skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voters are the broken piece. They don't vote in local elections, they don't demand accountability, and they like to talk about non issues like weed, abortion, and funding the military industrial complex and being world police.

So few people care about voting that local budgets are subject to the approval of the family and friends of police and firefighters, so we get to pay ever increasing taxes to their unsustainable pensions. Everyone moved to 401k 30 years ago, except for police, fire, and judges. Why is that? Because they all vote, and the rest of the public sits at home watching TV.

Some people don't have enough time, etc, blah blah, but while that is a valid excuse for some, over time, I have realized people are just lazy and they don't want to participate in their communities, they don't want to read the news or go to town meetings even if they have the time. Hence it is the voters fault. It is taken for granted that we have mostly corruption free elections.
There are PHEVs with batteries big enough to claim the full $7,500. By definition they will be luxury cars because batteries that big are really expensive.

But batteries that big are also an order of magnitude less expensive than about 10 years ago.

The benefits of battery scaling accrues to everyone, even the small PHEVs and plain old hybrids.

The credit is based on how much battery you are buying. The Feds pitch in about 10-15% of the capital and the consumer pays the rest. This is a great force multiplier for a gov’t subsidy program which gets $10b in EV revenue stimulus for every $1b invested.

A bigger subsidy for cheaper cars would be an interesting welfare program (why buy cars for poor people though, versus just giving free public transit passes?) but it wouldn’t achieve the force multiplier of encouraging consumer spending the way the current subsidy does by only paying 10-15% of the cost, and paying more the bigger the battery, not just more based on the price of the vehicle.

There’s also a lot of infrastructure that you don’t really incentivize (like large scale charging infrastructure) if everything is just plain hybrid, because there’s not enough consumer demand for plugs everywhere.

Getting EV above 1% starts tipping the scales to encourage places to install chargers. More chargers allows that next 1% to adopt that much easier. The richer early adopters can afford the inconvenience of a $5k electrical upgrade to their garage, or going out of their way to charge, etc. They are paving the way toward mass adoption.

Just a few years ago EVs were decried as entirely impractical and novelties. Now I have one as my daily driver and I would never imagine going back.

Hybrids are nice but EV is a paradigm shift. I’m glad the subsidy targets battery capacity and the future it envisions.
Yeah. I've been bingeing a few episodes of the office each night for the last month or so. I like the autoplay.
It's something of a last resort. Wheat and milk are so cheap that they put it as an additive in everything, so when I buy groceries it's like I'm weeding through isles and isles of poison.

It's like I have returned to a hunter-gatherer way of life, where eating the wrong berries can be a disaster.
You're making flawed assumptions about the alternative doorhandle design.

I have owned multiple cars as far back as the 80s having doorhandles flush with the body, without involving any particularly fancy or electronic gimmickery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight#First_generation...
Bingo. While not usually the limiting factor in nature, it can still be a benefit when it is. Just ask all the 1000s of pot growers literally burning propane to produce it indoors and vent it to atmosphere. Grr.
You might also have a personality disorder, but people don't want to hear that because you can't really treat those.
Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats
The author wants to express how American infrastructure is bad, but he only complains about trains of all kinds (with a side of airport security). He mentions that the roads and phone networks are good, but doesn't touch anything else. Did I miss anything?
A Meta-Transfer Objective for Learning to Disentangle Causal Mechanisms
Also related: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/carbon-dioxides-boos...
These seem like utility (landscaping) grade golf carts that are already a market in the US. Available in mostly gas, but some electric forms.

https://www.deere.com/en/gator-utility-vehicles/

https://www.toro.com/en/sports-fields-municipalities/utility...

https://www.catresourcecenter.com/machine/landscaping/utilit...
Amazon Scout Robots Take to Pavements in Washington State
And these large wheels have small bell/clackers on them so you get a distinctly audible signal in addition to the large black wheels with white stripes on them.
Violent raids are all part of the mystique and bravado that benefits recruiting efforts of agents - - - as well as the image fake news portrayed to the world that American agents are the baddest asses of them all, don't mess with us . . .
Maybe not, the article discusses the fact that infra projects are 1/4 the price outside the US.
Unity Debuts Video Game to Test the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
intra-paris subway as few delays, it's choke full quite often that's true, it stinks, finding it's way out is NP-complete

outer rim paris on the other hand will show you what a delay is

mainstream theory is that national company was more interested by luxury high speed rail than true public transportation. Which is also cited as one cause for the yellow vest thing because bad public transportation => more car rides => people super angry if oil taxes increase.
Wow, I rarely so deeply profoundly and strongly disagree with a statement.

I'm fascinated by both how far humans have come, and how peaceful we've become. We haven't had a major war for decades, despite having more and better weapons. Capitalism has unleashed a revolution in technology and society. We're improving lives more rapidly and profoundly than ever, despite there being more and more of us. There are long-term visions and movements springing up all across the world (ecological, environmental, etc) and they seem to be gaining steam. We're reaching for the stars, and it seems like we might actually get there eventually. It's really remarkable of what humans are capable of, both on the micro level (every time I'm driving I'm surprised there's not more accidents, given how slow human reaction times are and how fast and near each other cars are moving), and on the macro level (a society with 7 billion souls, each driven by its own mostly-selfish desires (survival, reproduction, power), making progress and deals and working on causes, together).
> All of the things you liked were private infrastructure.

Route 66 was not private infrastructure, and even the private development along it was subsidized by public infrastructure.

> And no, the military budget can't go down

Yes, it can.

> look at how much German is complaining about just being asked to pay it's NATO dues.

Germany isn't complaining, and the issue isn't even about paying NATO dues but moving it's own total defense spending up to NATO targets. (And the major controversy isn't about whether to do that, but how aggressively to do so.)

And the big reason European NATO members can continue to drag their feet on that is US excessive defense spending.
For people that feel the virtual-dom is anything but a hack, please read up on this: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html. Do you really not get a code smell from keeping an in-memory copy of the DOM and doing "Reconciliation"? Most of this article is about the vdom.
This is timely for me. I think anger is a precursor to tiredness, the eventual feeling of helplessness, and definitely an early warning.
I am not depressed, but I am often annoyed by the idiots that won't stop staring at their phones when getting onto or off of the elevator. I can be annoyed without being depressed. I am not related to these ding-dongs, so it's only their progeny that should be depressed.
> they also seem to freeze up the app for a moment while they start; it's less than a second, but it's noticeable.

It's extremely noticable in the roku app. It pauses for a couple seconds every time you navigate so you can't really do anything until the autoplay loads. You end up seeing a few seconds of it for every single item you hover over.
Your tl;dr is alarmingly defeatist. If you're in tech and feeling angry all the time, the answer is not to try meds, the answer is to get politically involved and change the moral bankrupty of our industry.

If you're US based, check your nearest TWC (https://techworkerscoalition.org/) chapter.
UX people love boring and/or simple stuff.

Source: am a UX designer

It’s literally the whole point of the job.
Effective density in Switzerland is much higher, because that headline number aggregates a bunch of dense towns and cities (mostly located in valleys) with a whole lot of steep mountainsides with an approximate density of ~0.

It also helps that the topography forces development into mostly linear shapes (following the valleys), rather than radiating in all directions as normally happens in flatter terrain. Linear corridors are much easier to serve via public transit, because everything is "on the way".

Check out Switzerland on Google Earth and these features will jump out at you: https://earth.google.com/web/@46.8131873,8.22421005,1311.812...
Sounds fair, my bad :)

Though I'll continue to argue that this is still kind of unacceptable, since a constant rate over an increased population means more people dying.
Is Sharing Premium Wordpress Themes and Plugins Legal?
It's a shame, to the point that I have dreams of starting a lavander club to spread flowers onto the decks
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How does the K8s / Envoy / Istio stack compare to Nomad / Consul from Hashi?
This budget for FY18 looks completely incorrect - where is the $500b+ of defense spending?? It shows up in their FY17 budget, but has shrunk by 10x in FY18.

Try USA Facts for a more accurate, if older, view: https://usafacts.org/government-finances/spending?comparison...
Woke up this morning feeling quite crappy. Then saw this. All faith in humanity (And the internet) has been restored. Thank you!
[On a sidenote: How would one go about learning to build this? Any learning resources on understanding all the math and physics behind this?]
Leaving Social Media, one step at a time
The private construction sector is simply a lot less honest and more incestuously intertwined with government than it used to be.

To give one example, the Hoover Dam was completed under budget and two years early, and cost well under one billion in today's dollars. There were actually large penalties written into the contract for various stages of the construction taking too long, e.g. $3k per day the diversion tunnels were late, and there was no additional money to be made by fucking up and running over-budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

Contrast with construction projects today, where the goal seems, essentially, to go over budget and over time, because you get paid more that way. The government doesn't hold the companies accountable, and because of this, they purposely run up costs and billable days.

Amazing feats of construction are possible these days with modern technology, way more than what was accomplished with the Hoover Dam, but not when incentives aren't aligned.

There are plenty of other countries where the relationship between private construction companies and the government remains honest, and those citizens thus get a lot more bang for their tax dollar in infrastructure projects.
I'm actually fine with a back gesture in this case. I think it's pretty commonly known that you can swipe back. And it's way more accessible than the top left back button.
Trade them to suckers for more bitcoin and repeat?
Neither may be more correct, but the former historically gets you less long-term social upheaval from angry poor people.
You might be depressed
>I want proof of that.

See stcredzero's comment below. I'm not an American, but that's the impression I've got from all I've read -- crazy regulations and litigation-happy climate working together to drive costs prohibitive.
Travel should be ~mandatory. We all need to get away from our pit from time to time to get perspective.
there is 0 chance of these being sold as road legal in the US market
The first question you propose is the first question I ask in every interview that I conduct, and I can count on my fingers the number of people who have given me a satisfactory answer to this question. It really colors my perception of your skills - whether you lied on your resume, whether you were dead weight on your team while they did all of the work, whether you were clueful about what was going on where you were working before, and so on.

The only time that I have recommended someone be hired who was not able to answer this question was when they were under an NDA and were not able to talk about the work they had done. That candidate aced the practical side of the interview that I gave ("Here's a scenario at a high level using the skills you claim to have, what would you do and why?") and is the best worker I have ever recommended to hire.
It would be nice if they could provide similar blocking for video autoplay even if it is muted.
Is anyone surprised by this?
Nope. Quite happy. I just want to get on the elevator before the door closes and I have to wait another 5 minutes.
New in Helpmonks: Global compose button, Dashboard enhancements and more
To be precise, the US public has been told the government is rotten, and the play is to sell off/contract out the infrastructure to private firms, who then make huge profits and build crap.

The problem is the propaganda and the desire for private firms, who have incentives opposite the taxpayers.
wow this is so cool!!!
It falls into the uncanny valley on so many axes.
To clarify ... A designer wants to make things look cool, a UX designer wants to make things boring. Both are wrong.
The Builder Pattern vs. Java Syntax
I may wildly presumptive (based on the photo in the article), but if there aren't any doors I'm not sure how useful heat/AC would be.
Almost ten years ago I flew from LAX to Guadalajara, which was new and amazing, quite a shocker.

They've since upgraded LAX, but the upgrades are more modest, sort of like gutting a 1960's building and refurbishing it, rather than starting from scratch.
Fantastic, now prevent all shit from playing until (wait for it, this is magical in concept):

I HIT PLAY.

Fuck youtube, et al. from "playing just because I opened that tab". What is I only wanted to read comments, or an article, or just because I want to control my interaction on my own terms?!?

Seriously fuck you. FF used to be able to do that. Why was it removed?
The #[rustc_layout_scalar_valid_range_start(...)] and #[rustc_layout_scalar_valid_range_end(...)] attribute allows you to specify a niche, so you can build a Non255U8 if you want. For example:

#[rustc_layout_scalar_valid_range_end(254)] struct Non255U8(u8);
Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
It's more likely to be soot from coal burning, which was the norm for much of these building's life.
As a comparison I looked at the two best sellers in Europe [1]: Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe. Renault Zoe is the cheapest at 22,900 USD without battery (which can be rent) or 31,350 USD with battery. Renting the battery is a popular choice in the EU (at least in France, not sure in other countries).

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/03/europe-ev-sales-renault...
Nobody made any claim it wasn't educational, just that they took issue with the terminology for who it targets. That wasn't a non-sequitur.

You ignoring that aspect entirely and focusing on it being about its educational aspects. That's the non-sequitur.

As to the terminology in question, there is a time an place for semantics, and to a greater or lesser degree, it's always. Sometimes you can get away with being very loose, sometimes you should be more specific. In dealing with a community which identifies with a specific aspect of a term, ignoring that identification or contradicting it is at best tone deaf, and at worst needlessly confrontational.

Semantics improve communication by signalling a common agreement on the meaning or terms in a conversation. In that respect, they improve conversation. Just because you place little value on something (even if in a specific situation) does not mean it actually has little value, or that others do not benefit from its presence.

To be clear, I didn't care about your first comment one way or another. I didn't think it added much, but it wasn't worth me downvoting. Your followup which was at best confusing but possibly entirely unrelated to the point it was responding to (thus the non-sequitur designation) that then went on to denigrate the entire community of this site to suggest in an off-hand way that we are all falling for propaganda was definitely not advancing the conversation usefully. If you had presented it in a more coherent and supported manner, as you attempted in your reply to me, I would have considered it a useful and welcome addition to the conversation, even if the subject matter was to call me out as subject to the whims of propaganda presented here (a topic related somewhat to ones I touch on often here, such as contextual interpretation and state of mind).

I find this conversation interesting and worth participating in and contributes something, even if not on the original topic entirely, I just didn't think your original rebuttal remotely met that bar.
I do appreciate the rule set that Rust forces the programmer into, however I keep coming back to it felt to me that I was being asked to conform to the language. Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. When I was also learning other languages it felt to me some of them conformed to me more than others, and therefore were easier to write logic towards. Is low level safe systems programming the main/only use case or is there a reason to use Rust in other domains?
JS "motion JPEG" is actually computationally cheap to do at least in Firefox, it just burns a megaton of RAM.. https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2014-04-16-portable-9-22x-compres...
It doesn't have to be bipolar disorder, plain old depression will do this to you.

Speaking from experience, the line is fairly easy to draw. I get benignly irritated at bullshit all the time, and the anger and irritation that comes with depression is, internally, _very_ different. It's not merely "this stuff is aggravating", but rather "this triggered my fight-or-flight response, and I chose fight" — and reacting like that to even small things.
I think this kind of learning is great. One of the benefits of this type of exercise is that tackle certain types of problems that are not that common in day-to-day coding, and you do it over and over, so you become quite comfortable with areas that you might otherwise not use frequently.

Building larger projects is of course also a great way to learn!
Isn’t there a pos correlation between intelligence and depresssion
I saw electrical cargo tricycles in use at local resort. They are quiet and cheap (about $2k). IMHO, they are ideal for resorts.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hercules+tricycle+electric
Nope, an iPhone 8 is 375x667

Edit: for those questioning my reply, I’m talking about the logical resolution (what you actually use for layout) not the physical pixel resolution
I'm coming back to this late, but I think you've missed the point.

>I could make up a salary for myself, but it would kind of be pulled out of thin air.

The exact value of your salary doesn't matter, it matters that you've factored something in so you can keep a roof over your head and feed yourself. By not factoring in your salary, you're painting yourself a rosey-er picture of your financial state than it actually is. By your current measure, your venture could be "in the black" yet you'd still be struggling to make ends meet. You need to see the picture as clear as possible.

>all my other expenses are objective and quantifiable

If you expect this of every expense, then you'll be in for a shock. Many business costs are not objective in the sense that you can rationally determine why exactly it costs X. Heck, pricing software is mainly an exercise in "what's it worth to you", rather than what it costs to actually develop it. If you need absolutely need a service and only one consultant can offer it, then chances are you'll have to pay what they ask, even if there's no objective rationale behind the costs other then that's what they charge.

My point is that the business side requires a different mindset and perspective than the technology side. You've got to improve your business skills in the same way you'd improve your tech skills. It's not easy, but at a certain point your success will depend far more on your business acumen than it will your technological prowess.
Yeah! NSA fork over those hacking tools!
For a capacitor to be used in charging that way it would have to have something like the same capacity as the car's battery. Supercapacitors tend to have lower specific energy density than batteries do so this would require reducing the car's range by something like a factor of 5.

A capacitor much smaller than the batteries acting as a buffer for rapid acceleration and braking might make sense, though.
They also slam the [-] like a swarm of angry bees. At least they are obvious to see.
Frequently lost in these discussions is the fact that the US Federal government does not fund most public infrastructure -- most funding and virtually all execution is provided by individual States. As a consequence, cost and quality of infrastructure varies widely by the competency and efficiency of various States. Road construction costs famously vary by over an order of magnitude when they cross a State border, and the less expensive side is often a higher quality product.

Talking about the US government when discussing the infrastructure most people talk about is misattribution. State policy creates those outcomes and all politics is local. There is no homogeneous "US infrastructure", there is a conglomeration of State infrastructures of greatly varying quality and reflecting the priorities of different States.

All of which is to say that infrastructure is not an America problem, it is a State problem. If the infrastructure in California, Nebraska, etc is dilapidated then that is the fault of the people that live in and run those States.
For me the big thing is the case where you want to use a list comprehension with a somewhat expensive function:

[func(x) for x in values if func(x) < 10]

You could break this into two comprehensions, sure, but it's annoying. With this:

[result for x in values if (result := func(x)) < 10]
I work about six to eight miles from home (depending on the route) in Atlanta. I bike in as often as I can, but I would be all over a cheap electric alternative that was rain-proof. I don't see this as a car replacement so much as a bicycle alternative.
Most of the arguments put forth by climate change deniers are argued in bad faith.