skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess these work better in china which is a more dense country without the driving culture the US at least has. A car that goes 28mph with a limited range is basically a scooter.
Not to mention that even those who support improving infrastructure have to receive a pet project (aka a bridge to nowhere) as part of the transaction.

It's also obviously clear that at least one person in the US government doesn't like the current state of our infrastructure and would love to do something about it.
The second avenue subway extension costs $2.1 billion dollars per mile to build.[1]

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/rail-transit-projects-costs-279879...
Conway's law:

> "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

Perhaps that extends to society at large, too. We're still living down IBM's strawman product of the PC. Everything is legacy and ossificed. Newer open source stuff, the other half of our commons, is often fad driven and also doesn't seek to improve/replace the garbage beneath it. Unix is still lauded in these parts, but it's also long out of date.

Sometimes I think of old school networking to SDNs. A lot of stuff today in programs and in real life seems overly uncoordinated or narrow-minded. It's all the downsides of distribution systems without the benefits (not autonomous or resilient). Perhaps judicious optional centralization (aquaponics + healthcare co-opt?) Is a path forward?

In the virtual realm, Nixpkgs as a "Domesday Book" (first census in a while) of the whole realm of software in the commons (how to build, compose, and develop each piece) strikes me as another example.
Quite possibly, yes - or otherwise related to the non-unique mapping from address to Eircode.

The other way round should always work though, i.e., if you give Google Maps the Eircode then it should put the location marker in exactly the right place every time.
> We would be very happy to redo insulation and building beams if it was possible to co-finance it which public/city money.

Hey, I'd be happy to accept public money to fix my own house as well. But frankly, I bought it cheaper since it had those problems so I don't see how that would be fair to my fellow taxpayers.
Seems like a huge risk though. Is it worth saving yourself from a few refunds if you substantially increase your target surface?

I see the neee to proove shippment though. But surely giving out the tracking number to the receiver is unneccessary. Any of his customer could find out where he ships from, not just leo
Had to share, it weighed me down for too long.
If you ever feel angry, irritable, sad, apathetic, restless, tired or any way other than perfectly fine, positive and happy, then you're suffering from depression.

Go to your nearest psychiatrist to be assured that you're a victim, that your brain is broken and there's nothing that you can do, and that the only path to feeling "normal" is becoming dependent on a high-priced drug cocktail that will alter your brain chemistry.

This message was most certainly not brought to you by the pharmaceutical industry.
Downvoted for saying, as I understand it, half the American population is enjoying some trillions at the cost of the other. I don't know what this 'us vs them' mentality is in America with your two political parties system, but I doubt you're correct and I'd rather see less of it.
And our insanely expensive higher education system. And the total absence of civil protections against surveillance-based capitalism. And the lack of oversight on speculator-driven excess in the mortgage industry and stock markets.

It's death by a thousand tax cuts.
Cloudflare, maybe?
> If a company is a public company, it can't help BUT be evil...[this arises from the] duty to generate as much money as possible for their shareholders.

That's clearly a very undesirable result. I do hold out hope that one day either alternative ownership styles (e.g. mutuals or cooperatives) or reform that gives other stakeholders a seats in corporate boards will mitigate the problem.
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How do you propose the CEO of a Fortune 500 company should get to his meetings with his team? On a bus?

Ban cars and you make NY terrible for business. And if you haven't noticed, Manhattan exists for business. Everything else is either necessary for that goal or an unintended consequence.
Severe depression isn't the only type of depression. Like most mental illness there are degrees to which people are affected.

So yes, while people with short tempers might not be depressed, depressed people might have short tempers; which is exactly what the article is espousing.
My current address has no street name, just a house name and village name. Technically, there is a street name, but no-one uses it because it's the main street through the village.

I really don't see it as a problem: the local postman knows every house, and these days with GPS the postal code gets delivery drivers within a few yards without a problem. In fact, a post code and flat/house number or name is technically enough to identify any property.
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You mean all those densely populated cities of 5m+ people that china has?
Yes you end up with such amazing privatized infrastructure wonders like Comcast.

Privatization isn’t a magic bullet.
Wait you mean companies should pay for training? That's unpossible. I thought training on high level systems just happened by unemployed people taking free Youtube courses or paying for their own training. Why are we asking so much from companies. It's bad enough we only give them massive tax breaks but now we want them to train people? What's next paying them well for experience? /s
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You can disallow it in about:config:

media.autoplay.allow-muted false

…and even disable GIF animations:

image.animation_mode normal

…but if these became the default, people would come with arcane ways to bypass it.
Probably would benefit from some sort of subtle grid indicator, since counting squares/positions is central to solving the puzzles.
There will be an NHTSA approved road legal version, per Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/auto/new-half-ton-electric-pickup-co...
Stanford Neuroscientists May Revolutionize Pain Management
This literally every day... and I live on the 30th floor
With a 450 kg load capacity, but yes.
TCP per se doesn't allow for situations where if I know that packet A with an update U1 to a structure S hasn't yet reached the destination - then I would like to automatically discard A with U1 and send a packet B with update U2.

Essentially the issue with TCP is that it's based on queues, rather than having a callback that could simply poll the applicatio:n "hey - I couldn't yet send that data - do you have an update so that I could retry with the fresh one?"
> At this time, we’re also working on blocking autoplay for Web Audio content, but have not yet finalized our implementation. We expect to ship with autoplay Web Audio content blocking enabled by default sometime in 2019. We’ll let you know!

So you can auto-play a video, muted, and auto-play audio separately? Well that seems like a trivial work-around.
Until now, the variants where #rrggbb and #rgb, so the extension to alpha is parallel: #rrggbbaa, #rgba. I personally like that extension, so you can just add an alpha component to a color without transforming it to a different form first. It's also relevant to people using automated systems, since those automatically can choose the most compact representation of a color possible in their output.

> This is a spec going through draft-review-deployment so we can type 3 less characters?

The key phrase above is is part of, it's one of the smaller aspects of the spec.
Is it, though? Do you have first hand knowledge of this? Every time I try to look at things on "the dark web", I read through hidden wiki, see a few completely empty forums, laugh, then turn tor back off.
"I don't want autoplaying video" -> "I only want text"

Quite the jump in logic
I started reading this this week and, although he's wrong on several things, the author does make some good points. The TL;DR is that hydrocarbons have raised the world's standard of living enormously and to reduce their use now would send us backwards in many areas, not only transportation but also food production, healthcare, and leisure.

Has anyone else here on HN seen this book? Your thoughts?
All chinese subways are in large densely populated cities.
Fine as long you'll be able to cover extra bandwidth cost - and it would be easier to distinguish this from valid parts of page and block it.
Exactly, this is something to use within a single city it seems. In the Netherlands, people use their bicycle for that.
Yeah, I'd like to buy them at the price they sell it in China: $2,500.
> more recently developed countries

Yes, like China.
Citadel does as you say specifically for secure communication between services (i.e., mTLS).
I suppose the advantage is you might not be required to have a drivers license or insurance since the vehicle might be classified like a electric scooter or something. Sort of like driving a golf cart around.

I'm really surprised the Japanese mini-trucks havn't taken off in the USA. They would be great for busy city streets where parking and space could be problematic. They also don't cost very much (used 5k USD).
640x480 is tiny compared to a modern phone...
I wouldn't say unblockable.
Maybe temporarily disabled Ublock next time you notice the behavior and test? My experience has been positive when submitting bug reports for Firefox.
I am already disappointed in post-Guido Python. Although the walrus operator makes enough sense to me, it doesn’t solve anything that I consider a problem so I can’t reason that it was worth going against so much pushback.
It basically automatically issues certificates to pods so they can use mTLS seamlessly when they communicate with each other. More of authentication/authorization piece.
With Linux there is a legal way to get hold of those contributions, to anyone willing to invest time and money into it.

Yes, they have contributed back and I referred that in another thread, just not what they were supposed to under a copyleft license.
Why wouldn't you be financially responsible for your own property? This doesn't make sense.
I stopped around the graph ("No so called “web framework” for Node.js, whether Fastify or not, can surpass the red line").

It didn't seem to point to some novel work, just to be some kind of piss take on Node.
I also felt that the article made European transport systems appear better than they really are in order to make a point. That being said it is true that the metro keeps expanding (they're currently expanding the line 14 towards the north, hopefully in order to take some of the load of the extremely overcrowded line 13) and they've also extended one tramway line recently. On top of that public transportation in Paris is heavily subsidized and pretty cheap, a lot cheaper than London for instance.

On the other hand it's true that many Parisian stations are simply disgusting and could urgently use a renovation. Given how hugely touristic Paris is it's quite shameful really.
It's not really possible to not know that you are dealing with a runaway stabilizer. MCAS (and every other automatic system to adjust trim) causes large physical wheels at the side of the pilot's knee to spin.
"The public infrastructure is terrible! Why should our taxes go towards this awful system?"

Rinse, repeat. There are politicians pushing this in the UK (most notably with the NHS) - starve [public institution] of cash, make it worse, bring in private companies to plug the gaps and provide a pathway to privatise the whole system. Everybody wins! /s
Much like Europe, it really depends on the airport.

New York City has some of the worst (and oldest) airports in the nation. And yet, if you fly into neighboring Newark it's fairly nice and has great integration with the train system.

What's strange about America is you see this phenomenon where the richest cities have the worst infrastructure. As a foreigner, you may think that New York would be this shining beacon on a hill given its wealth. But, nope, the infrastructure is old, grimey and gross. Meanwhile, the facilities in smaller second-tier cities are quite nice.
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Exciting times in Lisp land ! This is not only super useful, it's also amazing how it was built: it is a fresh Weblocks app, the venerable CL web framework, that abstracts the need of writing any JS. It's a server-based, components-based framework to build dynamic, ajax-based web apps, without a line of JS. This coupled to the interactive nature of development in Lisp makes a pretty unmatched experience. (http://40ants.com/weblocks/quickstart.html)
This certainly agrees with my experience. I've had a number of cases in the past where I'm feeling low/depressed at work and tend to get more frustrated, e.g. annoyed with some policy or some design decision or some detail about the code that I'm working with. It's a bit counterintuitive that sadness and lowness would do that, but it seems to be a pretty clear pattern.

After a number of cases of expressing that frustration and regretting it later, I've set a rule for myself that I should mostly keep my mouth shut if I'm feeling depressed. If I do want to follow up, I should just write down my thoughts and talk through the issue later when I'm feeling better. Fortunately I'm pretty good these days about being aware of when I'm feeling depressed.
My personal opinion is that `list_` is among the worst possible variable names (together with `bar` and `foo`). It's non-descriptive, ugly, hard to recognize, looks scary to beginners and maybe worst of all it's easy to forget the underscore when typing.
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The "decades newer" argument is mentioned in the article. I don't know if it's true or false, but please read at least the article before responding with a common argument (additionally, someone else already mentioned it in another top level comment).
For users. See all of the responses about gifs and bandwidth. I hate autoplay video but don’t want to sacrifice gifs to block it.
Reading between the lines, I took this as a comment pointing out the large difference between military and non-military spending.
Drivers aren't trained to follow checklists and usually don't have dozens of seconds to respond to mechanical emergencies. Cars also don't fall out of the sky if they break down. It's not a great metaphor.
It has to do with trust, can't trust a public servant now to act in the interest of the public or educate themselves on the best course of action. It seems they will find a way to enrich themselves.
I hate public transp. I would rather be stuck in a traffic jam.

I have to get on and off in a packed subway during rush hour so many times that at the end of my journey I am so exhausted and sick.

I also get less sick when I travel by car.
In 4 years?

Everywhere.
Got lost in the edit. Doh. Added now. Thanks!
Money spent on defense could instead be spent on infrastructure. Seems pretty straightforward.
What do the values mean?
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Actually, tons of people want it. I'd prefer not to have to explain to all of my customers why their "hero" videos aren't working anymore only for them to get pissed off when I tell them there is nothing I can do about it.
I don't know why anyone would do that if you already know that that's going to be blocked in a short while as well.
Didn't you know that French protesters have been chanting "We want Trump"?
Ha, I have no idea on how to make that happen. But what will happen is that the city will slap a motion on the door of the building in the coming years, and we'll be forced to sell for as cheap as possible to city directly or some cheap promotor.

Which is kinda lame because giving 250K would be cheaper than buying 1M worth of land to demolish a building and build a 3M building on top of it.
I would never use one of those sites. They can collect as much info as they would like, then sell the company with the info and there is nothing you can do.

From their website:

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> Nobody wants it.

While I agree with this for 99% of sites, there are some sites like dubtrack.fm (successor to turntable.fm and plug.dj) where you expect to hear music right away. But I understand these music sites are in the very small minority.
True ... Also depression often causes sleep problems resulting in tiredness.
I'll second this. I put myself in a downward spiral from bad sleep and being dependent on caffeine. I'm now aware of how I "feel" when I'm just really tired.
In the U.S., Facebook is allowed to lie, and to propagate lies of others. On what basis is Facebook required to be any different than the National Enquirer? The limitation is defamation, but in a political context defamation doesn't apply.

Mozilla's letter is to the European Commission, and as such I recognize different laws between the U.S. and E.U. are relevant.

However, the most simple test for double standard is to flip the narrative around: imagine a truth that makes many people angry to hear, and imagine that unpopular truth being put into an ad, and imagine the people arguing for ad targeting methods to be revealed are people who want to protect people from truth in order to allow them to keep on believing lies.

I appreciate the importance of developing tools to fight disinformation campaigns. But on what basis can any person or company be compelled to reveal their advertising methodology? What is public interest in a political ad campaign context where literally everyone involved is claiming moral high ground?

I think regulating speech is a trap, and people need to consider the double standard. What happens when your truth becomes difficult or impossible to disseminate, because it makes most people angry to hear? You really think all angry people need their emotional state coddled? Why protect them from becoming angry? This is why we need to do better in school teaching coping skills, and critical thinking.
The "decades newer" argument is mentioned in the article. I don't know if it's true or false, but please read at least the article before responding with a common argument.
American law enforcement is populated with many people who want the violent intensity of real-life Call of Duty without the risk and sacrifice of joining the Marines. Storming counterfeiters with Bin Laden-level firepower is their way of doing this.
New York reminded me most of Egypt. The airport, hotels and buildings all seemed to be from another time. Occasionally you'd walk past something amazing which had been well kept - Grand Central station in NYC or some of the beautiful dutch-style buildings in Harlem. Or the big museum in Cairo.

Cities like Paris or London on the other hand seem to be more modern inside but on the outside they're covered in a layer of filth that I haven't seen in the US. I guess that's what you get for having so many diesel vehicles driving around (and is why the transition to EVs is so important).
The article is not accurate.
The article is about this change[0], which is simply clarifying that DoubleClick isn't the only data source and linking to the new control panel where the opt-in/out settings UI is (there was no link before).
The policy document change is an improvement, and isn't a change in privacy. If too don't like the new policy (up to you), then logically you didn't like the old policy either.

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/archive/20160325-201...
Giving other people a to default disable a thing does not force you to do it, too. Giving different people options about how they want to experience the Web would be the entire point.
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I used to believe these lies until I actually bothered to take a look at the federal budget: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/budget-function.html

Could we spend less on military? Oh for sure, but the idea that we spend more on military than anything else is absolute bullshit.