skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me address the externalities idea first:

> The real reason you don't see streetcars is that the benefits of a public transit system are externalities[2], and so they must be funded by the government.

I don't follow your logic here. Seems like two different issues. First, should transit be subsidized based on positive externalities. Second, which technology will best deliver that transit. Are these issues coupled somehow? I think they are independent.

In the US, we often have government-operated buses that are heavily subsidized. If streetcars were a better option, the transportation authority could use them.Whether subsidized or not, whether public or private, you presumably have a decision maker looking to deliver transit of a certain grade at the lowest cost.

(This page gives a sense of the subsidy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio)

So if all the historical rails and overhead wires were still intact, I'm guessing that today's transit authorities would make the same decision as the transit companies did back in the day, which is switch over to motor buses and either dismantle or neglect the expensive infrastructure.

Of course there would be a few exceptions; very heavily used routes, and places where non-economic reasons would intervene.

Now the wikipedia page you linked presents a much more nuanced view than what you advocated. In fact it contains a lot to support my skepticism, particularly under "Other Factors" and "Counterarguments". For instance:

> "GM Killed the Red cars in Los Angeles".[84] Pacific Electric Railway (which operated the 'red cars') was hemorrhaging routes as traffic congestion worsened with growing car ownership levels after the end of World War II.[88]

And most tellingly:

> GM's alleged conspiracy extended to only about 10% of American transit systems

So the other 90% shut down the street car lines without any arm twisting from GM. Sounds like all system operators saw the same economic picture.

I'm not wedded to my theory (change driven by evolving technology) but I'm even more skeptical of your theory (change driven by conspiracy).
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I hate those scooters. Went running with some friends in San Jose a few days ago and they were scattered all over the sidewalks. A real hazard for pedestrians.

Hopefully cities will enforce strict rules against blocking sidewalks and confiscate any scooters left in unsafe spots.
Does this hold up for an economy that is primarily export driven?
Please don't feed trolls. By doing that, you kept this flamewar going, and crossed into incivility yourself.

Instead, please follow the site guidelines and flag egregious comments instead of replying to them. To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click the 'flag' link at the top. (There's a small karma threshold before flag links appear.)

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I've used Fi since getting a Pixel 2 just over a year ago. I haven't had any issues with it and can't comment on the quality of their support. The coverage and service is as you'd expect from Sprint & T-mobile. I've used the built-in VPN feature with no noticeable drop in speed or connection, even when switching from cell to wifi.
A Year in Weather [2018 U.S. Radar Time Lapse] [video]
>Despite all the known problems, countries like Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia are all applying for (or already negotiating) a position within the EU. If they would really be better off without the "dysfunctional" EU, they'd form their own bloc or remain independent. Even for poor countries, the EU brings benefits.

do you know why they do this? They can see how easy it is to milk the EU for money in ways that benefit these mafia states. The major of Zagreb is connected to the Bosnian Mafia, he just spent some time in hospital (the mafia put him there but you won't read this in the news). The top lawyer of Zagreb is an asset for the mob. If you want to kill somebody here it's possible to make that happen for very little money. Have you been to Albania, or Macedonia? You should seriously go there before assuming that absorbing them in the EU is a good idea. I'm all for bringing in the people of these countries but before that can be done the organized crime there needs to be cleaned up. The result otherwise is that you'll enrich those that don't deserve it.

The TV series McMafia was set in Croatia (even the non-fiction book and the TV show plays out in a global theater). There are good reasons why that country was chosen for the series. You want to meet some dangerous people? I can introduce you to the guy who shot the Minister of Tourism here not so long ago - he is my age and now runs a drug ring in Austria. This is common knowledge here and as normally talked about as the weather.

Ah yes the guy who now runs Rimac (the super-car company that competes against Tesla) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimac_Concept_One his father is also connected.

My GF's sister was recently alerted by the owner of the building that the mob has asked them to isse them with keys to their flat because they refused to sell it. The person refused to hand it over and alerted her. The poor girl now lives in fear every day.

The Balkan is the wild fucking west. I live in one of the most civilized parts of the region and love it here, because it's also easy to stay away from this all. If you think for one second that the state would want to ( or even could) protect you, you'd be wrong because they're all part of it. If you're rich you don't pay any fines, if you're poor you get fucked. It's always been this way and thanks to globalization it's getting worse (more ruthless competition from foreign mobs fighting over territory).

I can go on and on ... but Misha Glenny's "McMafia" really explains it all rather well.
It says a lot about the state of the art that sub second rendering times is a big ask.
"Business isn't done through constant bribing of officials"

Are we just going to ignore the quid pro quo that comes with lobbying/campaign contributions, etc...

We've basically legalized bribery in the US in many ways and our definition of corruption is so narrow that most of the corruption taking place does not get flagged.

In China OTOH, my understanding is that Xi will put you in jail for corruption (points to the 1000s of Chinese politicians in jail).
"One DNS hijacking technique involves changing what’s known as the DNS A record."

Could be any record, depends on the intentions of the hijacker. Typically we see web traffic being hijacked to another ipv4 host which indeed, is an A record. Another abuse option could be to alter SPF/DKIM to do a more sophisticated phishing campaign.
Actor Joe Manganiello brings his love of D&D to kids at Pittsburgh hospital
You just posted a lot of ad hominems that have no bearing on whether the author's statements in this article are true.
Yeh but they have in Vietnam and other countries they sphere of influence is just small.
I basically want something that's not associated with any service (eg. I shouldn't have to create a Git repo on GitHub just to use their simple issue tracker), is easy to use for non-devs, and doesn't have any complexity: I want a form (possibly with some templates) where I can type text, the ability to comment, and maybe labels for organization and search. I've actually been working on something like that, but it's not quite ready for prime time; even if I never launch it as a stand alone product I'll hopefully keep it around for my own issues.
It's mighty hard to prove that a building has never contained a basement. It could be constructed in secret, used, and then filled in. You'd need to dig it up like an archaeologist would, examining layers of soil for signs of disturbance.

More realistically though, the pizzeria was a codeword for the real location. Plenty of evidence for pizza-related codewords is in the Podesta emails. It's really creepy. Normal people don't rent specific numbers of slices of pizza for specific numbers of hours. It is widely thought that the number of slices is actually the age of the victim. Pizza-related codewords are known to be used by criminals involved in that sort of thing; some have been caught. Podesta also has some disturbing artwork in his home that features children.
VC try to filter out such founders - but it happens and it is the reason of why VCs want quick outcomes and avoid the middle ground of slow growth profitable companies. They want their companies either go down quickly or grow up enormously also quickly, because the more time it takes the easier it is for the founders to make good life out of it without giving back anything to the investors.

This is the principal-agent problem and VCs have a particular way of working around it, traditional private equity has another way and banks have yet different one (and crowdfunding does not https://medium.com/@zby/the-problem-with-crowdfunding-81b53f...).
Repl.it offers simple website hosting for custom domains
Road trip: Missing Michigan cat mysteriously turns up in Tampa
We've banned this account for trolling.

Would you please not create accounts to do that with on HN?
How It Took Me 10 Minutes to Rank in Google Featured Snippets
Not always, sometimes they try to engineer the economy and kill growth.
Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor
Yes, it's super cheap and simple. Check out serverless.com to get started. Run your vue/react/angular app on a S3 bucket, and then only handle the API calls on lambda functions. Pay only for what you use, and it's infinitely scalable.
Emscripten has an OpenGL 1.x implementation and Quake 2 uses pretty much OpenGL 1.1. Some years ago i ported my engine that has a GL1.x-only path to Emscripten and had an SDL backend (i removed it since then) and it took just a couple of hours to "port" (the two main problems i had were that i was doing some unaligned pointer accesses - casting a byte array to a float array to read vertex data - that Emscripten didn't knew how to handle so i wrote a slower path for Emscripten and that the OpenGL 1.x implementation wasn't that great and i had to write some workarounds).
I should say this is not my wing of the world since in social science typically theory precedes estimation and there would be a strong disciplinary norm against "I have no idea what causes what". So I don't actually use this stuff. That being said, I have played with a few of the packages and read a few pieces on causal discovery.

Jonas Peters et al. - Elements of Causal Inference is a textbook that covers a little bit of what they called "learning cause-effect models". For algorithms, check SGS (Spirtes-Glymour-Scheines) and PC (Peter Spirtes and Clark Glymour). I believe both these algorithms are implemented in R in the package `pcalg`. There's another R package on BioConductor that implements them too, but I'm far enough afield from biostats I don't remember the name or have any notes I can find.

Some recent cites of note: Peters and Buhlmann - "Identifiability of Gaussian structural equation models" (2014), which led to Ghoshal and Honorio - "Learning linear structural equation models in polynomial time" (2018) who generalize the Peters/Buhlmann claim.

Other authors to Google: Dominik Janzig; Joris Mooij; Patrik Hoyer -- all of these people write papers with the above people, so you should be able to map out the network.

What the pieces all have in common is that they're trying to establish empirical differences in the joint distributions of X and Y between scenarios where X -> Y and where Y -> X. This is only possible in some cases.

Hope this helps.
From my perspective, that odd lighting and tint is part of the aesthetic that makes it great. You can learn more about how the renderer works here:

http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2_software_renderer.ph...

You can create your own palette using the included pcx2pal:
https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too...

After that, you might want to generate the colormap:
https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/blob/master/src/too...

If you enjoy the code of Q2, but also would like more modern rendering, I highly recommend quake2xp from Barnes:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/quake-2-xp

Yamagi is the gold standard for all Q2 engines:
https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2

And some art help:
http://maps.rcmd.org/tutorials/q2_palette_textures/
> They protect more than 300 posh homes every night - and they do this by going on foot patrol for hours.

This is quite common around India. Depending on the place, one person (or more, but separately) would be going around with a stick that he hits on the road to make it aurally known that someone is awake, and then blowing a shrill whistle at every street corner or about once every few minutes. These sounds can be really jarring and wake people up unless they're used to it.

The other common factor with this job is the loneliness almost all night. I'm sure that not being able to even see another human for several hours and at a time when one's body is primed to rest take a toll. And in places like Noida/Delhi, as the article points out, they have to weather the severe weather (very cold winters and very hot summers) and the air pollution.

Like with many other cases of migrant workers around the world, usually the money such migrants within the country earn is sent back to their villages or family living elsewhere. They get very less time to spend with their families, usually once a year for a few weeks. It's a big sacrifice, but the alternatives are usually far worse.

Bringing such people up in the economic and social ladder is one of the things that governments should focus on. Unfortunately, that's been very, very slow.
I would love to see pharmacy advertising banned from television and streaming services during certain times of the day. I would also love to see the same advertising banned on billboards. If [1]this is true, we are exposed, on average, to 5000 advertisements a day.

Pharma advertising culture has lead us (in America) to become a culture of self-diagnosers and a culture where we don’t want to be exposed to any emotion or pain. This is not to say that drugs are bad, because they have amazing uses in the world. I know many people that benefit from antidepressants, antipsychotics, and so-called illegal substances to be functioning members of society, but along with that, I know plenty of people who have been taught by the big shiny box that they don’t need to feel the pain of a loved ones death, or a bad breakup.

I find this woman’s account of going through a hysterectomy in Germany to be enlightening when compared to our own culture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-ge...

[1] https://stopad.io/blog/ads-seen-daily
We never should have let the AI get ahold of Roget's...

Jokes aside, the article serves a useful purpose - to remind us that even American revolutionaries aren't above hanging political undesirables.
It turns out paying someone a LOT of money for sex isn't any more legal. The courts are likely to agree, if any person wanted to press criminal charges.
Deprecated/killed.

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5903385005916160
I came here to express the same sentiment.
A yearlong campaign of resource buildup to take down a WH alliance's previously-thought-invincible fortresses is worth noteworthy comment, even if the alliance in question has a massive amount of resources to do it.

The next question becomes: what possible protections could a WH alliance have against such an attack (or is there anything CCP should change to mitigate the math on such an attack---for one thing, it's a little odd that you can make a freighter un-attackable by logging out with its pilot, squirreling those assets away in-game indefinitely; maybe the balance of power needs to be changed on how freighters warp out at logoff?)
> selling the ability to mass-advertise to a demographic that includes you.

A while ago there were some fun articles about "how to prank your roommate by creating an audience of 1 and running creepily personalised adverts". What's the smallest demographic you can define on google?
At one point I had a boss with (roughly) 50 direct reports. To paraphrase him describing how he did it: "badly".

The company later was able to hire more managers and take the load off of him (and in fact he went back to being an IC eventually). But these things happen in periods of rapid growth, despite everyone knowing they're a bad idea.
You've hit the nail on the head of what makes EVE interesting to people. ;)
Explained: Multilingual Sentence Embedding for Zero-Shot Transfer (93 Languages)
No sources. Just your bias and fantasy stories.
That’s an interesting take, has that ever resulted in a conviction you know of?
TikTok as a possible espionage tool
>Odd they only interviewed business owners and employers, and not the people who benefit from higher wages.

It's not odd at all, just biased.
Repl.it is so simple that even more advanced programmers might find value there. You can execute simple snippets in an interactive repl, or a main file, or host a simple blog for free with all of your static files sitting in one place ready to be edited from anywhere. Of course there is a lot more, but those seem pretty cool. There are others of course, but you can collaborate and teach people to code through that platform for freemium as well:)
See levels.fyi

400k for senior is pretty good, but still doable at a lot of the big companies.

I make over 300 and I'm not senior yet.
Working on a ticket tracker myself. Taking notes...

Some of my key design decisions are:

Implement internal features like moving tickets between queues in an abstract way which can be leveraged for custom workflows via the API. For example, if you write a git commit which references a ticket, the "Joe Bloe referenced this in a [commit](link)" note which gets added to the ticket is implemented to leverage an API that you can leverage as well, to add any kind of notes on tickets. This works backwards, too, you can annotate commits with arbitrary information.

Implementing other workflows on top of more fundamental features also addresses a lot of things. An agile/kanban-style queue of pending, in-progress, completed tickets, for example, (will be) implemented with a generic queueing mechanism, which you can use to implement any other kind of queues. Someone mentioned emailing someone when a ticket enters one queue, notifying Slack on another queue, etc - easily done with webhooks and a generic task dispatcher I'm working on, which is also where the code that links tickets to commits lives.

Someone else mentioned being flexible about state transitions and such, which really annoys me about Jira (we use it at $dayjob). My ticket system accordingly treats the humans as smarter than it and lets you do any state changes you want, whereas Jira will get pissed with me if I try to move a ticket backwards in the lifecycle.

Also, Jira is slow as hell. My software is much faster and requires no JavaScript. Someone also mentioned multiple assignees: check.

https://sr.ht
Rails is a web framework. It's an easy one to use, and often the way to express something is concise enough that I would feel okay saying that "Rails is a DSL for web applications". That would be a simile, however, and not literally correct. It would be more literally correct to suggest that Rails was composed of several DSLs, but that probably stretches the definition as well.

The routing system in Rails is definitely a DSL. You might say that defining model properties was a DSL. You can probably call an ORM query interface a DSL. The controller and view layers are going to look like just about any other framework. Rails is a full-featured framework, which can be configured with a minimum of fuss, bother, and actual code-writing. For toy apps I don't think there's anything else that's faster for development, and for real apps I'm pretty sure that all frameworks are roughly equivalent.

There are Ruby projects which do provide a "DSL for web apps", of which I believe Sinatra is the most popular. Rails incorporates some DSL-like features, and I would agree with anyone who said that it "is basically a DSL for web apps", but I would consider that a figure of speech.
This article doesn't differentiate between tax and wage increases.

Any business which needs to pay minimum wage in order to maintain a profit is in a precarious situation. A rising minimum wage is far from the only risk to the business; even simple economic growth is going to capsize them eventually as more local jobs pay higher wages.

While we will blame the loss of these jobs on the minimum wage hike, I think it's safe to say these jobs were going away in the near term anyway.
One reason a small corporation might want a structure is to pursue industrial activities (building stuff, refining ore, etc.) that are either not available in the area or for a lower tax rate. You are correct that it wouldn't be to protect assets.
Google cans the Chromecast Audio
From the article:

Aniyia Williams, who started the nonprofit Black & Brown Founders, said a venture-funded system that encourages many failures for every one success is particularly unfair to black, latinx and women founders who “are rarely afforded the opportunity to fail, period.” Members of these organizations, she added, see more value when whole groups in their communities thrive, rather than venture’s winner-take-all model.

The transition from good-of-the-few to good-of-the-many means we might be at a crossroads in finance. Agism, nationalism and even wealthism (among many others) have been running rampant for centuries. Discrimination is so interwoven into US culture and history that the major issues of our time (like wealth inequality) probably require revolutionary rather than evolutionary solutions.

I've also been watching a lot of VICELAND lately and have been following the mantra of: cultural revolution requires personal evolution.
Islam’s Conquest of America Through Creeping Sharia
I'm submitting this because it's a great example of educational content on TV - people who know what they're doing and who are given the freedom to talk about it and demonstrate it direct to camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould
The Mere-Exposure Effect: How Casey Neistat Makes Pop-Songs
I walked around the problem of replies(on Reddit/HN) by never looking at them. I have a red envelope of 150 or so now.

Every once in a while I imagine something anxiety inducing about them, or catch a glimpse(and more often than not a positive one) in the automatic reply emails Reddit likes to send me. Sometimes I will look back at the thread, if I really want to know.

But I don't use these platforms to converse, even though I will happily make a reply to an existing thread. They are both too fast and too slow to be conversational. I use comment threads as a writing prompt instead, and by ignoring external feedback I don't experience pain from them, even though some of the time this might result in someone asking me something and never hearing a reply. If my idea is good, someone copies it and I see it in a later thread.
I am not a lawyer but beside some really crazy cases it seems very hard to prove at court.
Well there's your problem. My comp is like 40% publicly tradeable stock.

Also bonus closer to 15-20%.
you mean like taskwarrior?