars to avoid the homeless is orthogonal to solving crowding issues.

This issue only comes up in SF because of the large wealth disparity between the upper-middle class and everyone below them. Here, the upper-middle pays for the option to remove themselves from public services.
It requires ~250W. Most portable USB batteries you can buy put out like 20W or so, this idea isn't really feasible.
I believe Reddit does have a problem with advertisers purchasing (or renting) accounts from established users who have enough karma/longevity to post in the various subreddits that block new users to avoid spam.
Is it weird?

I feel like it's more like Amazon just trying to monopolize everything. There are articles out there talking about getting Amazon-ed. Where Amazon would go in your industry and dominate you out the market. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamescahn/2018/04/24/dont-let-y...)

This is just a natural thing or the thing that Amazon does. Their modus operandi.

> what medicine they take which could in turn reveal metadata like sexual habits

They do recommendation system and I believe they sell sex toys so yeah... Alexia knows your kink already.

It's not weird but I think the better question is is this okay for one company to have so much power in so many area. Or at least I believe that's what you are trying to convey.
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Well other than the fact that it's impossible to tesselate a sphere with hexagons it really depends what you're interested in. Space filling curves would necessarily behave badly in some areas, but could be simpler.

Not sure why they didn't use squares.
Yeah, this seems like a part of history that should really be highlighted. It’s relevant to nearly the entire world. And it’s results are still important today.
I think it's fair to idealistically include it, it is one of the three theoretical goals. I personally think deterrence is the most vital goal of punishment but I think modern society is just concerned with retribution... especially with our "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" philosophy of late.
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I don’t think so. A colleague of mine got a call from the SEC because a cousin was trading shares in the company we work for during a blackout period. They barely even know each other, but it got flagged somehow.
"The bodies are barely cold and left-wing journalists are already exploiting these deaths to score political points"
- Milo

Yup, sounds like you.
Live a modern life, comfortable by modern standards? You’re right about that. But people in the past lived in worse conditions that were considered modern and comfortable then and credit ratings, by making the market for loans more efficient than it was before (however bad it may still be, it’s better than what it replaced), contributed to the improvements. You want to have your cake and eat it too, and it would be nice if that was possible but it is not because nobody is going to give you cheap loans if it comes with too much risk.
We tried - finicity serves intuit so it works better for business/corporate accounts. Plaid is better for consumers.
compiler writing could well be ocaml's killer app; the problem is that it's a very niche application in terms of the number of people who do it. i was hoping facebook's pfff [https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/Main] would extend that to language analysis tooling in general but it never seemed to catch on.
The fake news seems to be jumping on Milo when the shooters motives are currently unknown.
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Why isn't facebook using Emoji like every one else? (Nearly. I'm looking at you Skype).
So the deal here is: you give us your bank credentials and we won’t require any kind of personal guarantee. Other cards wont get your bank data but will require you to personal guarantee. Fincity is used by intuit/quickbooks, that’s why we chose them.

About aws rewards - noted! Will improve clarity
Yes - for the first year
Interesting move. Of course makes sense to consolidate offices for efficiency, but seems they're losing a few things:

- Staying true to their roots where they were founded

- Having HQ's across time zones

- Being in the heart of NYC for advertising company connections

- Newport Beach is expensive real estate

Only reasons I can think of them needing to do this:

* If they're going to poach more Taco Bell employees and don't want them to have to move across state lines

* Poaching from the other chains

* Innovation b/c...SoCal?

* Purely for the benefit of the C-suite
GP is likely referring to the requirement for humans to count and verify the packs of pills. FDA rules don't allow all of that to be automated away.
Mass transit is a viable solution to people only when it's more convenient than cars. When the hassle of driving and finding parking is less than the extra walk/transfers/etc of taking transit, most people will drive. If you have mobility issues or have cargo you need to haul back, you're even more likely to drive.

Here in Seattle our roads are at capacity and the city is actively working to increase density, creating a virtuous circle of improved transit availability and frequency. This is great when I need to get to the airport during rush hour - I live near the UW and can take the light rail and be guaranteed to be at there in an hour, with a bus transfer. Outside of rush hour, I ask someone to drive me there in ~25 minutes. If I lived farther away from the nearest light rail station, I'd necessarily choose to get a ride every time.

Unless your city is actively making transit a priority, or its road system is packed to the gills, the shift from cars to transit is not going to happen on its own.

article on falling US transit ridership:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fal...
I think the Gen2 scooters will have solar panels on the standing pads to slowly recharge during the day when not in use.
The WHO report was about efficiency, i.e. life years gained per euro. In that respect, we rank very high, but that might just be because there's so little money in the healthcare system that doctors have to stretch it to go a long way.
Not yet unfortunately
Counterpoint, if sending data to credit companies is handled even close to the same way that requesting data is, they may not always ask your permission. If you freeze your credit, you'll quickly discover just how often companies check it without telling you. It's kind of startling.

A few companies will tell you in advance that they're going to run a background check, but many will not. Then they'll come back very huffy and complain, "why couldn't we access your credit!"

Also for a fun game, the next time a representative from a company asks for consent to run a background check, tell them your credit is frozen and ask which company (Equifax, Experian, etc...) they're going to check with so you can unfreeze it. In my experience, 9 out of 10 times they won't know and there will be no way for them to find out in advance.

In the same way, even if you're consenting for a company to send data to partners, you don't always get to know who those partners are or who they'll be in the future. I try to pay attention to data consent forms now. Sometimes they do boil down to just "we're gonna share your info with... somebody. Possibly multiple of them."

I might be wrong, but I would bet that the person who you sit down with to sign your loan or your mortgage will not know who your data is going to be shared with, and they probably won't be able to look it up if you ask.

But hey, at least Geico can send me physical mail advertising on my birthday now, so I guess it's all worth it.
Not everything has to be related to marijuana man.

Your life also doesn't have to revolve around finding something new to buy/consume.
I thought I had turned that on but I probably forgot to click “update” afterwards. Thanks!
You're wrong. And the link isn't about changing the block cap.
Curious - how do you know said drugs had 'expired'?
The amount of blatant paid advertising going unmarked in Twitter Moments is ridiculous.
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Is productivity actually going to be increased by reducing the number of cars on the road? If not, then I wouldn't count on ever seeing a serious effort towards making cities less car-centric. A politician may help bring in some bike lanes here and there, but their interest is almost entirely in keeping their job.
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The last point is a really good one.
You can compress a lot, but you can't compress away all the space currently used as roads. The space is important for allowing sunlight and fresh air to enter buildings and also acts as a noise damper in a community. Not to mention, some amount of visual privacy from neighbors. There is also the problem of emergency services (ambulances, fire trucks, police etc) being able to move around quickly. Finally, you should probably have some amount of bus/train transit in the city. Good reasons for it are bad weather, night time safety, tired or sick people, people with disabilities or long-term health problems and children.

I think the best you can do is that every building is next to one one-way car lane (shared with bikes going the same way) and one bike lane (for going in the opposite direction). The road should not be asphalt but some softer, less conductive material. No street parking. If you want to own a car, you can't externalize the cost to society but build a garage for yourself. Of course, there is a maximum size on the cars that you can buy and 30 km/h speed limit on most roads. You can have mini-buses (20ish people) and subways to take people around.

I think this is already a massive improvement on car centric cities. With the right distribution of retail and housing, you can have people enjoying a really nice life.
People keep going to consent, but I'm pretty sure in many cases they're wrong to do so.

> Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case, or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

and the ICO guidance is

> Consent should be separate from other terms and conditions and should not generally be a precondition of signing up to a service.

Even when consent is given, the users interests still have to be considered during processing, so it's not like it's a do-whatever-you-like card. Just because a user says they consent to you doing something with their data, doesn't necessarily mean you can if that thing is obviously not in their interests.

I wish the fact that consent is only a weak basis under GDPR were made more clear, since if we just end up with an internet that requires consent on every site then the law has just made things worse and made nothing better.
the argument for tau is so silly, and it seems to be mainly supported by non-mathematicians. i don’t know of any real mathematician that cares. and it’s because it’s a toss-up really. so people just keep going. there’s more importnat things to do.
Why would you need to transfer to bus? Wouldn’t link go from UW straight through to the airport?
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>> It seems this discussion comes up fairly often, and the solution is almost
always some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient,
to force people to use public transit".

It's more like the other way around: the idea is to make public transport cheap
and efficient enough that it's a reasonable alternative to driving everywhere.

>> For example I live in a very public transit friendly city, but the buses are
un-ridable most of the time due to the rampant homeless issue(and all that
comes with a large homeless population) while the light rail is usually better
about being a semi-safe, semi-clean environment, that just happens to be so
overloaded between between 7am-9am, and 3pm-6pm, that there is almost any
price I'd pay to avoid it.

I live in a small town on the South coast of England, which just happens to
have one of the largest populations of homeless people, nationally. It also
has very good public transport, namely, buses, that are always full. I've
never seen a homeless person using a bus as crashing space, or causing trouble
of any sort. I can't say I ever particularly noticed homeless people on a bus.
If homeless people on buses are a problem where you live, that has nothing to
do with public transport in general.

Anyway, I think everyone gets the public transport they deserve. If everyone
wants to go around by car, then we won't have good public transport- because
why would we?
I love Elixir (more so than golang), so I would sincerely recommend using it. Erlang concurrency story is lightyears ahead of Python3 asyncio (despite being older by maybe 20 years). And OTP has no equivalent anywhere.

But if you are migrating just to avoid spending a couple of days learning and migrating to Python 3 based on reading too much FUD I'm very saddened. Migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 is not much harder to handle than a Django migration. Though of course it depends on your codebase, but compared to moving to Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto it's a peace of cake.

Move to Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto because it fits your needs better than Python, be proud of it even. But please, learning Python 3 to write good Python 3 code coming from Python 2.7 is very easy, nothing like switching to a completely different paradigm...
> some variation of "make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient

We could stop by not subsidizing it in the U.S.

Corn, Oil Exploration, Oil Reserves, federal highway funding, and many state highways and local roads, and vehicle police are subsidized by income tax payers instead of tolls, fuel taxes, or vehicle registrations.
I'm not asserting anything. I'm asking the above poster to think about what kind of person responds in the first manner.
Okay, so then don't "live a modern life in any sort of comfortable way". That's not some sort of requirement or need. You're free to not be employed and gather your own food if you don't want to come to agreements with other people.

What's disingenuous is trying to pass off "modern life" as some sort of necessity and pretending like you couldn't exist without demanding use of other peoples' works.
Well, there are some use-cases where Julia is actually faster than compiled code due to being able to compile dynamically generated code on the fly (see https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-vs-fortran-complaint...)

But yes, in general the same lack of static guarantees that makes dynamic languages slow also makes code in dynamic languages hard to maintain. I think a lot of programmers tinker with code in dynamic languages and end up liking them as a result, but don't realize the difficulty of working in such a language in a much more complex codebase.
"Instead, our build system is configured to automatically build, test and push .NET images whenever the official images that we use are updated"

I wonder what that build system looks like and how I'd do the same as an app developer when new .NET images show up.
A lot of people are _not_ breaking their locals laws and "Confusion will continue to reign" because there is a disproportionate amount of people that think that EU laws apply to the entire world.
Once the lego patents expired all the lego clones had perfect compatibility with lego.
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Your post reminds me of a quip from A NASCAR champion driver who said "the way to fast lap times is to 'go slowly ... in a hurry.'"

Love that!
Jeffty is Five was my first exposure to Ellison and I still remember the feeling of mundane horror I got. Such a great story. My other favorite was Eidolons.

My second earliest memory of Ellison was Bruce Willis playing the main character in Shatterday when Twilight Zone got revived!
FB is also doing the same thing, starting today. Brutal.
In practice, the small companies you’re so worried about regularly can and do interface with Governments - even e.g. the tax offices - and are regularly given some leniency so long as they’re not obviously trying to avoid complying with the law. “Fix the thing you’re doing wrong” is always going to be the first response of the regulator.

This is not America. We do not regularly put people/companies into bankruptcy just because we can.
For some reason people can't get into agreement to use one library that provides consistent way of dealing with this consent. Then you could just automatically close it with some extension, or not even load it at all.
Because solving the issue of homelessness (or poverty in general) would mean parting with precious, precious currency.
For comparison, Google uses S2 cells in their maps, which is a tiling of quadrilaterals formed by projecting a cube onto a sphere, with a clever addressing system. Here's a good summary of how those work: http://s2geometry.io/devguide/s2cell_hierarchy.html

I'm not an expert on this, but off the top of my head I can see a couple obvious tradeoffs. I'd love to hear some feedback from someone who's worked with H3 and S2 about the differences.

- S2 cells end up being sort of diamond shaped and all oriented in the same direction after being projected onto a sphere, so their radius varies a lot more than an H3 cell. I wouldn't be surprised if H3 cells are on average more useful for doing local data analysis, since they're closer to a circle. For example, a collection of events are probably clustered together more in an H3 cell than an equivalently sized S2 cell.

- S2 cells tile perfectly - each one is comprised of 4 smaller S2 cells. An H3 cell is approximated by 7 smaller H3 cells.

- Related to above, S2 cell addresses are in some sense "strict" - you can cut off the lowest significant bit to get the address of the parent S2 cell, which will fully contain the child cell. An H3 cell is not necessarily fully contained by its parent cell - judging by the pictures, the center cell is, but the 6 edge cells will overlap a bit. Probably the H3 cells are more annoying to work with for certain cases requiring exact numbers.

- As mentioned in the writeup, H3 needs to include a few pentagons in their tiling. They mention that they're oriented the grid so that the pentagons are over water, so it's probably not a big deal in day to day work.
I made a small bet earlier in the year thinking AMZN would buy Rite Aid. ah well.
Not to mention one of his supporters shot a peaceful protestor outside on of his rallys in Seattle last year.
Well let's not forget about all the productive hosting business this is drumming up, some poor megacorporation is barely holding on by offering their cloud hosting services to all these ICOs.

(there isn't a window fallacy we can't broken here :D)
I would probably trust the 3rd party if I'd used them before and not gotten scammed, but honestly I don't like sharing that info with anyone.

I understand why they want it, but I wish there were a better way than "here is write access to my bank".