skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading was different, in that the article uses "elite" for the kinds of decision-makers in positions of power whose exceptional attainment and status makes them some of the least likely to be consumers of the transit anyway.

I think both you and the author would agree that in the absence of a reliable, versatile mass transit network, many people with access to cars will use cars instead. But you and the author appear to disagree on the viability and transformative power of self-driving cars and whether they serve as a meaningful instrument of mobility for all with the kind and amount of transport infrastructure available to us now.

I believe that the form factor of a 2-to-7 person car common today isn't sufficiently dense to provide appropriate amounts of throughput to high traffic routes to completely replace something like a subway, commuter rail, or the like. Although the experience of the (figurative) first and last mile would be superior, the sheer number of such vehicles would clog the arterial roads and freeways where the point-to-point routing converges, the same way this happens with cars today.
> Pane counteracts this through aggressive concretization, not by suppressing your expressively, but by showing all the concrete data flowing through it.

> you can be wishy washy about the reactivity’s semantics here because it’s only used for example and quick-and-dirty explorations, not for runtime correctness of the program

Those are very good insights about development environments.

The thing is, developers have largely benefited from those same advantages for decades. This is essentially how they use REPL and visual debuggers / panel inspectors, by constructing program segments without the requirement to put them all the time into a single correct main program. The sad thing is, until recently, those exploratory environments have been strongly tied to syntax-heavy formal programming languages. Only recently we have started to see practical interactive programming in more visual, "syntax light" tools.

The novelty thus in PANE would be making those exploratory sessions somewhat persistent by using a visual notation. Jupyter notebooks largely achieve the same goal, by allowing developers to save the status of a command-line environment (the sequence of commands typed) for later reuse.
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I've been waiting for CMYK support for years
This is looking at utility scale storage, not small residential systems. Single home installs will be far more expensive per unit of capacity than industrial scale systems.
How do we, you know, stop this from happening?
Thunderbird “loses” emails when downloading from mail server to a local folder
Well, you always have to take in account sunk costs. Places like NY already have tunnels and trans and tracks, so it will likely never make economic sense to replace those with something new.

But think about what a tram is - typically, several linked cars attached to a wire running on tracks. Why are they linked? Because you need a driver to keep costs low, otherwise you'd unlink those cars and have more frequent service. Why are they attached to a wire? Because batteries are expensive. Why are they on a track? A bit cheaper, but in many places (Lyon, Montreal) they are not.

What is changing is the price of battery and soon, the price of driver. Trams are built on assumptions that are changing, so would they not as well?
Government debt is new money, but money isn't economic fuel, it just manages economic distribution.

If you make more money, it has zero productive impact directly. What it does is designate wealth claims to whoever gets the money at the expense of whoever doesn't get the new money.

So, if the government gives every citizen a billion dollar check, besides causing inflation, that drastically dilutes the relative purchasing power of Jeff Bezos. It's not that different from the government simply taxing out of existence a good portion of the money held by the wealthy. Either way, it's redistribution. And it's a powerful and important tool for carrying out political agendas which themselves may be good or bad based on your political values.
So they became more vulnerable, dependent on big (mostly private, despite the "public" word in the name) transport network and forced to live in a city.

I suggest you a small game: we all depend on society but there are various level of dependency; for instance in a country house you may:

- have fuel stocks enough for a month or two or even three so while you still depend on fuel supply you may not depend too much on constant supply like you do not suffer casual strikes, emergencies etc;

- have food stocks (big freezers in garage) that let you live comfortably for a month and you may integrate them and re-supply from various sources, including a little bit from nature (hunting, fishing, vegetable garden+proper preservation);

- have enough water stock (rainwater recovery / sources) to not suffer both aqueduct outages or contamination;

- have enough tools and prime matter to being able to repair a bit your home in case of need for long time;

On contrary in dense cities you haven't space to stock food,
water, fuel, ... you can't even heat yourself in the winter burning wood in a stove. So you depend completely on city infrastructure, without option in case of even short outages. City infrastructure in turn depend on few countrywide networks that's are similar but LESS important than the countryside.

Today's, and not from today's, people inhabited to have anything at their fingertips do not think at those vulnerabilities not much different than many today's programmers that treat web services like a thing that always run and it's always available...

We have only to wait to see the results.
Reminds me of the constant inclusion of stock market values in political discourse. Stock market up in 2017? Trump takes credit. Stock market correction in December 2018? Everyone blame Trump for your investments taking a hit.

Thing is, there's a whole lot of people out there with no money in the stock market at all (or only in a 401k, not in an account that can be liquid in the short term). It seems fair that the fixation with the stock market is another example of elite projection.

Sure, the market matters and market trends are correlated with more concrete figures like employment rates and wage growth, but it's just that, a correlation.
This is the flip side of an experience that's more and more common when buying on Amazon--there are a lot of sellers peddling poorly made or counterfeit items for a quick buck. It's a crowded marketplace, and it's mostly crowded with sketchy sellers.

I avoid Amazon for anything other than books, lately. For anything else, there's no telling what you'll actually get.
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What about sand + wind?
They have the huge disadvantage of not always taking you to your exact destination and not doing so on your schedule. Neither is really necessary in the world of computerized autonomous transport and small electric motors, since computerized transport could easily get you from your destination to a moving transporter without it having to slow down.
The article addresses racial injustice directly, although not in the direction that you think:

> [Freeman and Medoff] showed that contrary to popular belief, unions actually decreased racial wage disparities.

> A recent paper by economists Henry Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu concludes that unions were an important force reducing inequality in the U.S. [...] The authors find that as unionization rises, inequality tends to fall, and vice versa. Nor is this effect driven by greater skills and education on the part of union workers; during the era from 1940 through 1970, when unionization rose and inequality fell, union workers tended to be less educated than others. In other words, unions lifted the workers at the bottom of the distribution. Black workers, and other nonwhite workers, tended to benefit the most from the union boost.
Commodore had all sorts of problems particularly after Tramiel left / ousted. Atari actually kept within range of the 8-bit pricing of Commodore and had a much better set of custom chips.

Apple might have never been able to get to C64 prices but they sure could have dropped enough to get well clear of IBM. Regardless, its was Commodore's market share to lose not Apple's.
The vast majority of EV credits go to high income / high wealth individuals. No middle or low income family is going to claim a $7500 tax credit for a Tesla. And they don’t get to claim it on a used one anyway.

Taxing bad things encourages not using them. Subsidizing winners picked by lobbyists will increase that product’s usage but it’s not necessarily the “best” answer for the core problem.

Nobody actually cares about EV usage besides EV makers. We just want to go from point A to point B with minimal cost and environmental impact. If that’s electric, gas, or nuclear fusion, it’s all the same.
I had a math prof who would give negative marks on proofs, preferring you say “I don’t know how to do this step” and finishing the proof over trying to BS the step.
Read the authors other article: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/what-elon-mus...

He makes the argument the reason that doesn't work is geometry and utilisation of limited city space.
Elsewhere in the comments, a person suggests this exact test as a way of telling whether someone is aphantasic or not (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805666). I also remain unconvinced since I seem to construct details such as these automatically. In other words, I do believe I see the colour of the shirt even before the question is asked (though not always).
That's an interesting thought - optical character recognition and obfuscation to blur things like text on paper from a live feed.
The signup screen presents four options:

- I'm a guy looking for girls

- I'm a girl looking for guys

- I'm a guy looking for guys

- I'm a girl looking for girls

Do you have plans to add options for bisexuals? I got stuck on this question and did not complete the signup because there's no option for me.
Many would like to eradicate polio or malaria. The methods are known. Problem is to get resources to do that. Those resources were created by the work of 25yo Bill Gates.
We all know social media can seriously harm your mental health, so what now?
Four days and one Metallica concert later, I figured out what Salesforce is
>IE, if you take a bus with 30 riders today and replace it with 5 AV-minivans each with 6 occupants driving behind each other, is it any different?

Yeah, it is different. You have five engines instead of one, and 20 tires instead of four, meaning maintenance and fuel costs are some multiple higher, and wear-and-tear on the road surface is higher, noise and air pollution are higher. Among other things.

>What if instead of the city, I own one of these minivans?

Then you have to go through an additional middleman, the city, to find parking for your 1/5-of-a-bus and permission to drive on certain roads, in certain lanes, etc. Among other things.
Most of the bugs linked in the "we might do this at some point in the future" part of the roadmap are 15+ years old.

Adjustment layers are supposedly coming in 3.2. Who knows how many years that'll take though.
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In my experience, Zenni doesn't have as consistent an aesthetic across their product. Warby Parker is about paying for a "taste" proxy, rather than giving you a wide selection (much like Apple).
User was created today, probably just to make the dumb comment.
Proxying mDNS is such a pain if your vendor doesn't have something built-in.

Like when you have to start creating VXLANs to accommodate devices that assume L2 adjacency or installing L7 proxies I think it's fair to say there's some fault with the application vendor.
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Gmail does that attachment reminder
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> But they’re even angrier with Behdjou and Gazzola and their company, which was, at the time, called Amazon Secrets. “It’s a scam,” McDowell said. “They take your money and don’t deliver.”

Nothing in life is free except a hard time. These "I'll show you how to make passive income" schemes have been around long before the internet. It's sad, but they prey on the people too desperate for an easy way to wealth to think logically.
yep ppl have learnt lessons from Venezuela.
It used to, years ago, and then they made that change to "export", making it simply harder, I will never understand, it was a huge step backwards.
Owner of both a gas and electric vehicle here (Ford + Tesla).

Gas is still way cheaper. Electric (specifically Tesla) is way more convenient. All EVs will soon be more convenient as fast charging options become more available for all EVs.

I bet as EVs get cheaper, so does gasoline because of dropping demand. I doubt EVs will beat gas on long-term-ownership-cost within the next 5 years.

*EDIT: Should've noted I also live in the northeastern US which is probably relevant for both price and convenience factors.
Starcraft dragoon anyone ?
People forget that history repeats itself -- the ones that got richest during the California Gold Rush were the ones selling tools, unless you were lucky enough to hit a motherlode.

So if someone is selling you an expensive tool that will help make you rich, ask yourself why they aren't using that same tool themselves. (and if the answer is "I have all the money I need, I just want to help other people... then ask why they are charging $4000 for it...)
Is this anything like my 'right' to call myself an attorney?
In case there are others like me unfamiliar with what GEGL and babl are:

http://gegl.org/babl/

babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format translation library

http://www.gegl.org

GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a data flow based image processing framework, providing floating point processing and non-destructive image processing capabilities
It is weird to see it at blogs.mozilla.org then…
VW's future electric cars are based on a modular design they call their "MEB platform":

https://electrek.co/2018/09/18/vw-meb-platform-electric-for-...

It allows them to do things like reuse old car batteries in mobile charging stations:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/12/27/vw-m...

Battery makers are trying to reduce the amount of cobalt in the their batteries due to high cost and also because a lot of cobalt comes from regions in conflict (like Congo):

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-battery-cobalt...

And car makers are trying to simplify the composition of their electric motors. BMW's new electric motor doesn't use any rare earths:

https://insideevs.com/bmw-5th-generation-electric-drive-extr...
Yes, but now that they own Red-Hat and OpenShift, lets see how that goes.
You are ignoring a decade plus of very impressive results. Sure, the man has significant flaws. That is not justification for an inaccurate portrayal.
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> Unions were great at stifling innovation and destroying some of our former industries such as Steel and Automotive

The local manifestations of those industries were destroyed by globalization (which unions fought tooth and nail), not unions.

Those industries simply weren't where America's comparative advantage was in a globalized marketplace.

> The classic example is the unions not allowing the Toyota Lean Production system in,

The UAW did, in fact, let TPS in—not some loose copy, but the actual thing itself—at NUMMI.

GM had trouble copying the parts some of its leadership wanted of TPS for its own internal use, but those included massive resistance from their own internal managers as well as labor. And it probably wouldn't have worked for GM because of path dependence; TPS is a system relying on a substantial degree of mutual trust between labor and management, but while a new relationship can start with a clean slate, a strong established history is hard to erase.
Meh. Most people only ever use the front row of seating in their vehicle the overwhelming majority of the time. Pickups are just vehicles where the extra space is optimized for non-human cargo. The richer you are the more likely you are to buy enough vehicle for the most extreme case. If we all bought what we needed for the average case there would be a lot more subcompacts sold.
Today I learned that 4 lines of code is allowed to be billed as 2 lines of code.
Half the time, my microwaving action consists of closing the door and pressing [start/+30sec] however many times is required.

Sometimes I twist the knob until the display shows the desired time—in this respect it works like an iPod.

And when I want to defrost bread, I know it's Defrost program 4. Or if I want something else, the list of programs is helpfully silk-screened behind the door.

Maybe my expectations are low, having owned a Panasonic for the previous 9 years. But I'm genuinely happy with it. It works for me.

(I did see the capacitive touch strip model and actively avoided it. I knew I'd hate it without even trying it.)
How much does this speed up brute force search, though? You have to actually compute the exponent and digit sums. If I iterate over the powers of N from N^I to N^J, I do something like O((J-I)^2*log N) work doing multiplications the naive way.
What's the problem really? The Export and Quit actions are in the File section in the menubar.
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Ctrl-E, Ctrl-Q, Alt-D

If you need a more simplistic tool, try Pinta.
You must admit though, circumstances such as nowhere to charge and overall cost are a pretty core problem. Electric cars are great, except when they’re not.
Very likely! But it could scan the subnet, like say a printer driver does. Multicast is the easiest, but not the only way. The issue mentioned in the article is likely related to both mDNS blocking and client isolation (peer to peer).