skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is completely reasonable to optimize for the vast majority typing 'mouse' and potentially misspelling it. Also "mousr petronics" shows up as the 1st choice in the autocomplete when typing "mousr".

This is probably one of those products that can and should have its own website and sell from there or link directly to Amazon instead.
Boeing has made nearly 100 flights to test a 737 MAX software update, CEO says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name#Difficulty_of_re...
your Grubhub number is referring to Q4'17...
I like this a lot! What a great evolution of Postgresl/SQL. I also love what you do for the Python/asyncio ecosystem. Congratulations on the release!

Their is one point I'd like to address, though. It's still a real pain to write queries from within other programming languages. You either write them within strings, which sucks, because you lose all support from the editor (highlighting, auto-formatting, auto-suggestions, etc.), or you use an ORM, which I think is not a good solution to the problem. If you want to boost "developer ergonomics", make editor plugins for EdgeQL first class citizens. My 2 cents. :)
And as much as people used to hate taxis, the tide is turning to people hating Uber/Lyft more...mainly due to trying to kill passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists at a greater rate since the drivers aren't professionals and rarely know the city they're driving in.
Very interesting article.

And co-authored by one of the original artists of the Garbage Pail Kids back in the 80’s!
On the contrary, I think a recession - and hence a discount in asset prices - is good for people.
> There are more things to solve than just "the least amount of pollution and space."

The argument I was responding to was that self-driving cars would be sufficiently more efficient users of space that it would obviate the need for public transport. This was demonstrably false.

> But now you're punishing passengers that start a shift at noon.

Sure, but (a) that's a financial question, not a capacity question and (b) rush hour is when both finance and capacity collide.

Public transport is a more efficient option per passenger-kilometre and per square metre of road or cubic metre of tunnel than self-driving cars. It is always going to be. Self-driving cars will have other virtues and will reshape transportation, but ascribing magical powers to them does nobody any good, especially if it leads to defunding of subways and buses.
Do you have any details about what those changes in the law were? Sounds interesting.
but did he grow Expedia's marketshare relative to its competitors?
The 90s also had the Weights mailing list. It was moderated so always a pretty respectful place but the advent of web based forums ended it.
yup, that's what i thought. i generally tend to use a construct simiar to 'error_or' though. that wrapped within a macro (^^) makes the whole invokation quite bearable
I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another.

There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well.

"Results for Mousr ..."
"Results for Mouse ..."

etc
No different than airlines. You are only as profitable as your dumbest competitor- someone wise once said
It's actually not possible.

There are some cases where the kanji characters are only used for the meaning and have literally no contribution to the pronunciation.

That is why every Japanese service provider will ask you for the pronunciation, without fail.
Potemkin AI (2018)
Is Your Electric Bill Too High?
That’s why japanese people sometimes when introducing themselves also mention the kanjis because of the wildly different readings. There is literally no way knowing the reading if the user doesn’t provide it.
Yes, they are all written the same. This is not too much of an issue as not only do sites like Amazon ask for the pronunciation of your name, most any important paper form would have it as well. In more informal contexts you would just have to ask the person how to pronounce the name. We often need to do this in English with unusual or foreign names.
The only people that think it's painful are the folks who keep telling us we need to switch. We know the measurements we use pretty well, and even then there are plenty of things already measured in metric.

Plus, it's not like everyone else has fully switched. The UK still seems perfectly comfortable talking about weight in stones and all their cars measure speed in mph just like the US.
They used to show tank footage more. IIRC they don't any more for secrecy reasons (government request?). Managing fuel in the tank is probably non-trivial.
Thank you!

> You either write them within strings, which sucks, because you lose all support from the editor (highlighting, auto-formatting, auto-suggestions, etc.), or you use an ORM, which I think is not a good solution to the problem. If you want to boost "developer ergonomics", make editor plugins for EdgeQL first class citizens. My 2 cents. :)

Yes, that's exactly what we are going to do. We'll obviously add a query builder to edgedb-python and other language bindings. We also plan to reflect the DB schema to your language of choice so that the query builder is fully typed. Then IDEs will have no problem with auto-completing your code.

Another thing we're considering is implementing the Language Server Protocol for EdgeDB.
To solve the problem in a robust way, the C library has to be part of the target. For example on Debian Linux, glibc is the native libc. On Alpine Linux, musl is the native libc. In LLVM terminology, this is the "C ABI environment" part of the "target triple".

If your compiler supports cross compiling, you might look into the strategies that Zig does[1]. If it only supports native builds, you probably want to detect the native libc. Again here it might be useful to look at what Zig does[2].

[1]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.4.0/release-notes.html#Zig-sh...
[2]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.4.0/release-notes.html#Libc-D...
Which national US bank or investment company has an app you find “barely usable”? The only one that comes to mind is Vanguard and that fits my mental model they’ve cultivated of keeping costs low on extraneous things so in a perverse way is a positive.
Reading about this reminds me of Dawn Wall. The guy who climbed it was absolutely one of the best climbers in the world, but the reason he was the one to succeed was because he was the one of those best climbers who spent seven years obsessed with a single wall.

She became interested in this problem in high school and stuck with it all the way through. She is a genius, and also the genius who did the work that let this happen.
Taxis have a damaged brand and no clear way to repair it at scale.
Firefox requires that extension files be signed by Mozilla if you want to install a .xpi file from a website. They don't have to be given a spotlight, but this effectively makes it impossible for anyone who doesn't know how to manually compile and install the extension to even use it.
I actually made a serious attempt at learning the Four-Corner Method for kanji [0] and it was very frustrating. It would be difficult to determine what parts of the kanji belonged to which corner, and which exact shape they corresponded to. And strokes wouldn't always be interpreted the way I thought they'd be since it's based on a handwritten representation of the character. Many characters also have multiple FC numbers! The FC method was never meant to uniquely identify specific characters, but just to help narrow down a list of candidates in a dictionary. Funnily enough, I also argue something similar in this thread that has the same drawbacks :)

[0]: Because I was interested in typing characters while not actually knowing the kanji. The Tagaini Jisho app (https://www.tagaini.net/) was indispensable because it lets you search on multiple parameters including partial FC # and simpler methods like SKIP codes (http://nihongo.monash.edu/SKIP.html). The only characters I couldn't transcribe with this method were those printed so small that the individual strokes were difficult to make out.
That's what they would like you to think. When Wikipedia gets in trouble with the law it usually complies quietly and under the table. Public "office actions", as they call it, are used when the Wikipedia Foundation wants to shine a spotlight on a perceived injustice.
Because this is a public market? One of things you expect companies to do, ethically speaking, is to provide honest information wherever possible. If Lyft used financial engineering to boost their IPO price, while they get money in loads while the average Joe loses.
The letter says that 3rd party sellers have been doing just as good as Amazon.
Also nothing stops a “low tech” competitor from skimming local price information from a larger rival and automating their matching. The pricing has to be publicized or else how else would the drivers know?
That is the standard library, TBOX is just a third-party library, providing some easy-to-use cross-platform modules.
Sorry, I should have said "pragmatic functional". Pure functional is borderline useless. Push the impurity (I/O, Infrastructure, UI) to the outer edges of whatever application you're making. Any popular functional language will make purity easy and idiomatic, but will also make the ugly parts possible, albeit a little verbose, to encourage avoidance.

Was it easy to learn how to do OOP well? If you're looking to move away from OOP, are you sure you ever learned how to do it well? I've been doing OOP for 20 years and I've found far more practical application from functional ideas than any design patterns I've come across.

You don't have to go all in on any paradigm, you can mix and match. The parts of any system should be small. If the part is easier to design in OOP (UI comes to mind), then use that. If the part is just manipulating data (just about everything else comes to mind) functional can be very nice.
>occasionally asking foreigners to enlist for US military service

Only if there is a draft.
If a headline said “the man who discovered the cure” you wouldn’t think they were making a big deal out of his gender. You only see it as being attention-seeking because you are experiencing cognitive dissonance, and you are blaming it on their language instead of your mental patterns.
Flexport is hiring senior data engineers to model the world's trade data
[this is Venkat from Rockset]

Our goal is to make the default experience simple so that you get enough compute to build most real-world apps and dashboards. We still give you flexibility in case you want to purchase additional compute for ingest or queries. We will make this clear in our pricing page -- thanks for the feedback.

> - What do I do if I need more QPS?
Barring extreme workloads (say 1 million QPS on 1 GB of data) for which we are not a good fit anyway, we auto-scale enough compute to handle the QPS needs of most real-world applications. As I mentioned earlier, if you want to break out of the standard compute allocation, then we do offer ability to purchase additional compute, but from our experience, this is seldom required.

> - What do I do if I need to ingest more data.
Yes, you can purchase additional ingest bandwidth if you need a higher steady state ingest capacity. Please note that the bandwidth limit only applies to real-time streaming ingest — for bulk ingest (for example: the first time a collection is created in Rockset sourced from Amazon S3) we try to build the indexes at much higher speeds and will keep working on making that really really fast without any additional fees.
Shared CSS can be dealt with using @import.
Her existence is not a distraction from the science, and her being a her definitely isn’t. If it distracted you, that sounds like a you problem. You could try spend time reading about various women’s accomplishments until their gender is simply a fact rather than a “distraction”.
Sure, and the speed at which a cloud of hydrogen-oxygen will release energy after ignition is very rapid indeed.
Welp, progress, I guess.

How are they going to handle all those planes?
Hilarious! Reminds me of the classic Fark streetlight thread, which sadly has lost all of it's images looks like:

https://www.fark.com/comments/2618004/WTF-did-I-just-take-a-...
We have been using a small bit of glue code to write Web Components declaratively with Snabbdom for a couple of years at Mixpanel: https://github.com/mixpanel/panel. Happy to talk further about our experience!
>In English, the logo goes with their saying: “Everything from A to Z.” This is indicated by the arrow. But in Japan, and any other country that doesn’t use English, A and Z aren’t always the first and last letters of the alphabet.

This is grasping for straws.

a) Many English speakers/countries are unfamiliar with the meaning of the logo's arrow.
b) They will get the meaning if explained.
c) Some won't because A-Z standing for "everything" requires a given level of literacy (cf. alpha and omega)
d) They will get it easily when explained because it's a simple concept.

Japanese people learn the English alphabet pretty early on in school and while some may not be familiar with the saying A-Z the logo and the meaning still perfectly works and would get an aha reaction when explained.
NYC has ~60,000 buildings. Less than 1% of them are deliberately left empty by their owners. It’s a very different situation in a city which can make use of that space as demonstrated by the low vacancy rate.

That mall does have people shopping in it. In terms of retail square footage it’s underutilized but a long way from empty. Good or bad investment they are not building 3 of them next to each other while the first is far from full.

Really, you have some edge cases with people trying to time the market, deal with zoning or lawsuits etc. But, that’s different from seeing 6 empty apartment buildings and saying let’s build another one.
The lit-plugin VS Code extension provides type-checking and code-completion for lit-html temptlates. The approach can be adopted for a tsc plugin.
I have the same problem with global styles when using Web Components. Using @import in the components to include the shared style files solve the problem.
Reminds me of NPM been blocked in China so CNPM appears to mirror nodejs packages.

CNPM is now better known as https://npm.taobao.org/

What's there to prevent private organizations censorships?
All of these prevent access to your data, which is why lockout is a problem in the first place.
#3 Just argumentatively, it seems a bit like an ad hominem. Yes buzzfeed does tracking and everything but that doesn't make their argument against Google/Facebook any less valid.
> You're not accounting for the space between trains.

NYC's least efficient system is block train control, requiring 300M separation between trains.

In 300M you can fit about 66 Corollas, again packed bumper to bumper. That's 66 * 5 people = 330 people, or approximately 1.5 subway cars.

Subway trains are 6 or 8 subway cars long, depending on track and time of day.

With CTBC some platforms can run at 60 trains per hour (30 local, 30 express). That's 8 subway cars every 2 minutes, or approximately 1,000 people per minute.

To move 1,000 people at all with the Corollas you will need 250 * 4.55M of them, or approximately 1.1 kilometres of cars, bumper to bumper.
> soon can license the self driving tech

My personal guess is that "soon" for fully autonomous cars is not any reasonable definition of soon. Even if you accept the tech is close to okay in Arizona (I wouldn't), think about the weather and driving conditions in most of the worlds' markets for these global companies.
The database itself looks neat, but wasn’t at all what I expected from the name EdgeDB. At the moment, “edge” usually refers to edge computing, i.e. running code in many data centres around the world, near to their users.

I expected EdgeDB to be a database suitable for edge computing, namely able to run globally, near the edge compute nodes, and replicate data with eventual consistency.
I don't think Boston Dynamics and people in general truly understand how disruptive single-purpose robots can be to the economy. There a many jobs that are very repetitive and need very little brains.

A highly intelligent robot would be revolutionary but creating an inexpensive yet reliable robot that can be programmed to specialize on a few tasks will be a revolution to society.

That should be the focus for robot makers.
You don't need people to make that point, Uber agrees to it too:

The personal mobility, meal delivery, and logistics industries are highly competitive, with well-established and low-cost alternatives that have been available for decades, low barriers to entry, low switching costs, and well-capitalized competitors in nearly every major geographic region. If we are unable to compete effectively in these industries, our business and financial prospects would be adversely impacted.
I argued for a similar case last year[1], however the missing piece right now is updating state in a clean way. Web Components definitely won't replace current front-end frameworks, but combined with ES Modules the web is getting to a good place for resuable primitives. :)

[1] https://andrewrabon.com/the-case-for-react-like-web-componen...
“Women and children” is a phrase for a reason: men tend to treat both patronizingly, rather than identifying with them.

Imagine you had just had your invention create a picture of a black hole, you wrote the paper where you were the first author describing this and then the press came knocking: would you be as gracious as she has been? Or would you feel like the fucking rockstar you would, in fact, be?
If Mozilla won't sign it, you have to install it manually. [0]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Dis...
I'm a big SpaceX fan, and I don't think most people are stupid. For more people to care, SpaceX needs to launch more significant payloads. A communications satellite is humdrum. Shooting a car into space is about as cool as dumping a car into the ocean.

Space telescopes, Mars rovers, Moon missions, these are the cool parts. Exploration! If SpaceX lowers costs enough to give of us more of these missions, then people will care. They've only maybe just started to make an impact, with Beresheet.
"Modular Windows"

As used for the Tandy VIS, MS's first console.

http://www.computercloset.org/TandyVIS.htm
thanks.

'cloud hardware' was definitely LOL worthy. ... brb after i go fix it :)
I think most people can safely and happily live their lives without having to know there is a Tesla floating in space.
Lol, a couple sentences about a well defined notion (monopoly) is not a “significant effort”
?

If anything I feel I have to watch my words on HN, compared to when I speak with people living around me or people at places I've lived before.

HN also feels extremely safe compared to certain other places I've visited online.
You are delusional, as a car driver you are using trillions of dollars of infrastructure paid for by cyclists. When are you going to start paying for what you use? That is why I love toll roads so much, for once car drivers almost pay their way. You still don't pay for the pollution you cause, or the damage to do killing people.
One of the most interesting things I see about Uber/Lyft's IPO has been their risk factors which says:

Our business would be adversely affected if Drivers were classified as employees instead of independent contractors.
No compilation necessary. You just download the addon source, flip on the "debug plugins" option, and point it at the manifest file.

Still a pain in the ass.
I disagree with the premise that it is possible to overblow the news about a picture of a black hole. What kind of crappy nerd thinks science is getting too much press!?!!
Oh, got it, I will modify headers.

Thanks.
The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."
It's tongue-in-cheek. I think it's dumb that criticizing hubris in the manner seen in this comment thread is seen as hateful just because hubris is part of someone's culture.
Yes, you are stupid and should become part of the problem. Be part of the industry of drivers, that are responsible for 40,000 deaths every year in the US.
> "I don't think we need new complicated technologies to solve the kinds of problems React solves. If anything, we need less, like an alternative to the current DOM model."

It seems to me as if you're saying:

"We don't need new complicated technologies."

"Also, we need a new, complicated replacement to the time-tested DOM."

This probably wasn't the intent but it exposes the need for web components to be built the way they are: progressively enhanced from what's already standardized in browsers. Web components really aren't that complex, and comparing them to React in this way is a disservice.
I think that if you're going to compare your library to GLib, then at least a basic comparison of features, side by side, should be available
great, more browser vendor lockin

we've learned nothing from IE6 nor activex

but 'trust us'
Article's actual title is much more descriptive: "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project"
The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius
Draft isn’t asking, so maybe it’s periodic “hey would you like to be in the army?”
Ah yes, the quantum DOM.
This is censorship, pure and simple. Gab, and Dissenter itself for that matter, are apolitical entitles whose stated goal is to allow any speech so long as it doesn't violate law. Say whatever you want, regardless of your political leanings. Admirable.

Mozilla has made their stance on such a goal clear. I don't believe for a hot second that this wasn't a politically-motivated decision, and it really puts the lie to their claims of protecting "a free and open web".

"Free and open" is diametrically opposed to blocking an addon whose sole purpose is to allow access to a third party web service.
We must move past Capitalism into a more equitable and fair system.
A jury that is 10x more likely to have youth? Not necessarily any more just. That's not right either. Couldn't we just strive for a just jury?
That sounds awesome! :)
Well A) that wiki leaks page directly says it’s speculative and not endorsed directly at the top, and B) that’s related to him being arrested for being involved in this how? Other than character assassination of him? I don’t even think he’s probably a good guy, but I’m amused that most of the criticism of him is ad hominem.
That is some just-so-story that doesn’t present a disprovable hypothesis. There was a better-supported causal hypothesis floating around that exposure to the internet, in particular, turned women off of CS because the culture #onhere was so full of sexism. Try looking up “ambient belonging”: I remember some thing about all you had to do to get more women interested was change the decor to not suggest they were going to have to put up with sexist bullshit if they chose the field.
Not the OP, but I have 7yo and 3yo kids and don't have a license. For as long as we lived in Europe (UK, Belgium and Czech Republic) I felt little need for it - bikes + child trailer served us well most of the time, and we took trains for longer journeys. Now that we moved to New Zealand I'm working on getting a license because while public transport is passable (but far from great) in Auckland, you really do need a car to get the most out of the rest of this beautiful country.
Good for rich people (those with money to spend on assets). Absolutely not good for most people.