skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the coverage vs frequency (ridership) decision. https://humantransit.org/2018/02/basics-the-ridership-covera...

This via service is for coverage not ridership that’s why people are comparing the wrong thing.

Many American cities aka San Jose being the most recent example are retooling their bus routes for fewer but more frequent routes at the cost of cutting the coverage routes.
So I've been looking into microservices communicating with a persistent message broker like Kafka and what I'm still not sure about is the frotnend - that is, I know that the FE will communicate over https with an API gateway service (so REST or GraphQL) but if the FE needs a resource, how should the API gateway handle the request back to the browser? The only pattern I've seen so far is to issue a 201 CREATED for e.g. creating a user. Have you come across any other patterns for this?
English is NOT an easy language to "just read". Compared to many other languages, it is very very hard to tell how a word should be pronounced from its spelling owing to the sheer irregularity. Just because you, as an adult who has spent decades reading English, find it easy doesn't make it easy for children.
zram has been replaced with some other technology (z-something, can't remember the name) that also compresses swap and removed duplicate pages.
That's a fair point and an interesting view.

I would consider the axioms as necessary but incomplete knowledge. You need more knowledge to apply these axioms.

A bit like the axioms are the parts of a car. You can use the car schematic and the parts to create a car. Or you can generate the missing knowledge of the schematic by spending lots of time combining random parts.

I am a bit out of my depth here, but maths can be reformulated. I presume like Minkowski did with Einstein's relativity. Or Riemann with integration. The result of the reorganized knowledge is deeper understanding.

There is both compression and correction going on, and even correction can be seen as compression by removal of special cases.
Same here, except with astronomy/astrophotography and outdoors stuff. I like Instagram in that way and don't follow any big celebrities or big influencers, so never see any #ad sort of stuff.
Using CloudFlare workers to clean up the URLs is neat but it seems like it would be really easy to reach the limits of the free tier.

https://workers.cloudflare.com/docs/reference/runtime/limits...

You get 100,000 request per month and up to 1,000 requests in a 10 minute timeframe. So if you have a page with 10 images on it and you get 100 people visiting that page within a 10 minute timeframe, you will use up all of your free tier and all new visitors will get a 1015 error.

For paid plans you must pay at least $5 and get 10 million requests included and additional requests are 50 cents per million.
I would recommend r/goodyearwelt for recommendations on boots. Really knowledgeable community without being too snobbish (imo).

I’ve found some pretty good leather jacket threads on Styleforum. There’s another forum whose name is escaping my mind, but they are dedicated to classic reproduction leather jackets.
I had a really awesome leather belt that I got when I was 15. I stopped wearing it when I was 30 because my weight finally out outgrew the belt. Still have it. It's no worse today than it was when I got it as a teen.

I go through about a belt a year now. Because I always seem to end up with this crap you describe. Even if I try to avoid it. Guess I need to do a better job looking... Or just lose some weight so I can use that same belt for another 15years.
What can you accomplish with goto that you can't accomplish with try/catch and custom errors?
>Therefore, if you borrow £100 from the bank, and it credits your account with the amount, ‘new money’ has been created. It didn’t exist until it was credited to your account.

If that £100 is spent into the economy but is not returned, did the total volume of available £100 not increase, reducing the buying power of any £ stores? Perhaps it is not a tax because it isn't used directly by the government, but it is a burden that such a lender can enforce upon currency holders with the authority that is given to it by the organization controlling the currency.

>entrepreneurs who think they can do better are free to launch competing financial services.

Entrepreneurs cannot lend out money they never had. How difficult is it for a new company to obtain a piece of the volume of money that the currency regulator deems available for creation within a timeframe?
World’s deepest hole, Kola Superdeep Borehole, 40k ft deep, too hot to go deeper
Pihole on a raspberry pi ZeroW and ublock origin for desktop and Adblock plus for mobile.

I love ublock’s ability to easily block individual elements of a page such as distracting video or moving crap.
> actose intolerance in the US is inversely correlated with wealth

I'm not well informed about the causes of lactose intolerance. Is this correlation diet-induced/environmental? Or is it a congenital/racial thing where white people be rich and everyone else is genetically intolerant?
Tools versus Agents (2012)
Linguistically it's grammatically about 80% the same as Japanese and if you replace Hangul with Hanja where possible you'll see a tonne of it's vocabulary is from Chinese.

I guess what's mysterious is which of Korean / Japanese influenced which??

Korean has a slightly more complex grammar than Japanese. Not by much but there are some forms in Korean that don't exist in Japanese. But it's remarkable how they are almost identical.
I admit it, I was talking from my vast experience with Braveheart.
Markets reveal preferences. The differences in prices reflect the dollar votes cast in the marketplace. Whining doesn't affect markets-- participation does.
Might be nice if the error messages suggested such alternatives instead of just saying "banned"?
I opened up port 23 telnet and had it connect immediately to a playable Crowther & Woods' original adventure,

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.

In a year and a half I had logged over a million probes. No humans at all. I would have known because they would have typed something to do with the game or tried to play it. So I must conclude no one is checking the logs of the worms either.
I think there's huge amount of difference between chess or tennis prodigies promoting their activity by teaching kids the proper techniques vs. Timmy unboxing a new box of Legos and dunking them in Jello #sponsored.
I'm kind of cheating with this answer because it's not a specific piece of tech, but the thing that I'm really focused on learning right now is how to build out my business by hiring developers & learning how to properly manage them as they help contribute to some of my company's projects.

Most of my development work has been solo, with occasional one-off help from contractors. But the number and scope of my projects has been growing and I've been struggling to keep up, so I'm now going through my first round of finding people to hire, designing a fair & useful interview process, and figuring out the best way to break down my current projects so that it's minimally painful for a new developer to ramp up on them.

This process has also forced me to actually start looking for a legitimate source of funding for my business, besides my own savings. I've been trying to learn this side of things, but it's been a real struggle -- I've definitely been living in the bubble of focusing on my product without thinking about the business side of things for too long, and I'm finally making the leap in terms of taking the business side of things seriously.

Any words of encouragement or advice are greatly appreciated :)
Most of the things you mention in your last paragraph are addressed in this talk, you'll probably enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUrXCBB1OI
Once again, the destructive effects of usury/interest on the economy are manifesting in front of us.
You discount viruses that may be transmitted by saliva.
As usual this is the typical "Mac as pretty Linux" user story, so naturally the migration was quite painless.
That make me wonder how hard it would be to just strip the bad functions out of the library.
It doesn’t — I was wrong.

I was digging through its source code, and it turns out it isn’t memory-safe after all. Here’s the source code for stpcpy: https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/blob/master/src/string/stpcp...

If dest is too small in the function linked to above, musl’s stpcpy will happy cause a buffer overflow.

Don’t know how or from where I got the impression that musl was a “safer” alternative to libc.
Likewise there is the problem of central banks capturing the academy by lavishly funding their sycophants and cutting off researchers critical of their methods or policies. The conflict of interest is obvious, but nearly the entire field pretends it does not exist.
It's bad that C devs have rolled their own awful, buggy custom solutions.

However, here's the upshot-- that awful, buggy, custom solution is guaranteed to remain compatible with the codebase that contains it. You won't find a single instance where such a dev "improved", "refactored", "optimized", or "modernized" that awful, buggy code in a way that stopped the rest of the code from working and then shipped that broken blob of junk. And if you did find that, there's no way they'd convince the rest of the devs that this is a useful thing to do in the interest of "moving forward" or whatever.

On the other hand you'll find zillions of dollars spent on systems to keep dependency management tools from causing exactly that problem.

Just to give a real-world example-- a user reported that an abandoned C++ plugin wasn't working. We did a race:

1. Three devs try to get a single C++ dependency of that plugin to work cross platform (OSX, Windows, Linux).

2. I tried to port the C++ plugin to a C plugin with no deps.

By the time I ported, tested, and shipped, those three devs were tracking down a bug with the build script of the C++ dependency on Windows.

Edit: granted the plugin itself is only about 2000 lines of code.
> The problem is I feel that he has confused understanding of the subject here rather than clarifying it, which is an easy thing for anybody to do in a conversational article.

I couldn't agree more. A bunch of people are coming away from reading that article believing that forests have no impact on global carbon sequestration and oxygen production. In attempting to make a contrarian technical point and refute mass media figures, the author has done a disservice to furthering public understanding of the issue.

Sure, a mature forest can come into equilibrium with regard to carbon/oxygen production and consumption. A forest could even be a net contributor of atmospheric carbon by means of an insect or fungus overpopulation. However:

1. Studies show that's not true for the Amazon rainforest (annually it is still a carbon sink).

2. Over the lifetime of the forest the effect is clearly a massive gain in oxygen and massive sequestration of carbon as evidenced by all the biomass (e.g., trees) and dirt you find in forests.
Existing Govts around the world have allowed global monopoly's to grow as part of the New World Order, its a wonder how the major political parties continue to be elected, doesn't matter if you look at the US, UK or EU, all are guilty of pandering to the global elites who continue to get richer off our backs.
It's pretty different, it's a small metal bar (probably 1 inch wide 10 inch long) that you stand on with one leg, while remaining seated on the bicycle. The design is a lot more compact, so you can retrofit it to normal streets.
Also the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

Linked the news article b/c has some good graphics and vids not on wikipedia.
I took a break from working on it over the summer, and am about to start again. If anyone would like to pay me to work on it full time, do let me know.
T5x0 (Avoid the T540, the touchpad buttons are supposedly shit.)

I'm running a T530. Max out the ram, get a ssd, it's great. I'm probably on my third one, I keep buying junkers for $50 from eBay for the parts. I majorly abuse it. The magnesium frame likes to crack near the heatsink, the steel frame around the screen likes to crack 1 inch above the hinges, don't spill water on the table it's sitting on.
A few thoughts:

- CA is just a much bigger state. You have a more diverse population, more diverse interests. Everything gets harder with scale. For example, in many CA counties, growing became illegal where it was previously medically legal. I talked with farmers in Nevada County who couldn't grow anymore. Farmers in Humboldt loved this and tried to create Agricultural Associations (I forget the specific legal name). These were legally mandated dues you would have to pay if you were a farmer and then Humboldt tried to give themselves all the board seats and solidify their position over Nevada County. I'm going a bit deep into the weeds here but I'm trying to demonstrate how complicated and messy the interests are with larger states. CA is also actively preventing the hemp industry from developing in the same. Cannabis seems to be the industry pushing hardest against hemp in CA. Crazy, right?

- The laws were poorly written. Too much was left up to counties. Counties that were frankly totally unprepared for writing regulations and enforcement. The equivalent is dry alcohol counties.

- The underground market was much more developed in CA than in CO prior to legalization. CA/OR/WA supplied much of the US. Even supplying itself, CA developed complex supply chains before legalization. These don't just go away.

- The culture. Smoking weed in CA seemed much more widely accepted when it was illegal than it did in CO. For actual people, most didn't really notice when weed became legal. If you wanted to smoke it, you were probably already smoking it. Of course, it was a huge delta for the industry but the average person doesn't care much. As an example, I used to work in the tech industry as a software engineer. One time a coworker visited from another office out of town, bought some weed, had some left over, and gave it to me by leaving it on my desk overnight. I came in the next morning, my room and desk smelled like weed. I made a joke about it and no one cared. I've smoked weed with my boss's boss on the roof of the office building. When I started a cannabis company, I visited my old office and brought samples. People went outside to try it at like 11am. The culture is just so insanely different.
Definitely a thing. In my midsized city, between new dorms at the state university and new private luxury dorms, the old student ghetto neighborhoods are declining further. Lots of abandoned buildings, as they don’t meet standards for subsidized housing.
The entirety of Hillary Clinton's campaign could be summarized as "it's my turn, orange man bad". I can't vote for that. In 2019 I likewise can't vote for open borders, "free money" for everyone, multi-trillion dollar ill-conceived "green deals", or "reparations", because I'd be the one paying for all this shit. Plus, _all_ democratic presidential candidates made the Charlottesville hoax the centerpiece of their campaign, so they too lie 100% knowingly about it.
What this article doesn't go into is if the forest is destroyed, what the net effect is, it consumes as much oxygen as it produces, but once those animals have no oxygen they will put a strain on the surronding ecosystem. Not to mention the flash floods that will result from the lack of vegetation
I love MacOS. The only reason I have windows at all is for a few games. That being said, Apple has gutted the Macbook lineup.

The hardware, especially the keyboard and touchbar, are utter trash and reminiscent of the dell and HP laptops around 2008, which were the reason I dumped those brands in the first place.

All the pointless dongles were a moronic excuse to make thinner machines. They forgot about function and also failed to realize that aesthetic doesn’t matter if the keyboard is literally a dumpster fire.

I wonder sometimes if Tim Cook is becoming senile or if he just don’t care since the iPhone was printing money.
There's a lot of social pressure for women to wear makeup which is especially hard to pull off if you bike to work. A woman with tasteful makeup is perceived as more professional, even if it's just subconsciously. I'm sure there are men here who will object to that statement, but 9 times out of 10, when a guy thinks a woman is wearing "no makeup," she's actually wearing primer, foundation, concealer, mascara, eyebrow pencil, lipstick, and blush and just hasn't done anything too obvious.

Because of this illusion, women don't want to be seen bare-faced by their coworkers (because society's expectation of what a woman looks like without makeup is actually a woman wearing a lot of makeup so the real no-makeup look is shocking). Now a woman who wants to bike to work has to decide if she'll hope her makeup stays looking good after a bike ride, do her makeup twice, or go without makeup for the bike ride (and risk being seen without makeup going into the office). This doesn't bother all women, but it's no wonder that a lot of us choose not to go through this minefield of issues.
The whole reason for the 1968 creation of the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" (misleadingly often referred to as the Economics Nobel Prize, although Nobel had nothing to do with its creation) is to make the public think that it is a science on par with physics, physiology/medicine and chemistry, though.
> “It would be a mistake for transit agencies and cities to rely on this kind of last-mile connection to the exclusion of making better walking and biking connections to transit hubs,” he said. “Those are also very low-cost ways to make it easier to connect to transit.”

so a lot of people are taking the minibus because there are no way to safely physically get to an actual bus stop. if towns were planned around public transportation this would not be a problem. we have planned towns around automobiles for too long. this creates an artificial need for cars.
Can someone read out to me how the Abstraction rule works?
Reasons why said technological advancement occurs in some times and places but not others is most definitely a question of economics.
Hey, I've been learning Kafka too and posted this on another sibling comment:

> So I've been looking into microservices communicating with a persistent message broker like Kafka and what I'm still not sure about is the frotnend - that is, I know that the FE will communicate over https with an API gateway service (so REST or GraphQL) but if the FE needs a resource, how should the API gateway handle the request back to the browser? The only pattern I've seen so far is to issue a 201 CREATED for e.g. creating a user. Have you come across any other patterns for this?
> I propose more government mandated slavery

Let me fix that for you.
Nitpicking but you are right. Null pointer bugs (null pointer dereference to be precise) are all over the place in C though.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4007268/what-exactly-is-...
It's just lot of signalling. If they are vegetarians they eat no meat, ever. No chicken, seafood or taco Tuesday.
Well, that's the rub, right? Anyway, what he did was get super into his hobbies, one of which was "urban gymnastics" (or whatever it's called), and eventually ended up on the Indonesian version of American Ninja Warrior, in his 40s (!!), which I found pretty inspirational.

Not a lot of money in that, at least for most people, so I think it's fair to call it retirement.
Can you describe a bit more on why you’ve found this more helpful? Any cool hobby projects you’ve been able to build from this or other applications?
I think the Navy and Air Force could have shared version with a lot in common. The Marines want VTOL and I understand that feature is important to the Marines. Unfortunately, the VTOL requirements have force compromises in the design. Without VTOL, I believe the Navy and Air Force would have ended up with a platform that was more acceptable then what they are getting.
My daughter speaks super well from watching Swedish shows with the app Barnkanalen SVT - just use a VPN with an address in Sweden to access it.
After a decade of wanting to learn to code while life got in the way, I'm actually doing more coding (mostly CSS styling for websites I run) and laying the groundwork for eventually learning a real programming language.

In the spring, a developer from HN talked to me and recommended a free course and I also applied to an online coding school offering free tuition for the summer. In the process of applying, I learned my computer doesn't really have enough RAM.

I haven't been able to spare the $40 or so it would take to upgrade it. I've been working more and moved to a larger apartment to improve my working conditions. (I'm still in an SRO, but now I have a private bath and a George Foreman grill.) I hope to eventually get a laptop to further improve my productivity.

Between my medical condition and extreme poverty, getting anything done takes forever. But I'm actually cautiously optimistic and excited to be working towards goals instead of spending all my time putting out the endless fires of my shitastic life.

I also set up a blog to help me gather learning resources in one place so I can find them again when I can get all my ducks in a row and have the physical arrangements and ability to set time aside to actually learn to program.
Second that T480s, love it. 24GB RAM, 2TB SSD. Booting OpenBSD, macOS and Linux. Scaling on WQHD display works solid. Only drawback is that the WWAN (4G) only works under Linux and the touchpad is not as good as in a MacBook Pro.
They have been known for this since at least 1867 for their first organized ultramarathon, and then finally attracted the world public in the 20s.

http://ultrarunninghistory.com/tarahumara/
Pier 80 in SF is actually used today, for roll-on, roll-off cargo like cars (Teslas are shipped from there)
Yes, and many Western European bonds as well. This is part of the justification for negative interest by the ECB.
The reason is that government bonds are essentially risk free. Since the ECB is totally risk free, if they were to offer a better interest than government bonds, that would be a no-brainer for banks.

This has the effect of pulling the cash in banks into the ECB and thus out of investments. Cash that is not invested, but stored in the ECB is not contributing to the economy. Moreover, it is essentially unfair competition by the ECB. Finally, governments might be miffed that investors don't buy government bonds.

There is another justification that is essentially focusing entirely on the "Cash that is not invested, but stored in the ECB is not contributing to the economy." line of reasoning. Here, the idea is simply to reduce the ECB interest so banks will want to invest more, thus growing the economy. This differs from the first argument because it doesn't care about the 'risk free interest rate' of the current market. It just wants more money in the economy.
I haven’t used i3, but I missed good keyboard context switching support when I started using macOS. There’s some reasonable solutions out there, but my current favorite interface customizer is BetterTouchTool, which is setup to let you customize any input for any kind of OS function you might want. I have a 4-monitor setup so easy window/tile management is important to me. I have a handful of keyboard chords to put windows on the screen/quadrant combo that I want. My TouchBar is permanently set to media keys with media info + notification area + emoji keyboard. For keyboard control over focus, I use the Contexts app inter-app and ShortCat within app.
What will it take to get WebAssembly performance more in line?