skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know why I did the math to answer your question, but I did. Please don’t upvote me, I don’t want encouragement for this behavior.

Apparently 1% of the total traffic in LAX in 2015 was for connecting flights to SFO [0]. Assuming this ratio didn’t change much in the following two year... considering LAX’s total traffic for 2017 was 84M [1] this means 840K people transferred from LAX to SFO. During 2017 3.5M people traveled from LAX to SFO.[2] This means about 24% of the traffic to SFO from LAX was for transferring flights. My numbers are clearly estimates because I couldn’t find a good record of every passenger itenary in the US which is what would be required for more the most accurate data. This also doesn’t cover passengers using SFO as a transfer station to LAX.

Interesting enough JFK to LAX has recently become the most traveled route in the US with 30K more passengers a year than LAX to SFO, which contradicts my previous statements. [2] It’s possible LAX to SFO has more total flights, if you assume shorter flights use smaller airplanes.

[0] https://www.anna.aero/2016/05/25/transfer-traffic-at-top-fou...

[1] https://www.lawa.org/-/media/lawa-web/statistics/market-shar...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_ai...
I've been thinking of taking a trip south of the border to get the teeth fixed up, turns out it isn't so good for them to not go to a dentist since '92. Talked to a few folks who've done it and they were happy with the costs and quality of work.

Since my socialized healthcare (through the VA) doesn't do even emergency dental it's starting to become a pressing issue if I want to save my teeth so why not?
> What I hope you can agree with is that if we are going to have paid maternity leave, it should be paid for by a shared pool across companies (i.e. the government).

I think only if its mandatory this makes sense. But it's not (significantly) mandatory in the us.

Company Benefits have 2 economic advantages: the first is that employees might care for the benefit more than its cost, thus having less salary for the benefit. (an example might be google's plethora of in-company benefits). The second is purely taxes: high incomes get high income taxes, which means that you get a 30%+ margin on any inefficient cost a company takes.

Paid leave is a combination of distortions. In the non-salaried world, its not even a debate: people freely choose what to do and to what degree. Think about offering paid leave benefits to small businesses and see what happens to the government coffers!
But the congressional/democrat leaders are on record from just a few years discussing the importance of border security including barriers. Now that Trump wants that, too, even the idea of doing so is considered immoral.

For a lot of people (obviously, not all, and I have no clue as to a percentage), it really has absolutely zero to do a wall or barrier, and it is completely about thwarting the president. The behavior of both parties is starting to disgust me.
I think grandparent was referring to the fact that you can tell the compiler to ignore type errors if you so choose. The TypeScript compiler is perfectly happy to compile the code in your example, if you disable strict type checking and treat type errors as warnings. On top of that, there are simple annotations you can add that let you silence warnings as they come up, e.g. `const testVar: any = {}; testVar.asdf = "asdf";`. This is not too far off from a linter with comments to disable linting when you don't want it. So yes, technically, you can just run JavaScript through a TypeScript compiler.
Never trust anyone who abbreviates a million dollars with two Ms.
That's what the --allowJs flag is for.
Was this study funded by a pro-high speed train consortium by any chance? I've become so skeptical of studies lately.

Isn't the easing of japan's housing prices due to japan population stagnation/decline and nearly 30 years of economic stagnation?

Also, didn't japan's housing prices rise dramatically in the first 25 years of their high speed rail's existence before crashing in the early 1990s?

Japan's population growth since 1990 has been pretty much 0%. California's population has increase nearly 50% since 1990.
I am in general in favor of nearly all services being based on user fees, except in cases of people who have handicaps that prevent them from otherwise functioning normally in society (physical disability, mental health issues, developmental issues, etc.) or have had a recent extraordinary event that temporarily impacted their ability to care for themselves (loss of a job, loss of a family member, birth of a child, severe illness, etc.). In cases where it is desired to subsidize services for less well off users, raise fees on more financially capable users. To achieve this, I prefer the airline model - offer a couple of classes of marginally better service at an order of magnitude higher cost. The people who truly have the means will pay it, and those who don't will not. For instance, someone with 150k income and $15k/year medical costs,$25k/year childcare costs, and $25k/year in student debt payments might not be as well off as their income suggests. The airline model allows people with means to self-select in a way that income-based taxation does not.
That's what happens when you have a huge growth team.

Thanks for posting this.

I've never signed up for Dropbox Pro but this is off-putting because their product seems pretty well rounded in most cases.
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Hello fellow SF resident. Sounds like you have much experience walking our fair streets.

Do you enjoy the strolls across our fecal matter smeared pavement, littered with heroine needles and adorned by snoozing outdoor denizens, who have been known to physically assault pedestrians from time to time?
It's annoying as hell. Dropbox deleted 50,000 files on our dropbox business account once. I had to go in an manually undelete each folder. There were hundreds of folders. Poof, suddenly gone. After that we were done, had to go through these hoops to cancel.
Badger vs. RocksDB
Top 10: JavaScript compilables
Leadsurance
Thank you for trying. We're in the post-facts era of journalism and most people just recite what supports their worldview.

I don't even support Trump, but I can't simply state facts anymore because they don't support the mainstream narrative. The emperor has no clothes.
> Pages and pages of beautifully worded, perfectly structured arguments about absolutely nothing.

I don't know Eric Elliot, but this sentence captures my perception of most "influencers" perfectly.
Why would anyone build family housing or buy it there then?

Renting sure. But purchasing house means a lot more than "this is my square". Amenities, schools, the community are all directly tied to what your house is worth and it is an investment.

If I'm putting down a million dollars on a house and you decide my local gov. elected representatives are going to be superseded on local governance I'm not going to be very happy.
I think the real solution is to use a one time use credit card number which you can deactivate if its too hard to cancel a free trial.
This is an insensitive comment in this context.
It's really interesting. They're describing the entire apparatus that's been built up to switch from ObjC to Swift and allow them to coexist using multistage compilation, and the recompilation of IR code to target newer devices (or for a few other enumerated reasons).

As someone who's been working on the platform for several years before Swift was announced and got to watch it all unfold, it's pretty incredible to see it described so succinctly. And definitely worrying as to the future direction of the work I've done.

Could you help us know any similar software development ecosystems that have been similarly patented, or anything else that might indicate how it could play out?
Read the Youtube recommendation paper (https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45530) and it will become very clear why it recommends a ton of high-engagement clickbaity content based off of a minimal set of recent watches.
Yes, that is my understanding.
Retain with pain..

The other day I tried to delete my udacity account. No button in settings, I mailed support, they asked my to mail legal (apparently they don't fwd mail..). From legal I received the following response:

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Front page of the TypeScript website:

"TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript..."

"Use existing JavaScript code, incorporate popular JavaScript libraries..."

You should be able to use --allowJs and have everything compile just fine, otherwise log a bug.
What are credit card deets?
That's an interesting point of view. I don't know an answer to this question, because I don't have access to any data on this matter. But what I've noticed is that with every "technology advance" there is a new market, which slowly within a few years(I wouldn't say a year or two) gets filled and after some time it's pretty crowded. With smartphones came mobile apps, with clouds came Saas. What's next? VR? AR? Or maybe something much simpler like a speech recognition?
Dropbox deleted my honeymoon photos on my wife's account. They also deleted my account a few months later. I wouldn't trust Dropbox with a swap file.
... or drop the quality of the current products.

aka "The Walmart Playbook".
That is not the 2PC I know. From Wikipedia: "It is a distributed algorithm that coordinates all the processes that participate in a distributed atomic transaction on whether to commit or abort (roll back) the transaction". ATMs don't do 2PC. They can't about a money transaction which already happened.

Also wiki: "two-phase commit protocol (2PC) is a type of atomic commitment protocol". That's different from deferred conflict resolution from event log.
Let the company include a bonus in the employment contract for every year that leave is not taken. Then leave-prone employees will self-select into companies (and lines of work) that don't bother to pay such a bonus (because they would lose a big chunk of it), while employers that do lose a lot of productivity from leave will make sure to offer it.
> Judging from some of the raised-by-nannies-then-prep-school people I went to college with, this sometimes has mediocre results. YMMV.

The prep-school crowd could obviously afford to delegate the most, but if you are ages 30-60, it's highly likely you were formula fed, not worn around in a sling, babysat by the TV, etc. And everyone turned out fine. There was subsequently a reaction to that modern convenience which, in my view, is the modern equivalent of foot binding.
Verizon Reverses Planned Fee on Remind.com SMS Messages
> "That keeps the system from being unfairly biased against people with no interest in having children."

In theory yes. However, if past politics as it relates to tax reg are any indication then it seems unlikely. Both marriage and children have an incentive at the federal level. Great for getting votes, but hardly fair and equal at the societal level.
The compiler can most definitely type-check that code. It's up to you whether or not you want to ignore certain types errors. Want to ignore monkey-patching related errors? Filter out all lines from tsc that include TS2339.
So how easy is it to cancel privacy.com?
Most Linux distributions have a de-facto visual design that most applications follow. Generally, if you're using GTK+, this should get applied automatically?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "not valid" but that example is absolutely valid typescript, and will compile perfectly fine.
I just finished my first talk. I had not prepared half the slides necessary the day of, nor practiced anything but the intro. I thought it would take 45 minutes but I went over to 1hr30mins. Only 10 mins of that went into livecoding, which I rehearsed a dozen times.

I had one part where I intended to livecode a hello world app for threeJS. The whole code was printed in my hand, so I read it through and typed it out. 3 minutes later, it didn't compile and I could tell my audience was getting bored, so I bailed and showed the end result.

At the end of it, I was told it was one of the better talks given at my local meetups and it was more like 3 talks in one. So that was a huge compliment. I didn't catch anyone falling asleep or leaving either, so that's a good sign. I kept it engaging by asking a question every 10-15minutes to test if my audience knew anything about the topic, at the 20% 40% 60% 80% and 100% points of the talk. I tried to tailor analogies based off things my audience would know, or the responses I got during q/a.

This past weekend I went to a google cloud conference and watched a dozen presentations. Some were good and informative, others way too slow-paced and/or hard to read on screen. Quality varied greatly. None of the presenters asked questions during talk. I feel like there was a missed oppurtunity here

I personally think the 80/20 rule applies here - 80% slides, 20% livecoding + asking questions to the audience. It's boring listening to one person talk the entire time, no matter how engaging they might be. The best presenters takes feedback from the audience straight into code. Those are always fun.

As a side note, the livecoding should really happen somewhere halfway during the presentation. Ideally, everything should be recorded on video anyhow as a backup.

I think it's also important to know your environment as well. I have a natural tendency to want to walk around if possible while presenting, because standing still is boring for the audience. Sometimes, the projector is incredibly hard to read due to poor lightning as well. So it's important to consider what color your slides are going to be. Font sizes, transitions, content per slide, opacity for highlighted code sections, etc should also be considered. Pure black backgrounds aren't that great, personally a linear-gradient darkgrey is more inviting. Important transition points should use a different slide color.

Lastly, bringing tools with you the day of talk. Laser pointer, extension pole, pointing to the slides, your phone + notes linked to slides.com, hardware for recording, tripod, lapel mic, camera, backup chargers, a mouse, downloaded slide assets for offline viewing, ready to show-code on vscode, memorized shortcut keys and/or extensions to show what keys are pressed, printed notes, etc. There's a surprisingly huge checklist of items you should have available as a presenter, at least if you treat it seriously.

I wrote a post about my first talk and things I wish I did right. https://vincentntang.com/things-wish-knew-first-tech-talk/
Deets is just a shorthand for details.
Amazon is the same. I just cancelled Prime yesterday. It took me four or five confirmations that yes, I want to lose the benefits.

The buttons were jumping around. Sometimes the left one was for cancelling, sometimes the right one, sometimes it was a few centimeters lower.

I love my Kindle, but without that my Amazon account itself would be in real danger.
The issue of contention was whether or not understaffing of fact checking departments is the cause of diminished trust in the news industry. I think I've refuted that hypothesis; we've got a newspaper famed for their fact checking department that has taken a hit to their credibility more severe than most other publications.
YouTube keeps showing me videos I have already seen, while not sending notifications for videos on channels I'm subscribed to (yes, with the bell!). In order to find videos from people I am subscribed to, I have to go to their Twitter/Discord/Minds so that I don't miss out on at least one video per day, it's nuts.
Can the exercises in the fast.ai deep learning course be done in another language other than python? And how much time in weeks should it take to complete the course? If my laptop doesn't have a GPU, can I still do all exercises?
> He didn't want us to use Macs the way we do either. The Mac's spiritual predecessor, the Lisa…

Steve was forced out of the Lisa group more than 2 years before the Lisa shipped, so it's a stretch to infer a "no third-party applications" intent on Steve's part based on that.

Also, Lisa Workshop allowed for third-party application development and shipped alongside Lisa Office System (IIRC). Are you saying that it was possible to develop applications for the Lisa but not run them? (I honestly don't know, but that seems unlikely.)

> Steve had a fondness for completely circumscribed ecosystems and "computers as appliances"…

You may be thinking of Jef Raskin, who originally envisioned Macintosh as a "computer appliance". Steve's vision for Macintosh was much different than Jef's, and Apple actively courted third-party developers during its development.
Until the next cost-reduction tech scales up, and so on, and so on...
Your argument is disingenuous. Homelessness is a different issue and should be dealt with separately.
This was very similar to my experience when cancelling my Amazon Prime account a week ago. It was at least five pages of trying to talk me out of it and the 'continue cancelling' was similarly the more obscure/non-obvious button.

It makes it feel like a very shady process without being outright deceptive.
They make you subscribe (vs purchasing just a single meal), which is very annoying and the reason I don't use them, but I've found them very easy to cancel. You just click a button online. And even better, they then send you a $60 coupon to rejoin a month later.
Throw away the numbers. Base your intake on frequency and color of urine, with the emphasis on urine color.

Try to achieve a pale, almost colorless urine.
Disagree, MM is the classy way to do it. M can either mean 1,000 or 1,000,000. For example, millimeter, or in advertising CPM, which is cost per mille. Using MM disambiguates it.
Remember that this is not cancelling, and some companies can and will sell your bad debt to collection agencies.

You don't get out of contracts just by ghosting on them.
Hmm, that's an earlier story from the same site announcing that the documents are expected to be released, whereas this link is about what the released documents actually revealed. They are related links, but not quite the same.
I don't think it unreasonable that you are the one who has to make the case how that would work in this discussion. Because I see very little evidence, in the US or even in the rest of the world, that it would be realistic to expect that to happen. If anything high prices is often a result of going the other way (by e.g. favorable tax rules).
That Ø[0], though...

[0] - https://i.imgur.com/CI7Ynx6.gifv
If you're reducing terms to meaninglessness yes, "everyone's police."

The thinkers analyze the role police play in modern society. This refers to modern police forces that have their most direct roots in the late 18th century.
The solar industry is evolving fast enough that most dormant capacity left behind by bankrupt smaller producers probably isn't worth reactivating even if module prices rebound. These producers don't just have smaller annual capacities. They also have less sophisticated quality control, less automation, and older, slower generations of the automated tools they do have.

Module assembly is simple enough that some of those lines could be reactivated in response to demand, but module assembly has always been the easiest part. Smaller wafer and cell manufacturers that go bust probably won't see their equipment resurrected anywhere. Newer capacity from the likes of JinkoSolar, LONGi, and GCL yields more wafers per ingot and more efficient cells from wafers, more consistently, at lower costs.
I must apologize for my lack of clarity. The intent of my statement was to say that "Cars should pay for..." and "Public transit users should pay for", not to imply that the users of these services cover their costs now. Cars are obviously subsidized by general tax revenue, and public transit is also subsidized by general tax revenue. Ideally general taxes would be reduced by the amount spent on these services, and the costs for these services would be increased accordingly.
What that before he was knighted? A knight bachelor wouldn't normally abbreviate their first name.
This whole idea of storing a payment token that a company can charge at will (as opposed to a fixed top-up with cash) and then for me to be unable to deny those charges, I find it all unacceptable and refuse to allow it ever.

After providing such a payment token there should be no proof and dispute involved, just a single click in a web interface "I refuse to pay for that and I revoke the token". The user of the token should make sure I am happy so he can continue to charge the token.

This is in sharp contrast with user initiated payments for a fixed amount, that should be carefully secured, require strong authentication and should almost never be reversible, unless actual fraud can be proven by the payer.

The problem with cards on the internet and their high abuse and chargeback rates, for which we all pay, is that they conflate these fundamentally different use cases into a single set of static numbers.
Our World in Data Is at Y Combinator
just wait till you get closer to the end date of your sub. They will start harassing you on every page load of every product you look at.
When I mark a video as "Not interested" I get a link to "tell us why", where "I've already watched the video" is an option.
When I'm programming, gaming I mostly listen to retrosynth and outrun.

For that youtube is great because it's autoplay just seamlessly plays one after another.

For everything else it's recommendations are hilariously bad.
Yes, of course - very obvious findings. People in my home town in Italy (Reggio Emilia) can now commute with Milan every day (50 minutes). Something that was not possible before the high-speed train station in Reggio Emilia. I sincerely do not understand why people in California is not running to build this infrastructure as fast as they can!