skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a NOMs problem but a complete breakdown in planning to provide adequate transportation. The apps only exacerbated the problem.

The problem is that California stopped building freeways in 1975 and we don't have much in the way of public transportation. Therefore people end up driving at freeway speeds in neighborhoods with children and pets.

An interesting example is highway 17 which is the only freeway between silicon valley and the beach. On a hot summer day the entire freeway is gridlocked. Beach goers believe they can get there faster if they drive through the streets of Los Gatos. This shuts down an entire town.

There are plenty of stories about how we dismantled public transportation after WW2. I am not sure how true they are so I won't repeat them. One thing that is true is that eminent domain has become much more costly in California making it difficult to rebuild public transportation after we dismantled it.

Here is an article on why we stopped building freeways:
https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-1993/why-california-stop...
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What laypeople need to realize is the following relation:

Low federal funds rates allow companies to acquire huge amounts of debt very cheaply.

Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices.

Stock prices inflated in such a way are not supported by fundamentals and so the downside risk greatly increases.

Once the downside eventually materializes, markets drop violently. At first, the FED ignores this, but eventually it bails. The funds rate is once again lowered, so the game can continue.

In any event, the game must continue, because companies need new debt to service old debt. If the new debt was more expensive, the companies would eventually risk defaulting.

To understand the risk of corporate defaults, one must look at the importance of corporate bonds in pension funds. Ironically, the low federal funds rate is part of what drives pension funds to purchase more risky corporate debt, in order to meet their yield requirements.

All of this causes massive asset price inflation. Stock prices are detached from actual revenue, real estate prices are detached from rent income. The rich are getting richer - at least on paper - because they own most of the assets.

The CPI doesn't immediately reflect this kind of inflation, so the FED gets to claim "there is no inflation" and everything is "just fine". Well, it's not fine and they know it, they just can't really do anything about it.
This feels like the sort of thing no one should be surprised by.

It seems the basic premise of Uber and Lyft was to gobble up market share at enormous cost while autonomous cars were getting figured out, then switch to full driverless ASAP.

But full driverless keeps being “just a few more years away,” and it looks increasingly like that’s going to be too long for Uber to avoid running out of money.
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Site doesn't appear to be working in Firefox or Chrome at the moment. No idea what it is supposed to show based on the title.
It is very easy to pause or unpause the service though. All through website within seconds.
> it doesn’t surprise me they’re trying to keep cars from driving down the public streets they live on. Is there anything the affluent won’t do to try to exclude themselves from society at large?

There are very legitimate planning and engineering issues with the traffic changes caused by app-based navigation. Streets are designed differently depending on the expected vehicle-per-hour loads. For instance, viewing distances might be shorter, intersections might be unsignalized leading to unexpected backups, pedestrian crossing would be less well marked leading to increased danger to pedestrians, schools are usually located on quiet side streets - an extra few hundred vehicles per hour greatly affects the safety of kids walking to school... the issues go on and on.

It is true that people don't usually get interested or motivated on an issue until it affects them personally.
No one has yet been killed by re-entering space junk
Doesn't most movies earn back the money the first days/weeks in the cinemas?

But you might have a point for tv series. I suspect they have gotten much more expensive to make the last 1-2 decades.
Those EU and Nordic countries are not democratic socialist though. The Prime Minister of Denmark repudiated Bernie's comments saying so. They even say they are capitalist with strong safety nets, which is not socialism.
Most people buying these things know the only performance thing they'll ever do with the car is a straight launch from a stop at an intersection. They won't ever be needing high-G turning ability on a city street, nor any other maneuver that would be too dangerous on a city street with pedestrians and bicyclists around.

Tesla seems to have played their cards very well.
I think it's just very inconvenient that animals can have feelings and can suffer. Once you accept this then suddenly a lot of things become ethically very problematic, e.g. zoos, circus animals, pollution, a lot of farming practices. Much easier to deny that and claim that humans are special and only they can suffer.
"Authorities want every house in America to be remodeled to include a second front door with a special government lock. They promise to only give police departments, contractors, and/or federal employees access to the single master key that can be instantly and easily copied and shared over the internet and opens every single house and business in America. Even if we trusted the government with this power, how could that go wrong?"
Maybe because they didn’t need to corroborate the story first.
It is possible that Jeffrey Epstein was faking his own death. He could buy the ortopcy as he paid others to do things for. Are you sure the dead body is the real Jeffrey Epstein? Or he may be already out from his cell as a new face man with the other identity? This is new York cell.
That was funny. I think if you go in a group like from work or with friends then it helps. If you are thinking of chores instead having fun then you need this more not less.
The general strategy seems to be: IBM's customers have been slowly transitioning from proprietary IBM OSs (AIX, z/OS) to Linux for a lot of their workloads, and IBM has accommodated this out of necessity, but wants to retain licensing revenue and some degree of branding/control in that situation by having such customers on an Enterprise IBM Linux. RHEL more or less already owned the Enterprise Linux space, so IBM just bought them instead of developing something in-house. Along with IBM getting an Enterprise Linux brand out of it, they also seem to be hoping some RHEL customers who aren't otherwise IBM customers might be converted to buy more stuff (e.g. maybe some of them can be sold on RHEL/POWER9 servers).

(Whether that justifies the valuation I don't know enough to guess on.)
Its a whole different activity, as a group event. 2 or three friends, yelling out clues you've discovered, recording them and trying to put them together, its very engaging.

I'd never consider doing an escape room alone.
My thoughts are because IBM can see the metrics about where the Unix/Linux market is heading, especially in the age of the cloud. The hyperscale clouds are all running various Linux distributions, not AIX. FWIW my experience is showing large enterprises putting their Unix environments on life support/maintenance only mode, and not expanding their Unix usage.

Seems like IBM is hedging their future on Linux.
These headlines...

"Financier"

Everything I have read since this came out states no one has any idea how/where Epstein made his money. And yet, the headlines read "Financier." Not convicted criminal. Suspected sex trafficker, rapist, pedophile, or anything of that nature.

Everything about Epstein and this case shows the insane power imbalance between those at the top of our society and everyone else.
The interesting thing is that it came from ten year old account with 58K karma. Everybody has a bad day, I guess.
Very interesting read. I've spent some time on that particular what-if now and then. I imagine a lot of people making a living at a keyboard do. Glad to hear that, much as I've imagined, it doesn't mean the end of the line. It will make things a lot harder but it doesn't have to be the end of life as someone doing programming.
I'd like to start using this so I can pace and code at the same time.
My buddy makes his living building escape rooms (in the US)
Looking at this table the best countries in terms of leave are muslim countries. Lots of public holidays.
What percentage of our global storage needs do you believe are "long term" in this dichotomy?

Is this at the "electric cars can't do my daily commute" or "electric cars can't tow my boat 600 miles without stopping, once a year" stage?

Seems like most of the world just needs solar to last until the next day with a decent chunk of that power needed immediately after the sun sets and any wind power available could get smoothed out and/or stored for the morning by the same batteries.
>I don’t know of any equivalent street atlas that exists for the half-million L.A. households that use buses, trains, and bikes to get around instead of cars.

Google Maps already does this; there are 'public transit', 'walking', and 'biking' directions. The public transit option gives you a few different options, including transfers and how late the buses are if the city provides that data. There's a dedicated 'transit' overlay which traces major routes and adds bus stops to the map.

It's great if you weren't aware of nearby express routes or need to get somewhere at odd hours, but I guess it does also increase bus congestion by funneling more people into the bus routes. It stinks not always getting a seat, maybe I should sue Google.
> Can someone explain why Red Hat is so valuable?

The better question is, why did it cost so much? First of all, Red Hat makes a lot of money and it has a solid market position.

Secondly, you tend to overpay in an acquisition, because it is a huge amount of sudden demand.

Lastly, pretty much all stock is "overvalued" right now, because money is cheap (see my other comment).

> Why would IBM put such a big bet?

Because it is a giant corporate monstrosity that cannot really innovate by itself anymore. It still can buy things though.
This isn’t bad news. This is exactly the sort of cost cutting and fat trimming a company in Uber’s position should be performing. From a tactical standpoint, Uber’s IPO acts as a promise to Wall Street that they will continue their existing business while slimming down their books.

From a strategic position, it’s not as great. Uber’s rivalry with Lyft is a war of attrition: given that the two services are perfect complements, right down to the drivers themselves working both networks simultaneously, growth is entirely a function of platform-level economics. While Uber is wise to cut corporate costs before materially cutting driver commissions or raising consumer prices, it’s not exactly a show of strength to be scaling back marketing and engineering, the very departments that Uber needs to continue growing.

That being said, the size of Uber’s war chest doesn’t make me worry about their ability to continue operating. If I had to prognosticate, though, I’d say this is a sign that Uber is going to be posting some rough results for a couple quarters.
I still can't figure out how Uber actually manages to lose money still.

They take something like a 20% cut of the fares don't they? How is this insufficient to pay for their platform?

I actually think they should be already be incredibly profitable.
I thought this was going to link to “Speaking Perl Outloud” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY
Computation: Finite And Infinite Machines was my first introduction to computing. It is the only book I still have.
Except that too many items relegated to the conspiracy heap have proven to not have been in recent months. You can't just look away. Your life depends on it. Hey, I just want to live my simple life and move on, too. But doing so means that the bad people win and if good people do nothing, it's our fault.
The problem is that we all need a place to live, want it to be nice and there is a limited supply of real estate. In the UK anyway, a large amount of our free income is devoted to bidding as much as we can afford for nice houses. Since everyone is bidding For the same pool of housing, we end up working as long as we can to out compete each other. We’re doing it to ourselves.
Always been a dicey business. I'd worked on one back in the 80's(!) and the issue then was, bumper stickers that had the same aspect ration as a license plate. Plus license plate frames (which must by law not cover any part of the plate with info on them, but often do anyway).
Interesting - similar ‘antifragility’ concept as chaos testing. Better to discover the weaknesses and dependencies of your system by inducing a failure yourself than to learn about it when it’s imposed on you by chance.
China is very different from the enlightened world. The drive to do real innovation is not there in the sense that we recognize it. The reason is that they are about 2500 years behind in thought.

After the The Hundred Schools of Thought/zhūzǐ bǎijiā - 諸子百家/诸子百家, a time of great intellectual and philosophical discourse, debate, and deliberation in Chinese history (ca. 400 BC), most if not all major intellectual discourse stops.

This was because Confucius and his teachings on ethics, and Laozi and his Tao Te Ching became canonized and nearly elevated to the status of religion (which is what many consider Taoism and Confucianism to be). The middle kingdom also never moved beyond the strict traditional rigid structure of a legalist state equipped with a harsh supreme bureaucracy. A style of governance and politics which is arguably still used to this day by the ruling Communist party.

China just never moved on. Period.
What a tragedy! However it seems “Gasiorowski said the fire probably broke out in the reception room and blocked the employee’s way to evacuate the girls. Autopsies will be carried out to confirm the cause of the deaths.”

So this could happen with any room which does not have window or backsoor.
if someone is in prison for life they have little to lose, and plenty to gain by doing wetwork for corrupt officials.
If an electric car can do 200km on a charge, that's 99.9% of my annual driving needs met.
Lots misleading in your comment but:

-they have built prototypes

-they know it will be cheaper because they eliminated the need for rare earth minerals
In the US maybe.
Wait isn’t this something all dogs do anyway?
Yea you are obviously right now that I think about it, and I still have such a strong willingness to think there is something special about the number 10.
what does enabled but not validated mean?
But his death also ends the criminal case against him, no one else was charged in the indictment. Why act on a warrant for a case that has ended? I’m definitely not an expert in criminal justice proceedings though.
Epstein, 66, takes himself out in Manhattan jail this morning
Boy, did I misread that headline. I thought it was about hunt-and-peckers, and who cares? Why I know people quadriplegic/missing hands/nervous system problems, and they write code for a living. Turns out, that’s exactly what it’s about. Interesting read to broaden your thinking on who uses your stuff. An encouraging read as well: your life doesn’t end if you can no longer wiggle your fingers in pre-determined patterns.
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I thought the Baltic strategy was to have a force in place that the Russians would have to kill to get the baltics. That force couldn't stop the Russians but their defeat would cause a casus belli that gives NATO enough domestic political capital to go fully to war with Russia.
On the other side of this, I found it very interesting how a programmer who can't see codes using text-to-speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc
Running electrical engines at lower speed should in theory reduce wear, especially at autobahn type speeds.

If you’ve ever driven an electric performance car one of the most disappointing things is comparing 30–90 vs 0-60. Arguably the latter is more important because the typical on-ramp is generally 30 mph and highway traffic around me is traveling at 75+
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(Presidential limo)
I thought the evidence was pretty clear: the safety record of American ATC is nearly perfect and delays caused by ATC are nearly nonexistent.

As far as "socialized health care," there are many different models for it. The oft-discussed "medicare for all" plan would be a system where regulated private entities provide health care and the government pays for it. Another common model involves public and private insurance and private providers, regulated to provide for universal service (essentially the ACA, but less crappy). If "socialized health care" means the government directly runs it all, then that excludes most countries commonly considered to have it, including Canada, Australia, and most of Europe. I realize that the comment I originally replied to specifically discussed government owned health care from top to bottom, but I'm expanding the discussion to include more real-world models. I think one of the big problems with this discussion in the US is our complete unwillingness to look at what other countries do and how they work, and there are a variety of different examples to consider there.
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
It's hard for me to see why this dynamic would happen. What specific federal funds rate would make stock prices "supported by fundamentals" rather than "inflated", and why in your view can't the Fed just set that rate to avoid these problems?
Kerala’s monsoon is no longer the same
I agree. BUT - the response will be: “well even if we wanted to, we don’t have the technology to read his brain. we DO have the technology to read his phone, but you nerds are keeping it from us.”

(Disclaimer: I don’t agree with this position but I have a lot of friends who think the government can do no wrong)
Honestly. Name a hazard and it's present in at least a handful of chemicals used in ic fabrication.
> And if you kill many more of the enemy than they do of you despite being vastly outnumbered, you can justifiably say you gave a lot more than you got

Getting (benefitting) a lot more than you gave (spent) makes more sense to me.
The interlude is very familiar.. I have several relatives who have gone through "the fibromyalgia experience". I can totally understand that one responds to what is effectively a refusal to acknowledge that you are actually experiencing pain with curses.
0-60 is pretty useless and easy to achieve. Good handling is much harder to achieve and requires more development. I would expect a Porsche to handle much better than tesla.
The injustice, is that this very much appears to be a situation where "everyone knew" but no one did anything. So okay, maybe Minsky, Clinton, Trump, or whoever didn't actually rape an underage girl or engage in sex trafficking. But they knew. That's disgusting.

If someone is going to tell you that someone of Bill Clinton's magnitude doesn't know exactly who the person is whose private island he is a guest at--then that person is full of shit.

Powerful people do their due diligence.

P.S. pardon my tone. I know that's out of spirit for HN, but this case...I am mad.
That story of how the doctors just dismissed her pain as delusion is terrifying. Doctors are supposed to be people of science, but one of the very fundamentals of science is to acknowledge that you don't know everything, that your current knowledge is just a theory that can be improved upon. I find there's a tendency among doctors to think they know every possible disease, and if someone comes along with one that doesn't fit in their system, they write it off as psychosomatic. They probably get their fair share of actual hypochondriacs, but I'll wager that more than half of the people who are dismissed this way, are actually suffering from a real, but rare or understudied illness.
They’re also stressing repeatability of 0-60 acceleration where Tesla reports 0-60 on nearly full batteries.

The Model3 performance consistency is better than the model s because they improved the cooling system but performance drops off quickly after a couple of runs.

I expect the Porsche to deliver consistent performance because that’s what they’ve been talking about for the last 3 years. Specifically, the referred to “ludicrous mode” as a party trick.
Is there any storage mechanism whose costs don't increase in the same way?
Are you sure he was really killed himself. What if that dead body was not Jeffrey Epstein himself. What if the real Jeffrey Epstein was already been transferred out as a free man from the new York city cell, in an other face, with a new identity? This is new York city, money can made any impossible becomes possible..... Just saying, it needs more transparency to the public before anyone can believe it.
The sun does not shine every day. And not equally throughout all seasons. As the percentage of renewables increases so will the gaps on bad days/weeks.

The differences can be dramatic and must be compensated some way. https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=solar-wind&yea...
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They have not seized the means of production and handed it to a poorly-incentivized bureaucracy that claims to speak for the public.

If you have private ownership of production you are still capitalist. All the Nordic countries do this. They are not so much socialists as welfare states. If we must have a welfare state, I would much prefer the "citizens as shareholders of the country" model with a basic income, rather than the overweening paternalism of current welfare states.
You are right in general. Most open core tools do not let anything enterprise like into community versions. However, Gitlab is somewhat different. For example is that it lets you have LDAP/AD integration in core version. Compare that to lets say Mattermost which doesn't.

And yes, I need enterprise stuff, I just don't need enterprise stuff currently in Gitlab. Looks to me those stuff are created for really big teams and really big multinational companies. My company is 1200+ employees big with IT having around 70 people, and in that context I don't miss anything.

Futhermore, some enterprise features finish in core after some time. I have never witnessed the opposite in Gitlab.
Honestly I think people should go to the one in Beijing if they have the means to, they held the first one in China this year and it was f'ing amazing. It was held in a old oil storage tanker and had a evening session with live djs and performances. Best event I've ever been to hands down. And the Chinese hacker community is a force to be reckoned with
-Nothing in the article or video says they have actually built prototypes.

-They say it can be built without rare earth elements, but say nothing about how that affects performance. Everything else is for the magnet version and they use more magnets than is normal.

They do apparently have prototypes, but I'm still skeptical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqIKZGx-06Y