skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N.B. it has some confusing passages to people that doesn't know L.A. very well. e.g. "Chinese immigrants had started moving to suburban enclaves like the San Gabriel Valley, bypassing Chinatown and its businesses completely" and then proceed to tell an anecdote from a restaurant in the very heart of downtown chinatown.
By worst case I meant that warming is not stopped. There are scenarios under which it will be stopped, most likely one is solar geo-engineering.
*externalized costs
Ah, Matt Levine is always worth a read! You can receive his column by email (for free!) if you subscribe here:
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...

(sharing this here because Bloomberg's website makes it really hard to find)
I can't speak for the relative costs but adding a bigger battery adds cost, it also adds weight which increases the motor size you need, further increasing costs, it also increases wear and tear on the road.

Also the article mentioned $1.5million for infrastructure to charge 20 buses. Ideally you'd want that running 24/7, not lying dormant for 16 hours a day.

And lastly, you're adding a massive single point of failure. What if the power goes out overnight? Suddenly you don't have any buses the next day.

Ps I like the idea of buses going to sleep at night :)
Exactly I also find the same, opera touch does it so well, but then it's opera and privacy things and also want to support firefox.
>Except it IS clear what unfairness looks like

So... what does it look like, specifically?
I listened to it and agree it sounds very childish. Better would have been to have some intelligent narration, the story in a nutshell. How much energy is required for a railgun? What uses do they have that cannot be done with conventional artillery? what were some of the major challenges faced by the R&D team? All of that could have been explained in the audio track that was instead used for crappy Michael Bay action movie music.
I like Lin Clark's drawings on the Mozilla Hacks blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/author/lclarkmozilla-com/
Thank you so much! From the first look it's right on the money.

> Our strategy is to entice smart people to play with programming robust, indefinitely scalable computations by lowering barriers to entry, and as idioms, motifs, and best practices emerge from such explorations, we believe opportunities for wise optimization will arise.

I believe I have unknowingly contributed to that strategy.
The issue is that “fairness” has many dimensions. Representation is one of them, but so is racial fairness (e.g. you can’t split districts to deemphasize one race’s vote) and compactness (you shouldn’t make thin slices geographically to see read the vote.) When you have these two competing values, and some maps do better on one dimension while others are better on the other, how do you properly weigh them?

My understanding of the ruling is not that it’s ok to be fair, but that at this point we can’t even balance all the dimensions of fairness to get a single measure.
Let me modify that correct response by saying it's a company that writes firmware for embedded processors. They are not necessarily small: I've worked on embedded systems that used multiple Pentium-class processors that distributed the hard real-time work to a few dozen smaller (8 and 16-bit) processors.
It's been quite a while. At some point in the last year maybe with google blocked, it became impossible to register for a DMV appointment. Filling in the forms and pressing submit ended up with an unhelpful "Server Unavailable" and "Call xxx-xxx-xxxx during business hours"
the way I deal with that as a user is to unsubscribe from netflix for 2 months and subscribe to the other service, then unusbscribe from that one too and go back to the other, just keep rotating once a month.

Or just unsubscribe from everything and go back to reading books. My antilibrary is pretty big now and there's plenty of books at the library to keep me busy for 100s of years to come.

And then, there's all those classics that are in the public domain now, completely free.
Rockets - perhaps, for today, but maybe they could be improved.

Propeller planes - why? They were used for long time and many technologies are quite mature.
It looks right. It looks like it could well be the ancestor of the MAC cannons from Halo.

EDIT: I said this to my coworkers a couple of weeks ago: I'm calling it now. Either 1) Naval Railguns also wind up being killer AA weapons and there aren't any game changers in submarine warfare or 2) Railguns are going to be the equivalent of WWII naval cannon -- They won't be nearly as important as something else.
Sorry. I assumed I was being trolled and reacted accordingly.

I was being ever so slightly hyperbolic in my statement about not washing hands. For the record, I do use the time-honored air-dry, shake-hands-vigorously and/or dry-on-pants methods when circumstances demand.
Good points - I don't think this is a case of egregious sexism or anything.

But I think greed can seduce a person, I think power can seduce a person, I think fame can seduce a person.

I've never heard of "false hope" or "rampant anthropomorphism" as seductive, though.
We're not talking decades so I don't think he was being unreasonable. Most people would expect a product that has been kept in a box in climate controlled conditions to, you know, not fall apart after a couple years. Get off your high horse.
I was never involved in those decisions but I suspect that when you’ve got a multi-dollar CPM and your biggest pain in the ass is pouring concrete and running power fast enough that a few PB of spinning disks are cheap enough that you hang onto it in case you ever find a way to make it useful.
It's a continent with very fragile states arranged around colonial boundaries that make no sense in a post-colonial order, without enough water resources to actually sustain their projected population growth. Carrying capacity is a real thing, and the global population is already almost 8 billion people.

Climate change is going to wreck food supply chains across the globe, since the current food production and distribution has much less excess capacity than it did before.
Wow. Just tried it out and it is fast! It feels more than just 2x as fast as the regular firefox mobile on the same device.

Now just add proper settings (no settings menu yet to disable thirdparty cookies) and add addon support (ublock, skip redirect, cookie autodelete) and I will switch immediately even with smaller bugs
I find I appreciate EWDs even more in their original, handwritten form: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF
I personally think articles can be useful, but I am not an expert on grammar or linguistics.
These do actually enhance the game A LOT!
I thought the same too, to the point that maybe even lead acid batteries could work. Unfortunately, buses still care somewhat about weight--from a 2005 report: https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/Electric...

> Consequently, powering a full-size bus would require a battery pack that is unacceptably large and heavy, as well as too costly to make a battery-electric bus commercially competitive.

Of course, the energy density of lithium may change things!
lots of salty people in denial about being part of the problem ;)
ok, now this is epic
I think in the 5-10 year time period, people who value using the phone as more of a productivity tool and dislike the distraction will have only a wearable and perhaps not even use a phone.

But those who like content consumption (probably most people) will still be walking around with a rectangle in 10 years, if I had to guess.

Just my own speculation.
During the 9/11 aircraft grounding, climatologists had a pretty unique chance to measure temperature variance compared to historical data.

Just the few days of data showed that days became warmer and nights became cooler. I pretty much had no idea that just trails could impact weather so noticeably until I read up on this experiment.

As a european citizen I’d vote for all subsidies that go towards intra-European air travel to go towards railway traffic.

The US should so something serious about plane travel as well. At least we have the excuse of completely separate governmental entities that built different railway infrastructure. The US is probably lacking behind China who practically just began connecting their nation through high-speed railways.
It seems that your suggestion is that ISP is a good signal for detecting spam, but it's not obvious to me that this is true. For example a site targeted by a botnet could be hit with traffic from a wide range of otherwise legitimate looking ISPs, in which case you're going to be getting a lot of spam on your website.
Might very well be. I also get errors on hacker news about "can't process requests that fast". When asking about it (initially because I thought votes didn't work randomly), the limit is a few requests per second. Turns out I click faster than that, either by reading a whole comment thread and making up my mind whose comments were most helpful (to upvote all at once) or by navigating too fast.
People select less stuff when they're shopping because they're concerned it won't fit on the counter.

Yes. This is an issue for stores that don't use shopping carts.
Alright, I think I see the point you're going for now. I think I misinterpreted what you were saying before.

You're saying they set out to make not-a-737 behave physically as a 737. Yes. I concur. I seem to have hyperfocusef on the replication part and not enough on the plane part.
Looks interesting on a light skim. However, one key point that is always missing, how will people buy/cash-out this libra currency? Most developing countries have transactions going on in cash(unless it is happening in few hundred thousands). You'd be lucky if you see a card-payment machine anywhere except on exotic shops like car-dealership/real-estate/big brand electronics(apple). ATMs are for rich/wealthy class only. There are no debit cards, banks don't give out credit cards to anyone unless they have HUGE middle-class+ transactions/income in bank history. So, how are people going to use these fancy currencies? I have lived and visited developing countries, no paypal, no credit-card, no debit card, no bank transfer, only paper-bills accepted :)
Walking into many busy restaurants these days and seeing an array of devices functioning as displays for different delivery platforms convinces me that some kind of common order bus/platform needs to happen.

At some restaurants, the simultaneous parallel incoming orders means they miss yours. At ones where they don't, there's the imposed cost of someone paying close attention to all of them. More often than not, this is the cashier, which means if you decide to walk in and order in person like some barbarian from 2010, you are waiting in an invisible line not just for your food but for any kind of attention.

The likes of Doordash and Seamless and Grubhub don't seem properly incentivized to solve this problem -- sure, they might care if order efficiency or fulfillment suffers and users have a directly bad experience, but they may not demand anything from their product team more complicated a rating system punishing providers. And they don't want a common platform; they want to be the platform.
It used to be that you could setup a web page with just a few lines of code and js script include and a css inlude.

I bet this lib was created as satire. Modern day web frameworks are so bloated and filled with overhead that even a simple one line evaluation can be turned into a monstrosity.
Bring on the AI revolution and its shake-up of academia
I found this article to be really great for outlining all the capabilities of awk:

https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-awk1/

From 2001.
Gas being banned under various treaties but a rail gun being essentially a faster version of existing munitions...

Yeah, I probably would say it is.
I can think of examples of "mass" misbehavior when I was younger:

- Camp councilors eating the freeze pops in the lunch freezer that were for the kids

- High schoolers eating all the candy in the vending machine when someone broke the glass

- A very large group of us went to a local restaurant. The next day we heard of a lot of people leaving without paying. (I left a lot of money before leaving, and told everyone I sat with to do the same too. Now that I'm older I'd at least track down our server and hand them money personally.)

In all cases, there's this weird thing that seemed to turn off in other peoples' heads. It's like all reason just goes away.
The article links to another article by freep.com that really boils the problem down to high-profile, "blunt-nosed" SUVs and trucks (picture: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/labs/death-on-foot/graphics/NU_0...). This is something I've taken note of in my city. When I park my short sedan next to some of these pickups, the pickups' hoods are taller than my entire vehicle. So imagine your entire body being slammed by that. If you were instead struck by a sedan, your body would more likely roll over the hood and dissipate some of the impact.

At the end of the day, the failure is with how our vehicles in America are tested and rated. Safety ratings for vehicles are only in "their class", meaning for instance that they don't smash a sedan into an SUV; they only smash sedans into other sedans, and SUVs into other SUVs. This presents a major asymmetry, leading buyers to think SUVs are safer, when that safety comes at the expense of other users of the road, including people on foot and bike.

A major step toward reducing fatality rates in a vehicle-person collision is to factor in pedestrian safety when evaluating vehicle safety rates.
That would be a useless site, but that's not how I read it. I understand it as "this is not that Google thinks your account is a bot, it's that this request might be made by a bot. And since you didn't use this site as a normal website, it also doesn't score your type of traffic, just this one request". You might be right, but it really does seem to be doing a request to their API.
That's one thing, but like why would the FT put a captcha on the login page. I am not signing up. I just want to access a website I already paid for. This is just terrible UX.
Is there any active research on this technology for non-rocket launch systems?
By your standards, in 2019. That says nothing about whether it was odd when Dijkstra wrote it. You'd have to compare it to what he and people like him wrote in the past.
Well the title might have given it away.... the api of the package is pretty nice actually, some thought was put into it.
Some places in outer Boston has this. They also have hybrid busses and you can hear the engine shut off when it's been sitting in traffic for a while.
https://gohmert.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentI...
In a few years, "subscription fatigue" will become well known and remembered as the trigger that caused streaming services to collapse because of their own greed and stupidity. Every provider thinks they can beat others and capture (or steal) viewers' attention and time in a zero sum game.

People have already gotten used to subscribing for a month, binge watching a few favorites and then canceling. Unless monthly prices go up a lot and push people to favor lower annual subscription prices, many of these services will see users using them like utilities — turn on for a month or two in a year and then turn it off.

Pricing games that make it costlier for viewers to watch what they want, when they want, where they want will only hurt all the providers. Piracy will come back with even better user experiences than before. After all, piracy's USP has usually been a better user experience.
PepsiCo testing canned water as it tries to cut down use of virgin plastic
Also check out the documentary "Los Punks: We Are All We Have" which covers the Latino punk scene in LA.
https://www.kqed.org/news/10985167/documentary-reveals-l-a-s...
It is not facile to ask if experiencing deprivation is a necessary condition for experiencing happiness. Consider that strength training develops muscles. Does facing genuine adversity develop emotional response such that people become capable of enjoying a world of plenty?
Sure, I know credit cards exist and that the numbers are stolen because they're so trivially easy to abuse, but payment systems are not very related to my work. I very rarely come across a product where I have to test payment features, and when I do, it's out of scope. Either the payment is handled by some third party (the usual case), or it has already been tested years ago and they're now asking to test some new feature (all other cases).

More typical projects are testing traffic filtering solutions (firewall-like), blockchain startups (those are the worst), back-end (no payment) or b2b (contract-based payment, not online) applications... Even in the months that I was consulting at a bank, I never touched any sort of money system, there were a thousand other applications, services, websites, infrastructure things, and mobile apps to test. To give you a random example, they wanted to give people advice when buying a house through an app (where the final screen goes "and that's where $bank comes in: we can finance all this!"), so they had some external company prototype an app that was riddled with bugs in the login system. Or some internal service that POSTs data from one system into another. Or some API endpoint used for statistics. Etc.

So the cases that I see are as a consumer, where I pay either by bank transfer (logging into my own bank's website), via iDeal (which also redirects you to your own bank's website to complete the transaction, but that one is instant instead of having to wait a working day), or sometimes via PayPal if that is the only option (I guess paypal do their own bot detection? No idea). So from my perspective, when I paid for something, the money is in the hands of the merchant and only customer support or a lawsuit would get it back.
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And why would you need a way to calculate the bias on observing a system from the inside out if your observations lack that bias?
Iron Ox is looking for a software architect to help build the future of farming
Am I supposed to celebrate the spending of untold billions on an unnecessary weapon of death while my Bridges and roads crumble, my health care system sucks and absolutely nothing is being done about, or to prepare for, climate change?? I'm not impressed
More distracted drivers than ever?
Smile, Your City Is Watching You
I think the implication was that the leadership is hanging onto all that data because of an immediate fiduciary obligation. I suspect that it’s more in the nature of when you’re running a business in which a few hundred million QPS is slow that you archive in case it ever becomes useful.
What's funny to me is how much I remember on first exposure to this now - little tricks about how to get through that gate by jumping over the closing trigger I just saw and took in stride. And it's been since the nineties! But I can't remember my Dad's birthday still (it's one of two days, but I still screw it up).
What about distracted pedestrians? I've had to swerve into car lanes from the bike lane almost every day this last week because some pedestrian with his face buried in a phone absent-mindedly steps off the curb against the light. What fraction of the increase is attributable to that?

When I drove a car I used to sympathize with both cyclists and pedestrians. Now that I've been commuting and frequently running errands by bicycle for a couple of years my sympathy has waned significantly due the behavior I observe in my fellow cyclists and pedestrians.
UK telco was my first thought too. "what did they do now" was literally on my mind :)
Wonder what Europe is doing differently than us. Are we seeing an increase of pedestrians on our streets and roads?

Hopefully assistive technologies help curb some of these trends as they filter down to base models and older vehicles get replaced with newer one which have these features.

As for the current cause, although they contrast with Europe and play it down, I have to think it’s primarily caused by driver distraction (and pedestrian as well but on the defensive side) rather than either rise of SUVs and or “entitlement” as well as perhaps a rise in “pedestrians” (people walking of running of jogging, etc.)
Can someone provide a summary of what he says? Anything surprising?
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He's in Russia.
One day history will likely show the whole project amounted to nothing more than propaganda meant to impress teenage boys so they enlist. I anticipate this supposed weapon system seeing very little if any use in battle, but receiving extensive media and promotional coverage.

Some people are hoping for a return of the battleship era, with nuclear powered ships slinging shells at each other across the horizon with electric cannons. But I'm pretty sure that is wishful thinking.
I agree on at least the first half of your statement. Although I'm not sure I'd say 'delusional' as much as - I don't know? - Jingoistic? Bombastic? I feel like I should be playing Command and Conquer to that sound track. At the end of the day, these are killing machines that are being designed to take human lives, and it does feel more than a bit inappropriate. I think that's what you're getting at with the latter half.
I work for https://www.proterra.com, King County has number of our buses in service.
He's saying that executing a bitcoin transaction could save life or limb, which justifies bending/breaking the rules to develop the technology to do it.
A deterministic algorithm that accepts no inputs other than the census count and geodetic coordinates of the census tract, and outputs district boundaries, is inherently non-unfair.

If you cannot inject unfairness during the process, the only unfairness you can output is a different expression of the unfairness that already existed when you started it. You can't intentionally make it worse.

I have personally seen dozens of algorithmic redistricting proposals that naively optimize for "geographic compactness". Those maps look fair. But you don't need to use the interocular test--you can use math and produce an objective measure of compactness. The only question is which one to pick.

Pick any of them, arbitrarily. It will set an upper limit on the impact of malicious gerrymandering, and be more fair than when completely unconstrained.
Seemingly related: "Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20288768
Bounding the cost of the intersection between a small array and a large array
You’re proposing to not report the correct sizes for elements?

I agree with you. But the reality is that there are a lot of bad developers and badly designed sites.

Now if you enforce this, you’ll break those sites. So how do you propose to solve that problem?
Exactly - I find dynamic programming languages very helpful to quickly iterate over an idea and to make it MVP-ready. I have no experience yet with Haskell, however I feel multitudes faster building applications in Python compared to Java, Kotlin or Swift which I have all used extensively. Any of them has their good advantages, though I never felt faster with Python+TDD – and I don't write any type checking tests. Hopefully one day I can jump on the Haskell train and feel what it's like. Probably then I understand your sentiments a bit better.
There's a good description of converting a central London bus depot to electric buses here.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/06/26/do-londoners-dre...
If I were you I’d be more worried that Google de facto controls whatever we’re calling HTTP these days than that they have a BigTable entry that ties a browser you once used to a preference for Earl Grey.
I can still hear my professor of Classics say that "with the introduction of the printing press the loss of books ceased". With all that electronic junk that no one knows how to archive properly that statement needs to be revisited.