skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at an actual density map, LA is actually a lot denser than you give it credit for. There is no technical reason transit cannot get 40% of the population to work in a reasonable amount of time compared to driving. However in order to get there LA needs to invest in a lot more buses in dedicated lanes, and trains - both of which are not cheap. Don't forget to account for the overhead. In the long run it would be cheaper for everybody in LA if that investment was made, but in the short run a large investment is needed.

It doesn't help that transit costs 4x-7x as much to build in the US vs Spain. It also doesn't help that nobody cares about good investments - republicans hate transit and won't invest in anything if they can avoid it. Democrats love the idea of transit and waste a lot of money on slow, expensive lines to nowhere that nobody rides thus proving the republicans right that transit is a bad investment.
Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up both of you :-)
> After the 2016 election where all of the polls showed Hillary winning the election

The actual analysis of the polls showed Trump was well within striking distance of Hillary. People just didn't want to hear that.
A thunderfoot video waiting to happen
The universal downsizes I was talking about were dealing with obnoxious riders, having to stand during rush hour, and not always running as late as you need it to. I completely agree with your points.

The big thing I notice is that where transit is good I find having a car to be a chain around my neck. Parking is difficult/expensive to find, it's often just easier to walk to the next thing, and navigating roads/traffic is often difficult.
It's a Gallup poll - do you have better information than Gallup?
The reason mass transit works in Manhattan is that you can have a subway train arrive every five minutes and still have it full of people. The reason you can do that is that Manhattan has more than 25 times the population density of LA County.

To fill the same subway cars in LA would require intervals more than 25 times longer, i.e. more than two hours instead of every five minutes, and then it's garbage and nobody wants to use it. Or, in practice, you only run mass transit along the most popular routes and then the majority of people can't use it because it doesn't go where they're going.

Making it less convenient to drive doesn't really fix that, all it does is make more people miserable, because you make driving worse where no viable alternative to driving is available. The only real way to fix it is to reduce sprawl so that you have more density over less area -- and that's only possible in the long-term, so in the short-term LA is pretty screwed for traffic. But that's no excuse to not be working on the long-term solution.
Well, despite the huge amount of variations, Wikipedia had a useful category for cocktails, and I never heard anyone complain.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_(cocktail)
Based on 0.0003099022% of the population. Sure thing, I believe this.
More recently the movie "Sully" portrayed the NTSB as being some conniving government organization that is out to get airline pilots for some reason. The real world Captain Sullenberger had to release a statement to correct this false injected dramatization of the investigation. There was no reason to do this other than to spice up the story, which is unfortunate especially given most of the people depicted in the movie are alive.
Most of us just want to enjoy life. For the vast majority of Americans this does not involve becoming rich, enjoyment comes from family and the time we spend together, it's not about fancy degrees and nice material things. There will always be an ebb and flow of opportunity, sometimes there is enough opportunity that a larger than average number of American families earn large disposable incomes, those are great times. Just remember that we are still very religious and are brought up from a young age to be happy with what you have, not upset about what you don't have.
Efficiency in desalination is measured by comparing the energy expenditure to the enthalpy of vaporization of water (basically the energy required to distill water by boiling it). The current state of the art reverse osmosis desalination plants use about 3.2 KWh of electricity per cubic meter of fresh water (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d4d7/821d585699719289dddd10...). This technology uses about 173 KWh of solar energy per cubic meter of fresh water. The advantage of this method is lower capital costs and not having to convert solar energy to electricity. For large-scale desalination, however, it is almost certainly more cost-effective to use solar panels, batteries, and large scale reverse osmosis systems. This is still a useful project for making drinking water in remote locations, though.
"Satisfaction with personal life" will have very different implications for different people to the point of being useless. I feel underpaid and am unspeakably sad about the ways in which my society is declining, but I would answer "yes, extremely" if somebody asked if I was satisfied with my "personal" life. I think there are other people in my exact same position and with my exact same level of happiness who would answer differently if asked this specific question.
I have wanted to do something similar to efficiently dispose of my child's toys. Step 1: I put a red sticker on any toy I don't think has been played with in a while. Step 2: three weeks later, if the sticker is still there then I take the toy and put it in a holding pen. Step 3: if the child has not noticed it was missing three weeks later, the toy can be recycled/donated.

We haven't done this yet, but it's on our list of things to try.
John Carmack was not the first to say those words, see [Clarke's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)
If that's the case, it's weird the mods decided the system needed a nudge for this story. This is very much "The Atlantic Discovers Why He-Man Exists, Only Now YouTube."
> I wonder why the modern variant is the one that is most well known?

Cause it is the one you teach small kids when they are bored and you have nothing except pen and paper at hand.

They don't know optimal strategy yet. And it is fun when they finally find it out.
> If we are to believe the article, Chevron was on a vendetta against him, spending huge amounts of money to destroy him. Paying people to dig dirt. Surely you must see the immorality of this?

Absolutely nothing immoral about that. Having been wronged, Chevron is morally entitled to do absolutely anything short of illegality against this creep.
Wholistic zoning changes might help...

Prioritize dense, mixed-use development within ~.5 miles of transit hubs. Every new subway/light-rail station should include rezoning with a focus on a livable mix of commercial, residential, and retail.

Remove parking minimums. Let the market determine how much parking is available and how much it costs. Plentiful, free parking is not a right.

Remove single-family zoning (allow accessory dwelling units and duplexes in existing SFH zones).

None of this will work overnight. It will take years. But, the basic goal is to make living near work achievable and desirable.
Here in Norway I think it is, but be prepared to argue for it.
>For example, if the Macaroni and Cheese Cookbook page turned into an index for dozens of M+C recipes, named for the cultural influence or ingredient influence, that could certainly be useful.

How could it possibly, though?

I have cue cards I found in my old house when I bought it that have what's probably a local rendition of macaroni and cheese from the 1960s in Hamilton, Ontario...

Can I somehow cite that and insert it into the mac and cheese section of the wiki cookbook?

Or will this just become an digital amalgamation of every printed cookbook in the world? Using actual books as points of reference and citation?
Where do you live? I want to live somewhere nice. I'm at a breaking point with Canadian winters.
My comment was far from "violent" and knee jerk and had nothing to do with the groups in question. It was a parody of the woke virtue signalling that is trying to shame others for every possible perceived slight no matter the rarity of the edge case.
Note that using laser pointers to play with dogs is NOT recommended. It can cause stress and behavioral problems. See also: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/laser-pointers-m...
It can work if you use the time on the bus doing work. You can't do work while driving.
We shouldn't treat the results of polls as gospel truth, but we should trust them more than we trust our intuitive sense of what's gotta be true. A poll showing 90% of Americans are satisfied with their personal life is a pretty strong refutation of claims like "suchandsuch trend has propelled America to unknown depths of misery", even accounting for the possibility of bias.
During the creation of this planet I'm sure Antarctica saw temperatures higher than today.
The programmer/engineer in me has been deeply unhappy with recipes (both online and in print). The recipes in this online book are no exception.

Chief complaint: the ambiguity of description means that ten different chefs could follow the recipe and have ten different results.

To explain: consider the simple act of "browning an onion". Variables that might affect the outcome include the fine-ness of the dicing, the heat of the skillet (is my medium heat the same as yours?) and the extent of caramelization. The range of outcomes here can be anywhere from a crunchy, almost raw onion, to a nearly disintegrated brown paste. Take this and multiply with all the other steps involved in a typical recipe and try to tell me that the end result is predictable.

Has anyone found any technique/recipe books that attempt to deal with this ambiguity? The only place I ever see clear instruction on such topics are cooking classes, but that's not convenient and it makes me wonder what the point of recipe books are at all.
> Children’s shows have long featured cute characters who are easily repurposed as stuffed animals or figurines, Golin noted, but in the past few decades, they’ve become especially common (think Peppa Pig and Dora the Explorer)—largely because merchandising opportunities are now baked into the concepts from the start, rather than developed after the fact.

The author of this article doesn't know much about the subject. I stopped reading at that paragraph. This shit has been going on since the 80's at least. He's off on the history of shows being made specifically to sell toys by 100%. He-Man is the first one of these I'm aware of.
Why are all these comments so grumpy? “People are happy? What on earth is wrong with them?”

The awful political situation right now has encouraged me to spend less time keeping up with news, and to spend more time reading classic literature. So, thanks to Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, I am feeling more satisfied with life - just not in the way you’d assume if I just said “I’m happy in my personal life”.
MHTML – Why you should always store user file uploads on another domain
Because they're incredibly loaded, and frankly, idiotic questions. It's an anonymous poll put on by Gallup. No one would feel pressured to answer a pollster question one way or another. And "more fascist society?" Do you honestly think the US is alone in this?
And much of the separation wasn't voluntary; FCC rules changed.
Hello 1980s. Good to see you again. This was my childhood. I still love my original Transformers toys.
Maybe they should just let the public transit riders ride for free?

Those people will then bear with the hassles of using public transportation for the rest who needs to use their cars. The city might even see a surge in commerce, from people who can go to distant locations via public transit, that they wouldn’t otherwise bother going to by car.
Personally the turnaround time on new device updates has caused me to stop believing that I can expect to use the same device three years from now.

I used the original Pixel for 3 and a half years and at this point it's gotten completely unbearable to use. If it wasn't so I wouldn't have felt forced to upgrade to a phone lacking the features I wanted. Maps takes half a minute to load, the share dialogue is O(n) since the list of targets is regenerated every time you open it, the screen runs at 30FPS or something, taking pictures has several seconds of delay between shutter presses and a quarter of them come out as a solid green, and there's just general slowness of several seconds on nearly every app. And that was after I downgraded to LineageOS from Android 10, when I was getting four hours of standby time (!) and a hole burnt in my pocket.

The thing was as smooth as the OnePlus 7 Pro I'm using now at the time I got it. It was criticized at the time for being overly expensive and an iPhone clone. And now, using it in 2020 feels like using a $20 knockoff device. It was released in 2016. Three years isn't terribly long in the span of human life - at this rate I'll have to buy about 17 new phones if I live another 50 years just to be able to use them at a bearable level of performance. (Certainly a lot of potential money to be extracted for the manufacturers.)

Three years later I'll have to remember this post to see if this still holds true for this new phone.

Also there are practical reasons for this besides social ones (the insistence that OS and hardware refreshes are pushed out yearly or so at the cost of increased CPU and battery usage for existing devices). Flash memory has a limited lifespan and I would imagine it's incredibly cumbersome to replace. It's one of those things where you would just buy a new phone with the money it would cost.

Reusability in the phone market is severely lacking. I run Linux on a ThinkPad manufactured a decade ago and have zero issues running 2020 software. You can't realistically expect to do the same on a smartphone that old. PostmarketOS can't become polished soon enough - I just need to be able to make calls and can't do so using it yet.
Or some Lovecraftian eldritch abomination trying to pass as human but not quite getting it...
The problem is there's so much you need to know. Angular invented a custom feature with plenty of boilerplate for every task -- and if you want to do something that Angular doesn't explicitly support you'll end up fighting the framework very quickly.
They don't, they just love to shoot down anything that remotely challenges their ideas with big buzzwords and quick insults so that it deflects from the actual numbers and hard information.
There are a lot of cars that were maintainable, and built to be maintained, that can’t be maintained anymore simply because the manufacturer went defunct and there are no more parts (e.g. Saab, Datsun) or because the cost of manufacturing more parts for a car with a dwindling owner-base began to outweigh the profit, and thus, there are no more parts (e.g. older Ford models).

Unless the car is built primarily with 3rd-party parts (from manufacturers like Bosch, Brembo, etc) - which is something that consumers usually hold against a car, like how many people are upset that the new Toyota Supra is actually a BMW - then the problem is almost completely analogous to the shutting down of remote servers; if the manufacturer goes defunct or can no longer make a profit by continuing service, the car’s life has perished.

And in fact, the only way to avoid this is super conglomerates and monopolies - Lamborghini parts should always be available, because they come from the Audi parts bin, which comes from the Volkswagen parts bin.
In that case, the original owner keeps their FCP license. Does Tesla allow auto pilot to be transferred to a new model?
That was the exact point I was trying to illustrate. The closest EV that comes to Tesla cars in specs is a car with half the range and more than twice the price.
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Many founders have used twitter to cold DM investors, employees and recruiting leads.

Brands are using twitter to target specific regions with promotional messages and products

Recruitment agencies have turned to twitter as another way to source leads and grow their network of candidates.

Twitter is a goldmine if one knows how to leverage it. BUT twitter has one major problem, to the brands, founders and agencies that leverage twitter, twitter doesn't offer a filtering feature to find who you're looking easily.

Armed with a problem, I've built Pluto http://pluto.landen.co/ A way to leverage twitter by allowing users to filter through their network by occupation and location.

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I'd say it depends on what industry you're in as well. In finance for example you can quite easily land a >£100k salary, especially if contracting, even if you're not with one of the top tier institutions. (Though I suppose IR35 makes the contracting trickier.)
Also note that, as another reply mentioned, this has little to do with actual monetary values.

If you didn’t get a raise, that sucks. If your friends got laid off... well, then keeping your salary is great. If no one got laid off but you were able to buy a new x and none of your friends were, regardless of income changes, you’re still going to feel better. It’s “keeping up with the Joneses”.
Building a website that loads in 50ms
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
>"100 year events" (fire, flood, heatwave, storms) are now happening every year.

Alright, that is incorrect. Perhaps you're living in age of better reporting and global information exchange?
> LA's bus routes feel almost randomly placed

They're usually placed due to politics, not maximal utility.
Annoying is that it is not obvious why the two exist, by their name. They are both ordered. One is orderable in that you can change is order. I would not guess that looking at this.

For a language that prides itself on being readable, that is an amusing quirk.
Since they are generated randomly, there is no copyright. Machines cannot be authors: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#faq
Indeed this is something I've had to learn to do. I'll spend a few weeks working coding problems on whiteboards, practicing answering questions, clean up my resume, try to showcase my best work on GitHub, and spend hours on each cover letter.

It helps a little but I know it will never be something I'm very good at. Sometimes things in life are hard and never get any easier.
Personally I love mhtml. It allows you to easily store a webpage as a single file without having to resort to PDFs - which have lots of accessibility and rendering issues.
> Many PhD students are not ready to work in the "real world"

There are exceptions, but this is largely true.

I would go a step further and suggest FAANG are easier environments for ML PhDs because they go into research groups like FAIR and Google Brain, where legitimate software engineering (and general professional practices) aren't required. In other companies -- i.e. ML startups -- those training wheels need to come off, quickly.
Anecdotal at best.. your experience meeting maybe upwards of 50 people across the midwest cannot possibly be taken with the same consideration as a major polling outlet with 2500x the reach.
Question: Can this clone a database, but also apply certain operations to it?

I work at a small company, and currently we clone our production database to our dev machines for testing. However certain information in the database is sensitive and we don't want to include it on our dev machines. (This specific sensitive data is also stored in an encrypted format and the key is not included, but we'd still prefer it not included).

Basically I'd like to be able to clone the database, and run some SQL to replace the data in some tables with some mock data. But I can't think of an easy way to do this without cloning the database, starting a temporary one, run the sql, then clone it again - and distribute that final build to the devs.
Wait until you realize half the kids movies are studios trying to sell your childhood back to both you and your child.
The unboxing video addiction + YouTube's creepy as hell recommendation engine/Elsagate is what got it banned in my house when my daughter was about 4. After a bout a week she didn't miss it.
> The industry forces us to throw away perfectly fine hardware after just 3 years or so.

Possibly because of things like this; when a vulnerability isn't going to get patched, churn (with new hardware running newest OS) protects the ecosystem against mass-compromise.

We can bemoan the lack of patches, but who's paying for the patches?
I'll boil it down to a few things:

- The rampant homelessness and mental illness

- Cost of living

- Feces and urine everywhere

- Lots of rats and cockroaches

- Rotting garbage in the streets

- Lots of crime occurring in broad daylight that I've almost never seen in other cities like LA.

- Public employees are extremely rude and a hair away from saying "f* you" if you ask them a simple question.

It's an otherwise interesting city with great food, sights, and culture, but it's incredibly grimy and depressing. I had a good time while I was there, but the conditions are not what I'd want to live with long term.
It's a link to the court documents, not to whatever this site is.
Dog House Fire meme worked
You didn't read the article and Fox is a fine source, I see CNN on here all the time. Both lean Republican and Democrat respectively according to non-bias fact checking sites.

To the point of the lack of research, they clearly link the source in the article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677413/

Also I don't see how the title is clickbaity...
This Is Fine - https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11592622/this-is-fine-meme...
Knn works better with little data, rnn with lots of data. But we do have lots of data - that, too, is part of the progress. Also progress is non-linear; and the real world impact is huge, though we may not always like it (social media & content algorithms have literally changed the world, influenced elections and sparked literal revolutions).
Driverless trucks would be a huge shift, and it’s not unconcievable that we’ll have them. RPA is threatening a lot of repetitive white collar jobs; sure it’s boring technology, but that’s exactly what makes it disruptive in my mind. Image understanding _did_ get a lot bettter (face recognition along with it) and we still haven’t fully processed the implications of that.

You have grounds to be skeptical about the future and to believe it is dark; but IMO you don’t have grounds to claim that there was no progress.
Ha. As far as I know, in their first HR screen, Google still asks a question that requires a wrong answer. The answer depends on the cache characteristics of the CPU and (shock) these have changed over the years.