skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of those are people on foot or on bike who get run over by cars and trucks. The rest are people in cars and trucks who die either in single vehicle crashes or in crashes with other vehicles. This doesn't include subway deaths; that's a separate stat. I'm not playing semantic games here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/nyregion/nyc-biking-death...

As for the subway, that's a separate topic. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with your whataboutism. Yes, of course it can and should be made safer. One obvious way to do so would be to add platform gates as many other subway systems worldwide have. But the subway is already a lot safer than on-street vehicle traffic, and no, of course we shouldn't ban it.
> until it dumped you into the bay

I’m just imagining a whole pile of cars underwater at the end of market street after flying into the bay like that scene in The Game.
> What new efficient way is being added?

Cutting out private cars is only the start.
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/sfs-market-street-carfree...
As small as it sounds, the collections feature is a big deal for me. Particularly in my line of work marketing food and drinks.

Unfortunately sharing your collection with someone is a point in time. If you update your list, the link doesn't update to reflect that, nor does it update their collection if they've imported yours.

What I would LOVE to see is Apple Maps developing it's own little social circle of recommendations with your contacts and or other Apple Maps users, instead of shitty Yelp integration. Sharing collections, keeps a pointer to your collection as manage it. I suspect this is where it's going to go(hopefully).
I remember in my early twenties there was a drug store with a music part in the town I lived in. The guy running that division was a DJ for different genres. And an wide ranging knowledge and thirst for new stuff. The more he got to know me the better his recommendations got. They were all on the edge and sometimes slightly over the edge.

lots of the stuff I got to know back then I still like to listen to.

I didn't have that much money to spare. Non the less he brought CD after CD to listen to on the players there. sometimes I stayed for 3 to 4 hours just enjoying the music. whenever I had some money to spare I took home a knew jewel of music.
Yes. Basically the map in the United States is all Apple's data now, except for certain things like POI photos and reviewers (Yelp).
Waze has volunteer local editors - I've hit "report map issue" and gotten messages from them with questions about what I was reporting. I wonder if Google leverages them internally.
How many missile carrying drones do you think we could make for the cost of one $80mm F35

You can buy five MQ-9 Reaper drones ($16mil each), or three MC-C Gray Eagles ($31mil each). These things have flight performance similar to early ww-2 era bombers but with tiny munitions payloads. That is, they are very slow, high-altitude, high-endurance and non-maneuverable. Their only real plus is that they are small and thus have a small radar cross section. They are sitting ducks for any sort of half-way decent air defense. I suspect that any fighter jet or SAM built in the last half century would swat such drones out of the sky without breaking a sweat.
Systemd-homed merged as a fundamental change to Linux home directories
So there's an unknown amount of Spaghetti Code still missing from this mess?
cars get in the way and slow down the more efficient transportation forms (ie. buses, cyclists)
I used to have such an imagination when I was young: before going to sleep, I would always reimagine the movies I just watched or the books I just read, factoring myself into the story (often as a coprotagonist, not particularly OP but helpful in many ways), sometimes going a bit meta trying to explain my presence to the characters, tweaking their response, trying not to trigger the obvious self-doubting panic that would ensue if someone told you your reality isn't actually "real".

I even had a cross-universe canon for my character: I often had wings (watching Winx club as a kid helped), and sometimes took characters on a multi-dimensional ride in my magic hyper-technological flying car, big as a house on the inside, capable of traversing space and time.

I absolutely feel the same way about music, it manages to turn any world, even a simple concept into a fantastical and magical music video of sorts.

As I went on with my life I somewhat lost this ability, possibly due to the highly technical nature of my job and hobbies, however I still love reading and watching good fantasy stories, and sometimes, when I feel like it, I still fantasize by joining the story and aiding the main characters in saving the world (and music still can transport me away to another world, like before).

I have often considered the enormous power, and just as enormous limtations of modern creativity tools.

I honestly can't wait for neural interfaces: when everyone will be able to extract images and audio directly from their brains.
It will truly be a revolution for the media industry, a change as big as the introduction of computers.

It will also give way to haunting new aspects of copyright law: what happens if someone publishes a YouTube neural video that uses copyrighted characters, do we prohibit people from even thinking about copyrighted IP?

Do we beam films using widevine L0 DRM directly to people's brains, immediately removing all memories of them after they were seen to avoid copyright infringement?

Those will truly be interesting times, and I would really love to live to see them.
Barcelona 5-0 Leganes – Copa Del Rey – FootballGH – Video Highlights
Graduating with a huge student debt that needs to be repaid doesn't encourage exploration and risk-taking, so that would be one of the areas to focus on.
If you're a mathematician and not a lawyer you might think those are different operations. But lawyers, judges, and juries have a unique capacity to argue that you're guilty of subtraction even if you only multiplied.

To a lawyer, bits have color: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.
With the squeezed out middle class and no safety net when your parents aren't rich yeah please take the risk to spend your life priced out the housing market, or worse living out of your car working two jobs living paycheck to paycheck, one medical encounter away from financial disaster.

Yeah take risks, sound advice for the young people.
My wife tutors at a college, and she said the same thing about the professors there. She said that most of them looked well past retirement age, and some could barely stand up on their own or talk loud enough for a class to hear them. Meanwhile, the younger people who want to teach are stuck being adjunct professors with no job stability or benefits, or working as tutors grading papers and picking up the slack for teachers that refuse to retire.
Wouldn't that encourage more risk taking from younger generation, if they have no realistic shot at top jobs until decades later?
Building strong trust is IMHO much harder remotely. That affects both manager/employee trust and trust among employees remote from each other. And without strong bonds of trust, certain things get much harder, such as negative feedback, even when delivered constructively.

Note that I'm not saying you can't build strong trust, just that it's harder. You have to devote considerably more thought and intentional time to it. I say intentional time because when you're local to someone, you naturally build trust with them in every small interaction. In a remote setting, you need to create time and space for those interactions deliberately.
> Reading other comments Brent’s made here, I’m not so sure.

No no, it's not a good idea, but it's just the reality that I usually have to deal with. I wish I could lay down rules like "no analyst ever gets the rights to query the database directly," but all it takes is one analyst to be buddy-buddy with the company owner, and produce a few reports that have really high business value, and then next thing you know, that analyst has sysadmin rights to every database, and anybody who tries to be a barrier to that analyst's success is "slowing the business down."
this is not ALL but it is handy

https://www.saas1000.com/

https://golden.com/list-of-software-as-a-service-companies/1
(these guys have a restful api which can be easy to mess with to get raw data)

https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/saas-companies-4f45
(needs an account but is handy for research and data dumps)
Isn't that because they can still match the friends side to the new data? They still have half of the matches and once you give them your half they will suggest the same stuff.
I know this is a question of style, but wow that looks ugly.

The point about ease of adding a new column is absolutely valid.

The best answer to it, subjectively and IMHO, is on the language level, e.g. making it legal to end the statement with a comma:

SELECT col1, col2, col3, from ...
> playing and releasing one single note will take 6 bytes out of the available 3,125 available each second, or 1.92ms.

Rounding this off to 0.002 s and taking speed of sound to be 340 m/s, we can work out that sound travels 68 cm in that time.

So if you're positioned next to a drum kit such that the snare drum is somehow 70 cm farther from your face, and the drummer hits both at exactly the same time (down to a small fraction of a millisecond), you will hear the snare drum 2 ms later than the high hat.

You're assuming that all of the MIDI events in the entire show are multiplexed onto a single serial data link. That means all the controllers and instruments are daisy-chained, in which case your latencies may be actually worse than you imagine because any piece of gear that has store-and-forward pass through (receives and re-transmits MIDI messages) adds latency.

The obvious way to avoid all that is to have a star topology: have the events flowing over separate cables from the controllers to the the capturing MIDI host, or from the host sequencer out to instruments. Have little or no daisy chaining going on.

Now if you have lots of MIDI streams concentrating in some host and it wants to send all of them to another piece of gear (like a synth, to play them), then maybe yes, the regular MIDI serial link might not be the best. I'm sure we can solve that problem without redesigning MIDI.

> I can't believe it's taken this long for a replacement to come along.

Almost forty years tells you that this is a solution in search of a problem. Industries don't stick with forty-year-old solutions, unless they really are more than good enough.

True, some of it is conservatism coming from the musicians: lots of people have gear from the 1980-s that speaks MIDI, using it on a daily basis.
Austin-Based Stoplight Raises $6M to Build New Category of API Design Management
> Question, if you use CoW then presumably your variable blocks are no longer contiguous, wouldn't this really slow down vector operations?

I don't think so. Vector operations require the data to be aligned to whatever the vector size is, no? E.G. 16-byte vector ops require the data to be aligned to 16-byte, etc... At least that's my understanding.
Gmail + a mail merge addon (like Mailmeteor.com or Gmass)
The web and browsers were invented at CERN.
is it at all usable in Dark mode? that's what I really want to know...
The similar artist map is still around on the successor sites of WCD.
Ugh, I'm still waiting for the Boomers to retire and now I'm old...
Ask HN: Does anyone need marketing help in startups?
Hi guys,
I know many of you might be techies and engineers but if you have a company or know anyone that could use help in marketing, please let me know. I help run a startup called Hopps that helps connect people with marketing experts on demand. Just someone hustling to talk with and help potential customers. Any advice / help means a lot.
Apple should just buy Wahoo.
Sure, the attrition rate was terrible, but we sent them anyway. That is war. Under the right conditions, today's voters will tolerate the same. Human brains haven't changed that much. We don't tolerate the losses when playing around in Vietnam or Iraq, but another Pearl Harbor will put us right back in the mood.

Until such a conflict, our enemies have weak air defense.

So either way, the A-10 works. Either we are in the mood for serious war with serious losses, or we're fighting an enemy that can't put up much of a fight.
Vespa Updates: Tensor Functions, Boolean Field Query Optimization, and More
Sure, you can push two stops if you like swaths of flat black in your photo. Same thing with TMZ, which says “3200” on the box but if you look carefully it doesn’t actually say “ISO 3200”, because its ISO speed is actually something like 800.
Research UNIX: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 [pdf]
There are features in yaml compared to which xml is a thing of ageless beauty.
I'm surprised that someone is having problem sending email to gmail from their own smtp server. I am doing this for years with tens of thousands emails delivered every week (sometimes daily), yet had no issues. Here are few advises:

- ensure your external IP reputation is good. Check blacklists.

- configure correct dns/reverse dns (PTR) records.

- setup SPF (maybe DKIM with DMARC but I'm not using these)

- do not spam.

Thats it.
My experience too. It's too annoying to use. And I know that's I highly personal opinion that I can rationalize, but I am not ready to subject to some analysis. It's taste.

And the last couple iOS updates have been really disappointing, functionality has not improved and useless flourishes have been added. I feel its passed the Microsoft Excel 2003 tipping point. (IMO MS Excel 2003 was peak MS Excel. It was brilliant, robust, intuitive and made it possible to do amazing work, in so far as a spreadsheet can. For the past 15 years all of the work on Excel has made it less functional, less robust and far less intuitive, but I guess a software product has gotta have new releases).
Glad lots of bright minds are working on this, and the problem isn't being downplayed by the community.

This is one instance where I think we can learn from Go's "ergonomics first" principles, even though that strategy has cost it a place in the benchmark rankings. I'm very curious about how Jonathan Blow's Jai language will turn out, as it supposedly has a dedicated backend for debug builds which is naive and doesn't optimize, and produces (apparently; the compiler isn't public, so there's no way to verify this) compilation times on par with Go.

Anyone know what happened around 2019-09-01, when all the compile times dipped quite a bit in the graph?
I agree with your sentiment. I think the high reward would be breaking ground in a field or doing something prize-worthy or money-worthy (turning your research into a company or something).

I think the incentives are very misaligned against the hard sciences. This is coming from someone who loved physics in high school and materials science in college, but switched to computer science for economic reasons (I do really enjoy programming, but my first love was for other sciences).
Looks like another argument in favor of Ada:

https://www.sigada.org/conf/sa98/papers/frisberg.pdf
In my experience it is a lot more difficult to navigate around all the different microservices to understand what needs to be done compared to being in a monolith where you can jump from file to file.

Also then what also happens is microservices are created using different languages which in turn adds so much complexity to understand what is going on on the whole big picture level.

And code gets repeated a lot more. If there is change in a microservices or update everyone will need to figure out what services depend on and how they will have to adapt. With monolith you can just use your IDE to see what will break if you make a change. So much repeated business logic. Creating a new feature involves having to have many meetings to figure out what services in which way have to be updated.

It is crazy mess in my opinion.

I have been with a company that had monolith application which they split up to more than 15 services (some python, some js, Scala, Java, etc...). Monolith still is used for some parts that are not migrated. I was working on single service having no idea how the whole system worked together. Then I had to do something in the old parts and I very quickly got an understanding how everything works together.
So TomTom lost Apple as a customer?
I miss reading the 100 page threads on What.CD about which of the 40 different rips of the White Album was best. Alternatives have popped up, but it saddens me that we lost all of that collective comment history.
>No, I think that's pretty normal. I do it all the time.

[Edit: Currently I "listen" to a lot of Georgios Papadopoulos, heh!]

>I can even "compose" my own music

I can relate! Unfortunately, I'm totally untrained regarding music. I once tried to enter one of the melodies in my head (simplified) into a music program, and it took forever, because I had to find the correct notes by trial and error: "Not that one. Neither that one. Still wrong. Not quite. This one is it! Next note..."
I feel the same about perfumes. And some noise pollution.
It's just sharing the connection it gets from my wifi router over USB to my laptop. Since my laptop's wifi antenna does not work, I have to give it access to the internet through USB tethering.

My laptop is always plugged to my TV via HDMI. It's my multimedia center, I use PopCorn Time every day on it. It has a bluetooth keyboard/mouse set.

It's also my main workstation, I develop Android apps on my spare time at home, and nowadays I'm getting more money from the apps than from my 9to5 corporate job, so this side gig is becoming more and more of a main gig.

I love this setup, it's better than ANY smart tv OS, there's simply no replacement to a full-fledged Linux OS on your big screen TV and a real, full sized keyboard and mouse. And to code sitting on a huge armchair is pretty nice too.
It is, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
"have a safe trip"

I hate that line. To me it implies that the trip is dangerous. How about "Enjoy your trip"?
If you are rich it is easy to take risks. If you have to work at a frustrating you hate job 9-5 and somehow find the energy to keep working on side projects it will take exponentially longer to reach viability versus someone who has the financial opportunity to work on it full time.

Young people are not rich. No shit they aren't taking risks because they either have no capital / opportunity to do so... or they are busy turning the gears for minimal payment without any promise real career advancement.
Needs to be self hosted or otherwise it's just another mailgun.
The upper-middle class people that mostly run the Democratic party and vote progressive are also voting against "their best interest". How do you define interest? Many people don't think that getting more resources from the government, even if they are struggling financially, is in "their best interest". Part of the rejection of the Liberal/Democratic policies is that the "elites" think they know peoples' "best interest" better than the people themselves. Not very democratic, really.
Or America will cut funding for science and make it more difficult to afford higher education or have a career in sciences while simultaneously making it harder to immigrate.
Maybe cities should try to build public transport that mothers with children prefer to their private cars?

If cities cannot offer something better, they will never convince. So they must restrict. Then at least they should forbid the better for everyone not just for people their voters do not care about. It is quite revealing that the myriad of small, cheap, and flexible transporters that provide all these services inside cities are nearly always exempt from traffic policies.
What we need is a map that's organized like Wikipedia—anyone can immediately contribute to it.
> when they migrate from monolith to microservice: development is easier [...]

Not even that -- that idea is still highly debatable.

I would argue that it absolutely isn't easier, and the stepping-back-in-time of developer experience is one of the biggest problems with microservices.

Microservices in general, are way, way harder.
What's BS? More details please?
This article frames the questions as "Why are young people entering safe fields?". But the fields they mentioned are not just low risk, they are also high paying. But the answer to the question "Why are smart young people going into low risk high reward occupations over high risk low reward occupations?" is pretty obvious.

If you think more young people should be spending their time doing research and development and less people should be doing management consulting then the answer is simple. Subsidize it.
Curious how support is for commercial databases like SQL Server and Oracle? In the larger, older, enterprises these databases are rampant...
Yes, they originated all of the "Look-Around" data (equivalent to Street View), all of the 3D data, and much, if not all, of the road data. I believe they purchase satellite data. They built up their own fleet of vans. Today marks the last section of the country to switch over to the new system.
It is usually git-ignored, which means it isn't part of the "real" source directory (the one that is shared with other devs). It's a temporary output of the build process, in essence.
My prediction: I think soon we will see public clouds provide WebAssembly hosting, where you upload a single WebAssembly binary and it just works. Your whole application is compiled and bundled to that WebAssembly. There will even be glue code that helps migration from a microservices architecture by stitching them together in parallel containers, all compiled down to WebAssembly of course.
What/where do you run this mythical one-analyst pipeline, though? Is that in cloud services too? Airflow? Kubeflow? Apache Beam? It sounds like you're just pushing the problem around.
Doesn't sound like you were a customer in the first place.
I'm OK with this. I think the three-way competition is improving all of the products better than a two-way (Apple v. Google) competition would.
Could we perhaps solve this with Node.js?
> you do not simply go and poke your reporting fingers into individual service databases

Side point: This is a needlessly hostile and unprofessional way to refer to a colleague. Remember that you and the reporting/analytics people at your company are working towards the same goals (the company's business goals). You are collaborators, not combatants.

You can express your same point by saying something like "The habit of directly accessing database resources and building out reporting code on this is likely to lead to some very serious problems when the schemas change. This is tantamount to relying upon a private API." etc.

We can all achieve much more when we endeavor to treat one another with respect and assume good intentions.
It's really striking how many of the top people in different fields are essentially the same today as they were twenty or thirty years ago. Look at politics. Look at Hollywood. Look, though to a lesser degree, but still markedly more so than in previous eras, at sports.

Nobody ages out and opens up their spot anymore. It's a problem when that means the pipeline gets stalled, and causes a lot of problems when the old guard does finally retire or die off, and there are not enough suitable candidates waiting in the wings to pick up, because they have gotten tired of waiting around.
SF Meetup: Transitioning from IC to Engineering Manager
Most of 11m trees planted in Turkish project 'may be dead'