skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No but the order is important. Making public transport better first would make the transition away from car traffic somewhat smoother.

Many cities already successfully pulled this off and this method received far more popular support than just cutting off car traffic and expecting the people to "deal with it" without having good options.
> the role CO2 plays with respect to climate change

Is CO2 responsible for about 50% of warming since 1850? Or 100%? or more than 100%, but natural variations have masked part of the warming we would have seen?

> whether global warming is a problem or a benefit

Is the warming we've had since 1850 primarily a problem or a benefit (hint: most lay people would say problem, but it has been overwhelmingly beneficial).
The entire island is well covered by the subway except for going crosstown past the 100's which is served solidly by buses for that use case.

Not to mention the many buses that most wealthy people ignore. No need for public streetcars when you already have buses that will be running quite ahead of schedule, as seen with 14th street :)

I'm for gradually removing for other reasons, but the size is not the prohibitive factor.
I still disagree, but even if I did agree that religion has heavy influence, it's hard to say this is only a product of the right. Modern American government is largely a product of the victories of the Progessives (early 20th c.), which as a movement had heavy evangelical influence (read up on the social gospel). The idea that religion is somehow exclusive to the right is an oversimplification and ignores somewhat recent history. Of course evangelicals did a 180, but even so it's hard to see our relation to the environment as being mostly defined and controlled by the religious right.
> God forbid a medical office asks you to fax them something. (Which I still have to do several times a year)

Doing that was much easier in the days when computers came with fax/modems and most places had landlines. Now you have to search for some online service that will inject adverts in your fax or go to a copy place (if you can find one) and pay lots of money to send a fax. I'd almost rather mail a certified letter with return receipt instead :)
> Not particularly interested in hiding stuff.

Well, so the company, HiQ, is basically scraping every time you update your linked in, to tell your employer you might be about to leave.

Now maybe that's cool with you. But it seems super sketchy to me, and one reason I deleted my linkedIn altogether.
Stanford Security Lunch: Fall 2019
Agile in a Box
Category Theory for Scientists (2018) [pdf]
Delivery truck volume scales with demand and has pretty upfront costs.

Buss volume scales with funding and political will with upfront costs and delayed realized benefits. Generally supply is outstripped by demand.

Personal conveyance volume does not appear to have any of these limiting factors. And has terrible demonstrated density.
If driving into Manhattan were not an option, I would expect demand for housing in Manhattan would go up[0]. Of course, housing in Manhattan is already incredibly expensive...

I'm sure Manhattan would become very pleasant for those who could still afford to live there.

[0] (Suppose for the sake of argument my preference for commuting was driving,walking,transit (in that order.) With the option of driving eliminated my second preference would be to walk, which means finding housing closer to my workplace in Manhattan.)
Entrepreneurism is the art of making it happen regardless of circumstances. It’s more about constant adaptation and change than about predicting the right move in advance.
Per vehicle yes, per capita no.
Book recommendation for passing job interviews
It is the heavy diesel vehicles that are the problem - i.e. buses and taxis mainly, but also commercial vans and trucks.

A universal diesel ban (including public transport) would go a long way to improving air quality IMO. There are viable electric buses, but apparently the way TfL runs it's contracts means it is not commercially viable for bus companies to use EV buses (due to requiring new vehicles on new contracts, but the contracts not being long enough to recoup the costs of EV buses Vs cheaper diesel)

Unfortunately the black cab unions have TfL by the balls so they'll never ban them (just like how black cabs are somehow exempt from ULEZ)

Yes EV vehicles still create brake and tyre particles, but EVs use brake pads less, and I'd rather have just the brake pad and tyre particles to deal with, rahlther than brake, tyre AND diesel particulates.
It sounds like you are agreeing with me that you don't want people to own their own cars? I suppose we should all just do as the millenials do: rent cars by the mile (Uber) at ridiculously expensive rates.
Honest question: how do you tackle 2k pages of material like this?
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebKit/U...

(For some reason "search in this repo" doesn't work for keyword `malwareDetailsBase` [1], but it's there)

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/search?q=malwareDetailsBase...
I believe (given the information you can find by googling the subjects I've listed, it is scientifically-backed in reasonable degree, you will find references to scientific papers in the books too) gluten is the second if not the first cause of the obesity epidemic.

TL/DR: besides being very bad for people with genuine celiac disease gluten (via zonulin) disregulates intestinal wall tight junctions in generally healthy people causing systematic inflammation, immune system problems (including weak immunity, allergies and autoimmune diseases) and metabolic syndrome (which means obesity and increased risk of diabetes as well as cardiovascular and endocrine diseases). Meanwhile, you can find gluten everywhere, not only in wheat products. Added gluten increases groceries and cosmetics shelf life.

If I were the one in charge I would order more thorough research and consider ban on advertisements for both sugary and gluten-rich foods + additional taxation on these goods sales.
Until 2016, Costco and Amex had an exclusive partnership. You could pay either in cash or with Amex, usually the Costco Amex tied to your membership card.

Now they take any Visa card, and have converted Costco Amex cards to Costco Citi VISA cards.
This is free and at least for my company getting standing desks isn't priority. While not perfect it worked for me, so I decided to share :)
Can't the bad actors already check each of their sites individually by pretending to be a normal user?
Of course I came across IC some tens of thousands of times, from silicon, germanium, 1 micron down to 3 nanometers, Moore's law, Dennard scaling, static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), scanning-tunneling electron microscopy, vacuum deposition, extreme ultra violet (EUV) light sources and optics, etc. Still

Homemade IC

was obscure. Since I've also heard of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or some such) and the $billions for making ICs, that an IC could be "homemade" was strange context.

Believe me or not, but I say again, once again, over again, yet again, computing desperately needs to avoid undefined jargon and acronyms, and in this case

Homemade Integrated Circuits

would have been much better.
Technically not. This was just a preliminary injunction. The case itself still has to be decided. But assuming this was indicative of how the court will rule, it will then be binding precedent in the Ninth Circuit.
When I said disabled people, I meant disabled with respect to walking, not driving. Most of the groups of people you mentioned are capable of walking on their own and so would be just fine in a car-free, walkable neighbourhood.

For those who cannot walk but also somehow cannot use a motorized wheelchair but can use a car? I am not sure who would fall into this group of people, but it has to be extremely small. We should be able to find some form of accommodation for them.

As for people who cannot afford a wheelchair or other accessibility device? I think we should fund these for people, using public funds. It's the most humane thing to do, as it provides for the greatest potential autonomy, which I think everyone has a right to.
We don't have uBO's cosmetic filters. That's about it.

In other words, Brave is "wide-spectrum" too. We block tracking, fingerprinting, and other bad scripts -- not ads _per se_. This has the effect of blocking 3rd party ads and most 1st party (since 1st party ads still rely on tracking "pixels" AKA scripts for confirmation).

We don't block 1st party ads by default where they work without tracking cookies and scripts. A prime example are the search ads you find on Google and other search engine result pages. These are about as clean as you can get, and yet some of our users want to block them on principle, for aesthetic reasons, etc. So we are adding options to do so.

Cosmetic filters have a high performance cost that we have not been willing to take by default, but we're working on them.
It would be, but it isn't right now. Getting from here to there takes time, and as you replace fossil fuel capacity with renewables, you have to still keep the not yet replaced capacity running. Non-renewable capacity consists of deposits that get exhausted and have to be continuously replaced with new ones. So until we can replace fossil fuels faster than existing sources get depleted, new extraction sites will have to be built.
What was the problem that you gave to the interviewees? Sounds interesting.
SmartGit

It wasn't mentioned here yet, and having used GitEye on Linux before and SourceTree on Windows, and seeing coworkers use GitKraken, I think SmartGit is by far the best Git GUI client of them.

I know the Git CLI is popular, but most people I've seen begin to struggle with everything beyond a simple pull and push. With a Git GUI client things like squashing commits, interactive rebases, 3-way merges etc. are discoverable and intuitive. No reading of the documentation required.
You made the correct decision.

It is not "cool" with me. It just means that it isn't a factor for me. I would not have used LI for a job search in any obvious way.

If I keep a fairly current and active generic profile, then LI is useful, and no one needs to know whether or not I'm looking.
I didn't say the implementation of a filesystem was hard. You can certainly communicate, as a complete standalone fact, the brute engineering perspective on what makes a particular filesystem work. Probably even in a single lesson.

But the point isn't to teach students about a filesystem; the point is to teach students what files are when they don't understand why you'd even want the abstraction that "files" represent; when "files" aren't an abstraction they're familiar with compared to other abstractions. You have to justify "files" in the context of things they do know—to explain what purpose files would serve if they were invented today; what reason you'd introduce a filesystem into a data architecture that had all these other things (KV storage, object storage, logical volumes) but not files.

Students would ask: Why are files streams? Why are the streams arbitrarily writable, when this means files can become corrupted from a partial write? Why are files extendable, but only at the end, not in the middle or the beginning? Why do files have names? (And, once you explain inodes+dirents, they'll ask why there's a directory tree if hard links exist; and why it's the dirents that have the names, but the files themselves that have the other metadata—xattrs; alternate data streams, etc.) What is the difference between a file stored in a directory, a file stored in a filesystem stored in a mounted loopback image stored in another file, and a file stored in a subvolume or filesystem container? Why do directories need special system calls to read and write them? Why is a virtual filesystem used in many OSes to represent kernel objects like named pipes and device nodes? Etc.

(This isn't even a hypothetical; engineers at AWS and GCP probably had to answer this very question when asked to justify building EFS and Cloud Filestore. Why do we need a filesystem as a service, when we already have these other services that provide these other abstractions?)

This is not altogether unlike teaching a student what a programming language is and why you'd even want one of those, when they're immersed in an environment where software is created without them. Would you just sit down and show the kids C, because it's small and easy-ish to understand?

A filesystem is a data-storage abstraction, like C is a machine abstraction. But neither are primitive abstractions. They build on numerous other, theoretically purer abstractions. It's much easier to explain the motivation for the creation of a language like C, if you already understand the motivation of the creation of a simpler language that rests upon fewer other abstractions—like ASM, or like Scheme. Likewise, it's much easier to understand the motivation behind the creation of the abstraction that is filesystems, if you already understand the motivation behind the creation of simpler data-storage abstractions, like logical volumes or memory-page-backed search trees.
Naturally, but defense in depth.
I wonder if this is a variation on a business anti-pattern we see in a lot of other places:

"It's better to acquire a new customer at any cost, versus retaining an existing one."

There are plenty of verticals where if you develop a piece of software that's blunt, direct, and full of power-user features, it won't take off because it gets panned as "too hard to use."

Tricks like abstracting where and how the data is stored tend to be appealing to non-skilled users. They see "look how easy, I don't have to figure out which files are in the cloud and which are on disc, and can't accidentally try to open a spreadsheet in the photo editor." New users buy into it, the developers get their hockey-stick growth chart and everyone declares victory. After a few months, a small percentage of users end up dropping the product with a migraine because they can't break out of the jails and abstractions that are clearly standing in the way of improved productivity.

No real point in satisfying those users anyway-- they've already paid, so there's no further value they can provide to your ecosystem.
> that all other things being equal, the debuggability of a language, and the pleasure one feels in using it, will be inversely proportional to the length of programs written in it.

Busting a gigantic nut when I see a blank file
Posting this link not primarily on the basis of the content itself but out of curiosity for the possible discussion on HN.
In my experience, the large holes will not form if you add low-gluten flour (rye, buckwheat, oat) to the mix, even with higher hydration. I make a 100%-rye bread with flax seeds that is very dense, although highly hydrated (100-110%!). Furthermore, it needs no proofing, only a single rise in a bread pan. The crust is not that hard and can be softened further by wrapping the hot bread in a kitchen towel. Another plus is that this type of bread will not dry out or spoil for over a week (I keep it wrapped in a towel).
As for the salt, I agree - 1% should be plenty.
Repairs aren't the only cause of mass transit outages. There are also the occasional MTA strikes, which happened in '66, '80, and 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_New_York_City_transit_str...
Hierarchical Front-End Structure
I hope we get a pass with the word. At this stage any revenue made from supporter memberships, the only revenue stream atm, is being funnelled back in to the platform and documented transparently in monthly updates.
This article says they started accepting credit cards 20 years ago:

https://www.techradar.com/news/what-credit-cards-does-costco...
Just a feedback on registration. I used github connect, then you ask for me to type both username and email, but you should already know these info. I'm using a lazy third party sign in just to avoid this and skip the activation email procedure.
Recently at work I encountered a situation where I had to share my knowledge on how do I structure files in front-end projects. This happened repeatedly so instead of showing things all over again I decided to create a formal specification of the concepts that I have in mind. Examples included.

It's based on a simple concept of file hierarchy and keeping things as self-contained as possible. Looking forward for feedback.
Wouldn’t it be pretty easy for the bad actors to check the database anyway? I can’t imagine they would need to query often enough to hit any rate limits.
I'm curious if, as @thefalken brought up [0], this is illegal under the GDPR, given that it's a hidden opt out and should apply to EU citizenry with browser language set to Chinese.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/thefalken/status/1183445477645312...
In addition to those books, Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread is an excellent resource.
The AmEx agreement was exclusive to credit cards, you could also pay with any debit card.
For most people in cities using ride-share/taxi is much cheaper than owning car. What I pay for rides a month is just a monthly parking pass.
Thank you, since you wanted to make something similar if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know :)
For anyone interested more in the law in the case without reading all 30+ pages of the opinion yourself, I wrote a brief for it last month when this ruling was made: https://matthewminer.name/law/briefs/Miscellaneous/hiQ+Labs+....
From the article:

"Ingraffea’s own research has found that a small percentage of wells are responsible for the bulk of methane emissions either through leaks or deliberate venting."

Sounds like something that can be solved quickly, and without even bothering to debate fracking - hardly anyone could oppose regulating the wells involved.
I see, thanks for your reply. So it's a certification issue rather than a technological one - makes sense!
That was for the website, not for browser telemetry -- we switched to self-hosted Piwik (now Matomo) instance.

For in-browser telemetry, please see https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/. Low-dimensionality data (a few bits of answer) given to randomly timed unlinkable survey questions; anything hi-D is in the future and will use PROCHLO.
Yes, the electronics/appliance selection, when one needs it, can be slightly lacking. Costco appears to reduce costs by often stocking exactly one option for a given thing. E.g., I'm in the market for a toaster as my old one died (a 2012 basic 2-slot model, $20 at Costco). My local Costco now seems to only have an upscale 4-slot model for $50. I'm considering my options and living a toaster-free life at the moment, but even two options would be nice.

It's hard to beat the prices on bulk foods, though, which keeps me going back (and I like voting-with-dollars for well-run, customer-friendly stores). Perhaps it's just the bulk-commodities mindset from the food aisles leaking over into electronics that causes the above.
>Are they demanding that Blizzard "censor content" or is Blizzard trying to stray away from politics?

I expect there is some of both. Fear of government intervention and fear of public backlash in China.

I agree it is very understandable that blizzard would want to be apolitical and discourage divisive speech. The question is what to do once the speech has occured, because now blizzard is in the hot seat where their response can be REALLY divisive.

I personally think the response was overly putative, especially the firing of the hapless hosts.
Especially so, given that 90% of their business is outside of asia, and only a fraction of the remainder is in China.

The question remains where customers will accept blizzard drawing the line. They would be equally within their legal rights to restrict streamers, game chat, or out of game speech.
https://www.amazon.com/DEFTUN-MSR605X-Compatibility-MSR605-M...

I guess it's somewhat expensive if you're buying it for this purpose alone, I'm sure you could find a cheaper used one on ebay.
Not in the US, though. Even the city centers that predated the widespread adoption of automobiles were by and large redesigned towards cars. Then in the 50s and 60s whole city neighborhoods were razed for interstates.
It is a technological issue in the sense that certification has technical requirements a smartphone can't meet.
Yes, we said we will keep webRequest extensions working even when Google kills them (except for paying enterprise customers who group-admin some into a whitelist).
Yes, Julia has some of it. But you're still required to specify the template parameters of a type (unless I'm mistaken). Whereas what I'm talking about is that any value of a data type could be compile time known. For example, some or all of the dimensions of an nd-array, as well some or all values of said nd-array.
> So "make your programs shorter" also implies "make bad behaviors impossible or extra-verbose to write".

It reminds me "The Zen of Python"
"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it"

https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2018/10/11/write-better-python-fu...

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-be-pythonic-and-why-yo...
I love reading about stuff like this, thanks for sharing. Developer UX still has a lot of room to grow.
Are you referring to Doug Engelbart's demo of the Online System (NLS) [1]? He was at SRI at the moment. The things that happened at Xerox after that were inspired by NLS, and build by some of the people that worked on it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Bloom filters can give false positives, and to eliminate them, you'd need to send "data (hashed, anonymized, truncated, or otherwise)" to some entity that has the full list. That's exactly how Google's Safe Browsing API works.
But is he willing to live next to a nuclear power plant or a nuclear waste storage facility?
Sounds like an erroneous analysis to me. The cost of a $60 membership pales in comparison to the cost of the space needed to store bulk items, especially refrigerated, and the cost of travel to and from a Costco, which are not located in the poorest areas.

Most importantly, $60 cash upfront for a membership fee is nothing compared to all the cash you need to buy bulk items upfront. Is selling bulk items a way to keep "riff-raff" out?
Debate on Instrumental Convergence Between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador
I'll have to look the whole grains book up, thank you! The bread bakers apprentice is an awesome book, I look there for recipes for new breads.
Bad actors can also occasionally poll the safebrowsing API.
Yes? Do you have any reason to think he isn't?
Some (opinionated) guidelines for include file organisation in C/C++
It's still a valid point: If there were a better alternative to cars for the people who currently drive cars then wouldn't they use it? So provide a better solution instead of using force.
New diesel cabs can no longer be licensed in London. All new licensed taxis must be zero-emissions capable, ie: electric.

As London taxi licenses expire after 15 years, the last diesel cabs will be gone by the end of 2032. But given how many electrics there already are, in practice the vast majority will be electric long before then.

I agree that more needs to be done about buses. We are starting to see some electric buses, but they're not being rolled out fast enough. TfL needs to stop buying new diesel buses immediately.
> For those who cannot walk but also somehow cannot use a motorized wheelchair but can use a car? I am not sure who would fall into this group of people, but it has to be extremely small. We should be able to find some form of accommodation for them.

Something to keep in mind, the New York City subway is by and large not wheelchair accessible! They're trying to improve it, but there's just a lot of old, small stations. I've also seen wheelchairs physically unable to fit into train cars when it's crowded.

NYC right now is just a really bad place to live if you're not able bodied. I actually think giving partially-exclusive access to the roads might be the best solution.