skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder, when somebody finally gets seriously pounded for blatantly exploiting DMCA.
This is referenced in the article. The style originated with the London Tube maps in the 1930's.
Can we please just make this (scooters, bikes) public transit?

Not profitable - check

Good for society - check

In need of regulation - check
Relatedly:

If we don't adopt a framework we end up building one - increasingly of a patchwork of pieces fitting a bit roughly together.
I rode Lime-branded scooters in my "global South" town for a couple of weeks. It was a really expensive proposition and I was basically paying for the thrill. But the city (probably wisely) banned them from sidewalks -- when the whole point was to replace walking, not renting a highly vulnerable motorcycle substitute to ride with the cars in the street.

To answer your question: high prices/margins.
Never heard of it and hopefully never will
California Looks to Launch Its Own Prescription-Drug Label
> I don't believe we've been served well by defining the term "Open Source" to also necessarily mean "Free".

I don't think we've done that. On the contrary, Stallman and many other free software advocates specifically distinguish between open source software and free software.

To add to the confusion, I think you're talking about free as in beer (gratis) rather than free as in freedom (libre). The latter is what most free software advocates are talking about.

I would argue that all of the problems you mention are caused by open source software that is not free (libre) even if it is free (gratis).
Because for most Capitalists workers are not human beings, just tools.
This is what I've been saying for years. I didn't know anyone had implemented it.....looks like they have an 8% interest rate, that's crazy high for the situation.
Ha-ha, but am I the only one who thinks we've reached peak-passive-aggressive here? If you can't make a meeting, or don't think you have much to contribute, just decline like a grown-up and don't attend it. My calendar is usually booked 100% all days but I pick and choose which ones to attend, and it's never a big deal.
Python defines += as the __iadd__ method which is sometimes mutating, i.e. if the object being assigned to is mutable or not.
They'll be collected and sold through an auction company for liquidation probably or redistributed to other markets.
Charles Proxy has been pretty good to me - it's straightforward with little setup. It could use more features but it does exactly what it advertises.

I use it for security testing our website, making sure form data is properly handled, etc. It's also good for reverse engineering apis and can replace files with your own too.
Always make your own backups. Shit is going to happen any time soon.
Micromobility like scooters are a "first look" experience. The use case is getting from point A to point B: who is first in line in terms of showing the user options to do that?

The first app to be checked for transportation options to point B has a tremendously valuable asset -- it's not just the scooter, but the fact that it's first in line for the demand.

Useful in a world where ridesharing companies and others are duking it out over users. Less so after the dust has settled.
>This is not available in consumer-grade receivers.

not true. i posted a link in a sibling comment but you can use two piksis with one as the base and one as the rover to get sub cm differential rtk. you can also use NOAA CORS station (if you're within 10km) to get precise ppk

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/

for this use case i would set the base down at a fixed location and let it solve. then i would wait a day for CORS data to get accurate gps for the base and plan out my trajectories relative to that base (using whatever registered maps they use). alternatively you could survey the location where the base sits.
Because I once learned that `a += b` is just a shortcut for `a = a + b`, just a syntax sugar. Now I have to constantly remind myself that it's not the case in python.

edit: I might have misunderstood your question. If you meant "why it's not equivalent" please see the falkaer's answer.
The idea should be to discourage petty and arbitrary downvoting. That also isn't great comment etiquette, and it's far more corrosive to discourse than discussing downvotes, yet it's encouraged here.
It may be seen as discriminatory in the US as well. There are a number of diseases/ailments/conditions that are medically recognized and require frequent or sometimes uncontrolled/unexpected bathroom visits. I imagine the path forward in the US would be more difficult though and would likely just lead to a small out of court settlement as opposed to an across the board policy/law change.
I have a wonderful partner who takes care a lot of the budgeting/payments etc. I make 2/3 of the household income and I let her have free reign to save/pay things as I personally have a hard time saving money.

What I notice she does is some sort of 'envelope' method, where she has many envelopes, and for every bill she puts the amount needed, in cash, in the envelope. This way you know you have all your bills paid and anything left in your accounts you can use to invest or have fun with. When it comes time to pay a bill, you can either pay it with the cash, deposit it into your account and write a check or put it in before you pay online/phone or however you pay your bills.

She can re-use the same envelope for each month on reoccurring bills, and have some for special events/budgets or a vacation fund envelope. Birthday funds, Christmas etc.

I think physically seeing the bill money separated out of the accounts really helps you know how much left over you have every month to play with.
Close but sadly they don't seem to offer ccTLDs :(
I've recently bought a YNAB subscription, and I must say I'm pretty happy with it.
Extremly Hard Puzzle Game
I visited Moscow last year, and noticed they have docked scooters: https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/328422-how-rent-electric-scoo...

Plenty of places have undocked bicycles, so a fair comparison is possible.
If you want a quite fast and nice solution for aligning routes, pfaedle[1] is a great tool that creates a gtfs shapes.txt by using open street map train track / street data.

[1]: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/pfaedle
I think because it's an everyday commuter line. Unfortunately there are really limited options but I do know a few people that make the commute.
And yet, literally, this article shows that you cannot.
You can't "make america great again" unless you regress.
When it's pretty much not legally possible to increase supply, runaway demand explains the problem pretty well.
That's really neat. But imagining higher than (material) speed of light electrons zipping through my eyes is a bit unsettling.
“That said, I don't think the world would be in a better place had Apple chosen Be over NeXT.”

Yes. Except that it wasn’t acquiring NeXTSTEP that saved Apple’s skin; it was acquiring Steven P Jobs.

True, version 1 had been rough and flakey as hell, and honestly really didn’t work all that well.

But Steve 2.0? Damn, that one could sell.
thunderous applause

Bravo!
Right. This definitely feels like a 1 step forward, two steps back deal.

Side note: Its all the more hilarious that Trump's face, encircled in Russian, is now plastered over the cancer-inducing asbestos pallets.
Make it a year, not six months. The problem is investors, not vacation homes or snowbird homes.
James Garfield Was the Only U.S. President to Prove a Math Theorem
>Nobody is being forced to use Facebook and nobody is being penalized for not using it.

I know several people working in journalism who are as part of their job forced to maintain a social media presence and nowadays it is often the only way to even reliably contact or communicate with sources.

Not to mention that even more fundamental aspects like dating are increasingly moving onto digital platforms. So yes, for many people social media presence is part of their job, and for many young people it is increasingly becoming the primary gateway to maintaining social relations.
As others commented, you either ensemble models (average the predictions) or average the update (gradient).

For ensembling, the mathematical justification for why this surprising result is true (e.g just averaging many weak but different models gives a better model) is pretty interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet%27s_jury_theorem
Hermit crabs use old bottle caps and plastic as shells, and it’s killing them
> As The Post covered, Trump has long been vocal about his skepticism about the harmful effects of asbestos, claiming in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, that anti-asbestos efforts were “led by the mob.”

Conspiracy theories are a helluva drug.
Personally, i'd use one of these https://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic to resolve the issue

aim well

:)
Not sleeping leads to death in remarkably short order. (Nobody knows why, but the fact is well established.) Dying cannot be expected to yield faster computers.
It's apparent you didn't understand what I wrote at all.

My point is (and I'll spell it out for you too, since I think it may apply) -- knowing the right thing is usually much much much much less important than being able to get other people to understand the right thing.

This article is good because it does the 2nd. There is no lack of unhappy people decrying problems, the world has no use for that.

The world does have use for people who can inspire differently-minded people to focus on (and find joy in) fixing a common challenge.
It does happen, but due to inflammation and the fact that the “lens” wobbles since it is made out of water, you get enough consistency that it’s not noticeable without a detailed inspection.

It’s possibly still noticeable via the naked eye, but you’d have to compare and contrast to notice the slight mottling.
This has to depend so much on city size. I'm in Milwaukee and they're perfect for here, because with everything so compact in the downtown area, if I'm meeting people to get food, hang out, or even go to Bucks games, it's so easy to get a scooter to get there rather than walk, uber, or the quick rent bikes we have.

I was just in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and we took the scooters in Montevideo, but even that city was almost too big, and also the streets different from what I'm used to making using them in the roads difficult.

As for Lime scooters compared to the other brands, I just pick the closest one to me; I haven't picked a favorite.
Thorium may be a solution. There are also molten salt reactors that are very promising. Unfortunately, when you look at nuclear energy policy, the two people most likely to be willing/capable to create positive policies supporting these new technologies also seem to be against any nuclear development at all [1]. They are talking in terms of 2030 timelines for elimination of nuclear - thus, my comment that we can't expect any new substantial contributions in a 'generation.' If US policy makers are already making plans that go out into the 2030s that do not include nuclear, it will take at least as long to bring it back to the table. How would one even build a test reactor in the US if the energy policies disallow it at commercial scale?

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-10/elizab...
My impression in Austin is that it peaked last year. Not to say they aren't still common.

To be honest I think there's a possible real business here, but maybe only for one or two companies, and only in cities where they achieve a critical mass. The 4am collecting of abandoned scooters, becomes much more efficient if it's only one company per town, and they are commonly used such that there is much less distance between scooters of a given company.

I suppose that, like for every 1000 1999 e-business there was only one Amazon, the VC's are thinking there will be one or two survivors here who will eventually do well.
Matthew Rocklin is founding a Dask company
One of the most creative games is releasing this year
I wondered why there's no safe synthetic substitute for asbestos so I looked it up.

There's a material from the 70s called Zetex made out of fiberglass that's specifically designed to replace asbestos but I've never heard of it until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetex_(fabric)
ZFS by the looks of the status updates:

>we have a problem to import zfs pool on the unit storage. Our engineers are still working on it.
In the world of cloud, this should be pretty trivial. Upload your daily dumps / asset metadata to S3/GCS/ABS.

Set a retention policy I.e even if someone ran some delete command it wouldn’t delete. Someone with retention lock permissions is the only one that can remove the locks And delete.

There is cold storage and other things even cheaper. But cloud object prices are pretty cheap per GB it’s ridiculous.

I think they make most of the margins on bandwidth.

Losing customer data. All customer data is pretty ridiculous. I can understand downtime. I can understand losing a day of changes. But everything? That’s just unacceptable business.
Very much this! I have a small business and my product has a lot of "big name" users, but consistently it's pretty much impossible to get sign-off to use their name or logo.

I don't know what the legality of just putting them up there whether they want to or not is, but obviously the social proof of doing so is huge.

How do people navigate this?
Vacancy taxes are hardly authoritarian. If government has any purpose it is to address the irreconcilable conflicts of individual self-interest vs the benefit of all.

And your 'realistic solutions' leads to exploitive loopholes for people who already benefit enough without additional tax incentives, like communities that go in on luxury senior developments to meet their low-income/transient housing obligations.
> They would need the decryption key, and if the server doesn't have it how would they get it?

Either carry it with them or enter a passphrase (for use with a key derivation function; I guess/hope that Ring requires some passphrase to view video via their website anyway). That's a rather common problem.

As for "AI", depending on what you mean by that, it can be implemented in the device itself (unless it's something particularly fancy, requiring more resources than viable to dedicate there).

It's indeed easier and slightly more convenient to not care about security, but that's also a general/common case.
No. Hardware floating point was _Quake_

Quake has software full 3D which runs appallingly if you can't do fast FP, it's targeting the new Pentium CPUs which all have fast FPUs onboard, it runs OK on a fast 486DX but it flies on a cheap Pentium.

Doom is just integer calculations, it's fixed point math.
Strong agreement. JUMP bikes were designed for the hostile environment of vandals and sabotage that exist here. Lime bikes weren't.

I LIKE dockless bikeshare. But the bikes have to be safe to ride.
Student Interest in A.I., Machine Learning Is Accelerating
Isn't the WHOIS query sent unencrypted? Can't it be intercepted in that case?
Google's WebRTC goals – a problem of expectations
From their BLAKE3 paper (https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blak...) they give an example of verified streaming in 6.4.

Basically to verify a video file using serial hash functions you need to download the entire video file before you can perform the hashing. In BLAKE3 you can verify each chunk of the video as it is being streamed because the hash internally is just a Merkle Tree.
I have a Roborock (Xiaomi) S50 which just has a LiDAR on top and I can set boundaries based on an actual map of my house with the app. Greatly preferable over having to place random things around the house.
Since you're giving a anecdote, let me do the same. I have about 30-40 domains with Gandi, and have been using it for about ten years. I don't remember ever verifying my identity, but guess I most have done it at least once. I have not been asked to verify anything for at least the last five years of using it.

Disclaimer: I don't work there or have any relationship, except I'm a happy customer
I feel like Companies like Goop and other "natural" health companies profit from this stuff as a side-effect. Like who else could you market this type of crap to.

https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/rose-quartz-bottle?taxon...
>His female characters are often shrieking ninnies.

I don't recall his works. But review the US family TV shows from the 1950s and 1960s and see the 'fond, goofy' portrayal of women -- it was everywhere. Similarly, many cartoons of that era ... shown across the nation in theatres ... cannot be seen anymore. The level of thick-headed, cloddish insensitivity was pervasive. We've changed as a culture in the US, and I'm grateful.
>I suspect the cost to the consumer would have to double for it to maintain any profitability, and the demand already sucks.

I suspect if you price in other externalities it would be even worse. Those things are flimsy trash that are meant to be utterly disposable. You can barely service or replace something as simple as a broken wheel. If these things ever did actually take off it would have been an ecological catastrophe. For all the waste generated by things like Keuregs, at least they're not going to leach heavy metals into the landfills.
I have a few areas where ours gets stuck - I haven't tried it yet, but I was thinking cheap pool noodles would work. Definitely cheaper than beacons at $50 a pop.
Eh, he sounds more frustrated and snippy to me. Still rude and unprofessional behaviour, of course.
If people willingly exchange currency for products from a company and are satisfied with the value that they get out of it to the point that they become repeat customers, then how can you judge that no one except stockholders are benefitting?
Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam
For one thing, stopping at a shop when you're on foot is free, but if you want to get back to scooting, you can only park the scooter but not end the rental (otherwise someone else might rent that scooter while you're in the shop), but (AFAIK) Lime, etc, will charge you money as long as the scooter is still being rented out to you.
This seems like a better explanation, because the effect is stronger for things that absorb water than for things where the water sits on top.
Any problem is easy if you oversimplify it.

The cultural conceit of 'disruptors' is that society has made everything complicated and therefore society is 'ripe for disruption' which if you read between the lines means 'stupid'. Lack of respect means lack of care. Lack of care leads to injury (theirs, and/or ours).

You are right. It's not the tech. It's the arrogance.

From my knothole, legislation comes for things that aren't policing themselves adequately. I think what we are discovering is that there are a lot of domains where the old guard were self-policing to a degree, and the newcomers have absolutely no reverence for anything.

I expect it won't be long before you'll see industries taking a hard look at their internal culture, and then engaging in regulatory capture to keep out the disruptors.
Yeah, but then he should shut up.
If you want an alternative to searching with a registrar you can always type:

whois mysupergreatcoolappidea.com

into a terminal window and see if you get back a result
Lessons from the 9 Best Mobile Games of 2019: Part Three
interesting! I believe I saw patterns during an MRI, it was really interesting.
If you find this kind of thing interesting, I strongly recommend the book [The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air](https://store.doverpublications.com/0486201961.html) by Marcel Minnaert. He discusses why wet things are darker, why shadows of leaves have little circular gaps, how to see the "green flash" that sometimes precedes a sunset, and dozens of others, some you might have noticed and wondered about, and some you won't realize you noticed until he points it out.
Why? Because once Trump took office, the people heading the EPA have all been replaced with people that are actively against the environment, ecosystem, climate change, and are very pro big business.
Ironic considering her twitter profile's description says "Responsable #communication #socialmedia #digital #innovation ⌨️#webmarketing #inboundmarketing #qvt #GOT et #TWD fan"[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/juliepelloille
I am very interested in your comment about different core functionality.
If I understand you correct there are different functions for specific cores, if this is true, I would humbly request that you create a blog/post covering this topic as these traits have been totally been missed by me.
This is probably the result of my biased opinion towards ARM devices but I would genuinely like to know this information.
2nding YNAB. It's different at first, but really helps you to save.
I've been using Mint since the beginning and it has made the single biggest impact in my finances. Being able to see spending trends, areas I'm wasting, and diverting funds to other areas that need it. I'm religious about correctly categorizing every purchase, and maximizing budgets monthly.Monumental for me.
I have had to personally re-document setting up a basic Azure AD connection 4 times in a 18 month period. Each time I go back to it, the UI has changed and key pieces of functionality are just 'elsewhere'.

The EC2 console is old and outdated, its been the same since I started with it like 7 years ago. They are rolling out a new dashboard right now, a complete overhaul.

The difference - I don't have to re-document the EC2 Console for internal training.

The AWS Cli is a simple tool that just keeps working and its documentation is pretty much all you need to look at.

The Powershell interface with AzureAD was absolutely opaque, no documentation, took hours to figure out how to configure claims and when I did, it didn't even work due to hidden limitations that the paid for support could not explain.

I think that your experiences have been quite different to others, certainly mine.
A Review of the FreedomBox Software
"What is this supposed to prove?"

Perhaps it proves that if one is writing relatively small, simple programs, some of these languages are overkill.
In my city (Zurich) it already feels like an environmental disaster, with 5 or 6 scooter companies jumping into the market, there's probably more scooters on offer than there is demand.
No, it's not. An ad's destination page is subject to Facebooks advertising policy:

>During the ad review process, we'll check your ad's images, text, targeting, and positioning, in addition to the content on your ad's landing page. Your ad may not be approved if the landing page content isn't fully functional, doesn't match the product/service promoted in your ad or doesn't fully comply with our Advertising Policies.

https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/
Maybe if scooters could be parked for free on nearly any curb, like cars, you wouldn't be stepping over them.
Where you there in 2010?

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fir...
That was my way into learning Vi(m), too, and I also stayed with Emacs, but using Evil mode. I struggle with vanilla Emacs nowadays, tbh.
This is a serious attempt. I've been following these guys for years. Last year they had a full makeshift staff of volunteer designers, engineers, web devs, etc. to build out this project further. They performed a lot of materials and manufacturing research to build these simple and affordable machines. Although the machines they developed are around $10k for a full setup, compare that to the multiple millions it costs to setup a true recycling center and you'll understand how important this is.

A small community can (and are) band together to build or purchase these machines to create community recycling centers, turning their trash into art or other useful things like dishes and furniture.

I was obsessed with this project for the last few years. Happy and surprised to see them on HN.
Big discussion from August 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17706551