skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly why I'm hesitant. The robo-vacuums have been highly disappointing and do a much worse job than taking the few moments to vacuum myself. I still have one that I run constantly because it's slightly better than nothing on a daily basis.

These cons don't seem terrible. Maybe in a few months we'll see some new ones on the market and see prices a bit more competitive. Appreciate all the input.
I actually do this. I usually block out early morning for on hour at start of day for (Assessment and prioritization of projects), then I have one 2 hour block a day (that changes and is already scheduled for the week) thats assigned to dedicated project research. Other users simply see i'm booked during those periods and it makes it easy for me to plan around having a block of time for hard tasks.

No one has complained yet and in fact I even put down lunch breaks in there now to. It's cut down on excess meetings I have to attend and more importantly i'm able to have some control over time with projects where it may take an hour to get really into it.
It doesn't encourage hiring more employees - how would that affect the average employee pay? You just have to pay more to the ones you have.
You're the one who's assuming bad faith.

The OP talked about brinkmanship and how having ones forces on edge can lead to these disasters. I pointed to two other perfectly relevant examples that support his/her comment.

One of the examples just happens to be the US shooting down of an Iranian airliner, which is notable for obvious reasons, but was not intended as some kind of "justification" or other such silliness. I provided the link since younger readers might not be familiar with it (unlike the 2014 incident).

I'm Canadian. My country lost 63 citizens. Another 75 of the victims were residents. 138 souls. So, despite what you assumed, I have no agenda other than learning more about how these things can happen. As of this moment, our Prime Minister is giving a news conference indicating he believes it was indeed an (accidental) missile strike.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/intelligence-indicates-fligh...
Minimalism for the sake of minimalism isn't what I was arguing for. If it were, I'd say that every paper and program should be written with `ed`, the standard text editor [0].

What I was trying to say was that if minimal solutions run circles around bloated ones thousands of times their size, and when it takes a startup and two funding rounds to develop something that does exactly what tools did three decades ago less efficiently, then maybe Braithwaite was on to something:

> “It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.” -- Keith Braithwaite

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
I'll drop right in here to say the in their private life argument doesn't fly here. Because the complaints aren't about his private relationships, they're about public and professional behavior.

Frankly the callousness of people like Asimov bothers me. You're left with two possibilities. Either they simply don't care that they are making the other person uncomfortable, angry or scared. Or worse that they're getting off on that.
Work hard for a living, even though it's minimum wage, knowing it's enough to support a life and family? Wasn't that the case 50 years ago? Too much to ask for today, I guess
Or raise prices, or accept less pay at the top.
Would we call fondling male breasts (a "nipple twister" the internet informs me is called) or a slap on their ass (butt slapping, common sometimes after a sport game) against their owner’s will, a sexual assault (much less rape)? What if it had been performed by a stronger man to another weaker man, but in some casual setting?

How serious would we consider it, and how "traumatized" we would consider the person after the incident? (Some would call it "very serious". But then again there are people who suffer trauma over a wrong order at Starbucks).

At best most people would call it a tasteless antic or light bullying or crappy behavior (like farting in public)...
not sure what this has anything to do with my previous comment...

i observed San Diego being relatively accommodating to scooters, including created designated parking, on top of being a city is flat and usually sunny and warm - both things that are good for scooter demand, and wondered aloud why Lime still couldn't make it work.
it's pretty obvious it's the hackernews patriarchal bubble. men seem to think they know everything about women, and anyone questioning that is put in their place.
This is a bit like saying hotels are obsolete because most of the time you live in the same place and apartments make more sense.

The value proposition of a scooter service is ad hoc last mile transport where you don’t have to have brought the scooter with you to use it.

There may still be issues with the model. It might be that isn’t a demand profile that has the right scale to support much of a business (but could be useful for municipalities to provide, like some do with bikeshares). And I find rideshares are price competitive for last mile stuff (though it’s well known that’s only because ride costs are subsidized with investor cash, so maybe all scooter shares have to do to find their market niche is hold out til that stops). Or maybe most people feel safer with other forms of transport.

But the basic “summon something better than walking without having to carry it with you” idea does make some fundamental sense.
Linus: Don't Use ZFS
You're thinking of GEDmatch, which was recently sold.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/gedmatch...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-owner-consumer-dna-...
> I can see personal e-scooters as being a great alternative to cars for [...] taking the kids to school

If it's close to 5km, are you really going to take the kids on scooters?

If it's closer to 1km, how about simply walking? Reality check: we have two (of three) kids in school, their walk to school is just over half a mile, they both walk more or less every single day, in summer and winter and in the rain and the snow.

Oddly they really like walking to school in the snow :)
Thanks! I'll check these out.
That would not create the semi-communist world you're hoping for: today's rich people are already rich, and the effect would be stopping anybody new from becoming rich.
> How do you define "ad"?

Attempt to sell.

Whether that's for an agenda, a product, a way of life, service, access, or anything else with a direct (or indirect) transaction of value - it's a dead giveaway.
Yes - money is directly related to happiness until you're making 'enough', for some locally defined value of enough. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/02/26/d...
> I’ve been thinking the past couple of years you should be able to vote in local elections in the area you work in, even if you don’t live there.

In many areas this would effectively lead to the suburbs being able to dictate urban policy to the inner city, where suburban commuter interests like parking override the interests of the actual residents. The 1998 amalgamation of Toronto is a good example of this happening, and I think a lot of Old Toronto voters are quite unhappy with this, given how it led to mayors like Rob Ford who would never have been elected with the old boundaries.

Other areas try to solve this by creating an uber transit authority which theoretically directs and coordinates the smaller agencies for the greater regional good. A good example of this is the Regional Transportation Authority in Chicago. It often doesn't work out the way it's intended (in Chicago, the CTA [city proper transit] and Metra [commuter rail] still have very poor coordination, although Pace [suburban buses] and CTA do have somewhat good coordination).

A third approach is to (try to) make the whole region's transit the responsibility of one single agency. Picking Atlanta as an example here (MARTA), it tends to lead to affluent suburbs (Cobb and Gwinnett Counties) trying to stay out of the system because of concerns like "transit brings crime" and "it's too expensive and no one will use it" and other assorted nonsense. So that approach has its problems too.

In short, this is a very thorny problem and there honestly aren't a lot of places in North America that do it very well, although some are worse than others (the SF Bay Area may seem like a mess, and it is, but it's inarguably better than the dozens of barely-funded, not-at-all-sufficient systems that exist in most large and medium cities in the U.S.). I think the right solution is probably specific to each region and it still won't solve every problem, at least not without a level of funding that transit simply does not get on this continent.
In case anyone else is interested, I found that the org that handles the the papyri has a really cool write-up about how they handle the digitization process.

http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/imaging/imaging.html

According to the article: . Over the past century, just over 5,000 of the half-million Oxyrhynchus papyri have been published.

So between the large data set and scanning process, I'm hopeful that all of these (and other) ancient manuscripts will be shared publicly. I love imagining all the potential studies we can do with proper machine learning once we have the data set.
Suicidal ideation is a mental health illness. Financial desperation is stressful, but that stress is not an indication of mental health distress. I don’t see these two things as having any correlation and I am not aware of any related evidence adjoining those two.

If finances are a factor in suicidal ideation then it’s a secondary consideration in addition to more prominent concerns.
Doesn't seem plausible, _especially_ when unemployment is high.

Retail is the land of the minimum wage jobs, and margins are fairly thin there as it is. Raising the minimum wage simply means some employees become former employees. If the unemployment is at historic lows as it is today, there's a good chance those former employees will be able to find another job, so I see how the conclusion of the paper could be plausible, although loss of a job is still a very stressful event regardless.

When the unemployment rate is high (as it was in the studied date range), however, the effective wage becomes whatever unemployment pays, which isn't very much, and then it goes away entirely at some point. I don't see how this would reduce suicide.

Seems to me like another study crafted to produce the outcome the author wanted. The hypothesis isn't really testable anyway.
Saving Money Is a Lie
It does not devalue it if they're sharing demand for those products with people who make $50 an hour and a select few who make $1000 an hour - assuming those incomes don't go up proportional to the increase in minimum wage.
Yeah, don't really like that either. At least with the other services, the user arguably sees an improvement -- better community, better car, whatever. Your genetics are what they are; I doubt (but might be wrong!) 23andMe is sending out free drugs to all the participants.

I'm not sure how Veritas does it, but 23andMe only takes a few of the 600K SNPs available to analyze. PBS had a good bit on it, you can find it on YouTube. They release your raw data, but make no guarantee of accuracy, which is crazy considering some people take drastic, irreversible medical action (double mastectomy, hysterectomy for the BRCA mutation) based on the results. I'm sure they disclaim that, but crazy nonetheless.
Indeed. And AMD's counterpart to ark.intel.com is horrendously opaque. I don't mind having confusing part numbers, as long as I have a simple way to get clear information about the part.
The article didn't explain what a GTFS feed was, and my first thought was it's a "Get The Fuck Somewhere feed". Turns out it's General Transit Feed Specification.
Mmm, seems like a stretch to blame problems in Eastern Europe on the belief in a safety net - Western Europe/Scandinavia also believes in a safety net but doesn't have the same problems.
Well, we may well be able to simulate it perfectly, but it might not fit into Frozen 2's limited budget for rendering.
All of the positions are hourly, not salaried. They require per-minute accounting of your work. Most people who "succeed" in those positions wind up working overtime that is consistent and excessive, just to hit their 40.
Correlation isn't causation.

Its actively harmful to pretend it is because it diverts from real research and actual solutions and
> Ah, but public transit is inherently the slowest option.

This isn't true if you are in a dense city with good public transit. This is currently mid day (3 PM), and it's about 30% faster (21 minutes vs 29 minutes) to go from my current location in Manhattan to a bar I enjoy hanging out in Brooklyn via public transit than car, according to Google Maps. It would be even better around rush hour.
It'd be capped at $1.5 million [1] since he didn't get persistence, but still very impressive.

[1]: https://zerodium.com/program.html
Again, did you watch the video? The technology is different. Yes, it involves a computer changing colored pixels but that's only one part of it. The calibration process is something you cannot do in Photoshop. Photoshop does not place physical color calibration charts in the sea and calculate the color profiles for you based on that chart.
Okta has a free tier for 1000 active users/month (not 1000 logins but 1000 separate users logging in as many times as you'd like). After 1000 it's cheap as heck. https://developer.okta.com/pricing
To be fair, Microsoft has only decided on Kubernetes within the last year. Before that there was heated debate on whether to support K8 or ServiceFabric, their "competing" standard. Now that all efforts are on K8 we'll see it improve pretty quickly.
I suggest you look at current income figures and try to come up with a plan where juicing the rich works. There's a reason Germany's 42% tax bracket starts at... €55,961

If you want to pay for these things, you need to bring your idea of who's gonna get taxed way, way down to earth.
DNA is an anti-secret in the same way that digital rights management schemes are an anti-secret. DRM schemes only work through legal support; and in my opinion, legally protecting the secrecy of DNA is much more sensible (from a human pow, rather than from an economic growth pow) than legally protecting the secrets behind DRMs. People can be actively harmed, can be discriminated laboraly for example, if their DNA is public, as opposed to being devoid of some imaginary profits.
It is a solely hipster thingy of bay area. The alternative to scooter is walking little more. If the range of your feet is say half a mile (you are willing to walk half a mile after getting out of train say) then scooter probably makes it 1 mile but adds a lot of other variable to it such as unreliability, availability, availability to return etc.

I will happily short position in any of these scooter companies meant for consumers.
Can you point me to a study other than the one in Seattle?
I have only read about Seattle but have not really researched it thoroughly.
I really enjoyed that write up. The focus on a good UI/UX in platform teams is definitely something that resonates with me. I also really liked the article placing an emphasis on Platform teams providing value by having a better "glue" I thought was interesting. I hadn't really thought that glue could be a component where value could be added. I really like the pattern of tools like "Devhose" and in developing a tool specifically to be the glue that integrates well with other tools.
> The ":s" verb for easily viewing the size of directories / files

It's the keybind "S" with nnn (or "A" for apparent usage). You can also use the same option ("-S") to open nnn in du mode.

> the overview of multiple directories at once

I explained the nnn design strategy in my other response

> the gitignore handling

This can be added but it changes the current generic way of handling directory entries

> There might be more, but I would have to spend more time with it

That would actually be a constructive data to improve nnn as well.

Thanks for the notes!
This information can be easily used to regenerate partially the physical object.
Even in LA which has a huge number of scooters, there's been times where I've scooted someplace then when I turn around to leave someone unlocked it.

If it's getting later in the day most of the scooters you find are going to be scattered in all sorts of very strange areas, many times in gated apartments, and/or with not enough charge to get you home. Or maybe you have to settle for that scooter with the screen dangling out of it by the wires and the handlebars at 45* relative to the wheel that everyone else was just not desperate enough to use.
It does have a peephole optimizer.
The newer/higher end Roomba’s with cameras on them have the same feature using VSLAM instead of LiDAR.
I think there is a startup out there with that idea. Basically they sequence you but you can choose what analyses get run on your data.. and can get paid to have your data analyzed.
The original article: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-some-things-are-darker-when...
Inko's page looks almost exactly like rust-lang.org used to look like in the past, before Rust rebranded their site for marketing reasons.
> I've found it nigh on possible to find a nice third-party generic user-permissions web service though. Do such things exist?

I've been thinking about building something along these lines. It would be path based, with 4 roles: Reader, Writer, Manager, Owner. So readers for example could GET, writers could POST/PATCH/DELETE/etc, managers could modify readers/writers, and owners can modify managers.

So for example you could call auth-server.com/add-reader/path/of/interest with a manager token.

Verification of credentials could be done with JWTs that contain a list of paths the user has access to. So any particular app could be completely decoupled from the auth server.

Is this at all the type of thing you're talking about?
But there's other factors there. Do we know if there was a change after Canada switched to universal health care?
"Scheduled to be in at 10am" implies "paid from 10am" to me.
Not just strewn with litter, but also more dangerous for pedestrians because many scooter riders use the sidewalks as full-speed slalom courses. If scooters have designated parking spaces and designated non-sidewalk rideable areas/lanes they are great. Most places do not have these things yet and enforcing them takes a lot of the convenience factor away from the platform as well.
The availability of the drugs is the benefit, not whether they are provided to you free or not. Fix healthcare policy if you want that reality.
Classic Dunning–Kruger effect.
Agreed on the barely functional. What I've noticed is that the more time and schedule obsessed a development manager is, the more likely they are incompetent. Time is the easiest thing to manage. A single variable. No complexity.
A Fool and His Money
That write-up sounds just like the games that Comcast have been playing for some time. Could it be they learned this from Comcast?
The squatters do a thing called "Domain tasting".

They buy domain X and then they put generic advertising, maybe keyword based, on a cheap bulk hosted site. They measure for a few days - is this bringing in lots of revenue? If not, they cancel the purchase, using a "grace period" available to users of the registry in case of mistakes - the purchase is unwound and they are refunded the fees. Domain X is now available again.

In principle this is forbidden for major TLDs but it's still possible and unscrupulous vendors help them do it, albeit it may now attract a fee if you do it enough that the TLD registry detects you tasting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting explains about this and related practices.
I know. I'm not sure I understand.
+1, antidepressants are not magic and don't work for everyone, but they worked amazingly for me.

I was put off for so long because I had read so many people saying that antidepressants were evil or bad or whatever. I wish I asked my doctor about them earlier.

It's OK to take them. It's ok to not want to take them. I wish they were less stigmatized because they do help some people a lot.
The ones you can buy actually fold down in half and are barely bigger than a yogamat. Very practical for office and subway.
Where on earth do you have to pay for scooter parking? Scooter parking is free. Slamming them down sideways without using a kick stand is free unless a cop sees you.
> You could imagine some hypothetical language in which all objects are immutable, as far as the programmer is concerned - however the compiler is allowed to reuse objects behind the scenes if there is provably no way that a side-effect could be introduced.

Erlang/BEAM fits your hypothetical to some degree. Erlang the language has immutable variables; however, BEAM, the virtual machine, has mutable registers. Whether or not a given code sample results in copy or mutation depends on what information is available to the compiler, of course.
How A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
Internet in many areas are either government sanctioned monopolies or duopolies. Furthermore these ISPs (and cable TV) companies have had legislation passed in many states limiting other internet alternatives like free wifi, even in areas they don’t serve.

https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Is multidimensional AI the new 2020 buzzword?
I'm glad someone finds the interface usable and consistent
If you have 3 PCs in the world, one with 0 users, one with 1 user and one with 23 users the median is 1.

Median is literally the middle, like a highway.
What makes you think it does not ? It is just on a different scale.
I think this is the way to go. A wealth tax is unfair. But an income tax rated on your wealth feels very elegant. The richer you are, the harder it is to get richer. Which feels like it is fair because the richer you are, the more you leverage societal structures to become wealthier.
Exactly. People won't work for less than their worth. So a minimum wage doesn't accomplish much except set a price floor that excludes low value add workers from the economy.
Assuming that's accurate, we should set the minimum wage to infinity.
I came in here expecting to see a joke about the day in Alaska that is almost 24 hours.

>On June 21, Anchorage gets 22 hours of functional daylight.

https://www.anchorage.net/plan-your-trip/hours-of-daylight/