skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be very interesting for me to read about in this discussion, is some of the motivations of the people disabling / vandalizing the scooters.

Here are some I imagine:

1. scooters parked in ways that are perceived as inappropriate, obtrusive, invasive, dangerous etc.

2. “get off my sidewalk” sentiment.

3. Scooters as being perceived as “another aspect of the rich people’s colonization of our city/communities” + “F the rich/hipsters” attitude.

4. Systematized anticompetitive activity from ...?

What else? I’m sure I’m just scratching the surface.

Anyone from SF with some insight?
I agree with your conclusion (the current state of affairs), but one could argue that VR has developed less optimally than if you had the porn industry enthused with the prospects of being the first players getting to that market. But this is pure speculation.
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Why is engagement the metric to optimize for? I can find utility in a post that I don't engage with.
> It is not possible to access Postgres based CloudSQL from Python on AppEngine standard.

It is possible on the new (beta) Python 3. 7 runtime on AppEngine standard:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/usi...
I often see the rule of thirds suggested as a compositional tool. Yet I have never encountered any convincing justification for it. Ditto for the golden section. Anyone have strong opinions on this?
I think you meant to say “can, in fact, pay our bills.”
(11) Wall Street has consistently had more $$ in bonuses than the entire full time minimum wage workforce received in wages [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/upshot/wall-street-bonuse...
I wonder if you could get the same functionality of AWS, with the same implementation of B2, by having a single URL to POST files to, that simply sent a redirect to the correct location (apparently there's the 307 HTTP status code for exactly this).

E.g:

=> POST https://upload.backblaze.com/bucket/file
<= 307 redirect to https://pod-000-1007-13.backblaze.com/b2api/v1/b2_upload_file/...
=> POST https://pod-000-1007-13.backblaze.com/b2api/v1/b2_upload_file/...
Not counting system libraries, "vim-tiny" is about 2 MB: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/vim-tiny
> I don't know if you're being intellectually dishonest on purpose

That crosses into personal attack. Please edit such bits out of your comments here, and follow the rest of the guidelines as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17718957 and marked it off-topic.
>some relatively expensive instruments

I wouldn't think of guitars as relatively expensive. In fact, most instruments can be had for fairly cheap if you're not super picky. I own a decent violin that I got from a pawn shop for $60.
This is the random number generator used in the original release of Doom (the 1993 video game).

I was leafing through the source code and stumbled upon "random.c"

I found it amusing to see how they generated random integers; basically, they have a hardcoded array of "random" values, and whenever the game requires a new random int, it will return the element at the array index and increment the index by 1.
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That's all fine and good, I don't care if you're S3 compatible or not....

I do care if I have to write my own API client for your storage backend. Or if you have examples to go off of. Backblaze doesn't seem to offer either for non-C++/Swift languages. Complete non-starter.

The, perhaps obvious, win of being S3 compatible is that you open the door to thousands of existing S3 clients already implemented in my different technologies, for free. And you get the developers who use them as customers.
Yeah, but a mortgage payment stays constant through those 30 years, assuming you didn't get an adjustable rate. Rents rise every year.
I realize that supermemo has terrible UI but I'm really curious to see how you use it for incremental reading,research, youtube, and watch it later things. I've never used supermemo before
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New England accents are certainly not dying out. While we do have a large number of non-regional speakers here in southern new england, we have MANY in certain towns who speak with heavy accents. The Family GUy Rhode Island accent, for instance, was on display at the local diner in Providence. Half the workers and customers were speaking with heavy RI accents. If you want RI accents, head out to Cranston and Warwick, to dive bars in Fox Point Providence, or down to Narragansett in the off-season where you'll get true Rhode Islanders and not tourists.
QE 'printed' roughly 3 Trillion dollars out of nothing, including at least 1.7T that went to buying Mortgage Backed Securities from banks whose original mortgage borrowers were never going to be able to pay off those mortgages. That had the effect of raising house prices for everyone, while turning debts of many that were never going to be repaid into the profits for the banks who aggregated these bad loans. Yves Smith over at the Naked Capitalism blog has called it 'the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history.'
You would loose online search capabilities with this approach or we had to implement it ourself which would be a waste of time because we wanted to write docs not the system behind the docs. We also faced problems with the styling on Sphinx over time (the ready to use styling templates on mkdocs only needed very little modifications from our side).
Or, alternatively, 3) - they sell the house for a profit, and everyone (who matters) wins.

The assumption of 3) was what drove 2008.
You supposed to have only a single event loop per thread, the standard event loop policy ensures that the value is thread local (you can change that by modifying the policy), unless you're doing something unusual with multiple loops in the same thread you will never need to pass the value.

Also if you are passing the loop and are doing multi threading, you need to be careful, because if you pass it to another thread you might see weird issues.

I initially also started explicitly pass loop around but once decided to combine asyncio with threads I realized that it is better to trust get_event_loop() to do the job correctly. The only exception is when I need to schedule coroutine in one thread for another thread. In that case I need loop from a different thread so I can invoke call_soon_threadsafe().
Harry Potter has more fanfiction about it than any other storiy. The most famous one is on hpmor.com, but you can find tons of others on fanfiction.net.
Let's turn this around: you're expecting your neighbors to give up their public space, safety, and environment because you're not willing to accept the inconveniences of more socially-aware means of transportation.

I for one would love to live in your area. I'm tired of it taking five minutes to grab a coffee from the coffee shop across the street from me because I have to walk several hundred feet to the nearest pedestrian crossing and wait for an entire light cycle to be able to safely cross a four lane street that is entirely out of scale for the business district I live in. Just so people don't have to use their legs or god forbid public transit to get around.

It's about time pedestrians reclaim what they've lost to auto-monoculture.
Pentagon debuts artificial intelligence hub
Oh, right, I didn't even think about that meaning since we're not in the context of proprietary software. I'm 99.99% sure it's just "from scratch" here.
JS doesn't just incur a bandwidth cost, you have parse time and then the hit on your users framerate when you naively fiddle with the DOM or override the scrolling behaviour.
Lending to people who will likely default, often by misleading them about the terms of the mortgage. You could also look at it from the other end and say that the people receiving the loans are predatory borrowers: people who can't afford to own the home they want but are taking advantage of lax lending standards to get one.
> If you see anything that the US is doing that is equivalent what China is doing in Xinjiang, I'm pretty sure that the problem is with your moral compass. The two situations are not equivalent.

Pretty generous considering the US actually separated thousands of kids from their parents at the border, some of whose parents have still not been found. If you didn't factor that into your moral compass, you probably should.
His systems thinking book is one that I stumbled onto a couple of months ago and really enjoy. And the “secrets of consulting” books are marvellous.
A consultant I worked with would charge lots of $$$ for basically doing to his large enterprise clients. For example we would go into a meeting with 4 random employees and then charge $250 per hour per person.

He joked to me and said that this money is essentially "stupidity tax" on these large enterprises because they can't navigate their way through even some trivial tech problems.

AMP is one such stupidity tax in my personal opinion. I have worked for many years in web performance optimisation and I realise that every internet business must pay a good close attention to it but most of them are incompetent to do that. Their webpages are bloated. Just check how heavy is the page for forbes.com and you will realise the problem.

AMP sets a standard where even with low quality developers you can have nice fast loading pages. It is very similar to those Javascript wrappers that force typed variables and semicolons.

IF you are already having a good web team don't waste time on AMP unless there is some real demonstrable benefit.
Well vim is modal, so it's not exactly doing well in this regard!
If I'm correctly understanding the question, you should get the 83b form asap, as there's no downside to having the choice to exercise your options. As mentioned elsewhere once you exercise you have 30 days to file the 83b with the IRS.

You can (and should) think carefully on whether or not to actually early-exercise your shares, based upon the cost and prospects of the business.
Hashing sets add a large fixed cost that dominates for small n. IIRC the rule of thumb is that arrays are better up til around a dozen or two.
This is a very cool approach to building a developer community: let developers contribute directly to the platform, both in code and in content.
The one thing that none of these analysis would ever unearth is how much money you can make through real estate in California. That can rarely matched by the incremental savings you get in a low cost area.
I think the system is already screwing over an entire generation of college students, so too late for that one.
Incidentally, the best way to "let us know" about bugs in GCP (App Engine or whatever else) is via the Issue Trackers, as per https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers (disclaimer: making this and similar processes work is my current job at Google).
The best way is to just play live music. That was the way it was for hundreds of years in music, and still the best musical experiences occur in live performances.

I've been an amateur musician for 20 years. I would never try to make a living out of it, it's so much of a craps shoot trying to get people to listen and focus on your music online. The best way is to simply go in front of them and make their eardrums resonant with your instrument directly. You may need another career to support this live-only lifestyle, but what's the point of dumping 100's of hours and $1000's in capital into a recording barely anyone will listen to?
The main claim is from a financial industry consultant quoted in the article:

"As the country becomes more unequal, there are fewer middle class customers. That means middle class bank products become unprofitable, and banks follow the money. And banking regulations make it worse because the capital requirements imposed after the banking crisis make it a lot more expensive for banks to do a startup small-business loan than go into wealth management. Startup loans are riskier than wealth management, of course, but the capital costs have become prohibitive, and banks don’t lose money on purpose."

Wait, what? I doubt this is the main or even a top-three cause of income and wealth inequality in the US.

Other factors strike me as potentially far more important causes of inequality, including increasing automation of labor, winner-take-all markets, concentration of corporate and market power, minimal antitrust regulation... to name a few.

The banking industry wants fewer regulations and lower capital requirements, as usual. This seems to be its latest rationalization for them.
This will cripple network diagnostic, security, net-stumbling apps too. Seems like at a bare minimum, higher frequency scanning should be a request-able permission rather than simply outlawed.
Undark & the Pulitzer Center visited seven countries on five continents to examine the impacts of particulate pollution on the lives of everyday people, and to uncover what’s being done — or not — to address it. The project is comprised of data visualizations, short narratives, on-the-ground 360-degree videos, an explainer film, and photos from Pulitzer prizewinning photographer Larry Price.

What's interesting is that PM2.5 is a measurement used by policymakers and organizations all over the world, yet the average person doesn't really know what it is, or why it matters. (I know I didn't until we began work on the project.) And it turns out that while developing nations bear the brunt of it, this kind of pollution doesn't discriminate, and it's a problem everywhere from India to Nigeria to California. In fact, a full 90% of people live in areas that exceed World Health Organization guidelines for exposure, so the odds are high that wherever you live, you’re breathing it in, too.

[full disclosure: I work for Undark. We're a non-profit science and society magazine published under the auspices of the Knight Science Journalism program]
I hate sounding like a VC jerk, but the banking industry needs some serious disruption.
> but we'd like to figure out if there's any other possible cause

It's because AMP is terrible and people hate it. Tell your bosses.
Strangely, all their ideas to heighten our enjoyment of browsing seem involve giving third parties privileged access to the browser.
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From my experience, this is incredibly uncommon in the northeast. I only know one couple like that in NY, and she has a large enough trust fund that neither one of them really needs to work at all. Every other couple with children that I know actually living in the cities are 2 income households. The same holds for everyone I know in Boston.
"Serious question, what is the issue with inequality when low income people are overweight and have iphones?"

This is a dog whistle that indicates that you are not conversing in good faith.
What happened to CD/DVD (or floppy)? Too small?
It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?" tone.
Then they should update their docs.
Many banks do not actually include any information in the notifications, because of the unencrypted nature of in-transit email. That is, "There has been a debit on your account" instead of "There has been a debit of X$ from merchant Y".
Also the math almost never works out in favor of working at a startup vs working hard at bigco.

Make a spreadsheet, add probabilities of how things will work with current IPO timelines (+10yrs), chances of exit at each startup stage, the loss your getting from investing the same amount of cash working at bigco in ETFs, projected career growth, cost of living, etc.
He means red cars go faster, because the people who buy red cars always drive fast. This is a well-known platonic ideal.
I always would get denied at my local Costco because it was inside.
Regarding your recommend point, I think Occam's razor applies. Seems unlikely there is an unconscious collective purposely avoiding AMP links.

It's much more likely that the changes done to a website to satisfy AMP affected the conversion rate.
Ouch, that's more than the PC required to run it. Many people said the price of the occulus was too expensive, I can't see it getting that much traction at this price.
You can want the Bill of Rights to be "restrictions on power", but as a positive description of reality and of law, they are not that. In fact: the Constitution had to be amended to make those rights binding on State governments, and it's not perfectly legally clear that all of those rights have been so incorporated.

The idea that they bind on Facebook is... aspirational.
Churros are good! I'm not a fan of the hotdogs though, but glad you like them!
They are only willing to pay X because X=Y+Z, where Y is what they can afford and Z is the max loan they can get. If they couldn’t get that loan Z, market forces would cause college costs to approach Y.
Particularly in user-facing aspects
Why do we have a system that financially discourages dense concentrations of smart, productive, inventive people?

It seems the market encourages people to avoid doing anything that would make their community attractive.
I think the content is getting better, and will continue to improve with time. It makes sense that it starts out geared towards young/new developers.
This sounds sad, but I'm not sure how I really feel about it. I went to college with a lot of Music Industry major types in the mid '90s and I thought most of them were kidding themselves about their real prospects even back then. It just seemed way over-saturated from the outside looking in, everyone had a big ego and wanted to be a baller. Wasn't going to happen. Not that I don't sympathize completely because I love music, too.

Most recently, I worked with a business analyst guy who was living in Nashville trying to get work by filling in for sick musicians and thereby making a name for himself. It was going, eh, okay for him. He still kept his day job, of course. The company I worked for back then had let him move to Nashville and work 100% remote. He was on point with a guitar and banjo, I'll say that.
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> we also did not wanted to pay for our open source software documentation generation + hosting.

Actually, rtd is free for OSS projects
Rent controlled or rent stabilized? Because those are two very different things and I can find no evidence of the former being true.
"compared to <$1 meals prepared at home and ready to grab from the fridge."

They're never "ready to grab". They take time and effort, and do require knowledge to prepare. They also require you to then do the dishes after. For someone who's working multiple jobs, that may be time they just plain don't have.
Web Development: What Does That Really Mean?
It is pretty easy to verify that a plane or an elevator behaves correctly. Did it transport its passengers to their destination? Pass. Did everyone die? Fail. (This is obviously simplified).

You cannot do that with voting software. To verify the result of a software-based election, you would have to compare the vote counts the software reports with the actual vote counts. But if you knew the vote counts, you wouldn't need the software anymore.

There a proposals to get around this issue by storing each voter's decision so they can verify that their vote was counted properly. That would abolish the secret ballot, making it a horrible idea.

Even if there were a software-based voting system that could be verified by experts, it would almost certainly be too complicated to be verified by the general public.
It was pretty mediocre for $3200. It was a newer building that had a movie room that was always broken, and a small gym, but nothing crazy; most complexes have these now. No balcony, no AC, on Broadway with all kinds of crime.

My 1br condo by the airport is larger, comes with a large storage room, built in the 60's but remodeled in 2017, yard, patio, and I'm paying only $1000.

You can probably find 1br for $2000 in Cap Hill if you want to live in an older building.
> If you are a family or couple renting a 2BR, you probably have more than one income earner. Exception to this case would be a single parent with children

Or a married couple with children and a stay at home parent. Or a working adult and their non-SS-eligible (e.g., immigrated too late in life to get the needed work credits) elderly parent that they care for. Or...

> If you are a single person with a single income, you are not renting a 2BR.

You might for a home office, especially if you do a kind of work from home that involves substantial paperwork and reference material, not just a simple workstation.
Honestly surprised that AWS, GCP, or Azure haven't acquired BackBlaze by now. Seems like an obvious move.
Have you tried looking it up?
Calling someone "the enemy" doesn't help people decide who to believe. Belief about scientific topics like global warming should be based on facts not in-group/out-group thinking.
I just had a 45 min talk with a rep of my credit union; She agrees. They don't have per transaction alerts.
AFAIK you can't run a gRPC server on App Engine, but you can access other gRPC services (like all the GCP APIs) as a client. I might be wrong about the server part.

All those things you mentioned in the edit should be supported in the new runtime.

Edit: I see what you mean. The deeply integrated services are removed in favor of more portable solutions, like Logging moving to Stackdriver Logging (though stdout is still logged automatically), Users moving to Firebase Auth, etc. Cron should still work fine though.

(I work for GCP)
i'm talking about the entire org, not their products. the org is not bringing in any value by making their engineers research and develop a website recommendation tool in their browser. it should be forked and re-booted by a community with new values and focuses.
Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?
For Cloud Tasks, https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/apis... should help.
My daughter's clarinet and sax private lessons cost $120 a month, I think they are 4-1hr. sessions per month. The teachers we know have all the work they can stand.
Anything that's defined as "async def" and that you call with await and friends should be async.

Yes, it's possible to write coroutine and use "async def" without any await inside, but in those cases the library authors should just made it a normal function.

I would say that this is a bug in the library.
If this isn't a sign that Google is a monopoly, I don't know what is.
I'd say that depends on the content. By default, Apple doesn't show you ads, only third parties do. At the same time, Apple isn't an Ad company, which is relevant when comparing Apple and their operating systems to other companies and their operating systems. Take Google for example, they exist because they are an Ad company, and perhaps more and more for their paid services, but mostly ads, driven by data they mine or otherwise collect. Apple doesn't base their business on that, and neither does most of Microsoft (but consider OneDrive, Bing, Office, Windows 10 etc.)
> Someone steals your wallet with USD, whats the difference?

You lose a tiny amount of cash and get new cards from your bank. BTC is like carrying around your bank account, it's a whole different ball game.
That's what I'm thinking too.
> The same holds for everyone I know

It is a mistake to assume that this justifies conclusions about the general population.
What does "under-monetized" mean here? How many scripts does it take to serve an ad effectively?