skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's individuals today! Scott Snyder had a run with Batman, so did Grant Morrison (both wonderful in their own way), then you've got Tom King, and who could forget Frank Miller or Alan More. You've got Alex Ross with Superman, Gail Simone, Hickman, Bendis, Brian K. Vaughn (The Walking Dead, Saga, Y: The Last Man, anyone?), the ever present Geoff Johns, Neil Gaiman...

To say comics are written by committee is to not know any of the names above, and to not know any of the names above is to not know anything about comics.
One thing I'm surprised this article didn't mention is commute times. To get from Weston Station (northwest of downtown) to Union Station takes:

- 22-minute drive (or 1h in rushour)

- 1.25-hour bus ride

- 13-minute LRT ride

LRT (light rail transit) really is an excellent way to get into the downtown core from distances and in time frames that were previously only manageable by car.
To be fair you're lucky if murder-drug merely deals aggravated assault. The means by which the deadly weapon became possessed (who knew this was going to take a turn for the supernatural?) is pretty distasteful, though.
Well ok first, there's a world of difference between the reasonably widespread practice of adjusted EBITDA and inventing your definition that does not account for the costs of marketing or leases.

But I'm really not even commenting on these results precisely. They would have been in an entirely different position without all the distractions. Uber's ride business now makes a billion dollars a month in revenue. That's after paying drivers. If they had been laser-focused on making the ride business work, they could have grown a much lower-overhead business. They could have taken the company public years ago. An earlier IPO would have meant those huge stock-based compensation packages would be off the books by now. A just-get-me-a-car Uber would have been GAAP profitable by now.
Find a PLC manufacturer and license it to them? Find some low cost processors or fpgas and port your OS to them?
If you look at the opportunities and statistics for high school dropouts, it makes a compelling case to the contrary.

And I argue this as an education system skeptic and college dropout myself.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044509
>I always felt like such a fraud compared to him. I got good grades because my parents leaned so hard on me to put in the work, even at the time I was conscious of that. He got good grades because he was naturally gifted and school came 'easily' to him.

I wonder if he might not have felt the same way because he put in so much less effort, but still did well. If you put in a lot of effort regardless of the outcome you can think back that you tried your best. If you half-ass it and things go well, then you might feel that you don't deserve it, but if things don't go well, then you feel bad for not trying.

Being able to work hard is a talent itself. In many cases it's the most important one.
CMB data is based on modeling and simulation. Historically that type of science has never been accurate because there are always assumptions baked into the model - but what if the assumptions are wrong?

The CMB results assume dark matter and dark energy are real, it assumes a specific type of big bang theory. But none of those things have direct evidence.

We absolutely do need direct measurement of this.

And this is an especially bad type of modeling because we only have a single example. (In contrast to say, weather, where we can keep refining the model and comparing to the real world.)
That’s not what filtering means. Filtering is kill files, ignoring people you want to ignore. (Look at that icon, of a person plugging his own ears.)

If I’ve banned you from my forum, you’ve lost your right to communicate there. If I can do that, if Facebook and Twitter and Hacker News can all “de-platform” you, all without violating your right to communicate, then the right to communicate means nothing.
Helm 3 has been recommended for public deployment
More thinking if you have to mess around with license files to get packages to work they will remove the package.
Single Whale Behind Bitcoin’s Dec 2017 Rally
One thing I remember from my college admission process years ago was how overhyped it all was, especially the soap opera aspect. Everything was about numbers, and where you would get in, and where you would 'fit,' which was far more ambiguous, sinister, and completely unrooted in any logic or reasoning because you just aren't going to ever understand what your personal experience will be like until you get there.

Fretting about 'fit' keeps schools like u chicago alive. A radically unwise decision in pursuit of some romantic youthful ideal. Otherwise, everyone would just go to a state school, have largely the same college experience, end up with largely the same career outcomes, but with far less debt.
If it's truly OSS what's there to prevent someone from simply forking it to make a version where the manifest file is distributed freely (in both senses of the word)?
Natural image reconstruction from brain waves
One can convert CSV into JSON (a recipe is e.g. here - https://infiniteundo.com/post/99336704013/convert-csv-to-jso... ) - in streaming fashion - and then use jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ) to do what one needs.
Things moving on rails are beautiful, buses are ugly. Beautiness is important.
Yeah, they really did a bad job the last time they migrated these devblogs. It's really a shame. Raymond's stuff is popular enough that a lot of it is archived and indexed if you go searching for it, but there were all kinds of other old Microsoft employee blogs that just sort of vanished into the aether, with all the odd bits of knowledge they contained.
Ah, any school. I thought this was about siblings attending the same school.
Ah, I forgot that the device label is only returned when there is an active stream. And has zero support in Safari.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...

I never knew the device ids were randomized like that, thanks for the info.
Scissors Congruence
When traffic in a city is inherently bad. It sets the foundation for difficulty in solving the problem with buses (increase frequency, priority express buses)

In a high traffic situation, ETA gets adjusted from time to time. And buses will struggle to get in/out of stops and delays loom when accident occurs on the road.

Poor road planning and building alongside with massive amount of cars on the road is one of the major issue.

Maybe workplace hours should be adjusted as a whole or varying tolls based on high demand hours to avoid everyone competing for road space.

But I generally agree with the article that buses gets you really far. For a long time Singapore was relying on bus routes to move people around the city state, and progressively build subway lines as the demand and city planning go with it.
It's interesting to note that many SF residents find the T 3rd Street light rail to be slower and less frequent than the buses that it replaced.

I think subways work well because of their grade separation and extreme high capacity, but most surface rights would be better served by buses than light rail, and you can still create separated bus lanes for bus rapid transit instead of separated light rail if you have the money to spend.
How could they not know?
I got that impression, too. There wasn't much mention of bus/streetcar-plus-train transit strategy, which certainly happens in Toronto.
Nuclear reactors on ships require bomb-grade uranium fuel and an elite crew of masters-degreed engineers to run them.
I was having dejavu one after another as I read through it and even more so when I read "Poorly made in China". It was by far the best (perhaps brutally honest) overview of the Chinese business culture, confirmed by other colleagues of mine who recommended this book to me.

Thanks for the link, I am gonna read about it and see what's being debated.
> I'm all for electric vehicles and I hope the technology advances but people need to be realistic.

Realistically most people driving full sized pickup trucks aren't farmers and aren't rural.
Two things on my mind reading this article are:

1. I am not convinced the idea of commuting as "self-correcting mechanism" was presented well (or much at all). I was expecting to learn a bit more about this point.

2. Half of the points have a counter-example in both Houston and Dallas, where most of the LRT doesn't go to wealthy residential parts of town. Some of those rich parts of town are still actively fighting it coming near them, in fact.

Those two cities come to mind because I have experience living in both, and can compare with my experiences living in denser, older cities like Tokyo, Berlin, and Santiago, where a variety of networks were built for different reasons across different eras. Then again, even in Santiago, the the subway stops just before you get too deep into residential parts of Las Condes.

But I am also a non-expert, and at the end of the day, instead of going point-for-point and saying "Well, look at what Dallas did. Surely [blah, blah, blah]" there are two factors that weigh heavier on my mind: cost and historical political context.

Cost is foremost. While LRT is less efficient long-term, it is cheaper to build transit at-grade by about a factor of five (I read this long ago and forget where, or I would happily source). Histotical context, in that many grand subway systems get built in a time where, for the city to prove it was a top-tier global city, you demonstrated civic grandeur and engineering prowess by building a subway system. The prestige was used to push past the barrier of it being eye-wateringly expensive. Also while we have made these options safer over time, it has come at a (worthwhile, but non-zero) cost of more regulatory checks that have made the cost gap even greater, and harder to cover by dreaming of prestige

Both cost and context ultimately combine into political feasibility.

For a city like Denver, Dallas or Houston, if you ask the transit wonks who fight the good fight at the municipal level, I don't think you would find many that truly would choose LRT over other commuter rail, all else equal. But all else was not equal. Cost was the big barrier, and the context did not exist to cross that chasm, so they got what they could, when they could.

Houston only got its network because of a starry-eyed chance at the Olympics and/or Super Bowl. Originally it was just one line, then a plan for a 5-line network, of which 3 were built, but now possibly up to 4 again. I could write an entire essay on the mistakes made along the way, public and private, in that first line. Just look at the land-use (really the land-lack-of-use) in Midtown between 2000 and 2010 despite the LRT's presence. Yet the power of a network grows with every additional line, so once you at least have something, you might as well leverage that and add to it, rather than sell the public on a completely different approach.

In the end, I share the concerns of the author, but I do not see the narrative being quite as clean when I set it against the specific cases I am familiar with.
I'll probably be downvoted into oblivion for this, but this is a per peeve of mine. Your use of the expression doesn't make sense.

The expression is highlighting that you need to observe a negative in order to determine whether a rule is true. For example, if I make the statement: "Only birds have wings", then any observation of a non-bird without wings are exceptions to the rule that proves said rule.

The observation of a bat is indeed an exception to the rule, but it does not prove it. In fact, it does the opposite. It disproves it.
Which one-time charges are we talking about? Neither the linked results nor the supplemental call any out.
> Many things about Linux would be easier if we standardized on only one implementation of each thing rather than multiple competing implementations (e.g. only one desktop environment, only one text editor). But we would also lose everything that makes Linux great.

Sure, but there is nothing inherent about a text editor or desktop environment that results in you only being able to support one at a time.

It is only practical to run one system initialisation daemon on one system image at a time (unless your system initialisation daemon is too broken to support all the requirements, e.g. if you find yourself running daemontools on sysvinit).

Duplication for the sake of duplication that benefits no-one is just a waste of resources that could be spent on improving other parts of the ecosystem (addressing some of the other gripes the author has).

> There are any number of major security vulnerabilities, but that's not really the point.

There are only about 2 in systemd itself.

> There are any number of major security vulnerabilities, but that's not really the point.

systemd has fewer CVEs than the default syslog implementation used on most distros before systemd (rsyslog), but of course you knew I was referring to open bug reports, not resolved ones.

> to a non-standardised binary logging daemon

There are pros and cons to this. I would prefer to be able to dispense with journald in some situations, but in many cases it is very convenient to have, and it solves problems that no Unix system had completely solved before it.

> Most of the really obnoxious things systemd does are by design so there are no bug reports. Tight coupling to kernel and udev versions

When tight coupling is done by the BSDs, it is considered a good thing, when systemd uses features that don't exist on the BSDs, suddenly that's a bad thing ...

> to a custom DNS implementation...

While a custom DNS resolver is provided as part of the systemd source, which has some advantages, it is by no means a requirement, and it a totally separate service/binary. Many distros don't install it by default (yet).
That example isn't really LRT, it's either commuter rail or an airport train, which (either way) only stops once during that 13-km trip. LRT normally involves much closer stops.
Weren’t patents initially created for the pharmaceutical industry? The issue being that research is so prohibitively expensive that if you can’t benefit from being first then you are screwed?

Another similar industry is aero space but they mostly work by secrecy. This is not viable in pharma where I believe more transparency is required for safety.
Telsa model 3s act as boats during floods. Have a look at youtube, there are numerous videos of people stranded in their engine flooded car and a Tesla floats right by.
For the quoted spreadsheet-like operations of filtering and rearranging, awk is perfect as a deferred editor. That the kludgy first step of your chosen solution ("First, you must create a CSV file contain only the first 10-20 lines of your large CSV file") isn't just `head very_large_nov_2019.csv > very_large_nov_2019_abridged.csv` seems to further indicate an unfamiliarity with the large set of built-in, battle-tested UNIX tools for dealing with text files.

The first tools I reach for when dealing with CSVs of these and larger magnitudes are less, cut, awk, etc. They also tend to be the last tools I end up needing.
Cool. I hope he has everything covered, seeing as how he's making money now.

I hope everything works out for donut man.
That’s not true. Google, BA, Marriott and other big companies have got huge fines.
http://www.enforcementtracker.com/
> I just don't like how much power the project holds over the entire linux ecosystem ("oh hey here's systemd-logind don't mind us taking over all-things-login"-type scenarios)

That's totally not the case, all the previous solutions were slightly broken (pam_console, ConsoleKit etc.), and unmaintained.

> For the record, my largest gripe with systemd is systemd-resolved too

So, uninstall it. It's not a part of systemd (the daemon), and totally optional.
tad is absolutely great for this, i tested it for the exact use case mentioned. I had to file a ticket and wait for him to add an export to csv function. tad is built over sqlite and can filter/sort/pivot/aggregate and export the result, which is all my business team partners ever need. can handle GB files, i didnt test with TB size.

https://www.tadviewer.com/, its a desktop app

edit:
one note after seeing other comments based on cli (xsv, sed, awk, etc) — the OP’s use case is something that marketing/pm/business stakeholders can use. my favorite tools are cli-based, however this does not fly with business teams so forget that option.
It looks like a general optimization for tail-recursive functions that assumes they terminate (because not terminating would be undefined behavior). The parameters to the recursive calls don't matter: Substitute other expressions or constants for `n / 2` and `3 * n + 1`, and the compiled result remains the same. So it's not Collatz-specific.

clang appears to correctly detect that `collatz` only directly defines a result for `1`, and any other input expands to yet another recursive call to `collatz` (the parameter is irrelevant). To avoid infinite recursion, `collatz` must eventually be called with the value 1, so that's what clang concludes.
> If you want your software be OSS, well, don't conceal the source.

That's what struck me as odd too. #2 of the OSI "Open Source Definition" seems useful.

The program must include source code, and must allow
distribution in source code as well as compiled form.
Where some form of a product is not distributed with
source code, there must be a well-publicized means of
obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable
reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the
Internet without charge. The source code must be the
preferred form in which a programmer would modify the
program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not
allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a
preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

So charging for a reasonable reproduction fee is fine, but a subscription would seem to violate the spirit of this, since the subscription isn't being paid to github for their cost of reproduction. AFAICT, the fee is paid to the developers, not to anyone that does any actual reproduction.
GDPR as applied is a joke. At one of the places I work they keep talking about "we can't backup this data anymore because it has personal info".
I've noticed nationalism rising in China lately too.

It's easy to pay attention to difference between people and culture, as noticing difference is what we instinctively do, but it is also beneficial to notice our similarities too. We're all people. Besides minor cultural differences, we all respond in similar ways to the situations we are given throughout life.

>As a founder of a tech company based in China, I benefit from US companies blocking Chinese (and Russian) engineers; still I am saddened by this. I hope they could come up with more intelligent policies to protect their OPSEC.

btw, is it legal to read HN in China?
Emojis in Git Commits
Except that bitcoin relies on a whole network of middlemen to prove the validity of that transaction. Without miners you have no transaction.
Sorry for the technical jargon, I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much

Basically, your argument seems fully generalized:

> Even untargetted ads exploit peoples insecurities to sell them things they're better off without.

Eg I assume you do not want to demonize bakers selling bread to hungry people? Or more generally, anyone selling any product you do not agree with to someone who has a need you don't like?

So where do we draw the line, and why?
If you are talking about the UPX, that’s not an LRT line. It’s just a regular train.

But I don’t think it’s a fair comparison based on routes. On the UPX line those are 1 direct stop apart. For comparison taking the subway would also be more indirect and longer, taking about 40 minutes I would guess.
There are Armenian/Georgian lamb stew recipes that call for beer and wine, it's not uncommon in the Caucasus. It sounds plausible that it was common more to the south as well, prior to Islam.
We Shouldn’t Bother the Feral Scooters of Central Park [Fiction]
State of Enterprise AI in India 2019 – By Aim and BRIDGEi2i (Part III)
Yeah. Light rail is cheaper and slower than a subway, and more expensive and faster than buses. A single light rail line may not serve as many people as an extensive bus network, but it may supplement an existing bus network better than a short subway line would for the same cost.
Earth history using a cross continent analog
there are several ice lake 10th gen laptops, but none of the linux ones i found have 32gig. why?
Will China Mega Fund for Chip Manufacturing Overcome US Blacklisting?
It's almost like lawyers made the rules to protect lawyers.
Thanks. It seems, unfortunately, that only Google DNS and OpenDNS (Cisco iirc) include the data as of now. Older articles even mention how you have to have your website (well, nameservers) whitelisted for them to forward client subnet as part of DNS queries, not sure if that is still the case.

Of course, caching gets more complicated and less useful with this.
In summary, the programmer building their batch email post tool didn’t know about the implications of adding the addresses in the TO field instead of the BCC field. They should have known about this though, as almost anyone that uses email knows.

One shouldn’t program something before learning how to do that thing probably manually.

BitMEX has many issue, I guess, that are downplayed here:

* They underestimated the importance of proper email usage.

* This functionality has been tasked to a programmer without enough knowledge on the subject.

* The code has not been tested / reviewed or reviewed competently

* ... at the time of merge.

* ... after it has been used in production.
Please remember that patents were invented as a way to fight trade secrets.

A patented invention should be described in sufficient detail, and the description is made public. This is how important inventions do not get hidden form sight forever, even if they don't bring any profit.

This also allows people (including governmental agencies) have an idea of what is being sold as a new invention. Would you take a new medicine whose chemical formula is a tightly guarded secret?

I think that what makes a patent worth it is the first-mover advantage. What makes a patent problematic is a long expiration time which does not depend on its being used productively.

The best idea I saw is an exponential patent fee. Say, first year it's $100, second, $400, third, $1600 (all amounts acceptable even for a lone-wolf inventor), ... tenth, $26M, ... fifteenth, $27B.

This way any useful invention can enjoy a patent coverage for some time, and afford it for some more time if it's bringing in significant profits, but sitting on a patent for a long time would be impossible even for the richest companies. Keeping a portfolio of unused patents would become pointless, too, and patent trolling, likely unprofitable.
Well, I already implied the reveal in the introduction I wrote above the quote. I didn't want to repeat the punchline.

But we both seem to agree that people should read the article.
You *can* have it all, and 13 other lessons I learned from How I Built This
>Cloudfare can defend, but a mom-and-pop small business cannot. A startup cannot.

Agree. When it comes to patents, getting into court, and fighting back
Most of the companies won't even get to a situation they need to spend money they don't have to fight this 'endless' war
Wasn't project Orion about using successive nuclear explosions to get up to 25% the speed of light?
Is there any way to know, ahead of time, that the TV I buy will be fully functional if I choose to never connect it to the Internet? That's what I'm worried about: that I'll get a new TV and something essential, say Dolby Vision support, will just not be enabled unless I leave it connected to the Internet, or at least connect it once - enough time for it to download an ad to show me for the rest of eternity.
Sounds good, but once you’re in the dumb caste you tend to stay.