skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had stumbled onto an impact of horses in cities that doesn't get mentioned as often as the manure problem: their deaths and their carcasses. Instead of being lovingly cared for and gently used, horses used in urban transport apparently were badly treated and lived briefly. And their use left the streets a very unwelcome place for pedestrians.

This wayback link[1] comes from the Wikipedia article on horse cars [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140124204000/http://www.uctc.n...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsecar
There are two completely separate lines of Minecraft ("Java Edition" for PCs vs "Bedrock Edition" for PCs/game consoles/...), so they've done a rewrite, but not dared kill off the original product, because they aren't compatible.
The jupyter support in VSCode is working very well.

I submitted this a week ago, but too bad nobody cared. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19794865
Yes, exactly, so that data is encrypted on the server using a key that is in Apple's possession.
Well, given how Western governments behaved when their private-sector real estate went into a bubble and caused a historic financial crash...
Direct brain d]stimulation - Is there a tldr on therapies and electrically stimulate the brain?

I know there were interesting clues, but is there a consensus on what it's prospects look like as of 6/2019?
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(which I'm sure you all have in your email anyway)
And yet, they have one of the few FOSS products that can compete with any of its rivals on quality alone (the only one I can think of actually).
Why won't a $5B fine deter Facebook? That's a huge amount of money, even to Facebook. More importantly: it is almost surely a giant multiple of the revenue Facebook obtained from the specific behavior that violated the consent decree.
More lower income jobs is not the same as low quality job growth. It’s great to see job growth at the lower income spectrums, which ultimately leads to wage growth in that same area of the curve.

There is no reasonable interpretation of our current nearly decade long run of employment numbers that is anything less than gangbusters. The US economy is literally the envy of the entire world right now.
SO you are saying that it's ok for an American citizen to be forced to relocate because their parents couldn't be given a permanent visa after 17 years? Sure my daughter might be able to thrive but why?
Given that you lack basic understanding of how advertising works, the rest of your argument is moot.
"Not having anything to hide" isn't a great argument because some people, for completely legitimate reasons, do have something to hide. It could be an abused person hiding from their abuser. It could be somebody with strong political views entering an unfriendly territory. There's reasons for privacy and it should be protected.

That said, there's also much value in allowing this data to be free. Google are open about their business model (and they always have been), and provide services that make use of it.

I do think it's funny when people accuse them of "harvesting data" or "surveilling" people. That's just using emotional language to paint a more sinister picture than is warranted, and it's rampant on HN unfortunately.

Try to watch out for extremist positions on both sides of the debate. Reality is more nuanced.
I don't have the clear data but I know people that work on obtaining them and making them open (from local universities). I would like to use this method together with other methods, so even poorer performance than other methods could help - provide certainty in some uncertain edge cases, for example

The big question is whether the signal detectable on the outside of skull is closely correlated with what's going on inside
I recently experimented with using org-babel blocks with AWS Athena queries in them (and evaluating them into :result blocks with C-c C-c) instead of putting the queries into my shell history.

The nice thing about this setup is I can keep notes really easily alongside the queries, and the output is right there in the :results blocks. It's kind of like a jupyter / ipython notebook, but for _any command_.
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There are plenty of motorcycles with belt drive, the suspension doesn't seem to be a problem.
It's also not like Minecraft at all
We used to have GPIO ports in all computers including laptops via the parallel port.
Sure, but as seen many times in the comments here, even 'technical' HN posters seem to not understand the differece.
I do hope American companies begin to wise up and realize that though China may be one of the largest markets, it is essentially worth $0 to a foreign company. The Chinese government will not, repeat, will not allow a non-Chinese controlled company to win long term. In the short term a foreign company may be allowed to achieve some success but at the cost of IP; I'll leave out the ethical considerations.

Maybe the realpolitik suggests that companies should continue to try in China since the alternative is further isolation between China and the Western world which may hasten hostilities? I just can't fathom why a company like Google still wants to work in China, they'll make product and IP concessions to the Chinese government and will either lose Google China autonomy or be replaced wholesale by a Chinese company. Where is the shareholder value?
I wouldn't be surprised if most of that difference in feel could be explained by frame rigidity rather than weight. I love my steel frame but I know it's not super efficient.
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The real mind bender with AA is that you always play as Americans, but to your opponents you look like terrorists and vice versa. Nobody thinks he is the bad guy, but to the other team everyone looks like a bad guy! When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Stallman's great work came from Xanadu secrecy (2002)
As much as I like iOS, I agree with you and I am still waiting for a good ad-blocking solution.

But I am not sure it's ever going to come. Many smaller devs and studios publish free apps which they monetise only with ads. Not sure Apple wants to scare off millions of developers by officially streamlining app ad-blocking.

On iOS, VPN remains the only good choice so far, sadly.
which is why you use iMessage whenever possible
"Production" is a very broad set of environments, many of which containers are completely irrelevant for. For some developers, the answer to your question is "ClickOnce" because they're building a Windows Forms application that is critical to their business.
and a more jupyter-centric agree/reply by Tony Hirst:

https://blog.ouseful.info/2017/11/15/programming-meh-lets-te...
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Heheh, more like they've taken it OFF support - but anyways, have you seen the way to install Mozilla's intermediate certificate on older versions? It seems like that one actually solves it! :)))

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkspmk/addons_fix_...
How do they keep the bearings from skipping over the rear gear/disk? That disk and driveshaft would have to be extremely stiff to avoid flexing, especially in lower gears where the contact point is further out, and it looks like just a couple millimeters of flex will give enough space to skip.
> In addition to the no-surprise explanation of the "tax cut" not being an actual cut at all for most people

Justify that statement please. Every single study of the 2017 tax cuts has shown that the vast majority of Americans did in fact get a tax cut. Every. Single. One. Even the New York Times admits as much. Either you haven't really looked in to this at all, or you've bought some policital rally baloney that is completey ungrounded in truth.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/business/economy/income-t...
Bit of hypocrisy on the part of the author for publishing on this platform....

The comment section of this article:
"Our discussions are powered by Disqus, which require JavaScript. "
So, you conclude that breathing faster is the only effect of increased environmental CO2?
For what it's worth, I upvoted the 'story' because I never heard of such a thing and it looks really cool. While I'm a little sad to read that this kind of thing doesn't actually really help, it's not that unexpected. Still, it looks neat, and once the price comes down (I didn't see any prices but I'm guessing it's hundreds for a few metal parts), I might want to play around with such a bike to see for myself. It's a little like other gadgets/gimmicks. (Some gadgets have use, others don't really.)
Google is a few years older, wiser and has far greater political clout. Being older, google went through what facebook is going through a few years ago. So they are much more savvy and also much more powerful ( politically at least ). I suspect Facebook is spenting their billions buying lobbyists, politicians and media/pr as we speak, just like google did. And microsoft did before them.
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We track unemployment (at several different levels). Isn't the relevant question how many people don't have a job? Or are under-employed?
The fares/wages aren't fixed and change due to market conditions, just like in almost every other industry with a commoditized market. Drivers are truly commoditized, so their wages should compete down towards the prevailing wage for unskilled labor in India (or at least for chauffeur wages). It isn't a surprise at all and doesn't seem immoral.

The real injustice is the financially binding contracts the drivers signed for their vehicles. I work at Fair Financial, and we are Uber's primary partner to get drivers into cars in the US. Our cars don't have any long-term commitment so drivers can return them whenever they want. Thus, if the pay isn't good enough from Uber, they don't feel trapped and simply can decide it isn't worth it and walk away.
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> That, plus the weird way to authenticate doing /msg Nickserv identify. That might be just how the server I was connecting to was implemented, but it felt fucky.

That's what SASL has been for for over a decade nowadays :)

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> Protonmails worthless encryption

Can you elaborate on that, please?
I don't know. It seems to me that prices of most consumer goods have crashed so incredibly in my lifetime that it is almost unbelievable. I went into Wal-Mart today, and there is stuff on the shelves that I would have thought incredible luxuries twenty years ago selling for $15.

Combine with an aging population, that has amassed a considerable amount of "stuff" over their lifetimes, we may be getting close to peak household consumption.
My point is that I've lived here long enough (in 4 years, I'd have lived here longer than I lived in my home country) and I still have to wait an indefinite amount of time to become a permanent resident. I've been here 17 years and I'm still a 'temporary' worker. 15 years in the industry, >$500k/yr compensation and I've oversee a budget of $5 million.
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Sorry, I was referring to "sponsored stories", or other paid content that is not immediately recognizable as an ad. This is often referred to as "Native Advertising" in the industry.
How about we just keep using the original bald yellow smiley faces? No race, no gender, just emoticons.
Who knows why you're being down-voted, you're not wrong. The economics of electric vehicles with million mile chassis and 300k mile batteries (going to 1m mile design life in Teslas next year) are incredible.

I enjoy riding motorcycles because the performance per dollar has been unrivaled. However, the Model 3 Performance (heck, even the dual motor Model 3) is really incredible - it can sprint to 60 mph in ~3 seconds and it consumes very little energy per mile in regular driving.

Once used Model 3s with full self driving are available for less than $30k, I'm going to strongly consider one. The only reason I haven't bought one outright is because I may come to find it makes more sense just to use the Tesla network for when I need a car.

I run top-of-the-line tires on my motorcycle, doing so costs me around $0.06/mile, for the price of motorcycle tires I could depreciate a $60k car over 1 million miles! I imagine insurance will eventually favor the Tesla and the Tesla already costs less per mile in 'fuel'.
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> Preventing others from reducing choice is the epitome of anti-freedom.

That's a fallacy of the same sort as party slogans from Nineteen Eighty-Four, just reversed. There they said "Freedom is slavery". What you are saying is "Tyranny is freedom" (since tyrants should be free to oppress). That's simply bunk. Tyranny is not freedom.
> Deutsche Bank recently pointed to the 15 percent year-on-year increase in household interest payments. Levels of payments rising at a similar pace preceded the onsets of the last two recessions.

That's because the Federal Reserve caused the past two recessions. First by allowing an asset bubble to form, then by overreacting and driving the entire economy into recession.

It's strange how Bernanke is lauded as some hero that saved us from the Great Recession. I've heard quite a few smart people, people like James Grant, identify him both the savior from, and a cause of, the Great Recession. Curiously I only hear about their successes in the recovery and not their part in the crash.
>Non-car owners in high density areas are subsidizing car owners in those areas.

Strongly disagree. First off, car ownership is typically expensive in dense areas, and those with enough income to own vehicles are likely paying more in taxes toward these subsidies. Further, many, if not most subsidies for roads come from costs directly associated with ownership, like registration taxes, gas taxes, and toll fees.

Now it may be true that these fees are not enough to cover the full cost of roads in the US[1], but if you consider that both road users and non users derive additional benefits from roads beyond direct use (in the form of cheaper transportation of goods, emergency services, public transportation), and that users pay an additional share of taxes that non users don't, then this subsidy by non users is probably quite small. In any case according to [1] the overall tax burden, not considering offsets by general benefits of roads for non users, is only $597 per household.

1.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Who is doing that, the Chinese?

Any terms to search for? This is the first I am hearing of it.
> NONE of which I consented to Google using.

And that is where you are wrong. You DID consent to this use of the information in your email when you signed up with Google as your email provider. They don't exactly make any secret of the fact that the emails in your account will be data-mined, both for the various assistant features they offer and for their own business purposes, including marketing.

It is not Google's fault that you failed to consider the obvious implications of that consent.

> And additionally, we have constructed a world for ourselves such that not using these services to not expose private information is practically not an option anymore.

You have plenty of options. There are email providers other than Google, and means of communication other than email. Encryption is also widely available for those motivated enough to use it.
"As for what’s pushing households to tap into their rainy-day funds, Deutsche Bank recently pointed to the 15 percent year-on-year increase in household interest payments. Levels of payments rising at a similar pace preceded the onsets of the last two recessions."

That's a pretty far fetched setup when you examine the actual facts of household debt interest payments.

Given the bearish angle of the article, households must be seeing soaring debt interest payment costs, right? They must, the article is pushing that very claim.

Fact: household debt service payments as a share of disposable income were at 40+ year lows, at 9.88% in 4Q2018. That's according to the Federal Reserve.

Since Nixon was President, US households have not struggled less when it comes to debt service costs.

Let's examine how today's figure compares to the past. It must be quite high and indicating a drowning consumer, surely.

During the roaring 1990s, the lowest that ever got was 11.4% in 1998. It was up to 12% by 4Q2000, far beyond where it's at now.

The best it ever got in the 1980s, was 10.2%, in 4Q1980.

Peak economy prior to the great recession, in 2005 and 2006, it was up at 12.5% +/-. Again, far higher than it is now.

In 1Q2013, it was at 10.2%. In 3Q2016, it was up at 10.07%.

Ok, but wait, households must be loading up on debt, right? They must be in terrible shape.

Nope. Total household debt as a percentage of disposable income, is sitting back at 2003 levels, prior to the insanity of the housing bubble. It has seen no large run-up increase yet (typical of what happens leading up to the time just before a recession). Here's what that looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/fWGzgYJ.png

The article is intentionally dropping context.
The claim was that there was no such thing as a traffic jam. I suspect induced demand and bus bunching would cause bus filled traffic jams.
Yeah I don’t buy any of it (full disclosure I and my household are an Apple only household). I’ve been moving away from google services. It’s slow. And it’s tough because most everything they do is so damn good: google search, amazing; google maps, gold standard imo; gmail — eh? It’s rather good. But I would rather a company like Apple study me because currently they’re not in the business of monetizing my every thought, action, or whim. I pay a premium for the hardware and in return I get a company hellbent on privacy so much so that they refused to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist.

So while I often hate that DuckDuckGo’s results are sometimes wildly laughable compared to Google’s I’ll continue supporting privacy first companies and pay a premium to do so before I let my phone be a Google phone.
Two strokes have long gone its all auto 4 strokes now.

And a 50cc Moped or Scooter has an insane MPG its why they are used for deliveries.
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Please enlighten me as to what I'm missing about how advertising works.
First, from an engineering perspective, this product is really cool and maybe for some well-funded Tour de France team it could make sense to test this out. But the price point, the lack of compatibility with components of existing drivetrains and the lack of compelling reasons to make the change, are going to be headwinds to adoption.

On page 3 of their brochure (https://www.ceramicspeed.com/media/2979/driven_brochure.pdf), they're showing 0.5% - 1.0% efficiency gains over a traditional drivetrain that is cross-chained, meaning that if you use a traditional drivetrain correctly (i.e., shifting so as not to cross-chain) the gains are likely significantly smaller.

As ben7799 said, this company is primarily in the business of selling very expensive products that have minimal impact on performance.
Bearish you say? How is that working out for you?

The S&P is up nearly 15% YTD.
> It makes sense that people aren't in a hurry to point out the flaws of what they see as a solution to a problem most don't care much about.

Well, that's too bad, because if your "solution" is full of dealbreaking flaws, people won't adopt it. And you will not solve those flaws if you decide they are best ignored while you push the "solution" around.

Mass transit improvement should be the first thing on the list for people that are fighting car use.
> Using AGPL instead of GPL closes the Saas loop hole.

In spirit maybe, but not in practice because of its loopholes. That was the reason MongoDB changed their license.
Looking at them now, thanx for the tip!
At some size, somewhere around 100-1000 employees perhaps, corporations lose their humanity, the sociopaths move to the top and the race to the botttom begins, IMHO.

Amongst lower-paying employers, SMEs (small- and medium- enterprises) generally provide better quality jobs. This is because they haven't lost their humanity yet and somebody there actually cares about their employees. They often have more opportunities for advancement and learning, possibly because roles are less well-defined and smaller orgs tend to need more generalists.

If we really want to help the average consumer, we should offer incentives to SME's rather than mega-corp's.

Obviously, this is just in my experience and I have 0 data to back this up.
And most belts are a permanently closed loop, unlike chains which can be opened and closed. This means you need an special frame with an openable rear triangle.
I haven't written any myself, going from reports online that builds are a lot larger than expected. That minimum size is for an app without any components or other modules. The RN app I mentioned was ~6MB with a fully blown app, state management, heavy data layer, hundreds of components, animation, i18n, a handful of native modules, encryption, and so on.

In short, Flutter doesn't really have any advantage in size over RN.
I’m not sure this really matters for a lot of things anymore. Sorting a few hundred text items in a list, for example, is going to be so fast on modern smartphones that it will not make much of a difference whether it’s done in JavaScript or native.

Maybe a poor example, but I suspect the only times it really makes a difference is significantly computationally expensive tasks
Property tax assessments are not tied to your mortgage payment - if your mortgage payment changes monthly you've got a bad mortgage.

Also, before you assume a local factor is influencing national spending, keep in mind that the way property taxes are assessed isn't universal - for example in California, your property tax assessment can only go up by 2% /yr - so it's not possible for them to 'skyrocket'.
Looking at the compiled bundle, it seems to be a custom recreation based on BabylonJS.
I wholeheartedly agree.

In addition, responses like that do more to specifically push people towards commercial software than anything else (not specifically proprietary, just commercial). Why use a piece of software where the developers have no incentive to care about your concerns when you could instead use a piece of software where you're a paying customer and the production company has a financial incentive to keep their paying customers happy?

Since the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has been surprisingly responsive to customer requests. They have a ticketing system where customers can submit new feature requests, and if it's both reasonable and popular enough, they'll implement it. Here's a reasonable example: a while back, they decided to eliminate the split mode from the virtual keyboard because they thought nobody would miss it, as they added a swipe keyboard to replace it. Well, it turns out they were wrong, because lots of people opened tickets with Microsoft asking for it to be put back. They put it back in the next update. They listened to paying customers. Compare this to GNOME, on the other hand, which regularly removes popular features and ignores all user complaints.
Interesting observation.

I suspect it's question of definitions - "persons" are doing well, but "consumers" are struggling?

A consumer by definition is not a person who saves, but a person who consumes.
>Roads predate cars by more than order of magnitude so that clearly is not true.

There are orders of magnitude more utility derived from using roads with modern vehicles which travel 6+ times faster than horses or humans on foot, such that using roads without cars would be practically useless in comparison.
motorcycles have different issues. The gear changes are internal inside the transmission, not in the belt drive line. Also, bikes tend to have multi-link suspension with chain growth through the travel. This allows the suspension to be reactive to pedaling forces to reduce rider induced pedal-bob that eats efficiency.