skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> let alone whether the drivers were always at fault

Why is this relevant? If the city has a 60mph highway running through a dense neighborhood, and a toddler walks into the street, and is killed by a driver (not the driver's fault), that hardly absolves the city of addressing this problem.

I suspect this kind of thinking is what adds to a lot of the friction. Nobody is demonizing drivers. What many of us are upset with is our cities' planning, giving far too much leeway to vehicles and too little to human beings living there.

> Look at Tokyo for example. Cars are all over the city, but pedestrian fatalities are extremely low because affordances are given to pedestrian traffic (ex. elevated crosswalks). If you want to sell people on banning personal vehicles in cities, the burden of proof is on you that 1) cars are the best problem to focus on, 2) the only way to solve the problem is to ban cars, and 3) the available alternatives are actually better than cars

Tokyo has a lower car ownership rate than every city in the U.S. So... although cars may be "all over the city", they're still relatively uncommon.

And what problems do you think we're focused on here? It's not just about safety from car accidents. It's also:

- Is cheaper to not build / maintain roads/streets/bridges/parking lots that would otherwise be unnecessary.

- More pleasant for city residents (fewer honking horns, less sitting in traffic, more space for parks and greenery, more walking -> healthier residents, etc.)

- More environmentally friendly from both a localized air pollution standpoint and a global climate one.
No it won't. It would displace even more people.

The only way to get lower-cost housing is to build more housing. It's that simple.
A single $2000 strike call option expiring tomorrow was trading at $250 just before close. If Amazon closes at $2100 tomorrow that option will be worth $10,000. Amazing.
> Documentation is out of date the moment it’s written, and the returns on investing in documentation usually diminish quickly. That said, onboarding docs are one area you really can’t afford to cut corners, particularly when you’re building a data team.

This. This. This. So many places (wrongly) rely on tribal knowledge and person to person handoffs and it does NOT scale.
The service will need to read all its data and put it into objects, then extract the data from the objects to report it, then garbage collect all of that. For every single record in its entire data set.

You could say but oh, why not just return the underlying data without making objects? Well now you are exposing the underlying data format, which is what we’re trying to avoid by giving this job to the service.
Intrusive thoughts are normal. I get that too, stuff I'd never say out loud (and that I'd not agree with). I think it's just a natural way for our brain to bring up alternatives and test our assumptions.

On your second point I think that thinking in words actually slows down my thoughts too. I've read about it and try not to, but sometimes it doesn't feel right until I spell it out to myself like I'm explaining to a child.
"Dialog" is a narrow minded way to describe the metabolic processes that take raw input and make something out of it.
> 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws
The problem with that statistic is that most of that 64% probably have no idea what the laws _actually_ are. As stated in another reply, full auto has been strictly regulated for _decades_. Anyone who thinks full-auto is a problem is either ignorant or lying, and that applies to many of the statements I hear from gun control supporters.
I have an endless internal dialogue, and I let it externalize to the point of practicing what I'm going to say out loud. Sometimes it helps me be more articulate, practice jokes, or even technical explanations. Other times it helps reason logically. Sometimes it's not helpful at all.

I have no idea how healthy it is but it's only when I'm alone.
It wasn't debunked, what you said was correct. Microsoft does not break out Azure's sales or operating income numbers, it's all reported together with the other cloud products. All they reveal each quarter is Azure's growth rate.
I don't believe that the data on this website is gathered through automatic means.

Real-time is not all about latency, live TV or a Skype call also has a latency but it is real-time for all means and purposes since it is automatically gathered, transformed and transported without human labour and immediately.
I wish they introduced ARM based laptops with the recent developments of Graviton.
I remember using some car’s built-in GPS once and it wanted me to take every freeway exit and get right back on after. Because it decided that saves time/distance.

Maps really need a “not worth it” features for tiny optimizations. I’d often prefer a slightly slower route that’s less work to drive.
According to economic theory, the ability of a company to sustain profits in the long term is based on having barriers to entry to their market. This kind of patent threat is a barrier to entry, and suffering on the losing end of them is rent on the profit margin that they have been able to sustain.

Therefore, even with these losses, the patent system is worthwhile for them.
The argument (which I sort of buy) is that microservices provide rails that keep people from doing certain stupid things like N clients depending on the data schema (making the schema a de-facto public interface).

The trick with microservices is that the ecosystem is maturing and there are still lots of ways to screw up other things that are harder to screw up with monoliths. In time 95% of those will go away (my specific prediction is that one day we will write programs that express concurrency and the compiler/toolchain will work out distributing the program across Cloud services--although "Cloud" will be an antiquated term by then--including stitching together the relevant logs, etc and possibly even a coherent distributed debugger experience).
To me the greatest magic in the film world is placing (in darkness) a nondescript grey sheet into a tank, flushing a few chemicals through the tank, and pulling out a full color transparent positive image (E6 slide processing). Technically I understand how most of it happens, but seeing a positive in a large size like large format sheets or medium format rolls is an amazing experience. Even if I don't have a slide projector to shot them, a loupe on a light table is enough.

(While I shoot negative much more often, it doesn't have the same visceral impact as positives.)
Yeah, but even with semver library owners have problems. If you need to make a critical change (e.g. a security update), you can either (a) wait until everyone does a version bump on their own schedule, or (b) do the version bump yourself, which means you're deploying every app that relies on your library. (a) might not be feasible for critical things, and (b) means that you might be deploying changes that the app isn't ready for yet.

For example, if master is v1.5.0, and I'm an app that uses v1.1.0, then if the library owner bumps to 1.5.1 for a critical update, I need to go from 1.1.0 -> 1.5.1, which might involve changes I'm not ready for yet. I better have phenomenal integration testing to make sure the update is safe to do.
I don't think Spotify has any good features for finding new artists. I've used all of the ones you mentioned and generally don't like the playlists. Usually they play songs I already know, and the new ones they introduce I just skip. I get a very small hit rate of new music to listen to from Spotify versus other channels.
The problem is not that Tensorflow is based around python instead of swift. The Tensorflow API is a mess. The programming language is not the problem, and switching to swift will only add to the API mess.
A good deal of the Satellaview games we do have preserved in this manner are incomplete. The BS Fire Emblem games and the LoZ remake, for instance, both lack sound. Supposedly the BS Zelda games had "live" narration that was also being streamed over; that could not be captured, so we'll never know what that sounded like (unless someone happened to be recording their playthrough at the time on a VCR or something).
Exactly right. And every time a property is turned over, the base tax rate gets reset, plus prop 13 allows for a 2% increase every year. California has the highest sales and income tax (for incomes over $500,000) in the Nation. They don't need the highest property tax, too.
No idea why the dip ended at that day.
Can we derive anything meaningful from the fact that this Hacker News item almost gets no response and just a few comments?
just recreate the database you broke apart into something less flexible
If the benefit of microservices is primarily an organizational one around ownership, Conway's Law, and so on, then Example 1 still seems problematic, because it's likely a different team that has to deal with the fallout.

Another strategy is that the service has an explicit API or report specification; that way, the team that owns the services also owns the problem of continuing to support that while changing their internal implementation.

Of course, whether the benefits are worth the cost is probably organization specific, just like microservices in general.
AWS Record Quarter at $9.95 Billion revenue, up 34% year on year. Operating income from AWS also up 19% to ~$2.6B
Why monoliths? Everyone still wants to to have OLAP and OLTP systems where analytics are done on OLAP. Where having this separation you can get data from multiple sources to put into your analytics.

I cannot imagine people not doing that and having need to have stats in real time. For most shopping/banking stuff you can get away with once in 24 hours dumps and then analytics can be done on that.
> Unfortunately, I have sort of the same issue with conversation and logic problems. I tend to perform pretty badly in tech interviews because I can't think about programming problems very well while participating in a conversation.

Same with me. I've been learning to tune people out, and I tell the interviewer that I'll probably tune you out when I need to focus but you can interrupt me if you need to.

Getting better at it as I get older.
Some people are jerks. Discussions about them always begin or end by stating that. It's a cost of being a jerk. Why should companies be treated differently?
never even heard of Amazon Music. I'm surprised it's 1/3rd the size of Prime and as big as Apple Music.
6 years ago I tried relaxing and listen to smooth jazz or something. Being in the moment and just observing my surrounding with hyperfocus was very pleasant. Time felt infinite. Time was now. I have these lapses every now and then, but I wouldn't have it as my new normal.

Without your thoughts you only your body, an animal. Language is what expands human sphere of influence beyond what we see, taste and feel. The "Noosphere", if you will [1]. I don't find internal monologue counterproductive, it's how I explore the possible and impossible without moving.

P.S An honest thanks, I wouldn't have discovered my own thoughts on this subject without an invitation to dialogue in the form of your comment. Language takes two :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
Perhaps the better answer is to never pitch or put your clients on any "free" plan. Explain that these sorts of marketing and outreach campaigns cost money, just like getting a Yellow Pages ad costs money, and perhaps work with them on figuring out how many customers or leads these efforts generate so they can more accurately evaluate the cost.
Probe on Rio Political Murder Ignites Privacy Battle with Google
Sadly, I found the parent comment more useful and less inflammatory than your complaint about its content.
Businesses need to prioritize customers to maintain their continued success. Free customers with a solid product quickly build trust in the developer ecosystem but its hardly a model that scale. Where i am scratching my head: did mailgun just miss an opportunity to be the good guy? $1 a month to keep your existing limits would cut the demographics into those that need it, and those that use it b/c its free.
No and no. "Realtime" has an actual definition, as in "data is immediately available".
It's amazing how well such companies can repulse developers:

- Everyone works on 8GB windows machine and sticky keyboard

- Remote desktop

- "You wanna install your IDE? Yeah contact IT, gonna take few days"

- Can't install any of cli tools

- Atlassian suite

- Spend half a day in meetings

- Scrum

Then they complain how hard it is to get a good developers...
Wait, I would assume that the people in need of reporting would have a pretty good idea of what those reports should look like. That means you know exactly what data needs to be read from a data store optimized for reporting. Each micro-service contributes their share of data to a data store optimized for reading. This is a text-book use case for a non-relational document store. I'm really not seeing what's so difficult about building such a process.
Then we'll have to deploy tactical seagulls.
Worth noting that the F-16 is not what the Fighter Mafia wanted at all; they preferred a daytime only fighter that carried only a couple of missiles, while it's evolved to carry much heavier ordnance and much more advanced sensors. However, the simplicity of the design concept did result in a much easier path to service. The initial design was an MVP that was followed on by successive upgrades, whereas the F-35 is more of a program designed to come into being all at once.
I'm the spell it out type and I don't think it takes for ever. I more or less talk my self though abstractions and visualize the steps in my head. Usually in chunks if it's a complicated thing, but often as a whole. I think a cad model would be the closest parallel I can think of. My inner monologue is talking me through it as I visualize whatever I'm working on. So, it's not saying and.. now.. I.. put.. the.. next.. leg.. and so forth, it's this is how these 4 legs are going to fit
Well, apparently military spending has long been a method for directly financing companies and research that the federal government likes, such as the beginnings of computer technology.
I heard a parody of a Justin Bieber song about 4 days ago and it's still playing, send help.

Since I don't know the song it is of course just the chorus.
I'm just applying the work of epi scientists. I'd love to get feedback from one. Your comment isn't useful.
Is there a book or course to buy toward getting an understanding of the more philosophical concepts underneath your approach?
How Junk Mail Is Helping to Prop Up the Postal Service (2011)
A basic version is included in prime.
I think it's just because they're out of ideas, or not confident in what they think up. I just get the sense they're not as willing to fail.
n-gate is already on top of it (http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2020/01/29/0/). Can't stop laughing about the libreoffice bit.
Yes, it will.

One of the problems with housing is that local governments get less revenue from housing than business. That gives them every incentive to approve commercial construction and deny residential.

Take away the financial perverse incentive., and there is a lot of money to be made by approving badly needed dense residential housing near existing commercial buildings.
All governments want to point fingers. The municipalities get away with murder because of state laws that define "urban growth boundary" regions which essentially state that there cannot be any new urban growth where there are not currently urban areas.

Predictably, the municipalities behave as an oligopoly because they know that people can no longer move just outside city limits, which is what people used to do when cities were behaving badly.
I'll never forgive them for subjecting me to Clearcase or DOORS.
California has a more principled approach to housing capacity planning called RHNA, in which the state sets a zoning budget (like that proposed by David Schleicher https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4955/) and then delegates to local governments the responsibility to zone to allow enough houses to meet that budget. Unfortunately, the RHNA has numerous flaws including vastly underestimating the “need,” lax enforcement, and having very long cycles. Scott Wiener has previously addressed the flaws somewhat (SB 35 (2017) and SB 828 (2018)), but there is still a lot that must be done to fix the RHNA; see this good overview for more information and potential administrative improvements (https://law.ucdavis.edu/centers/environmental/files/Elmendor...)

The appeal of Wiener’s SB 50 was that it would have quickly increased the capacity of housing using fairly good heuristics to improve access to opportunity (already residential, near transit stops or jobs, not high fire risk). It’s unfortunate that the state senate doesn’t seem to want to treat the housing shortage with the urgency that it deserves.
I've also noticed that people who over invest in their ability to prepare tend to be people who struggle under pressure or to adapt in the moment.

Everything in moderation I guess
A AC-130 cannot carry "thousands of heavy rounds", it is a plane not a battleship; it has a couple of dozen 105mm "heavy rounds" and a few hundred 25 or 30 mm projectiles. In the modern world, automatic cannon rounds are not classified as heavy.
I think that bit was in reference to which institution the undergrad degree was from.
Russian inspection satellite has synchronized its orbit with a US recon sat
That's really interesting. I can believe it happens. Some portion of your brain is still seeing the words, since the retina and optical nerves aren't affected, it's just that your visual field is getting interference from somewhere else. Like getting interference on an old CRT monitor with a magnet. It affects what you can see, but it doesn't stop anything from seeing the data come through the graphics card itself.

The reason I wonder about whether I am seeing things on a "screen" I can't access has to do with my ability to recognize things. When I see something I've seen before, I immediately recognize it, just like normal people do. So it's saved off somewhere, I just can't access it in the meantime. So it's possible that when I try to imagine a beach or whatever, it's appearing on a screen I can't see. I think of it as if my visual projector has a burnt out bulb. It could be showing it to me if I could somehow change the bulb, possibly.
And of course, it's region-locked.... proving, once again, that media companies do not understand the internet.

FWIW, I quite enjoyed the first episode and am looking forward to watching the rest of the series.
*If they want to accept Medicare dollars (and usually private insurance just follows Medicare). I remembered some South Western (I want to say Arizona) specialty clinic that basically didn't accept insurance and had pen and paper charts still.
Not to undermine your point, just an opposite case. My mother is 70, smoked a packet a day for about 40 tears, last 10 years about 7 or 8 a day and she is healthy as a horse. Last check ups 4 months ago. It really all depends.
To combat many problems, the government would certainly be helpful, but isn't necessary.

Take climate change. If every corporation took a carbon negative stance like Stripe and Microsoft, that would make a big dent in carbon emissions.

Unfortunately, a lack of housing is a problem that the government created. And it's a problem that only the government, in my view, can really fix.

As long as housing supply is artificially restricted, I don't see how this gets better.

Please let me know if I am wrong.
It's mental the v22 osprey platform isn't further explored.
Scientists Witnessed a Dead Star ‘Dragging’ the Fabric of Reality
Why no subroutines? Isn't any function call a subroutine?

In any event, I'd love to take a look at that source code. I try my best to keep forward-only control flow, at least at the conceptual level (I.e., I don't eschew loops, but I try to keep data flowing from A to B to C to D without having it go back and check a preceding component for what to do in a given case).
I still like https://ptable.com/ better
Spring, Hibernate and other "enterprise" monsters came from Java alone. FactoryFactory123.
It’s not that simple because the housing that gets built in areas with the worse affordability crises is high-end stock that gets bought up as an investment or cash store. “The market” has decided that in an era of extreme inequality and stagnant wages that the only way to recoup investment is targeting this segment, leaving everyone else in dire straits.

(Unless you’re talking about the government building massive amounts of social housing to account for the market failure, in which case I agree).
In order for the instrument not to be toxic, it would have to live in an ecosystem where these flaws are not systemically induced.

This industry has been failing systemically often enough to consider the product a liability.
As a listener of Triple J's actual radio content; I think it's become stale and more "mainstream" in recent years however their online stuff: Unearthed, and Double J are great.
Interesting read, although the derived applications are not great. ^^

Now for more military applications, I think some of the calculations might break down due to weight. Missiles/shell can be in the order of hundreds of pounds, with the heavier ones above a ton.

The use case for military being more oriented toward heavy vehicles, tanks and buildings, I don't think a few pounds of explosive would be anywhere near enough. The plane would have to increase in size (structure and fuel) in similar proportions to the load it has to carry, certainly negating a lot of the efficiency.

Well, if we streamline a model plane as a one off directed explosive, that will eventually be a missile and long range ballistic missiles are not a novelty.
Prop 13 has a TON to do with high housing prices, because it eliminates the downside of high housing prices: higher property taxes.

Once higher property taxes are out of the picture, higher property values are purely beneficial for homeowners, which means there's every incentive to vote for anti-housing policies to enrich themselves at the expense of transplants and immigrants.
Same here, I first read about this I think a few months ago back here on HN.

Prior to this I had made the assumption that everyone has an internal dialogue.

I'm 36.
A co-worker had a smart solution for this: your service's representation in a reporting system (a data warehouse for example) is part of its API. Your team should document it, and should ensure that when that representation changes information about the changes is available to the people who need to know it.

This really makes sense to me. I love the idea that part of a microservice team's responsibility is ensuring that a sensible subset of the data is copied over to the reporting systems in such a way that it can be used for analysis without risk of other teams writing queries that depend on undocumented internal details.
Thanks! Really nice approach.
Wow, neat. The demo is new, but knowledge of the game isn't. Newly-found roms are cool.

I didn't know that, I just looked it up on unseen64.net and found some old magazine scans:

https://www.unseen64.net/2010/02/08/cooly-skunk-snes-unrelea...

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, not only is https://unseen64.net/ neat (about unreleased and cancelled games), but so is https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

the latter being scrapped content/levels/characters/etc from games that were released with unused models/maps still included from a previous version.
Is this different from aphantasia?
I wonder when it's coming to Canada. Google maps (and openstreet maps) are much better than apple maps in terms of buildings, at least on the east coast.
For me, thinking verbally means either monologue by someone else than me, or dialogue with not-me. Rarely dialogue where neither party is me. You've never argued with ancient Greeks? I find the act of dialogue with my idea-form of Plato hilarious.