skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think using a percentage as reference is useful in this case. There are a variety of reasons why giving 2 billion (even if it's 1.2%) is much different then giving a few hundred or thousand dollars. You have to be much more concerned about the overhead, how the money is being spent, who is managing it, etc... because even a 1% waste results in a loss of 200 million dollars.

Secondly, I don't know if anyone has really quantified how much damage or potential damage Bezos has done in his lifetime, and I would be surprised if it was actually net negative. What honest to god damage has he done? Some people have rough working conditions and are underpaid ( these people are not forced to work at Amazon). I agree that is bad and think they should be paid more and treated better. What did the world benefit though? Everyone gets generally good cheap stuff reliably within a few days to their doorstep, saving millions in man hours yearly.
You really cannot think of LA as a traditional city. It is a collection of sprawling neighborhoods.

There are plenty of walkable neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This is a common misconception. More than in Seattle is my guess but Seattle is much smaller. Apples and Oranges.

Weather plays a big role of course as many find Seattle too depressing to live in for most of the year.
I see. It feels like apk (or for that matter, other package managers that use plain http) are just time bombs waiting to be exploited again and again.
I believe I'm misinformed about what's happening lately, I'm not advocating for political action or anything of that nature. Just supporting the underlying message.
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Leveraging one's credit to accelerate their standard of living growth doesn't make an economic culture bad implicitly. People who leverage themselves too far and fail to pay it back do.

Some people are trusted with credit more than they should be (empirically speaking), while other more reasonable people are misled by systemic incentives (e.g. home appraisals).

The system isn't perfect, but in historical context, nothing has ever been better. I find it unlikely that public figures whose day job is to complain without offering solutions are capable of improving anything.

We stand on the shoulders of giants; ancestors that were more thoughtful then us. We shouldn't reject the foundation they laid so willingly.
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Almost every modern distro verifies package files by PGP signatures (either directly, or a signature that covers a file that contains a list of hashes, or a signature that covers a tarball which extracts a file containing a list of hashes, whatever you fancy).

TLS for downloading won't provide authentication anyway, seeing as anyone can run mirrors and serve whatever malicious content they like.
The current state of self driving cars is transient. That much is proven. They aren't getting worse.
My wife & I live in San Francisco. SF Muni fares are a flat $2.50.

So for the two of us, a Muni trip is

- total cost: $5
- usually takes 30-60 min to get wherever we want to go in the city.
- we need to to figure out the optimal route, schedule, and entry & exit stops.
- we need to make sure we will arrive at the stop on-time.
- we need to walk 5-10 min to closest stop on either end

This process is familiar to anyone who's taken public transportation. In general, I think it's a great system. Muni network coverage is pretty good in SF.

However... a low-cost Uber or Lyfts pool ride for two is

- total cost: $5-12 (same serice area as Muni)
- duration: 15-45 min
- we don't have to plan the route or schedule
- we don't have to worry about going to a remote pick-up stop on-time
- we get dropped off directly at our destination

So, in the best case scenario, a lyft line ride is the same cost as Muni but so so much better in terms of value to us. Even when it is 2x as expensive, for us, the extra $5 is totally worth it. I know that's not true for everyone, but I personally am amazed that the cost of using the cheapest ride share option is often only 1x-2x the cost of using the billion-dollar municipal public transportation system.

Of course, here in SF ride share vehicles are definitely not allowed to use the special public-transportation-only lanes of some of the major roads, which remain reserved for the exclusive use of Muni buses and taxis to improve their transit times.

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What kind of side projects do you do? The microphones on smartphones really suck, you can’t capture anything unless you’re in a fairly quiet room or speaking to it up close. The lense just isn’t large enough to capture enough detail. Recording video drains the battery extremely fast. Even as a hobbyist, I find it extremely limiting.

I bought some used recording equipment that’s probably 10 years old for $200, it’s miles ahead of what my smartphone can do.
The great invention for dealing with this is a public utility that provides water to everyone. A mass transit system for water.
Reminds me of how Pablo Escobar gave money to the poor in Medellín. Not implying Bezos is a narcoterrorist but the goals seem similar to me.
You might have a better chance with the interview by improving your communication skills first! The book can be found free online, worth a skim as there are some points in there everyone would benefit from. For a one book solution I'd probably go for code complete before this one.
Well, that's true, but that is why we use dishes to direct the signal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_antenna

I think we generally believe that the dishes are used just for receivers but they are also used in directing transmitters.

In fact, there are also heavy regulations for high-speed long distance directed microwave antennas to not spread the signal too broadly:

https://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Orders/19...
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But why can you even do that?
I don't trust the submission. New account and a minute later submitted OP an obscure CreditUnionSpanishDocuments with link shortener.
In comparison to history when people actually just died when they got the flu, things are much better than you indicate. Health Care is scarce. There must be a mechanism for rationing. Some must be left behind. There is no other option.
I'm sorry I can't back up my claims but you will be proved wrong with time.

I would bet in less than 10 years you'll have camera only fully autonomous systems.
If it is actually an average of one every 3 minutes 14.159265359 seconds ... now you've got something.
"EM waves are spherical in nature (analogous to ripples in a pond) rather than directional."

No, they aren't. This is an approximation taught to you in high school to make certain problems more tractable. You've got at least two methods of generating non-spherically-expanding EM waves sitting in your pocket right now; neither your phone's screen nor its flashlight are perfectly spherical in emission. This is trivially observable by the fact that the orientation of the phone impacts your perception of its brightness.

It's true that you can't make a "fully" directional EM wave with no spread whatsoever, but you can make it arbitrarily small with engineering effort, and they're trivially not spherical.
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Holy, that was a heartbreaking story of its own kind.
Hasn’t Tesla autopilot saved more lives than it took? So it’s more net beneficial (so far) than cautious Waymo?
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> No one talked about that but you.

Uh, this post (about 5 up-thread and not by me) talks about/seems to complain about the money Walmart receives for selling food to SNAP recipients:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977792
I live in the countryside but work in the city. This is in the US, so there is no bus I could take for my daily commute, though I've lived in countries where a similar arrangement would have a bus route within walking/biking distance.

The thing is, if there were a bus, it would have to stop to pick up / drop off passengers along the way, which would make it so much slower than driving that it really would be for the poor. I've been on such buses as a kid. Even when traffic is bad, bumper-to-bumper in a car (taking the fastest route) is going to be faster than bumper-to-bumper in a bus (taking a more circuitous route and stopping frequently along the way)

I think the only way buses will stop being for the poor, is when they stop become faster than more expensive alternatives. (Or at least nearly as fast and significantly cheaper.) If you can save a lot of time by spending a little bit of money, which would you choose? What if you could spend a lot of money but it wouldn't save you any (or much) time?

In cities where congestion is a major problem, dedicated bus lanes/roads can help balance the equation in favor of buses. Usually there aren't enough dedicated bus routes though. (I might point out that the people deciding how to balance bus/car traffic are not the people who ride the bus.)

I still think self-driving cars are far in the future, but I find them appealing because they would make "buses" more efficient. A lot of the cost of operating buses is paying the drivers. To maximize economies of scale, buses are large, which means they have to make a lot of stops to pick up and drop off passengers, which in turn makes them slow. Self-driving buses could be a lot smaller and wouldn't need to make as many stops. If they could tell that no one will be boarding or deboarding at a given stop, they could skip it entirely and take a shorter path instead. At some point, the lines between bus/ridesharing/taxi get pretty blurry.
Don't know if I'd go so far as to say riding the subway in NYC is "good" experience, but I'll certainly agree that it's one shared by people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
Sounds just fine when I read it. If you don't have something in production, you have nothing.
Not true. Actually, the less capacity is utilized (of theoretical maximum), the longer will be lifetime of li-ion batteries. For example, if kept between 20%...80%, they may last for 10x more cycles. That's why electric cars' batteries does not need to be replaced every couple of years.
> And haven't invaded anybody in the last 60-70.

China is threatening Taiwan with war.
I'm finding San Diego to be a lot like L.A. but without as much population crush.
I was trying to place what makes me so uncomfortable with your comments. I think I know why I have a problem with them now.

Basically you consider emotional responses to be irrational and illogical. By your argument, the death of your son should not affect you because there are thousands of people who die every day and you don’t feel anything for those people.

Basically what you are standing in judgement of is that because life is tragic everywhere, you should not feel the tragedy of any individual event if you don’t feel
the tragedy of every terrible event. Which ironically seems to have made you come to the conclusion that you shouldn’t feel emotion to any event because there are so many of them.

You definitely fail to understand that people react to events differently, and the closer to the event you are the more tragic it seems. And in fact, that’s really the way it should be. As tragic as the death of a child in Africa (and it is tragic) it can in no way ever compare to my own son or daughter dying. At least to me. And there is nothing wrong with that, so long as I can acknowledge that there is tragedy everywhere.

If I took your logic to it’s most extreme, then I would need to be either a complete basket case (everything produces an equally emotional response) or a total robot who is not allowed to feel anything because it’s unfair to be more emotionally involved in one event than another.
No one is talking about reducing anything to zero — that’s a straw argument.

It you really want a fair comparison, one can start by controlling statistical variables by car price point, car age and driver demographics.

It’s not hard to spot blatant data fudging by companies that are big on marketing.
Source?

Genuinely curious.
Well it is interesting that a new law that most people disagree with could be struck down by the courts.
I've seen this repeated often, but it doesn't seem to be entirely true - it has an excellent view of White Sands National Monument, not the White Sands Missile Range, which is about 20 miles NNW.
I think the parent meant -- or a least a steelman of the point would be -- whether there could be some kind of particle/field/force/form-of-energy we're missing out on that could be used to communicate (even if slower than light), and whether there's some way to rule that out. I don't think that's dismissable as being a flight of fancy any more than the existence of radio waves would have been in 1500.
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Believe in better.
Okay, what is the allegedly obvious joke about contraceptives?
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"Officially", Netscape had a "free trial" for 90 days. In reality, I personally don't know one person who actually paid. Some companies did buy corporate licenses.

https://www.fastcompany.com/27743/nothing-netscape
I was saying the same thing a couple of years ago. I held on to my SE as long as possible because I didn't want an iPad phone. "There's no way I'm upgrading," I said. I thought those with iPhone Plus' and Galaxy Notes were either giants or hard of seeing.

However, I have the X now and I can't imagine going back to anything smaller. When I look at my buddy's SE now the screen looks so tiny. I guess the moral of the story is, "Don't knock it until you try it... at least for more than a few days."
It's frequently done that way for performance. Imagine a game of Starcraft, with 1000 zerglings rushing your base. The game has to repeatedly loop over all the zerglings to move them. Since there are lots of other fields tracking all of the other data about each zergling, the normal AOS approach has poor data locality; you load a cache line and then you only touch a few bytes of it. With the SOA approach you're looping over an array of positions, so every byte that you fetch from memory ends up being used.
Even with EM, they could have a highly advanced encoding format which is barely detectable about the random noise floor (spread spectrum like). US army uses these kind of techniques to make the signal both hard to detect and hard to jam.

Who knows how far you can push this, maybe to the point where it's essentially impossible to detect the signal if you are not the intended target.
I actually find it a benefit that you can have a house with a yard in the middle of LA.

Compare that to New York where people are stacked up on top of each other like ants.

For the cost of a studio apartment in Manhattan one could rent a free standing house in Los Angeles and with year round beautiful weather.
My point is that the popular image of flying cars with retractable wings and wheels turning into jet engines is ludicrous, and that yes, light personal airplanes and helicopters are there.

And the same parallel for driverless car, except for even when well executed it is kinda of arguable usefulness/value.
Sounds like Windows 10's "Fresh Start" feature. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

I could easily imagine someone stumbling onto this and running it. (Windows Security -> Device perf & health -> Fresh Start).
Man's Search for Meaning expanded my view of the human spirit and life in general.

Deep Work gave me some good insight on how to get the most out of my days.

Sapiens vastly widened and shifted my understanding of the myths that make up our society.
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Thanks for this comment.

It feels surreal to see Americans pretend they have any moral high ground.
Interesting!

Sadly medicine has a replication crisis. I don't think chemistry or physics does.
It's just run-of-the-mill anti-China bigotry.

There's literally nothing new here. Google already offers its services in dozens of countries where the governments require Google to alter its search results. Many of these countries are much harsher than China when it comes of censorship.

So, at this pint, it's just common sense. Google has spent the last 10 years building the technology to handle government data requests that let governments in near-real time censor information across Google's many information services. Russian authorities can block YouTube protest videos nearly as fast as they get uploaded. This is a powerful competitive advantage of Google and it makes sense to leverage it as much as possible.

But you don't see people freaking out about Google operating in Russia or the Phillipines or Nigeria or Germany or dozens of other countries where the governments have decided censorship is needed. You just see this freak-out over China because hatred of China has been normalized in America and somehow it's okay to pretend that run-of-the-mill protocols that have been in place for years are shocking and unacceptable because China.
Taipei... yes, absolutely. That was a great experience and easy to use.

NYC... altright, better than 15 years ago but still not great at all. Not as good as Germany or DC.

Tokyo... lol, no! While clean and efficient, it’s a joke that you have different rail stations owned by different companies, different cards that may work on each other but probably not. The ticket machines are almost all cash only. And instructions in other languages might have well used Google translate. Tokyo was one of the more difficult public transport systems I’ve used and I’ve been around the world a bit.
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So you must believe the 1985 Schengen Agreement to be a racist policy, then. Or any international treaty delineated by a set of countries. That's quite the odd position in my opinion, I don't share your beliefs.
You left out the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, MK-ULTRA, the acquisition of Hawaii, and that time in the 50's when we gassed San Francisco.

I think the US government does have the moral high ground compared to the CCP, even if that ground may not be very high in all places.

In any event, our crimes and sins do not excuse those of others.
>We should be paying down the national debt during the upper-side of the business cycle so that we have stimulus funds for slumps.

The problem is that the political cycle is shorter than the business cycle. Every politician, no matter where they exist in the business cycle, wants to milk economic performance as much as possible. There's no incentive to act counter-cyclically in boom times.
Why wouldn't they?

As best I can tell, the housing up there only serves employees at the observatory, which is closed. What point would there be to keeping the post office open?
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Wait, why is Quantum Entanglement a non-starter? How does that require a conventional channel? Once you have the two entangled, assuming you have some way to change the state of one with out breaking the entanglement, then how is that not enough for communication?
Does any science spend any special amount of effort replicating previous studies? Unless the prior study is extraordinary, anyway.

It took nearly 50 years for Piltdown Man to be exposed, likely because it told scientists what they wanted to hear.
As steveklabnik says, it absolutely is about tradeoffs. The anymap crate may provide enough of "generic container types" to be useful, and can avoid a lot of repetition of per-type code. A graph with heterogeneous node types is definitely possible, Box<Any> is one solution and there are others.
and https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2018/02/21/attacks-against-...
"Being a publicly traded company — as DST has been since 1995 — does not lend itself well to the kind of community-oriented approach DST took under McDonnell, though. When you are a public company, your duty is to your shareholders, and most of those shareholders 1.) do not live in the community in which your business is based and 2.) wish to see consistent, ever-rising profits. Handing out subsidies to the coffee shop next door, or buying up distressed assets and selling them at cost are, in the eyes of sociopathic capitalists, unnecessary acts of philanthropy. It’s the type of thing that can draw the attention of corporate raiders and activist hedge funds, entities that buy up stock in a company and then use their power to demand the short-term maximization of profits. "
This is China. Search results are censored and people are fully aware of that.

This is a storm in a tea cup, but it shows that the US feel increasingly insecure when it comes to China.
Your question reminds me of the Australian moral philosopher (and one of the founders of the "Effective Altruism" movement) Peter Singer. I have an inkling that you know him.

He talks about (and makes people squirm) "how much should one give?":

"[...] In particular, he expands upon some of the arguments made in his 1972 essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he posits that citizens of rich nations are morally obligated to give at least some of their disposable income to charities that help the global poor. He supports this using the drowning child analogy, which states that most people would rescue a drowning child from a pond, even if it meant that their expensive clothes were ruined, so we clearly value a human life more than the value of our material possessions. As a result, we should take a significant portion of the money that we spend on our possessions and instead donate it to charity."

People have punched some solid holes through his argument, I can't link to them all, as I'm typing on the phone. But regardless, it's impossible to ignore Singer's arguments.
It was worth reading the fine article just to see this fibbed screenshot of a common error message:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ir0HVqer5h2...

> Image text: 404 Page not found
There's one 11,503' peak within 2 hours of LA. Don't get me wrong, the San Gabriels and the rest of the Transverse Ranges are great fun. But they're not the same as the glaciated stratovolcanoes in the Cascades.
Chariot, for one. (For some definition of "bus")

https://www.chariot.com/
Health care isn't scarce in most of the first world. Many first world societies offer health care to all of their citizens, and those visiting their country. Much as we view education as a fundamental human right in the United States and no longer treat it as scarce, most other societies view healthcare as a fundamental human right. As a society and political system the United States has actively made the choice to pursue a profit-based, insurance-centered care model that is purposefully scarce.

Which is to say, I completely disagree that there is no other option.
https://bellard.org/jslinux/

For a list of all of them
Indeed, hell, our earliest broadcasts have barely made it past the closest star systems.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/news/a27934/galaxy-ma...

If we can control the amount of energy as these broadcasts, we'd basically be gods for all intents and purposes.
Well, we already know that we don't know what dark matter is. Something might be hiding in there which is useful for communication.
When you have mirrors outside the control of the project HTTPS doesn't do anything to protect you from malicious actors (even then, project-controlled mirrors could be compromised just as well). It can provide privacy, which is still beneficial; but, again, only of limited benefit since there's never a guarantee the mirrors aren't compromised.

GPG signatures on packages are the correct solution, apk just did it wrong.