skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're trying to put your finger on is that we are beginning to hit utilization levels of network resources where the previous model of statistical multiplexing is starting to show signs of strain.

You used the FedEx plane as an analogously to new faster/higher bandwidth infrastructure. The USPS trucks contents may have been on one of those jets at one point (if the contents are considered to be packets, and the truck was a lower bandwidth link).

However, network operators nowadays, instead of building up infrastructure capable of ensuring all traffic gets similar QoS (which costs money), resort to traffic shaping, route analysis, and DPI (looking in the box to figure out what it is), to try to eke out that QoS is more congested links by making the losses at least explain away-able.

This is the opposite of the colloquial way of handling net neutrality, which is to faithfully deliver every packet regardless of content, and mind your business in terms of what it contains.

You don't lookatthe package. You don't shake it. You don't paw at it, poke it, or molest it. Just get it from A to B.

Or did I mess up?
Living in/around Tokyo, I had the exact opposite experience. Cars, trains, pedestrians, and bicyclists are in near-perfect balance.

For the most part, people live within walking or biking distance of a train station that takes them to work. Around each station is a cluster of shops and restaurants. Commercial traffic is well-separated from places where people live, meaning that on neighborhood streets there are virtually no cars. And the result? Children playing. Kindergartners walking themselves to school. Birds chirping. Green spaces. Peace and quiet. All in the middle of one of the world's largest cities.

Outside of Tokyo, the balance is slightly more in favor of cars, but the country's extensive train system means you don't need to own a car to get yourself there. It's easy enough to rent a car locally for a few days when you really need one. Cheaper too compared to the cost of purchasing a car and paying for insurance, parking, maintenance, etc..
I thought the W3C has been captured by corporations?
Show HN: An app that lets you become a beta tester for books
Maybe try https://web.archive.org/web/20191211012207/https://medium.co...
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> I'm able to find ... professionals working on very niche fields ... and follow their latest work.

No, you find the people who are posting their latest work on LinkedIn. A lot of niche field professionals won't do that.
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So what is the solution?

Presumably, Apple didn't use this fragile coating just for the heck of it. They chose this coating because it was the only way to make this monitor to perform in the way they wanted. Should Apple have just made a worse monitor because the coating is fragile?

(BTW, we don't know what will actually happen if the screen is cleaned improperly. The monitor won't necessarily become an instant piece of junk.)
I read it as cars don't belong in urban areas. They are incredibly inefficient energy and space wise.

Look at the average downtown area of an American city and see how much is devoted to surface parking lots, garages, highways, interchanges, arterials.

Take a look at this site and you'll see aerials of American cities before and after cars, and how incredible amounts of density, productivity, and housing were destroyed:

http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/

https://urbanist.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83454714d69e2017d3c37d8...

It's a loop with positive feedback - the more space given over to cars, the less dense destinations become, the more cars become required. Conversely the denser places become, the easier it is to makes places bike, transit and pedestrian friendly, and the more difficult it becomes to drive.
Yup, I'm sure Amazon can get them at a discount for a Prime Air fleet.
I'm curious to know what difficulties you found using Scala and your experiences transitioning to Kotlin, if you are willing to expound upon it.
Music preferences undoubtedly would be correlated with risk. You still can't use them because of disparate impact.

To get away with making a decision in a way that has disparate impact, you need to have a legitimate need to be making the decision that way. In the case of income, you can justify needing to use it in your decision, because income is directly connected to ability to repay. In the case of music preferences, you can't, because there is no direct connection to loan risk.
Companies are buying back shares. Individual investors are selling shares [1]. Private equity [2] and VC are raising record sums [3].

Alternate title: financial markets shifting capital from public to private companies. The economy’s R&D engine has shifted. Financial markets are following.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-bail-on-stock-market-...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equity-firms-are-raisin...

[3] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-q2-2019-global-venture-...
“Ban cars” is shorthand for a much bigger societal problem. It’s not an attack on a person or what they need to do to survive. These articles are about us as a whole, not the individual.

This toot explains it well: https://mspsocial.net/@t54r4n1/100699058171393417
It happened to my wife with a past manager (customer support). It was that manager's first supervisor role and they were trying to be "metric focused" which led to extreme micro management. That management style led to most of the team quitting, including my wife. We heard that the manager was demoted about a month later.
Tricky territory. Lots of people will embellish something when they're in sales mode, in this case the same set of schools could be found for several different people who all happened to be involved in the coin scene. The chances of that being coincidence are nil, but that's not quite proof. That said I'd bet a couple of grand on it without being too worried.
And there's (3 times the change in radius) more space to put the parking lots at the edge... That seems fine!
Sure:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50343054

https://qz.com/india/1746734/angry-twitter-india-users-are-m...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mastodon-happening-in...

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/indians-leav...

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/social-n...
>I know it seems like Bush forgot the quote

Of all people to give the benefit of the doubt to...you give it to a bumbling idiot who was known for misspeaking and tongue tying himself into knots?

Before he even messed up the saying, he messed up his own introduction to the saying:

>There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...
Lots of movie productions make actors dub the dialogue after shooting, it still creates a mismatch between the atmosphere and the dialogue when you change the language, which was my argument.
I personally dislike Windows Search intensely - it's caused untold problems where the mouse and keyboard simply don't work since Windows XP. It was last unusably slow on my i7, 16GB, M2 SSD desktop. It's good they're aware of the issues and changing it.

Particularly I suspect this:

> Additionally, for our developers, we made a change where the indexer no longer covers popular source repositories like Git (partly because of the sheer size of these repositories and also because the tools developers use to interact with their repositories typically have their own indexers).

will fix Search for me. On the new build now, with search re-enabled, and will see.
A quick meta BTW, but if you want to keep up with Postgres stuff, we have a newsletter (and covered this Odyssey release earlier today): https://postgresweekly.com/issues/335 (there is RSS, etc.)
All cars are inefficient, they use most of their power just to move themselves. Biking on the roads between my house and my work is suicidal.
>ActivityPub is real-time pub/sub for the entire Web, something that Twitter could have been.

Twitter management actively and specifically decided to not be that.
What do you think future of fuse on macOS will be like?
Cached link to the medium post.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qwZu8OV...
Those are very public, very USA-centric examples. Some shady company on the Chinese market? I'm more inclined to doubt anything will happen unless Chrome bans their extensions.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5080/fast...
I actually think that the SSBC has done a fantastic job with it: the work that's been done is really impressive. I'm mostly just not a fan of the ground it's built on; the implementation itself is amazing, and the protocol is solid. I wish you good luck with it!

And to anyone unfamiliar, I recommend checking out the "Principles" section of the handbook; there's a lot of interesting stuff in it, and it proves that Scuttlebutt's really got the best culture/morality of any distributed network so far:

https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/principles/
Rube Goldberg had a predecessor. The machine that came before Colossus at Bletchley was named Heath Robinson after him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson
> America is certainly decades (if not centuries) behind in public transportation. However, these CityLab articles are doing a great thing by highlighting our unhealthy dependence on cars and making it a part of everyday conversation. If we're ever going to change we need to start by agreeing there is a problem and discussing realistic solutions.

Then let's discuss some realistic solutions: Outside of densely populated metros, public transportation is a wash. In my area, small-ish city, we have pretty solid mass transit options but it's still a massive pain in the ass because you end up scheduling your entire day around the bus schedule. And if the bus isn't running when you might need to run an errand out? Oh fuckin well.

People parade around mass transit like it's the end all be all of great things we can do, and being a liberal around most things, I wish that was true. But even the stories about Japan's awesome mass transit make me cringe; stuck in a train for 45 minutes each way? Pass. The hardest conceivable pass.

You know what my commute is? I get in my car and drive from my suburb to a business park. It takes 10 bloody minutes. Even driving my pickup truck, I use roughly 30 gallons of fuel every three weeks.

When I want to run errands, or pop out for lunch, or whatever, I can walk outside and use my vehicle. It's there all the time, 24 hours a day. No app required. No booking required. Certainly no waiting on someone to drive over and get me. There is simply no mass transit option that can equate this, end of.

I'm not saying there aren't improvements to be made and I'm certainly not saying that all mass transit is bad; but to put forward mass transit as a realistic option to get rid of cars, you look like a complete fool to anyone who doesn't live in a city. Pie in the sky fucking nonsense.
i'm with you but isn't this different, given that it's open source? of which twitter itself will eventually be a client
> I'd love to hear an argument for why taxing money at rest is worse than taxing it in motion

One argument is that money in motion has a reasonably high level of liquidity, more or less by definition, and, in many cases, a reasonably high level of divisibility.

If the wealth that you're taxing has similar attributes then fine. But a significant amount of wealth doesn't have those attributes. Wealth taxes that affect illiquid and/or indivisible assets can have an effect well beyond what they intend.

You see this in inheritance taxes. The tax may be reasonable but may also lead to the forced selling of family homes if sufficient disposable assets aren't available.
That is why I said “not literally”.

Literally inflation is defined as an increase in the Consumer Price Index.

Colloquially, however, inflation is the word used to mean the government printing money and spending it into the local economy. That by definition increases the government’s ability to pay for things.

Meanwhile taxes are simply there to remove money from the economy. Imagine if the government took all the collected tax revenues and burned it in a giant hole, then issued fresh crisp bills to pay for things. It would pretty much clear things up what the relationship is.

The idea that our federal taxes are what is used to pay for federal spending is outdated ever since we got off the gold standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission

Their conclusion back then was: With two thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government

Let me summarize my own position:

1. A generally accepted unit of currency (most often fiat, but can also be M2, M3 money, credit cards, bitcoins, etc) represents a high-probability chance that if something (eg food) is available then that amount of it will be available to you.

2. The job of an economy is to distribute resources. We have a constraint that we want humans to have their basic needs met. So far, wages have worked reasonably well but we have had to introduce disability, social security and other welfare schemes for poor people. As automation increases, demand shocks for human labor may appear in various sectors, making wages a far less reliable way to get money to the people.

3. Thus, we must gradually move towards simply printing money an giving it to people (Universal Basic Income or a series of Single Payer systems for various necessities). We must have it in place so we can ramp it up as wages become worse and worse for a growing underemployed class.

4. Then we either have to deal with rising prices OR tax someone. Tax who? The most obvious would be pigovian taxes and fines, to finally stop destroying the environment and polluting rivers and CO2. But after this, we will have to tax the most RESILIENT sources of accumulating capital, namely the rich and corporations.

So you see, you are thinking backwards. The 21st century economy will be built by thinking “how will everyone eat” and working backwards from there.

Money in the hands of person X doesnt disappear when she spends it. It just moves one hop. Taxes are there to either punish certain behavior or fight accumulation of money in one particular sector without everyone in that sector quit and walk away or stop building better robots. That is a sustainable economy and proper description of the role of taxes and money.
This startup thinks devs should get paid for their open source projects
Its a very common failing of architecture fans who want to decide how the masses live without actually asking the end users.
How to work with Python applications and modules in Yocto
Garden Hermit sounds quite relaxing. I would love for someone to pay me to live in their garden. Bonus points if I am allowed to stand like a statue and stare at people. How do we revive this occupation and make it a trend?
Number or age?

5-7 and even 10 year olds can easily be transported by bakfiets, it happens all the time in NL, besides that when they're 10 they can cycle by themselves (earlier even).
> "*Still, a sad comment on what academia has become."

You are incorrectly treating academia as some kind of monolithic hivemind.

As I understand it, there's two broad categories of postsecondary institutions: research and teaching. (See, for example, the discussion here: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49911/how-to-de...) The prestigious universities are research institutions and all incentives are aligned toward doing research and getting grant money and that's why the author says what he says. (The classic joke letter, ostensibly written by one "Prof. Hardass Slavedriver", expresses well what the pressures are at a research university: https://lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-... .)

Teaching institutions focus more on the educational aspects but, having neither prestige, grant money, or endowments, they cannot provide as comprehensive a set of facilities, advanced courses, or the undergraduate research opportunities that a research university does.

So, for the student, it's really a trade-off when choosing between the two. Do I want to get a solid, middle-of-the-road education at a teaching school or do I want to go for broke and try and take advantage of the advanced educational opportunities at a research school?
Agreed (I'm a matrix user myself). When I saw the thread I was confused about what exactly (if anything) he wanted to achieve that couldn't be done with matrix. I'd be surprised if he wasn't familiar with it already.

Perhaps it's largely about branding/development control? I imagine it looks better to investors to say "we're making this new thing" rather than "we're gonna use this other thing that we don't own".
https://bravado.co/

Bravado is a professional network for sales professionals.
Tensorflow on edge, or – Building a “smart” security camera with a Raspberry Pi
I think you're missing an overarching lesson, that she may be really funny and talented, but perhaps she is that now because when she started she was allowed to make "shitty" things? I'm of the opinion that people need space to fail before they can become good at things, and public spheres of expression sometimes don't allow time for that period of growth.
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Put it in expectations, quantify it, and reward it at performance reviews. In a self-review, I should be able to write that I took Andrew Ng's Coursera ML course and be rewarded for how that makes me a more valuable team member. On the employee end, I should be able to explain what I learned, how it increases my value to the team, and how I've applied or will apply it.

Too often, companies "expect" their employees to take advantage of the fact that they allow them to learn on the job, but only reward short-term performance.
Mostly fine, sometimes a problem. It's pretty much like regular bikes (or cars for that matter): some might not work well if there is significant snow/ice, but then you will just need one that is suitable for those sort of conditions. The scooter companies are putting out very low end models that aren't designed for any sort of adverse conditions, and they are scared of lawsuits/blowback from accidents.

This sort of transportation is in its infancy. Bikes are in a better place, and we have bikes that can ride fairly safely on full on snow.
Ada with SPARK sounds pretty much the same to me, or OCaml.

The only thing missing being lifetimes.

F# might not win marathons, it is still faster than rustc, even when adding NGEN or Mono AOT into the pipeline.
Still, how would that kill everyone? Small pockets of humanity would still hang on.
> This is the reality of having deep experience in a specific domain.

This seems like it should be true abstractly, but concretely I've never met anyone with deep experience in a specific domain who didn't in the process gain enough experience in other domains to have basic competence in multiple domains. Not necessarily as much as specialists in those domains, but it's practically required to achieve the depths of experience in the domain you think they specialized in.

(Which is not usually the domain they thought they were specializing in.)

This is particularly relevant where there isn't a clean separation of concerns and the involved skills are highly transferable.
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This from the guy who invented the PSA test, well worth reading, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/opinion/10Ablin.html
Do you have any insight into how BPS addresses software development? I've looked but so far most of the information is related to hardware manufacturing or using software as a tool (e.g., for training).
Out of curiosity... are stock buybacks subject to any kind of insider trading rules? I'd imagine that they'd be needed if the executives own stock in the company (or whose compensation is otherwise tied to the performance of the stock).
This over anything else. I wouldn't get to be a CTO multiple times if I wasn't in this mindset.
Ah yes, private enterprise, that thing that always leads to neutrality and openness. That must be why the ISP market is USA is so robust.
They're building a lot of these in New England now.
With the right gear, cycling in winter isn’t bad at all, provided the path is clear.
They rewrote in 2006. The JVM was not where it is today in 2006.

You could always use Rust if bare-metal speed is important to you. But, as I'm sure tptacek will point out (and which I agree with), Go or Java or most other high-performance memory safe languages would be perfectly reasonable as well.
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The Vision fund is only 100bn, it’s not like they’re mortgaging Aramco and putting all the money in VC.
When in Africa...
https://developer.apple.com/system-extensions/
Dane here. Most cities of 15k or more has what is essentially a couple of streets worth of strip mall with no cars allowed (except for deliveries). This works really well as long as there's ample parking around - which there usually is here.
"Net Neutrality" is a poisoned term. All it means is "good prices on MY use case."

People whom want free stuff claim "neutrality" means
"same price for everything (without defining the units of 'everything'), and no QoS"

"neutrality" means not discriminating on the basis of identity. It means offering the same terms to everyone, and not letting Disney pay a fee to ban Comcast or BitTorrent, not offering only one flat price for all possible services.
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> Second, the analysis doesn’t explain why it’s bad that LinkedIn appeals to businesses and recruiters. Why is that a problem?

I will admit that I am probably an outlier here, but I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago once I realized that the only thing I was getting out of it was recruiter spam. No real upside, only downside.
I sort of felt embarrassed when my manager told me to stop solving so many tickets and spend more time learning and improving my skills. He was so right.
I am arguing that "do clean all the monitors except the ones with the Apple logo" reflects badly on Apple.
Of course you can work around that problem, but that does not mean it is not a problem.
DNS is a pile of edge cases on a top of other edge cases. There are hundreds of million if not billions of devices that have been deployed that cannot be easily updated, hence implementations need to be not protocol compatible but bug compatible.
When you have 5-7+ kids, you don't have them all at once. By the time you're having the last ones, the eldest can cycle on their own.
Machine vision that sees things more the way we do is easier for us to grasp
There are better uses for that nuke.
Fatally flawed 737 MAX had significantly higher crash risk, FAA concluded
Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?