skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean there were no sidewalks?

That's the thing, often in the US I felt very boxed into a place, simply because I couldn't just do a Cartman and 'go home' (or someplace else).
Doesn't everybody already have different schedules? Aren't seasonal schedules already a thing? Just communicate better. You can already find things like updated opening times in Google maps, etc.
>A simple requirement would be a strict upper limit of 1m²/passenger

I beg to differ - this doesn't gracefully handles special cases. Both my disabled neighbor or my friend taken by ambulance to the hospital (made up examples) would fare far worse than in the current system.

We already have have a better system to divide that among people - those who care highly about particular issue can reserve more space or whatever with small green tokens.

>if you want to lug two tonnes of steel around with you

An easy snark, but this two tonnes[1] reliably brings home a week worth of groceries, drives me 2hrs to meet family, and occasionally delivers tools and materials to various points. All that on the cheap, and with easily calculable costs.
Prohibiting it by governmental fiat would surely give us various nice well understood savings, but would cause a lot of loss, both direct and via lost opportunities. I'd be much more reliant on service providers - typically large companies - that would provide the service at the time, cost and quality level I would have little to no control over.

Thanks, but no thanks; I don't want to be any more dependent on goodwill of businesses than I already am.

[1] 1090kg in my case, to be exact.
It's not a crime to wish for more research, but the total amount of research dollars is currently fixed (you can't just ask for more and get it, you ask for more and somebody else doesn't get it), and the methods that already work today, already work without additional research investment.
I can't help but feel the effect at work in the comments. "Oh it can't all be like that." Either that or HNers just like to be contrarian.
Find that much of my IC work as a Tech Lead is spent protecting my team from requests that distract from their goals.

That and keeping the build running smoothly.
We didn't get enough clients. Step 1-100 is sales, the technology is pretty much irrelevant. you are a sales person first and foremost and a developer sometimes.
I think I can manage managers, aggressive personalities who have a clearer, shallower career goal. It's easier than managing technical folks' squishier egos.

You're probably wrong in thinking that. But, you aren't doomed either. The skills needed to manage can be learned and practiced, just like any others. Sure, some people are "born" managers and others will never be good at it, but most competent, well-rounded individuals can probably do at least team-level management.

Does your employer have any management training/mentoring programs? If so, take advantage of them. Some of them might feel pretty "squishy" to a technical person, but that's part of managing people.
The domain is probably the most valuable asset they own following the demise of the service.
Every positive number is a sum of infinite palindromes since they include 0 as a palindrome. Try entering 101.
Started a company with a close-ish family member who also had a prestigious full time job in the sector we were in.

He promised meetings with execs and experts in the sector, and expert advice. We split equity 50/50. After three months, we had an MVP that customers loved, a contract with a large client, and several interested angels.

Unfortunately the co-founder hadn't delivered on anything (all business meetings were from cold calls, I had to learn all domain expertise on my own, my co-founder was spending no time at all on the company and kept promising to do things that he didn't end up doing).

After trying to get him to execute what he said he would do with a positive attitude for three months, he called me and told me he "didn't want me to make him feel like he wasn't doing enough". If he was a stranger I would have found a way to kick him out. But to preserve family relationships we killed the company.

TLDR: people in your family with great jobs don't make for good co-founders
I use Gandi's email service because they offer you a mailbox when you buy a domain from them (and you use your domain of course). It is based in France (9 eyes).
Many people hate it during the transition... when the hour moves forward, and you have to re-adjust. I can understand that.
Thanks. A nice read.

A pleuthora of pros and cons. No quantitative messure of what is best though.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
I think the OP aimed his question at founders of failed startups. There are fewer of them than of us poor shmucks that got burned by a failed startup as a collateral damage. So their accounts of failures are far more interesting.
What nationality are you?

PhD level work is not taken lightly; the pay is very high and companies don't want to waste a recruiting cycle on a bad fit.

Various companies do various ceremonies around hiring. I would say the shortest cycle would be:

1) Recruiter sends unsolicited email
2) You reply and set up a time
3) 20-minute chat with recruiter
4) Send resume to recruiter
5) In-person interview
6) Offer letter

This is SUPER abbreviated. In most cases there would be a 4.5 which is a phone screen by hiring manager.
In some cases, yes.

In the US, I cannot transfer land to you with a handshake. I can't sell you most goods valued over $500 with a handshake. I can't assume your debt to another party with a handshake.

Always ask a lawyer.
pleroma's media proxy is works just like that and the user experience is fine. actually, i've run instances that don't have caching configured and it still works fine (if a bit unfriendly to other instances).
There are some good arguments about the technical complexity of using multiple clouds. But the author seems to be naive about the power of competition, or more appropriately, the problems associated with having no competitive pressure on vendors. #1 priority of any business should be to have as few sole-source suppliers as possible.

It seems cleaner to go all-in on AWS/Azure/Google/Your Datacenter/something else. But the reality is, if you have a significant spend, and are dependent on one vendor, you are truly fucked. You won't get good terms, you won't get good pricing.

This industry goes through this cycle again and again. 30 years ago, people bet the business on Oracle/Informix/DB2/Sybase. Oracle is the king of that hill, and we all know the stories about how great they are to work with. 10 years ago we started with Office 365 and it's predecessor. Ask a big Office 365 customer how their subscription renewal process went.

Cloud is no different. Unless you can tell your AWS rep to go fuck himself and move workload elsewhere quickly, you are giving up valuable leverage.
why wouldn't it be? I'm not sure what requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley would even apply here.
And then there's this TAL story: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/655/the-not-so-great-unknow.... :)
Large scale hydrogen electrolysers are capital expensive, so there is no such thing as to only use them when electricity is cheap.
Neither is having side walks, trash cans, benches,...
This hyperbole is obviously wrong or do you have any facts to show it?

I don't know anyone enjoying taking the car in Berlin and one is often faster with public transport or the bike in the city center.

> rebrand itself as bicycle friendly
Shocking! Political parties changing course to adapt to change in popular opinion.
And what about coats & shoes? I know this comes as a shock to people but large swaths of your neighbor school children do not have access to those items.
Spread the word. Make it free. Take donations.
It may be worth clarifying that this isn't "papers of" as in "scholarly publications in journals by", but as in "pieces of paper associated with"; these are nice high-resolution scans of a box of papers at Trinity College, Cambridge relating to Ramanujan. Letters between other mathematicians about Ramanujan's work; some handwritten manuscripts by Ramanujan himself (including the famous "Lost Notebook"); a passport photo of Ramanujan.

Definitely interesting for Ramanujan enthusiasts, but if you're looking for (say) his papers with Hardy about partitions, numbers of prime factors of "typical" numbers, etc., then this isn't the place to go.
Please release this, the OpenStreet Maps community could really benefit from a better routing system
KidInspector – Free Parental Control Apps for Win/Mac,iOS/Android
Safety Risks When Using Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant for Medical Information [pdf]
Literally just resets and refreshes the page when I hit the submit.
Two things could happen...

You aren't part of that inner circle, so you're potential to advance is now limited (assuming you want to advance into the roles the "stooges" now hold).

Or, the stooges are a group of self-serving near-sociopaths who jump company to company with the sole purpose of padding their wallets and padding their titles.

But, this is certainly not a 100% true thing. As noted in a sibling response, it could just be the senior manager has a known "good" set of lieutenants and he's happy to bring them along.
I had a nice work schedule at a company that had the first shift start at 6am and end at 2:30pm. I got a lot of stuff done in my afternoons.
Yeah, I did that last winter here in Oslo. Goes a bit slower than slicks during summer, but definitely doable.
In other words, Itanium only failed because there was competition in the x86 space.
I don't necessarily agree with your point. However, your mention of EPCOT is quite interesting...

I never really thought about it this way before, but Musk in a lot of ways is like late-life Walt Disney. Disney started having some _very_ ambitious projects, which never did pan out, especially after his death. Both were incredibly optimistic about the future, even when it was quite illogical. EPCOT was the idea of building a city of the future, and while it was never completed, it still inspired generations. He progressed the field of robotics, all in the name of inspiring and entertaining people, starting with the World's Fairs.
It wouldn't be in my personality (I think) to lash out at people publicly like that, precisely because it's a public channel.

When you live in a fish bowl, it gets much harder to figure out where to draw that line. Big celebrities can't take a piss so to speak without the rumor mill going crazy. They do not have the kind of privacy ordinary people take for granted. If they eat dinner with someone, all the gossip rags explode with speculation that there is a business deal in the making or this is their new love interest.

If everyone talks smack about you for taking a piss, "just hold it" isn't actually a solution. You will eventually explode.

I suggested elsewhere in this discussion that he would probably benefit from a creative outlet. I'm very sincere about that and I have good reason to think it would actually help him.

But, hey, my name is mud and I'm a big fat nobody. So I won't be wasting my time or his by trying to track down his email address and shoot him an email.
One phone call? If he licenced the patent in one click, now that would have been impressive!
The mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518 [pdf]
Why is that and which language would you choose? I am asking because I want to get into web development and started learning React + NodeJS recently.
What happens with all the water that evaporates? This process will bring massive problems.
It's easier to find more than fewer palindromes that when summed up will give a certain number. Finding just the three, is not that easy.
The point would be to get rid of the reasons people need cars. By rethinking urban planning, infrastructure, public transportation etc.
Forget RSS/atom, use microformats2 h-feed.

https://indieweb.org/sidefile-antipattern

And there is existing tech for the popular reply-like-repost UX for this, based on webmention.
It’s certainly doable. The `defaultValue` parameter is passed by value, so it will never be rebound. The result of using `typeof` on a value never changes in JS, even if the value is modified. So... it should be possible to optimize the check away after the first time.
Why wouldn't 0 be a palindrome? Every single digit number is.
Given that the entire NHS budget is £125Bn I'm guessing... not much?

How many lives has the road system saved, by the way? What do ambulances drive on? Or even ordinary drivers taking sick or injured relatives to the hospital themselves?
My comments on a public forum have exactly zero impact on how research dollars get spent. The limited nature of research funds is absolutely not reasonable justification for downvoting my initial comment and for multiple people feeling compelled to shoot me down for daring to voice it.
His equations work in the limit of slow speeds and low masses; GR keeps giving valid predictions in cases Newtonian mechanics breaks down. Famously, Newton cannot explain the slight observed precession of Mercury’s orbit which is something GR predicts precisely. But the effect is tiny and in almost all cases you don’t need a full relativistic treatment to predict the motions of Solar System bodies sufficiently accurately.

One quite mundane situation where one does need GR is compensating for the clock drift of GPS satellites caused by their height and speed relative to a ground-based observer (time is relative, not absolute as Newton thought!) Because positioning critically relies on very precise clocks, a non-adjusted satellite positioning system would very quickly start giving completely inaccurate results.
What do people do who have to commute to the city for work?

What do you do when you have to buy a few boxes of beer for a party that are too heavy to carry?

How do emergency services work?
Path has been used by my girlfriends family for the past six years as their familial social network. They all just follow each other and because they don't use it for anything else it's a perfect little community for sharing memories. It was hard for them to cope with the fact that it's all getting shut down after six years using it.

Makes you wonder why smaller family or close-friends type social networks don't work. I guess the value isn't there to build it because it can't sprawl in the same way as other social networks.
> They know full well that you, the small company, probably aren't willing to put up the massive time and dollar resources in order to sue them, the big company, for what is to them small potatoes.

If they are well known enough surely a well placed social media post is all that's needed to oil the wheels.
Ask HN: What is a rare breed in tech?
What kind of person is a rare breed in the tech world?
When you say the CIA do you mean the Central Intelligence Agency ?
Yes, but Berlin is car-friendly AND pedestrian-friendly. And getting close to bike-friendly as well. The thing is, Berlin has a huge area for a relatively modest amount of inhabitants.

This allows the city to "breath" a lot more and there is not so much competition for the space between cars, bikes and people.

Compare that to dense cities like London, Paris or Barcelona, and there is a lot more to fight for.
Not shitty for me.

>Is it monday or tuesday? Or do we switch from monday to tuesday at different hour in each location?

Lets say we choose the UTC date time as the standard then it's the same utc date for, and switch from Monday to Tuesday at the same utc hour for everyone.

I think its nice and i hope someone out there working on this. They have my support.
It is probably more than a few miles to get anywhere which makes what in EU would be a simple walk into an expedition.

Reminder: originally one (Roman) mile was a measure of thousand paces, while a Dutch, Russian and such miles were related to an hour of marching. (later rescaled in feet)
1000
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That don't impress me much.
Drawing is the best way to learn
Ethical economics: the externalities of eating meat
Curious if you have evaluated any of the APL family of languages as being useful for your work.
1. Just because a tiny convenience store can/does accept SNAP that isn’t a level playing field. Go ask that tiny convenience store how much revenue they make from SNAP and how many employees they have on SNAP, if you want to see how unlevel the playing field is, as how large their SNAP lobbying budget is. And the whole idea you equate SNAP with AMerican express, fully demonstrates why our converstation won’t go anywhere, You draw no distinction between a private credit card company and taxpayer funded subsidies.

2. We agree there is a difference between accepting SNAP and having employees on SNAP, but in Walmart’s case they are in fact related and part of the whole picture. After all Walmart leads both categories they make more money directly from SNAP than any other business and they have more employees on SNAP than any other business.

3. Again lobbying for SNAP isn’t a problem, except it is part of the overall picture.

Not sure I can highlight, what is bad corporate behavior anymore than this: Walmart with the left had takes $14B in SNAP annually, with the right hand they push more employees onto SNAP than any other employer, and instead of taking any of the $14B in SNAP revenue and increasing wages to get employees off SNAP or through legislation having to reimburse taxpayers, Almaty is taking those funds to lobby Washington to increase the overall budget of SNAP to increase their taxpayer profits and lower the SNAP eligibility to get more employees on SNAP.

But again you equate Walmart taking SNAP to Walmart taking AmEx, you also believe Walmart should be championed for catering to an underserved segment of society. This conversation can’t really go any further in good faith.
I think this presents an instance of a larger principle -- trying to do something, regardless of whether you excel at it or not, teaches things not learnable any other way.
Your device from 2005 that hasn't received a firmware update will show the wrong time if you're in New York.

GPS does not contain your current timezone, like NTP it gives out UTC.

The reason your phone (that's set to use "New York" as a timezone) knows to change the UTC offset from -4 to 05 on the first Sunday of November is because it has received a firmware update at some point since 2006. A standalone device from before 2006 can not know that the spring forward/fall back dates in the US changed, unless it's updated.

Your statement "None of those require firmware updates. It's quite nice to never mess with the clocks and have everything just be correct" seems naive at best.
> It’s hostile to pedestrians and discourages people from going outside to just wander

This is a good point. The leisurely stroll is practically nonexistent in my city. I'm in a more rural setting, but there is still a well-defined city hub. It just feels awkward walking down the sidewalk when people are zooming by at 35mph+.

The result is sidewalk cut offs, which is inconvenient to me as a biker. There are frequently plants starting to take over because no one cares to use the walks.

Makes sense that people gradually prefer to spend their free time with Netflix, video games, or in a gym.
Times change and mentalities with them. I think many European cities had a "cars everywhere" mentality during the post-WWII "renaissance" (maybe inspired by the USA) but then we realized that we hit a limit and started scaling things back starting sometime in the early 90's I'd say. Many projects from the 70's that were hailed as the future of transportation are now seen as huge warts we don't know how to replace now. Take the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris for instance: a nuisance for people living nearby, often gridlocked, super dangerous and atrociously ugly.

People realized that this approach wasn't sustainable and now more and more work is done to undo it, that's a good thing IMO. Ancient European cities simply were not built to accommodate cars, they don't fit.
This would solve itself if cars were banned. Either you would have to find a more practical place to live, the city add public transportation to the work, you find a new place to work, the work moving offices etc.

It's only a problem because you decide things has to be exactly like they are. But with other constraints the society would have landed on an other configuration.
This just seems utterly retarded to me. You are trying to hide something that should not be hidden.

Just reminds me of CORBA, trying to hide the fact that you operating on remote objects. It led to terrible performance and hard to debug code.

Some things should not be abstracted away. Communicating that some object may not be there is part of the interface IMHO.

A function that searches a string for a sub string should return a Maybe, because it communicates something crucial about the interface. That a sub string may not be found.

Trying to hide this by complicating the interface is a fools errand.
I ride all year round in edmonton, I don't understand what the superstitions are against riding in winter. It's like walking, just a bit windier and you can't put your hands in your pockets. I'll take -20c over rain any day. The only thing I don't like doing in cold weather is being still. So long as I'm moving I'm fine.
Can we once and for all get that myth out of the air ? Organ donors are not dead. That'd be great ... but it's just not how the world works [1]. They are either "brain dead", or in "circulatory death" (usually referred to as "awaiting cardiac arrest" internationally) (definitions here [2]), which is not entirely unrelated but very different from dead. Most are not brain dead (if they didn't have injuries they would be expected to recover), and there is, for example, a significant chance they'd wake up if left without sedation (they have however been diagnosed with essentially a serious blood leak and cannot reasonably be expected to survive an operation. But for several hours, all that will happen is a slow and steady drop in the oxygen content of their blood (and I'm not even mentioning that at times the problem with the operation is that the infrastructure and/or personnel for an operation is not available rather than it being impossible to execute)).

You cannot transplant organs that have not been oxygenated (meaning heart beats, lungs work) for ~20 seconds. That has essentially zero chance of success. (and no, oxygenation doesn't stop when they take out the organ, obviously that's one thing they prevent from happening)

You cannot transplant most organs that have been in a body that's "brain dead" for ~2 hours. That has near zero chance of success.

So transplanting an organ from a person that has stopped breathing 20 seconds before the organ was taken out, or that stopped controlling their body 2 hours before the organ was taken out ... is no more than a death sentence for the organ receiver (even in the case of a not-immediately-critical organ, a failed organ donation procedure will weaken a receiver so much that their survival is in doubt. Kidneys ... perhaps you can suvive 2 failed donations. Anything else ... no way). In practice, in most cases doctors need to make the decision to proceed with organ donation at least 1 hour before the organs are actually taken out, and the donor body needs to function during that time (meaning heart beating, lungs pumping, at least partially operational spinal cord).

[1] https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/zmv853/exactly-what-hap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-heart-beating_donation
There is one and one only reason why companies go out of business: they run out of cash.

Many a situation may lead to this, but lack of cash is the reason. When Leaman Brothers when under, the company had half-a-trillion dollars in assets but it could not convert these assets fast enough into cash to continue its operations.