skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, at least in the USA.

> "Hotel," according to Merriam-Webster, originated in the year 1765 and comes from a French word for an establishment that provides lodging, meals and other services.

> "Motel" came along much later, in 1925, according to Merriam-Webster. It blends the words "motor" and "hotel" and is meant to describe an establishment that provides some, but not necessarily all of the services associated with a hotel. Motels, according to San Jose State University communications professor Andrew Wood, are an entirely American phenomenon: They originated as inns along the country's first major motorways, offering rest to weary explorers and families on vacation.

> Hotels and motels differ in layout and construction. Hotels can contain hundreds of rooms and several floors; they generally have staircases, elevators and internal corridors that lead to the rooms. Motels commonly have a one- or two-floor layout and guests access their rooms directly from the parking lot.

> Some hotels, especially those in the luxury-accommodations realm, exhibit specific styles of architecture and design, such as the Waldorf Astoria of New York. Motels typically have a more utilitarian construction.

https://traveltips.usatoday.com/difference-between-hotels-mo...
... and routers would have to parse text fields in order to route packets
Van Ness in SF has been torn up for years and multiple businesses have closed as a result while most manage to stay open. I think access to roads is less important in places like SF because parking is impossible anyways - people who were going to shop there are already walking.

Plus there's a minor surplus of business provided by the construction workers who have to stand around in groups of five for 7 hours a day in between lunch breaks...
wow, thanks for that..
Why can't the cost of materials be hedged against rising?

Costs above initial estimates should only happen when there's an unknown (e.g, digging discovered a really hard rock layer that nobody knew about). Or weather issues beyond prediction (like tornadoes or hurricanes).
> you are paying full freight for service.

I wish. Wedding vendors, especially catering, are also tip driven and its generally expected to tip individuals (coordinators, bar tenders, wait staff etc).
SimCity was my childhood. Played thousands of hours trying to find the right formula to optimize land value and population. Then they introduced more sophisticated terraforming tools and the ability to import contour maps in SimCity 4. I spent more time on landscaping than the actual game. The community behind SimCity 4 was great as well with all the mods.
It's because once the egg is fertilized it gets deactivated and can't be fertilized again

For 2 or more to fertilize at same time, they've to arrive at roughly same time before the deactivation completes

So this becomes rare because the window of deactivation is quite short and not many make their way to egg.
Factorio is Programmer Crack. I love it!
This is excellent!! Will go through it more thoroughly tonight.
I use it to make sure I'm getting all my mail.

And yes, I've found some letters that never showed up. I clicked the button saying it was missing and it showed up a few days later.
That's only partially true. The 750W limit applies to what you call an ebike as a seller, not your ability to sell it. Many companies ignore that law since it's not strictly enforced.
Is the address you activated it for on your credit report? They likely verified your identity through those questions, and would also have your current and past addresses as part of that.
Oh absolutely... the concept of a thing I'd call a "restaurant" that would need four times the footprint, something like 5% of the ratio of sale price / cost per unit and would take about 90 minutes to finish servicing a customer must be an entirely ludicrous fantasy I dreamed up last night.
The girl has had her arm amputated and her ovaries removed, and she’s 4. “Healthy” is not the word I would use.
Part of the problem is grid tie inverters. 1 kW used to cost about 10 times more than the equivalent 1 kW computer power supply, but prices have finally dropped to the point where they are comparable (roughly $100/kW):

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=grid+tie+inverter

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=grid+tie+inverter

IMHO power converters like these are the future, because eventually we'll plug in all noisy sources of power from wind/solar/thermal into an inverter that accepts any voltage and plugs into the wall to provide 110 V AC. So roughly 12 of these (for a typical 100 amp system) would power the average home, meaning the inverter portion of a Powerwall should cost no more than $1200.
I like it. Back in 2015 I built something similar[1] for my company and it helped us make the transition from time-bound releases with QA on mainline to per-PR QA and CI/CD.

[1] https://medium.com/@kevanahlquist/dockerui-at-bluestem-2890b...
One factor in play is that many people only have experience with household-scale budgets. An intuition about what "millions" (let alone "billions") actually represents in terms of economic power is hazy at best. Business scale budgets sound extravagant; metropolis-scale or state-scale budgets are mind-boggling.

How does such a person know what's "too much"? Absent a reasonable working model of costs involved in infrastructure projects, it's all going to sound like too much.

And past a certain point on a spectrum of temperamental tendency to attribute laziness or wastefulness to other people, the working assumption is going to be it's boondoggles all the way down.

The only way to fix this -- if it can be fixed -- is reinforcing narratives about the value of projects and measured collective values.
Any details on how much this board costs?
Also, how many TOPs the Edge TPU has?
Interesting about the stations. My Ontario city is close to starting an LRT system and the station costs for just those seem kind of high.

We recently added a new station for the GO regional railway transit system that currently has two trains a day and I think it was something like $50 million Canadian. I can understand needing an elevator for disability, but it could have started as something simple besides that.
We don't even need to get into his (execrable) politics; he's substantively bad on technical issues as well.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6839
>even the most jaded systems programmer can see are not ideal, like the fact that types precede names in variable declarations,

Honestly, I find it shocking anybody can hold this opinion.

I hate that every single new language insists on types being on the right. I searched for a reason why this is, and typically the results are along the lines of type inference being easier to implement. I'd prefer to take no inference at all and have my types on the left, where they belong. I'm totally serious.

Types on the right are a readability disaster.
I don't know exactly how common they were, but I've definitely been to an internet café in the US (in a very small town FWIW). AFAICT they're gone because they just don't make economic sense anymore with everyone having a WiFi device already.
The place I relax the most is the shower. I don't feel any pressure to think anything there and can let my mind wander. Maybe a situation like that? Such a place can be hard to find for each individual.
My wife and I are expecting our first child. We are both pro-vaccine [trust the professionals!] but she recently met a woman whose kid "instantly changed" after one particular combo-dosage of several different vaccines. She has since gotten spooked by the NUMBER of vaccinations administered at once. "I'll take our son to the doctor every day to get them one at a time if I have to." I doubt doctors would even entertain this strategy... Does anyone have resources I can read to understand this angle of anti-vaxxers and the pro-science rebuttal?
You should familiarize yourself with the broken window fallacy[1], it fits this scenario pretty precisely and... well, it's a fallacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
They send one message a day. Did you get more than that?
Well, you shouldn't hire someone (by analogy) that can't abstractly describe the process of building chairs.

Once they can describe the abstract process, then you can dig down conversationally to find out what part of the process they have the most experience in, and what they enjoy the most (joinery, design, sanding, finishing, etc.) That should provide some useful insight into whether they can actually build chairs.
What is the bigger barrier to getting things done - regulations or politics with locals? I grew up learning that regulations were the reason things would take so long, but the older I get the more I realize its just a bunch of really loud NIMBYs.
Do you have data for the FirmAI examples?
It's called the cortical reaction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_reaction
Profit means income exceeds expenses for a given period of time. There are different types of profit, i.e., gross profit, is just the profit on the primary business activity (sales or services income), while net profit is the profit after all expenses are taken into consideration. There's also cash-flow profit, which is gross profitability adjusted for some but not all non-operating expenses.

And just to make things even more confusing, there's unicorn accounting profit, in which gross bookings as treated as revenue even though they are never earned by the startup (think Groupon, GrubHub, etc.).
What could increase your life expectancy, lifespan and longevity?
Likely because it's among the most prominent news outlets in the world, and it covers many of the topics that are of interest to HN readers.
> Upload your model

> It should take about one minute for compilation to complete.

...also, it should take about six months for Google to lose interest in this product, at which point the product you made when you integrated the Edge TPU -- is stuck without updates.
I am personally also not a big fan of Computer Modern, but I've heard graphic people praise it. It is also very easy to use a different font.
Not quite. Lazarus (which is just an IDE for Free Pascal), or rather the LCL (Lazarus Component Library), wraps native GUIs like Win32, Gtk, Qt and Carbon. It just provides a similar interface for visually designing your own GUI out of common components.
Science doesn't care about your feelings pal.
In SC2K I always used to make capitalist dystopias with a elevated elite neighborhood of low-density residential and commercial, separated by a mountain range from the plebes with their belching factories. The Mayor’s House was on a private island. The Mayor’s Statue was on a single tile on the mountain ridge that was the tallest point in the city.

Pray I never get elected President.
Yes, this is possible. By default Dockup would give a random subdomain to each deployment, but some of our customers wanted to use Dockup deployments for giving customer demos so we have added support for long lived deployments that use a specified subdomain.
Sure. 'jimktrains2 indicated above that he is among that group. I had hoped he would take the opportunity to attempt to justify that political preference.
Some of them all do one or a couple parts of what I described, but they are all designed to be "easy and simple" more than powerful. And I really doubt most of them do things like watch my credit card to keep track of how much has been paid out.

There's plenty of room for innovation, with some more imagination.
So, when can we expect his JSON serialisation of TLS?
Hence the part "scale up on the cloud" - USB units aren't supposed to replace the GPUs, c'mon.
Here's the original "study" (2018) which is really just a marketing piece: https://desktime.com/blog/17-52-ratio-most-productive-people

No mention of the sample size, the work being measured, or the methodology in general. I'm not at all surprised that this garbage got picked up by Quartz, but it doesn't belong on HN.
I missed that. How terrible.

Still, having children is a miracle, not a tragedy, though tragedies may be involved.
I've seen them be useful when used in combination with a bug tracker. That way is investigating the same problem they are likely to find out that it has already been reported. And having a todo mark a specific region of code can save time when we jump in to fix it.

I have also had situations where we decided "we are releasing in a month, cut corners and we'll deal with it later", and putting in TODOs greatly help deal with it later
Hm, the argument seems to be "I don't like this conclusion, therefore I will deem it absurd, and arbitrarily select one of my many assumptions to discard".

All of the "assumptions" in that link are correct, with the exception of 6 as a flawed intuition pump. A human being is not capable of emulating a suffering being by marking ones and zeroes in a notebook - a being with the lifespan, patience, working memory, intelligence, and motivation to do this would be far outside the scope of "human". If we posit that this being fully comprehends what it is doing, then it would certainly be guilty of torture. But it's beyond the scale of all but the most abstract apprehension of an actual human being, which is probably responsible for the revulsion against the notion of attributing guilt to one.

The flawed intuition pump here is almost identical to Searle's Chinese Room, which roughly goes:

1) if a computer program can speak Chinese, then so can a human manipulating symbols from a rulebook

2) a human speaking Chinese from a rulebook doesn't understand Chinese

3) the computer program doesn't really understand Chinese

The problem is that in both these cases, the vast complexity of a computer program capable of doing this task is abstracted away into an innocent little "book" of some sort, while the comparatively dumb mechanical execution of a simple set of rules is handed to the hugely complex and relatable human being. The argument then conflates the mental activity of the human with the activity of the entire computer, of which the human is a small mechanical part.

It's also part of a larger class of flawed anti-synthetic consciousness arguments, which I call "stupid substrate" arguments, which go like this:

1) Suppose we posit a simulated conscious being, running on a computer made of <a human with a paper notebook/rats running a giant maze/a huge marble factory>

2) this is stupid and implausible

3) therefore consciousness can only exist on a human brain

My response to all such arguments is - why is it so plausible that consciousness can exist on the 3 pound lump of jelly in your head? Isn't your argument too strong? What makes brains special? And why are they that way? Is it just "magic" and "because God loves us", respectively?
Seems this would be more acceptable privacy wise than using face recognition and comparing the people to a watchlist.
After Python and Java, Pascal feels unsettling. All the code examples I've seen so far put hundreds of lines in a single main file, making it incredibly difficult to read and understand. I'm not sure if I'm approaching it incorrectly or what (and I'm open to advice on how to read Pascal code and how to organize my own).
Can you share your email or any way you can refer?
Largest factor: the abundance of liquid water and associated chemical effects. Second largest factor: the existence of living organisms that also alter the chemical environment.

For example, lead sulfide is nigh-insoluble in water, so where water containing dissolved lead meets water containing dissolved sulfide, a concentrated ore body of lead sulfide (galena) can form. Sulfate anions are more common in Earth's natural waters than sulfide anions, but so-called sulfur reducing bacteria convert sulfate into sulfide as part of their respiratory cycle. That's an example of the biological contribution to ore body formation.

As an element in Earth's crust, lead is actually rarer than so-called rare earth elements like neodymium. But neodymium's aqueous chemistry doesn't offer such common opportunities for concentration as lead, so in practice useful ore bodies of lead are much more common than those of neodymium.

The lack of liquid water on other celestial bodies is why they don't form ore bodies like on Earth. On the Moon and Mercury, for example, one would expect to find no economically exploitable deposits of either lead or neodymium.
This looks neat! Thanks for sharing.
The wireless techs usually have a lot of refinement over time, so that the real-world speed you get for a price is a lot smoother than a step function on revisions. LAN tech is isolated enough that each link upgrades in a step function, but bigger paths are a function of the price of multiple links and also smooth out.
In Chile, too, any place calling itself a "motel" is actually a discreet place for a rendezvous and often surrounded by high walls for privacy’s sake.

This actually creates problems for OpenStreetMap, because Chileans, unaware of what "motel" means in the rest of the world, tend to tag these places using OSM’s "motel" tag even though it is arguably inappropriate in this context. (Similarly, because of the similarity of the Spanish word hostal ‘hotel’ and English hostel, unaware OSM editors in this region tag all kinds of ordinary hotels as hostels.)
The Panasonic/Tesla relationship breaks down to:

* Tesla chemistry, pack design, and use.

* Panasonic manufacturing equipment and expertise.

I don't think Tesla is unassailable here, but they do have a significant head start.
I don't know the numbers, but for my entire working life across several companies, my insurance has been through VSP, not EyeMed. So "almost certainly" seems like an overstatement.
”VW seem to sound most serious, aiming for 50 models by 2025, but what do they have now?”

https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-engineering-behind-vws-...:

”we’ve been hearing a lot of companies announcing lofty electrification plans like these, so what makes VW different? Well, they’ve at least got hardware to back up the talk. Here’s a look at what might be the platform that actually brings electric cars to the masses.

The MEB Platform

VW started designing the MEB platform—the company’s very first high volume EV architecture—about three years ago.”
I saw this on r/python a while ago. Some great applications, not sure why there are so few places to go to look at ML applications in business. Interesting.
On-chip debugging with OpenOCD was actually one of the next things I wanted to try out with my drone. I need to get an ST-Link dongle because the drone doesn't have one on board.

I'm not sure if JTAG will even work or if they connected a pin to some sensor or similar on the board. SWD will work for sure, I saw the two SWCLK and SWDIO connectors on the board.
This seems like the best of both worlds. The millions in savings for using more invasive construction methods should offset the $60,000 per business they are paying.
Have been using this service for over a year. Seems to be pretty insecure from stories I have read but I appreciate the convenience.
Minnesota seeks 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050
There are some fundamental misunderstandings here about what journalism is and how it's produced.

> [H]ere’s how I see push journalism:

The reporter has a hunch about a newsworthy story that hasn’t being told yet

Most journalism doesn't start with a reporter's hunch; it starts because something happened somewhere. President Trump offended somebody; two soldiers were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan; the local factory announced it's laying off 10% of its workforce; the city council voted against filling the pothole on Main Street. Something happened, an editor decided that thing was newsworthy, and now the reporter's task is to tell the reader about it.

Because of this, most reporters don't spend time thinking Big Thoughts about long-term trends. They tell a story of something that happened, and then move on to the next thing that happened while they were writing about the other thing. Hence the saying that "journalism is the first rough draft of history" (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/08/on-the-trail-of-...). Explaining long-term trends is what historians do. Journalists do something different; they tell people what happened.

Most of the other misunderstandings in the piece fall out from this one. Journalists don't look for solutions to problems, they don't even look for problems; they look for things that happened. (Which is why problems like "the President offended somebody" get more coverage than problems like "in twenty years climate change will drown us all" -- the President's offense is something that happened, the creeping, inexorable apocalypse is something that hasn't happened yet.) Journalists have neither the time nor the need to consult twelve sources for every story; they're not looking to determine the ideal response to some problem, they're just looking to tell people about something that happened, and you only need two or three independent confirmations that something happened to be able to say with reasonable certainty that it did in fact happen. And most journalists aren't "PUSH[ING] LIKE HELL to get the story in front of as many people as possible"; when they've told the story of one thing that happened, they move on to the next one. Things are always happening, after all.

None of which is to say that this process is necessarily ideal, of course. (Few things in the world are.) Just that, if you want to reform journalism, you have to start with a firm grounding in what journalism is. And journalism is not a quest for product-market fit, or a flavor of historiography, or an attempt to figure out What It All Means. Journalism is telling people about things that happened, and the further you get from that elemental task, the less what you're doing can be considered journalism.
Would love to hear more about domain-driven design in TypeScript!
When someone else writes it, Russell Nelson takes it over, and then gets bored enough of it to let Eric Raymond claim it for his resume.
They’re owned by Essilor.

TBD what the merger with Luxxotica will mean.

My guess is that the online model will replace the costly in-store model, capturing more profit.
Ask HN: How Do You Focus?
What is your ideal focused work setup? What prerequisites do you have before you can start focused work?
I believe that was in reference to the "first" discovered semi-identical twins, unless I misread the article.

But, it's rather unfortunate in either case.
Free speech only pertains to citizens when the govt is trying to shut it down.

News outlets calling themselves unbiased is not invoking free speech at all. Anyone can declare themselves anything - it's called lying.
Median 1-Bedroom Rent in San Francisco Soars to Nearly $3,700 a Month
> I've alerted legal@google.com about SerpAPI

Wow, what a hero!
Bolt has been around 5,000 units per quarter, starting to close in on 10,000.

That's simply not mass market.
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/text-rendering-gener...

> It turns out that font rendering in the Linux ecosystem has been wrong since scalable fonts were introduced to it. Text must be rendered with linear alpha blending and gamma correction, which no toolkit or rendering library does by default on X11, even though Qt5 and Skia (as used by Google Chrome and other browsers) can do it.

The primary effect of no gamma correction is that light-on-dark text is too thin (and dark-on-light is thick but readable).
> Why can't the cost of materials be hedged against rising?

How, other than by buying everything you need up-front, finding a place to store it until you need it, and hoping that it is still usable when you do?
I also feel the same. I want to see how it works before giving the creator my email.

So, I ended up not signing in, and, thus, I didn't learn how it worked.