skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first point I really took issue with was this:

> farther away was more desirable than closer in

Before the current urban renaissance, this was absolutely not true. Inner suburbs were often nicer, especially if adjacent to a "nice" part of a city. People still lived very far from the urban core, commuting to the city, and that was cheaper and less desirable than an inner suburb.
Folks sometimes say two wrongs don't make a right, but when I look at this kind of thing and try to put myself in the shoes of a person that's experienced race-based bullying their entire life and are trying to edge up any way they can and against pretty much all odds, it looks less like a wrong and more like opportunism.
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It is not about serial ordering. The coroutine code looks the same as the synchronous code. While using GCD blocks, you can still end up with callback hells. However, you can, do nicer things with GCD when build on top of https://github.com/google/promises, but that is outside of the linear code execution discussion.
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thats not true except in certain - generally oppressive - enclaves
> Mindfulness in programming seems to be very difficult!

Learn to be mindful (of whatever) while you read/write comments on HN and I can already say you are a pro.
Maybe it depends on the area but bikes definitely aren't welcome in my area. There are bike racks, but I mentioned in another comment they're not a good alternative. And certainly no room / not welcome in the buses themselves
Good grief, there's ONLY one thing: have less than two children! In a couple of generations this would cut the word's population in half, assuming everyone followed step.
I was raised going to church and it was nice to have such a close community.

Unfortunately, I can't go to church anymore because I don't think the core factual claims are true.

I tried going to UU one time as they support being atheist, but it didn't really work for me. Perhaps I'll have to try again in the future.
Ok, but I still don't understand, why would you have to name the arguments to the method?

Are there other languages with this type of method declaration/use site syntax? If so, what's the advantage?
This is where open source is an unsung hero continually advancing not just the computer skills but the really advanced stuff. This study finds only 5% of adults can do what they call complex tasks like navigating and filling out forms in a browser, while 69% could barely work for Uber, barely use Uber, or not even figure out Uber. Open source is sitting there teaching and training people how to create Uber.
It's bad because you're effectively laundering Illegally-gotten money and legitimizing a criminal. It's exactly this attitude that serious criminals count upon to both enjoy their gains and improve their immunity. (see also RUS oligarchs & other kleptocratic 'leaders')

(Edit: I'm not downvoting the parent, it's a legit question.

But it seriously raises concerns when a straightforward factual response like this gets effectively instant 3 downvotes -- IDGAF, but contrasting the strong moral codes in tech that caused things like the Google withdrawal from the AI weapons program, there is also a strong amoral current that doesn't care about where the money comes from to do development, and it can create real consequences as referenced above.)
Austin has repeatedly chosen stunted transit and no usable non-car infrastructure.

When I went to visit a friend at Apple in Austin, there was no bus that could take me anywhere near Apple's campus or any of the 4+ story residental complexes that permeate the area, yet there are a crapton of potential riders there!

TxTag is also a really poorly designed system, lacking any usage based pricing with TxTag highways often being paralleled by massive 50mph streets on either side.

The modus opeandi seems to be subsudize the living daylight out of cars, build no alternatives to it, and act surprised that Austin's traffic is worsening rapidly.
Not sure if he needs this intro on HN, but the speaker in the video, Andreas Antonopoulos, is the author of two very technical books detailing everything about bitcoin and ethereum (Mastering Bitcoin/Ethereum).

Even if you think crypto is a fad, stupid, or whatever, I think they're still great reads explaining the why of the decisions, how of the implementations, and the challenges for these two technologies. If this video is your first impression of him, the books are much less abrasive(?).
This article mostly boils down to "Toronto has a lot of popular bus routes, other cities should just make bus routes work better instead of building LRT." This misses the key difference, even though it is pointed out elsewhere in the article.

Toronto first built two long subway routes with simple layouts. Suburban residents demanded better transit, so a number of fast, frequent (and therefore convenient) bus routes feeding the subway were created. Fifty years later, ridership on bus routes and subway routes is very high.

Cities that are building LRTs generally have fairly efficient bus systems already. Take Ottawa for a local example - they have had BRT to the suburbs for decades. Fast, separated lanes, etc. They are building an LRT in sort of a mirror of the Toronto system - two central lines, one E-W one N-S, and bus routes will feed into it. The train is fast, frequent, reliable - so transfering will not cause issues. This is being done to replace, essentially, fleets of buses leaving downtown every couple minutes, following the exact same routes for 10+ km before diverging. Replacing that initial section with a higher density mode, and changing the buses into suburban feeders, makes perfect sense.

Aside: I think the title is clickbait, and I think it makes a lot of statements without any citations (eg, "Montreal is much more European in layout and mindset" [so we should ignore it in our analysis]. Or "The area around the LRT lines definitely attract investment, but if you look at who actually uses the line a few years in, it’s mostly rich people.")

Other comment: While it points out Toronto's real bus route successes (high ridership numbers), it ignores the real issues they have had with building more subway/LRT lines over the last 30+ years. They have approved and cancelled some kind of Downtown Relief Line numerous times. Overfull buses is an actual issue in TO.

note: It took me a while to read the article and write this comment, so I'm sure some/all has been duplicated in other comments
I think the point is that unless the language guarantees atomicity (and the compiler implements the guarantee correctly), counterintuitive behavior is permissible and somewhat common, and compiler behavior varies across and within CPU architectures.
Wrong—the claim has nothing to do with what rich or poor people like to use.

The claim is that the only way to provide affordable public transit that's sustainably accessible to people who aren't rich (that is, even when gentrification occurs in the city core) is to provide surface transit (buses), which can serve a much larger area than light rail.

> Maybe if we had more human-scale, walkable, transit-accessible neighborhoods everywhere, there would be enough of them to meet the high demand and more such neighborhoods could support mixed-income residents.

Sure—let me know when you find the funding required to build all those "human-scale, walkable, transit-accessible neighborhoods everywhere." In the meantime, let's provide affordable transit that's accessible regardless of which neighborhood you live in: high-frequency, reliable buses.
No.

The US was involved in operations to destabilize the USSR government that invaded and took over Afghanistan, that the USSR was using to destabilize the entire region in the effort to spread communism across the globe.

And no, the US did not bankroll and arm Bin Laden, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban. The Taliban has essentially nothing to do with the Mujahideen that we worked with against the USSR, popular reporting over the last few years notwithstanding. The Mujahideen were almost exclusively Afghan tribes, the Taliban were interlopers who took over from Pakistan in the years after the USSR was driven out.

In fact, the Mujahideen continued to fight the Taliban until the US invaded in October 2001 and reestablished connections with the Northern Alliance in the initial effort to drive the Taliban out.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/who...
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> in hinayana, it's insight into no-self, in mahayana, it's insight into emptiness

What's the difference?
See the link I posted above. Lots of history there. Charlie Wilson's war also has a lot about the US influence operations against the Soviet Union.
These posts and commentaries might shed some additional light:

https://www.condmatjclub.org/?p=2934
https://www.condmatjclub.org/?p=2685
https://www.condmatjclub.org/?p=2644
Sure, and self-driving cars are just horses all over again right? And ancient Egyptians were already using tablets.
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Multiple entities does matter, a lot. Let me try to explain better.

Before we do the upload there is a clear distinction of who is "you". It is the person I am talking to right now. The person with all your past experiences and the person that moves forward through time having those unique experiences. I think we can agree on that.

Now let's upload your brain to the computer. You still exist and there's another exact copy of you on the computer. In that first instance you both have the exact same history and shared experiences. The problem is moving forward.

You sitting at the computer will identify your experiences as those that "you" experience, not those of the computer you. Conversely s/physical you/digital you. Both entities are you (had the same past experiences) and only one is (has the current experiences), at the same time. The one is because "you" is composed out of your experiences. If you can't experience it, well it is not really part of your identity. One you can look at the other you on the computer monitor. We have distinct and unique experiences now. It is also clear that nothing has happened to the physical you. The physical "you" will clearly not identify the digital "you" as "self", because it is outside yourself (your experiences). It may be hard to define what "you" is, but it is clear that "you" has to have the experiences that are being processed.

Key point: The two entities have different experiences and identify the other entity as a consciousness that they do not share current experiences with.

We can take this to the single entity case, but that becomes convoluted in that there's a distinction of transferring your consciousness vs copying it. We may talk past one another in this case because it isn't clear if I'm imagining transfer and you're imagining copying, or vise versa. The two entity problem makes clear the distinction of "you" that is before the upload and you after the upload. I think it is clear that you can't have two "you"s (because they are different entities!).
An idea I've had in my head for the past week or two, mainly because I have several projects that I just keep "not getting around to".:

I think there is a difference between free time and idle time.

Free time is when you could be doing something that has been back-burnered, such as a project around the house, or getting together with friends.

Idle time is when there is nothing going on, but you are sort "on call" as it were (particularly in my case in the context of having young kids around). These are the times when you do lazy things like watch TV or surf the internet.

Most of productivity "hacking" is probably just making an effort to convert more "idle time" into "free time", which is easy in some ways, but non-trivial in others. I think the distinction between the two is very helpful in considering why people say they don't have any time, but still manage to find time to do all sort of unproductive things. If you are simply idle, it's partly because you fully expect that you could be called away to do something else at any moment. To have free time, you need to consciously block off that time from other obligations.
Melbourne is also an example of the split between wealthy gentrified tram-serviced inner suburbs and car-dependant outer suburbia.
Edit: Upon reflection, I don't think that this satisfies GDPR. They would need to entirely deny access to users in the EU. Just telling them that US law applies, and that they can access the site only if they agree to give up their rights, doesn't suffice.

But I guess that we'll see. I'm sure that complaints have been lodged.
time to sell the shares
> Promoting globalization while not also requiring counties we trade with have equivalent labor laws is just insane

This should be an ideal, and I think we can agree on some basic level of human rights (no forced labor, for instance). But refusing to deal with countries who don’t adhere to our moral code would just lead to a bigger bifurcated market. As examples, we did this to Cuba and North Korea, yet neither of them have changed to meet our demands. Short story is that boycotts have limited power when the group you’re boycotting has an alternative.
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I would love to see a startup sincerely own the logistics of bookkeeping. I would love to know some alternatives since my googling is not showing any decent contenders.
It is entrepreneurship in it's purest form. This is an entrepreneurship forum with a focus on technology.
Phase 1 opened on the 14th, it's very nice so far
As someone who has lived in the greater Toronto area for years, I've seen its public transit system go from good to absolutely awful in a twenty year period. The system he lauds as excellent has not scaled, especially in the downtown, dense, core, where the streetcars and subways are jammed full and delayed constantly.
Sub-area equity and ridership analysis are used to counter this, hence Seattle building its light rail network through one of the poorest & highest transit ridership parts of town, and continuing it north through U-District (where cheap studios can still be had) up to Northgate and eventually Everett.

Would be gentrifiers are in for a rude awakening: http://theneedling.com/2019/08/12/thousands-of-engineers-fle...
Any thoughts on the terms-cancellation conversation with the investor?
So why is it important to have a multisocket NUMA machine? Why not just save yourself a lot of hassle by having one socket? I know that the previous generation AMD machine had unavoidable NUMA but the new one doesn't.
Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy (2018)
So this is how systemd takes over the Linux file system?
In one set of articles OpenAg is a therenos grade scam with everything faked, all plants purchased instead of grown, etc.

In another set of articles, they're in trouble because the nitrate levels in their waste water are too high: https://www.wbur.org/edify/2019/09/20/open-agriculture-initi...

So which is it? A total sham or a polluter? These positions sound incompatible.
I never see it as thinly-veiled. Just-world fallacy is pervasive.
Buy and eat from local, sustainable farms. Consider broader impact when "upgrading". Donate used electronics to organizations that refurbish and reuse them. Donate to organizations that plant trees with minimal overhead.

Step outside the surface level boxes that have people protesting over straws and consider your larger usage. Stop buying products from countries that have horrible track records for environmental waste and pollution. Inform those politicians that represent you that you want a higher level of accountability.

To the aoc/green-new-deal supporters, drop the socialist and identity politics and push legislation centered on specific issues that can be implemented independently.
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GCD is just a convenience wrapper around thread pool. Probably inspired by Windows thread pool API introduced in Vista few years before GCD, adding API functions like SubmitThreadpoolWork.

Even on PCs with tons of resources, thread pools and coroutines are not always interchangeable.

One reason is performance, accessing a cache line shared across cores is even more expensive than cache miss.

Besides performance, writing same data from multiple threads, or doing in parallel what must be running sequentially, is a common source of bugs.
The problem is largely not about lack of “funding” per se, but more about zoning laws, urban planning more generally, and a whole society organized around driving and inefficient sprawl housing with large-scale short-term subsidies but long-term unsupportable infrastructure.

(More funding for transit certainly wouldn’t hurt. Also, buses are great, especially BRT with dedicated lanes. Buses, light rail, subways, commuter trains, long-distance trains seem like complementary parts of a transit system more than competitors.)

There are plenty of cities in the world with effective subways, light rail, and BRT serving working-class neighborhoods.
“Supremacy” is a descriptor various parts of government use when they need funding. The implication is that achieving “supremacy” with some hot area of global security requires spending $X, and if $X _aren’t_ spent, then we will be behind.

No one wants a quantum gap!
> How many people in this room are accredited investors? What a lovely bunch. That puts you in the one-tenth of one-tenth of one-tenth percentile of the world.

No, it doesn't. Accredited investor (by the meaning the author most likely intended) is $1MM net worth (ex residence) or $200K in income for each of the last two years and an expectation for that to continue. There are 42 million millionaires or about 0.55% of the world population. There is an additional population who have the income but not the net worth to qualify, so it's possible that nearly 1% of the world adults would be accredited investors.

~1% is a lot more than ~0.001%, a thousand times more in fact.
> The only weird thing is how antiquated their computer systems are, it's amazing they are so profitable with 70's era technology running the business.

I live near and have shopped at the largest of their locations many times and all of their associates carry tablets to close sales right there on the floor. Hardly 70s technology (though the UI they use isn't modern necessarily). Their online presence isn't anything scoff at either.
I am in favour of buses, bus lanes and roads because they are flexible. Buses can be reasonably fast, and routes can be adjusted as time goes on to adjust for population changes, such as new apartment blocks. They also can be electric.

You still need trains though as a way to get a lot of people in from more populated suburbs.

Light rail I find a bit useless in many circumstances because it is so slow and stops so frequently. I guess that might vary per implementation. It's good if you happen to live within 5 minutes of the station and don't want to go further than 5 minutes walk at the other end.

I use car/bus/train/uber. Sometimes ferry. But never light rail!
Some good observations here, maybe especially the point that without a good bus network light rail can become luxury transport.

But speaking as someone who sometimes uses rail in Los Angeles of all places (and in fact has used public transport almost exclusively for the last month), a couple of counterpoints seem worthwhile:

* In a sprawl-y traffic dense city like Los Angeles -- or even in a less dense area like Utah's Wasatch Front where traffic density in a few corridors heavily outweighs capacity at peak travel times -- rail as a backbone isn't just a nicer bus, it's a more efficient bus, and probably more efficient than a bus can be short of something like LA's Metro Silver Line which utilizes the 110 to provide express service. If you want an efficient system, rail backbones might not be the only tool in your box, but they should be one of them.

* The light rail systems I'm most familiar with (LA Metro and Utah TRAX & Frontrunner) definitely get used, and especially heavily used at commute times. The last few weeks when I've used the Metro I've seen the Expo and Gold line cars packed to the point of no more standing room during rush hour, and people have to wait for the next car. That's past capacity usage in a city most people don't naturally associate with public transportation.

* Additionally, while I can't claim any unusual ability to discern socioeconomic status on sight, informal observations about the level of diversity I've seen on my rides suggests it's not majority middle/upper class riders. And on the LA lines that have seen falling usage (Green and Blue), the research IIRC seems to say the riders who went elsewhere got cars, suggesting they were low-income and rode for economic reasons beforehand.

* The unstudied rail supporter insistent of its virtues and indifferent to other forms of public transport is NOT one that I frequently encounter. I may be wrong, my observation sample may be biased in several ways, but I would expect that if you polled a sample of rail supporters on the question of whether high-quality bus service is equally important, a majority of them would say yes. If you picked self-identifying new urbanists (presumably the people the author spends some of his own credibility on caricaturing as scare-quoted “forward-thinking” brunch people) I expect that percentage would be even higher and you'd find them more than ready to share their own ideas on last-mile problems and cost-per-passenger-mile of rail-vs-bus plus bonus topics like whether/how ride-hailing apps, electric scooters, and bicycles should fit into all this.
Maybe the initial hint of skynet or hopefully more likely impressive calculation to come

From https://pastebin.com/RfUMXJZE referenced in article:

Here, we report using a processor with programmable
superconducting qubits to create quantum states on 53 qubits, occupying a state space 253 ˘1016.
Measurements from repeated experiments sample the corresponding probability distribution, which
we verify using classical simulations.

While our processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one
instance of the quantum circuit 1 million times, a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require
approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.

This dramatic speedup relative to all
known classical algorithms provides an experimental realization of quantum supremacy on a com-
putational task and heralds the advent of a much-anticipated computing paradigm.
Barring that, a community-curated repo of interfaces for common applications would also be great. You could just have a wrapper that automatically downloads the applicable config files on the fly.
He explains it quite well. Light rail (and heavy rail too) is luxury public transit. Lower income people can’t afford to live near the stops. (The median income of DC Metro riders on most stations is well into the six figures.) Moreover, because rail is so expensive, you can’t build enough of it where it’s not going to rapidly increase surrounding property values, or really provide great coverage into low income neighborhoods. Bus service doesn’t have any of those downsides.

At the same time, rail sucks up huge amounts of money that could be spent on better and more frequent bus service instead.
Protestants specifically reject the notion of "Priests", so it's an odd comparison to make.