skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing two things:

1. The parking lots, freeways, and such that the US builds so much of, at such large scale, is still very expensive.

2. From the article, Chuck's point is almost the same as yours. We have plenty of expertise -- but our experts have been conditioned by the enormous wealth for almost two generations after WW2 to develop systems that are good at all sorts of metrics, but affordability is not one of them.

Whereas your point is that other countries have more experience building things and having to worry about the budget.

I think the reason that these things get talked about mostly regarding transit etc. is that projects that are uncommon in the US naturally attract more attention / skepticism.

As an anecdote, years ago I remember driving in the Austin area listening to local radio and hearing two segments back to back, which went something like this...

Segment 1: "The local light rail plan is a boondoggle, you know they spent $80 million on that thing and hardly anyone rides it! Just imagine how many new schools we could have built for that money!"

Segment 2: "The DOT is considering a highway expansion to help deal with traffic in Bee Cave... this project is estimated to cost $400M, which sounds like a lot, but it's actually pretty reasonable as a percentage of the state's overall budget..."

For context the light rail line was built, it was the first rail project in the Austin area and spanned some 32 miles but has very few stops, is slow, and has very little capacity (because, surprise, they built it as cheaply as they could).[1]

The freeway expansion project is a plan for just a few miles, really to deal with one funky intersection where US290 stops being a freeway. It hasn't happened yet, and maybe won't.[2]

The point of this anecdote is that the entire conversation around infrastructure projects is pretty strange. We spend huge sums of money on "routine" mega freeway projects all the time, and we just think that's normal. Even "simple" residential streets cost a lot more than people realize, and in most cases a lot more than the taxable value of the homes would justify. But we've been so wealthy for so long that we got away with all that without anyone questioning it.

Now that our wealth is fading, we've got a lot of difficult questions facing us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_MetroRail

[2]: https://www.oakhillparkway.com/about/
Can you back your second paragraph up with recent numbers?

I have taken a lot of yellow taxis all across the country, but mostly in Bogotá, Medellin and Cali over the last couple of years (about 2-3 rides per week) and have yet to have a single bad experience. The handful of Uber rides I had in the time weren't better or worse, besides being in better cars.
Fair, it could be argued. As you said in a deeper comment though, it would take an enterprising prosecutor (though they're hardly scarce) .

Within reason though, he hasn't technically done anything to warrant tickets.
Because m1cros0ft.com is highly likely to get shut down or blocked, and then you have to register m1cr0s0ft.com and so on.
Ask HN: How to help Hong Kong
I'm pretty livid about the situation in Hong Kong. I would love to help but I'm not sure how. Would organizing protests at the Chinese embassies in the US & Europe help? It would make most sense to coordinate with people in Hong Kong for maximum impact. Does anyone know someone who might be close to the organizers in Hong Kong?
In the context of randomly generated passwords, it's absolutely ok to think about it in terms of the logarithmic relationship between 1) entropy per symbol times number of symbols and 2) strength of the password.

He said 10% stronger (which I took to mean 10% more entropy), not 10% more time to crack.
Per your circumstances (living in Boston, already possess a car, drive occasionally), a new Tesla purchase might be non-ideal even besides the charging issue, from a climate standpoint. There is a breakeven point where your cumulative carbon savings from using Boston electricity (i.e. mostly natural gas) versus gasoline intersect the one-time carbon emissions from manufacturing a new automobile. For folks who already own a car they don't drive much, the breakeven may be very far away, meaning that a new Tesla purchase may actually be a net negative from a carbon standpoint.
The core problem with examine, in my opinion, is that it embraces the attitudes that:

1. A wide range of subtle personal, emotional and health problems can in principle be solved/mitigated by taking supplements and unregulated drugs.

2. Positive effects from small-group trials are akin to mild recommendations to take a supplement, rather than to attempt to reproduce the effect in a larger trial.

The very premises upon which people base their visits to examine and other sites is flawed. Examine has zero incentive to address or repudiate them.

The success of their business is dependent on there being a perceived efficacy for supplements and unregulated drugs, and the idea that reading online about more varied and obscure supplements will eventually find you the one that fixes your problem. But for a lot of perceived problems, there will simply be no supplement-based solution.
Not quite sure I agree with your order. They were caught flatfooted - famously so - on smart phones and tablets.

Firefox 2 and the iPhone came out about the same time. I think the one-two punch (and you can argue which is 1 and which is 2, but I'm not interested) was that on one side you had a device, populated by people with considerable disposable income, that couldn't run IE if you tried. That got the attention of management in ways us developers never could.

And on the other, you had a safe harbor for people who were up for a switch elsewhere. And it helped substantially that debugging was better on that alternative (developers would use Mozilla and Firefox for development whether management wanted FF support or not).
Disagree since they lease Toyota's hybrid tech
1) Disappointing HN thread - all about race and little about article?

2) Disappointing article. No depth at all. How is the money spent? How many bees are there? Where does one get bees? Are there flowers around for the bees? How did this person get into beekeeping? Why beekeeping and not, say, an organic garden?

3) Disappointing site - tons of flashing banners and ads everywhere.

What sounds like an awesome, uplifting story that may be replicate-able across the country was turned into an overall disappointing puff piece.
The context is randomly generated passwords, so dictionary attacks (or other attacks that look at the plaintext from a Huffman encoding perspective) aren't really relevant.
A/B testing headlines is not uncommon
Also, it would be good to get back to the main topic of the blog post. Even if Examine is normally only 10th best, they should be appearing on Google's first page of web results.

I do happen to think that Examine is the best (usually). But even if you disagreed, probably if you did a thorough bit of research comparing them to alternatives in this important search space, you would agree that they are better than most of what is ranking ahead of them.
I just wish I could stop Teams from starting up every time I log in and without creating a Teams account. I looked up various solutions others have come up with and it is seemingly very convoluted.
Walking on the Franz Joseph glacier at night under a full moon is one of the most visually stunning things I have ever seen - very other-worldly.

I definitely ignored the barrier and the signs, and it was definitely wildly unsafe to do it alone. It was well worth it even so e.g. glacial blue ice looks very different from snow.
Small startup NPM facing crisis of morale (Business Insider)
Epstein "committing suicide" would be considered getting off easy, especially for all those involved.
> "[caching/searching] is awful on any platform. It’s not clear what the bounds are for any search and only a very brief history is cached locally. Everything else has to be fetched remotely so scrolling is painful and searching glacial."

I've felt this frustration with Teams and Slack. Effective search in any real-time messaging platform seems difficult to deliver. Has anyone else had this problem and found a good solution to it?
Of particular note in this article, NYT reporter James Stewart visited Epstein at his mansion last year to inquire about rumors he was advising Tesla and Elon Musk, which Epstein confirmed to him. AFAIK this is the first those rumors have seen print in a major publication.
Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress
Thank you — the combined teams will do our best to make your optimism deserved.
You know we have fast roads and long rural stretches of road between cities in Europe also? Yet there are cyclists on those too here, including on 70mph dual carriageways. Sure, people sometimes complain about the inconvenience of being briefly stuck behind a cyclist, but people still mostly drive courteously around them and try not to kill them. Indeed, nearly all roads have a higher speed limit than most cyclists are capable of - though with the new e-bikes/s-pedelecs that's beginning to shift.

The fundamental problem is that in order for infrastructure to be built, people need to first start cycling. If there are enough cyclists on those roads for it to become a traffic problem, eventually politicians and urban planners will build cycle paths, then hopefully more people will use them, etc.

However I think in the US you have more than anything a cultural affinity toward the car. In the UK and much of western Europe, the roads (besides motorways) predate cars. Cars have to share that space with cyclists, horses, pedestrians. And generally speaking, the more vulnerable and untrained road users have the legal priority and the drivers of the fast metal boxes owe them a duty of care.
> we use it for file sharing

File sharing: apparently still a problem almost four _decades_ after the Internet was invented.
I don't believe this is acceptable. By any modern sane best practice, the word NULL in a string from a web form (where your input is basically by definition a string) is a string like any other

Blocking -- in a string does not prevent SQL injection attacks. Using proper parameterised queries does. This might sound mildly hostile but "you are not confident that you are escaping everything correctly" - when this is a well defined and solved problem - means you should not be building this application as you're too incompetent to. For the millions of taxpayer money wasted on this kind of thing, it is absurd.

Blacklisting keywords used in XSS is also completely futile, pointless, useless, and does nothing but piss off users that can no longer use anything containing the word log or window or whatever.
This behaviour of Google shows that the fines of the EU are still not high enough.
My biggest grief with Teams is that it's impossible to shut off notifications. With pretty much everything turned off in its settings and being in Do-Not-Disturb mode it still blinks the icon and shows number of unread notifications in the taskbar. Just. No.
> That being said, the Teams UX will slowly and steadily improve.

That's not the Microsoft way. It'll accumulate features without ever deprecating bad features, not fundamentally improve. Look at Outlook. That terrible threading has its roots there. There'll be _someone_ out there who loves it, so it'll never go away.
An SUV with 8 people can get 200 mpg/person. The link considers average occupancy. Planes are highly efficient because they're usually full
Yes Migadu works well. Been using it more than 9 months now with only one minor problem, which was quickly sorted
NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS reader for macOS launches in beta
New twist on “reality is a simulation” secularized rehash of Tower Of Babel myth
There are 1.5 billion active Windows PCs, including laptops in the world. [1]

There are also 1.5 billion active Apple devices including Macs and tablets, and 2.5 billion active Google Android devices.

Given Linux and other computing devices to add to the above. Microsoft really has an only (at best!) a 25% share of the world of computing devices.

One can split hairs about being the monopoly leader in their niche, but the thing is... PCs and Macs aren’t the main form of computing anymore.

It would be hard to argue that Microsoft should be broken up because Windows is the future of the market and is illegally being exploited to sell more Azure, or Xboxes, or Microsoft Office, etc.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/bigger-than-windows-bigger-tha...
It actually can be virtualized, but it isn't as easy as Windows. I'd argue that neither of them should be used in government though.
Microbranding
> Well no wonder there's many unlicensed vans.

Practically and economically, yes, it makes sense. No wonder, indeed.

But I find it really sad that the government fails to simply enforce the insurance requirement. These vans are an important part of the transportation solution for many people and the government is failing to protect these riders. Regulation defiant buses are rewarded and regulation compliant buses are penalized.
Just as a point of comparison:

Toxic epidermal necrolysis, a severe form of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, has about a 30% mortality rate. I understand it to be a first world problem typically caused by taking certain strong medications. It's a severe and often deadly allergic reaction.

(I'm not going to provide links because both Wikipedia entries have disturbing photos. I've verified that I'm spelling both correctly so you can google it if you want. However, you probably would be hard pressed to find an article about either condition that didn't have similarly graphic photos.)

To clarify: epidermal means it's a skin condition. Skin conditions that kill people tend to not be pretty and the symptoms are highly visible.
Is it a monopoly, or a giant conglomerate? Because those are two different sets of problems.
Is this the same issue that has plagued the Trent 1000 since the beginning or is it something different?
It says the plane is 5.5 years but I guess that doesn’t say whether the engine had been modernized.

On the bright side, Rolls seem to have sorted out most issues from the 1000 in their newer engine the XWB.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Trent_1000
LPs aren't just shareholders. I wish. LP agreements are hundreds of pages long!

A complication with institutional funds is that they raise a new fund every couple years, with a changing set of LPs. So they can't make a deal like "we can write off the investment in your previous company, if you let us invest in your new company" because it's favoring one set of LPs over another. LPs get prickly about that.

So a company like Amazon can take lower profits now in return for bigger profits later, but institutional funds can't if they're into the next fund.
My school has blackboard for awhile now, I've always suspected it to be vulnerable but never really tested it. Particularly, you can make forum posts and view/edit the HTML that the WYSIWYG editor creates. This always made me feel like there's probably an XSS vulnerability there
Detroit is such an amazing opportunity for anyone with money.

Buy up a shit ton of property for extremely low prices - it already has city infra, power, water, etc.

Install solar on lots. Bui;d a fucking datacenter for pennies on the dollar compared to other places.

Install municipal wifi with UBNT equipment

and transform the abandoned parts of the city for extremely cheap and reap the benefits both socially and financially in ten years.

If you have money to speculatively invest in real-estate -- buy everything you can in detroit.

Then get celeb detroiters to join and help back you.

Detroit is just ripe for innovation and can become a tech hub with LOW COST housing ASAP.

FUCKING CANNABIS is legal in MI now -- build a huge extraction lab there easily and cheaper than ANY other state in the nation.
> The language feels kludgey, and it attracts an ecosystem of beginners that don't necessarily have to learn much in the way of CS fundamentals or engineering to succeed.

Reminds me of people complaining about JavaScript over the years, yet we pulled through, the language is better and most importantly, we're making money writing it.
How can they plow bike trails easier than streets, especially in the case where the trail is not attached to a street?
I dunno, pretty sure the last few years with fake news, antivax, birthers, preppers, qanon, deepfakes, troll armies, bot farms and the like is proof that Operation Mindfuck has been more successful than the wildest dreams of the acid-soaked hippies that thought it’d be a lark in the 60s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck
>the cars are made by BMW.

as of 1998.

Most of Clarksons' jokes are in reference to the 70s and 80s era of Rolls Royce -- which is known among auto enthusiasts as one of the least reliable group of cars to have ever existed.
Didn't they kick Gab off of Azure because of objectionable content?
It does make sense, because the keepass entropy estimate presumably (like the excellent zxcvbn) tries to approximate the empirical distribution, not the theoretical uniform one.

In theory, "68703649" and "12345678" are equally likely to be pulled from the hat, but in practice one is a much better password than the other. You can reduce the search space by trying the passwords with higher (empirical) probability first.
This therapy is intended for use in an intensive care environment. If the patient is able to pass on their infection in that environment, something is very wrong.
You shouldn't equal what tumblr considers to be "adult content" to "porn".
A company called NASH arranges itineraries for America’s ‘medical tourists’
That massive flood of Chinese tourists is a one time thing. China is prosperous enough that middle class mainland CHinese can now go on tours of the world just for recreation. There was a first wave of Americans doing that a few decades ago, and they acted just as this wave is acting now. The succeeding waves of Americans was different.

Right now, Boston gets Chinese tour groups who are visiting just to enjoy cleaner air than they have at home. So it's true that they're not engaging with us locals at all. But when they go back, they'll be part of the pressure to clean China's air.
BBC also playing the conspiracy card https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49312746
My understanding is that organic still uses some fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Just that they come from a shorter list of approved products
EDIT: Okay, permaculture is stricter, so this doesn't apply
Viruses tend to evolve pretty quickly. In fact, Ebola's already not just one strain, so differing Ebola strains are likely more prone to different versions of this treatment.

In practice, it'll probably work out to be sorta like the issue with flu vaccinations, where health organizations will have to predict which strains are likely to be out there and then prepare accordingly.

Still, even if Ebola somehow rapidly evolved to completely ward off the current treatments, it's moreso the technology that created these treatments that's a breakthrough. So, if Ebola adapts, presumably they'd just update the treatments.

That said, the current treatments probably aren't very optimized yet, either. These are early successes; future results seem liable to be much better.
This surprises me as a male who suffers from anxiety and exhibits none of these symptoms.

To be more specific my anxiety manifests as a feeling of unease, sometimes fear; and at times blends in with OCD where I become unsure of my short term memory and whether or not something did or did not happen.
That's because as men: We aren't allowed to be a worrier, anxious, etc.

We're expected to be confident and assertive. If we aren't then we possibly suffer rejection in relationships and we get socially isolated.
I assume by "take seriously" the poster meant that their marketshare was pretty insignificant along all axes. The Apple App Store has a 100% market share of the iPhone app market and by proxy has control of all apps on 90% of the entire revenue in the smartphone space. Microsoft Store has ... nothing.

Bing has 33% market share in the US an 9% globally. That's not a monopoly.

A monopoly has to control an overwhelming amount of a given market, not just be big.
I use focus assist on and I don't get to bothered by teams at work (it is a small <35 person company though).

And teams works better for a/v conference that whatever Microsoft has done to poor skype.
I think OSX has made some signifiant inroads in some circles. I don't agree that windows is "as strong as it ever was".

Still very strong though. In my industry, games, Windows is 96% (70% is windows 10, 20% windows 7)
base32? "an alphabet of A–Z, followed by 2–7. 0 and 1 are skipped due to their similarity with the letters O and I (thus "2" actually has a decimal value of 26)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32
Being Rome and all... I could see a bunch of people with any sort of dings in their cars or windshield chips making claims in the near future :-)
Perhaps we need government regulation to stop near monopoly indexes like these from curating results so heavily.
Around my area they almost always open existing tickets to check for the time/date. In addition many parking enforcement people patrol the same area all day and remember whether or not they already ticketed that vehicle.
Good for you. They work well where there are chargers to be had, but the three EV trips I've taken over a few 100km all resulted in silly side trips to find charging stations, which were often closed or the wrong type for the vehicle we had. Those side trips meant more time charging and less time getting to where we wanted to go. Net result = 50% of the drive time was wasted as we dealt with finding charge. It was a laughable situation while on vacation, but totally unacceptable when work is on the line.

And not everyone can afford a tesla. They are still luxury vehicles.
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> It's been a pretty happy addition over Outlook (barf) and Skype for Business aka Lync.

Damning with incredibly faint praise, there.
Solar panels on car is a good idea that sounds like a bad idea that sounds like a good idea.

It sounds like a good idea because if you can get your power from the sun you don't need to change.

It sounds like a bad idea because the charging rate is incredibly slow, especially compared to the rate a car can use energy. Solar power wouldn't noticeably increase the range, except for a very special-purpose non-street-legal vehicle.

However, it's actually a good idea because many people don't drive all that far in a given day. If you drive five miles to work, park in the sun, then drive back home, you might recover a pretty big chunk of that and not have to plug in quite as often or maybe not at all. The analysis is similar if you bike or take public transit to work and usually only go on medium-distance drives on the weekends.
Microsoft is no stranger to that discussion. Echoing back to the early days of internet browsers and PC bundling.
A bit late now, but FWIW I don't think from the cited quotes one can deduce that he had anything approaching a fully formed theory; in fact I'd say it's very similar to Democritus idle musings.