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> A few spots are left, converted into parking for disabled drivers or EV charging, and some streets are open for delivery trucks for a couple of hours in the morning. Emergency vehicles still have access.

Nobody who has thought about this issue for a bit is suggesting that we ban cars like we banned chemical weapons. Simply that the number of cars can be cut by a factor of 5-10 easily, leaving behind only those users who actually need the car, and not using it as a convenience at enormous unaccountable externalities.

Not to mention that the the health of many (but not all) is destroyed by absolute minimum exercise needed in car centric cities. When everyone starts walking 5-10K steps everyday, many mobility related ailments are avoided or controlled or managed sufficiently.
Neither Uber nor Lyft is currently profitable. They can't truly be said to be winning a market competition until they're not effectively running on subsidization. Additionally, until more cities implement congestion pricing, they benefit from a negative externality not being priced in.
Ya, that one game was a bit... 'fresh'. But saying that it relies 'entirely' on abusing blink stalkers isn't quite right.

It did it in 1 game of the 5 they were showing.
Fortunately, we're really good at compensating for blood acidification. It's offset with higher bicarbonate levels and more excretion, which means the reaction uses carbonic acid and hydrogen to offset carbonic acid - pretty low-consequence to produce. Having more bicarbonate raises calcium and potassium levels slightly, but even when it's way outside of any normal exposure it doesn't seem to cause further effects.
Morally, I would do the traditional notice ( 2 weeks at least ), because I try to "honor everyone".. but this would be harder if I had a bad boss and could start somewhere else immediately. I'd still probably do my best to make sure everyone is taken care of.

As with bad service at a restaurant, I still leave a normal tip, because it reflects more on me than on the server.
How long before the shutdown actually costs more than the wall?
Lol nice find Sherlock. Not obvious at all.
Douglas Hofstadter wrote a Scientific American column (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas), in which he examined "Robinsonizing" to get to that sort of sentence:

https://books.google.com/books?id=NSpMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT334&lpg=...
I actually see this from a different angle. I think the bar is incredibly high, and that many investors fail to clear it. It is high because, when you see the best investors at work, it is blindingly obvious that they operate in a different way.

The strange thing to me is that many investors don't realize this is happening and just coast on the funds they've raised. Founders talk to one another constantly. They know who works hard and who doesn't, and orient themselves accordingly.
Because it doesn't provide ad money and consume resources.
You can always execute dependent transactions in a system that does not support them by running two non-dependent transactions. This is covered in section 3.2.1 of the Calvin paper [0] as the Optimistic Lock Location Prediction (OLLP) scheme.

Basically, when you have a dependent transaction (i.e., a transaction where the write set depends on the results of earlier reads in the transaction), you split it into two separate transactions. The first transaction, the reconnaissance transaction, reads all the data necessary to determine the transaction's write set. Then the second transaction can declare the full read/write set based on the results of the recon transaction. While executing the second transaction, you verify that the data you're reading is the same as the data you read in the recon transaction; if it's not, you need to start the whole process over.

This is certainly unfortunate, because you have to perform every read twice. But perhaps it's performant enough. Have you tried using FaunaDB/Calvin for your workload? It sounds like FaunaDB has support for dependent transactions using OLLP baked in, but I'm curious to know if there's a significant performant hit to using it.

[0]: http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...
I think woonerfs would work well in SF and elsewhere. Cars are allowed, but they have the share the space with pedestrians and bikes. Speed limit is super slow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf

Would be sweet to see signs that say "woonerf" all over the US too.
> Some studies show that based on folks viewing the first five minutes of an interview, they can usually predict the outcome. One can interpret that in several ways

I have interviewed dozens of people, possibly hundreds of people.

I do get an impression within the first three questions. Some people I ask three questions covering different areas, and they knock all three questions out of the park. Some I ask three questions of and they kind of fumble around and give a very limited answer for two of the questions, and can't answer the third at all.

In my experience, I can't recall ever seeing a divergence after this. If they fumble through the first three questions, they will fumble through the rest of the interview. If they can answer the first three questions coherently and in-depth, they will be able to answer virtually all of the subsequent questions coherently and in-depth.

I'm not really confirming biases because I generally ask everyone the same questions. The only time I mix it up is if they're answering all the easy questions correctly, I start asking slightly more difficult questions which I don't ask much. I don't ask them much because if someone is stumbling over the easier questions, there's no reason to ask them tougher questions.

Also, my first technical question is almost always an incredibly easy, standard question. I just ask it so they can answer one quickly and correctly and relax a little. But maybe 20% of people botch even this.
So, before he announced the details of the re-opening, he said that many of the furloughed employees strongly supported him and that many even encouraged him to continue the shutdown. He's living in his own version of reality.
This assumes he has the ability to self reflect, which by this point is clearly not the case
The argument is that the modern software system has become so complex, worrying about what the intent of the original design is almost pointless. Say a single-user app that was originally written in assembly for PDP and has now evolved (or wrapped) into a multi-cluster, multi-zoned gRPC service - how important is the original intent when it was never designed for the current use case?
> "You also want to be an exponential curve yourself—you should aim for your life to follow an ever-increasing up-and-to-the-right trajectory"

ugh.. I guess this comes down to what you define as "successful" but another option is to be content in the present, and not anxious and desperately wanting the future, when you imagine everything will be better than it is now. When you treat life this way, it becomes just a means to an end, instead of an end in itself.
Why would this be downvoted? Is absolutely correct. For example average sub zero temperatures mean that snow eventually turns to ice rather than melting.
Author here. I'm incoming co-chair of TC39 for 2019, and happy to talk to anyone about our process, or why that one proposal you really like doesn't do the thing you really want it to do, or how to get more involved. Feel free to direct your ire and/or adulation this way.
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Yes, but the post mentions assignment expressions as a bad thing, and says Python "gets it right" in this regard, which would no longer be true.
I'll go a bit further and say that, while Uber/Lyft probably contribute to decline in public transit, those companies exist precisely because of how bad public transit was in those service areas.
Public transport would be ideal if there were better ways to manage it. Infrastructure problems and rampant corruption stifle it, so innovators moved in and stole their lunch.

I know it's more complicated than it seems, but check out Tokyo. Their public transit works incredibly well, and a lot of public resources are spent making sure it stays that way. Some of this is due to the fact that Tokyo is an extremely new city in terms of a lot of its infrastructure (due to WW2), but that's not the whole story here.
"There's no education in the second kick of the mule."
Virtually no one bikes here in the winter.
Then you might at least notice some CPU usage.
In civilised areas of the world, labour laws stipulate that either side must give 4 weeks notice. There are exceptions to that (usually you can be fired with zero notice during your first one to two months), but you can't just quit, or just be let go on the spot if you're a normal salaried employee.
Facebook may have known it was defrauding children+families through its games
This tutorial is 459 pages long. What's it take to get an in-depth understanding of the program?
There's some fun even around the origin of the term. In late 1963 JFK was assassinated. According to a sourced referenced on Wiki [1] the first mainstream reference to "conspiracy theory" was the New York Times who, in 1964, posted some 5 articles using the phrase. In 1967 the CIA had a psychological operation manual on discrediting conspiracy theories. [2] The reason I mention JFK there is because the conspiracy theory tactics created by the CIA were specifically relating to the Warren Commission [3].

Ultimately I've always found the term silly. People can believe idiotic things for sure, yet on the other hand I think there is an equilibrium where on one end you have people who believe no 'conspiracy theory' could ever be real, and on the other hand you have people who indulge every 'conspiracy theory' as probable. Both opposite extremes are equally naive.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Etymology_an...

[2] - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-create...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission
They don't need to be persisted at the received side, but yes, there could be 9 remote reads if each of 10 shards are running code that may result in state-based aborts. Usually, however, only a subset of the shards run such code.

But remember, 2PC requires 4 messages per worker (so 40 messages total in your example).
Sure, but why do we hold the Founders in a particularly high regard? Instead of, say, countless 20th and 21st century politicians, scholars, and technocrats who have a lot more influence on the government as it exists today, most of whom who don't have views nearly as revolting as the Founders.

Who's likely to be able to bring a software system from 16.7.1 to 16.7.2? The team who built 16.7.1, or the team who wrote the pre-alpha version twenty years ago?
So if he's going to shut the government down on the 15th (because the wall isn't getting funded), what's the point of reopening it? His base will be ticked off, that's for sure.
Not sure about the ranges on that wealthy comparison- if I wanted to commute to work by bus, it would cost >$6 in bus faires a day in the Bay Area. Splitting a Lyft line in San Francisco often results in math where we actually save money while using a more convenient service. It’s just hard to choose public transit around here when it is unreliable, barely cost competitive and slower.
He's a narcissist. He believes he's winning a war of attrition and that the public is overwhelmingly on his side, with polls or news to the contrary just being more liberal "fake news."
Thank you for the insight! Can you reveal where you learned this? I would love to get a better understanding of the financials of the healthcare industry.
Sure, but there are degrees of difference. Even 10-20 years ago, taking the tube in London vs. the Subway in NYC was a vastly different experience.
Im confused here. I thought “the shutdown” was wholly due to congress having the sole authority for funding federal bodies. How does that settle with “he will shut the government back down”?
Now this one's flagged. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Neither are the nationalized public transport systems they're competing against.
Why not? E.g. now the market price for where I live is to a first approximation something like 2000 EUR/month for an apartment on a single floor in a 4 floor house.

Meanwhile I can simply apply for a parking space right outside my place, and only need to pay something like a 250 EUR/yr road tax (depending on vehicle & weight etc.). That's a flat fee for the entirety of Nord-Holland (my "state"), I'd pay nothing for parking other than needing to apply.

Assuming a parking space is 6x3m = 18m^2 then 4x of those add up to 72m^2, a typical size for an apartment around here.

So if someone parking a car in a 18m^2 parking space had to compete with the market for real estate they'd need to pay 2000 EUR/month for parking their car, because we could otherwise build housing there.

That's before you even get to the problem that the fact that you can only build up to 4 floors around here is also an artificial government restraint, so the true market price of a 18m^2 parking spot is way more than 2000 EUR/month in the center of Amsterdam.

There's no reason to ban cars. You just need to make them pay a fair price for the land they're using and the problem will take care of itself.
Don't know. There are chemical sensor with a heating element, but those usually suck.
I've found that if you have more than 2 people (sometimes even just 2, if you pool), it is often cheaper and faster to take an Uber. Quite pathetic on MBTA's side.
Is there a way to create lifestyle config for Sagemaker manually instead of using fast.ai created IAM ARN and config?
While the title of this article may be a bit misleading as numerous people here have reliably pointed out, I think comments so far are missing the broader point. Cal Newport's focus for awhile now has been on "minimalist" use of our phones, and how social media, etc. are interrupting/damaging our lives in numerous ways.

Despite the "cheap" headline and arguments you could make of his narrow interpretation of Jobs' introduction of the iPhone, Newport's broader points IMHO should still be recognized and are important to be heard.
Blaming Uber and Lyft for public transportation usage decline sounds exactly the same as blaming piracy for the music industry's decline.

If public transportation was better, I wouldn't use Lyft as much as I do these days.

It'd be interesting to look at countries known for their exceptional public transportation and see if they saw a decline when Uber and Lyft came on the market.
But assume the system updates changes infinitely fast. Then assume user A makes a change, and only after 30 microseconds user B makes a change. Will user A now be confused because their change is overwritten by user B? If so, then the problem has nothing to do with the aforementioned situation and the UX should probably show: "user B is also editing this field" or something like that.

The point is: it does not matter if the system is slow and rejects changes; because the effect to the user will be the same as in the "infinitely fast" case.
This, a million times. The metro in Paris is good because upper middle class people take it.
I think the BBC is pretty well regarded on HN; I can recall seeing many posts on the front page.
I think the 3-week thing is just a face-saving measure to allow Trump to back down and everyone involved will conveniently "forgets" about it in 3 weeks' time. Surely with the current breaking news cycle, will we even remember the shutdown in 3 weeks? If you don't believe me, come back to this comment in 3 weeks to see if I'm right.
Agreed. This feels like a classic causation v correlation problem.

Of course when a substitute improves, some people will switch. However, the root cause is the declining quality and lack of improvements to the system that even gives a substitute the chance to compete.

I honestly don't understand how 100 years ago nyc was able to build an expansive subway system and today it takes decades to add a new station. I know it's a combination of land costs, labor costs, corruption, regulation, underground congestion (and that the original lines were built by private companies) but I still don't really understand the situation.
Good description of the process, but...

/rant on

Sigh. Somehow it's still quite easy to screw up, intentionally or not, your boot system. But every X years the boot system is completely overhauled, so over time I learned how to deal with fdisk /mbr, lilo, grub, grub2, ntldr, bootmgr/bcd... That's a lot of info to memorize for something you would really prefer not to know, and that I honestly need somewhat rarely.
He has made a deal to not agree to the budget, but to fund the non-essential (tm) parts of the government as if one (unseen) has been agreed to...or some other sort of shenanigans.
It's certainly true that powerless people don't talk in Davos, and the globalist ideas of Soros are not a secret. Nothing more is really needed to despise him and the rest of the global elite. Speaking against China is nice, but president Trump is one of the pioneers in this category and he was hated for it (chinese money can buy a lot of media influence).
Sorry but this is bullshit.

As others have mentioned, public transit beats uber/lyft when its actually the better, faster service (e.g. London, Tokyo).

But when public transit is poorly planned, slow, dirty, crime-ridden like it often is in the US, uber/lyft wins every time. Even when cities like San Francisco choose to spend billions on improving public transit, they mess it up every single time. There's a long list of hilariously short sighted decisions made on projects like the Transbay Terminal, The Central Subway, Geary/Van Ness BRT.

My daily commute literally runs along the t-line in San Francisco, but I never take it because it's basically the same speed as walking, slower than biking, slower than uber'ing. Poor planning and management is the cause of public transit's decline.
Is it though?

Seems to me Employees are walking off jobs due to being treated like shit for so many years.

We're complaining about someone who went from being a Lifeguard to a Pizza Delivery Driver. Let's not pretend that these are the types of jobs that need to be "resigned" from and that employers are treating these people with respect and dignity.
> Decency and respect in general is a two-way street. If your boss is an asshole and the company doesn't give a single lonely shit you don't owe it "common decency".

People seem to forget that quitting with no notice also screws one's co-workers. And often times it's the "innocent" co-workers that are affected the worst. I've learned far too late in life that there is never a justification for being a jerk, especially as the unintended and unwanted side effects will reap subtle mayhem around you.
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Cool! I also use https://github.com/gilbarbara/react-inlinesvg for my react based project to accomplish a similar result
I understood and agree with all of your stated assumptions. However, I didn't follow your naive implementation. I would definitely caution against using a coordinator.
> Wrong again.

Am I? I said annual maintenance, is brake fluid changed annually? The requirements vary by manufacturer (e.g. Chevy every 45k, Honda every 3 years).

Pedantry aside...

The brake system on an Electric Vehicle will require the same or less maintenance than an equivalent Internal Combustion Engine vehicle.

And Electric Vehicle will require less maintenance overall compared to the equivalent Internal Combustion Engine vehicle.
I haven't read it. What does "The Art of the Deal" say about negotiating in a lose-lose situation?

Though giving in on the wall may actually be his best chance of being reelected (spend the next 22 months spinning a narrative that he tried and blocked by mean ole Congress)
Oh well, I can see why HN wouldn't want every passing Trump scandal to show up on the front page, but this is pretty big.
There is meaningful compartmentalization without independent distribution and development. That point was the entire basis of my comment.
Unfortunately this only exacerbates the problem as ridership declines. I know students in Boston who have literally never taken public transportation. 5 years ago this would be unheard of.
If you can group it with 2 or 3 people, ride shares become competitive with public transit, let alone the time savings of Door-to-door service.
It comes above ground quite close to the city center. There is plenty of pollution from the motorway by Frognerstrand and the massive road junction by Gamlebyen.
You sound republican downvote 100x (just kidding). And not only that, but it even makes sense because cities that dont want cars (have a population that vote locally to remove them in key areas) can do so, and cities that want them, can keep doing that.

Personally I've always felt that about our system. Income taxes should be city 20%, State 5%, country 1%. Think about how fucked up it currently is compared to that.
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It's pretty rare you end up spending 3$ for a Lyft in SF. The bus pass is also $78 (or $1.95 a ride assuming you work 20 days a month). It should be cheaper yes, but it's still much cheaper.
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Both rail and bus are heavily subsidized -- buses come nowhere close to paying for either their operating or capital expenses with fare revenue. It is probably true that if you broke down the WMATA budget and looked at the degree of subsidy per passenger mile on rail vs. bus, you'd get a higher number for rail than bus, but it's tricky to do an apples-to-apples comparison because the rail figure will include the cost of the stations, tunnels, and track, whereas the bus figure won't include the cost of the roads, but the government pays for the roads too, just not as a line item within the transit agency.

The reason to subsidize rail is that if you didn't, many people wouldn't take the train, they would drive or take the bus, and we don't have the road capacity for that. Rail is an exceptionally efficient means of moving lots of people with not very much space, and drivers and bus riders benefit from those people having been moved off of the roads in the form of reduced traffic.
It was a discussion about how sometimes upper-level engineers can be demeaning to others. I don’t remember the details, it's been many years. This was within the context of the company culture mostly prior to the Satya Nadella era.

I think we were discussing that how assholes should not be tolerated, but there are sometimes assholes up in the food chain that are far too risky to lose.
Look at his approval ratings by party. Republicans are not that upset by his actions.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra...
Great point. Coming from Switzerland, which IMO has the best public transportation across the country and in cities in the world, Uber and Lyft simply aren't nearly used as much as here exactly BECAUSE public transportation works as well. I rarely have to take an Uber inside Geneva because buses, trams and trains bring me everywhere, for a decent price (as a student), and until decent hours. So yeah, for me the blame is on the system more than on these apps.
The MBTA is also just beyond ridiculous. I work (in the Seaport) approximately 3.9 miles from my residence (Somerville). I can walk home faster than the T will take me there, and Uber/Lyft will also get me there ~4x faster than the T. Using Line/Pool and subsidized carpooling you can easily beat the $2-3 T fare. If you rely on the Commuter Rail for any step, Uber/Lyft crushes it in terms of price.