skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing the number of lanes of traffic available increases the number of people who can get from A to B using that network during a specific time period.

Whether "congestion" increases or decreases is besides the point. Congestion is definitional in economically successful urban areas.

The trivial example is to imagine a theoretical road with free-flowing traffic and a 10mph speed limit. Add another lane and now twice as many cars can get from A to B (if the demand comes). No individual car will make the journey faster.
This behavior is changing with iOS 13.
A number of factors:

1. Money is essentially free at current interest rates and I don't see a sign of that reversing course.

2. Large firms are hording cash and have more than they know what to do with. They are at the point where they are buying their own stock because that is the most productive thing they can do with that money.

3. The democratic party is running on minimum wage increases. While it is debatable if that will have a huge impact it certainly isn't a deflationary measure.

4. Democrats are also running on the green new deal, universal income and medicare for all that I predict will not actually result in higher taxes for the wealthy in any meaningful way but instead the printing of money in order to fund those programs as that is what seems to happen every time. Even if taxes were implemented as discussed, moving money from investment vehicles (where the wealthy have it) to consumers will still probably cause inflation in terms of housing and consumer goods.

5. China is sitting on about 3 trillion dollars that is currently effectively out of the money supply and they will likely deploy that as a weapon in the trade war.
A Square Wheel, or The Ultimate Flat Tire
> prepared

And tell them how to prepare.

Florida native and I've live here all my life. If you're within the radius of hurricane force winds, live near the coast, live in a flood prone area, live in a shed, live in a trailer, you should take these storms seriously. If you're inland, and not in a shed or trailer, you should be fine if you don't do something stupid, like stand outside. Don't go out and hurricanes are rarely more than a nuisance to those inland.

This is a compact storm; it's HFW extend out 15 miles. Anyone outside of that and not on the coast isn't going to have much to worry about.
Depending on your sense of urgency, there's now the GPD Micro PC [1]. Quite the odd duckling, but it includes an RJ-45 and an honest-to-god DB9 for RS232!

[1] https://liliputing.com/2019/02/gpd-micropc-handheld-computer...
They'll have a passably-functioning tool, which is a pretty low bar that I think we still set so low because we remember IE6.

But the sort of people who use whatever's put in front of them because they don't know or care are exactly the sort of people who need a browser that isn't actively hostile to their privacy and autonomy.

Greedy businesses are preying on vulnerable technophobes, and we who grok should make sure those vulnerable people have their best interests looked after by organisations whose motives genuinely align — not by big tech firms behaving like ambulance-chasing quack doctors, who'll sell you any number of appendectomies.
How much is gas in Israel?
While getting people off their phones would certainly reduce injuries and fatalities, the fundamental problem of traffic is that a car takes up way too much physical space for only one person.
If they had been operating an illegal business model then they would have long ago lost in court. That they've succeeded means that it's fundamentally legal...
Pi4 Amiga project YES. I'm in.
Custom floppy driver required for authenticity.

Checkout the ARMiga Kickstarter project.
They are not looking to actually obtain any exposure on the stamped gold or illicit gold. The goal here is to arbitrage between these two prices and while doing so convert dirty money into clean money. Speculation is the last thing these people are doing or want.
One of the biggest reasons I'm looking forward to self-driving cars is to solve the traffic wave[1] problem. These are so unnecessary and deeply frustrating. When I started paying attention to what was causing traffic in the Bay Area I saw them all the time. There's so much added congestion due to erratic speeds, merging too late, rubbernecking and so on.

1) https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/5tf814/how_one_person...
I find your “solution” hard to put into effect, since most people find driving in traffic to be boring.
I'm also in a hurricane area - I understand, use, and really like the NHC maps as well. I'm not sure what those red cones in the slideshow were, but the definitely weren't NHC graphics.
It’s not even anecdotal. The relative risk for developing schizophrenia for cannabis smokers vs non cannabis smokers is 2.3. This means that you are 2.3 times more likely to develop schizophrenia if you smoke cannabis.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988731/

With that said, I think it should be legal. I just think people shouldn’t downplay the risks.
I'm reading no more articles that use feminine as the gender neutral pronoun it's nonsensical politically motivated language control.

If one finds the traditional masculine gender neutral pronoun form objectionable to there politically sensibilities then use something gender free, pushing the other way is hypocritical stupidity.
It's one of those things everyone always says but doesn't seem to always be true. There used to be a spot on my commute that always had traffic jams. It was a single lane turn coming off a bridge and having to merge with a busy road. Traffic always used to back up and block the entire bridge. A couple of years ago they changed the one lane into two lanes and put a light. No issues since.

But adding a big highway before a congestion point, that doesn't help.
Thank you for this suggestion, I had that book in my reading queue and I will read it next.
Right.

Some people want to live on top of each other in dense urban areas. That's fine and this should be an allowed pattern of development.

"Enable them to live and work farther away from each other" is, simplified, pretty much the entire reason I wake up in the morning. I opt out of dense urban living. If the towns want to opt out of having people like me working there, so be it.
I "still" live in a hurricane area, but less so than when I lived at the beach. As OP mentions, I only use NOAA's page. Anything else is flair or outright deception [1]. Florence was bad, but the video clearly shows the reporter hamming it up.

There are people that simply cannot afford to evacuate or otherwise choose not to. When I first moved to Wilmington, I was scared of Category 1's. After living there for a decade, I didn't even prepare for anything less than a Cat 4 - unless you count grabbing beer for the inevitable "hurricane party".

While I will accept the articles premise that people can't understand graphs, my major issue is in the study [2] they refer to. The surveys are all retrospectives on assessing uncertainty after the fact. It would be like asking people why they thought a stock would go up when it ended up going down. In the end, who's to blame? Where do we direct the pitchforks? Or is it simply a call to learning how the charts work? If it is the 3rd option, then Times is fearmongering a little hard in my option.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyrRCx8-fZk

[2] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7c0/4b6eb883cf7d7fdee007cd...
> At some point Google will get tired of this and will withdraw from the agreement.

AFAICT, the situation is not so different from the days where Microsoft was paying Apple to avoid a defacto finding of monopoly.
And why is that a bad thing? It means people are not forgoing trips because the cost (time, money, either, both) is too high.
Alcohol is legal because it's impossible to ban it seeing as you can make it from anything that has sugar in it, which is basically all foods.

If cannibis were used as much as alcohol in driving settings, I'm certain there would be thousands of annual DUI deaths.
This might not matter for your case specifically, but last time I was on Windows, I found it straightforward to compile it using the msys tooling. I mention msys specifically to avoid bringing cygwin.dll into the mix, which caused me no end of headaches.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/nt/INSTALL.W...

As with most things in that realm, the hard part is getting all the dependencies (libpng, etc) but (a) since msys2 switched to pacman that looks a ton easier (b) AFAIK building with those graphical libraries is a nice-to-have for w3m support, so if it's a hassle you can skip it

Just be forewarned that [again, last I checked] msys has a bad interaction if your machine is a member of an Active Directory domain, but you are road-warrior-ing and it is unable to reach the domain controller; one of my more popular SO answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/929495/why-is-mingw-very...
Great start. That low resolution is challenging for desktop UI, but maybe great if you're a devop hacker.
We need a real open source phone platform. I'm curious about IBMs new hardware ..
That really depends on where you are. It’s all relative. It’s easy to say everyone should ride a bike if they live in the Netherlands. Cars are an absolute necessity in the middle of America.

I point to phones as one cause, but you can be distracted by a dozen other things that are not your phone.

How often do you observe truly clueless daydreaming individuals driving around? I see it all the time. People who are completely conscious, but who are sleeping at the wheel.
The payment method used by Wechat/Alipay is a completely different animal than the NFC/VAS contactless method used by the US systems.

I’m not sure it’s fair to compare acceptance rates on apples vs oranges.
It’s not like individuals are going to care. In fact the only people who would care are the government and the refineries who’s brand is being stolen.
Yes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30925348
If people are actually that stupid, this post will be useless.
I want content and I want to pay for it and I don’t want to think about it.

When this system is build into iOS and abstracted into a dollar amount that I use my face to pay, I will consider it.
Happily, this is no longer true! https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/
Been around for thousands of years for 1. No one has died from an OD of it. Also, Patent No. 6,630,507
As a bicyclist I see people driving distracted all the time. There's of course the obvious example of people using their phones while driving. But sometimes I see drivers casually drifting into my bike lane as though they just let their mind wander. Other times I see drivers make a turn without checking for bikes & pedastrians: they're clearly not looking both ways.

OP is wrong that mindfulness is the only way to make traffic better. But distracted driving causes delays from crashes, to people missing a light that turned green.
Yeah, I tried that... and then when I entered the manual routing number it's like "Hey, you need to login instead because this bank is known to us"
Yup... that's what I have been doing.
> However, the point is moot because legalizing marijuana increases it's overall availability, image, and appeal

Availability, sure; legalization is a product of image and appeal already reaching the level of legal recreational drugs, and there's no reason it would raise it beyond them. Might even reduce the forbidden fruit appeal to minors (but maybe not, because it still be forbidden for them.)

> All it would take is for Juul to make THC pods

Something that is unlikely, at least following the product design and marketing approach that had that effect for nicotine pods (for them or others) if the lawsuits against them for illegal marketing to children with their nicotine pods succeed.
That's exactly what I tried to convey. The selling point is functional with a reliable lack of hassle.
Recently I had a almost brand new Honda Civic rental car and a brand new Android phone.

When I wanted to charge my phone on the usb-port, I was ask if i wanted to activate android auto. I said yes. The phone said I had to engage the paring break to continue. The parking break was engaged. I never got beyond that.

I suspect none of parties involved (Honda, Google, Nokia) ever tested even the most basic setup.

(Yes, i tried again, multiple times, engaging and disengaing the parking break, the break, turning both devices on and of again, to put the car into neutral), but gave up after about 10 Minutes.

I used google maps with bluetooth audio. But actually, I use want a dash-board mount for my phone. Or maybe, just maybe a monitor in my dash board that connects to my phone. But i highly doubt car makes wont screw that up.
If the Green New Deal passes, a really interesting consideration would be a bill that would actually require employers to let (or require) employees to work from home a certain number of days a week.
I agree with you on most of those, but the problem with a Facebook or Twitter is how do you handle the open ecosystem analog? Is there anything more simple than Facebook/Twitter (Facebook example here mostly) in usage that random friends from way back when that aren't the most computer proficient are going to be able to easily setup on their own? And with social networks, the interest in them is pretty proportional with the availability of the people you want to interact with being on there.
They should ride a motorcycle then. Having literal skin in the game helps keep people engaged.
My 2013 Audi has a rather poor non-touchscreen interface. It has Bluetooth pairing for phone calls but not for plain audio (music), which is really odd. It does have one of those very old large iPod connectors, and I've attached a Bluetooth adapter to that, which works well enough, except that it doesn't turn off when I turn off the car, and my phone can reconnect randomly for about half an hour.

I have done some shopping and found an Android Auto-capable headunit that would replace the whole built-in thing, but it's something I haven't jumped on yet. I wonder how many other cars can have their headunit replaced with something CarPlay or Android Auto capable?
So by virtue of the fact that traffic is boring, folks have the right to become distracted and put their attention elsewhere?

It’s a chicken/egg problem. If people were more focused, there would be less traffic. If there was less traffic, there would be less boredom.
This makes no sense to me. EPUB is basically HTML in a ZIP container with mandatory included files. If you already have a full-blown web browser, and a ZIP library at hand, naively rendering EPUB pages by unzipping to temp files and tweaking the URI resolver is an easy addition. If you already have a full-blown web browser that already renders EPUB pages better than a lot of EPUB-specific reader programs, removing that support is doing work to reduce functionality.
There are two problems here. People don't know what the cone means. But even if they did, how are they supposed to act on it?

It's hard to know what the cone means because it's way too over-simplified and they really shouldn't have that line there. Of course people are going to be confused. Why can't it just be a color coated overlay where different colors mean different probabilities of the hurricanes path?

Even if you do know what the cone means, how are you supposed to act on it? What if I live 10 miles from the cone, should I prepare? How about 20 miles? 100 miles? 500 miles? 1,000 miles? And the idea I had doesn't really solve this problem either. How are you supposed to act on the probabilities? If there's a 50% chance, do I prepare? What about 20%? 10%? 5%? 1%? 0.1%?
There are two options. You pay $80/yr or $300 for 20 years. If you're leasing for 3 years then $80/yr is what you go with.
I think at best this is fizzbuzz for DS, which is not inherently wrong. It's nice to know a software developer can write a loop and a data scientist can use a JN, so for weeding out people who have no practical experience with a given tool set, it could make sense.

The question then is how do you algorithmically (or even just consistently) distinguish a great data scientist from one who can accurately model answers to a question that was badly thought out?

Plus as pointed out before, the length of a take home could reduce applications from the most qualified candidates.

Wonder if this should be even shorter and more quiz/fun like so it intrigues rather than annoying more senior applicants, and still wondering the best way to identify the data scientists who ask better questions.
What annoys me is that I have a 2012 luxury model (pre carplay/android auto), the hardware can support it (since I got bluetooth, gps and ipod connectivity) but there is no option to do a software upgrade, not from the manufacturer.

Imagine the goodwill if a 2012 model had a complimentory software update during my next scheduled service. The bastards wont even update GPS maps.
DevTools guy here, WebSockets will be in DevEdition in the next build, b2, next week!
I'm not sure when this happened for me, but I noticed recently that I don't, or maybe it's can't, care about hypothetical big-picture philosophical waxing like this. It just doesn't mean anything - I can't extract any useful information from the text, it might as well be Greek. I used to be into reading metaphysics and thinking about things like this as a college freshman, but now a few years out of school I just don't care about trying to fit mathematical models to intangible human behaviors. I don't care what model you think governs the world, I want to see some statistics.

Has anyone else gone through a similar change?
Donors boards can be very inexpensive. There’s a very small market for broken boards that are otherwise only good for scrap.

The only problem is when a particular component is really prone to failure and becomes rate limiting, while having no 3rd party supply.

(Ie: a burned out resistor is easier to swap than carry a full part count of every combination. While a custom chip that fails is really bad news).
How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour
I used Zomato's Gold membership for a year. It was so affordable to get started knowing that we will be getting a ton of value back while dining & drinking with friends only around Connaught Place in Delhi. I visited Delhi 3 times during the course of that 1 year period of membership and each time I really enjoyed the entire experience from value point of view while still being able to enjoy a lot of high-end places.
I'm not running for office, I'm free to call things as I see them. This isn't political flamebait or a personal attack, it's well-documented that Trump supporters have embraced the label.
Damn this opened my eyes to how luxury tax works on cars in Denmark. According to https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2244599, there's a margin tax rate on these cars of "85% of the taxable value up to DKK 185,100 in 2017 and 150% of the rest.". Sweet jesus that's a lot.
Your observations are absolutely correct. I see this as a vehicle operator too. I was also a dedicated commuter cyclist for many years, and it’s worse on two wheels. I don’t think being mindful (and I’m not referring to the brand-name Mindfulness meditation world, I’m speaking as a generic dictionary term) will cure all of our woes overnight. But if we don’t address the issue of inattention and distraction first, everything else is literally just a bandaid on a gunshot wound.
I grew up in South Florida, and I'm surprised to hear people think the storm is getting bigger over time. I guess that's just something you grow up with knowing down there. People on the west coast tell me they're terrified of hurricanes, and I'm terrified of earthquakes. You can generally get out of the way of a hurricane if you feel you need to...

There are of course common sense things to do to be prepared: get bottled water, food, fill your bathtubs with water and a drop of bleach, make sure the car has a full tank of gas. We personally brought my grandparents down from Boca to stay with us. You can do those maybe a week, 4 days out before stores start to get really empty (grandparents can be moved earlier or later). If you have any coconuts palm trees, chop down your coconuts. These are common sense things to do if there's a remote possibility of a tropical storm or hurricane coming your way.

But I do think it's a little disingenuous to say that people didn't do enough to prepare if they lived on the west coast, given how quickly the path shifted. Partly because the NHC is generally so good at their predictions. If you saw the earlier map that had Irma going up east coast, and you were in Naples, you wouldn't think about moving, or at least I wouldn't. Our buildings, especially the newer ones, are built to withstand at least some level of wind. My house built in the 90s has held up through multiple Category 3s (Charlie and Wilma). It's of course all luck, and I know plenty of other houses that have had damage, parts of the roof torn off, shattered windows, though nothing catastrophic, built around the same time. I've driven through the outer bands of a tropical storm (not that you should, but I was in high school and we had a back to school party the night before, and I wanted the car to be home).

That's not to disparage the work of the NHC. They're great at what they do, and I read pretty much every advisory for every hurricane that's in the Atlantic. When you've got no place to go, a hurricane bearing down on you is a very scary thing. But if I'm in Naples, and 4 days out it looks like it's heading towards Ft. Lauderdale? I'm not making plans to move.
A number of studies ive read seem to point towards marijuana and hallucinogens as merely aggravating symptoms of mental disorders that were already present, but hadn't yet easily or fully expressed themselves. Things like bi-polar, schizophrenia, and other disorders are commonly known to grow in intensity going into adulthood, so even if the first time a breakdown or episode happens is actually triggered by something like marijuana, does that mean they could have never been diagnosed if they never used that drug? Or does it just mean they would have had a breakdown in the near future regardless? Maybe they just set the trigger of slightly earlier.
Ok, so what if I live just outside the cone? What does that mean? The map is the same color for 1 mile from the cone and 1,000 miles from the cone. The map is flawed not the people looking at it.
There are two dimensions under which we can alleviate traffic problems. One is to increase throughput of roads and transportatio, and the other is to increase density and otherwise make efforts to allow people to live closer to their jobs and services they need.

The article would have us believe that only one of these things exists or could be useful, when in fact both can be true and both can help to improve the situation.
You could say the same for phones, computers, housing, appliances, etc...

Personally I've never bought a new car because I could always get something better for the same money that was used.

Maybe I will buy your 2020 car in a few years? :)
The entire point of this article is that doing something to solve the traffic wave problem still won't fix congestion, and is in fact the entire wrong problem to solve!

I think that the article is a great refutation of the value of self-driving cars as a solution to our traffic woes. Self-driving cars optimize the wrong thing, enabling out-size use of miles travelled, and will make us less happy than if we instead optimized for accessibility, as this article argues.
Don't use ink, use toner ;)

I've been using a little multifunction brother laser printer and convinced my sister to do the same in college and those are the only printers I've used in a long while that don't give me issues.

The only other printers I used that never gave me issues were the high end laser printers at University.