skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of people in major cities across the globe are fighting for free mass transit. It's not that unreasonable at all when you consider that, in many cities, the per-trip subsidy is already higher than the fare price anyway.

And if you reverse the situation, and imagine a city with free public transit that is then considering adding a fare to it, said fare would be extremely regressive and would hit the worst off the hardest.
Having been an expert layperson reader of astronomy reserach for 2 decades....i would venture to speculate that the long lost connection between eliptical galaxies and spiral galaxies is not only an initial set of imabalnces in the inertia of the gas cloud but the distinct lack of a single galactic central black hole to clear the galaxy polar direction with massive polar vortex blast streams persistently over time.
I do not support the atrocities that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committing against the people of Yemen (civilian death toll closing in on 100,000 [0]) with American purchased F-35 jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

How can I, as a person, talk with my money to prevent this? How can Lockheed Martin, a corporation whose fiduciary obligation is to generate profit for its shareholders, prevent this? How can the US government, who benefits greatly from a prosperous diplomatic relationship with the Monarch, prevent this?

> not caving to them

Fundamentally what I am saying is these institutions are not "caving in" - they are doing what they are doing because, from an emotionless game-theoretical perspective, it is beneficial to the success and longevity of the institution.

Apple benefits from an increasingly strong business relationship (the new diplomacy of the multinational) with mainland China - not just for their supply chain, but also for their marketshare.

These benefits have cost. For US-KSA the cost is tens of thousands of Yemeni civilian lives; for Apple the cost is decreased mindshare of the sovereign nationstate of Taiwan.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jun/20/h...
I think there is a business model for different reasons.

As web client tech stabilizes and telecom regulatory rollback continues, there may be an opportunity for localized solutions to be landed for all sorts of different purposes.
Except that kills business and is massively expensive.
>> Cars are fast, and in areas that are not ultra high-density, they save time relative to ANY alternative (walking, biking, buses, trains) and therefore drastically improve your quality of life.

The key in this sentence is "that are not ultra high-density". This does not apply to Amsterdam. Also, you are comparing one of the worst public transportation systems (SF) to once of the best transportation systems (Amsterdam) making sound like just because public transportation sucks in SF your only real alternative is a car. I lived in both places and I do not want to commute in SF by car at all. This is one of the reasons I have moved back to Europe, I do not need to own a car here. You are downvoted because your argument is very one sided. I do not mind citylab articles being on HN at all. Just so that we have more numbers your argument about cars:

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/23/how-much-does-...

I really like not owning a car and going to work without the hassle. I can read on the train or tram or listen to music, even write code if I want to. I occasionally use car sharing services if I want to go outside the city where I could not go easily without a car. I chose when (off peak) and am not in rush. The psychological impact of driving to work every day is just misery.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/lengthy-commu...
Yep, there are some people who just don't get it, and it's hard to get them to. I find that most developers have a hard time even bringing up the issue with someone face-to-face, even though all it usually takes is: "Hey, just wanted to let you know, I really prefer having these sorts of exchanges over Slack. Otherwise I find it really disruptive to my day. Could we give that a try next time and see how it works out?" And you have to be willing to escalate if the behavior doesn't improve: "Listen, I asked if we could take care of these things over Slack, and I'd really appreciate it if you could accommodate me here." Then: "Hey, I know I keep bringing this up, but it's really important to me. I need to keep a lot of my day interruption-free in order to be productive. Please try harder to respect my time when coming to me for help."

It seems most developers aren't even comfortable with the first bit, let alone escalating things. Instead, most people just seethe and complain privately to other colleagues, and nothing changes. At the very least, the team's manager should be brought in to do a better job of protecting the everyone's time, and you'd think that would be easy for a developer to do, because it outsources any sort of confrontation. But it still often doesn't happen, for whatever reason. (Of course, if it's the manager who is the offender here, you're probably screwed if the diplomatic method fails.)
Apple introduced new low-level interfaces four major versions back, and Apple couldn't work up the interest to document them in the intervening years, and then Apple decided to cut off the interfaces that are documented, and somehow any problems resulting from this sequence of choices Apple made are the fault of third-party developers for not jumping to new technology that Apple didn't care enough to document? That interpretation of events seems a bit obsequious to Apple.

If everyone should have been prepared because this change has been in the works for so long, then surely it's inexcusable for Apple to have left the new stuff in a poorly documented state all that time. If you do feel that Apple's lack of preparation is reasonable when they had even more warning than third parties did, then it seems unreasonable to fault developers for also not being prepared.
I’m surprised Trump’s trade war has not “escalated” to banning the Chinese emoji yet...
Been wanting to start try nextcloudpi[0] but I need the time to learn and set it up (even if it's an hour of reading). My point is for someone not as willing to learn as me, it's at least harder than signing up for OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.

[0] https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/
Yep, this release decimates the already unfortunately small library of games available on Mac. I don't use my Mac much for gaming but it was a nice thing to have available in a pinch.
This discussion would be much more productive if you discussed the specific things you're referring to. Just saying "the accusations" contributes to FUD.
I see--it's not so much the diff but applying that diff.
Is this a serious question? Let's take 1900 as an example year that's before individual motorized traffic (the car existed but clearly wasn't popularized). New York had a population of 3.5MM. London was 6.5MM. Paris 2.7MM.

If we're going to identify something key to the growth of cities, surely it is mass transit. Much of this isn't apparent in modern cities in the USA because so many of them tore apart their streetcar systems in the middle of the 20th century as policies shifted to favor the private automobile. But mass transit seems to me like the thing that drove the growth.
Note the last sentence of your quote. Device-to-device variability and production yield are opposites. I can't imagine how techniques that exploit variability between devices (with no mention of temperature, lifetime drift, etc) could be reliable.
I'm on Word/Excel/Powerpoint 2016, which isn't even the latest version, and it's 64 bit. So, you might be due for an update. I've noticed complex excel spreadsheets are much faster on 2016 vs my previous version so it might be worthwhile anyhow (or run it in VM if you want to keep using it).
Is a visa required when working remotely?
I realize this might be case by case but I frequently see international companies listing a remote working option. If they are based in a different country from my citizenship, should I assume that a work visa is required to work for them? Sometimes the job mentions a contract working option. Is that considered a work-around to requiring a work visa?

I will try to google this a little but don't see something clear in the initial results. Thanks.
I would rather use words to describe whether something is a contemptible pile of guano, and these cutsie images are reducing our ability to eloquently and accurately communicate. A well placed, terse word can have far more impact and meaning than the 4yr old speak that emoji bring us to. Your username is a perfect example: it's hilarious.
2k-year-old Herculaneum scrolls from Institut de France: synchrotron analysis
Sounds great! Can we get all that with a less confusing syntax? That’s my main difficulty with forth.
Biometrics is just a chip that you can't remove from under your skin
How do these countries tax the money which is hidden in offshore tax havens?
That $0 comes with a hidden price tag.
Taiwan was never under the control of the PRC, so... yeah.

Don't worry, there'll be a major war to settle the issue sometime this century, I would bet.
Most free fare experiments have been failures from what I've seen. City Beautiful has a video about it. Free fare can attract people who are less desirable to ride with, even potentially decreasing ridership.
> Multiple calculators

I missed multiple calculators by default as in Windows. I found a simple Apple Script accessed with 'mcalc' that made this a bit easier for me.

do shell script "/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator -background >&/dev/null&"

http://www.markc.me.uk/blog/files/MultiCalc.html
You're right, but here we are anyway. Reality is always absurd.
It's complicated. https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@randombit.net/msg0...
Access to the city, efficiency of transportation, and climate change are the topics that will make me always click on an article that's on the HN front page. As I see it, these are the biggest and most important problems of our day. They are not new, but they are tough and getting worse; in particular they are huge concerns of those who are younger. Even high-income young people are financially screwed compared to middle-income people that brought property in cities a generation ago, and that sort of massive inequality weights heavily on every renter in the Bay Area, even if they are making $250k a year.

I think there's probably a big generational shift here, by any chance are you over 50? Talking about sitting down on dirty seats, and exposing yourself to violence are not typical concerns of younger people I talk to, they are usually far more concerned with climate change and ensuring equitable access to the city. Though security on public transit is a huge privilege for men, so I could also perhaps see your concerns coming from a women who's less than 50 as well! Don't mean to box you in.

But the big demographics on HN are younger males, so thinking that Citylab articles are astroturf would seem to be missing a huge thrust of the current zeitgeist.
Voat: What Went Wrong, The Summary:

Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Today, Voat is overrun with Racists and is a terrible place. Why didn't Reddit let racists run rampant?

If its any consolation you really don't have to look too hard to find a bunch of hardcore racists and bigots of all kinds on Reddit spouting violent hate rhetoric so I guess it all worked out?
You’re right it depends on local laws and some make these compromises because of a lack of dedicated lanes, among other reasons too perhaps.

I do know I’ve biked in places where there were dedicated bike/scooter lane and despite there being rules about signals and left turns (which had prominent signs for them), often times people ignored the signs. On occasion, you’d see the stark result of ignoring the signage.
Quinn is 32bit! Oh no! Best macOS Tetris-like game around.
I'm not sure how I haven't seen these before. Those apps look great! I've tried sketch, but it just feels too far from the adobe world I'm used to, especially for raster graphics work.
How does that work? If you're getting an annuity in return for donating something, that doesn't sound like a donation?
It's absolutely maddening to see such vociferous "defense" of Stallman in ways we know he could not stand. If you think he would tolerate an "open source dinner spread", you don't appreciate what he's actually done and have just glommed onto the bizarre 4chan personality cult surrounding him.
It's not nonsense, and "everybody knows Taiwan is a distinct country" is a flawed statement. The UN does not recognize Taiwan. Taiwan is recognized as a sovereignty by 19 UN member states. It has formal diplomatic relationships with ~50 UN member states. UN has 193 member states in total. Please refrain from using subjective unprovable ideology to represent the mass.
> This could be fixed by adding a field to every street name for "a series of phonemes that provide a close approximation of local pronunciation"

Interestingly, this is essentially how a lot of Japanese forms (at least that I've seen) work. You have a name field, containing, say, 小島秀夫, then a field for the phonetic reading containing こじまひでお. Both are Kojima Hideo (typically Hideo Kojima in English), but the second is the phonetic (kana) form, whereas the first form of some names might be misread or have an unusual reading. You might also see it as furigana, where the phonetic/kana reading is written above the kanji form in small letters.
Shackleton's Medical Kit
That was helpful ... because while the (blog) article gave a prominent place to an activist's opposition, it didn't explain the motives for opposition.

(Helps explain why Bullitt isn't so easy to visit. Also helps to explain why the 2001-quake-damaged bridge is still standing!)
Practically speaking, you'd be better off with a stripped down Linux or BSD. Linux from the NeXTStep era (early 90's) could also run in a few megs of RAM. My first Linux box had 4 megs. I worked at a few early ISP's that tried setting up operations on NeXT boxes. They all moved to Solaris, FreeBSD, or Linux because though NeXT looked pretty, many of the API's were a bit off and you'd have much better luck building open source code in other environments.
It wouldn't even cost 11% of the total to make public transit free because you can save money by not having to collect payment at all. No gates or ticket machines to maintain, buses go faster because no one is waiting in queues to pay at the door, etc.

Now admittedly more people would start using it if it were free, but that's a feature not a bug. And the marginal cost of higher ridership is much lower than the sunk capital costs of constructing the system in the first place.
> we're at historical low point of humanity's ability to coordinate

I don't think this is true. We humans have never been good at solving coordination problems on scales larger than the family or the tribe. I don't think the present is any worse in that respect.

What's different about the present is that instant global communication has made billions of people aware of huge differences among humans along many dimensions, that previously were only known to those who were able to travel extensively. But I think it's an error to translate much increased knowledge of those differences into much increased coordination problems. Virtually all of these "problems" would be solved if people would just let each other alone when interaction was not necessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...

It's not really true that it's "not traditionally" the way that government works. The first half of the 20th century is the watermark.

Not that I remotely disagree with you in principle, just want to make the point that this isn't some recent development that we can swing back towards normalcy --- it's been this way and there's no going back.
“What did they want?” is an easy example of when people use singular they a lot.
I think many drivers have inaccurate views of how good the various alternatives are. As a cyclist, I've had drivers tell me over the years that going from A to B is practically impossible on a bike, but I often find it perfectly reasonable. (A and B are random locations picked by the driver I'm speaking with, e.g., often drivers say that getting groceries on a bike is impossible.) In my experience, most drivers never give cycling a fair chance.
I'd presume the persistence / I/O process would
be pretty short lived: its job is to save a snapshot to disk so there's not much reason to let it live long.
"Microsoft Windows 10 sends all new unique binaries for further analysis to Microsoft by default."

Even if you're developing? Even if you're developing proprietary applications not for public use?

All your code are belong to us.
True, but a lot of those devs ignored the 32- to 64-bit transition for so long that now they're having to do both at once. Authors that moved to 64 bit several years ago have a lot more free time right now to concentrate on supporting new APIs.
I appreciate your sentiment and generally think along the same lines. However, I try not to underestimate the power of hereditary taste and contrary behavior. What you state as cringey behavior is going to be exactly why some people embrace it. I'm sure Harley is going to be just fine.
Tons of people in Microsoft use non-Microsoft hardware and software. It's not weird at all that one of their employees has experience with Alexa.
Exactly. People don't understand why I want to buy boxed software and deadwood books and have all my music downloaded (after legal purchase) only.
I'm having trouble parsing the last half of your sentence, but I'm going to assume (please correct me if I'm wrong here) that you meant:

"Just because you have a short sync meeting once a day, it doesn't mean you should delay all work until then."

And yes, I totally agree! If you're blocked on something, you should raise it immediately, so you're not delaying all work until your next standup! If you do have other work to do, you should still raise the issue immediately, figure out who should own the blocker (if it's non-trivial, your manager will likely find ownership for you), and then move onto another task until the blocker is resolved. You gain nothing by waiting until the next day, and possibly exacerbate the problem if you do wait.
Ask HN: What technologies do you wanna learn in 2020?
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I am not an expert, or a lawyer, but if I understand correctly, a visa is required for physical presence. I don't have to have a French visa to sell something to France, or to email someone in France, or to connect to a French website. Remote work looks a lot like those things... right up until they want you to be onsite for a meeting. And then you need a visa.
For what it's worth, there's a super popular hiking spot 1.5 hours outside of NYC called Breakneck Ridge that is only served by a few MetroNorth trains per day (and only on weekends and holidays). And yet when I went there were MANY people doing it. That trailhead is close to the train station which is why it's so popular, but if it weren't, there's always Lyft/Uber.

These are city-dwellers who don't own cars doing these hikes, so "driving your own car" isn't even an option. Renting a car for the day/weekend is, but that's much more expensive than round-trip train tickets.
This just enables them to _remain_ lost when someone later mentions the place to them, or they need to ask someone about it.
But what, exactly, do they gain from this?
a smaller and smaller minority though, and the smart strategic choice is understanding that it actually creates classes within the union (same as those w/ pensions grandfathered in vs. those that don't) which weakens the union generally. sort of like the two tiered GM setup currently under strike.

for example, new Washington DC transit workers aren't on the old health plan, which means there's basically a 50/50 split (trending upwards) for people who don't have the benefit. probably not a great strategy to lean on those should the union want to strike over that benefit.

since all that money comes out of wages anyway, it'd be more beneficial to just eliminate the variable vs. trying to salvage a legacy class of workers fortunate enough to have the benefit.
I think that's less likely, if MS gets a thousand identical copies of a binary, they probably aren't going to bother test-analyzing more than one. There also might be some rate-limiting on what they'll do from a particular machine.

So your attack might require first controlling a swam of Windows 10 machines, in which case you might as well do it directly :P
Many of them seem to be going past to turn right, which would be a valid use of the right turning lane.

Also, I'd contest the behaviour being characterised as 'sneaking' - in most places, bicycles are still considered road vehicles, and allowed to use regular lanes.
The problem with pure peer-to-peer, is privacy. While now only one server knows what you do, in a peer-to-peer it changes to almost everyone who are connected.

You can can indeed improve privacy, but it normally means giving up speed (like Tor).

Additionally, there are other issues of p2p as a main solution. For example, phone battery or often being blocked in routers of public spaces etc.

I think that a mix between Fediverse and P2P would be nice.

A power user can choose to be a node, knowing the price. But the common user would use some server/service to access it. But those must be planned such that switching is easy.
Not only a country but Taiwan is officially the Republic of China. The government of China under Chiang Kai-shek established itself in Taiwan. If anything Taiwan is China and the PRC is the remnants of a communist overthrow.
We’re talking about middle class people. They can afford cars, more than one in fact. What they can’t afford is $1 million+ on a house in DC in a decent school district near good public transit. (Indeed, the “can’t afford cars” urbanist trope applies to almost no one. Even among people who are under the poverty line, 80% have access to a vehicle. Driving is one of the most egalitarian institutions in the US.)

Building more mass transit won’t fix the schools, and mostly just seems to facilitate gentrification. It costs billions of dollars to extend the DC Metro these days. That means anywhere remotely desirable that gets a new metro line becomes totally unaffordable for middle class people with families. The structural cost problem has huge knock on effects. If building rail here cost what it does in Europe, you’d be able to build five times as much. If we had five new lines in the last decade, instead of just one, maybe rents near subway metro wouldn’t be skyrocketing. But that’s not the world we live in.
On some level, you have a point in here worth thinking about, but "home from the casino at 2am?" Seriously?

Employment is an excellent example of an activity which the government might want to facilitate with public transportation, and, as you point out, Caltrain is optimized for certain daily commutes. Late-night gambling-entertainment, on the other hand, belongs way down the list of priorities.
It took until 1979 for the United States to recognize that China was, in fact, governed from Beijing, not Taipei.

(Beijing won the civil war in 1950.)

Today, in 2019, Taiwan still does not recognize China.

Recognition is a chip in the game of geopolitics.
Additionally, it has zero benefit for many applications from a performance stand point, or makes them even slower.
> so cross-laminated joints can be subject to an incredible amount of stress

OK, plywood overcomes the stress by having very thin laminates. So how does CLT overcome the stress due to different width vs length expansion rates? Shouldn't the problem be much worse with thick laminates?