skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the narrative they are trying to push.
IMO it is more a case between the globalists and the non-globalists. Some groups of people want it to be an interconnected world with 1 society.
It is certainly valid to say that, to first order, Uber and Lyft do not compete with public transit. I get a Lyft from downtown KC to the KC airport about thirty minutes away; I do this because it's about as expensive as airport economy parking will be for several weeks; I do not think twice about public transit because there simply is no public transit route there. But to go to the library or Union Station I'd never take a Lyft; there's a tram that goes to both.

But that gets complicated when we're talking about second-order effects. To second order, yes, it does matter. I have taken both the bus and a Lyft to work when my car was inaccessible. There is competition there, and it's driven by bus transfers. To get close enough that I do not have significant walking to do, I have to accept delays due to bus transfers, and the weather has to be nice enough that I can easily endure those waits outside. Or my budget needs to be tight enough that that makes sense.

It's not surprising to me that public transit sees somewhere in the range of 5-20% decline due to the cheaper taxi service; that is about the range of those second-order effects. But this is also an avoidable loss: with the widespread use of cell phones it may be possible that routes become more customizable, not unlike how school buses work: "this route serves to bring people from that general area to this general area, but of course we tailor it a bit to the individual student population, we don't go down any side-streets if there are no students to pick up there." There is a great potential when city institutions start to get the hang of this new technology stuff, that a bus service could meaningfully get you from where you're at to where you're going without any big pain points, on the assumption that you have a smart-enough cell phone. And that's no longer the marker of wealth that it used to be. If they can really get it right, they can even have the ride-hailing services tied into those systems, the way that cab lines informally used to be: "we're willing to send a fare your way for someone starting at hub X and going to location Y which is outside of our service regions."
100% agree. If you look at SF, there's to get from SOMA to the Marina, you can either take multiple buses plus walk (~50 minutes of travel), or take a lyft/uber which will bring you door to door in less than half the time.
I live in a mid-sized city in Michigan (Grand Rapids). Housing in the inner city is relatively expensive (3x+ the cost of the housing 20 miles out). Congestion is not really a thing ... maybe for 1/2 an hour right at 5PM and for 1/2 an hour in the morning. Parking is solved by having cheap lots at the fringes of the city center and providing a shuttle in (parking in the city center is only for higher income folks). Affordable point-to-point transit enables lower income folks to have nice houses and work jobs in the city, all while still having enough time left over for cooking & hanging out with family.

For instance, a nice 3br 1500 sqft house can be had outside of the city for under 100k (which works out to < $1k/month for principal, tax, insurance). A nice 3br 1500 sqft condo rents in the city for nearly 3k/month.
What do you want them to do? I'm an adult who uses YouTube and I don't want sanitized kid-friendly recommendations just so that you can protect your son's eyes from cartoon violence. In fact, several of the creators I like have been pinched hard by changes to the All-Powerful Algorithm which seem to be deliberately de-emphasizing anything that could be remotely considered offensive, and it's not fair to them at all.
I wouldn't surprised if it had been A/B tested and rejected because it decreased engagement. I'd love to know if and why.
This does not disturb me (modulo leak of SSNs). If documents for federal mortgages were public we would have seen 90% less mortgage fraud.
His base wants their tax returns paid. I get the feeling the date wasn't selected out of thin air.
They can't just forget about it. A permanent bill has to pass the House and Senate, and Trump has to sign it (or get overridden, which definitely won't accomplish the "face-saving" thing). Otherwise, the government shuts down again.
> all the "product" people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love.

Well, let it just die quickly! There's not much to love in products from a company that's repeatedly so hostile to its users. I'm all for anything from Facebook dying sooner, and will be cheering when that happens.
Please see discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000711

(remote reads instead of data duplication)
Google Cloud Blog article title: Elevating user trust in our API ecosystem

$15k+ barrier refers to a mandatory security assessment fee
-- see "How will the security assessment work?" on the FAQ
What's the problem with videos like you mentioned?

Do you think all videos in which people are wrong about things should be taken down?

If somebody writes on their blog that they don't think the holocaust is real, should their blog get taken down, or is there something different about it being a video?

In my opinion, YouTube has gone much too far towards the side of taking down videos rather than leaving them up. We don't need to be calling for them to be even more strict with removing videos that people don't like. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it.

If your goal in taking down conspiracy theory videos is to kill the conspiracy theory, I think that may actually be counterproductive. If the video stays up and everyone laughs about how stupid it is, nothing bad happens. If the video gets taken down then it just provides them an opportunity to shout about how they're trying to spread the truth but they're being silenced by the establishment.
Not surprising, given this is the perfect example of the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." rule?
The city government is deeply unpopular. Largely because of these changes.
I don't get the scope. So, an app I've made within the company which is reading company inbox (located on a server) using Gmail API, does this policy apply for e.g.? Or it's related to some kind of oauth rather?
do what I do: live in a walkable part of LA. I live in weho and left my car at my parent's house.
An open source client is not required for end-to-end encryption.

Do you see what I'm getting at? We're quibbling about a technically precise definition instead of what you'd like to see in a secure messaging application.
I mean by gut response was "That's a lot"
But then as a consumer I much prefer that figure to $50
The issues:

https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/1472

https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/2021

Hopefully this gets addressed soon.
I wonder, maybe I then just don't receive that much email? I did a quick count in the folders view, there's currently about 35k emails which take up about 1.7G of space.
I honestly believe that the ongoing battle between hospitals and insurance companies are a big contributor to the problem. After that, I think short-sited management is a big issue as well as the ever increasing executive compensation.
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Finnish company makes food with air and electricity
No Fizz Buzz?
Already gone... it stopped being enjoyable years ago.
Ironically, this is the check in the balance of the three branches. The Congress and The President must agree on a budget. It's sad that political game theory supersedes common sense planning ahead, but turning it around to "forcing will" mischaracterizes the propriety of the system. One day the US will evolve into a proper parliamentary system, but that should be shortly after we get instant binding political polls and have people born on mars (give or take 100+ years).

Anything he wants to spend on a wall, take from the military.
If you're gonna spend it, shuffle it.
By law, the executive branch can't spend more money that what has been appropriated, so in theory any president has to "shut the government down"

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

This is all subject to interpretation, mind you.
You just described optimistic concurrency control. That's one way of doing things if your workload is not highly contentious.
I agree he is, but on the other hand those furloughed employees will receive back pay so an even more prolonged shutdown is essentially a paid vacation for the ones who have some savings.

So I’m sure /those/ employees might encourage a shutdown, but it isn’t because they believe in his cause
I can't argue with that
>We should give credit to the early architectural decisions made by Cutler which allow for niceties like the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) that came about recently.

i think most - 99.999% - credit here goes to Linus :) Given the modern power of Linux the WSL would have happened anyway - independently of whether early NT architectural decisions help it or preclude it.
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If all limited access roads were toll roads that kept traffic stoppage to a minimum (trying for zero) by active pricing, the world would be such a better place in many ways. People could plan much better for how long a trip would take, people would have much shorter travel times, investors would have some idea of the revenue potential of roads so they could decide to build more of them.

The key would be to have the toll be quite low generally and make most of its money when there is high demand. In many countries the tolls are set to maximize revenue and this usually done by having a very high toll and almost empty roads. What would better for most people would be almost free roads (trucks always pay something as they are what wears out roads) and charge when the road is getting close to slowing down.

Also: Maybe it is a good idea to let your highly productive people (rich dudes) be able to get around cities quickly. They will be even more productive that way.
Don't use the app
Full back pay off all work done during the shut down for now
When I lived there a buddy on my pool team (when the billiards/pool scene was active and places weren't closing) was a motorcyclist. He lost half his face driving to Santa Cruz because an asshole was going 90 on the 17.
Until they'll get PewDiePie's videos back on Trending I'll consider completely dishonest and unethical. They follow the same path Facebook paved before: closing people in bubbles.
What you said is one reasonable way to accomplish what is stated in the post. There are other alternatives (described in the links from the post), but your way would work fine.
That's true. I took the original poster as meaning things appear to be just fine from a regular person's point of view rather than a libertarian extremist point of view.
I've gone through each iteration of the fast.ai courses and must say that it is worth it every time. The latest 2019 courses are again excellent. Even though I've covered the concepts before, I always learn a ton from every lesson.

Although it is recommended to dedicate ~10 hours per lesson, it is very possible to go through each video, then circle back to focus on one of the concepts/problems presented.

I recommend giving the first lesson a try. It is very rewarding feeling like you can actually do or build something at the end of each lesson.
The buyer looked at a list of authorized retailers after the fact. This should have been done before the purchase. To me - this article is a reminder to be personally responsible when shopping online.
It makes sense to insure against events that can wipe you out financially. Don't insure your car against theft, if you can easily afford to replace it. But unless you have north of about $5,000,000 that you don't really need, and you live in the US, you need health insurance. I've had a single operation for which the "chargemaster" cost was over $800,000 .
I think ghosting is all about avoiding the anxiety of a stressful situation. It’s easier to just ignore calls and texts than to actually have to tell someone face to face that you don’t want them anymore (whether that’s a boss or a partner). There is no other “noble” purpose of ghosting, like sticking it to the man. It’s just a childish way of dealing with something.
This is important to consider, but even if anti-car policies inadvertently exclude some people, I'd push back against the presumption that they are more exclusionary than pro-car policies. They might still represent an improvement over the status quo in this regard. For instance, anti-car advocates often argue that policies which effectively require people to buy and maintain cars to participate in society are exclusionary of the poor.
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Plenty of specialists make > 1m without running a hospital.
>“Single-handedly” may not be quite right, since the paper also finds that cheap gas prices and higher fares have a negative effect on ridership. And this analysis does not include other, more local factors that could be pushing riders off of buses and trains, such as the maintenance and reliability issues plaguing New York City and Washington, D.C. in particular. Nor does it look at safety perceptions among riders, a growing concern on Bay Area transit.

>“Perhaps the presence of innovative modes makes it a more compelling or sexier question to ask, but I think there are lots of reasons people aren’t taking these modes as much as before,” said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley and an expert in shared mobility. “The question of causality is perplexing and hard, and it’s not necessarily one thing.”

So basically, shocker, correlation does not equal causation and there's a lot going on driving this change.

Also, it'd be interesting to see data that took into account different modes. Light rail ridership in the Twin Cities has soared because (unlike our bus system) it is reliable and predictable, plus easier to use multimodally etc. etc.

And I imagine that most places share the Twin Cities' struggles to combat lawmakers in greater MN who have decided that investing in metro transit is a certain evil.
To add to this, think about the consistent advertising that Uber and Lyft do, always keeping themselves front of mind regarding transportation. If public transportion decided to market their "on time" rate, things would get a lot more interesting.
Stevie Ray Vaughn played a pretty funky Mary Had a Little Lamb. :-)
It focused on Ring 1, the innermost ring road of Oslo’s three motorways, a 1.7km sq area that is home to around 1,000 people of whom 88.1% do not own a car.

1.7km sq is... not a lot really?

I measured the distance between the NW and SE ends of the zone and it's 1650m - or about a mile. That's a 25min walk at a leisurely pace.
This is one of the hardest concepts to grasp in theoretical physics/quantum physics/cosmology. (And I'm not saying I fully grasp it)

We, as beings who experience time linearly, can't fathom the concept of "No time". Every event we experience has a beginning, middle, and end.

Time was created along with the universe. "Before" the Big Bang there was literally "No time". There was no "before". There was nothing you could say was "before" because "before" literally did not exist. Just asking the question "what was before the big bang?" is nonsensical. You can't ask what was before "before" existed.

This gets more confusing because we know the Universe has had a finite lifetime.

I know this seems like a cop out. And you can say well then whoever/whatever caused the Big Bang was "God". That may or may not be true, it can't be tested of verified, but it seems that the universe is here just because it is here.

Which is not a very satisfying answer to most.
>I know it's only an anecdote, but myself (and many other colleagues) in Boston switched to periodically using rideshares to commute due to the decline in public transit quality.

I've been riding the T in Boston for the better part of 20 years now. My usage of rideshares is more related to convenience and timing than any change in MBTA service. A lot of trips I do require going into/out of the core city to make a lateral move, or to coordinate multiple modes with different headways, e.g. 5 minutes for subway, 10 minutes for one bus, 25 for the next. The result is that time in motion is similar to the rideshare, but I spend an equal amount of time waiting for a connection.

I'd really be curious to see the effect on trips that already have a direct or reasonably efficient multi-step itinerary, e.g. Davis to Charles/MGH, Sullivan to Harvard, etc.
Technically Uber and Lyft aren't profiting. They're burning VC money.
If WhatsApp uses a version of libsignal whose copyright is solely in the hands of Open Whisper Systems, OWS can have a separate deal with WhatsApp which does not involve the GPL. AFAIK, this is already done to get Signal into the App Store (IANAL though).
Necking Shaped the Giraffe (2016)
To add, everyone's boss everywhere pretending the economic value their workers create is approximately in line with what those workers get paid.
Machine Learning is a catch-all term for optimizing statistical models with data.

Simplest example that you are very likely already familiar with is that of a 'best fit line' to some xy scatter plot. This starts by making an assumption (model choice) that the relationship between `x` and `y` is linear, e.g. `y=mx + b`, then you can use data (xy points) to figure out the most likely values for `m` and `b`. You can then make predictions for new `x_new` values by plugging them into your known line to get `y_new`.

Machine learning often manifests in a two step process: first feature extraction, and then fitting features to a desired output. Deep learning combines these as an end-to-end process to eliminate 'human in the loop' problems that occur from feature extraction.

Example: you want to predict who should win a chess game in a given board state

Feature extraction (what information you think matters): what pieces does white have, what pieces does black have, is white in check, is black in check, how many valid squares can white king move to, how many valid squares can black king move, etc...

* Fitting: make an assumption about the relationship between features and outcome (model choice), fit model using data (features, outcome)

The Deepblue 2 model that played Kasparov used around 8000 features (not sure if this is the feature vector size or # of features). As you can imagine, feature extraction is highly dependent on expert knowledge of the problem and will often fail to cover unknown situations/cases.

Deep learning models aim is to avoid limitations of expert knowledge by using raw data (e.g. occupancy of each square on a chess board) and extract features implicitly rather than relying on explicit human formulas. It has also opened up new possibilities for areas where expert knowledge has made little progress in the past (e.g. there is not much an expert can say about what pixel features are might indicate a dog/cat is contained in an image).
Negotiations fail to come to a close due to both parties, not one party. Saying one party is "stupid", has been "hurting people" and "got nothing" is far from the full picture. Both sides are attempting to "force [their] will".

What may seem reasonable to one party may seem unreasonable to the other, whether or not either party shows it outwardly.
I don't like the approach of pointlessly reallocating the array this way, but 5 million elements is not a problem on any machine built in the last 20 years. That's just 20 megs for 4-byte integers. With modern GC, this is cheap. It's not something you'd want to do in a tight loop (the copy time will start to matter), but for something like the example, the cost (in machine terms) is negligible.
It's not that simple. Where public transport was already king, Uber and Lyft are harmless. But where public transport is still fighting for relevance and investment, they take the wind out of political sails by providing am alternative which while convenient is barely sufficient. Combine that with the fact that they are subsidized/dumping and leaving many externalities for state and local governments to deal with.. I see the causalities here pretty entangled.
Yeah it's pretty bad... But I also LOVE using the scooters. Hopefully a solution is found so that we can keep the scooters.
I've commuted solely by public transportation in Boston for the last 8 years. Before that I lived elsewhere and commuted by car daily. While the public transportation has occasional delays and outages, it's overall reasonable and the variance and displeasure I experienced with driving were far greater.
No, it does not get you "instantly disqualified". I think if an interviewer posed that question to you exactly as stated, namely with a 100 numbers, they would tell you that you did a good job and solved the problem in a perfectly reasonable way.

So now that we've set the scene, let's scale for a million numbers, rounding up to 2^20. The existing solution needs at least an extra megabyte (since you are not setting individual bits, it will be at least a byte per number), and a second pass of scanning through that entire megabyte. Fine in a web application, maybe not so much in an embedded system kernel. How can we improve?

And so we got a discussion started.

I personally would not ask that question, since it's really a bit too generic, but you get the gist: Start out with something that sets the scene (and catch unqualified people really early), and opens up discussion for more and more interesting discussions.
+1 For Venkat. I haven’t come across another speaker who can code and talk and teach all at the same time like he can. He even manages to be funny. I have a lot of love for this guy
What happens when you spend a year using science to improve your brain (2018)
I like your approach (can work with simple HTML attributes!) and it seems fairly robust and well-documented. Thanks for sharing!
I only use a ridesharing app when I can’t get a bus or train. If it’s going to take more than 20 minutes for that bus or train to arrive and I need to travel more than a mile, ridesharing is generally how I get there. It fills a niche where I live that isn’t served by public transit.
Patents _are_ supposed to cover inventions, not implementations.

They're about innovating technological abilities, and disclosing them in exchange for limited monopoly; it's not about specific products or specific implementations.

If it were just about implementations then all patents could be easily circumvented and there would be no reward in exchange for the full disclosure of a new invention.

(Design patents do cover specific implementations at the morphological level.)
>His base will be ticked off, that's for sure.

His base wants the wall, fully funded, and no quarter given to the Democrats or their agenda. His base also believes government is corrupt, bloated, wasteful and infested with leftists and globalist elites. This is exactly what his base wants.
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Indeed.

We can’t synthesize our own foods and we let ruminants and plants to convert food from sunlight and water and soil do the work for us.

But what if we can hack a way to synthesize our own food? And maybe even customize it?

As an extreme non science backed thought experiment(but hopefully can be tested): what if we are able to create a formula to synthesize and customize all that a human would need in terms of nutrition from the time they are born..from stem cells or cord blood cells? Maybe it can even predictively measure what we need as we go through life events like puberty or pregnancy or old age or trauma etc.