skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Moscow subway is quite beautiful as well. My grandparents were shocked when I took them into the NY subway for the first time. I guess they were expecting something like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=moscow+subway&tbm=isch
> with much smaller and more recently developed countries.

I'll give you that European countries are smaller, though in this case I don't see the relevance (talking about trains, sure, talking about major AIRPORTS - doesn't hold), but I don't see "more recently developed". Europe covers a range, sure, but a good chunk of it has been developed at the same general pace as North American countries.

> It’s not that we don’t have things that need fixed and maintained, but the hyperventilating about it is overdone at this point.

Until I actually see anything changing, I can't agree. I don't particular advocate "hyperventilating", but I just watched the country (within the past decade or so) twice pass major tax cuts and move through a period of extremely cheap borrowing and not invest in known infrastructure maintenance needs. We're not even breaking even on the issue.
Assuming a product person ( e.g Steve Jobs ) is easily Angry and Irritable with crap ( Which there are lots of it ), would that considered as depressed? Where do we draw a line where some body just have very high standard to everything ( Perfectionist ) or they actually have bipolar disorder.
I am so far willing to give up some small amount of privacy for free email, though I'd also pay Google for it because it is simply the best email hosting I could find. I don't want to host my own email, hosting email sucks. I've tried other email hosters and they just weren't as good. They also have security in place that takes care of all the big things in my threat model.

So when it comes to email... yeah, it's not as private as it could be, but it's about the best I can find for everything else. It ain't perfect, but it's the best option for me right now. Maybe it won't be in a year or two?
Recently I was in NYC going to the Met Cloisters museum, and I had to take a subway line that I had never been on previously for whatever reason.

The car I ended up stepping in, I recognized as being the same model used on Seinfeld in 1992, with the old orange seats.
> If you can learn something via other means, meeting new people becomes the most important part of a conference. But meeting new people at a conference isn’t a given for all of us.

This should have been front and centre. The author's goal at conferences is to meet people - to be able to prowl through a crowd, pick out people who seem interesting, approach them, and be easily able to start a conversation with them.

He has designed a badge to support that - where everyone is required to display a large name and some credentials at all times. He has not designed a badge to support any other use cases. Whether this badge design works for you or your conference will depend on what your use cases are.
> It is another tool to justify police action

"We were following the AI leads" is the perfect excuse for parallel construction[1] (evidence laundering).

If Rekognition supports limiting the search to the people in a specific town (or other small group), it might be possible to force someone to be somewhere on the list of matches. That would give bad actors the perfect tool for manufacturing "probable cause".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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Are these road-legal in the west? If the off-road farm and construction-site applications are the only use-cases, that would seem to rather limit the impact on the market.
Fundamentally, it’s about programmable application networking. Like, make my network change the protocol, or data, or re-route the flow the way I want, without having to change underlying network wiring, equipment, or router config.

It does this by using little out-of-process agents (Envoy) to sit next to your application as a sidecar. All application network flows go through the sidecars (which are localhost).

Istio is the config engine for all these sidecars, and for the overall gateway to your clusters. They call this a service mesh.

Istio in theory has little to do with Kubernetes or Mesos, except that it intitially assumed everyone will be running apps in Kubernetes (because Istio is from google). But It is designed to be independent of k8s as it can run with Mesos or Cloud Foundry.

Some example use cases:

1. Configuring (mutual) TLS for apps so each app doesn’t have to. This is huge, as keypair handling is a major point of risk and annoyance.

2. Auto-renewing/installing (mutual) TLS certificates across an entire set of apps

3. Intercepting and re-routing network flows for A/B testing , traffic shedding, or failure tolerance (circuit breaking)

4. Global load balancing with more ability to tweak the algorithm (beyond just DNS)

5. Tracing / visibility of application network flows across a WAN for debugging

Is it necessary? No. Is it useful? Yeah, it can be.
I have to agree here. Was in Paris last February and "underwhelming" was exactly the word that came to mind. I've been on the mass transit systems in most of the major metro areas in the US, and have been fortunate enough to ride on a handful in Europe. If one system stands out to me, I'd have to say the underground in London.
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Yeah I'm also not a big fan of the French metro, and as a Dutchman living in Germany I can say that the German also leaves quite something to be desired. I can't imagine what the American system must look like if it's made out like that.

Anyone here who lived in the Netherlands as well as the USA to compare?
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Because it's not that easy. I don't have 20K (or more) on hand to fix a building which went trough 150 years of life and lack of maintenance.
Can you explain how servers and bandwidth that handle ads on ad network side would be unaffected by serving bigger loads?

If we are talking about society energy usage it would be ideal to ban ads/adtech entirely.
these seem great to replace scooters in european cities.
I've switched all of my mobile browsing to Firefox with ublock origin. I've got the "annoyance" filters enabled. It's a game changer.
Structure is a huge part. Local projects (infrastructure being a common one) used to get a lot of funding via earmarks.

Say you have a senator who's constituents don't care one way or the other about your bill but their party affiliation requires them to vote against your bill. You toss them an earmark that they can use to say "look at how I've helped you" to his constituents next election with the understanding that he'll break from his party's default position on your bill.
These will go (in Europe) in the same range of so-called tiny-cars (quadricycles), discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18061897
Do you know if they actually make a profit on a $1000 or $9000 price, or they're just dumping their products on the market, like they did for solar panels?
Still, there is a point: even if we could easily see the design elements from Netscape 4 on a modern smartphone they'd be hard to hit consistently.

So that is not what I argue above. In my post above I argue against the dumbification of desktop apps and websites. Things that were working until UX designers came up with the idea that people are to dumb.
I hate these comparisons. What's the marginal benefit to New York for gutting its public transit system to build one as nice as Bangkok? What's the marginal benefit to Chicago of gutting O'Hare to build a new airport comparable to Beijing's?

Answer: not a lot.

On the other hand, Shenzhen needed to build a new airport relatively recently to accommodate their rapid economic growth. So, they were able to tap all of the new design and building techniques that have been learned in the 70 years since the United States went through its airport boom. And the fact of the matter is capacity and necessity are what should drive the creation and updating of airports--not some inferiority complex about some other city's being nicer.
I've known many people who have Jobsian tendencies. They don't have depression, just a low tolerance for bullshit.
Americans pay a lot into public infrastructure, but we just get much less for our dollar. (An insane 10x less when talking about urban rail.)

I don't think the American voter is what is broken here. People still believe in infrastructure projects. It's the public sector that has shown they can't be trusted to complete any worthwhile project for a reasonable amount of resources.

The quintessential example of this is urban rail, which is ridiculously expensive in America:

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/05/16/us-rail-constr...
Safari has this feature and keeps a list of websites where autoplay is "whitelisted".
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I'd technically be in the demographic for this. I have a less than 10 mile commute.

However, that 28 MpH maximum speed is a legitimate limitation/problem, even on my under 10 mile commute, there's at least two roads that are 40 MpH (people drive 45 MpH), and I'm going to get honked at if I can barely maintain 28 MpH.

I like the price and concept... But that max speed is a deal breaker. It will be interesting to see what cost a freeway model is.
I don’t see it as backwards.

Autoplay video is like if the waiter just starts shaving parmesan on your salad. If you didn’t want it, you now have to pick the shavings off. Annoying.

Nonautoplay video is like the waiter asking “would you like cheese?” “Yes” “Ok” and they commence shaving it.

I don’t see why we should all have to pick cheese out of our salads because some people are too lazy to have a 3 second interaction to get what they want.
US states and major metropolitan areas are the comparable entities to the countries and cities mentioned in the article, and those have significantly worse infrastructure than their counterparts in Europe and Asia.

Western european countries and cities industrialized even before US states and cities. They just had very different development priorities, that were formed partly around their historical pre-automobile population density.

But it turns out that the US model (low density sprawl) has a much higher per capita long-term maintenance and replacement cost. In many cases, that cost outstrips the infrastructure's productivity in the long term.

For more background on this:

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/

Of course the US has plenty of neglected infrastructure in high density areas, too. That's a complex subject, having to do with decades of urban disinvestment.
Unfortunately, this never actually got built. (The video is dated 2014 and is entirely CG).

My company is currently performing a very similar mission using an unmanned platform:

http://www.saildrone.com/antarctica
"We use participants’ pre-experiment and post-experiment Facebook valuations to quantify the extent to which factors such as projection bias might cause people to overvalue Facebook, finding that the magnitude of any such biases is likely minor relative to the large consumer surplus that Facebook generates."

What is "consumer surplus"? By this do the authors mean the total benefit to FB users?
... until clicking the play button.
Yeah I would group the catholic church in with that. What they teach isn't really scripture but rather loosely inspired by it.
>Politics and corruption can't explain 5-10x more expensive costs.

Corruption can explain any increase in cost, if your hands are in the money purse you can steal as much as you want.
Because in your world the only way to help people with depression are anti-depressants? Unlike the real world where people have various options (e.g. psychotherapy)?
The line between personality traits and mental disorder is usually drawn at "does this have a significant negative impact on the person's functioning?"
> not just throw a random non-sequitur back.

(I would respond to other posts, but Hackernews mutes users for 2 hours after getting downvotes. They believe this is a helpful system, even though responses often shed light on perspectives and the poster's actual intent, flipping the direction of how people perceive a thread)

Sure lets dissect that

I responded to a non-sequitur, I originally said the Dark Web is an educational place, and it is likely where the person learned how to make the high quality counterfeits. A coherent response to the article. Better hacking techniques are discussed on at least one website that is only accessible on that form of the internet.

I said it was educational, because you can read about the latest techniques. Only criminal actions make a criminal, which the dark web does not do. So to reply as if it does is a non sequitur.

I am also aware of an antiquated use of the word hacker that some people on this site want to defend and disassociate with unauthorized entry into system, even when that antiquated use isn't mutually exclusive from the colloquial direction that word went 30 years ago. There is a time and place for semantics, and there is no improvement to the conversation for that place to be here and now.
Whoever the jury decides.
Could also be too much coffee.
Related: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rising-co2-levels-might-...
Nah I think if it came down to a choice between facebook or porn that might actually be the thing that killed facebook.
> just a low tolerance for bullshit.

How about "just a low tolerance for what they perceive as bullshit"?

It seems many such people perceive things like manners, respect for other people, and anything that doesn't push their personal current priority as "bullshit".
Tired can be a consequence of depressed, or many other things, so this could be an indirect (even cyclical) reaction.

I'm a tad bipolar. When I have an angry manic the cause is direct, but when I have a "happy manic" that lasts for an appreciable time angry is soon to follow too, I think mainly because I can't sleep well in that state. When I'm down I sleep, in fact sometimes practically hibernate, but it often isn't useful/refreshing sleep so again anger comes from that.
Pretty sure it's still UFS+J. They've mentioned in the past that the benefits of ZFS don't really apply to the CDN boxes: if a drive dies, it's simply removed from the local cache, and files are re-downloaded/redistributed as necessary across the remaining cache drives the next time the appliance refreshes from its upstream origin. Additionally, ZFS prefetching was actually less performant in some cases from what I remember -- or at least providing no benefit -- because of how it couldn't really anticipate the I/O patterns of video segment requests from users.

Additional reference:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077594 ("…but caching is futile.")

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4
It's 'strange' because the richest cities were generally also the richest 100 years ago. That meant they were the first to be able to afford it, and used the technologies available at the time. And it's simply not worth the cost of gutting a perfectly functional piece of infrastructure because you're jealous that someone else's is nicer.
Someone has listed them here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1238033
> all the busy works laws and regulations that quadruple the cost of any project

I want proof of that. I would argue that a larger problem is that politics is too involved in the actual approval process, which is corruption. A great example would be when a local city council needs to approve an apartment complex, and a bunch of homeowners come and complain because their home prices might go down.

I would argue that this occurs on any number of projects, and is probably a primary concern. If it is a complaint about environmental regulations, well, environmental regulations should get top priority at this point.

> It's all about profit, preferably short term, than making something lasting, and even less so, about being proud in it.

My sense is that we are culturally pushed towards being ostentatious about the wealth that we own. A bigger house, a nicer car, that trip to some other nation - all wasteful carbon-wise, but that's the point. The whole system is exploitative of people and environment and we are pushed to participate, and escaping that is difficult because we've built out so much infrastructure around those ideas.
> I'm really surprised the Japanese mini-trucks havn't taken off in the USA.

There was a small boom for importing them to use as farm trucks, but you can't import them until they are 25 years old if you want to drive them on the road. Most other countries have less restrictive import requirements, so they tend to go to those countries first. Not many left by the time they get to 25 years old.
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throwaway2048 was asking about a built-in, default whitelist. The user can change this setting per-domain to make their own whitelist.
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So are they protected or not?
A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty
A lot of creative and successful ideas come from people of borderline/questionable mental health. That may the be reason these conditions exist in the gene pool: somebody has to ruffle feathers every now and then to keep societies from becoming stale. However, the journey may not always be pleasant.
True, I wonder if they are even included in the statistics?
I've noticed that a lot of people want to attribute the public works shortcomings to a lack of funding.

As someone who currently works for a local government organization that manages public transportation for the region I'm not sure that's the case.

I think the author correctly recognizes it as America's problem with "cost disease'". The organization I work for receives billions of dollars yearly and most of it is pissed away.

Our websites, for example, often get built by consultants. Sometimes to the tune of millions of dollars. These websites are usually your typical CRUD apps too so you might think they'd be done well for millions of dollars. Nope, they usually have garbage for a code base. The code is so garbage that we usually have to keep paying them to maintain the websites because we don't understand how their mess works.

The worst part is that these websites are often rebuilt a few years later. They're built again, by another consultant, with the hopes that they'll better suit our future needs.

This is just the massive waste of money that I've noticed from within my department. I can only imagine how bad it is within others.

We all know that large corporations are far less efficient than smaller companies. So why do we keep letting public organizations turn into bloated behemoths?
Or they may just be jerks...
Will we ever get to the point where we can talk about "serverless" (FaaS) without half the comments being about the term?
I believe you should consume (read / watch / hear) information exactly the way as the author wanted you to consume it.

Why don't you complain to the authors of such sites? Or stop visiting them? You want a higher institution to forbid something for everybody (even though it can be appropriate in many cases), but why do you keep visiting it and don't look for a better website?
It's not really awful, especially when you compare it to something like ed, edlin, or edt...
At that price point I'd enthusiastically recommend a three year old Nissan Leaf; that's about what I paid and it's served me well.
There are loads of these kinds of vehicles in The Netherlands, both petrol and electric. They can be driven by 16-year-olds on both roads and cycle paths. There is no requirement for a driving license either so you see lots of seniors and disabled people use them.

They fill an important gap although I personally believe that electric bikes are a far better match particularly for the 16 year old kids who drive those things around.

Basically I'd feel much safer driving in the UK if Prince Philip was behind the wheel of one of these instead of the mobile tank that he drives ;)
These are literally golf carts. Exact same usage as a golf cart.
That's how I discovered my own depression.
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1) I didn't say anything about a "magic bullet."

2) Private enterprise is a different concept from privatization.

3) I don't believe it's mere coincidence that everything the author likes about US infrastructure is privately supplied, while everything he suggests is "humiliating" is publicly funded -- do you?
Seems like it, you could pick up a used Nissan Leaf coming off a lease for ~$7K USD, which is more comfortable and I have to imagine a lot safer. The Pickman might make an interesting delivery vehicle in cities, though.
> The definition seems to imply that version 1.1.0 can have twice the features of v.4.0.0, which in turn might have exactly the same features as version 1.0.0, just backwards incompatible.

That's possible. Feature regressions sometimes happen when software is redesigned, or obsolete features may have been deprecated and removed. Either case would be a breaking change leading to a major version bump.

> APIs that strive for backward compatibility never get a "major" release?

That's right. Why would you announce that you're introducing breaking API changes when you're actually maintaining backward compatibility? That just makes headaches for you users, and for the sake of what? Marketing?

> If anybody was relying on a bug to be present, does that qualify the patch as major?

If fixing the bug changed any official, public, documented APIs in a breaking way, then yes—or if the documentation was inadequate such that the implementation essentially was the official APIs. If it only affects users who were not following the APIs, that's more of a grey area. I'd say that's their problem, not the library authors'; if you use a library in interesting and novel ways, contrary to the directions, and it breaks as a result, you get to keep both pieces. That isn't a bug in the library and doesn't reflect on the semantic versioning.

> And how do you know it in advance?

Sometimes you don't. In that case the unexpected API breakage is a bug just like any other, and you'd need to retract the minor/patch release and either bump the major version or fix the break in the API.
HN also apparently discourages reading comprehension.
Who knows? Have you ever been taught an undocumented procedure by the expert and been told to use it regardless of what the manual states? Happens all the time? Is a pilot in a position to affect Boeing beauracracy?
Pretty sure the grandparent post was satirical. Hence the "this post NOT brought to you by the pharmaceutical industry".
Most of the time what people actually want is the audit log abilities of event sourcing. Seeing how data was in the past and what (or who) made changes to it. There are dozens of ways to accomplish this at different layers but unfortunately they go all in on event sourcing instead.
Indeed, SJWs could not care less about social justice, and greatly harm those causes by their self-righteous pretendings.
When people start saying FaaS or something else specific instead of "serverless" probably.
In the US you can buy a used Fiat 500 Electric or Chevy Spark Electric for around the same price.
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