skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have the money to buy the car.

If you have access to gasoline through hours and hours of wilderness (hint: no gas stations).

If the roads are passable.

If you have a safe place to stop and sleep during your trip (hint: you don't).
> Perhaps the numbers are really that dismal that subsidies didn't even make sense?

There's the question!

I also wonder if it isn't a chicken-egg problem. Or maybe I should call it a Field of Dreams problem (if you build it, they will come).

It would be a boon to living in this country if it were easier to travel without spending large amounts on flights. I'd certainly see more of it, myself.

The fact that travel is so expensive or prohibitive can be pretty isolating. My own family lives but two hours away (in rural ON) and I see some of them maybe three times a year. My girlfriend's family is in Victoria (BC) and she sees them more often than that these days...
Toronto, Ontario to London, Ontario is about 190 km ($75 nowadays)

Toronto, Ontario to Edmonton, Alberta is about 3300 km (under $100 then)

So I think this was a comment on the huge increase in fare prices.
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Sorry. The other commenter is spot on. From Toronto.
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Amazingly thorough list. Did you compile it from your experiences? What field of engineering are you involved with? Hopefully you did not experience all these problems personally.
> letting everyone check two bags for “free” is a cost drag on everyone

Not necessarily. More checked bags -> fewer carry-ons -> faster boarding as people aren't trying to cram their bags into the overhead and giving up and gate-checking -> shorter turnaround time -> higher aircraft utilization, cheaper airport fees -> cheaper tickets
Reality is not simple to decipher in an environment of info overload.

Imagine walking into a huge library. Every book has descriptions of complex problems. Some books have solutions. Some books don't. But you can only read one book at a time. In that library you can focus on the book that matches your needs and skills. And the world doesn't seem too crazy.

Now imagine the same library, but with a thousand different people shouting at you to come look at the problem in some book they picked just up. What kind of reality are you going to experience in that library?
I don't think that it needs the qualification. You're looking at it as either/or.

It's unfortunate that there's a decline in the lifestyle choices that will offer you opportunities and much of a future.

In the past, the city, the suburbs, and the rural areas were all viable options for making a good living and being in a healthy community.
Yeah sort of like every shithole on yelp is at least three stars and often four.
As an expat this is by far my biggest gripe.

Sometimes I just can't type name in local language correctly but I know the street name where it is and yet I can't find it by looking at the map without extreme zoom in. Searching the street name seems to give a completely random point.
I end up zooming to random streets where I think mine should be over and over until I find my street - what a ridiculous process.

There's so much empty space - this obsession with form over function has to stop.

I've switched to one of openstreetmaps clients for this reason alone. They're not afraid of showing actual information.
Well, that's a bummer. Still, I can think of considerations with a "code of ethics" aside from direct prevention. Certainly easier to deal with a violation after the fact, if you don't have to argue about what the expectations even were.

If a policeman tickets you for speeding, there's not usually any argument over whether speeding is legal or not. "No speeding" is codified by law.
Seriously though, doesn't it bother you that the primary gag is to repeat the same five words at each beat in the rhythm of that scene? It's such a lowest common denominator bit. This is sort of an odd crux to juxtapose, as a premise of art immitating life.

On the one hand, you have a plot device delivering some interesting sci-fi exposition to move the story forward, and on the other hand, you've got this squeamish every man wringing his hands from the vantage point of some supposed moral high ground, each ignoring the other, distracted by their own fixation.

Really makes you think.
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Frequent business travel kind of sucks. A lot of employers are willing to look the other way as long as it keeps their people happy. Especially in fields like sales with high turnover.
There's really just too much map detail on this phone app... Like how much do you really need?
> The same way people don't recognize that there are world religions that want to do away with all secular governments and install their religious governments.

Kudos. It is difficult to criticize an ideology without being blamed to be hateful of its adherents
This was so scary and well written, I applaud your style.

Do you know if there is some similar material to what you’re describing online? I’m not talking about the leaks themselves, just stories/books about these distopian scenarios.
I don't think its necessarily a far-fetched idea. I just thought the venture might be extremely difficult when the company didn't have the means to actually get mining equipment to space, and even if they had the money to buy a space on a Boeing, SpaceX, or Blue Origin rocket, whats to stop anyone of those companies from monopolizing the asteroid mining market in the first place?
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Indeed! This is an endemic issue in the computer sciences.

I don't think it's a bad way to approach knowledge dissemination by the way, it is however indicative of the problem of reprouducability and explainability in AI broadly.

I bring this point up simply to be another voice stating that we need more rigorous methodology in AI research if we are going to make advances that are focused first on knowledge, rather than primarily applicability of technology.

Way back before AI was cool, there was a good paper on this [1] that is very relevant to today.

Quoting from the abstract:

"There are two central problems concerning the methodology and foundations of Artificial Intelligence (AI). One is to find a technique for defining problems in AI. The other is to find a technique for testing hypotheses in AI. There are, as of now, no solutions to these two problems. The former problem has been neglected because researchers have found it difficult to define AI problems in a traditional manner. The second problem has not been tackled seriously, with the result that supposedly competing AI hypotheses are typically non-comparable."

[1]https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3542-5_...
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The person I knew with the most miles and status was a middling-level admissions counselor for a university.
Given the typical vehicle up here in the North, if the bus has even a few people on it probably is an environmental win. Generally if a person is needed up here then a person will go down and get that person and return with them. Cars are less common than trucks and a "small" truck is a 1/4 ton. Additionally, the greyhound is a popular shipping choice for industry because of the time to ship. Most of the packages/mail gets sorted in Vancouver and then returns back up to Prince George. Putting on the Greyhound and it getting to where it needs to go next day was amazing. Shipping times were often better from Alberta and BC with the major players since the package didn't have to double back. Hotshot services are typically field based, but it isn't rare for somebody to hot shot packages between cities since it can take days through other methods now.
Southwest, JetBlue or Alaska.

But yeah, status, PreCheck, Clear, etc. are all "Can I remove this friction in my life?"
Don’t worry, if Canada or Sweden is close to become the next superpower, you’ll start to hear all kinds of negative reports about them.
Is it possible to reach superpower status without doing those things?

Inevitably, to reach superpower status requires bending others to your will. And there will always be those that oppose you.
The article points out that some people have to live there due to local employment.

Having unsustainably small communities is probably less environmentally friendly than growing them to a size where not all services / materials need to be individually imported.
> You've made all the right decisions

Thank you, it means a lot to us to hear that because we've largely gone against the current trends.

> eliminating the misfeatures of Google and other news aggregators

Just curious, what misfeature do you think Google News and other news aggregators have that annoy you so supremely?
It's fun to read through this history, while I'm listening to "Where Wizards Stay Up Late".

In reading through the thread [1], I noticed Marc and Jim Davis used an example audio file from the NSA that no longer exists: http://nsa.gov/pub/sounds/gorby.au

Anyone know what the story behind that was? Was that a common example?

[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0196.ht...
These is personal experience and views;

Male circumcision is prevalent in Africa mostly as as the norm. It is painless at childhood but gruesome when done to older kids. In some cultures around the world male circumcision is akin to piercing the ears of a baby girl for earrings.

In places where circumcision is a ritual, it gets done to older kids (early teens) as a rite of passage into adulthood. To me that will be more agonizing considering the awareness of the pain eg. when your dick gets caught in a zipper.

I personally dont find male circumcision at birth repugnant because I literally have no memory of it and I but I appreciate it was done to me appropriately.

According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422680/

"The timing and reason for circumcision in boys or men vary across the continent. Circumcision is prevalent in as much as 93% of the countries in Northern Africa compared to 62% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas the procedure is done for religious purposes in Western and Northern parts of Africa, it is seldom performed in neonates in Eastern and Southern regions of the continent where circumcision is, often, a rite of passage into adulthood"

What I'll love to see if the comparative AIDS footprint between countries with varying degrees of circumcision.
It's especially not cognitive-load building if you live at a hub (or a place with only one carrier).

Live in Pullman, WA? You're flying Alaska anyway.
Salt Lake City, UT? Get yourself a Delta number.

The tricky places are where there are lots of competing carriers. San Francisco with it's...pseudo-hubness for a number of airlines, Washington DC, etc.
What people say in public hearings and what they actually want are separate things.

"Height", "neighborhood character" and a few other things are typically things that are legally required for the regulators to consider in their decisions, so they keep being brought up.

What people really want is typically just two things (1) keep the value of their homes up through scarcity, and (2) keep outsiders out.
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Yeah, traveling for business, it's about reducing cognitive load.
In normal American suburban traffic, 5 miles is only 7 minutes. A typical person can walk only 1900 feet in that time.

Getting that for everybody would pretty much require paving America with supermarkets. Consider the sizes of some supermarkets near me, roughly estimated in feet: 250x200, 250x250, 250x300. All of these have lots that are nearly 1000x1000, though shared with other stores.

So for walking to be equally fast, ignoring the need to carry groceries, we'd need 50% of the land to be supermarkets.

The benefit of the normal supermarket gets even bigger if there are people in the household who can't reasonably walk to a store on their own. Kids need to be watched. Elderly and obese people have trouble carrying groceries for 1900 feet. Shopping would mean taking trips all day long, one for each bag of groceries, so 1900 feet is really way too far. Cut that down to compensate though, and then there physically isn't enough room for all the required supermarkets!
https://www.audiosciencereview.com has measurements of various DACs. Tl;dr: the topping D50 ($250 MSRP) measures really well, and for a combo amp&dac unit the topping dx7s (currently on massdrop for $360) measures really well. Just a heads up, that site is biased towards objective measurements, the Toppings measure really well, so the site is biased towards them. A lot.

According to that site, Schiit stuff measures really bad.

List of all reviews: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/m...
It will never catch on -- just look around HN.
Did this go far enough? Imagine if we'd had a gallery element instead:

<gallery type="slideshow" autoscroll="true">
<img src="one.jpg" />
<img src="two.jpg" />
</gallery>

If we'd left that sort of functionality up to the browser imagine the bandwidth saved on tbales for image galleries, javascript carousels, slideshows, etc. Not to mention having more control over elements like autoscroll behavior. Browsers seem to have added just enough functionality for web developers to abuse the document format into an application layer but not enough functionality for a good one.

Also, the first reply to that message (http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0183.ht...) sounds like the creation of the favicon.
"but I'll take unregulated variety over forced aesthetics anyday"

I doubt it really.

The 'enforced aesthetic' in North American regions generally are very poorly conceived in the first place and are usually utilitarian, not actually aesthetic.

Typically 'forced aesthetic' only happens in places wherein there is a strong and obvious history in the area.

Vienna, Stockholm, Zurich as easy and obvious examples.

This 'forced aesthetic' is also culturally impinged, meaning that it's kind of what people would do anyhow.

Would you seriously consider knocking down and old building in Zurich and putting up a McMansion? I doubt it.

It might be an impossible thing to do from scratch, wherein there are no obvious references either. A 'new development' in Switzerland could easily have it. A suburb of Chicago ... probably not.

It would take an enormous degree of thoughtfulness and careful consideration to do in most places in North America, but it might be possible, particularly in places like New England. I could see a village in Maine saying 'no new development within the township unless it meets colonial era criteria' or something like that.

Without it, you get a deluge a true kind of blandness of hyper mediocrity. A lack of critical mass around cultural ideals, meaning corporate developments rule: a shopping mall on every corner.

Every city council and local government official wants to 'increase the GDP', and a few new Wallmarts and a 'Starbucks on Every Corner of our Community' would do just that - so it takes quite a lot of cultural momentum to keep those things in check.

And I'm just scratching the surface: how we design our living spaces goes a long way to defining who we are as a people as well.
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Yup. When Japan was challenging the US in the 80s, there were pervasive smear campaigns, and this was towards essentially a US vassal. It culminated in the Plaza Accords, which stagnated Japan.
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You make it sound like I've never seen people on the internet whinge about how something they weren't paying for is changing their T&C's and the person who isn't paying for the service is very upset by this because ... reasons.

I think I can question your devotion to a service by how much you're willing to pay to use it (and how much you complain about it).

You appear to be complaining about having to stump up ~ USD$2 / month to continue to enjoy the same carefree usage you've managed to obtain for free for the last decade.
> I like the simple layout, but the topic aggregation algorithm could use some adjustment. Frozen 2 is in both Top Stories and Business, but not in Entertainment.

I agree that in this case our algorithm that classifies news stories into sections has not done the best job possible. We'll definitely look into fine tuning it for better classification.

> There's some objectivity at play here, but I'd rather see articles about movies only in Entertainment, with the ability to not see that topic.

Do you mean you would like to be able to personalize the page to completely eliminate some sections like Entertainment? Or do you mean some topics within a section, for example "crypto" within Technology?
As an uninformed antipodean, thanks for clearing that up.
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This makes sense, but my reaction is the exact opposite. If they're going to structure it to be shitty so I do what they want, then I'm for damned sure not going to do what they want.

One of my big life rules is "don't feed pigeons." I mean it metaphorically, of course. Pigeons are machines for turning food into pigeon shit and more pigeons, and I'm not a big fan of either. A clearer version is something like, "don't reward something creating a problem in a way that deepens the problem."

So you've persuaded me that I should never join one of these things.
Short sellers keep prices in check and offer a healthy degree of scepticism. Also, short squeezes are plenty of fun when you're on the long side.
I don't think most people do it "because tradition" unless you believe for some reason that most people are Jewish. They do it variously for religious reasons, health reasons, aesthetic reasons, or maybe just because some guy wants his son's dick to look the same as his. At the end of the day, the kid doesn't even remember. Should people get circumcised as a matter of policy? No. But if you do it to your kid that's your call and if the kid later has a problem with it that's on you. As a general matter it seems that a lot of men with severe psychological hang-ups over circumcision have issues that I have a very difficult time attributing to their lack of foreskin.
(author of Dgraph and Badger here)

Congrats to Neo4j on the raise! I hope it changes the perception of US VCs w.r.t. graph DBs, who are falling behind the dev enthusiasm and readiness for adoption in this field.

As Jepsen report mentioned, it had identified 23 issues, 19 of which were resolved before the report released and another one right after. Dgraph has gone a long way since v1.0 release in terms of production stability. I'd recommend trying out the latest v1.0.9 release or the upcoming v1.0.10.

Dgraph itself is close to being launched in production at a few very big and well-known companies (that we can't mention publicly yet), who moved away from Neo4j to Dgraph. Needless to say, Dgraph's performance and scalability far exceed any other graph DB in the market.

Dgraph is tackling a lot harder problem of doing distributed joins and traversals, while providing distributed ACID transactions, synchronous replication and linearizable reads. The equivalent of Spanner, which can also do efficient joins (something relational DBs suck at, so technically more complex). There's no graph product out there like this or even a single paper which Dgraph is based on, rather we had to do original research to perfect this technology -- which is why it took time to build and stabilize Dgraph.

Badger, the underlying kv DB, itself was never found to have an issue. It is serving several petabytes of data in production use at various companies. We built Jepsen style bank tests for Badger, which run successfully nightly, and there's an open bounty of $1337 for finding any data loss bugs in Badger.

Dgraph is decently staffed (7 engineers) for a seed-stage startup, but we're definitely hiring and planning to grow in SF. No need to wait, this is the right time to run Dgraph in production.
To be fair, Manchuria and Xinjiang were conquered during the Qing dynasty, who were Manchu people, not Han.

They were later Sinicized after several generations.
and hydrogen feed rate and hence production can be temporarily throttled on the time scales of the microbe feeding patterns so that it can absorb fluctuations in grid energy consumption!
Yup, Tim mclean was beheaded and cannibalized on the bus in 2009. Bizarrely the guy who did it was granted a full, unconditional release. He doesn't need to interact with the authorities at all, not even a once a year mental health check up or anything.
Are you describing some kind of apocalyptic prepper scenario?
For what it's worth, I split the difference and use a charge card. The American Express card I have needs to be paid off at the end of every month. I pay them an annual fee, and in return for that plus credit card fees, they try to keep me happy. They have been very good for me with things like dubious charges and bad vendors.
Wow. They're now even less useful than an old paper map.