skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>so non toll payers also benefit from them.

That's just a glass half full way of saying that tolls keep poor people from taking trips that would involve those roads so the roads are less busy. $5 or $10 isn't much when your lunch is an overpriced $15 bagel at some trendy authentic restaurant. People who are packing PB&J to the job side avoid the toll road even if it takes longer

Road tolls are just another regressive tax. If the state senators don't want to sit in the same gridlock as the plebes they should take the train, not tax the plebes off the road. If the train is also too crowded they should increase infrastructure spending on one/both counts until the clusterfuck is reduced to a point they're ok with.

Tolls never go away. The best the poor people can hope for is that they don't get inflation adjusted so that there's a 10-20yr run where it's affordable to use the road before the politicians realize that the toll is low and raise it again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax
A significant percentage of road infrastructure is paid for by general taxes which Amazon avoids paying.

https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/who-pays-roads

They pay less for the roads than you or I. You are subsidizing Amazon's business with your taxes.
Right, I acknowledge that in my previous comment. I was more referring to the mental sharpness or cognitive ability. I was curious if there was a noticeable difference in critical thinking/problem solving for users while they are not under the effects of the drug itself
Well, then wish Swedish-style social democracy for us all, but maybe where the Marxists get to win out in the 70s.
For me, it leaves a lingering effect on my short term memory and mental performance, that sometimes bleeds into the next day.

Long after the high wears off, I sometimes consciously can tell "wow, I am really mentally underperforming today".

It's more difficult to form quick/sharp responses when talking, my though process isn't as sharp, and its kind of like my brain has more difficulty following trees of connections that I am normally very quick at.
Thank you for your suggestions. Regarding the video, not yet, I'm planning to make a video within a couple weeks showing all the features.
No, it's easy to blame Amazon because they're treating their workers like shit.
I think socialism in any degree fails if there is also anything more than trace levels of corruption in public management and the political system.

The socialism in Venezuela is also of the crazy-left type, not even remotely as in Denmark or Germany.
Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX, World’s First Real-Time Ray Tracing GPUs
Two questions:

1. What do people use (currently) for data standardization?

2. What do you do if it's not in tabular format, but is something like JSON/noSQL?
Those are the "Founder's Edition" prices for the first cards from Nvidia, so it's not quite this bad either.

MSRP on cards from OEMs should start at $499 for the 2070 and $699 for the 2080 ($100 cheaper than Nvidia's).

Personally I still think it's insane. I have a GTX 970 from October 2014 and that was $369.

EDIT: Even my $369 was a bit of a premium (OC edition and shortly after launch, I don't remember but I'm guessing I bought whatever was in stock). Wikipedia claims the GTX 970 launched in September 2014 at $329.

Assuming the $329 MSRP is comparable to the $499 announcement, the __70 line is up 52% in two generations. I'm sure it's better hardware, but that's a big pile of money.

And if my 970 experience holds through today, the OEM cards that are actually available are going to be pricier than the MSRP, but maybe still lower than the Founder's Edition.

We'll see where the 2060 ends up.
Whatever Happened to Milton from Office Space?
A couple of those points could be boiled down to "use a strict linter with most of the rules turned on".
But in a bid to mitigate risk (from their shareholders) big pharma effectively outsources lots of compound discovery to biotechs. This has helped create a large pool of biotech startups that never intend to run a phase 1 study but instead prepare for acquisition upon promising preclinical.
Is this sarcasm? I sure hope so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder - "At the base of the ladder are fundamental distance measurements, in which distances are determined directly, with no physical assumptions about the nature of the object in question. ... The most important fundamental distance measurements come from trigonometric parallax."
But will it mine?
"... we started an effort to make the code portable across .NET implementations, rather than relying on libraries only available on Windows"

It looks like they're planning to move off Windows - or, at least giving themselves the option to.
That depends on each countries' laws.
With the exception of healthcare options (and then only for a subset of Americans) none of these are problems unique to American life.
From reading their website, each bot gets its own neural network and its own reward function, so in that sense they are 5 separate agents.

When training starts out, the bots solely focus on their own reward functions. This is so they can learn very basic things like how to move around, how to attack, and so on.

Over time, the combined team reward function gradually gets weighted more and more heavily, so that teamwork is encouraged.
I use bing all the time for TV shows, its way better than google in this regard
As well as a whiteboard on standby, you also need 1 person per whiteboard to keep them updated. In an airport as big as gatwick, you probably can't get away with anything less than ~10 whiteboards (5 per terminal). Which means 10 people.

Not many companies have 10 spare people on site ready to act as emergency whiteboardmen.
Anecdotal, but I alternate between Bing and Google, with a general preference for Google.
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Well, that's not true. Maybe you could indicate which package systems you actually are able to analyze?
Speaking from personal experience (several years of nearly daily use with “off” periods of a few months) - the loss of sharpness was indeed a bit more nebulous but definitely real.

On the plus side, I recently discovered low THC, high CBD strains that offer the anti anxiety benefits without loss of sharpness or short term memory. There’s almost no psychoactive effect, so this won’t get you high, but it will chill you out and help you get in the zone if you struggle with anxiety or PTSD symptoms.
I use Bing and prefer it to Google tbh

I did it as "hm just try it out" to use it every day. I get better SO snippets or MSDN API/articles when I search for C# or .NET related questions

Or maybe thats just my bias, idk.
Also highly recommend Terry Tao's talk on the cosmic distance ladder:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distanc...
Wow, that is quite the change. Thanks for fixing this.
No, it's merely popular to attack the US.

Iceland - widely considered one of the great societies on earth - uses anti-depressants as much as the US.

Here's next in line on the list of anti-depressant usage (in order of use):

Australia (10% lower usage than the US), Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, UK, Finland, Belgium (30% lower usage than the US)

Most of the countries with the highest standards of living on earth, have the highest rates of anti-depressant use. The sole exception to this are Japan and South Korea, which have particularly low rates of use due to a cultural aversion (even though Japan has a notoriously high suicide rate).

Poor and middle-tier countries can't afford routine anti-depressant use. Income levels map very nicely to anti-depressant usage. US, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Sweden are 6 of the 8 or so highest median income nations (Norway doesn't track as well, it's down the ranking), and they're the top six anti-depressant users.
Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol are all mind-altering drugs. It's just society has called those drugs ok.
Parallax is barely the first rung of the cosmic distance ladder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
DuckDuckGo, Alexa, and Cortana use it.

It gets about 21% of the search market.
Thank you for getting back.

I wanted to build a service to gather and analyse all types of job information and see trends. I would ultimately sell the data, however I don't think it would be possible reading some API T&C's. Just a flaunting idea.
Yeah, they were.

NVidia's lesson from the Crypto-boom seems to be: "Some gamers are willing to pay >$1000 for their cards".

EDIT: To be fair, NVidia is still on 14nm or 12nm class lithography (I forgot which one). So the increased die size of these new chips will naturally be more expensive than the 10xx series. Bigger chips cost more to produce after all. So if you fail to shrink the die, the economics demand that you increase the price instead.

Still, we all know that NVidia has fat margins. We also know that they overproduced the 1080 series during the Cryptoboom, and that they still want to sell all of their old cards. If they push the prices down too much, then no one will buy the old stuff.
Life of coding could cause IBS. A digital therapy worth trying
I don't know what it is but I rarely have a good experience with weed when I use it (which is very rarely). I usually just get very paranoid and/or sick.
There is always a well sounding rationale attached to censorship.

It also prevents meaningful benchmarks to be published.
.Net core replaces Mono.
Only if you want to ignore the data we have available for no particular reason. I'd definitely call it a small study, but a small correctly conducted study still triumphs over assumptions or speculation.
If you look past the first line, it's all just general software development advice and has pretty much nothing to do with JavaScript. I'm not really sure why it's on HN at all.
Video-to-Video Synthesis [video]
What distro do you use that breaks this often? Ideally this should consume a few hours every 1-2 years.

For a user whose machine is managed by others it should consume as long as the machine takes to reboot.
> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high

Not to rehash this discussion, but: the bar is actually set very high, and current self-driving tests are seemingly not meeting it. There's a lot of deaths because there's a whole lot of driving.

Give humans credit where it's due.
This is exactly what im wondering, with the next gen consoles confirmed for AMD CPU/GPU I doubt there will be much Ray Tracing tech in the next generation, which means we're looking at 3-5 years before this tech can be mainstream.

These GPUs will be antiquated by the time Ray Tracing can gain any real traction...
There’s a bit of irony in doing a crawler to give a few dollars to a JS library, when a lot of us run Linux (either on desktop or server) of abolutely immense value. What would one do without SSH? without Apache? without V8? without the Linux core? without Git? It’s great to fund the libraries, but don’t forget your OS, IDE, compiler, runtime etc.
Overdosing on marijuana was probably the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. Certainly by far the worst experience I've ever had on a recreational drug.

People always frame the discussion of drug overdoses around lethality, and on that scale marijuana compares very favorably to every other drug, and advocates tend to end the discussion there.

But on the scale of how horrific the experience is as the person overdosing, I don't think there's anything worse than marijuana. A large overdose on marijuana causes an absolutely torturous and sanity-questioning 12-hour episode where you feel like your insides are dying and like your brain's basic function has been impaired on a fundamental level, and those 12 hours feel like 3 days and it feels like it's never going to end.

It's like Being John Malkovich, but you've transported into the brain of a severely afflicted mental patient.

Enjoy your marijuana and all, but this current popular narrative that it's like skittles or something is taking things a little too far. It's safe in moderation, but it's also true that using it to excess is mentally and socially harmful and you can have a truly horrific time on it.
> Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia proves that your point is not right.

How so?
I am curious as well. So far IMO RTX 5000 seems to be the card to get from this generation due to 16GB RAM and a bit slower performance.
1080 ti can't do even 60fps on 4k on high settings for quite a lot of games.

I doubt 2080 ti would be able either.
>In this area, EZ-Pass is pushed hard

Because it has the side benefit of being an easier/cheaper way to track people than license plate cameras. They could just do pay by plate and give people a paperless discount if they only wanted to save money. I bet EZpass gets a cut too so that adds yet another dimension to it.

>There is very little need to slow down

Yet morons still feel the need to do so creating the same traffic jams that high speed tolling was supposed to solve...

>This ensures that the roads that actually get used get the money from people using them

This is what they said about I90 in MA "the tolls will just stick around long enough to pay for the cost of construction." The it was "it'll only be used to pay for maintenance". Famous last words. We all know how that turned out, just another revenue stream it's impossible to take away or account for the use of.
As is common in cases like this, there probably was a redundant link, but the link and its failover procedure probably wasn't recently tested.
No, they're right. The devaluation is relative to other currencies, so any debt measured in the devalued currency is now much cheaper when measured against other currencies.

I.e., if a debt is VB1000 before devaluation, worth about USD$100, but each bolizar is devalued by 100, then after devaluation, that same debt is still VB1000 but is now only worth USD$1. The devalued debt is now much easier to pay off.

However, if the debt had been measured in USD, it would now be 100x more expensive to pay off in terms of bolivars.
One specific thing that bots could help Icefrog solve: Many games are draft wins, i.e. a >90% chance of winning solely due to the heroes you've picked. There's almost no point in playing these games out for 20-40 minutes; it's boring for everyone involved.

This will always exist in dota, but being able to simulate hundreds of years of drafting + games could help reduce this.
I heard that the pause was a behavior scripted by the developers, which happened in response to a network connection issue.
Comparison of Program Comprehension Strategies by Blind and Sighted Programmers
for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
a[i] = a[i]*2
}

Has to be converted into something that can be run onto a machine that won't cause a fatal error if the array `a` doesn't have an item at index `i` (e.g. negative index). It can be converted to the following by a naive compiler:

for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
if (i > 0 && a < a.length) { // safe to access
a[i] = a[i] * 2
} else {
throw('in a safe way')
}
}

Or, to avoid repetitive checks to a.length:

const temp = a.length
for (let i = 0; i < temp; i++) {
if (i > 0 && a < temp) { // safe to access
a[i] = a[i] * 2
}
}

A more advanced compiler might realise that the if statement is irrelevant, we've defined it in the loop that we'll never have a negative `i` or one above the length of the array, so we can just avoid those checks entirely and actually revert back to the original code to compile. This is not always the case:

const temp = a.length
for (let i = 0; i < temp; i++) {
a[i] = a[i]*2
}

This comes up in interesting places, like why it is faster to go through an array backwards than forwards[0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8689573/why-is-iterating...
Parallax is not the only way. Cepheid variables are also used, I think more so than parallax, since parallax is only accurate for somewhat nearby stars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable
Not according to Miguel it doesn't.
depends if they are holding back a better future, then no
As I said, I understand this narrative is out there, what I have not been able to find is any evidence that this occurs at any sort of scale or more explicitly with any sort of company with more than a few million in annual gross receipts.

In California at least the SEIU union is all over employers and both well funded and well motivated to root out such abuses of the system. That they don't find them and there aren't big stories about companies they are taking to court, suggests to me that in all their looking they have yet to find this situation to actually exist.

I'm not saying they don't exist, I'm saying that I haven't seen any evidence that this is happening.
I keep it going because I’m passionate about being able to afford the upper middle class lifestyle that it affords me.

I keep learning because I want the optionality of leaving a job of it starts to suck.
I'm really curious if there will be massive storage systems?
This is my big question too. It's pretty standard marketing: if your new product isn't impressively better than the old one on commonly used benchmarks, you invent a new benchmark where your new product is impressively better. I wonder how much of the "look how much better these cards are at ray-tracing!" actually reflects real-world improvements users will see, and how much is there to create a benchmark that shows a big improvement over existing GPUs.
There have been very positive studies regarding cannabis use to treat epilepsy.[1][2]

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2172683-first-cannabis-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157067/
I'm not an American, so wholly ignorant on this, but how was the uprooting of the trolly systems the result of the interstate system?
Wait for benchmarks. Until then it's anyone's guess.
Prior to around a month ago, I was constantly high on cannabis. I'm talking about nearly 24/7 except when at work. It took the terrible aspects of life away, and made me think deeply about certain situations/relationships/work issues. It kept me pretty sane and calm with panic disorder, and I was able to create lasting good quality friendships while on it since it calmed down my social anxiety. I took up biking (not while high, but I'd bike to places, get high, and then chill) and did 1500 miles in a year, and lost a good amount of weight. I got hired full time at a great corporate job, and secured my very first brand new apartment that I would live in alone. It took me off of 3 years of prescribed Klonopin.

Last month I took a break for 2.5 weeks to lower my tolerance and get a feel for sobriety again. I went through 2-3 days of feeling slightly sick, but after that I was back to normal. I made it through the 2 weeks, but picked it up more responsibly, only using it some nights after work, and only flower. I rarely ever smoke it, only vaporize.

It's been about a month, everything is fine, but I've noticed how much it really helped me cope with the realities of life, and allowed me to really think things out and keep my brain less scattered. Three years of everyday use, and I haven't really noticed any downsides to being high on cannabis nearly 24/7 other than wanting to sit alone at home and do nothing.

I have never tried any other drugs, unless prescribed.
Show HN: Solidity cheat sheet
It would be great if they compare running bing on Linux vs Windows! Is there a hidden gem somewhere?
This seems like a really stupid thing to experiment in. Wait a few years and find out you permanently damaged your brain for a "caffeine-like" boost.
Amazing link, I'm still learning and helped me a lot
The challenge in Boston is that the North Station and the South Station don't connect to each other, so there can be no thru-service to the north. Connecting them has often been mooted, but, well, Boston IS the home of the Big Dig.
Collapsing? Nocoiners lol
The Point of Pure Mathematics
Is anything known about the number of tensor cores in the new 2080 Ti? What about the float16 performance using the Tensor cores? I couldn't find this on the spec page [1].

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...
Out of curiosity, how much do you smoke?
This. America has a lot of humane integrity over time. We are no longer a nation for the people by the people.

Countries like Sweden, Norway, Switzerland get it. You don’t plow over your citizens in the name of capitalism.

But then, America has always been like that. A harsh truth of the human condition. A nation of people who have it because they were born to the right parents, and some who will toil their entire lives in questionable conditions because they got delt a bad card.
Step 0: Donate to both parties to gain favor with the implicit threat it will be removed if favorable legislation is not passed.
They should have renamed .net to something else. Now we have to deal with the same issues as the python 2/3 but maybe even worst as it's harder to tell which apis are available looking at sample code.
The fact that this list puts the United States at 11th in Oil reserves is highly suspect. Also your source even says that the list is unreliable [1]. I personally wouldn't use this list as a source. Also if Venezuela starts increasing its production beyond 2 million barrels per day they could help to lower crude prices, which would probably have a negative effect on them and other OPEC countries.

[1]: "Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial. Different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids."
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
Since the post with the product page got merged here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...

Most of it is dramatically lit renderings of fans and vacuous marketing-speak of course, but there's a tidbit near the bottom of the page about NVLink I find interesting.

"GeForce RTX™ NVLINK™ Bridge

The GeForce RTX™ NVLink™ bridge connects two NVLink SLI-ready graphics cards with 50X the transfer bandwidth of previous technologies."

I guess NVLink is finally becoming relevant as a consumer technology then?
Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well?
I'm a former daily smoker. I carry a water bottle with me everywhere. When I was a daily smoker, I would pretty frequently forget where I had just set my water bottle down. My partner still gives me shit for it. Since stopping, this is a very rare occurrence.

As far as the mental sharpness thing goes,I didn't notice any major changes. Some people I know would have some fogginess the day after. This never affected me personally. I think brain fog is definitely a real thing for _some_ users.

I totally understand this is anecdotal. I'm just trying to share my experiences. I hate how defensive people can be about cannabis. I am sympathetic to this because giving proponents of cannabis prohibition anything to latch onto delays progress. It should be legal. People should also have honest discussions about it. It's a fairly low risk drug IMO, but it is a drug.
I know three people from a previous job that was stressful, boring and mechanical. They are all from great schools, in good health and well paid. They smoke regularly and I’ve known them for at least 4-7 years now. Initially, they treated it as a ritual of sorts, but ever since vapes become a thing, I think they’ve become extremely addicted to it. It seems to me like they plan their day around smoking pot now. Everything they read and share on social media is also only about pot. On multiple occasions i’ve noticed they tell me the same story over n over. It’s a bit worrisome to see this.

I also have a neighbor who’s 20 something and used to be in the army 4 years ago. He’s been smoking regularly for medical reasons. He’s completely different and actually seems more focused than my bored friends.
Denmark and Germany are not socialist.