skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Amtrak, I believe they're all private. (By contrast when I took an overnight train in China a few years back it was a shared bunkroom though there were probably different options available.)
Depends where you are… in the UK domestic electricity consumption fell by 2.4% between 2016 and 2017 due to increased efficiency lighting / appliance efficiency [1]

There was a noticeable decrease in our personal electricity consumption when we switched to LED bulbs (our heating and hot water are gas)

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> This is not true. What about color contrast? What about alt text for images? These problems (and many others) can occur in plain html pages.

Another example: one must use <span lang="XX"> tags on foreign words and phrases sprinkled in a text, otherwise screenreaders can choke on them.
Faux-pejorative indeed. Cattle are required to be given more space when being transported, than humans are, in Europe. Human class is below cattle class.
What FedEx Just Said About Europe and China
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/9w5swx/i_think_ive_...

The problem is that YouTube sends the ads on the same IPs that the video is streaming on.

The hostnames are randomly generated based on user and also location so you can't use lists from other users who successfully blocked out adverts.

If you block out all IPs the video won't load, also, if you successfully block out an IP that sends advertisements, the YouTube app will hang, because it tries to load the advert. In the past it just skipped if the IP wasn't reachable, now it's requesting in an infinite loop.

I reached to a point when I tried to buy a YouTube Premium, just not to see the ads, but it's not available in my country. So f Google. Currently YouTube is unwatchable to me, it's worse than traditional TVs.
Assault rifle is a defined term, it comes from the German Sturmgewehr, and it has been used since WWII to mean a select fire military issue weapon.

As a side note, they’ve been heavily restricted in the US for civilian ownership since 1986, and manufacture for civilian ownership has been banned since 1986. As a result, the supply is very limited and the cost for a civilian legal M16, for instance, hovers around 20 thousand dollars. I believe one has been used in the commission of a crime in that time period since 1986, and the transfer and sale and even movement of them is also heavily restricted and subject to a BATF background check and a local sheriff approval.

Of course you’re misusing the word to mean anything that looks scary or looks like it might be a civilian legal non select fire rifle, but we’re scientists, we ought to do better. The 1994 “assault weapon ban” didn’t ban any assault weapons. It also catapulted the Republicans to power and destroyed the Democrat party for nearly 20 years as this is America and we don’t like people pretending parts of our Constitution don’t exist.
SIP over TLS (which uses SRTP) is great, but as soon as it hits a vendor downstream that doesn't support it, it immediately gets trans-coded into plain-ole-SIP and is just as insecure as any other VoIP call. This is not a solution by any means, because it assumes that the entire call path is TLS-enabled, which, in my experience, is impossible on the public telephony network.
So, I'm just beginning to dip my toe into functional programming and trying to figure out if and when this approach has real-world benefits. But I'm constantly surprised by the emphasis that articles like this put onto the advantage of having types as one of the reasons for making the paradigm shift to functional. If someone from the Rails world asked me how to get the benefits of a type system in server-side web app code, I would say why not just move over to C#/ASP.NET or any other procedural language that has strong typing built in. That alone is not enough to justify the learning curve, not to mention the business risk of adopting an 'experimental' technology (decades old, yes, but still relatively untested for ordinary enterprisey web applications) and thus have a much smaller talent pool when it comes to hiring.

I get that people coming from Ruby/JS/Python world will go "woo, types!" but you don't need to go functional to get that; I wish more of these articles would explain why the nuances of functional type systems, and other benefits of the functional approach, lead to concrete advantages when it comes to building real systems that do useful work.
You suggest installing userspace apps to control system software that might run in a privileged context. NoRoot Firewall, for example, doesn't control iptables, it just pretends to be a VPN server and privileged software, I assume, can bypass it.
The sleepers are all individual rooms of some description with 1-2 beds. There are some larger up to 4 adults. There are no hostel style bunk cars on trains. You're either sleeping in seats or in a room.

https://www.amtrakvacations.com/blog/3-important-things-to-k... (just googling 'amtrak sleeper' gets you this info!)
If this were true, why can I stay in The Lab for hours, but I get sick in Everest VR in minutes, on the same hardware? Why did the dozens of VR devs I have talked to get sick on 2014-2015 hardware, playing tech-demos, but they don't on 2018 hardware, playing games designed for comfort?

Also, lack of positional sensing (versus angular) on mobile VR devices is a much bigger contributor to discomfort.

I'm not sure why you're so keen on vergence accommodation, but it seems that you're focusing on a tiny effect, when the large effects are known.

Just because there's little in the peer-reviewed literature, does not mean that this is poorly understood by practitioners.
AttoNets: Compact and Efficient DNNs Realized via Human-Machine Collaborative
Well let me describe what I mean.

A couple years ago I got to sit in a meeting between people from a dozen GenIV reactor startups and a former head of the NRC. The reactor people said their biggest problem was that the NRC required a near-complete design before they would even take a look. At that point they either said yes or no. If no then that was the end of it, you were out of business. If yes you still had only a paper reactor. Getting to that point required several hundred million dollars.

That's a very difficult sell to investors. They said just a more phased process would help a lot. The NRC person was unsympathetic, said it wasn't the NRC's job to help develop or promote nuclear technology, and was uninterested in climate change.

Canada has a more rational approach to R&D, while maintaining rigorous safety. That's why MSR companies are moving there, and why the first one, Terrestrial Energy, is making solid progress.

(And as a side note, molten salt reactors are a lot simpler than light water reactors, because they have safety advantages inherent to the physics of the fuel and coolant.)
Rendering Markdown in Jekyll Includes
That's not actually a response to my point though. My point was that the limited quantity of BTC is really only 'limited' by perception. Sure, the amount on the BTC chain is limited, but copy the software, boot up a new chain and you have another 21 mil to play with.

The reason the one has value and the other doesn't is pretty much down to brand recognition/network effect.

Though as I also said - in a central bank situation where a single chain is mandated, that's less of a concern.
Houses provide rental income. Whether you get that as money (by renting out) or consume it in kind doesn't matter.

At the most successful, this proposal would leave rents the same, but lower house prices. Ie it would artificially give people rich enough to own a house an especially attractive high yielding instrument.

In practice, it will be even worse.
Who made up that silly rule?
Fair point. IPO was the goal during the dot-com boom/bust (I saw this all first hand as well) but at least the founders weren't looking to ditch the company right after. The VCs were of course, they're always the snakes in the grass no matter what the backstory is.
The Guide to Build an UX Research Portfolio – With Examples
I searched but couldn't find anything suggesting they're ad-blocking by default -- what they do have, eg https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/30/firefox-makes-ad..., is ability to block trackers. But it's only default enabled in "private" mode.

Could you backup your statement?

Mozilla got a huge sum of money from Google last time I checked (a few months ago), so it would be amazing if they were allowed by Google to enable ad-blocking as a default (unless there was whitelisting that included Google).
Not necessarily true. If you take the score of e.g. Chopin's Ballade N.3 you'd be inclined to think sheet music is all just show off. Abstract notation takes time to parse and understand when you see it for the first time, no matter how well versed you are.
Ethereum has very different philosophy (just as an example it's supposed to be an universal computer, not a cryptocurrency).

I'm in the Bitcoin camp, and I think that the Ethereum developers are not careful enough with the changes they make to a multibillion dollar system, but you are right, many people like to use it.
Who is "so many people"? From my view, 95% of the people I know (in a very liberal area, btw) don't consider their carbon footprint at all. They don't want to give up cheeseburgers, fancy cars (aka 2 ton wheelchairs), or living in their specific way. The idea that I want to bike to work, for health and emissions, is met with: "Wow, you're taking your life into your hands whenever you don't drive a car".
That’s true! But the author didn’t talk about just sticking to the defaults. He made it seem like it was as simple as not using CSS and JS. In reality, it’s more complicated, like you pointed out.
This reminds me of Metcalfe's law for telecommunications networks.
Rebirth: Photorealism in UE4
We did a school trip to ride the surfliner from Ventura to Santa Barbara a few times. Also once to ride the historic train in Fillmore. Good times.
I'm usally confronted at YAML when I setup gameservers of some indie games (I'm looking at you Empyrion) and I find it extremely painful to handle.

When you have sevral configuration files where you have to change/tweak data I always end up pulling my hairs why stuff isn't working because of an extra space lying anywhere in the file.

Please don't use YAML for anything that has to be edited by a human

INI, XML, JSON are all formats that are more forgivable regarding that (oh and always trim anything you parse. The more you do to help against accidental input, the less admins you'll have ;)
Not sure if we have experience building such vertical tunnels in mountains though? This would have to be much, much larger than your regular mine.
But they still haven't got .dev :(
I only saw a handful of alcohol vending machines when I was in Japan (2018). I heard a rumor they are being phased out.

EDIT: Found a source
"In May 1995, to prevent underage drinking, the All Japan Liquor Merchants Association decided to eliminate outdoor alcohol vending machines, so it is now rare to encounter these machines outside."
https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00258/vending-machines-i...
There's not really a bug here. Some algorithms based on floating point numbers require floating point operations to work in certain ways. x86 floating point operates differently than most other floating point systems, in large part because of when it was developed, and that it can't change because it needs to remain compatible with existing code.

It would be a bug to release code that required x86 floating point behavior on a non-x86 system, but in this case, it was easily caught during early testing.
> whole trip we were up in the observation car watching the American landscape roll by

My family went by train from Flagstaff, AZ to Trinidad, CO for a wedding and the observation car was amazing, it was part of the Southwest Chief route [1].

Even through what you'd think would be boring stretches of New Mexico not one scene wasn't awe inspiring. We got to see landscapes out of westerns and mostly away from roads/main bustle, but you'd be surprised how there is always something to see and almost always people living out there. We had to go through the Rockies in historic coal mining country Colorado and had to stop once for freight trains to go by, but the views were amazing. It is fun to lookup what you are going through on Google maps and finding lots of interesting stuff. Trinidad, CO was a nice little interesting historical town, once a border town, where Fishers Peak was a guiding landmark for settlers on the Santa Fe Trail, with Native American, pioneer and Spanish history, that has a Masonic cemetery, old limestone masonry buildings and underground tunnels for coal, once the sex change capital of the world, and today it is now a cannabis hot spot [2].

Best part of the train is the view and you can get up and walk around unlike on a plane, the rides are longer of course but more flexible to move while traveling which is nice. I brought my laptop to work but the views were too good to pass up.

If I had more time I'd love to take the train all across the US. I wish there were more trains simply to see the less busy areas and interesting viewpoints you can't see from the road.

Amtrak does leave lots to be desired in terms of technology, price, the food (dining car wasn't good) and general areas like maintenance, but the observation car was difficult not to be up there the entire time.

[1] https://www.amtrak.com/routes/southwest-chief-train.html

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/health/trinidad-colorado-smal...
Tesla alledges Zoox stole trade secrets
Then have a vote about rejoining the EU after you crash out.

Real life isn't a video game. You don't get to replay from your last save if you don't like the outcome.
After Suffering Bruising Losses, Ackman Pursues Quiet Recovery
Are VCs investing in companies that are years from "traction"?
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450772
The photo of Bezos at the Pentagon confirms that nobody knows what to wear to work anymore. I see cargo pants, a cocktail dress, a hoodie, and a couple power suits.

The billionaire is dressed best.
The problem is that in Vancouver they're selling it... in Hong Kong, setting up real estate offices and recruiting foreign real estate agents sell the product outside the city.

There's no local demand for the housing at the prices that they want to get, so they have to go outside the city. This of course inflates demand and buyers with incomes beyond local Vancouver incomes crowd out locals.
Read your agreement again, carefully - maybe you got lucky and cashless exercise is available to you.
It's more complicated than that.

Most companies that go through a program like YC are pretty early. Entering and accepting the funding means that often times companies have inflated valuations. Being accepted into a top tier program is not enough to pull in investors in many cases especially if it means that the valuation is inflated and the company is still working on product market fit or early revenue.
Your arguments seems reasonable and I heard it before, but I am not really convinced it strikes to the heart of the matter. Accessibility does include more than the HTML Spec, but adherence to the spec already provides a huge chunk of accessibility for free. And I don't feel every website needs to be 100% accessible, but people complaining about lacking accessibility often do so because developers disregard good practices and common sense. Yes, bad contrast is bad, but most disabled users know ways to fix this minor issue[0], but needing js to dynamically load basic text and image content that a screen reader than struggles with is just inexcusable and gets to the hearth of the issue, that ignoring accessibility also often means ignoring different user Plattforms and usage. A finely crafted website is not only readable by a modern browser and a screen reader, it will also very probably mostly work on older browsers, minor browsers/operating systems and so on. So every developer should have accessibility in mind when creating websites.

Of course, being competitive, a shoddy developer who just bangs two wordpress themes together will always be cheaper than good craftsmanship, but in my experience, the problem is more often targeting the wrong clients anyway.

[0] And, as sad is this is, the actual design is often not the developers responsibility, unless of course, when it is, in which case he is also to blame. ;-)
About reinventing the wheel, let me copy my answer from Reddit:

Good question. I ask the same questions myself every time. And I avoided creating FastAPI for a long time.

I tried a whole lot of tools. And FastAPI got inspiration from a lot of them.

A more detailed explanation is here: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/alternatives/

More details about Flask and Django:

About Flask:

I created the mosts popular Docker images for Flask. I've been building APIs with Flask for a long time, with several teams, using many of its plug-ins, etc. All that learning was inherited by FastAPI. To reduce development time and effort.

About Django:

If you are building APIs with Django, chances are you are using Django-REST-Framework. It was built by Tom Christie. He then built APIStar, improving over what Django-REST-Framework could do. Then he had to stop building APIStar to dedicate himself to Starlette, the new super-fast microframework. FastAPI is heavily inspired by APIStar, and based on Starlette. And uses Python type hints even more.

About plug-ins:

If you refer to plugins to do: authentication, data validation, data serialization, documentation, automatic API docs, compatibility with all SQL and NoSQL, dependency injection, Websockets, Testing, GraphQL... it's all included. Even though it's a mini-framework. Most of the functionality that is normally achieved with plugins is included.

Also, it's heavily integrated into the ASGI ecosystem, so, you have plug-ins to handle Django-Channels like Websockets, serverless deployments, Socket-IO, etc.

Give it from 5 to 20 minutes. That's enough to decide if you like it or hate it.
Does Greyhound still operate services across the US? I know in Canada they've shuttered most of their operations except for the more heavily used eastern-central routes in Ontario and Quebec because everything else is not profitable.
Bankrupt condo associations and people with underwater mortgages walking away. For the rental units, the profits tank, so the landlords tighten the screws on opex, and they aren't "luxury" anymore.

You may recall 2008, when this phenomena happened with single-family homes. Condos are much more fickle investments.
I agree with this sentiment. I work primarily in web dev, and the stacks are already so sprawling with different technologies... config file generation debugging just sounds like unnecessary hassle.

Had not heard of protobuffers before though, and it does look pretty neat.
I think you may be overestimating the time it takes me to do things, and also trying to double dip on time: Both of us have to take things out of pockets and put things in ears.

Only one of us have to coil and uncoil wires, and put wires where we want them and keep wires where we want them when they shift or are moved by external forces. Only one of us can use our headphones with a smartwatch.

AirPods aren't perfect: I've probably had connection issues ~5 times which seem to have gone away with the latest update. I haven't lost them, but they are really small and it seems like it would be easy to lose them. $170 is a lot tougher to lose than $8 (though there are also wired earbuds in the same price neighborhood). I do have to charge the case, but with my use-pattern I haven't yet run into a spot where I wanted to keep using my AirPods and didn't have charge available. Using them one ear at a time while the other charges for longer use is non-ideal, but that's mitigated by how quickly they charge.

Until I had to go back to wired earbuds for a week after using wireless for a while I didn't fully appreciate how nice wireless is.
What academics are you talking about?
Then $1000 doesn't seem that expensive really, especially if that includes in-room shower and toilet
Seems a bit selfish that you leave people the only option of moving to avoid noise.
I’m not usually pretentious, but when it comes to the double-e, I lean in :)
There are plenty of tests that achieve this.

My university got a lot of international candidates whose first language wasn't English and who hadn't been educated in English up until that point. As a result, they established a process to assess your fluency so they could accommodate you with additional training on English to ensure you'd be successful.

https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/admissions/english-lang... lists 6 standardized tests that prospective students could use to demonstrate proficiency.
No, it has to do with powerful minorities who lobby the government to veto majorities against their interests.

For instance, the telecom companies and the call center companies both have powerful lobbies. They are in favor of the end customers bearing the burden of unwanted calls rather than cutting their revenues.
Unless my memory fails me, selecting them in the volume drop down is enough. No need to fiddle with the bluetooth menu. But I could be wrong as I'm currently not at a Mac.
Well, as it's clearly a link to last night's live feed of the story as it was breaking, and they link in the very top entry to a full article, I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect superb long form journalism in such a case.

Parliament needs to agree the compensation/buyback, and presumably any wider reaching changes to firearm licencing. All that's been done to start is recategorising some weapons to need the E licence so they are no longer legal to hold, even for those who already have them on an A licence.

I'm sure there's a couple more nits you can find to pick. :p
Aspiring marathoners in Kenya will have a lot of opportunities. Does Bolivia have the same infrastructure (training programs, mentors, etc)? I'm guessing the answer is no. Distribution of Olympic medals can be predicted by GDP alone, which is more aligned with/is a proxy for 'opportunity' than it is with 'talent', IMO.
To be complete, yes, I do instruct the users how to turn off ublock origin. Most users, even those in my extended family, are able to understand the concept of ad-blocking as well as turning it on and off when someone takes the time and attention to explain it to them. Ublock is especially user-friendly for all the most basic use-cases.

They're better off with adblocking, seriously.

No one is actually going to fail an online course because of adblocking.

If someone who does online banking can't handle the most basic concepts of computer hygiene to the point of turning off an adblocker and knowing when it's safe to do so-- they probably should stick to brick and mortar banking.

As bad as some web-browsing inconveniences are, these pale in comparison to having a computer beset with malware.
> Should a baseline of accessibility not always be provided and thus figured into the base price? Does adhering to HTML Spec for example cost a premium price?

If the client doesn't give a crap about it, in the end, a competitor will offer the service without these costs added in, and will win the bidding wars. Adhering to the spec by itself does not guarantee accessibility.

It's not a question of "should it cost something?", but "does it cost something?", and it does.
Unlike learning a language, blindness is not something which can be overcome with education.
One wonders about the "fluency" of whoever wrote that requirement...
reports on another article, which already had a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19438052