skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a realization last night while thinking about NEPA. Americans care about other things a lot more than they care about infrastructure, and us rail fans, urbanists, etc., just need to get over it. The current state of infrastructure development in the U.S. is the product of bi-partisan factors and nobody (not literally nobody,b ut not enough people) want to change the status quo.

NEPA, was signed into law by Richard Nixon, with the full support of Democrats. It is the perfect, bi-partisan, vehicle for ensuring that nothing gets built anywhere, ever. The average NEPA review for a transit project is now 6.6 years. A non-trivial number take a decade or more. For Democrats, it satisfies anti-development (historical preservationists, environmentalists, etc.) constituencies. For Republicans, it ensures that government will never have to spend real money on big transit projects. No need to seem like the bad guy and kill rail projects when various constituencies will use the NEPA process and litigate the projects to death anyway.

At the end of the day, most people are okay with the result. Or at least, they care about other things much more than building infrastructure. Republicans don't really mind spending a few million a year keeping projects on environmental review life support so long as that means indefinitely deferring having to actually build anything. Democrats, meanwhile, even if they like transit in principle, won't prioritize streamlining development and bringing down costs over satisfying other key constituencies: environmentalists, labor unions, etc. The New York City subway is literally melting down. It costs as much money to build a mile of subway in New York as it costs to build entire new fully automated subway lines in Spain. But addressing the underlying cost disease (which would mean taking on labor and public unions) is not even on anyone's radar. (And it makes sense--Democrats can't afford to lose those votes when it comes to higher-priority issues.) Here in D.C. the subway system, including nearly all the underground parts, was mostly built within a 10-year period. But it has taken more than 20 years to extend a single line through exurban Virginia, mostly along a highway median that was expressly reserved for that purpose decades ago. Metro's current 2040 plan proposes a single new line, which will almost certainly never be built.

They say that if you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, you'll spend all your time focusing on what you're bad at instead of what you're good at. As an urbanist, and a "city person," I have given up pining for Japanese or European style public infrastructure. It's just never going to happen. America isn't built that way and doesn't want to be. The American political system enables the things Americans care about: road construction. Road construction is, for the most part, excluded from NEPA. I was shocked how cheaply and quickly the State of Maryland managed to repave my local segment of Route 50 near Annapolis. America probably has the best exurbs and strip malls in the world. I have learned to enjoy them. (Maybe I'll get an EV to assuage my guilt.)
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I'd say the expectation that all software should be free is more similar to expecting all books to be free, and self-righteously declaring that you will only read free books, because any author who tries to make money by writing books is clearly a sell-out who can't be trusted.

Closed source is like saying you aren't allowed to skim the book at the store before buying or share your favorite passages with a friend. That does infringe free speech. An author selling a book does not.

But just as with written media, there's plenty of room for both paid and free options that are both Open in the sense that the code is available. In a healthy ecosystem we'd have a lot of both, and no widespread bias against paid options. If anything businesses should have the opposite bias.
Ask HN: Should a web app UI/UX “designer” be expected to know CSS?
I met a designer of web app UI/UX recently. Their designs were pretty cool and had some impressive transitions, animations and interactions. One in particular caught my attention so I asked how they achieved it in css and they responded "oh, I don't know css or javascript or anything. I just have the developers implement it."

That got me wondering...is it unreasonable for a designer to be expected to implement styles, animations and such? The only other "designers" I've worked with have gone so far as to create stubbed out react components, with a complete UI implementation.
On a tangent, does Apple already have a solution to their Spanish problem?

Siri is apparently activated at every mention of the word "si" and specifically even more during bed room conversations.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/07/29/apples-si...
Delivering Cloud Native Infrastructure as Code
nothing about property management or property management in SF is "new".

anybody who can afford to de-risk a real estate income stream can afford to just buy real estate themselves, they don't need yours. there's no market here.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/climate-change-acti...

> Climate change activists protest against high-speed UK train line

I'm not convinced these people care about what they say they care about.
While I see plenty of reports of divers pulling scooters from bodies of water, these are usually divers employed by the local sheriff's office or fire department. It seems like the insurance/liability issues involved would be limiting for your average "gig economy" company..

That said, walk into any marina and you'd have plenty of gigs cleaning hulls..
Depends on your location. NY has some laws now. As expected Europe is strict, here is UK guidance. https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/domestic-cctv-systems-g...
Here's a pretty good explanation of why the 6.5T is nonsense when implied that is the amount of fraud.

It also tracks the source of these "estimates", noting that they are not what your article implies.

Turns out it is double counting and adding future liabilities.

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-missing-21-trillio...
Folding bikes are either clumsy or expensive compared to electric scooters like the Xiaomi. The folding mechanism is rarely anywhere near as nice as a scooter.
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his name is taco? really?
Wouldn't the median need to be over 1? I get your point but am feeling pedantic today.
Of course you would get their permission to record them!
Isn't this solved perfectly with an affine or linear type-aware optimizing compiler? Where all data is immutable unless the types prove to the compiler that there are no mutation conflicts. I believe Rust implements this and Idris 2 does so as well with quantitative type theory.
> As far as I know, only Rust, C++, and C give support at the type-checking level to denote which functions will modify the interior of their arguments.

1. C and C++ allow casting away constness, which may or may not be UB depending how the parameter is defined

2. Swift also provides this ability to an extent: struct parameters have to be flagged `inout` to be mutable

I'm sure there are others.
When it comes to the worst elements of "bottom-line obsessed thinking", I can't think of better examples than large national call centers; and their leaders will use all sorts of borderline abusive management tactics to justify it.

I started my career in one for a popular multi-national consumer electronics brand whose devices might be in your pocket right now, also as a T-1 IT person for about four years.

It's soul draining. One thing I'll never forget were the amount of EMS visits we got due to people having heart-attacks. Young people too.
since the option is not available, we ll never know if users prefer it
Thanks for checking it out! I'm thinking about fleshing that point out into its own section.
Also a huge advantage is the mobility of a scooter over a bike. With a scooter you are more flexible to changes in your day. Did a friend just message you during lunch to meet up for drinks in a different part of town? No probs, just take the scooter on the tube after work. Did the weather just change drastically? No probs, can quickly change to a different way of commute and the scooter doesn't feel like a huge showstopper whereas with a bike it all becomes really really complicated.

Bicycles in big cities are too inflexible. If all you want is to commute like a sheep from home to work and back to home every day then a bicyle is a great inexpensive and green choice, in every other case it's a problem. Unless of course you are in a small village, where a possible change of plans will still result in a short ride. In London this is not possible. If I was to meet friends spontaneously outside my daily commute area then it would be impossible with a bicycle.
"unless they paid for this add-on we made no guarantees about the permanence of their data in the event of a storage problem"

To be honest this is not a good way to do hosting business. If you provide a service called "Simple Hosting", putting backup requirement on customer (when it is your fault) is pretty unfair.

PS: I think price of the product shouldn't effect minimum requirements.
Yes, but a map primarily consists of facts. You can use a map for reference in creating your own map without violating copyright. Your expression of those fact (the map design) just has to be reasonably different.
They're not suing over bad data (unless it came from them to begin with). As this is a copyright case, they're suing over the parts that match their own official publications. It's also not necessarily true that third-party data is worse than the official sources; in some cases it can even be superior.
I think the advantage of rental is the ability to drop off or pick up anywhere -- you can ride a scooter to the office, walk or bus to a restaurant after work, then rent a different scooter home. Or you might take a scooter from work to the restaurant, and you don't need to worry about parking the rental scooter securely or carrying it around with you.

But that only works if scooters are ubiquitous enough that you can find one when you want one.
Ukraine airliner accidentally downed by Iran, U.S. officials say
Whichever startup the well know adage "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is [too good to be]" applies to.
There obviously isn't enough housing for everybody. How many people do you think want to live in San Francisco (including those displaced by housing prices), but can't, and therefore live out of town, out of state, etc.?

The statistic about vacancies is only meaningful if you assume that the only demand for housing in SF comes from the homeless, which is clearly absurd.
The Amiga had preemptive multitasking in the 80's. (No memory protection though.)
IBM is still making and selling AIX, it’s pretty popular in manufacturing environments.
There's an issue for that (it's a few hours old). This is a top priority and should be fixed before next week.
> Your co-workers won’t schedule conference calls and meetings

Were it so easy.
I lead a project to develop a strong-copyleft license that makes development tools "free for open source":

https://paritylicense.com

The idea was that developers like you could make your tools available under Parity and charge folks who want to use their code to develop closed, rather than open, software. However, several projects and companies have also used the license simply to make sure their work stays open, without selling any permission to build closed projects.
What’s the corruption?
I feel like most things require exposure to appreciate unless you get full scale aesthetic orgasms from fabric patterning.
I'd go further, people protect their identities, which includes whatever ideologies & personal facets of themselves they've codified.

Where one person shrugs when a family member is insulted, another might come to blows to protect an idea of family. It's cultural, economic and political...it's belief.
Schemas for Structured Data on the Internet
This seems more like "defensive copying" than "interior mutability" to me.

Ideally you'd have a compiler that could perform optimizing magic to detect when the copy isn't needed, but that's not going to happen in CPython.
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They may also have "independent contractors" to do the work
> In other words, if you are a really, really skinny person (like myself), you would be looking at a statistically shorter lifespan, unless somehow your normal body temp is lower than average or you spot some other sign of decreased basal metabolic rate. Huh!

It would also depend whether your skinnyness is metabolic or nutritional (aka do you eat a lot and burn it easily, or eat little / low-calorie stuff).
Its the commercialization of this:

A Periodic Diet that Mimics Fasting Promotes Multi-System Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance, and Healthspan

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)...

You can do it yourself without any kind of kit, if you count calories.
I've done it 7 times so far. Due for another one soon.
> I'm surprised that it was warmer climate cities that underperformed in the US, because I would have expected those to have a much better chance for profit, as cold winter seasons dramatically reduce scooter usage. Too much competition?

I was surprised about this too. Though, from my anecdotal experience, there are a ton of micromobility companies operating in San Diego.
Counterpoint: I live in a newly-built condo building near Mission Bay and I don't know of any vacant units in the building. My neighbors very much exist.

These debates always turn into anecdotes that cover up the real reasons why people oppose or support housing—a preference for the suburban or urban lifestyle respectively. People who argue that newly-built condo buildings are mostly vacant always happen to prefer the suburban lifestyle; people who argue that newly-built condo buildings provide much-needed housing always happen to prefer the urban lifestyle (including me). It's all a facade.

The actual vacancy rate in San Francisco, as we expect, is relatively low for US cities.
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring construction engineers
I definitely feel this. I made a tradeoff decision to get the experience I wanted in the default view, but it screwed up what I expected the zoom to do (it's because i relied on the vw css element). I tried having a fully zoomed out version lower on the website - but I agree, it's an unfortunate experience. And wholly due to my laziness.
Can I recommend something? We see much higher acceptance rates for location access when it is explained ahead of time. It's not clear what you need it for. But if you had a banner that explains why you need it in the right UI context, you can provide a button like "Enable sharing location" or whatever, and you'll get a much higher rate of success.
Even with that napkin math, the value to not have to own the asset, insure it against theft, or carry it around constantly is still worth it to some consumers. The spontaneity of "hop on and ride, then forget about it" is the appeal.
There are actuary tables of average life expectancy given a base age. If you are a 70 yo female, you’re expected to live 2 years more than a 70 yo male.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

It’s possible this difference is a legacy from riskier makes behavior in middle age. I can’t think of a reasonable way to control for this though. Maybe look cross culturally to see if the effect is stable with respect to different male behavior norms?
No ACE train?
This is not counting all the people they "employ" to service their scooters. Hopefully the market is big enough to accommodate them into the competition.
So you're saying, against your admission of knowing better, that you can be literally swayed that a snapshot is a proper backup in the independent-of-the-original-storage sense, because their documentation equated the two?
Then maybe the people whining about Facebook (who refuse to quit it) should start a boycott instead of just whining and demanding that the government save them from themselves.

As far as "great cost to the individual", sorry, I'm not buying this. Nobody is being forced to use Facebook and nobody is being penalized for not using it. I still don't have an account and have no plans to change that.
companies like Uber, Lime, Bird, etc. have a lot of small regional offices in different cities that mostly employ operations and local marketing people that handle the grunt work with running these types of city-based companies. These aren't typical "tech" jobs and not typical "tech" offices.
Yes, this is how we do it in the US as well: from under the armpit, add 1 degree (F) to get the true temperature, which should be about 98.6
Data Transfer Project enables transfer of data between online service providers
That is not what OP proposed, please comment in good faith and avoid strawmen
We had the same issue with a pgsql server. Started out fine, but to get decent performance you pay out the nose for higher disk throughput.
It looks competitive when your pricing things out and don't know you need to pay for that. When you find out it's a classic sunk cost fallacy and most companies just eat the cost.
Yeah, that's e-ink. I was basing off of my experiences in my town, perhaps we're just behind the curve :)
> I've never seen anything testing that hypothesis.

Actuarial tables would tell you.

Though there would also be confounding variables e.g. previous "at risk" behaviour could still be in effect.
In copenhagen Lime is the most robust (and albeit clunky) of the 5-6 brands present. It seems they are the same as in your town. Wonder why our experience differ so much?
It's about making a virtue of a necessity.

When Be wrote that demo the situation is that the other operating systems you might plausibly choose all have working video acceleration. Even Linux has basic capabilities in this area by that point. BeOS doesn't have that and doesn't have a road map to get it soon.

So, any of the other platforms can play full resolution video captured from a DVD for example, a use case actual people have, on a fairly cheap machine and BeOS won't be able to do that without a beast of a CPU because it doesn't have even have hardware colour transform acceleration or chromakey.

But - 1990s hardware video acceleration can only play one video at a time, because "I want to play three videos" isn't a top ask from actual users. So, Be's demo deliberately shows several different postage stamp videos instead of one higher resolution video, as the acceleration is no help to competitors there.

And then since you're doing it all in software, not rendering to a rectangle in hardware, the transform to have this low res video render as one side of a cube or textured onto a surface makes it only very slightly slower, rather than being impossible.

Audiences come away remembering they saw BeOS render videos on a 3D surface, and not conscious that it can't do full resolution video on the cheap hardware everybody has. Mission success.
https://www.docdroid.net/faDq8Bu/swarm-training-v01a.pdf

We average the weights themselves, and the efficiency seems to be similar to gradient gathering.

It’s also averaging in slices, not the full model. There’s never a full resync.

SWA is the theoretical basis for why it works, I think.

Another way of thinking about it: If the gradients can be averaged, then so can the weights.
The guys who retrieve the scooters for these kinds of companies are "independent contractors."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18267128/lime-electric-sc...
The claim as stated is not true, and would be equivalent to taking the average brain and it being as good as the average answer from those people. Nonsense.
If Apple had failed, I wonder what Steve would have done after Pixar. Start a new computer company? Could he (or perhaps a better question: would he) have swooped in with Mac compatibility mode?

The real win was a mobile future sans Microsoft. I doubt smart phones would be what they are today if not for the iPhone, and the iPhone required huge resources and a maniac cracking the whip. Would Jony Ive leave a failing Apple and work with Steve? If not, would we even have the iPod let alone the iPhone?

On the plus side, Nokia might have still been around.
Yeah it isn't that complicated. This guy is a low-quality actor who staged a racially-motivated attack to gain press.

Any attempt to play up the "man we really don't know what happened!" angle is pure mis-direction and mental masturbation.
I used to use Gandi for all my domains. I've switched to OVH though. Their DNS also propagates in like a minute.
This model works with cars (e.g. ZipCar) but with scooters I don't see how this is possible, unless the entire city is quite literally littered with scooters.

If I have to walk 5-10 min to the nearest car which I can unlock from my phone and then use to drive 5 miles somewhere then it's great, but if I have to walk 5-10 minutes to the nearest scooter pickup so I can scooter somewhere for 5-10 minutes then it sort of defeats the whole point.
I'm actually planning to do same thing, probably also use that to install PoE wifi access points. I think I also will need VLAN functionality. Which switch do you use?

Also any opinion about their recent fiasco with telemetry?
Why not just use curl?
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Use cases of front end are getting more and more complex so the tools are as well. One could argue that we are trying to do so much with a platform that offers so little by default. Maybe that's the inherent culprit. Don't know. I really prefer frontend dev to backend (when I started it was all the same really), but I have to admit frontend complexity can scale pretty fast.
Okay so how do I get a cheap e-scooter? Or will they just trash the still-working hardware?
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As a tourist/traveler I love rental scooters. For commuting I would obviously buy my own, but when I travel somewhere I wouldn't want to carry my scooter everywhere. Just arriving at Frankfurt central station, stepping out of the train station and grabbing a scooter is a huge convenience if you want to get somewhere close-ish in the city.
1 gram of NMN, metformin and resveratrol. Beyond that I take other things including carbon 60. Those are the most exotic items; the rest are your usual items such as fish-oil, krill oil, multi-vitiman most of which I tuned from my Inside-Tracker.com blood results.

I also have the right genetics; aka longevity gene(s), Ashkenazi Jew markers, etc and my farther is in his upper 80's; his mother lived to 98.

I don't want to claim that it's any one thing. I'm sure it's everything. The Tabata style sprinting 2-3 days a week, the hour+ workouts minimum of 5 days a week, the 16/8 fasting, the hockey/cryotherapy-like effects of being cold and working out/aerobic exhaustion of being on the ice or skating outside etc. And of course diet... I eat much much less than most people I know (big fan of Paleo menu by Green-Chef).

The way I see it is there are studies around NMN, metformin and resveratrol right now; let's say in 10 years they all prove they slow aging/extend life... to me it's worth the cost to take these now and bet on a positive outcome. If some of these studies don't pan out, so it goes, but so far it seems like it's working out pretty well if my increasingly annoyed friends are any indication.
For me it's kind of pointless indoors and the weather is not yet ideal for outdoors. When I did use it outdoors (a couple of days) it worked as advertised, but using an external monitor was awkward. A notebook with the same panel would have been much better.

TL;DR: probably not, but I'm still evaluating. (A proper stand for it might also help - what's included is laughably flimsy)