skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a given that the rate of success for beggars would plummet if they asked money for anything else than food or transportation anyway.

Iphone of unknown origins ? Free WiFi around ? That could explain it.

Honestly, 90% of homeless people have psychological problems so I take the iphone lady over the grumpy drunkard any day :). Everyone has a different coping mechanism :/.

Now, "some beggars" is likely not "the majority".

Anyway, there are many different ways to help others (giving money to the lady so she can keep being by herself without annoying anyone, giving the social workers or ngo that will try to get to her through other means, etc.). I believe what is important is that we try do something from time to time and we don't forget these are humane beings.
If you type "Donald Trump Ru" into an incognito search you will not get the Russian Investigation. To GP's point, it's numerology to keep focusing on this and drawing conclusions of political bias.
There's about five centuries in there between the renaissance and steel-framed buildings!

But of course cranes existed (on building sites, and in factories) since approximately the day after we invented the rope. But an elevator safe and reliable enough to make rich people buy an apartment above the 2nd floor? And cities dense enough that they were tempted to do so? Those took longer.
The split scimitar winglets on 700s and 800s can be hard to tell apart from the MAX8's AT winglets (the AT is more raked). You're right about the giant sawtoothed LEAP engines being distinctive. Also MAX8s have a sharp rear tailcone that protrudes past the base of the tail.
Boeing is the red wine of the aircraft industry.

The older the better.
https://twitter.com/bestoflinkedin?lang=en

A good running collection of the 'best' of LI. Not a great running collection, but a good enough one.
I would add two more the iTunes music store and physical apple stores.

The iTunes Music Store not only helped sell the iPod, it was the reason they were able to stand up the App Store so fast. They already had the infrastructure and millions of credit cards on file.

The Apple Stores gave them a direct relationship with customers that meant they weren’t completely beholden to retailers and ttet didn’t have to compete for shelf space. Everyone at the Apple Store knew Apple products.
That sounds like a unicycle, which is a hundred times harder to balance than a bicycle.

The physics of how a bicycle balances itself when you are moving is very different than that, complicated, and quite unintuitive. Basically when the bike starts to lean to one side, the rotation of the front wheel causes it to steer to move the bike underneath the direction you are leaning. This happens several times a second, and faster than a human can react.

https://www.citylab.com/design/2015/05/the-weird-wonderful-s...
It's also that even if you do hide your credit card, your child only needs to take possession of it once to have it auto-saved somewhere.
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How is telling me a terrible person going to be useful ? You have to face reality that like many other people, I like fast shipping and cheap stuff more than amazon worker welfare
> It's strange then that most of these games aren't that interesting. Who are the players of these that make up the new class of gamers?

It's just one data point, but my mother-in-law, who's in her late 60's, plays a lot of free games. She did an audit of her spending last year and discovered she'd spent over $500 in Candy Crush (I think that was the game). She complained to them and they gave her a partial refund, though to my knowledge she continues to play the game. I would bet a lot of these players are less tech savvy older folks.
Steele tubes is new bicycle technology. The earliest bicycles were all wood. The bicycle was already a known and popular thing before steel. But they were thought of more as toys or akin to a swan paddleboat than a serious mode of transportation. They could and were made by skilled woodworkers, so manufacturing technology is not the deciding factor. I think understanding and caring about complex mechanisms brought on by the industrial revolution is what prompted the devices; that is, it was cultural rather than technological that prompted their introduction.
"Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own."

From the master of bad sentences himself, Dan Brown.
They know someone who hates Amazon but shops at Wal-Mart and invests in BP, and is projecting all of that only everyone who has a negative view of Amazon.
A downside of there being so many threads on this fiasco is that many of the same points get made each time.

I'll post the usual counterpoint: this isn't a new. The F-16 for instance is also famously unstable, and cannot be flown without computer assistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...
Oh, didn't catch that you were pointing out a typo, lol.
I think bicycling was really not relevant, because the peasants would probably rather take a mule or a wagon to carry stuff around and the aristocrats would rather take a comfortable carriage.

There was basically no rich middle class which had the time and money to fool around with individual transportation, and the other classes had either no real reason to want this or it was pure luxury.
no disagreement, I subscribe to 3 of the 4.
I went for the 1.5TB, despite the storage upgrade being more than the computer itself. That storage point is my bare minimum to keep existing personal files (plus headroom); I was happy to pay it, it's a great machine. :D
Publishing on your site and adding a free comment feature is, in my opinion, the way to go.
it isn't the 'i've got no f*g idea why it's working' kind, it's the 'they've finally managed to get it working and it really does work' kind.
US citizens never stay past lunch at any of the farms doing picking. The work is too hard, nobody here wants it.
Not to mention it would be susceptible to environmental changes. A prosthetic device would spaz out going from an air conditioned room out into a hot day, for example.
I will admit that R's don't deserve the full blame here, many Democrats also oppose raising the minimum wage, and Nancy Pelosi, promising she would put a $15 minimum wage on the floor has not brought it up since taking the house. Both parties for the most part have their contingents that oppose raising the federal minimum wage.
> It would be less efficient, but still workable. Even just wood on wood is sufficient. Proof:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvFpbh2fjE

Your "proof" is unconvincing.

1. The bike looks super wobbly and seems like it takes a lot of effort to just make it function properly. Yes, it is an example of a wooden bicycle, but it is not an example of a useful wooden bicycle. It seems like it probably has a pretty short working life and low speed. In short, it's worse than just running.

2. The bike is being run on a paved road. All of my earlier criticisms get magnified by the stress of taking the bike off road. Yes, dirt roads are a thing. No, they are not nearly as smooth as asphalt. Also, much like carts, a bicycle like that would start to put ruts in a dirt road.
FWIW, Medium switched editorial and curation strategies for technical content and all the technical content leveled up. My standard for technical content is O'Reilly circa 2003, and Medium's not there yet. But I'm hopeful that Medium's recent changes are a precursor to leveling up again down the road.

The change is to add a lot more human curation mixed in with the algorithmic promotion. They have deals now with at least three publications where that publication's editor's taste is factored into the promotion. Those pubs are Toward Data Science, Better Programming (which I help with), and one other that's not announced. As I look at Medium's featured articles in their Programming topic, 2/3 of the articles were curated by one of those pubs.

For the Better Programming deal, we also got budget for copy editors and in the last 2+ months have copy edited about 700 articles. I find that the copy editors are doing a lot to make an article read better--it's subtle, but definitely way more than just fixing a few spelling mistakes.

I worked at O'Reilly circa 2003, which is how it came to be my gold standard. A great technical document needs a smart author who has the time to write something complete and then that author needs to be paired with good quality control. It's like how the software you write is better if someone else tests it. O'Reilly literally had code testers for their book and a very robust errata program for folding in fixes to bugs after publication.

The people who've done that in article length writing are RailsCast and more recently Swift by Sundell. That would be the obvious next level for Medium to support, and I think they will, but probably not for another year or more.
Bamboo-frame bicycles exist today as a fashionable item, and as far as I can tell without having ridden one, they work for practical purposes just as well as metal-frame ones.

I suspect you could make a perfectly acceptable modern bicycle with 18th century technology, albeit not as durable. Metal axles aren't much of a problem. Light and strong wheels are trickier, but you could get away with solid wooden ones, or emulate modern spoke systems with sturdy leather strands. The chain is difficult point - leather won't cut it as you need immense tensile strength and rigidity - but if you didn't want to meticulously hand-craft a modern chain (possible but tedious), a direct-gear solution might be practically possible.

No, what was missing was the very concept that it would be a worthwhile thing to attempt to build. It would have taken an incredible visionary to follow the above steps, especially in a world where the poor quality of roads made such a device of questionable value. And anyone rich enough to afford such a thing was doubtless rich enough to afford a horse carriage - who in that set would aspire to pedal through the mud?

tl;dr expensive, flimsy bicycles are completely useless in a world with poor roads and deep wealth inequality.
Again, you're looking at the average life expectancy, but we're talking about the poor, not everyone.

CoL in NYC/SF has almost no effect on the overall price index, it's much more representative of middle america.

Completely missed my point about someone being malnourished because they get all of their calories from Mickey D's.

You'd be surprised how many poor people continue to have low access to email and find jobs by physically walking into retail stores to apply.
Pro-tip #2: You can often get free access to Safari through your local library.
Free scrolling was pretty revolutionary.

As was, like, an app that could reroute live instead of relying on pre-printed paper instructions.

Gmaps had both before MapQuest.
I recently read "The Perfectionists", which is a very readable book on the topic of how vital precision and machine tools was to the industrial revolution and the material world we live in. It really gets to the bottom of how the advances in our material capabilities and the invention of precision went hand in hand.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B072BFJB3Z/
Not sure how in depth you need code support, but I'm going to peddle my new blogging host, https://personaljournal.ca/

It's based off of WriteFreely, the same blog platform that people.kernel.org just switched to. It's totally free to use, and I'll never put ads on it. It supports markdown and html posts, so code syntax highlighting and all that fun stuff is well supported. Give it a shot if that sounds good for you!
certainly it musn't be an all-time low, considering that near 0 african americans owned homes prior to 1863 and near 0 african peoples were in america in the 1600s
You're missing reductions in visa quotas, detention and strong-armed voluntary deportation of asylum seekers, increased raids and deportation of illegal aliens, significant slow-down in legal immigration processing, an vast increase in demand for supporting evidence in immigration petitions, threats against DACA immigrants, threats of Mexico border closures.

All that was accomplished in the three years that this rhetoric has gone mainstream - and not at 'great expense of public opinion'. I don't think a single American has had their mind changed on this subject, since the last election.

What do you expect 2020 will bring, in the event of another Trump victory?

There's a very clear message to immigrants, here. A lot of people think they are the cause of the country's ills, that they want them gone, and they have just gotten started on this project.
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The work is so back breaking that no US citizens want the work. They get easier jobs. I heard interviews with a couple of farmers, no US citizens had ever come back after lunch.
Which is why in the early wooden “bikes” (you were sitting on a wooden bar and pushing with your legs) they made the bar “squishy” by adding some sort of saddle or some adapted spring dampers or sth.
The August bulletin currently lists April 2010 for India EB-3 (October 2017 for EB-1).

If you go back through the last few years of bulletins, this 9 year wait has been relatively stable. Unless you believe there's been a massive spike in applicants in the past few years, there's no reason to believe the current wait for new applicants is 50 or 70 years.
While he was in the military, the work of his unit was so secret that other units called them "the do nothings."

So while it may not be true that the lurid nature of his demise is the reason in a "people like to rubberneck" kind of way, his death at an early age is likely part of why the world knows of his work. Many crypto experts worked secretly for the government and lived and died in obscurity.

Being famous for your work (while still working) and doing secret work tend to be mutually exclusive.
I object to the assumption that equivalent sized organizations are equally difficult to run.

Compare the rate of companies that existed 5 or 50 years ago and don’t exist now vs the rate of midsized or larger charities that existed 5 or 50 years ago and don’t exist today. If they where equal you could argue running them was equally difficult. However, because utter failure is not equally likely clearly it’s not equally difficult.

You can use other metrics like the rate CEO’s are replaced and they also show it’s just a much easier job.

So, if the org is more likely to survive and you’re not as likely to be fired that’s clearly an obvious threshold for success at the job. Unless you’re going to suggest only more capable people run charities or something.

PS: I then tried to suggest why this was the case, but that’s not central to the argument.
When one spends the vast majority of their time working on computers with minimal human interaction, all kinds of social deficiencies arise
I haven't been clear. I used to give money in the street, I did some volunteering and now choose to give to some specific charities regularly. I still give a coin every three months but way less more than before. I am still okay with this coin being used for whatever purposes though.

> Its always okay when its not your own money.

Are you trying to build an anti-socialist argument ?
> sometimes the only way to gather data is by resorting to scraping

Nowadays, web scraping has a nonzero risk of hitting legal issues for sites when "the only way to gather data is by resulting to scraping", especially when an API already exists with a ToS/Guidelines on how the data should be obtained and used. And even moreso if the data itself has monetary value.
> How

Science!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past...
Everything turns into an echo chamber eventually.
Honestly,

If the Chinese can be prevented from exporting their version of the prison state, this could be a good thing in the near-medium term. (The U.S. imprisons the most per capita)

China needs smart people there to transition the economy. India has been massively slowed down by the brain drain to the U.S.

The more people out of poverty, the better.
You might in fact be right about that.
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Great question :)

1. Speed. We wanted compilation to really, really fast.
2. In all honesty we just weren't big fans of Jinja, having used it for quite a while. JS templating is OK out the box, and we are considering React like syntax in the future.
3. Love it or hate it, NPM packages are pretty easy to work with and we are working on a number of packages at the moment.
4. When you start to look at things like UDFs and Cloud functions which enables some really cool use cases, JS seems to be prevailing (in Snowflake and BigQuery at least).

I will admit though that we do usually get a bit of a shocked reply when people hear it's not Python!
The data was about 55TB of compressed HTML last I looked, so that's about 70 r5a.24xlarge instances, each going for $5.424/hour, so about $350/hour or $250K/month. That's not cheap, and definitely not something you'd put on your personal credit card, but it's well within the range of a seed-funded startup. Sizes may vary a bit depending upon the exact index format, but that should be a rough ballpark. With batch jobs being so cheap, you could experiment a bit with your own finances and then seek funding once you can demonstrate a few queries where your results are better than Google. If you actually have a credible threat to Google, you'll have investors breathing down your neck, because it's a $130B market.

API access to either the unranked or ranked index in memory wouldn't do anything useful, BTW. To have a viable startup you need something a lot better than Google, which means that you need algorithms that do something fundamentally different from Google, which means you need to be able to touch memory yourself and not go through an API for every document you might need to examine. Remember, search touches (nearly) every indexed document on every query - if you throw in 200ms request latency for 4B documents your request will take roughly 25 years to complete.

Knowledge Graph is already public - it was an open dataset before it was bought by Google, and a snapshot of its state at the point Google closed it to further additions is still hosted by Google:

https://developers.google.com/freebase/

(It's only 22G gzipped, too - you can download that onto a personal laptop.)
It would be immensely useful if Google understood that normal people have multiple facades that they use in different contexts. Probably several professional (which project / component was I working on again), private but family friendly (planning gifts for relatives, etc), and private but clearly out there (stuff you don't want to shock 60 year old parents / young kids / etc with) profiles.

Also, for incognito stuff, it'd be nice to have read-only basing on stock profiles related to various activities or people.
Did you read the article or just that line? Most of what you mention is addressed plus a number of other factors.

"Technology factors are more convincing to me. They may have been necessary for bicycles to become practical and cheap enough to take off. But they weren’t needed for early experimentation. Frames can be built of wood. Wheels can be rimmed with metal. Gears can be omitted. Chains can be replaced with belts; some early designs even used treadles instead of pedals, and at least one design drove the wheels with levers, as on a steam locomotive."

"Second, advances in materials and manufacturing were probably necessary for a commercially successful bicycle. It’s a bit hard, from where I stand, to untangle which advances in design were made possible by new materials and techniques, and which were simply sparks of inventive imagination that hadn’t been conceived or developed before. But the fact that people were willing to put up with the precarious high-wheeled design indicates to me that pneumatic tires were crucial. And it’s plausible to me that advanced metalworking was needed to make small, lightweight chains and gears of high and consistent quality, at an acceptable price—and that no other design, such as a belt or lever, would have worked instead. It’s also plausible to me that wooden frames just weren’t light and strong enough to be practical (I certainly wouldn’t be eager to ride a wooden bicycle today)."
> Properly canned (or otherwise preserved via cooking in a sealed vessel) food effectively has no end date, so long as the seal remains intact.

I've certainly had some expired, but not especially old, cans pop. Took me a while to notice them, too (gross). The item was brand-name pureed tomatoes, stored in an environment that was probably warmer than it should have been (a cabinet above a refrigerator). I doubt there was anything wrong with the manufacture of those cans, I think they opened up because of their age, the temperature of their storage and the fact that the item inside was a bit acidic.

Truthfully, I don't know if inspecting cans for damage is really much more difficult than just checking the expiry date on the can. For a food bank it's undoubtedly a bit of a pain either way, compared to rolling in a pallet of new cans...
I doubt it'll work. Looks like there were some legit responses, and then a bunch of spam.

My guess would be someone testing something.
I dont think the point was missed at all. In fact, I think it was effectively rebutted. I think he's pointing out that not being able to urinate without the risk of being fired is incredibly dehumanizing no matter how much you pay.
Why have the RFE rates at target companies sky rocketed ? Why has the EAD waiting time gone for <90days to ~120 days?

Actions speak louder than words here.
Well, I'd argue that they didn't need to travel, because their world was set up for people who couldn't. The spacing of villages most places was set by how far you could walk to the fields & still do a good day's work. Riding around on horseback was for a tiny elite, most places -- a horse eats more than a person, in a world where food was the majority of income. Once people could travel, they did, and the world got re-organized around this assumption.

But still, bicycles took off as a technology when they were too expensive for farm-workers, as a sort-of upper-middle class leisure craze. Only later did they enable mass mobility.

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As a sample of the quality of writing he expects to be paid for is lackluster to say the least.
Conflating war and terrorism isn't a good look for the US either.
Do you know if they were paid a wage worthy of destroying your back for? Or is it in our best interest to subject brown people to slave tier labor for little pay?
I've worked at FAANGs and places like FAANGs... I don't really understand why so many people seem to think that working for FAANG must necessarily mean no life outside of work, or bad work-life balance. Maybe that is true at Amazon, or Apple, or something but I personally have not had a hard time working 40hr/weeks (90% of the time) while getting good reviews
> the 1960's: America's best decade so far.

Why do you say that?
I agree with every single one of those points.

Other thing I'd meant to mention, was that the territory of "wheeled luggage" has expanded. Previously maybe at an airport you'd haul your luggage to a car at the kerb that will take you to your destination.

Modern airport usually has some public transport that takes you into town, and from there you get further transport to where you wish to go.
i.e. Having your luggage be less of a burden opens up your choices.

I live in a university town with a lot of foreign students. It's now entirely normal for me to see one 'herding' (for want of a better word) a flock of cases quite successfully down the pavement infront of me.