skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those 2.7m cars don't spend 10+ hours driving each day.

So, those 100k for higher vehicles make up a large fraction of total vehicles on the streets. Further, congestion charges would need to be per hour on the road not just in the city to adjust for this issue.
Yeah, this was a pretty bizarre post. In effect saying "We don't technically shadowban, but we do suppress content in other ways!"
No, it doesn't. "Feature bloat" comes from wanting to appease everyone by taking the union of all proposals. That is ineffective community governance: it comes from allowing people to say yes but not no to features. Believe me, people love to say no to features in Rust.
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In case anyone else was confused like me: W.A.S.P. is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant)
This cannot be emphasised enough.

Twitter repeatedly conflates organised spam / abuse / brigading, with sincere criticism and disagreement. They've shown a shocking disregard for differences of opinion, while refusing to develop tools to allow users with large followings to quickly cut off a mob attack.

This has put them in a position where they're both overly censorious - removing satire accounts, shadow banning without notice and using 'verified' status as a form of punishment; and simultaneously failing to engage with real abuse of the platform.

Presumably because to deal with real abuse and spam would be difficult and costly. Look how long it took them to remove fake / bot users who were being used to target political campaigns.
To me, the real TWTR story isn't the 14% drop this week, but that TWTR's price is up 100% from the level it held through all of 2016, a time which included takeover talks.
As someone who considered Evi a boss, a mentor, and a friend thank you for posting this. I worked in the CU labs along with many others and TA’d her systems admin and network programming classes. I shared a office (which she occasionally slept in) and learned the art of solving operational issues by watching her break down root causes. Perspectives like hers are really missing now, and I would love to get her take on women in engineering now.

Godspeed..
Uber/Lyft use limited road space more efficiently vs traditional cabs due to 1. Shared rides (Uber Pool and Lyft Line) 2. Lower deadheading factor, as Uber and Lyft work on larger scale and use better dispatching algorithms, so they need to drive less to pickup next passenger
This gliding in a plane-like structure (http://www.milehighgliding.com/) was a pretty good substitute for this non-pilot. The glider was towed up to 12k feet by another plane and then let go - the resulting 10 or so minutes of near-silent gliding in the mountains of Boulder, CO was pretty amazing.
Regarding the negative effect on taxi drivers, the economic consensus is that this is weaker than the positive effect on consumers. Generally as a society we prefer benefiting consumers over producers, as if all producers had monopolies and no competition, everyone's quality of life would be worse (producers are consumers too). There's a nice work from a few hundred years ago by early French economist Bastiat that explores the issue: http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html.

That aside, their situation could be improved by the same general solution as other unemployment hardships: better welfare or some kind of basic income. This distorts the market less than giving taxi drivers an artificial monopoly and forcing New Yorkers to suffer allegedly sub-par service.

Regarding increased congestion, the standard solution is a congestion charge of some sort, applied equally to all non-critical passenger vehicles. This is what large cities like Shanghai and Singapore do (with massive taxes and/or licensing fees). Just because Uber contributed to the problem most recently, doesn't mean that their usecase is somehow worse than the cars that were already there. Increased use of such services can actually be a positive in the long term, if it reduces the time spent parking and the city's need to waste land on parking spaces, encourages carpooling, or increases quality of life of residents by allowing them to more easily get across the city. Increasing the cost of driving in the city via congestion charges or taxes will cut off the least important use-cases first (those that people are least willing to pay for), which is more efficient than arbitrarily banning ride sharing without data on the value it adds vs existing car usage.
When something becomes abundant how to manage that resource becomes more important not less. Otherwise you end up with the resource curse.

When information is free having somewhere to study that information, that isn't your shared apartment, becomes more important. Having somewhere to meet people to talk about the information, that isn't a crowded coffee shop, becomes more important. Having the expertise to find the right information, that isn't necessarily blog posts nor research pappers, again becomes more important.

Libraries are only useless to the extent that they haven't expanded. But in line with the resource curse it ends up being more lucrative to work in information technology rather than with information technology. So while many other industries are struggling the large tech companies are making bank by being part of the problem.
I like my flip phone because it cost $40, I get prepaid service for $9 a month, it holds its charge for a week, I can drop it and it still works, and no one is going to hit me on the head and take it away from me.

On the other hand, it's embarrassing when I use it in downtown San Francisco.
I believe that’s something that is being seriously considered, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/GnomeShell/GnomeS...
Manhattan is plagued with Uber cars. They outnumber yellow cabs 5:1. At this point it is a serious public safety issue if an evacuation is ever necessary. Your problem can be addressed with incentives for more borough cabs.
I don’t know about license plate scanners, but usually the more industrial the printer, the higher likelihood that Linux will do just fine.

I think the main reasons are that big industrial printers are likely to support standards like IPP and Postscript. Also, Apple uses CUPS just the same as Linux. Some cheap home printers require proprietary binary drivers, but many printers are supported by CUPS with some minimal config definitions.
Where's the investment in ultra-transformers nowadays?
I joke, but surely there is potential...
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This is cool! Not sure why it's not in the docs, but iTerm 2 > Install Shell Integration will do this for you, if you let it install the Utilities too.
Not recently, given how things are playing out in the press.
The last 10 percent are a very hard thing to do - a lot of effort goes into these frigging details (one of them is internationalization, like a proper spell checker for libre office that works for many languages and not just English)
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How are "synthetic fuels" produced? If it's anything like synthetic lubricants, it's still fossil fuels, just with more energy-intensive processing.
Quite a few places (around 13), albeit most are abandoned or inactive sites. You can locate most of these by spotting a tailings dam of some kind on Google Maps. There are three active mines, in California and Nevada owned by Molycorp Minerals, Rye Creek LLC, and Columbus SM LLC:

CA: San Bernardino, Shasta, Rancho Cucamonga and Near Primm (35.478098,-115.532034)

MT: Place called Rye Near Ravalli. Could not locate it manually, and the coordinates were listed incorrectly as 46.015278,-114.171389. Directions: "Turn east off of Highway 93 onto Tanner Ave. Follow it until it dead ends and turn right onto dirt road and follow it for approx 1/4 mile into mine site."

NV: Esmeralda, Churchill, Pershing (38.119167,-117.993611)

OR: Coos

UT: Salt Lake (itself?)

WA: Stevens, Grant
And getting one of those jobs means fuck-all when tech workers have you priced out of living withing any sort of reasonable commute to your low-wage service industry job.
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Many libraries (including San Francisco, where I am a member) even offer e-books and audiobooks. I switched to reading almost exclusively on my kindle, but I still get the vast majority of books for free from the library.
I like the approach - might try it out - even i need to look at two screens at the same time ;)
Maybe consider to have the app in a pop-out window, which I could overlay on my Netflix browser tab?

One thing I noticed, Query Strings contain the SRT filename, indicating the content could come from an unofficial, pirated source, such as "Se7en.1995.REMASTERED.1080p.BluRay.6CH.ShAaNiG.srt" ...
You can see messages from twitter users without subscribing to their feed.
Speech != voice.

One can definitely train to speak better with coaching, but your voice and most specifically your voice “ID” is unique to you. That can’t be changed.
> I was not wrong.

When I saw the word "hostage" misused in the title, I had the exact same feeling.
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"what is important to your manager for them and their career and trying to align to that".

I think that sums up pretty much everything. I don't believe it's the right approach at all for a manager and that's exactly what I mean by bad management. A manager is successful if his team is successful. The goal of a team is not to make a manager happy or to work for someone specifically. The goal of a team is to help the company achieve its business goals and a manager should be the one putting directional signs and building roads for people to help them reach their destinations.
Yes weekend service has gotten to the point of being unusable, with repair work (both routine, and fixing up tunnels flooded by Sandy) limited to off-peak and weekend hours. Unfortunately we aren't really addressing this in any sane way. Replacing mass transit with vehicles for hire is just making surface congestion awful, when options like expanding and enforcing bus-only lanes, bike lanes and more bike-share are not getting the attention they deserve. There are more solutions than just Uber and Lyft.

Watching communities vote down protected bike lines because they lose 1-2 parking spaces per block (I'm looking at you, Sunnyside) or fight increased bus service (the village..) is very frustrating.
MacOS is still relying on design cues from the days when all they had was a 7" monitor screen.

Additionally, it's designed for the hardware it's run on: a single screen laptop or desktop computer. Yes, it can run on multiple monitors, but's not really designed to do that. I don't think Apple has ever totally internalized the idea of multiple monitors or even big hardware (except for a brief time when we had a real Mac Pro).
The Library is literally the last place I can go as a homeless person to be left alone... I've been Tweeting about just this recently.

The idea of Amazon taking over the library literally has tears in my eyes right now, in the middle of a public room: absolutely not.

I grew up with no resources, uneducated parents, and the library was my refuge and why I made it to a successful position the first time.

Take the Library away and I'm done for, and poor people never have a chance.

> We give them a running start in helping improve their lives.

Oh, you can check out books there, too.
Always insightful to enter the minds of people who are told they're "meant to die". The mental fortitude of this man is amazing.

Great short read - would love any recommendations of other short stories about similar situations.
just switched from play to spotify a couple months ago, despite having hours of work to get things set up correctly. gotta say - so happy I did.

killer app tho was spotify's remote control functionality.
well, it is opt in if you read the article and go into 23andMe account you'll see that you have to specifically opt in to share the data.
Has anyone been able to find the full talk?
By profit margin, Airlines are like one of the worst businesses ever
Why not just let the market sort it out without a congestion fee? Surely there's a point at which there is so much traffic that people will stop taking uber/lyft and prefer to take the subway. Why should the government set an arbitrary bar to that?
Whereas I'm sure they are useful in the outer boroughs, I feel ride hailing apps are becoming less useful in Manhattan itself.
It's not uncommon for me to request Lyft or Uber, be told to expect a car in 5 minutes or so during which time the driver gets stuck in traffic or is unable to make a turn somewhere because of construction, etc - and that 5 minutes turns into 10 minutes or longer.
In the interim, several yellow cabs will have gone by and I'm left wondering why I didn't just take a taxi.

I find the apps to be incredibly useful outside of Manhattan, and especially when I'm traveling to other cities, but in Manhattan I've nearly stopped using them.
He did get some digs in against Trump, but I think he also praised his actions compared to the Obama administration and how personally he took the issue:

>> When Trump learned of Otto's condition, he doubled down on the order for Yun to rush to Pyongyang and bring Otto home. The North Koreans were unilaterally informed that an American plane would soon land in Pyongyang and that United States diplomats and doctors would get off. “The president was very invested in bringing Otto home,” said a State Department official who was involved in the case and who was not authorized to speak on the record. “Listening to him deliberate on this, he sounded to me a lot more like a dad.
Well, IRC clients allow for more customization for the end users, RocketChat - there was very little. The dev team didn't want to add hacks on to it and would only update when RC would release a new version.
The BitTorrent protocol uses UDP only when using a congestion control mechanism on top of it (uTP). In fact uTP is aware when the send buffer is filled and when latency is introduced so that it automatically back-off and let interactive traffic some time to be exchanged in priority.

The standard BitTorrent protocol uses TCP by default and is arguably worse: since it uses more TCP connexion by nature compared to a client-server file delivery, it have more chances to be prioritized.

So BT over UDP with uTP transport protocol is in fact a clever way to balance heavy traffic and interactive one.
I too have to disagree with the author based on my experience. I use Gnome 3 at work, every day, and both my home computers are on Gnome 3. I use the Pop Gnome theme from the very people the article talks about (System 76), it's a beautiful theme and can be installed on Ubuntu using their PPA.

Anyway, At home I also use 3 monitors on my desktop. Lets say I have a "normal" sized terminal open on my right hand of 3 monitors. It's on the right one because my IDE or such is sitting in front of me on the centre monitor and as a lefty I tend to "prefer" the right to the left as I sit looking at my PC. I'm sitting with my chair shimmied to the right of my desk because these monitors are 28" each and I decide to move closer to that window to see what's going on because they're 4K monitors and the text isn't huge. I'm physically about ~4 feet away at the extreme in terms of mouse movement, from that app menu on the top left of my left monitor.

As someone who tends to fill all of this screen space flatly with tiled windows as opposed to stacking and switching them, all I want is for every menu for every window to be directly attached to that window, because the "landmark" for me is the window itself.

Having to move my mouse, 4 feet across displays to get to a menu for a small window I have open and happen to be working on at that point in nonsensical.

I might have 16 terminals tiled across that display, if I want to interact with a specific one, lets say to change the background colour for identification or something, the first place I'm going is to the window itself.

My solution, is that by using Gnome Tweak Tool, I have the button on the title bar of the window instead of in the panel.
I've been using amdgpu for a year or so (though I just recently stopped, due to computer changes) and it's better yeah. I had a bit of stability issues but it might've been the card.
It’s also hard to verify if they are indeed discriminating. Insurance companies stand behind a veil of “complex model”.
Hate the title.

Something is either a good enough idea (or entrenched enough idea) to withstand disruption. Or it's not. If it's not... it sort of deserved to be replaced by something better.

Libraries tend to be a good idea. That said... I haven't been to one in a decade. Not really sure what's changed in that time, hopefully they offer free wi-fi... and hopefully there aren't a row of creepy bums watching porn on the screens facing away from the door... Past that, wish them well. Everything in our lives should be subject to disruption -- that's how we make it better.

Edit: Finished reading the piece.

"Our library provides a space where they can use free computers and wifi, as well as access a climate-controlled environment with clean bathrooms and water. Many of our patrons arrive first thing in the morning from a homeless shelter and stay until a shuttle picks them up to take them back in the evening."

Um... yeah, reading this I don't want a library to be a place to store homeless people. This creeps me out and makes me want to defund them. As a kid in the 90s I remember having to go to the library, from time to time, to do reports and class projects. It was creepy then to have bums looking at porn, and I'm sure it's still creepy. Not keen on having tax dollars go to fund this.
Wasn't able to figure out how it works. I guess you start the subtitles at the same time as the show/movie? --Not sure how I could possibly learn this way. I cant read Japanese, so what good is seeing Japanese subtitles?
I just want a grid, not a CMS
It would be naive, you're right.

That's why I mentioned "many" and not "all"
> It certainly has real value. Do we need to keep ... books as the real purpose ...

Max Headroom, episode ABC.1.3 "Body Bags":

Paula: "...what's that?"
Blank Reg: "It's a book!"
Paula: "Well, what's that?"
Blank Reg: "It's a non-volatile storage medium.
It's very rare. You should have one."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6oNB4M7N0

Books still work when the power goes out or the copyright cartels revoke - intentionally or not - your ereader's license. Widespread preservation of knowledge on non-volatile media is protection against future problems.
I don't really understand why this is perceived as a "Win for Trump"
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marketing doesn't make the product itself more addictive. Alcohol is physically addictive, but so is the dopamine hit you get from many social networking features. The point I was trying to make is that AFAIK no-one's trying to make alcohol the product more addictive, where there are many very intelligent people working to make Facebook the product more addictive.
Seconded, went in thinking "please don't be Electron" and got to the "powered by Electron" section and groaned
If you read the article they are not saying that's how much of this element is in the crust. They are making an economic argument which is a secondary issue. Note: People are not making economic arguments in support of space mining just an abundance argument.

In terms of abundance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Deepest mines https://www.mining-technology.com/features/feature-top-ten-d... Though we have boor holes down to 12,262 meters which means we can extract material to that depth.

Feel free to consider multiplication as original research.
I had so many similar issues with NYC cabbies. Off the top of my head:

1. Cabbie turning off his meter right before my stop, then quoting me a price that was x3 times the meter when I last caught glimpse of it.

2. Cabbies flat out refusing to accept credit cards. Forcing me to withdraw cash on an ATM to pay them.

3. Cabbies rudely demanding tip after being rude and inconsiderate the whole ride.

There's a reason why Uber/Lyft are so popular. Yellow Cabs in NYC were never a pleasant experience, and all too often - an awful one.
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My oldest daughter (26 years old) works at a library part-time in circulation. In December she will get her masters and be able to become a librarian. Libraries are more than books, they are maker spaces, community spaces, learning pods and so much more.

We are bullish on libraries. However, libraries have to keep updating their services and offer community engagement services.
> The article even says Australian known sources are only utilised at 14%

That is incorrect. The article states that Australia has 14% of the world's cobalt reserves, and does not specify their utilisation.
I use a VPN and every so often I can't log into my gmail without having a text sent to me, so it's pretty important.
OpenOffice is dead but its fork, LibreOffice, lives on.

You don't necessarily have to fork it, just the possibility of the fork changes the game. It means that the original maintainer cannot shut you down. If enough people deem a fork useful they can work together.

Of course there's a cost associated with it. But how much is it compared to the risk of someone shutting a core element of your business down? You have to evaluate.
I’m sure it’s the engineers deciding to do that and not management and leadership.
Previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602151

If you care about congestion, address congestion. As much as I would like to support Mr Mayor, I find it difficult to do so. This mayor points the finger at Mr Governor and the state legislature -- rightly so I assume about 99% of the time. However, this last one percent is what grinds my gears. There is not a lot that the city can do on its own but this isn't something they can't fix.

I think the correct answer is to enforce existing traffic laws and strengthening them where necessary. Traffic violation? Suspend their TLC license at the first offense. Ideally, there would be no additional cost to the driver. The TLC license is simply suspended for a short period of time (lets say three months). At the end of three months, the driver can apply to be reinstated at no cost (assuming no further violations -- by which I mean no Uber or Lyft work -- during this time).

Now the important part: actually enforce this. This is the difficult part because I frequently see cars with a reflective vest in front of the steering wheel (which I assume is supposed to signify the car belongs to a police officer?). I think it is difficult to ask for strict enforcement of traffic laws when even the police officers so blatantly disregard traffic laws.

New York Times reports ridership on the MTA and MTA bus is stagnating at best or likely declining. In another world, I would be advocating for turning many of the existing bus lines into subway lines (at least here in Queens) because as someone else commented a few months back, a bus every three minutes is no longer a bus but a very expensive train.

In any case, I thought there was a solution coming in the form of congestion tax in New York City. What happened of it?
The author interviewed several experts who claimed he wasn't beaten including people who examined him in person. Sorry this article is critical of your dear leader.
I find it hilarious to put on a cheesy American comedy that I’ve seen before on the TV in a foreign language. I wouldn’t watch it actively but it’s something nice to have on while I clean up or do dishes.
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