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Yes, that is the idea. But you can "white label" legislation too. What's stopping "you" (in the broader sense) from simply competing with ALEC?

Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for. But that doesn't mean they're good at drafting the actual laws, or, for that matter, recruiting and managing the people who are.

And as regards the malign influence of corrupt special interests --- at least model legislation is potentially traceable. How is it better for a chemical company and a legislative staff to strike a deal in a smoke-filled back room and then have the staff write a bill de novo?
> People making $50k per year are not in the 50% marginal tax bracket.

You're not counting state and local taxes and benefits phase outs. The benefits phase outs are a bear -- for low and middle income people they often exceed the taxes.

> I would be willing to wager there is almost nobody making $50k who drives to work in lower Manhattan by themselves.

To wear a suit and work in an office? No, probably not. But many service workers don't get paid very well and nonetheless work in Manhattan. And it's hard for people making that amount of money to afford to live in Manhattan either -- because there isn't enough housing there.

> They would already be priced out by the current tolls and parking.

This is why the current tolls are also bad. (And Uber and Lyft have got a solution for the parking.)

But what about the principle is dependent on the income level to begin with? It's just an example. Isn't it also bad to force out the person making $70,000 who then takes another job somewhere else for $60,000?

How is congestion pricing better than building enough housing in the city that everyone who works there can afford to live there instead of having to commute in?
>Having less cars drives up the value of land, making land more expensive for everyone

You just repeated what he said... while also repeating it again. I want to know how having less cars drives up the value of land.
After having tried it exclusively for 1 month, I absolutely loath public transport and would never use it if I had another choice.

And I think it should be free for everyone.

I would even support being taxed in order to expand it. (Improving it isn't possible IMO.)

CMV: Roads are free, why shouldn't public transport be free?

Being able to get around should be one of those services governments provide, and they should provide people with choices in how they prefer to get around. (Different people like different things, I hate public transport, but other people don't.)
Thanks! Feel free to play around with it - and of course any feedback is much appreciated (GitHub, email or on our Slack channel https://join.slack.com/t/ampligraph/shared_invite/enQtNTc2NT.... I was not aware of pytorch-biggraph. Looks cool. It's good to see there's a lot going on in graph representation learning!
Ah... the royal “they”. Both sides, etc.
You'd want to flag the 95 or 99 percentile instead of the top 50 percent.
To use a restaurant analogy, if you are a chef, and you are opening a new restaurant, you should focus more on the problem of devising the best recipes and experience for your customers, rather than on whether your kitchen has a high-end cooking stove.
Yes. But it doesn't include full control deflections and certainly not control deflections in opposition to one another. Even at Va rapid control movements and control movements in multiple axes can permently damage the aircraft.
This is a very good point.

Car Salesmen like a fast-and-efficient customer. The faster they deal with you, the faster they can move to a different customer. Come in efficient, and you'll be treated fine.
someone once told me you can coast forever after a big hit in the tech world. doesn't seem to be the case these days unless you jump from ship to ship.
We have this. It's called a Federal Reserve Note. You may have seen them before.

CityLab is beyond parody. Yes, sure, the real problem with public transit is that jet-setting tourists have to install new apps on their iPhoneX in each city they visit.
The United States needs decent public transit.

A universal payment system serves those who travel between cities/states. Decent public transit serves everyone who commutes every day in the same city, even those who don't use the service. I imagine the second group is larger than the first.
Or the best give you all the flexibility you could ever need and allow you the freedom to write readable and maintainable code or use all the features to write an insanely terse oneliner that can do the job quickly and be thrown out.
The "greedy bunch of assholes" are the Boeing execs who optimized for profit over the lives of those pilots and their passengers. (I thought that was pretty clear from the comment, fwiw.) I think it's been pretty thoroughly established at this point that an underlying design constraint in the MCAS was that it was easier for Boeing to get a 737-with-modifications approved than a new airplane, despite the engines being configured rather differently from existing 737s, and the MCAS was a computerized hack to avoid instability caused by the design of the newer engines (specifically, the newer engines would risk pitching up and stalling if you flew a 737 MAX like a normal 737, so they added the MCAS to counteract that, and the problem in both crashes was the MCAS unnecessarily activated and pitched the plane down when the plane was actually flying fine). Certainly lots of other things went wrong too, but had they instead just built a new plane design, the problem wouldn't have arisen in the first place. (I can find links about this if you're curious but it seems to be the consensus interpretation of what happened.)
“Why, what fast payments you have!”

All the better to track you with, my dear.

Those drive by toll scanners are great for paying tolls. Also really great for recording, for all time, everyone who drives under them.

Standardizing a fare payment system just does the same for mass transit.

Not that there aren’t programs to add facial recognition in all these spaces which could be good enough, but why make it easy?

Until there’s a Federal privacy framework which limits the amount and duration of information the government can collect, and some reason to believe the NSA, DEA, and FBI are actually adhering to those agreements, above and beyond admissibility in court, I am staunchly opposed to any of these systems in the name of efficiency.

It needs to be illegal to use these tolling systems for surveillance, because the next “gas tax” is squaring up to be a GPS based mileage tax.
Not a surprise--they've found too many lawyers for terrorists were helping the terrorists.
You are disgusting
Radicalization to Terrorism Occurs in the United States
80? The file format is 94 char fixed width, and it's based on the track specs of 9 track mainframe tape.
Back in the early oughts', I believe the chap that ran... A prominent Mac/Apple review site got to experience what Apple's customer support looked like for someone making too many warranty claims.

I think his Mac had an issue with his screen + latch. He sent it in, and made the grave mistake of having sent too many items for repairs. (He was spending tens of thousands of dollars a year on various pieces of hardware, that he reviewed for his site. And, naturally, he had a few returns/repairs, among the many, many items he ordered.)

The tl;dr of his story was that he had to mail it in three times, Apple didn't fix any of the under-warranty problems, and, as a final cherry-on-top, completely broke his laptop's latch.

He, of course, documented this entire adventure, along with a video where he keeps trying to close his laptop, while parroting Apple's response of 'nothing wrong with the latch'.

Sadly, the internet being what it is, this has all link-rotted away.
> This would have to be a Federal program

No it wouldn't, though that would be an option. Common standards for public services don't even necessarily require a formal direct agreement between all participants, much less a central mandate.

> and it doesn't fall under their purview to provide such a program

That's... debatable. Providing for post roads (which is an important use of most public roads) is an explicit federal mandate, and promoting efficiency in the shared uses of such roads is certainly closely-enough tied to the that function to be a legitimate pursuit as part of it; tying such a standard to, e.g., federal infrastructure funding is very hard to view as illegitimate.
To me this comment is not a response to the article.

The article isn’t asking why use Dynamo vs SQL in the context of the traditional NoSQL vs SQL way

It’s why Dynamo vs QLDB.

Or why Cloud Firestone vs Cloud Spanner.

Or Firehose + some lambda functions vs EMR

It’s wholly separate of the managed angle and focuses on the actual complexity of the products involved and the trade offs therein.

In the surface the two sound similar, but there’s much more nuance to this article's point (take the example of Dynamo, the author isn’t opposed to it for being NoSQL, they’re opposed to it for low level technical design choices that are a poor fit for the problem their client had)
> makes esports players look softer than soft.

I'm not sure why this is... an opinion at all? They do different things. Nobody compares an NBA player to (for example) Ronnie O'Sullivan and says he's softer than soft - even if the difference is similar. Why be judgemental like that about eSports?
Because Australia is part of the 5 eyes. Any backdoor put in place would have been blessed by some three letter agency from the US already. Any firm that can pay the wages I expect will have a government contract and lawyers on staff who understand how this works.
I’m all for gaming and you can see my posts defending it but I don’t know who you can say this with confidence.

People love different things. It’s how you get masters at different crafts. Some people love solving things and some love creating... programming is both of those.
> From 05:40:42 to 05:43:11 (about two and a half minutes), the stabilizer position gradually moved
in the AND direction from 2.3 units to 2.1 units. During this time, aft force was applied to the
control columns which remained aft of neutral position. The left indicated airspeed increased from
approximately 305 kt to approximately 340 kt (VMO). The right indicated airspeed was
approximately 20-25 kt higher than the left.

This part is very interesting. This aircraft nose down (AND) trim occurred while the electric trim system was disabled. This means that either the pilots were moving the manual trim wheel in the wrong direction, or that aerodynamic forces were causing significant AND trim.
Manual Stabilizer Trim

Excessive airloads on the stabilizer may require effort by both pilots to correct the
mis-trim. In extreme cases it may be necessary to aerodynamically relieve the
airloads to allow manual trimming. Accelerate or decelerate towards the in-trim
speed while attempting to trim manually.

https://www.pilot18.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/B737NG_FC... page 312 (8.16)
On HN you can say the same things you say anywhere else but GP didn't couch his rant in fancy synonyms and misused Latin phrases like a priori.
I haven't touched a physical dollar bill in multiple years.
You should probably be using the Show HN prefix since you are promoting your own product
Rust not only has some good parts from FP; they are added thoughtfully enough to keep them logically sound. So the fact that there are math-backed theories behind them still matters.

With C++, I can't say the same is true. Some libraries try to alleviate that, of course.
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Having a seat on Google's ethics board is not a platform accessible to the rest of the public.
Where did you look for tuning Postgres? I am interested.
>They couldn't land with the stabilizers mis-trimmed. If the wheel wouldn't budge, re-enabling it and trimming electronically was the only option likely to occur to them, since the only other possible option (release the column, let the plane nose down so that the forces on the screw ease and they can trim manually) is completely counter-intuitive and was removed from Boeing's documentation and simulator training 30-40 years ago and was not covered in the FAA/Boeing MCAS directive.

They could have just kept flying. They weren't in any immediate danger and had time to reach out for help. Worst case scenario, you fly straight for the next 30 minutes while ascending to 20-30k until you figure out what's going on.

>They did use it after re-enabling it.

Not really. The barely blipped it. Not what I would expect if they had a clear intention to re-enable electric trim in order to get the trim to where they wanted it.
Fair enough; I didn’t know that Swarm was used for any large projects because apparently I don’t know how to read or use search engines; I stand corrected!

I guess that backs up my original point even more then; my stupid video streaming server might actually be able to scale to Google size some day :)
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Interesting when taking their other recent hire into consideration: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1122410_apple-hires-away...
It absolutely "can" be but that's wholly separate from making an declarative statement about what reality "is" for people who chose to terminate their romantic relationships or why.

And sorry if you feel that was a "personal attack" because I posited that such an arbitrary and unsubstantiated declaration about the reality of relationships might be coming from a mindset that doesn't give attention to the nuances and idiosyncrasies of relationships or the decisions individuals make in them.
Indeed. Here in Accenture Labs we use it in quite a lot of diverse applicative scenarios. Besides, KG embeddings can be used for other tasks beyond link prediction (e.g. link-based clustering).
I need to stop reading this story until the dust settles because I've read too many outrageous things about this whole deployment...
There's plenty of transferability; watch any of the top FPS streamers (like Shroud) and they're amazingly competitive at just about any shooter they pick up. Fundamentals like quick camera movement, communication, corner-taking, etc transfer across many games.
> "A stick pusher, or a pilot pushing forward on the stick is not enough for the aerodynamics of the 737 MAX in certain circumstances. The position of the engines means the thrust tends to push the nose up, and at low speed, the elevator controlled by the stick alone is not enough to push the nose down when nearing a stall. Instead, the trim must be used, which moves the whole horizontal stabilizer rather than just the elevator. That's not part of the procedure on most aircraft, including other 737s, so regulators would not allow pilots rated for 737s to easily transfer their rating to the new aircraft, if they were willing to certify such an aircraft at all."

I believe this is incorrect. From what I understand, the 737 NGs and 737 MAXes both pitch up when thrust is increased and both may need to be trimmed back to counteract this. The reason MCAS is there is because the characteristics of the MAX are different from NG (that is, the airspeeds and angles of attack at which particular trims are required have changed), making the MCAS system regulatorily necessary, not mechanically necessary. Because either the MAX needs a system that emulates the handling of the NG, or pilots need to be trained specifically for the MAX, and the former is cheaper.

In other words the MAX is not objectively mechanically worse, but rather objectively mechanically different.
"merely agreed" because it's required by the US Constitution
It's got algebraic types, and a typeclasses proposal (with a PR!) was actively worked on, last time I checked.
It is wrong to blame 2 individuals who returned 3000 fake phone in what it's an illegal scam plain and simple?

What's the alternative? Praise them as modern day Robin Hoods?
That's surely because C++ is the language To Rule Them All!

I jest partly, because every time I write something in C# or PHP (even with the half-baked "strong" typing they are introducing), I constantly curse and think how easy it'd be in C++
Not surprising, I often felt you could roll your face across the keyboard and it'd be a valid perl program.
World's first gene-edited lizards are in the pink
What got me was right here.

> day, the Clipper card must handle some 35,000 fare rules that determine how much a Bay Area ride costs.

Just go fully subsidized and stop collecting fares. There problem solved. Seriously the most efficient way to do X is usually don't do X.
And now its gone for me
Software interviews that screen for “builders”
At a professional level, people plateau all the time. They're beaten by people who train less hard but have more talent or ability.

You can work harder and harder at a game but not end up better than someone with superhuman reaction times despite a lot of hard work. Also, the game changes due to patches and content updates - all that work you put in for a year understanding a mechanic might be for nothing at the drop of an update.
The big argument against this (for public transit agencies) is likely transaction fees: it's going to be more expensive for the agency to process a bunch of tiny transactions for each trip than it will be to process relatively few larger transactions when a stored-value card is refilled.

The other obvious downside is more of a logistical thing: credit card transactions need connectivity. With a stored-value card system, transactions don't need a network to clear (everything's happening locally between the card and the reader); this means you don't have big backups if networks go down, you don't have a time lag waiting for transactions to clear, and you can place readers in locations where connectivity isn't guaranteed (like buses).

That said, it's not unheard-of for public transit to take standard contactless credit cards. For example, Transport for London (at least theoretically) takes contactless payment systemwide.
Agree on the consensus.

There's a piece of additional flavor, which is that as I understand it Boeing proposed building a new type of plane as an a320neo competitor, and the airlines announced that they'd only buy it if it's a 737 subtype to avoid having to retrain their pilots. It's not just "Boeing doesn't want to pay for certifications", but also -- and perhaps primarily -- "Airlines don't want to pay for training".

So while Boeing's ultimately responsible for building unsafe aircraft, I could imagine people being angrier at the airlines than Boeing.
>The Chinese accusations are that illegal methods are used. Which is a major difference.

It's really not until the accusations are actually proven to be true. Remember that Bloomberg story about Chinese spy chips in every device on the planet ? Whatever happened to that one? In the current dispute with Huawei, how many accusations are substantiated?

Do the Japanese simply get the benefit of the doubt because we're just taking it on faith that they never cooperated with their government in a country that is notoriously corporatist, but the Chinese we'll just designate as thieves?
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Please don’t pile on.
See you say that, but evolution is a slow process and is ongoing, and is a blind idiot god dancing to a tune which has no consistent time signature.

Unless a mutation is heritable enough/commonly occurring enough, and useful enough when it is only a minor change it won't be selected for. It might continue on and become useful eventually anyway if it isn't a detriment and that genetic line just happens to continue.

Why do our bodies age? Because a collection of little mutations that are only detrimental years after reproductive maturity it turns out don't have a huge impact on the survival of those genes.

Why can't we see as many colours as bees? Evolution figured that out for them.

Why hasn't evolution figured out how to give us night vision or an extra set of clear eyelids like camels have? Those would be useful. Animals exist with all those traits so they are entirely possible. If you're objection is "evolution would have figured it out" you only need look to the animal kingdom and see how crappy humans are in lots of ways to realize that is a pretty crappy objection
(lambda (a b) (/ a b)) is not "a large code base".
The FBAR is the worst--there is very little difference between what you report to the IRS and what you report on the FBAR. If they actually need something that's not on the IRS form then add it to the IRS form. Take the FBAR out and shoot it.
Depending on the version, you might be served by using MIN_BY(x,y) or MAX_BY(x,y). Returns the min(max) value of x for group y.
I really like this comment because I agree and was trying to write a comment that said this but not in a toxic way. People act like Hacker News is some bastion of discourse that is raised above the rest of the internet but it's not. Most of the comments I read are people stroking their ego's and enjoying the echo chamber.
Many, to answer your question.
> The big argument against this (for public transit agencies) is likely transaction fees: it's going to be more expensive for the agency to process a bunch of tiny transactions for each trip than it will be to process relatively few larger transactions when a stored-value card is refilled.

Yeah, though I think they could negotiate better fees given the volume (not that I think public transit authorities tend to be good at much at all without considerable public interest). I guess time will tell.

Here in Canada, I think average merchant fees for the credit part are less than 1% overall, not sure if that would end up being such a big issue; especially when compared with the cost of administering a whole new system (anti-money-laundering, fraud detection, security, development, integration, support etc. etc).
I opened the print dialog, and discovered that this short piece would take 65 pages to print. Yes, that is a sign that the width of the text block is absolutely ridiculous.

I couldn't figure out what's going on with my laptop, because the inspector short-circuited this goofy behavior. On a larger screen, I notice that the ".card-content" div has a ridiculous 150px of padding. It is nested in a ".card.blog-content-card" div, which has an atrocious 200px of margin. That in turn is nested in a ".blog-post-container.container" div, which has a merely unseemly 93px margin.

After 886px is used for white space, there's not much screen left for text. Might want to fix that?
I worked at a company that used sqlite on a fairly data-intensive app until it had around 2500 paying customers, with something like 600 of those customers being active, heavy users.

Scaling and availability started to kneecap our customers left and right so we migrated to postgres. It was a world of difference. When customers had specials and sent piles of traffic to their stores, they'd stay online the whole time. Everyone slept better.

As much as I disliked that specific use of sqlite, I learned a ton about how awesome it is and came to really love the software behind it. It was also super impressive that it took the company so far, both in terms of the efforts the devs made and sqlite itself.
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It is indeed. There was a big incident recently when a player mentioned in an interview that he and all his teammates were using Adderall during the tournament.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gvy7b3/counter-st...
I wasn't a programmer at the gaming company - more of a producer type. I went into programming after for less hours and more work/life flexibility. I'd never program for 65hrs/week, but it was very possible to do my production job that much - the problem is I didn't go on a date for half a year, and my work became the entire bit of my life.
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