skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the bus!

In my local city in China, for example:

The BRT stops every 2km or so, and runs on dedicated lanes.

The tram stops every 1km or so, no variation downtown or out of town.

The 5 buses and 6* buses tend to be long distance within a metropolitan area and stop every 2-500m at pickup and destination, but can run 30km only stopping a couple of times at key pick-up/drop-off locations.

Regularly numbered buses 1 though 70+ will stop every 500 meters or so, usually at each block.

There's an app, PandaBus, that shows all of the routes and stops for every stop in most Chinese cities, and has live GPS of buses for several cities. I don't know where they get the data, I'm sure you can just ask them.

In Hong Kong, numbering is a bit different and related to the city layout - basically HK is very dense in Central (Island) and Kowloon (peninsula) but due to coastal and mountainous topography very vast in the New Territories with 'new towns' being small urban pockets in the NT countryside.

Take the, IIRC, 73. The 73 route runs from Tai Po to Kowloon. The 73X does this with lots of pick-ups in Tai Po, then expressway to Kowloon with a single stop in Shatin, that's about 80km. The 73K does the same route but doesn't take the expressway and stops at every conceivable point, expending the journey time by an hour or two. HK people please correct me as it's a long time since I was in HK.

And HK also has the Toyota mini buses that have a single pickup point, drive like maniacs for 30-80km picking up speed downhill and losing momentum uphill, then drop off where you ask the driver. Good exciting ride, keep your eyes open!
I think you've succinctly put the issue(s) I have with Go. Most languages either have a BFDL, a committee or a corporate DFL, which is the case with golang and Google, and I think to a far lesser extent with C# and MS. MS in the last few years seems far more accepting of community contributions to their "core" language, whether its ideas or actual PRs.

Admittedly, not all MS OSS projects are equal, there are a number of "here's the code", but it's going to be driven internally, versus a more traditionally driven mix of a primary corporate driver and OSS community contributions.

One of the things I'd love to see is a bespoke cross platform DB API. I'm currently using zillow's cTDS lib, which has been great, except it can't support table valued parameters, because FreeTDS doesn't. Yet pytds supports SVTPs, but seems to only support bulk copy via a file.

I wish that MS would provide a bespoke lib that provided all of this functionality (TVPs and BCP without an intermediate file).
> unless of course it's fundamentally required for the service, such as Spotify or the like

Spotify does not need to track what you listen to, in order to stream music to you!
I think you took a personal opinion based on the way I see the world and turned it into a what-if hyperbole contest. But again, opinion, and not worth killing the conversation over, just a tactic used in poor taste.

I would prefer to make my own judgements. There's a better chance that I know enough about physics and biology and have a relevant understanding of the situation that I'm currently in, than the chance that someone else has all of those things and is paying as much attention to my situation as I am, has no agenda conflicting with mine, and chooses not to lie to me for any unknown number of reasons.

For what reason would I be unable to take a ruler, measure the screen of my current device, subtract that number from 7, and use the outcome to decide whether or not the device you are selling will have better visibility? It would take, maybe 4 seconds. I could even estimate it within an inch if no ruler was available. What clue can you offer that I could not deduce for myself given base information, and additionally make a better deduction, because you don't know that I'm colorblind and nearsighted. You simply aren't in a good position to offer me a clue.

Edit: I think that last sentence sums up why I dislike advertisements, but let me add an addendum: advertisements tend to offer me stories to distract me from the facts. I do not seek distraction. I want to understand the facts, and use the product to create my own story, for myself, because it will be more genuine than what is advertised to me, because it will be true, and be real, and be rewarding.
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It's running on the Ethereum blockchain from what I can see on their homepage.
You haven't looked hard enough and aren't aware of all the issues with using tables for layout.

In addition, the attributes you show are now obsolete and non-conforming: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/obsolete.html#non-conformin...
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Don't forget Red Star Linux is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

If North Korea can pull that off, you can be sure China is well on the way. I would be quite amazed if that wasn't in the works all along already.
China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
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[--] to collapse as currently implemented (widened)

[^^] to collapse all comments within top most parent. Thus making the next top level comment visible.

^ username 2 hours ago [--] [^^]

--________--___________---____---____

Mobile could also add two spaces between clickable elements, because even that is sometimes too close. And three spaces between timestamp, [--] and [^^] button.

Upvote/downvote buttons could also be bigger with more spacing between.

Just some ideas, open to improvements.
At the risk of telling you something you know, there's a lot more things to trip on with proper color space conversion than just going from scaled to full range color in 601. It's something of rat's nest to cover all the cases.
Maybe my wording wasn’t clear. I never implied that everyone is ignoring non coding DNA. My point was that it seems naive or arrogant to label something as “not useful” rather than “use unknown”. It makes it less likely that a larger amount of people will investigate it.

I think you should also use some data to back up your point because it’s my understanding that the majority of DNA sequencing ignores non coding DNA and the article makes the same point. You also have no idea what field I work in so I’d suggest perhaps asking before coming to the conclusion without any data.
I guess I just don't see the practical difference between "if Google's interests are not maintained" and "if the small core group who run it disagree". The latter describes lots of things! Very much Clojure, too! The former sounds ominous, but really means the same thing.

And with that lack of difference in mind: when the Go team says "Google's interests have little to do with how we're running Go", I'm strongly inclined to believe them, because what difference does it make? Why would they just make it up?

But really my point here is just: there's no point in the Go team engaging on this, because I literally can't think of a single thing Russ Cox could say to defuse this drama.
That's a really good point, but that may not be ideal from a pure learning perspective.

Engineers are often subject to the whims of management, tight deadlines, dependency quirks, their own personal bias, and so on. A living example would showcase all of those things, but unless you annotate each line and comment excessively, you lose a lot of context.

It's also much easier to follow a tutorial than to dig through commit history and piece everything together yourself.
There’s a great documentary called Marjoe (a conjugate of Mary and Joseph) about how scammy some of these people are. It won Best Picture in 1972: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe.
> at least not on the terms that we were demanding (and got)

Terms that were un-necessary. Japan still has an emperor no?
Could have ended the war much earlier if they wanted to.
Which is why you do not and cannot target devices cause you cannot know what the user has set such things.
'Red Oceans': How to Find Profitable Startup Ideas (2017)
I thought we had a story a while back about FreeCodeCamp trying to contact the authors while trying to get off Medium.

In the end it seems very strange that Medium, FreeCodeCamp and the authors all were intertwined in very strange ways as far as ownership and why they were involved together.
At least they're consistent. If linear growth is the only thing they can imagine, then they definitely can't imagine exponential growth.
The word junk does not appear in this paper. They talk about noncoding regions, noncoding mutations, and noncoding genome.

More generally, the term "junk DNA" was coined to refer to a specific type of noncoding DNA. These two articles give the historical background for the term:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014423/

https://judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/64504735261/the-origin...
The set of people that make decisions about Guava is mutually exclusive from the set of people that make decisions about Go, and the two projects have markedly different goals.

It's also worth noting that Guava lives in a very different world from Go - the way we distribute Guava is (unfortunately) not designed for non-Google contributors and Guava needs to support multiple Java ecosystems/platforms (Android and servers, at least).

(Googler that works on neither Guava nor Golang.)
After seeing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I became a fan of subtitled movies. Part way through the movie it felt like I understood Mandarin.
I may have slept better tonight not having know about this.
Also, if you've got a ASUS router, check out Merlin (after market) firmware, which recently added support for DNS-over-TLS. It works quite well.
Scales are completely different. Food delivery is a lot more ubiquitous in China than in the USA.
I should add, the related concept here besides 'consumer economy' which is kind of a fundamental of the US economic machine is 'velocity of money'. It's an intriguing economic concept for those unfamiliar. [1]

I'm party from a small town, my grandfather was notoriously thrifty (and a little wealthy) and he would never eat out. A dinner at the local diner would be a 'big thing' for him. Coffee shops and little such things are impossible to take hold in this small town because people are like this. They are not poor. Just thrifty. Which is fine ... but it means no secondary economy. The only thing that survives is the gas station / resto out by the highway for passers through.

The town is definitely large enough to accomodate 1 or 2 small places, but due to the culture, it's not going to happen.

It wasn't until later on in life (studying econ) did I realize the 'other side' of savings, and real value of money: When you buy something, you generally value it more than the money, ergo, you make a profit, we call this 'consumer surplus'. It increases the quality of your life by some nudge. Buying things that can improve your life, even if it's a coffee ... has many positive effects. Without consumption most of us would be out of jobs.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp
Tables are inflexible and inaccessible. Cells cannot be moved or resized without considerable effect on other cells.

No developer worth his salt has ever used tables for layout since some time in the 2000s. The guy who first thought up such a thing, David Siegel, wrote an article in 1999 titled, "The Web is Dead and I Killed it" about how he killed the web because of it and regrets it all.
That's something that Soviets very much want the world to believe, but they have never had shown how they could even possibly get their troops anywhere near Japanese mainland, what with Russian/Soviet/Russian navy historically being more dangerous to people who serve there than any enemy. And whatever happened in Manchuria or Korea didn't really concern Japan by that point anyway.
OK from https://www.apple.com/privacy/

> At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right.

> And so much of your personal information — information you have a right to keep private — lives on your Apple devices.

> Your heart rate after a run. Which news stories you read first. Where you bought your last coffee. What websites you visit. Who you call, email, or message.

> Every Apple product is designed from the ground up to protect that information. And to empower you to choose what you share and with whom.

> We’ve proved time and again that great experiences don’t have to come at the expense of your privacy and security. Instead, they can support them.

... and ...

> Your personal data belongs to you, not others.

> Whether you’re taking a photo, asking Siri a question, or getting directions, you can do it knowing that Apple doesn’t gather your personal information to sell to advertisers or other organizations.

So what? I guess that they didn't promise that apps would be doing all that bad stuff.

Which is disgusting.
I used to watch cable tv when it was ad free. Then ads came about and I was really baffled why anyone would pay to watch ads. That was the end of cable for me many many years ago.

Also, I’ll never forget the first day I saw and ad in the movie theatre. That was mostly the end of theatres for me except on some occasions.
As usual with these tools, they're very useful (probably) but almost unusable by anyone with bad contrast vision. Please up the contrast on all the various borders and controls like the arrows on the various number selectors. I can barely use them and I don't think my contrast perception is actually all that bad, this must just be a big black square to someone with properly bad contrast perception.
Not to mention that they repeatingly shows ads that I have taken the time to click "Not interested" on, to which they have answered "We'll try not to show you this ad again."

They either lie or they have just failed badly so far.

So some poor smuck - or rather a wealthy owner of a number of scammy sites - is getting fleeced, month by month, as AdWords keeps insisting on insulting me by suggesting my current family isn't good enough.
Perhaps they could show which apps have used background refresh recently on the notification center/lock screen after you haven't used your phone for a while. "Facebook, Uber and 7 other apps have downloaded content in the background [Learn More]"
Wait, doesn't the certbot DNS challenge query the nameservers of the domain being checked, not your local DNS resolver, otherwise my fast DNS challenges should fail?
No one single instance of an extreme can be used to pinpoint "climate change" , but the absurd statistical deviation from the norm over the last 10 yrs or so is notable and clearly present.

https://www.pnas.org/content/108/44/17905

But sure, lets play devil's advocate.
> I'll bite: do you think that Chrome is some sort of conspiracy?

No, it's a perfectly rational set of business decisions. I'd make the same ones if I was in charge of maximizing Google's control of the web platform.

> Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are not poorly funded

Correct. Apple and Microsoft just can't make a business case for burning huge mountains of cash to dominate the web, so they let Google have that pie. Again, a rational business decision.

So we end up with what is largely a monoculture, with fewer compatible web browsers than any time in the past 20 years, because is willing or able to put in the resources to keep up with the incredible complexity required by the modern web.
I would say that about most instances in which people claim an administration has overstepped in its use of authority delegated to it by Congress. The people you should be mad at in these situations is Congress.
I hadn't thought about Dogz in ages. This video brought back some nostalgic memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lKSn_cHw5k
I hope I've shown that I agree with you, that "the original response from the server ought to be informed by the user agent string in an environment like YouTube, mainly for latency reasons".

But, differently from YouTube, it's possible to serve a latency-optimised, user agent-optimised response in such a way that it's just a performance heuristic, without changing the actual functionality, which is still determined by traditional feature detection to the extent that is possible to do.

When it's implemented that way, it's quite safe to serve the "wrong" response sometimes.

Because it's safe to serve the wrong response, that allows automatic latency optimsiation, instead of brittle, hard-coded rules that will be wrong sometimes.

Inputs are user-agent, client IP, client cookie state, and feedback about whether other resource bundles were fetched as well, or other kinds of feedback such as detected features. Output is which bundle to serve.

This may improve performance over a hard-coded approach, because it adapts continually to new user-agents out there. Yet it is still coded as traditional feature detection (for features where that's possible), and works the way feature detection has always worked.
"what kind of bizarre world do we live in where we ship our trash to overseas places to be 'recycled' ? It just doesn't make any sense"

It actually makes a lot of sense.

If recycling is somehow labour intense (it might be), and if the value of recycled plastic is worth more in one place to another, then at this point is just basic arbitrage.

As far as 'long term storage of garbage' that's one thing - but there are enough basic economic components to recycling that it should be thought of as a product, just like any other. Every product has weird externalities, not just recycling.
In Chinese university cafeterias, you had to pay 1, 2, or 5 mao (I don’t remember the exact amount, this was 15 years ago, probably more now anyways) if you don’t bring your own food container to hold the food you get.

Perhaps permanent containers could be used for food delivery charges on a deposit basis (pay money for them, get it back when they are returned, perhaps sent back on a future delivery).
From what I can see, your example of "DOM v3 Document.load()" is a great example of why the W3C failed to convince browsers to implement their proposals.

That spec seems to be mostly related to Java and it seems to me that it hardly considers how ECMAScript could use it i.e. someone had an idea, but couldn't translate that into a useful feature...
It's not just televangelists; the local variety of parson is just as exploitative. I grew up in the Mississippi Delta—every "Reverend" drives around in a Cadillac while most of his congregation struggles to make ends meet. These same Reverends preach on the religious benefits of daily fasting while the children of their congregations get their one square meal of the day at school.
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https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-genet-...

and

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101014144312.h...
If I read bynd financials right their cost of production isn't greatly different to meat packing companies. Hormel's cost of production is only a little worse, yet they have been profitable for a very long time and no profit as of yet with bynd. Though that can be expected at this stage. I just find it dissapointing that so called plant based "meat" isn't naturally a vastly less expensive product.

Indeed the cost of complete proteins found in chicken, eggs, and dairy is really hard to beat. Concentrated protein is helpful for a diet requiring fewer calories to acheive. Chickens make complete protein more cost efficiently than engineers cooking up plants.
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You are correct but many decried the use of tables for layout as far back as 1999.
It surprised me to read that they had been informed by John Oliver, because I have always assumed that Oliver's reach would be rather insular because of both its content and nature of distribution.
I think that's a nearsighted appraisal of people in these industries. Advertising is effective and so is the myth that money gives you actualization, to me it makes perfect sense that smart kids are going into a high paying industry while missing it's harmful effect.
Are they mirrored already? I don't want to visit facebook.
Have you graphed elo to number of roll-outs? Where do the diminishing returns kick in?

How many elo points do you guess you'd gain if you improved to 10M games per sec? 10B?
There were serious issues with the way HTML was done at W3C, and this agreement between W3C and the WHATWG is a good thing.

However, all W3C specs are developed in the open, nowadays on github, and feedback from anyone anywhere is taken seriously. Don't like something about css? go here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues. Something wrong with SVG? https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues. An issue with the Payment Handler API? https://w3c.github.io/payment-handler/. Dislike the way W3C itself works? That's here: https://github.com/w3c/w3process

Yes, the W3C is a membership based organization, and if you want to vote for instance on who gets to be on its Advisory Board, or have a say in the Charter of Working Groups, you need to be a member, and pay.

For the WHATWG, you don't get to vote on who's on the Steering Group, and you don't get a say on what new Workstreams are started / changed / stopped, even if you did want to pay. That's up to Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. Sure anybody can suggest stuff (but that's true at the W3C too), but they decide, and there's no way into that club.

Not to claim that W3C is perfect. Plenty of improvements are needed. But claiming that small business or individuals cannot participate just isn't true.
Awesome, thanks! That worked.
Unfortunately, the pricing doesn't capture the true cost of the negative externalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative
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How many Chernobyls would it take to equal the damage that is already inevitable from global warming? That's a serious question. It can be answered by comparing number of deaths, number of people displaced, or economic and political disruption, but no matter how you calculate the answer, the result is that Chernobyl is a tiny event by comparison.
Fun fact: Bernays grandson is the co founder of Netflix. And you may think what brainwashing are all of these memes by Netflix? (Stephen Bernays Randolph his father)
It is worth highlighting the major difference: these products are not at all health insurances, and they cannot be labelled as such.

When you have a contract with an insurance company, that service provider has to pay up or you can sue them if they don't. Sure, there might be a co-pay or a high deductible, but if you draw an unlucky card with cancer / heart / cardio disorders, they will fork out six-seven figure sums to get you better.

"Christian Healthcare Ministries" and the like have no obligation to pay out and you are gambling on their goodwill, which can be revoked at any moment with no recourse. Further, they often have _lifetime_ caps of ~$100k per diagnosis/condition, and in case of any serious illness this will be chewed up in 3-4 months, then you are on your own.
Fabulous – CSS properties editor sidebar for VSCode
Super-crude STL file reader I whipped up in 10 minutes:
https://codepen.io/dheera/pen/zQJBrx
Smart ones profiting off of the masses, like the stock market, or just how the whole world works.
Agreed, maybe I misspoke but I wasn’t aware of any place I said it did.

“Junk DNA” is a well accepted term by the scientific community and public.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-junk-dna-...

Humorous take on my point: https://www.amazon.com/Junk-DNA-Journey-Through-Matter/dp/02...

I think my main point was missed which is: “labeling something as non useful and leaving it out of the majority of DNA sequencing as a result has made large swathes of the scientific community unaware of how non coding DNA works within the DNA ecosystem”. I think it’s unfortunate that the community doesn’t label this as “exciting area of unknown science” which would encourage investigation.
I appreciate your imagination.

[not the person you responded to]
You'd be amazed how much more technical competent average Chinese are compared with Americans