skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixing congestion by speeding up traffic is a red herring. Think of peak usage (rush hour) like pouring a 5-gallon bucket into a sink. The peak volume will always be able to overwhelm the pipe no matter how big the pipe is but a big pipe sure helps it go away faster. This principal applies to mass transit as well. There will always be backup, like on the subway platform at 5:05pm, but more capacity (more lanes, faster flow, more frequent service, etc) means it will cycle through faster.

This article's gripes about measuring the cost of congestion are mostly accurate. That TTI study is laughable. Their gripes about mobility not being a goal are totally bunk. I understand their agenda and why they feel this way but the reduction in cost of moving a fixed distance has enabled us to massively increase our standard of living. They just don't like it because it's made certain other societal problems more bearable so we haven't fixed them yet (e.g. terrible zoning in some places) and it's environmentally unfriendly. Barring some revolution in transportation on par with the automobile I doubt they'll go unfixed that much longer.

I'm not in the least bit sympathetic to the author's belief that increased difficulty of travel is good. I grew up somewhere that was hard to get to and the economic reality that bring sucks (your dollars only go like 80% as far) and people would be stupid to want to impose on this on themselves. The author is conflating his distaste for the automobile (which is fashionable and has some merit,especially on environmental grounds) with a distaste for lower cost/higher speed transportation in general. If you were to re-write his article and instead complain about how city buses and subways have made it possible for people's range to extend beyond their neighborhood or imagine some alternative reality in which cars are replaced with carbon neutral mass transit of equivalent cost/throughput it would become immediately apparent how nonsensical this distaste for reducing the time/money cost of physical distance is.

Edit: My analogy is for reasonable pipe sizes only.
> There was no such claim.

Then what does it have to do with No Silver Bullet? Brooks's point isn't that you can't make languages that some people may find more attractive, but that you can't drastically reduce complexity.

> There are no sources or pieces of evidence cited in the section on what the essential tasks are.

Right, that's why it's a claim. But it comes with an empirical prediction that was later verified by observation.

> If it's an empirical claim, then the any claim made in the tarpit paper is certainly equally empirical.

Of course it is, but if we take it as a silver-bullet claim (i.e. the ability to drastically cut down complexity), then it just doesn't fit with observation.
(iOS engineer at Brave here)
All iOS browsers are based on webkit. WKWebView, which is what we use, does have full access to content blockers. This is how we do ad-blocking, HTTPSE upgrades, and script blocking.
"The National Hurricane Center says cones will contain the path of the storm center only 60 to 70 percent of the time"

Sounds like the communications fix is easy. Increase the uncertainty to 90-95% which also increases the cone size. And make it blood red and tell anyone inside the red that they need to be prepared.

"Hurricanes are also hundreds of miles wide, and the cone shows only the possible path of the storm’s center"

Add an additional yellow area around it. This makes it extra clear visually that the red zone is quite bad.
They don't. You are either misinformed or lying. You are also breaking the site guidelines (against political flamebait and also against personal attacks). Please stop.

You are also repeating Hillary's mistake.
> Well, it goes both ways. CPU gather/scatter may be slow, but GPU memory access latency is astronomically high — talking about microseconds. Of course GPUs mask the latency with a ton of hardware threads. CPUs are memory access latency kings by far. GPUs do have amazing memory controllers when you have gather/scatter access patterns, as long as high latency is acceptable.

Oh, I mean gather/scatter to shared / local memory. General purpose gather/scatter is very high latency as you say (I think read/writes were like 500 nanoseconds to L1 cache, and far slower to L2 and VRAM), but gather/scatter to shared/local memory is basically limited by bank-conflicts (~32 cycles worst case, ~2 cycles best case).

I'm pretty sure AVX512 gather/scatter to L1 cache is still dozens of cycles for just 16 SIMD-lanes.

> Yeah, it'd be useful, but not so critical when you're memory bound anyways. I often find myself having a lot of "free computation slots" for data shuffling while the CPU is waiting for the memory. Or in other words, memory stalls.

Fair point. I presume you mean that you can shuffle data to L1 cache while waiting for L3 or DDR4 RAM instead.

What I really want is "shared memory" to be implemented on CPUs, and for AVX-lanes to be able to shuffle data to and from there independently of the L1 / L2 / L3 / DDR4 memory system.
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I'm in agreement but I've not seen this sentiment shared much. A car is a seperate piece of technology to my phone and I've never felt the need to mix the features of them. Call me a luddite but I use the car to drive and that's it. I don't need any software integrations for the way I use it.
The top result is the same (for me) in both searches (<https://www.tensorflow.org/install/>). What is the page you were trying to find?
I've tried it, but (for me) it's not enough to feel, and it doesn't help with comfort (which is better if the keypress force acts on the entire finger)
> Firefox's dominant past plays against

I'm sorry, what? It was either the underdog of MSIE or of Chrome, it never was dominant the way the actual dominant browser at the time was dominant. The peak was 30%, and when Chrome took over from MSIE, it had 21% with MSIE and Chrome at 30% each.
That doesn't change the issue that sometimes there are no "good" options to choose from. It takes a rare politician to doom their career by choosing something unpopular.
No. Tax is 225% including vat.

VAT in Denmark is "only" 25%
Buy a Tesla.
Looks like the scientific illiteracy sponsored by this country's education system is really starting to pay off!
> Sometimes do use nano

After learning vim, I couldn't stand using nano. It seemed like the worst of both worlds. No efficient keybindings like vim, and no mouse support like other conventional text-areas.

Hearing/reading you say that you sometimes use nano made me curious of why and now I see that there seems to actually be quite a few features. I see it has macros, autocomplete, mouse support, autoindent, multiple buffers, editing keybindings to e.g. delete word-wise, linting support, etc.

I never knew... and totally misjudged it as a very basic text editor.

It's still basic when compared with vim or emacs, but now I hold it in far higher regard than Windows Notepad at least.

I kind of feel like that time many years ago I found out that sed had more than just s///.
No; weed could be self-serve, whereas hand grenades should definitely be in a locked glass display case.
It's great that you understand how supply and demand works, but look beyond that.

At some point in the mid-term future, automation will take over enough labor that a sizeable chunk of the (educated, motivated) population won't be able to find a job at all. Supply non-zero, demand zero, ergo price zero.

In that world, should we just let people starve?
I find Carplay dangerous for my use case:
As the interface follows what’s happening on the phone, you often lose the maps and directions as the guy controlling CarPlay need to check his messages

I have no idea how they’ve managed to design it like this, it’s like they only think single driver commuters would use it
This sort of thing always seems to happen. A shiny new thing comes along that's a little bit faster or cleverer, and all the geeks say “Yeah, well it may be controlled by a single company, but they're probably not evil, and anyway it'll never get big enough to be a monopoly, so it's harmless fun, and I'll use it and advocate it to my non-techy friends!”

And then we end up with Chrome, and Facebook, and Slack, and Twitter, and WhatsApp, and GitHub, and LinkedIn, and nobody ever seems to learn that if you don't insist on an open ecosystem, even if it's “just for now”, then eventually we all lose that option altogether.
I think the issue is that most people don't understand probability very well, myself included. After reading the explanations I prefer the layout with possible paths color coded by probability -- in this instance it shows that both the West and East coast of Florida should've prepared.
Until Apple has to foot the bill when someone brings one of the broken(repaired) phones into the apple store.
So should my 17 year old son flipping Pizza deserve a “livable wage”?

There was an article posted on HN a while back where they said the average franchise owner makes around $40K a year - and that’s with them working 60+ hours a week. Where is the money suppose to come from?

Usually when I ask this question, I get the response that those companies don’t deserve to exist. Which is saying a lot considering how many people on HN probably work for a money losing startup living off of VC funding.
How the Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle Innovation
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I never said that Clinton was to the left of Bush. I said that he was to the left of Carter. [Edit: I actually said "not to the right", which left open the possibility of a tie.]

And, by sticking to the "real" definition of the terms, you are hindering your ability to communicate to the people you're trying to talk to. Your choice, but I don't think you're making a wise one.
On mobile, the "subscribe" bar at the bottom covers up the text.

I had to use a "remove cookie notification" bookmark to be able to read the text.

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A feature not mentioned is translating between HTTP/REST to other protocols. GCP Endpoints (https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/) has this functionality for gRPC and gRPC-web (additional proxy on top of gRPC). I'd love to learn about similar features on AWS's API Gateway.
Netherlands too, and I saw Google ads in Germany as well but not sure for which product.
Go home and spend time with your family.
Any specific reason you decided to use Flutter instead of React native for your mobile app, given you use React for your existing frontend?
If you are not afraid of a little experimentation check out /r/Minoxbeards on reddit.
Why should a company be responsible for healthcare? It’s not the case anywhere else in the world?
Hmm...sound encryption did exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad#History

And computational machinery to implement it, at least for telegraph seems to have quite likely existed in 1915: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1310719 (filing date 1917).
I've worked with this data on a daily basis.

It's a cone of probability, which is about as reliable as you think it is. There are gridded wind speed forecasts (still probability) and NWS watches and warnings if you want something more specific.

It helps with general preparedness at best. If you're in hurricane alley it serves as a good reminder to be prepared, but not as a notice to pack your car.
They're usually fine for me, but a radio with a real aux input would be less hacky.
My employer (a large multinational) has very far-reaching restrictions, but they are prefaced by "Except as limited by applicable law, ...", and most of it is unenforcable where I live.
If you look up the history of car dealerships: the whole dealership system is based on dealers lobbying the government to protect them. It's regulatory capture. The car makers hate the dealers.

There are 2 main kinds of telco in the U.S.: telephone line based ones and cable based ones. Historically, companies got each local municipality or country to give them a monopoly (literally) on one or the other. So yes, the telco industry is a pure monopoly play in the U.S.

Banks: I have no problem with what you are talking about in my personal experience, but you can always switch to a credit union. Basically all a credit union is in practice is a nice bank. That's their niche in the market summed up in 2 words.

> If you're a monopoly and the government doesn't step in, they are basically granting you a fief over that area.

Monopolies don't happen unless the government grants one (either explicitly or implicitly through regulatory capture). A monopoly is not just a giant company with a dominant marketshare. It's easy to compete with those.
The real trick is in the wording. You choose a door. Monty chooses a door that is NOT be the car, leaving one that may or may not be the car, depending on if the contestant was wrong.

In words Monty pretends to be removing ONE door from the pool of choices, but he's not doing that - he is removing ALL possible doors except for the one that is a car if you were wrong, or a goat if you were right, and then saying (truthfully) that every single other one is a goat. When there are 3 doors, that is one that gets discarded. But that's the tricky word play.

Now, if you did it with 100 doors, Monty isn't simply removing 1 option to give you the appearance of a 50/50 chance. He is removing ALL of them except for 2 - one that he shows is not a car, and the other that you have to decide whether your first choice was right or not.

Following the same exact sequence, he removes 97 of them from the pool because they are all goats, leaving the one you chose, the one he says is NOT a car, and one that is the car if your original choice was wrong, or a goat if your original choice was correct. Suddenly it is super obvious that this is no 50/50 choice.

That's how the Monty problem actually scales. Looking at it from a game with 100 doors makes it extremely obvious that the person's first bet is more likely to be wrong than right, and that changing is the obvious choice to make since the odds are 1/100 that your first choice was right, and 99/100 that the one Monty left behind is the car.

Hence in the normal way of playing the game, it is a 2/3 chance the contestant is initially wrong, and should always choose to change their choice.
My question was about squaring the "legalize-weed" position with the "ban-GMOs" position. You only addressed the first part of my question as far as I can tell.
Mobile payments have barely caught on in the US, despite the rise of smartphones
I like this a lot. I just posted a comment about touch a bit ago, not seeing this little thread.
Huh, someone else with an '18 rogue.

Does your wife's have an issue where once in a while it refuses to go into AA, and you have to hard-reboot the infotainment system? Mine does this thing where AA icon shows up, touching it does does the click animation, but doesn't actually launch AA.

That's my only real complaint with the system, actually. Once in a while it just really doesn't want to launch AA. Once I'm in though... works great. (Okay, maybe the steering wheel could use a play/pause button, but that's minor)
This seems like a cool & intuitive technology, but I'd caution that (similar to the popularity of neck braces) it's far from definitive to provide additional protection.

The general principle is MIPS (and others) allow the helmet to receive a rotational force without "grabbing" your head and twisting it as well, but unless you have a shaved head I find this is exactly what happens with the original MIPS, hair.

So I'd say: (1) the science is still undecided in my opinion, (2) I wouldn't replace a new helmet just to get MIPS, (3)your next helmet is likely to have it because they all do.
The most important thing a meeting can have is an agenda - what will be discussed and by whom. The second thing is a clock. Almost nothing productive ever happens in the second hour of a meeting (unless a long meeting was planned because of the complexity of the issues). If mission creep expands the needs, schedule a new meeting to discuss the added items. The third is a leader - not to control the content, but to ensure that the participants stick to whatever the subject of the meeting. Once they start telling war stories about their prior employer and why the left, someone needs to gently move things along. In the military, they often do stand ups - where the meeting takes place standing up so that no one gets too comfortable or goes on too long.

Finally, I worked in one office that would put out Playdough and Legos for meetings so that people would have things stimulating their hands while they were listening and talking. This was fun.
What kind of scientific literacy would make this obvious? They need a better presentation.
Wow, this story is annoying me a lot more than I expected. There's a whole lot of shaming of the layperson in here, with a wink wink nudge nudge that if people would just _think a little_, they could save themselves a lot of trouble.

> Graphics like these need to be read closely and carefully. Only then can we grasp what they're really saying.

Well, that's ridiculous. If these graphics were in an app, we'd tear them apart for the poor user experience. Look at this: https://imgur.com/a/Ko2Z4uM

There is nothing there to indicate that what you're looking at is the probability distribution of the center of the storm. The very obvious interpretation of this graphic, without additional context, is that this cone is the area that could be affected by the hurricane. This is reinforced by:

1. The size of the start of the cone is the same as the size of the hurricane
2. There is a well defined border to the path
3. There is no additional shading outside the cone that indicates "could also face danger"

Furthermore, "probable path of the storm center" is not something the general public cares about! That is not the question that needs answered! What people want to know is, "will I be in the path of the hurricane?"

Even the official NHC product has its faults: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT05/refresh/AL05201...

There is a big box with a bunch of text at the top of the graphic saying that it is showing the probable path of the storm's center, but does not show the size of the storm. This is different than saying "the storm may extend beyond the edges of the cone". And the next line is "hazardous conditions may occur outside the cone." Okay, every time there's a thunderstorm or 50mph wind gusts, there's an alert in my weather app about hazardous conditions. That information is too vague to be actionable. This doesn't even touch on the design aspects of this graphic, such as how the massive amount of text, size, color, spacing, etc, seems to draw the eye away from that message at the top.

But getting back to a point from a previous paragraph, why is this even disseminated widely at all, when this graphic is so misleading and also not what people need to know? Is it the NHS pushing it out to the public? Is it the media? It seems wildly irresponsible. The tropical storm force wind speeds graphic mentioned in TFA would be a much better product to deliver. Or, just create a graphic that is what the article has already identified as the natural interpretation - a cone of the possible area that could be affected by the hurricane!

Sorry, but excuses for poor design are a real pet peeve of mine.
That's just putting a shortcut on the screen. It doesn't change any other defaults. Siri will still only open Apple Maps. Same with Calendar, iMessage, Contacts, etc.
Ok, so you are saying given X minor marijuana user, it would be harder for X to obtain marijuana post legalization vs. pre legalization. That I agree with because X's dealer is willing to break the law to sell to minors while convenience store employees are less likely to.

However, the point is moot because legalizing marijuana increases it's overall availability, image, and appeal and thus you'll have more minors using it overall post legalization.

To illustrate my point, it would be like saying "legalizing marijuana makes it 50% harder for minors to buy it!" but leaving off the "(but also legalization would increase the number of minor users by 10000+%)" part.

All it would take is for Juul to make THC pods and suddenly you have a HUGE adolescent user base essentially using marijuana overnight that didn't exist before legalization.
If you live outside the big cities, a BMW is a pretty rare sight in Denmark, even if its just a 3-series.
Whenever I see anything by her I can't help but remember this encounter with N.N. Taleb

"I will always remember my encounter with the writer and cultural icon Susan Sontag, largely because it was on the same day that I met the great Benoit Mandelbrot. I took place in 2001, two months after the terrorist event, in a radio station in New York. Sontag who was being interviewed, was pricked by the idea of a fellow who “studies randomness” and came to engage me. When she discovered that I was a trader, she blurted out that she was “against the market system” and turned her back to me as I was in mid-sentence, just to humiliate me (note here that courtesy is an application of the Silver rule), while her female assistant gave me the look, as if I had been convicted of child killing. I sort of justified her behavior in order to forget the incident, imagining that she lived in some rural commune, grew her own vegetables, wrote on pencil and paper, engaged in barter transactions, that type of stuff.

No, she did not grow her own vegetables, it turned out. Two years later, I accidentally found her obituary (I waited a decade and a half before writing about the incident to avoid speaking ill of the departed). People in publishing were complaining about her rapacity; she had to squeeze her publisher, Farrar Strauss and Giroud of what would be several million dollars today for a book advance. She shared, with a girlfriend, a mansion in New York City, one that was later sold for $28 million dollars. Sontag probably felt that insulting people with money inducted her into some unimpeachable sainthood, exempting her from having skin in the game."[0]

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b5487...
> s going to be a reliable source of unbiased information

Kinda like https://www.ready.gov/ for disasters... yes!
I think those people like the spartan features of older cars. If newer cars had those new safety feature but the same interfaces and simplicity as older cars I think you'd find less people pining for the days of their old Fiat Punto.

I don't think they're wanting to eschew safety because they like their older car, it's just A) not everyone can afford a new car, and B) the old car controls just the way they want it to, regardless of being less safe.
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I don't think most of the comments are directed at the 2019 model. Most even specify an earlier (2018) model. These have known issues. So I think that is "approaching absolute truth".
They are...

Genuine question, do you honestly not know that Apple has provided their own recommendations for RTR laws and modifications to the current proposals or are you making some other point by saying that?