skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are officially two types of urban areas: “urbanized areas” of 50,000 or more people and “urban clusters” of between 2,500 and 50,000 people. For the 2010 count, the Census Bureau has defined 486 urbanized areas, accounting for 71.2 percent of the U.S. population. The 3,087 urban clusters account for 9.5 percent of the U.S. population.

Maybe I misread that but I parsed it as ~70% of people live in “Urbanized Areas” which have populations over 50,000.
It sticks out to me how much more homogenous streets and roads are in the US compared to Europe. All streets have at least two lanes and the speed limits in practice fall within a fairly narrow range. Even in residential neighborhoods the speed limit is usually 25 or 35. On the other hand it doesn't go up much till you are on a freeway. Even streets with a lot of business will still have lots of through traffic. The suburb I live in has its historic downtown cut up by multiple high traffic roads (strongtowns calls them "stroads"). It sucks for cars and it sucks for pedestrians.

As the article calls out, many European cities do a better job at separating humans and cars. This only works because there is more diversity in roads and streets. My commute in Germany included an area that literally had a speed limit of "walking speed" a main road that had 70km/h and of course the Autobahn worth 160km/h. These streets and roads were much more clearly differentiated and made a clear trade off between prioritizing pedestrians, playing children and cars.

I think some European cities got this inadvertantly, since streets and roads suited for cars had to be fitted on Street the fact. US cities with their grid layout inherently treat the city and its traffic more like a homogenous blob.
That's exactly what a chosen prefix attack means. You choose the arbitrary prefixes. Then the garbage is inserted. Then (due to SHA1's Merkle–Damgård construction) you append a postfix that's mostly arbitrary (but the same in both files).
As someone who drives on public roads (and has family and friends who drive on public roads) this is a frightening comparison and attitude.
Murfie stored thousands of customers' CDs – then suddenly disappeared
Now you'll need to track down one of those superchargers.

Have you ever seen the Lars Nielsen build?
They already have self-determination without you giving them money to buy drugs.

And dying of an overdose doesn't give you any dignity.
I hate Apple marketing, their ads always annoy me. Great products tho
I created a new RDS instance via Cloudformation just last week and immediately had the notice that I should update the cert. Looks like the new cert will be the default on 1/14, but I thought that was really weird.
That’s not at all what happened.

Around the end of 2006, the music industry was complaining that no other music store could compete with iTunes because the DRM wasn’t compatible. They wanted Apple to license FairPlay to competitors.

Apple refused and Jobs posted his famous “Thoughts on Music” letter on the front page of Apple’s website where he said that if the music industry wanted interoperability, they could license music to everyone DRM free and there would be interoperability. Especially since all physical music was already DRM free.

https://fortune.com/2014/12/14/re-thinking-steve-jobs-though...

Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.”

There was some haggling back and forth about terms. The music industry wanted variable pricing, to be able to sell more music as a whole album and a cut of each iPhone sold. Apple refused all of their demands.

The other stores acquiesced and were able to sell DRM music before Apple. However EMI and some independent labels did agree from day one.

Two years later all of the music labels came to terms with Apple and allowed it to sell music directly on the phone over the cellular network.
Do you feel the same way about zero polio deaths?

The transportation issue is fairly complicated, and there does exist a tendency to oversimplify the costs of moving away from the status quo. But many of the reactions on this thread (this one included) are even more free of nuance or an attempt at understanding the situation. There's no question for anyone who's bothered to inform themselves that the US status quo around transportation is far from ideal for most sets of preferences[1]. Vision Zero is a bit of a blunt instrument for calling attention to how bad the status quo is, but it's a lot better than the arguments I'm seeing here.

[1] Obviously you can construct a set of preferences that is optimal for a given state, but I'm using reasonable priors here.
If you've got a newish there's change that your TV's remote will automatically work via HDMI using CEC. Kodi on an rpi worked out of the box with the remote from my store brand best buy tv for ~5 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
The contrary would be: "Milk is better for you than the dairy industry advertises".

So show a dairy industry advertisement, and show that milk is actually better than THAT. :)
Ok, so you must be on Team Office Fire
Harsher penalties? Driving drunk here is going to cost you 4-5k in fees and fines in certain parts of the USA. It's approaching mandatory minimum sentence status here.

The people who are the most down and out in our society don't care about the cost of their driving drunk. It doesn't occur to them until after they've been caught.

What needs to change is the attitude.
> They rightly view anti-car advocates are people trying to take away their freedom and herd them onto mass transit.

Most "Pro Car" advocates dismiss any kind of policy about reducing cars in cities would look like and don't bother learning. Your post is a perfect example of this.

Many major cities are at a point where it is literally impossible to grow and retain their existing auto-infrastructure. This is the biggest reason cities like Paris and London adopted hard limits and large fees for driving inside downtown areas. This is also a large part of why larger US cities are looking into encouraging bikes/ scooters and other forms of transportation which don't hog real-estate the way cars do.

As a parent, you should also be sympathetic to a return to a world where kids can pedal their bikes to school safely. The current model of schools engineered around massive amounts of car traffic at the beginning and end of the day is insane and massively limits the individual freedom young people used to have.

Most people who advocate reducing reliance on cars aren't interested in eliminating cars, only making it safe for other forms of transportation and reclaiming much of the massive amount of public space which is wasted on car infrastructure.
Probably no effect. Cynically, the US has a lot of poor people in the military, so I probably won’t be drafted. We also have a lot of drones and long-range missiles, so a war could go on for say...19 years, and I wouldn’t be affected at all.
Video and reports suggest it was accidentally shot down. It’s not even a question when you see it.

There’s no way state media could’ve concluded it was a “technical issue” so quickly. They are trying to pass blame on Boeing but they really messed this one up.
I don't think teaching math was the goal of Logicomix at all.
I help people build PCs sometimes and peoples first pass at picking components almost always overspends on cpu and underspends on gpu. For any fixed budget you will usually get (much) better perf by getting the low-mid range ryzen 3/5 or i3/i5 cpus and spending the difference on a better graphics card.

Most games are not particularly CPU intensive (although there are exceptions like Ashes of the Singularity which actually does usually get bottlenecked by the CPU unless you have a really high end one)
I am statistically more likely to die driving to work than I was serving in Afghanistan during the surge.
I run both PLEX and Jellyfin in Docker containers on my homelab and I have found Jellyfin to "just work" better. The hardware acceleration from my Intel NUC just works for Jellyfin and was always a struggle in PLEX.
The 70% aren’t dictating how to live to the other 30%. Who is suggesting that? This article is about reducing road deaths. Nobody is asking people in rural areas to live like they are in cities.
I still remember Chrome and Firefox Engineers saying it would provide much better experience to user.

That was the era when majority of public opinion on Google was Do no Evil. And Google at the time can do no wrong.
I see your point but you're reaching
I grew up in the burbs, and it wasn't until I moved into a major city that actually had other options that I realized how much stress goes just into planning to drive. Where am I going to park? How much is it going to cost? Will traffic be bad? The weather? Am I tired? Do I need to buy gas?

All you need to do with public transport is open an app, walk to the spot, and have patience. In LA, the bus network is comprehensive, but it does demand patience. So I just bring a book. Much more peaceful than the bloodsport played on the freeways here.
> How exactly would this particular trade-off increase total deaths? Do you think this is happening in Oslo?

What if I am having a heart attack and the ambulance is on the way? If it gets there within 5 minutes, I can be saved, if not I die. Oh well, no going over 20 mph, I'm dead.

I would hope Oslo has a carve out for emergency response, but I don't see one in the article.

Much, much, more abstractly, as the article points out, suburbs are much denser in American than in Olso. "If I could work on my lifesaving cancer cure 8hr/day I would cure it in 10 years, but at 7hr/day I only cure it in 12 years. I can only spend so much time at work and commuting. Oh well, no going over 20mph, it takes me years longer." Lots of productivity losses (some of which are undoubtedly going to result in loss of life) if a(not atypical) American 20 mile commute now takes an hour instead of 20 minutes.

It would take restructuring of roadways on a massive scale in America to have this policy not result in staggering productivity/time losses. The article admits this ("it's going to require both institutional and far-reaching cultural changes", "It will take decades"). Without massive changes, adopting this policy would, as the article states, "incite riots in no time." I'd welcome taking steps towards transit restructuring.

However, there seems to be little political will for even basic incremental steps. That's why zero deaths seems impossible - getting even basic, functioning, public transit is hard in America.
Edit -- some disambiguations of those URL terms here.

* https://moz.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-google-search...

* https://www.quora.com/Doing-a-Google-search-I-see-an-operato...

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18584386/what-does-ei-me...

* http://www.rankpanel.com/blog/google-search-parameters/
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Also, other quality of life features such as searching your library, ordering your list by different criteria such as directors, critic reviews, release date, combining movies/tv shows into organized collections etc.
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I am not sure. Usually when you add things that make commute faster (highways, more and faster trains, etc) people don't shorten their commute, they move farther away (for less crowded neighbourhoods, cheaper housing costs, etc). I wouldn't be surprised if commute time hasn't changed much since horse and buggy days and all technological advancement has done is increase the distance while keeping the time constant.
I disagree with this completely. Many midrange to high-end car sound systems are the perfect listening environment for many types of music, and come standard with excellent sound systems.
the ACTUAL benchmark should be:

1) start timer

2) start deciding which commands to pipeline together

3) run the commands

4) stop timer

a lot of times the decision is the long pole.

in this authors case it included:

5) try a couple more variants of steps 2 and 3

6) write a blog post

:)
Quarks and electrons act like they're actually points. Nobody can be totally sure, but the standard math says they are, and nobody has managed to smash them apart into something smaller or measure them as anything other than "smaller than anything we can measure." They might be small loops of energy instead (this is part of string theory), but if they are, they'd be so small it would be beyond known science to prove it. It's easier to prove something has a size (by measuring it) than to prove the opposite. Every instrument has some margin of error, so you'd never be able to exclude there being some size.

The weird thing about the Big Bang is that it's really all of space that banged, and to a first approximation, space and time as we know it didn't exist before a singularity at the beginning of the expansion. It's very possible that's wrong (there may have been a "parent universe" or a "big bounce") but to a first approximation it seems to be that there may not have been a "before" the Big Bang.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
for the past 15 years, they were averaging about 5 deaths / year for population of 650k. Down from 40 deaths in 1970s.

If they were as populous as the U.S., it would be 250 deaths per year.

There were over 6,000 pedestrian fatalities last year in the U.S. Yes... we could do a lot better.
Do you think it is reasonable to compare the loss of a life, of future achievements, opportunities, possibly leaving others unattended (that needed this person now dead) against sporadic minutes collectively gathered from many people?

In my opinion, those were likely going to be wasted either way.

I can see a literal point of view where if you add all sporadic minutes there also were opportunities, achievements, etc, but it just seems so far fetched for me.
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I just meant that a binary or library could mark itself (say) "If you execute me, I will run AVX2" upon using this kind of inline asm. Static linking to create a bigger library or program transfers the mark. Eventually you will either dynamically link or load a library or attempt to run it on the actual computer where it's meant to run; at this point, you fail gracefully.

I know this isn't a 100% panacea, as some programs will have multiple bits of inline asm for different system and some sort of better or worse way of determining at run-time what to run. However, I've written plenty of programs where it pretty much says on the tin: "you must have AVX2 to run this".

All up this seems like a pretty trivial problem compared to the problem of 'lack-of-safety' in general, and I'm not thrilled to see SIMD intrinsics being put in the "OMG So Dangerous" box as if they are a bunch of wild pointer ops (except, of course, in the case where they actually are - e.g. scatter/gather)...
Why wouldn't it be the norm? If they're able to make files of the same length, other attackers can make files of the same length too.
For me the significant advantage is showing me a list of films I haven't seen yet, or the latest unwatched episode of a show.
That isn't right.

The truth is somewhere in the middle: definitely, you see some large companies invest heavily but (more commonly) you see small firms nibble at the edges of an existing product until it is too late for the larger companies.

Saying that monopoly produces innovation is like saying government produces innovation. It happens but given a long enough period all things happen. The question is about incentives: the incentives to innovate within large companies are terrible, that is why it doesn't happen most of the time.

Also, consolidation has happened in all industries at all times. It is a function of things that repeat: knowledge curves, lindy effects, etc.

Just generally: be wary of Thiel and his ilk. They have a predilection for ahistorical nonsense. The history in this area, broadly business history, is particularly difficult and not well known (the only tech person who I have seen get close is Patrick Collison..and then...not really).
Axioms are absolute truths by definition. Thus, absolute truths do exist in the real world. It is real because it is agreed to.
YOLO Computer Vision
You don’t have to guess. Jobs himself said in his famous “Thoughts on Music” essay that only 3% of music on iPods were bought from iTunes.

https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...

Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats.
It’s not exactly ML, but there is a pretty-ok port of Haskell to the JVM called Eta [0].

[0] https://eta-lang.org/
It does, but it's buried in the player.

Download:
In the player click "share" and then click the "down arrow" icon.

RSS feed:
In the player click "subscribe" and then click the RSS icon (it's the first one)
> You might think "just crank up the growth until you hit $10k/month". Something weird happens ... you ended up losing money with high growth.

Ratio of new customers showing losses vs old customers showing profits.

Your ratio of new to old customers basically IS your growth rate.

As that ratio increases, you could show "losses". But financially, it's more like investment than losses.

You probably should, in fact, crank up the growth in this situation. Think of it as an investment and calculate your rate of return.

Edit 1: I threw together a quick spreadsheet to illustrate the point (shows cash flows per customer):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mbsjcwlyLs_KsvPrjdt...

Edit 2: On second thought, rate of return is the wrong measure because time value of money is not significant. What you care about is Customer Acquisition Cost and Customer Lifetime Value.

Edit 3: FYI I'm a developer now, but was actuarial, and Excel whiz w/degrees in finance & accounting. I'm always happy to give anyone a little bit of free help with things like this.
My first performance review that I gave as a manager was terrible.

I understood that you took it personally?
When you have words like "shafted" in a news about investments etc then what do you expect the story to be but unprofessional.
So those beautiful FreeBSD box finally require a reboot? They have been rock solid stable for years with no down time.

Edit: Sorry I misread it as Netflix CDN.
I can never really understand this argument. Why can't we carefully craft regulations to scale in their burden with the company's ability to bear said burden in some way? Scale with revenue or head count numbers? Similar to how income at the lowest bracket isn't taxed, to lessen the burden on people much less able to pay.
C# is actually a pretty good language. It has functional features, even if not as extensive as F#, and has an OO system that is much more well thought out than Java.
Regardless of what car you’re in, you’re not going to be able to reliably tell the difference between a flac file and an mp3 with a reasonable bit rate (256+).
Cars are most definitely a freedom. If I own a car I can literally get up and drive anywhere I want whenever I want.

If I live in the middle of nowhere and it takes the police half an hour to get to my home and I don’t own a weapon I can become victimized easily. I have a better chance of defending myself and my family if I own a firearm.

If I live in a city and have never fought someone or practiced self defense I have a much higher likelihood of being victimized. I have less freedom.

You don’t understand your limits to your freedom until someone is taking it from you. In that moment only you can defend it. The cops aren’t there, no one else is going to help you, it’s only you.
Very very few people advocate for eliminating every single car. Generally discussions about car-free infra are about places where cars have saturated the public infrastructure making it nearly impossible to safely move around any other way.

Car free infrastructure is about growth and quality of life in dense urban areas. It doesn't make sense to eliminate cars from rural or even most suburban areas.
You're already driving on roads shared with garbage solution like tesla's '''autopilot''' this thing is no different other than the creators not being able to afford the regulatory bribe to deploy it.
> ... but the question is why wouldn't you want to make the changes to target zero deaths?

Well, if you target "zero" of anything with a large enough N, you end up well past the point of diminishing returns, and avoiding that last death may have a price tag truly outsized relative to the benefit. It may even cause more deaths in other areas.

For instance, after 9/11 security at airports was tightened massively ("targeting zero") and this caused a lot more people to drive short distances, which is much riskier than flying, which in turn caused way, way more deaths than all of 9/11. Micro, achieved, macro, failed.

Bruce Schneier covers this well in an essay titled "Our Decreasing Tolerance to Risk" [1]

With that in mind, I don't believe cars should exist in urban centers, but because they're a livability nightmare rather than due to the very low risk cars pose to my continued existence (you have a 0.01%/year chance of dying in a fatal car accident).

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreas...
wouldn't firefox dev edition give you the tools you need?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
The Egyptian pyramids may align with an ancient North Star
"better" isn't the same for everyone. I'd take a public transit system like I've used in Munich, Tokyo or Shanghai over sitting in my personal metal box any day. Especially if we could give all the space taken up by infrastructure for cars back to pedestrians.
And for those people, absolutely keep the car. Maybe a moped would do, but the car is fine for low density areas like you describe.

But for the millions stuck in rush hour traffic in every major city across the country, maybe there could be a better way to make that one commute to work. NYC has a lot of subways and 60% of the population uses transit, but they are just about all built for moving people to and from their 9-5 job in Manhattan, not traveling laterally across the outer boroughs.
Ah... managers that makeup their own rules in total contradiction with the company rules. "Love" that!
Basic values are also heritable and founded in biology, as shown in twin studies and observations that other species have a sense of fairness.