skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has already been revolutionized. After all was said and done each Space Shuttle launch came out to about half a billion dollars. In modern times Air Force figures showed Boeing/Lockheed costs averaging out at $404million per flight, and that's just on the flights. We pay them to develop rockets and even pay them just to exist. Literally, known as the 'launch capability contract', we throw $800 million of taxpayer money to Boeing/Lockheed for absolutely nothing except agreeing to stay in business. Isn't lobbying and corruption fun! Factor all the real costs into their launches, and we're paying more for launches than we did during the Space Shuttle era. Now enter SpaceX. Today you can go buy a rocket contract and send whatever you want up into space for about $62 million.

That has already been an enormous revolution in space access, and it's just the beginning. They haven't been landing rockets for shits and giggles. Relative to the cost of a rocket, fuel is practically free. The real cost is in the actual materials for the rocket and engines. And previously companies have just thrown those away. Even the Space Shuttle had 'reuse' only on paper rather than any significant reusability. But the Falcon rockets are genuinely reusable, and them autonomously landing rockets is now, amazingly, starting to become business as usual. Go for a flight proven rocket and the costs drop even further.

This is only what has already happened. None of this is future or speculative. This is happening at this very moment. If you want to see what the plants are then look into the goals for the BFR and Mars. This is the thing that's so disappointing. We're currently going through one of the biggest revolutions in technology today, that will likely be a keystone moment for our species' entire existence, and most people have absolutely no idea the relevance or scale of what's happening - instead distracted by irrelevancies that nobody will even remember in 10 years, and in many cases - 10 months if not 10 weeks.
Oh but why couldn't you make a little plugin to begin with ? And then clients who needs more can use your big pipeline.

You can still adapt your pipeline for new uses -- for example Style Transfer ! Or other stuff I have some ideas
Everyone is reading the same thing on reddit, just different combinations of the same thing. Reddit is just a combination of multiple newspapers masquerading as a single custom newspaper. No reason why the internals should leak to what is shown to the user. You could keep the exact same user experience that you have today and guarantee that the site never falls over.

You need to make the distinction between UX and Operations. Everything the user sees still lives under the same structure as today but internally it is structured so that you don't overload yourself and if you do fail, those failures are isolated and don't take down the rest of the site.
Apple's Tim Cook Explains Expensive Prices of iPhone XS and XS Max
My company is a top 1000 retailer on Amazon and we can help you get your product moving on the platform. There are a few things that you need to do to make that happen.

If you want to reach out we can discuss potentially working together. We manage a number of legacy brands in the Health and Personal Care category. My contact info is in the forum. I posted it a few weeks back
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Macron announces changes to France's health care system
Looking in you niche, carrd And instapage do this pretty well.
Ask HN: Is this a huge security hole in Amazon?
I just went to sellercentral.amazon.com/hz/fba/profitablilitycalculator/index and clicked on the search field for "find your product" The autocomplete displayed my username and ssn.
Does anyone know if this is a leak in amazon, or if it's pulling it from a local cache?
Open standards doesn’t magically solve compatibility issues for very complex software: I remember ODT files having their layout completely messed up when opening them with a different version of Open Office. And this was minor version changes, not major ones. I had way less problem with modern variant of MS Word. That being said, I’m all for open formats.

Absolutely. The major difference is that one is a technical challenge, and the other was a marketing decision.
> You and the people you know may just not be suited for driving in those conditions

...northern Wisconsin gets its fair share of snow.

> ABS is usually the only thing they have

I think you've just agreed with me. ABS and TCS are exactly the systems I was referring to, and most of today's drivers have never encountered a car that doesn't at least have ABS.

I've driven a car without ABS or TCS in the snow. It's extremely difficult. Kind of similar to driving a stick shift for the first time. The idea is simple, but getting it into muscle memory enough that you're not constantly making mistakes is non-trivial.
If anyone's wondering how you get autoviv in Python, its surprisingly gross/elegant/fun depending on how much you use the phrasing "pythonic" in your interaction with people.

some_autoviv_variable = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(dict))
I really hope firefighters and other emergency services don't depend on the unreliable mobile network. Those will be some of the first things to go down in case of an actual emergency, along with the power grid.
Groningen, The Netherlands, has an almost identical approach. It doesn't hurt that the centre of the city is extremely compact.
You basically cited the only midwest city this would work in.
Jack of all trades, master of none,
though oftentimes better than master of one?
You ever have days when you just wake up feeling QP-misaligned?
Ok. Ok. This version now has more github repros to choose from! Yes I know some people hate the idea, but, it's just for fun. No this weekend project wont change how github works, or de-value github's star system.
Your proposal can't actually test the hypothesis because it can't (reasonably) be done. We don't know how many children were similarly situated and did not turn out like Mozart.

It could be that many musicians with a similar background were/are similarly as good as Mozart, and Mozart's music is especially famous for its cultural appeal and his father's aggressive "marketing" to royalty. There are many reasons one particular musician's musicical legacy can succeed aside from raw skill and creativity, much like the success of a company has a nontrivial luck component.

It could also be that he really was extraordinary above and beyond his family's musical background. Like most discussions about the nature versus nurture of genius, we can't really assert one thing or another.
That's what I was thinking. Worst case, the map data isn't all that critical for self-driving cars, but you have a huge amount of potentially very valuable data that can be used for a lot of other things.
Growing My Side Project to Profitability Despite a Three-Hour Commute
Every solution in your second sentence either costs businesses money or costs your workforce money.

What is your solution for your economy when BOTH decide to relocate to an administrative region that DOESN'T ban cars?

I've considered other places to live in Asia, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. I found that used Japanese sports cars (I own several) were all prohibitively expensive to import/register in each. The crazy-low "total cost of ownership" for automobiles is one of several reasons that Japan is my primary base of operations/residence.
Do you actually get anything out of that 50% more pay? Thinking about higher rent, healthcare etc.
My wife and I want to move to Europe from the U.S., however, while I do have 5+ years of experience, I haven't finished my degree...
It's important to note that scattering will get worse at the higher frequencies too. This is why radar can penetrate dust and visible light has more difficulty.
Which part, and do you have a source arguing otherwise?
You could even do it with a slip coach while moving.
A lot of the traditional American lifestyle doesn't make much sense anymore. A large house with a lawn is incredibly wasteful, in terms of heating, water consumption and emissions. I can't even imagine the amount of water wasted to grow a rectangle of grass, regardless of temperature, aridity and general climate. Like it or not, the future for efficient living is cities.
I left the city when we had kids, and the thing that drew me to suburbia is that kids can just roam around outside unattended, biking around, building tree houses etc.
Basically it's centered around 2 themes 1) As a parent I don't want my kids outdoor time to be limited to the times I can follow them, and 2) The idea that since my childhood was happy, I should give my kids the same experience.

I don't necessarily think suburbia is the culprit for traffic though. It probably is in North America where suburbs often means "not even public transport available to the city". They were planned for and built for cars! My suburb was not. People lived here before cars too.

I use public transport for most of my needs (including commuting) and drive very few miles per year - but I use my car many times for short distances, mostly things like picking up kids from daycare etc.
The design and density of cities will change even in the Midwest. Inter-city transport can and will change.

From Wikipedia: "There was a dense system of inter-city railways in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but after the decline of passenger railroad in North America in the 1960s, the inter-city lines decreased greatly and today the system is far less dense."

Wisconsin used to have inter-city rail servicing most/all of its population centers and even many of the smaller towns: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701p.rr006200/?r=0.514,0.298,...

Yes, today cars are the default, but that took a long time. Things will continue to change and it's hard to predict exactly how.
Yeah but I get 6+ weeks paid time off, plus 6 weeks paternity leave, and triple the pay of a comparable position in the EU, at the cost of worse healthcare.
At this point in my life I'm mostly healthy, so the risk of staying in the US outweighs the benefits of moving to the EU.
That's "on-prem & cloud", definitly not multi-cloud. You're only in the cloud when there's multiple datacenters providing high-availability scaling services.
All the more reason to make pedestrianisation universal, instead of a luxury.
Not necessarily immediately relevant, but Brad is going through some tough family times at the moment.

https://twitter.com/brad_frost/status/1039491001130405889

Perhaps pick up the book to support him (it's excellent), or maybe send a stranger a positive Tweet or email or whatever.
Good luck.

China is one nation. Having done that, of course lookups are always needed. They are not in most places.
None of that would fall under ‘reverse engineering’ in this context since those techniques are basic due diligence that would be required before running software from a disreputable source like Microsoft.
considering how much larger Reddit has become than Digg ever was, if the redesign becomes mandatory and if it causes a mass exodus, this one would be worse.

The question is if these two things will happen, of course.

EDIT: another avenue of foot-shooting might be closing the API off from the unofficial reddit apps.
To a lesser extent (success wise) Deli.cio.us was one of those.
Peering agreements and interconnects are the ISP's problem, not the customers'.
Indeed. I wish with Perl I had a way to be explicit about when I could disable this behavior but its builtin to the language to such a degree to be unavoidable.
(Using different Perl object frameworks and getter/setter methods is a possibility to protect against this class of error)

The implementation provided in the article is at least a known property of that particular object type and not a property of all objects.
> We observed a statistically significant difference (p =.048) in terms of changes in anxiety between the groups who heard two different rates of breathing.

Studies with p-values that close to .05 never replicate. Likely p-hacking.

> With high precision and fast speed temperature sensor, Masque detects the user's breathing activities and plays back a mediated breathing sound synchronously through a bone conduction headphone. The medicated breaching sound is real-time synthesized, thus its breathing rate can be modified by the user at any moment.

I just find this typo amusing
This may be shocking to people with a European upbringing, but western Europeans own more cars per capita than Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/it...

Your overall point is correct about how car-centric cities are in the USA vs Europe, but just wanted to point this out.
Exactly. There are often times where I get a blank page and have to refresh. Combine that with the fact that CPU usage is way higher on the redesign for me, and after about a month or so of testing it I reverted to the old design.

The fact that Reddit even considered making this the default design for logged out users is laughable.
I grew up in a suburb filled with Bradford pears. Every spring, the whole neighborhood smelled.

It wasn't exactly a barren area -- there were plenty of native trees. We had to rip out a lot of maple seedlings that were trying to grow into the foundation of the house or the middle of the lawn. But they went and filled it with Bradford pears anyway.
I'm just tired of reading overly-reductive accounts that talk about how all that matters is practice and anybody can be God's gift to music if only they'd work hard enough at it.

Did you mean to say my 'account' is one of those? Well, I didn't say either of those two things. (I think your account was overly reductive.) :-) Good luck!
I agree with this wholeheartedly, but also know it would be an incredibly difficult uphill battle, culturally, to make such a thing work. Chicago residents not only love their cars but also seem to feel absolutely entitled to the idea that the roads are _only_ for cars.

I say this as a local who has gotten into countless arguments with friends and family on the subject. I probably believed it as well a few lifetimes ago before I moved to NYC for 13 years and have since been completely converted.

It would require an enormous investment in public transportation and real bike lanes - I mean protected bike lanes like they're doing in NYC, not two faded white arrows in the rightmost lane - and then a generational shift where we convince the younger generations that car-ownership is overrated, wasteful, and terrible for the local economy.
Why do you think the journal accepted it for publication?
If a(n) is the number of ways to write n as the sum of three palindromes, the sequence a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3) is kind of interesting.

http://oeis.org/A261132
anecdotally, everyone I know primarily uses apps. sometimes multiple apps for various different use-cases. I fear the day reddit closes its API...
Startup #1: I was trying to build a location analysis tool after seeing some crappy software being used at work and charging us a crap ton of money for it. Roped my friend but also found someone completely random based on skill set. The dynamics of the team didn’t work out and we didn’t fully align on which direction to go. We also didn’t have access to the data we needed and we might have also gone after the wrong customer segment. We had ZERO experience in commercial real estate and we quickly found out that whilst our tool is useful, it’s not something the industry cares too much when it came to making deals (read nice-to-have but not hair on fire problem)

Startup #2: Born out of my own frustration with startup #1, decided to try and scratch my own itch with CRM software. At this point, it’s just me as my partners all went back to their full time jobs. Money was good and they have families. CRM is hell competitive and even more so with HubSpot in it. Everyone I spoke with had so many needs and I wasn’t able to focus on something pressing. Worked with a startup to build out a roadmap but they were not 100% invested in the product and was just trying to help.

Startup #3: Off the back of a trip to Hong Kong, I came across a very useful concept of having a mobile phone in your hotel. Tried to replicate it but met many roadblocks in terms of getting contacts, scalability of the idea within North America.

Going on startup #4 now, this looks to be a lot more promising after incorporating everything I’ve learned from the previous failed items:
- Tech is the least important issue. Usually, you can build the tech. It’s figuring out whether people need it that’s key

- Contacts, network and communication can be quite powerful. Having people who know the domain space in helps to become a great sounding board.

- Go deep with knowledge. Being a startup, you need to have some form of credibility for people to trust you and your company. Previously I had high level expertise but nothing deep enough that says I know the problems you’re solving, mr. customer. Of course you can build up that knowledge but that will take time

- Time is the most precious component. Focus on what matters, validate and think about the tech and optimisation after
I don't know why this didn't occur to me but in San Juan Capistrano, CA, I enjoy that place so much with my kids because of the fairly large area where cars have to have very slow speed limit or no cars allowed at all and pure walking which was far better even. There is such freedom allowing your children to laugh and play and walk on their own pace without worrying they'll be run over and having to strictly hold their hand near each cross walk where cars zip by at instant collision death speeds. I could hear the birds too. Was calming and slows the perception of time so you can actually relax.
Journalism would be better off not taking liberties just so they can push their PoV.

Yes, there may be reasons to regulate some aspects of tech, and we can have discussions about the merits of breaking companies up.

However, the tendency to gang up and form public opinion on the public’s behalf is concerning and rightfully leads to suspicion on the media, their intentions and allegiance (truth, narrative, etc.)
Hmm, looks like you locked that thread. That looks suspiciously like there was some information you didn't want to get out. After all, trolls spamming will just get downvoted.
/r/outside
Where there is a lot of snow the infrastructure handles it. Snow plows run all night long. There is 60cm of snow on the ground, but at most 3cm on the roads, and plenty of sand/salt underneath so that there are no ice spots.

Where there is little snow they don't have plows or salt/sand. 4cm of snow and you better stay home because the roads are covered in ice, and nobody can help you.
Also Webflow, Duda, Mozello.
https://www.schwalbe.com/en-GB/spike-reader/marathon-winter....
That's what me and my mother are using. No issue whatsoever. The only problem are cars who can't handle the snow/ice as well as you can on a bicycle.
Defense Against the Dark Arts of Bad Statistics
So, everything he said is true for any earlier iPhone of recent years.

Essentially, it's a lie to disguise that the actual reason is "We think we can get away with it". And most likely, they will, because people value brand over functionality.
That's awesome, they also have some old videos from 1990-1993:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7jxensSdhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlz5tAKmUs

They've been working on this problem for a very long time. Which explains the progress they've made. I don't know how people can say this is an unsolvable problem when some high end research applications have made such progress.

Plus there's Microsoft's 2016 announcement with Ford about algorithms that can work within snow/rain by identifying raindrops and snowflakes then 'ignoring' them:

https://qz.com/637509/driverless-cars-have-a-new-way-to-navi...
Almost every large business has a forced arbitration clause now.
Church st in Burlington VT partially closed to cars starting in 1980 (based on Stroget in Copenhagen) and ongoing into 2005 with more and more blocks carved out for pedestrians only. It has been very successful.

Why did it work, when Raleigh failed? What needs to be "considered carefully", exactly?

(The large college nearby definitely helps in VT's case. But what else?)

https://www.churchstmarketplace.com/

https://www.churchstmarketplace.com/about/history
There are good reasons to believe that highly urban environments are bad for your mental health (in ways that I think are worse than how bad they are for your physical health). Sometimes I feel like strong advocates of increasingly-dense construction feel that the denser your lifestyle, the more prosocial your behavior. Maybe these advocates are among the most extraverted people, and they have little experience with the stress it causes others.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230535/
I spend a significant portion of my work-week defending my employment - inputting time cards, updating JIRA tickets with "time spent", attending status meetings... all in the name of "efficiency". And on some level, I understand - nobody wants a Dilbert-esque Wally type wasting space. Yet the corporate attempts at maximum efficiency fail more horrifically than you would be able to imagine anything failing. Not only does the time spent proving that you weren't wasting time waste time itself, it's also so trivially gameable that the people who thrive are the ones who are MOST effective at being silently inefficient.
US government payment site leaks 14M customer records
The last time I was responsible for interviewing, the project I was working on dealt with a lot of data transformation - get data from various APIs and databases, transform it and store it somewhere else. This is all .Net and we were storing data in Mongo. So we were always working with lists of strongly typed objects.

One simple problem was given a list of users objects, create a list of the target object and generate a userid from the first initial, first four of the last name.

Then we had an algorithm for how to handle ID clashes. We had failing unit tests for all of the corner cases.

We were hiring contractors and paying them well so we made one of the requirements that you had to know LINQ and EF. Even though we weren’t using EF that often, Linq is Linq and linq queries work the same with in memory lists, EF, and the C# Mongo driver.

It was a requirement that they used Linq instead of foreach loops since Linq gets translated to Sql and MongoQuery instead of doing the processing in memory.
Sure, people could learn how to drive without software assistance.

Just like people could learn how to drive a stick shift.

But most people (at least in the US) don't know how to drive in a stick shift or how to navigate snow without ABS and TCS.
To use the Chicago example, The profiled city has a population of under 100,000. The Chicago-land area has nearly 10 million, if you look at just Chicago it's still nearly 3 million. The mayor mentions that you can walk from one end of the city to the other in under half an hour. In Chicago you could make a multi-day hike out of it.
I'm surprised how long the fax machine has persisted, considering all the other technological advances that are far more efficient that could replace all of the fax machine's capabilities.
Did it actually work out though? Is the mine making money?
Your're right, I am looking at it through a self-centered perspective. But I think a lot of people would do the same. If you banned cars, considering how long it takes for decent public transportation to roll out in the US, you would be incentivizing people to live elsewhere. My job and work location are fixed so the only option would be to move out of the city or suffer through a miserable commute. I guess people like me would suffer and those that spend all or most of their time inside city limits would benefit.
It's not exactly that extra costs should be imposed on these people, it's that these things shouldn't be subsidized.