skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As real not snarky rhetorical questions - how does an aging populace get around a city without cabs? When I injured my leg last year I found just how unviable it was to commute by crowded subway during rush hours on crutches. It gave me sympathy for the disabled and elderly. For all their faults, Uber and Lyft were the lifeline which let me get my kids to school and get myself to work until I healed.
UK, we have a lot of MVNOs, and (I believe) it is required for owners of physical networks to provide access to MVNOs (I believe this isn't the case in Canada). We have a problem with investment but prices are good.
>> Still, density isn’t high, it just feels that way

> That's factually incorrect.

I'm not sure that be stated as factually anything without an accepted definition of "high density" for a city. I'm not aware of one.
Ah, yes. That's why. And when they finally--after all, they're only a decade old!--get enough information for these ratings to work, I'll be thrilled.
That sounds like the T-Mobile One plan that they offered for a while, but it was $70/month and they were still struggling. The network is expensive and customer acquisition is really expensive.
Really cool to see an "old-school" analysis of a classic algorithm and it's implementation. Today with all of the "advanced features" provided by languages and libraries, it's easy to get lost in minutiae and implementation details; for example, how C++ uses templates to specialize sorts for different types. It's refreshing to see a clean, well-thought-out implementation of a core algorithm and a careful examination of the various trade-offs it represents.
I've heard Shapiro's opinion on the matter, and he is most definitely not intending to "call their otherness out". Rather, the point he intends to make is that by agreeing to others demands that he and others use "correct" pronouns, that he would be giving up his principles on free speech, and therefore the foundations of the country. Other people like to frame the issue as plain bigotry without trying to understand the actual point of view at hand.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2019/10/04/thieves-apologize-profusel..., which points to this.
From Kiev to Brest is ~3,000km. You’d only need to walk 34km a day to do that in a summer. Walking is cheap and Britain is a fair bit smaller than Europe. At the same pace you can walk the length of Britain in under a month.
I appreciate the feedback. I'll add it to my list of things to do in the next version of updates. How would you like to get that information, in csv format or something else?

> How do you intend to keep this site alive long-term?
Currently, the site is being hosted on Heroku so I can scale it as needed. I'll likely move it to AWS in the nearish future, but for now, Heroku is doing the trick. As far as longevity goes I do daily DB backups so in the case of an issue I can do a restore. If the site picks up in popularity I could also move to doing hourly backups.
In theory, SS payouts to each individual are proportional to each individual's payments in. In that light what proper purpose is there in forcing higher wage earners to save more?
I am confused as to the distinction between your "wakeful mind's eye" and your "more abstract mental visualization". Can you more precisely characterize their difference? Is one actually embedded in your visual field, and one not? Can they be employed simultaneously?
Sounds like the app I'm building now. :)
This is how diplomacy loosely works: visiting diplomats accused of a serious crime have the option of facing the charges locally, facing the charges under their home jurisdiction, or leaving the country either voluntarily or by being expelled. The one exception to this is if the visiting country waves diplomatic immunity, which generally only happens if someone was doing something outside of the nature of normal activities of living and working there.

I know it might not seem fair, but sometimes the smooth workings of international diplomacy is more important than justice for an individual crime.

(The expulsion option prevents diplomats from using this as a loophole to repeatedly commit crimes)
I would rather pay more to take an Uber/Lyft than a Taxi almost always.

With the ride share services, I have a full record of my trip and ability to rate the driver afterwards. I can even contact someone if something goes wrong or if I lose something in the car.

I just have a much better experience start to finish and I'm willing to pay a premium for that.
I'm in NYC too, and you're overstating how bad the public transit is here. It's still better than anything else in the entire country, and it runs 24/7.

And the thing about driving is, the city is simply too dense for everyone to do it. Everyone actually cannot choose to drive; there's simply not enough room to do so. And the same amount of street space can serve way more people as sidewalk, bike lane, and bus lane as it can travel lane for single occupancy vehicles, so we need to prioritize the former and deprioritize the latter. See e.g. the 8th Ave redesign by Penn Station: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/8th-ave-cb4-jun2...

In particular, pay attention to page 9, which shows that 85% of the users of the space are pedestrians, yet 70% of it was given to vehicles. If more of those 85% of people "chose" to walk, it'd be complete standstill gridlock for hours long. Hell, it was already close to that bad already with just 15% of users driving.
Libra isn't designed to become decentralized.
It's a rent seeking scheme.

Libra is meant to hold an fiat backing balance by users putting money in. Facebook gets to reap 100% of the interest on said fiat with no money going to users, ever.
They document it as such in their "whitepaper".

It's basically a scheme to create serfs.
Another thing to consider is it isn't counting all the rust dependencies. You can get away with a lot less code in tree when things get pushed out into crates.
It's an extremely unusual choice.

But, her main complaint is how Stack Overflow treated her. I've known her for 25 years via a hobby, and she's an extremely well-reasoned person.
Thank you! I think theres a lot of improvement that can be done in the space. Reach out to me if you want any advice on helpful api's I came across when building feastgenius. I'll be more than happy to chat :)
Summary from the article:
"1940: City takes over the private subways"
It's rebranded Heliflite, not rebranded Blade. So there are still the same number of carriers as before, and yeah, you're paying an extra $27 to book it with the Uber app. This is not very exciting.

Edit: Uber is including the car on both ends, so that's an advantage. And their luggage allowance is 50 lbs vs. Blade's 25, so that's nice too.
I think it's unreasonable to assume that streaming is the only use-case of a high-speed connection. If I need to download something large, there is no upper limit to the bandwidth I can benefit from.

More generally, I think claims that there's no valid use-case of X are essentially always wrong. It's fine not wanting to provide a service if you're upfront about it, but framing it as anyone who does this is doing something dodgy is just a way of diverting blame.
I think these are the main previous threads, in reverse order:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21173643

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153224

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21149770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113344
I ended up building my own solution to this problem too (though mine is not open to public)

The main thing I wanted to optimize was menu planning. So I wrote a genetic algorithm which will generate a menu, add the score, mutate the menu in some way, and iterate. In my database I have a rough price per ingredient, and my families enjoyment of the recipe (though I have kind of a lagging gradient which reduces the score per recipe to prevent duplication). I also have included in my algorithm what I call slots. So something like a lasagna will take 4 slots where as a stir fry will be 1 slot. I sync my schedule and break it down to slots. This allows the algorithm to fit the recipe to the time available. I dont score slots though otherwise short recipes always win.

Since the algorithm optimizes based on the week, but keeps a running inventory it's pretty good at maximizing my grocery bill and family enjoyment. My average grocery bill is between $40-$60 a week. And I cook 5 times a week.
Maybe most commonly used language patterns can carry other connotations therefore bring in ambiguities. Bringing in special terms that are not otherwise used would reduce arguments over the usage. But in all likelihood it is probably just tradition, and a barrier of entry that insiders are happy to maintain.
Did you even read what you're replying to?
How do you people who work with high-dimensional data outside of biology feel about t-SNE and/or UMAP?

Some of the points against t-SNE feel like comments that only non-computer scientists would make (e.g., t-SNE must be run on a cluster/needs a lot of RAM - despite the fact that rather few genetic datasets can be analyzed on the commodity laptops most common among biologists).
Depending on how you're sourcing the recipes, a simple HTML-to-markdown conversion might work.

Here's one that I found but there are quite a few out there:

https://domchristie.github.io/turndown/
I imagine the solution is going to be some sort of parallel to open source, that I can't quite visualize atm.

Maybe the next generation beyond 3D printing will be able to do multi-component assembly tasks, and you can get/print your own high quality components, and assemble your own high quality toaster... Maybe
Potion Lang
“joint potographic experts group”
Awesome! If you want to chat feel free to reach out to me. There are some really good api's out there to help speed up the process.
The article suggests that the knowledge and skill required to build tunnels efficiently have atrophied over time, I suppose as the people involved in the explosion of construction between 1904 - 1940 retire.
Huh? Why?

I mean, first, I'm surprised at the implicit claim that most of the world's programmers do use Stack Exchange and abide by its policies. I don't have a Stack Exchange account. I occasionally run across it in Google searches, but I don't have to abide by any policies to read a website. And my company (which is in a regulated industry and is IP-sensitive) prohibits us from posting detailed information about our work externally without review by the security team, so I assume most (I certainly don't assume all) of my coworkers don't post to Stack Exchange from work / about their work. I can't remember the last time I heard a coworker (here or at a previous employer) say "I asked StackOverflow and they said....". There are a lot of companies and non-company employers (governments...) which will be equally sensitive about posting code.

Second, even if it were true that most of the world's programmers do use Stack Exchange, why do they have to? It's a company that's barely 10 years old. It's a site that's notorious for closing question as off topic. Surely there are other resources. Surely other sites could pop up. I specifically mentioned "established" churches because it is no such thing - it's popular because people want to use it, not because anyone is obligated to. If people want to use something else, or nothing at all, they can. If someone figures out how to disrupt Stack Exchange, nobody is stopping them. "Crime" is a term that applies to violations of rules set by the government, which you are obligated to follow - it does not apply to violations of rules set by private parties.

Finally, the policies in question were applied in this instance to a moderator, not a user. I don't believe that most of the world's programmers have to be a moderator. (And, again, given that StackOverflow is notorious for editing questions to make them more generally useful even at the risk of making the question useless for the individual asker, I assume they would at most rephrase the question to be policy-compliant instead of banning the user.)
Well, if it was only mobile...

It seemed like everything you might want to buy that had a brand attached to it was like 20-40% more expensive in Australia, for no particular reason. (Apple products, Intel CPUs and commodities like RAM, SSD and GPU pricing were exempt - those have pretty straight-forward global pricing.)

But.. say, random things like B&H Speakers? Or whatever else. Probably 40% more! Etc. So many things were so much more expensive in Australia for seemingly no particular reason. Freight costs didn't make up for all of that cost disparity - there was something else at play.

I almost left the day job I was sent to do in Melbourne to work on building a price search engine for the Australian market. I couldn't really find anything that was useful/structured enough back then (2012).

I'm curious, has this opportunity been filled since then?
Where does your understanding come from? You've just listed the same link I provided.
Another question I have is can these people describe objects?
Ask HN: Someone to help Google Maps API financials of a food deliverability app
Gday all,

In speaking with Google, it appears we need just 4 of their Maps API suite for our MVP, including:

* native dynamic
* geo coding
* directions
* distance matrix

I'd like to be able to have someone here on HN with experience in this, to be able to publicly do some "back of fag packet maths" to assume we have 1000 users wanting to order food with our app open and notifying them until their food arrives and showing them live in our app, where their food trucks are (north American only for the MVP).

Assuming we have 100 restaurants signed up with us with 2 drivers on the road each..

And assuming we want each restaurant owner to also be able to check the live location of its drivers..

I really need to be able to know how many pings (hits) to those 4 API's are involved for live features, so I can even begin to work out the financial models!

Please HN, you're my only hope..

TIA!
Lessons from the Streets of Tokyo
From the article, looks like the problem isn't political, but financial. It costs a lot, and there is a lack of expertise which only drives the cost up even more. So it would make sense to hire someone who wants to retain the expertise.
You need fault tolerance therefore redundancy in your language. You don’t want language to be like phone numbers, where missing a single digit changes the meaning completely. Not to mention phone numbers are also hard to remember for the human brain. We are not computers.
This pier near the Staten Island Ferry terminal: https://goo.gl/maps/oBWRfAkwQrWTTjGH8
If you have a more substantive comment, I'd be happy to discuss but this is not very constructive.
Oh I'm not sure I'm making a practical suggestion here, I think it's a tremendously hard problem to humanize engine outputs (quite often the answer is just "because otherwise in five moves you lose your knight" etc). Some people have attempted this:

https://decodechess.com/
Some of which may be illegal, depending on where you live.
and may be changed with or without notice.
That's a great question!

When you create money through "taking a loan" against property, the bank creates deposits equal to the "loan", secured by your assets. These assets are attached by the bank (a lein), valued by an appraiser and insured against loss (at your expense).

The bank creates these deposits ex nihilo; the only one in this equation that has any wealth is you, and the bank is at little to no risk.

Imagine, instead, a scenario where all of this takes place; you have wealth, you insure it against all perils (loss due to destruction or theft, including title insurance against fraud, etc.), at your expense. You get it appraised, and then money springs into being. Exactly like today. Except with no bank, and no "interest" being charged.

The same limiting function is used, as by the banks; the amount of money allowed to be brought into existence for a certain amount of wealth is some percentage (say, for example, 75%, or whatever).

Except, this factor is dynamic; it is adjusted automatically as inflation or deflation occurs, dynamically issuing and withdrawing "credit" (the amount of money credited to your account due to the pledged wealth).

The value of the units of currency can thus be established at an absolutely fixed valuation (say, relative to a basket of widely traded commodities; steel, kWh electricity, pork bellies, OJ, barrels of WTI crude, etc.).

If someone needs to "borrow", in excess of the money they have created based on their wealth, they can do so on the private market; not based on some fanciful central-bank controlled interest rate, but at market rates from others with excess wealth/credit, at their own individual risk-adjusted market rate.

Anyway, that's a quick summary of one potential alternative.

Same highly dynamic money supply, most of the same "moving parts", but no central-bank interest stream is required to create the stock and flow of credit underlying the economy.
You Crashed a $3M Bugatti. Now What?
China’s Millennials
> Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took advantage of the disastrous finances of the BMT and IRT, ravaged by the Depression and the ban on fare increases, to acquire both companies

> With the subways now in municipal hands, a doubling of the fare was finally negotiated. Years of deferred maintenance by the cash-strapped private companies had become increasingly evident. But by then, fare hikes only exacerbated the problem of declining ridership.

So the government destroyed the system through price controls. Odd that City Lab doesn't explore that angle further.

Price regulation continues to be a problem with the subway. Fares on the MTA are half those of the London Underground. New York relies heavily on subsidies to cover operating costs, while the London Underground covers its operating costs through fares: https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/sep/29/.... That makes the MTA much more sensitive to changing political winds, as opposed to the Underground, which can pay its ongoing maintenance costs regardless of what the politicians are doing.
They aren’t indecipherable though. Context is inseparable from language. How many three letter words begin with “A”, followed by three letter words that begin with “y”, followed by four letter words that have a “k” in them? This is all well described in information theory and the redundancy of language is not invalid because I picked an obvious example.
Some device-mapper virtual block device types also provide ways to simulate error conditions. For bad block errors there is dm-dust.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/device-mapper/
Can you feel the “disruption”?
Big pickups are just another facet of the 'Harleyfication' of personal transport.

There's a subset of people that seem to like big, heavy, noisy soot belching vehicles, perhaps because they imagine it projects power to drive them.
At least in modern English, "one" is specifically an indefinite pronoun, and is therefore inappropriate for use when referring to a specific individual.

And before anyone claims otherwise, "they" was still in use as a definite, gender-neutral pronoun long before its NB usage began to become mainstream.
This sounds like something I would use if it were public. It would be awesome If I could swap recipes from the plan. For example, if I didn't feel like having stir fry I could swap it out for a meal with similar points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerically-controlled_oscilla...

The more advanced version without aliasing:
http://www.martin-finke.de/blog/articles/audio-plugins-018-p...
Has corruption, graft and mismanagement increased so sharply over the last few decades? I don't picture, say, the NYC of Robert Moses as being particularly free of corruption and graft. And yet, they seem to have been able to build Subways much cheaper
Whats bizarre about the LA tunnel?
> By creating a 0-1 distribution we mean sampling sufficiently many times from that distribution D so it allows us to show that the sampled distribution is close enough to D. Because of the imperfection (noise) of qubits and gates (and perhaps some additional sources of noise) we actually do not sample from D but from another distribution D’. However if D’ is close enough to D, the conclusion that classical computers cannot efficiently sample according to D’ is plausible.
Be careful using this with hash tables of integers in small hash tables. It looks like if applied naively it would be quite easy for this method to end up flattening all small integer keys into bucket 0.
Some brand ideas I had.

Either if you (x86mitch / matthuggins) are welcome to them if of interest:

Nutrition Works

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iyvai1jbredx6n9/Screenshot%202019-...

Nutrition Engine

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hchcz4vciik1w28/Screenshot%202019-...
For what it's worth, I just subscribed to your newsletter. I read your last couple of posts and I think they're great.

Native speakers don't have exclusive rights to give advice on how to communicate. I really hope you'll keep writing.
A bit late, but a good response, I'd say.
CNN ranks Hong Kong's MTR as the world's best metro system (2017)
Mostly another non-apology. Not sorry for what they did, but for doing it arbitrarily, without following a procedure, and for not taking account of the Jewish holiday Monica was observing. Instead of just imposing the CoC they’re going to rush it through three days of discussion, then impose it.
Counterfeiting Microsoft Windows Landed Me in Prison for a Year [video]
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Steve Wozniak is who built the original Apple, the hardware and the software, Steve Jobs did manage to create the Apple image and sell himself as some kind of a tech guru in the process.
I've thought about making it public, but it's highly optimized for me... also therea no gui. It's just a command line app in python. I could make it open source though. It would be neat to see how other people modify it.
Timing (trade wars, ending days of Moore's law, intels incompetence as of late), marketing (ucb/Stanford), few outright dumb decisions (e.g. no branch delay slots), money (DARPA), industrial support (nvidia, western digital, esperanto etc.)
I have always wondered what the 'actual' expenses were on the per-mile cost of rail transit. I had the curious experience of trying to get the information out of the VTA for their light rail project and they suggested I get a court order. I was very confused by that, its tax money they are spending and California has open government laws.
I'm also working on something like that for myself (because of a colicky baby and hearing that low FODMAP diets help). Right now I have basic schema.org recipe ingestion working.

I'd be interested in chatting about it, but you dont have any contact info listed in your profile.
It's definitely not a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Ethnic_groups
Ultra tiny houses are a very poor tradeoff. Your costs per square foot drop significantly as you increase the buildings dimensions. The actual costs are mostly for land which sit unused around them. At that size a 10% larger investment in construction builds a significantly larger structure while still representing a small percentage of the monthly cost.

By comparison of construction vs land. 50k gets you a nice prebuilt 750sf single wide that can be delivered just about anywhere. Which could be covered by ~300$ mortgage meanwhile that much smaller space is renting for 1,600+$/month. So, at best your reducing that 300$ a little while leaving the 1,300+$ land cost alone.
What if the token were only redeemable on-network for advertisements and reading, and otherwise the only thing to do with it would be sell it on an exchange for currency?