skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly cynical response. It pretty clearly states in their reply that one of the main motivations is to eventually display more real-time information like outages and maintenance. Not easy to do with static paper maps. In fact when I was living there, they had a bulletin board in every station that had to be updated by a human posting a flyer when their were outages.
It's surprising how non unique the toys. The Switzerland boy had a Disney "cars" car, a batmobile, and a Spider-Man costume. The two girls from zanizabar had a skelator. The boy from Australia had Brio trains and Thomas the tank engine. I see barely any toys that are uniquely native to their home country. I don't know if this is good or bad, but globalization is real.
This is the new world we live in. Intense and hysterical knee-jerk reactions to even the smallest things.
Porsche have said in many interviews the coating is for cosmetics rather than performance.

Like most electric cars, when driving “normally” you don’t really ever touch the brakes as the energy regen that kicks in when you step off the accelerator pedal slows the car down so effectively. Porsche were worried the discs would develop unsightly surface corrosion from lack of use for some drivers - the coating keeps them looking good.
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> universal thinking within AWS is that people will ultimately use the API/CLI/SDK

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - But still 99% of tutorials and documentation refer to the UI.
China’s methods worked on Tibet; I expect the Uighur culture to be dramatically changed in a generation, especially since recording devices are being put in the homes of these people to prevent passage of oral culture/history to the young.

After the Uighur culture is gone, will China keep the surveillance technology in place, e.g. the face scans required to enter the strip-malls, etc.?
Why not use capabilities instead? Then root privileges are not required.
I've never liked the web console much either. Never found it very intuitive, or easy to use. But, once you navigate the maze, & learn where the few things you need are, it does get the job done. And to be fair it is fast.

Not sure why, but for some reason I like clicking around in the web app, so makes me wish it was a better experience. In contrast, compare this to the Digital Ocean web console. It has beautiful design that is nice to look at. It's un-complicated & clutter free. Overall a very pleasurable web app, I've always been inpressed with their UX.

But as people have pointed out, it seems Amazon expects us to use the CLI & APIs, and the web console is not a priority. So maybe I'll start moving in that direction with my AWS services.
I think he/she meant unnecessary competition, rather than competence.
Anyone can join the ESA and chose which project they want to participate in and get the research results from it, just like CERN it’s not actually an EU organization
It isn't really though. The article suffers from very small sample size (one restaurant chain that's relatively unknown in the US). At the least, the grand title of the article is not justified
I attempted this. I'm sure it's not water tight but it was successful at preventing me from giving away my usage data too easily.

In brief:

- a custom android ROM and NO gapps
- no Google play services
- f droid for apps
- yalp store (from f droid) for must have play store apps (although support is questionable)
- I took a new email from proton mail
- OSM for maps. SUCKS but a good alternative. Can't complain.
- dickduckgo privacy browser
- then just avoid the big tech companies (google, Facebook, Amazon, etc)

Cons: a much less streamlined experience.

Pros: some peace of mind about data.
Because the phone is more basic, you don't want to fiddle with it as much. Enjoy life!
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance (1993)
What trial? You mean when Acosta cut a deal because Epstein “belonged to intelligence”?
Considering the recent occupation, house arrest, and disabling of all cellular communications of the entire region of Kashmir, it’s worth considering the possibility that this scientific effort was made for political ends.
I have a friend who lives on less than 20 pounds a week in London (while paying 1500 pounds a month on rent).

How does he do it?

* By using perishable sales at Tesco and other places.

* By bartering for food

I saw him pick up a bag of ripe but fine peaches for 10 pence and a 3-4pounds of chicken wings for 99 pence. Loaves of bread were 10-20 pence.

This is not easy to do by any means because the competition is fierce. The scenes are reminiscent of Black Friday insanity in US.

Shows the economic realities of living in London.

Personally, I would rather try to pay less on rent and more for food but that is not always an option.
This is a seriously interesting article. I've never thought of chat applications the way these guys are doing it.
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> I don’t see why a bathroom needs to be renovated every 10 to 15 years

Yes, that struck me as crazy, too. Some minor maintenance and redecorating from time to time, sure. But a multi-thousand-pound renovation every decade? Not if it was built decently in the first place, and cared for sensibly through the years.
I like ThinkPads. Gen 3 X1 Carbon is my work machine, kicks ass. A ThinkPad T440s is my personal. It too kicks ass.
I will disagree with your views, scientifically we are same race and our genetic differences are insignificant. Our ancestors originated in Africa. Indeed today most nation's are a hotpot of multi-culture, language, colors, food etc.

All these difference you talk about came from our tribal nationalistic mentality. Indeed the reason USA and many other countries succeeded is due to openness to embrace diversity.

Single human race does not mean everyone is same, I am not sure if you heard "Unity in diversity". All the boundaries we talk about today hopefully do not extend to space.
Thanks! I forgot to mention im on a pixel 3a. The only custom ROM I've found is GrapheneOS and its still a bit raw.
I’m surprised people are getting so pedantic about using the Turbo moniker on an electric car. Sure, historically in cars it has typically referred to a type of forced induction commonly used on combustion engines, but it’s also been generally used to mean “FAST” in virtually every other marketing field for decades. I love cars, regardless of the means by which they generate forward motion, and couldn’t care less Porsche called this one a Turbo - it’s performance characteristics are entirely in keeping with what one expects from a Porsche with the Turbo branding.
>My VS Code loads in like <2 seconds.

Two seconds is eternity for text editor.
@TeMPOraL

Yeah a "Great Leap Forward" kind of moving forward for humanity? Sounds good, works bad. Capitalism looks bad, but works good. I once also wanted a kind of world government but as I grew more knowledgable this Idea really started to terrify me. A decentralized world of competing small units with a small set of (trade) rules seems like the best option mid- to long-term. In short term of course socialist type of governance gives stability.
Just 2 cents from a fellow European
Routes may rarely change overall but there is a ton of daily maintenance, closures and re-routing that happens on the NYC subway system.

A paper map is probably good for generally learning the system, but not very useful in the station when you want to know the exact current state of affairs.
"Capitalism's goals sit orthogonal to the enrichment of individual lives"
It’s does not achieve that at all. How is there an analogy between Epstein being welcomed back into polite society and hiring a low level drug felon at a living wage? Not even the same ballpark.
To be fair, the AWS documentation nearly always covers both.
Hey look, there is a solution to the housing crisis that the tech community didn't even think of
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It is a community project focused on better developer experience.
Interesting and thanks for the clarification. Now if the donations were so successfully anonymized as to fool the MIT administration, wouldn't that also neutralize Epstein's reputation gains from the donations?

(I'm not trying to excuse the people involved, just trying to understand the dynamics more)
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The NY subway tried the non geographic maps in the past. There was an article that was linked on HN about it.

It failed miserably. The NY Subway map being geographical has a lot of excellent features that made it extremely popular.
Real-time information on real-time displays, static information on static displays. Maps are extremely cheap, change rarely, and should be everywhere. Don't remove the map from in front of my eye while I'm using it in order to warn me about maintenance that doesn't concern me, or give me a terrorist warning I've heard a thousand times.
> barmcakes

So, the north west then ;)
I drive from Ingolstadt to Bonn regularly and on average I am able to get ~170km/h average speed for the trip. If I'm lucky (e.g. at night) I surpass ~180km/h. That requires a lot of cruising at 250km/h. Starting with a full tank I still end up with gas to spare. I had a Ford Focus 10 years ago and I remember managing ~150km/h average speed for the trip without refuelling...

If I need to charge an EV once for 20 min to be able to complete the trip then the car probably does not make sense for this use case. An Opel Corsa would finish the trip faster, for a fraction of the price.

Now if you give me an EV that can do 500km at >180km/h avg speed without recharging under normal german traffic conditions (lots of 250km/h mixed with lots of 130km/h) and is still left with some power for a bit of city driving then that would be an improvement.
Twitter is all about broadcasting people's unfiltered thoughts.
Will anything change? Take bottled water as just one example - mostly sold in plastic bottles. Just look at this chart of bottled water consumption in Europe from 2017. Good luck getting people to change their consumption habits:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/455422/bottled-water-con...
Where do you get 2x from? Wikipedia has US more around 50% more.
Agree.
Having used both GCP and AWS, I like GCP's UI a lot more than AWS's huge dropdowns and constant usage of the search bar.
I don't know what I find more disturbing: the eloquence of desire or the accent on top of "elite."
Only three months left to become a superpower... :(
So is it a fast just whenever you're not eating?
That would be fine if the screen only ever showed the map (and could do so at a high resolution). But dollars to donuts the maps will be periodically swapped with ads, terrorists warning, and maintenance notifications that don't concern me.
New studies have again linked cell phones to cancer
While I don't 'believe' every bit of bro-science I hear (as in, take all claims at face value), let's just say that I'm not very worried about overdosing most supplements and I rather try things out than spending hours upon hours reading about things I don't really understand anyway, and of which there is no scientific consensus :) Just to say, no need to convince me to try something like this :)

I just ordered a combined MK-4/MK-7 supplement, and added some vitamin D3 as well as it seems to be a good combination, so fingers crossed that I can tell my dentist the next time I go how well it works :) (for years she's been lecturing me time and time again how I should brush better, despite brushing at least 2 times a day and flossing consistently. I think she just doesn't believe me that I actually do those things).
In my Firefox settings I can choose any DoH provider I want, not just Cloudflare. Naturally something has to be set up as a default so it works. Why is adding DoH in the browser a bad thing?
Cell phone cynics have long claimed that these devices cause cancer. Two new studies performed on rats has reopened this debate once more.
the car, tell me.
Sounds like Co-Suffering
> I'd personally love it if AWS implemented a digital ocean-like "basic" interface which, realistically, covers 90% of startups' needs. Simple is good.

Have you looked at Amazon Lightsail? It might be closer to what you're after.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
Don't you have to try to identify a face first, before you can decide you don't want to identify it? I don't see how it can work if you don't try to identify every face.
I don't think that's the case for me but I'm not sure how I'd check. What phone are you using with fdroid?
Encourage Dissent
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU
It's certainly odd to measure the closeness of human societies by the proximity of coca cola dispensers.

Humanity is scientifically and materialistically closer and that will certainly continue, but the world is not closer in terms of modes of governance or ideas of how society ought to be organised.

On the contrary, 30 years ago after the fall of the Soviet Union that sentiment peaked and Fukuyama's end of history seemed plausible. Today with the nationalisation of cyberspace, we can see countless of new divides.

The US is rapidly withdrawing from global affairs, China is emerging with a competitive, alternative mode of organisation, a distinct European identity is beginning to form as a response to this particular in France, India is slowly emerging (see the very thread we're in), and Africa is a whole other matter.

But by no means does it look like the world is converging, as it did in the 90s and early 00s when we were all listening to corporate world music and cheering for Blair.
*unnecessary competition, (cannot edit anymore)

What I speak is about individuals trying to compete against its own team to defeat them in some unnecessary priority rather than collaborate and play all together.
According to Wikipedia, the UK is 242,495 km², and Northern Territory is 1,420,970 km², so you can only fit it 5.86 times. The whole of Australia is 7,692,024 km², so you can fit the UK 31.7 times in that.
Do small things first -- make the countdown clocks work. It will go a long way towards making people believe MTA digital projects.

Make sure that when the electronic sign says that the train is "2 minutes away" it actually shows up in 2 minutes.

If a sign says train is "6 minutes away" there should not be a train entering a platform 2 minutes later.
The article attributes some of the shift to remote work, which would seem to be related to tech?
Coming back to the UK I’ve found their sandwiches (and the similar pre-packaged ones you get in most shops) to be a bit too heavy, especially on the carbs, and I felt I was eating much healthier when I was out in europe (and enjoying much more flavour). Mind, at least with Pret you have some alternatives that are no more expensive, and there’ll almost always be an Itsu near by for a much lighter sushi lunch.
Your post has "false dichotomy" written all over it. Of course, space exploration is an international endeavor and most space missions are highly international. Planning international space exploration missions doesn't force anyone to give up their nation, just as global trade does not imply that.

Moreover, if mankind ever expands into space, it would be rather naive to think that earth's nations would play a role there in the long run. Earth's nations change all the time, they are mere human constructs, and of course the same would happen in outer space. It would take maybe a hundred years or so for space colonies to declare their independence. And afterwards, they form larger unions again, just like on earth, because forming unions is in their interests.

> The idea of a society that big being governable is part of the science fiction.

That's far off topic, but to reply to this aspect of your post: Claiming that you can govern countries like Australia, the US, and Russia, but not the world as a whole draws some pretty arbitrary boundaries. With a federal structure, it would be no problem.

People said about every country before it was united that it will never be united. Before Germany was united, people said that it's absolutely impossible to govern such a big country and that the cultures of Prussia and Bavaria are just too different. Before the EU was funded, people said that certain European countries could never closely work together or even form a trade union and that there would always be war between some of them. Heck, probably settlers in the US also were convinced that the South and the North could never live together or be governed as one nation, because it's just too big. And so on, and so forth, you get the gist.
My absolute biggest pet peeve along those lines is that we are all nothing but “consumers”. Words matter.
Care to share how you do this?
Ethereum Delays Its Istanbul Hard Fork to October Due to Several EIP Proposals
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Your startup on AWS is either capable of developing their platform in house or contracting one of many solution architects.

They may be so lean they exclusively run lambda jobs and host from S3. This is a 24 hour learning curve.
Covering something up is always more scandalous than the scandal itself, because that completely nullifies the defense that it was done naively.
You can rotate with the compass widget on the bottom-left

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ3MzgzMTY.MjQzMTI1Nw*...
Twitter thoughts are more than unfiltered: the emotions have to be dialed up to the max for the tweet to stand out and get positive feedback. Small things get amplified AND they get interpreted as unfiltered thoughts.
Because they removed the requirement for "first click free" for paywalls

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4054...

So google is basically now offering you ads, paywall span and stock photo spam in their image results. Wonderful
Sounds like a whole platform built for MLM type of commerce. Somebody you ostensibly trust and think you know just tries to sell you stuff.
I'm moving from New York to San Diego. Going to work remotely.
There is a risk involved, sure. But after 11 years in NY I think it's worth a shot.
It’s a good idea to cap group chats at a reasonable size—they get unruly long before 500. Global search is appropriate for an asynchronous medium, I think, but this is the correct way to manage group chats, in my opinion. It’s how they work on other platforms as well.
use yandex
Group size caps don't do a lot to limit mass trends. Once a group hits the cap, the administrator will simply open a new one and tell everyone to join that instead. People in only one of the groups obviously can't speak to those in the others, but the administrators can make announcements in all groups, which is enough e.g. for organizing a large event.

Even requiring invitations past 100 members doesn't mean you need some kind of personal connection. Instead of the group QR code, organizers can post their personal one and then add everyone to the group who messages them. It might slow down spammers who constantly try to join random groups, because they won't know whom to ask for an invite.

Lack of global search for groups also isn't much of a hurdle, since you can still globally search for posts inviting people to join a group. It does mean that there's a niche for companies who create groups and assign members to them based on some criteria, as described in the article.

And regarding usernames and anonymity: they work a bit differently than you might expect. Every WeChat user has a unique identifier which is random by default, but can be set to something intelligible if you want to make it easier for others to add you by searching. Then there's a global username, which is shown to your contacts and in groups by default. Per-group aliases don't completely override that; you can still find out someone's global username by looking at their profile. So most people set their alias to their real name in groups that require it and stay pseudonymous otherwise. You can also set aliases for your own contacts, which helps recognize people who constantly change their name and avatar.

I hope that clears things up a bit.
It looks like it works but it's not reliable so your reliability concerns then get externalised into your application which multiplies complexity terribly.
I did something like this as a joke some time ago, but I used the outline of a Brazilian municipality (Alegrete) and wrote a parody of Saramago's "Jangada de Pedra" (The Stone Raft).

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/2011/07/jangada-de-pasto.html
" the reason USA and many other countries succeeded is due to openness to embrace diversity."
- I'd say it was due to a combination colonialism of Asia, subjugation of Africa by the slave trade and world wars recking Europe. By 1950s, USA was already ahead of the rest of the world. Because it was in that position that it was able to attract immigrants which then helped to sustain its position.

There are many countries which are open to diversity - India would probably lead that list historically followed by modern Canada. But none is close to USA. On the other hand, Japan, South Korea, China and Asian tigers have done well without being open and diverse.
> She and her husband, who have two children, bought a house in the Boise area after renting in L.A. It is twice as big as their old place, but the monthly payments are half as much as their L.A. rent. There was also enough room for her mother to move in.

2x the space for 1/2 the price. Our remote-working future cannot come quick enough.
Indeed. n = 1, that's what I did.
Do astronauts commit sucide if they get stuck in space? Do they take gun or poison pill into space?
Not all states have sales tax, of course, just most.
>> "Nobody ever got fired for [choosing AWS]".

"Hey Joe, the app you built for Goldberg Partners uses AWS right?"

"Yeah."

"What does it do on AWS again? Store some files?"

"Yeah, and a load balancer in front of a few containers that handle thumbnail generation for those images. Pretty standard stuff."

"I see. What was their pricing like?"

"Last time I checked, the billing page said something like $0.023 per GB for the first 50 TB or something like that, and $0.0116 per hour for the containers. I don't remember the load balancer pricing, but it should be pretty cheap, we don't have that much stuff on there."

"Interesting, okay. Can you explain why they sent us a bill for $10,372.77?"
I'm not sure that it makes sense to group Boise with the other cities they mention (Austin, Denver, Portland, Indianapolis, etc.). Boise has less than half the population of Raleigh which I think is the next least populated of the cities that they mention.

In addition, while this is much more subjective, most of those cities seem to share a similar "cultural prestige"/influence as compared to other large cities like Columbus, Jacksonville, etc.

It seems to me that a more accurate description is that people are moving from the most expensive and culturally prestigious cities to slightly less expensive and culturally prestigious cities. It doesn't sound to me like they are moving to what people generally think of as "small cities".
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I won’t defend their CLI arguments other than noting that they usually closely follow the also poorly-named APIs[1], but locking up is highly unusual — do you have something like AV software or other quasi-malware which might be interfering with normal I/O? We’ve used it for many millions of files over the years and that’s never been an issue on macOS or Linux.

1. AWS needs a Chief Consistency Officer who can block shipping until you cleanup the prototype slop
The thing was on its way to the Moon already by that time. The mission has been a long time making, it's pretty disrespectful to the effort of all the scientists to limit it to just distraction from Kashmir. Especially since it isn't as if showing an interest in space is a first for Modi.