skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Hey that's pretty great! It sounds like you could be in an area where cars are the right solution to transport. Maybe that's due to population density or roads that were well-planned to get people where they need to go. Unfortunately there are also a lot of places where those things aren't true. In suburbs around Atlanta, Detroit, or Seattle, for example, many people commute 45+ minutes one way in slow-moving traffic. Car insurance can cost $250+ per month, plus gas and maintenance. Personally, I'd much rather spend 45 minutes in a train where I can read, listen to music, check emails, etc.. than in a car where I need to be fully alert. It's much safer too.

> 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?

I don't know the geography / economics of your particular area, but do you think people would be more inclined to use buses if they were more reliable? Adding routes and increasing the frequency of buses might restore some trust in the system. Existing subsidies for cars (public roads, mandatory parking minimums, etc.) could be redirected to public transit for greater effect.

I think we are generally in agreement that most American cities aren't currently set up in a way that makes public transit practical. When I talk about these issues, I'm not saying we should try to retrofit a train system to cities that are otherwise doing just fine. My hope is that articles like this will sway public support in favor of future developments that put an emphasis on people first, not cars. Suburbs originally developed to get away from the danger/congestion/smell of urban areas. But if we can design better urban spaces where people are more comfortable spending time, we can reap the advantages of higher population density. Of course, we can't just copy Japan or Europe. We'll need our own unique system that works for us.
There are livable and afforable alternative to Manhattan style density and there are plenty of working examples. We just refuse to build that way.

Look at many continental European cities.

A mid-sized German city will be full of low to mid density buildings and walk up apartments, few skyscrapers. Mixed use of retail and residential, and very good transit by American standards, connecting to intercity rail transit. Highways frequently terminating or routing outside the city. Plenty of greenspace.

Leipzig, Germany
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Leipzig,+Germany/@51.33310...

Even the US used to have this, though they are long drowned in sprawl. Any city that was of decent size pre-WWII usually has street car suburbs - a dense mix of single family homes, shops and apartments usually built around a transit node that connected to the core and region. Look at Shaker/Cleveland Heights and Lakewood in Cleveland. There is a healthy mix of uses and density centered around transit. You can see the pattern they developed around, even if it's vestigial at this point.
> the ultra-wealthy that are the beneficiaries of the vast majority of these buybacks

The S&P 500 is > 80% owned by institutions. That is mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies. The main beneficiaries arent fat cats, but rather anyone with a 401k.
Depending on the user base, it wouldn't be farfetched to just buy the lowest end RAM version and upgrade the RAM yourself. When you're spending $30k on RAM... it's probably worth some time to shop around. Whether Apple supports it... well that's another question.

Also, if you only NEED 32GB of RAM, then don't buy a Mac Pro. This is just like buying a Xeon motherboard anywhere else and only putting 16GB of RAM into it. Sure, you can do that, but it's a waste of money.
OcapPub
This is awesome. Really looking forward to looking over this source code and finding out about export / MIDI options.
RSS?
So the donor better hope the evidence the police happens to find is hair, not sperm.
Google Assistant is very far from most of the common screenreaders. Both in quality (better) and capability (worse).

JAWS has been known to crash when handed some unicode sequences. So now it simply ignores them and says nothing.

The alternatives tend to be worse than JAWS. Such as spelling out the codepoints in hex, or crashing before it gets anywhere near the unicode it doesn't understand.
Regarding weather, that will always be a factor too. I was going to mention it, but I did that thing where I thought I included a sentence then it wasn't there when I reread what I'd written.

I see my position as not car-hostile or car-eliminatory but efficiency-maximising. With that said, this:

>Obviously there becomes a density point where it makes sense to offload a lot of the transportation needs onto public traffic by many cities and suburbs are not there yet.

Is a bit hard to swallow when car-default systems allow indefinite suburban growth. Feedback loop.
> "generalizing from two incidents to a rate isn't great statistics."

The FAA's report, which predicted an elevated crash rate for the 737 MAX, was written in December 2018. Three months before the second crash.
This is a depressingly accurate assessment.
I engage pretty heavily with civic & transit planning, and I've never heard someone argue that in my entire life. If that is an opinion held by some, they are certainly a minuscule minority.
International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 2019 Videos
because it's not built on crypto, and Jack wants to control a new coin a la Libra
This would be an alternative to pgbouncer, this github issue has a rundown of some of the differences - https://github.com/yandex/odyssey/issues/3
You can also encrypt the state with KMS (for example) and manage access to the key to prevent casual access to your secrets in statefiles. Uploading encrypted values in state is interesting though and using keybase for that is awesome!
I used Racket for a couple projects, but meta programming hasn't turned out to be super useful. When I did use meta programming, I got pretty confused when returning to my code after leaving it for awhile.

I know PG claims meta programming was the secret to ViaWeb's success, but I'm not sure how exactly that was the case, and even if true whether that is still relevant today.

I have found Python to hit the sweet spot much better in terms of rapid prototyping, and providing a runway to making the prototype more rigorous and maintainable.
No the shareholders own the company so they “own” the cash either way. Buybacks and dividends return control of the cash back to shareholders so they can allocate it elsewhere.
It is really inspiring to see that you've stuck with this problem for the long term and continue to iterate on solutions.
No - if the price is $X, then the shareholder is exchanging $X in shares for $X in cash. That's not a transfer of wealth.
Oh yea, instead lets write it in an interpreted language who's VM is written in C....
The surface of the earth is 196.9 million miles square. Low earth orbit contains just a little more area. 10k satellites for broadband killing internet isn't bad. Especially since we already have 5k up there already. Also there are about 5,000 airplanes flying at any given time.

I think astronomers just want less reflective ones so they can look for asteroids.
If there's one thing I've learned between being a new engineer and a senior eng is that you can just take a small slice of time in your work schedule to learn. You don't have to clear this with anyone. You're salaried, take an hour or two a week to learn something new. You're getting paid for your technical judgement, use it to invest in something relevant and deepen your ability to judge. It pays off for both you and your employers even if they're not willing to formally fund training in large dedicated chunks.

Edit: clarified schedule to work schedule.
Is Calgary any worse than Finland?

* https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/never-mind-the-plo...

> Oulu in Finland and Winnipeg in Canada are two winter cities with remarkably different stories. Oulu is just like Winnipeg – except for the bike paths stretching for miles in every direction and the thousands of people riding bicycles in the snow – says Winter Bike to Work Day founder Anders Swanson

* https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...
Open Reference Architecture for Security and Privacy
Adolf Hitler was TIME's person of the year in 1938. They also had Stalin twice and Ruhollah Khomeini right before Iran took American hostages. Their judgement has been pretty mixed, at best, one could argue it is no better than average. But whatever sells their shitty magazines and moves the collectivist agenda, right?
Ah, the impact of Mastodon - the decentralized Twitter-alternative. I highly recommend it.

You can even run an instance yourself, just like you run WordPress.
Again, this feels like a strawman argument. Nobody is advocating that we outlaw cars altogether! Urban reform advocates are (correctly) pointing out that car-centric cities promote a self-fulfilling prophesy. In my book, changing that is revolution “A”, and very few people are advocating the nationwide ban on cars revolution “C”.
State found $117k in double payments through data analytics
One of my best friends did his Masters work designing a programming language that can be modified on the fly; I'd highly recommend the paper:

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/113144/101799...
Obsolete does not mean extinct. One of its definitions is "Vestigial or rudimentary". It's still there, but it doesn't do much. This is, AFAIK, the definition intended.
The aftershocks from the Christchurch earthquake had a very marked effect on those that lived there and m I any left. The number of aftershocks is incredible with 20,000+ mentioned in one of the links below, and they are still happening nearly a decade later according to a quick scan of Geonet.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/11000-aftershocks-christ...

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/christchurch-aftershocks...

https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/weak
I see some similarity to Google's Appmaker.
I've struggled with this too. They all suck with similar failings. I'm driven by two major factors: quality of documentation, ease of contribution. Getting people to care about both is hard enough without tools getting in the way. Off the shelf solutions cause a lot of problems including:

* Repeating yourself (quality/accuracy hit, waste of time)

* Spending more time formatting vs creating content (consistency hit, ease of contribution)

* Spread of information (service repo v wiki v gitops, etc.)

* Discoverability of information

So far my best proposal is a custom static site (like Hugo) with lots of archetypes/templates, and custom tools to automate things. Git for versioning. In some cases content is data driven -- e.g. API docs, service dependencies, etc. Other content is loosely structured, or free form - e.g. An alert handling procedure is well structured, but general knowledge may be free form. However, some users don't want to write markdown (even ones who code all day), or the context switch from a browser to an external editor is already enough to prevent quick fixes, etc.

My ideal solution needs to keep the above concepts in mind and readily bridge the gap between major factors like: service docs, API docs, architecture, infrastructure, runbooks/monitoring, dependencies, etc. I want to keep as much as possible close to the project (even in its repo), and not repeat myself (because one copy will be wrong).

An obsolete runbook is useless. It happens so often because of the information spread: a monitor is configured in one place, pointing to a runbook elsewhere. Typically you have to edit/update both. Similarly, a runbook without context is problematic. When a service is down things like: why is this important, what depends on it (or what does it depend upon) are critical. Being able to walk the dependency tree when diagnosing an outage is extremely helpful.
YMMV.
Most of the people I know in Paris either don't have a car, or use it very seldomly (think once a month)

I think it's more about city vs countryside than europe vs US
I didn't get a chance to look deep at your code, but was wondering what your thoughts were about this article on passport best practices:

https://hackernoon.com/your-node-js-authentication-tutorial-...
I hope e-scooters never make it out of infancy. Bikes are infinitely more practical and capable. They are more stable at all speeds. They can have significantly more cargo carrying capacity. Bikes can be fitted (for the most part) with different tires/wheels to handle adverse conditions more easily than a scooter can.

I hope for the infanticide of e-scooter transportation. It's a grotesque, subooptimal solution than exists in spite of a superior low-cost offering that is faaaar more mature.
You could try Flutter Web online in DartPad. Access dartpad.dev and select a Flutter sample.
> Which is sad in part because trade secrets can hold back healthy competition for generations.

What holds back healthy competition is having a deceiving competitor copy your protected work with no regard to your property or rights.
WeWork Is in Talks to Sell Business It Bought 8 Months Ago
Ideally there would be expensive parking lots right at the edge of the area, and cheaper parking lots further out. So you could park and walk right at the boundary, or park near the Broad Street Line and take that in. Or you could park at a Regional Rail stop even further out and take the train all the way in. Or you could Uber right to the boundary. Depending on where exactly you live and how much you value time vs. money, different options will make sense for different people. But considering that the people who will be getting dropped off right at the boundary would have otherwise been driving to the city center, it doesn't make traffic any worse.

The car-free zone makes sense if it's smaller than the area that has public transit. Note that even in the complete absence of public transit, you can still comfortably implement about a quarter-mile radius of car-free area, since a quarter mile walk is only 5 minutes.

In the US what we're mostly talking about is closing individual downtown streets to through traffic (like, say, Market between 5th to 13th, ignoring the City Hall death circle). On NYC 14th street, any car is allowed, as long as it turns off within 2 blocks. This greatly limits the usefulness of the street to through traffic, (and therefore makes it a much better pedestrian and bus environment) without changing the parking situation at all.
My particular liberal arts program is "divergent from the norm," including modern liberal arts programs. Just about all programs, liberal arts or otherwise, are completely framed within an enlightenment view of reality, largely due to dogmatic materialism. Classes that do diverge from materialism have lost a coherent way to talk about an alternate worldview, leaving their terminology sounding very wishy washy and illogical, like a woo woo Deepak Chopra.
Is any blame to be assigned to PR for issuing bonds and then not honoring them?
Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
This is 100% true, and I could have made that clearer.

Another reason it's left untreated is that the surgery side effects are fairly serious.
How to Build a Backyard Rollercoaster (for less than $500) [video]
Internet Archive donations are matched 2-1 currently, for those interested.

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i think crime rate has little to do with "drug dealers driving through". drug dealers live in the cities too, and most of the ones that interact with users don't have cars. i think falling crime rates are more likely due to improve economic vibrancy
Yet it is true. Far fewer people would live there if they got the chance to get out. The normal pattern (as it has been for 200 years) is: 16 year olds get pregnant. They were never told any sex Ed other than "don't" and abortion isn't an option. They are informed that all goals for their life other than parenthood are waste and instead of leaving (for work or education) they join the local enconomy and make just barely enough to support their new "family". They proceed to struggle and fight to survive until their children are grown, by which point the cycle is repeating. It's a very stable pattern of behavior.

I've watched 3 generations of women berate the 4th for getting pregnant out of "wedlock" at 16 when all of them were conceived the same way.

I know it hurts to find out something you love is built from a horrible pattern. But it is worth enduring the pain and seeking understanding.
Credit card and predatory loan companies target low wage workers before they are even old enough to vote. They aim to get you in a cycle of debt and many of the targets for this type of lending do not have family support to help them avoid falling into the trap. In fact their family are likely to be other impoverished people who have fallen into the same trap.
Nonsense from a throwaway account. Sign your name if you really feel that way.
> I have it great; I make a 6-fig salary, I work remote full time, and never more than 40 hours. I feel guilty for complaining, but the work is just damn boring. I would rather be a janitor than code anymore. Some days I sit and just stare at my screen for an hour depressed as hell wondering how I'm going to get out of this and still provide for my family. We have chronic medical issues, so the insurance alone makes it hard to escape. The great recession also left me with severe anxiety about being broke and unemployed.

Jesus. Yeah, this entire thing hits home. I think a lot of mid- to late-career software folks are in this position of hating the work, feeling super guilty for hating the work, and not seeing a way out that won't risk their family's financial security.

My best job ever was a Summer job helping manage a campground. Outdoors, some social interaction, enough down time to read a few pages of a novel or do some pushups here and there, a bit of moving heavy things around, nothing whatsoever to think about when you leave for the day. If something like that paid 75% as much comp + bennies as my WFH software job and had similar future job prospects, I'd quit effective today and go do that. And probably cancel my home Internet service, sell my computers, and downgrade to a dumbphone. It's all just so incredibly low-value, once the shininess wears off.
It doesn't seem like they are doing any of what you said

> Next, we will use these tools to evaluate existing, real-world blockchain use cases with an eye towards developing our own applications of these emerging technologies. Along the way, we will learn practical development skills in distributed ledger technologies to understand blockchain programming and application development. Finally, students will propose their own blockchain use cases for CMU's own proprietary blockchain.
Based on an NPR/Frontline report [0], it sounds like the debt Puerto Rico took on was a total financial market scam. The financial institutions schemed up some pretty crazy debt packages specifically for Puerto Rico that depended on PR's non-state status and specific rules/laws that it has applied to it.

After learning about the scheming that occurred, I'm not so sure I'm not in favor of just wiping out that debt and making the financial institutions eat it.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607032585/how-puerto-ricos-de...
edit: forgot the link
I would just take the job and spend 90 minutes a day doing the things you mentioned. If anyone objects, well that’s conflict about how the flow of work will proceed, and dealing with those conflicts is everyone’s job.

You’re presuming that you’re not allowed to do the things you think are crucial as part of your daily work, but that’s already conceding too much to your superiors.

You do have to wait for the right time to do things, so it is justifiable as part of some near-term team goal. And be willing to wait when it’s not the time.
In theory, there's nothing stopping them.

But in reality, they don't work. They don't work today, and they probably won't work next year. Heck, half of UTF-8 tends not to work.

Should a segment of the population that are forced to rely on poor tools (I hate JAWS so very very much) be excluded today?
> Is it also repressive to "force" people to hold down jobs to participate in society?

Yes.

> To "force" people to commute to work?

Yes.

> What about the fact that some people have the luxury of working from home? Should we make that illegal as well?

No, that reduces traffic making places more livable.
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That's probably fair. Most of the people I know in Europe are a bit older and mostly don't live in e.g. central London.
Jumia: What Went Wrong at 'Africa's' First Unicorn?
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but:

The alternative being discussed is Twitter appointing a different neutral party: if they're bending to the W3C, they're already appointing a "neutral party" to do the work for them, the only difference is changing who they trust from another giant organization that's very clearly apathetic about user interests to one that does: the SSBC would be perfect, for example.
> "social media incentives frequently lead to attention being focused on content and conversation that sparks controversy and outrage, rather than conversation which informs and promotes health."

This seems to run anathema to the concept of social media platforms being run by for-profit companies. Monetization absolutely mandates the need for controversy and outrage, as opposed to social welfare.
I personally get really strong uncanny valley vibes from that thing. I might dig a cartoon version of it, but that banner image seriously creeps me out.
You can still have problems with them. They propose to ID a commit type by the first character.

Arabic is written from right to left. Which emoji is the first character of this sequence? It actually depends on the position of invisible LTR control characters.

علامة يمين-إلى-يسا

EDIT: BTW, HN does not support emojis apparently
With lower costs to acquire and build in these areas to begin with, freeing up space to build and densify the core (lowering real estate costs there).
Iowa City has a pedestrian mall in the heart of downtown and it's the most charming, lively, interesting place in the city. Not to mention, it's safe, fun, and pleasant for all ages. There's music, dancing, a playground, food, etc.
This is exactly why I left the field of urban planning. Practitioners were wildly out of touch with the way the vast majority of people lived that it rendered the field irrelevant. The job was basically a continued effort in trying to coerce people into living in pre-WWII style cities, when the fact is that most people who live in the suburbs are quite happy with the arrangement, even if 24 year-old me found the idea of suburbs distasteful.
The thing is, right now our cars-first city planning means that things like groceries, schools, shopping centers, etc. are built far away from where people live so that you NEED a car to get there. Places like CityLab are advocating for future development that places these daily necessities within walking distance of where people live. Cars are great for long-distance travel, but it would be great to spend less time in them!
oh yeah i'm a big fan of racket. i'd prefer something that's AOT, but maybe i can make an AOT racket :thinking: