skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would be if the negative externalities of autos were priced in; trains aren't viable in America because autos are subsidized via substantial non-internalized negative externalities.
Huh, TIL. Never knew what that smell was.
Great idea. We honestly hadn't thought of that, but would make a ton of sense down the road. Thank you for your support.
> Corporations are no angel, but they are accountable

They are? It sure doesn't look much like it, at least if we're talking about very large corporations.
Eh, that's a bit tough on him. He ran the company for 6-7 years. Considering how much he grew, he probably run through some challenges and quite a stress.

Maybe it was a journey worth going, but it's understandable that people need to take a break.
Would it be impractical to engineer a limited portion of the fuselage to withstand this scenario?
We're definitely planning to do more there -- we took a bit longer than anticipated getting v2.2 out, due to various packaging and automation hiccups.

Huggingface are doing a great job keeping transformers moving quickly, so we already have some catching up to do. We need to update the wrapper so it works with the new version. I also want to check out Tensorflow 2, and build a Thinc wrapper for it.
Came up in conversation when I took my car in that up until recently they were using little bits of copper in brake pads for... noise control? heat? I can't recall which.

But that's been outlawed now, presumably due to potential for metal toxicity (any mineral you need in your diet is also lethal at higher doses). We're leaving powdered copper at every stop light.
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Sounds like trains are less efficient than cars maybe only in the US, because of lots of empty seats and/or less cars per passenger train:

>In the fuel efficiency information provided below you’ll see that trains are unexpectedly low, but this data can be a bit misleading because it’s from research that only studied trains in the US. There are two things to note:

>1) Americans don’t utilize trains as a mode of transportation very much in comparison with European and Asian countries. This brings fuel efficiency down because there are less people being transported per train moving.

>2)Trains have varying fuel efficiencies themselves. They are powered by either a normal combustion engine using diesel fuel or an electric motor. The efficiency of electric trains is highly variable because of the source of electricity. Electricity from a coal fired power plant will be much less efficient then renewable resources such as hydroelectric, wind, or solar.
In tech it's pretty rare to become a millionare overnight. You can go overnight between each of these phases:

Phase 1: You are making very little money. You are excited when there is free pizza at an event, because you got a free dinner.

Phase 2: You are making a decent salary, enough to survive quite comfortably, even in a pretty expensive location. In tech, often this salary is enough to make you a millionaire if you just invest it conservatively and wait a decade.

Phase 3: You are still making that decent salary, but now you are also a millionaire on paper. Your stock is worth millions of dollars, but that isn't directly relevant to your daily life.

Phase 4: You have millions of dollars in liquid assets.

I have worked with a number of people who have gone through each of these phase changes. In my experience, going from phase 1 to 2 is by far the biggest change. After that, things just don't change immediately. You might move to a nicer place to live, or have enough money to become an investor or leave the conventional career track, but those things happen slowly.
My last computer I put together about 5+ years ago (i7-4790k, 32gb ram) and did a mid-cycle upgrade a couple years ago (gtx-1080, 1tb nvme, large 4k display).

New computer is X570 mb, 64gb, rx5700xt, using an r5-3600 as a placeholder, I am still waiting on a 3950X, and only pulled the trigger early since my last system was acting up. I don't have the specific costs, but have spent around $1500 so far and will probably lose ~$50 on the 3600 when I upgrade and sell it off. Will probably be 4-5 years until I upgrade again, except I may drop a second and/or third nvme drive in or bump the ram to 128gb.

The difficulties I've had this time around have been around aesthetics, since I didn't have any experience with aRGB it tool a while to figure out what to get, and even then none of the aRGB supports Linux. The 5700 just got swapped in, and I've had trouble with that and will have to correct over the weekend, may wind up on Windows if it's too much of a pain.

I've mostly been working on my work-issued laptop, where I've had separate issues with the battery/charging etc the past month. In the end though, spending a couple grand on a computer every 3-5 years isn't so bad if you're actually doing work on it. I will say, I am surprised how much faster this system actually feels over my old one. Hopefully I can get it stabilized with the new video card soon.
HN is 50% “vim is amazing I can be so productive now that I learned to use this” and 50% “Steve Jobs never would have allowed a long press action how will anyone ever learn to use it?”
In Montana I've been working on privacy legistlation with my friend and State Representative Daniel Zolnikov for almost 10 years now. Initially we tried to pass too much (something like 40 pages in a state where most bills are 1-2), then Dan decided to break out individual ideas from the initial bill and pass smaller chunks or create specific bills targeting abuses.

The Montana state constitution provides citizens with a right to privacy but attempting to enumerate it in law is an uphill battle. At the last legislative session the national Charter public policy guy flew in and spoke against the bill saying it would be an incredible burden on his company to allow customers the right to privacy (conveniently ignoring they're up to the task for collecting and storing DNS, usage history, a multi-billion dollar company etc.). They were able to spread enough FUD to get the bill killed.

Corporations are stifling privacy at the national level and willing to spend the money quashing attempts by the states to take it back. Privacy will be a hard-fought battle most likely won with technology and user choices vs policy.
I fortunately think you might be wrong, and unfortunately for this article nowhere is it mentioned that large corporations are actually the ones leading the charge to push for a national privacy law because obviously from a regulatory cost perspective for a multinational, multi-state company, it is much cheaper to have to comply with one law than 50.
> Let's make sure it won't happen to a higher degree and in more countries.

how?
Both Boeing and Airbus have received subsidies that are claimed by various parties to be illegal.
This, and undefined values. Will be of huge value for dealing with protobuf data, where all keys are optional.
The article says underutilised, old and inefficient US Antrak trains are less efficient. Thsts quite believable, but isn't a general comment against trains.
Unless you live more than a mile away... Lots of people don't live in densely populated areas near train tracks where getting off the train and getting home is <10 minutes.

Obviously, it makes sense for those who do but most of America is sprawly and isn't designed for rail transit efficiency.

I'd appreciate good quite rail but it isn't anywhere near feasible in these sprawly landscapes.
This is so great. Back in 2004 it sounded way harder to pull off with the available hardware too.
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I'm very surprised that Intel gave away Lakefield to Microsoft just for that.

Few Intel insiders I knew were talking about Lakefield as almost like a "saviour" product for Intel waning consumer electronics marker appeal.
A poor little rich boy is all I can say!
If he is feeling so unchallenged and wants "skin in the game" then give away all your money and start again.
But he won't, no one can, once you've got a taste for the good life..
Btw, the RX bar tastes awful.
Nobody is arguing that there needs to be a subway with hourly service between Denver and Boise. There is no excuse for the coasts, south, and midwest not to have better train service. If you exclude Alaska and the Mountain States, the US has the same population density as Europe.
but at least half of the country lives in a dense area. surely it'd be a start to remove the need for cars in cities > 200,000 people.
I used to live in NYC, and so much money went to both taxes and housing. I do hope living costs come down considerably, a lot of people can’t afford to save while living there.
There are permissioned and permissionless cryptocurrencies. Otherwise what is the point of creating such a nomenclature?

The whitepaper also says that Libra will launch permissioned and transition to a permissionless cryptocurrency.
Exactly my point, which seems to be eluding many others.

People who are interested in a PHD, aren't interested (most likely) in your CRUD / another run of the mill app.
Yes, but the Chinese have also been fighting it for about as long --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks and obfsproxy being the two that immediately come to mind.
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From the article: "In the US: Cars are generally more efficient than trains when there are 2 or more people traveling."

That's rare. The vast majority of traffic is 1 person per car, which completely changes the results here to make it worse than the rest.
The most precious thing money can buy is freedom. Any more money than that and it can become a burden. The tricky part is the sweet spot, you have to find it, be aware of it. Ah, and yes, just where that spot is so depends on everything that it won't be the same for more than one person.
Considering I'm using docker to run databases and various services in order to do "webdev" I wouldn't underestimate how useful the extra resources are. I recently upgraded and still feel the strain in some instances.

(r5-3600, waiting for 3950x to drop, upgraded sooner because old system was acting up).
WSJ links ending in "?mod=rsswn" used to bypass the paywall. This time it's not working for me.
Does it really matter how much better it is when you can go immediately bankrupt from a simple procedure? I imagine there is immense pressure and loss of wealth by simple virtue that people probably don't maintain good health but go in when it gets bad enough that going bankrupt is worse than dying or being violently ill with no end in sight.
Tell that to the team that created protocol buffers.
I don't expect trains or rail to take over every middle-sized town, but the 1-2 million+ cities should all be (and many are) looking at revitalizing downtown areas for greater density and walkability. And it would be great for tightly connected metro areas to have high speed rail between them.
I hate to break it to you, but anyone who starts a business is not the average European anyway.
You're not wrong, by most definitions of netbook, but I think the parent commenter makes a very good point if you look at them in terms of their form factor. Netbooks of that era were these weird little machines with 8.9" screens and 70% scale keyboards. I remember carrying mine in a coat pocket. It was really exciting at the time to see Windows XP running on something like that. In the end, it was a bad compromise and those have disappeared. The netbooks of today are, for the most part, full size laptops.
Do you have any docs or knowledge you could share? I'd be interested in working on this in several midwest states.
That's not a Europe/US thing. Most Americans wouldn't count them either. However, they're both wrong to not count them. They absolutely count.
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That study seems to only look at Amtrak trains, so it doesn't consider the large number of subway or urban light rail systems in use. Amtrak has relatively few passengers (along with many other problems). The NYC subway system, for example, is far, far more fuel efficient than a car. As is probably any moderately used metro service.
I frequently just do a google search for the title and click the link to the same article there. Typically, I don't get paywalled that way.
Your comment had put the punchline at the end, instead of the beginning, which is almost the same issue you're complaining about in the comment. Not only do you point out the issue with words, but with form as well. :)

"Why is the comment so long? Why did I have to read to the end to figure out what your complaint was?"
When you measure comfort per mile, cars are nearly infinitely superior to trains.
I was just floored when the BPA problems arose and all these people I knew were trading in one plastic bottle for a different one. I'm switching to glass and stainless and everyone else is buying more plastic.

Just... don't understand why we learn so slow.
You've done it. You've figured it out. Nobody else has. Amazing.
Wow! What an awesome tutorial/book. I look forward to reading more chapters. This is already an extremely useful resource since it covers cross compilation from an x86 system. I love to play around with this kind of stuff in my free time but connecting to dev boards and constantly shifting paradigms was annoying enough to limit my enthusiasm. It took a lot of research to find out how to do what the author fits in a single chapter. Thank you for this awesome post!
>(2), they provide comfort for those that don't have the drive/luck/privilege of getting there by arguing that "hey, money doesn't make you happy!"

That's not too far off.

First, beyond a certain point (more easily achievable than a $600 million exit), money really don't make you more happy.

Second, it's not like building such a company or performing some great achievement (whether sports, arts, science) is some necessary part of being a human, and those that didn't or don't "have the drive/luck/privilege of getting there" are failures.

>But at the same time, can we not kid ourselves? Money makes life much easier than the alternative.

Which is neither here, nor there, regarding such cases as in the article. You don't hundreds or even tens of millions for that. A million or a couple millions are more than enough.

>I'm reminded of a (2008 crash) documentary I saw years ago where a banker says: "I grew up poor, and now I'm rich; trust me, I'd rather be rich."

Perhaps this is more of a preoccupation/conditioning/fear for those that grew up poor / much poorer? Or rather, for some of those?

If one is brought up in comfortable middle class / upper middle class, they can be quite satisfied with much less material success and without some huge financial fallout like in TFA.

Somebody who had lived through poverty though, might develop some need to overcompensate in excess.
>Money makes life much easier than the alternative.

I don't think that's true. If it were, you wouldn't see these companies fundraising 9+ figures and then still failing to turn a profit and crashing and burning. It didn't make anything easier for them. If anything, it made it harder because the management got overconfident.
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They are to some degree. Is it enough? That’s a tough question (that I have no answer to)
There are three ways to think about this.

1. R7RS explicitly decided to repudiate R6RS, leading to the disagreement.

2. R6RS made changes that did not have consensus and the resulting vote didn't have a big enough super majority requirement, leading to a controversial standard.

3. There was always major disagreement about all the relevant points, and R5RS itself was only created by not introducing anything new post 1992, and by not taking a position on the controversial topics. So any standard effort was bound to be controversial.
Conventional commits pair nicely with a Lerna monorepo when deploying multiple JS packages at once. Auto-generated changelogs and automatic semver for packages. It's worked well for us over the past year.

https://github.com/lerna/lerna/blob/master/commands/version/...
It's still allowed in general aviation. Let your lawmakers know if that bothers you. The stakeholders in this case happen to be a small, wealthy minority.
Interesting, considering just a few decades ago bundling old tires and sinking them into the ocean was considered an environmentally-friendly disposal method.

It was believed that the tires would create reefs, encouraging sea life, and at the same time take care of on ongoing tire disposal problem that occasionally led to catastrophic fires.

I wonder what other modern "environmentally friendly" things we're doing now that will turn out to be bas ackward 30 years from now.
Not a full feature i3-like software, but I was amazed how it implements almost all features I like about i3.

https://www.workspacer.org/

It was mentioned in a FancyZones thread a few months ago.
You don't even need to go that far. Eliminating car culture is how you'd make a city I'd actually enjoy living in.
And this isn't the first ARM Windows laptop with x86 emulation. It is just the first Surface-branded one.
I’m upvoting and I wish you could develop your first 4.5 paragraphs. The rest is just logical conclusions, but each of your first 4§ nails something that I’m not entirely grasping about identity and love, and I bet there are hundreds of people who would benefit from this too. (there are many other ways - a slightly more developed essay, a discussion filmed and made available on Youtube, etc).
I agree that if I read the article the way you did, I would find it condescending. I think part of what makes the article interesting is an implied counter-argument to this point you made:

"If you're like me (and I think most HN'ers are), you continue building stuff in spite of the overwhelming odds. That's the real lesson here. Trying, failing, trying, failing, and doing this over and over, even though expecting a different outcome is technically insanity."

So you are doing it, perhaps, for the sheer pleasure and joy of building, experimenting and using your mind.

If that is the case, then when you actually make the payday, the article argues you may be robbed of this in the future. In the article, the entrepreneur lost his motivation because it seemed pointless to struggle and build after the payout.

Its not just that money didn't make him happy, but that it reduced the prior satisfaction he had in building.

Note that this is not inevitable. We know of entrepreneurs (Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Musk etc) who continue to work very hard after they have become wealthy.
How many of these " ~1 million living in Europe" are with the US Armed Forces? (Be it as service member, spuse, family)

Quick research: Kaiserslautern Military Community has ~50k people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserslautern_Military_Comm...

Now that's the largest, but by far not only location with US Military presence in Europe.
I smell an opportunity for Facebook. Appeal to the disenfranchised and oppressed.
Was there any specific mention of the device's thickness? The photos look like each side is about the same as a typical tablet, which would make this thing a pretty chonky boi when folded...
I likewise suspect the FK and the index on the created timestamp account for most of the difference.
Dan is a great resource to reach out to, he's on Keybase Chat https://keybase.io/drz and more than happy to help people in the policy realm. Our naive first bill is well organized with some of the things we felt necessary to enable an individuals right to privacy and can be found here https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2013/billhtml/HB0400.htm
You can separate the issue better by saying intercity and intracity. Getting from your home to a location is usually not much more time than getting from your home to a station. This makes trains unviable for most inner-city travel outside of some lightrail in dense urban areas.

For intercity, trains quickly start competing against airlines which are better for most domestic travel because the US is so big.
There are many leadership decisions that seem unimaginable when taken but that are absolutely required for the survival of the company. One that comes to mind is Microsoft giving up on Internet Explorer’s engine, or Apple switching to Intel, or Adobe killing Flash.

Facebook will need to make this one: killing the Facebook brand, and a large part of the Facebook Feed product.

Sure, Facebook can survive without making this call, just as Yahoo! survived throughout Ms Mayer’s tenure.

Something that tells me they are currently unaware of that necesity is their 10K[0]:

> Certain of our past actions, such as the foregoing matter regarding developer misuse of data, have eroded confidence in our brands, and if we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brands or if we incur excessive expenses in this effort, our business and financial results may be adversely affected.

[0]: http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/a109a501...
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Or, alternatively, drives into it with their truck while drunk[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
> Women with grey hair become less powerful; men tend to become more so

Not true. I could tell from many women over 50 with lots of power and tons of man beyond 50 who lost everything.
bikes, taxis, uber, walking, buses

Three of those four fail to address the tire issue, which is at the root of this problem.
This isn't just a frontend optimization that can be applied in isolation by a good dev. With WS or SSE there now needs to be server written & supported to push this data over. On top of all the networking issues that come with these streaming protocols.

> Why shouldn't they care about their performance too?

They definitely do this for everything they push out that runs on billions of devices for people all over the world. How many people use Google to keep track of the live score of "the Laver Cup tennis championship in Australia?" I'd be surprised if that's more than 100. But Google has these numbers, and based on that they've chosen not to optimize this.
Needs a sane OS. Windows 10 is not it.
250M children worldwide forecast to be obese by 2030
I’ve read other comments like this. Is this why Google created Alphabet?
Weren't brakes made of asbestos at one time?
Then why the high-voltage warning stickers?
A majority of the people didn't even vote for the president.
I don't really get your point. First of all, this isn't an "article." It's a story about one founder and one company. It's not supposed to be a middle-of-the-road case study on building startups.

Nowhere in the story does he suggest that being poor would be better than being rich or that having financial security isn't objectively better than the opposite. He's basically saying that the downside of his wealth is living a life without purpose because he can afford to do nothing all day, and how he misses the feeling of having a purpose to wake up to.

Even if you aren't extremely rich, I think most people can relate to that feeling. The reason why the story resonates is because it's a reminder that money does not buy purpose more than anything else.
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Non optional says whom? I'm rather excited about the new Tesla batteries and the possibilities of traveling more for less money per mile. You can live in relative poverty compared to today and ride a bike and only travel in a highly ordered and grating manner, but I'll support nuclear power and have fun around town in a 750hp electric.